Chapter 123 Recovering Memory
When they arrived at the place, they saw the remaining team members. Their hands were tied and some of them were trapped under rocks. Qin Muxue and others found a way to rescue them. Fortunately, they only suffered some minor injuries. The most serious one was a fracture. They were not in danger of life.
Manman immediately bandaged and treated their wounds, and soon healed the wounds of several people.
Shi Yan felt that there was someone behind him who was blocked by the boulder, and there was a hint of darkness in his eyes that he himself did not even notice.
Manman still couldn't see Qu Yanbai, and her mood became heavier and heavier. She asked anxiously, "Why, why can't I see your captain? Where did he go?"
Everyone was silent, and finally a teammate stammered, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, Captain Qu fell down to cover us."
He looked at the deep pit not far away and said, "When we are well, we will find a way to go down and rescue him."
Manman walked to the side of the collapsed pit. It was bottomless and the possibility of survival was almost zero. Moreover, they were all in a state of losing their superpowers. Qu Yanbai did not have superpowers either. Even if a superpowered person fell in, he might not survive. Moreover, he had no superpowers now and might suffer serious internal injuries. She could not help crying, but she could not let others see it. Manman turned her head and wiped away her tears, "I want to save him!"
Sheng Xingyuan looked at the deep pit and thought, "It may not be impossible to save him. We can go down."
One of the team members said, "Once our abilities are restored, there should be a way to go down. Right now we are not sure. We don't know if we can be sure."
They recounted the whole story of their encounter with the man in black. "If it weren't for Yuan Rong's betrayal, we wouldn't be in this situation. It's all because of him..."
"Well, the people are dead, what else can we do?"
They have seen too many people being selfish, but they never thought that one day it would happen to them. Moreover, Yuan Rong is an introverted and somewhat cowardly person, and they never thought that one day he would betray them in this way. But now he has been crushed under the boulder and is afraid that he has been crushed to pieces.
Manman blamed herself and said, "It's all my fault. If I had gone to see his mother earlier, this wouldn't have happened."
Qin Muxue patted Manman on the shoulder and said, "Don't think like that. You have no obligation to save anyone. Don't blackmail yourself. Even if you save him, he will betray us for other reasons that no one can predict. We must find a way to get out as soon as possible."
Others said in embarrassment: "But it will take some time for our super powers to recover, and the situation is urgent now."
Qin Muxue thought for a while, "We have special abilities, so we can go down first. Time is urgent and every second counts. You guys can rest here now."
"He Qiuyang, you stay here and take care of them. Manman, Shi Yan and I can go down and investigate the situation first. Come back and pick us up when you have recovered."
"But what if that group of men in black come to attack us again? Their methods are too cruel. I've observed that there are five of them in total, two of whom should have superpowers, and they are quite powerful. I'm afraid..." The team members hesitated. There were several of them here, and they had families with them in the base. No one wanted to lose their life easily. After seeing how terrifying that group of men in black was, they knew that one person with superpowers could not deal with them alone.
Qin Muxue could only stare at Shi Yan, "Shi Yan, could you please stay and protect them?"
Shi Yan's strength is extraordinary. Even if he has lost his memory now, he should have no problem dealing with the group of men in black. "He Qiuyang and Shi Yan both stay here. I think it should be enough."
Sheng Xingyuan said dissatisfiedly: "Have you forgotten me? What should I do?"
She smiled and asked back: "Haven't you decided a long time ago? Do you still need to ask me?"
From the moment Sheng Xingyuan started speaking, Qin Muxue knew that he was very interested in this collapsed area and would definitely find a way to get down there. Maybe it was related to rare minerals.
Sheng Xingyuan nodded calmly, "You are indeed smart."
"Then let's go down without delay."
Although this place looks scary, Sheng Xingyuan knows that there is something hidden inside. The rare mineral is right under their feet, so this group of people couldn't find that place after circling around in circles for so many times.
Qin Muxue gave Shi Yan a few instructions, "Your memory has not yet recovered, so don't be stubborn. Listen to your teammates and don't act rashly. We will be back soon."
Shi Yan nodded, "Don't worry! Don't worry about me."
"Well, Shi Yan, you must protect them well!"
At this moment, Qin Muxue seemed to see the real Shi Yan. He would always tell her not to worry, and he would always make her feel at ease. She believed that no matter which time and space Shi Yan was in, he would have such ability.
She pulled He Qiuyang aside and whispered, "Shi Yan's mood is unstable. If you find that he is not right, notify us immediately."
After explaining all this, Sheng Xingyuan put down the rope. He flicked his fingers and the bodyguards appeared. He asked a few of the strong men to keep an eye on the rope. "You just need to keep an eye on the rope and don't let anyone get close. Do you understand?"
"Understood."
They were wearing night vision goggles and mining lamps. The further they went down, the more they felt the temperature gradually rising. Fortunately, they had good physical strength, and they climbed on the rope for nearly an hour before they touched the ground.
The moment she reached the ground, Manman began to look for Qu Yanbai everywhere, "Qu Yanbai, Qu Yanbai, where are you?" There was only an echo in the empty cave, and no movement of Qu Yanbai could be heard.
When she climbed down just now, she had prepared herself mentally. At such a high place, he would definitely be dead or injured. Manman took a few deep breaths and continued to walk deeper into the mine. If she didn't see him in this place, would he still have a chance of survival? With such a lucky mentality, she searched everywhere for his traces.
After walking deeper, they suddenly saw ore that glowed purple. The entire cave seemed to be covered with a layer of blue-purple light. Qin Muxue looked up and felt as if she had come to the universe. "What's going on here?"
The entire top floor of the cave was covered with this kind of mineral, and there were even tiny fireflies hovering above it. It really looked like the vast and boundless universe, which was fascinating. Qin Muxue turned around a few times and was almost mesmerized by such a magnificent scene.
Sheng Xingyuan looked at the purple ores excitedly, "They are rare ores."
"Rare ore?" Qin Muxue stretched out her hand and could feel the enormous mental power in these ores, which was almost the same as the mental power in the red crystal core. And there were so many purple ores here. If this was the case, it would be easy for her to break through to her advanced supernatural powers. She couldn't help but show an excited expression.
I originally thought that these rare minerals were just for research, but I didn't expect that they actually contained enormous spiritual power.
While she was excited, she also felt a little disappointed because she hadn't found Qu Yanbai yet.
Suddenly, there was a sound of human wailing on the other side. They immediately went into alert. "What's that sound? Did you hear it?"
"It sounded like a human screaming in pain."
Following the sound, they saw several desperate miners, desperately pounding on the rocks. They were trapped here, but rescue had not arrived yet. "Is there anyone? Help!"
"Why, why doesn't anyone come to rescue us!"
Qin Muxue watched as one of them walked towards her but passed directly through her body. Qin Muxue paused and realized that everything she saw was not real.
Sheng Xingyuan explained: "This is what the Purple Mine recorded. This group of miners once fought desperately here. You have heard the story here. In the end, only two people survived. Do you know how they survived? They relied on eating the bodies of their dead companions, so they all went crazy after they came out."
Before Qin Muxue could answer, Manman, who was not far away, suddenly shouted in surprise, "Xiaoxue, come here quickly!"
Following her voice, I came to her side and saw Qu Yanbai lying in the purple mine. He was surrounded by various plants. The vines wrapped him in the middle, and he had his eyes closed.
Manman sniffed his breath and said excitedly: "He is not dead, he is still alive."
The spiritual power here is so rich, no wonder the group of men in black tried their best to find this place. Qu Yanbai might have been saved because of this. He was still holding a piece of purple ore tightly in his hand.
Manman quickly held his hands and closed her eyes. A warm current flowed into Qu Yanbai's body. "He is not dead. There is no damage to his internal organs." Manman said excitedly: "The plants around him should be caused by too much mental energy. Now he should just fall asleep."
As Manman transmitted healing power to him, it was discovered that he only had a mild concussion, and he recovered quickly under Manman's healing.
Qu Yanbai slowly opened his eyes and stared at Manman in confusion, "I really am hallucinating because of the fall."
He rubbed his eyes and found another face staring at him. If he could see Manman in the hallucination, he would think it was normal because he missed her, but the appearance of Qin Muxue, his enemy, was definitely not due to excessive longing.
"Did you really find me? I thought I was hallucinating." If he hadn't seen Qin Muxue's dead face, he would have thought he had come to heaven.
Looking at himself lying in a patch of grass, he sat up with the help of Manman, "I remember I fell down and my whole body was in pain, then I crawled to this place inexplicably and grabbed this thing unknowingly." Looking at the purple ore in his hand, any psychic can feel the tremendous mental power from it.
"Since we have found the ore, I will make a satellite call after we go up and ask them to transport it away."
Qin Muxue thought, why bother with all that trouble, she could just take him away directly, but she was not sure whether she could tell Sheng Xingyuan this secret. She squinted her eyes and thought for a long time, and finally made a decision.
The affectionate gaze between Manman and Qu Yanbai made Qin Muxue feel like she had become a big light bulb. She wanted to discuss something with Sheng Xingyuan.
Pulling him aside, she finally revealed her secret, "In fact, I not only have water abilities, I also have space abilities, which can allow me to take all these ores away."
Sheng Xingyuan looked at her in surprise. He knew that the other party was hiding a secret from him, but he didn't know it was this.
People with space abilities do exist, but they are very rare, and usually only have a space the size of a room. He has never encountered one with a huge space.
"Can you move the ore?"
"Yes, but as a condition, I need ownership of part of the ore."
"This..." Sheng Xingyuan was still hesitating. She was really asking for too much. Maybe she didn't know yet that these purple ores would become something that humans would fight for.
"Now that the people from the God's Descent Sect are still here, if we go back and send people to take it, there will definitely be accidents. If something like this happens again, all these ores will be snatched away by the people from the God's Descent Sect. Wouldn't that be a loss? I can help you transport them directly, and the reward is just some purple ore." She knew that Sheng Xingyuan would definitely agree to this condition.
As she expected, Sheng Xingyuan was silent for a moment and then agreed to her proposal. After all, no one knew if there would be any accidents during the period, and the people from the Shenjiang Sect were all death warriors. They had no intention of returning alive when they went out on a mission, and they were full of tricks. It would be better to put them in Qin Muxue's space, so that the two of them could at least know each other well.
"I promise."
Qin Muxue turned around and put the ore into the space. Sheng Xingyuan watched the purple ore disappear before his eyes, leaving only a few fireflies flying alone in the air.
"Your space should be very large?" So many ores can be easily stuffed in.
"It's more than enough to hold these ores."
The area around Manman and Qu Yanbai suddenly became pitch black, with only a faint glimpse of some light through the fireflies.
"Now that we have the purple ore and Qu Yanbai has been rescued, let's hurry up and go up to avoid any accidents."
Manman supported Qu Yanbai and walked towards the rope step by step, but she didn't expect that the rope would fall down in front of them.
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Qin Muxue and Sheng Xingyuan looked at each other, "Is your bodyguard okay?"
Sheng Xingyuan's face turned pale. If his bodyguard had not died, he would never have let the rope be cut. Something bad must have happened up there.
Qu Yanbai picked up the ropes and said, "I should be able to go up with my special powers, but my special powers have not recovered yet. It will take another two hours. We will go up in two hours."
"Yan Bai, your teammates are still up there, as well as Shi Yan and He Qiuyang. I'm afraid something might happen to them."
"Shi Yan?"
Qin Muxue could only explain the whole story again, "The rope is broken. Those crazy people in the evil cult must have found a way to find them. Now we don't know whether they are alive or dead."
She was very worried that Shi Yan might die because of this.
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"Did you cut the rope?" The man in black stared at Shi Yan with a grim face.
The rope was cut by Shi Yan. The group of men in black had already discovered that someone was going down. If the rope was left, Qin Muxue would be in danger after they went down, so he cut the rope while the bodyguards were not paying attention.
The members of the special power team stared at the group of men in black nervously. The leader finally exploded in anger. A ball of black gas slowly rose from his body. The black gas around him was poisonous. If it touched anyone, blisters would appear on the body and the pain would be unbearable.
When the men in black behind him saw him taking action, they quickly put on special protective clothing to avoid being accidentally injured.
Shi Yan stood in front of everyone. He could feel the toxicity of the black air. In an emergency, a protective shield appeared around him, blocking the black air outside.
Everyone was waiting to die, but no one expected Shi Yan to have such special abilities.
Everyone's hearts were finally at ease. Fortunately, they could still hold on for a while because there was a protective shield in the middle. The remaining men in black desperately fired in the direction of Shi Yan, and he could not move at will.
Shi Yan frowned. Before Xiaoxue left, she asked him to protect these people well. He had to hold on. No matter how fierce the firepower outside was, he had to endure it.
He gritted his teeth and held on until the shield began to destabilize and the bullet hit him in the abdomen.
The members of the Ability Team couldn't bear to see him trying so hard, "Okay, brother, you've done enough. Even if you give up now, we won't say anything. You should just run for your life first!" Someone behind him persuaded.
If they had superpowers now, they could still fight them off, but their superpowers have not yet recovered, and their weapons have been confiscated by that group of people. Without superpowers and firepower, they would soon die of the poison after being exposed to the poisonous gas.
He Qiuyang shouted: "Enough, let us out! We can still fight hard." You can't hide behind him and watch him get hurt.
"No." Shi Yan said through gritted teeth. His mental strength was slowly being exhausted. A bullet grazed his head and blood instantly flowed from his head.
At that moment, many memories flashed through his mind, including the inhuman treatment he received after being sent from the mental hospital to the laboratory in the United States. His memory had begun to become confused during the experiment. Sometimes he felt as if he had become another person, and memories that did not belong to his current self would flash through his mind. At that time, he felt that he had really become a schizophrenic.
However, in reality, he lost his memory for a period of time because Shi Yan from another time and space traveled into his body, and those memories belonged to himself in that other time and space.
He obviously likes Qin Muxue, but under the torture of drugs and mental illness in this time and space, he thinks that Qin Muxue is the source of all evil. If it weren't for her, he wouldn't have become like this. Shi Yan in this time and space eventually turned evil and became a cold-blooded and bloodthirsty killer.
Shi Yan shook his head desperately. No, that was not him. He didn't dare to believe everything in his memory. He liked Xiaoxue and he would be content as long as he could protect her. It was absolutely impossible for him to turn love into hate and become the cruel person in his memory.
As the bullets in front of him continued to hit him, Shi Yan lowered his head. When he raised his head again, his eyes had turned red.
"Stop!" he said gloomily, with mental power visible to the naked eye emanating from his body.
Shi Yan, who had fallen to his knees, stood up silently. The man in black laughed at him, "Almost there. This guy has plenty of mental strength. His crystal core must be very useful. I'll cut open his head and see what color his crystal core is."
"I smell the scent of a woman. If you catch her later, you must give her to me so that I can have a good taste of her."
"Aren't you afraid that it's a dominatrix?"
"I haven't vented for a long time. Even if you are a female demon, I will accept it!"
Listening to their dirty talk, Shi Yan's patience had reached its limit.
He drew the sword from his back and leaped forward. The protective shield was reinforced and stayed in place. He squinted and looked back at the people behind him. "If you want to live, don't move."
Then his eyes darkened, he raised his sword, and rushed towards the men in black, not caring even though blisters appeared on his body.
The guns posed no threat to him, as he had quick strength and dodged the bullets easily, and even the men in black could not see his movements clearly.
He rushed in front of them like lightning, and before the leader could even make a sound, he felt a sharp pain in his waist.
"What a cult, a bunch of scum." There was no blood on the blade.
The leader looked down and saw that he had been cut in two from the waist before he could even see what he was doing.
"You... who are you?" After asking the last sentence, the leader fell to the ground with his eyes open, blood gushing from his waist.
The people around him took several steps back in fear. "You are so powerful, why do you have to stay in a place like the base? The treatment is not good. Just join our sect and you can have whatever you want, women, money, power..."
Shi Yan was unmoved and just asked indifferently: "What did you say just now?"
"I, I can get whatever I say."
"The one above is about women."
"Brother, that was just a joke. I have forgotten what I said. Please forgive me. I can give you anything." The man in black knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times.
"Why doesn't your God come to save you at this time?" He sneered and put the sword against the man's neck.
The man's pupils instantly dilated, and his neck was bleeding. "How do you kill others? This time you can try the same feeling. Does it feel good?"
The blade of the sword came into contact with blood, and he wiped it with the man's clothes in disgust. The blood from the liver could not stain his sword.
The people behind him watched the massacre on the other side of the protective shield.
"I, a demon, am about to bleed all my blood. Where is your God?" After killing the last man in black, he cut the man's body into pieces as if to vent his anger. The pleasure of killing completely occupied his brain.
He wanted to kill people. Killing all those who had wronged him was not enough. He raised his head, his face stained with blood, and walked towards the members of the superpower team step by step like a demon from hell...
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