362 Very Cold
Your intuition saved you.
Teacher Qi blocked the light when she stood up. She walked slowly around the corner at a leisurely pace.
The stairs were hidden in darkness, and there was no one up there, as if they had never existed.
But she knew there was a mouse here once, which overheard her words and ran away very fast.
It's a pity that he has already entered this area. The pollution concentration is normal, the communication is normal, and even the gate of the chemical plant is open. This in itself is the biggest abnormality.
It's not even a trap, but they are not afraid of anyone finding this place.
Just like when humans build farmhouses, they at most protect against wolves in the wild, but they don't build anything specifically to keep out flies.
The factory is a farmhouse and Zhuang Lin is a fly.
Just kill the flies when you see them. No one will close the door all day to prevent mosquitoes.
Teacher Qi smiled. The black clothes she wore were very loose, similar to a cloak, or some religious robe.
At this moment, a piece of clothing suddenly began to tremble, as if it had a life of its own. With a click, tiny, wriggling insects fell from the clothing, first one, then more and more.
As the black insects crawled, the ground trembled slightly, as if the land had come to life, and the air was also moved. Everything was crawling forward, which was the direction Zhuang Lin left.
When Teacher Qi turned around, Zhuang Lin flashed away and left the scene.
He turned on the communication channel: "Everyone evacuate! Now!"
Teacher Qi is in contact with the Huo family, and the only information he got from the brief conversation was that Huo Wenxi was in danger.
Zhuang Lin had to leave and find her with the news. Since she couldn't get through to him, it was very likely that she was detained. In the past, Zhuang Lin didn't worry about what the Huo family would do.
But now Teacher Qi and the Huo family are of the same kind, and Huo Wenxi has openly rebelled, and he also has Zhu Ning in his hands. Holding Huo Wenxi is equivalent to holding Zhu Ning.
Thinking of Zhu Ning, Zhuang Lin really hoped that Zhu Ning was inside the wall. If she were there, the situation would definitely not be like this now.
But now that the only true God has left, Zhu Ning cannot hear his prayers, let alone respond.
Zhuang Lin was quickly writing messages on his secondary computer while dodging quickly, almost jumping across the square.
This ability was very useful for escaping, and he quickly found his way three blocks away, but then he stopped and the parked car disappeared.
The flying car turned on the stealth mode, which is not invisible, but completely disappearing.
Did Huang Zongli and the others leave first? No, it was Teacher Qi, but how did she do it? Even if Su He snapped his fingers, there would be ashes left at the spot. There was nothing where the flying car was, as if it had been wiped out.
Zhuang Lin was in a trance for a moment. There was bad news in his heart that was being gradually verified.
No one answered on the public channel for a long time, even though the signal was clearly good, as they had checked when they came in.
Not only was there no response to their team's communication, but there was no news from all three teams.
"Huang Zongli? Please answer if you hear me!" Zhuang Lin shouted.
There was no human voice in the channel. Zhuang Lin's throat felt dry and he had to accept the fact that their team was completely wiped out?
Impossible. He was so fast and didn't even see the enemy. How could he die?
Even death has a process, with resistance, blood, and corpses.
It seems that his teammates were not killed by people, but were directly wiped out. How wide is the range of Teacher Qi's ability? What kind of terrifying existence is this?
Zhuang Lin gritted his teeth. There was a tall north wall in front of him. The closer he got to the north wall, the higher the pollution concentration became.
He ran in the opposite direction, thinking it would be safer to get closer to a human gathering place. He kept an eye on his surroundings, trying to find information about other teammates. If anyone was still alive, they would definitely make the same choice as him.
Zhuang Lin pressed the emergency contact button. His emergency contact was actually Huo Wenxi, and a busy tone came from the other end.
Huo Wenxi is not here.
Of course she wasn't there. Zhuang Lin would have to be a fool to contact Huo Wenxi.
Zhuang Lin hung up the call quickly, only to find his hands shaking unconsciously. He had to contact other members of the Abnormal Investigation Team, as someone was providing logistical support to the team.
If there was no news from the entire team, they should have noticed something was wrong.
Suddenly, Zhuang Lin stopped running. A woman stood in front of him. She was dressed in black and looked at him with a smile, like an old teacher.
If Zhuang Lin was not her prey, she would have thought he was just a strict old teacher.
Overusing his supernatural powers had overloaded him. Zhuang Lin gasped for air, his throat aching. Everything was going wrong.
The sky was orange-yellow, and the brain-shaped clouds above seemed to be spinning constantly. Everything around was making noises and rustling sounds.
Zhuang Lin initially thought that he was dazzled, perhaps because he was overly tired and there were some tiny things on the surface of his eyeball.
But later he found that it was not his eyes that were blurry, but the world was really "dazzled". He did not run out of the factory area from beginning to end. The surfaces of the houses, the roads, and the street lights were all covered with densely packed wriggling black insects.
They condense in it and can easily recombine all matter and also easily devour it.
The scope is unclear and the cost of use is unknown.
Zhuang Lin's lips trembled. The moment he saw Teacher Qi, he knew that he was bound to lose. It was as if he had participated in an unfair competition. This opponent was at Zhu Ning's level, not his own.
He had a lot of questions he wanted to ask, but they were stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter them. In the end, he muttered to himself, "Why?"
Why is all this happening? What is the truth of the world?
What exactly do you want to do?
But Teacher Qi did not answer. She did not need to answer questions from people at this level. In her eyes, Zhuang Lin was just a mouse.
…
Huo family.
Huo Wenxi looked at the sky wallpaper and had a strange intuition in her heart, as if she was gradually losing something, but she couldn't tell what it was, which made her a little irritated.
She wanted to end it all quickly and get everything back on track, if there was still a normal track in this world.
Huo Wenxi pushed open the door. The decoration inside was still retro, and an old and damp smell hit him in the face.
There was an old woman sitting in the room. Huo Jinsheng was sitting in a wheelchair. Her health had been getting worse over the past two years. As far as Huo Wenxi could remember, he only knew that she had a strange temper and often sat alone.
That was not daydreaming. Huo Jinsheng's intuition was extremely strong. He might be peeking at the other side of the world, at everything.
The moment Huo Wenxi saw the grandmother, he suddenly didn't know what to say. The last time they met offline was two years ago, and the last time they contacted was in District 103.
After that, they cut off contact, and Huo Wenxi took a completely opposite path.
Huo Jinsheng: "Come in."
Huo Wenxi was still standing outside the door, looking at the head of the Huo family through the high threshold. Only then did he actually enter and close the door.
"Grandma." Huo Wenxi called her.
Huo Jinsheng snorted. Huo Wenxi couldn't understand what this sentence meant. Maybe he meant something like "Do you still know who I am?"
Huo Jinsheng put his hands on the armrests of the wheelchair and turned it. Huo Wenxi stopped and habitually went over to help push it to the edge of the table.
The Huo family has a tradition of not liking to organize things. Files are scattered on the large solid wooden table. No wonder they all say that the old witch and the young witch are exactly the same. Huo Wenxi even has the illusion that the grandmother is just his old self.
Huo Jinsheng sat down, and Huo Wenxi sat opposite her, like a sinner on trial, or a student taking an exam.
Huo Jinsheng's gaze patrolled Huo Wenxi and finally settled on the black eye mask. Her granddaughter had grown up, and the biggest halo around her was no longer that of a little witch, but that she had become the commander of a region.
From any perspective, Huo Wenxi is qualified to stand opposite her.
Huo Jinsheng asked: "Why did you come to see me?"
Huo Wenxi: "Because I want to know the truth."
Huo Jinsheng: "That's not right."
Huo Wenxi was silent. Huo Jinsheng's teachings to her had always been strange. Others didn't understand the grandmother, but Huo Wenxi did.
She was not satisfied with the answer.
It's already this time, why is Huo Jinsheng still beating around the bush with me?
Huo Wenxi: "Can't you just tell me directly?"
Huo Jinsheng raised her eyebrows. Others couldn't hear it, but she knew that Huo Wenxi was in a bad mood. She really liked to see this favored child of destiny lose his temper.
Huo Jinsheng uttered those two words again: "No."
Huo Wenxi clenched his fists. No matter how calm a person appears in public, they can be easily angered by their loved ones. It's as if they naturally know your secrets and know how to make you furious in an instant, and then look down on you and admire your embarrassment.
Huo Jinsheng: "What I'm asking is, why did you come to see me?"
She repeated the question, and Huo Wenxi was still analyzing, teetering on the edge of anger.
Why did you come to her? Why didn't you go investigate Teacher Qi yourself? Why was she here?
Huo Wenxi: "Because my intuition tells me to come find you."
Huo Jinsheng's smile widened. She looked at Huo Wenxi with some satisfaction and continued, "It's close, but not right."
That's not right again. What answer does Huo Jinsheng want to hear? Huo Wenxi's patience is limited. She has wasted too much time here.
Huo Jinsheng was like an examiner, finally giving some direction for solving the problem after several provocations. "What's your intuition?"
Is the emphasis on intuition?
Huo Wenxi: "Come to find——"
Huo Wenxi stopped talking, as if someone was strangling her throat. She could clearly feel her heart contracting and beating dully.
How do Intuition abilities work?
When using it, you will experience some physiological abnormalities, which will tell you in a very straightforward way that there is something abnormal.
Whether it is passive feeling or active use, she will be pulled into the ocean of consciousness, an ocean with no end in sight, and she is the only one in the world.
Huo Wenxi's inner world is like the sea surface. At first, the sea water fluctuates like the shaking heart. Then the waves become more and more intense, and a guess surfaces. Finally, the guess will be confirmed by intuition and pushed to the shore by huge waves.
Zhuang Lin is going to die?
These four words flashed through Huo Wenxi's mind. For the first time, he didn't even know what they meant. As his sanity gradually returned, the waves in his mind receded, and the words kept repeating amidst the noisy sound of the waves.
At that moment, Huo Wenxi's ocean of consciousness seemed to be able to lead to the scene.
In the abandoned radioactive zone, under the huge north wall, Zhuang Lin had no way to escape. Opposite him was a woman dressed in black, just smiling.
A black substance suddenly appeared in mid-air. Upon closer inspection, it looked like it was made up of wriggling black insects. The black substance accelerated its wriggling, and everything around it was influenced by it, including bricks, the ruins of houses, and the flying car in the cleaning center.
They condensed into a huge monster, hanging above Zhuang Lin. He was very small, like the ant lying at the feet of the elephant, and death was about to come.
Zhuang Lin was shrouded in shadow, with a murderous aura pressing down on him. He lowered his hands, and the secondary brain showed that the message had been sent successfully.
Zhuang Lin felt extremely calm at that moment. He existed for Huo Wenxi.
When Zhuang Lin entered the Huo family, Huo Wenxi was only nine years old. Zhuang Lin had to undergo rigorous training before he could become Huo Wenxi's assistant.
He has been learning how to use his supernatural powers, take care of daily life, analyze cases, and track clues since he was a child.
Now the mission of exploration has been accomplished, and fortunately, he died on the way of investigation.
The black substance pressed down layer by layer, and Zhuang Lin only had one last thought left, which seemed abrupt and pretentious at this moment.
Is it cold in Wenxi today?
With a loud bang, all his worries soon became meaningless. The dark matter and the ruins fell to the ground, and any living creature would be crushed into meat paste.
For a moment, everything was silent and the dust in the air was vibrating.
There was no one left at the place where Zhuang Lin had been standing. Only a pile of ruins remained. The black matter fell to the ground and dispersed into countless wriggling insects, revealing its true appearance.
A mountain made of countless bricks and steel bars looks like a house collapsed after an earthquake.
A trickle of blood overflowed from the cracks in the ruins, meandering along the shape of the bricks and being absorbed by the dust. The blood spread, as if breaking through time and space, and spreading to Huo Wenxi's ocean of consciousness.
There was a smell of blood in her world, and red blood fell into the sea. It was Zhuang Lin's blood.
Zhuang Lin is dying, Huo Wenxi repeated, turning his initial doubt into certainty, Zhuang Lin is dying.
"Wenxi..." Someone was calling her, but it was not Zhuang Lin, but Huo Jinsheng.
Huo Wenxi was not at the scene, so she could not see the moment of death, but only felt it.
Huo Wenxi was just talking to Huo Jinsheng from beginning to end, and was constantly asked the same question: Why did you come to me?
She now knew the answer because her special ability was intuition. She was an intuitive animal, and her intuition told her to go to the Huo family to find the answer.
Intuition can always make choices that are favorable to Huo Wenxi, but only favorable to Huo Wenxi.
After seeing Zhuang Lin's paintings, Huo Wenxi stopped investigating and gave all the investigation materials to the team members.
Continuing the investigation could also reveal the truth, but her instinct at the time was to go to the Huo family, which was more direct and safer.
If it was Huo Wenxi who met Teacher Qi, then it would be her instead of Zhuang Lin who died now.
"Your intuition saved you." Huo Jinsheng already knew what happened, and his tone became much softer. "That's why you came to me. It's also the price you paid for your supernatural powers."
Huo Wenxi's tense waist relaxed, as if suddenly hit by something heavy. Her gaze passed through the old witch's face and gradually became blurred.
Huo Wenxi didn't check the weather before going out. The black wool coat was very thin, making her feel very cold.
The author has something to say:
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided me with nutrient solution between 2023-10-09 20:13:35 and 2023-10-10 20:11:52~
Thanks to the little angel who threw the rocket launcher: the rice cake is a bit delicious 1;
Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: If you want a kiss from the hot spring idiot, please give me 1;
Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Thrily, Lanzhou Chuchu Fu Xinyi, What Xia, 52042559, Wriggling Starvation, 1 chocolate cake;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: Shufen held He Juan's hand across the street (110 bottles); I read very fast (101 bottles); A glass of iced cola~, Not Lovely (40 bottles); 25398466 (36 bottles); 40676652, Xiao Mochi (30 bottles); Rainy Night (29 bottles); A Young Girl (23 bottles); Ankoci (21 bottles); Ariel, Celery Doesn't Like Celery, Mind Your Own Business, Waterfall, and Liu Bin, the Fugitive from the Imperial Hospital (20 bottles); jz33 19 bottles; Mrs. Wu Ye Hei 13 bottles; Qianhe Changming 12 bottles; Sister Xin's Dog, 68778178, Lianjun, Maxine, 67789197, Fengzao, Crying Cat Head, Green Pepper, Yuanzhu and April 10 bottles; I Love You 7 bottles; I Want the Kiss of the Hot Spring Idiot, Special Encounter, The World's Only Limited Lazy Sofa, Hazelnut Coconut Cereal, 36780809, Whale Walk 5 bottles; Juanjujujujujuju, 42818852 3 bottles; Escape from Eden, Mutant Mushroom, Jiang Ting Zai Xia 2 bottles; What Summer, Ouch, 47580905, Liang Tong, 28169938, It's Yu Yu Zi, Lillian It Said, Come and Go, Kou Ya Ya, 23074058, Ya, Emlily, Xin You You Shi Fu, Xiaodou Chihiro, Manman-sama, Orange, THER, ぺ Orange, Olivia, Stephy, Carina, Yu Sheng, Mint, 44310553, Xun Jun, Number Seven, 54560685 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
