Chapter 180 Causal Loop

The process for Han Lan to persuade Fang Xiwen was not difficult. In fact, it was much simpler than the process for him to find her.

Fang Xiwen, like them, is a person with special abilities. When she was in Louyun City in the early days, whether she was rescued, hospitalized for treatment, or transferred later, she deeply realized the reliability of the rescue team and the troops.

She was one of the people who awakened her special powers very early. Not long after she and the team arrived at Zhicheng, Xizhou Province, one morning, when she woke up from a messy dream, she realized that something was wrong with her.

She is a person who has been through the brink of life and death, and after experiencing such great twists and turns, her temperament has become calmer than before.

After that, she kept a low profile, secretly studying her backpack compartment, raft, and props, and began to quietly stockpile supplies into her backpack compartment. However, Zhicheng, like other cities in Xizhou Province, had purchase restrictions on most supplies, especially water. Every day, you had to show your ID card when you bought it, so it was impossible to buy more.

However, little by little, she was not in a hurry and kept filling the backpack little by little.

It was not until last fall, when the official news of the existence of people with superpowers and open recruitment was announced, that she took the initiative to apply, and later she became one of the first group of people with superpowers to be accepted by the official.

The reason why she boldly joined the official team was, first of all, because she had been rescued by the army and she trusted the people in the army, and secondly, because of her special prop.

The item is a necklace that looks ordinary. When she wears it, the necklace will have a very powerful passive skill: identification.

When her gaze is focused on a single person, the necklace will tell her through the warmth of her skin whether the person in front of her is looking at her with friendly or unkind thoughts.

Under normal circumstances, the necklace will maintain room temperature. When it meets a friendly person, the temperature will rise. When it meets someone with bad thoughts in his mind or with bad intentions, the temperature will drop.

And the friendlier they were, the higher the temperature would be, making her whole body feel a thick warmth.

On the contrary, the temperature would drop, making her feel like she was falling into an ice cellar, shivering with cold.

The entire process of heating up or cooling down starts from the moment she meets the other party and lasts until the end of the meeting.

Through experimentation, she found that the definitions of both kindness and hostility were very broad, and extreme, pure malice and jealousy all fell into the category of hostility.

Although this skill is passive and will only take effect once on the same person, and will automatically enter CD status after being triggered more than five times on the same day, it is really a very useful prop for her.

She went to the official job interview, introduced herself and chose different departments, then formed groups and participated in certain physical training... Along the way, because of this prop, she could always filter out those who had all the negative emotions towards her, such as unkindness, dislike, malice, etc., as well as those who wanted to deceive and frame her.

No matter what kind of working environment, when everyone around her is like her, working together for the better, any work can be done with half the effort.

Therefore, when Han Lan arrived at Zhicheng first and looked for Fang Xiwen's information in the official information, he did not expect that because the other party had started working in the official department very early, her personal information had already been retrieved from the big database by the people in the supernatural group.

Moreover, through her efforts over the past year, she has made many contributions and has been promoted frequently. Now she has a higher position in the special power group, and her living environment and conditions have also changed a lot. Although she still lives on the crowded land, her food, clothing, housing and transportation are no different from the past peacetime.

Han Lan took a lot of effort to find her. She was in Jincheng, another city about 300 kilometers away from Zhicheng, very close to Kangsu County.

He found a safe place to meet her, because they were both superpowers, and she was the last person on Shu Fu's trailer list and an indispensable one, so he did not hide anything too much.

Of course, he did not explain the details of the raft, but only said that there was such a water base and that people with special abilities like her were needed to join.

To be honest, before he found Fang Xiwen, he was still very confident. After all, Xizhou Province is now overcrowded, and the living conditions on the raft would surely attract no one if they were told a little bit about them.

But now that we have found her, she holds a high position, has a team under her, and has her own circle of friends. She is living very well both materially and spiritually.

In this case, how could the other party easily give up everything here and follow him to an unknown water base?

Unfortunately, they just met today, so it was impossible for him to reveal too much to her.

While Han Lan was speaking, Fang Xiwen remained silent, her eyes fixed on him, staring at him intently.

She asked him whether this water base he was talking about was built by him, whether he was recruiting people with special abilities, and why he came to find an official person with special abilities like her?

Han Lan did not hide anything and continued, "In fact, I was not the one who built the base, and I was not the one who came to find you. I was entrusted by someone—"

Fang Xiwen frowned slightly at this time and interrupted him: "Sorry to interrupt, have I seen you before?"

Han Lan was a little stunned. She didn't expect that when they met at that time, not only did he remember her appearance, but the other party also remembered every face that helped her.

"Yes, we did meet at Louyuncheng Hospital."

He had indeed been to her ward at the time, as he was asked to deliver supplies and transfer money, but he really didn't stay for too long, only about ten minutes from entering the ward to leaving. She was lying on the bed without making any sound, and she looked lifeless. After he left that time, other subsequent matters and the pass issue were handed over by other team members.

The two met and chatted for nearly half an hour, and she always had a dull expression. Even though she knew he was also a superpower, she didn't show much expression. But when he said this, he found that the other party's mood suddenly changed.

"Then... were you the one who helped me back then?" Fang Xiwen slightly tightened her fingers on the table.

"No." Han Lan shook his head.

"Then do you know who it is?"

Under the other person's gaze, Han Lan nodded: "I know, she is the one who asked me to find you this time - but don't get me wrong, her helping you in the past and her looking for you now are two different things."

"So, the person you're talking about who's looking for me now... is the one who helped me and gave me the pass?" Her emotions fluctuated even more violently, and she even covered her chest with one hand, as if trying to calm herself down.

Fang Xiwen didn't want to calm herself down, she just needed to feel the prop hanging under her clothes better and more accurately.

Han Lan looked at her and said seriously: "Yes, it's her. She is looking for you."

The necklace under her palm was as warm as a little sun, radiating warmth to her with all its might. In this damp and cold early winter, she seemed to be in the sunny late spring.

He did not lie, every word he said was true, and he had sincere good intentions towards her.

She had always wanted to find the person who helped her. Without him, she would not be alive today. She would probably continue to lie weakly in the hospital, letting negative emotions surround her, and eventually die in the world-destroying tsunami...

Under the circumstances at that time, what the other party gave her was not just supplies, money and a pass.

What she gave her was the hope of life.

She was once backstabbed by both her friends and her lover, and spent the darkest ten days of her life in agony.

As an adult, she was trapped in the room, with her mouth and nose blocked and her hands and feet tied, lying in the humiliation of excrement piled up under her, and being ridiculed, beaten and scolded by the other party every day... When she was most desperate, she thought about committing suicide.

But she couldn't get a knife, nor could she run to the window and jump off. If she really wanted to die, biting her tongue was the only way for her to die.

She thought this was ridiculous. She couldn't even choose how to die. What had she done wrong to deserve this?

In the end, it was the anger in her heart that kept her going.

At that time, she kept thinking that if she survived this time, she would become a cold and selfish person in the future, hating everything and no longer trusting anyone...

However, when she was weakest and most confused, she received gentle kindness from a stranger, who helped her carefully in the name of subsidies through the rescue team. The stranger never showed his face, left his name, or showed up in person, but solved all her survival problems.

All she needed to do then was to cheer herself up and heal herself.

And that person is looking for her now.

…

After a moment, Fang Xiwen smiled at Han Lan and said, "When are you going to return? I'll go with you."

Han Lan looked at her in astonishment: "You... decided so quickly? Don't you even think about it and ask me more about the conditions of the water base? What if the conditions there are very poor..."

Fang Xiwen shook her head: "This is not important." The name of the water base gave you an idea of ​​the general environment there. There should be many superpowers gathered there, but as superpowers, everyone knew each other's rafts very well.

Indeed, all the rafts of the superpowers were connected together and parked in a relatively calm bay. They processed infrastructure and carried out indoor breeding, supporting each other and living better than many ordinary people on land.

But she knew very well that no matter what, the conditions of this water base could not exceed the living conditions currently provided to her by the authorities.

But she didn't go there for those reasons.

On the contrary, if it weren't for that person, no matter how superior the conditions of the water base Han Lan mentioned were or how abundant the supplies were, she would not go there.

At this time, Fang Xiwen didn't know that all this was like a closed circle.

The few words of protection she had said in the corridor of the old residential area in Suicheng and the sorry she said before leaving made Shu Fu have a better impression of her, and out of self-blame and guilt, he wanted to help her.

At this moment, Shu Fu, who was thousands of kilometers away in the water, would not know that her momentary kindness and help would allow her to successfully bring back the last bound person in the hidden mission.

After many twists and turns, the cycle of cause and effect finally forms a perfect closed loop. Everything seems destined to be missed, and everything also seems destined to happen.

**

Before leaving, Han Lan told Shu Fu that the meeting time would be the evening of the next day.

If a severe storm or other high-intensity natural disaster occurs near Gongmang County on that day, then this agreement will be postponed for one day, still before sunset, in the evening.

Although he was very happy that Fang Xiwen was willing to go with him immediately, he still had to find Cheng Yu and other teammates who had lost contact. He had no way to stay in Jincheng, nor could he personally escort her to meet Shu Fu.

As one of the first group of people with special abilities to join the official ranks, and one who has made many contributions, Fang Xiwen enjoys extremely high treatment and benefits, but there is also a drawback, which is that she cannot leave her job easily.

Each official superpower has a satellite phone, which is not used for communication, but for positioning. If they are away from their original job one day, no matter where they are, whether they put the satellite phone in their backpack, once they take out the phone, the satellite can immediately locate them.

The original intention of this phone was to protect the personal safety of people with special abilities, so that they would have a way to call when they were in danger.

So this time when she leaves, she needs to take the time to arrange everything comprehensively and perfectly.

Later, Han Lan was attacked in the suburbs of Jincheng, which added another layer of trouble to the whole matter. Therefore, he did not dare to stay in Jincheng any longer, and arranged another group of people who had nothing to do with his investigation of the missing incident to escort Fang Xiwen.

Those were members of the rescue team and had nothing to do with the army. Thinking about it later, it was a good thing that this was the case, otherwise Fang Xiwen would probably be implicated by him this time.

Because he left so suddenly, he couldn't contact Fang Xiwen again. He only gave some instructions to the rescue team through his old friend and told them a sentence that was like a secret code, which was a key point he had mentioned when he met Fang Xiwen before. As long as they told her this sentence, she would believe them, accept their escort, and leave with them.

However, Han Lan didn't know at this time that Fang Xiwen's prop golden finger would automatically help her distinguish between true and false lies.

The members of that small rescue team were not clear about the ins and outs of escorting Fang Xiwen. They trusted their captain, and that captain was Han Lan's old friend.

There was no conflict between the two sides, and Han Lan left in time, so what happened to Han Lan later did not affect Fang Xiwen.

The shipbuilding base is northwest of Fengshang Plateau, while Gongmang County is southwest of Fengshang Plateau, almost circumnavigating half of the plateau. Fortunately, the agreed time was the evening of the next day, and with the raft speed of 100 kilometers per hour, it was still in time to arrive.

Although Shu Fu's acceleration card has not been used up yet, there is not much time left. She still wants to save it for a particularly urgent incident or escape.

The next day, fist-sized hail fell in the waters near Gongmang County, and the agreed time was automatically postponed by one day.

Shu Fu was not in a hurry and let the raft wait quietly in the nearby waters. It had come to this point, and the only thing missing was the last binder, the last raft. She thought she needed to face it with a more rational and calm attitude.

One day later in the evening, Chen Fa sent a message on the intercom: "I think I saw them, at the two o'clock direction of the raft."

Shu Fu replied: "I understand. I'll go over and take a look now."