Chapter 55: "Professionals" are just around the corner
The huge eye left, leaving silently without revealing any secrets.
The people in the cave looked at each other, as if they didn't know what to do for a moment. The oppressive feeling brought by the strange eyeball was so shocking that even if it disappeared now, everyone still felt a little palpitation and disbelief in their hearts.
"Did he really just leave like that?" Irene murmured to herself, looking very worried. "Maybe he just hid behind the clouds?"
Yu Sheng shook his head: "It's really gone, at least it's no longer in this foreign land."
He was very sure of this because he could clearly feel that the "gaze" that had always shrouded the valley had indeed disappeared.
"Why?" Irene was still muttering, "What on earth is that thing doing here? It's been hiding here for so long, and then it suddenly woke up to scare people, and it also affected the entities here, and now it's suddenly gone... What's its purpose?"
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he was just resting here, and now he's leaving after resting enough."
Irene was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Yu Sheng with some suspicion: "Yes, really?"
This time it was Yu Sheng's turn to be shocked - she believed this?!
"No one knows the purpose of the Dark Angels," Xu Jiali's voice came from the side, interrupting the meaningless discussion between Yu Sheng and Irene. "In fact, we can't be sure whether they have the concept of 'purpose'. These things always appear randomly. Sometimes it takes a great price to drive them away, and sometimes... they will leave quickly on their own. It is meaningless to analyze the actions of the Dark Angels. We should feel lucky that the Eye is not an individual with strong mobility."
Yu Sheng uttered an "oh" and touched his chin thoughtfully. At this moment, out of the corner of his eye he noticed Li Lin who was observing the situation outside the cave.
That inexplicable sense of familiarity rose up from the bottom of his heart again. Yu Sheng couldn't help but frown gradually. Memories surged in his heart. Suddenly, a scene finally flashed through his mind -
"Wait a minute! Have we met before?" Yu Sheng reacted immediately and stared at Li Lin, "Recently, I have definitely met before! Where was it... a small supermarket, yes, a small supermarket!"
He took two steps forward and looked up and down at Li Lin's face, which was so featureless in the crowd that he could not remember it without trying hard. This time, he finally matched the memory in his mind completely: "You bought a box of instant noodles, right?"
Li Lin twitched the corner of his mouth. He knew in a flash that Yu Sheng had recognized him, but he was not panicked or surprised at all - because he had recognized Yu Sheng's face when they first met in the ruins of the dilapidated temple.
Although they had only passed each other once in a small supermarket, as a professionally trained Secret Service agent, his memory and observation skills were far superior to those of ordinary people.
It is only a matter of time before they recognize each other.
Seeing the other party's reaction, Yu Sheng instantly thought of many things. He gradually understood and his eyes swept over Xu Jiali beside him and Little Red Riding Hood who was resting not far away.
"Where are you from?" Yu Sheng asked, frowning slightly.
"Let me introduce myself again," Li Lin sighed, then stood up straight and pointed at himself, "Li Lin, an agent of the Second Operations Squadron of the Special Service Bureau under the Border Region Council."
Xu Jiali also came over, adjusted her posture, and said in a muffled voice: "Second Action Brigade Special Operations Group, senior deep diver, Xu Jiali - this is really my real name."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth and was stunned for a long time. He turned his head and looked at the "Little Red Riding Hood" who looked like a high school student: "So you are also a special agent..."
"I'm not," Little Red Riding Hood crossed her arms, raised her head and pointed at Xu Jiali with her chin, "I'm a child laborer they hired."
Yu Sheng was stunned and looked at Xu Jiali in astonishment: "Your organization still employs child laborers?"
"What kind of work is this?" Xu Jiali glared at Little Red Riding Hood. "Holiday worker! Can you at least say it's a work-study program?!"
Yu Sheng felt confused. His first reaction was that all high school students in the border area were so hardcore that their part-time jobs during the holidays were to go to a foreign land and fight monsters. His second reaction was that he finally met those "professionals" that Irene mentioned, but the style of these professionals was different from what he imagined. As for his third reaction...
"So you're here for me?" Yu Sheng looked at the three "professionals" in front of him and felt that he had finally figured out a lot of things. "You followed me to this foreign land just to find me?"
He didn't expect that as soon as he said this, Xu Jiali and Li Lin sighed in unison. Even Little Red Riding Hood sighed and lowered her head, covering her face instead of her arms.
Xu Jiali took out a cigarette from her pocket, lit it with a sad face, and smoked one-third of it in one puff.
"If possible, we don't want to do this - this wasn't our original plan..."
Yu Sheng: “?”
He felt that the burly man in front of him didn't look very happy, so after thinking about it, he didn't dare to ask more questions.
Fortunately, the matter here has finally been resolved - there are still many remaining questions, but they can all be studied after everyone returns safely to the real world.
Irene returned to Yu Sheng from Hu Li's arms, and Yu Sheng carefully held the miserable little doll and was the first to walk out of the cave where they were hiding.
"It's completely quiet." Irene sat on Yu Sheng's shoulders, holding Yu Sheng's head with her broken arms, looking into the depths of the valley with a look of surprise and disbelief on her face, "...it's a mess."
"Yeah, it's a mess, but at least the Hungry Entity is gone," Yu Sheng nodded, looking at the valley that had been "eaten" away by a layer of soil, "...by the way, will that thing appear again later?"
"Yes, as long as the alien world still exists, the entity will appear again, and the alien world will never disappear. Even if you bomb it ten thousand times, it will return to its original state," Irene held Yu Sheng's head and said softly, "but... this time it will probably take a long time."
"It's time to leave this place," Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. Now that the hungry entity has temporarily disappeared, the air in the valley seems to have become much fresher. A cold wind blew from afar, and the bright sky dispelled the eternal night here. Although the scene in front of him was a fragmented one, he still felt relieved in his heart, "Hu Li, how do you feel now?"
The fox girl had been following Yu Sheng closely. She immediately raised her head and said, "I'm fine. I'm not cold or hungry. I had a full meal just now!"
As Hu Li spoke, he laughed happily. It was the first time that he laughed so carefree and brightly.
Yu Sheng smiled back and reached out to his side: "Then let's go home."
However, just as he was about to open the door to go home, Hu Li stepped forward without warning and gently pulled his sleeve.
Yu Sheng stopped in confusion and looked at the fox girl in front of him.
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"Are you worried about the food that was left in the ruins of the dilapidated temple? Most of it has been destroyed by the hungry entities. Do you still want to take it back?"
Hu Li nodded slightly, but then shook his head.
"My benefactor, I want to go somewhere, I..."
She spoke hesitantly, as if she was worried that her demands were too much, and also worried that what she wanted to do was too willful. She looked very conflicted.
Yu Sheng looked at the hesitant fox girl and did not understand what she wanted to do at first, but suddenly, he recalled a scene he had seen deep in Hu Li's dream.
After a moment of silence and consideration, Yu Sheng nodded: "I see, is it in that forest?"
Hu Li looked up with some surprise and looked into Yu Sheng's eyes.
Then she nodded slightly.
Li Lin and the other two were confused and cast questioning glances at Yu Sheng, but Yu Sheng did not explain in detail. He just waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I will find a way to send everyone back soon. But wait a moment, I have to go somewhere with Hu Li - if you are worried, come with us."
"Then let's go together," Xu Jiali nodded first, "This girl seems to have stayed here for a long time. She must have some things to settle before leaving. I understand."
The group left the back mountain, walked around a dilapidated temple that was even more dilapidated than the previous one, with only a few ruins left, and crossed the rocky beach at the bottom of the valley full of gullies and cracks, and finally came to the place where the grove once was.
The forest had long disappeared, and those dark mutated plants had been devoured in the previous feast. Now there was only a dark wasteland left, dotted with large and small deep pits and suspicious black debris.
"Is it here?" Yu Sheng glanced at Hu Li who was walking beside him and asked in a low voice.
"Yes," Hu Li nodded slowly, "Mom and Dad, they are right here."
It was not until this time that Irene finally understood why Yu Sheng followed Hu Li here.
The little doll opened her eyes wide. She recalled the scene deep in Hu Li's dream, those bewitches, those memories that were hard to distinguish between true and false, and those cold and hungry phantoms. For some reason, she felt a sense of uneasiness, and the deep pits of all sizes that could be seen everywhere around her made the uneasiness grow rapidly.
"But... maybe we can't find it!" She couldn't help but say, deliberately speaking loudly, "A piece of the ground has been eaten away! Maybe it has already been eaten by those tentacles that emerged from the ground..."
However, Hu Li just shook his head and interrupted Irene.
"No, I buried them deep," she said firmly, "Mom and Dad told me to bury them deep, so I buried them deep."
(End of this chapter)
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