Chapter 314 Chapter 314
The northern part of Kyoto, with the Karl neighborhood and the Children's Park as its center, has become an area about five kilometers in radius that is about to enter the overlapping space. All the people who lived here have left, without exception.
The ones who stayed inside were the Qingtong team and the Qu Zhongyi team, a total of nine people.
"Fortunately, the circle is not within the hospital, otherwise it would be difficult to mobilize personnel." Gan Xiaoqing said.
"Silver Country has a circle inside the hospital." Qu Zhongyi looked at the news on his phone. "Evacuating within two hours is a challenge for them."
"Other countries' affairs have nothing to do with us." Qingtong said, "Remember our mission. After arriving in the alien world, we must eliminate as many anomalies as possible and come back alive. The overlapping space will last for 24 hours. During this period, try not to leave the circle. Once you leave, you must come back before the time limit is up, otherwise you will be left behind in the alien world. There is no food there and you will die."
"learn."
The waiting time passed in a flash, and everyone felt the ground shaking slightly. The surrounding scenery was also gradually changing. They knew that the space began to distort and was about to overlap with the realm of another world.
The tarmac streets, high-rise buildings, and roadside greenery were gradually replaced by abandoned stone buildings, and the air gradually warmed up. It was supposed to be a dark night, but suddenly a scorching sun appeared, and it turned into daylight in the blink of an eye.
The scorching sun shines on my body and my skin begins to feel hot.
"It's so hot!" Lan Tiantian exclaimed and quickly hid in the shadow of the stone ruins. Even such scorching air invaded her lungs through her breathing, and she began to sweat.
The others also quickly hid in the shade.
"It must be over 40 degrees." Han Qi quickly fanned his cheeks with his palms, but the breeze was full of hot air.
"It's definitely over 40, maybe even over 45." Gong Qian unbuttoned his shirt. His cheeks began to sweat and his lips were slightly dry. "But it's not even 50."
"If it really reaches 50 degrees, can people still survive?" Qu Zhongyi said, "Forty-five degrees is deadly enough. In this case, let alone getting rid of the weirdness, we will get heatstroke if we do a little exercise."
"I feel like I didn't bring enough water. I really want to soak in ice water now." Han Qi wiped his face. He couldn't stand the heat, so he took off his shirt.
Gan Xiaoqing and Lan Tiantian looked at each other, then lifted their clothes up to expose their abdomens.
But it was useless because there was no wind. Besides, if they stood in the sun with their skin exposed, they would get sunburned. They helplessly put down their clothes again.
Fortunately, Kyoto had also entered the hot summer, so they were already wearing cool clothes, otherwise it would be even more troublesome. Simply not having a change of clothes was a headache.
"It's not good to use up your energy right after arriving." Su Sanan raised a finger, and the water ball condensed between his fingers, "but I think if we continue like this, we will really get heatstroke."
The water balls split into several balls and landed on everyone, bringing a hint of coolness to their burning skin.
"I'll give you all the chocolates." Huang Tianzhen took out some chocolates from his bag, but they had already become soft. "I'll leave the rest to you."
Gong Qian: "Use it sparingly. Your abilities are not unlimited. Don't let yourself be exhausted and lie down before the battle even starts because of overuse of your abilities."
Qingtong glanced at the few poor little creatures huddled in the shadows, then stepped into the stone house with a half-collapsed roof.
"Captain?" Huang Tianzhen turned around and looked at him, "Shall we start exploring now?"
“Just checking the situation.”
"Let's go." Qu Zhongyi also stood up. The two teams merged into one. Qingtong was the captain and he temporarily served as the deputy captain. "We may not be able to fight against the weird in our current situation. Don't come here in vain. At least bring back something valuable."
The house was as messy as a garbage dump, with the floor full of dusty debris. Qu Zhongyi squatted on the ground and looked through them one by one. There were rotten rags, discarded stone dolls, and rotten furniture that was obviously no longer usable.
In addition, I also found a photo that felt like crystal and heavy. After wiping off the dust, I saw five people in the photo standing together, smiling happily at the camera.
It is unknown how many years this half-collapsed house has been abandoned, but the portrait in the photo is still vivid, as if it was taken yesterday.
Qu Zhongyi was about to tell Qingtong about his discovery when he turned around and saw Qingtong walking towards the intact staircase. Because of the roof collapse, only half of the second floor was left, but the staircase happened to be on the intact half.
Forget it, the discovery of the photo is not important. Qu Zhongyi lowered his head and glanced at the person in the photo. When he looked closely, he found something very strange.
"Xiaoqing, do you think this looks a bit like you?" Qu Zhongyi said.
Gan Xiaoqing and Huang Tianzhen and a few others came over out of curiosity. Sure enough, the second girl on the left in the photo was 80% similar to Gan Xiaoqing. When seeing the photo, Qu Zhongyi thought that the girl in the photo was Gan Xiaoqing's sister.
The difference is that Gan Xiaoqing always wears a strong outfit for martial arts training, never a skirt, always wearing long pants or shorts, and even cut her hair short, dressed like a tomboy, and raised her middle finger when arguing with people. The girl in the photo has long hair to her waist, wears a white long skirt, and smiles shyly.
"This is too similar." Gan Xiaoqing felt proud of himself, "Could this be the 'other me' in another world?"
After saying that, Gan Xiaoqing also laughed, and then she turned her eyes to the faces of the other people in the photo. When she saw the faces of the other people clearly, she could no longer laugh, and only uttered two words: "Fuck."
"What's wrong?" Lan Tiantian asked puzzledly.
"These two people look a lot like my dad and mom," Gan Xiaoqing said, pointing at the photo. She moved her finger upwards, "This old lady also looks a lot like my grandma. But I don't have a younger brother, but she does."
"Is this the 'home' of another world? Maybe this world is a parallel dimension of our world, and they are another version of you." Huang Tianzhen lowered his voice and said to Gan Xiaoqing, "If you get hit by a car one day, maybe you will start a life exchange with her."
Gan Xiaoqing smiled bitterly and said, "And then be destroyed along with the world? Judging from the situation here, this family is probably gone."
Lan Tiantian: "This world has been destroyed. Whether they missed the photos when they moved away or died in the attack, they are gone now."
Gan Xiaoqing looked at the smiles on the five people's faces in the photo and her heart sank.
Han Qi patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry, our world will definitely not be like this."
"Well." Gan Xiaoqing walked to the rotten table in the corner and placed the photo on it. "Let's go."
Just as I was about to leave, I noticed something in the half-open drawer. After struggling to open the drawer, I saw a diary inside.
The cover of the diary is dark yellow. When Gan Xiaoqing picked it up, she found that the book was quite heavy and soft to the touch. It didn't feel like paper, but more like leather.
"Is it sheepskin?" Gan Xiaoqing murmured to himself.
"Did you find anything?" Qu Zhongyi walked over.
"I found a book." Gan Xiaoqing shook the diary in his hand at Qu Zhongyi. The cover of the book was opened and the inner pages flashed before Qu Zhongyi.
Did he see traces of the seams just now? Qu Zhongyi's doubts flashed through his mind, and he became more alert.
"Put down the diary!" Qu Zhongyi said quickly.
Gan Xiaoqing immediately obeyed and put the diary on the table: "What's wrong?"
"This might be a ghost." Qu Zhongyi frowned and said, "Be careful."
"It's not so easy to encounter strange creatures. We have carried out missions so many times, but we have never encountered one..." Gan Xiaoqing paused when she said this. She remembered that this was a different world.
"Sorry, Captain." Gan Xiaoqing said.
"I'm the deputy captain now." Qu Zhongyi called Gong Qian and Lan Tiantian over and pointed at the diary on the table. "Can you tell what kind of leather this is?"
Lan Tiantian curled his lips and said, "Captain, that's not right, deputy captain, we are doctors but not forensic doctors, and identification requires machines..."
"Human skin." Gong Qian said.
Lan Tiantian looked at him in shock: "You figured it out so quickly? Is it real or fake? Normally, you can only tell the difference between real leather and faux leather, right? How did you do it?"
"I can't tell sheepskin from human skin with my eyes, but I can read palm prints." Gong Qian put on his gloves, opened the cover of the book, pointed to an inner page and said, "Look, this person has very bad fortune."
Lan Tiantian simply has no energy to complain.
"I don't know if this person has good fortune, but his lifeline is definitely not long." Huang Tianzhen heard it and walked over to say, "Otherwise, he wouldn't have been made into this thing."
When Gan Xiaoqing heard that it was a human skin book, she shook her body and said, "I will never pick it up with my hands again."
"You're still not professional enough." Huang Tianzhen proudly took out a few pairs of gloves, "I prepared it when I heard that you were going to another world. I also have a bag, which is specially used to collect items from the other world. You can avoid accidentally touching strange objects and getting hurt without touching them with your hands."
"This thing is not 100% insured." Gan Xiaoqing said with disdain, looking at the gloves in his hand.
Han Qi: "It's better than nothing."
"Okay." Gan Xiaoqing put on the gloves and glanced at the words on the inside page of the book. It looked like small seal script, which she didn't recognize.
At this time, it had to be handed over to Qu Zhongyi. There were so many teams, but they chose to let Qu Zhongyi's team act together with Qingtong and others. One of the reasons was that Qu Zhongyi was a student of the archaeology department and had some research on ancient characters. Although he only studied for less than two years, he switched to the specialty of dealing with strange things.
"It's very similar to Xiaozhuan." Qu Zhongyi said, "There's not much content, I'll try to see if I can understand it. If there are records of the strange things here and related situations, our next actions will be a little easier."