Chapter 575 Red Eyes
That gaze wasn't a straightforward scrutiny, but rather like some creature lurking deep in an underground river, measuring her outline inch by inch with its wet, cold tentacles.
It felt like an ice pick slowly piercing down the spine.
It's as if it's saying... You've grown up...
Yun Zhao didn't know why she understood its meaning, and the instinctive memory from when she was six years old made her whole body freeze.
The little bluebird suddenly became very agitated and jumped straight onto Xie Tu's head, looking around.
The palm-sized figure instantly became transparent, flickering and changing size.
Ah, I've seen it before! I really want to kill it!
Memories flood back.
Five years old is an age when one is both aware of things and yet still somewhat naive.
Inside the manor castle, a nanny robot helped her wash up and then carried her downstairs for breakfast.
The spacious hall was filled with all sorts of toys.
On TV, the videos left by my father are played on repeat every day without fail.
As Xiao Yunzhao watched, she suddenly threw a tantrum that day, refusing to eat properly and insisting on going out to find her father.
The little girl didn't understand why she had to live here with a group of robots.
In the picture book for the nanny robot tutor, other children have parents and their best friends, but why doesn't she have any?
"I want to go find my dad!"
Xiao Yunzhao spoke angrily, refusing to be fed by the nanny robot and telling the little bluebird to run away from home.
The nanny robot didn't have the authority to stop her and couldn't go outside the programmed area. It would just mechanically repeat over and over again, "According to the infant feeding manual, you can't go out. You have to attend your academic class at nine o'clock. You can enter the amusement park at ten o'clock..."
Xiao Yunzhao ignored him and raised her chin, asking the nanny robot to get her shoes.
Then, she tricked all the nanny robots into going into the basement, locked the door, and threw away the key in one swift motion.
Xiao Yunzhao, with the little bluebird in toy car, ran out of the barrier left by Yun Jue for the first time.
What did she see?
Five-year-old children don't remember things very well, and their memories are very vague.
But the scene at that time still left a deep impression on Xiao Yunzhao.
Above the sky, there was a huge, blood-red eye. Its dark red pupil was contracting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and countless twisting black blood vessels were coiled on the iris, like maggots crawling out of rotten fruit.
She only glanced up at it once, and then had no memory of what happened next.
When I woke up again, I was back in the manor castle.
The little bluebird vaguely remembered that it was a woman who brought her back...
"Snap out of it!"
Xie Tu suddenly patted Yun Zhao on the back, his tone somewhat worried, "Is it affecting you?"
Yun Zhao's thoughts were pulled back to reality by his tap.
After a few seconds, she replied with a cool "Mm".
Xie Tu realized that something was wrong with her current state. The little bluebird's entire body was transparent, and it was exuding killing intent.
But now he can't stop.
The wind whistled past his ears as Xie Tu ran at an extremely fast speed.
A malevolent darkness has encroached on half the sky, and the surrounding buildings are transforming in a distorted form.
Just moments ago, the corn seedlings were lush and green; in the blink of an eye, they grew into strangely shaped, towering trees, their slender branches covered with vein-like vines that lashed out at the rapidly running crowd.
Xie Tu nimbly dodged the attack while carrying the person, avoiding the attack without actually attacking.
"Help me check if the people behind us have caught up yet?" He was trying to distract her and give her something to do.
Yun Zhao obediently turned her head, leaned on his shoulder, and began to count the number of people running behind her.
This relieved Xie Tu.
"Watch out!"
Jiang Mu, wielding two swords, dodged while turning around and swiftly severing the roots, releasing a strong, pungent odor.
His voice was drowned out by the crackling sound of plants bursting open.
Fourteen sentries blocked the attack, trying their best not to fall behind, and stayed close behind Xie Tu.
Behind them, the entire cornfield had twisted into a living forest of thorns.
Just when things were at their most critical, the roar of an engine suddenly came from afar.
The blinding headlights pierced the fog, and the armored vehicle charged out like a steel behemoth, stopping in front of them with a crushing force.
"Get in the car quickly!" Fu Mo shouted, leaning out of the car window.
The branches above swayed wildly, and the water unicorn suddenly appeared, howling as it bit down on a branch that was trying to lift the armored vehicle.
Ugh, this tastes awful...
At the same time, Fu Yu immediately reached out to touch the key.
The fourth contaminated zone has not been completely absorbed, and the key is still useful.
A white halo appeared rapidly, followed by the howls of countless mutants.
Riots broke out in the contaminated area.
The distant mountains were now covered by mirage-like buildings, and a dark mass of monsters surged toward the armored vehicle like a flood.
Xia Mingang slammed on the brakes and stopped next to the armored vehicle.
As the trailblazers, he and Jiang Mu had been under constant attack, and they looked rather disheveled at this moment.
Her meticulously styled flaxen short hair was now a mess, like a bird's nest overturned by a typhoon, with a few wisps of bangs sticking up comically, looking like antennas stuck in her hair.
"My combat trench coat..."
Xia Mingang wiped his face and stared speechlessly at his combat uniform with a tear in it.
The earrings studded with diamonds stubbornly glittered in the smoke, but unfortunately, paired with his tactical belt that had been blown to shreds, he looked like a thug who had just failed to rob a luxury store.
Jiang Mu arrived right after him, not even giving him a second glance, and went straight into the car to rest.
Demons danced wildly all around, and many mutated plants appeared out of thin air. Their skins were cracked, and hundreds of black vines covered in sticky sap broke through the soil and coiled around the car like giant pythons.
Black leaves sprouted from the branches, their edges hardening rapidly, with serrated veins protruding like countless sharp bone saws clicking and closing in the wind.
If you get hit, you'll be badly injured, if not killed.
"This is a plant?!" Xia Mingang kicked away the vines that had wrapped around him, and crimson sap seeped from the broken ends of the thing, splattering on his boots like blood.
He swung his leg in disgust, yelling, "Damn it!"
Bixi and Baixi Beast appeared one after the other, blocking the chariot together with the Water Qilin.
The water unicorn had been outside the whole time, and no one knew how many lashes it had received. It howled and cried out, tears streaming down its face. Its cries were truly earth-shattering.
The Bixi remained as immovable as a mountain. The sharp leaves struck its shell as if it were a mere tickle, causing no pain or itch.
However, the white beast, which had only been out for two seconds, suddenly disappeared—it was forcibly taken back by Jiang Mu.
We already have several S-class Pokémon, so we won't miss out on another one.
It's too dangerous outside; it looks painful. Let's leave the defense to the tanky Bixi.
One minute later.
Xie Tu finally arrived with everyone.
They struggled to walk less than two hundred meters.
Two sentries were entangled in vines, and Xie Tu went back to rescue them, which delayed him a bit.
"Get in the car!" Xie Tu protected Yun Zhao well, and she got into the car unharmed.
Xie Tu did not follow them in; instead, he turned around and went with Xia Mingang to meet the two wounded sentries.
Yun Zhao got into the car and glanced coldly at Jiang Mu, who was drinking water.
The interior of the carriage was dimly lit, with only the cold light from the dashboard reflecting off her face, making her dark eyes appear even more unfathomable.
Yun Zhao felt the omnipresent gazes from all directions, those eyes like a fine spider web, stickily wrapping around him.
"Are you still leaving?"
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