Chapter 031 Chapter 31
Facts have proved that Xia Meng was too naive.
She held the gun in one hand and had only one hand left to grab him, but she couldn't hold him firmly.
Xia Meng tried several postures but to no avail.
Finally, Li Zhou reached out and pulled her to him, whispering, "Don't move. Hold me tight."
As he spoke, he took her free hand and wrapped it around his waist, while he held her lower back with one hand, firmly holding her in his arms.
Xia Meng quickly hugged him tightly.
It’s true that men and women have different body structures and their muscle content is also very different.
When her arms went around his waist, she could clearly feel the well-defined muscles on his lower abdomen, which were firm but warm.
In fact, Xia Meng also exercises on a daily basis. She has muscles in her arms and has trained her abs.
But compared with Li Zhou, he is nothing.
Xia Meng made a rough estimate and thought that he must have at least six-pack abs.
What a great figure.
Xia Meng thought enviously.
If she could also develop such a physique, perhaps she wouldn't have to worry about whether she could defeat the sentry just now.
Maybe, after she gets out of here, she can ask him how he trained his muscles?
Xia Meng quickly pulled herself back from her wild thoughts.
Because Li Zhou was very fast, he arrived in front of those people in the blink of an eye.
Among them, it was indeed the sentry who first discovered them.
However, at this time, Li Zhou raised his hand, and his five fingers lightly grabbed in the air.
Xia Meng watched closely and saw with great clarity that at that moment, the entire space seemed to be torn apart by him, and a mental force spread across the entire space like a three-dimensional water ripple.
Wherever the ripples passed, time really stopped, just as he said.
The ripples passed through those people, and their bodies and movements stopped visibly.
Xia Meng took the opportunity to quickly let go of his hands, holding the gun with one hand and pulling the trigger with the other.
Inside the gun chamber and magazine were six bullets made of her mental power that she had prepared in advance.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang".
Five shots hit five people in succession.
Xia Meng knew that his shooting skills were not good, so he aimed directly at the chest, which was the largest area.
The bullet made of spiritual power hit the target. The moment the light blue bullet hit,
Looking closely, Xia Meng realized that among these five people, except for the sentry who looked to be in his twenties, the rest seemed to be quite old as well. They were probably ordinary people involved in the hospital.
This made her feel a little relieved, as long as there were no teenagers in the group.
But we must not pollute the flowers of our motherland because of this sudden special situation.
At this time, light words appeared on the ground one after another.
[Candidate Xia Meng scored 1 point. Total points: 2.]
[Candidate Xia Meng scored 1 point. Total points: 3.]
[Candidate Xia Meng scored 1 point. Total points: 4.]
[Candidate Xia Meng scored 1 point. Total points: 5.]
[Candidate Xia Meng scored 1 point. Total points: 6.]
The score increase is gratifying.
For a moment, Xia Meng didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
At this time, the suspended time begins to flow again.
The five men looked at their chests in disbelief at the same time. The mental bullets did not cause any actual damage to their bodies.
But for no reason, they felt as if their hearts were pierced, leaving only an invisible black hole.
At the same time, all the malice, numbness, cruelty, and arrogance in his heart seemed to be shattered by this shot.
All the despicable and cruel thoughts that were difficult to express in his mind were instantly cleared.
For a moment, these four ordinary people showed blank expressions on their faces.
But more than anything, there was a look of relief and refreshment.
It was as if a person who had been pulled into darkness was suddenly bathed in the light of day, and the whole person seemed to come back to life.
They looked at each other and then at their own bodies in surprise.
Xia Meng was about to say something when she saw the bodies of these four people gradually becoming transparent and disappearing from the spot bit by bit.
Xia Meng was surprised: "What's going on?"
Is this invisible? Disappeared? Ascended?
Did she kill them directly with this shot?
So cyberpunk?
Fortunately, Li Zhou knew what was going on.
He said, "It must be your mental power that drove them out of here."
Ordinary people are not able to enter the spiritual picture.
The reason why they were able to come in is that it is a very rare thing in the entire Sentinel Realm.
Several similar anomalies have been recorded in the history of the Black Tower. Basically, the sentinels, when their mental power was out of control, unconsciously brought innocent passers-by into their mental images in a form similar to brain waves.
This form is not stable.
It is slightly similar to the composition of mental power, but not exactly the same.
The form of mental power is much more stable, especially the mental power of a guide.
The best way to drive away these unstable brain waves from the abnormal mental picture is to let the guide's mental power lead them out.
As for the other sentinels and guides who entered here, if they wanted to leave, they could only leave through the "main gate".
So, those few shots Xia Meng fired just now directly sent them out of here.
Xia Meng felt a little envious.
If only she could shoot herself too and get out of here.
Unfortunately, this is destined to be impossible.
When she was with Huo Qingyu before, she stabbed herself because Huo Qingyu was attached to her body.
The current situation is different. No matter how many shots I shoot, it won’t work.
Look, the only sentry in front of us did not disappear.
He had fainted at some point and fell to the ground.
Xia Meng ignored him and walked towards Dr. Zhao.
Doctor Zhao looked horrible at this time.
One of his eyes was shot blind, and his face, throat, and body were covered in blood. Xia Meng couldn't bear to look at it.
At this time, Dr. Zhao was breathing out more than breathing in.
The breathing was bloody.
Xia Meng felt a little sympathy for him.
To him, everything that happened today was an unprovoked disaster.
I hope it won't cause him any lifelong psychological trauma or shadow.
Xia Meng raised her hand and pointed the gun at him again.
Doctor Zhao sobbed hoarsely.
He looked at her with his only remaining blood-red eye.
The first time she pointed a gun at him like this, he only felt fear, but this time, he was looking forward to the shot.
Kill him and free him from this nightmare!
Xia Meng pulled the trigger.
"Bang"--
Doctor Zhao closed his eyes.
The bullets of mental power exploded invisibly on his body.
The pain in his body instantly left him.
He closed his eyes in relief, his hands had been freed from the ropes at some point, his legs fell weakly to his knees, and soon, he disappeared from here.
Xia Meng lowered her eyes and looked at the bloodstains left on the ground after he disappeared. She didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a long while, she slowly realized what was happening and slapped her head, "Oops! I forgot to ask Li Zhou to score some points as well!"
Li Zhou walked up to her and shrugged: "I don't need it."
He tapped his feet, and words of light appeared on the ground following his thoughts.
[Candidate Li Zhou scored a total of 9 points.]
Li Zhou: "I've almost got enough points."
The reason I didn't score the last point was so that I could stay in this examination room a little longer to see if I could find her.
Fortunately, he found it after all.
…
Beijing North Hospital at this time.
The cordon was further expanded, blocking the crowds watching outside further away.
The reason is simple. After the four people from Black Tower entered the hospital building, the scope of the influence of the chaotic mental power further expanded.
Because several police officers who were maintaining order at the scene fainted in public for no reason, Heita and others realized this and hurriedly expanded the scope of the alert.
Zhou Qi and Director Bai had also arrived at the scene to take charge.
In the past, these two powerful directors would basically not show up at such times.
Especially Director Bai.
This time he came without hesitation.
Because at this time, there were his two precious newcomers in the hospital building.
The two directors sat together with Wang Xiangyi.
Firstly, to stay in charge, and secondly, to appease the anxious mood of this old friend.
Director Bai, a generous and generous man, repeated the phrase "It's definitely okay" several times. "Really? Have you forgotten who's in there? Li Zhou! The only S-rank expert in our country, with a 100% mission success rate. There's no dilemma he can't solve. With him here, what are you worried about?"
Wang Xiangyi responded unhappily, "I don't care if it's S-rank or B-rank. My wife and kids are in there right now. What should I worry about?"
Director Bai whispered, "Xia Meng is not your child."
Wang Xiangyi: "If I say yes, it's true!"
Zhou Qi scratched his ears speechlessly.
At this moment, a commotion suddenly broke out among the crowd around.
"Look! Someone's coming out!"
"That doesn't look like a police officer!"
“He seems to be wearing a white coat!”
"Is it a doctor? Are there any doctors inside who haven't evacuated yet?"
"Wait! Isn't that Doctor Zhao from the Jingwei Center?"
People were talking about it.
Since the incident broke out, the crowd has not dispersed for a long time.
Many people even picked up their cameras, eager to lift the curtain to the world and peek inside.
At this moment, someone in the crowd shouted, "Doctor Zhao! Doctor Zhao! Brother Zhao!!"
Zhou Qi turned his head and saw a girl dressed as a nurse waving desperately towards the front.
He followed her gaze and saw a man dressed as a doctor suddenly stumble out of the hospital gate.
He was being helped out by a policeman in isolation clothing.
Zhou Qi stood up and walked forward. He had a good memory and recognized this person at a glance. This person was on the list of all the innocent passers-by who were implicated that he had seen before.
"Zhao Lei." Zhou Qi signaled to the assistant with his eyes. The assistant understood and immediately stepped forward to help Dr. Zhao from the policeman and helped him walk in front of Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi looked at him calmly.
The man's face was pale, he was sweating profusely, and his steps were unsteady.
The whole person seemed to have just regained his soul and borrowed a body from someone else, but he was not using it properly.
After the two men crossed the cordon and approached, Zhou Qi stepped forward and asked with concern: "Doctor Zhao! Hello, I am Zhou Qi, the head of the Black Tower Security Department. May I ask..."
Zhao Lei had barely opened his mouth when his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
The officer in isolation suit who had helped him out earlier saluted Zhou Qi and reported, "A preliminary examination shows no external injuries on his body. He is emotionally unstable, speaking incoherently and has no memory of what happened in the past few hours."
Zhou Qi nodded.
It seems his guess was correct.
The result for ordinary people who stray into spiritual images is the same.
After you come out, you won't remember anything.
But Zhao Lei's condition looked obviously abnormal.
Zhou Qi instructed his assistant to take the patient to receive treatment immediately and to accompany him throughout the process, looking for an opportunity to record some useful statements.
The young assistant took the order and left.
…
The entire math examination room began to be swept.
Li Zhou got a motorcycle from somewhere and took Xia Mengman to patrol the examination room.
By the way, Ou Xu was also rescued.
After killing three more people, Xia Meng originally wanted to stay in the examination room and try to find everyone in the examination room, and send as many people out as possible.
Unfortunately, just when she had brushed ten, a line of light words flashed before her eyes.
[Congratulations! Candidate Xia Meng's total score has reached 10 points. The exam is over!]
Then a flower appeared before her eyes.
In her field of vision, she could see Li Zhou noticed something and quickly reached out to grab her. No, it should be said that he had indeed grabbed her, but the warm touch on his arm was fleeting.
When she came to her senses again, she found herself in front of a three-story building.
There are two big words hanging in front of the building’s gate - Canteen.
He actually sent her to the cafeteria?
What? This kind of place also emphasizes the combination of work and rest?
Yes, when she was in school, lunch was a rare time for her to relax.
She relaxed her body and was about to go in when she saw a flash of light and shadow beside her, and two more people were sent over.
It was Li Zhou and Ou Xu.
Their scores have already been very high, and they can basically finish the exam by killing one more person.
The three of them met at the cafeteria entrance.
Ou Xu looked up and felt the same as Xia Meng: "What? Let's have lunch and relax first, and then fight again in the afternoon?"
Xia Meng shrugged.
Ou Xu then lowered his head and began to calculate: "I heard on the radio that today is the second day of exam week, so I should have taken two or three exams yesterday, right? I took physics and math today, so what should I take tomorrow... Oops, that's not right. What the hell am I even thinking about in this place?"
He shook his head and muttered, "I almost got led astray."
Turning around, he saw Xia Meng and Li Zhou already going inside, so he quickly chased after them: "Wait for me!"
As soon as I walked through the door, I could smell the aroma of food almost immediately.
How to describe this taste?
It was indeed the taste of the cafeteria of Beijing North High School that Xia Meng remembered, and it had remained the same for ten years.
Just by smelling the food, she could guess what dishes were on the menu today.
There must be sweet and sour spareribs! There must be iron pot stewed goose! There must be braised pork!
Xia Meng was a carnivore. As soon as she smelled the fragrance, her mouth started to water automatically.
The layout of the cafeteria is not much different from that year.
There are four windows, one window for getting rice, one window for getting two meat dishes, one window for getting two vegetarian dishes, and the last window for getting a bowl of soup.
As soon as she arrived at this place, Xia Meng's body instinctively began to act.
She went to the window of her own accord.
Ou Xu quickly stopped her and said, "What are you doing? Don't forget that you are here to do business. Why are you suddenly starting to eat?"
Xia Meng waved her hand without even turning back: "Even if you want to work, you have to eat first!"
Ou Xu stared at her back in disbelief, then turned around and complained, "Captain? You don't do anything about her?"
Li Zhou was also looking at her, with an unconscious smile on his face: "She wants to eat, why not?"
Ou Xu: "..." Yes. You can do it.
Next to window number one, there were two piles of dinner plates.
She took a plate very naturally and moved towards window number one.
There were two huge wooden barrels behind the window.
Xia Meng habitually said: "Auntie, please give me two taels of rice!"
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she met Su Fangxiao's eyes in the window.
Xia Meng: “…”
Su Fangxiao: “…”
It’s not her fault that she didn’t recognize him. At that time, Su Fangxiao was wearing a hat and a mask, with only a pair of eyes exposed on his face.
Xia Meng quickly leaned over and asked, "Sister, why are you here? Didn't you go to the exam? Did you directly upgrade to the cafeteria aunt here? Hey, answer me..."
Su Fangxiao said nothing.
A pair of eyes revealed anxiety.
Xia Meng stared into her eyes for a few seconds, then suddenly asked, "You can't speak?"
Su Fangxiao's eyes moved up and down quickly, as if nodding.
Xia Meng: "What's going on here...is there something strange?"
Su Fangxiao continued to nod with his eyes.
At this time, Su Fangxiao slowly reached out and picked up the rice spoon, and said stiffly, "Two taels of rice, right? Bring the plate over."
Xia Meng handed over the plate in her hand.
A large spoonful of rice was pressed into the center of her plate.
Xia Meng lowered her eyes and looked at it. This pile of stuff could not be called rice at all. It looked more like a handful of snow.
To say it looks like snow is a bit of an insult to snow.
At first glance it looks like snow, but if you look closely you can see long, spider-like filaments stretching through it.
The "snow" on the top will float and sway with the flow of air.
Xia Meng: “…”
Xia Meng raised her eyes silently and was about to say something when a student standing in line behind her started urging her.
It was lunchtime, and soon the cafeteria was crowded with students, forming a long queue.
Xia Meng was interrupted and forgot what she wanted to ask for a moment. She could only move silently towards window number two.
Number two is the meat dish window.
It was also an aunt with her face covered.
Xia Meng didn't recognize her. After confirming that this person was not her master's wife, she turned her attention back to the dish in front of her.
Look around.
Green, blue, purple, black... there are all kinds of colors, but none of them are the colors that normal meat dishes should have.
Xia Meng lost her appetite in an instant.
Where are her sweet and sour spareribs? Where is her iron pot stewed goose? Where is her braised pork???
Xia Meng looked at her aunt in bewilderment at the table full of strange-looking things.
The aunt said gently in a stiff voice: "Student, what do you want to eat?"
Xia Meng: “…”
Forget it, let’s make a choice. We can’t make things difficult for anyone but the innocent staff.
At worst, she would go into the kitchen and fight the chef.
She closed her eyes, picked two items, and quickly moved to the next window.
Window number three is similar, except that the dishes here are all light-colored: small white mushrooms, large white mushrooms, white mushroom slices, white mushroom shreds, and white mushroom cubes...
After looking at it this way, Xia Meng suddenly remembered that those in window number two seemed to be various colorful mushrooms.
And the "rice" in window number one, now think about it, it seems to be white spores, right?
Oh my god, is this a mushroom meeting?
A mushroom feast?
Xia Meng closed her eyes and chose two more items, and finally moved to window number four. Sure enough, it was mushroom soup!
Xia Meng was completely numb.
After making a bowl of soup, she returned to her seat carrying a plate full of mushrooms.
Ou Xu and Li Zhou were sitting here.
Ou Xu looked at the food she had prepared and exclaimed, "Wow."
Why is there such food in the cafeteria?
Why are there so many dirty things in such a sacred place as the cafeteria?
At this time, the broadcast in the cafeteria began to play in a loop.
【Saving food is glorious, wasting food is shameful.】
【All students are requested to finish all the food on their plates and not waste it.】
If everyone saves a grain of rice, we can save millions of people in the world.
[Every meal should be appreciated, as it is not easy to come by; every thread should be cherished, as it is not easy to produce.]
Xia Meng looked at the fatal meal in front of her with difficulty and couldn't bring herself to eat it.
After thinking for a long time, she pushed the plate in front of Ou Xu and said, "Brother, the time has come to test our friendship!"
Ou Xu: "...Farewell, our friendship cannot stand the test."
Li Zhou reached out and took the food in front of her.
He actually picked up the chopsticks and started eating.
Xia Meng and Ou Xu almost fell out of their eyes when they saw this.
Just as he was about to eat the spores with a chopstick, Xia Meng reached out and grabbed his arm: "Are you really going to eat it? Stop it!"
Li Zhou was very calm.
He let her pull his arm, put down his chopsticks obediently, and said calmly: "To put it bluntly, these things are all transformed by spiritual power. It's okay for me to eat a little."
It's just a little hard to digest.
It would easily make his already unstable mental picture even more chaotic.
It will take about three to five days to resolve itself.
But Li Zhou didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Xia Meng grabbed his hand and didn't move: "Don't eat anymore. If you can't finish it, then don't finish it. I shouldn't be punished."
Li Zhou nodded obediently.
At this time, the broadcast started again.
Today we have invited our music teacher, Ms. Bai Rou, to accompany the lunch break chorus.
Xia Meng looked up: "Master's wife?"
Ou Xu looked up: "A chorus during lunch break?"
The two people's focus is obviously different.
Soon, the cheerful sound of piano came from the radio.
Accompanied by the piano, Xia Meng heard her teacher's wife singing in a gentle and beautiful voice:
"After eating, let's lie down together on the board."
She started singing, and then all the students in the cafeteria put down their chopsticks and started singing in chorus.
"Lie down and bury yourself in the mountains, and have your friends and family come over for dinner."
"There are red umbrellas in the rice. If you eat all the rice, the whole school will be covered with red umbrellas. Next year, the whole school will be covered with red umbrellas."
Ou Xu: “…”
Xia Meng: “……………………”
Ou Xu lowered his head and covered his eyes: "This is too crazy, too crazy... Are the mental states of students these days so weird?"
At this moment, Xia Meng finally reacted.
She reminded him, "Have you forgotten? Why were they all sent to the hospital?"
Ou Xu paused: "...food poisoning?"
Xia Meng: "I guess they ate something like poisonous mushrooms. Otherwise, Yang Hao and the others wouldn't be so crazy."
After two exams in the morning, she judged that these children should not have any major psychological problems.
Their mental picture was probably normal originally, but under the influence of external forces, it became more and more insane.
She hadn't figured out what this external force was before.
Did it become so strange after the mental powers of multiple sentinels merged with each other?
No, that's not quite right.
She felt at the time that something was not right with the cause and effect relationship.
Now she understood everything.
…I remember that when she went on a business trip to Yunnan with her teacher and was traveling by the way, she once felt craving for it and bought some jianshouqing (green onion) and fried it at home. *
That night, she saw with her own eyes that Lao Wang pulled her great-grandmother, who had been dead for ten years, to dance with her.
She will never forget that scene.
It's hard not to go crazy after eating poisonous mushrooms.
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