"Warning! Warning!"
"The ability person flees! The ability person escapes! The guards are dispatched, the guards—"
The radio stops abruptly, and is replaced by the majestic melody of The Internationale.
A song that sounds so old you can't help but laugh.
Drilling out from the broken floor-to-ceiling windows is a long windowless corridor and the only way to the outside. There are more than a dozen confidential rooms scattered in the corridor, and there are no windows for entry or exit.
After confirming that the twenty-odd technicians who were still working were all knocked down, the powerful girl walked through the corridor, making sure that everyone had found cover, and kicked the locked electronic door: "What is this? Po Song, who ordered it!"
At this moment, a young man who manipulated iron substances collided with his fists. All the iron substances were twisted in an instant, and a huge dome shield was assembled, which was gathered on the flying door panel. side.
In an instant, countless lead bullets dented the shield.
Thanks to this moment of blocking, the girl who kicked the door was able to dodge and escape the catastrophe.
The hot blood dripped from the iron boy's nose. After wiping it away, he ducked into a nearby room and shouted, "It's a lead bullet! I can't help it!"
Chi Xiaochi replied, "There is always a way!"
Seventy-five abilities, including him, a total of seventy-six.
There will always be a way.
"Single and double!" Chi Xiaochi called out.
Shanshuang took a deep breath: "Yes!"
He stuck his head out of a room and glanced hurriedly at a row of guards outside, with only one glance, all the guns in their hands fell to the ground!
When everyone's hands softened and their guns were released, a raging flame rose up in the corridor, like a fire dragon, shooting straight away!
The buckshot team, which had already been in chaos, was completely swept away, screams sounded everywhere, and someone was on fire, rolling all over the floor, and it was painful.
A girl who knew how to control fire stood in the middle of the corridor, her fingertips, hair, and chest were all surrounded by red flames.
She pressed down with her hands, and opened up a fire-free way for everyone: "Go!"
In the evening, it was already the stipulated time to get off work, and the power users had gone to bed early, lying in the capsules, their expressions were almost safe and numb.
Many power users have just fallen asleep, the red warning lights suddenly sounded, and the piercing bells rang in their ears—
"Those with abilities flee!"
"A total of 76 ability users!"
"All abilities are dispatched! Retrieve the rebels!"
The honeycomb-like dormitory area fell into a slight commotion. Many power users instinctively obeyed orders, sat up from the bed, and waited for the doors to open together. At the same time, power users in adjacent rooms communicated with each other and asked what happened.
Here, there are no walls between rooms.
This is done to prevent the appearance of contraband, and the organization encourages the superhumans to spy on each other and inform each other.
Once the whistleblower is successful, the whistleblower can get a chance to visit relatives, which is already a very generous reward.
A power user sat up from the bed, looking at the opposite room across the railing.
The room opposite was just emptied. The superhuman remembered that the superhuman was named Lu Qingshu, who always flipped through a comic about superheroes. He also said that he now has superhero abilities, but he can only be a gutter. mouse in.
Just two days ago, he failed his mission and died unexpectedly.
The new personnel have not been filled in, and the agency has been very busy these two days, so his relics are still lying on the bed and have not been cleaned up.
The cover of that superhero comic, gleaming strangely under the flashing warning lights.
The power user looked at it for a moment, suddenly closed his eyes, and fell back on the bed.
When the people in the next room saw him like this, they hurriedly greeted him: "Lao Li... Hey, hey! Lao Li, what are you doing, you don't want to live anymore?"
The power user known as "Old Li" made a deep snoring sound.
The power user who greeted him seemed to understand something, stared at him for a while with strange eyes, and also stepped back from the door, sat on the bed, was silent for a long time, and fell asleep.
When the "manager" hurriedly came to count the number of people to form a team, he found that the two did not get up, so he tapped the railing with an iron rod: "What are you doing? Get up! Didn't you hear the alarm?"
The two were lying on the bed, motionless, snoring loudly.
The "manager" immediately started a slight current as a warning.
The power user next door just held on, and Lao Li was shocked and got up from the bed.
The "man in charge" waved the control panel and shouted outside: "Can't understand people's words? Get up!"
Old Li stared at him silently, and with a flick of his hand, his arm flew out like a rubber in the air, wrapped around the "manager"'s neck a few times, and pulled it back, the "manager" slapped on the forehead. On the iron railing, the blood flowed like a stream, and he immediately passed out.
Lao Li lay down, turned over and fell asleep.
Another power user next door roared at him: "Are you crazy?! If you don't catch them back, they will expose what we have done here, and we will be finished! We will become murderers! We—"
Old Li clenched his fists.
Seventy-six powers...
If they can escape...
If only they could make it public what happened here...
Lao Li opened his eyes and said word by word, "I'd rather go to a prison outside, whether to spend four hundred years or die. At least I'd rather live like a human being than living here."
It's not just Lao Li.
Similar small riots occurred in many places. There was constant friction between the ability user and the "manager", and there were roars and moans of electric shocks from time to time.
But the "manager" did not dare to easily activate the functions of anesthesia and poisoning.
These people are just slack, not serious enough to violate the regulations. If they are killed, they will not be able to explain it.
Not far from the dormitory area, the head of the "managers" yelled into the walkie-talkie: "Don't open the door! They are in a very unstable mood now!"
On the other side of the phone is the anxious voice of the head of the emergency response department: "If you don't open the door, do you tell those superhumans to run away?!"
"Open the door, I don't know how many rebels there will be! If there is a riot here, it will be over!"
The minister's roar trembled and changed its tone: "Then let those people escape? Let them escape, we will be in big trouble!"
The two sides were deadlocked, and the person in charge hung up the communication and glanced at the faces in the iron cage.
Some people lie in bed and doze off, knowing that they don't want to go out at all.
Some people are numb when they watch other people messing around, and they don't know what they are thinking.
Some looked like they were genuinely angry and volunteered to catch the defectors, but how could this not be their chance to escape
These faces look so suspicious.
The person in charge had an unbearable headache, and scratched his hair irritably.
To let go, or not to let go
After several hesitations, the best opportunity has been lost.
He stomped his feet a few times as if venting angrily, and finally let out a long, helpless sigh.
... it's over.
This time, it may really be a big basket.
On the other side, the power users who rushed out with "The Internationale" swept away all the human guards along the way.
The team of power users that I occasionally encountered was also flattened by the torrent of these seventy-five people.
… There has never been a savior, nor an immortal emperor.
When this sentence was sung, a power user standing by the window was crushed to the ground by the air of Chi Xiaochi.
The window was broken, and the psychics streamed out one by one.
The weather outside was very bad, the rain was pouring down, as if the sky had been smashed by someone, and the lightning flashed, white and purple, it was shocking to see.
Unlike in that virtual world of consciousness, where it is clear and cloudless, all seasons of the year are full of blue sky and clear clouds, which is so fake that it is disgusting.
The feet of the power users landed in the muddy water and ran forward.
the rain that pours into the mouth,
The teenager who can control the radio has switched the song to the next pure music called "Fearless". The tone is slightly suppressed and the rhythm is tight, which is in harmony with their pace.
In the pouring rain, Chi Xiaochi carried Zhao Rou, who was still in a coma, on his back and asked Lou Ying, "Is the tracking function of the collar still there?"
Lou Ying shouted to Chi Xiaochi: "Don't worry! This batch of collars is different from the official collars. It has not been approved. Only... the survivors will be reported and registered, and put on the official collars. Be their slaves - these unofficial collars can only be used inside the institution and cannot be remotely controlled! Once out of this range, they are useless!"
Chi Xiaochi was soaked by the rain and felt comfortable all over, and the depression, anger, and dark fire of the past few days were all extinguished by a handful of rain! !
They are far from freedom, only a two-story grid is left! !
Dozens of humans guarding the power grid stood above, armed with firearms, trying to shoot.
One pair and one leg stepped out in one step, squatted down slightly, and shouted angrily. The firearms in their hands fell in time. A power user with insulating ability held the power grid with both hands, and the instantaneous driving ability, the current within a radius of three feet was easy. Being blocked from the outside, the powerful girl covered her face with her hands and slammed forward violently—
With a bang, a huge hole was knocked out of the power grid.
Everyone went one after the other, rushing to the exit.
Some people did not escape immediately.
About a dozen people turned their attention to a huge statue not far from the escape.
That is the statue of the institution.
A god holding scales, representing justice.
Everyone who was sent to the institution had seen this statue in desperate struggle and screaming.
This statue is placed all over the institution. In the "capsule" cabin, there are statues in relief; in the electric shock room, there are miniature statues; in the center of the playground, there is such a huge statue.
The god of education and fairness, staring at them coldly, never once offered a helping hand.
…as if they were born sinful.
In the majestic female voice singing in "Fearless", the huge statue was toppled to the ground by a dozen angry power users and smashed to pieces.
Among them, there is the fire girl.
The fire on the fire girl was difficult to extinguish even with rain.
She stepped on the shattered head of the statue, stared coldly for a moment, and kicked the head away.
After Chi Xiaochi got out of the power grid, he took out the spirit lock bottle that contained countless broken souls.
In the pouring rain, he whispered, "Go back."
"Go back to see your relatives and kill your enemies as you please. I have the information you want, and I will give it to you."
"But there are very few things you can do. You only have some energy left, and you have no body to carry. It may dissipate halfway. Do what you think is worth doing, and don't waste your last time."
After all, he opened the bottle.
Countless fireflies-like broken spirits struggled out of the bottle, and mayflies also drifted away in the wind.
Some of them disintegrated as soon as they encountered the cold rain, some were like meteors and disappeared in an instant, and some even turned into human figures, hurriedly bowed to Chi Xiaochi, and then dissipated in the wind.
At least, they died in this world.
…
A middle-aged man walked to a familiar door, and when he reached out and knocked on the door, his fingertips passed through the security door.
He sighed slightly and stepped inside.
The window was not closed, and the wind blew the curtains and the small wind chimes hanging on the window.
The man went upstairs and saw his sleeping son.
Three years later, there is still a group photo of the two of them when he took his son to play baseball for the first time on the bedside of his son, but the addition of a guitar should be a new hobby.
The son slept soundly, and the man didn't dare to do much, just touched his hand.
If it wasn't for fear of his son being discriminated against at school, he would not conceal his status as a superpower.
He sighed slightly, although the regret in his heart had faded a lot.
He went to his wife's room.
The wife already has a new pair of men's slippers by her bed, and the wedding photos on the wall have been changed.
She was lying in her new husband's arms, her brows were lightly wrinkled, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes. She wondered if she had dreamed of her husband who had been declared dead three years ago.
The man stood quietly in front of the bed for a while, before realizing that this might scare his wife, he hurriedly took a few steps back, and half of his body was embedded in the wall.
He raised his hand, looking disappointed.
When he was escorted into the institution, his wedding ring had been on his hand for more than ten years, and it wouldn't take off even with soapy water, so he simply let him wear it in the institution.
Now, as a conscious body, he has successfully removed the ring from his hand.
He came back this time to return it.
He placed the ring lightly on the bedside table, kissed it silently, and was careful not to touch his wife, who no longer belonged to him.
After doing everything, he chose to leave.
The man standing on the street looked back at the house that could be called "home", bowed deeply, and then disappeared under the street lights, like a melted shadow.
And the ring he put on the bedside table disappeared with him.
…
Another shadow, also standing in front of a bed.
In front of the bed lay her brother, a ten-year-old child.
In his arms he held the birthday present she gave him two years ago, a teddy bear.
At that time, he was arguing that he didn't want such a mother's gift, but Lego, so angry that she didn't speak to him for two days.
On the third day, her power awakened.
She gently touched her brother's little curly hair, left his room, and went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife.
Carrying the knife, she walked to another room step by step, hearing the chaos when the agency came to arrest her that day.
"Brother!! Dad, Mom, save me, save me—"
"Don't take my sister away! My sister is good, she's good to everyone, she won't hurt anyone, uncle and auntie, I promise you okay, I beg you, don't take my sister away... "
"Brother, let go! This is not easy to contagious!! If you infect her, and then infect you, mother will not live."
"Fuck, take my brother away! A few, my daughter will be handed over to you. She has been rebellious since she was a child, and we also have headaches. If she has supernatural powers, I don't know how much trouble it will cause! She is disobedient. Just teach you a lesson, beat and scold, it's up to you."
At this moment, the girl stood in front of the door of her parents' room, stood still for a moment, and entered the room.
…
On the other side, a man who had just exited the live broadcast room fell to the ground, his face full of fear, his body trembled violently like a pendulum, and the overturned Coke flowed sticky to the ground.
A 24- or 5-year-old woman with a beautiful face stood in front of him with a ghostly charm: "Do you still remember me?"
The man's legs trembled: "I don't... How did you get in... "
The woman squatted in front of him: "You don't remember, but I remember your ID, and I will remember it until I die."
"You said to the power user who killed me, come here, she, what are you waiting for."
"Someone scolded you and said you were sick."
"You said, her blood can't splatter on me again. If you die, you will die, right?"
A desperate whimper escaped from the man's throat.
"So here I am." The woman said slowly, "How do you want to die?"
"...I let you choose."
All of this happened in the next short night.
And Chi Xiaochi was still outside the institution, so he could not predict the story that was about to happen in every corner of the world.
He spit out the rainwater in his mouth and put away the spirit lock bottle: "Is this good or bad?"
Lou Ying said: "That's their business. We still have our tasks."
The two said in unison, "Jiao Qingguang."
After all, they both laughed.
Lou Ying: "Are we going to find him?"
Chi Xiaochi glanced at the sky and said, "Wait until dawn. When it's dawn, all our videos of the whole process will be released on the intranet and extranet, and he will naturally know."