Chapter 14 Why don't you ask me about the misunderstanding?
Xicheng District? Wasn't that where Wei Yan took her? Did he know something was going to happen there?
Xu Nuo touched his chin and said, "Lili, tell me in detail."
Huang Li poured herself a glass of breakfast milk. "Many people heard a loud bang last night. The campus forum said another giant-sized phantom walker had broken in. It came from the Class C pollution zone in the west, passed the railway heading south, and then crashed headfirst into the city wall."
Xu Nuo: "Again? Does Phantom Walker often come here?"
Huang Li shook her head. "It's only been in the last few months. The polluted area to the west has been unstable, with several waves of pollution breaking out. The number of mutants has increased, and some are moving towards more populated areas."
"I don't know why, but there are so many gigantic mutants lately, and their destructive power is too strong."
Xu Nuo felt a little uneasy.
Wei Yan had mentioned that the recent increase in gigantic mutants across the country had drawn the White Tower's attention. However, the Phantom Walker was, after all, a congenital mutant, with a low probability of appearance. How could it be that they had appeared twice in the same base within two months?
Ever since boarding the train to the capital, unusual events have occurred one after another, leading one to suspect that the relative stability of the past few years was due to the novel's lack of plot development. Now, the protagonists are starting to move forward. The first sentence of the novel begins:
In the 78th year of the Wasteland Era, Yueshan Base was attacked by a large unknown mutant and the entire city was destroyed.
The 78th year of the Wasteland Era was the eighth year since Xu Nuo had traveled to this world, which was also this year. She had tried to warn the base, but with no evidence and no idea of the exact time when the mutants would appear, she only had her mouth to tell the authorities, and everyone thought she was mentally disturbed and mad.
"Nono, what are you thinking about?" Huang Li shook her finger at her. "You're so engrossed."
Xu Nuo looked up quickly: "Sorry, what did you just say?"
"Hey," Huang Li took a sip of her breakfast milk, "why don't you want to go to Xicheng District? I heard Senior Wei is there. If you get any firsthand information, tell me."
...Wei Yan.
Xu Nuo thought of the other person's strange eyes last night and the connection that was only a little deeper but made his ears blush and his heart beat faster, and felt a little confused.
Wei Yan is like this, it is hard to see through. It seems that he is no longer the good-tempered and smiling senior. He has become deep and aggressive, and even gives people the illusion that he has always been like this.
But the help he provided in saving her, rescuing her, and training her was real. What did he want?
She suddenly remembered the other party's defenseless mental groups and the sighs after touching the mental images.
In Xu Nuo's understanding, in order for the sentinel to cross the spiritual link between the two guides, he needs to have unconditional trust in the guide. If the sentinel can do this in a short period of time, either the two have known each other for a long time, or the other party is the kind of sentinel who can accept anyone, no matter what kind of guide he is, he will welcome them all and keep the city gate open.
For example... guides are rare now, and some sentinels will use the guise of ambiguity to trick guides into purification or even spiritual union, just for the pleasure and free purification. It's despicable.
She and Wei Yan had only known each other for a short time, so it was impossible for them to have known each other for a long time. The connection between them was so quick and natural that it was suspicious. So there was only the latter possibility - Wei Yan was an emotional liar who loved to engage in ambiguous relationships!
Who knows how many school girls have stood on that city wall. Now that it’s been broken down by the Phantom Walker, let’s see where he can take the new school girl!
After sorting out the truth, Xu Nuo felt quite annoyed and annoyed, and was reluctant to look for Wei Yan again.
But - the breaking of the city wall is related to the direction of the whole book. It is not yet known whether my appearance will cause a butterfly effect. If the time and place of the subsequent world-destroying war are also changed, there will be no control over the future.
In the face of life, feelings are nothing!
Thinking of this, Xu Nuo got out of bed, not caring about his aching body, put on his clothes and rushed out: "Lili, I won't be back for lunch!"
Huang Li stood there and shrugged: "You get so excited when you mention senior, it seems to be true."
Xu Nuo ran out of the dormitory gate and saw Jiang Chen waiting under a tree.
"Leader!" The handsome blue-haired boy was very happy. "We meet again."
Xu Nuo hurried out: "What's the matter?"
Jiang Chen: "Senior asked me to wait here, saying that you would be going to Xicheng District today. It's far away, so he asked me to drop you off."
Xu Nuo was stunned for a moment: "Thank you for your help."
…
When they arrived at Xicheng District, Xu Nuo thanked the driver and got off the car. He saw that a large section of the city wall he had walked past last night was broken in the middle, with collapsed bricks and rubble everywhere. There was also a deep pit with a diameter of dozens of meters nearby, and the bottom of the pit was full of corroded flesh and blood.
The accident site has been cordoned off, and many people in the base's official uniforms are busy at the edge of the pit.
She saw Wei Yan's tall figure from a distance. He was wearing a black slim sweater today. With his tall height, long legs, broad shoulders and narrow waist, he stood out among the staff.
As they stepped onto the gravel-strewn road, the man in the distance seemed to sense something and turned back to meet her eyes. After a moment, he turned back and continued talking to the person next to him.
Xu Nuo wasn't sure whether to go up and disturb him.
"Team leader," Jiang Chen followed, "Senior is too busy right now, so if you have any questions, why not ask me."
Xu Nuo hesitated and said, "Can't the staff also find out the inside story?"
Jiang Chen's light grey pupils revealed a smile: "You are the leader of the escort team, so you should participate in the investigation."
"I……"
"She hasn't joined yet."
Wei Yan approached with his long legs, his voice as gentle as ever: "But as my partner, you can understand the inside story."
Jiang Chen was stunned: "Partner?"
He turned to look at Xu Nuo and stammered, "You, you two have become partners?"
Xu Nuo said "uh", not knowing how to answer.
She had almost calmed down on the way here. Wei Yan's suggestion of "partner" was purely to help her find an identity that would allow her to see the truth. He was as "nice" as ever, but "partner" was temporary. If she really admitted it, it might affect his search for a new schoolmate...
She didn't speak, and Wei Yan didn't say anything either. Jiang Chen looked at them for a long time, and suddenly realized: "Oh - I see. The team leader wants to know what happened, but it's inconvenient since he hasn't joined the team yet, so he asked the senior to arrange an identity for him?"
Without waiting for Xu Nuo's answer, he smiled, revealing a row of white teeth: "Am I right?"
The child suddenly became cheerful and said, "Maybe..."
"Let's go." Wei Yan said suddenly.
His tone was a little stiff. He took a few steps forward, then turned back and said, "Let's talk about the current situation as we walk."
Xu Nuo said "Oh" and chased after him.
Jiang Chen was about to follow when the sentry in front suddenly turned his head and glanced at him with his deep black eyes. He was very familiar with this look and he stopped in his tracks and took several steps back.
Senior is in a bad mood today.
Jiang Chen looked at Xu Nuo with regret. He still wanted to connect with the team leader, and he didn't know if the senior in a bad mood would be angry with her. In short, Wei Yan was in a low-pressure state, so he should sound the level one alarm and get away quickly!
Xu Nuo tried hard to keep up with Wei Yan's quickening pace.
Wei Yan belongs to the base guard team and works for Bai Ta. Involved in the investigation with such a capacity, he is most likely the leader and the information is authentic.
She really wanted to know the whole story, so she just had to wait and see whether he was willing or not.
"What do you want to know?" asked the person next to him.
Xu Nuo said seriously: "The cause, time, and result of the accident, as well as your judgment."
Wei Yan glanced at her and whispered, "After pollution testing, it has been confirmed that the city wall was broken by a Class B Phantom Walker. The accident occurred around two in the morning, which means within three hours of us leaving last night."
Xu Nuo deliberately ignored the pause in his tone and asked, "Are there any casualties?"
"Xicheng District is the old city, closest to the polluted area to the west. Residents have gradually moved out, and only scavengers are passing through. No casualties have been found so far."
The two men walked to the edge of the pit, and the strong smell of corruption at the bottom of the pit was choking.
Xu Nuo couldn't help but fan the air in front of him: "It stinks."
Wei Yan frowned slightly. "According to the test results, this Phantom Walker died soon after crashing into the city wall. It took the security personnel ten minutes to rush here, but in that short time, its body and most of its skeleton disappeared, leaving only these at the bottom of the pit."
Xu Nuo looked down. The pit was straight up and down, and the upper and lower parts were almost the same width. The bottom of the pit should have been bottomless, but it could only be seen with the naked eye due to the accumulation of rotten flesh left by the Phantom Walker.
She thought about the first time she killed the Phantom Walker, and the huge skeleton and the hill of flesh on the corpse. There shouldn't be only this much left.
Referring to the corpse of the Phantom Walker, the missing parts of this corpse would not disappear in ten minutes even if the army was used to clean them up.
Wei Yan continued, "Another suspicious point is the size of the pit. Both its width and depth far exceed the average size of a B-rank Phantom Walker. It doesn't seem like this type of mutant could crash headfirst into a wall and then, after dissipating the force, create a large pit."
Having said that, he turned to Xu Nuo and cast his gaze towards her ear. The latter was only at the height of his shoulder and was struggling to raise her head to listen to him.
Xu Nuo was stared at inexplicably: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Wei Yan smiled and raised his hand to pass over her ear. Feeling the young man's palm brushing against her earlobe, Xu Nuo froze instantly, and the place that was touched began to heat up.
Wei Yan caught the hair that was blown by her ear and tucked it behind her ear, saying softly: "Why didn't you ask me why I brought you here last night?"
"It's like this again."
Xu Nuo took two steps back and distanced himself from him.
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