355 Missing
◎Zhu Ning is missing◎
Flying Fish Line, North Adjustment Supply Station.
Old Zhao received a call from Huo Wenxi in the afternoon. He had been in contact with Assistant Zhuang, and he was not used to hearing Huo Wenxi's voice suddenly. Old Zhao had read Huo Wenxi's speeches and had a natural respect for her. He straightened his back when he answered the phone.
Huo Wenxi asked him to help find Zhu Ning's whereabouts.
Old Zhao was puzzled. Zhu Ning? Didn't he just leave yesterday? Logically, he should have passed the water drop group and headed north. Why did Huo Wenxi ask him for help to find him? He couldn't catch up.
But Huo Wenxi is nicknamed the Little Witch, so she must have her own reasons. Could something have happened to Zhu Ning?
Huo Wenxi's tone was very polite, meaning that he would help see if there were any clues. If there were none, forget it, there was no need to risk his life, safety was the priority.
This is just a matter of convenience, and there is no reason to refuse.
At that time, Lao Zhao had gone to bed. He was working the night shift that day. After hanging up the phone, he was confused for a while, then got up, explained his affairs, and took the two people out.
After all, Lao Zhao has lived outside the wall for many years. He knows everything an investigator knows and has received formal training.
He didn't understand what Huo Wenxi was looking for along the way, so he asked him twice. Huo Wenxi said that you would know when you see it.
When he really saw it, Lao Zhao finally understood.
Another landmark behind the flying fishing line is the water drop group. It is not very dangerous above, but the water drop group can be fatal. However, experienced investigators will basically not get into trouble at this location.
He originally wanted to return to report to Huo Wenxi after visiting the water drop group, but the sky was still yellow that day and there was a car hanging in the air.
The logistics soldier with Lao Zhao raised his binoculars and said, "Isn't that Zhu Ning's car? Why are they parked there if they're not going to move on?"
Old Zhao's heart trembled, and his first reaction was to deny: "If you saw it clearly, just say it's her car."
Logistics soldier: "Really? I modified that car. There was a dent on the back of their car, and I didn't have the right paint color to fix it. The dent was gray and big, so I could see it from a long distance. I'm not blind."
Old Zhao's heart was pounding, and he subconsciously wanted to refute, but there was nothing to refute. When he got up to the car, the place where the paint had been repainted on the rear end was particularly eye-catching, and even a blind person could see it clearly.
The flying car was hanging alone, with no cars in front or behind, and no obstacles, which looked very abrupt.
The logistics soldier was very proud. "I told you it was their car. Wait... why is it empty? Where are the people?"
They drove the car forward, parallel to Zhu Ning's car, and saw that it was indeed empty. There was a pink ball of wool hanging on the front of the car. Old Zhao recognized it as Pei Shuzhi's at a glance.
Old Zhao accepted his fate. It was indeed Zhu Ning's car, but where was the person?
No wonder Huo Wenxi asked him to come out. Did something really happen?
The logistics soldier circled the flying car twice, muttering, "There's a swarm of water droplets down there. Where can they go? They can't jump out of the car and die, right? Could they be going to the sky?"
Old Zhao's hand trembled, and the logistics soldier laughed dryly twice, suddenly realizing that his guess was extremely terrifying.
The weather has been weird lately, with sandstorms going on and no cause found, and the whole sky is yellow.
They were used to seeing it, but now they suddenly felt that the sky became eerie and terrifying. It was so huge, looming over the heads of human beings. Whether people were inside or outside the wall, they were all looking up at the same sky.
It seems like there are other spaces in the sky that can absorb people into them.
Zhu Ning is a devil, and the team he leads is an elite force. I don’t know where the girl who follows him comes from, but Bai Cheng and Pei Shu are not pushovers.
Now they all disappeared?
How...how did it disappear?
Old Zhao's mind was in a mess. He thought of Bai Cheng hugging him stiffly, then he thought of handing the wool to Pei Shu, and then he thought of Zhu Ning eating beef noodles.
Life and death outside the wall is normal, but it doesn’t mean that you don’t feel anything every time. Wouldn’t that mean you are heartless?
Lao Zhao wanted this team to go further, at least through the Far North.
Lao Zhao pressed his trembling right hand with his left and asked, "How much longer can that car last?"
The logistics soldier, who had professionally modified the car, glanced at the energy meter in the car from a distance: "They've been parked for thirty hours, so they can probably use it for about ten hours."
Lao Zhao: "Give half of our energy to them, quickly."
If Zhu Ning only entered a polluted area temporarily, he had to have a car to get out.
This command was not difficult. The logistics soldier brought the two vehicles closer together, and after docking, he extended a mechanical claw from the vehicle body and opened the energy tank of Zhu Ning's flying car.
There is no need to open the window or operate it manually from start to finish, the robotic arm can complete it.
Old Zhao urged: "Hurry!"
The logistics soldier was not nervous at first, but now he is nervous because of the pressure. It seems that replacing an energy tank could not cause a big problem. It is impossible for the sky to open its mouth and eat him.
This was outside the wall, so any worries were unnecessary. The logistics soldier replaced the car at the fastest speed he had ever seen. He had just inserted the energy slot and said, "This car can last another 30 hours. I..."
Lao Zhao interrupted immediately: "Hurry back! Report to the higher-ups immediately, quick!"
The logistics soldier immediately stepped on the accelerator. For the first time in his life, he was so afraid of the sky. Even though he had driven a long way, he still felt like there was an eye staring at him from behind, as if he would never be able to escape.
…
Zhu Ning is missing.
When Huo Wenxi received this news, she was still investigating the Pilgrim Organization. There had been no progress and she was at a bottleneck. She asked Lao Zhao to investigate this matter.
She had a hunch that something had happened to Zhu Ning, so it was normal for Lao Zhao to find something unusual.
The whole incident seemed like a ghost story. Zhu Ning led his team across the flying fishing line and was about to get out of the group of water drops. Then all the team members in the car disappeared without a trace, and there was no news at all.
Huo Wenxi asked Lao Zhao for Zhu Ning's surveillance footage, but there was no clue in the footage, so she stayed on one picture for a long time.
Zhu Ning was eating beef noodles, which Huo Wenxi had promised her that she could eat whatever she wanted at a certain station.
Zhu Ning had his back to the camera and his expression could not be seen at all, but Huo Wenxi always felt that Zhu Ning was laughing in the early part and seemed to be crying in the later part.
Huo Wenxi and Zhu Ning hadn't seen each other for a long time, and their communications were always hurried, but the connection between them had never been broken, and she seemed to be able to feel Zhu Ning's feelings.
This time, Huo Wenxi did not receive Zhu Ning's call for help, but she really hoped that Zhu Ning would contact her to ask for resources.
Logically speaking, since Zhu Ning disappeared in the sky, all similar cases over the years should be sorted out, but it is difficult to count outside the wall and it is impossible to expand at all. Huo Wenxi cannot provide support from this aspect.
Huo Wenxi asked Lao Zhao to report the news to Beidiao and continue to observe this location. Under the premise that there is no danger, he should provide energy to Zhu Ning's flying car and wait for support from Beidiao.
But the manpower transferred to the north was not enough, and they were divided into several groups, including the Homecoming Train, the blood vessels under the fishing village, and the newly discovered underground ruins.
I heard that some "living creature" was also found underground. Because Zhu Ning confirmed that blood vessels were found in the fishing village, they deduced that there must be organs here, but they just couldn't tell what they were.
Is the sky also a pollutant?
Huo Wenxi suddenly had such an intuition that ordinary people might hesitate, deny, and argue before reaching a conclusion.
But Huo Wenxi didn't need to. As soon as this thought popped up in her mind, it was immediately deepened, as if it was the truth.
Huo Wenxi found a piece of paper. She couldn't draw. The Huo family had never cultivated her artistic side. She couldn't draw anything beautiful with a pen and paper.
Huo Wenxi walked into Zhuang Lin's office. Zhuang Lin liked painting since he was a child. Before he awakened his superpowers, he aspired to be a little painter, but unfortunately art was useless in the doomsday.
Zhuang Lin asked, "What do you want to draw?"
Huo Wenxi paused, not answering immediately, and lit a cigarette. If the sky is a pollutant, what organ is it? The heart? The eyes? The brain?
Huo Wenxi's brain vibrated again. There was an eye looking down at her, as if giving her a hint of the answer.
The brain, it is undoubtedly the brain.
Huo Wenxi took a deep breath, stroked the blindfold, and felt the throbbing tentacles underneath.
Zhuang Lin looked at her in confusion. Huo Wenxi leaned against the door of his office, a cigarette in his hand. After a long moment, he said, "Draw a circle."
Her voice was hoarse, as if the words were squeezed out of her throat. Zhuang Lin looked confused, treating this as a game of "Draw and I Guess" and lowered his head to draw a circle.
Huo Wenxi thought as he smoked, "The sky is the brain."
Zhuang Lin was stunned and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. Thinking of the recent sandstorm, all human survivors, whether nobles or the lower class, speculated on the cause, and experts have made no progress in their research so far.
What does it mean that the sky is the brain?
Zhuang Lin thought about it and, following Huo Wenxi's instructions, drew the outline of the brain on the upper part of the circle. It now looked like an unformed human head.
He was still waiting for Huo Wenxi's next instruction, but Huo Wenxi gave no more instructions. She couldn't imagine what the structure of this thing was.
Zhuang Lin had been with Huo Wenxi for a long time. When she raised her hand, he knew what she was going to do and asked, "Should I draw the blood vessels next?"
Huo Wenxi nodded and let Zhuang Lin express himself freely. Zhuang Lin knew all the information he needed to know.
Zhuang Lin seemed to be sitting in an examination room. Huo Wenxi was his teacher. There was a clock ticking, reminding him to finish the painting within the specified time.
Zhuang Lin first drew a small section of blood vessel inside the circle, which looked out of place and completely incompatible with the other two parts.
He thought about it and began to extend that section of blood vessel based on his own understanding. For a while, the only sound in the room was the rustling sound of painting.
Huo Wenxi sat down on the sofa and waited for Zhuang Linhua. After she finished smoking three cigarettes, Zhuang Linhua finished.
Zhuang Lin held the painting with a very hesitant expression, "I just drew it randomly."
If this were an exam, it would be very difficult. Only two elements are given, and the rest are up to you to express freely.
Huo Wenxi took the paper. Zhuang Lin's drawing was very good. The whole thing was a circle, with the outline of the brain originally drawn on top and blood vessels below. The blood vessels were connected to form a shape.
There are many ways to understand this painting. It is as if a person is hugging his knees and sitting in a round glass ball. An ordinary human being cannot fit so tightly. This person has rotted, his stiff muscles have become soft, and his bones have been broken so that he can fit into the glass ball. His limbs are completely twisted, but he still maintains his body functions.
Or maybe this isn't a person, it's just a round monster.
Huo Wenxi looked at it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. What was the field they lived in?
Is the air actually part of the pollution?
Just like a human being, after death, another species appears in his internal organs, reproduces and builds a habitat inside, and not only that, it also evolves its own consciousness and civilization.
Isn't this ridiculous?
Zhuang Lin saw that Huo Wenxi looked very bad and was a little worried. Just as he was about to speak, Huo Wenxi put the painting away. Zhuang Lin felt that his painting was very bad, but Huo Wenxi's attitude was very serious, which made him feel embarrassed.
Huo Wenxi didn't say a word extra, and Zhuang Lin knew that she wanted to think for herself.
Howen Creek pushed work off that day, and she returned home to think about the whole thing, the Pilgrims, Utopia, Prometheus, including this huge pollutant, and how there was a thread running through everything, but she couldn't figure it out.
All the clues are cut off as soon as they begin. There has been no news of the pilgrims since they found the exit from the wall. It seems that the organization was eradicated overnight.
Lu Yuan has lost contact, and Chen Qihang's investigation requires a long-term effort. Prometheus has always been mysterious, and Huo Wenxi's long hands cannot reach it.
Huo Wenxi's main job is in the abnormal incident investigation team. She knows that most investigations are like this. Sometimes you get stuck at a certain point and all the necessary efforts have been made. Unless God helps you, you can't move forward at all.
Will God bless her again?
Huo Wenxi gave herself a break, removed the needle from her arm, and completely relaxed. For a whole week, she lay on the sofa and smoked one cigarette after another. She fell asleep unknowingly and was woken up by the cigarette butts burning her fingers.
On the seventh day, Huo Wenxi rubbed her brows and sat up. She put out her cigarette and went into the bathroom to take a shower.
She would only take off the black eye mask when she took a shower. This thing had become a part of Huo Wenxi, or Huo Wenxi had become a part of "Him".
She looked at herself in the mirror, her long hair was wet and tangled around her like black seaweed.
Huo Wenxi felt very unfamiliar. When he followed the patriarch's order to enter Area 103, he never thought that such a day would come.
Huo Wenxi combed her hair carefully, braided her long pigtails meticulously, put on a black coat and black gloves, and as a last step, put on an eye mask in front of the mirror to cover her tentacles.
She looked very calm in the mirror, but her face was pale due to her long-term unstable sleep and rest. She told Zhuang Lin that she had something to do and asked him to contact her if there was any news about Zhu Ning.
After preparing everything, Huo Wenxi put Zhuang Lin's painting into a folder containing all the information she had sorted out.
It's time for Huo Wenxi to contact the Huo family.
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