Chapter 72 Missing
In the spacious restaurant, Tian Jiaoyang leisurely enjoyed his breakfast. The mobile house he lived in had a perfect layout, high-end furniture, and sufficient supplies. Tian Jiaoyang did not feel like he was in a natural disaster, but rather like a rich second-generation going out camping. Of course, it was true to say that. Tian Jiaoyang himself was also a rich second-generation, so Yuer, who occupied his body, also enjoyed it very much.
"Son of God, the new petri dish has been brought." One of his men came in and put the petri dish on the ground. This man was a devout believer of the Bethida sect, so he was able to follow Tian Jiaoyang.
"Well done, God will bless you." Tian Jiaoyang said casually, but his subordinates showed ecstasy, as if they had received the highest praise.
The subordinate bowed and saluted, then withdrew.
A boy was lying on the ground, tied up and with a cloth in his mouth. His struggles were useless. The boy had freckles and was an evolver who had just awakened his superpowers.
Tian Jiaoyang lifted the boy easily. The boy was only about eleven or twelve years old. In the hands of an adult man, especially an adult Evolver, he was as light as a kitten. Or, considering the current situation, it would be more accurate to say that he was like a piglet waiting to be slaughtered.
Tian Jiaoyang carried him into the inner room.
The boy was horrified to find a huge cocoon of light inside. The cocoon had many roots growing out of it, all of which were rooted in a skeleton. Under the skeleton was a thick layer of ash.
Tian Jiaoyang just exerted a little force on his hands, and the bones turned into ashes, completely blending into the ashes underneath, as if they had never existed.
The boy already understood his fate, and his eyes showed despair. Tian Jiaoyang placed him under the light cocoon, and the roots of the light cocoon quickly pierced into his body. The boy struggled desperately, unable to even scream, and his body was already full of blood holes. Young, clean, and energetic blood flowed into the axis of the planet.
Tian Jiaoyang looked carefully. The originally white light cocoon in the center of the planet's axis had completely turned black, with only a hint of white at the edge. As he stared at it, the planet's axis finally turned completely black.
Tick.
A drop of thick black liquid flowed out of the light cocoon. Tian Jiaoyang stretched out his hand to catch it. The black liquid was extremely corrosive and instantly melted his palm to white bones. However, Tian Jiaoyang's hand did not tremble at all. He endured the pain and quickly walked to the side to take out a special bottle and carefully put the black liquid into it.
The blood touched the surface of the bottle, and Tian Jiaoyang's eyes were excited. Finally, the third stage was achieved and the axis of the planet was successfully cultivated!
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The natural disaster is finally over.
At the foot of Cuiwei Mountain, the high sea level has gradually receded and returned to calm. After several days of cleaning, almost all the sea monsters that followed the tsunami into the city have died. The sea monsters can no longer break through the blockade and hurt people. After the storm subsided, the rescue team set out again to search for survivors in the city.
Gu Nian and the Aurora Team also joined the rescue team, so that they could also look for the trace of the Wind Spirit along the way.
That day, the Aurora team searched the designated area, found two seriously injured survivors, and sent them back to the official agency of the shelter. Gu Nian met Tian Mingyue here. She asked Tian Mingyue about Feng Tingting's situation.
"When I saw her last time, she had adapted well." Tian Mingyue told her. "By the way, I'm going to the relief organization, do you want to come with me?"
Gu Nian simply went with her.
However, after arriving at the relief organization, the person in charge told them that Feng Tingting was missing.
"He probably ran away," the officer in charge explained. "This happens a lot. Many children will run away to look for their family and won't give up."
Gu Nian didn't ask why the children weren't looked for after they were lost. The answer was obvious. The relief organization was short-staffed and it was difficult to find the runaway children. They could only try their best and take care of themselves if they could, but forget about it if they couldn't.
The social logic before the natural disaster was like an illusory dream, and now only ruins remain.
"Did this child really run away?" Tian Mingyue frowned.
Gu Nian felt something was wrong. Feng Tingting was a sensible and intelligent little girl. Tian Mingyue had promised her that she would help her find the whereabouts of her other relatives. She must know that waiting for news from Tian Mingyue here was the best course of action.
"I want to go to Feng Tingting's room to check." Gu Nian said. If Feng Tingting was an adult, Gu Nian might let it go, but Feng Tingting was just a little girl, Gu Nian couldn't just ignore it, she at least wanted to confirm it again.
Tian Mingyue took Gu Nian to Feng Tingting's room. There were four bunk beds in the small room, and eight children lived there. Feng Tingting lived in the lower bunk, which was near the inside, and now another child had moved in.
Gu Nian walked over and asked the children in the room: "Do you know where Feng Tingting went?"
The children looked at each other without saying anything, with a look in their eyes that showed the wariness of children keeping a secret towards adults.
Gu Nian took out a bag of candy, which was the gift she had brought to Feng Tingting. "The children who mentioned it can come to me and get this bag of candy."
The candy bag was placed on Gu Nian's open palm. The dozen or so candies in the bag were wrapped in colorful paper and were hard candies with various fruit flavors. This was extremely tempting to the children. They hadn't eaten candy for a long time.
Several smaller children looked at the older child who was leading the group. The older child acted mature and said, "Give me the candy first." He looked at Gu Nian warily, his eyes full of suspicion.
Gu Nian handed it to him.
The older child relaxed a bit, as if he felt that the adult was keeping his word. He said, "Feng Tingting was taken away by a ghost."
Gu Nian immediately asked, "Ghost?"
The older child nodded affirmatively: "Yes, it was a ghost. Ghosts would sneak in and take away children who are alone when we are not paying attention. Feng Tingting once got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and then she never came back. She must have encountered a ghost."
Gu Nian didn't expect to hear this answer. She thought quickly. Although many superpowers appeared after the natural disaster, ghosts have never appeared. Now it sounds like someone is silently kidnapping children in this shelter, and this person is likely to be an evolved person with superpowers.
"Is Feng Tingting the only one taken away by the ghost?" Gu Nian asked.
The older child told her a few more names. Gu Nian's expression became more and more serious. She didn't expect so many children to be missing. Tian Mingyue had already taken out her mobile phone and quickly wrote down every name mentioned by the older child.
The two of them walked out.
Gu Nian simply said, "Let's check it out." Seeing so many children missing, any adult with a conscience could not sit idly by.
Tian Mingyue nodded and said, "Follow me."
She took Gu Nian to a data room, which had several computers, which were rare after the natural disaster. Tian Mingyue turned on one of them, logged into the system, and began to check the list given to her by the eldest child.
"This records the registration information of all the children. We can first retrieve the files of these children and see what they have in common." Tian Mingyue explained. She first entered a name
"Invalid information." Cold words appeared on the computer screen.
Tian Mingyue was stunned. She entered other names, but the computer showed that they were all invalid.
Now they both understood that this matter was not simple. It was impossible for the children to sneak away. The children would not destroy the data before sneaking away.
"Check Feng Tingting." Gu Nian suggested.
Still invalid information.
"Someone deleted the information of these children." Tian Mingyue looked serious, and the conclusion was already obvious.
The question now is, why did these kidnappers target these children? Originally, we could find the reason by retrieving the files of these children, but now all the files of the children have disappeared and the clues are cut off.
Tian Mingyue said, "I'll try to recover the data. As long as it has existed, there will always be clues left in the data."
Gu Nian then remembered that Tian Mingyue, as a senior researcher at Noah, was equivalent to a first-class scientist before the natural disaster.
Tian Mingyue started working on the computer. Gu Nian left the room to her and went out to look for clues.
Gu Nian found the older child and wanted to learn more about Feng Tingting. Perhaps the bag of candy had an effect, the older child no longer had the previous resistance to her and was willing to communicate with her.
The older child took out a panda-shaped backpack from the room and stroked it carefully: "This is something Feng Tingting left behind. She didn't even have time to take it away."
From his words, Gu Nian felt the child's longing for his playmate.
"Can you tell me what happened after Feng Tingting came here?" Gu Nian asked.
"Feng Tingting has always wanted to find her family, so she wants to become an evolver, but she has never awakened." The older child said. "However, she doesn't give up. She often says that she has awakened and can move things with her telekinesis."
"Have you seen it?" Gu Nian asked.
The older child said, "I saw her move the leaves once. But it could have been the wind. We went to the office. They asked us to come back the next day, saying that all the evolvers were out today, so we could only test Feng Tingting's abilities tomorrow. But that night, Feng Tingting went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and disappeared."
Evolution. Gu Nian caught this information. She asked, "Have the other children who disappeared awakened and become evolvers?"
"I don't know." said the older child. He lived in the same room with Feng Tingting, so he knew that Feng Tingting had evolved superpowers, but he didn't know about the disappearance of the others.
Seeing that they could not get any other information, Gu Nian told the children not to tell anyone else that they had been there. Before leaving, she asked the older children for permission to take Feng Tingting's panda backpack with her.
Gu Nian returned to the data room. Tian Mingyue was still restoring the data. She did not disturb him and waited quietly on the side.
Tian Mingyue's hands moved quickly, operating the keyboard.
"Okay!" Tian Mingyue said.
Gu Nian checked the restored files with her.
These missing children are both boys and girls, and their ages vary, with the youngest being only eight years old and the oldest being no more than sixteen. But they have one thing in common.
All the children have awakened their special powers.
Could it be that this kidnapping "ghost" specifically targets children with special powers?
"But Feng Tingting doesn't have any special powers?" Tian Mingyue said hesitantly.
"No, Feng Tingting is very likely to have awakened, but she just hasn't had time to get tested and registered." Gu Nian told Tian Mingyue the information she had just found out.
Tian Mingyue suddenly realized. Now, it was certain that these people were coming for the child with superpowers.
Tian Mingyue said: "I will go back to Noah later and find a few evolvers to come over and give the children a physical examination in the name of researchers to strengthen protection."
This is a good idea. It is necessary to try not to alert the other party, while at the same time protecting the existing children from being abducted.
"But if the other party doesn't attack again, how can we find the trace of the child?" Tian Mingyue began to worry. The entire relief organization only has surveillance cameras at the entrance on the first floor. It is too easy to sneak in without surveillance.
Gu Nian said, "I have a way."
She and Tian Mingyue went to find Yuejian.
Yuejian was in the tent... doing handicrafts. During this period, the Aurora team focused on cleaning up a sea monster called sea spiders, because they could extract tough silk from the bodies of these spiders. Yuejian was busy weaving spider silk into a web to capture the Wind Spirit next time.
I have to say that Yuejian is indeed an all-round talent. He can fight and assist, and he can also make magical weapons (? ).
After listening to Gu Nian's explanation of the whole story, Yue Jian put down the spider web he had not yet finished weaving and picked up the panda backpack. He rummaged through the backpack and found two strands of hair.
He lit his hair and let the ashes fall into the tortoise shell, then began to examine the burn marks on the tortoise shell.
Tian Mingyue, however, felt uneasy. She was a scientific researcher, and it went against her belief to ask a fortune teller for divination when someone was missing.
Gu Nian pretended not to see it. Yu Ziqiu was like this before. From science to metaphysics, there must be a process of acceptance.
"Judging from the direction, the girl should have gone to a higher place." Yuejian gave a vague answer.
"High place?" Gu Nian began to think. "This shelter is at a high altitude in the whole Haicheng. It must be higher than here. Could it be at the top of Cuiwei Mountain?"
The three people present knew that the people living on the top of the mountain were the rich and powerful people in Haicheng. It was not impossible that there were scumbags who liked to play with children with superpowers.
"I'll go check it out." Tian Mingyue said.
"Okay, call me if you have any news." Gu Nian said.
Gu Nian saw Tian Mingyue off and asked, "Any news about Imir?"
Tian Mingyue shook her head and said, "I haven't found it yet."
If Ymir came to Haicheng during the natural disaster, where could he go? Gu Nian pondered secretly. Could it be that he had contacted the branch of the Bethida sect in this area and sneaked into the mountaintop to enjoy life? Did he have anything to do with the disappearance of these children?
Imir was squatting on the ground, holding a bowl of plain noodles in his left hand and slurping quickly with chopsticks in his right hand.
"There are no bowls in the kitchen!" a female voice came.
"Here it comes!" Without even raising his head, Imir sipped twice more and finished the bowl of noodles. He wiped his mouth, went back to the kitchen, tied on his apron skillfully, and began to wash the dishes.
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