A beam of red light penetrated in from outside, instantly illuminating the entire basketball court.
Then, the entire space began to deform.
The surrounding walls gradually changed from solid to translucent.
The alien monster hidden outside the basketball court appeared in front of everyone as the wall became transparent.
Everyone looked up and saw that the space outside the basketball court was densely packed with countless monsters.
Some monsters had skinny bodies and extremely long limbs like spiders. They were lying on the wall, staring at the people in the basketball court with greedy eyes.
Some monsters turned into a moving mountain of flesh, with countless tentacles twitching and twisting in the void, and thousands of eyes growing densely. Just one glance at them would make one feel a stinging pain in the eyes, as if the soul had been polluted from the depths.
When the people in the basketball court saw it, the monster also saw the people hiding there.
They were extremely hungry and thirsty, and swarmed over each other in dense groups. Their scarlet eyes greedily stared at every living person, wishing they could rush over and tear all the lives apart.
Suddenly seeing such a horrifying scene, the timid person screamed and almost fainted on the spot.
Everyone hugged each other tightly in panic and looked at Yu Ning for help.
Ji Mingxia was talking to Yu Ning when he saw the scene around him become like this. He was startled and unconsciously tightened his grip on Yu Ning's hand.
"The passage is open." Yu Ning said, looking at the place where the red light was spreading.
Ji Mingxia followed the light, looking through layers of space, and finally his eyes fell on the red classroom.
"Shall I go out now?" Ji Mingxia said.
The surrounding walls were filled with monsters, and the passage from the basketball court to the classroom was even more densely packed with alien creatures.
Even though we know that it cannot pass through the barrier for the time being, the visual effect is extremely terrifying.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning could still bear it, but there were many timid people present. Just being surrounded by monsters in the basketball court was so frightening that their legs went weak. They didn't dare to cross the aisle and escape to the red classroom.
"Time is running out, let's go." Yu Ning said, and was the first to step forward.
With him leading the way, everyone felt a little more at ease and mustered up the courage to follow Yu Ning out.
The crowd had just begun to move when the monsters all around started roaring and banging against the walls frantically with a "bang bang bang" sound.
The timid people screamed and huddled together, not daring to move forward, for fear that the monster would break through the barrier and swallow them.
Seeing everyone showing fear, Ji Mingxia hurriedly said, "Hurry up and follow Yu Ning. Let's get to the back. The basketball court is no longer safe!"
Upon hearing this, everyone gritted their teeth and rushed out.
Ji Mingxia arranged the crowd to leave one by one, and he was the last one to leave until he was sure that there was no one in the basketball court.
Strangely, when Ji Mingxia approached the passage, the monsters that had been going crazy just now suddenly became quiet, standing obediently on both sides without making any sound.
Ji Mingxia thought that there was no one in the basketball court and the monster couldn't see the crowd, so it calmed down. Without thinking too much, he quickly followed the crowd and walked out together.
There were dozens of people between him and Yu Ning. In the long and narrow passage, Ji Mingxia couldn't see the scene ahead and could only protect the other side as much as he could.
After walking for about ten minutes, everyone arrived at the original red classroom.
The door that was opened by Liu Lin at the beginning has been opened again. Yu Ning propped himself up and let these hungry and cold people go out one by one.
The whole process went incredibly smoothly.
Seeing everyone leaving the blood-red classroom, walking out along the first floor of the hotel, and leaving this place through the main road, Ji Mingxia breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward happily to Yu Ning's side.
His original purpose of coming here was to give Ke Chengxuan a ride.
Unexpectedly, not only was Ji Mingxia trapped, but he was also accidentally separated from Yu Ning, and both of them almost lost their lives.
Fortunately, nothing bad happened, so it was a safe journey.
After leaving here, he can go back to his grandmother's house, rest for a few days, and then go to school to take the final exam. After the final exam, Ji Mingxia can also take Yu Ning home for the New Year...
Everything is moving in the right direction. He and Yu Ning are now honest with each other, and there is no setback that can separate them.
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia was in a very happy mood. He took Yu Ning's hand and stepped out of the threshold together and returned to the first floor of the hotel.
The door on the first floor of the hotel has been opened, and the outdoor air blows in quietly.
Ji Mingxia glanced outside, not knowing whether it was an illusion or not. He had been in the blockaded area for less than a day. Now that he came out and looked outside, he felt that his senses were becoming more and more acute. In his eyes, the whole world was almost becoming transparent.
Ji Mingxia looked through the hotel door and saw far away.
He saw the people who escaped and rushed out of the blockade area.
Outside the blockade area, I saw worried policemen.
Further away, residents of Funan County were walking back and forth with sad faces.
He could even see the news being displayed on the page of a mobile phone that someone was holding.
Recently, disasters have occurred frequently around the world...
Ji Mingxia stared blankly, unable to tell for a moment whether he could really see that far or it was just an illusion because he had been trapped for too long.
Ji Mingxia, who was in confusion, did not notice that when he left the blockaded area, the whole world had subtly changed.
The energy in the air became excited and violent, rushing towards him one after another. Even the air flowing outside blew over Ji Mingxia's body and swirled around him.
At the same time, the blocked space around him seemed to be opened by some mechanism, and the entire space suddenly twisted.
Countless classrooms, dormitories, hotel rooms, all the space seemed to be folded.
The densely packed monsters were pushed forward layer by layer by the squeezed space, like ants floating on the waves, becoming more and more crowded, spreading out violently along the waves of space.
Just when it was about to rush in front of Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia, the next moment, countless mysterious objects emerged from the void, like a pair of huge eyes, completely wrapping the monster.
The "ring" slowly tightened, and the monster was squeezed and condensed bit by bit. In the end, both the mysterious object and the monster were condensed into a ball and turned into a chaotic light.
When the light was completely integrated, it flew straight towards Ji Mingxia with a "whoosh".
Just when Liu Guang was about to penetrate into Ji Mingxia's body, suddenly, a pair of legs blocked Ji Mingxia's way.
Liuguang hesitated for a moment and was about to go around, but the next moment, Yu Ning's face turned fierce. He held the ring in his other hand and pressed it hard, pressing Liuguang directly into his body.
The moment the light entered the sky, Yu Ning's whole body tensed up and he couldn't help but let out a slight groan.
Ji Mingxia, who was in a daze, heard Yu Ning's silence, turned around and saw that Yu Ning's body seemed to be boiling, the blue veins on his forehead and arms were throbbing, and his eyes, which were already silver-gray, became more transparent, and there seemed to be a light burning deep in his eyes.
Ji Mingxia was startled and quickly supported Yu Ning: "Yu Ning! What's wrong with you?!"
Yu Ning's pale skin turned slightly red. He tried his best to endure the pain and gasped violently several times.
Seeing Ji Mingxia was worried, Yu Ning was about to tell Ji Mingxia that he was fine, but before he could finish his words, a trace of black blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.
His skin was pale and transparent, which made the black blood look even more shocking.
Ji Mingxia gasped and panicked: "You are injured, you just cleared the way for me... I will help you find the police, and we will go to the hospital..."
"No... no." Yu Ning gritted his teeth and said, "Mingxia, take me away from here... to a place with fewer people."
Ji Mingxia saw that with every word he spoke, more black blood came out of his mouth, and he felt very distressed.
He wanted to take Yu Ning to the hospital for treatment, but Yu Ning would rather grit her teeth and hold on than go to the hospital.
Ji Mingxia had no choice but to say: "Okay, I'll take you away first. I'll carry you on my back. Just bear with it. Tell me anything..."
Yu Ning's whole body was twitching slightly in pain. Ji Mingxia turned around, put Yu Ning on his back, and took him away from this gloomy place first.
Ji Mingxia is shorter than Yu Ning. Compared with Yu Ning's muscular body, Ji Mingxia is thin and boyish.
Normally, Yu Ning could hold him easily, but at this moment, Ji Mingxia felt extremely strenuous carrying Yu Ning on his back.
However, people can unleash their potential under special circumstances.
Ji Mingxia was concerned about Yu Ning's safety, and his mind was full of thoughts about taking Yu Ning out of here. He gritted his teeth, carried Yu Ning on his back, bypassed the crowd, left the blockade area, and walked towards the hillside of the school.
It was not until they reached the grove at the end of the mountain that Ji Mingxia heard Yu Ning whisper in his ear: "Mingxia, I am dead."
Ji Mingxia paused, he turned around and saw Yu Ning had indeed opened his eyes and was looking at him. Ji Mingxia found a piece of soft grass, gently put Yu Ning down, and called his name helplessly: "Yu Ning."
Yu Ning sensed Ji Mingxia's panic, stretched out his hand, and held Ji Mingxia's hands.
Feeling Yu Ning's cold temperature, Ji Mingxia came back to his senses a little.
Although Yu Ning didn't vomit blood at this moment, he looked different from before.
The originally scary grey pupils turned translucent, and there were a few strands of white mixed in the jet-black hair.
He looked stranger than before, and less lively than an ordinary person.
Like a monster that is gradually being alienated...
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Ji Mingxia immediately drove it out and refused to think about it any further.
Yu Ning's face was still pale, but he had recovered a little. He said to Ji Mingxia, "Mingxia, do you still remember when I went to the capital during the summer vacation?"
"Remember." That was the first time he and Yu Ning met, and this was the first time they separated. How could Ji Mingxia forget it
"The capital's research institute has specialists who are conducting research on people like me who have special qualities." Yu Ning said self-deprecatingly, "What those people in Funan County said is right. I am indeed a monster. I am not a complete human being at all. There is a small part of my genes that has mutated and has energy similar to that of mysterious items. So people like me can easily control mysterious items, but at the same time, they are also easily assimilated by them."
"assimilation?"
"Yes. Mysterious objects can become more powerful by devouring each other." Yu Ning said, "To them, I am half of their kind, so those things are very eager to find me, merge with me, and become more powerful."
Ji Mingxia looked at Yu Ning in shock: "Then is there any way for me to avoid this situation?"
"Ordinary people can do it. They just need to go to the research institute to have their genes stripped every once in a while." Yu Ning said.
He didn't tell Ji Mingxia that the technology in the institute was not yet mature, and everyone who entered the institute became a guinea pig for the experiment.
Most people are eager to obtain the power of mysterious items, so this little bit of pain will pass after a while of endurance. Once recognized by the research institute, they can gain power openly like Pei Yuan and travel freely around the world.
But Yu Ning is different from others.
It seemed like his genes had been irradiated by something and had suddenly mutated.
The technology in the research institute was not mature to begin with. Faced with Yu Ning's mutated condition, all the doctors were excited and greedy, and tortured Yu Ning for two whole months.
Although there were no wounds on his body, Yu Ning's spirit and brain were indelibly damaged.
Talking about contacting Ji Mingxia, during those two months, he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes.
Fortunately, there is no gain.
After all the hard work, although the research institute did not come up with anything, it did stimulate Yu Ning's potential, allowing him to have a more thorough understanding of his own body and to easily change the color of his eyes.
As school was about to start, the institute was reluctant to let us go at first.
Eventually, Yu Ning found an opportunity himself. He contacted outside media and used his identities as an orphan and a top scorer in the imperial examination to hype up his reputation on the Internet.
In a short while, his name became popular all over the Internet and he became a hot academic celebrity.
A place like a research institute is most afraid of being noticed by the outside world. Yu Ning has thousands of fans online. Such a person is no longer suitable to stay in the research institute.
After two months of research, nothing was found. There was no point in keeping him, so after weighing the pros and cons, the institute let him go without any regrets.
This is also the reason why Yu Ning came to H University temporarily until the start of the school.
Ji Mingxia had a good temper. Although he had been sad for two months, seeing that Yu Ning never took the initiative to mention summer vacation, he did not force Yu Ning to tell him.
Now, it is time to stop talking.
There is no need to talk about the painful past, but some of the situations in the institute can be told to Ji Mingxia to convince him...
After hearing this, Ji Mingxia quickly said, "I'll book a plane ticket right now and take you to Beijing!"
"It's too late, I've already been assimilated. I thought I could delay it a little longer... Unexpectedly, it's much faster than I expected..." Yu Ning said, his voice becoming a little depressed.
Seeing him lowering his head and enduring the pain, Ji Mingxia felt heartbroken: "If it weren't for my going to Ke Chengxuan this time, I wouldn't have gone to him if I had known earlier."
Seeing that Ji Mingxia was about to cry, Yu Ning said softly, "It has nothing to do with him. No matter where he goes, he will always find me."
"Then what should I do now? What should I do to help you?" Ji Mingxia asked.
"Leave here, leave the crowd, the farther the better." Yu Ning said.
Ji Mingxia nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
In such a short time, Yu Ning had recovered a little. He didn't let Ji Mingxia carry him on his back, but gritted his teeth and insisted on walking with Ji Mingxia.
After crossing the mountain, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning passed by several small shops. They bought some necessary food and daily necessities and then walked deeper into the forest.
After leaving the blockade area, Ji Mingxia's mobile phone gradually recovered its signal. However, as the two of them gradually went deep into the mountains, the signal gradually deteriorated.
While the phone was still usable, Ji Mingxia first reported safety to Grandma Ji, and then opened WeChat and other apps to tell his roommates as well.
As a result, as soon as I opened the social software, the news popped up.
Ji Mingxia hadn't planned to look at it at first, but the attached picture in the news looked very familiar. Ji Mingxia took a closer look and saw a big headline with a few words written on it: Recently, disasters have occurred frequently around the world, and abnormal conditions have occurred in many places.
Ji Mingxia was stunned.
It turned out that the mobile page he saw from a distance of 100 meters while standing in the hotel actually existed.
Before he could think about it, more news content was refreshed the next moment. Ji Mingxia looked down and realized that the whole world was in a state of chaos recently.
It turned out that at the same time as the incident in Funan County, similar incidents broke out all over the world, but they were suppressed by local news media.
Because of Ke Chengxuan, Funan County could not be suppressed and was pushed to the top of the hot searches, attracting all the attention, resulting in the abnormalities in other places not being noticed by the public.
But so many days have passed in the blink of an eye, and many people are in dire straits. With the Internet so developed today, it is difficult for governments to conceal the news even if they want to.
In some places, like Funan County, the area is blocked and outsiders cannot enter;
In some places, the temperature dropped from over 20 degrees to minus 30 degrees in just a few days;
In some places, plague-like diseases similar to zombies broke out;
In other cities, hundreds of thousands of people disappeared overnight, and the once bustling cities suddenly became deserted and gloomy...
Ji Mingxia couldn't help but think that when he and Yu Ning were preparing to enter Funan County, they had tried to contact Pei Yuan, but Pei Yuan's phone was unreachable.
Perhaps when many cities were destroyed, Pei Yuan and his men would have already rushed to various places to provide rescue.
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia tried to dial the number. Sure enough, a voice of "connected" came from the other end of the line.
Something strange happened to Yu Ning and he couldn't contact Pei Yuan. Who else could help him at this time
Ji Mingxia's mind flashed with the face of his senior brother Pei Yuan, and even the Ding family's parents.
Unfortunately, Ji Mingxia doesn’t have the contact numbers of these people.
At this moment, Ji Mingxia felt regretful and self-blaming.
He always felt that he was just an ordinary person, and the situation regarding the mysterious items was far away from him. If Yu Ning could handle it, he could just leave it to Yu Ning, and he didn't need to worry about such things.
But it was not until this moment that Ji Mingxia tasted the bitter fruit.
It was always Yu Ning who took care of him and took care of everything for him.
Now that Yu Ning is out, Ji Mingxia can't help at all.
"Mingxia." Yu Ning saw Ji Mingxia standing there unsteadily, so he turned to look at him. When he found that the corners of Ji Mingxia's eyes were a little red, Yu Ning panicked all of a sudden, "Mingxia, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Ji Mingxia could have held back at first, but when he heard Yu Ning's voice, he couldn't hold back any longer: "I'm sorry, Yu Ning, I don't know how to help you."
Seeing his eyes turn red, Yu Ning panicked and quickly hugged Ji Mingxia, whispering to him, "I'm fine. Although it's a little strange, I feel better than ever before."
"Really?" Ji Mingxia looked at him worriedly.
"Of course, the mysterious item can be assimilated to increase strength. I'm just not used to becoming stronger yet, so I need to find a deserted place to digest it slowly." Yu Ning said, his expression more gentle than ever before.
Seeing that Ji Mingxia still had a worried look on his face, his eyes were red, and tears were still hanging on his cheeks, Yu Ning couldn't help but lower his head and gently kiss his eyes.
He kissed very gently, all the way down, finally kissing Ji Mingxia deeply.
Ji Mingxia's nose was filled with Yu Ning's familiar scent. He indulged in his tenderness and his emotions were gradually soothed.
Yu Ning said jokingly: "I'm getting uglier and uglier, you won't abandon me, will you?"
"Of course not." Ji Mingxia hugged him nervously, "We want to be together forever!"
Yu Ning couldn't help but lower his head and gently kissed Ji Mingxia's lips.
"good."