Chapter 520, Polluted Zone 24 (Part 8)
The two had their first disagreement.
Yun Zhao tried the same trick again, standing on tiptoe to kiss him, but Xie Tu pressed her shoulder down.
The man's gaze was deep and his face was tense. "The honey trap didn't work."
Following the force of his arm, Yun Zhao leaned into his arms, wrapped her arms around his waist, and tilted her head back, "Are you really useless?"
The man fell silent.
Yun Zhao poked his hard muscles. "You think even a two-star contaminated zone is dangerous? Does that mean you can't even try four-star or five-star zones in the future?"
"The opportunity is rare, and the goalkeeper may not be able to break through my mental barrier. I just want to give it a try."
Xie Tu had no way to refute these words.
Indeed, Team Zero operates in high-risk, contaminated areas.
If you miss the 24th, what you encounter afterward will only be more dangerous.
Seeing that his attitude had softened, Yun Zhao pressed on, "Two-star region or four- or five-star region, why don't you choose one for me?"
Xie Tu's knuckles tightened slightly, then he helplessly loosened them.
He looked down at Yun Zhao, who was tilting her head back in his arms.
She took off her sunglasses, and her eyes shone like starlight, making all the words of refusal stuck in her throat.
Xie Tu resignedly pulled her closer to him, resting his chin on the top of her head. "...Okay, I'll stay by your side tonight."
If anyone else saw Xie Tu like this, they would probably be shocked.
The S-class sentinel who was decisive and uncompromising in the contaminated zone had no principles or bottom lines when he was in front of Yun Zhao.
He never seemed to have the heart to refuse her requests, and always chose to give in.
He would accompany her no matter what she wanted to do, even if there were endless dangers ahead.
Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Yun Zhao smiled and released his arms from around his waist. "Let's go look for clues in other places. We'll go back later and inform Qi Ling and the others."
My embrace suddenly felt empty.
Xie Tu pursed his lips tightly at her purposeful advances, but said nothing, and followed her out the way they came.
They came out to find the gatekeeper.
The Memory Hotel is suspicious, but it seems more like a means for the gatekeeper to obtain obsessions.
It's unlikely that the goalkeeper is here.
Yun Zhao put his sunglasses back on, and the two quickly returned to the street.
The sky was overcast and gray, making it impossible to tell the time.
Light pollution bathed the entire street in a hazy play of light and shadow, and the neon lights blurred in the humid air, stretching and distorting the shadows of the two people.
The terrain was too complex, which was not conducive to searching for the gatekeeper, so Yun Zhao simply released his spiritual threads to search only for places where dark matter was abundant.
Xie Tu followed closely behind her, his profile illuminated by the flashing billboards, making his features appear exceptionally sharp.
Several in-depth counseling sessions helped the two build an increasingly close spiritual connection.
Yun Zhao sensed something was wrong and asked, "Are you unhappy?"
"No."
Yun Zhao suddenly reached out and gently hooked his sleeve with her fingertips. "Whenever you're unhappy, the corners of your mouth get really tight."
Xie Tu turned to look at her, the colorful lights swirling in his eyes, filled with helpless indulgence.
He ruffled her hair and pulled her closer to him: "Really, there isn't. Let's go find the gatekeeper."
If I were to say it out loud, it would make him seem unreasonable.
The most important thing right now is to find a way out; we can deal with everything else when we get back.
...
The two then searched many places.
The cableway entrance is piled high with all sorts of abandoned machinery.
The rusted cable car cabins hung precariously from the broken steel cables, swaying silently in the light and shadow.
The steps behind us, built along the mountainside, stretched as far as the eye could see. It took us an hour to climb them all, so we gave up in the end.
There are also underground air-raid shelters, which are empty and filled with bottomless darkness, almost entirely filled with dark matter.
Finally, Yun Zhao was exhausted, and the two had to turn back to find someone.
"The road is all uphill and downhill. We just walked along the road, which took a long detour..."
It wasn't until they returned that they discovered a shortcut along a small path behind the house.
The map of the contaminated area is not large, but the terrain is too complex to drive on.
Xie Tu helped her walk slowly forward. "That's Chongqing like this. The terrain is uneven, and the streets and alleys are winding. It looks close, but it's far away when you walk there."
Yun Zhao was taken aback.
Xie Tu could barely be considered a local.
He thought the terrain was normal, but Yun Zhao always felt that something was wrong.
I can't quite describe that feeling.
Just as people in the old days took the sun for granted, they only began to panic when the sun stopped appearing on time.
Were the sentries who came in before the same way?
Because they were located in Chongqing, the sentries didn't focus on the terrain; they were busy searching for clues in every nook and cranny.
In stark contrast, Xia Mingang immediately remarked upon meeting Xia Mingang that the terrain was very strange.
Did they overlook something?
Seeing that she was lost in thought again, Xie Tu knew that this was her habit when she was thinking, so he took her hand and slowly walked back.
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