It was completely dark outside, and the thick snow was more than a person high. Because even if it was cleared, it would be covered again the next day, so except for the main road, the snow was left on the other side, so the white snow on both sides of the road looked like white walls.
However, Xia Yixin and Chen Zhe did not choose to take the conventional route.
They moved quickly along the roof ridge towards the very center.
This was the first time Chen Zhe had ever taken such an unconventional approach. As snowflakes fell on his face, his excited nerves gradually calmed down. He jumped off the roof of the three-story office building. The surrounding area was covered in snow, and there was only one road leading into the two-story building.
Before the apocalypse, this was the camp's office building, with an entrance to an air-raid shelter underground, used for refuge when necessary. Now, several rooms are used as detention facilities.
Chen Zhe's parents are imprisoned here, and there is no one else here besides them.
Chen Zhe's parents have been under house arrest here since the failure of their "dictatorship" three years ago.
In fact, Chen Zhe did this to protect his parents. After all, when he and his wife launched their "dictatorship," they killed many people from the three districts who were resisting. In fact, when Chen Zhe and Chen Qian returned, Chen's father even shot Chen Zhe.
This is also why Chen Zhe has not wanted to come down to the underworld to see them for so long.
Xia Yixin also sensed his resistance, but the closer her mental energy got to the underground cell, the clearer she felt that there was a mental energy user deep inside the cell. However, this mental energy user seemed to be a beginner, and had only just established a mental energy barrier.
After Xia Yixin told Chen Zhe this conclusion, he immediately rejected it.
"Impossible. Besides the guards, there are only my parents here underground. One of them is a fire elementalist and the other is a water elementalist. They are not mental power users. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had a chance of winning three years ago."
Xia Yixin didn't think so.
“Lord Chen, I know you’re so sure because once a superhuman has identified their ability, it’s almost impossible for them to develop a second one. But it’s only ‘almost.’ There is indeed a psychic here underground. If it’s really as you say, I don’t think it’s safe for just the two of us to go down.”
A dual-elemental ability user who claims to be a former "dictator"—this might be a trap.
Chen Zhe understood what she meant. He immediately used the communicator to call over Old Master Chen from the banquet, and also summoned the base's security team, whose average superpower level was fourth-tier.
After hearing Xia Yixin's words, Old Master Chen sobered up completely. When he probed the underground prison with his spiritual power, it was indeed as Xia Yixin had said: a spiritual power user was imprisoned there, and Old Master Chen immediately sensed who she was referring to.
"Jiancheng, how could he be a psychic!?"
Chen Zhe's father was named Chen Jiancheng, and his mother was named Zhao Lan.
Although the underground detention room was decorated the same as the one above ground, with two bedrooms and a living room, the couple's other requests were basically met, except that they could only stay there. However, after not seeing each other for more than two years, Chen Zhe could hardly believe his eyes when he first saw his parents come out.
He sees Chen's mother, Zhao Lan, a few times a year. She hasn't changed much, but Chen's father's hair has turned completely white without him noticing. He's completely different from the spirited man he was three years ago.
Apart from Chen's mother being quite agitated, Chen Jiancheng's eyes were numb and his mental defenses had disappeared after he was brought up, except for a slight change in expression when he saw Chen Zhe.
The building has interrogation rooms on the upper floor, with one-way mirrors separating the two rooms.
Ms. Chen seemed to be in poor spirits and was taken away by the doctor shortly after she came out.
But the words she occasionally uttered before being taken away terrified Xia Yixin.
The words "system," "game," "points," and "everything is fake" appear illogically, and outsiders can't understand what they mean and can also make a reasonable explanation.
But Xia Yixin clearly heard her murmur before she was taken away, "No, I want to leave this plane, I want to leave here, this plane is wrong!" At that moment, her heart skipped a beat.
Could this person be a strategy guide user?!
"No, host." The system immediately replied, "Zhao Lan does have the aura of the strategist, but her current soul is her own. The original strategist may have forcibly severed the connection, which is why she is confused and keeps repeating some of the original strategist's words. This is the first time I have encountered a situation like this."
Xia Yixin's heart skipped a beat. "Forced disconnection, is it the same as last time? Then why did my original body die before?"
"It's different. The hosts possessed characters who had already died in the original story, so the original souls disappeared and merged with them. But this conqueror possesses a character who hasn't reached the end of their lifespan and is related to the main storyline. Forcibly leaving will have a certain chance of damaging the conqueror's soul, so don't do it unless absolutely necessary. The host used points to redeem them before, so there's no problem. But these two..."
"Two people?"
By this time, Zhao Lan had already been taken away, and since she was not in a good mental state, any questions she asked might not be reliable.
But if Chen Jiancheng was also once occupied by the conquerors, perhaps a breakthrough could be found.
On the other side of the one-way mirror, in the interrogation room, Chen Jiancheng remained silent no matter who questioned him.
She had a strong intuition that the so-called "dictatorship" three years ago might not be so simple.
Grandpa Chen returned empty-handed and looked at Chen Zhe, who had been keeping a sullen face. The latter had always been reluctant to meet his father, but Grandpa Chen felt that perhaps only Chen Zhe could get his extreme son to open up.
Suddenly, a female voice rang out.
"Grandpa Chen, I'd like to go in and talk to Uncle Chen."
Xia Yixin guessed that the reason he didn't speak was probably related to Chen's mother, Zhao Lan. After all, what he knew was just nonsense to outsiders, so Xia Yixin knew that she wouldn't be able to get anything out of him in front of everyone.
In the interrogation room, after Xia Yixin politely introduced herself, she keenly noticed that Chen Jiancheng's tightly clenched hands tightened slightly.
“Uncle Chen, I know there are some things that are inconvenient to say here. You are also a mental power user, so we can talk in our mental sea. For example, about what happened three years ago, I know you are innocent.” Xia Yixin broke the silence. She didn’t know that the person on the other side of the one-way mirror was already surprised by her words.
Chen Zhe seemed thoughtful, while Old Master Chen was filled with curiosity. He had always admired this girl, and now he had a feeling that she might bring even more surprises.
Chen Jiancheng, Chen's father, finally showed a slight fluctuation. Xia Yixin pressed on and said in her mind, "Uncle Chen, I am a psychic, so I understand psychic abilities better than you. Ordinary people cannot suddenly awaken psychic abilities while having another ability, nor can they suddenly lose a certain ability, unless the crystal core is destroyed, or there is another possibility. Aunt Zhao's situation was caused by being mentally controlled, so three years ago you were actually controlled."
Chen Jian clenched his fists tightly.
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