Chapter 212 Mid-Game Showdown
The monitoring center has a bird's-eye view.
The observers could overlook the scene below from the air: the anomalies that had been transformed into human appearances relaxed their muscles the moment Chen Xiao'er spoke, and listened to her instructions with a confused expression.
The only way to describe this scene is as an instruction.
The analysts magnified the close-up shots captured in the surveillance: the anomalies were like a group of robots receiving a signal, and not even the slightest expression revealed the slightest sign of resistance.
Their retreat was not orderly. Due to the differences in their positions, clothing, and physiques, the anomalies showed extremely human differences.
It was as if there really were dozens of residents who came to protest, but retreated for various reasons after being persuaded by Chen Xiao'er.
"Where is the newborn snake?"
A photo immediately appeared on the screen. Chen Xiaotong was holding a cake box and chewing the cupcake inside slowly.
Her face was expressionless, neither gentle and cute like a human girl, nor did she have the murderous intent of a predator.
The camera zoomed out, revealing the gray mist of the newly born snake still lingering around the city, showing no signs of aberration. It seemed the ability that had just driven back the anomalies was entirely a zero-based one.
"It feels... a bit like some kind of rule."
The anomalies' behavior just now was too much like humans being forced to do something after breaking the rules, and perhaps even with a strange sense of willingness.
[My Lord of Glory, have you noticed the influence of the power of rules?]
A certain bishop with high authority asked directly.
The vast majority of the church held a deep trust in Guanghui. They knew Guanghui's true nature, and knew that He was the "God of Absolute Protection of Humanity," born with many shackles.
This question was just in case, they didn't really think Chen Xiao'er could still mobilize the power of rules.
After all, even an abyssal creature like the Devouring Snake, which has the natural talent for devouring, has to go to great lengths to initiate multiple power rituals in order to seize a power that does not belong to it, and at the cost of giving up part of itself to merge with Chen Xiao'er.
【have】
The gods, who would never deceive mankind, gave an affirmative answer, bringing about a dead silence.
......
"Chen Xiao'er, you are so awesome!"
"Thank goodness you're here~ otherwise we'd be in big trouble."
"Hey, looking at how cowardly they are, I'm sure they won't dare to come for a long time."
"Haha... the residents here are more reasonable." Chen Xiao'er was surrounded by everyone and waved her hands a little embarrassedly.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a few strangers approaching the water she had just bought, and she quickly stood on tiptoe and exclaimed, "Hey, that's our class's water!"
Everyone followed her gaze and relaxed their grip on their weapons: it turned out that they were from the Human Soul Front, and the water was originally intended for them.
Ever since the strange thing began to seep into the surface, clean water sources have become increasingly scarce.
Chixing originally lacked fresh water that could be drunk directly. The apes in ancient times knew how to drill wood to make fire and boil water to drink, but humans in the technological age basically only drink distilled water.
The Church of Light has enough resources to purify distilled drinking water on a large scale, so the members of the Human Soul Front can only use their bodies to resist the remaining pollution.
So Xing Shuyao "asked" Chen Xiao'er for purified water not for her classmates, but for these temporary collaborators.
Even their base camp was short of resources, and now they had to travel a long distance to the ancient ruins. God knew how much time they had to spend every day fetching water and hunting.
Xing Shuyao wheeled her wheelchair over to her side and said softly, "It's okay. They're school workers. They've been busy all day and must be a little thirsty."
When she heard it was the janitor, Chen Xiao'er immediately retracted her finger and shook her wrist generously: "The school bus also missed the janitors' water? Then let them take it all away. I'll go buy a few more boxes later."
"Thank you." Xing Shuyao nodded, and the "school workers" on the other side also put their hands on their chests and saluted.
Chen Xiao'er didn't pay much attention to their etiquette because the food stores, including those selling drinking water, on Red Star were not as densely distributed as on Blue Star.
Except for specific places like train stations and schools, it would take half a day to find a supermarket on a shopping street. These boxes of water were brought back by her and Ling with great difficulty from two kilometers away.
After work, Zheng Xiuli led the team to unload boxes of nutrition bars from the bus. The packaging of the nutrition bars was similar to that of ham sausage, and inside was a soft and tender nutrition paste.
Everyone put down the tools in their hands, skillfully tore open the strips and squeezed the water-rich nutritional paste into their mouths, and the tired expressions on their faces were relieved a lot.
Watching her classmates enjoying the "delicious food" in a peaceful atmosphere, Chen Xiao'er swallowed the suggestion of "going to a nearby restaurant for a meal."
Apart from the luxury hotel, the nearest restaurant is a long way away, so let's take a break.
She also picked up a nutrition bar, leaned over to Zero, and squeezed it into her mouth bit by bit and swallowed it.
Chen Xiaotong poked her little head out from the side. She imitated her sister's actions, took a nutrition bar and stuffed it into her mouth, then pulled out the empty bag and made a "pfft pfft" sound.
Chen Xiao'er touched her head and whispered, "Don't you like it? Don't show it in front of others in the future. Just tell me, and I can take you to eat something else."
"Yeah." Xiaotong put her arm around her and rocked around her.
The students simply finished their meal, then picked up their backpacks and walked in different directions.
One group of people needs to patrol along the line, while the other group goes back to rest and wait for the shift change. They must patrol 24 hours a day and not allow any abnormalities to damage the energy piles.
Just when Chen Xiaotong was looking so happy that she could happily leave the human group with her sister and go outside for a snack, Chen Xiao'er suddenly let go of her hand.
"Hey." Xiaotong widened her eyes and watched her sister rush into the crowd.
"Wait a moment."
Chen Xiao'er held out her hand and breathlessly caught up with Xing Shuyao in the wheelchair: "Aren't you going to the hotel? Does the teacher have any new assignments?"
She is now almost suffering from a psychological trauma about the practical classes in school.
Many text messages in school were only sent to group leaders but bypassed her, the nominal "head of the club department", so that other students would naturally skip her as they did today unless the task was urgent.
Someone else might be touched by the extra care from classmates, but Chen Xiao'er doesn't like the feeling of being excluded.
There was no movement from the communicator in Xing Shuyao's hand.
Considering that the church wouldn't refuse Chen Xiao'er's participation in a low-risk mission, he smiled warmly two minutes later and said gently, "Chen Xiao'er, can you help keep watch? Just stay in the base station corridor."
Where is the base station corridor?
Chen Xiao'er glanced at the row of iron towers stuck in the ground around her, then took two steps back. Finally, after looking up, she saw what looked like a corridor.
Communications towers extend like fences around the square into the residential area, while further away stands a small house built of steel plates, its appearance reminiscent of a holiday cottage in old movies.
This iron house is built about 10 meters above the ground, much shorter than the surrounding high-rise buildings, but the transmitter installed on the roof is taller than other signal towers.
To build this iron house, the construction team used a lot of extra steel frames to create a long, narrow corridor. It would be a bit cold to sleep there, and the corridor is very narrow, appearing to be only two meters wide at most.
However, there are very high fences on both sides, so safety should be guaranteed.
Chen Xiao'er retracted her gaze and nodded briskly: "Okay, I will keep watch well."
......
"No - I want to sleep with my sister~~" Chen Xiaotong let out a soft whine and waved her two little fists left and right.
Unfortunately, her sister mercilessly grabbed her shoulders and stuffed her into the bus to the hotel. "Be good, go to bed early. I'll be back tomorrow."
The bus started up with a roar, carrying the students. Chen Xiaotong knelt in the last row, pressing her little face against the glass and making faces.
"Hahaha." Chen Xiao'er was amused by her sister's little expression. After laughing, she touched the corner of her mouth thoughtfully.
My mother’s death is finally “in the past”.
She would avenge her mother and take her sister with her into the future. She was even grateful that her sister didn't have any lingering memories of her mother's death.
She leaned against the fence in a daze, the lights of the city at night shining through the steel bars, casting shadows on her face.
Rustle, rustle.
The leaves swayed in the wind, and Zero spread the bedding on the corridor and quietly pressed against her shoulders.
"Ling, I want to avenge my mother with my own hands." Chen Xiao'er looked at the moonless and starless night sky and said without turning her head.
"I'll join you."
"No." She knew Ling's expression must be very serious, but she still shook her head: "Sister Lan will help me."
In fact, she didn't even plan to let Lan intervene directly at the beginning. At most, she would rely on Lan to introduce an intelligence dealer.
Chen Xiao'e imagined her own revenge, perhaps on a quiet night, as dark and cloudy as today. She would quietly hide behind the curtains, and the moment the murderer appeared, she would draw her dagger and stab him fiercely.
What if the murderer behind this is very powerful? What if there is more than one murderer?
With these worries lingering in her mind, she had to collect enough and accurate information first.
Since Sister Lan is already standing in the dark, I can rely more on her strength.
Chen Xiao'er raised her head, and a crystal teardrop rolled down the corner of her eye.
What a cunning idea, but I... I am too weak.
"I can help you too." Ling lifted the hair on her temples and let his lover's cheek gently rest against his neck.
Chen Xiao'er didn't answer the question directly. She whispered in her ear: "Ling, have you ever taken a mental test?"
"I did." Zero replied calmly.
A few seconds later, a few seconds after her breath stopped, Chen Xiao'e whispered, "Ever since that incident, I've actually... always suspected you had violent tendencies."
That thing.
Zero's consciousness sank into the data stream, catching a line of information after a few seconds.
[Chen Xiao'er is probably talking about the time I pushed her down the stairs]
That was a hurtful test.
The emotion module's alarm sounded in the "nest", but the night around them was as quiet as water.
Bishop Milo should not be viewing the surveillance footage now. The apostles did not report this anomaly, and the expert team has not noticed this for the time being.
Zero is very smart. She was very good at learning all kinds of knowledge in the distant past, but none of the knowledge told her how to deal with the current situation.
How can I deceive my own heart?
I don't want to hurt you in any way.
But the arrow had already been released long before—on the first day we met.
Ling held Chen Xiao'er's shoulders and turned her body so that she was face to face with him.
Against the thick twilight, surrounded by dim lights and the shadows of the fence, the exquisite mask of the silver-haired doll shattered.
"sorry."
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