Chapter 88 New Chapter (Comic Content)
Did the leader of the Dark Nest, the cult's hidden leader, die in the crackdown two years ago?
No one knows. Even the original world line cannot obtain information about this person, and the location of the Dark Nest is wiped out of thin air.
The words fell.
“——!”
Surprisingly, the man gave the strongest response so far.
The face that had been frozen for a long time shifted slightly, and as its eyes turned and stared straight into the daylight, its pupils suddenly shrank into points and the whites of its eyes expanded rapidly. Every inch of his facial features spoke of fear and terror, and his pale face seemed to be about to fall apart.
The man's mouth trembled slightly, opening and closing in confusion. Under his broken expression was his consciousness struggling desperately, trying to tell everyone all the clues he knew.
Bai Zhou and Guangqiu were startled and immediately leaned forward, fearing that they would miss his barely audible words. Even Ke Yan, who was ready to make a move, calmed down instantly and leaned in to listen carefully.
“——!!”
Under the mental oppression, the man's breathing became heavy, showing unprecedented vitality. His facial features were distorted to the extreme, revealing pain and struggle.
"I...I can't say...TA...will see..."
After a moment, he uttered these words helplessly, and turbid tears gathered in the corners of his eyes again.
The next second, Bai Zhou held his hand tightly, and the moment his hand touched his skin, even the young man with a low body temperature hissed subconsciously and was completely frozen.
"No, he can't find you again." Bai Zhou said softly. He looked back at those frightened eyes. His calm expression gave people peace of mind. "You are free. No one can restrain you anymore. Now, tell us what you know. We will avenge you."
"You can break free from the shackles that bind you."
“——!!!”
The man's chest heaved violently, causing the black mist in his body to become agitated as well. The instrument emitted an ear-piercing scream, representing the subject's loss of control. It penetrated the eardrums of the two people and was transmitted through the soundproofing.
Ke Yan frowned and looked at the daytime. After a moment's thought, she immediately pressed the stop button. The noise stopped and it was still quiet outside the door. Thanks to the excellent sound insulation, this brief change was not noticed by anyone.
"TA... monster, eyes..." Black blood flowed from the man's mouth, and his tongue was bitten by his trembling teeth. He stared at Bai Zhou intently, and he didn't know where he got the strength from, but he clenched his hand with terrifying force, leaving several bloody marks on the back of the young man's hand.
Bai Zhou's expression remained unchanged. He just stared at him quietly, waiting for his next words.
"Eyes... eyes... seeing me... disgusting..." The chaotic words were intermittent, sometimes repeating two words, "Eyes... pain... TA said..."
"He said... disgusting..."
“…………”
The man opened his mouth silently, only the slightest sound came out, and the strength in his hands gradually disappeared. The daytime leans down and listens with bated breath:
"...I want to...go home...please...go home..."
These words consumed the man's last bit of strength. His last glimmer of life faded away like a flash in the pan. His eyes lost their luster and turned into a pair of gray beads. His wide-open eyes remained the same as they were in life, and even now they were still staring in the direction of the daylight.
He is dead.
The pale hand fell, and its blood-stained fingertips brushed against Bai Ri's palm, then was caught by the young man in mid-air.
The data from the instrument returned to normal with the death of the research subject, but no one would pay attention to it at this time. The huge laboratory was extremely silent, with only two shallow breathing sounds rising and falling.
"..." Ke Yan pursed his lips.
She didn't hear the man's last words clearly, but she could make out the words from his lip shape. Knowing the ending was a bad thing at this moment, and it made her chest feel heavy and a little suffocated.
Before she learned the truth, she never thought that the death of the research subject would bring her such emotions. The death of a cultist is a relief, but if it is the demise of an innocent soul, the emotions become too complicated to sort out.
The silence did not last long. After a few moments of mourning, the pressure of reality only increased, urging people not to stay where they were.
The man's hands were placed at his sides. Bai Ri stood up, slowly approached his face, and closed the eyes that had been open for a long time.
The young man's eyelashes trembled suddenly. Ke Yan couldn't see his expression clearly. She didn't know what this usually indifferent person was feeling at this moment, and whether he had the same mixed feelings as her.
Her gaze moved to the back of the young man's hand, where the wound looked quite horrific. Ke Yan was stunned for a moment, his brain still slow, and subconsciously tried to find some medicine to pass over.
"Removing a part of the body won't affect the progress of the experiment, right?" Bai Zhou suddenly asked, his face moving from the shadows to appear under the light again. Now Ke Yan could see clearly, but he couldn't find any emotion similar to his own on that beautiful face.
The young man was still as calm as before, except that the smile on his lips had faded, nothing was different from before. When the pair of dark eyes looked at her, they brought a coldness similar to that of an instrument, measuring every piece of data.
His thoughts raced through his mind for only a moment, and Ke Yan quickly reacted: "It doesn't matter, as long as we keep the black mist inside the torso and prevent it from losing its restraints."
"Then cut off the unaffected part, burn it into ashes, and send it back to his hometown." Bai Zhou lowered his eyes, gently stroked the back of his hand, and wiped the blood that was about to drip back to his skin. "It is very important to know about his physique. Thank you for your hard work in researching. Remember to inform me as soon as you get the results."
This statement gained some popularity. Ke Yan looked at the young man and thought.
It's complicated, strange and fragmented. Strange and contradictory words piled up on Bai Zhou. After such a long time, she still couldn't analyze this man's temperament. Perhaps everyone is difficult to construct and difficult to describe in a few words, but the day is more difficult to understand than them.
"Yes, I will."
Ke Yan nodded in agreement.
——
The day left.
Unlike his flamboyant arrival, he left very quietly. So much so that when someone asked about the young man's whereabouts a few days later, people were shocked to realize that they had not seen this mysterious psychic for a long time.
He didn't even say goodbye, and all the messages he sent fell on deaf ears. The top management had different attitudes towards Bai Zhou's departure, some were annoyed, some were indifferent, which was just a reflection of their own thoughts. Perhaps the time they had spent with the young man had fostered trust in them, so they only sent people to search for him and there was no further news.
Some people also asked the superior who was close to Bai Zhou, but after the questioning, the other party acted as if he knew nothing about it, looking innocent and melancholy. Somehow, in the end, the two of them denounced the ruthless Cricket Team during the day, and by the time they disbanded, the original topic had been completely forgotten.
At the same time, a new chapter also opens in "Doomsday"——
"What the hell? The protagonist of the new chapter is Bai Zhou brother?"
The moment the chapter was loaded, a large number of "!"s came out, and after seeing the bold and enlarged words in the title, people became even more excited.
"Undercurrent."
This is the concluding title of the new chapter. As a comic entering its mid-term stage, these four words describe the subsequent plot development very well, making readers excited from the first moment they see it.
If these four words are not enough to cause a big commotion, there is no need to panic, because the following color pages are the real highlight.
In the picture, a slender figure wearing a windbreaker stood on a high place and looked down. The familiar windbreaker outline and the familiar lazy posture make people call his name in their hearts the first second they come into view.
The cold wind howled and lingered wildly, and the young man turned his back to the dusk. The scorching red was about to disappear, and in a trance, the sky and the earth seemed to be connected. Night was about to fall, and the edges blurred like black fog, surrounding the day. He stood at the highest point of the city and looked down. Below him were densely packed buildings. The cartoonist has put a lot of effort into this, and if you look closely you can even spot the government and guild buildings, which, from above, look like exquisite small buildings for anyone to play with.
The collapsed high-rise buildings and the standing buildings constitute the boundary between life and death in the lower half of the picture. Guilds and governments stood on the side of life, while on the other side lay collapsed ruins, just like those destroyed cities.
The light is hazy and the smile is vague. Due to the influence of distance, it is unclear what expression is on that beautiful face. Perhaps it is the same smile as always, or perhaps it is the occasional indifference. The reader uses imagination to push away the fog and touch the condescending young man.
There is only one person on the entire color page, and the entire picture is fragmented. The man stood in the center of everything, outside the world, watching the buildings rise and fall with the attitude of a sober person. No one knows what he looks like except the person in the painting, and he is all alone.
This is the first time that a color page contains only one character. The cartoonist's intention is obvious, and the speculation that "Daytime is the hidden protagonist" is a foregone conclusion. Coupled with the title "Undercurrent", the style of the chapter is further highlighted.
The barrage started to go crazy:
"This is my reward for getting beans every day when I open my eyes... Woohoo, Brother Zhou, my Brother Zhou... Brother Bai Zhou, I will follow you forever! (crying)"
"Scroll faster, damn hand, don't keep me stuck on the coloring page for an hour, the drawing is so awesome!"
“Ah ...
"The code above... the new hot article?"
"I was still wondering how the protagonists can deal with the cult with their current strength. It turns out that they are letting the max-level boss do it. I feel relieved now. XD"
"Isn't this a good story?! You did a great job as a cartoonist. You deserve to be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. You are really amazing (?) Brother Bai Zhou's background should be revealed!"
…
The chapter begins with a warm appetizer.
Qi Heng, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared in the perspective of the protagonists. The young man lying on the hospital bed was sleeping peacefully, with a calm sleeping expression on his fair face, as if he would open his eyes in the next second to say hello as usual, or to play a prank and scare people.
Readers shed tears in the comments, expressing their longing for the boy whom they had not seen for a long time. Like Lin Muyu, their inner anxiety subsided a little after learning that the other party had an obsession with doing what he had to do. Perhaps because every detail in the comics has a corresponding process, readers firmly believe that Qi Heng will wake up soon. Of course, as to what kind of knife this obsession would become, they deliberately ignored it.
Ye Yunhe and Si Yu'an also held this idea.
Thinking ahead of time about what the boy would say when he woke up, Ye Yunhe felt deeply how painful it was to have a teammate who was willing to risk his life. Her worries remained unchanged as she suddenly touched a strange object in her pocket.
【! 】
A big exclamation mark appeared above her head. Ye Yunhe was frightened and instantly alert. Her teammates around her also immediately became alert after realizing something was wrong. The three of them stared at her pocket with their eyes as big as bells.
The atmosphere was tense, the barrage was also infected, and conspiracy theories continued one after another.
Then, festive red envelopes printed with gold ingots appeared in front of everyone, as if dotted with a lethal amount of gold powder, dazzling to the point of blinding.
【? 】
"?"
In an instant, the style of the painting suddenly changed to a Q-version one, and the protagonists on the screen suddenly turned into little people, staring blankly at the thick red envelope with an "OO" expression.
The barrage fell silent, as if it had also been hit by a dimensionality reduction attack.
In different worlds but under the gazes of the same emotions, the red envelope was solemnly opened, or rather it burst open with a "whoosh", revealing the even more glittering items inside, blinding the eyes of everyone present.
A passionate guitar sound came from somewhere, and the BGM appeared in people's minds. Dozens of high-level talismans made a brilliant appearance, making the ward glorious and almost bursting the pitiful red envelopes.
Protagonists: OoO!
The words and familiar smiling face printed on the back became the fuse for the explosion of barrage.
"I knew it was you - the rich version of Bai Zhou brother!!"
"Senior: You've never sung this song to me to comfort children."
"Question: How much money does Bai Zhou have in his bank account? This is not the amount of wealth that an idle esper can have, right?!!"
"This smiling face is exactly the same as the one on the visiting letter, but it has a completely opposite feeling..."
“Shit, is this the treatment that Bai Zhou’s favorite junior gets…”
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