Departure to the floating island
When Ying Yungui rushed back to the mountain villa, Mai Er had been waiting anxiously for a long time.
As soon as she saw someone coming in, she immediately activated the isolation mode of the villa. To be extra safe, she also projected a large amount of hypnosis power towards the mountains and forests, causing all the small animals inside to fall into a deep sleep.
When Ying Yungui saw her doing this, he knew that the situation was probably more serious than he had imagined.
Mai Er told him with a grim face: "Li Ming is dead. He died this morning in the interrogation room." Because Li Ming's interrogation was personally handled by Mai Er, and as the head of a department, it was impossible for her to watch over someone all the time.
So when she received the news of the abnormal condition this morning and entered the room where Li Ming was held in solitary confinement, she found that the guy was only breathing out and not in.
"Where's the body? What was the cause of death?" Ying Yungui asked. The thing he worried about had finally happened.
In Ying Yungui's memory, Li Ming had taken refuge with Lu Ming shortly after Morrill's death, and then became his adopted son after Lu Zhiqi was imprisoned. During this time, apart from following Lu Ming around, he wasn't actively involved in missions, nor was he heard to have been engaged in secluded training.
He even never attended any gatherings at the other courtyard again, as if he had completely left the circle of people like them.
Ying Yungui initially assumed this was Li Ming's personal choice, so he didn't interfere or inquire. Firstly, their personal relationship wasn't particularly close, and secondly, Li Ming's ability wouldn't make him a teammate, so Ying Yungui hadn't paid much attention to him.
It was not until the plan to embroil Lu Ming in scandal was finally closed that Ying Yungui suddenly remembered Li Ming and asked Mai Er to "invite" him into the interrogation department. This invitation led to Lu Ming's escape.
After Lu Ming ran away, Mai Er began to interrogate Li Ming with full justification, and even tried to empathize with him in order to obtain more detailed information.
But every attempt at empathy failed.
Li Ming looks normal, with neither physical defects nor mental illness.
But every time he felt defeated, Ying Yungui realized that Lu Ming had played a trick on him, and this trick had not been undone until yesterday.
However, today, Li Ming died.
Mai Er gathered her thoughts and immediately dropped a bombshell: "'Lu Ming sealed my memories and kept me by his side in order to swap our energies. He wanted to use my body for reincarnation.' These were Li Ming's exact words before he died. His body had already turned to ash."
Even Mai Er's voice trembled when he repeated it, let alone Ying Yungui who was hearing it for the first time.
The cold and ruthless mask that Ying Yungui wore in recent years finally showed cracks.
The area around the villa began to shake violently, and the tables, chairs, and lamps in the house flew everywhere and shattered. The animals in the forest that had just been hypnotized by Mai Er were all awakened and fled in all directions.
"Ying Yungui! Calm down!" Mai'er's body began to float in the air uncontrollably. She quickly stared at Ying Yungui's eyes and used "hypnosis", but was knocked away by a ball of invisible air. Her back hit the wall and she felt dizzy.
At this moment, the energy released from Ying Yungui has exceeded the limit of the limiter.
Originally, after being promoted to a level 7 psychic, he could choose not to wear the limiter, which was one of the rights of high-level psychics.
However, after he was released from solitary confinement for causing a disturbance in Area 7, Ying Xiangze forced him to apply for a limiter. In the end, after a stalemate, Ying Yungui was left with only a ring and a pocket watch.
If Mai Er could see, she would find that the hands on the pocket watch had lost their fixed direction and began to spin rapidly. Unfortunately, the pocket watch was placed where no one could see it.
Ying Yungui's anger exceeded the critical value. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he was so furious. It seemed that the last time was when he faced Labriel.
Thinking of La Bairriel only added fuel to the fire.
Mai Er had just stood firm and was about to approach Ying Yungui when she was pinned back against the wall by a surge of air pressure. Under the pressure, she felt as if her internal organs were about to shift.
"Ying Yungui... calm... calm..." Mai Er felt very regretful that she did not take off the limiter in advance, because she could not move at all at the moment, let alone take off her earrings.
Ying Yungui's anger and gushing energy finally stopped due to a heart spasm.
Mai Er quickly seized the opportunity to pull herself off the wall, staggered towards Ying Yungui, grabbed his shoulders and made him look into her eyes, and activated "hypnosis": "Sleep."
Ying Yungui, who was about to go berserk, fell into a deep sleep as he wished.
On November 11, 175th year of the new calendar, No. 7101 Li Ming was confirmed dead.
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November 13, 175 New Calendar, Maintenance Bureau.
Shi Youchen, Morrill and Yan Zhiyuan gathered on time, but 07 was still half an hour late, which caused Morrill's strong dissatisfaction.
"I only called Sasa and Morrill, what are you doing here?" 07 asked Yan Zhiyuan.
Shi Youchen was not used to being called that. He spoke awkwardly, "Teacher, we are going to the floating island. He is here to wait for me."
Yan Zhiyuan was a little embarrassedly excited, while 07 had a look of "sudden enlightenment" on his face.
Only Morrill was stunned by Shi Youchen's address to 07, and felt that the world had finally become magical.
07: "That's quite a coincidence. The place I want to take you to is the floating island."
"In that case, Yan Zhiyuan, please come along."
The opening time of the passage to the floating island is not certain each time, and you need to have enough connections to find out.
On the way to the passage, 07 told the three that the azure space they were in was the first barrier space established by the Maintenance Bureau. It originally had no name, but as more members joined the Maintenance Bureau, they gave it a name: "Mirage Abyss."
The floating island opposite to the Mirage Abyss is completely different. It is neither constructed out of pure energy nor has it always belonged to the Maintenance Bureau.
"You'll know when you get there." That's what 07 said.
Yan Zhiyuan had inquired before. If the Mirage Abyss was a place that anyone in the Maintenance Bureau could go to, then the Floating Island was a "high-end place" that only a small number of people could reach.
Because on the "passage" leading from the Mirage Abyss to the floating island, there are hundreds of "degradation barriers".
The existence of these dissipative barriers will continuously deprive the body energy of those who enter, and once the body's energy is overdrawn, death on the road is the most likely outcome.
Therefore, ordinary people in the Mirage Abyss dare not set foot in the "passageway", let alone those physically disabled and inferior ones.
The limit of the energy that these depletion barriers can deprive a single unit of is approximately—
"Level 5, about average." 07 answered Yan Zhiyuan's question, and at the same time reminded everyone that this operation was not a simple one. "Not everyone can enter the Floating Island."
07 As a veteran of the Maintenance Bureau, he was very clear about this, so his original plan was to kill Lu Ming and give him to Shi Youchen and Morrill as a real "welcome gift" to be absorbed. After these two people had sufficient abilities, he would take them to the floating island.
The four of them arrived at the top of the mast tower, where a long line had already formed. "Looks like they're getting some good stuff there this time, so there's a lot of people going there," 07 glanced at the people in line and reminded the three behind him again, "Follow me closely and don't act on your own."
Yan Zhiyuan had already broken through to level 6, and Shi Youchen also broke through to level 6 after absorbing Lu Ming's energy, so the two did not feel any pressure at the moment, but were looking forward to this action in their hearts.
Only Morrill looked hesitant. "Do I... have to go? That floating island?"
07 glanced at her, obviously dissatisfied: "Your life belongs to me, what else do you dare not do or don't want to do?" This made Morrill speechless instantly.
This time the "passage" is the skylight at the top of the mast tower, which is only big enough for two people to walk side by side.
So the moment the skylight opened, some people started fighting in order to set off earlier.
Shi Youchen thought to himself, "Since we're going to fight, what's the point of queuing?"
But he soon understood the meaning of queuing.
07 ignored the people in line ahead of him and led the other two straight to the front skylight. "Hey, where are you from? Do you know the rules?!" The person at the head of the line, about to enter the passage, was stopped by this sudden appearance and shouted angrily.
07 didn't say anything, so naturally the other three wouldn't say anything either.
Seeing this, the man became even more angry and reached out to grab 07's clothes.
"Ugh! Ahhhhh!" However, his hand didn't even touch the corner of his robe before it was strangely twisted into a rope. He was now holding his arm and wailing.
The wailing startled the people queuing behind him. They all stuck their heads out to see what was happening. After seeing the man's miserable condition, they all retracted their heads in unison, not daring to say a word.
Isn't it? Who dares to speak up? Anyone who can queue up here must have some connections and some ability. Anyone who can knock someone like this down so easily can't be a simple person.
Someone recognized 07's identity and whispered to the people next to them: "Am I seeing correctly? That's 07? Is he going to the floating island this time too?"
07 turned a deaf ear to the rising noise, glanced at the man who was still twisting his arms, and said, "Rules? I am the rules here." Then he led Shi Youchen and the other two through the skylight and into the passage.
Inside the "channel" is a place independent of the world. Its scenery is constantly changing. Sometimes it is a vast galaxy, and in the blink of an eye it turns into a Gobi desert.
The only constant was a stairway that stretched as far as the eye could see. Shi Youchen had seen such stairways in cartoons as a child; they usually led to heaven.
"Follow me," 07 said, and took the lead on the first step. He was paving the way for the three people behind him, which would alleviate some of their pressure.
07 even reflected on whether he had underestimated them. Theoretically, with their current strength, climbing the ladder to heaven was more than enough.
But he didn't expect that the accident would happen after all.
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