Chapter 266 The grass at Heart's Abode is as tall as a tree...
The tall grass, as high as the trees, completely buried their figures.
From above, only a barely perceptible, subtle ripple in the grass, moving from near to far, proved that someone was walking inside.
"How long have we been walking?" They couldn't see the sun or moon clearly in the grass, and could only tell the time from the faint light of the communicator, which kept them from getting lost.
"We've been walking for almost four hours," Lin Mo said, his face looking rather grim.
His lips were pale, his forehead was covered in sweat, and his clothes were soaked through.
Leo and Kane weren't in much better shape than him. Only Sang Zhitao, perhaps because she had been carried by three adults the whole way, still had a rosy complexion despite the constant sweat on her face.
"How much further?" Leo's blond hair clung to his cheeks, damp as he rubbed the corner of his eye.
Sang Zhitao looked at the device in her hand, closed her eyes to feel it for a moment, and then pointed to a direction on the left: "Go that way."
The three adults didn't question it, after all, in such an environment, they had long lost their sense of direction and could only rely on Sang Zhitao's intuition.
"We should have brought a compass," Sang Zhitao couldn't help but remark.
Kane retorted, "It's useless. This is an isolation zone, and the magnetic field has always been problematic. A compass is useless here."
"So... what do you Spiral Towers call this place? A forbidden zone for life?" Leo's temper was inexplicably volatile at this moment.
Seeing that Kane ignored him, Leo angrily plucked a few blades of grass and threw them on the ground: "Is this the penalty area or a place where you're letting us wait to die?!"
Kane licked his slightly chapped lips: "Negative ability users have such poor emotional control that they are too easily able to cause harm."
"Ha!" Leo laughed mockingly.
Kane, whether provoked by Leo or simply frustrated by his inability to find his destination, frowned and looked at Leo with impatience.
Sang Zhitao was afraid that the two would really fight. After all, if Lin Mo wanted to stop them, he would have to fight with all his might, which would mean that Lin Mo might lose his memory again.
With the only person she can trust suffering from amnesia, and two adults who are neither friend nor foe, Sang Zhitao, this fragile yet healing-type girl, is in big trouble.
"Shut up!" Lin Mo held Sang Zhitao in his arms with one hand and rubbed his furrowed brow with the other. "Either you go back the way you came, or you shut up."
Leo and Kane exchanged a glance. Now that they had come this far, there was no way they would choose to turn back, so they could only suppress their dissatisfaction with each other.
"Don't you think their emotions are a little off?" Sang Zhitao whispered in Lin Mo's ear as the two men led the way.
Lin Mo gazed intently at the two figures as they walked away, and after a long while, he said, "No matter what happens, the first thing you must do is protect yourself."
Hearing him say that, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but frown, but she obediently nodded in agreement and didn't say anything more.
The group then turned in a different direction and continued walking forward.
"Something feels off..." Leo, who was walking in front, frowned as he looked at the bushes next to him.
"What's wrong?" Seeing him standing still and not moving forward, Sang Zhitao had Lin Mo carry her over and asked.
Leo looked to his left with a grim expression.
Sang Zhitao followed his gaze and saw several broken blades of grass lying not far away in the bushes, while Leo was stepping on several broken stubble.
"This is...?" Sang Zhitao's expression turned ugly for a moment.
At this moment, not only her, but even Lin Mo and Kane realized that these broken stubble were the grass that Leo had torn apart when he was angry earlier.
The uprooted weeds nearby were the ones Leo had just thrown away.
"We've been going in circles?" A fleeting, almost imperceptible, cold glint flashed in Leo's eyes as he coldly glanced at Sang Zhitao. "The equipment has been in your hands the whole time. Why didn't you notice it before?"
Before Sang Zhitao could react, Lin Mo shoved her behind him and looked at Leo warily: "No one asked you to come along. You came of your own volition."
Leo's face darkened for a moment as he looked at Sang Zhitao, who was completely hidden behind Lin Mo: "I just want an answer."
Sang Zhitao held the equipment in her small hands and stretched it out from behind Lin Mo: "See for yourself."
Leo stepped forward and took the device in his hand. The values on it were indeed changing and were pointing forward.
Kane also quietly took a step forward, silently looking at the values on the device. When he saw the data, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.
Sang Zhitao climbed up from Lin Mo's back, half of her face looking at the two of them through Lin Mo's shoulder: "It seems that the equipment is no longer trustworthy for us."
"So what do you want to do? Trust you? You brat from the world of pipes?" A hint of bloodlust flashed in Leo's eyes.
"Besides me, who else can you trust?" Sang Zhitao patted Lin Mo reassuringly.
Although she didn't want Lin Mo to face off against those two, she wasn't afraid of them actually doing so, since the One Who Can Resurrect the Dead could bring the dead back to life.
Leo's teeth were grinding together, his urge to fight was already irrepressible, and just as he took a small step forward, Kane grabbed him and held him down.
"Then where do you suggest we go?" Kane took a deep breath and looked at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao struggled to jump off Lin Mo's back and stopped Lin Mo's hand that was trying to stop her.
She silently walked to Leo's side, looked at the tall grass in front of her that seemed no different from the surroundings, and closed her eyes.
Soon she saw some white light approaching from afar, and Sang Zhitao instinctively knew that it was the trail of wind.
The wind doesn't blow straight in; it seems to be blocked by something and then detoured around before reaching this point, and what's blocking it...
"A barrier." Sang Zhitao opened her eyes and looked at the grass in front of her, speaking softly.
"What?" Leo, who was standing behind her, didn't hear her words clearly and frowned.
Sang Zhitao ignored him, raised her hands, palms facing forward, and instinctively awakened her healing abilities from within her body.
Soon, a faint green light emanated from her body...
“When did the light of the healer turn green?” Leo frowned and murmured.
Kane glanced thoughtfully at Sang Zhitao, then turned to look at Lin Mo beside him.
Lin Mo was like a bowstring drawn taut, as if if they uttered a single wrong word, the arrow would pierce their hearts in the next second.
"The light of the healer is not necessarily so." Kane turned his gaze away from Lin Mo and silently focused on Sang Zhitao.
"Is that so?" Leo's gaze swept over him, and he chuckled softly, as if he agreed with the statement.
Lin Mo didn't care about their thoughts. After all, Sang Zhitao had already demonstrated her abilities, and if they really made a move, he could certainly keep them here permanently.
He wasn't worried about losing his memory again after using his powers.
During this time, he had already recorded a lot of things in his diary, including details of his interactions with Sang Zhitao, other trivial matters, and even the fact that Sang Zhitao ate fewer of the cookies he made.
"Crack!" A crisp sound, like shattering glass, interrupted the increasingly tense atmosphere between the three.
"How come..." Leo's words were interrupted by the scene in front of him.
As the cracking sounds continued, the lawn in front of them was no longer what they had just seen.
A white three-story villa stands in front, covered with ivy, and has a large yard outside.
The yard is filled with all kinds of flowers and plants, as well as many play facilities for children, such as slides.
The windows are bright and clean, and the flowers and plants are lush. Even though it is winter now, there is still a hint of spring here.
"What is this?" Leo frowned, somewhat unable to believe what he was seeing.
Sang Zhitao silently took a few steps back and looked up at the words written on the gate in front of her—Xin Hui Xiao Zhu No. 1 Courtyard.
“Heart...Heart Painting Cottage?!” Leo stared at the words on the sign in disbelief. “Wasn’t it said that all Heart Painting Cottages were destroyed in the war?”
Kane frowned, looking at the large characters with a puzzled expression.
"Who are you?" Just as the four hesitated and dared not step forward, a childish voice rang out.
They looked down and saw a little girl in a plaid dress standing in front of them, looking at them with a blank expression.
"Is this Heart Painting Abode? Who are you?" Leo asked the girl directly.
The girl was startled by the anxious and somewhat distorted look on his face.
Kane quickly stepped forward to shield him, saying, "Excuse me, my friend is in a bit of a hurry."
When the girl saw him squat down and look at her, she couldn't help but feel a little trust in this man who looked so honest.
“My name is Nannan, and I am a student here,” the girl Nannan replied obediently.
"Nannan?!" Before the group could ask any more questions, seven or eight children emerged from behind the girl.
One of the boys, about eight or nine years old, pulled Nannan behind him and looked at them warily: "Who are you?"
"I am Kane from the Spiral Tower."
"Hello, this is Peach from the Mutual Aid Association. This is my father, Lin Mo."
"Leo." For some reason, Leo didn't directly introduce where he came from.
The boy frowned: "What is a mutual aid society?"
As he spoke, he looked at Kane: "I know about the Spiral Tower, you..."
He looked him over suspiciously: "You're a teacher from the Spiral Tower? When did you start going down the wandering path?"
Kane was taken aback and subconsciously glanced at Ou.
“The molecular content here is zero.” Sang Zhitao glanced at the testing equipment out of the corner of her eye and frowned.
The others glanced at the equipment before taking a closer look at the area in front of them.
Sang Zhitao suddenly reached out and touched her chest, feeling that the fragment of the world she was looking for was right in front of her.
"What is this?" The boy in front of them saw that they didn't mean any harm. Although he was a little puzzled as to why they didn't answer his question, he didn't care and just stared curiously at the device in Leo's hand.
What do the blue and green numbers mean?
Sang Zhitao glanced at the boy before saying, "The air contains some special components, one of which may be the source of superpowers."
"What about the other one?" The boy looked at Sang Zhitao, who was closest in age to them. "There are two sets of numbers on it, aren't there?"
Sang Zhitao glanced at the ridiculously high blue number, then at Leo and Kane, who had asked her countless times along the way what the data represented.
Leo and Kane could tell she didn't want them to know, but neither of them moved, as if they couldn't understand her hints.
“This is able to suppress the presence of special molecules,” Sang Zhitao explained. “I found that where the concentration is high, there are fewer special molecules; where the concentration is low, there are more special molecules.”
As she spoke, she looked at the villa behind the children: "The concentration here is the highest, so high that the amount of special molecules is almost zero."
"Can I go in and take a look?" Sang Zhitao asked softly.
The children looked at each other, none of them daring to agree, and all their eyes were fixed on the eight-year-old boy.
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