Task 5
On November 29, 175 of the New Calendar, the energy of the headquarters' Health Advisory Office collapsed and could not be reorganized.
Ying Yungui experienced Shi Youchen's death cycle countless times in there, and finally had to kill him with his own hands, and finally he was able to escape from the cage built by "destiny".
On the first night back in District 8, he sat in the empty Yingjia Building, wrapped in a thin blanket, curled up in the corner of the living room, and sat there all night.
In fact, in the past, he spent most of his time alone at home like this, but this time was different. This time, Ying Yungui knew in his heart that Ying Xiangze would never come back.
"Dad." He huddled in the blanket, buried his head, trying to understand and find his father.
When the buzzing in his head grew louder, Ying Yungui thought it was a defensive reaction from not resting for too long. However, he forced himself to close his eyes and doze off for more than ten minutes. Not only did the buzzing not disappear, it actually intensified.
Ying Yungui's eyeballs were covered in bloodshot, and his vision was blurry. He was so annoyed by the buzzing sound that he even wanted to punch himself in the head twice to knock him unconscious.
Mi Meng's call seemed to come from a distant heaven, knocking on Ying Yungui's tired and fragile body and mind.
"What are you doing? If you have the guts, take me away too." He murmured, his head still buried between his knees and thighs without raising it.
But there were many things he couldn't escape from. Mai Er's call kept ringing, and when Ying Yungui was forced to pick up the phone, before he could even open his mouth, he heard a roar from the other side: "Where the hell are you?! Do you still want Luo Zhao to die?! And you don't care about Li Sen anymore?!"
The series of questions hit Ying Yungui's brain and made it go blank for a moment, and he actually suppressed the annoying buzzing sound.
"I..."
"No matter where you are or what a piece of shit you look like, if you want to save Luo Zhao, get to the training base right away!" Mai Er said harshly and hung up.
When Ying Yungui thought of the incident at the Luo family, his heart trembled violently. He tried to stand up, but because he had maintained the same posture for too long, his legs lost strength and he fell back with a bang.
"..." He didn't try again, and directly opened the material exchange interface. Without blinking, he spent a large amount of points to buy immediate delivery, and tilted his head back to pour several bottles of compressed energy liquid into his throat.
By the time he arrived at the training base in a disheveled state, Mai Er and Lu Zhiqi had been waiting for a long time with gloomy faces.
"Bang!" Mai Er stepped forward and punched Ying Yungui hard on the side of the face. Feeling unsatisfied, she raised her hand to punch him again, but Lu Zhiqi grabbed her wrist and said, "It's no use hitting him now. Calm down first."
"I'm calm!" Mai Er broke away from Lu Zhiqi, pointed at Ying Yungui and gritted her teeth, "It was you who insisted on killing Lu Ming, and that's why we followed you and turned District 8 into this state. Now that Lu Ming has run away, you can be sad and upset about your parents' affairs for as long as you want, but if you just collapse and become a mess, don't blame me for being the first to deal with you."
She rarely got so angry, and even if she was angry she would not say such harsh words to her friends, let alone to Yun Gui.
Lu Zhiqi was somewhat aware of her reasons, and said between the two of them: "Alright, alright, he came out fine, let's listen to what he has to say first." Then he turned to ask Ying Yungui, "Why did you go to the health consultation center without saying a word? You must know how risky it is, you clearly..."
As Lu Zhiqi spoke, his emotions grew. Even though he knew what was going to happen next was the other party's "forbidden territory," he still didn't stop there. "You were clearly angry about Shi Youchen going in, so why do you feel so indifferent when it comes to us?"
At this moment, Ying Yungui had lost all his usual arrogance. He hadn't shaved in days, his lips were a disheartened shade of blue, and his eyes were clearly tired.
The pair of dry, cracked lips moved twice, and he uttered, "If I don't find a place to lock myself up, I'm afraid I'll go crazy."
When Mai Er heard this, she became even angrier, but after seeing Ying Yungui's face clearly, she could only let her raised hand fall back weakly.
Ying Yungui lowered his eyes, tears pouring down his face and splashing onto his crooked collar, leaving a large stain. "They're all gone, and I'm the only one left." He cried quietly, his voice soft.
It was a look that Mai Er and Lu Zhiqi had never seen before.
"What about Luo Zhao? Do you still care about her? The decision-making group has said that if she does anything harmful to security, she will be executed immediately." Mai Er said coldly, no longer showing anger on her face like before.
"Is your sister's situation any worse than yours? Does she have anyone to turn to?"
"Ying Yungui, you have no choice. You must cheer up and shoulder your destiny."
"Buzz—" The buzzing sound in his head sounded again, stinging Ying Yungui. His face turned pale in an instant, and he felt as if the world he was in was spinning.
He wanted to escape, his body began to move on its own, staggering in some direction.
"Ying Yungui!" The voices of Lu Zhiqi and Mai Er gradually faded away and finally disappeared.
With a "thump", he felt extremely relaxed, spread his limbs and let himself fall.
Ying Yungui fell into the lake in the center of the training base. The moment he entered the water, the annoying buzzing sound seemed to pause for a moment, and then the sound changed.
It turned into a silk thread, turned into a bridge, turned into a soft hand, leading him to the bottom of the lake.
...
...
Three days later, Ying Yungui went to find Luo Zhao with a necklace. On the same day, Luo Zhao escaped from the supervision of the association and returned to District 8. From that day on, she had a necklace around her neck and never took it off again.
After Ying Yungui returned to the training base, he built an island in the center of the lake and covered it with a barrier "175A8463" that could never be retracted. He never returned to the Ying family, but lived on the island in the middle of the lake from then on.
No one asked him the reason, and he never told anyone about it. It was a secret he kept alone.
——
"I have resonated with the power of the crow, and the strongest resonance is right at the bottom of the lake." Ying Yungui looked up at Shi Youchen and said, then reached out to hug him tightly.
Shi Youchen let him hold him, and touched his ear with his lips: "Well done, thank you for your hard work."
At that time, Ying Yungui had not yet recovered his memory, nor did he know the origin of the totem's power, but he still protected "it" in his own way.
This is the secret hidden under the "eternal 8463".
As for why the place with the strongest resonance was at the bottom of the lake rather than the Lu family's basement, the two people who now had all the memories certainly knew it well.
"It was the hints I gave Lu Ming later that caused changes during the reconstruction. Starting from a certain world line, that place was no longer the Ying family's old house, but became where Lu Ming and his family lived."
Because the energy properties of the host that occupied that space changed, the Crow Totem unknowingly transferred the newly generated energy to another location, forming the lake. This was the fundamental reason why Yan Zhiyuan was unable to control the water in the lake.
"So in today's world, the power of the Crow Totem is divided into two parts. One part is still in that basement, and the other part is under the island in the middle of the lake that you built."
Ying Yungui's palm slid down to the slender waist, and his hot breath sprayed on the back of Shi Youchen's neck: "If you need me to do anything, just tell me."
Shi Youchen flinched, itching to pull away from his embrace, but was held even tighter. "To seal the Crow Totem, I must fuse both the basement and the island in the middle of the lake. I'll only feel at ease if you help me."
"Okay." Ying Yungui's lips pressed against the skin on the back of Shi Youchen's neck, and the heat echoed the increasingly rapid heartbeats of both of them.
"What's wrong?" Shi Youchen couldn't move and asked hoarsely, "Want to do it?"
"...Um."
"I'm afraid we don't have enough time. I've already asked He Xian and the others to set off."
Ying Yungui exerted force, leaving a few marks on the small piece of warm skin, and then let go.
"Then promise me one thing." His tone was a little resentful, but Shi Youchen pretended not to notice the smile that flashed across his lips and nodded in agreement.
Ying Yungui blinked: "I haven't told you what it is yet? Aren't you afraid of being tricked by me?"
Shi Youchen gently touched his eyelashes with his fingertips: "As long as I can give you what you want, you don't need to ask."
"There's no need for consent between us." Shi Youchen kissed those lively and flamboyant eyes again, "Just like I didn't ask for your consent just now."
Ying Yungui laughed dumbly: "Oh, so it's not your habit."
——
As Ying Yungui spoke, his whole face suddenly turned red.
Mollier looked at him puzzledly and asked, "Why, are you hot?"
"It's okay." Ying Yungui pretended to unbutton two buttons, then unbuttoned his cuffs and said, "This shirt doesn't fit me well anymore."
Mollier rolled his eyes deftly: "You're wearing something that doesn't fit you. What? Are you in a hurry to go out?"
Ying Yungui was taken aback when the truth was accidentally revealed, and immediately changed the subject: "What about you? Did you receive the order? How long do we have to wait here?"
Mollier murmured, "Calculating the time Lu Zhiqi left, it should be about the same. When he says it's time to take action, we'll have a sign here."
Ying Yungui was no longer in a hurry and sat down leisurely waiting for the sign.
...
On the other side, in the A City Joint Training Base, on the island in the middle of the lake.
Shi Youchen ordered Furen: "Take her back carefully and don't let her get bumped or bruised." Furen picked up the unconscious Li Nuo by the waist, nodded, spread his wings, and flew over the island to the residential area in the base.
He Xian joked, "You know what, they do look a bit alike. Could it be that you kept Fulun because of this girl? I think you seem to have some friendship with her?"
Shi Youchen was silent: "He is my old friend, you didn't hit him too hard, did you?"
"Don't worry, don't worry. I know my limits. I just controlled her to make a phone call. I didn't do anything else." He Xian looked up at the surrounding bamboo forests. "Is this the place you said the Crow Totem is?"
"Yeah." Shi Youchen walked deeper into the cave, "Follow me."
The two figures disappeared halfway and entered the real island in the middle of the lake.
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