1TWITF[C Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Passing through the long, dark tunnel, the two returned to the Spiritual Medium Town.

Zhuang Ci only felt a little strange. They went out and found nothing, but lost a teammate, and Lin Chu was also missing.

“We’re back, what about Lin Chu?”

Zhuang Ci had no choice but to believe him, she could only believe him. The two walked in, one in front of the other. Lu Yanli slowly adjusted his breathing frequency and pace until the two were synchronized. Then, without realizing it, Zhuang Ci caught up with Lu Yanli’s rhythm, and their conversation gradually turned into a question-and-answer format.

Zhuang Ci dazedly followed Lu Yanli. He seemed to be asking about some top-secret information from the research institute. She vaguely knew that she shouldn’t reveal it, but for some reason, she slowly said it out.

Gradually, the conversation began to lean towards Zhuang Ci’s personal information. Zhuang Ci had the illusion that she was walking backwards in a memory channel. She suddenly felt that the person beside her was kind and trustworthy, and she had an urge to share. She kept talking, ignoring Lu Yanli’s solemn expression.

Lu Yanli didn’t know what it was, and instinctively avoided it. Zhuang Ci’s mind was already a little unclear, and she relied entirely on him pulling her along. As they walked, she began to babble about her days in the research institute.

It was a bit difficult to accelerate the process and make her quickly recall her childhood, and it could easily turn Zhuang Ci into a madwoman. Lu Yanli could only silently listen to her continue her story.

In their world, all of humanity lived in the remaining underground areas, and the research institute was responsible for controlling all human actions. The land surface was difficult to live on, surrounded by a vast ocean, and the ocean was filled with countless mutated creatures.

The Heterogeneous lived on the surface. They were intellectually inferior, physically tough, and able to adapt to the harsh environment of the surface. Zhuang Ci was an exception. She was a normal child discovered by investigators on the surface. After examination, it was found that her body’s various indicators were excellent, and she was very suitable to become an investigator. Therefore, she was admitted to the research institute exceptionally.

“The Chu Xian and Chu Xiu siblings too, they were later transferred to be responsible for other projects…”

Zhuang Ci: “Ah… yes, the research institute was not at ease at first, and after careful review, confirmed that we had no problems. Later, we all did almost the same project…”

Lu Yanli: “What project?”

Zhuang Ci: “It’s… it’s, finding a new world! It was originally Chu Xian’s responsibility, but she disappeared. Chu Xiu secretly went to find her and also disappeared. It was replaced by Lin Chu. It is said…” She mysteriously lowered her voice, “The place we live in will sooner or later lead to the extinction of mankind, so the research institute hopes to find a suitable new address and move all normal humans there!”

Lu Yanli stretched out his hand, gently stroking the top of her head, his tone icy: “A new world? Was it found?”

“It was originally found, but… we found that once a new world is found, the first to move there are those weird things, so we must first contain the weird items, or abandon them all in one of the worlds…”

Zhuang Ci seemed to sense the danger: “There’s no way, it’s all for survival. We have no way out.”

For survival…

Lu Yanli retracted his hand and pulled Zhuang Ci to bypass a large piece of flat, unfolded fleshy object in front of them. He accelerated the process, regardless of everything, to make Zhuang Ci quickly recall her childhood.

“Childhood… when I was little…”

Zhuang Ci’s face gradually twisted, and a painful expression gradually appeared. Lu Yanli almost held his breath, staring intently at her eyes, while restraining her hands.

“Don’t be afraid, think slowly… tell me…”

“Teacher…” She spat out this word, staring straight at Lu Yanli, “Teacher?”

“Is it me?”

“Yes…”

“Did he say that once your identity is exposed, you must die?”

“Yes.”

As expected.

Lu Yanli had a sense of closure in his heart. He watched Zhuang Ci, who had fallen into a state of madness, let go of her hand, stood up, and walked forward.

Behind him came the thumping sound of a head hitting the ground hard, which quickly faded away.

Lu Yanli looked back, the woman on the ground no longer had any chest movement. He turned around and walked inside.

Don’t break the time loop, don’t stop what will definitely happen in the future.

Lu Yanli thought of the future self’s advice and suddenly felt it was ridiculous.

He had been controlled by the future version of himself. Who knew how many other people that guy had controlled? The future version of himself had improved his psychological control ability. If that guy hypnotized him, it would be difficult for him to notice.

Should he go find him?

The pattern of the house collapses was strange.

All the residents of the town were gone. In the past, when he came out, those people would try to plot against him and kill him. But now, all that greeted him was silence.

But he didn’t find any corpses, only piles of fleshy, sticky objects that seemed to be human fat were spread out in the ruins of the streets and alleys. There was no bloody smell, only an increasingly strong stench of rotting protein.

There was no one everywhere, not just people, all the creatures in the town had disappeared.

Lu Yanli entered a house and found that even the fish in the fish tank had turned into a mass of fat floating in the water.

What infected it?

He searched for some things, wrapped himself tightly, and continued to search.

But until nightfall, he didn’t find any life. The entire town had become an empty city.

He also thought of what the opera troupe boss said.

Cultural Festival?

Everyone is gone, how to hold it?

The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow is the time for the Cultural Festival.

Many telegraph poles on the street were broken, and many places had a complete power outage. Lu Yanli carried a flashlight he found randomly, and held an axe in one hand, preparing to go to the power plant to see if he could repair some of it.

He urgently needed time, and he also needed to negotiate with the seemingly intelligent “god statue.”

*

Another Spiritual Medium Town.

In the shadows at the corner of the stairs upstairs, Lu Yanli stood there, closing his eyes and listening carefully.

People who have undergone special training are very sensitive to the gazes of others. Similarly, Lu Yanli didn’t need to rely on his eyes to monitor the other party, he only needed to rely on his ears to listen.

He heard the other person eating, without saying a word, breathing steadily, seemingly in a calm mood.

But the excitement she felt when she saw those paintings for a moment could not be mistaken.

He needed to make the other person more excited, and the emotional fluctuations more intense.

After Lin Chu finished eating, she stood up and consciously went to wash the dishes. She was stunned as soon as she stepped into the kitchen.

She didn’t say anything, and washed the dishes as if nothing had happened. She kicked the trash can closer and carefully pulled out the almost soaked ball of paper.

There were two in total. Most of the paint on them had blurred, and it was impossible to see what was painted. Lin Chu could only distinguish the lines of the draft. It seemed… to be two people?

The one wrapped inside could only see a man and a woman. The man suppressed the woman and pinched her neck.

On the back of the white paper, there was also a row of pencil letters that had been erased. Lin Chu used the light to see the pencil marks clearly.

“Zhuang Ci is dead, the plan is achieved.”

Lu Yanli at the staircase heard the other party’s heavy breathing for a moment, and the rustling sound of her unconsciously clenching the paper tightly in her hands.

He took a few steps back to the door of the room, opened the door and closed it again, and then walked back heavily.

Lu Yanli, you’re not the only one who knows psychological control.

She first went to the bathroom and did a self-hypnosis in front of the mirror.

You didn’t find anything today, not in the kitchen, not at the power station… you know nothing about Lu Yanli’s weaknesses…

The research institute needs him, it’s not time yet…

After finishing the self-hypnosis, Lin Chu walked out the door, wiped her hands clean, and walked upstairs.

*

The Surface World, the Research Institute.