Chapter 54
The sky was pitch black and the rain was pouring down.
In an abandoned garage less than one kilometer away from the border prison, Lin Bai was leaning against the wall. In front of her was a burning fire. Although hydrocarbons do not produce smoke when burned, the flame was not big to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Strands of heat gradually flowed into Lin Bai's left arm.
Too little...
Lin Bai was used to Lou Tiannan's stable, high-temperature energy, so he was not satisfied with the energy input from the flames that were sometimes large and sometimes small.
The rain outside was very loud and there was no one around. Lin Bai lowered his body temperature to the lowest point and became as cold as a bionic man without electricity.
She had expended too much energy trying to give Elena a hint.
She sat on the ground with her eyes closed. In her mind, invisible to others, there was a small visual center that did not belong to this body.
The sightline was low and always obscured, but it was enough for her to know what she wanted to know...
Xiya held the doll, grabbed Lou Tiannan's hand and hid beside his legs.
She couldn't understand what the adults were saying, she only vaguely knew that Aunt Elena seemed to be missing.
When she was very young, she saw Aunt Elena on TV. She was a good person who caught bad guys. Moreover, during the few days she spent with Aunt Elena, Aunt Elena was also very gentle.
So Xiya felt that it was a good thing that Aunt Elena left prison.
I don’t know if Aunt Elena will go to find Mom. She heard from others that it was raining outside and Mom was afraid of the cold. Xiya was very worried about Mom, but there was a bad uncle in front of them who was trying to catch them. If the bad uncle knew about Mom, he would also catch her.
Xiya buried her face in the doll, feeling very uneasy.
Zhuang Liang and his men searched until the early morning but still couldn't find Elena's whereabouts.
Someone noticed that one uniform was missing. According to the security guard who remembered it, because Elena was arrested, different people in uniforms kept coming in and out to pass on the news, and no one was found to be behaving abnormally.
That's Elena, how could she let others notice her abnormality?
It was raining heavily outside, and Zhuang Liang's face was gloomy. Elena ran away under the noses of so many people, and there was no way to explain it.
Tang Mary and Bai Chuan dozed off against the wall, seemingly unconcerned. Zhou Yu and the others, upon learning of Elena's escape, looked at the director's gloomy face, unsure whether to be happy or sad.
Lou Tiannan will be brought in for interrogation again.
Song Yan called Xiya to his side.
From night until eight in the morning, several people were questioned in turn, and their confessions were almost the same.
After confirming that Lou Tiannan and the others had no ulterior motives, the task assigned to Lou Tiannan by the leader was obviously more important than Elena, and the Security Bureau could not delay him any longer.
At 8:30 in the morning, Lou Tiannan and others came out of the border prison together with Tang Mali and Bai Chuan.
Bai Chuan stretched and said, "Your Security Bureau, tsk tsk, is really becoming more and more useless."
Lu Jia looked at him angrily.
"Don't look at me like that. Isn't it true that eight out of ten people are Aurora believers, including that guy named Jed? Otherwise, that old man Zhuang Liang still has some strength, and I guess Jed would have taken the position of Director of the Security Bureau."
Baichuan was telling the truth.
During their investigation, they saw many people in the bureau praying earnestly and sincerely in the morning and evening. Even though Jed had gotten into trouble this time, no one excluded him; most people still didn't dare to offend him.
When Song Yan and others saw this situation, although they were angry, they could do nothing about it because there were too many Aurora believers, and the relationship between the Federation and Aurora was getting closer and closer, which was something they could not control.
"Captain Lou, what should we do next?"
Although it is called the Border Prison of East District 1, it is not close to East District 1, and there is still a continuous drizzle outside.
It had rained all night and the ground was muddy.
"Get in the car first. The Security Bureau's car will take us to East District 1."
A camouflaged military pickup truck stopped in front of them, and Baichuan and Tang Mary got in very consciously.
Tang Mary sat in the passenger seat and said to the driver, "If you catch Elena when you go back, remember to tell me. She stole my things and wanted to run away. It's not that easy!"
The driver didn't dare to respond or not respond, and he stepped on the accelerator even faster.
Tang Mary said, "Hey, hey, hey, why are you driving so fast? I'm not going to the East District 1. Just find a place with fewer zombies and drop me off."
Bai Chuan in the back seat also said: "Me too, I'm not going to East District 1 either."
Xiya looked at Baichuan, and thought that he seemed to have a good relationship with his mother. She looked at Baichuan with her round eyes and said, "Uncle Baichuan, can you take me out of the car later?"
Before Bai Chuan could speak, Tang Mali, who was sitting in the front seat, took over. "Of course. Xiya, if you follow them, you'll lose your life. Come, follow Aunt Tang. I'll take you back to Hongsha and you'll have a good time."
"Xiya, why are you going with them?" Zhou Yu was a little worried.
Xiya looked at the person in the driver's seat, pursed her lips, and said stubbornly: "I want to go with Uncle Baichuan."
Zhou Yu wanted to say more, but Zhu Liang, who was sitting next to him, held his hand.
The car stopped quickly, and Tang Mali and Baichuan got out of the car holding Xiya.
The two adults and one child watched the pickup truck gradually disappear from view. Bai Chuan pulled Xiya and Tang Mali over and said, "Mr. Tang, please go back to Hongsha first. I'll go take care of something."
Tang Mali snorted coldly, "Don't beat around the bush with me, I want to find Lin Bai too."
Bai Chuan pointed out: "That's strange, why are you looking for my Abai instead of Elena?"
"Don't worry about things that are none of your business. Hurry up and leave. This rain is so annoying."
"You have to know where to go, Xiya, do you know where your mother is?" Baichuan asked.
Xiyao shook her head, but she quickly thought of the small dagger on the doll's left leg. However, looking at the two people in front of her, she hesitated again, fearing that they would hurt her mother.
Bai Chuan saw through it immediately and said, "Xiya, your mother and I have a very good relationship. She might really need me right now. I won't hurt her. If this fat aunt in front of me wants to hurt your mother, I will definitely stop her."
Tang Mali said dissatisfiedly: "What nonsense are you talking about! What fat aunt? Why would I hurt Lin Bai if I had nothing to do!"
Seeing that the two had made a promise, Xiya pulled out the dagger from the doll's left leg and put it on the ground. Three people, six pairs of eyes, stared at the dagger. A minute passed, and the dagger did not move at all.
"Xiya..." Baichuan asked her expectantly, "Did you see anything?"
Xiya frowned, picked up the dagger and changed its direction, but the dagger still did not move. After trying several times, she raised her head in panic: "I can't find my mother..."
…
The pickup truck stopped at the door of a small building on the edge of Near East District 1 and dropped off Lou Tiannan's team. The driver said to Lou Tiannan, "Captain Lou, this is the temporary federal base. You can survey the situation here first. Director Zhuang has already requested support from the federal government, and support will arrive within three days at the latest. I wish you all the best."
"clear."
The number of federal troops in the apocalypse has been greatly reduced, and Zhuang Liang's manpower in the border prison is not enough to support Lou Tiannan's operation. Zhuang Liang submitted an application to the federation. Before that, they need to find out the situation in the East District.
After the pickup truck drove away, Zhou Yu said worriedly: "Brother Liang, it will be dangerous for Xiya to follow them!"
"I really don't understand why Director Zhuang doesn't just give us a car!" Lu Jia muttered softly.
"He still has doubts about us." Lou Tiannan said, "It's a good thing that Baichuan and Tang Mali got off the bus."
"So what should we do now..." Zhou Yu asked hesitantly as he looked at the East District 1 in front of him.
"Go find Elena." Lou Tiannan replied without hesitation.
"Then Xiya and Lin Bai..."
"Let's find Elena first." Lou Tiannan said in a deep voice. They wanted to enter the 621 Pharmacopoeia Research Institute, and Elena was the key. Xiya followed Baichuan out of the car, and he must be looking for Lin Bai. Lin Bai's destination was the 621 Pharmacopoeia Research Institute. He believed that Lin Bai would come here.
Looking for someone in the rain is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but the six of them are experienced surveyors, and if Elena really escaped, she will definitely give them clues.
The six of them searched in different directions.
On the other side, Elena, who had escaped, was also looking for someone. Just as Lou Tiannan expected, she was leaving signals for them as she walked.
Elena checked her mind one by one for people who could give her clues, and unsurprisingly, all of them pointed to Mi Xing.
She was a little excited and a little happy. Mi Xing could give her clues that meant she was still safe. Perhaps she was waiting for her outside.
But she searched secretly and didn't find any signal from Mi Xing. She searched again and again without giving up, but the result disappointed her.
Just as she was about to head to East District 1, she became acutely aware that the temperature in the air around her was changing.
After awakening her supernatural powers, her five senses were heightened. She noticed a spot in the rainy area where the temperature was slightly higher than the others. The temperature difference came from underground in the southwest...
Elena had a good memory and she remembered that there was an underground garage there.
She walked towards the underground garage without hesitation.
She was full of expectations, thinking that she would meet Mi Xing, or someone related to Mi Xing, but when she arrived at the underground garage, she found that there was a person in the garage who was both expected and unexpected to her.
Lin Bai.
Elena didn't know how she escaped the federal army's search, nor did she know why she was here, but at this moment, something vague in Elena's heart seemed to be about to break out, but when she looked at Lin Bai's ordinary face, she couldn't find that thread no matter what.
"Why are you here?" Elena asked.
"It's raining outside, come here to hide from the rain." Lin Bai spoke weakly. She felt Elena's footsteps before she came. She could leave, but she chose to stay where she was. With such a short distance, she could not outrun Elena who had ice powers. What's more, it was still raining outside and her energy was quickly depleted.
She sighed in disappointment, wishing it was Lou Tiannan who came.
Elena sat cautiously opposite Lin Bai and asked, "How did you avoid the federal army's search?"
"Hiding under the corpse, I'm pretty lucky, right?"
Elena smiled and nodded, "You are indeed lucky. You took Tang Mary's gem and walked around her for so long without being discovered."
Lin Bai looked surprised: "Captain Elena, what are you talking about?"
"Although I only saw the person in black once, I remember her figure. When I drew her for Tang Mary to see, Zhu Liang corrected me. At that moment, I knew he knew the person who stole the gem and was covering for her. When I drew her again, I found that her figure was exactly like yours."
"Captain Elena's observation is indeed very careful." Lin Bai replied slowly. She didn't care at all that Elena would find out about her stealing of the gems. Elena would always gather all the witnesses and evidence when sentencing someone, but she had nothing now.
"What do you want the gems for?" Elena asked.
"It's beautiful. By the way, it's been so long, where are Captain Lou and the others? Why didn't they come out with you?"
Hearing Lin Bai listlessly change the subject, a strange feeling arose in Elena's heart, and something was about to come out.
Elena looked at Lin Bai and replied, "I escaped. My current status is no better than yours."
Lin Bai patted his head and said, "I almost forgot about this..."
"Do you want to know how I escaped?"
“Captain Elena is so powerful, of course there is—” Lin Bai hadn’t finished speaking when her mind was shaken and her vision went black. The second before she fainted, she heard Elena calling her: “Lin Bai?!”
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