Chapter 71 Death "You are the one who caused her to fall to the bottom of the lake!"...
The zipper was successfully zipped up.
Bai Heng experienced dry mouth and tongue.
After changing, Sang Li stood in front of the mirror and twirled around. She looked adorable, like a little princess from a fairy tale: "I am truly naturally beautiful."
Bai Heng couldn't help but smile after seeing her change: "You look especially like a strawberry mousse standing on the dessert stand today."
“Then you’d better be careful, there might be small animals in the forest trying to eat me.” Sang Li casually raised her hand to tidy the ends of her hair, and picked up her hat and picnic basket. “Or, there might be some shameless abnormal beings eyeing me.”
Sang Li thought of those marine creatures.
It's a bit disgusting.
Because of his unusual abilities, he attracts creatures with low physical attractiveness, which is also a source of distress.
She doesn't like it.
Bai Heng: "Abnormalities aren't that common, otherwise the world would have been in chaos long ago."
The two set off along the forest boardwalk. Sunlight dappled through the leaves, birdsong rose and fell, and in the distance, a few lonely crows cawed, mingling with the sound of the forest wind.
But Sang Li carefully checked and found that it was not Chi Du.
However, there's no need for Ike to secretly observe him.
After all, they exchanged contact information.
After all, the image of Chi Du appeared without being asked.
If it were Ike Watari's personality, he would have already arrested himself.
People relax when they travel.
To the left of the boardwalk is a clear stream, its surface reflecting the sunlight and gurgling softly.
Bai Heng occasionally looked down at the reflection in the water at his feet, while Sang Li would stop from time to time to take pictures.
This time, the posts on WeChat Moments will definitely be amazing.
Do you need me to take a picture for you?
“I can take a selfie when we get to the picnic spot. Men, well, they don’t know how to take pictures,” Sang Li waved her hand. “Especially doctors.”
Bai Heng chuckled and asked, "What's wrong with the doctor?"
Sang Li: "It will probably look like an X-ray."
"..."
They walked along the wooden boardwalk to the end, where they found a small lake hidden among the trees. The lake water was crystal clear, reflecting the tall trees and the blue sky and white clouds.
The lakeside is a planned campsite, with a few natural stones and a simple barbecue grill standing on the flat, soft grass, but it was surprisingly deserted today.
"Nobody's here!" Sang Li exclaimed, her eyes wide with surprise. "Did we have the whole place to ourselves?"
Bai Heng took the picnic blanket from her and spread it out, looking around for a long time.
Although it is a niche tourist destination, the term "niche" should be relative; there is no reason why there should be no one here.
The entire area is within the safe zone for BEAM-marked anomalous plants. Even if anomalous plants are present, they are either underdeveloped or completely harmless.
While Sang Li was laying out snacks, Bai Heng turned his back to him and activated the miniature space magnetic field detector.
The values are stable.
Confirm that there are no abnormal objects in the vicinity.
Am I just overthinking things?
Bai Heng took a few steps back, not wanting to be too far from Sang Li, and then sat down on the grass.
Sang Li laid out snacks and drinks, then sprawled out on the cushions. "It's so much better to be out having fun than stuck in the city. Want some strawberry yogurt? It goes really well with the scenery here. Thanks for bringing me out. I feel like I'll stand you up if you say you'll treat me to dinner next time, but I'll treat you when we get back. Don't be shy. To be honest, I don't really need the money. What if the shelter changes its mind and confiscates it? Or what if they think I'm dangerous and decide to euthanize me?"
Bai Heng frowned: "No."
Sang Li clicked her tongue: "Anyway, my life is in other people's hands. Unless all the abnormal beings and humans in the world listen to me and fall in love with me, maybe I won't die."
Bai Heng: "The Administration has its own ethics monitoring system and will not allow such a thing to happen."
Sang Li: "Will they conduct human experiments?"
"No," Bai Heng said firmly. "I've never heard of it."
Sang Li blinked, thinking of something, and felt that the Administration Bureau must be up to something shady.
At least they're in movies.
“What if, I mean, what if, they want to study me?” Sang Li asked.
"I will take you away," Bai Heng said firmly.
Sang Li: "Why can't you just bombard the Administration Bureau with a single shot?"
Bai Heng: "Fine, I'll kill everyone else with one shot."
"Hehe," she looked at Bai Heng, noticing that he seemed a little absent-minded, and his words echoed hers, "Is something on your mind? Did I really hit the nail on the head? Does the Bureau have some unspeakable secret?"
No, I'm not eating.
Bai Heng took the yogurt, smiled at her, and then quietly turned on the advanced mode of the space magnetic field detector.
He was trying to expand the search range of the magnetic field, rapidly manipulating the screen with his fingertips to switch to the high-frequency band.
The blue line representing abnormal energy on the interface, which was originally as smooth as a horizontal line, suddenly trembled the next second.
The instrument made a soft sound.
Bai Heng frowned, his eyes darkening.
But after just a moment, the abnormal throbbing subsided as if nothing had happened, and everything returned to calm.
Data bias?
Or is it interference?
The anomalous wavebands brought about by the anomalous body usually do not appear suddenly and disappear suddenly.
That only proves that something appeared for a moment and then moved to another place.
Logically speaking, if an anomaly occurs, fluctuations should continue.
He stared at the screen, unable to find any flaws, so he could only silently note down the timestamps, planning to analyze them later.
The tremor came so briefly, yet it precisely shattered his sense of security.
By this time, Sang Li had finished a whole bag of honey yogurt-flavored potato chips, licked her fingers, and stood up.
“I’m going for a walk by the lake,” she said.
Bai Heng looked up and said with concern, "Don't go too far."
"Okay, I know." She waved her hand.
The lake was calm, like a frameless mirror, and even the air smelled moist and refreshing.
Sang Li sat by the lake, lifted her skirt to her knees, and took off her shoes.
She lifted one foot, tentatively extended her toes, and slowly dipped them into the water.
It's so cool.
But I felt completely clean.
Kids love playing in the water.
She also...
Suddenly, an invisible beam of light burst forth from the previously calm water, like being bitten by an electric eel; a tingling sensation shot from my toes up my spine to my brain in an instant!
What's going on?!
Sang Li was stunned, and subconsciously gasped, pulling her feet back and curling up at the knees.
The sensation was like a sleeping snake lurking at the bottom of a lake—cold, slippery, and with a disorienting, entwining feel.
It wasn't very painful, but it was a bit scary.
Was that fish you just felt?
Once she was settled, she glanced down into the water.
There was nothing underwater—no fish, no other animals.
but.
Five pearls lay quietly on the shallow sand at the bottom of the water.
They appeared there without warning.
Amber?
No way.
Those were within her reach.
Upon further confirmation, they were not seashells or pebbles, but five pearls with a soft, lustrous color and perfectly round shape.
Sang Li's heart skipped a beat.
She was certain that the bottom of the water had been empty just now.
How could there be pearls in a lake?
It's been a long time since I've seen Amber.
"are u there?"
There was no response from the water.
Bai Heng, sitting to the side, watched Sang Li's back.
I can't pinpoint the source of my insecurity.
However, no abnormalities were detected within a ten-kilometer radius.
Sudden.
What did he hear?
A low, melodious song drifted from an unknown direction deep in the forest, like the melody of some ancient sea creature chanting. The tone was indistinct, yet it seemed as if countless waves of water surged into his ears along with the sound, infecting every cell in his body.
I feel like I'm drowning in my nasal cavity.
The next second, I heard rustling whispers in my ears.
"You know..."
"You knew perfectly well..."
"She shouldn't be out having fun."
"She heard it...she's getting closer..."
"You could have stopped it..."
"You let her get close to the water..."
who?
Who is speaking?
Those sounds weren't human; they were like the bubbles of a school of fish, like the rustling of seaweed rubbing against each other in the water.
Bai Heng's back suddenly tensed, and his face turned pale.
He suddenly raised his head.
Just then, I saw Sang Li's figure slowly approaching the lake!
Then, very quickly, half of his body had already sunk to the surface of the water.
"No! Don't go down!" Bai Heng suddenly shouted.
"What?" Sang Li turned around, confused. "I was just swimming, nothing happened."
As soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow suddenly burst forth from beneath the water's surface, like a giant tentacle, stretching out from the water behind Sang Li!
"Sang Li!" Bai Heng suddenly stood up and ran over, his voice almost tearing his throat.
A sudden fear gripped my heart.
What is that?!
Is it an abnormality?
It's too late.
"Ah, Bai Heng!"
Sang Li was completely enveloped by the dark shadow. The lake surface seemed to be torn apart by the shadow. In less than a second, the ripples returned to calm, and the lake surface returned to its mirror-like state, without even leaving a ripple.
"Sang Li!!"
Bai Heng rushed over like a madman, not even having time to take off his shoes, and jumped into the lake.
The lake water was icy cold, like a blade cutting into skin; the chill instantly gripped his limbs and bones. He opened his eyes, desperately searching for Sang Li's figure in the water, but there was nothing there.
"You shouldn't have let her get close."
"You think you can protect her?"
"You are the one who caused her to fall to the bottom of the lake!"
"...She was drowned because of your permission."
Why did you bring her here?
"We agreed that she wouldn't leave Shangjing City."
Do you think you can protect her?
Bai Heng's pupils contracted sharply, his knuckles turned white from straining, and he was almost out of breath.
Where are they?
Oh, right.
position.
Yes, the location of Sang Li can be confirmed using a positioning system.
Bai Heng opened his eyes underwater, holding a screen in his hand.
The lake water was as cold as a sealed coffin, and all around was a suffocating darkness.
Bai Heng gritted his teeth and lit up the screen underwater.
On the positioning system, the red dot symbolizing Sang Li was clearly stopped not far ahead.
His eyes narrowed, his heart pounded, and he swam desperately in that direction!
As the water pressure was broken, the scene before my eyes suddenly twisted.
It's not a lake, not water, not a tree shadow.
Instead, it was a vast expanse of pitch-black curtain.
Heavy and cold, as if it had fallen from the sky.
He struggled to tear through the darkness.
Then.
A strong scent of incense and candles wafted towards us.
In the very center of the mourning hall, a photograph stood quietly.
The girl in the photo has a bright smile and her eyes sparkle.
The photo is in black and white.
That was a face he knew all too well.
Sang Li.
Is this a funeral?
Bai Heng's mind was in a mess, as if a flood of information was pouring in.
Beneath her portrait, the pink coffin seemed like some kind of absurd mockery.
Pink is also a color that Sang Li likes very much.
Why did you take her to the lake?
Bai Heng turned around abruptly. Lu Jin was standing beside the coffin, his eyes red-rimmed and his face as pale as paper.
"Didn't you know she can't swim?"
"Didn't you say you would protect her?"
"you
Each word was like an icicle, piercing Bai Heng's eardrums and then penetrating his chest cavity.
He had severe tinnitus, and his head was buzzing.
What's going on?
Isn't it by the lake?
What's happening now?
He stumbled toward the coffin, the world before him flickering between light and darkness, like light sinking to the bottom of a lake.
The coffin lid was open.
Bai Heng saw her.
She lay there with her eyes closed, as if asleep.
No heartbeat, no body temperature, no pulse.
She really is dead.
Why?
Because of my vacation?
Did I kill her?
Bai Heng's chest heaved violently, like a wound that had been repeatedly torn open and stitched up, causing him excruciating pain.
An indescribable fear, like a flood with no way out, roared into the depths of his mind. His consciousness, like a broken spider's thread, desperately tried to grasp something, but became increasingly blurred.
Fear, self-blame, and regret suddenly overwhelmed him like a flood that had just burst its banks, engulfing him from the inside out in an instant.
He felt as if his bones and blood had been stripped away.
The air around him seemed to be sucked out, and he felt himself falling endlessly into a boundless abyss.
"She's gone."
"Because of you."
"You allowed all of this."
...
Besides Lu Jin's insults, he seemed to hear Sang Li's voice echoing in his ears as well.
I'm talking.
Do you still want to see me?
"I don't want to be alone..."
For a moment, he didn't even want to breathe anymore.
Bai Heng lowered his head, his forehead pressed against the cold coffin, as if he were to surrender to this illusory and absurd reality.
He closed his eyes, falling into a suffocating silence, like the silent snapping of a tree branch when heavy snow collapses.
Suddenly, I had no desire to live.
I wish we could meet again.
Bai Heng caught a glimpse of the candlestick out of the corner of his eye; the antique candlestick had a very sharp point.
If it were stabbed in the chest...
We might see each other again...
He stumbled over and picked up the candlestick.
Suddenly, Sang Li's voice rang out again.
"...Bai Heng."
"Bai Heng?"
Like a dawn falling into a nightmare, warm, light, and an undeniable sound.
Bai Heng suddenly opened his eyes, and the scene before him suddenly resembled dissolving ink spreading out.
"Bai Heng!"
It's Sang Li.
Sang Li is swearing.
He hurled insults at people.
Even in a panic, she exclaimed, "Are you crazy?! Are you trying to die?!"
He cursed in a fit of rage.
He froze, his breath catching in his throat.
But the brain still can't process it.
It felt as if someone had suddenly pulled me out of the water from the bottom of an abyss, and light and sound surged towards me.
With a loud bang.
The illusion shattered.
Sang Li was right in front of him.
It's intact.
They were not injured.
He was soaked to the bone, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Bai Heng felt as if something was blocking his throat, but his body felt as if it were wrapped in a cocoon, making him unable to move.
It was as if the soul and the body had separated.
"Bai Heng?" Sang Li waved her hand in front of Bai Heng.
Bai Heng's condition is strange.
It's like being caught in a nightmare and not yet awake.
how so?
Bai Heng had never been in this state before.
She had just pulled Bai Heng, who had nearly drowned after walking into the water, to a shallower spot.
Fear and anger exploded in my chest, and my adrenaline surged.
"What's wrong with you?" she tried to remain calm.
Bai Heng's breath, close to her ear, was hot and broken, as if he had just crawled back from hell.
She knew perfectly well that he was delirious and there was no light in his eyes.
"Go up first. The water's cold."
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