Ladder to Heaven 5
The girl has beautiful facial features, her eyebrows and eyes are cold, her pupils are almost pure black, and the tail of her eyes is like a long ink stain. The girl in the painting is wearing a long coat and staring at the people outside the painting with an almost empty and indifferent expression.
Pretty, but lacking a bit of life.
Like a poem written in black and white on paper, which is burned after reading.
"I haven't seen him for so long. I hope the person you are looking for is still alive."
The middle-aged man, still dignified despite his age, corrected him, "We are the ones we are looking for. This child has a great background and is crucial to understanding the recent frequent occurrences of abnormal spaces."
He wore black-framed glasses without prescription on his straight nose, which he bought simply to add elegance. His jacket covered his bulging muscles, and he wore a tailored white shirt underneath, obviously trying to create the image of a gentle and amiable life mentor.
The wrinkled A4 paper was folded and put into his pocket. Ji Xunjin felt that his outfit today had a kind of exaggerated sense of comedy. "Uncle, why don't you take off your glasses? Otherwise, at first glance, you'll look like you stepped out of a spy movie."
"I think your uncle, with all his dignity, would be a gentle and refined teacher once he stood on the podium."
Ji Xunjin was about to speak when his eyes suddenly fixed, his lips still smiling lazily as usual: "Ah, Uncle Liu, here comes the key you're looking for."
This time, the man called Uncle Liu did not take the time to correct "you" and "we". He also noticed the person who stopped on the platform.
Her loose hair was pinned behind her ears with Jiang Kesong's clip, revealing her fair forehead. Yin Sui was about to avoid it, but the youngest boy among the three looked over too quickly and she didn't have time to react.
The two teams stood on the stage and below the stage respectively. Ji Xunjin was standing in the cement children's playground that one would reach after entering the front mountain from the west gate. The height difference between them was nearly two meters, and because of the trees blocking their view, they could not see each other at all until they reached the edge of the stage.
The young woman came forward with great joy: "Don't be afraid, sister, we are..."
What kind of good person would shout "Don't be afraid" right away? Upon hearing that, he paused for a moment and immediately took a step back. When Yin Sui turned around, he saw a black object flash by in his peripheral vision.
The leading man shouted: "Don't shoot!"
The gun the boy took out did not disrupt her escape plan at all. The right time, place, dim environment and trees everywhere became the best shields, blocking her attack completely.
A green shadow emerged from the night, and hurried back into the forest at the slightest movement.
Well, it’s normal that a teacher who came from a spy movie wants to catch the girl in “Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio” but can’t find her, right?
"It's not loaded." Ji Xunjin spread out his hands helplessly.
…
"Why do you run faster than seeing a ghost when you see a person?"
"Because people have guns and can't just burn anything."
Jiang Kesong was shocked: "Is it formal or XXX?"
According to her limited knowledge, those who can make money openly in the city are either regular soldiers or gang members.
"Like Mafia, the Godfather from the movie our class showed on Saturdays, the Chinese version with black hair and black eyes."
"We should have run. Fortunately, we ran fast—" The person coming towards her was like a blow to the head, leaving her speechless.
One, two, three! Really three! The man in black in the middle really does look like a Chinese version of a gangster.
"Hi." The young woman who spoke first waved her hand familiarly.
“…”Bad luck.
"If we are destined to meet, we will meet even if we are thousands of miles apart. If we are not destined to meet, we will not even meet even if we are face to face. Sister, you see, we are really destined to be together. Will you listen to me? Just now, Xun Jin wanted to make a joke among people of the same age to liven up the atmosphere, but you walked too fast, so it didn't work out."
The handsome young man silently took out a black pistol and pulled the trigger. The gun fired a beam of red light, accompanied by a happy child's voice of "biubiubiu".
The gun is fake and you can run.
——Unfortunately, the distance was not suitable. The two teams were transferred to a position within reach of their arms. They could not reach it if they ran away. But they could not guarantee that they would catch up before the position was refreshed. They had to make long-term plans.
In a daze, the two men and three women were reorganized into a new team.
Jiang Kesong was still holding hands tightly with Yinsui, and was surrounded by the three people intentionally or unintentionally.
The young woman who spoke first introduced herself to them as they walked. "My name is Liu Qingliu, I'm 29 years old. I used to be a white-collar worker and a street vendor. Now I've been recruited by the organization as an exception handler. The other two, Uncle Liu is a veteran of the organization. His full name is Liu Quan, so just follow us and call him Uncle Liu. Ji Xunjin is 19 years old, about the same age as you. You should have common topics. If you have nothing to do, you can talk to him. If you get angry, you can complain to Uncle Liu."
Yin Sui raised his eyes and glanced at him. He had a slender figure, with naturally curly black hair that curled up in a small arc behind his ears. He was smiling lazily.
Like a gangster.
After the introduction, Liu Qingliu stepped aside, and Ji Xunjin stood on the left and right to prepare for emergencies.
Along the way, Uncle Liu, with his amiable expression, was really like a relative elder who cared about the safety of the younger generation. He walked naturally behind the two of them and chatted with them casually, or to be more precise, he was chatting with Jiang Kesong.
Suddenly he stopped and took out something that looked like a mobile phone, which had similar functions. He pressed a button, and accompanied by a crackling sound of electricity, a distorted human voice suddenly came through the other end of the radio communication.
"10638 calling, 10638 calling."
"Hello."
"Report, we've solved it here. Twelve people left, ten alive and two dead."
"Received, approved to proceed to the next step."
Jiang Kesong tilted his head and looked: What’s the next step?
have no idea.
They seem to be genuine staff and have been quite friendly so far.
Yinsui smiled noncommittally.
While her life was in their hands, she would pray earnestly that they were good people but would not believe that they were good people.
"Sisters, come over here. I'll let you enjoy the fire that burns the mountain. Don't worry, there's no one inside."
The fire had already started, coming from the other end, and it must have been set by another team that was in contact with them.
It rained in the second half of last night. Logically, the wet wood should have slightly slowed down the raging of the flames, but ever since a wisp of thick smoke drifted up from somewhere on the top of the mountain, the entire back mountain soon became a huge burning ground for kites.
Kites were the common name she gave to those large flying paper birds.
Liu Qingliu took out a rifle connected to a metal can from his backpack and aimed it at the nearest branch.
The kites hanging on the treetops were licked by the heat wave and instantly ignited and turned into fireballs. Their bound bodies were eaten up, and the remaining ones soared into the sky with the rising air currents. Then, the black kites on the dome were ignited.
From afar, countless bright red suns rose and set.
Several of them rushed into the sky in panic, and the sky suddenly became ablaze - the glittering sky was not the sky, but just a flammable curtain hanging at the top to pretend to be the sky.
Looking up from the burned hole, there was only white emptiness.
The ashes were like the fragments of paper money from the fire basin, spinning and floating onto everyone's head and shoulders.
"They used to be more difficult to deal with, but after the Western side's cleanup, their energy source is no longer sufficient to simulate indestructible materials. Now these things are just for show and will burn easily."
"The west?"
Flattered by the response she'd gotten for the first time in over ten minutes, she explained, "Well, it originally appeared in the West, under the banner of God's Ladder to Heaven. It was first discovered when a priest among its victims said its random biblical quotations were completely inconsistent with reality. He refused to surrender and starved himself to death, waiting for it to leave to tip off the outside world."
"Then the religious anomaly handlers over there spontaneously launched a crackdown. Unable to survive in the West, it moved to our side. This is its first time in China, and I guess it won't be able to fool many people given the unfamiliar climate."
Unexpectedly, he could get such a small amount of information about it under such circumstances. Yin Sui asked with unprecedented enthusiasm: "What is it?"
"Your friend is here. Are you sure you want to go into detail? If she wants to do this job, that's fine."
"……never mind."
Understanding how concerned his friend was about this issue, Jiang Kesong quickly covered his ears and said, "I can turn off my hearing."
"A domain capable of distorting reality typically involves the gradual emergence of anomalies within the area. Once the alienation reaches a certain level, it becomes isolated from the outside world, transforming into a truly anomalous space. After absorbing the life force of those within, it will roam around, covering other normal spaces and thus expanding its reach."
“What are the sources and solutions?”
"The source remains undetermined, and the initial forms vary. As for the solutions, they are all so varied that no common ground has been found."
"Thanks."
The last wisp of green smoke dissipated, and in the blink of an eye, the surroundings were completely renewed.
The green grass under my feet turned into soft yellow soil, and the burned trees grew back to their original places intact. After so much trouble, it was time for the real sun to set in the west.
Jiang Kesong hurriedly opened the chat page. When he saw the message clearly, he showed it to Yin Sui with a look of horror: "Bai Jinqin just sent a message saying that she and Lin Xiaoxian went out, but she-"
"If someone who dies in the anomalous space doesn't recognize their own death, they can return to reality intact after the space collapses. Furthermore, this memory will be rationalized in your friend's memory. The two worlds should not affect each other, so it can be treated as a dream, if they can wake up."
Intact… Yinsui felt a cold and wet sensation on his back and moved slightly uncomfortably.
They were still standing under the shade of the tree in dim light. Liu Qingliu unknowingly walked in front of the two of them while giving a science lecture. Ji Xunjin was walking in front of them not too far away, and Uncle Liu had disappeared.
She turned her head and tugged at the corner of the clothes of the person next to her. She was about to whisper a hint to fool him away, but Ji Xunjin suddenly turned around and smiled as if he had eyes on the back of his head: "You need a coat, right?"
Then, unexpectedly, I got a stiff reply of "thank you" from her and a forced smile.
He actually agreed.
Oh, he wanted to freeze me to death as revenge for his little trick being exposed.
The words were spoken, and Ji Xunjin took off his coat neatly and stood there, waiting for her to come forward and take it.
The smooth fabric could slip out at any time when pinched in the hand, but Yinsui did not hesitate and put it on directly. It was indeed very cold in the mountain after nightfall, and he did not forget to thank the kind people who donated their clothes.
Jiang Kesong, who was watching, was confused about the undercurrents between them and wondered how their relationship could progress so rapidly in an instant.
Liu Qingliu's expression was relieved: "People of the same age just get familiar with each other quickly."
If I had let Xun Jin make the opening remarks, she would have saved herself the awkward conversation.
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