When there is dust

Silence, dead silence...

Ying Yungui opened his eyes. There were silver bricks above his head and flowing walls all around him. He had been here more than once, during the time when he was taken to the association's headquarters base in District 1 for special training to break through level 7.

This is a rarely used, top-level treatment room.

Ying Yungui felt as if there was a void in his chest, as if an organ had been removed. He moved his head and found that he had many tubes inserted into his body, even one directly into his heart, but he did not feel any pain.

This is...

The slight movement of "creak" only made a short and crisp sound, but it attracted great attention.

"Please don't move your body easily."

There was no door in the wall of this treatment room. Two men dressed in black suddenly appeared from a teleportation array in a corner of the room, as if they had been huddled there, ready at all times.

Ying Yungui's eyes fell on the teleportation array on the floor, but his body did not move at all.

This person actually used the "curse" ability on him. Ying Yungui instinctively felt displeased.

The people who came were a man and a woman, and it was the man who had just spoken. His eyes were covered by a black cloth, but his head turned precisely in the direction of Ying Yungui. "I'm sorry, Mr. Ying, I'm sorry." He raised his hand and motioned for the other person to come forward and check.

Ying Yungui watched the woman approach, then fiddled with his blind spot for a while before whispering, "The indicators have returned to normal."

After hearing this, the man took a few steps forward and said, "Okay, you can step back." In an instant, the aura that was originally behind Ying Yungui completely disappeared.

"Ryan's?" Ying Yungui stared at the newcomer gravely. The man, his eyes covered with a black cloth, reached out with precision to the instruments on Ying Yungui's body, removing them one by one. He then stepped back and said in a steady voice, "Yes, Mr. Ying, you can move freely now."

All the tubes on Ying Yungui's body were gone, but there was no trace left on his body. He rolled over and got out of bed, feeling incredibly light.

The man tactically began his report: "It is now 8:08 AM on November 23, 173 New Calendar. You are out of danger. Your companion, No. 6388, Mr. Kulin Visa, has been temporarily blinded due to excessive energy use. Another companion, No. 6210, Mr. Labarriel Belmond, was found by another team and is currently receiving treatment."

November 23rd... Ying Yungui had a vague feeling that something important was going on, but he couldn't remember what it was, so he asked, "What day is it today?"

The man nodded slightly. "Today is the day of the funeral for the Association's victims from the District 7 Incident."

...

District 8, Association Base, Northwest Cemetery.

"Is he here?" Lin Zhouze's voice was unusually hoarse. He stood in front of a brand new tombstone with his head bowed, and whispered to the person next to him.

There were quite a few people standing around, some of them didn't know each other, but the expressions on their faces were similar at the moment.

The tall girl with long red hair wore a black hat on her head and had no makeup on her face. She sniffed and said, "No." She was answering Lin Zhouze's question.

"Why! Why didn't he come!" Lin Zhouze's sudden attack scared the two girls hiding behind him.

The young man next to the red-haired girl soothed her, "He's also injured and receiving treatment at headquarters. He may not wake up yet. If he wakes up, he will definitely come."

"What's the use! He's already at this hour..." At this moment, Lin Zhouze heard the sound of someone approaching and quickly turned in that direction and asked, "Ying Yungui?" The person coughed lightly and explained, "It's me. I heard... so I came to see him."

Lan saw Lin Zhouze's lifeless eyes and the names engraved on the tombstones in front of everyone, and her eyes felt a little sore.

"Oh." Lin Zhouze turned back disappointedly, raising his hand to touch the inscription on the stele. He couldn't see, so he could only feel it out with his fingertips, then piece it together in his mind stroke by stroke. Because the time he could wear the test equipment today had already expired.

He stayed by Shi Youchen's spirit table for two hours until his best friend was taken away for cremation, and when he came out, only a small jar was left.

Lin Zhouze had been relatively stable today, but when he learned he couldn't carry the ashes to the cemetery because he couldn't see, he became noticeably irritable. Furthermore, when Ying Yungui still hadn't shown up by noon, his mood became even more volatile.

"What's engraved here?" Lin Zhouze felt the depression in the corner, but couldn't spell out what the words were, so he could only ask someone around him who could see it.

Li Nuo wiped away her tears and squatted beside him, saying, "It's the sign that you've been a member of the association for less than two years."

"..." Lin Zhouze's hand dropped dejectedly, "Less than two years."

Thunder roared across the sky, and dark clouds rolled in violently. A rainstorm was about to hit. Jiang Yu supported Luo Zhao, and Li Nuo extended his arm to Lin Zhouze: "It's going to rain. Let's go back first."

"I'm not leaving!" Lin Zhouze roared, "Where is Ying Yungui! Let him come over! I won't leave until he shows up!"

With the sound of the needle injecting, Jiang E put the empty tube into her pocket and said to Li Nuo and Lan, "We can't let him get so excited. It could easily cause an accident. Let's take him back first."

Not long after the group left, raindrops began to fall, washing the tombstone, which was newer than the surrounding tombstones. The identity of the person sleeping inside was engraved on the tombstone.

"Number 8463, Shi Youchen"

Ying Yungui never showed up.

——

On January 8, 174th year of the new calendar, Ying Yungui, a level 7 telekinetic ability user numbered 7000 and affiliated with District 8, ignored the association's instructions and arbitrarily disrupted the ecology of District 7, seriously affecting social public order. He was sentenced to confinement by the decision-making group, and was deprived of his qualification to participate in the "Leaving the Core Plan" and his temporary right to move to a manor in District 9 was revoked.

On February 6, 174 in the new calendar, the Global Management Association of Superpowers completed the evacuation of all residents in District 9, officially implementing the most critical step of the "Leaving the Core Plan."

On February 7, 174 AD, the 9th continent was successfully stripped away thanks to the collaboration of hundreds of psychics from the Association. That same day, it vanished while being towed towards the center of the ocean. From then on, the world consisted of the remaining 12 regions.

——

In April of the 174th year of the New Calendar, Ying Yungui's confinement ended. According to insiders, the first person he met after being sent back to District 8 was Lu Zhiqi, the long-unseen young master of the then-prosperous Lu family. Shortly after their separation, a tombstone in the northwest cemetery of the Association's base showed signs of being dug up. Jiang E, a member of the Equipment Department, and Li Nuo, Deputy Director of the Administration Department, were subsequently responsible for repairing it.

In May of the 174th year of the new calendar, Lu Zhiqi's whereabouts were unknown. Lu Ming was heartbroken and adopted Li Ming as his adopted son and taught him personally.

In the winter of the 174th year of the new calendar, the tombstones in the northwest cemetery of the association's District 8 base were often buried by sudden heavy snowfalls, except for Shi Youchen's tombstone, which was always clean and as clean as new.

——

Spring of the 175th year of the new calendar.

This is a space that exudes a bright blue color everywhere. The highest place above the head is covered by an entire "sea surface", and the never-fading ripples occasionally reflect the shape of the sky.

At the bottom of the space are groups of reefs, among which birds and fish fly freely.

Between the reefs and the sea domes stand buildings of various shapes, some resembling elongated jellyfish, some like open umbrellas, and many more like upright "masts." Some of these buildings are connected by parallel corridors, where people can occasionally be seen strolling.

Apart from the faint white light coming down from the sea dome, the light source here comes from the fluorite embedded in these buildings.

In addition to flying birds and swimming fish, there are also some spherical "big eyes" floating in the air. If you get close, you can see the shimmering patterns on their surface.

An "eye" drifted from the reef toward a jellyfish building, then disappeared after entering the central beam of light. At that moment, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up inside the building, and someone hurriedly trotted across the open-air corridor from the adjacent building.

"Is he about to wake up?!" The man's flowing medium-length hair was messed up in the middle, and you could tell that he was very anxious, but his voice was still very gentle, making people feel like they were in the spring breeze.

07 Turning around to look at him, his pale white pupils couldn't find the focus, but inexplicably made people unable to help but be drawn into them.

"It's almost done, let's go." So the two of them shuttled into the space layer on the top floor.

A silver-white "coffin" was suspended in the middle of this floor. 07 raised his hand and a circle of black screens appeared around the two of them. His pale fingertips landed on the "fall" button on the screen, and the next moment the suspended silver-white coffin appeared steadily on the ground.

07 walked forward and gently pushed the coffin lid, revealing the person lying inside.

His skin was unusually pale, like some ancient creature that never saw the sun. His black hair reached his earlobes and was slightly curled. An inch above his brow, a mole lay. With his eyes closed, his eyelashes stretched straight over the dark bruise beneath his eye. His lips were thin, tightly pressed together, and completely bloodless.

He was covered with a huge talisman, with only the part above his neck exposed, so the clothes underneath could not be seen.

07 He looked at it quietly for a while, then, at the reminder of the person behind him, he raised his hand and slowly peeled off the huge talisman that covered the entire body of the person in the coffin.

When the last inch of the talisman was separated from the skin, the closed eyes finally opened, and a few ripples appeared in the center of the night-like pupils, as if someone had sprinkled a handful of stars into his eyes.

"Welcome back." The talisman in 07's hand turned into ashes and disappeared into space. He lifted the chin of the person in the coffin and looked around, seeming very satisfied.

"Welcome back to this world."

“Sometimes there is dust.”

...

Shi Youchen sat up and stared at 07 beside him, then lowered his head and saw his naked body.

Teng blushed.

07's lips curled up. "Whatever you want to wear, just close your eyes and imagine it." Then, a purple robe immediately appeared on Shi Youchen. "Tsk tsk tsk," 07 sighed.

"Long time no see." Shi Youchen's expression cooled down a bit after he put on his clothes. He wasn't talking to 07, but to the man with medium-length hair behind 07, "Yan Zhiyuan."

"You are still alive."

Before Yan Zhiyuan could speak, the person who opened the door behind him spoke first.

"And me." The girl who came in had a very eye-catching short pink hair. She was tall and had an obvious piercing mark on her brow bone.

"Long time no see, Shi Youchen." Morrill waved and smiled.

——End of Volume 2——