Chapter 265 Heading to Find the Answer "I want to go outside and see..."
“I want to go out and see the world.” Sang Zhitao looked at Hanyue and Kane. “I want to go to your battlefields, to many places around the world. I need to determine where this thing exists, how much of it there is, and where it comes from…”
Kane glanced at Ou: "The Spiral Tower won't stop you."
Leo couldn't help but roll his eyes at him before saying to Sang Zhitao, "Don't worry, our Shadow Council won't stop us."
“Okay, it’s settled then,” Sang Zhitao said decisively.
"Leaving tomorrow?" Han Yue was somewhat surprised.
After a brief discussion about distributing the other storybooks, the group dispersed and left.
The next morning, Sang Zhitao packed her bags and received some supplies from Han Yue, Ran Feng, Zhen Na, and others before waving goodbye.
According to the plan discussed by Sang Zhitao and Lin Mo, they intended to exit directly through the large hole created by the collapse in the eastern district, thus avoiding the need to find other exits.
After all, the entrances are closed now, and only the gatekeeper knows the operating methods used for each entrance.
The door Lin Mo was in required them to traverse the world of pipes.
It wouldn't be impossible to ask the gatekeeper at the nearest gate to open the door temporarily, but because the mutual aid association headquarters was hacked, everyone came to the East District to provide assistance first, and then went to find their favorite teams or gathering points to play on their own.
If going to find the gatekeeper is too time-consuming, it's better to just leave through this large opening.
The father and daughter had just climbed out of the hole when they saw Leo and Kane waiting for them warily.
"Aren't you going back?" Sang Zhitao looked at the two of them in confusion.
Leo looked at Kane with a half-smile, but didn't reply.
Kane nodded politely to her and explained, "Tari..."
He hesitated for a moment before saying, "Tari wants us to go with you."
Sang Zhitao glanced at Leo, who was rolling his eyes next to her, and thought for a moment before asking, "Don't you Spiral Tower want this to be exposed?"
Kane paused for a moment, then instinctively wanted to shake his head and refute.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand dismissively: "Follow me if you want."
Kane opened his mouth, but didn't say anything; he just nodded emphatically.
Sang Zhitao already knew what she might be facing before the meeting was even scheduled, after all, even Jenna, who discovered these molecules, was being hunted down by three parties.
However, she believes that these people are less likely to be so radical after she argues that the molecular content she proposed mainly concerns emotional control rather than the strength of ability.
and……
Sang Zhitao glanced at the two people in front of her with a deep look in her eyes.
She thought that if that didn't work, she would try to collaborate with Jinghuatang.
After all, her six senses told her that the crisis in this world came from superpowers and special molecules.
Perhaps after she resolves these crises, there will be no more superpowers in this world, which would be in line with the Purification Hall's philosophy.
"Most people in the tower still hope to resolve the conflict peacefully."
The group had been walking for a long time and were just about to rest when Kane walked up to Sang Zhitao and whispered something.
“I see…” Sang Zhitao nodded obediently.
Seeing her like this, Kane sighed inwardly, knowing that he couldn't persuade the child of the Pipe World with words.
"The Spiral Tower..." He thought for a moment, then decided to explain that the Spiral Tower wasn't a bad person; it was just that some of its members held slightly extreme beliefs.
However, before he could say anything, Sang Zhitao was taken away by Lin Mo.
Seeing Lin Mo's wary look, Kane could only sigh heavily, deciding to communicate with Sang Zhitao another time when he had the chance.
Since the nearest battlefield had collapsed along with the eastern part of the Pipe World, they decided to head to another nearby battlefield.
It took the four of them about seven days to reach the battlefield.
The smoke from the battlefield had not yet dissipated, and the strong smell of gunpowder assaulted their nostrils.
What should have been a world of lush green lawns was devoid of any visible color, let alone the yellow that the soil should have.
The area was charred black, with scattered fragments of severed limbs and the whistling of carrion birds.
Two groups of people, dressed in black and white combat uniforms, carried stretchers through the smoke and occasionally lifted one or two people who were still breathing from a pile of wreckage.
At this time, both sides were in a truce, and their unauthorized intrusion did not attract anyone's attention.
"This is fine." Sang Zhitao stood about a hundred meters away from the battlefield, looking at it, and stopped Lin Mo, who was carrying her, from continuing forward.
Leo and Kane both looked rather unwell, and they tacitly moved to opposite sides, separating themselves by nearly ten meters.
Sang Zhitao didn't even need to close her eyes; the intense, genuine aura of darkness appeared nakedly before her.
“I need to go a little further,” Sang Zhitao said.
Upon hearing her say this, Leo and Kane exchanged a knowing glance and nodded without any objection.
The group traveled from one battlefield to another until they arrived at the battlefield near Gate 1 of the North District, close to the Spiral Tower.
Sang Zhitao's mindset had calmed down considerably by now, since it was now clear that the battlefield was the place with the strongest aura.
"It seems I was right." She couldn't help but sigh.
"What do we do now? Is there any way to reduce the concentration of these special molecules in the air?" Kane frowned. "It's not that reducing the concentration will prevent people from..."
He paused, glancing sideways at Europe: "I won't let everyone go crazy like this again."
Leo also stared intently at Sang Zhitao, hoping to get good news from her.
Even as a mid-to-high-ranking member of the Shadow Council, Leo was constantly affected by negative emotions.
His superpower is twisted love, stemming from unrequited love in the past.
In an effort to enhance his powers, the Shadow Council brainwashed him several times, causing him to fall in love with different people and suffer heartbreak. They even killed two of his lovers.
Even now, despite having autonomy, he is still tormented by these emotional wounds.
Having spent so much time in the Pipe World, he not only witnessed that the negative emotion ability users there suffered far less than he did, but in the past few days, he also discovered that the injured members of the Shadow Council were suffering less than he was. How could he not be envious?
“I want to check out areas where the concentration is lower,” Sang Zhitao sniffed. “Perhaps we can find some clues there.”
“Let’s go then,” Leo nodded and said.
"Not yet." Sang Zhitao shook her head repeatedly.
The other three looked at her with suspicion.
Sang Zhitao sighed, "If the content of special molecules is too low, I won't be able to determine it."
"Then what should we do?" Compared to Kane, Leo was more eager to resolve these issues.
Sang Zhitao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I've already contacted Jenna, and she'll send me a detector."
"About how long?" Leo asked eagerly.
Sang Zhitao turned to look at Lin Mo, who had helped her contact Jenna.
Lin Mo stuffed a handful of dried meat into her arms and made her a cup of milk powder before finally looking up at Leo, who was looking anxious: "Don't worry, it will be three days at the latest."
Leo breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly remembered his eagerness just now, a rare look of embarrassment appearing on his face.
The four of them chose to rest next to Gate 1.
The reason for choosing this location was twofold: firstly, it was clearly marked, making it easy for Jenna to find; and secondly, it was safer, as war generally wouldn't affect the entrance to the underground tunnels.
Sure enough, they stayed for three days without any incidents.
Perhaps because they've spent so much time together, the three adults are no longer as hostile as they were at the beginning, especially Leo and Kane.
So for the past three days, the three adults took excellent care of Sang Zhitao, prompting her to exclaim several times, "I have three dads!"
“Kane’s more like a mother,” Leo rolled his eyes. “So fussy.”
Sang Zhitao quickly crossed her arms in front of her chest and repeatedly refused, "I refuse a male mother!"
Leo couldn't help but laugh out loud, pointing at Kane and shouting, "Kane's mom, little Peach doesn't like you!"
Kane gave him a disdainful look before handing the fruit and noodle pies he had made to Sang Zhitao.
Looking at the tiny, elongated pies, no bigger than a thumb, Sang Zhitao couldn't resist eating seven or eight in one go.
"Sweetie, eat less." Seeing that she had eaten a bit too much and worried that she would get a bloated stomach, Kane quickly put the pie back into his backpack. "Eat the rest later."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Mo silently grabbed a handful of the other pies in front of the stove and secretly stuffed them into Sang Zhitao's little finger.
"You mean she didn't talk about you?" Kane glared at him, taking the pie from Sang Zhitao's hand. "Don't spoil the child."
Seeing Sang Zhitao looking at him expectantly, Kane opened his mouth, but in the end, he still left her two.
The group lived a warm and cozy life, just like everyday life, until they received Jenna's equipment.
"I've set it up for you. You can use the values on it to see the molecular content in the surrounding air." Jenna placed the palm-sized device in Sang Zhitao's hands and carefully taught her how to use it.
“Let them learn too. If I’m busy and can’t make it in time, they can help me,” Sang Zhitao said softly to Jenna, looking at the three grown men who were trying to avoid suspicion.
Jenna thought it made sense and nodded in agreement.
The four of them spent a little longer learning together; they didn't set off until noon the next day.
I kept an eye on the numbers as I traveled.
Five days later, they arrived at a quarantine zone.
“The values here are much lower,” Kane, holding the device, said to the others.
Lin Mo carefully woke up the sleeping Sang Zhitao: "Sweetie, look at this."
Sang Zhitao woke up with a yawn and looked at the testing equipment that Kane handed her.
The above figures can be considered a new low to date.
"How many quarantine zones have we passed through?" Sang Zhitao asked, frowning.
"This is the third one," Lin Mo said with a smile, patting her head.
"If I remember correctly, this should be the one with the lowest value?" Sang Zhitao looked up at them.
After thinking it over carefully, the other three nodded in unison.
Kane frowned and said, "Although the ground ahead is much lower than on the battlefield, it's not like this, so low it's almost imperceptible."
Sang Zhitao tapped the device with her little finger before saying to them, "I'm going in to take a look. What about you?"
“I’ll go with you!” Leo said without hesitation.
Kane nodded silently in agreement.
Lin Mo naturally picked her up.
The group walked into the isolation zone filled with mutated plants in front of them in tacit agreement.
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