Chapter 137 The Iron Door That Cannot Be Opened
"Jia Jia, you must not agree to him."
Xia Qiaoyun clutched the corner of her daughter's clothes. She finally had someone to rely on in her life, and she must not let her life be ruined by the man in front of her. Although Li Cheng had a cold personality, other places treated Qin Jia well, and at least they had never treated her badly.
"I won't agree to your request. Just give up on this idea." Qin Jia snorted coldly.
"Then don't blame me. I still have ways to get food, but a beauty like you won't have a chance in the future..."
His meaningful expression made Qin Jia feel extremely insulted. She stretched out her hand and wanted to slap the man, but the man suddenly held her hand and said, "Your hands are still as delicate as before. You must not have done any rough work. Do you want to go back to your old days as a worker?"
For the first time, Qin Jia hated her own strength so much. She was so weak and incompetent that she even regretted not following Wu You to learn the basic life-saving skills.
She moved her lips and said, "I..." Her heart had already begun to loosen. She was rotten to the core anyway, so it didn't matter if she continued to degenerate like this.
Who would have thought that Xia Qiaoyun would actually stand up and stab the man in the abdomen with a hidden knife, "Don't bully my daughter!"
The man took back the knife from Xia Qiaoyun's hand with some pain, "How dare you, old woman, plot against me."
The two men started fighting. Qin Jia was frightened and didn't react for a while. Xia Qiaoyun was ultimately at a disadvantage. After the mad man took the knife back from her, she was stabbed several times frantically. "I told you not to plot against me, I told you not to plot against me, I'll kill you!" He had a vicious expression on his face.
Qin Jia watched her mother covered in blood and screamed, "Qin Jia, run!"
She wanted to run, but she couldn't move. She was even more frightened to see Xia Qiaoyun like this. The man's hands were still moving.
Her eyes widened in horror. No, she couldn't let him go on like this. And the photos in his hand had to be returned and no one could find out.
Qin Jia picked up the rope that she saw next to her by accident, and a bold idea came to her mind.
Kill him, so that her past will not be discovered. Xia Qiaoyun is still being tortured by him, and the man’s next target will definitely be herself.
"Mom, hold on, I'm here to save you!"
Qin Jia finally stood up, took the rope beside her, and put it around the man's neck while crying. She used all her strength to strangle the man's neck tightly.
This was her boldest move so far. In her mind, she kept repeating the thought of killing him, killing him.
The man's face turned red, "You...you stop it!" He held the rope tightly, but the woman behind him was very strong and he couldn't break free.
Xia Qiaoyun looked at her daughter, struggled to support herself, and pressed on the man, "Push harder!"
Qin Jia used all her strength until the man finally stopped moving. She vaguely felt his breath and found that the man was no longer breathing.
"He...he's dead."
Xia Qiaoyun breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that she had no strength left in her body. "Jia Jia, hurry up, find the photo in his pocket and take it away..." Her moans became weaker and weaker.
Qin Jia cried and rummaged through the man's pockets, and finally found the stack of photos, which were of her unbearable past. She looked around nervously and found that there was no one around, so she put the photos away.
After Xia Qiaoyun felt relieved, she fell in a pool of blood. She had used up all her strength in trying to save her daughter. She was stabbed several times and could not hold on any longer.
"Jia Jia...you must live well."
"Mom, mom, how are you?" She crawled to Xia Qiaoyun's side and saw that she was covered in blood.
"Jia Jia, Mom knows that I have let you down. I have not set a good example. I have been mean and harsh. I did not teach you well. I only let you use and rely on men. I regret it." As she spoke, she spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Mom, I don't blame you. This is all my own choice. It's my bad attitude. I will take you to the medical room right away. The people there will definitely be able to save you." She tried hard to carry Xia Qiaoyun on her back, but found that she could not carry her mother at all. She could only drag her.
Xia Qiaoyun stretched out her hand and held hers. "Don't waste your energy. I know I'm going to die. Before I die, I can help you. I'm already very happy. Maybe I should have died on that day from the beginning. Li Cheng, he is a good man to you. At least he knows how to cherish you. You must learn to love him and don't always use him... And, Jia Jia, you have to become stronger. Only in this way can you survive in this doomsday, even without a man..."
"I understand, Mom, don't say anything, I'll take you there, I must take you there."
Xia Qiaoyun shook her head. At least this time, she didn't make Qin Jia feel embarrassed, and she could finally help her.
Qin Jia's tears were mixed with blood. She didn't want her only relative in this world to die. "Mom, please don't leave. Jia Jia needs you so much. Please don't die, okay?"
"Everyone will die eventually. At least I am willing to die this way now, and it can help you. Mom can finally help you with her own strength. When someone comes, just say we had an argument. Don't ruin your reputation, okay?"
"No, you won't die."
"You...you promised me."
"I promise you." Qin Jia was already crying.
Xia Qiaoyun used up her last bit of strength to raise her hand, wanting to touch her daughter's face, but she finally passed away with a satisfied smile on her face.
Qin Jia burst into tears. Now, she really had no relatives left.
After she was sad, she calmly cleaned up the scene, made sure there was no one else around, and faked a fight between the two people.
Only Qin Jia paid the price for her selfishness. If she had stayed there and trained obediently, the things that happened later would not have happened. When she thought of this, she felt even more regretful.
Xia Qiaoyun was her mother no matter what, and she even gave her life for her in the end, which made her feel very sad.
But now that things have happened, there is no way to go back.
She held back her sadness and burned all the photos into ashes, letting the unbearable past turn into ashes like these photos.
From now on, she must live for herself.
Li Cheng insisted on following Qu Yanbai's team to investigate the wormhole together.
They also have to guard against Licheng while conducting investigations.
Because there were many wormholes around, the group had to split up to speed up. Seeing Qu Yanbai's embarrassed look, Qin Muxue suggested, "Li Cheng, follow me and Shi Yan's team."
Li Cheng didn't care whose team he followed, as long as he had the chance to investigate the wormhole. However, he was wary of Qin Muxue. This woman was cruel, cunning, and very smart.
There are not many women who can make him feel scared, and Qin Muxue is one of them.
He jokingly asked, "Can I refuse?"
"Sorry, you don't have the right to refuse."
Qin Muxue said this coldly, and then she and Shi Yan set foot on the location on the map.
The wormhole they were heading to was exactly where the dragon was discovered last time, which was some distance away from here.
Li Cheng saw them starting the car engine and about to leave. He could only curse in his heart and sat directly in the back seat of the military off-road vehicle.
Qu Yanbai looked at the direction they left, feeling a little worried. Qin Muxue had just returned here and was about to go on a mission with Shi Yan. She didn't even have time to rest. Moreover, Li Cheng was a very difficult person to deal with.
Sheng Xingyuan patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you should trust Qin Muxue."
In fact, his heart could not calm down for a long time. After Qin Muxue came back, he found that her eyes were all on Shi Yan. At first, he didn't know the origin of the relationship between them, and he didn't feel anything. It was not until Manman told him why Qin Muxue wanted to enter the wormhole that he knew about the unusual relationship between them.
He should have noticed it long ago, but even if he had, what would it matter? He showed up too late. Even if he tried his best to bring the two of them closer, the established relationship between them could not be changed.
There was only a place left for him as a friend, and perhaps in her heart, he was not even a friend.
Even Sheng Xingyuan himself didn't know why he fell in love with Qin Muxue. He sighed and thought of the scene when they first met. Now was not the time to be sentimental. After everything was settled, if there was a chance, he would tell her his feelings. Even if there was no result, he just didn't want that person to die without knowing his feelings.
"Professor Sheng, can we go now?" Qu Yanbai asked again.
It was rare to see him in a daze, but now Sheng Xingyuan was staring in the direction they left for a long time without saying a word.
"let's go."
"Um."
Qin Muxue and Shi Yan drove a military vehicle towards one of the wormholes. She observed the situation along the way and found many animal remains around. Combined with what Qu Yanbai had told her before, Qin Muxue was still a little confused.
She stopped the car and wanted to check the wreckage. Li Cheng didn't pay attention and bumped into a chair. He wanted to curse, but when he saw Shi Yan's cold eyes, he had to suppress it.
"Next time you stop, could you be more careful or tell me?" Li Cheng couldn't help but complain.
Qin Muxue ignored him and walked directly towards the pile of wreckage. It was a huge dinosaur-like wreckage. One could imagine how huge this animal was when it was alive. However, she had only been away for a few days. Even if the animal was dead, it couldn't have decayed so quickly. Moreover, the current weather conditions would not allow such a huge creature to decay so quickly.
"Has this wreckage appeared here before?"
Li Cheng said nonchalantly: "How should I know?"
During that period, a lot of random creatures that had never been seen before appeared. Some were already dead when they were discovered, and sometimes were just wreckage. Investigations have shown that all of them committed suicide, so it is not uncommon to see wreckage here now.
"I say, let's hurry to the wormhole instead of wasting time here." He was a little impatient.
Qin Muxue ignored him and carefully observed the wreckage. "It's a creature I've never seen before."
"I say, auntie, what time is it now? You are not a biologist, why do you have to study this now? To be honest, dragons have appeared before. Have you ever seen a dragon before? It's very rare, right? Now that we humans can't even save our lives, why do we still need to study this thing? Besides, dragons can't survive in our world."
Qin Muxue turned around and asked Shi Yan, "Is there a dragon in that space?"
Shi Yan shook his head. "No, even if it is a wormhole, it was researched by Professor Sheng over there. There are not so many wormholes in nature."
Qin Muxue also felt something was wrong. She had never experienced these things in her previous life. To be precise, such things had not happened in another parallel universe either.
"Do you think this wreckage could be some kind of alien creature?" She simply took a piece of bone and put it away. She still had doubts in her mind, so she decided to let Sheng Xingyuan investigate it later.
"How do we know this? We have never been to an alien planet."
They have basically no chance of seeing alien creatures. The only thing they have seen is evil spirits. However, evil spirits are very rare and only exist in Sheng Xingyuan's research documents.
Li Cheng didn't know that Qin Muxue and Shi Yan had dealt with evil spirits before.
Qin Muxue found a kind of human-like remains next to the huge wreckage. It was said to be human, but the skull was smaller than that of a human and looked like the skull of a deformed child.
However, its body is larger than that of a human. According to Qin Muxue's experience, it does look like the remains of an evil spirit, but how could the remains of an evil spirit appear here?
Qin Muxue also collected some of these human-like remains. As long as they go back and test them, they will know whether her guess is correct or not.
"Okay, okay, if you want to pick up these bones, we can go to the wormhole to pick them up. There are a lot of them there. Let's go quickly, okay?"
Qin Muxue raised her head and responded to him for the first time, "Okay."
Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. He had already wasted too much time and had no idea what these two people were dawdling about here.
The car continued to move forward and finally arrived at a location close to their destination. Li Cheng jumped down and finally saw the wormhole he had been thinking about. Excitement appeared in his eyes, "Wormhole, it's a wormhole."
Looking at the dark hole, which seemed like an abyss, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand to touch it, but soon, he retracted his hand. The wormhole was surrounded by a distorted space. No matter how excited he was, he didn't dare to joke with his own life.
He swallowed and asked, "Do you guys look around to see anything suspicious?"
In comparison, Shi Yan and Qin Muxue were much calmer. They had entered a wormhole before, and although they didn't know how they returned to the normal time and space, there were many complicated theories involved. Maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe they were summoned by something. To this day, they still didn't know the reason.
Naturally, he didn't dare to take the risk. If he went in again this time, he didn't know what kind of place he would come to, let alone what time period it would be, and whether he would be shattered into pieces.
Thinking of this, Qin Muxue suddenly admired herself for entering the wormhole without thinking too much. Fortunately, they were lucky and no accidents happened, but they could not take any more risks.
"Let's take a look around to see if there is anything suspicious!" This is just an ordinary cave. Unlike what we have seen before, there are actually quite a few animal corpses here.
These animals were ones Qin Muxue had never seen before. Even if the animals on Blue Star mutated, they could not mutate into such strange appearances.
Shi Yan took a flashlight and went deep into the cave. He looked around and saw a large group of bats hanging on the top of the cave. They fled in all directions after seeing the light.
Continuing to move forward, Shi Yan saw some strange things. He asked Qin Muxue to come over quickly. Qin Muxue hurried to his side. Li Cheng saw what was discovered and followed him in.
"Shi Yan, what did you see?"
"Do you think it's normal for this place to have these things?"
Qin Muxue looked forward and saw all kinds of stones that they had thrown into the wormhole before. The stones were numbered. She watched the investigators throw them in with her own eyes. Logically, they should have gone to another time and space, so how could they appear in this place?
Qin Muxue put on gloves and prepared to look for the stones, but Shi Yan stopped him, "Let me do it."
Qin Muxue knew that he was afraid that something might happen to her, "It's okay."
The two of them searched for the numbers on the stone together, and even some resource packs that had been thrown into the wormhole before. The food and books they had put in the resource packs were no different from when they were thrown in. In other words, these things returned here from the wormhole, just like they returned to the base.
"Why are you staring at these rocks? Is there anything important about them?"
Qin Muxue did not explain, but moved the stones away, only to find that there was an iron door hidden behind the stones. "So there is an iron door in this place?"
Shi Yan shook his head. When the wormhole was discovered at the base, they checked the surrounding area but did not find the iron gate at all.
Qin Muxue pushed the door, but found no response and couldn't push the door open. "Do you want to use your supernatural power to try to open this door?"
Shi Yan nodded, picked up the stone next to him, and slammed it against the iron gate, but the iron gate remained motionless. He had just used his supernatural powers to increase his strength.
Li Cheng looked at the door in surprise, "Is this door so difficult to open?"
"Please move aside."
Qin Muxue planned to use her water power. After using the purple ore, she now had a third-level power. As long as she activated her power, she could create huge waves of water and use them to push open the iron door, but it was still useless.
Shi Yan also tried every possible way, but there was not even a trace left on the iron gate.
After being busy for a long time, Qin Muxue was already feeling hungry. "Let's think of a solution after we finish eating!"
They built a fire not far from the wormhole, and Qin Muxue threw a few sweet potatoes from her backpack. Li Cheng was anxious, "It's already this late, and you still have the leisure to roast sweet potatoes here? You should think of a way to open this iron door."
His intuition told him that there was a huge secret hidden behind the iron door.
Qin Muxue replied calmly: "If you are interested, you can find a way yourself. I am hungry. Man is iron and food is steel."
She couldn't stand being hungry. After all, the price of using her superpowers was hunger.
Shi Yan took out a vacuum-packed roasted chicken from his backpack and said, "You are hungry, why don't you eat some chicken legs to fill your stomach first." After saying that, he tore off a chicken leg and handed it to Qin Muxue.
Qin Muxue took the chicken leg and started to chew it seriously. It was not enough for her to eat the whole chicken in one go.
Li Cheng could only think of a way out by himself. He kept turning around in front of the iron gate. He didn't believe that he couldn't shake the door even with his supernatural powers. Could it be that these two people were putting on a show in front of him?
He was eager to try it. His special ability was transformation, which allowed him to turn into a shadow. He touched the iron door and kicked it hard, but found there was no response. He wanted to transform into a shadow and get in through the gap in the door, but he bumped into the iron door. There was no gap, so he couldn't get in at all.
Qin Muxue here took out a roast duck from somewhere, and cut the crispy skin with a knife. Then she wrapped the crispy skin with dough, added green onions and cucumbers with sauce, and put it into her mouth.
"This roast duck is indeed worthy of its reputation. Shi Yan, why don't you try it too!"
After saying that, he wrapped another one and put it into Shi Yan's mouth, "It's delicious."
Li Cheng couldn't stand it any longer, "Are you here for a mission? You're eating and drinking here, wasting so much time."
When Li Cheng smelled the aroma of the roast duck, his stomach couldn't help but growl. For a moment, he felt extremely embarrassed, but Qin Muxue ignored him, and he was too embarrassed to ask them for food.
When I opened my backpack, I found there were only a few steamed buns with vegetable fillings. I could only eat two to fill my stomach.
Suddenly, a stealthy figure poked his head out from not far away and looked towards this side, as if he smelled the aroma of roast duck here.
Qin Muxue smiled and said, "If you want to eat, just come out and eat. Why do you have to hide not far away and stare at us?"
She placed half a roast duck not far away and said, "I'll treat you to some, but you have to help yourself."
A masked figure sneaked into the roast duck, and after seeing half of the roast duck, his eyes glowed green. It had been a long time since he saw roast duck, and he couldn't help it. He saw the woman in front of him eating by herself and ignoring him, so he stretched out his hand and wanted to pick up the roast duck.
At this moment, Shi Yan quickly came in front of him and grabbed his collar, "Who are you and why are you following us?"
The man grabbed the roast duck and took a bite, not caring about Shi Yan at all. "Let me eat first, okay? I'm almost starving to death. And I didn't follow you. It was you who came to my territory."
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