Chapter 258 Attack on the Purification Hall "Why do I feel like you're..."
"Why do you seem so familiar with the mutual aid association's headquarters?" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but frown.
Lin Mo shrugged: "I have amnesia."
Sang Zhitao choked, unsure how to refute the other party.
Seeing that she had nothing to say, Lin Mo coughed a few times, unable to hide his smile: "Alright, go and rest."
Sang Zhitao pouted, threw herself onto the bed, buried her head in the pillow, and mumbled a reply: "Okay..."
Lin Mo chuckled and shook his head, then picked up the blanket and lay down on the floor.
Aside from being outdoors, they never slept in the same bed when resting. It wasn't for any other reason than that Sang Zhitao, despite having the body of a child, harbored the mind of an adult and simply couldn't accept sharing a bed with an adult of the opposite sex.
After a good night's sleep, Sang Zhitao posed this question to the president, who seemed to know Lin Mo very well, the next day.
"Because the gatekeeper comes here to rest when the gate is closed," the president explained with a smile.
"What does 'gatekeeper' mean?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously.
The president patted her head, took out a handful of candy from the drawer and gave it to her before explaining, "The Pipe World has twelve entrances, corresponding to twelve areas of the ground world."
"We are a middle force between the Spiral Tower and the Council. The environment we are in is extremely complex and very suitable for their traitors to hide in. In order to prevent the two forces from causing trouble for us from time to time in order to catch traitors, and to prevent the Mutual Aid Association from being suppressed by them, and to prevent us from being unintentionally involved in some ground conflicts, the three parties jointly set up the position of Gatekeeper."
"The gatekeeper belongs to no faction, is highly capable, and has no family ties..."
The president read out the rules and code of conduct for selecting the gatekeepers for a full three minutes, leaving Sang Zhitao's face turning green and her head spinning.
“Whenever something special happens, we need to close the entrance.”
"What is the special event?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously.
"For example, the capture of certain special criminals or war." The chairman paused before smiling bitterly, "In recent years, war has become the only reason for closing down."
She sighed and continued, "The frequency of closures has been increasing in the last two years..."
Because the gatekeepers were idle at the entrance after the gate was closed, many of them started going to nearby settlements to play.
Over time, they developed a tradition of gathering behind closed doors, and eventually chose the mutual aid association headquarters as their meeting place.
Therefore, they started having their own rooms here.
"Speaking of which..." the president looked at Lin Mo with a teasing expression, "Lin Mo is known as the best gatekeeper."
"Huh?" Sang Zhitao looked at her in surprise. "Why?"
The president's lips curled up, and he looked at Lin Mo with a wicked smile: "The North District Entrance No. 1, which Lin Mo guards, is the entrance with the most frequent wars in recent years, but he comes here very rarely, on average about once a year."
"However, he's been a gatekeeper for many years." The president glanced at Sang Zhitao before vaguely saying, "The duration completely makes up for the frequency, so it's about the same as other people's number of times."
“That’s understandable. Humans are social animals, and loneliness is something most people can’t bear.” Sang Zhitao nodded knowingly.
"Bang! Bang!" The urgent knocking on the door, accompanied by several sharp screams, made the three people who were talking immediately put down what they were holding and run outside.
As Sang Zhitao stood up, she subconsciously glanced at the communicator that Jenna had asked her to bring.
"Purification Hall?!" The guild leader frowned and quickly ran to the center of the chaos.
Many members of the mutual aid society had already rushed over. Some protected others behind them, some moved supplies to the rear, and many more used their superpowers to fight back. Interspersed among them were some healers treating the wounded who were screaming in pain.
"Does Purification Hall intend to break the agreement with my Mutual Aid Association?!" the president shouted angrily while using his supernatural power.
Her superpower is anger, which can generate high temperatures that cause objects to warp and explode.
Some members of the Purification Hall were affected by the explosion and were blown to pieces.
The remaining members of the Purification Hall used sharp weapons to draw blood, chanting the word "purification" repeatedly. Where they pointed, a powerful pressure seemed to appear in the air, distorting the environment. Many members of the Mutual Aid Association turned into blood mist under this pressure.
The intense pressure was quickly relieved, and an elderly man with white hair watched them scream incessantly, his face contorted with terror.
"Fear can weaken their superpowers!" Sang Zhitao pointed to the areas of intense pressure and shouted to Lin Mo.
Lin Mo quickly shouted loudly to the crowd.
Perhaps because he was an adult, his voice was much louder than Sang Zhitao's, allowing more people to hear it.
"Fear-inducing ability users, come here quickly!" At this call, some people weaved through the crowd and gathered around the old man.
Then a scene appeared that Sang Zhitao didn't know how to describe.
A group of people, their faces contorted with terror, screamed at the distant battlefield.
The scream made her, who was the furthest away, instinctively cover her ears.
However, this method was effective. Most of the pressure environment created by the purification hall was neutralized, and the people trapped in the pressure space were finally able to lift their feet and escape in all directions.
Soon, the dozen or so people from the Purification Hall in front of them were wiped out.
The president frowned as he looked at the people from the Purification Hall, his ears twitching involuntarily.
She looked around at the injured crowd and said sternly, "Everyone, listen to my orders! Form small teams nearby and disperse to the safe houses. Each team must include a person with the ability to inflict fear!"
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone obediently moved together to the nearest group, and the Fear-Inducing Ability users quickly found their respective teams.
Instead of running away immediately, everyone picked up the injured on the ground before dispersing. The healers also left with the group of injured people.
The president breathed a sigh of relief as the area became an empty space.
"Let's go too," she said as she walked over to Sang Zhitao and Lin Mo, who were still standing there.
"Why don't you go with them?" Sang Zhitao asked the president curiously.
The president nodded her head: "As the president, it is natural for me to stay behind to cover the retreat."
"And you?" she asked in return.
Sang Zhitao shrugged: "I didn't realize it."
As she spoke, she looked at Lin Mo.
Lin Mo glanced back at her before looking at the president and innocently said, "Me too."
The president couldn't help but roll his eyes before saying speechlessly, "Fine, come with me."
The three of them jogged together and quickly left the scene.
They ran for about ten minutes before reaching a safe house where no one came.
The president breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Lin Mo, who had been carrying Sang Zhitao the whole way: "We're here."
She felt around on the pipe wall until she found a screw. Feeling the markings on the screw, she gently turned it a few times.
Then, about three or four meters ahead, they felt a vibration coming from the pipe wall, and then an entrance appeared before them.
The three of them ran into the entrance without saying a word.
"Watch out!" With the president's exclamation, Lin Mo, carrying Sang Zhitao, quickly retreated back to the entrance.
"Yueyue?!" A puzzled female voice suddenly rang out from deep within the pipe.
“Li...Jenna?” The president asked in surprise as he withdrew his powers.
"Come in!" Lin Mo, who had already carried Sang Zhitao away, only raised an eyebrow and carefully re-entered the entrance after the president called out.
The president gently twisted the wall, and the entrance door closed.
As the entrance closed, the lights in the space they were in came on.
This is a room of nearly 100 square meters, with various daily necessities, food, and even some medicines and weapons stored in the corner.
"What are you doing here?" The president frowned as he looked at Jenna.
Jenna greeted Sang Zhitao and her father with a wry smile before saying, "I ran here to escape the Purification Hall's pursuit. I accidentally came across a screw, and I felt there were engravings on it, so I couldn't resist trying to crack it..."
The president gave her a speechless look.
“I discovered that this engraving is a security code that I once gave you, so I tried it and that’s how I found this safe house.”
She glanced at Sang Zhitao and the other two and asked, "How did you get here?"
The president briefly recounted what had happened at the mutual aid association's headquarters.
Jenna's face turned somewhat grim: "The Purification Hall sent no more than ten people to chase me. Where did the rest come from?"
The president smirked, revealing a mocking expression: "You can't expect the Purification Hall to actually come here for purification, can you?"
“It’s not impossible.” Jenna sighed. “Those two forces are getting more and more insane, to the point that the Purification Hall has started to resort to any means necessary.”
"What's the reason? It can't be that you can't kill those two, so you're picking on me, the easy target?" the guild leader asked, frowning.
Jenna shook her head: "I don't know, but it's not impossible. They want more resources, and your mutual aid society is a big resource provider."
The two were still discussing the mutual aid society when a loud bang was heard.
Then the chairman's communicator suddenly emitted a shrill sound, signifying an urgent and important report.
The president picked up the communicator and frowned when she saw the number on it. She walked to a corner further away and whispered something.
Because she had her back to everyone, the group couldn't hear what she was saying or see her expression. They could only sense that her aura was intensifying, as if the news from the other side had made her extremely angry.
"Speaking of which, is the president's name Yueyue? It feels like..." Sang Zhitao leaned closer to Jenna and asked in a low voice.
Seeing her cautious demeanor, and the way she kept glancing at the president over there, Jenna couldn't help but pinch her cheek.
“Her name is Hanyue. We’ve known each other since we were little, so I like to call her Yueyue.” Jenna seemed to have thought of something and asked curiously, “How did you end up with Yueyue? Generally speaking, she prefers to cover the rear alone.”
“So…” Sang Zhitao narrowed her eyes, “you don’t remember my voice?”
Jenna shook her head blankly.
“You gave me a communicator.” Sang Zhitao glanced at her speechlessly.
Jenna looked at her with sudden realization, then at Lin Mo, before saying, "Oh, it's you. You gave the communicator to Yueyue?"
Sang Zhitao nodded and took out the communicator from her bag: "Here it is."
"How did it end up on you?" Lin Mo looked at her in surprise.
“I took it.” Sang Zhitao looked up and replied, then looked at Jenna, “Here, return it to its rightful owner.”
Jenna pushed her hand back: "You can have it first, it's not safe for me here."
Sang Zhitao relaxed her shoulders and was about to put the things back into her bag.
"How did you get this?" President Hanyue, who had walked over, couldn't help but ask in surprise.
Sang Zhitao glanced at her speechlessly: "I took it."
"What's wrong?" Jenna asked, frowning, noticing her pale face.
Han Yue had no time to focus on the matter anymore. After letting out a heavy sigh, she said, "Something's happened in the East District..."
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