curse

In an instant, dense fragments of memory squeezed into Shi Youchen's brain like snowflakes, coldly and continuously stimulating his cerebral cortex.

He remembered many, many things.

...

A week later, with the intervention of personnel sent by the association, the situation in areas 4 and 7 gradually stabilized, and the biological control and experimental area work were carried out in an orderly manner.

Ying Yungui had just finished negotiating terms with the District 9 Association. Exhausted, he washed up and collapsed on his bed, not forgetting to send Shi Youchen the good news: "The Association has agreed to allow me to move He Xian's entire manor to City A."

Shi Youchen's reply: "That's great news. It must have been difficult. Thank you for your hard work."

Ying Yungui felt very sorry that the other party couldn't see his expression of begging for praise - "Not bad, I have found a stable supply channel for Lin Zhouze's medicinal ingredients."

This time, the waiting time for a reply was longer - "Okay, it's getting late, you should go to bed early." But it was Shi Youchen's message to end the topic.

Ying Yungui glanced at the time, pursed his lips in dissatisfaction, but still did not reply.

Today was all good news. Ying Yungui slept soundly, which was rare, so he was in a particularly bad mood when he was woken up. He looked down at the frightened Lin Zhouze outside the door, his eyes dark and terrifying: "What's the matter?"

Lin Zhouze quickly typed a few words on the screen: "See the latest news." His face was pale, as if he had just seen something extremely terrifying.

Ying Yungui turned around and turned on the light, then operated the bracelet to open the official news interface released by the association and the psychic forum interface.

No matter which window it was, the same message was floating at the top - "Many unknown 'domains' appeared on the edge of District 7." Ying Yungui suddenly woke up. He clicked in with doubts and saw more detailed content.

"At 4:21 AM this morning, numerous unidentified 'domains' were detected appearing simultaneously in the northern, northeastern, and southern fringes of Area 7. Since their appearance, they have been continuously expanding. Reports indicate that the areas they cover are showing signs of varying degrees of biological extinction. The Association's headquarters management center has issued an emergency mission, requesting that all Association members in Area 7 immediately proceed to the areas where these 'domains' are about to expand to suppress and disrupt them."

Lin Zhouze's anxiety was evident at the door. After Ying Yungui finished reading the message, he quickly typed, "Isn't Youchen still near District 7?"

Although Lin Zhouze did not know the exact location of Shi Youchen, he knew that he should be near District 7, so when he saw the news, the first thing he thought of was his friend who was still "being punished".

Ying Yungui had also reacted. He immediately contacted the Renguan Center, but the line was busy and the call was unavailable. After thinking for a few seconds, he opened his friend list and called someone.

“…”

"Ying? Calling me at this time? What trouble are you in?" Kulin's voice sounded a little tired.

Ying Yungui spoke hurriedly: "Are you in District 7?"

Kulin didn't react for a moment: "Huh?"

Ying Yungui: "I'm asking you if you're still on the District 7 mission?!"

Kulin looked up at the dim night sky and took a deep breath of the cold mountain air. "Yes, the last mission was urgently terminated, and now I've been driven to a ravine in the northeast. What, are you going to show mercy and take my place?"

Kulin, who was just joking around to relax after work, never expected his former teammate's next words from the other side to be: "Send me the location."

When Ying Yungui successfully reunited with Kulin in the vast mountainous area, it was still dark.

Kulin usually spends several hours every day to carefully take care of his hair, but because of the recent running around, his hair has lost its original luster and is drooping listlessly like his owner.

"You come here at this time, do you feel that you have been too idle recently?" Kulin's lenses were upgraded not long ago and he is still in the adaptation period. Using his supernatural powers for a long time in the past two days has made him see double when he sees people.

Ying Yungui didn't waste any time, simply asking for the mission-related data and starting to look through it. "Don't tell me you rushed here because you were worried about my safety. From the time you contacted me to the time you showed up here, let me think." Kulin raised an eyebrow. "You must have used your family connections. You can't get here so quickly through the association."

Seeing no one respond, he thought he'd discovered something special and was a little surprised: "Are you... having an affair with someone here?" He quietly took two steps back. "Who? I'm not familiar with these comrades, and I haven't done anything to bully them."

Ying Yungui put away the data and gave Kulin a look: "Uncle didn't let you out to spread rumors." After the α team was disbanded, the head of the Visa family, who was also Kulin's elder, invited Ying Yungui to visit their family territory. This time, in order to obtain a stable supply channel for the Fujino powder used in the medicine used by Lin Zhouze, Ying Yungui also sought help from the Visa family.

Moreover, the older generations of the two families already had a good relationship, so compared with many other teammates they had worked with, the relationship between Ying Yungui and Kulin was obviously closer.

Kulin felt another sharp pain in the front of his head and felt dizzy. He cried out and put away his lenses that were flashing with light: "I feel dizzy and uncomfortable. Please watch for me for a while." After that, he leaned against the stone, closed his eyes and fell into a dormant state.

Ying Yungui turned on the monitoring screen and observed the unknown energy spreading southward at an extremely slow speed. That was one of the unknown "domains" monitored by the association early this morning.

The key reason he rushed here was, of course, Shi Youchen. Shi Youchen was unwilling to return to the safety of the association's base early, so he naturally couldn't forcefully abduct the person back. Therefore, in an emergency like this, the most reassuring thing to do was to personally resolve any potential dangers.

The most fundamental way to solve these troubles is to destroy the "domain" generated by these unknown energies.

His first thought was to head directly to Shi Youchen's location and, depending on the situation, resolve the potential danger or temporarily remove the others. Fortunately, he wasn't able to contact the Renguan Center immediately, which actually helped him calm down.

After calming down, Ying Yungui's first thought was the pressure from the association that Shi Youchen was currently facing. If he ignored the instructions and acted on his own, it would only add to Shi Youchen's future difficulties.

So considering that Kulin happened to be carrying out a mission in District 7, using this relationship to come here was the best choice Ying Yungui could make at the moment.

According to the association's dispatch, teams of psychics capable of destroying or sealing the predicted routes of these "domains" that have been monitored have been arranged. As soon as all members are in place and ready, the command center will issue an order to act simultaneously.

At 10:00 AM, all the psychics at various locations received a unified command: "Break through the nearest moving energy cluster node in 10 minutes."

At 10:09 AM, all the remaining members of Kulin's team sent confirmation of their positions.

"Point A is ready"

"Point F is ready"

"Ready at O o'clock"

After Kulin once again used his synchronized scanning ability to confirm the data was correct, he said to Ying Yungui, who was preparing for the energy breakthrough, "Point B is ready. Countdown 6..."

5...

4...

3...

2...

"1." Ying Yungui pressed the launch device, and the energy that had been absorbed from his body and stored for a long time was shot towards the point marked by Kulin in a form invisible to the naked eye.

At the same time, on the monitoring screen that had been monitoring this unknown energy, the white gas mass stopped its original slow outward expansion, and the data that was constantly jumping around it also stopped changing at this moment.

Kulin reported to the command center: "Area 7, northeast of the Ikaros Mountains, the Kulinvisa team has completed its mission." However, before he could utter the word "accomplished", the area of the white gas mass on the monitoring screen, which should have completely disappeared, suddenly expanded rapidly, and strings of bright red data began to jump wildly again.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” A shrill cry came from deep in the forest, echoing for two seconds before dissipating.

"Everyone retreat immediately!" Kulin didn't bother to cut off contact with the command center and immediately issued an order in the team channel, "Retreat to point Z!" As he retreated, he activated the high-dimensional scanning function of the technological eye.

"How is this possible?!" Kulin's voice was distorted after seeing the results of the high-dimensional scan. "Everyone, evacuate the mission area immediately!"

Ying Yungui trusted Kulin's ability and judgment, so he immediately grabbed his wrist and activated his telekinetic ability of "teleportation." The two of them appeared at the edge of a small cliff twenty miles away, which was the safe coordinate Ying Yungui had marked earlier.

"...Hello, got a reply." Kulin sent messages to several other temporary teammates, but did not receive a single reply.

Red, blue and green lines flashed rapidly on the four-finger-wide lens. With Kulin's feet as the origin, a fan-shaped area with a radius of 180 degrees and 30 miles in front appeared in his eyes in the form of pure electronic data.

In this fan-shaped area, there should be three blue coordinate points representing teammates, but now it is empty.

Kulin didn't believe it, so he increased the energy output and raised the radius from the initial thirty miles to thirty-five miles. He ignored the severe pain in his eyes and carefully searched for the location of his teammates.

But it was still empty.

"That's enough." Ying Yungui said, wiping the blood from Kulin's eyes with his fingers. "I felt it. The moment we left there, they were swallowed up by that 'domain'."

"Ask the command center for the next instructions."

Kulin withdrew the energy and was a little dejected: "How could this happen? Was there something wrong with my previous scan? It's impossible." It was indeed impossible. The association's equipment might be wrong, but after transferring the functions of inanimate objects to living things, abilities like the technological eye that use life energy as a basis would not go wrong.

Unless, Kulin, the life energy body itself, dies.

"What did you see at point B just now?" Ying Yungui asked.

Kulin's face paled. "That energy is spreading outward again at at least ten times its original speed. At this rate, if the 'domains' elsewhere fail to break through, then the entire 7th zone will be covered by it in less than 24 hours."

Facts proved that Kulin's ability was indeed accurate, because immediately the Association's command center sent a new and precise order: "Those with abilities below level 6 must evacuate Area 7, and those with abilities below level 7 must proceed to the Green Safety Zone and wait for orders."

Among the thousands of people with special abilities in the entire Association of Special Abilities, there are less than a hundred people who are rated as level 7 or above.

Could it be that the situation this time is really so serious?

Fortunately, a contact from the command center contacted Kulin shortly afterwards and explained the detailed plan: "Regretfully, we misjudged the abilities of the casters of these 'domains,' resulting in irreparable damage. Thankfully, the headquarters' decision-making team has analyzed the exact data and is spatially sealing the domains that are still expanding rather than forcing a breach from the outside."

"Headquarters has dispatched high-level psychics with corresponding abilities. Please wait for support in the marked green safe zone."

Ying Yungui and Kulin both realized one thing - the accident was not only happening in the northeastern part of the Ikaros Mountains where they were, but similar cases of people with special abilities being devoured also occurred in several other areas.

Kulin was very dissatisfied with this: "What do you mean by the previous judgment was wrong? Who are the people who cast these 'domains'?"

"..." The contact person seemed reluctant to answer this question, but as a subordinate, he had no option of refusing to answer or remaining silent when facing a high-level psychic like Kulin.

"The decision-making committee's conclusion is... 'Cursing' the Ability User."

"Curse", when the mutant A activates his ability, as long as he determines that the energy gap between him and the cursed person B exceeds a certain threshold, the curse condition will take effect. B will pay a huge price and become nutrients to feed back to A, and vice versa.

This ability that will inevitably bring misfortune to one of the parties is called "curse".

Since the establishment of the association, including the chaotic era before the human new calendar, the ability of "curse" has only appeared twice in history.

One time was during a chaotic power struggle, and the person with special abilities had already died at the hands of the first president.

Another time, he was discovered and executed during the purge plan in the 117th year of the new calendar. His body had long been crushed to ashes, and it was impossible for any descendants to survive.

Because that person was only an 8-year-old child when he died.