34 Return to the Tower
◎Roll back to the tower in a big circle◎
I'd never heard Kong Wei sound so anxious before. She knew immediately that she was going to be cut off, before she could even finish her words. Something must have happened. Yan Xunzhi took a deep breath, forgetting to remove his helmet. Without the cooling device, the sudden rush of hot air made him cough.
Depend on……
She choked for a long time before wiping away her tears and stopping. This time, she didn't dare to take a deep breath. She took small sips and thought about what she had just said.
Mental bullets?
Yan Xunzhi paused. She knew someone was there to help her, and she thought it was a bullet fired by a team on the ground somewhere else. If it hadn't been for that bullet, she would have been ambushed by an alien creature. She was thankful for the warning.
What if the reminder wasn't a person...? A foreign object?
What if it wasn't trying to warn her, but was trying to kill her? The bullet had missed her by a hair's breadth.
But...how could an alien use a mental weapon?
Psychic bullets can only be fired from Psychic Guns. Psychic Guns are powerful and carefully guarded, with each Psychic Gun registering Psychic Power upon receipt. Regardless of whether or not a foreign object could be used, even if it were another team member, it would be difficult to use a gun that wasn't theirs.
Yan Xunzhi felt a slight pain in his head, and subconsciously reached back to touch his spiritual gun.
Still there. She held the bullet in her hand, calmed her breath, looked at the yellow sand all around her, and walked forward with her head held high.
The direction was correct. When the chain broke, she was facing this direction.
But whether you can walk back to the ground tower... depends entirely on luck.
The ground's magnetic field affects the perception of direction. Many people who have a very good sense of direction underground will only go in circles when they come to the surface. Yan Xunzhi is very glad that she does not have this ability. She can only follow her sixth sense and move forward quickly.
At this time, having less ability means less entanglement. Anyway, it's all wrong, so just move forward.
...seems to be crooked.
Stepping on the slightly sunken yellow sand, Yan Xunzhi looked down at his toes which were level with his knees. For some reason, this idea suddenly popped up in his mind.
She had actually made up her mind to keep going forward, but there was always a voice in her head nagging her: I'm going the wrong way, I'm going too far to the right, the tower should be on the right, it's too far to the left now...
It was strange. She would feel dizzy just looking at those long corridors underground, but now she seemed to be surprisingly sharp.
Could this be the last gasp of energy... uh... the stimulation of potential?
Yan Xunzhi moved half of his foot hesitantly, with the toe of his right foot slightly tilted to the right.
Are you leaving?
Even in her ground-based sportswear, the direct sunlight was too intense, and the temperature inside her clothes quickly rose, completely obliterating the coolness. Furthermore, there was a super-class alien moving about indistinctly, so she couldn't afford to hesitate for too long.
The voice in her head urging her to turn right grew louder and more assertive, almost certain she had strayed from her course. Yan Xunzhi raised her head, gazing at the vast expanse of yellow sand, and hesitated for two seconds.
If the world is changing and evolving, and the spiritual power of alien beings is greatly enhanced, will it be possible that... it can also affect her thoughts?
Twice. One shot, one chain break. If the foreign object wasn't a concern, how could the chain be severed so quickly?
Had it been keeping an eye on her, keeping her away from the ground tower, causing her to lose her helmet's position, and then deliberately placed her in such an isolated place?
Help! She's just an ordinary B-rank sentry. Is it necessary to go to such great lengths to trap her?
Yan Xunzhi closed his eyes and made up his mind, rushing forward.
Even if no one was there to stop her, her sense of direction was so poor that after a few more steps she might realize she had gone off track again. And then she'd have no idea where she was going! Even if she did go off track and died on the ground, it was better than wandering around like a headless chicken.
After staying on the ground for too long, he even lost count. Yan Xunzhi didn't know how long he had been running on the ground, but he had a vague feeling that he was probably going in the wrong direction.
According to the distance Kong Wei had contacted, she should have arrived earlier.
But he couldn't change it, and if he did, he wouldn't know where to go. Thoughts kept coming out of his mind, but Yan Xunzhi gritted his teeth and ignored them all, just charging forward.
The ground sportswear was already scorching hot, and she kept running, causing the temperature to rise very quickly. She felt dizzy and nauseous, so she had no choice but to run and walk alternately.
She was still feeling this way even in her ground-based activity suit, so she had probably been offline for over forty minutes. Yan Xunzhi calculated in her mind that she had been lost on the ground for at least twenty minutes.
After walking a distance, she could no longer run. Her legs, which had long since healed, began to ache for some unknown reason.
Let's walk a little longer. Yan Xunzhi leaned on her knees, bent over and supported herself for a moment, not daring to sit down. She encouraged herself: many people who got lost on the ground for days wearing ground sportswear have found their way back. It's still early for her...
After resting for a while, I dragged my body forward and was surprised to find that the idea of changing the route had almost disappeared.
Did I take the right path, or did I get out of the range of interference from foreign objects?
This new discovery gave her more motivation, and she dragged her legs even harder.
Soon, a subtle sound was heard. Yan Xunzhi's head was already aching like a needle, but subconsciously, he felt that it was very familiar. He tried his best to squeeze out some mental power to condense a bullet, raised his gun, and fired at the sound!
The yellow sand was blown away, and then there was a noise from the opposite side.
In the gap between the two ends, she saw the familiar face opposite her, and she was so excited as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, "Wen Cheng!"
She won.
Yan Xunzhi's legs went weak, and he felt the air he had been holding in suddenly escape, and he almost fell to the ground.
It was too indecent. So she tried to hold on.
Back underground, I checked the trajectory tracking and found that her route had deviated drastically, almost turning around and running to the ground tower at the edge of Area 3. Fortunately, even if I didn't encounter Wen Cheng who had just come up to the surface, I could still see the guidance laser emitted by the ground tower if I walked a few steps forward.
Yan Xunzhi knew that she had not reached Kong Wei's place, so he did not rush to contact her. After all the procedures were completed, Wen Cheng gave her a bottle of nutrient potion. She stayed like a corpse for a long time to recover, and finally decided to report to her that he was safe.
Wen Cheng said, "She lost contact on the ground, and no one can contact her now."
Yan Xunzhi exclaimed, "Officer Kong is on the ground? Why? Isn't there a reinforcement team?"
"The super-level foreign body is likely to be from the ground." Wen Cheng picked at the medicine in front of him and ate it like candy beans. "All the S-level guides in the northwest have gone up."
Ground natural person? What? Yan Xunzhi reacted for a moment, "Ground natural person?"
Wen Cheng nodded, "Yes."
Since she had never encountered this before, Kong Wei didn't elaborate on it. She was a little confused, but suddenly it seemed to make sense. "So what is it? People on the ground are alienated and become alien objects?"
So it can shoot, maybe that was once its gun.
Wen Cheng was silent for a moment. "...I don't know." She said, "The original natural people on the ground were humans who did not evacuate to the ground for shelter. After natural evolution, they became alien creatures. They are no different from ordinary alien creatures, except that some have higher mental power and are smarter and more difficult to deal with. But now..."
I wonder if there are any people who disappeared on the ground who survived by chance and were eventually transformed into foreign objects by nature.
Judging from today's situation, it can use mental weapons, cut off mental communications, interfere with mental power... It is completely beyond the scope of normal foreign objects.
Yan Xunzhi was still not sure, "Maybe it's just an isolated case..."
There are too many types of alienation, all of which are deformed products, each different from the other. It is hard to say whether this alienation is the best.
Wen Cheng sighed deeply, "I don't understand. These are matters of the higher-ups. I'm just a public guide who has listened a little more... I hope so."
The alien object that appeared was confirmed to be a natural person on the ground. The Federation hoped to capture it alive, but the other party was too powerful and suffered heavy casualties. In the end, it was difficult to encircle and kill it.
Yan Xunzhi saw Kong Wei again in the medical area.
She was very surprised when she saw Kong Wei in the medical area for the first time.
That was Kong Wei! To her, such a formidable officer was actually injured and had to be carried to the medical area...
The more you see it, the more you get used to it. Kong Wei wanted to protect her, and when he was with her, he would choose a relaxing area. The foreign objects he faced on a daily basis were simply not on the same level. No matter how powerful she was, she was still a human being after all.
This time it was his mental strength that was damaged, but it was not a big problem. When Yan Xunzhi went over, Kong Wei was still hanging on the water and was able to chat and arrange tasks.
She stood at the door, watching Officer Kong constantly sending out mission information, and silently sweat dropped down her cheeks. Was it really necessary to fight so hard...
If she were her subordinate, she would wish... to have a few more days of rest!
Although she thought about it, she didn't dare to even think for a second about cursing Officer Kong. She was about to go in after spitting in her heart, but just after taking two steps, she saw a figure appear behind the bed curtain.
The bed curtains were tightly blocking her view, so she didn't even notice there was someone there.
She was sitting facing the bed, with her back to her, and her back figure was unfamiliar. Yan Xunzhi was a little curious. He had already reached Kong Wei's bed, but took two more steps to the other side.
Kong Wei looked at her and asked with a half-smile, "Where are you going?"
Uh... where is she going? Yan Xunzhi paused awkwardly, looked around, and saw a stool. He took two steps and pulled it over to his side. "I'll find a stool to sit on."
The person sitting over there turned around when she heard the sound, and Yan Xunzhi could see her face clearly this time.
Perhaps due to genetics, the lack of sunlight underground meant her pupils were all light-colored, and her appearance was generally cold and hard. Her face was still angular, but compared to Kong Wei's, it was much softer. Her pupils were completely black, making her eyes appear extremely bright. She looked like she had just split up.
"This is Sang Wanyin." Kong Wei extended his hand, and the girl opposite smiled and nodded slightly.
Yan Xunzhi also smiled and nodded in response, thinking there would be some follow-up, but there was none. With just such a simple introduction, he turned to introduce Sang Wanyin, "This is my Link Sentinel, Yan Xunzhi."
Hmm, six extra words and a punctuation mark. Yan Xunzhi secretly complained, Kong Wei's introduction was really concise...
"I've heard of it." Sang Wanyin smiled, her eyes curved. "A super-matched Sentinel. Everyone has heard about it. Everyone knows it. She is indeed very beautiful."
Yan Xunzhi just thought the last sentence was polite, and felt a little embarrassed about his fame which was entirely due to luck. He responded to her a few times, and when he learned that she was an S-level sentinel, he was surprised and praised her repeatedly.
This is sincere. S-class Sentinel!
Sang Wanyin had been there for a while. It seemed that she had finished looking for Kong Wei, and there was nothing else to do. Since someone had arrived, she stood up and was about to leave.
Kong Wei called her, "Wanyin."
Yan Xunzhi was chewing a sweet candy to pass the time, and when he heard her call him that, he paused unconsciously.
Calling only the last two words really sounded intimate and mournful. She felt a little strange that Kong Wei seemed to have always called her by her full name, including her first and last name...
It seemed like I had never called her so intimately before.
【Author’s words】
Pickled fish: Who is jealous? What is vinegar? I have never tasted vinegar (really).
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