Chapter 431 Safe House

A few minutes ago, the underground monitoring room was silent.

An entire giant screen was divided into sixteen small screens, monitoring the scene in the experimental site from various angles.

Everyone stared with bated breath.

Especially the head researcher who had lost his hair. He seemed particularly nervous. He kept wiping the sweat from his face with the back of his hand and did not dare to blink.

Everyone's reaction was so strong, coupled with the stacked ice and double-thick doors in the room, and looking at Xiao Zhiyan standing blankly and shivering in the center of the video, even though Aunt Qin didn't understand, she vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

"Why...why is there such a big scene this time?"

She said nervously, "Didn't they say there's no such thing as hibernation?"

Aunt Qin's words resonated with the other researchers, and some of them whispered in agreement.

"Yes, Mr. Hao, the temperature is too low. If it were an adult, maybe they could hold on for a while longer. But the test subject is so young, it's easy for him to go into shock due to the sudden drop in temperature."

"Yes, actually, as long as the characteristic is still there, there is no need to be so radical if you want to awaken it."

"Teacher, do you think we should change the temperature..."

The bald researcher is called Hao Yun, and he is the head of the entire experimental group. He had already started preparations before Xu Yan found Xiao Zhiyan.

Hearing this, Hao Yun suddenly opened his mouth and scolded.

"Are you responsible or am I responsible?"

The researchers shut their mouths and looked at each other. No one said anything.

After a moment, Hao Yun did not explain to anyone. With a cold face, he reached out and pressed the switch button for [Anaerobic Environment].

Aunt Qin was an educated person, as she was chosen by a rich family to be a nanny. Even if she was dumb, she knew the meaning behind this button. She was shocked and scared. She looked at Xiao Zhiyan who suddenly staggered on the screen, then turned to look at other people, her expression also becoming confused.

"Isn't the young master's ability fire? Even if there is no oxygen and no combustible materials..." Under the pressure of other people's gazes, her voice became smaller and smaller, almost inaudible.

Hao Yun calmed down a little at this time.

"No, his characteristics are not simply natural elements..." He explained his actions in a hoarse voice.

"We were all misled last time."

"There were a lot of flammable materials in the room at the time, so after the flames started, we roughly determined that it was a single-series natural element characteristic. In addition, the instrument vaguely showed the word 'fire', so no one doubted it afterwards."

His eyes fell on the center of the screen, staring at the child who was staggering and rubbing his hands to keep warm.

"Two months ago, I applied to re-investigate the remaining ashes from last time and found a very interesting phenomenon." Hao Yun's voice suddenly trembled, and it was unclear whether he was excited or worried.

"Those ashes are of the same composition."

"They are undetectable, they don't belong here."

If it was just a flame, then the ashes after burning would often produce different ash impurities due to different combustible materials. However, the last time the characteristics were tested in the room, all that was left were unknown ashes of the same composition.

"Burn everything and turn everything into ashes..."

On the screen, Xiao Zhiyan fell down.

The torn wound began to bleed, and the small figure lowered his head and looked at his hands in a daze.

Hao Yun's voice became extremely fanatical!

"The unknown, how fascinating! Even if the dream characteristics disappear and the time characteristics cannot be awakened, he will become a unique existence!"

Too much time has passed, and he has sensed Xu Yan's impatience because he has not been able to get what he wanted from Xiao Zhiyan. Although there is only one container left from the main branch of the Xu family, he understands that as long as Xu Yan needs it, he can get a new container with enough talent, even through special means of blood transfusion.

Thinking of this, Hao Yun almost bit his back teeth to pieces.

No, it's not possible!

He would never allow any other experimental group to replace him!

The shocking scene of his first contact with abnormal unnatural energy is still vivid in his mind. Hao Yun is eager for more research. He wants to see a wider world. Every characteristic from foreign civilizations fascinates him.

The longer he worked for Xu Yan, the more he understood that terrifying man. Even though the fire element was very strong, he could guess that he didn't need an ordinary body. And Xu Yan wouldn't let him be in charge of two test subjects at the same time, so today, either Xiao Zhiyan died here and he would take over the next test subject, or he would prove that the other party had awakened a rarer and more precious characteristic that was irreplaceable.

My heart almost jumped out.

Hao Yun looked at the experimental subject who was holding his breath due to lack of oxygen and was almost unconscious, and spoke with trembling voice.

"He will succeed. He has no choice. Neither do I."

In the monitoring room, only his frantic mumblings were left.

The next second, something strange happened!

The little child knelt on the ground, and placed his hands on the ground a second before he lost consciousness. Suddenly, flames appeared and engulfed everything.

At the same time, Hao Yun, who was soaked in cold sweat, fell to his knees with a thud.

After a while, he made an intoxicated sound.

"You are truly unique."

This time, thanks to the preparation, the monitor lasted a few more seconds.

A magical scene appeared.

In the picture, not only did the ground begin to burn inexplicably, but even the ice blocks that were emitting cold air around it were engulfed by flames. However, these huge ice blocks frozen from pure water not only did not turn into water again, but were instead burned into black ashes in the golden flames.

In the blink of an eye, the ice was burned and the sound of "bang bang" began to be heard.

The first things to crack were the lighting props, followed by the surveillance equipment that exploded one by one. Even the strange door began to melt from the burn, shedding layers of black powder.

Finally, all the images disappeared.

The monitoring room was eerily quiet.

Including Aunt Qin, other researchers seemed to be frightened by this terrifying special power, except Hao Yun, who let out a low, hoarse laugh after standing up with the help of the table.

"Sure enough, the last time the detector was damaged it was because of him."

“This is the correct result.”

He raised his hand, and two words appeared on the transparent disc in his palm.

【Burning】

The next second, there was a crackling sound, and when everyone stretched their necks to find out what was going on, the disc had already shattered in Hao Yun's palm.

The sharp fragments scratched his skin and pierced his hands, but he didn't care at all.

"Burn everything? Mr. Xu will like it." After that, he changed the subject and said to the students: "I promise that we will get more research funds within three days."

…

On the other side, the inner door of the test room had been completely burned.

The unimaginable attack directly destroyed all the devices in the room, including the function of switching oxygen mode.

Feeling the air filling up with oxygen again, Xu Zhiyan didn't have time to take two deep breaths before he felt a sense of weakness and fell to the ground with a "thump". He used his last bit of strength to block the ground with his arms to prevent himself from hitting the ground face first.

Gold and black intertwined.

Fluffy ashes danced in the air as he moved.

He gasped for a long time, so long that he began to worry that he had pneumoconiosis, and then he had to turn over with great effort.

The lighting props on the top of the wall were changed again and again, the ice had completely disappeared, and the temperature of the ground had returned to normal. The surrounding walls were probably utilizing the rules of the present world, so they were not burned.

He didn’t know if it was because of the burning, but he felt very warm.

Reaching out his hand and brushing across the golden flames that were still dancing around him, Xu Zhiyan found that the fire was warm and not hot.

He knew very well that this was not fire.

This is just power manifested in the form of fire.

Once when Xu Zhiyan was checking Cen Jinyue’s memories, he saw the last conversation between the other party and ghosts before his death. When it comes to understanding the power of this world, no one is clearer than Bai Jin.

If his body hadn't been almost drained and he hadn't been able to use any strength at all, he really wanted to try to see if he could use a few skills.

His eyelids felt heavy. This test was much more intense than the last one, and he felt even more exhausted. Finally, Xu Zhiyan realized that he couldn't do anything at all, and he couldn't stand the fatigue and fell into a deep sleep.

…

I don’t know how long I slept.

No dreams, no systems, nothing.

When Xu Zhiyan opened his eyes again as his younger self, he found an uninvited guest sitting in the room.

A man wearing single-rimmed glasses was sitting at a table not far away, holding a book in his hand. His every move was full of dignity and elegance. His low-key, decent and designer clothes and the exquisite watch faintly visible on his wrist were all filled with the luxurious atmosphere that could only be accumulated with money.

The sleepy child took a glance, then immediately looked away, yawned, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

Xu Zhiyan was not so lucky.

He was almost driven to death by the system.

[Wuwuwuwu Host, how are you? I haven't seen you for three days!]

[From the first day my sweetheart fell into a coma, that bastard came.]

[He's guarding here every day, pretending to be affectionate, it's disgusting, ug——]

Well, considering that the system had delivered enough information at the beginning, Xu Zhiyan reluctantly praised it.

Before the interaction between the master and the servant was finished, Xu Yan on the other side had already noticed that Xiao Zhiyan had woken up.

The man put the book down, chuckled, and walked over to the bed.

"You are tired, have a good rest. When you are rested, we will go to the amusement park." He spoke slowly, not exposing the child who was pretending to be asleep. There was a sense of oppression and a hint of joy in his words.

After failing to awaken both dreams and time, he had already thought about cultivating the container again, but he didn't expect that everything would turn around.

Valuable containers deserve more delicate treatment, and Xu Yan doesn't mind satisfying the other party with small things.

Before Xu Zhiyan could say anything, the system started to work.

[Pooh! Beast in human clothing! Duplicity! A beast in human form! A scumbag! Shameless!] It cursed incoherently, and its chip was about to burn with anger.

Hearing such civilized words, Xu Zhiyan suddenly felt a little pity for the system.

Sure enough, AI can never replace humans.

If Jiang Huaique was here, he would have dragged out Xu Yan's ancestors for eighteen generations, and even the ancestors of the main system would not be spared. No one would be able to escape.

After Xu Yan left, little Zhiyan might not have recovered yet, and while pretending, he fell asleep again.

The body's functions are restored and sleep becomes normal.

This time, Xu Zhiyan did not fall into a coma again. He just felt his consciousness pause and suddenly fell into a familiar dream.

As soon as I came in, I smelled a strong smell of blood, accompanied by a faint smell of ash.

A blood-red moon hung in the sky.

The boundless darkness that was originally integrated into one once again turned into a sea of corpses and blood.

When he came to his senses, Xu Zhiyan found himself standing in blood plasma again, and his slippers were soaked again.

Before he could open his mouth to shout, a strong arm hugged him from behind. When he lowered his head, he could see the faint blue veins on his arm.

"Xu Zhiyan."

Bai Jin's voice was filled with suppressed emotions.

"I thought you weren't coming."

Three days, it didn't see Xu Zhiyan for three whole days.

The affection that was cultivated during their original relationship was simply unable to suppress the violence and madness surging in his heart, so he had to find something to do to ensure that he would not go crazy.

As it sniffed the inexplicable faint smell of ashes, its previously anxious and crazy heart calmed down.

Bai Jin lowered his head and gently rubbed the back of the young man's neck until the fragile white skin turned red. Then he couldn't help but ask, "What's that smell?"

These words awakened Xu Zhiyan who was lost in thought.

He pursed his lips and gave his answer.

“Maybe it’s the taste of the future.”

He was very familiar with the smell of ashes, but why did the smell that was supposed to appear on ghosts and gods appear on him?