Chapter 88 Eternal Night
Li Li thought about how she would handle the relationship between herself and Lin Ran, and how she would complete the role if Lin Ran favored her.
But she did not consider that Lin Ran would die before she started to deal with it.
As the illusion came into contact with her, her smile faded, and half of her silver mask was dyed a murderous red by the candlelight.
"I killed him with my own hands and sent his head to Qu." This is what Lin Ran once said.
And now, her head was chopped off as well. No matter who did it, this kind of execution-like ritual made it hard not to think of a person named Hager.
He has been the most popular person in recent days, and is obviously the avenger of the former members of the supernatural guild.
And Li Li herself actually did nothing.
She quickly called An Heyu, told him her location, and tried to ask him to analyze Lin Ran's ghost.
An Heyu's ability is to see what is happening nearby only through the undead he controls. Without the eyes of the undead, he can only sense whether there are living beings in these areas, or whether there are dead undead.
[Prelude of the Dead] was launched, silently enveloping the house.
But unfortunately, An Heyu did not find the dead soul.
"The undead will wander around the first scene of death and will not leave even if the body is moved," An Heyu explained.
He knew that this location was problematic, but he did not immediately ask Li Li what had happened.
On the phone, An Heyu said: "There is another possibility, that the energy body is directly dissipated after death."
That is to say, the soul is scattered.
Li Li hung up the phone. She lowered her eyes and stared for a long time at the bloodstains on the wall behind her.
Finally, she whispered, "Good night, Linran."
Apart from the comic book script, their relationship might only be enough for her to say goodnight to him at this moment.
Not a friend, but not an enemy either.
The candlelight flickered and footsteps were heard downstairs. It must be Lin Ruye who had called his two uncles and was preparing to go upstairs.
Li Li turned around and disappeared from the spot.
She would find the killer, if only for her own sake.
There was only a slight breeze blowing past to indicate her presence.
After returning to District 3, An Heyu also rushed over.
"What happened?" An Heyu asked. He knew that was Lin's residence, and he also knew that the area he investigated was one he had not explored last time, so he speculated, "Did you kill Lin Ran?"
An Heyu thought this was impossible, but at the same time, he felt that nothing that happened to Haig was strange.
Li Li shook her head and said, "It's not me."
She could take some blame and still show off her achievements. But this time, the murderer was unknown and taking the blame might backfire, so she would not leave herself such a loophole.
She asked An Heyu to gather the Night Guards from the three districts, and asked An Heyu, "You told me about the distribution of SS-class psychics in the Empire last time, but which SS-class psychics can move freely in the Empire?"
At that time, An Heyu said that there were a total of ten SS-level esper. Six of them were in the floating city, and the other four were the lord of Jiaohuang City, Jue Huishen, the lord of Ranmu City, Lin Ran, one who was in seclusion, and one whose whereabouts were unknown.
"SS-rank nobles are not allowed to leave the floating city without the permission of the royal family. Lin Ran and Jue Huishen can stay in their own fiefdoms, but they cannot leave either. The reclusive SS-rank psychic has not appeared for a hundred years, and it is uncertain whether he is dead or alive. And the last one." An Heyu paused, then said, "Father told me that he doesn't know where that person is, but what we know is that he has been wandering around the empire."
"SS-class psychics are very powerful, but they basically stay in one place." Li Li suddenly felt very strange, but there were too few clues to figure out what the problem was. The psychics from District 3 rushed here from all corners of this area, and a dense crowd gradually gathered.
Li Li stood on the stage and asked An Heyu: "How much do you know about the last person?"
Li Li didn't think that the one who made the move would be an S-rank. Even though she herself often fought across levels, it didn't mean that an S-rank psychic could kill an SS-rank psychic so quietly.
It is true that Lin Ran's strength decreases at night, but he is still not easy to deal with.
Hearing this, An Heyu showed a rare look of fear.
"I don't know. His appearance is completely unknown." He pursed his lips and looked at Li Li. "I only know one thing: don't attract his attention."
The clue ends here.
Linran's undead cannot be analyzed, but Li Li has another method that has a chance of restoring the original situation.
Dan goes back in time.
She had seen the effect of that power, which was to go back in time and show the process. Although humans and corpses were not within the scope of the reversal, as long as there was a process, she could also infer some of it.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and the moonlight outside the window reflected into her pupils, which had a false red color.
Dan couldn't die.
The footsteps were chaotic and noisy. Li Li turned around and looked at the members of this haphazardly formed organization gathered below.
This city is going to go haywire. She knows it.
This is her opportunity, but it is also the city's doom.
She has no time to care about the life and death of others, but she will do her best to help if she can.
She originally had little hope for the Night Guard, an organization that she thought might be able to shine during this period of time.
"I'm not here to be a good person." Li Li said softly.
Beside her, An Heyu looked at her back, his golden eyes slowly drooping, and the corners of his mouth raised in a helpless smile.
...
Eternal night, madness and chaos no different from the past.
The sounds of explosions and buildings collapsing echoed in the sky, reaching the ears of civilians who were still awake through doors and windows.
Tonight, Liucheng stayed at home, turned off the lights, and felt a long-lost sense of security behind the protective doors and windows.
"I slept all day yesterday and now I can't sleep." She murmured, looking at the ceiling in the dark.
She didn't know what happened in the past two days. She took two very long naps, but she felt very sleepy and had some muscle soreness.
Liucheng guessed whether she was sleepwalking, and even recorded a video of herself while she was sleeping. Then she slept all day yesterday, and she slept soundly in the video.
"There are only ten minutes left before the night is over." She looked at the time, thinking that her vacation was over and she had to go to work.
No matter how chaotic the night is, no matter how her colleagues around her often disappear, during the day they are normal civilians who need to make a living.
Liucheng thought that she could go to the library for a while after get off work, so she bought an alarm clock so that she would never make the same mistake again.
Time passed by minute by minute, and accompanied by the cheerful alarm, it was five o'clock in the morning.
The protective doors and windows were automatically retracted. Liucheng stretched and looked out the window.
What she saw was not the brand new city and the hazy sky as usual.
But it was the lingering flames and the rising black smoke.
"Bang!"
A huge explosion occurred in the city, in the direction of District 13.
There were flashes of fire and thunderous explosions, echoing in the gray and foggy sky.
The black smoke covered the gradually rising sunlight and the coming day.
Buildings collapsed, screams, alarms, everything.
A strong wind blew into the room with the smell of gunpowder, blowing up the hair of Liucheng who was standing in front of the window in a daze.
Her pupils reflected the scene of the city, a chaos that should not exist in the daytime.
Liu Cheng realized something, something that made her despair.
Their daylight disappeared.
...
The square in front of the Superpower Guild should have belonged to Lin Ran. Lin Ruye was standing on the platform that had been built yesterday.
His two uncles were not here, but the members of the Supernatural Guild were standing on the stage, waiting for their branch president, the incoming master of the city, to speak.
The orange-haired young man took two steps forward. He should have been excited, but at this moment he was extremely calm.
"Your city lord is dead. From now on, this city belongs to me." Lin Ruye said, his purple pupils scanning the dark crowd below the stage, the superpowers who followed him.
Lin Ruye's voice hovered over the square and was transmitted to every household in Ranmu City through radio and television.
"That is to say." He suddenly opened his arms and announced to his followers, those superpowers who loved desire and violence, "From now on, the night will always be here in Somemu City!"
They followed him and loved the eternal night he created.
At this moment, Lin Ruye's eternal night lost its last layer of shackles.
The superpowers cheered, following the thunderous explosion.
From now on, they can indulge their desires and use their powerful abilities to dominate the city. Whether it is day or night, it will be their carnival night.
This is their eternal night.
Amid the chaos, there were faint cries and pairs of desperate eyes looking up at the sky.
They could not see the sunlight, only black smoke covering the sky.
"The city lord is dead?"
"Apart from the city lord, who else can save us?"
"No one!"
The protective doors and windows they had purchased previously could no longer be closed, and the branch president of the Superpower Guild, the next city lord, said on the radio that they would pay again during the day.
The whole city was in chaos, and the participants of the Eternal Night celebrated their paradise with blood.
The killer treated the fragile glass window as nothing, broke it open easily, and entered the room. He looked at the ordinary people who were terrified and even fell to the ground with weak knees, laughed happily, and raised his favorite knife.
As he walked in, the sharp blade seemed to be about to pierce the owner's body.
At this moment.
"Bang!"
Gunshots rang out behind the killer's defenseless back.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
After three shots, the murderer fell down, and the owner of the house also saw the person standing in front of the window.
But the man turned around and walked away from the window.
The only thing I could hear was the person speaking into the intercom.
"Reporting to the leader, the crisis in Building 912 has been resolved."
"Night Guards have suppressed all riots in District 2."
...
"Where are you going?"
An Heyu had no time to pay attention to his hood. The wind blew, his red hair fluttered, and his face was exposed to the air.
"Aren't you taking me with you?" he asked anxiously.
Li Li in front of him withdrew her hand. She was now dressed in black with a smile that looked like a mask on her lips. She sat casually on the edge of the rooftop as usual, watching the last esper in District 6 fall from a tall building.
District 3 was originally the territory of the Night Guards. Districts 2 and 4 had already been cleared by the Night Guards, and Li Li and An Heyu also cleared Districts 5 and 6.
Nearly half of Somemu City has been protected.
Hearing this, Li Li stood up, turned around and looked towards District 13.
That's where the most explosions were heard and where the black smoke was thickest.
After Lin Ran's death, Lin Ruye immediately took action against Dan, just as he had said.
"It's not convenient for you to show your special abilities in public." Li Li turned her head and looked at An Heyu who obviously disagreed.
In An Heyu's eyes, the young man in front of her seemed to always be so calm and composed. In this chaos, he still knew her direction and what she was going to do.
Although An Heyu didn't know what she was going to do.
"Then what should I do?" An Heyu did not stop Li Li, but chose to follow Li Li's footsteps as usual.
This is the unwritten rule between them.
And Li Li chuckled.
"Control the situation. If Lin Ruye leaves an area, tell me immediately."
She looked at the chaos, as if she could see through the layer of black smoke the ruin inside, and the "past" that the white-haired boy was clinging to so desperately.
"And I was just picking up a cute puppy," she said.