Chapter 45
Miu Yi sat on the puppet cabinet with his eyes blank. Opposite him sat Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli.
"Tell me, what did you see that disrupted your plans?" Pei Zhao asked.
Miu Yi lowered his head deeply: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it... I saw my brother."
Pei Zhao didn't say anything, he thought so too.
He had previously guessed why Miu Yi was able to turn back into a human as soon as he arrived in the real world. Moreover, the only person who could make him look so embarrassed was his brother.
"How did he get here?" Pei Zhao pointed at the cupboard and asked.
Miu Yi opened his mouth and shook his head: "I don't know, I really don't know."
Miu Yi said, tears about to fall, "Didn't you say that only love can bring the puppet back to life, then does that mean——"
Pei Zhao sighed: "You are right, your brother loves you."
Two lines of blood and tears fell from Miu Yi's eyes: "Then I, I abandoned him..."
Zhou Yuli stood up and said, "But no one said anything, because love can make you unbridled."
Pei Zhao looked at Zhou Yuli.
Zhou Yuli rarely participated in discussions. Most of the time, he just listened from the side without expressing his opinions. When it was agreed to take action, he would do it according to the instructions. This was Zhou Yuli's first time participating in the discussion.
Zhou Yuli frowned deeply, but there was no trace of impatience between his brows. On the contrary, he looked very patient.
"Because of love, you can abuse others at will; because of love, you can do all kinds of bad things. There is no need to force others under the banner of love, even if this love has been verified." Zhou Yuli lowered his head.
In the first few months after my younger brother was born, my parents' attitude towards him changed rapidly. They had never beaten or scolded him and had high hopes for him, but they turned into thugs overnight and poured out all their frustrations in life and the troubles of raising a child on him.
At that time Zhou Yuli didn't understand, he thought it was a love based on closeness or distance. Because of familiarity, there are no boundaries.
But later, he realized that he was not his parents' child, and then he realized that the love he understood was completely fake.
Zhou Yuli looked at Miu Yi and patted his arm: "Don't lose yourself in any love." After that, he turned to Pei Zhao, nodded slightly, and went to pour water.
When Pei Zhao met Zhou Yuli, he had heard him talk about his family affairs. He didn't know the details, but he could feel the sadness in Zhou Yuli's heart.
Pei Zhao said to Miu Yi, "Why are you sad?"
"Brother, you should love me."
Pei Zhao sighed: "He loves you, there is no doubt about that, but what about you, do you want to go back to him?"
Miu Yi nodded hesitantly: "If he loves me..."
Pei Zhao patted the table next to Miu Yi, causing Miu Yi to shudder. Pei Zhao said, "I'm asking you how you feel. Putting aside his love, what about you? Ask yourself, do you want to go back?"
The silence was the answer. Pei Zhao counted five seconds in his mind, took his hand back, and nodded: "I understand."
"Know, know what?"
Pei Zhao gave him a look: "I know your answer."
Miu Yi opened his mouth, and finally lowered his head: "...Okay."
The action in the second half of the night did not involve any fallacy.
Because of his unstable emotions, bringing him along would only increase the risk for everyone. What's more, they have already figured out who is in the black hole, so Pei Zhao and his team are ready to attack head-on.
This time they did not choose to be on the ground, but in the sky.
Bai Zhou developed the Fire Phoenix aircraft, which was a combination of his self-defense Fire Phoenix and Lan Ji's ice crystals.
Simply put, it is a flying bird with non-melting ice seats that can accommodate four people.
When sitting in, Pei Zhao was still afraid of the cold, but Zhou Yuli's vines covered the inner walls and the ground, so sitting on it was not only not cold, but also gave him a sense of nature.
"...It's like we're on a private plane. Are we here to have fun?" Pei Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Only a group of people like them who have nothing to do could use their superpowers like this.
The fire phoenix soared into the sky, hiding the flames on its body. It looked like a huge flying bird in the dark night, attracting no one's attention.
They tracked the black hole in the sky, and soon Bai Zhou found the target.
"In the city square." Bai Zhou said, "He went into the building."
City Square is a very prosperous commercial street in the city, with many commercial buildings. There is a lot of traffic on weekdays.
Pei Zhao frowned: "Which building?"
Bai Zhou: "...Library."
Pei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. The library had the least number of people working overtime among the several buildings. It closed on time at 5 p.m. and there would definitely be no overtime.
It will be easy if there is no one around.
When everyone landed on the top floor of the building, Pei Zhao simply said, "This building has five floors. Let's split up and take the stairs. I, Zhou Yuli, Bai Zhou, and Lan Ji will go from the second floor to the fifth floor, and then we'll meet up on the first floor after we're done."
Everyone agreed.
After separating from Zhou Yuli at the corner of the third floor, Pei Zhao walked towards the second floor alone.
In the narrow stairwell, only old emergency lights were flashing, and Pei Zhao had to be mentally prepared at every corner. He didn't know what was waiting for him.
Pei Zhao only had a vine in his hand, which Zhou Yuli had pulled for him. He said that if there was any danger, he should break it because Zhou Yuli could feel it.
Pei Zhao just held it in his hand.
Finally, after turning the last corner, I reached the second floor.
In front of me was a whole corridor without any corners, but it was completely dark.
Pei Zhao took a deep breath, groped his way to the wall, and tentatively moved forward little by little.
He regretted not considering the darkness just now and asked Bai Zhou for a spark.
Fortunately, not long after he walked, he felt a bulge on the wall, which was rectangular and movable.
Pei Zhao was delighted, it was the light switch!
But he switched back and forth for a long time, but it didn't light up.
Pei Zhao frowned and felt gusts of wind blowing across his face.
Where does the wind come from?
Pei Zhao subconsciously looked back, but there was nothing there, only darkness.
But then he was stunned.
How could it be so dark?
When he came down just now, he did not close the stair door, so there should be light in the stairwell -
It's not the light of the emergency light, but the green light of the safe passage.
Pei Zhao was facing the direction of the stairwell, his steps were heavy, goose bumps crawled up his back. He looked back at the road he had walked, and there was only darkness.
It shouldn't be like this, not only in the stairwell, where he had been, but also in the corridors, there should be safety signs everywhere.
It definitely shouldn't be this dark.
Pei Zhao wanted to tear the vines apart, but his entire arm and even his entire body were stiff.
The wind blowing on my face feels like a person's hand. This wind is really strange. Why does it only blow on people's faces but I can't feel it on my body at all?
A drop of blood dripped into Pei Zhao's eyes, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
It turns out that when people are extremely frightened, they will really forget how to control their limbs. Pei Zhao felt that every joint in his body was fixed. Like a clumsy starfish, no longer flexible.
But he was not a useless waste. Even though he had physiological instincts, Pei Zhao relied on the strength of his shoulders to pull the vine in his hand.
His hands were so numb that he couldn't feel the vines anymore, but Pei Zhao knew that he had been holding them tightly, and he wanted to tear them apart...
The only sound in my ears was the sound of breathing. The wind became increasingly cold, bringing with it many smells into my nostrils.
The smell of blood, decay, and the cold smell of the cave.
The freezing cold air was getting closer and closer.
Pei Zhao felt like he was going to die.
At this moment, he felt a pain in his waist. When Pei Zhao came to his senses, everything in front of him was bright. He was lying in Zhou Yuli's arms with a vine wrapped around his waist.
Zhou Yuli's forehead was covered in sweat and he was breathing heavily. Bai Zhou and Lan Ji ran down behind him with "thump thump thump". He blocked the two of them behind him and without saying a word, shot two attacks, one ice and one fire, towards the corridor.
"court death?"
It was not a simple attack to vent anger or expel. Ice and fire blended in the air, becoming a lighting that would never go out. They had used it many times in the amusement park, but none of them was as big as this one.
A long strip of light stretched across the corridor, turning the entire floor into a purgatory.
Pei Zhao said: "I'm fine, Zhou Yuli."
Zhou Yuli checked him over and made sure that there was nothing wrong with him, then he tidied his hair for him: "Okay."
They are master and servant, lovers, and partners. But not a loser who holds the team back.
Zhou Yuli protected Pei Zhao and raised his hand to seal the two escape doors in front and behind.
It was bright, and the black hole had nowhere to hide, sticking to the ceiling. Finally, a pale hand stretched out from it.
"...Where are the others?"
As the people inside came out, questions were asked.
Bai Zhou sneered: "If someone else comes to him, it's fine, but you? What qualifications do you have?"
“Qualifications?” The man grinned, not as hysterical as he had seen before, but more like a madman, “I am the most qualified person.”
Pei Zhao noticed that there were black lines on the man's hands and body, which were completely different from what they had seen before.
"Bai Zhou, be careful!" Pei Zhao warned, "He may not be human anymore."
Bai Zhou also noticed it, but his reaction was different: "Have you been to Hall City?"
The man raised his mouth corners as if he had heard a joke, but his lips had already turned outward, revealing a sharp fang. He said, "Oh... it looks like an abandoned city. Why, is that your home?"
"Abandoned... city?"
Bai Zhou and Lan Ji's expressions changed.
When they left, everything was fine. How could it be possible in such a short time...
The man laughed again: "I just went to the temple and borrowed some energy. Who knows, the power of the high priest was so delicious that I couldn't help but swallowed too much."
Bai Zhou's eyes suddenly turned red: "There are no priests in the City of Hall..."
The man said, "Oh? Did I remember it wrong? They are a group of people with special abilities, just like you."
Bai Zhou covered his chest and said, "...In Hall City, everyone has the ability..."
The man grinned and said, "Is that so? No wonder. When I left, there was no one left who was capable."
He looked at Bai Zhou and repeated it again.
"No, one."
"Puff——" There was a sound of blood and flesh, and the man lowered his head. There was a hole in his chest. He turned around and saw an ice pick, emitting cold air, piercing deep into the floor and through his body.
Lan Ji's cold voice came: "Too much nonsense, die."
However, there was no trace of blood on the hole, just complete darkness, as if made of some kind of mist and fibers. It showed no signs of healing and did not cause any impact.
"He is not a human." Pei Zhao said in a low voice quickly, "Even the immortal race like Miu Yi would feel pain after being injured, but he doesn't. This only proves that he is not a human."
Lan Ji was a ruthless man who didn't say much. He fired a few more times, and this time, his target was the head.
There was no obstacle and after a few blows to the head, the man turned into a pool of mud on the ground. His internal organs, blood plasma and eyeballs were mixed together in the firelight, which was disgusting, but he still made a sound.
"...You don't think you can kill me like this, do you? I don't belong to any place anymore. I will always, forever and ever, be by my brother's side...you!"
Before he could finish his words, an ice shield fell on his head.
Pei Zhao was so angry that his teeth were itching, but then he saw Lan Ji quickly rubbed out a box with his hands, shoveled the pile of muddy things into it without saying a word, covered it with a lid, and sealed it.
Lan Ji looked at the dirty thing coldly, without any expression: "I asked you if you have been to the City of Hall because the things you played with were recorded in the prophecy book. It is a totem that symbolizes sin. Your Highness the Fifth Prince, you should know best how to deal with it."
"Yes." Bai Zhou lowered his head.
His hands trembled slightly, but his eyes were firm, and as he raised his hands, a fire phoenix flew out from his palms, bringing with it a huge, burning flame, completely devouring the black hole on the ceiling and turning it into ashes.
He lowered his hands, knelt on one knee, and spoke with difficulty.
"...The totem that symbolizes sin...and the raging fire, turned into eternal sleep. The City of Hall rests in peace."
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