Chapter 27 (Catching Bugs)
"Mom! Mom! QAQ"
The guilty baby withdrew his strength, and the bear mask fell in front of Chi Liu with a "click", which immediately reminded him of a speechless man.
At the moment when the little bear hydrogen balloon was about to fly completely into the sky, Chi Liu accurately grabbed the balloon rope.
The tourists nearby had stopped to watch when the doll's head mask inexplicably began to take off, and now all their eyes were focused on Chi Liu.
They thought it was a Sunday surprise at the amusement park!
Only the confused doll man and Chi Liu looked at each other.
At this time, the voice in Secretary Wen's head finally stopped. He was about to take out his wallet when he saw Xiang Xiang take out a stack of large-denomination banknotes from the small schoolbag he was carrying, handed it to him, and whispered, "Can I buy these?"
Secretary Wen: “…”
When did the kid become so mature!
The doll man was an honest man. He scratched his head and said, "These are enough to buy all the balloons. And I've worn this headgear before. If you want me to give you a new one!"
Xiang Xiang was very determined: "I'll buy them all."
So, in the end, Xiang Xiang got a bunch of hydrogen balloons and a brand new bear headgear.
He walked up to Chi Liu, handed over the bear headgear and all the bear-shaped balloons, and said shyly, "A gift for the baby."
Chi Liu blinked in surprise, took it, thanked him earnestly and gently, and then laughed, "Why did you buy so much?"
I picked out the bear-shaped ones, and there were still a lot left.
A hint of distress appeared on Xiang Xiang's delicate face: "I won too much money at the anniversary celebration. Secretary Wen told me that it was mine and asked me to keep it, but I can't spend it all."
He was not used to electronic payment methods, and would take out some cash every day to fill his school bag, but he never had the chance to spend it.
I finally spent it today!
Chi Liu: “…..” What a sweet worry.
At this time, a family of three passed by. The little girl looked at the balloons with shining eyes. Her parents were about to buy some, but Xiang Xiang had already given her a balloon.
Then, more and more children gathered around, and Chi Liu bent down slightly to help distribute the balloons.
Secretary Wen watched this scene helplessly and tenderly, and decided to muster up the courage to disobey her boss's unreasonable order - they had to stay in the amusement park for a whole afternoon and go to the movies as originally planned!
As for the boss, he will definitely come up with a perfect excuse for not carrying out orders before going home!
After making up his mind, he started to help distribute the balloons. He distributed balloons as he walked along the way. They became famous in the entire amusement park, and wherever they went, children would come to ask for balloons!
It even spread among children as a balloon with magic powers!
Soon dusk fell and they arrived at the maze area.
The maze is built based on the story of The Little Prince. It is surrounded by a half-man-high fence, with roses planted along the way and small gifts hidden. Each child can receive a unique coordinate map and find surprises at the coordinates.
The children were busy looking for gifts in the passages, so there were few people in the small square in the center of the maze.
Chi Liu didn't like roses, so he stood in front of the statue of the little prince and the little fox, waiting for Secretary Wen and Xiang Xiang, who had gone to the rose aisle to excitedly dig for gifts, to come back.
The nursery rhyme playing at this time was Two Tigers.
Chi Liu was startled when he heard this, and inexplicably thought of Mingming who was still waiting for his only friend.
"Big brother," a little boy suddenly ran over, tugged at the corner of Chi Liu's clothes, and said softly, "Can I have two magic balloons?" He paused, afraid of being rejected, and hurriedly explained, "I don't want two for myself, it's my friend who is too shy and doesn't dare to come over."
His parents and Xiaoyu's parents are good friends, so he and Xiaoyu have been good friends since childhood.
The teacher said that good friends are the most precious! So he must get the magic balloon for her!
This magic balloon might be able to cure Xiaoyu's illness, so he can go to the same elementary school as Xiaoyu!
Chi Liu laughed and said, "Of course."
The little boy asked, "Can I have a rabbit shape?" He pointed in a direction and said, "Xiaoyu likes rabbits the most."
Chi Liu followed the boy's line of sight and saw a little girl with pigtails carefully poking her timid head out from behind the statue.
That expression is a bit like Mingming who has autism.
Chi Liu's heart softened instantly. He picked out two rabbit balloons, leaned forward slightly, and was about to hand them to the little boy with his eyes curved.
At this moment, an unusually tall man wearing a top hat and a gray windbreaker passed by Chi Liu. Chi Liu was startled, and the man's unusually slender wrist was reflected in his peripheral vision.
His pupils shrank and he immediately let go of the balloon in his hand, covered the little boy's mouth with his hand, picked him up neatly, turned his back to the man, and strode towards the passage.
The cute nursery rhyme of the two tigers still fills this space, cartoon balloons fill the sky, and the maze is full of laughter.
Chi Liu put the little boy into the maze wall and said in a gentle and stern voice, "There are bad guys here. Walk out from here and you will soon see a green-eyed uncle with glasses. Tell him, 'Chi Liu wants you to call the police.' Then, go outside and seek refuge with your parents."
Most of the people in the maze were children, and many of their parents were waiting outside. If he remembered correctly, Secretary Wen was the adult closest to the center of the maze when he walked in! Only less than 20 meters away!
Secretary Wen trusts him and will definitely call the police and inform the park management to organize an evacuation when he hears that!
The little boy was frightened by Chi Liu's sudden change of expression, but he still tried his best to suppress his crying instinct, but his voice was filled with tears: "Xiao Yu——"
Chi Liu's pupils were cold and bright: "Let's protect her together." He pushed the little boy towards the road outside the maze: "So, don't cry, run outside!"
The little boy gritted his teeth and ran out desperately.
Chi Liu took a deep breath, adjusted his breathing and facial expression, and then slowly turned around.
In the dim sight, the man was sitting on a bench in the square not far away, reading a newspaper. The brim of his black hat was pulled down so low that Chi Liu could not see his face clearly.
However, he just clearly saw the silver bracelet on his hand.
Chi Liu walked past the bench as if nothing had happened, came to the statue, leaned over slightly, and curved his eyes: "Your friend is waiting for you outside with the magic balloon. I will take you to find him and his parents, okay?"
Children with autism are unable to respond immediately to communication from the outside world. The little girl squatted there, buried her face in her arms, and shivered.
However, when Chi Liu picked her up, she did not cry or resist.
Chi Liu held the girl in his arms and walked quickly. He strode across the square and was about to step into the maze passage.
Suddenly, a clear sound of snapping fingers rang in his ears. Chi Liu's pupils shrank, and he instinctively took a step back to protect the child in his arms. The next second, a blazing fire two people high burned in the fence wall surrounding the small square, completely isolating the outside from the small square!
The sudden fire spread outward, and screams of tourists were heard inside and outside the maze. The park staff who came to support nervously organized the tourists to take shelter.
The man on the bench put his hands away and said in a sinister and hoarse voice: "Number 28, Number 40, kill him."
Two thin men wearing black hoodies appeared silently on the left and right of Chi Liu, and one of them raised a gun at Chi Liu.
Chi Liu stood there tensely, holding the girl in his arms as best as he could, cautiously not moving. He glanced to his right - the people there didn't raise their guns for some reason. Was it a loophole or a trap?
The statue that can be used as a shelter is also on the right...
There was no time to hesitate. Chi Liu made a prompt decision and strode to the right. His speed was astonishingly fast.
He bet right, because even though they passed each other, the person on the right had no intention of shooting or attacking.
But the other man in black had his gun pointed at him.
It was as if his body had instinctively become accustomed to the shooting route of this gun. The moment the safety was opened and the trigger was pulled, Chi Liu rolled on the ground protecting the little girl. The bullet narrowly passed by his shoulder and shot into the fire with a terrible explosion.
Chi Liu stood up immediately and was only half a step away from stepping behind the statue!
The man in black aimed his second shot at him again.
The man in the windbreaker stood up at this moment, the silver bracelet button on his wrist flashing an icy blue light, and he said unhappily: "No. 28, what are you doing! Why don't you shoot!"
No. 28 just looked numbly at the girl in Chi Liu's arms. When his eyes met the expression on the girl's face, a tiny light flashed in his pupils - this girl was the same type as his friend.
He looked up information in his extremely limited private time and found out that this society calls children like Mingming "star children."
He thought the name was so nice.
His friends are "Children of the Stars", and he is just a replicant without thoughts, born only to be used as food and a tool...
It was his friends who gave him new "meaning"...
With a "bang".
No. 40 fired the second shot.
Chi Liu gritted his teeth—he couldn’t avoid it.
He seemed to know instinctively that if a person was hit in any part of the body by that kind of bullet, there would be no way they could survive.
But at least one must live!
In less than half a second, Chi Liu felt a surge of guilt in his heart that made his scalp tingle. He felt guilty for his unborn child...
He held the girl tightly in his arms and took a big step towards it. The bullet was about to hit his left leg.
No. 28 simply opened his arms and numbly stood in front of Chi Liu - to be precise, in front of the little girl.
The bullet hit his left shoulder and he fell silently to the ground. A small player fell out of his pocket and was knocked off the switch by a small stone. The nursery rhyme of "Two Tigers" sounded softly, echoing the same nursery rhyme in the maze area.
Blood and fire crackled and exploded outwards from the place where he was hit, as if he would be blown into blood foam in the next second...
Chi Liu finally arrived behind the sculpture. He looked at the player with Mingming's name on it not far away and suddenly opened his eyes wide, his eyes reddening frighteningly - this is Mingming's friend...
He didn't understand why he should take a bullet for him.
However, what he hated and feared most was taking someone's life...
No, now is not the time to think about these things. He is not out of danger yet. He has to find a way to take this little girl away from here, at all costs...
Chi Liu leaned against the sculpture and bit his tongue. He held the girl tightly in his arms, and his other hand trembled as he stroked her abdomen: I don’t know why… it’s so quiet there…
Obviously, he could normally sense the presence of the embryo...
You can’t even think about these things!
He forced himself to think and calm down, his sunscreen was hot and painful...
Find a way, find a way!
Suddenly, there was a loud "splash" sound - as if some kind of water exploded angrily.
A huge stream of green water completely swept over the raging flames all around, and the flames instantly died down and completely disappeared.
The green water swallowed up all the thick smoke and wrapped No. 28, whose body had not yet completely exploded, into the water, saving his life.
The embarrassed Secretary Wen crushed the last of the flames. In his hand was a knife made of green water, the blade of which had already pierced through No. 40's abdomen. He closed one eye, with thick green blood flowing from his eye socket, and looked at the man in gray with the other eye coldly and angrily.
What a despicable and mean group of guys!
I don't know what means they used to accurately locate Xiaochi, and blocked this place just for them!
Those fires are like a damn ward!
It took him a full three minutes to break in here!
During these three minutes, he was extremely scared every second. What if something happened to his friend?
He didn't expect that those players who had been hiding would expose themselves! He was too arrogant and thought he could always make it, so he didn't follow Xiaochi step by step! He didn't listen to the boss and send Xiaochi home early! If Xiaochi got into trouble, he didn't know how to atone for his sins!
His green eyes were seething with murderous intent that hadn't been seen for a long time. He raised the tip of his knife and aimed it at the player with fire abilities.
…
Xiang Xiang came to the statue and helped Chi Liu up distressedly. He said firmly and softly: "Let's go. Secretary Wen said that you should believe in him, and he will beat him!"
Chi Liu's face turned frighteningly pale, but he still picked up the little girl and stood up firmly. He said "um" calmly and followed Xiang Xiang out.
The moment he stepped out of the small square and into the maze, he finally sensed his child again. Suddenly, a clear, crying and worried voice, "Mom!" rang in his mind.
All kinds of sounds filled my ears: the sound of sirens, the sound of people taking shelter in an orderly manner, the sound of panicked shouts...
But that word "Mom" was so clear.
Chi Liu's eyes were about to burst into tears, but he bit his tongue and calmly called Captain Zheng while walking: "... I have important information to report about today's Dream Amusement Park incident." He held the little girl in his other hand and rubbed the player he had just picked up with his palm: "Today's suspect is most likely from Chunming Special Primary School or the vicinity of Chunming Community. Please send police there as well to search for clues."
A kid like Mingming wouldn't go far alone, he must have made friends at school or near home. So, since No. 28 had the chance to become Mingming's friend, he was probably hiding nearby with his accomplices!
Team Zheng, who had already arrived at the amusement park and received the call, suddenly opened his eyes wide: the clues to the player's hiding that they had been looking for were actually discovered by Chi Liu first...
He was about to say something else, but Chi Liu had already hung up the phone.
"Mom, Mom"
The voices in his head became clearer and clearer. The emotions of the embryo were too strong to affect the mother. Chi Liu's legs went weak, his eyes went dark, and he fell forward with his eyes tightly closed. Xiang Xiang's pupils shrank and he caught the little girl. He was about to catch Chi Liu again, but suddenly he opened his eyes wide.
A dark blue tentacle appeared at his waist, and the next second, he and the little girl appeared outside the maze!
…
The dark blue tentacles that covered the sky completely engulfed the entire maze. Secretary Wen had already killed the player. He opened his eyes wide and looked in shock at the huge shadow that was surging wildly above his head.
If he saw it, it meant that other NPCs in the amusement park would have seen it too... The boss was so angry, but for the first time he felt empathy and understanding.
The guilt overwhelmed him again. He thought, it doesn't matter if the boss eats him now...
The next second, the corpse on the ground was torn into pieces by the tentacles angrily. The tentacles roughly wrapped around Secretary Wen's waist and threw him out of the maze. They then rushed frantically into the bushes in the direction of the maze exit where Chi Liu's box was about to reach, dragging out another player who was hiding there to execute plan B and wait to deal a fatal blow to Chi Liu, and tore him to pieces.
…
The imagined embarrassment of falling to the ground did not happen, and Chi Liu fell into an embrace with a familiar cold fragrance.
A strong arm tightly covered Chi Liu's waist. The man, whose eyes were completely engulfed by scarlet, gently kissed the young man on the forehead. His voice was hoarse and gentle, "Dear, don't be afraid. I'm here."
His voice was extremely painful: "Sorry, I am late again."
Only the young man and his monster lover are left in the entire maze, which is isolated into another world by the tentacles that cover the sky.
"Ah, you're back from your business trip..." Chi Liu still had his eyes tightly closed, but he suddenly felt relieved.
With one hand, he gently stroked the embryo in his abdomen that was miraculously comforted. With the other hand, he tightly grasped the man's collar. He forced a smile on his pale face and said, "Why do you still smell like braised fish?"
The tentacles surged wildly, and Chu Qi picked up the young man steadily. He said gently, affectionately, and distressedly: "I made braised fish for you."
“A perfect braised fish.”
Chi Liu laughed out loud, and before he peacefully lost consciousness in the man's arms, he murmured, "...Then I'm going to try it..."
The tentacles were surging wildly in this space, as if the end of the world had come. The tourists who were taking refuge were shocked to see this scene, some of them vomited continuously, and some fell to the ground.
The next moment, the terrifying monster and the existence it contained disappeared completely, as if they had never appeared.
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