"It's a pity that this time, the investigator is temporarily unaccompanied."
"There is only one left now, and that should be Lin Chu. Find a way to contact her. If necessary, we can use special methods."
"We cannot afford to fail again. In order to prevent it from invading the New World again, this news must be completely blocked and strictly prohibited from being leaked."
At the research institute, the top brass kept the news secret, and while most people didn't know about it, they secretly created a new team that specialized in studying space jumps.
"We don't have any more time. This time, we can only succeed or fail."
Lin Chu, who was being sought by the research institute, was now recreating the town. After giving herself a psychological hint, she went upstairs to confront Lu Yanli.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and then their eyes crossed quickly. Lu Yanli said nothing, and gently opened the back of the chair for her to sit down. Then, he sat down opposite him.
There were two cups of steaming hot water on the table.
Lin Chu smiled: "Thank you, by the way, what do you want to tell me?"
She was still the same as before, using her appearance to her advantage to maintain a lively attitude. Lu Yanli was also as polite, gentle and gentle as when she first met him, but the words he said made Lin Chu stunned.
"Remember the song I taught you? Sing it here the day after tomorrow."
"Why do you sing?"
Lu Yanli said confidently: "My singing is terrible."
"That song is not meant to be heard by others, so I can avoid it."
"Oh, oh, I have to obey you." Lu Yanli stared at Lin Chu, who was still trying to argue with him. At first glance, it seemed like two close friends joking around. Only they themselves knew what they were thinking.
Lu Yanli was sure that Lin Chu wanted to kill her, and she also knew that she had good intentions. They both knew that the other party had seen through their thoughts, but even in an environment where there was no third person watching, they were still pretending.
They had fought many times before, and in his eyes, Lin Chu's tricks were as crude as an adult telling a child a lie in order to get candy. He had witnessed the other party's death several times, and every time, Lin Chu would show a strange expression.
Lu Yanli's eyes seemed to show that strange look to Lin Chu again, as if he had foreseen his future. He blinked, as if it was an illusion that Lin Chu was still trying to resist his orders. He suddenly lost his patience.
"I have to help you, believe me, okay? I want to go out, too." Lu Yanli slowly restrained himself when he got to the top of the pile.
He had much more time, and according to his calculations, this reincarnation would most likely consume the statue's power once more.
At this moment, Lin Chu suddenly and clearly sensed the murderous intent in the other person's eyes. However, when she met those eyes, she immediately forgot the murderous intent that had made her hair stand on end.
"Okay." She nodded.
"You did a good job." Lu Yanli said softly, "Tell me, what did you find in the trash can in the kitchen?"
Lin Chu's eyes struggled for a long time. After a while, she said, "Two paintings."
"Very good, good boy, you didn't lie." Lu Yanli came closer and spoke softer. "Then tell me, what did you find at the power station?"
"Power station?"
"Tell me... you were at the power station, and you picked up that piece of paper. What was on it?"
Lin Chu's eyes were completely lost in confusion, her pupils gradually blurred, and the restrictions she had set up to protect herself completely withstood the fierce attack.
"A... storyteller." She seemed to be reminiscing, and after thinking for a long time, she slowly uttered this sentence.
"A machine was telling me to read a book. Because it had been kept under the machine, it was not covered with dust. I thought it was something very important..."
Lu Yanli loosened his hand that was pinching the other person's shoulder, and he slowly sat back: "Now, go and rest. Remember, I just chatted with you."
Lin Chu opened the door and walked out.
Lu Yanli stared at her back with a cold look.
Is it really just about reading books? Am I overthinking it
Yes, he believed it.
After Lin Chu returned to the room, her eyes gradually cleared up. Suddenly, a series of sound wave signals rang out in her brain, and Lin Chu immediately came back to her senses.
The superior at the research institute is calling her!
Lin Chu closed his eyes and listened carefully, then quickly translated the signal information.
[A new world has been discovered, please return quickly]
A professor at the institute has developed a technology that can install a signal receiving device in the human brain, and it can ignore the barriers of space. According to him, even if you enter a black hole in the universe, the installer can receive the signal.
However, this experiment is extremely risky and can easily result in casualties if one is not careful. In addition, the transmission of signals across space consumes a lot of energy and can easily damage the brain if it is repeated too many times. As one of the test subjects with the most successful surgery, Lin Chu has only received information unilaterally twice so far.
She knew that she had to escape from this town as soon as possible.
Sing that song the day after tomorrow
Lin Chuxin had an idea.
Every day, every day is a cultural festival.
Lu Yanli walked through the barbed wire, through the deserted square covered with dust and garbage, and entered the factory.
The uneasy feeling of being watched still did not disappear. Lu Yanli tried his best to calm himself. He carefully avoided the increasing piles of flesh-colored sticky substances emitting a rotten protein smell on the ground and walked in the direction.
Gradually, there were more black thread-like objects on the ground, like black hair, wet and tangled together, and still oozing with water stains.
People have fat and hair
The amount of white hair and flesh-colored substances gradually increased. When Lu Yanli finally reached the perimeter of the circular building, he could feel that the ground seemed to be covered with a layer of slippery oil, and his steps were wet and sticky. Every step he took felt like he was stepping on a mixture of a large pile of insect corpses and paste.
He picked up the axe and pushed open the door.
A huge, facial-less skull was facing him. Standing in front of it, Lu Yanli could only see the tip of its nose.
Its body was already visible, its flesh was as if it had been scalded and cooked, hanging and falling down in clumps, and its hair on its head seemed to have been torn off, revealing many broken skin wounds. However, it was not bleeding, or if it was bleeding, it was flesh-colored and smelled like human fat.
What a shame!
The face where the facial features should have been was smooth, just like some plastic models in shopping malls, except that the head was too big, so big that Lu Yanli held his breath when he first saw it.
And then... Lu Yanli heard a strange creaking sound.
The sound came from behind its head, and it sounded... like someone was gnawing on its bones.
Lu Yanli immediately stepped back, turned around and ran.
He didn't want to know who was gnawing on his cheekbones, but the sound was like a thorn in his side. As he quickly backed out the door, it became louder and was accompanied by a clear sound similar to slurping a drink.
It's easy to associate it with the action of prying open the bones and sucking out the brain marrow.
Lu Yanli fled quickly. There was a road sign beside the road that had not collapsed yet. Its smooth surface reflected a figure with long red hair following behind him.
Who will it be
Lu Yanli didn't care about so many things. He rushed out of the door, pulled down his sleeves to wrap his hands, and tried to throw back a flesh-colored thing that fell on the ground while running.
It was slippery and hard to get your hands on. It hit the man in red and paused on his surface for a moment before penetrating through him, as if it was stopped for a moment by some fragile barrier.
"Will you help me? Do you want to swallow it too? Now, it sneaked in." Lu Yanli said as he ran.
He knew that thing could hear.
"This is your territory. If you kill me now, you will never get the jade pendant!" he said to the princess.
The road ahead of Lu Yanli suddenly became unobstructed. All possible obstacles disappeared. Behind him, the air seemed to become stagnant, and the speed of the thing chasing him slowed down a lot.
"I'll help you, what about the cultural festival? I'll help you find someone." Lu Yanli seemed to be talking to himself, "The way to go to the new world is very simple. If it's convenient for you to go, I can go too."
The wind blew more violently, and lanterns lit up from nowhere, swaying in the wind. Pale faces with red lips curved up looked down. Many paper figures poked their heads out from nowhere, waving their arms and legs and running out unsteadily.
Lu Yanli knew that they had started fighting.
He runs faster.
The whole town is not safe. Conversely, it doesn't matter where the whole town escapes to.
If only he could wait till the next day.
The cultural festival will be held the next day, so just wait until the next day.
The sky darkened. In the night, many stars twinkled, and there were lanterns with human faces painted on them one after another.
Lu Yanli thought the princess had been restrained and he was safe for the time being. But at the end of the road, another figure suddenly appeared.
The figure was also dressed in blood-red clothes, unrecognizable, with half of its face full of hideous blue veins. It slowly walked towards him.
Lu Yanli recognized that person at a glance.
Outside the medium town, he once called out to a future self. He also gave him one of the jade pendants. But now...
Lu Yanli didn't have time to think about how he would die in the future. He only wanted to know one thing—where did the jade pendant go
The figure was still walking towards him, and in the blink of an eye, it was close to him, so close that Lu Yanli could sense the rancid smell and cold body temperature from the other person.
His pale hands were stretched out, and his legs seemed to be restrained and unable to move.
If he hesitated for a few more seconds, he would be killed by his future self!
At the critical moment, Lu Yanli no longer hesitated. He took out the last jade pendant left in his pocket and threw it back with force.
"for you!!"
The red-clothed corpse will be attracted to this body and even more to the jade pendant. Upon seeing this, it will immediately run over and want to pounce on the jade pendant.
But its movement suddenly stopped, like a frozen frame in a movie. Then, it was like a painting on white paper being gradually erased by an eraser, being erased little by little from top to bottom.
Lu Yanli knew that his behavior was very risky, but he knew even more clearly that his first jade pendant... should have fallen into the hands of the princess.
Otherwise, it would be difficult for my ghost to run into the town in the future.