A notification sound suddenly sounded in the earphones, and Pat went online and said: "Everyone, I discovered the air wall."
There was a sound of gentle tapping on the glass from the channel. Pat fumbled and said: "We are at the four corners of the outermost circle of the orphanage. It seems that we can only move along the outer circle. If we try to walk in, we will Encountering a wall of air. It’s invisible to the eye, but if you touch it you can feel its texture, like a piece of glass.”
Fengjian Tianyu immediately asked: "How wide is the movable area in the outermost circle?"
"The mirror surveillance in the sky is divided into small grids. The movable outer ring is the width of a small grid."
An Yu said softly, "I remember that the mirror monitoring system is seven rows and seven columns."
"Yes, so it is speculated that the orphanage can be divided into four circles, gradually shrinking inward. The fourth circle only has one square in the center." Pat paused. "Many years of missions tell me intuitively that the super abnormal body is hidden in the deepest corner." The square in the center.”
*
it's getting dark.
The wind and snow at night were even more noisy, and the swirling snow and sand made it almost blinding. The rag bag An Yu was wearing was filled with wind. He was shivering from the cold. He hugged himself tightly and walked hard in the wind and snow.
Two dark and shiny tentacles suddenly came over from the side, wrapped around his shoulders, and then circled downwards, circle after circle, until they reached his lower abdomen, completely wrapping his upper body.
Those tentacles tightened, and body heat quickly accumulated underneath, which also isolated them from the cold wind and snow.
Qin Zhilu's pace was still steady in the wind and snow, "Billy didn't ask you to buy a piece of clothing made of polymer material? It can be disguised as a low-security suit and can withstand extreme weather at the same time."
"I've seen it in a store. It's so expensive, costing 100,000 yuan." An Yu said, sneezing twice in a row.
The tentacles surrounding him tightened a little tighter.
He glanced at his superior while trying to maintain his balance.
Qin Zhilu expressed the gene of the octopus in Area 53. Considering that the children in the orphanage were all short and had low genetic entropy, in order not to make himself look too powerful, he kept his human hands and feet and only randomly grew a dozen tentacles.
Those tentacles used for meaning came out from the hem of the windbreaker. Whether it was An Yu's illusion or not, he felt that this semi-deformed commander looked a bit like that ridiculously expensive doll.
Qin Zhilu was wearing a pair of white gloves that he found in the locker in the archives. The dirty and old cotton fabric was incompatible with his temperament.
He asked: "Where to go?"
An Yu said: "The activity room should be not far from here."
The high-risk orphanage has very little food supply and no school to attend. However, it has several small reading rooms and activity rooms, providing some space for reading and entertainment for the children who have lived here for a long time.
The reading room will update some newspapers and periodicals from time to time. The children here are eager for the outside world, so they often spend time there. But the activity room next to the wall is rarely used - people who don't have enough to eat won't think about exercising, let alone playing with those elegant and useless musical instruments.
But in An Yu's rare waking hours, he most likes to go to the activity room.
Life in the orphanage is actually very stressful. Every time I wake up from a deep sleep, the newly familiar orphan has been released, and even the bully who collects the food has been replaced. The first thing An Yu does every time he wakes up is to figure out the new rules of survival and the people he can't afford to offend. This kind of pressure to survive has made him anxious since he was a child. The management teacher wanted him to go out more often, so he often went to the activity room to find a corner with a cat. This dark corner with no one around gave him an infinite sense of security.
The activity room seems a little smaller than I remembered. The lamps here are still in disrepair, and the wooden floors make an old creaking sound when you step on them.
The dim moonlight filtering in from the window was the only source of light, illuminating a few dirty leather balls and an acoustic guitar piled in the corner.
Qin Zhilu's tentacles retreated from An Yu, and he picked up the acoustic guitar casually, "Go to the cafeteria to meet Chen Nian again tomorrow morning."
An Yu nodded, "Yeah."
The sound of children's voices came from next door. He looked out the window and saw a bright light shining on the snow outside the window.
Separated by a wall, one side is the warmest and lively place of the orphanage, and the other side is the forgotten dark corner. This contrast almost runs through An Yu's entire memory of the orphanage.
Qin Zhilu put away his tentacles and sat on the ground casually. The acoustic guitar was placed on his legs, and his left hand was holding the tailpiece through his glove.
"I haven't seen an acoustic guitar in years," he said softly.
The dim light made it difficult to capture his expression, but the light tone seemed a bit ethereal in the quiet night.
An Yu looked back - the simple wooden musical instrument should have been incompatible with the officer, but perhaps because the room was too dark, he actually felt that the picture in front of him was unexpectedly harmonious.
"Are acoustic guitars rare?" he asked softly.
"It was common in the past. After the great disaster, human beings had a buffer period of eight years, and it was still very common at that time." Qin Zhilu recalled, "But later the disaster became more severe, and the whole world was accelerated. People in the main city People in Baicheng need to be numb due to high mental pressure, so electronic entertainment has a monopoly on everything. Electronic music is everywhere now, and I haven’t heard the most original sound of musical instruments in many years.”
As he spoke, he lightly strummed the strings with his right hand.
The old guitar has a hard sound, but it's not unpleasant.
An Yu stood by the window and stared at him quietly, having a vague illusion that the officer knew how to play the piano and had played for many years.
"Slade should be here soon." Qin Zhilu suddenly asked, "What do you want to do?"
An Yu thought for a while, "I'm just testing whether he has any evil intentions. I haven't decided yet whether to take the initiative."
Qin Zhilu hummed, "Don't rush to fight among yourself when the task is complicated. Remember, you don't have to get rid of annoying people, they can also be used properly."
"I know, thank you, sir." An Yu nodded lightly.
The terminal shows that his survival value is 95.6%.
He stared at the back of his hand, unable to believe that such a small trauma could cause nearly 5% loss, and couldn't help but refresh the terminal value again and again.
"Wounds take time to heal." Qin Zhilu was a little helpless, "You are not a freak, so you won't be able to heal so quickly."
An Yu couldn't help but ask, "You have also been scratched by the order. How much health do you have left?"
"99.2%." Qin Zhilu glanced at the terminal, "Your reaction to injury is indeed more intense than the average person."
An Yu was about to continue asking when the sudden sound of shattering mirrors broke the silence around him.
He was stunned for a moment, and then the violent noise exploded in his mind again. The strong impact made him almost unable to stand, and he immediately stretched out his hands to support the wall.
Qin Zhilu was about to walk out the door, but when he turned around, he saw something strange about him and frowned: "What's going on?"
An Yu was so shocked by the intense noise that his whole body tightened, and all that was left in the world was the ringing in his ears and the rough, hollow breathing in his chest. He tried to gather his consciousness and looked at the back of his left hand.
Qin Zhilu also followed his gaze.
——Under their gaze, the wound slowly healed by nearly one centimeter. The color of the unhealed part also became lighter, and scabs formed faintly.
After about half a minute, the noise finally stopped. An Yu looked at the terminal weakly - 92.4%.
He said hoarsely: "Sir, let's take a look at your survival value."
Qin Zhilu took out the terminal and said, "My survival value has not changed, but my mental power is fluctuating back and forth between 99 and 100."
He stared at the screen and pondered for a long time: "It seems that he has received a very weak mental shock, and the change in mental power is smaller than the detection accuracy, which is why this situation occurs."
An Yu's head was feeling dizzy and he said weakly: "So, the noise of cracking mirrors you heard just now and outside the cafeteria was very small?"
Qin Zhilu nodded.
An Yu thought while adjusting his breathing.
Whenever the mirror is broken, he will hear a violent noise, suffer pain no less than the most serious genetic infection, and the survival value will be reduced.
But others can only hear a faint sound, and their survival value will hardly be affected, but their mental power will fluctuate.
This seems entirely consistent with the differences in how he and others respond to genetic infections.
An Yu took another look at the wound on the back of his hand that had suddenly healed, then opened the door and walked out silently.
The kids next door started making noise again.
In the orphanage, fights between children can happen anytime and anywhere. The protagonists this time are Chen Nian and the two followers around Bai Tianqiang.
One of the followers - the boy with four irregular fingers is dead. The body is lying straight in the middle of the floor in the reading room, with his eyes looking at the ceiling in horror. There are more cracks all over his body than the one who died in Qiang's hands today. Several times, almost completely broken.
The dozen or so children around him lowered their heads and shivered.
The boy with skin like tree bark pointed at Chen Nian and said in horror: "Qiang has long said that you are a weird guy and told us not to mess with you. What the hell are you? You didn't touch him just now, why did he suddenly ——”
In the crowd, a little girl interrupted him tremblingly: "Stop talking! Don't bully Chen Nian."
Her eyes were empty and she repeated like a whisper: "The most protected person is Chen Nian. Didn't Qiang warn you? If you dare to touch Chen Nian, you will definitely be punished by it."
The bark man swallowed hard when he heard this and took two steps back involuntarily, "You monster! What is your deformation type? Why can't you see any physical signs?"
Chen Nian looked calm, and An Yu found that he seemed a little weaker than during the day.
"As I said before, I didn't kill Qiang. You can find someone else." He said without any hesitation, turned back to his seat, and continued to flip through the newspaper.
Through the crack in the door, An Yu saw the date written in large characters on the front page of the newspaper - December 25, 2138.
It was the third day after he left.
Children are still reading newspapers from ten years ago.
Qin Zhilu said in a deep voice: "It seems that in the orphanage, not only being killed will cause the mirror to crack, but also hurting Chen Nian. Chen Nian is protected by 'it', the 'it' that we guess is the mirror. "
An Yu nodded slightly.
But harm is a very fuzzy boundary, and I don’t know to what extent it will trigger “its” protection.
Many things are coincidences like this, An Yu was thinking, when suddenly there were two stabs on the channel, and Slade's voice sounded unexpectedly.
"I have arrived at the coordinates of the archives room you circled. Where are you?"
Having just been tortured by the noise, An Yu's voice sounded extremely naturally weak. He whispered: "I'm...outside. I just encountered a powerful deformed person, and I haven't fought or caught up with him. Sorry..." Can you go deal with it first? He seems to be something special."
Slade originally wanted to find a chance to get rid of An Yu. But when An Yu said this, the instinct of a lawful person still made him choose to obey immediately.
"Where is he? What are his characteristics?"
An Yu recalled Chen Nian's information that he had just checked in the archives room, "Two hundred meters to the east is this centralized accommodation area. He lives in Room A1920, his name is Chen Nian, he looks like an ordinary black-eyed boy, he has no What distortion characteristics.”
"I'll go right away." Slade said, "He's already in the accommodation area?"
"I guess he's going back soon." An Yu paused, "Don't kill him, he probably knows a lot of useful information."
"Understood."
"Just keep the channel on, I want to hear what he has to say." An Yu added: "I'm muting the one-way channel."
"good."
Communication hung up.
An Yu breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, only to see Qin Zhilu looking at him.
"Sir?"
"Yeah." Qin Zhilu raised his eyebrows, "I just taught you how to use people you hate, and you really put what you learned to use."
The author has something to say:
I won’t write about the small theater in this chapter, but I’ll give you a thread (only embodying what has been clearly pointed out in the article)
【2122】A great disaster comes (the first big snowstorm). On September 30 of the same year, Qin Zhilu was born. On December 22, An Yu was picked up by Yu Shen. The time of An Yu and Yu Shen when they were infants accelerated at the same time, directly arriving at December 22, 2130.
