Chapter 103: Rebirth of the Ant Nest (Part 2)
The chill rushed to the top of my head, and my heart felt like it was being gripped by a big hand.
The cold air poured into the heart from the mouth and was squeezed out.
"Goose Shifang? Kids?!"
There was only his own cold voice in the car, and as expected, there was no response.
Xie Mian tilted his head back, letting the morning sun shine on his face. His brain was working rapidly, and he opened his eyes after two or three seconds.
At this time, Lin Heng also came over from another car.
"What's wrong?"
Lin Heng looked at the empty carriage and his brother's cold expression, and confirmed his guess.
He looked around the car. Except for the door he had just opened, all the windows were still tightly closed, and there was no sign of the blue curtains being opened.
Yesterday, they pulled the curtains on the car windows for fear that the children would be scared by the insect monsters outside the car window.
There were no signs of damage in the car.
"Could it be the space insect energy?"
Lin Heng stared at the potato chip crumbs that fell on the ground.
There are two types of space bugs. One is space storage, where things can be placed; the other is barrier-free space teleportation. This type of movement is not blocked by physical obstacles and can be transferred to another location instantly.
"If that's the case, then this person's insect energy level must be very high, higher than you, me, or even the Ten Directions."
Although Shifang is now in the form of a big goose, his insect energy strength cannot be underestimated.
It is hard to imagine how powerful this insect-follower is, as he was able to break through Shifang's protective shield and quietly take away all the children and even Shifang.
The reason why the two of them unanimously targeted the insect followers was that although some insect monsters also had the ability to transfer space, they were extremely destructive and would leave a mess wherever they appeared.
Xie Mian walked from the front to the back of the car and stopped at the place where Niu Niu and E Shifang had been last night.
He stretched out his hand and placed it on the spot where E Shifang had sat.
Green insect energy waves covered the seat, and for a very brief moment, a hint of burnt smell flashed across the seat, the smell of baking cookies.
"Maybe it's not space teleportation." Xie Mian withdrew his hand.
Every object wears out every minute and every second. He had just tried to repair the seat, restoring it to the state it was in before they fell asleep last night. When the repairs reached a certain point, he noticed a wonderful fragrance on the seat.
If it was teleportation, then there would be no possibility of smell left on the seat, because the essence of space teleportation is transfer. It will only move the target object from point A to point B intactly without leaving anything at point A, including smell.
"But if it's not teleportation, then what is it?"
Xie Mian told Lin Heng what he was thinking.
"It's... 'field'," Lin Heng's expression turned a little grim. "The insect energy field."
"A form of insect energy that expands to its fullest extent, creating a small, independent realm. Within this realm, whoever wields insect energy becomes the master. They can arbitrarily alter the rules, erase existence, and even...take reality away."
In other words, the other party did not "teleport" the children away, but quietly covered the bus with its own domain while all of them were asleep, and then packed up and took away the entire "reality" of "the children and Goose Shifang" in the bus like cutting an image out of a painting.
The closer the analysis got to the truth, the heavier their mood became.
Why would such a powerful insect-follower kidnap so many children?
And what about Shifang? What if he were to come into conflict with this person, or even this group of people? Would they think he was just a goose raised by a farmer and stew him?
Bad thoughts lingered in his mind, and Xie Mian's voice trembled even slightly without him noticing:
"We must find them immediately!"
The two of them no longer hesitated and jumped out of the bus one after the other.
Outside the car, the scene was devastated: tall buildings, ruins, and insect monsters roaming the streets, searching for flesh and blood.
"Search separately and stay alert!"
Lin Heng let out a low roar and rushed towards the buildings on the east side like the wind.
Xie Mian spread his butterfly wings and flew in the opposite direction.
"hiss--"
A cockroach-shaped insect monster suddenly jumped out from behind the broken wall, its sharp sickle legs cutting through the air and heading straight for Lin Heng's throat.
Lin Heng didn't even turn his head, but waved his hand back, and several scarlet petals appeared out of thin air, cutting off the sickle foot the moment it touched it.
The insect monster let out a sharp hiss and dark green juice spurted out, but Lin Heng had already dodged it and ran away quickly.
Xie Mian's situation was equally challenging. He flew through a cluster of collapsed commercial buildings, and various insect monsters continuously emerged from the rubble, attempting to knock him down from the sky. He flapped his wings, dodging whenever possible, trying not to waste time fighting these insect monsters.
Abandoned underground parking lots, collapsed subway entrances, crumbling residential buildings...
Half an hour later, the two met in the center of a relatively empty square.
"Nothing was found."
Xie Mian's voice was a little hoarse. He hadn't eaten a single bite of food or drunk a single sip of water since he woke up and found that the child and the goose Shifang had disappeared.
The same goes for Lin Heng.
His lips were dry and he was breathing heavily, looking around at the ruins with a serious expression.
"Searching like this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We must come up with an effective method."
Xie Mian nodded in agreement. Ideas popped up in his mind one after another, but were quickly rejected.
Suddenly, Lin Heng's eyes were attracted by a wild grass growing in the cracks of the rocks at his feet: "Mianmian, I have an idea."
"What method?"
"Since his 'territory' is an independent space and its level is higher than mine, my insect energy cannot penetrate it."
Xie Mian immediately understood what his brother meant: "You mean..."
"That's right."
Lin Heng took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, and opened his arms.
The insect energy in his body began to run wildly at an unprecedented speed, and a majestic and magnificent aura swept towards the entire city ruins with him as the center!
"Insect Energy—Momentary Beauty!"
As soon as he finished speaking, with the two of them as the center of the circle, the cement ground under their feet, the cold reinforced concrete, the broken ruins and rubble... everything began to bloom with bright red roses.
One, ten, thousands and thousands!
The sea of roses spread out with overwhelming force.
They broke out of the ground, climbed up the broken walls, covered the corpses of the insect monsters, and instantly turned the entire dead city into an endless sea of red flowers.
The rich fragrance emanates from every blooming rose and wafts into the air.
The wandering insect monsters were startled by the sudden strange sight and roared angrily. But as soon as they stepped into the range of the roses, the vines would instantly wrap around them, and the thorns would pierce their bodies, making them unable to move.
Xie Mian and Lin Heng stood in the center of the sea of flowers, their eyes scanning every inch of the area covered by the sea of flowers.
"Mianmien, Northeast!" Lin Heng suddenly pointed in a direction.
Xie Mian looked in the direction his brother pointed, and saw a strange "blank" appear about two kilometers northeast of them.
Although there were many terrifying insect monsters in that area, not a single rose bloomed.
The sea of flowers stopped abruptly at the edge of the area, as if blocked by an invisible wall.
"Found it."
Xie Mian's voice was cold and his eyes were full of murderous intent.
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