Chapter 54: Paying the Price A faint blue light suddenly appeared in the air...
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Mingyuan had already pressed the button.
A high-frequency electromagnetic pulse, accompanied by a sharp buzzing sound, was instantly released in her direction.
Wen Yi felt as if something had hit her head hard, her forehead was buzzing, and her eardrums felt a sharp pain.
She could not hear any sound, and her vision began to distort, and she could not see the scene in front of her clearly.
She instinctively covered her head and shook it, almost falling down.
Holy shit! What the hell is this?
She kept backing away, but the oppressive feeling kept chasing her, almost making her kneel down.
Zhang Mingyuan put away his suppressor and approached, a sinister smile on his face. "I've already said you'll have to pay the price for your decision."
"What difference does it make?" Wen Yi breathed a sigh of relief, gritting her teeth and growling, "Whether I accept it or not, you won't let me go!"
She no longer hesitated, and the energy in her body suddenly leaked out. The air around her began to distort strangely, and an invisible force surged in the house.
Not only was Zhang Mingyuan not afraid, his eyes lit up instead.
"Very good..." he muttered to himself excitedly, "Your energy fluctuations are increasing!"
He turned around abruptly and ran quickly towards a black instrument in the corner of the office - it was an energy field resonance imager he designed, used for non-contact monitoring of energy fluctuations of people with special abilities.
"As long as we can capture your energy pattern at this moment..." Zhang Mingyuan's voice was filled with excitement, "we can completely record your key data as a 'time anchor point'."
He stood in front of the console, tapping the terminal rapidly with his fingers. The screen lit up, and the data stream on the interface fully recorded the energy fluctuations in the room at that moment.
"I don't mean to hurt you." He operated the terminal without looking at her, his eyes filled with fanaticism. "What I want is the real variables in your body - every fluctuation of your emotions, the release of energy, and even the flow of your consciousness..."
"You're crazy!" Wen Yi shouted angrily, overturned the table as a barrier, and pushed with both hands at the same time, and a force spread out!
The entire office began to shake violently. The lights in the ceiling flickered, lightbulbs shattered, books toppled from the shelves, and papers hung in the air, as if torn apart by an invisible force.
On the terminal of the resonance imager, blue curves were oscillating violently, showing unprecedented energy peaks.
"This is incredible..." Zhang Mingyu muttered to himself, "This is a level that no human experiment has ever reached before. You're not releasing energy... you're disturbing the entire space-time!"
When he said this, there was an almost fanatical light in his eyes.
At this moment, a strange buzzing sound suddenly sounded in the air. It was not emitted by the suppressor in Zhang Mingyu's hand, but a resonance from a higher dimension of space and time.
A faint blue crack suddenly appeared in the air. It started as a gently swaying shadow, and then gradually formed a solid entity. Countless crisscrossing light cones flickered inside the crack.
Wen Yi couldn't help but hold her breath.
The time gap really appeared.
Zhang Mingyu looked up in surprise, shocked at first, then a glimmer of excitement flashed in his eyes.
"This is not a dream... this is real..." Zhang Mingyuan's eyes suddenly widened, as if he saw something he had dreamed of all his life, and an almost obsessed expression appeared on his face.
It is not a crack in reality, but a corner of time and space that is gently opened, connecting to another unknown time and space.
A wormhole-like structure was created.
"So... this is the meaning of 'anchor point'." His voice trembled. "The energy model I needed to obtain through countless modeling, precise calculations, and perfect parameters, actually only requires a single strong enough variable and an extreme energy resonance to directly open the channel."
Zhang Mingyuan seemed to have completely forgotten Wen Yi's existence, and the suppressor in his hand slipped quietly.
Wen Yi finally got rid of the influence of the suppressor. She looked up suddenly and her eyes fell on the dark blue crack in the air.
Although the shape is different from the spherical channel seen when falling from Qingluan Mountain, it looks more stable and clearer than then.
She realized instantly what was happening.
The opportunity has come!
This is her only way to leave this time point!
The gap was suspended in mid-air, a few meters away from her.
Wen Yi staggered to her feet, kicked away the tables and chairs in front of her, and ran towards the gap without hesitation.
The closer they got, the stronger the pull became. She could feel that familiar force pulling at her, just like last time.
Zhang Mingyuan stood in front of the wormhole, immersed in ecstasy.
"This is real..." His eyes were filled with disbelief, as if he wanted to engrave everything in front of him into his memory.
Wen Yi suddenly pushed Zhang Mingyuan away, leaped up, and pounced into the dark blue crack.
The next second, her body disappeared in the light and shadow.
Zhang Mingyuan did not try to stop it, but stood there, staring at the scene quietly.
This was the greatest miracle he could imagine, the greatest miracle in history - the first time that humans witnessed and recorded the phenomenon of "time and space travel" under non-laboratory conditions.
As Wen Yi disappeared, the energy field at the center of the wormhole quickly became unbalanced and the entire space began to vibrate violently.
The office could no longer withstand the gravitational distortion and began to collapse.
But Zhang Mingyuan stood where he was and allowed himself to be devoured.
There was no fear in his eyes, only satisfaction.
One hour later
Gu Yifeng stood outside the Yunhe High-tech Park and watched the cordon being quickly set up.
He had just basically confirmed through investigation that the disappearance of the mutant was related to a laboratory in the park.
He was about to try to enter the laboratory, but he didn't expect the entire park to be suddenly blocked.
what happened?
Gu Yifeng frowned slightly.
He couldn't intervene rashly and was preparing to return to Yunchuan to make plans.
But before he got far, his phone received an urgent order from his superiors:
"Immediately lead the team to Yunhe City High-Tech Park to assist in the investigation of the sudden explosion."
Gu Yifeng stopped and looked back at the silent laboratory building not far away.
*
Yunhu City Zero Laboratory
Gu Yifeng withdrew his gaze and waited quietly for Lin Yan opposite him to speak first.
Lin Yan raised his chin to the two guards and said, "Go out for a moment."
The door of the interrogation room closed gently, and the room fell into silence again.
Lin Yan stared into Gu Yifeng's eyes, as if trying to read something from them.
After a long pause, he spoke slowly, his tone calm as if he were just chatting casually: "You know? I have a friend who used to be an agent of the Seventh Bureau."
His eyes swept across Gu Yifeng's face imperceptibly.
"He has a calm mind and sharp skills. He is one of the most remarkable agents in the Bureau. He is good at reasoning and taking action, but unfortunately... he is not good at making choices."
Gu Yifeng's clear eyes met his, as if waiting for what to come next.
"Once, his boss asked him to catch a wanted criminal."
Lin Yan paused for a moment, as if observing every subtle change in Gu Yifeng's expression.
The young man opposite still didn't react at all, as if all this had nothing to do with him.
"But he disobeyed orders and instead...fell in love with the wanted criminal. Not only did he not arrest her, he personally escorted her away, even going so far as to turn against his own people."
"What happened next?" After a moment of silence, Gu Yifeng finally asked in cooperation.
"He was later detained by the Bureau of Investigation. They used various methods to make him submit—psychological induction, drug control, neurological experiments... but all failed. In the end, he pretended to be brain dead, escaped surveillance, and disappeared from the world."
Gu Yifeng pretended to be surprised: "Then your friend sounds pretty miserable."
"That's right," Lin Yan leaned forward slightly, staring into Gu Yifeng's eyes and said:
"He left behind his past name, status, and even his future.
Just for that woman.
You say - is it worth giving up everything for one person? "
What surprised Lin Yan was that this time Gu Yifeng actually took the initiative to speak:
“I don’t think of it as giving up.
I think... that's your friend living his own life."
Lin Yan was slightly startled, then looked at Gu Yifeng and asked, "Now that he has returned with a new identity, do you think... should I help this friend?"
Gu Yifeng had a faint smile on his face: "This friend of yours doesn't sound very reliable. I'd better wish him good luck."
"But..." Lin Yan smiled lightly, as if he had expected him to say that, "My superiors have also heard about him."
Gu Yifeng raised his eyebrows slightly.
"My superior admires this friend very much. Not only does he want to help him, he also wants to tell him something." Lin Yan looked at him and continued, "He said, 'If you really want to protect that person, you can't hide in the shadows forever.'"
Gu Yifeng looked calm, as if he didn't hear anything, only his eyelashes trembled slightly.
Lin Yan slowly stood up and calmly adjusted the cuffs of his uniform. When he reached the door, he turned around and said one last sentence:
"Only those in power are worthy of having feelings. My friend... can hear me, right?"
The door closed gently.
All that was left in the room was a cold white light and a young man whose face gradually became expressionless.
Outside the door, Lin Yan glanced at the closed door and turned to the guard:
“Tell Director Cao that the person is fine.
If he's still not convinced, we can take over in the third inning."
*
The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.
In the darkness, Wen Yi stared at the person on the hospital bed, as if she had experienced a waking nightmare.
Cheng Yan lay quietly, his eyes closed, his face so pale that it was almost transparent.
She heard his weak breathing, which seemed to stop at any moment.
If it weren't for the teardrop mole at the corner of his eye, Wen Yi almost didn't recognize the emaciated man in front of her as the boy who put his coat on her.
For Wen Yi, it was only a few hours since they separated.
The boy she thought she had saved was now abandoned in this dark corner as a "failed product" of the experiment.
She looked down at his face, a dull pain in her heart.
Fate seemed to be mocking her in her ears - you are too late.
Wen Yi couldn't remember how she got here. Perhaps Cheng Yan's obsession before his death affected her travel trajectory.
The last second she was in Zhang Mingyuan's research institute, and the next second she fell here.
"I'm sorry..." Wen Yi murmured, tears falling on the back of his hand, "I still couldn't save you..."
In the distance, there was a sound of messy footsteps.
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