Chapter 225 Growth
"The orphanage has stood up..."
Li Lin spoke hurriedly on the phone. As an elite operator - although he might not be that senior yet - this young man could always keep his composure. But at least this time, the situation before him had obviously exceeded all the training and practical experience he had received.
"Strictly speaking, it's those two buildings. They are 'growing', as if they have turned into some kind of plant, making a loud noise while entwining with each other. We have requested support from our superiors. We are now retreating outside the wall. The nearby blocks are being evacuated urgently. We also heard noises from underground..."
The sound on the phone suddenly became intermittent, as if it was strongly disturbed, and then Yu Sheng heard a baby crying and a shrill noise like an alarm. At first he thought the sounds were still in his mind, but the next second he realized that they were coming from the phone receiver -
The crying of a baby from the other end of the phone overlapped with the noise in his head, making him even a little dizzy.
It wasn't until Irene's noisy voice finally woke him up: "Hey! Yusheng Yusheng! What's going on? What happened? What?!"
"Ankaela... the orphanage is the container of the dark angel!" Yu Sheng took a deep breath and stretched out his hand to summon a door leading to the distance. "Hu Li, Irene, follow me!"
But then he suddenly thought of something and stopped in his tracks while trying to open the door.
He raised his head and looked at the camp huts around him - through the connection established by blood, he could feel that almost every child had fallen asleep, and some of them had even entered the sheltered wasteland.
"Erin," Yu Sheng turned his head and looked at the puppet, "You split the troops into two groups..."
"Is this human language?!"
"Don't interrupt - you split your troops into two groups and go to the Sanctuary Wasteland. Do you remember how we opened the portal to the Black Forest? I just thought of something that might help me break through the wolf packs in the Black Forest. This requires your ability..."
He paused at this point, and a strange light gradually appeared in his eyes.
It was the familiar, “Yu Sheng had an idea” glow that Irene was familiar with.
"I'm going to give Ankaela a big blow..."
…
In the dark night sky, strange roars, whistles and creaking noises echoed disturbingly, as if the whole world was being torn apart and pierced by some unmatched force. A huge structure made of reinforced concrete and a strange black substance stretched toward the sky like some rapidly growing and out-of-control limb, and in the process of stretching, it kept winding and deforming, forming a spiral-like structure. That scene...
Like a twisted umbilical cord running through the sky and the earth.
However, as long as you retreat outside the orphanage wall, all the strange roars and horrific scenes will disappear. Looking towards the orphanage from the nearby blocks, everything seems to be normal. The terrible changes and erosion seem to be just an illusion trapped in the wall.
However, Li Lin knew that the thing was "overflowing". He could clearly see the wall in the dark bulging from time to time, just like a fetus about to be born moving its hands and feet in the womb. After retreating to the outside of the wall, he could occasionally hear strange noises coming from the night sky. Looking up at the sky, he would see the entangled and growing "umbilical cord" structure suddenly emerge every one or two minutes. Although it only lasted for a moment, it was indeed still growing, and it looked more hideous and weird every time.
The sensor equipment installed inside the orphanage wall before the retreat was transmitting countless confusing data. The scenes presented on the surveillance images were becoming less and less realistic. Many indescribable shadows were emerging from around the two buildings. They looked like swaying crowds, struggling limbs, and even more terrifying inhuman creatures.
At this moment, Li Lin suddenly saw an illusory door appear in the air nearby from the corner of his eye. The door opened and the three people from the hotel walked out of it.
For some reason, he suddenly felt relieved - as if he had seen the backup sent by the Secret Service.
Yu Sheng walked out of the gate quickly, holding his terrifying stick in his hand. He walked straight towards Li Lin and looked back at the gate of the orphanage.
The door twisted from time to time in the night, as if something was constantly ramming into it, trying to escape from the "forbidden area" defined by the circle of walls.
"What's the situation now?" Yu Sheng retracted his gaze and looked at the Secret Service agent in front of him, "I saw that those two buildings are still..."
"The changes are currently confined within the walls. We can only observe them by going inside, but the situation is spreading out," Li Lin quickly interrupted Yu Sheng and explained in a hurried tone, "Before retreating, we tried to rush into the two buildings to urgently set up some monitoring devices, but the two buildings changed their structures almost in the blink of an eye - it seemed that it could sense our intentions, "erased" its own door, and released a large number of distorted shadows to try to stop us - so we can only retreat here first."
Yu Sheng nodded: "I understand, you stay here first, the three of us will go in and take a look."
Li Lin was stunned for a moment: "Wait! Just the three of you? Just barge in?"
Yu Sheng had already taken a step forward at this time. He turned his head and looked back: "Yes, what else?"
"No, I thought you would have a more detailed plan, or cooperate with the Secret Service after the follow-up support arrives... At least have a battle plan or something..."
"Ah," Yu Sheng scratched his chin, thought quickly, and shook his head, "I haven't really thought about it that much - our club is a non-professional club."
After saying this, he took big steps and walked through the gate that was bulging and deforming in the night sky in front of Li Lin and his group of stunned colleagues.
Then, Yu Sheng saw the "truth" within the wall.
The upper part of the two main buildings, east and west, has turned into a pile of strange fragments. Inside the broken wall structure, there is a strange black substance like fiber supporting the fragments. Although the lower part of the building is still barely intact, it has been completely covered by thick shadows. In addition to these two main buildings, the entire orphanage is full of overflowing shadows and undulating and squirming substances. The swings and slides where the children used to play have been swallowed up by those substances. The sand pits and flower beds are rippling with suspicious liquids with the texture of ink, and the crying of babies... is coming from Yu Sheng's mind and reality at the same time.
"Ew..." Irene grabbed Yu Sheng's hair tightly, and the little doll's whole body tensed up. "I suddenly feel that it's not a good idea for us to just break in..."
The fox on the side also stood up with its fur standing on end, its nine tails sticking out like a screen: "My benefactor, it seems like we can't get in..."
However, Yu Sheng did not speak. He just stared at the two main buildings that were entangled together like a giant umbilical cord.
He found that he seemed to be able to see things that Li Lin, Irene and Hu Li could not see.
He saw that there was actually a road between the two twisted and rising main buildings and between the surging black matter in the campus.
He saw a faint glowing trace spreading along the broken and deformed ground, all the way to the spiral structure that used to be the East Building.
A slight heat came from near the chest, becoming more and more obvious, even with a faint burning and tremor.
Yu Sheng reached into his arms and quickly found the source of the heat.
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A bullet with a spiral tip.
It is heating up, as if it had just been fired from a hot gun barrel, carrying out its mission of flying towards its target.
From the corner of his eye, Yu Sheng saw that the undulating black shadows in the outdoor activity area were gradually turning into a forest of trees, and the surfaces of the swings and slides that were engulfed by the sticky substance were slowly blooming with flowers like in the dense forest.
Little Red Riding Hood is going to walk on a small path in the suburbs.
The big bad wolf was about to attack the lone girl on the trail.
Grandma Wolf is waiting for her prey in the last hut.
And the hunter - the hunter would go through the forest and reach the cabin.
"Follow me..."
Yu Sheng said softly, he slowly clenched the bullet in his hand, and as if following his intuition, he walked towards the two main buildings that were entangled with each other and still "growing" in the night sky.
Hu Li followed without hesitation, even though her nine tails were still puffy like a sword tomb.
Irene held Yu Sheng's head with one hand, her eyes widened, and then she waved her hands vigorously: "Hey... Hey, never mind! I am the puppet of Alice's House!"
Pitch-black threads emerged from the puppet's hands, floating and entwining around the three people, weaving into a virtual and real barrier.
Yu Sheng seemed not to hear the sounds around him, and just walked forward according to his intuition. Gradually, he seemed to no longer be able to see the surging shadows and the sticky and strange substances, the crooked and twisted walls and the blocked doors and windows. He moved forward in the dim light, stepping onto the secret path that only he could see, and passed through the shadows and seemingly blocked walls and doors amid Irene's low exclamations - in Yu Sheng's vision, he was just passing through some light and shadows in the woods.
The lobby on the first floor was overgrown with trees, the entrance to the reception desk was crowded with bushes, a dry tree trunk lay across the stairs leading to the second floor, vines hung from the roof, the nearby walls were cracked, and the classroom inside was filled with a dusk-like light.
Yu Sheng climbed up the vine-covered earth slope, passed through a dry tree hole through a window, and used the stick in his hand to push aside the grass that blocked the way. He stopped at the end of the path and saw a sign among the mud and rotten leaves at his feet.
The sign read "Reading Room".
"Yes, the reading room - for the children who grew up in the orphanage, all the 'stories' are inseparable from this place."
He muttered quietly.
(End of this chapter)
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