Let’s go back a little bit in time.
Haigu City, Shi'an Park.
Lu Xiaohe kept adjusting the micro-screen, looking at the jumping data on the screen with sweat on his face.
"Hao Wen Ce, Lu Xiao He, keep investigating and try to locate the controller."
Before leaving the ant nest, Li Nian gave these instructions.
The real-time judgment on the front line was handed over to Hao Wen-ce, and Lu Xiaohe was as big as a fight to provide data assistance. The reaction screen of Gengshengzhen's evil spirit became a sieve, with dense red dots squeezing each other on the topographic map, which could make people with intensive phobia faint on the spot.
They were of different sizes, clearly extinguished, with one or two disappearing at any time, making the whole picture chaotic. Lu Xiaohe stared at them for several minutes and felt dizzy.
"This is the usual method used by the technical department of the Sinking Society. It stimulates specific large evil objects, causing the evil spirits to become disordered and the evil objects to become confused."
Hao Wen Ce wiped his nose and stared at his screen.
"With this level of chaos, close detection is reliable, and satellite images can only reflect part of the situation - you have to make your own guesses."
"But the consequences will cost lives, and we can't miss such a group of 'suicide squads'. Zhi'an is operating nearby, and there is no point in showing up at this time."
Is there really a traitor between the two who is harmful to Shi'an
Lu Xiaohe opened his mouth.
In less than ten minutes, the next one also suddenly disappeared.
[Further increase in the fluctuation range of the evil spirit in the town area: 6745.23fR]
"Aren't there two other outsiders working together?" she asked without hope, "It could be those people..."
"With this type of attack, there's a good chance it's an inside job. That's what an execution mission is like. There's no surprise this time."
No one answered.
The number of difficult missions she had completed in the last few months was almost more than she had completed in all the previous years.
But this was not the time to delve into it. She rubbed her temples, and the ever-changing data flashed into her eyes.
Lu Xiaohe felt a chill on her back, and she slid over to Hao Wen Ce with her chair. But before she could even open her mouth, Hao Wen Ce blocked her back again without even raising his head.
Lu Xiaohe adjusted the communication channel. Considering that she couldn't be distracted by the battle between top warriors, she tried to remain silent.
"Fu Xingchuan has fallen... The enemy attacked them at close range without warning, and the attack was very fast. Everyone was hit. Fu Xingchuan woke up, but he didn't say anything. This is good news - at least they haven't found any dead people yet."
She did want a promotion and a pay raise, and she was happy to take on difficult challenges. But since the establishment of the Special Investigation Team 9, she felt like she was being dragged by fate and forced to grow.
"Headquarters." Hao Wen Ce repeated.
Fu Xingchuan did not answer. He was breathing rapidly and his body temperature was abnormally high. After a moment, the sound disappeared again, and Shi An's "First Ghost General" seemed to have lost consciousness again.
Lu Xiaohe turned back to the screen wall with his head down and continued typing on the keyboard.
It’s okay if she doesn’t look, but this time when she looked, she almost flew off the chair.
"It may be that the evil spirit index exceeded the limit, causing the instrument to malfunction. Those evil things are too big, and the only way to achieve that effect is to change them to the limit. Ahem, the consequences."
Lu Xiaohe: “…”
Hao Wen-ce did not give a direct answer: "Continue to check your data."
Lu Xiaohe rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen it wrong. It takes time for evil things to disappear. Even if Fu Xingchuan did it himself, he couldn't make the enemy disappear instantly.
Lu Xiaohe pursed his lips.
But isn't it too quiet now
Under the extremely strong electrical stimulation, a few heavy gasps were heard from Fu Xingchuan's channel.
By simplifying the concentration variation of evil spirits and the movement model of evil creatures, and using AI to assist in analysis, she could roughly determine the approximate location of the impact. However, it would take her some time to get a relatively certain value.
"Headquarters, answer me!" he shouted, frowning.
Hao Wen Ce drank half a cup of coffee fiercely, and his fingers clattered on the keyboard. Lu Xiaohe turned his chair and watched him change the indicator under the three words "Fu Xingchuan" to the highest level and press the electric stimulation button again.
Gengshengzhen and his group broke through the ground, and the distorted signal hissing sound was endless. Mixed in with the whirring sound of the levitation technique, the movement of the crowd also produced a small noise.
But after a burst of turbulence, the wind stopped.
While Lu Xiaohe was still reacting, Hao Wenze had already mercilessly administered electrical stimulation - of course, mainly targeting the three members of the Emergency Response Department.
Maybe the other party has calculated this correctly
Lu Xiaohe gushed twice.
Lu Xiaohe stared at the screen numbly. On the black screen, the red dots like blood beads continued to seep out... What was the Class C investigation team next door doing? Oh, yes, they were investigating the mysterious blockage in the community sewer.
Zhong Cheng, who was dressed like he was going to survive in the wilderness, said Yin Ren, who was wearing a T-shirt that said "Leader's Biggest Trouble". The expressions of the two were one serious and one cheerful, both of which were rare and pure and direct, without any twists and turns.
Having said that, he pressed the electrical stimulation button again.
Hao Wen Ce's eyes were glued to the level of electrical stimulation.
She thought the execution was difficult enough, but she was naive.
Suddenly, a huge red dot disappeared.
Realizing that he was distracted, Lu Xiaohe suddenly squeezed his thigh and focused on the data again.
She couldn't help but think back to the mission at the archives.
[2km radius of the town center stable evil spirit value: 2562.12~2574.38fR]
The latter is very close to the indicator of "stable evil energy value ≧3000fR" that indicates the presence of evil spirits in the world.
Almost at the same time, a series of painful gasps were heard on Shi'an's channel.
"hiss."
Fu Xingchuan's mumbling voice came from the channel.
"Why are there two missing?"
After Fu Xingchuan regained consciousness, he immediately woke up Li Nian. He took out Professor Li's thermos cup in three seconds and poured all the water in the cup on his partner's face. Professor Li opened his eyes faintly, and there were two swollen wolfberries stuck to the bridge of his nose.
He glanced at Fu Xingchuan coldly, then skillfully took out the medicine bag and injected six injections of soothing and resuscitating medicine.
During this process, Li Nian quickly understood the current situation.
Huangliang and the snake disappeared, and the evil creatures disappeared into the mist, leaving only high ruins around them. The thick mist swayed in the wind, and the townspeople didn't know where they had gone, and no one approached them for the time being.
Just looking at where they fell, they were probably stunned by the collision between the two huge evil creatures, and fell to the ground with Fu Xingchuan's protective shield.
But the numbers are wrong.
In addition to Zhong Chengshuo who had already left the team, their team was missing two more people.
Li Nian raised the syringe calmly.
Ren Jiying was the first to be awakened. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Professor Li's wet face. The mayor had seen a lot of things, so she held back her scream.
Ren Jiying frantically got up, turned her head, and eagerly scanned the remaining unconscious people.
"What's going on? Shouldn't she be with you?"
The new mayor swallowed, her forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat, and her hair was stuck to her skin in a mess.
"…Where is Qi Xinren?"
Li Nian continued to inject drugs into her own people: "She was still there just now, right next to you. Maybe she fell into—"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Ren Jiying, whose lips were trembling.
"By me?"
Ren Jiying's face turned pale and her eyes widened slightly.
"There's a girl next to me. She's wearing a blazer and a bun... But isn't she one of yours?"
"Qi Xin is over 40 years old, quite fat, nearsighted, and has curly hair. You are going to the mine in the morning. I will go to work first and leave her to take over with you."
She said tremblingly.
"Who were you talking about just now?"
Fu Xingchuan's eyebrows jumped.
After the underground convergence, Xiang Jiang briefly reported. When they woke up, Qi Xin was waiting for them in the B&B, and Ren Jiying went to work alone. They had never appeared at the same time.
In the underground anthill, despite seeing so many strange scenes, the girl remained calm - it was a level that could not be described as brave. Her calmness was more like "indifference" than "bravery" or "dullness".
But she was more of a science major, she didn't have any evil power or aura, and she had no hostility towards them. Fu Xingchuan had fought in the chaos for many years, so he still had some vision.
She is like an observer detached from the world.
When the situation was urgent, Fu Xingchuan thought she had a strange personality. Now, looking back, those behaviors have completely changed. Who is "Qi Xin"
Or, what is it
In the end, Minister Fu did not answer Ren Jiying's anxious question. He just raised his head and looked at the foggy sky.
The red light of dusk disappeared, and the other side of the mist was darker than the night. There was something in the thick mist, and it felt cold and sticky, and it was so oppressive that it made people breathless. The environment was obviously much calmer than before, but this calmness seemed particularly terrifying at this moment.
"Hao Wen Ce, report the evil spirit index."
Fu Xingchuan stood up coughing and brushed off the dust on his gown.
"Li Nian, you and I..." He paused, "You and Xiang Jiang stay here to ensure the safety of the rest of us."
Professor Li put away the empty syringe: "Are you alone?"
His words sounded more like a simple question than a criticism.
"Yeah." Listening to the terrifying readings in the headset, Fu Xingchuan wiped the dust off his face. There was no smile on his face, only solemnity.
Li Nian knew what this expression meant—it meant that Fu Xingchuan was very uncertain about the current situation, and that this situation was enough to put their lives in danger.
"I understand." Li Nian nodded, "Keep in touch, and come back soon."
Fu Xingchuan did not answer him.
The number one ghost general threw a pill into his mouth and soared into the air.
Near the circular line, Zhong Chengshuo climbed onto the top of the train swiftly. Just as he was about to raise his head, something soft and fluffy fell from the sky and landed beside him.
Yin Ren slid down from the yellow sorghum. Under the red cloth, he made a stern face and gestured to the yellow sorghum: "Collect."
Huang Liang quickly shrank into the size of a marble and was obediently stuffed into Yin Ren's pocket. The next second, layers of protective shields unfolded around the two of them, with countless runes scattered and arranged, almost transforming into the "Saturn rings" of two humanoid planets.
Zhong Cheng said he recognized his lover at first sight: "Yin Ren."
Yin Ren: "Don't talk to me for two minutes."
"oh."
Yin Ren was silent for a few seconds, thinking that this person probably couldn't understand the hidden meaning of his words, so he could only add angrily: "I am angry, angry at you."
Sure enough, Zhong Cheng looked confused and surprised, just as irritating as he imagined.
Moreover, despite the doubts, this person didn't even say a word, which made it doubly infuriating.
But this is not the time for a first quarrel.
Under the layers of red cloth seal, Yin Ren stretched out his finger and pointed towards the center of the circular line.
In front of the two of them, a vortex suddenly swirled in the air. The mist gathered into droplets, which fell to the ground with a clatter. The thick mist seemed to have been dug out, and the scenery in between was exceptionally clear.
Uncomfortably clear.
A black vortex appeared in the sky, and beneath the vortex, the source of the "voyeurism" was floating.
Qi Xin was floating in the air.
She still looked the same as when they first met her, wearing a slightly ill-fitting work suit and spotless cheap leather shoes. A few strands of hair fluttered across her pale face, stuck to the black blood at the corner of her lips.
Qi Xin stared at the two of them quietly.
She leaned forward slightly, her hands clasping a black and red object.
It was a dirty red carpet, already soaked with black blood. Rotten, swollen limbs were scattered along the edge of the carpet, and sticky blood was flowing down those lifeless limbs.
Zhong Cheng said his pupils suddenly shrank - the body under the blanket shouldn't be that thin.
At the edge of the dirty red carpet, a small part of the damaged body was exposed.
In front of them, Qi Xin lowered her head nonchalantly and bit the edge of the bloody flesh. Her mouth opened to a size not human-sized, and she bit off a piece of flesh the size of half a head in one bite.
Like it wasn't a body that had once belonged to a human, but a bloody marshmallow filling the air.
Inhuman eyes, leaning forward. Although the age and gender of the two figures in front of him did not match at all, Zhong Cheng said he could not help but think of a certain dark oil painting.
The God of Agriculture eats his children, and the atmosphere is roughly like this.
When he was with them, Qi Xin's eyes were always calm. Now the calmness was torn apart, and inside was a creepy emptiness and indifference.
The bone bells on Yin Ren's ankles rang wildly. Lines of defense surrounded the two of them, and their long black hair slid across their soft wings, ready to strike at the edge of the red cloth.
He stared at the floating Qi Xin.
In his thousand years of life, he had never felt such a terrifying sense of oppression. If the "voyeurism" was just a rock falling on them, they were now facing a towering mountain.
What was even more terrifying was that, even though the evil energy around Qi Xin was thick and almost boiling, she didn't leak out anything resembling evil power - the only remaining evil power remnants undoubtedly came from her food.
Does such a "thing" exist in this world
The "weakling" that the dog said back then, now seems to be exactly the same. Yin Ren smiled bitterly in his heart - no wonder that guy has been pretending to be dead. If he were the dog, and found such a person around him, he would definitely use all means to protect himself.
Not to mention that he hasn't yet obtained all of the evil spirit's power. Even if he could use that power freely, he would still be no match for the thing in front of him.
He to Qi Xin was like a baby to a strong man. Although the gap was not as huge as a mountain, it was enough to make people despair.
They couldn't even run away - with this power difference, showing their backs to the opponent would only lead to their death faster.
The slim body of a woman exuded the aura of fear that only a superior could have. She might not have done this on purpose, but vigilance was already an instinct of the weak.
Yin Ren subconsciously held Zhong Chengshuo behind him. The red cloth covered his sweat, making him look relatively calm.
The air was almost frozen.
Qi Xin did not make a move. She devoured the former "protector" of the town in front of them. Qi Xin's eyes were clearly fixed on the remains of the old mayor, but the strong sense of spying did not stop for a moment.
She ate neither too fast nor too slow, and quite seriously.
In less than half a minute, the blood-stained red carpet fell from the sky, but before it landed, it suddenly disappeared in mid-air without leaving a trace.
It's like being touched by evil fruit.
After finishing her "meal", she finally straightened up. Qi Xin followed the two people on the top of the train, raised her right thumb which was covered in blood, and slowly wiped it across her lips.
“You saw it.”
Her mouth was full of black blood, but she narrated calmly.
Then she snapped her fingers and the train stopped. Qi Xin stretched out her hand and pointed at Zhong Chengshuo and Yin Ren.
“Whoosh!”
The moment he felt the murderous aura, Yin Ren did not hesitate.
As long as they can buy some time, maybe one of them can escape.
He left the heavy defense to Zhong Chengshuo, condensed all the evil power he could use on his body, and rushed straight towards Qi Xin. However, just after the Ghost King took two steps, he suddenly felt his feet were a little heavy.
Zhong Cheng said that he held the wings tightly with both hands and hung on him firmly.
Yin Ren: “?!”
Unfortunately, they had already flown away. Before Yin Ren could finish exclaiming in shock, the two of them rushed in front of Qi Xin.
Perhaps because he had never seen people die in pairs before, Qi Xin tilted his head slightly, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
But she didn't intend to find out the reason.
The woman raised her hand and stabbed Yin Ren quickly and fiercely. It was an extremely simple action, but the murderous aura it brought was as strong as substance. The red cloth flew, and Yin Ren formed a circle of bone rings engraved with runes on his arm, and took the blow head on.
The runes dimmed and bone fragments flew.
The layers of defense were shattered. There was a sound of bone cracking, and Yin Ren's arm was instantly broken. In the severe pain, he gritted his teeth and quickly repaired the wound.
Qi Xin said "eh" softly.
While she was distracted, Zhong Chengshuo pressed the wing ball and the red blade pierced her neck.
The evil that was supposed to destroy everything was now no more effective than an ordinary dagger. The crimson blade cut through the flesh and pierced deeply into Qi Xin's neck, almost piercing through the thin neck.
Other than that, nothing else.
She didn't disappear.
Qi Xin looked slightly surprised, and his eyes passed over Zhong Chengshuo like a dragonfly skimming the water, and continued to stare at Yin Ren. Zhong Chengshuo decisively withdrew his hand, and with a swish, the sharp blade cut half of Qi Xin's neck.
Yin Ren spread out a group of wings, quickly caught the bold lover, and pulled him back behind him.
"interesting."
The wound on Qi Xin's neck was turned outward, revealing the translucent gray-black interior, without a drop of blood. She looked up and down at Yin Ren, her eyes lingering on the wings for a moment.
"Let me see, which family are you from?"
(End of this chapter)