Chapter 353 Reversal

The sea breeze was blowing fiercely.

Two boats, one large and one small, were sailing on the sea.

Qi Ling's boat was going a bit too fast.

Tao Haohao had no choice but to speed up and follow at a distance until he watched the transport ship safely leave the contaminated area.

But as the yacht continued to accelerate on the sea...

Waves pounded against the hull of the yacht, causing it to rock violently.

Yun Zhao gripped the handrail beside her, trying to maintain her balance. Suddenly, she smelled a very unpleasant odor of engine oil and subconsciously frowned.

Xie Tu noticed her reaction, took out another pill from the medicine box, and handed it to her. "Want to take another one?"

Despite the yacht's rocking motion, his voice remained calm and steady.

Yun Zhao reached out and took it.

After taking the second seasickness pill, she felt a little better, but she was still feeling unwell.

This feeling is completely different from when I was in Subei.

I feel nauseous and want to vomit.

Xie Tu frowned, continuing to observe her reaction, and said, "Hang in there, we'll drive slowly when we get back."

Not to mention Yun Zhao, the other members of Team Zero are also having a hard time.

The rabbit gripped the gunwale tightly, enduring the discomfort, "Is this ship having a rave with us? It's rocking so much I'm almost disoriented."

"Tao Haohao, why don't you slow down?" Song Liang shouted into the cockpit.

Tao Haohao's voice followed closely behind, "Slow down, you can't catch up with Qi Ling! Holy crap, why is he driving so fast!"

Everyone gave them all the advice they could.

No one seemed to remember to remind Qi Ling to speed up the boat.

Qi Ling definitely wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, since large ships and small ships move at different speeds.

He might not feel anything at all.

The waves on the sea seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the yacht was rocking more violently.

A huge wave crashed in, causing the ship to tilt violently, and Yun Zhao almost fell over.

Xie Tu reacted quickly and caught her.

Yun Zhao grabbed his arm, raised his head, and solemnly said to him, "I will never ride on this kind of boat again!"

"Okay." Xie Tu helped her sit up again.

The journey was supposed to take twenty minutes, but the group saw the edge of the contaminated area in just ten minutes.

A swirling gray fog appeared on the sea surface, like a surging tide, constantly churning and twisting, shrouding everything in front of it in a hazy and chaotic state.

Tao Haohao finally slowed down.

The group stepped out of the cabin and stood on the deck, watching as the huge container ship, without slowing down at all, rushed straight into the gray fog.

"Do the sentries from the reinforcements do the same thing every time they see us go in?" Rabbit couldn't help but ask.

It feels so strange to see things from a different perspective.

No one answered.

The waves were too big.

Yun Zhao couldn't stand up straight at all. She gripped Xie Tu's arm tightly, pressing down on him with almost all her weight.

The sea winds raged.

Stray hairs fluttered in the wind, making it hard for her to open her eyes.

Yun Zhao grabbed his arm and moved him behind him, comfortably using Xie Tu to shield him from the wind.

She hid behind Xie Tu and asked, "Captain, what will happen if we go in?"

Xie Tu's voice drifted on the sea breeze, "Back to somewhere in the polluted area."

"Qi Ling doesn't know how?"

“The mutants won’t, but for him, it’s not so certain.”

After all, Qi Ling is no ordinary mutant.

He is a special being who possesses self-awareness and retains human thought and lifestyle habits.

The bow of the transport ship had already touched the gray fog.

Fearing something might happen, the sentries immediately became more alert.

The gray fog quickly engulfed the bow, then the stern...

In the blink of an eye, the entire massive transport ship vanished into the gray fog, leaving no trace.

After a while, the sea remained unchanged.

Song Liang breathed a sigh of relief, "Looks like we got out safely."

"Let's go back, we still have work to do."

"Tao Haohao, slow down! Even with seasickness medication, I can't stand this kind of rocking."

As soon as Duan Xi finished speaking, he felt uneasy and said, "I'll drive!"

Tao Haohao retorted, "Do you think I want to? If I slow down even a little, do you think I can keep up with him?"

"That's because your skills are too bad!" Duan Xi said, then quickly slipped into the driver's seat to take his place.

The yacht floated on the sea, with endless gray fog obscuring the sky directly in front and the sea stretching out to the horizon on three sides.

Duan Xi started the engine and studied how to turn around.

"Wouldn't it be easier if we just charged straight into the fog?" Duan Xi suddenly had an idea and asked his teammates who had crawled into the cabin.

Xie Tu helped Yun Zhao in and gave him a faint glance.

Duan Xi: "...Okay, got it, turn around immediately!"

"Do you think the gatekeeper will just take you straight to the safe base?"

The rabbit said irritably, "We'll randomly end up in a pile of mutated zombies, and there aren't a single car around. Are you planning to push the boat back with us?"

Duan Xi remained silent.

Xie Tu ignored him and looked down, only to see Yun Zhao's brows furrowing more and more tightly.

"Sit down for a while. You can't take any more seasickness medicine." Xie Tu thought she was still feeling unwell, but she had already taken two pills, and they didn't seem to be very effective. He didn't want her to take any more and make herself sick.

Yun Zhao shook his head. "It seems something has happened at the safe base."

Team Zero has more important things to do; she can't spend all her time testing the six people who represent the sun symbol.

Therefore, on the first day, Yun Zhao placed two spiritual threads on each person.

She didn't tell anyone about it.

But just now, she clearly felt that the information transmitted by the mental tendrils suddenly turned into a blank.

Spiritual threads can capture emotions.

The blank space only indicates that no emotion was captured.

Under what circumstances would a person lose their emotions?

Regarding this contaminated area, Yun Zhao felt there was only one possibility.

That is death.

Xie Tu's expression changed slightly. "Duan Xi, drive faster!"

"Come on, don't stay inside, everyone go to the deck!"

The words had barely left his mouth.

The next moment.

Darkness instantly enveloped the entire world, and in a dizzying spin, the people inside the cabin were thrown into a heap.

"Damn it!" someone shouted from the darkness.

Yun Zhao was held tightly by Xie Tu's hand, and he fell onto Xie Tu's chest, and the two of them fell to the ground together.

My worst fears came true.

The rocking sensation on the ship did not disappear.

Yun Zhao was a little dazed from the fall. She braced herself against his chest with both hands and tried to lift her head to look outside.

Outside, the sea was no longer deep blue, but a deep, bottomless darkness.

The surrounding scenery had somehow transformed into an abstract and distorted nightmare scene.

Zombies and survivors, all bodies transformed into countless fragments of souls, traversing painful memories of the past, rapidly eroding everyone's minds.

Yun Zhao saw Jing Yao and his companions fighting tenaciously in the darkness.

Seeing Professor Cao sitting in the laboratory, head hanging low in dejection, his chest no longer rising and falling.

Seeing six-and-a-half-year-old Ren Xin, whose parents had both been transformed into monsters as darkness fell, she didn't hide or avoid them, but cried out to the two mutants, "Daddy, Mommy!"

Chen Xi was being pulled along by her companion, while her boyfriend was still behind them.

In order to save her, the man was willing to buy her a tiny bit of time to escape.

Chen Xi managed to break free from her companions, turned around and ran desperately backwards. She cried as she reached out her hand into the darkness, waiting to be swallowed by the dark matter...

...

Countless fragments are interwoven within, like fragmented images projected in the air, mottled and fragmented.

The sentries crouched down in agony, clutching their heads, their faces contorted, enduring unspeakable torment.

"Ugh, so annoying," Yun Zhao muttered, his voice full of weariness.

She was tired and didn't want to continue playing these tricks.

Yun Zhao slowly raised his hand.

In an instant, a powerful spiritual force surged forth from her body.

Countless cyan-green fluorescent lights emerged, illuminating the surroundings in a dreamlike manner.

The little bluebird's body became transparent. It flapped its wings and soared into the sky, emitting clear and melodious phoenix cries that echoed across the heavens.

The fluorescent lights converged, forming a dazzling beam of light that fought against the darkness of the entire world.

A voice suddenly rang out at that moment.

"I once saw someone who looked a lot like you..." The voice was androgynous, as if it came from afar.

The surrounding spiritual energy paused for a moment upon hearing these words.

Yun Zhao lowered her head and realized that Xie Tu was gone. She was kneeling in the fluorescent light, her whole body enveloped in spiritual energy.

There was nothing around but darkness.

"His name is Yun Jue, the world's first Dark Guide. What's your relationship to him?"