Chapter 162 Misty Winter 9
With a flick of his wrist, the item [Devour] appeared. Lin Xia didn't feel any regret and casually tossed it into the depths of the space.
She never intended to use this prop. To her, what's hers will always be hers, and what belongs to others will always be theirs. She would work hard to get what she wanted, but this effort did not include plundering or devouring, as she always felt that doing so would pollute herself.
Lin Xia enveloped her entire body with her mental energy, and now she could 'become invisible,' a kind of mental disregard.
She walked outwards. The city she was in was the edge of the dome. She was moving very fast. Although she was walking, you could only see her afterimages. Before long, she saw a city.
Once inside, it was eerily quiet, almost a ghost town. The only people left were elderly people living alone, people with sick family members who couldn't evacuate, and people who were drunk and didn't want to live anymore.
Lin Xia even saw some young people partying inside the house, shouting for the dome to cover them quickly, as they also wanted to go inside for an adventure.
Being so close to the dome, it was certain that most people would retreat. As she walked, she scanned the sky and the ground with her mental energy. She didn't find anything unusual along the way. The city streets were unusually deserted. In just a few days, the former liveliness and prosperity had faded away.
Without the warmth of human interaction, these steel and concrete structures seem to have returned to their original coldness. Various insects crawl around, and small grasses stubbornly emerge from the cracks in the ground. The big trees grow ostentatiously, blocking the traffic lights, but no one will come back to trim them.
Walking here, all you can hear is the rustling of the wind through the leaves, a harmonious and melodious sound.
Lin Xia climbed to the top of the tallest building and looked into the distance. With so many people evacuating together, they certainly couldn't go very far, and it was very likely that it wasn't just this one city. If everyone had to be relocated, it would definitely be a huge undertaking.
If the organization is not well-managed, there will definitely be various conflicts, and coupled with the threat from the dome behind them, disintegration can happen in an instant.
Sure enough, she soon spotted a dense mass of cars on the highway and expressway, and heard a cacophony of sounds as families fled. Many people didn't want to abandon their luggage, and driving forward was extremely slow.
Think about the highways during holidays, when there aren't many people there. Now, everyone is on the road, and everyone is afraid that the dome will suddenly invade.
But they were all afraid of going to unfamiliar places, where they would have no food or clothing and would not be able to survive. As Lin Xia walked, she noticed a small number of people running up the mountain. Thinking back to what she had seen before, the places covered by the dome were indeed just cities.
However, if a human settlement were to form on the mountain, the location of the dome would definitely shift, so the locations where those people went would be very scattered.
Lin Xia stopped paying attention to them, sat down cross-legged, and looked at the Rubik's Cube in the sky. The Rubik's Cube was invisible to the naked eye; it could only be seen with mental power.
Lin Xia cast a shield around herself and extended her mental energy toward the Rubik's Cube. Only then did she realize that the Rubik's Cube was just a projection. Her mental energy circled the Rubik's Cube, sensing the energy field around it.
Observing from here is a completely different experience from observing from the sky. She can see many information transmission channels that are transmitting information outward.
Her mental energy followed the trail and she saw the nearest information receiving point in the mountains, which was an underground base.
Lin Xia went straight there and teleported inside. It was a laboratory. She had been here before in the Rubik's Cube, as she had seen it on the surveillance footage, so she was very familiar with the layout.
She made her way through without any obstacles, seeing the people in the control room and the supplies office bustling about, still investigating the large-scale distribution of supplies caused by Lin Xia's previous modification of the instructions.
The game balance was broken, but it was quickly fixed automatically by the system. However, Lin Xia's disappearance still attracted people's attention. When Lin Xia stood in front of the control room, her location was displayed inside.
Lin Xia wasn't actually invisible; rather, she made people subconsciously ignore her presence. She looked at the people in front of her, who cautiously turned their heads little by little to look at her, their faces filled with fear, and they frowned.
She had originally wanted to find out where this thing came from, but since it had already been exposed, she didn't want to cause any more trouble. She released her mental energy and instantly took over the base's surveillance system, as well as all the electric doors and switches.
With a kick, he tied them up. Lin Xia ignored the two people he had just seen talking and went to the control panel.
Her mental energy spread through the information channel. The view from here was much clearer than from inside. Before she could mark the location, she saw a face appear on the screen in front of her.
He had an old and decrepit face, but now he was looking at Lin Xia with great interest.
"Did you already possess supernatural powers before entering the game, or did you acquire them after entering the game?"
"You can try it in the game."
"I'm getting old, so of course I have to give the opportunity to the younger generation. Don't worry, as long as you cooperate with us, I will definitely not treat you unfairly."
"Cooperating with you means you're not human, you're dogs?"
The old man smiled and said, "Your location has been locked. If I press the button, in less than two seconds, you and everyone around you will die, as will the city you left."
Lin Xia laughed too: "You can give it a try."
The old man remained calm: "You've got guts and are ruthless enough, but I should have what you need here—a cultivation method. You probably need it, right? If you try to figure it out on your own, who knows how long you'll have to wait. Besides, I have many people like you here. Wouldn't it be great if we all came and exchanged ideas?"
"You have a lot there?" Lin Xia asked in surprise.
"Of course, there are quite a few people like you with special abilities, but they are all kept in secret and ordinary people can't see them."
"What you have is probably a mental mutation. It's rare, but not uncommon. We have some cultivation methods for it."
It turns out that this world, or rather many worlds, has people with superpowers, but they are not often seen in front of ordinary people. If these people support this old man, then what attracts them is only the method to improve their abilities.
Or rather, immortality is an eternal topic.
"They support you?"
The old man smiled and shrugged: "Interested."
He was honest, but Lin Xia didn't believe that this person was really that kind.
As the old man continued talking, Lin Xia suddenly heard voices in her mental energy. She didn't know what he was saying, but her mental energy didn't affect their communication at all.
"Huh, there are actually natives who have developed mental power."
Lin Xia's expression changed: "Who are you, and what are you doing on Blue Star?"
“My things were lost on this planet, and I just want to get them back.”
"That Rubik's Cube?"
"A Rubik's Cube? Oh, yes."
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