Chapter 99
It was already late at night when Chen Xing returned to Aurora Church.
The puppet on the table that served as her eyes and the onomatopoeic megaphone in case someone unexpectedly came looking for her were not used.
Claire and the others probably thought she had just been in a fight and needed to rest, so no one came to disturb her.
It saves a lot of trouble.
Chen Xing walked into the bathroom, and a flame ignited in her left palm. The clothes she wore outside were instantly burned to ashes. She put away the flame in her palm expressionlessly, and when she opened it again, a stream of transparent water emerged from her palm.
The pile of ashes was flushed down the sewer without leaving a trace.
It is true, as Ebona said, no one can possess two mutually exclusive elemental powers at the same time, but what it doesn't know is that as long as Chen Xing is willing, she can have any elemental power she wants.
The invasion of the zombie virus has caused huge changes in the magnetic field of the star field. The elemental particles in nature have fissioned into elemental energy and been absorbed by the human body, giving people the opportunity to awaken their superpowers.
Most humans awaken their special abilities because they have strong consciousness or a strong perception of certain natural elements, and thus awaken the corresponding special abilities.
Chen Xing's consciousness is naturally strong. As long as she wants, her consciousness can grab any natural elements in the air for her.
She did not awaken superpowers, but controlled the elements.
…
Chen Xing took a shower in the bathroom and came out. The tentacles of consciousness took a dry towel to wipe her hair.
When his hair was half dry, Chen Xing frowned and glanced at the door.
Two seconds later, there was a knock on the door.
"Xingxing, it's me."
Claire's voice rang out from outside the door.
Chen Xing extended his consciousness tentacles out of the door and could clearly see Claire standing outside the door, wearing clothes that were different from usual.
It is a soft nightgown.
Claire stood quietly at the door, and when he saw the door open from the inside, joy flashed in his eyes.
"What are you doing here?" Chen Xing sat on a chair in the room and looked at Claire.
Claire ignored the coldness in Chen Xing's tone and obediently stepped forward and said, "I heard the sound of water running in your room for a long time. I was worried that you were not feeling well."
As usual, he looked at Chen Xing with concern: "Xingxing, are you susceptible to the disease?"
Chen Xing stared at him without saying anything, but Claire squatted down and approached her with her head tilted up, holding Chen Xing's hand, "Xingxing, if you need it... I can also do some..." He has everything a man has. As long as Xingxing has tasted him, she will probably no longer be interested in Lou Tiannan.
The two of them were so close that Claire's breath could ruffle Chen Xing's hair, and the deep affection in his eyes was clearly visible to Chen Xing.
Chen Xing smelled the sweet fragrance on Claire, like the perfume that Omegas before the end of the world used to like. She lowered her eyes to look at the hand held in hers, and her gaze gradually shifted from Claire's pajamas to Claire's face.
"What are you doing with the second dose?"
Claire paused. He didn't expect Chen Xing to suddenly ask about this. Many thoughts flashed through his mind. He didn't let anyone tell Chen Xing about the second dose. How did Chen Xing know?
Without giving Claire much time to think, he replied, "I saw it when I went to the research institute to pick up Dean Xiao Hehua. I smelled your blood in it. I was worried that it might harm you, so I took it away."
Claire wasn't lying, that's what he really thought at the time.
As for the fact that he used the second dose to threaten Wu Zeyue, he subconsciously concealed it.
"Where's the second dose?"
"In my room..." Claire said truthfully.
After he finished speaking, the room fell silent. He didn't hear Chen Xing's response, so he looked up at Chen Xing anxiously.
But Chen Xing's attention was not on him at all. She tilted her head and stared towards the door.
Is there... anything there?
In less than half a second, the unconcealable high-temperature energy particles, carrying the scent of bitter apricot wood, directly broke through the door.
Lou Tiannan, wearing a black combat uniform, stood at the door with a gloomy face.
This scene had just happened a few days ago, but it was morning then, and now it was late at night.
Lou Tiannan saw the two people in the room and said coldly, "Where is Xiya?"
"Is she missing?" Chen Xing raised his eyebrows.
Lou Tiannan's eyebrows furrowed, and he carefully discerned the expression on Chen Xing's face, "You didn't catch her?"
Chen Xing spread his hands and motioned Lou Tiannan to look at Claire beside him, his words tinged with ambiguity: "Captain Lou, do you think I have time to catch her?"
Lou Tiannan glanced around the small room, but indeed, he didn't sense Xiya's presence. His gaze lingered on the can of candy on the balcony table for two seconds. His mind was confused for a moment, and he suddenly raised his eyes, staring at Chen Xing with a hawk-like sharp gaze, "Why do you call me Captain Lou?"
After the establishment of Baiyan, Song Yan, Zhou Yu and other Baiyan members still called him Captain Lou, while most others called him Lou Tiannan or the 3S-level psychic. The title of Captain Lou seemed to have been sealed with Lin Bai's departure.
Chen Xing paused, looked at him naturally, and replied, "Captain Lou, I checked your information. You are the captain of the third team of the Federal Defense Department, aren't you?"
This explanation was very reasonable, but Lou Tiannan always felt that something was wrong. He stared at Chen Xing, and Chen Xing looked at him calmly. After a long time, he withdrew his gaze and said coldly, "Sorry for disturbing you." Then he turned and left the room.
The room was silent for a moment, and Claire asked Chen Xing, "Xingxing, Bai Yan is too presumptuous. Do you need me to deal with this?"
Claire wanted to use this incident to test Chen Xing's attitude. She thought she would hesitate, but she actually agreed: "Okay, let's give them some trouble so they don't treat Aurora as their home and come and go as they please!"
While Chen Xing was talking to Claire, his scattered consciousness had already found Xiya's location.
To be precise, it is where the doll that Xi Ya is holding is located.
"You go and arrange it, I'm tired." Chen Xing said to Claire, and the order to leave was obvious.
Claire wisely left the room to call the priests to arrange the action. Taking advantage of the chaos in the crowd, Chen Xing left the room again.
Chen Xing pulled Xiya out of an underground pipe not far from the church.
The child was dirty and rushed to Shen Xing when he saw her: "Give me back my mother's things!"
Chen Xing put his palm against her head in disgust to prevent her from getting closer: "It's so dirty."
Xiya stopped moving, blinked and looked at Chen Xing blankly: "Mom?"
The tone in which Chen Xing said "so dirty" just now sounded very much like her mother's. Only her mother would say that to her.
Chen Xing was also stunned by her shouting, and said stiffly: "What are you yelling about? Who is your mother!"
Xiya stood there without moving. She looked at Chen Xing hesitantly. She had this feeling when she was caught by the bad woman in the air-raid shelter yesterday. The bad woman would make the same dagger as her mother. The bad woman knew that the mother had hidden something in the doll's arm. Except for her and her mother, no one knew about this, and she had never told anyone.
And... before leaving, her mother said goodbye to her.
My mother never said that before.
Xiya blinked at Chen Xing, thinking of what she had just said, "It's so dirty." Her dark eyes rolled around, and she picked up the doll at her waist, her eyes red. "The doll's legs will only move when my mother is looking for me. Just now, the doll's legs moved."
"Your imagination." Chen Xing interrupted her guess coldly and threw the cleared chip to her: "Go back quickly, or the zombies will eat you soon."
Xiya took the chip with a pout, then walked back with the doll in her arms.
"etc!"
Xiya turned around and looked at Chen Xing with anticipation in her round eyes.
"Is Elena awake?"
Xiya replied alertly: "I don't know."
Even though Xiya was alert, she was only seven years old after all. Chen Xing had already heard it from Xiya's tone. She said, "I know. Go back quickly."
Xiya's mouth pouted even more and she turned around again.
Chen Xing watched her back disappear into the night, thought for a moment, and decided to follow her. He wondered how long Xiya would keep walking like this.
In the snow, Xiya walked on the road, one foot deep and one foot shallow, stepping on the thick snow. She lowered her head, her back small and lonely, as if she would be buried in the snow in a blink of an eye.
Chen Xing watched her walking in the snow, then she tripped over a rock under the snow and fell. She frowned and thought, how stupid.
After waiting for a minute, Xiya still didn't get up from the snow. Chen Xing suspected that she might have fallen somewhere. After thinking about it, she went forward and picked up Xiya. She held Xiya up to see if her head was injured, and she unexpectedly felt a water stain on her hand.
Chen Xing paused, "Why are you crying?"
"I miss my mother..." Xiya said with a sob.
She's not my real mother, what's there to worry about! Although Chen Xing thought so in her heart, she also thought of Xiao Hehua. She had never made Xiao Hehua worry like this before.
Chen Xing casually patted Xiya's back, held her in one hand and walked in the snow, saying to her, "Ask your captain uncle to find you a new mother."
Xiya felt Chen Xing's familiar hold and the way he patted her back. Her tears, which were originally seven parts fake, became three parts real. Her little hands carefully grasped Chen Xing's clothes and she whispered in a sobbing voice, "I don't want a new mother, and the captain uncle won't find a new mother for me. He likes my mother."
"How do you know he likes your mother?" Chen Xing was a little surprised.
"Captain Uncle always brings candies and lipsticks for Mom when he comes back from outings," Xiya said, gesturing with her hands in front of her chest. "They're small candies wrapped in colorful wrappers, and there are also lipsticks of many colors. They're all in Mom's room."
Chen Xing paused after hearing this, and coldly poured a basin of cold water on Xiya: "But your mother is dead."
"Mom is not dead!" Xiya shouted.
"Keep your voice down. I'll leave you behind if the zombies come!" Chen Xing threatened her.
Xiya snuggled in Chen Xing's arms and said to her, "I'm stronger now. I can fight zombies alone!"
"Oh." Chen Xing didn't care.
"Do you think mom will be happy if she knows?" Xiya asked Chen Xing.
"How should I know?" Chen Xing ignored Xiya's question. She carried Xiya in her arms and flew across the snow. In half an hour, they arrived near East District 1. She put Xiya down and said to her, "Okay, you can walk the rest of the way by yourself. Don't tell anyone that I brought you back. If you do, a zombie will bite your head off!"
"I won't tell you!"
I won’t tell anyone. Xiya said this silently in her heart. She had a strong intuition in her heart, and she believed in her intuition. This person, the one who sent her back, must be related to her mother.
Chen Xing tapped Xiya's doll with his fingertips, leaving some consciousness in it, then turned and walked towards East District 5.
Xiya held the doll and watched Chen Xing's back disappear into the darkness. She couldn't help but take two steps after him.
Elena's voice sounded from behind: "Xiya? Where have you been?!"
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