Chapter 74 Do you want to kill people?
Soon after Qi Yu and his companions walked out of the prison, the ground began to shake.
The floor beneath my feet undulated like waves, cracks in the walls on both sides spread rapidly, bricks and stones fell off, and the glass windows burst in the violent vibration, with fragments flying like hail, making crisp cracking sounds.
The entire base began to sound red alarms, with panicked screams and cries for help everywhere, mixed with the roar of collapsing walls, creating a scene of chaos and disorder.
Then with a loud "bang", the ceiling of the base was blown over by a huge force, and no one knew where it was blown to. The moonlight mixed with snowflakes poured down, and the earth fell into silence again.
Qi Yu and others huddled in the corner, and a defensive extraordinary child set up an energy barrier, and luckily they escaped the disaster.
After the disaster, someone asked quietly, "What, what happened? Was there an earthquake just now?"
"Qi Yu, what should we do next?"
Qi Yu looked at the boy with black-framed glasses, "Where is Li Ping'an?"
The boy with black-framed glasses activated his superpowers to sense something, then tremblingly pointed in a direction, "Over there."
Over there, is the strongest center of the earthquake, everyone is fleeing, but are they going in?
Qi Yu knew that earthquakes usually have aftershocks, and the best thing to do at this time would be to quickly escape to an open area.
He turned to look at the others. Everyone was looking at him with trust in their eyes.
What to do next?
Is it to save one person at the expense of everyone else's life?
The weight of life weighed on his shoulders, making it difficult for him to move.
He came up with a win-win plan: "I'll go over there to find Li Ping'an, and the rest of you, led by Zhang Dongyang, will escape first."
In this way, even if they encounter danger, they will not be wiped out.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Dongyang was the first to jump out and object: "No, if you want to go, let's go together. I also want to go find my junior sister."
The others said in unison: "We also want to find Li Ping'an and escape with her."
Looking at the innocent faces, Qi Yu gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's keep going."
He didn't know if his choice was the right one, and he didn't want everyone to take the risk with him.
But at this critical moment, everyone holds the same belief in their hearts, and that belief is to rescue Li Pingan.
He could not break such belief, nor could he turn the united hearts of the people into a group of loose sand.
So he could only grit his teeth and take the lead, walking against the flow of people towards the epicenter.
Maybe because of the earthquake, everyone in the base fled for their lives. Along the way, they did not encounter any guards to stop them.
They found Li Pingan at the epicenter, the worst-hit area of the entire base.
The base was riddled with holes and had become a ruin, but the place where Li Ping'an was located miraculously remained in its original appearance.
At this moment, she was squatting in a room without walls with her back to everyone, checking something.
Zhang Dongyang couldn't hold it in any longer and yelled, "Junior Sister!"
He ran forward and hugged Li Pingan in a bear hug.
When Li Ping'an saw Zhang Dongyang appear in front of her, there was a brief moment of daze and confusion on her face, followed by shock, joy, sadness and confusion.
Never before had so much emotion flooded across her face.
"Zhang Dongyang, you... are still alive?" she murmured.
Zhang Dongyang let go of Li Pingan, scratched his head and said, "Of course I'm still alive, are you okay, little apprentice sister?"
Li Pingan shook his head, "I'm fine."
"You're okay...that's great." Qi Yu followed Zhang Dongyang and came to Li Ping'an. Seeing that she was unharmed, he relaxed completely.
Zhang Dongyang immediately noticed Qi Yu's abnormality, and said to him with his hands on his waist: "Didn't you say that Junior Sister would be fine? It turns out that you were just guessing."
Qi Yu snorted and turned his head away.
At that time, he didn't know whether Li Ping'an was really still alive, but he could only stand up and tell everyone that there was still hope.
Regardless of whether Li Ping'an is still alive or not, the living people need a psychological support. They need a common goal to unite and get out of the cell.
Li Pingan is the best target.
Fortunately, his guess was correct, Li Pingan was really fine, and he could finally put his mind at ease.
After relaxing, he finally had time to observe the room where Li Pingan was.
This is a very simple confinement cell. As the walls have disappeared, all that can be seen is a table and a bed.
There were a lot of drawing papers scattered on the table. Qi Yu walked over and lowered his head to look.
All the drawings on the paper show a big tree, but the difference is that this big tree has gone from dry branches to green leaves and then to a lush tree.
He could see from this series of paintings the different mental states of the painters.
From dead silence to slowly coming to life, until the most recent painting, it is full of vitality and vigor.
"Li Ping'an, did you draw all these?" Qi Yu asked as he picked up a piece of drawing paper.
Li Pingan nodded.
It is hard to imagine that Li Pingan drew so many paintings in just a short period of time.
Qi Yu felt that there seemed to be something different about Li Pingan, but he couldn't tell what was different.
He asked, "Li Ping'an, what have you experienced here?"
Li Pingan smiled and said, "It's all over."
Zhang Dongyang interrupted their conversation: "Junior sister, let's not talk about painting for now. There was an earthquake here. I don't know if there will be aftershocks. Let's get out quickly."
He pulled Li Pingan and was about to walk out.
Li Pingan said, "Wait, there is another person there."
Everyone turned around and looked, and sure enough, they found a person hiding under the bed.
Zhang Dongyang squatted down to look, and the next second, he was so shocked that he fell backwards.
"He, he, he's a priest."
What! ?
The person hiding under the bed turned out to be a pastor!
Hearing this, everyone gathered together quickly as if facing a great enemy, staring under the bed vigilantly.
Zhang Dongyang saw Li Ping'an still standing by the bed, and waved at her anxiously, "Little Junior Sister, come here quickly, it's dangerous!"
Unexpectedly, Li Pingan shook his head and said, "It's okay, you don't have to be so nervous, he won't hurt us."
What's the meaning?
Qi Yu approached cautiously and squatted down to look at the pastor hiding under the bed.
This time, I found the problem.
The pastor raised his face and gave him an innocent smile, saliva flowing down the corners of his mouth.
He looks completely different now than when he first started in prison.
Now he seemed to have suffered a great shock, his whole face was covered with tears, snot and saliva, and he curled up under the bed with a dull expression, not moving a single step.
"What's wrong with him?" Qi Yu asked with a frown.
"He seems stupid." Li Pingan replied.
"Ah?" Zhang Dongyang got up from the ground, came forward and asked, "Why is he stupid?"
Li Pingan said: "When I woke up, he had already become stupid."
Qi Yu found something suspicious in Li Ping'an's words, "Li Ping'an, you said he became stupid when you woke up, do you remember what happened before you woke up?"
Li Pingan lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I saw that you are all dead."
"Ah..." Zhang Dongyang exclaimed, "We also saw you, Junior Sister, die in front of us."
"I see." Qi Yu touched his chin and speculated: "Perhaps the priest's superpower is related to mental hypnosis, which can directly affect the pain and despair of others. The current organization relies on this mental hypnosis to brainwash us and make us join them and become one of them."
"Then how did he become like this?" Zhang Dongyang asked.
Qi Yu also didn't quite understand. "Looking at him like this, it seems like he has experienced some unbearable stimulation and has a mental breakdown, so he has become a fool."
He glanced at Li Ping'an in front of him, then at the messy drawings on the table, and said thoughtfully: "Perhaps he originally wanted to brainwash Li Ping'an here, but he didn't expect Li Ping'an to wake up from his hypnosis, so the same pain and despair were rebounded back to his brain. He couldn't stand this pain and despair, so he became like this."
So that's how it is. Zhang Dongyang said, "Little Junior Sister, you are so amazing. You actually defeated the pastor by yourself."
Li Pingan didn't look very happy. "So the despair and pain he inflicted on others is something he himself can't bear? Then why should he let others experience such pain and despair?"
"Who knows?" Zhang Dongyang looked at the pastor under the bed and said disdainfully, "Maybe they are all crazy."
Li Ping'an thought about it, then suddenly squatted down and wrapped the priest with his healing ability.
Under the effect of the healing power, the priest finally fell into a deep sleep.
Zhang Dongyang asked puzzledly: "Junior Sister, why did you save him?"
Li Pingan: "Because I have experienced that kind of pain and despair, I don't want others to go through it again. Let him sleep like this."
Zhang Dongyang: "Okay, let's go."
Li Pingan held him back and pointed at the pastor, saying, "Let's take him out together."
"What?" Zhang Dongyang was even more confused. "Junior Sister treated you like this, and you still want to take him out with you?"
Li Pingan lowered his eyes and said, "Actually, the earthquake just now was caused by me. It was my sword that caused this place to be like this."
"Ah?" Zhang Dongyang was dumbfounded, "Junior sister, you are so amazing."
Li Pingan: "So I can't just watch so many people die here because of me."
Zhang Dongyang argued: "But people like the pastor deserve to die."
Li Pingan insisted: "They are guilty, and their crimes should be judged by the law, not me. Moreover, I think their crimes should be made public, and they should not die in obscurity under my sword. That would be too easy for them."
Zhang Dongyang thought there was nothing wrong with it.
He was convinced: "Okay, Junior Sister, let's take him out together."
After saying that, he looked at Qi Yu again, "Hey, what do you think?"
Qi Yu spread his hands and said, "We have to escape anyway. In the process of escaping, there is nothing wrong with trying our best to save more people."
So everyone agreed that if they met anyone in need of help on the way out of the base, they would help if they could.
So the question is, how can they take the pastor out when he is such a big man?
A little girl in a vest raised her hand and said, "Well, my superpower is to move objects with my mind. I can try to see if I can lift him up."
Everyone stepped aside to allow the girl in the vest to use her superpowers.
She stretched out her hands towards the pastor under the bed. After a while, it seemed as if a pair of invisible hands pulled the pastor out from under the bed and lifted him into the air.
"It's a success. I'm useful now." The girl in the vest said happily.
"Can you hold on?" Qi Yu asked.
"Yes, it's OK." The vest girl nodded and said, "As long as you keep this state, it won't consume much superpower."
So the group regrouped and set out on a journey to escape the base, taking the priest who was floating in the air and sleeping like a baby.
***
When Li Chengfeng and Lu Chen hurried to the entrance of the organization's base, it was in chaos.
A huge hole had been opened right above the base at some point, and everyone was in chaos. No one noticed the two people who had sneaked in.
The base is interconnected, like an underground maze, with the first, second, and third floors underground...
Lu Chen suggested: "It's too slow to search like this, why don't we split up and do it?"
Li Chengfeng nodded.
After turning a corner, before the two had time to separate, they ran into a group of armed men from the base.
Both sides were stunned.
"Who are you?"
Before the other party could finish his question, Li Chengfeng and Lu Chen attacked at the same time.
In an instant, the enemy was blown away by a huge mysterious force, breaking through the already crumbling ceiling of the base and thrown into the unknown distance.
"Ahhhhh, someone is invading--" The screams pierced the night sky, and together with the alarm sounding through the night sky of the base, they composed a chaotic melody.
Li Chengfeng and Lu Chen looked up at the big hole above their heads and fell silent.
Now, I can't keep a low profile even if I want to.
Lu Chen said to Li Chengfeng: "Li Chengfeng, you are confused, do you want to kill people?"
Li Chengfeng took a deep breath and said, "Sorry, I was a little too heavy-handed just now. I'll be more careful next time."
Lu Chen: "Then should we split up and act separately?"
Li Chengfeng looked ahead and said, "No need. Someone is coming. I will be gentler this time. It will be faster to get Ping An's location directly from them."
At the fork in the road ahead, a group of extraordinary people walked over from the left side of the passage.
The leader looked at the two with disdain and said, "Are you the invaders?"
Someone next to him put away a measuring instrument and said, "No extraordinary powers were detected. He is just an ordinary person."
"How dare ordinary people walk in here so brazenly? What do you think this is?"
"Hahaha, kneel down and kowtow to grandpa three times, and you will die more comfortably."
Lu Chen watched them commit suicide in various ways, hugged the immortal sword to his chest with both hands, and sighed, "You do it or should I do it?"
Li Chengfeng walked forward expressionlessly and said, "I'm in a hurry. I'll do it."
***
A small head popped out from the corner of the passage.
Qi Yu looked ahead and saw that there was no danger, so he waved for others to follow.
The group quickly passed through this intersection with a floating priest, and when they reached the next fork in the road, Qi Yu looked at the boy with black-framed glasses and asked, "Which way?"
The boy with black-framed glasses closed his eyes and activated his superpowers. After a while, he opened his eyes and said, "Go left."
Before anyone could take a step, a group of people suddenly walked out from the right passage. Standing in the front was a little curly-haired boy about their age, followed by several guards from the base.
When the two groups met, they were both stunned.
Qi Yu was quick-witted and threw several lightning balls, electrocuting all the base guards behind the curly-haired boy to the ground.
The crisis was resolved and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Pingan walked up to the curly-haired boy and asked, "Were you also captured by them?"
The curly-haired boy was stunned, "Who are you?"
Li Pingan nodded: "We were also captured, you can escape with us."
The curly-haired boy frowned at her, "Do you know how to escape?"
Li Pingan pointed to the boy with black-framed glasses in the team and said, "His superpower is his enhanced sixth sense, which can lead us to find the right path."
The boy with black-framed glasses who was called out laughed innocently and pointed to the left passage and said, "My sixth sense tells me to take the left path."
Unexpectedly, the curly-haired boy heard what he said, but shook his head and said: "No, you can't take that road, you have to take the road on the right."
"Ah?" The boy with black-framed glasses showed a look of surprise on his face.
However, his sixth sense clearly pointed in the opposite direction.
The curly-haired boy pointed to the road on the right and said, "If you want to escape, then follow me. I know how to escape."
He walked a few steps and didn't hear any footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw everyone standing next to the boy with black-framed glasses without moving. An expression of hurt instantly appeared on his face.
"You don't believe me, do you?"
"No, no, no, of course not." The boy with black-framed glasses waved his hands quickly.
He looked left and right, and saw that none of his companions had any intention of speaking, so he had to bite the bullet and ease the current awkward situation: "Maybe my sixth sense is wrong, it's always working sometimes and sometimes not. If you know the way out, we should go with you."
Qi Yu asked, "Why do you want to go to the right?"
The curly-haired boy patiently explained, "His sixth sense is correct. The left side is indeed the fastest way out. But just now I saw a large number of extraordinary people rushing over there. I don't know what happened over there, so I think it's better for us to avoid it."
So that's how it is. Everyone then understood why the curly-haired boy asked them to walk on the right.
Qi Yu pondered, "If all the extraordinary people are attracted to the left channel, then the other places must be poorly guarded. This is a good opportunity for us to escape."
Without further ado, he made the final decision: "Then let's go out to the right."
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