After Su Ming'an left the psychological counseling center, a looming shadow quietly followed Su Ming'an.
This shadow is a member of the old Holy See. Because he is proficient in aura concealment, he can transform himself into an imperceptible shadow. He had been squatting in the psychological counseling center for several days, just waiting for Dr. Su to come. Seeing that Su Mingan was about to leave, Shadow followed quietly.
Shadow had just taken a few steps in the direction of Su Mingan when he suddenly saw a man covered in a black cloak.
On a raised steel bar, a cloaked man stood silently at the end of the steel bar, like a black crow sitting on the treetops.
"Although I don't know who you are, please stop." The cloaked man said calmly.
"Can you see me?" Shadow asked in surprise. His invisibility skills are almost unrivaled, and this cloaked man actually spotted him at a glance?
"I will guard against all suspicious people who approach him." The cloaked man said: "No matter who you are, please leave quickly."
When the cloaked man stopped the shadow, Su Mingan had already walked further and further away, and he didn't notice the movement behind him.
Shadow was a little anxious, he wanted to jump over the cloaked man. But the cloaked man firmly blocked him.
Shadow thought for a while: "Your voice sounds a bit familiar... I think you are Ji Puyu, one of the 'six stars' of the City Guard Department. You are good at observation and investigation. In other words, the one who was The Dr. Su you protect...is a high-ranking figure in the City Guardian Department?"
The cloaked man's eyes flashed with murderous intent. The deputy minister's seclusion cannot be known to outsiders, let alone the shadow directly calling out his identity.
"Haha, I don't mean any harm." The shadow saw the murderous intention of the cloaked man, and waved his hands repeatedly: "I just came here for the order of the deputy leader, to find someone who might be the 'Alien King' in the world. I heard about this psychological counseling center. Dr. Su can communicate peacefully with 'alien species' and can influence them, so I guessed that he might be our alien king who is about to awaken. That's why I came here to find him."
"He is who he is, not some alien king." The murderous intent in the cloaked man's voice revealed.
"I have no intention of taking action...I'm going to report to the deputy leader first. See you again if we have the chance." Shadow saw that the situation was not good, and his figure turned into a black shadow and fled.
The cloaked man jumped from the steel bar and landed on the ground.
He slowly took off the black cloth on his head, revealing half-long purple hair, and his handsome face was full of thoughts.
"The old Holy See... this shadow immediately called me who I am. It seems that the deputy minister's secluded place is no longer safe. Someone has found this place." The cloaked man murmured to himself: "It's obviously a human being. , but have been looking for the king of alien species. He is obviously a human being, but he can set up a station and survive in the black mist. The old Holy See, what are you thinking? Now you are actually targeting the deputy minister..."
The cloaked man looked into the distance, and Su Ming'an's figure was getting further and further away. The afternoon sun shrank Su Ming'an's shadow into a small point.
"If I hadn't protected you today, that shadow whose face you couldn't see clearly would have come into contact with the deputy minister." The cloaked man's eyes flashed: "Even I can't understand the current deputy minister. Why is there the old one?" People from the Japanese Holy See call him king? Could it be that the Vice Minister really had contacts with the Old Holy See... No, no, I have to believe in the Vice Minister. If I don’t believe him, given his ability, the chances of humanity winning are extremely low. The key question now It’s not about whether the deputy minister is a human being, but we must try our best to bring him to the human side.”
After thinking to no avail, the cloaked man covered his face again and continued to follow Su Ming'an as a bodyguard.
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In the gift shop, Su Mingan looked at the dazzling array of dolls on the shelves.
Resources are scarce in the city, and the gift shop is located in the most affluent area, but Su Mingan still hasn't found the Barbie doll. All he sees are bloated and coarse cloth dolls. Su Mingan tried her best to choose something cute, with a pink bow, a milky white lace skirt, and small red round shoes, which looked pink.
"Taomeng is not here... She usually likes to visit this kind of gift shop, so where will she go..." The voices of a group of girls came from the door of the gift shop. Jiang Xiaoshan saw Su Ming'an choosing a doll at a glance: "Ah! Brother Wen Sheng!"
Su Mingan held the pink doll and turned around, meeting the eyes of dozens of female students.
They looked shocked. For a moment, both sides seemed to be stunned, and the air was a little stagnant.
Su Mingan lowered his head and glanced at the cute pink doll in his arms, and suddenly realized something.
"...Brother Wen Sheng actually has such a hobby." Jiang Xiaoshan was shocked.
"Did we accidentally bump into something?" Jiang Yunmeng whispered, holding someone else's hand: "Leave quickly..."
"Oh, I didn't expect that Brother Wen Sheng also has a cute side in his heart." Qiao Qiao covered her mouth.
Su Ming'an paid without changing his expression, came out with the doll in his arms, and faced the group of people at the door.
"What happened?" he said.
"Taomeng suddenly disappeared today. We are all looking for Taomeng." Although Jiang Yunmeng was explaining, his eyes were fixed on Su Mingan's doll. All the other female students also stared at the doll in Su Mingan's hand.
Su Mingan remembers Tao Meng, a little girl with a loud voice, who could be heard in the whole church when she spoke. If Tao Meng disappears, it is most likely caused by the alien species in the city. The tragedy of this city all comes from the alien species entrenched in the city.
He offered to look for it together. So he was assigned to a group with Jiang Xiaoshan, and the two of them searched nearby.
The afternoon sun was dazzling, and the sun stung a little on my body.
Su Mingan held the big pink baby and walked forward among the ruins on the ground.
People with sallow faces and thin muscles ate black bread. Many people were still kneeling on the ground, digging hard to remove the masonry from yesterday's air raid, and their ten fingernails began to break. People kept calling the names of their loved ones, begging for a response.
"Mom, Mom - are you down there? Respond to me, please, please -!"
"Grandma, grandma!"
"Where are you! Where are you!!"
Street advertisements aired the luxuries of the big city. In stark contrast to the corpses of people starving to death on the street, the smell of rotten corpses floated in the air, as if the city had died a long time ago.
Jiang Xiaoshan, who was wearing braids, walked in front and helped Su Mingan push aside the wooden blocks blocking the way.
"Taomeng is a very serious person." Jiang Xiaoshan said: "Every time I recite something, she recites it until the end. She also helps me with my dictation. I didn't take notes in many places, so I would look at her notes. Her notes are really interesting. It's good and comprehensive, just like a tutorial book. She works really hard and usually gets up at five o'clock in the morning to memorize."
"The college entrance examination will be tomorrow." Su Mingan said.
"Yes." Jiang Xiaoshan said: "Her relatives all died because of the lack of resources in the city. I can see that she hopes more than anyone else to take the college entrance examination. She doesn't want the tragedy of her relatives to happen again. The college entrance examination is tomorrow. I can't figure out why she disappeared suddenly."
A few words, but they outline the heavy grief of a young girl. All relatives died due to lack of resources. This is so hopeless and powerless.
Looking around this desolate and miserable city, Su Mingan watched everything.
What caused all this?
In a closed world, faith has become an element of formulation, leading to the emergence of the strange phenomenon of "culture determines biology." It seems incredible, but it is very reasonable. And in order to maintain this easily recognized class distinction, people work very hard.
This resulted in -
No matter how many words of advice you say, they are still not as good as a command from the gods.
No matter how many wars are started to resist, it is still not as good as a look from the gods.
Those who do not resist fate and are fed to alien species become prisoners of fate. No one cares what you vent about, because most people are just apples in the eyes of the gods. An apple cannot become a pear. People cannot even choose their own death. They are more like breathing animals than humans.
"Where do you think Taomeng will go?" Su Mingan said.
"There were no traces of blood or struggle in her room. It should not have been done by the alien in the city. We guess she ran out quietly on her own." Jiang Xiaoshan said: "Did she go somewhere to endorse? If it is true That’s fine.”
Her expression was filled with luck. She hoped that Tao Meng had just gone somewhere to endorse, instead of something happening.
"Even if there is no blood in Taomeng's room, it is possible that the alien species in the city wiped her out. If the alien species kills, it may only need to attack the brain." Su Mingan said.
"No! It's definitely not the alien species in the city who did it!" Jiang Xiaoshan suddenly shouted.
"Huh?" Su Mingan didn't know why she was so excited suddenly.
"Yes, that must be the case. Tao Meng once told us that her death was due to starvation at the age of twenty-two. Before that, nothing would happen to her." Jiang Xiaoshan was startled for a moment, and then immediately adjusted her expression. , comforting himself in a low voice: "Although I don't know why she starved to death at the age of twenty-two, she is definitely fine now."
Su Mingan said: "If she can succeed in the college entrance examination and leave this city, it is unlikely that she will starve to death when she is twenty-two. Will there be a great famine in the future?"
"The death ending arranged by the gods...can we still disobey it? There may be a famine in the future." Jiang Xiaoshan smiled bitterly. But it can be seen that unlike other numb residents, there is fire in her eyes. It was the anger towards the gods. Even if it didn't dare to burn out, there was already a spark of resistance.
Su Mingan thought about human beings' blind faith and clenched the doll tighter and tighter.
And at this moment——
"Hula--hula--"
He heard a gust of wind.
He was instantly alert, looked up towards the source of the sound, and suddenly saw——
A blooming blood flower.
The bright red blood flower bloomed in the center of his field of vision, and then quickly fell downwards - it was a body falling from the sky like a bird, and the white clothes on the body were like the wings of a white bird. Flying wildly in the wild winter wind.
Someone jumped off the building.
The moment he realized this, Su Mingan was too late to catch this person.
She hit the ground hard, and the huge impact caused her to bounce several times on the ground, crushing bright red liquid like a slime, and her limbs swaying like spinning windmills. Then her abdomen was pierced into a steel bar on the ground. The steel bar was pierced into her lower abdomen and pierced out from her back. The dark red color pointed directly into the sky, like a long red and black flag that had just been erected, and she was like a nailed to death. The insect on the wall struggled for a few seconds, trembled convulsively a few times, and became completely motionless.
Su Mingan stood there stunned, the deceased was very close to him.
A few drops of dark red blood were splashed on the back of his hand, and the blood slid down the back of his hand.
"Hey, hey...?" Jiang Xiaoshan got closer to the deceased. She turned her head blankly and looked at the body on the ground: "Did someone... jump off the building?"
Her face was confused, but it wasn't numbness, it was because she was too shocked to react. She had heard before that people would commit suicide by jumping off buildings, but she never expected to see it with her own eyes one day.
There were not many people on the street, and many people noticed that someone had jumped from the building, but their expressions were only shocked for a while at first, and soon returned to a pool of stagnant water.
The brick diggers continued to dig bricks, the people carrying things continued to take steps, and the people addicted to tobacco breathed in the intoxicating fragrance.
"Suicide is not allowed, and some people dare to resist the gods..." This is people's first thought. Instead of lamenting why she committed suicide.
Su Mingan did not recognize the girl who committed suicide. She fell headfirst, like an insect sealed in amber, impaled on the steel bar, her limbs hanging down unnaturally, and her black hair hanging on the Her facial features could not be seen clearly around the steel bars.
Why did this girl commit suicide? Whether she was failing in her studies, was out of anger, had family members died in the war, or was in despair about the future... No one cared. People rushed away from the place as if they had seen something smoky, as if her suicide would create a disgusting methane pit.
Jiang Xiaoshan took a few steps this way, as if she wanted to see the face of the deceased, but was knocked away by several heavily armed soldiers.
"Someone committed suicide again? Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" The soldiers pushed away Jiang Xiaoshan who was blocking the way, pulled the girl's body from the steel bar, and roughly packed the body in a cloth bag, treating it like a ball of pork instead of A dead person.
The soldiers were talking and laughing as they performed their actions. They often dispose of the bodies of such suicides, and their techniques are very skillful. They had even been telling funny jokes on purpose, and everyone was laughing so that the girl's mangled body could be ignored.
After all, negative emotions are not allowed. So I can only laugh as much as I can.
Amidst the laughter, there was only a pool of blood on the ground and a blood-red steel bar pointing straight into the sky.
When the soldiers roughly pulled out the body, Su Mingan finally saw the girl's face——
She has big eyes, a delicate appearance, and small freckles on her face, just like a very ordinary girl.
She is Tao Meng.
