"go home"
A few hours ago, Ying Yungui, Kulin, and Reid passed the inspection at the city gate and became the first to enter the main hall of the main tower. Ying Yungui pushed open the ceiling door of the hall and carefully observed every inch of the furnishings inside.
Kulin, who was following behind him, laughed at Red frivolously: "Why are you so shy when I ask you to take off your clothes? Oh, your face is blushing." Red didn't say anything, but just glared at him and quickened his pace to catch up with Ying Yungui.
"Quiet down, Kulin. It's your turn to work." Ying Yungui stared blankly at the large round clock hanging on the opposite wall and spoke to stop the little farce. Kulin pursed his lips and rolled his pupils upwards. "Okay, okay," he stopped teasing Reid.
He pointed at his solar plexus in the air, then surveyed the hall, which bore a striking resemblance to an association base. After a few seconds, Kulin stretched his arms and swung them back and forth to relax, saying in a relaxed tone, "Nothing here, just an ordinary building." Ying Yungui felt slightly relieved. He found a corner where he could observe most of the visible space and sat down with his knees bent.
Red followed him obediently. To avoid being too conspicuous, Kulin had no choice but to sit down as well. "Where do you think we are now?" Ying Yungui glanced out the window, then glanced in the direction of the round clock and said, "Look at the time on it."
After squinting his eyes and seeing clearly, Kulin muttered in confusion: "It was clearly early morning when we set out. It would be fine if the daylight came so quickly, but how come it's already afternoon?" He turned to look at the two of them, "We swam all morning?" Reid rolled his eyes in unbearable pain, and with his left palm facing up and fingertips outward, he put the five fingers of his right hand together and stood upright, touching the base of his palm to the palm of his left hand as a gesture of stopping.
It means "copy" in the common gesture within the association.
Kulin closed his mouth and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Could this be the place we are looking for?" Ying Yungui said: "We can't be sure yet, let's go and see, and be ready for battle at any time." Kulin waved his hand: "Don't worry, ever since I found the bracelet dormant after landing, I have used my ability to add an optical barrier to our bodies, so others can't see our true appearance."
"Hmm." Ying Yungui was about to say, "As a senior, if you don't even have this awareness, then I'm seriously questioning the criteria used by the Alpha team to select members." "Let's rest for a while. There's been a constant stream of people queuing outside to enter the castle, so it's not convenient to take action now." So the three of them fell silent.
Not until the short hand on the round clock moved two spaces was the door of the main hall opened again.
Ying Yungui stretched his body and looked up to see who was coming. When he saw the two people who came in, one with black hair and the other with white hair and different types of delicate facial features, he thought for a moment that he was hallucinating. It was not until Kulin beside him whispered "Wow" that he was sure that the person he had not seen for a long time and dared not to see appeared before him.
Ying Yungui stared at Shi Youchen as he walked into the hall. He looked towards him and then looked away, then sat down in another corner.
If Yan Zhiyuan could restrain himself from listening and thinking when he received Shi Youchen's call during the meeting at the District 1 headquarters, then when the person was really in front of him, it would take a lot of self-control and patience to control his gaze from staying on him.
Ying Yungui pinched his thighs hard with his lowered hands, forcing himself to be more sober. Now was not the time to think about love. Not only did he have a mission to accomplish, but more importantly, he had to figure out why Shi Youchen and Pei Chanbai appeared in this place that was suspected to be the base of the Maintenance Bureau.
Later, taking advantage of the close contact during the meal, Ying Yungui had Reid hypnotize Shi Youchen, causing him to fall into a coma after the meal. At the same time, he took the initiative to chat with Pei Chanbai: "Excuse me, sir, may I ask what time it was outside when you came in?"
Pei Chanbai looked up at him from between bites of meat, his gaze sweeping over his entire body carefully before spotting the "copy" sign under the table. "Hmm... maybe around eight or nine in the evening, I can't quite remember." Pei Chanbai swallowed his food, picked up the juice on the table, and took a swig. "Where are you from?"
Ying Yungui grinned: "We are from Gongdula, it's a bit far." Gongdula is a remote town on a peninsula in the northwest corner of District 5, connected to District 4. There is nothing special about it. It was just included in the list of towns to be developed by the association at the beginning of the year. It is one of the first batch of directly governed areas in the border area.
Pei Chanbai's eyes turned and he understood and said, "Oh, I know. It's indeed a bit far. Thank you for your hard work." Having said that, he didn't dare to trust the "colleague" in front of him 100%, but this doubt was completely dispelled after hearing the next sentence of the visitor.
"Deputy Captain Pei is very knowledgeable." Ying Yungui said with a smile, picked up the juice and clinked glasses with Pei Chanbai.
After that, the four of them exchanged information and formulated a detailed battle plan, which led to the division into two groups after the battle in the Colosseum. In fact, it was already agreed upon during the battle that "Ying Yungui and Pei Chanbai would be responsible for fighting, while Kulin and Reid would be responsible for controlling the situation." As for the fact that Ying Yungui couldn't bear to see Shi Youchen suffering from a mental blow halfway through the Colosseum, his act of covering his ears with his hands was purely out of personal emotion.
After knowing Ying Yungui's identity, Pei Chanbai did not associate him with Shi Youchen. He was only thinking about how to complete the current task as soon as possible. Therefore, he never thought about revealing any information to his "teammates" from beginning to end.
"Ying Yungui?" Pei Chanbai's call brought people's thoughts back to the present. "Pansera is dead, so the goal can be considered accomplished. What are you looking at?" Ying Yungui looked towards the horizon following Pansera's desperate look before she leaped into the sky. The silver-white cracks across it increased instead of decreasing, making the night sky look like the Milky Way.
"Pei Chanbai, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on in this dungeon for much longer. We need to leave as soon as possible." Ying Yungui withdrew his gaze and asked seriously, "What did you tell Shi Youchen?" Pei Chanbai wiped the blood on the back of his hand against the wall and said, "I asked him to go meet up with your two teammates. I don't know where they are now."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kulin and Reid appeared at the end of the corridor. "The energy in this space is collapsing. We need to leave immediately!" Kulin shouted to the two people who were still standing there. Ying Yungui's face suddenly changed, and he asked with a hint of anger, "Where is the person who went to find you?"
After being left behind by the two men, Shi Youchen did not stay there for too long. He looked at the birds and beasts flying in the sky from time to time, and ran out of the castle, overtaking many people who were exhausted and collapsed on the ground along the way.
At this moment, a stumbling figure in front of him caught his attention. Shi Youchen stepped forward to take a look. It was the thin man with a big belly he had encountered during the day. His legs seemed to be filled with lead, making it difficult for him to lift them. He could only take slow, halting steps forward, and sweat soaked through the thin fabric of his clothes.
"You..." Shi Youchen suddenly opened his mouth, then realized the man probably didn't understand what he was saying. So he grabbed the man's wrist, lifted him onto his shoulder, and helped him forward. The man watched in horror as Shi Youchen moved, powerless to resist. He had finally escaped the slave camp, finally freed himself from his devilish guards, only to find the road out was hellish, with no idea where it would lead.
At this moment, the person he had met once before, the one he had the courage to help, appeared beside him. Although his self-righteous "help" might not be needed by others, he would strive to do his best even if it could give others a chance to avoid being targeted.
"Thank you." Shi Youchen heard a whisper in his ear.
Deep within the earth beneath the castle, in a dim cavern, Kuristan grabbed Rosa's hand and flung her into a formation. "This stronghold has been abandoned! All Transformers, including Panthera, are doomed. The leader has ordered that all traces of this place must be completely eradicated before this is over, or the Karanka clan's position will be threatened. If you don't want to die, leave!"
The battle in the church made Kuristan very unhappy. While escaping on the golden eagle, he found a large number of modified humans fleeing to the periphery, so he turned back to the castle. Halfway into the underground cave, he met Rosa who seemed to be looking for something.
Lusha was brought here by him forcefully, and she didn't dare to say she was looking for Shi Youchen and Pei Chanbai. After all, those two were just former teammates and saviors, and their lives, no matter how great, could not compare to the lives of an entire family.
"I hope they can escape." Lusa could only pray in her heart.
Kuristan activated the formation, and when the light was at its brightest, they stepped into the center of the formation together. After the light, their figures disappeared into the air, and the pattern on the ground also completely dissipated.
After Shi Youchen supported the portly man for about a hundred meters, Pei Chanbai's voice rang out from behind him and overhead: "Shi Youchen!" The man stopped and turned, only to see two gray eagles approaching. The farther one carried three people on its back, while the closer one bore Pei Chanbai alone. Shi Youchen knew then that it was time to leave.
The gray eagle flew even lower. Pei Chanbai reached out to Shi Youchen and scooped him up. "Wait! That guy!" Shi Youchen, having regained his balance, stopped Pei Chanbai before he could depart. Pointing at the man, half-kneeling on the ground after losing his support, he panted, "He's... that guy from the day before..."
Pei Chanbai lowered his head to look at the man's face. "Oh," he said, noticing the conspicuous belly. Understanding the situation, he reached out to pull him. The man seemed to have twisted his ankle accidentally. He limped and struggled to climb onto the back of the gray eagle, then sat on the back, panting. "This is..." he asked with a pale face, his legs trembling. He didn't dare look at the gray eagle below him, because he knew that this might have once been a living person.
"Go home." Shi Youchen searched his memory for a moment, remembering some District 5 dialect he'd heard Xiaowei and Apsu speak, and tried to piece it together with his odd accent. He expected to see the man's expression filled with hope and motivation, but he didn't expect the man to sway and slip, sliding off his back.
Shi Youchen's heart skipped a beat. The gray eagle had already flown far away from the ground. If it fell from this height, it would surely die.
"What are you standing there for? Pull him up!" Pei Chanbai's gritted teeth made Shi Youchen's heart beat again. He quickly reached out to grab the man's struggling hand in mid-air, and couldn't help but admire Pei Chanbai's physical fitness and reflexes. The two of them each pulled on one side of the pot-bellied man, but they couldn't pull him up successfully. Pei Chanbai spat softly, thinking that he should have let the curse user ride with him earlier. Now he didn't even know how to control this bird.
"Thank you." Suddenly, Shi Youchen heard a man's light voice coming from below, "But I can't go home anymore."
"They won't recognize a monster like me who is neither male nor female, and I don't want to embarrass them." The man's voice was filled with tears. Then Shi Youchen and Pei Chanbai felt their clenched fingers slipping down. It was the person who was holding them who let go of their hands on his own initiative.
"Don't..." Amidst the noise, Shi Youchen's hand could no longer hold on to hope. What was left in his palm was air, and perhaps someone's tears.
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