Chapter 86
"Can you go any faster?" Leni urged Jas. Their jeep was bumping along the way over the mountains and hills, and the speed had reached 200 kilometers per hour, but he was still anxious.
On the other side, at the entrance of Wild Rose, Ango's hand was only a few centimeters away from the door handle that symbolized danger and opportunity. This might be a trap, but it was also the last hope. If she missed this opportunity, she didn't know when she would be able to get access to the sample again. If she lost it, even if she really cooperated with an organization in the future, I'm afraid there would be no results... The idea of "taking a gamble" almost overwhelmed all her rationality.
However, just as her fingertips were about to touch the cold metal—
"Teacher Ango! Something happened! So many teleportation arrays... so many gray-robed people!" The cry with a heavy cry hit Ango like a whip.
Ango turned around slowly. Even though she had changed her clothes and disguised herself, Yang Haixi still recognized her. She sobbed and cried out, "Ace and the others...something happened!"
Ango's pupils trembled and he froze in place.
Yang Haixi was already seriously injured before she left the field, but she still bravely crossed half the island to chase him. Her chest was heaving violently, and her hair was completely soaked with sweat, sticking to her neck in a messy manner.
Seeing Ango stop and look back, she rushed forward a few steps as if a drowning person had grabbed a lifeline, and said tremblingly: "It's all over... Tang Yu is burning... Ace, Ace's legs... are broken... I saw..."
Yang Haixi's voice was intermittent, and she gestured desperately with her hands: "I touched Ace with my hand... Ace fell down and couldn't wake up..."
Her narration was fragmented, chaotic, and illogical, but every word was like a sledgehammer hitting Ango's heart.
A moment ago, her mind was filled with those grand and cold narratives, important research, samples of human desire, Duran's conspiracy, Intrihed's pursuit, and the agreement with the gods...
But all of this was instantly overshadowed by the vivid expressions of the three faces - Ace's mischievousness, Tang Yu's reliability, and Lin Yaoxin's fragility.
The iron creed of "technological innovation is above all else" collapsed like a sand castle in the face of Yang Haixi's tearful outpouring.
A belated, heavy, suffocating sense of guilt was like a bucket of ice water poured over her head, instantly extinguishing her passion as a scientific research maniac. In the face of real disaster, her desires seemed so selfish and insignificant.
“Damn it!”
She shouldn't have thought that giving them the transformation system and summoning feathers would be enough! She had clearly sensed the impending danger, so why was she still tempted to pursue an illusory possibility?
She suddenly withdrew her hand, her movement so fast that it created a gust of wind. Without any hesitation, she rushed towards Yang Haixi at the corner of the alley like an arrow and helped her up as she was about to fall.
"Hold on!" Her tone was filled with fear that she herself hadn't noticed. "Where are the others? Where are they exactly?"
Inside the abandoned office building, the sniper's index finger on the trigger completely loosened. He observed Jiang Can's expression: "It looks like she has given up and is going back to the competition with her students."
Jiang Can had a blank expression on her face, but a hint of annoyance flashed in her eyes. This situation, which was beyond her plan, obviously made her not know how to deal with it.
"I feel bad that my vacation is over," the sniper joked, then neatly put away his sniper kit. "Shadow should be happy, though."
Jiang Can snorted coldly: "Let's continue to follow her to prevent any other accidents."
"I don't think there's a chance." The sniper awkwardly touched his nose with his index finger, clenched his other hand into a fist, and pointed his thumb out the window, motioning for Jiang Can to come and see for himself. "She's going to use the door-making technique to leave."
Jiang Can's expression became even uglier: "What a... hard-to-control guy."
The sniper chuckled - he was in a good mood. After all, he didn't have to be caught between Shadow's preference and Jiang Can's orders. If he really took action against the researcher named Sangria, he and Shadow would probably have to break up completely.
Inside the stadium, Ace was slow to wake up, but he still had faint signs of life.
Tang Yu's tears fell heavily. Lin Yaoxin had been trying to get in touch with the outside world but had always failed.
"It's no longer safe here. The most urgent thing is to leave here. Tang Yu, we all depend on you now." The other two teammates were already in trouble, and Lin Yaoxin said calmly.
He had no idea what had happened on the field. What was the purpose of the glove just now? Why did he feel a force pushing it away? What had Ace absorbed into the glove? And what was Tang Yu's feather just now? But after being kidnapped by the gray-robed men, Lin Yaoxin knew very well that these people were very dangerous. Although they had been repelled, they were outnumbered and it was hard to say...
There was an unrelieved worry in Lin Yaoxin's eyes.
"But where should we go..." Tang Yu said while sobbing. Ace's situation had made her completely confused.
Lin Yaoxin said, "We can take Ace with us and open a portal all the way from here to the stadium... The competition is secondary now. The key is everyone's safety..."
Tang Yu took a deep breath, trying to calm down his sobbing state: "Hiccup, okay... I understand."
Just as she stood up and prepared to activate her extraordinary ability, the sky outside suddenly became gloomy. A thick dark cloud floated over the stone house, followed by heavy rain, which pounded the roof and grass, completely extinguishing the raging fire.
This unusual atmosphere immediately attracted the attention of the three people. Tang Yu stopped sobbing and hugged the unconscious Ace tightly with Lin Yaoxin, not daring to act rashly.
The remaining power of the raging flaming bird dissipated completely, and Cece fell to the ground, charred and damaged, with a pale face, but there was still a faint breath from her mouth and nose. It was obvious that she had exhausted her energy and suffered serious injuries while resisting the phantom of the bird.
At the door of the dilapidated hut, the light was blocked by a new figure. A man dressed more elegantly, his gray robe edged with black lines, walked in silently. He was tall and slender, and his steps were leisurely, as if he had not arrived at an abandoned battlefield, but his own backyard.
His face was shrouded in the shadow of the hood, revealing his graceful jawline. If Ango were present, she would immediately recognize that this person was Mo Li.
Behind him, more gray-robed men rushed in like ghosts. They were ordinary and swift, quickly occupying the entire stone house and surrounding the three people.
Qi Qi swept his gaze over them indifferently, holding the already damaged snatching gloves in his hand. A few seconds later, a very light, magnetic voice with a metallic taste rang out: "With the three of you, you defeated Ceci and so many people, and even destroyed our precious experiment... Interesting."
He laughed softly, talking about the precious experimental subject, but casually threw him to a gray-robed man behind him, as if it were just trash.
"Three C-level extraordinary ability users... can actually achieve this..." His eyes swept over the three of them in turn, his voice cold, "Take them away, perhaps those doing research will be interested."
The gray-robed men behind him were like machines that had received instructions. They immediately separated into three groups and walked towards the three people with swift movements. They held special restraints and syringes in their hands, intending to capture them as experimental subjects.
Lin Yaoxin watched the gray-robed figures approach, his eyes filled with despair. He wanted to struggle, to protect his companions, but he could do nothing. In front of these powerful beings, his tiny Beyonder ability was like a candle, easily snuffed out by a single blow. He could only watch helplessly as the cold restraints reached towards Ace, who lay in a pool of blood, and Tang Yu, who had already frozen...
"No--"
Just as the gray-robed man's hand was about to touch them, two deep roars exploded from the roof without warning! Then, two nimble beasts crashed through the stone house's already shaky high windows, charging in with shards of glass.
Those are two leopards!
Sitting on one of the leopards was a thin, masked man—Dylan! He scooped up Lin Yaoxin from the ground, while the other leopard swatted the gray-robed man's arm away with one claw. Its tail, thick as steel, powerfully swept up the other two on the ground. As the world spun, Tang Yu and Ace were riding on the leopard's back.
"What the hell!" The gray-robed man was slapped away by a claw and could only let out a short cry of surprise.
The incident happened in a flash! Two leopards leaped over the wall of gray-robed men and were about to run out!
Mo Li's expression darkened, and his aura suddenly shifted. Even the light outside the window vanished at a visible speed. The power of "Nightmare" could turn day into night, dragging the daylight into his realm of eternal night.
"Stop them." As these four words appeared, Dylan and others found that the air seemed to have turned into a quagmire, and the air around them was distorted into layers of illusions - burning forests, weeping evil spirits, bottomless abyss... This is a dream maze, a "nightmare" that will drag people into endless nightmares.
"What should we do! This is real fire!" Lin Yaoxin shouted.
He felt the scorching heat of the flames and discovered that it was not an ordinary illusion, but a real thing that could cause harm. The two leopards under them stopped in their tracks because they were burned by the flames.
The corners of Dylan's mouth curled up into a smile: "It's time for you to take action."
He took out two transformation reagents from his sleeve - the dosage was much larger than what ordinary people used, and it was a style that Tang Yu and others had never seen before. He broke the reagents apart and dripped them on the bodies of the two leopards.
Suddenly, dark armor grew on the leopard's body, and its eyes turned into dark blue electronic compound eyes.
"How can a machine dream?" Dylan said lightly.
Immediately afterwards, the two mechanical leopards tore through the exit of the dream, leaped up, and pierced Mo Li's cage like two black arrows.
Inside the stone house, the nightmare's power receded like a tide, leaving only absolute silence and devastation. Mo Li stood alone in the center, the shadow of his hood completely obscuring his expression, yet his fury was practically condensed into substance.
"MAA, great, it's you again."
His dream was actually deciphered by two mechanical beasts that were completely immune to mental attacks, and the snatching gloves were also damaged... He must not let them go...
"Chase."
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