Chapter 406, Contaminated Zone 320 (Part 7)
A strong feeling of weightlessness washed over me.
A strong pull came from the waist of his combat uniform. Was it Duan Xi?
The rabbit reacted quickly, gripping the sniper rifle tightly, adjusting its posture in mid-air, and assuming a defensive stance.
All colors and sounds around quickly faded away.
Instead, there was only a vast expanse of white nothingness.
The white was so bright and blinding that it was impossible to open one's eyes.
The moment the surrounding scenery rippled, the rabbit smelled a rusty odor.
It tastes very familiar.
It awakened her deepest memories.
I heard the sound of shattering lenses.
After landing, the rabbit rolled on the ground, intending to raise its gun to attack, but was horrified to find that its sniper rifle was gone.
She tried to find cover, but froze in place after seeing her surroundings.
A familiar scene: a dilapidated tent and simple daily necessities.
Water seeped into the walls through rusty pipes, pooling into murky puddles on the cement floor.
This was her home in the attic of an abandoned steel factory, before she went to the Dawn Base, where she and her brother depended on each other for survival.
The damp, musty smell that filled my nostrils felt so real.
You can even distinguish the distinctive rotten, sweet smell of the pile of expired military canned goods in the corner.
"Ayu, what are you doing?"
The rabbit suddenly turned around, and the iron stairs made a familiar creaking sound.
A young Wang Jiayi was seen climbing the stairs, his camouflage uniform cuffs worn white.
He was carrying the food he had just found that day, and he was looking up at her with gentle eyes.
The rabbit's eyes instantly welled up with tears, and its fingertips trembled as it touched its chest.
That place should have contained my brother's keepsake—a pendant made from a bullet casing.
A warm metal pocket watch, its chain wrapped with a faded red cord.
It was a gift her brother bought for her with the points he earned in his first month when he joined the Dawn Base.
The pendant is gone.
She had somehow transformed into her twelve-year-old self.
The combat uniform he was wearing had been replaced by an old red sweater from his childhood.
Despite the difficult conditions at that time, her brother always took good care of her and kept her clean and tidy.
"What are you daydreaming about?" Wang Jiayi suddenly reached out and ruffled her bangs, the smell of gun oil mixed with the scent of soap from his sleeve wafting towards her.
Tears streamed down her cheeks and fell to the ground.
The real touch, the living brother—a flood of longing and pain overwhelmed my reason.
Deep down, she knew it was all a lie.
But it was completely out of control.
Wang Jiayi was a little flustered, "Why are you crying? Are you hungry?"
The boy spread the food he had found out on the table, but she still didn't react.
"Could it be that she woke up and couldn't find her brother and cried?"
Wang Jiayi said with a wry smile, "Ayu is almost a grown-up now, she can't cry so easily anymore."
A turbulent era.
More than ten years since the sun appeared.
The sky was always gray, resources were scarce, and danger lurked everywhere. In the small attic, two young children depended on each other for survival.
The young man used his not-so-broad shoulders to hold up a sky for her.
The rabbit's body trembled uncontrollably.
Wang Jiayi carried the food to the makeshift stove, turned his back to her, and started a fire. "Guess what I saw when I went out?"
Receiving no response, the boy continued speaking to himself.
"A lot of sentries have arrived in cars; they plan to set up sentry posts nearby."
Wang Jiayi said, "Ayu, how about I take you to live at the big base? It's very safe there, there's plenty of food, and there's a school where you can go to study."
At that time, Wang Jiayi had already awakened his abilities and become a Sentinel.
His eyes were filled with boundless anticipation for the future.
He wanted to realize his ambitions and provide her with a better life.
The exact same words from my memory.
The rabbit shook its head desperately, choking out, "No, brother, we're not going to the big base."
She remembers being very excited at the time.
My brother and I had our last lunch in this attic, packed our bags together, and then followed the group of sentries who were out on a mission to Dawn Base.
If she had known her brother would die, she would never have gone.
She didn't want her brother to be some kind of world-saving hero.
The boy chuckled and asked, "What's wrong now?"
The rabbit couldn't stop crying and kept shaking its head, "Let's not go, okay? You'll die, you really will die... I don't want you to die."
The attic suddenly darkened.
The sky outside, which should have been clear in the afternoon, was piled with leaden clouds, and the sound of raindrops hitting the tin roof was as dense as drumbeats.
"Ayu, don't cry." Wang Jiayi's voice was deep and gentle.
It seemed to pierce through time, falling accompanied by the sound of rain.
"Death is not scary; what is scary is having the ability but choosing to run away."
Wang Jiayi's eyes were full of tenderness and reluctance, but his tone was very gentle: "This world is terrible, and someone has to stand up and change it."
"If I really die one day, then my sacrifice will not have been in vain."
Amidst the torrential rain, the crisp sound of a mirror shattering could be heard.
With teary eyes, Wang Jiayu looked up and saw the dense array of mirrors on the iron wall of the attic.
Her pupils contracted sharply, and without thinking, she rushed over and hugged the boy in front of her tightly.
The realistic touch, it smells like my brother.
Wang Jiayi opened his arms and embraced her, then raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his sister's cheeks with his sleeve.
He said slowly, "Ayu, your future should be brighter. You should stand in the sunlight and become the person you want to be."
Wang Jiayu shook her head desperately with tears streaming down her face, but for some reason, images of her teammates appeared in her mind.
When the devastating news arrived, they were there to comfort him.
Hide your sadness and try your best to make her laugh.
The captain personally supervised and arranged endless training sessions, leaving her no time to think about anything else.
What were her beliefs at that time?
To avenge my brother, to fulfill his wishes, to do what he couldn't finish, to change the world...
A sigh came from above.
"Silly girl, your brother... has long entrusted his future to you."
*
A pitch-black cellar.
The detached mirror on the wall was quickly restored to its original state.
Despite sensing something was amiss, those outside were unable to disturb the two who were in the midst of a mental connection.
Xie Tu patiently waited until there was movement inside, at which point Song Liang and the others immediately opened the door and rushed in.
The dusty tabletop was covered with shards of mirror, and five flashlights stood upright, their beams casting five spots of light onto the wooden ceiling.
In just a short while.
Inside the enclosed space, only Qu Xingzhou and Zhao Xinlei remained.
"Where is he?" Song Liang's expression changed slightly.
Xie Tu's pupils contracted slightly, his gaze quickly scanning the room. He drew a Tang sword from the side of his backpack and began inspecting the space.
The small room was completely visible.
The walls were made of piled stones, and there was a low stone platform; there was nowhere to hide.
The person just vanished into thin air.
Fu Yu followed closely behind and entered. Her heart tightened suddenly, and she turned to look at Zhao Xinlei and Qu Xingzhou.
"what happened?"
"It's a stone wall; there's something wrong with the stone walls of this house."
After treatment, Zhao Xinlei recovered, but her teammates went missing, leaving her no time to take care of herself.
Qu Xingzhou dusted himself off and stood up, his face somewhat pale. He echoed, "I heard the noise too."
Everyone looked at the stone walls on all four sides of the house.
The uneven walls are covered with the marks of time.
Fu Mo's tone was chillingly cold: "Try chiseling open the stone wall."
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