Chapter 178 Something Happened
The temperature tonight reached minus twenty degrees Celsius, which is the lowest temperature ever recorded in City C in the south.
When Old Song opened his mouth, white, moist air came out of his mouth.
At the crossroads, he looked towards the fork on the left.
I waited for a few seconds, but there was no response.
The noise came from the right side.
Swish, swish, the sound of soles of shoes rubbing against the ground.
There is also the sound of snoring in sleep.
Old Song grabbed the pistol at his waist, turned around, and was stunned.
"Old Guo?"
A middle-aged man, wearing only a thin autumn shirt and autumn pants, barefoot with a pair of slippers on his feet, walked forward with a crooked gait.
He closed his eyes and snored, as if he was in a deep sleep.
But the person was clearly walking.
"Old Guo, what are you doing?"
Old Song knew this person. He had met him once in the underground safe house on Jixiang West Road. He was an old acquaintance of Qiao Lan.
The man who opened a spicy hot pot restaurant before the end of the world is now an awakened person and is good at hiding his breath.
He was very active during the awakener training on weekdays, not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and was praised many times by Ye Qi. Old Song was deeply impressed by him.
But in the middle of the night, he...
Old Song quickly ran over and pushed the other person, "Hey, what's wrong, Old Guo? Are you sleepwalking?"
Unexpectedly, with just a casual push, Lao Guo, who was an awakened person, was completely unaware and fell to the ground.
Old Song quickly grabbed him, helped him sit down on the side of the road, and held his shoulders tightly, shaking him to wake him up.
But the other person was sleeping soundly and wouldn't open his eyes.
"Old Guo! Wake up! You will get frozen if you wear so little. Your awakened physique is not good enough!" Old Song called out loudly.
Old Guo's snoring was deafening.
"He won't wake up if you yell like that. If you yell too loudly, it might startle him and even make him go crazy."
Soft footsteps, a gentle voice, and a pretty figure in a long skirt suddenly appeared at the right fork in the road.
This is the direction Lao Guo came from.
"Ms. Yin, you are still outside so late. You are not on the patrol schedule of the awakened ones tonight, right?" Old Song became alert.
Like Ye Qi, he could not fully trust this third-level expert who had just joined the base.
"Yes, I won't join the night patrol tonight." Yin Wanying answered calmly and walked forward.
She squatted down and kept herself level with Lao Guo who was sleeping soundly on the ground.
The ankle-length skirt fell to the ground, her back was straight, and her posture was beautiful.
She stared at Lao Guo carefully for a few seconds and then spoke softly.
"From what I can tell, he's not sleepwalking, but rather possessed by some kind of psychic power. He won't wake up on his own unless the person controlling him releases the control. If he's forced to wake up, his mental strength will be damaged, potentially leading to coma or illness, or even dementia, or even a possible vegetative state."
Old Song frowned: "Psychic ability?"
Yin Wanying smiled. "Please don't misunderstand me. Although I am an awakened person of the psychic system, I didn't do this. My main ability lies in mental comfort, not controlling others' minds."
"But you can do it."
"Yes, I can do that. So, I can also help him get rid of the control. I think the person who controls him probably doesn't have a higher level of supernatural power than me."
She volunteered, but Old Song became skeptical.
Taking out the walkie-talkie, he quickly reported the situation to Ye Qi, then carried Lao Guo on his back and immediately rushed to the medical point.
"You won't believe me."
Yin Wanying smiled and sighed.
After standing up from the ground, she did not catch up with Lao Song, but continued walking forward along the way she came, until she reached the fork in the road on the right.
After walking about twenty meters, she stopped.
"Come out," she said.
After waiting for a few seconds, there was no movement.
Her smile faded as she turned to look at a pile of neatly stacked bricks not far from the roadside. They were building materials collected by the base, and after the harsh winter, they would be piled into houses.
“Hmm…”
At this moment, behind the pile of bricks, as Yin Wanying looked over, a painful groan was soon heard.
Then, a man crawled out tremblingly using his hands and feet. He tried to stand up several times, but fell back halfway. He could only keep crawling like this until he reached a meter away from Yin Wanying's feet, then stopped, not daring to move forward.
The man knelt down and kowtowed to Yin Wanying.
"Acting without my permission will alert the base and cause further trouble, disrupting our original plan. Can you afford the consequences?"
Yin Wanying looked coldly at the person trembling in pain at her feet and asked in a deep voice.
"Have mercy... spare me, I didn't do it without permission..."
The man begged for mercy tremblingly, but before he could finish his words, his body suddenly tilted and he fell to the ground with a thud.
The faint smell of medicine wafted out from his stiff, open mouth.
Yin Wanying took a few steps back and frowned in disgust.
"It's actually a timed toxin. You knew that acting on your own would only result in death, so you took the medicine to end it in advance? But who gave you the courage to act on your own? Or..."
She tilted her head in thought, then glared angrily at the dead guy.
"You're so useless. Wouldn't it be better to explain everything before dying?"
She turned and left, heading towards the medical point.
The soft-soled embroidered cotton shoes stepped silently on the flat road, with graceful gait.
…
"Uncle Guo!"
When Qiao Lan rushed to the medical center, she felt very distressed when she saw Old Guo, whose face was blue with frostbite but still snoring loudly.
"Who is this that harmed Uncle Guo? If you find me, I'll chop him into pieces and feed him to the dogs!"
What a wicked thing! If you want to control Lao Guo from sleepwalking, can't you let him wear cotton clothes before going out? He is only wearing one piece of clothes and pants. If Lao Song hadn't happened to see him, he would have frozen to death.
Several spiritual awakeners in the base also hurried over as ordered. They took turns to check on Lao Guo, then stepped back and shook their heads, indicating that they couldn't handle it.
Not only are they of low level, they also don't specialize in mind control abilities, so they can't help.
"Have you caught Yin Wanying?"
Qiao Lan used the intercom to find Ye Qi.
When Ye Qi received the news from Old Song, she had just knocked on her door. Before they could even talk, they heard that something had happened.
So Qiao Lan hurried to the medical point to check on Lao Guo's condition. Ye Qi arranged for the night patrol teams to strengthen precautions and mobilized more personnel for night patrols. He himself rushed to the fork in the road that Lao Song mentioned to catch Yin Wanying.
"Not yet. I asked Captain Xiao to bring someone over. There's a problem in the boiler room. I just got here."
Ye Qi did not try to catch Yin Wanying.
Because halfway through, I received a report from the boiler room attendant that the internal pressure of the heating boiler had surged and the alarm was beeping non-stop, and I was afraid that something was going to happen.
If the boiler explodes due to overpressure, it will be a big deal.
Ye Qi quickly turned back to the boiler room and notified the relevant technicians to come over quickly.
Hot steam was rising in the boiler room, the sharp pressure alarm sounded continuously, and the pointer of the pressure gauge kept jumping around.
"Hurry up and stop the water circulation! Find someone with ice abilities and get everyone else out of the way. The farther away, the better!"
Xiao Zhang, the technical instructor in charge of boiler manufacturing, started yelling in panic as soon as he arrived at the scene.
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