An Yu nodded, "I just heard it in the reading room."
Chen Nian paused, "Are you in the reading room too?"
"I'm outside the door, only separated from you by a door." An Yu was also stunned for a moment, "Didn't you say you can sense me?"
Chen Nian's eyes were confused, "I only know that you were near the sleeping nest building just now, but you didn't notice it at all when you were in the reading room."
An Yu asked, "What about now?"
"Of course you do now." Chen Nian smiled helplessly, "Your presence will make people scared. In the cafeteria, when you approached me, I had to hold back so I didn't run away."
An Yu looked back at Slade, who lowered his head and said, "Sorry, although I have intelligence capabilities, I have never had the perception he mentioned."
"What is your distortion direction?" An Yu asked Chen Nian.
Chen Nian did not answer, but said softly, "I will take you to meet someone."
The third path Slade mentioned indeed leads underground. The entrance was very narrow, and there were scattered cables everywhere. After landing, Chen Nian took out a candle from nowhere and lit up a small flame in the dark tunnel.
He held the candle in his hand and led An Yu inside. "Back then, the management planned to build many such safe rooms underground to deal with unpredictable disasters. Unfortunately, not long after the construction started, something happened to the orphanage. ”
Slade asked: "Can I enter the inner circle from here?"
Chen Nian shook his head, "After the mirror came, the orphanage became a four-circle structure, and even I couldn't enter the next floor. This is its protection mechanism."
An Yu asked: "Is there a person on each floor who is specially protected by it? Is its body on the fourth floor?"
Chen Nian shook his head and said: "Its body is right above our heads. It covers the entire orphanage, so if it wants to, it can destroy the entire orphanage immediately."
He paused and murmured: "No one has been to the fourth floor, but I guess there are people fused with it sleeping there."
Slade immediately asked, "Who is it?"
"His name is Bai Jing, he is a very warm person." Chen Nian said softly, "Brother Jing fell asleep after fusion and distortion with the mirror."
They finally reached the innermost part, and the flame of the candle suddenly shrank a lot, leaving only an extremely weak light.
A figure huddled in the dark corner, as if it had been asleep for a long time.
"Her name is Sisi, she is my friend."
Chen Nian explained simply, walked up and touched her hand, the dim candlelight reflected in those gentle eyes.
"Are you okay?" He talked to her by himself, "Someone came to the orphanage. Maybe you can go out and see the world again."
In the small and cramped space, Chen Nian was the only one moving. Apart from him, the only sound An Yu heard was his own heartbeat echoed back from the headphones.
The girl looked about the same age as Chen Nian, with a delicate outline, but her face was as pale as a piece of paper under the alternating light and shadow.
"Life is still being lost..." Chen Nian paused for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "It doesn't matter, we can still hold on for a while."
After he finished speaking, the flame of the candle in his hand suddenly stopped beating, and a white smoke slowly rose from the center of the candle flame.
The smell of burning filled the space. Chen Nian held the candle in the palm of his hands and closed his eyes. The wisp of white smoke gradually surrounded him, circle after circle, and the figure became more and more hazy in the smoke, as if it would dissipate in the next second.
The last time An Yu saw a similar scene was in Area 84 - when An Hening activated his powers, those Morpho butterflies would also surround him. But there was no living thing around Chen Nian, only a candle in his hand. The small candle seemed to have grown into his body. Gradually, it was no longer clear whether the surrounding smoke came from the candle flame or the candle flame. From himself.
A wisp of white smoke separated from his body and penetrated into the sleeping girl's body. The girl's face seemed to be filled with blood again.
In the earphones, Qin Zhilu hesitated and said: "Something with a very small probability has happened."
There is no one in a thousand who can retain the human will from the distortion.
Among these people, the probability of awakening healing powers is reduced by a hundred times.
So far, humans have discovered very few material fusion aberrations. Not long ago, the Black Tower and the Brain were busy all night long because of the appearance of Dian.
——In this orphanage that has been ignored by humans for ten years, there is a young man who has gathered all the unlikely events.
In other words, there is a precious healing lawful person.
An Yu was a little startled, "A deformed person fused with a candle."
Qin Zhilu thought: "It is also a matter of material fusion. Dian's genetic entropy is still in the human category, but his genetic entropy directly exceeds 10,000. Maybe he is a special case. Being in this highly distorted environment has caused more complex chaos to occur in him." . But maybe Dian is a special case. There are too few material fusion aberrations known to mankind, so it is difficult to make a conclusion."
The light smoke dissipated, and the burning did not make the candle shrink at all, as if it was not the burning candle.
Chen Nian's face turned even paler. He raised his hands to support the wall, closed his eyes and rested for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice: "As you can see, my distortion direction is candles, and my superpower is... healing."
He paused, "Perhaps unlike the lawful ones in the spire, my treatment is not a consumption of energy, but a replacement of life. Every bit of life added to her will be deducted from my own body."
An Yu suddenly thought of Jiang Xiao.
Tianlai describes Jiang Xiao's ability as "an unprecedented exchange-type healing ability." However, Jiang Xiao's ability is to use the mental power of the person being treated to make up for the loss of health, while Chen Nian is purely exchanging lives for lives.
Chen Nian looked at Sisi sleeping in the corner, "I have worked hard to maintain her for ten years, but her condition is getting worse and worse, and we can't hold on anymore."
He turned back, stared at himself holding the candle through the clear golden eyes opposite, and said to himself: "This time may be the only opportunity, I must seize it..."
Amid his murmuring words, An Yu's consciousness suddenly froze for a moment.
He seized the opportunity for Chen Nian to examine himself through his eyes and opened up Chen Nian's memory.
*
The orphanage in 2137 is not aberrated yet.
A strange face appeared in the cafeteria, and Chen Nian saw her name on her clothes: Sisi.
She was very thin, and she received the meal with her head lowered. She sat in the corner and scraped a bowl of steamed peas cleanly with a spoon. As soon as she swallowed the last mouthful, the child collecting the food appeared in front of her and slammed his fist on the table.
Chen Nian said: "I have hers."
He split a bowl of steamed peas in half with a spoon and pushed the whole bowl over, "Hers and mine. Okay?"
After leaving the canteen, Sisi followed him, always looking like he was hesitating to speak. It wasn't until noon the next day that Chen Nian couldn't stand it anymore and took the initiative to explain: "My sister's name is Chen Si. She was disposed of after being deformed. I helped you because you have the same name. Stop following me. As soon as the newcomer comes in If you stick together, you will be stared at even worse."
Sisi listened to him quietly and took out a wet newspaper bag from her pocket, with a small handful of steamed peas in it.
She said: "I want to give you this back. I left it from yesterday's dinner."
While he was in a daze, she added, "I know what the rules of survival here are, but I really don't want to live a life where I can only eat half of every meal. Don't help me next time."
She spoke carefully, as if she was afraid of hurting him. After she finished speaking, she narrowed her eyes and smiled at him.
The smile was fake, like a devil trying to be friendly.
During lunch, she once again chewed up a whole piece of compressed biscuit under everyone's gaze.
The thick fist hit her table again. She put down the bowl, her thin body jumped slightly, jumped up like a nimble kitten, and punched the opponent in the face.
The loud bang made Chen Nian stare at her for ten seconds.
Not only Chen Nian, but all the children in the cafeteria were stunned.
The kitten landed silently, not only beating the opponent until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but its sharp nails also left a pile of blood.
"Stay away from me." She raised a narrow smile at the big man collecting protective food, "I'm still in the observation period to conceal the distortion."
After finishing her harsh words, she bent down to pick up a whole bag of protective food that fell on the ground, turned around and left.
In fact, Chen Nian thought she would return the cookies to everyone, but the reality was that she spent the entire afternoon in the reading room, flipped through all the newspapers, and ate up everyone's cookies.
After that day, Chen Nian found out that she was sleeping next door - because she had indigestion, she hiccupped all night long and was so noisy that no one could fall asleep.
Sisi's appetite was astonishing, and she seemed to never be full. For a long time, Chen Nian was worried that she was about to become the second bully to collect the protection food. Then from some unknown day, he stopped handing over the protection food, or in other words, he gave half of the protection food for each meal to Sisi.
Other bullies are fine with this.
They had been handing in protective food for a long time, so they simply sat down to eat together, and later stopped by to read the newspaper together. Sisi longed to return to human society and could memorize every newspaper she read. She said that before her family became deformed, she had just been admitted to a good school from a scumbag school, and she planned to go all the way to the main city. Although the original hope of leading the whole family to live a good life was shattered, he could still live well by himself and raise a few kittens with pure genes and no risk of infection.
During a physical examination in 2138, Sisi said to him, "The guy in front of you with white hair and golden eyes is a monster. I heard he sleeps for ten months a year, so stay away from him."
Later, he unfortunately had blood contact with the monster. Sisi was horrified. She took off the sterilized gauze that the management teacher had covered him with, knelt down and tore open the broken skin with her teeth, which was only a small piece, and sucked out the blood. No sign of contamination at all.
Chen Nian suspected that she was teasing him, and originally wanted to wipe the blood off her mouth, but before she could reach out her fingers, she suddenly knelt between his legs, leaned forward, and kissed him on the lips.
"I sucked your dirty blood." Sisi said, "If we want to be deformed, we will be deformed together, and if we want to die, we will die together."
"You can leave together later, the time should be about the same." Bai Jing said with a smile while sitting in the reading room.
Bai Jing is his only friend. He moved to District D a long time ago. They don't meet often, but they have a good relationship. Bai Jing is older than most people. He seems to be born with a certain sense of responsibility. Many children regard him as an older brother.
Chen Nian nodded, "Well, if I end the observation period first, I will stay a little longer and wait for her."
Bai Jing smiled and said, "You kid."
Chen Nian asked, "Brother Jing is about to end his observation period, right?"
"Yeah." Bai Jing paused, "But I might not leave."
"Why?"
"I want to apply to stay here as a staff member." Bai Jing smiled and sighed, "Besides you, there are several other guys who don't make people worry. I'll wait until your observation period is over before I leave. It’s nice to be here, you don’t have to worry about food and drink, and you can also save some money.”
The memory jumps to the end of December 2138.
That night, Chen Nian and Sisi Mao were reading newspapers in the reading room. Suddenly there was a power outage. They lit an old candle and fell asleep together on the table.
When Chen Nian woke up, he held the candle in his palm. Maybe it was because he held it for too long, but it seemed as if the candle had solidified into his body.
Overnight, the sky outside has changed.
Without warning, the dormant seeds in everyone's bodies suddenly sprouted, and half of the orphanage fell into a state of distortion. Everywhere is full of demented deformed people killing each other, like hell on earth.
The equipment showed that Sisi's genetic entropy had exceeded 1,000, and her mental strength was fortunately within a safe range. However, she seemed to have had an accident during the transformation process. Her body could not withstand the impact of the transformation and fell into a coma. Although she was still alive, But gradually dying.
It was also on that day that Chen Nian suddenly discovered that he had the ability to see the countdown of other people's lives, and also had the ability to extend the lives of others.
Like a candle that shines some life-saving light in the darkness.
The price is self-combustion.
*
An Yu suddenly broke out of his memory.
Chen Nian knew nothing about having his memory read and looked at him in confusion, "Why are you distracted?"
An Yu said blankly: "I... thought of something else."
Chen Nian said weakly: "Sisi is a deformed person who has not lost her human will, but she is sick and needs real doctors to treat her. I am almost exhausted, and it is time for the chaos in the orphanage to end."
He paused and said, "If you can stop the wind and snow here and allow time to flow again, please take her to the main city. She is a very good person, I promise."
An Yu stared into his eyes, "How can we make the wind and snow stop?"
