Chapter 238 Aftermath(1/2)
"Earthquake? No!"
The rope made of fallen leaves tightly tied Su Yingxiu to the load-bearing pillar in the hall of the teaching building. Li Zongxiu looked at Su Yingxiu with distracted hair and blood on the corner of her mouth, and raised her hand and prepared to manipulate fallen leaves to give her the last blow. The clinker ground suddenly swayed. Li Zongxiu subconsciously stopped, and then the ceiling cracked and pieces of gravel fell down.
boom--
Li Zongxiu, who instinctively felt danger, instantly wrapped the fallen leaves around him, forming a huge protective ball. In a moment, countless collapsed concrete stones swelled up smoke and dust, and the entire teaching building hall was buried in a pile of rubble ruins.
When everything returned to peace, the devastated ruins suddenly burst out and rose up layers of bricks and stones pressed on them. The rotating pieces of fallen leaves slowly emerged.
What's going on?!What's going on?!
Looking at the teaching building that had collapsed most of the time inexplicably, Li Zongxiu looked solemn, and after thinking about it, she couldn't figure out the reason.
At this time, he found that someone was moving towards him not far away. He turned his head and saw that the person coming was Su Yi!
"Su Yi? What happened? What about the daughter of the Hou family?!"
Seeing Su Yi with a dirt face and empty hands, Li Zongxiu frowned involuntarily.
"While chasing the daughter of the Hou family, I met a boy of unknown origin. In the end, he used some methods to collapse the building and rescued the daughter of the Hou family when I was unprepared!" Su Yi said with an extremely gloomy face.
"Then why didn't you chase us?" Li Zongxiu said angrily. "Do you know how the superiors will punish us for failing this mission?"
"I want to chase you too! The problem is that I don't know where that kid went!" Su Yi explained gritting his teeth. "That kid has a very special way of concealing. Even if I disperse all my perceptions, I can't find his traces. So by the time I reacted, the other party had already disappeared."
“…”
Li Zongxiu's chest was fluctuating, as if she was trying hard to suppress the emotions in her heart. The falling leaves flying around her showed unstable changes in operation.
"Someone broke in."
Su Yi's face suddenly changed, and his eyes looked at the direction where the fluctuations appeared in the sealed space.
"It's from Jiudi!" Li Zongxiu clenched his fists, showing an unwilling expression on his face. "We'll retreat immediately now!"
"What should I do if the daughter of the Hou family?" Su Yi asked hurriedly.
"There is no time left, let's talk about everything when we go back!"
After a while, a man in a black uniform fell from the sky. He stood in the middle of the ruins, his eyes scanning the surroundings like a falcon. The next moment, he seemed to have discovered something. He waved his hand and a large amount of rubble on the ruins blew away under a violent hurricane. He slowly walked forward to a load-bearing pillar that had been broken for half, bent down and picked up the dying Su Yingxiu.
"team leader!"
A figure leaped over and saw Su Yingxiu in the man's arms, and someone shouted nervously.
"Yingxiu is not dead, but she is seriously injured and unconscious. You can take her back for treatment right now!"
As he said that, the man handed Su Yingxiu to the person who was talking.
"Captain, where is the other person?" someone asked.
"I'm going to be late, and the person has already run away." The man looked in the direction where the other party's breath was faintly retained, and said indifferently. "Xia Ming, you immediately contact the comrades from the Ministry of Public Security and ask them to temporarily send someone to block all important transportation hubs such as airports, railways, and highways in the capital. Zhang Chen, you immediately contact the departments of the three provinces around the capital..."
With the issuance of orders, after all the people around him left, there was only one man left at the ruins.
He picked up a stone on the ground, crushed it hard, and murmured to himself.
"When it starts, China has become a place where you can come whenever you want and go whenever you want!"
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"You're awake?"
Hou Wenjun seemed to have experienced a long nightmare. In the dream, she knelt on the ground with a long knife in her hand and covered in blood. She watched her once familiar and lively companions die tragically under the enemy's butcher knife. She tried hard to save them, but her knees and arms seemed to be filled with heavy lead liquid. No matter what, she couldn't stand up and couldn't lift the knife, just like a helpless little girl, with only her eyes full of grief and tears of grief.
In my ears, footsteps sounded from far to near.
In a trance, someone pulled her hair, put it close to his cheek, and said softly.
"Miss Hou family, tell me where is the key left by your father?!"
She struggled like crazy to look at the person who grabbed her hair, but in the end she was hit hard in her abdomen. The severe pain made her bend down and shrink into a shrimp-shaped shape.
"Miss Hou family, since you refuse to say anything, then take the key to see your father."
Her hair was pulled up again, and then she felt a chill on her neck. For the last glance, she saw her headless body slowly tilting to the ground.
"ah--"
Hou Wenjun woke up from the bed and lay down halfway, but immediately fell down in pain.
"You're awake?"
A familiar voice rang in my ears.
"You..." Hou Wenjun looked in the sound vigilantly. When the person who was speaking clearly showed an incredible look on her face. "It's you?! Chen Ping?"
"It's me."
Chen An sat on the chair, looked down at the book placed on his thighs, and said without raising his head.
"I just treated your wound, don't be excited, so that the wound will crack again."
"You saved me?"
Hou Wenjun's mind was in chaos, and she seemed to be unable to believe the absurd reality seen in front of her.
"After all, you have rescued me once. Now that you are in trouble, I should repay your kindness with ease or reason." Chen An closed the book and looked at Hou Wenjun by the bed with a calm expression. "So, from now on, we will not owe each other."
"Don't you owe each other?" Hou Wenjun smiled bitterly. "So I have always underestimated you... Thank you!"
"No need to thank you." Chen An said. "Your wound is relatively deep and it will take about two weeks to heal completely. You can rest assured to heal here during this period."
"Where is this?" Hou Wenjun casually glanced at the strange room around her and said.
"A professor in the university's faculty apartment, and rented it to me after learning that I had the idea of renting a house." Chen An lowered his head and looked at the book. "Because this professor has a house locally and does not live in the apartment often, he simply rented it to me."
"How is the situation outside?" Hou Wenjun said in silence for a moment.
"Don't worry, the situation is within the control of the government." Chen An said carelessly. "You two frightened classmates have already let the people from the Ninth Department of Guoan eliminate the memories of the time. The school notified you that something urgent happened in your hometown and temporarily left the capital with your parents. Regarding Su Yi, the public security department claimed that he had been arrested and imprisoned for suspected manipulation of stock prices..."
"You know so much." Hou Wenjun looked at Chen Andao who was slowly speaking with complicated eyes.
"The people from Jiudi once came to me." Chen An said lightly.
"So that's it... Then are you considered a non-staff member of the Ninth Division now?" Hou Wenjun said with a bleak smile.
"..." Chen An shook his head and sighed softly. "If I were a non-staff member of the Ninth Division, do you think you would be safely lying here now?"
"Chen Ping, I find that I am increasingly unable to understand you." Hou Wenjun stared at the ceiling above his head in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.
"You don't have to understand me, and I don't have the need to understand you." Chen An said. "Actually, if possible, I don't want to get involved in the affairs between the country and you."
"But you are still involved, and you will even be in danger of disaster at any time," said Hou Wenjun. "Although you don't know what method you used to save me, the person who arrested me will never give up easily, especially if you have destroyed their plan, you must have appeared on their blacklist."
"I know." Chen An said nothing. "But they dare not come to the door recently. Now the state department has laid strict surveillance in the capital. As long as they dare to emerge, they will undoubtedly fall into the trap."
"But they will always find opportunities." Hou Wenjun said.
"Instead of worrying about my situation, it's better to think about your situation." Chen An said. "While the country doesn't know that you have been captured by them, what are your plans in the future?"
"I don't know." When Hou Wenjun heard this, a confused look suddenly appeared on her face. "And I can't contact the organization now, because there are traitors at the top of our organization. Before we can find out who the traitors in the organization are, I will inevitably expose myself once I contact the organization."
"But it's not a solution for you to stay here." Chen An said. "Even if they don't know your whereabouts, the national department will find out sooner or later."
"Don't worry, I won't drag you down." Hou Wenjun said. "I will leave here once my injury heals."
"I remember that you are not weak, but why did you end up in such a miserable state?"
Chen An asked curiously.
"I was attacked..."
Hou Wenjun slowly explained the causes and consequences.
"So that's it. Is this the pricking dagger you mentioned?" Chen An thought for a while, he stood up, took out a silver dagger from the drawer next to him and shook it in front of her.
"How could it be in your hands?" Hou Wenjun couldn't help but say in surprise.
"Trophy." Chen Anyi explained in a concise manner.
"It's it, but this spirit-sting dagger is usually a disposable item. After the spiritual power contained in the dagger is completely activated, it will turn into an ordinary dagger." Hou Wenjun said.
"What a pity, no wonder no matter how much I study it, I have no results." Chen An said regretfully.
"hehe."
Hou Wenjun shook his head helplessly, as if he felt that he was a little whimsical. The Spike Dagger is a unique spiritual weapon of the Snake. If it was so easy to study, the black market in the inner world would have been flooded early in the morning.
"Since this weapon is so vicious, can the spiritual power in your body be restored?" Chen An said.
"Yes, but it takes a lot of time to reorganize the spiritual power structure that is destroyed in the body." Hou Wenjun said.
"What is the specific time?" Chen An asked.
"It's three months." Hou Wenjun sighed.
"Are you interested in trying a new power?" Chen An suddenly smiled at her.
"What does it mean?" Hou Wenjun frowned instantly and told herself intuition that the other party's smile was mixed with malicious intentions.
"Didn't you always want to know my secret?" Chen An said in a gentle tone. "I can tell you now, but there is a small premise..."
To be continued...