"Indeed, I don't believe what he said." Qin Zhilu looked away casually, his black eyes staring at Shuangxue, "But I believe in my own will and the will of order."
District 99 entered a strange silent mode. No one was seen all the way on the street. After walking for more than ten minutes, I finally saw a few figures in the distance. But when they approached through the frost and snow, those figures disappeared.
"At least half of the people are under mind control, and the rest probably don't dare to approach us." Jiang Xiao flipped through the terminal, and the network signal was interrupted. His social media was still on the page loaded last night, and it was overwhelmingly filled with comments about Qin Zhi. He took a deep breath, frowned and looked around, "Where were those people just now? I obviously saw them -"
"There." Siena raised her hand and pointed to the restaurant in front.
Jiang Xiao lost his voice in an instant. The human bodies were merging with the pillars in front of the restaurant. Several gray eyeballs bulged out from the pillars. The legs of the last guy were still outside, but they were soon embedded in the pillars. The plaster paint flowed up his ankles until it was welded firmly to death and gradually engulfed him.
"Everything is like a swamp." Siena said softly: "The super abnormality makes everyone walk into the swamp with a smile."
After the pillar merged with several people, it quickly deformed. It began to stretch irregularly, touching the doors and windows, and quickly blended together. Then, the steps on the ground, the tables and chairs in the restaurant, and the entire box of red wine and coffee The machine...chaotic reaction spread under their noses. An Yu saw an eyeball flicker as the edge stretched, and then was quickly squeezed away by the bench that had just been absorbed.
"Did you see it?" Qin Zhilu whispered: "No matter how long the life inside can last, during the expansion of the chaotic reaction, there is indeed life and wisdom inside."
Siena suddenly turned her head, "If this is the case, then things will become much easier."
An Yu's thoughts were interrupted by her reply, "What?"
Sienna raised her eyebrows coldly, "If the person who is stirred into the chaotic reaction can control the direction of the reaction with his will, then just let me in. Even if our Colonel Disf has controlled the reaction, there is a high probability that he will not be as good as Mine - after all, he only had indirect contact with Mrs. Tang Ru and Ms. Zhan Xue, and I was the direct recipient of radiation. What's more, the fable painting has a part that defines me. I will destroy him in the reactants, and then bring him with me Stop reacting to that dirty thing and immediately go to self-destruction."
Her tone was too natural. She ignored the silence around her and shrugged with a half-smile, "You don't have to look at me like that. I have been an orphan as long as I can remember. I spent the radiation observation period safely under the monitoring of my brain, and in 95 I have lived happily for twenty years, and there is nothing I am not satisfied with."
"It is a method." Qin Zhilu nodded, "But the super abnormal body is still in the dark, so don't act rashly."
Siye smiled, "I will act when I think it's appropriate - I may be just your fallen afterglow, but that doesn't mean I will follow your instructions."
She suddenly frowned, "Be careful!"
An Yu was immediately pulled back two steps by Jiang Xiao. When he lowered his head, he saw the reactants in the restaurant spreading out from the door and flowing in their direction. But judging from the stretched shape of the edges, it seemed like everyone in the group would be swallowed up before he did.
"Let's go." Qin Zhilu finally said: "This small reactor should be self-limiting, just stay away."
Frost and snow covered half of the city. When one stepped on the ground, the frost quickly climbed up the trouser legs. In just a few seconds, half of a person's calves would be frozen to the ground. He had to break the ice shell with the back of a knife before he could step out. step. These frosts not only hinder movement, but also interfere with everyone's mental power. Xiye knocked on the ice on his leg in annoyance and glanced at An Yu, "It's so jealous that the super abnormality gave up on exerting mental control on you."
An Yu huddled in Qin Zhilu's windbreaker, and after a while he whispered: "But I am made of flesh and blood. I am very afraid of the cold and will freeze to death."
"Oh?" Siena raised an eyebrow, "Thank you, this makes me feel much better."
An Yu pursed his lips that were chapped by the cold, and suddenly felt a weight on his shoulders. Qin Zhilu folded his remaining coat on him, and two dark and shiny tentacles came out from behind, like before, in the wind. Xue Zhong wrapped around his waist, rubbing gently but forcefully.
"When you go on missions in the future, you must buy corresponding equipment. You are already rich enough." His tone was a bit harsh.
An Yu seemed to be stunned by the cold. After a long time, he hummed: "Your tentacles can generate more heat than your coat. Just save as much as you can."
As he spoke, he groped for the tip of the tentacle, pulled it twice and held it in his arms.
"Don't move." Qin Zhilu frowned and glared at him, "Lawless."
An Yu said "Oh" and sniffed, "Can you relax a little? You always hold me tightly."
The wrapping around his waist suddenly relaxed a little, and Qin Zhilu simply extended the tentacle and made another circle.
Siena raised her eyebrows, "It seems that the rumors on social media are true. Corner is nominally a subject of supervision, but his status is extraordinary. Even you have to consider everything."
Qin Zhilu said calmly: "In the minaret, it is the chief's responsibility to take good care of the objects of supervision."
*
Qin Zhilu chose the one closest to the ice coffin among the safe places listed in the black tower. It was a safe house abandoned by the garrison. It was a small wooden house with two partitions dividing three spaces. Jiang Xiao and Siena were guarding the outside, Kaos was boiling water and cooking noodles in the middle. Qin Zhilu sat down on the ground in the innermost room and stretched out his injured arm to An Yu, "Leave it to you."
As he spoke, he closed his eyes and rested his mind, not waiting for An Yu to reply.
An Yu had no choice but to remove the bandage.
More than ten hours later, the polymer material should have aligned the wound, but Qin Zhilu had cut out the carrion too deeply. When the bandage was removed, the wound collapsed again, and blood dripped down the arm.
An Yu quickly took out Billy's medicine jar and just dipped it in and applied it around the wound when he saw Qin Zhilu's arm tense up and the bright red granulation inside the wound trembled uncontrollably.
"It's okay." Qin Zhilu said solemnly with his eyes closed, "Just give me the medicine."
An Yu didn't say a word and moved his hands more gently.
The room was very quiet. He held his breath and carefully applied medicine to the terrible wound. The only sound in his ears was the breathing of the officer. When he endured the pain, his steady breathing would tremble.
The bandage was soaked with blood, and An Yu was about to take off the one around his neck when Qin Zhilu suddenly opened his eyes.
"You leave one." He said, "The neck is a vital point. Since the protective gear is tied, don't take it off easily. It is unlucky."
An Yu heard the auspicious words from Qin Zhilu's mouth for the first time. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "But the last bandage is dirty and it will become infected."
Qin Zhilu looked past him and looked behind him. Kaos was standing hesitantly in the shadow by the door holding a military treatment kit. Qin Zhilu stared at him for a while, then closed his eyes again, "My people don't attack lightly or harshly." ,You do it."
An Yu frowned, but stood up and asked Kaos to sit where he was.
He stood behind Kaos and watched him bandage Qin Zhilu. The ordinary gauze was pressed on the wound, and it was soaked with blood in a blink of an eye. However, Kaos was obviously used to seeing this in the army. He used hemostatic spray again and again. Wet the clean gauze and press the wound firmly. When the bleeding is about to stop, put surgical tape on the wound, tighten it in alignment, and then quickly wrap the bandage tightly in circles.
"It's taken care of, sir." He whispered, picking up the gauze stained with Qin Zhilu's blood on the ground, and holding a thick pile in his hand.
Qin Zhilu opened his eyes and glanced, "My blood is a severely distorted contaminant. You'd better not touch it. Dispose of it according to the military department's procedures for handling infected materials."
Kaos nodded, "Don't worry."
An Yu watched him walk out with the stack of gauze, and suddenly remembered that in the religious group's activity room, Kaos squatted on the table and used a rag to wipe Qin Zhilu's blood dripping downstairs, but at that time Qin Zhilu There seemed to be no reminder to him that it was his blood.
An Yu walked back to Qin Zhilu and said softly: "Sir, are you doubting him?"
Qin Zhilu said casually: "I just asked him to bandage it for me."
"You said I didn't act lightly or harshly." An Yu frowned again inadvertently, "Is that true? I was already very gentle."
In the past, Ling Qiu often had bruises and bruises when exercising. He had changed Ling Qiu's dressing for so many years, but Ling Qiu had never said that he was harsh.
Qin Zhilu didn't say anything, just looked at him like that, his dark eyes gradually softened, seeming a little helpless.
He waved to An Yu, "Come here."
An Yu was already very close to him, so he could only walk over and sit on the ground almost next to him.
"Stay by my side and don't run around." Qin Zhilu leaned against the wall and sighed, "You are too gentle. If you do that, I will bleed to death."
"Ah?" An Yu was confused and said instinctively: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'll hurt you..."
Qin Zhilu said "Yeah" in his throat, "I know."
Kaos lit the fireplace outside, and the room was quickly warmed up. An Yu took off the two heavy windbreakers on his body. Qin Zhilu glanced at him and suddenly frowned, "What's wrong with your waist?"
The thin white shirt was scratched on both sides, and there were dots of blood around it.
"Oh." An Yu lifted up the hem of his clothes, "I was scratched by something during the fight in the collection factory, so I didn't see clearly."
There are large bright red scratches on both sides of the waist. The wounds are very shallow, but the area is large. There are also many wooden thorns stuck in them. It is a bit shocking to appear on the excessively white and slender waist.
An Yu saw Qin Zhilu frowning and said, "I don't feel any pain at all. It's okay."
He took a look at the terminal and saw that the survival value had returned to more than 90%. His body seemed to be used to always being on the verge of death and was no longer sensitive to such minor injuries.
Qin Zhilu whispered: "You haven't been injured in a mission for a long time."
"Are you dissatisfied with my lack of ability?" An Yu couldn't help but defend himself, "The prerequisite for using space capabilities is that there is space. They launch the human sea tactic, and there is nothing I can do about it."
Qin Zhilu smiled and said, "I don't dislike you, I just think you should take on fewer tasks."
An Yu was stunned when he heard this, "Don't answer me?"
"Yeah." Qin Zhilu stretched out his fingers and looked at it in front of him, and suddenly asked: "When do you plan to pay me back?"
"Ah? What money?" An Yu was stunned for a moment before reacting, surprised and hesitant: "You still remember, I thought..."
He gradually whispered, "I thought you wouldn't ask me for it."
Qin Zhilu couldn't help but chuckle and glanced at him, "You don't sleep much now, but you love to dream."
An Yu: "..."
"Give it back to me when you get back." Qin Zhilu said in a low voice, as if talking to himself: "If the ice coffin is the remnant of the mysterious arrival, then Area 99 is likely to be the fuse that triggers the world to end in heat death. If this thread is eliminated, humanity will be much more peaceful in the future. Biological distortions may still exist, after all, they are distortions that have already occurred, but super-abnormalities will probably not appear as frequently, and the lawful ones in the spire can handle it. Optimistically, if humans and the lawful ones are strong and persistent enough, maybe after decades, hundreds, or thousands of years, the existing aberrant genes will gradually be cleaned up, and order will be reestablished in the long river of time."
An Yu listened quietly. He looked at Qin Zhilu's profile. When the officer talked about the restoration of order, his tone was very gentle, with a hint of desolate longing.
He had seen the man in front of him kill coldly and disregard life for the sake of order, but at this moment, he felt his piety for the first time.
Qin Zhilu changed the topic, "When you first came to the main city, you agreed to join the Spire to pay off a debt. Now the debt has been paid off. When this mission is over, you can open your bakery honestly."
An Yu was stunned for a moment, as if his heart had been stabbed hard by something, causing him to fall into a brief aphasia.
After a long while, he murmured: "What about you?"
"Me." Qin Zhilu paused, "Of course I'm still where I should be, fulfilling my mission."
As he spoke, he took out two divination cards from his pocket and played with them. An Yu asked in surprise: "When did you get them?"
"I played with it a few times when I was bored in the divination room." Qin Zhilu said casually: "These two cards seem to be very destined for me. No matter how many times I throw the cards, they are always the ones I draw."
An Yu looked at the two cards. The first one was a cracked earth with a name of "Broken and Absorbed", and the second one was a cross made of two thick wooden stakes that were so pale that they were blinding. The brand name is "Innocence Torture Frame".
Qin Zhilu laughed and said, "This doesn't seem to be Tarot. Maybe it's a product created by the people of District 99 for their own entertainment."
An Yu always felt that the officer's words had special meaning, but he was speechless. Qin Zhilu gently pushed open the narrow window on the wall of the cabin, looked at the howling frost and snow outside the window, and whispered: " Haven’t you become stronger yet?”
An Yu came back to his senses, "Are you waiting for Shuangxue to become stronger?"
"It's time to get stronger." Qin Zhilu frowned and said, "He has obviously gotten some nutrients..."
An Yu was stunned. His eyes suddenly fell on Qin Zhilu's perfectly bandaged arm, and he suddenly turned his head and looked outside.
The aroma of meat and noodles was exuding outside. Kaos cooked a large pot of noodles with canned beef from the military department. Jiang Xiao and Siena were helping him divide the noodles into several small bowls. He still hated Siena. When he handed the wooden bowl to Siena, he slammed it on the table and almost hit Siena's finger. Siena angrily yelled: "I am not like a child with hairless hair." Common sense, but don’t go too far!”
An Yu's shoulders sank, and Qin Zhilu, who was sitting behind him, suddenly placed his chin on his shoulders.
From the perspective of the room outside, it was as if Qin Zhilu was seriously injured and exhausted and was using An Yu as a fulcrum.
An Yu tilted his head back slightly and whispered tentatively: "Sir?"
Qin Zhilu's whole body radiated weakness, but he spoke without any signs of fatigue. Even though the voice was very soft, it still contained a sharp coldness.
"The poet only sent one painting to Colonel Disf. The one on Sienna's door was hung later. It was a threat and a provocation, forcing her to have an emotional breakdown. The person who hung the painting must have seen the complete version. Apart from Colonel Disf himself, the only people he might come into contact with after going crazy were either cronies in the garrison or family members.
"The first time we asked Kaos if he had a dream, he avoided the question by getting angry. But when we found out that almost everyone in District 99 had been attacked, he ran to the activity room and muttered to himself. If you confess over the phone, you have been tricked. It is a very clever disguise, because it will make us relax our vigilance.
"Norbert leads us into the collection factory. If he makes a move on you, there is a high probability that he will be killed by us, but even if he doesn't make a move, he will be suspected by us sooner or later. So this character is destined to be an abandoned son, and before the handover , this character was supposed to be Kaos.
"Siena said that during the past few days of hiding, the believers in District 99 were attacking her crazily. You see, he is doing the same thing now. To be precise, he is not attacking her, but irritating her. He wished she could do something to him right away. He knew that he was not capable of swallowing Siena and me alive, so he wanted to be like the thing in Area 95, to capture our infinite chaos first.
"He is only doing two things from the beginning to the end. First, he takes advantage of your weaknesses to kill you. Order restrains chaos. He knows that you are a huge threat. Then, he tries to find a way to obtain Siena and my chaos genes. , only if Siena and I use ourselves to infect him, can he become something with a higher degree of chaos than Siena and I, and then dominate the chaotic reaction."
"He does know too much, so I guess he is more advanced than that thing in Area 95. If measured by mysterious fragments, Siena is a fragment of the chaotic body, then he may have a little bit of chaos and cognition at the same time, or maybe It was the cognitive ability stained on the parchment that was passed on to him."
