Lao Wei disappeared and did not return for the whole night.
His car was parked at the entrance of a villa twenty kilometers from the base, its lights still on. As he circled behind the villa, he found a flashlight. It must have been running low, and the light flickered on the spotless white wall.
Ye Shiliu bravely searched the house for several rounds but found nothing. He had no choice but to tell Liao Yang the news with a heavy face.
Liao Yang staggered, and hurriedly sat down on the sofa, holding her lower abdomen. She looked extremely haggard after not sleeping all night. After carefully inquiring about the clues, she decided to go and look for it herself.
Ye Shiliu's scalp was still tingling at the thought of that scene, but he didn't dare to frighten a pregnant woman like her. He quickly reached out to stop her, "Don't worry, sister-in-law. I'll risk my life to find the boss. You can't go to that place."
Zheng Yuanyuan also agreed, "I'll go. Teacher Liao will stay here. I'll find Commander Wei."
"No, I'm worried even if I sit here. I might as well go over and take a look." Liao Yang insisted. "I know my body well. Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"But……"
The two were about to persuade him again when Zizi, who was wearing a blue monster hairpin, suddenly came over and said seriously, "Teacher Liao, don't worry. Uncle Wei is fine."
The little voice was childish but the tone was firm.
Liao Yang was stunned. She had heard about what happened in the barrier before and knew that Ye Shuci was the only one who remained awake the whole time. In addition, when Shi Qingluo came yesterday, this child was the first one to sense the danger. So, could it be that this child was born with a very strong intuition?
She felt a little relieved and squatted down to ask Ye Shuci: "How do you know Uncle Wei is okay?"
Ye Shuci pursed his lips and thought for a moment, unable to articulate the reason: "I just know."
Squeak——
The bedroom door was opened.
Qi Mi walked out with her hair loose, and she covered the left half of her face with her hair to avoid scaring the child. After looking around, her eyes finally fell on Liao Yang: "There are two more eyes in the sky."
"What?"
"There are two more eyes in the sky," she repeated.
Everyone subconsciously looked out the window.
"Old Wei has left, so it's time for us to go too." She looked at the children and said gently, "Take your toys and backpacks."
"Okay!" The kids who hadn't spoken to Qi Mi for a long time became more well-behaved. They quickly packed up their toys and put them into their little schoolbags.
Liao Yang and Zheng Yuanyuan looked at each other, roughly understood what Qi Mi meant, and hurried to pack up.
Only Ye Shiliu was confused: "Leaving? Where are you going?"
"Let's go where we should go." Liao Yang patted his shoulder, said take care, and then took the key to the kindergarten to borrow the school bus.
Ye Shiliu was afraid of accidents and insisted on following them. He drove all the people, big and small, out of the base and headed straight to the villa to avoid seeing the corpses in the yard. He even deliberately walked along the street behind the villa.
"Stop, right here." Qi Mi shouted while looking out the window.
Ye Shiliu stopped the car and opened the door.
Everyone got off the bus one after another.
Liao Yang looked at the words on the white wall and immediately understood: "This is a common signature on paintings."
Zheng Yuanyuan: "It turns out that the witch we are looking for is not a living person, but just a name."
"What signature? What witch?" Ye Shiliu became more and more confused the more he listened. He looked everywhere but couldn't see anything on the clean white wall. However, these people were all looking at it so seriously that he suspected there was something wrong with his eyes.
The boss's flashlight also fell here last night. Could there really be something mysterious on this wall?
Thinking of this, Ye Shiliu widened his eyes with his hands and stared carefully.
But before he could even read the word, Liao Yang, a living, breathing person, suddenly disappeared from his sight.
Ye Shiliu: “???”
In just a blink of an eye, he saw Liao Yang walk forward and touch the wall with his hand. In an instant, he seemed to be sucked into the wall. The space twisted and expanded, and such a big man disappeared.
"Wow! The wall-walking technique, I want to try it too!" I don't know where Yu Jiaojiao got these strange terms from. When she saw that Liao Yang was gone, she immediately clamored for Zheng Yuanyuan to hold her and touch him.
Zheng Yuanyuan hesitated for a moment, and only when Qi Mi nodded did she feel relieved and picked Yu Jiaojiao up. After her little hand touched her, she disappeared just like Liao Yang.
Seeing this, Ye Shiliu almost doubted his life: "What are you doing?"
But no one paid any attention to him. Zheng Yuanyuan and Qi Mi held the children and touched the word "witch" on the wall one by one. After the children left one after another, only the two of them were left.
"You go first, I'll go last." Qi Mi raised his head to signal.
Zheng Yuanyuan nodded and was about to step forward when she was stopped by Ye Shiliu.
Perhaps he was too shocked, his hair was messed up by his own hands, and his eyes were wide open than ever before: "Wait a minute! Who are you and where are you going now?!"
Qi Mi gave Zheng Yuanyuan a look, indicating her to continue, and then pulled Ye Shiliu aside.
Zheng Yuanyuan touched the wall and left.
"I killed all the dozen or so vandals here, right?" Qi Mi asked him.
Ye Shiliu was confused: "Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Does this count as protecting humanity and benefiting all living things?"
"Of course!"
"Then do you think that with the abilities of normal humans like you, you can do this?"
"this……"
Ye Shiliu was speechless for a moment, and his head seemed to be even more dizzy.
Qi Mi stopped talking and patted him on the back with a mysterious look on his face. "Mission accomplished, we should leave."
She walked to the wall and slowly raised her hand. When she was just a hair's breadth away from touching it, she suddenly thought of something and paused.
Ye Shiliu looked up and saw Qi Mi smiling faintly. The sunlight seemed to cast a layer of light on her.
"I'd like to change the answer to that question," she said with a smile. "We will win."
In an instant, Ye Shiliu's thoughts went back to a few days ago when he was standing guard with Qi Mi in the escape passage. When the two sides were fighting, he asked her a question - Do you think we will win?
Finally, a hopeful answer arrived.
She said, we will win.
As if his fighting spirit had been rekindled, Ye Shiliu's eyes shone brightly. He stood straight, saluted solemnly and proudly, and repeated loudly, "Yes, justice will prevail. We will win!"
The passionate young man's voice resounded throughout the world, and even just one voice was powerful.
Under Ye Shiliu's firm gaze, Qi Mi left.
After a moment of weightlessness, Qi Mi felt like he was sitting on a hard seat.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in her ears, with people crying, laughing, talking and making noise. All the sounds mixed together and rushed into her ears.
But there was also a deep and gentle voice: "Congratulations on passing the level."
She was dazed for a moment and looked up. The handsome young man was standing beside her. His ruby-like eyes showed tenderness and care.
Qi Mi stared at him without moving.
After being stared at by those beautiful cat eyes for a while, Lang Yu avoided her gaze unnaturally, cleared his throat to cover up, and couldn't help but steal a glance.
Seeing that she was still looking, he asked awkwardly, "What, what's wrong?"
"Have we all entered this painting?" Qi Mi looked at the painting on the table that was exactly the same as the base construction and immediately guessed it.
The signature on the lower right corner of the painting is on the wall of a villa.
Lang Yu: "Well, this is the second apocalypse you've cleared, Graffiti."
The two of them had just chatted for a few words when three boys who hadn't seen each other for a long time immediately ran over and acted coquettishly:
"Teacher Qi, you finally woke up!"
"Teacher Qi, I miss you so much!"
"Teacher Qi!"
Qi Mi's eyebrows curved, and he squatted down and touched the three little heads: "Have you always been here?"
"Well, we've been here since we walked through that gate with Teacher Du."
Qi Mi looked up at Du Rui, who smiled faintly and nodded to her.
Although they were separated from the main force, they reached the end of the level without any effort, which can be considered a blessing in disguise.
Du Rui looked at Zheng Yuanyuan beside him. He wondered what she had experienced in the painting. After waking up, her aura was different. She was more confident and sunny, and her beauty could not be ignored.
He curled the corners of his lips slightly, and his eyes were soft.
At this time, Zheng Yuanyuan suddenly turned her head, and the moment their eyes met, Du Rui hurriedly turned his head to the side and coughed twice.
"By the way, Teacher Du, does your throat still hurt?" she asked.
Du Rui shook his head to indicate that everything was fine.
Zheng Yuanyuan frowned: "Still can't speak?"
Du Rui nodded and mouthed two words: skills.
"oh."
His skill belongs to [Word Curse], which has the ability to [make his words come true]. Under normal circumstances, he cannot speak, and can only speak when activating a skill. He cannot speak bad words to others. Cursing the other party to death or injury will inevitably backfire on himself, so he can only use commands such as [Sleep], [Isolate], etc. that do not harm others.
Zheng Yuanyuan seemed to be lost in thought, and hurriedly showed him her black ball summon: "I also have a new skill, look."
She held a fluffy little thing in her hand, looking childishly as if she wanted to be praised.
Du Rui curved his eyebrows, nodded, and mouthed: Great.
Old Wei happily hugged his wife Liao Yang and stood aside to observe them. He witnessed the two men's strategic throat clearing process with his own eyes and couldn't help but worry for them: "At this rate, maybe they can have a twilight romance."
"You." Liao Yang glared at him.
Old Wei stared at Lang Yu, thinking that he was about to leave the apocalypse with Liao Yang, and was worried about Qi Mi, so he walked over with pretended dignity.
"Are you the man who is courting my sister?" Old Wei cleverly avoided talking about Lang Yu's identity, and put on the airs of the eldest brother of her sister's family, looking fierce.
Lang Yu was naturally not afraid. He leaned against the long table and frowned in confusion: "Showing courtesy?"
"Qi's fans all told me that there's a man she doesn't know well who's being nice to her for no reason. If that's not being courteous, what is it?"
A hint of understanding flashed across his blood-red eyes, but Langyu's focus shifted a little. He didn't pay attention to the so-called "attentiveness" and instead raised his lips slightly and asked, "Did she mention me to you?"
"Yeah." Old Wei looked him up and down, not understanding what was so exciting about him. "You like her?"
"Yeah, I like it."
Lang Yu replied without any hesitation.
Lao Wei: "Based on your performance just now, you won't be able to catch up with her even in eight hundred years. That girl is smart when it comes to fighting monsters, but she knows nothing about matters of the heart."
Lang Yu subconsciously looked at Qi Mi: "Yeah, I know."
Lao Wei leaned over to him and asked, "When are you going to confess your feelings?"
"I didn't want to confess."
"Not confessing?!"
"Well, I won't tell her." Lang Yu still had a faint smile on his face, but for no reason he looked a little lonely. "Just keep it this way, it's fine."
Even Old Wei couldn't understand: "Why? You don't tell her...are you having a secret crush on her?!"
"Because love is a very personal thing, I like her and I am willing to accompany her, that's all I need, I don't dare to ask for anything else."
As if he didn't want to continue this topic, Lang Yu left after he finished speaking, leaving Lao Wei standing there in a daze.
He subtly noticed the word "dare" that Lang Yu said. Dare not ask for anything else? What is there to be afraid of?
At this time, the blonde girl who was sitting not far away saw that these people were chatting with each other and no one paid any attention to her. She immediately yelled angrily: "You guys, do you still want your passes? You are so long-winded." She took out a stack of passes from her small bag and shook them at them.
Lang Yu took it and distributed it to them one by one.
Lao Wei took the pass and gave Qi Fan one last word before leaving: "Do what you can. Don't rush forward on your own. So many of us have skills. You have to trust the strength of the team and fight side by side. Do you understand?"
"Okay, I understand."
Liao Yang: "You are my baby's birth mother, remember to come back early."
"Okay~ I must go back early."
After waving goodbye to the two, Qi Mi asked Zheng Yuanyuan and the others to wait for her for ten minutes, then walked to Lang Yu, her expression instantly becoming serious.
"Where is that man?" she asked.
Lang Yu looked up and pointed at the empty ruins. After waving the Guichen small fan slightly, a crack in the barrier appeared.
He originally thought that if Qi Mi didn't ask, he would let Ling take the city lord away when they entered the next doomsday, but he didn't expect that she still asked.
After Qi Mi walked in, Ling and several of his men tactfully left, leaving only her and the city lord in the barrier.
Just in case, Lang Yu stood next to the crack in the barrier so as not to disturb the two of them.
Seeing that the city lord's limbs were torn apart by time and space, his mouth was stuffed with dead branches, and his pair of phoenix eyes were staring at him fiercely and resolutely, Qi Mi chuckled, walked forward, and helped him break off the branches in his mouth with his bare hands.
Although she tried her best to avoid scratching the city lord's mouth with branches, there were always some small details that she failed to notice. After cleaning, the city lord's mouth was full of blood.
Qi Mi threw away the last dry branch in his hand and looked down at him: "I never thought you would end up like this one day."
The city lord spat a mouthful of blood on the ground and slowly leaned back towards the wheelchair: "Kill me if you want to. No need to waste time talking nonsense."
"No hurry, I have something else I want to ask you." Qi Mi searched for a relatively flat stone and sat on it. From her angle, she could just see the young man in black clothes and black pants in the gap.
She stared for two seconds, then suddenly shifted her gaze to the phoenix in the air.
It hovers high in the sky, so free and easy.
"Master, do you really treat me as your disciple?" she asked softly.
As if he had anticipated her asking such a question, the City Lord scoffed and glared at her. "Girl, didn't Master ever tell you not to ask such emotionally swayed questions? You're a fine weapon, you don't need such meaningless things."
"Yes or no?" Like a stubborn child, she asked again unwillingly.
"No."
The city lord smiled and replied firmly, "You are the best sword I've ever seen. Your value lies in being able to serve me and to fight for everything I want."
Qi Mi's eyes flashed: "Sure enough, my feeling is right, you have never treated me as a human being."
"Because you're not human." The city lord leaned slightly to the side, moving closer to her. "I saw it the first time I saw you. No matter how much kindness you put on, you're essentially a monster, a murderer without blinking an eye."
Qi Mi laughed softly.
After she woke up, she realized that for so many years, the man she called Master had been destroying her spirit with words. Even now, he was trying his best to deny her.
Her master only regarded her as a knife, a weapon to cut through the thorns for his future. He would not allow her to have any emotions other than being a weapon, and he would not allow this knife to disobey him, so he would kill her.
"What about the others?" Qi Mi's eyes were red. "I am a knife. What about those companions who fought alongside you? What are they? How could you be so cruel as to kill them all?"
The city lord slowly closed his eyes: "I told you, if you want to do great things, there must be sacrifices. Those people are stumbling blocks on the road to success..."
"Including your lover?"
“…”
The city lord moved his lips, and then fell silent.
Qi Mi stood up and walked in front of him, taking out the cake fork from the leather holster at his waist.
"You are finally going to take action. Like I said, humans will never do such a thing as killing their master. If you kill me, you will undoubtedly be a monster." The city lord knew that his time was up, but he still dealt a heavy blow to her spirit. His words and all the sins he planted on Qi Mi were all denying her identity as a human being.
Qi Mi frowned: "You are really scary."
If she hadn't come to her senses, she might have become a weapon capable of slaughter.
This person must not be allowed to stay.
Her expression was calm and she slowly raised her left hand.
Instantly, black runes emanated from his left hand, transforming into a wisp of light smoke that wrapped around the city lord's neck, tightly binding him like a black shackle. Simultaneously, the ugly black word "sin" was imprinted on his face, and his once handsome features appeared monstrous and grotesque against the backdrop of these runes.
The city lord widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief: "Impossible, how could you possibly break this seal? If you don't put this ghost eye where it should be, this seal cannot be broken!"
"Because I had already changed it when I was in the painting, and thanks to you, I was able to discover a magical secret."
"What secret?"
Qi Mi lightly tapped his left eye, and his bright blue eyes suddenly appeared:
"This eye is mine."
The city lord looked astonished.
"So now you understand why you can't control this eye you've always coveted, but I can, because it's mine."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Mi's eyes turned cold, and he stabbed the city lord's temple with a cake fork in a neat movement.
Because this is her eye, she can suppress even the most confused consciousness when she is in the world of the painting. However, she only knows that this eye is hers, and she has no idea what happened specifically.
Blurred in consciousness, as if seeking a final glimmer of victory, the City Lord laughed almost maniacally: "So what if it's yours? This is a ghost eye! You are a ghost, a being more terrifying than a monster! You will never be human, and you will never be able to live under the bright sunshine!"
"No, you are wrong. This is the eye of God."
Without waiting for him to ask again, Qi Mi pushed the fork hard until it was completely inserted into his temple.
The wild laughter stopped abruptly, and the city lord suddenly lost all his strength. His head leaned slightly against the side of the wheelchair, and he died.
Qi Mi looked at him and didn't move.
Suddenly, the mysterious eye pattern on her left hand opened up, revealing a deep black hole and emitting an ancient and distant sound.
"Want this skill core crystal?" she asked.
The black hole seemed to be answering her words, and brought her left hand to the center of the city lord's eyebrows. After wisps of smoke dissipated, a bloody crystal blue gem emerged from between the city lord's eyebrows.
Qi Mi hesitated for a moment, but still let it swallowed.
In an instant, the whole body felt as if it was being chopped by a knife or an axe, and it was extremely painful. If the new skills were to be used at will, it would be like going through a tribulation, either by losing a layer of skin or by breaking and reshaping the bones, not to mention such a great skill of manipulating time and space.
She was trembling all over and biting her lips tightly to try not to make any sound, but her legs were in so much pain that she had no strength left. The sound of her falling to the ground in the silence still alerted Lang Yu.
Lang Yu walked over and glanced at the city lord's brow, then he understood what had happened.
"You know it will hurt." He helped her up with a worried look on his face and gently tucked the hair that was sticky with sweat on her face behind her ears.
Qi Mi pulled the corner of her mouth, and her lips were beautifully covered with a layer of crimson: "He owes me this, why shouldn't he take it."
As she spoke, she gently pushed Kailang Yu and stood in front of the city lord again.
After confirming that the skills were integrated into her body, she used her right hand to control time and space to avoid a conflict with the Dead Eye ability of her left hand. The next second, the four time and space abilities moved freely on the city lord's body, and then swallowed his entire body into an unknown time and space, turning it into time and space garbage and disappearing without a trace.
The past was buried together.
After finishing the work, Qi Mi and Lang Yu walked out of the barrier one after another.
Joy and sorrow only lasted for a moment. Looking at these children, she felt inexplicably at ease.
Ten children and their two allies were standing in front of the portal waiting for them. When they saw Qi Mi coming out, they immediately waved excitedly, "Teacher Qi, hurry up and finish the task sooner so we can see our parents sooner!"
Unconsciously, these children have become brave and have accepted this fact calmly. They probably know that this is an adventurous journey, and as long as they can pass the last level, they will be able to see the relatives they miss day and night.
Qi Mi's eyebrows curved, and he also raised his hand: "Brave children of the Douding class, let's set off to the next world!"
"Set off!"
“gogogo!”
The cubs all raised their little fists, full of confidence.
They handed the pass to two guards wearing phoenix masks and chose the end of the world in the lower right corner of the nine-square grid as the end of the world for the final pass.
This time, no one caused trouble and everyone was able to enter safely.
Thirteen people, not one less.
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