Bubble-like craze
Ji Yunding closed his eyes, put his ear against the wall, and tried to hear the sound downstairs.
“…There was a stampede.”
"I'll go out and take a look."
Ji Liuxing, who was standing far away at the corner of the stairs and keeping a distance from Ji Yunding, responded loudly.
"You can't get through. There are so many people outside. Not to mention whether they are willing to listen to you, even if they are willing to listen, they can't move aside even if they want to."
Ji Yunding rubbed his ears and explained,
"What's more, some of them may be armed. Don't get close to a group of angry people. This is the rule of human society. By the way, team leader, will you die if you are shot?"
"If you get a hole in the brain, you'll die. The rest doesn't matter."
Ji Liuxing shook his head and quickly gave up the idea of going out to do something. Then he seemed to be thinking about something.
"Student Ji Yunding, I was wondering, do you remember what I told you just now? Even if you can't explain clearly to the researchers, it's still a result for them?"
"……ah."
Ji Yunding suddenly reacted. She sat on the stairs and looked down at Ji Liuxing at the foot of the stairs.
"So, my not showing up is also a kind of... response?"
"I don't know. The Ghost Story Bureau is in charge of this area. I just have a hunch that something is wrong, but I can't put my finger on it."
Ji Liuxing paced back and forth at the staircase, looking anxious. Then he squatted down, hugged his head and sighed.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I can do anything..."
Saying that he had no other options seemed very serious to Ji Liuxing. For him, the most frightening thing was losing his value to others.
But Ji Yunding doesn't care. She doesn't care how much value she has to others - or rather, this is just a factor she takes into consideration when thinking about a problem.
How to solve problems and achieve one's goals is what Ji Yunding cares about most.
"Team leader, this is my business. Don't take it upon yourself to think it has nothing to do with you."
Ji Yunding picked up the knife and threw it towards Ji Liuxing, who caught it and threw it back.
This game of catching, which is considered too dangerous by people in the civilized world, is just a way for investigators to pass the time and stimulate their thinking.
"The worst-case scenario is that the administration will help me change my identity, and then I can add some conspicuous facial features."
"Tattoos?"
"Civil servants cannot have tattoos, although we are... supposed to be civil servants. We can use tattoo stickers or something like that. A group doesn't care about the personal image of the members."
After throwing the knife back and forth a few times, Ji Yunding took back the knife and sighed.
"What I am most worried about is that if the adverse impact reaches a certain level, it will affect the attitude of the administration and the research team towards me."
This time she couldn't defect as quickly as she did two weeks ago, because there were many people she cared about here. Moreover, Ji Yunding had limited time and didn't want to waste time on such things.
"Probably not. After all, your contributions have been well reported. Even if I don't know about other things, just based on what you have done, you have already led to several important research branches."
"Team leader, I don't like to gamble on other people's ideas or possibilities. I think others are unreliable."
Ji Yunding stood up, frowning.
"For example, if it turns out that Leviathan is related to my case and killing me can stop it, how many people in the research group would have the idea?"
"I can assure you that the leaders of each group are clear about what they are doing. The members of each group...are mixed, I can't say for sure."
"To add to that, what if my death would end all the weird talk? Even if it's just one group, how many people would consider whether I should die logically?"
After hearing this, Ji Liuxing was silent for a while, then he sighed and said, "Student Ji Yunding, this assumption is unnecessary. It is impossible for such a thing to happen."
"What I mean is, as long as it's on the scale, there will always be something more important than me, and I should make plans early."
Ji Yunding sat on the upper steps and pointed at Ji Liuxing.
"The same goes for you and me. No one can be abandoned. Team leader, you should know this best."
Ji Liuxing rubbed his hair, tried to think about it, and felt a little distressed.
"That's true, but it's so pessimistic... Never mind, it's good that you think this way."
If you don't have any expectations, at least you won't be disappointed.
“Others often give me big surprises, but I still tend to rely on myself. After all, everything changes, and nothing stays the same forever.”
"It's an exclamation often made by people who have lived for a long time. I think I've heard older people from aristocratic families say this before."
Ji Liuxing simply sat down at the staircase, leaning against the wall, looking up at the ceiling.
"Is 'forever' a difficult thing? I don't quite understand. Someone in my group once said that I was too frivolous, saying that this life will always be this way or that way.
But I think that even a lifetime is too short. If it’s just a few years, the so-called “forever” shouldn’t be that difficult.”
Humans often imagine the thinking of immortal species, so conversely, what do short-lived species think of?
Ji Yunding looked at Ji Liuxing and frowned, as if he was looking at and listening to the thoughts of a hibiscus tree that knew it would bloom in the morning and wither in the evening.
"No matter if it's painful or strange, as long as you don't delve into it, it will soon be nothing. For example..."
Ji Liuxing turned his head, looked at Ji Yunding, and smiled.
"You probably have as much to do with weird things as I do. I'm just asking casually, you don't have to answer."
"It feels like you've doubted whether I'm weird many times."
"Well, three or four times since you entered school."
Ji Yunding did not continue the conversation, but just stared blankly, waiting for time to pass.
After a while, Ji Yunding rubbed his ears again and stood up.
"It looks like a helicopter is coming... It's rumbling from such a distance, it will probably be very noisy later."
Hearing this, Ji Liuxing casually threw a plastic box over - it was a pair of new earplugs that he had taken out from the spare items after contacting the helicopter.
Ji Yunding took it, looked at it for a few seconds, sighed, and opened the box casually, waiting for the helicopter to approach to slightly relieve the noise that almost made her ears bleed.
The guy from Anlezhong was right about one thing. The team leader would probably really hate her one day.
never mind.
Ji Liuxing didn't know what Ji Yunding was thinking about, he just looked at his phone with a serious expression.
"I'm going to go out and negotiate with the people sent by the administration. They don't dare to touch me. After all, there are still tens of thousands of people in the other dimension. At this distance, you should be able to hear what we are saying."
After hearing these words, Ji Yunding suddenly realized something - if no one had any reason to kill Ji Liuxing, then the target of the unknown gunshot must be her.
Up to now, ordinary people outside have not been able to break through the formation. Ji Yunding looked outside with a serious expression. According to the process of elimination, the person who wanted to kill her with a gun...
"Team leader, if someone comes to kill me, can I threaten them with you?"
"Sure, you can do whatever you want with the remote control. But it's best not to actually use it. Although I don't mind, it will cause a lot of trouble between you and the administration."
"Please mind it for a moment. I can no longer understand you. Team leader, I feel like watching you make a decision is like seeing a civilian airplane win third place in the 100-meter butterfly race at the Olympics but be disqualified because of drinking carbonated drinks."
After all, Ji Yunding was missing a large part of his impression and memory of Ji Liuxing, and now he could not understand his actions.
"What an interesting metaphor. Can I borrow it later?"
Ji Yunding sighed and felt a headache about Ji Liuxing's attitude.
Ji Liuxing was about to open his mouth to reply with a smile, but suddenly he rubbed his temples, seeming to be feeling very uncomfortable.
“… Trouble.”
"What's wrong?"
"Another thought just flashed through my mind. It was that these people were really going too far, and I had to do something to prove that they were wrong. These thoughts came out of nowhere. I think they might have been influenced by the ghost story."
Ji Liuxing seemed to be resisting his messy thoughts, while Ji Yunding sighed.
If this happens, a fight might break out... and the scale of the commotion will be even bigger.
"Forget it, leave it to Nuonuo to cause headaches."
Open-mindedness is the main theme of the group.
Soon, Ji Liuxing stood up, holding his forehead and calmed down.
"By the way, it stands to reason that you are the one who is at the center of the strange story. Do you feel uncomfortable or have any strange thoughts?"
"Yeah, it's been killing me in my head."
Ji Yunding pointed to his head and sighed.
"I don't know what's the point of stuffing this stuff into my head. What do I need it to remind me of?
Ji Yunding's boundaries were so clear that the thoughts that did not belong to him were as obvious as fireflies in the dark. To be honest, Ji Yunding still didn't feel anything until now, he just felt it was troublesome.
In Ji Yunding's opinion, it is not something to be disappointed about that people would hurt strangers for their own benefit.
Soon, Ji Yunding heard Ji Liuxing talking to the people over there, and the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
They didn't have guns either.
The vibration sound from the wall became more obvious. Ji Yunding knew that the formation could not hold on any longer. He sighed, thought about it carefully, and found that there was no other way except to go there.
A huge sea monster-like creature was quietly suspended in the sky. This time, countless fish's lifeless eyes were looking at this side, or rather, looking at Ji Yunding, as if waiting for her to make the "response" of her choice.
The empty rooftop had no obstructions and was in full view. Ji Yunding suddenly heard a covert movement coming from the rooftop of the 30th floor building next to him, which belonged to another research group.
Before the gunshot, Ji Yunding quickly squatted down. There was a bullet hole on the ground next to him, and Ji Yunding quickly looked at the source of the sound, but suddenly laughed.
There is a way. Now there is a complete way.
"Team leader, help me jump over."
Ji Yunding didn't have time to explain to Ji Liuxing. Fortunately, although Ji Liuxing was really scared, after hearing Ji Yunding's words, he quickly stood at the edge of the rooftop closest to the next building, squatted down and stretched out his hand.
The children from aristocratic families all like to play by lifting things up high, or in other words, throwing things up high.
Ji Yunding rushed over and, with the help of Ji Liuxing, jumped onto the opposite rooftop. Without even having time to breathe a sigh of relief, he took out a dagger and knocked out the man lying in the corner with a gun with the handle of the dagger.
It was a foreigner, with an unfamiliar face. It was possible that he had seen him before in school, but Ji Yunding was face-blind to begin with, so he couldn't tell the face of a foreigner.
The people sent over probably wouldn't be so vulnerable if a fight really broke out, but who would have thought that someone could jump over a distance of more than ten meters from the rooftop of the 28th floor to the rooftop of the 30th floor next door? I guess they were stunned.
Ji Yunding knocked the other person unconscious and without wasting a second, he quickly began to search him.
Firearms... He couldn't use a sniper rifle, nor a pistol... Ji Yunding had no knowledge of firearms, and the school didn't teach him.
Forget it. She doesn’t have to use it anyway. Just find someone who can shoot among the people here.
Not long after, the angry crowd outside looked at the formation whose light had finally been extinguished. They were about to move forward excitedly, but they heard several clear gunshots and immediately stopped.
In places where guns are not allowed, the danger represented by gunshots is much more serious than in places where guns are allowed, and it is enough to shock everyone and wake them up from the group frenzy for a moment.
The people in the front row panicked and wanted to move back, while the people in the back row were still pushing forward, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.
At this moment, Zheng Nuo's voice rang out through the loudspeaker.
"A building in the north district of our school has been attacked by foreign terrorists. Please evacuate immediately under the command of the research team. Repeat..."
Ji Yunding casually cut his hair about half a finger shorter, put on a mask, and cooperated with Ji Liuxing with the government personnel who came by helicopter to evacuate the people. By the way, they brought out the captured foreigner and paraded him through the streets.
This incident ended in such a somewhat absurd way, and the subsequent public opinion focused on national conflicts and terrorist attacks.
The bubble-like sense of superiority created by the collective fanaticism temporarily and silently burst a little, but soon a new round of public opinion arose.
Involving the struggle between the two countries, Ji Yunding, as a domestic genius targeted by foreign countries, once again had her achievements listed, causing a great response.
A new round of group fanaticism has changed its direction - Ji Yunding is about to be deified again.
Ji Yunding was sitting in Baili Tomb, looking at the weirdness opposite him and spoke seriously.
"I need information on Leviathan."
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