"You're happy to know that I'm still alive, right?" a female voice said with a smile.
Li Nian opened his bloodshot eyes and looked at the ceiling. At some point, he fell asleep on his office chair. When he woke up, his neck hurt as if it was broken.
Li Nian reached out to hold the table, but his stiff arms refused to obey and suddenly knocked over the tall pile of documents.
There was a loud clanging sound.
Fu Xingchuan rolled down from the sofa. There were still traces of saliva on the corners of his mouth, but he held the talisman in his hand tightly: "Who?!"
"You always say that you hate noisy people, but Xiao Fu is more noisy than me." He wrapped his arm around Li Nian's shoulders and said "Meng Huai" twice.
Body temperature is so real.
Finding that Li Nian's body was tense, Fu Xingchuan immediately understood the reason: "Old Li, you..."
"I'm fine." Li Nian said stiffly, and drank a mouthful of strong tea for himself.
Ge Tingting recalled for a while that Lao Bin from Group 8, a Ph.D. in Toxicology from N University, had a higher degree than Zhong Chengshuo.
He hated this damn illusion, and even more hated himself for not being able to resist it. No matter how he repeats this thing in his mind to acquire evil nature, he has bad intentions. And when he was most tired and in a daze, the familiar warmth and weight on his shoulders would always make him feel at ease.
It brought him relief.
"It's still dark, and there's no breakfast stall at the door yet." Li Nian said calmly.
People can deceive others, but it is difficult to deceive their own brains.
Li Nian ignored the people behind him and arranged the information on the table. The sky outside the window was dimly lit, and stars were sparsely embedded in the clouds. The streets were particularly quiet in the early morning, and there were only a few lights in Haigu City.
"Brother Bin has been in a bad state recently. I saw him losing several pounds. He couldn't finish the food in the cafeteria and drank too much. I thought he wasn't injured... The last time we saw the monster, we saw it together! We met later. The security check found nothing, I can’t figure it out.”
Just as the leading man was about to approach, a rough voice sounded from behind Ge Tingting.
"Yeah." Ge Tingting nodded seriously.
"Are you angry?" "Meng Huai" approached him carelessly, "You wanted to wake up at this time yourself. I just helped you wake up early. Your phone has been vibrating for a long time."
Fortunately, this thing did not invade deeply. It can only interfere with consciousness in the brain, but cannot inform the public. Li Nian took a few more sips of tea and opened the window, trying to let the cold wind blow him awake.
Fu Xingchuan sat back on the sofa and sighed: "Be careful, we both die suddenly here together."
At that time, Li Nian could not help but have this thought flash across his mind -
Downstairs of the building.
"Yeah, I forgot." He murmured, "No more, no more recently."
"Sister, the grandpa who sells roujiamo is not here." Tan Lele, wearing running clothes, stopped next to Ge Tingting, "Would you like to eat pancakes? The pancake shop at the intersection is open."
"The coal ball gave Angel Arm the latest survey data. I must classify and process it as soon as possible and analyze it in various laboratories." Li Nian's face looked the same as that of a dead person. "One minute earlier is one minute."
"Who said no..." Fu Xingchuan said halfway, he pressed his temples and smiled bitterly.
Thinking of this, Li Nian felt like he had a headache again.
"Brother Qin." Ge Tingting smiled.
"So I said, one minute earlier is one minute." Li Nian spread a document in front of him and started typing on the keyboard.
Ge Tingting answered seriously: "No, I'm still far behind everyone else."
"Then I have to urge Brother Bin. He will ask for leave now." Tan Lele frowned, "Even if we can't change too much, our eight groups can't be too bad... Xiao Ge, your brain is better than mine, can you teach me How to persuade him?"
Normally, this kind of news might not have much impact. There have been frequent visions lately, and everyone is living on tenterhooks. Thanks to the vigorous publicity of the Coral Reef Company, this thing has almost become the mascot of Haigu.
After returning to Shi'an, she quickly returned to the rhythm of getting up early every day to study. Previously, she liked to buy hot meat buns to start a new day. There is always an old man selling roujiamo on a cart near Shi'an, which tastes great.
Ge Tingting froze in place, the low temperature making the tip of her nose red.
The hot white buns are crispy on the outside and topped with perfectly fat and lean braised pork and chopped braised eggs. Finally, they are doused with gravy. After one bite, the delicious meat and eggs are mixed with the crispy outside and tender meat patties, which is slightly hot. In autumn and winter, coupled with a cup of hot soy milk, she can stay energetic until noon.
Ge Tingting's expression remained unchanged, and he had already made the secret in his hand.
For her, who barely completed compulsory education, that was the realm of God. But before Ge Tingting could politely refuse, Tan Lele had already started talking.
Hateful and lovable.
Angel arms are "good things" for most of the people who depend on them. Dead relatives and friends, absent lovers, untouchable objects of infatuation... It will transform into their appearance and accompany them in their truest form.
"You continue to sleep while I sort out the information." Li Nian turned the desk lamp a little brighter.
Fu Xingchuan looked at Li Nian worriedly for a while. After a while, he scratched his head irritably: "Forget it, I'll go out and buy some breakfast. You can go downstairs to eat later."
"Sister, your hand was too powerful just now. You might be punished." Tan Lele breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his neck. He ran so hot that his whole body felt like a dumpling that had just been scooped up. "My uncle said that if you want to become more powerful, you can't throw away your child's skills. Now I think that maybe the brain is also important... I'm still too far behind."
But today, the old man selling Roujiamo never showed up. Only a few arrogant gangsters burped in wine and cast malicious glances in this direction.
So far, it has never done anything harmful to humanity. In many reports, it has cheered up many people who were at a low point by relying on the comfort of their loved ones.
"Winter has arrived a long time ago." "Meng Huai" stood beside him, as if she had never left, "Didn't you notice?"
There were always hands on his shoulders.
Tan Lele had a shaved head and a strong body. The gangsters only took a few glances and left with curses.
Shi'an Building is extremely tall and the air is crisp and fresh. Li Nian took a deep breath, and clouds of white steam came out near his mouth and nose.
"Really? The ninth group is so powerful."
Tan Lele scratched his head hard.
"His brain is better than mine, it shouldn't be."
Ge Tingting said: "He may be frightened and in a very bad mood. Is there anything he liked before? You can mention it more."
She tried her best, but Ge Tingting, who was sixteen or seventeen years old, had sweat on his forehead.
Tan Lele felt like he had found a treasure: "Oh, Brother Bin likes to mess with the mold in the sewers the most! He also said that it would be published in that kind of international magazine, which is really cool. Yes, yes, I will get him more mold..."
Ge Tingting: "..."
It sounds very powerful, but it's a pity that she doesn't understand this.
But is it really okay to send mold? Just when Ge Tingting decided to dissuade him, Tan Lele had already run away.
Mold in sewers…
Ge Tingting took the pancakes and subconsciously looked towards the sewer. The cracks in the cement bricks were pitch black, with dead leaves blowing over them from time to time. Ge Tingting took a bite of the pancake fruit and walked along the sewer, stepping on the dead leaves on it.
One, two, three... finger-thick gaps disappeared behind her one after another.
Until one of them turns white.
Ge Tingting paused for a moment - behind the gap, the whites of human eyes were revealed, as well as the cloudy eyes that only appeared on corpses.
The moment they looked at each other, those eyes curled up, as if they were smiling.
At the same time, there was a scalp-numbing rustling sound in the sewer, accompanied by the sticky sound of raw meat being squeezed. The sewer cover rose and fell slightly, and there were constant knocks. The smell of evil came like a sudden rain, chilling Ge Tingting's heart.
Corpse centipede.
It has come out to shake people's hearts again, and this time it is especially close to Shi'an. This thing seemed to regard Ge Tingting as an ordinary girl. The bloodshot eye was still spinning around in the cracks of the sewer, and the ghosts emerging from it made people feel chilled all over.
Ge Tingting stopped chewing, his face expressionless.
Yin Ren's aura was much stronger than this thing. She didn't know how much Yuanwu Xiangzi was chopped into pieces, and the girl's heart was still.
Depending on the strength of the aura, you can't fight it. Moreover, this thing only scares people but does not attack. It will run away when the situation is bad, and it will never be too late to find someone to catch it. But to let it go...
Ge Tingting looked around, picked up a disposable chopstick from the roadside, and stabbed the eye sharply.
In an instant, the lid stopped shaking and the eye quickly disappeared into the darkness. Ge Tingting threw away the chopsticks with a dull face and took another bite of the pancake - after just a while, her pancake became a bit cold.
This thing is strong, but it only wants to cause chaos, and its behavior is nothing more than that.
Unfortunately, urban sewers extend in all directions, making it difficult to catch... Sewers...
Ge Tingting bit into the pancake and his eyes suddenly lit up. She turned her head and ran away in the direction where Tan Lele disappeared.
"Brother Qin, wait!" She turned up the AI volume to the maximum volume, "I also want to meet Brother Bin - wait for me -"
Suddenly she had a simple idea to lure the snake out of its hole.
"Deal with that monster—only you eight groups can do it—"
the other side.
Ever since Fu Tianyi, the unlucky guy, was left behind, he had turned into a sponge of knowledge. He had to be tweaked by Meng Huai every day, trying to improve more other side techniques.
Sometimes, Fu Tianyi would peek at the other two bosses out of the corner of his eye.
Yin Ren is more like the giant Lonely who was taken in by Meng Huai - he goes out to hunt every day, and at the end he brings back a bunch of leftover small Yuan objects, at a fixed time and at a fixed location, rain or shine. He didn't tell Meng Huai or the others, and Meng Huai didn't ask any questions.
Zhong Cheng said that instead he became elusive. The man sometimes locked himself in a small room and went out from time to time. No one knew where he went. Zhong Chengfeng asked tentatively several times, and the answer was always "study cases." Since he would go out with briquettes from time to time, everyone could barely feel at ease.
But Zhong Cheng said that when he was there, there would always be two figures, one white and one red, nestled in the corner.
Just like an indicator light, sometimes there are both red and white, sometimes there is only red, or there is nothing at all -
After eating outside, the great master in red found a corner to close his eyes and rest. If Zhong Cheng said he was aside, he would rest his head on his lover's lap and curl up. If Zhong Cheng said he wasn't here, Yin Ren wouldn't lean on anything and would just huddle in the corner and take a nap.
No matter how loud or soft the other three people's voices were, or how the lonely people chatted and communicated, he would always fall asleep like a rock.
Perhaps thousands of years ago, the Great Heavenly Master Zhong Yi lived like this. After eating, rest among the noisy aliens, wake up and continue hunting, living like a wild beast.
But Yin Ren's injury healed very slowly.
Over time, the loss of his body increased from one-third to one-fourth. Many wounds were still bloody and open, making people unable to bear to look closely.
Maybe Zhong Cheng said he was looking for a suitable treatment, Fu Tianyi was thinking about it while making meat paste. Maybe there are some strange cyber herbs on the other side that require ancient fear to explore.
Unfortunately, before he could think about it for a few minutes, he got hit on the head - the Yuanwu meat paste under his hand was kneaded into a mess and almost exploded.
"I'm sorry!" Fu Tianyi covered his head with tears in his eyes.
He subconsciously looked at the corner again - at this moment, there was nothing there.
Yin Ren also left the stronghold on time today.
He has become accustomed to flying on the other side and feels a strange sense of freedom. If the wounds all over his body weren't hurting, he would be more relaxed.
I don't know if he was afraid that he would be eaten, but Qi Xin said to him, "I'll see you again after you recover," and he disappeared without a trace. Yin Ren has been out catching small things to eat these days, but nothing feels right no matter what he eats.
It's like a person who has been hungry for three days and three nights and eats fat-reducing salads, as if he is very full, but also as if he has not eaten anything.
Powerful elements cannot move casually, they must be more clever - organized by love, they patrol around the white net, and the whole body can be affected by a single move. Before regaining their strength, Yin Ren didn't want them to learn the rules of action.
But when it comes to foraging, Yin Ren is no worse than any living creature.
Today, he quietly touched near the white net. There were more yuan objects near the white net than when they rescued people. Yin Ren held his breath and carefully walked around the primitive objects.
He has only one goal, and that is the huge hemisphere in the center of the white net.
If you want to eat, eat the best. The most dangerous place is the most reasonable canteen.
With the experience last time, Yin Ren hid more smoothly this time. Using the shadows of the round cocoons, he carefully walked around the white silk thread and crawled towards the huge hemisphere in the center. There are still a lot of white arms remaining on the surface of the hemisphere. From this angle, it looks a bit like hand-rolled noodles.
This thing has the power of love in it, and it’s nutritious.
I still have to hide my identity. Yin Ren suddenly changed into the appearance of a black cat that could be deceived by others. He hooked his claws into the nearest net, and the end of his tail turned into a winged scythe, quickly slashing at the thickest arm.
"Meow meow!!!" Before the blade came, a sharp cat meow came from the arm.
Yin Ren was so frightened that his claws missed the fulcrum. He shrunk his body and looked nervously at the white.
Briquettes was standing under Fang Cai's arm, with its hair all over its body and its round eyes full of fear.
Hallucination
The briquettes were so close, there was no way he wouldn't be able to detect their presence! Just as Yin Ren was about to slip away, he was grabbed by the back of his neck—
The one who took action was a young man wearing red clothes and a wooden mask. He was covered with pure heart charms and had a familiar satchel slung at his side. The man's hands were extremely fast and he grabbed Yin Ren while holding the book and pen in his other hand.
Even though he was dressed like Fu Tianyi, he could recognize this person's movements even when he turned into ashes.
"Zhong Cheng said, let go!"
Yin Ren awkwardly grabbed the white net.
"Why are you here?!"
(End of chapter)