Chapter 21: On the verge of rampage, he ran against the invisible wind blade again and again...
Wen Yi and Gu Yifeng stood side by side in front of the dissection table under the cold white light.
Before her was an unidentified corpse. She didn't know him, perhaps they were just two strangers with no connection to each other. But in any case, he shouldn't have suffered such an unprovoked disaster.
Wen Yi's eyes were sore, and a feeling of sadness for her own kind welled up in her heart.
Just as she was stunned, there seemed to be a fluctuation in the air, as if something was quietly waking up. Wen Yi couldn't help but open her eyes wide.
She seemed to see a high-spirited young man lying in front of her.
He turned to look at her, his eyes calm, a smile on his face, a silence on his face. The small mole at the corner of his eye looked like a teardrop that hadn't fallen yet.
The next second, he aged at an incredible speed, his flesh and blood gradually dried up, and his beauty turned into dry bones in just a moment.
In the end, everything turned into nothingness, leaving only the cold shell in front of me.
Wen Yi turned her head in shock to look at Gu Yifeng. He was still staring at the corpse silently, his expression as calm as still water, as if he had not seen what she saw.
What just happened?
Was it a faint resonance between bloodlines? Or was it his undissipated energy?
Wen Yi turned around and grabbed the corpse's hand without hesitation.
The world before her eyes suddenly changed - she became the man on the experimental table.
The experimenter's voice came from above:
"Now begins the second human application experiment on Subject #023."
She was tied up in a spread-eagle position on a hard lab table, with her limbs bleeding from the alloy restraints.
"Power on. Primary coil voltage 20kV, secondary coil pulse frequency 15Hz—"
Electrodes were inserted into the temples on both sides, forcibly stimulating the brain to activate supernatural powers.
"The subject's heart rate soared to 180!!"
Severe pain attacked the brain, as if countless sharp blades were constantly stirring in the brain. The pain went down along the spine and instantly reached every part of the body.
"The first electric shock is completed, lasting 3 seconds."
Wen Yi's head suddenly tilted back and slammed heavily onto the titanium alloy table, Let me die!
"Inject the sedative! Quick!"
"Wen Yi! Come back!"
Gu Yifeng's voice was like a sharp blade that split the chaos, saving her from the abyss, and her brain regained consciousness in an instant.
She finally broke free from the memories of the dead and became a free consciousness in time and space.
Wen Yi drifted to the other end of the laboratory in a daze, instinctively staying away from the scene that was causing her so much pain.
There were many archival materials on the table. She reached out, her fingertips piercing through the pages—she couldn't directly touch things from other time and space.
Wen Yi swept her palm across the table, and the thick documents turned pages quickly as if blown by the wind.
That time when she intercepted the shrapnel, she learned on her own how to cross dimensions and pull gravity. Although the power was weak, it was the only power she could use here.
"Wen Yi! Wake up!!" The familiar voice called out again.
Her consciousness was shaky and almost reaching its limit.
The world before her eyes gradually collapsed. In the last moment before she closed her eyes, she clearly saw the last line of a page in the file: "Countdown to the launch of the Zero Plan: 3 days"
The moment she returned to reality, Wen Yi curled up her cold body, hugged her head tightly with both hands, and kept pulling her hair with her fingertips, trying to drive those images out of her mind.
She felt someone approaching.
"Don't touch me!" She subconsciously waved away the hand, but heard the sound of something being thrown heavily to the ground.
Her screams of pain were accompanied by an uncontrollable energy, and the air around her seemed to be torn apart. The light tubes in the forensic room exploded one after another with a "crackling" sound, and fragments flew everywhere.
The heavy dissecting table began to deform, and the next second it was crushed into a thin piece of scrap metal.
There was the harsh sound of twisting metal in my ears, and everything here was being distorted by an invisible force.
The ground began to collapse, revealing the structure under the tiles, and large areas of the walls were peeling off.
The memories of the deceased kept coming back to her, and she began to lose the distinction between fantasy and reality as she felt the pain and suffering every second.
"Subject #023, seventh injection of isotope stabilizer."
The cold needle pierced her vein, and the intense pain burned her nerves, causing her to twitch continuously.
"Let me go..." A broken sob escaped from his throat.
"Vital signs are declining. The wormhole is only 32% open, lasting 12 seconds. It hasn't reached a stable state. Data collection has failed."
"What should we do? Should we save him?" asked the experimenter holding the recording board.
"If we don't save it, it won't be worth the experiment even if it's not dead. Why waste money and energy?" He spoke in a cold tone as if the dead thing was a little white mouse.
"That's not enough? This is the third one this month."
"It doesn't matter. Even if they die, we can still catch them again. As long as the experiment is successful, what does it matter if a few more mutants die?"
The despair on the verge of death was completely aroused by the last sentence and turned into boundless hatred.
Wen Yi's face was in tears. She suddenly opened her eyes, and there was only a cold and murderous look in her pupils.
Anger boiled in her blood, she could feel her abilities spiraling out of control, but she didn't want to control them, she wanted to destroy it all.
A figure was rushing towards her. It was Gu Yifeng.
Just as he was about to get closer, he was blown away by a huge force, and his whole body hit the door of the corpse refrigerator heavily with a dull "bang", and then fell to the ground.
"Stop!!" His voice was filled with pain, but he still struggled to get up from the ground and ran towards her again.
Wen Yi didn't move, but he couldn't get close, as if he was being dragged into some twisted space crack by an invisible hand.
Gu Yifeng's body seemed to be pulled violently. He groaned, and his clothes were torn in an instant. Blood oozed from his arms, chest, and cheeks.
But he didn't back off.
Blood continued to drip from the fingertips onto the ground.
Time slowed to a crawl, and every second was stretched into a painful torture.
He gritted his teeth and struggled forward, calling out her name with all his might: "Wen Yi!"
His voice was hoarse, but it seemed to penetrate time and space and hit her heart directly. "Do you remember when you were seven years old?"
Her pupils contracted violently, and a vague figure emerged from the depths of her memory - at that time, she was curled up behind a tree, trembling all over. The moment the bad guy approached her, the young policeman stood in front of her and covered her eyes.
"Don't look," he said then. "Count to ten and then open your eyes."
The memories of fifteen years ago suddenly became clear.
At this moment, Gu Yifeng was covered in blood, but he still ran towards her again and again.
The power that distorted space came to an abrupt halt.
Wen Yi stared blankly in his direction, her empty eyes unfocused.
The next second, Gu Yifeng finally hugged her. He raised his uninjured right hand, gently covered her eyes, and whispered in her ear:
"Don't look. Count to ten and then open your eyes."
Just like back then.
Wen Yi's whole body trembled, and tears mixed with his blood flowed down her face.
The storm finally subsided.
Wen Yi stretched out her hand tremblingly, and her fingertips touched his right hand.
"...Gu Yifeng?"
He slowly lowered his hand from her eyes.
She saw his smiling face.
Wen Yi held back her tears: "They... did something really excessive..."
"I know..." He raised his hand and gently touched her hair, his voice trembling a little, "So you can't get hurt. I will help you get it back in the future."
Wen Yi noticed his shaking body and put her arms around him: "Are you okay?"
Before he could finish his words, he fell heavily into her arms, warmth coming from his palms.
Wen Yi felt a warmth in her hands and a chill in her heart.
No, he's not good.
She looked down and found that his back was completely soaked in blood.
Wen Yi finally realized that she almost killed him just now.
She couldn't help but kneel on the ground and hugged him tightly, her tears falling on his clothes, hot but powerless.
“…I’m sorry…I’m sorry…”
Gu Yifeng weakly raised his hand and gently wiped away her tears, his voice hoarse and weak: "Have you counted to ten?"
She finally broke down and cried out loud.
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The curtains in the ward were half-closed, and the liquid in the IV bottle fell silently.
Gu Yifeng was half leaning on the hospital bed, with the bandage wrapped from his collarbone to his waist and abdomen.
He had dozens of stitches of varying sizes on his body and suffered multiple soft tissue contusions, but fortunately, he had no fractures.
The members of the special operations team sat around him, and Dai Yiming and Wen Yi sat in the chairs farthest from the bed.
"What does it say above?" His voice was hoarse and a little short of breath.
"After you were injured for unknown reasons, the deputy director sent an internal investigation team to take over the case." Ni Qianfan paused and added, "Although we tried our best to conceal it, the investigation team will eventually learn the truth."
Wen Yi clenched her fingers suddenly and didn't dare to look up at Gu Yifeng.
"Not necessarily." Dai Yiming suddenly said, "I did some manipulation by the technical department and put all the blame on the unexplained explosion of the corpse."
Gao Yiyuan couldn't help but give a thumbs-up: "Director Dai, awesome! Falsifying a report is a serious crime!"
"If you have the guts, have them piece together the shattered bodies for an autopsy." Dai Yiming sneered, "Do they dare to tell the truth about the perpetrators?"
"Good idea! Even if the higher-ups suspect something, they won't dare investigate further." Ni Qianfan nodded. "Don't worry, Old Gu. We know nothing."
There was silence in the ward for a moment.
Gu Yifeng turned to look at her, his eyes calm: "Come here."
She slowly raised her head, her eyes red, but she didn't have the courage to walk over.
"Go ahead." Dai Yiming began to tease, "Your Director Gu is seriously injured this time, especially his left hand. You have to give him some good 'pain relief.'"
Wen Yi felt extremely sad and ashamed to face him, so she was hesitant to take a step forward.
"I said," Gu Yifeng repeated, his voice filled with displeasure, "Come here."
Wen Yi sniffed and slowly moved to the bedside.
"How's your hand?" She spoke softly, not daring to look him in the eye.
Gu Yifeng smiled and comforted her: "It's okay, it will be fine in a few days. Look -" He held her left hand with his uninjured hand, "I can hold your left hand with my right hand. With this kind of tacit understanding, we are a match made in heaven."
Wen Yi was stunned
The members of the special operations team were collectively petrified.
Only Ye Min could no longer bear it: "How can he be fine! Teacher Gu's left hand tendon is severely torn. In the future, he might even be able to use a gun..."
"Ye Min!" Gu Yifeng's voice suddenly rose, and the ward became quiet in an instant.
His tone was cold: "Please leave!"
In the corridor outside the ward, Ye Min left with everyone else.
Ni Qianfan slowed down his pace, walked side by side with her, and said in a low voice: "I have reminded you several times, don't say that kind of words again in the future."
Ye Min sneered: "Why? You won't even allow me to tell the truth?"
"No matter what your intention is, let's stop here." Ni Qianfan said meaningfully.
Ye Min couldn't help but blurt out: "Then what right did she have? Besides causing Teacher Gu to get injured..."
"Don't you understand yet?" Ni Qianfan interrupted her. "Old Gu has never been one to show his emotions. Who was he acting for?"
Ye Min's pace slowed down unconsciously, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"He was telling everyone present," Ni Qianfan glanced towards the ward, "Wen Yi is his bottom line."
Ye Min was silent for a moment, then laughed at himself: "So, he would go to such lengths for one person."
Before Ni Qianfan turned and left, he said, "If you want to continue following Lao Gu, then stop targeting Wen Yi."
Only Gu Yifeng and Wen Yi were left in the ward.
He took Wen Yi's hand and gently kissed the back of her hand: "Don't think too much. I was injured accidentally. I will be fine after some rest."
Wen Yi shook her head: "Don't try to fool me. I just checked with the doctor. Your injury... is not light. It will affect your shooting ability. It's all because of me..."
"So what if I can't carry a gun? I can give up field missions and the title of director, but you are not one of them. You are the only one I cannot give up."
Before Wen Yi could react, Gu Yifeng pulled her into his arms: "My hand hurts, I need painkiller..."
A barrage of kisses fell on her lips.
The door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and Ni Qianfan took a few steps back in embarrassment when he saw the situation clearly.
Wen Yi quickly stepped back, but Gu Yifeng held her wrist tightly.
"What's up?"
Ni Qianfan's face was solemn. "Headquarters has just issued an order—you are suspended from duty and are under investigation. I will take over the Special Operations Team, and all case files will be handed over to the internal investigation team."
He paused, looked at Wen Yi, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"Also... Miss Wen needs to be questioned by the internal investigation team."
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