The town of Mukesa at night was completely different from during the day.
The dim moonlight shone down, only illuminating the exteriors of the buildings.
The alleys and cracks between them were nothing but lines of darkness, echoing the pitch-black doors and windows.
Li Chengyi walked step by step along the dayti route towards that house.
Amidst the crunching footsteps, he quickly returned to the small room on the second floor.
The door to the room was still open, and inside, it was the sa as before—a trace of being burned by a great fire.
He glanced at the bed board and did not go over.
’According to the flash appearance from previous mories, Yserine must have hidden in this tunnel.’
Li Chengyi recalled the previous scenes and took out a flashlight for illumination, turning it on.
Only a beam of moonlight shone through the window into the bedroom.
There were no other sources of light.
That moonlight was so feebly pathetic that it couldn’t even match a candle, let alone light up the surroundings.
The flashlight turned on, and its bright halo instantly made the entire bedroom much clearer.
Li Chengyi walked to the corner, crouched down, and moved a charred piece of wood.
Suddenly, the charred corpse of a dog appeared before him.
’This must be that big yellow dog,’ he thought with a sigh.
Gently moving the big yellow dog to one side, he then brushed away the black ash on the ground.
Sure enough, the ground revealed a square stone slab with an iron ring.
Reaching out, Li Chengyi took a breath, hooked the ring with his finger, and lifted it.
Thud.
The stone slab was lifted, and amidst a cloud of dust, a pitch-black tunnel entrance beca visible.
He shone the flashlight inside.
As soon as the light entered,
a ghastly pale doll’s face ca into view.
It was the eerie face of a little girl covered in white powder, smiling faintly, dressed in a white nightgown.
’A Lonely Doll!!!?’
Li Chengyi was startled by the face so close at hand.
Of course, he was not scared; it was just that the face was too near.
It was only a fist’s distance from touching his faceplate and nose.
He staggered backward, sitting down on the ground.
Pressing his hand on the ground, he suddenly felt sothing was off.
Looking down, he saw that right next to his hand stood a pair of pale, wound-covered child’s feet.
His whole body’s hair stood on end, and he rose to distance himself.
"Ah!!!!!"
Suddenly, the face in the tunnel and the child standing beside him both scread at the sa ti.
The two sharp sound waves made Li Chengyi’s entire body ice-cold, as if he had been thrown into a washing machine and violently churned.
A strong sensation of nausea and dizziness overwheld him.
"For fuck’s sake..."
"Shut up!!!"
He abruptly raised his hand,
and the Flying Yi turned into a streak of black light, flashing past the face in the tunnel and the child beside it.
Bang!!
All fell silent.
Li Chengyi knelt on one knee, drenched in sweat, feeling a sharp pain in both ears.
His vision was a bit blurry, but when he looked around the room again,
the two figures that had just appeared were gone.
Only the Black Axe of the Flying Yi was still embedded in the ground.
He exhaled and grasped the Black Axe, pulling it out.
The constant Radiance Field steadily healed his injuries and restored his condition. In just a dozen seconds, the snowflake spots before his eyes began to dissipate slowly.
Taking a deep breath, he returned to the front of the tunnel.
Without any hesitation, he took the flashlight and leaped down.
Hiss.
Amidst the distinct sound of Armor friction,
he must have slid at least ten ters before his feet hit solid ground.
He slid from the tunnel into a square room very similar to the bedroom above ground.
Thump, Li Chengyi crashed to the ground, kicking up a large cloud of dust.
The dust shrouded the light from the flashlight, making it hazy.
After waiting for a while as the dust slowly settled,
Li Chengyi raised the flashlight to take a closer look at the room.
This was a cubic room, furnished exactly like the bedroom above.
The walls were dirt yellow, the floor was dirt yellow, and the ceiling was black.
Inside the room, there was a single child’s bed, a desk, a small wardrobe, and a closed black iron door.
Li Chengyi held the flashlight, scouting the entire room, and the face inside the helt slightly frowned.
’This place... the furnishing is the sa as above, but... this doesn’t seem like a little girl’s room.’
He walked to the desk, picking up a toy Autobot that was placed on it.
The yellow Autobot was missing an arm, its legs were bent into an X-shape, and out of two antennae on its head, only one remained.
This didn’t seem at all like what a little girl would enjoy playing with.
With the flashlight, he carefully searched for clues.
Soon, he found a lead.
In the right corner of the desk, there were several drops of black marks, resembling bloodstains in appearance.
Swish.
Li Chengyi opened the drawer underneath the bloodstains.
Inside was an old-fashioned portable video player, which in Li Chengyi’s previous life was called an mp4.
In this place, it was known as an mv machine.
The player was the size of an egg, boxy, all black, with most of its front being the screen.
There was a black bezel around the display, with no buttons—likely a touchscreen, he surmised.
’Perhaps it holds so clues.’ He pocketed the device into the small secret compartnt of the Flying Yi.
Then he continued to search for other clues.
Unfortunately, the only item in the entire desk was this device. The rest was completely empty as if it was there just for show.
Li Chengyi turned around and looked toward the children’s bed.
The bed was empty.
But beneath the bed...
A corner of a white nightgown was peeking out.
It was clear that soone was hiding under the bed.
Li Chengyi sighed and slowly approached.
He reached out, gently grabbed the corner of the nightgown, and then, slowly pulled it out.
Amidst a faint hissing sound,
a little girl’s skeleton was gently pulled out, lying beside the children’s bed.
The skeleton had its hands covering its eyes, curled up into a ball, with thin layers of black hardened skin still clinging to it.
It looked helpless and pitiable.
One could imagine that in her final monts, she could see nothing, had nothing to eat or drink, and no one responded to her.
In this room where there was nothing, there was only her.
She could only heed her mother’s words, groping around, hiding under the bed alone, curled up, enduring the severe pain in her eyes until she died.
’If... you are Yserine, then who was that person I encountered before?’
Looking at the skeleton before him, Li Chengyi sighed, his heart void of the usual tension.
Instead, a sense of sorrow rose within him.
He gently extended his hand and slowly pulled the skeleton’s hands apart.
Sure enough, he saw black clumps of dirt embedded in the eye sockets.
Standing up, he conducted one last inspection of the entire room. Li Chengyi was sure that he had not overlooked any details.
Only then did he stand in front of the only iron door.
He grasped the doorknob with one hand, and with the Golden Sword in the other, he fiercely struck.
Hiss, hiss.
Two crisp sounds, and the door’s lock was cut off in one stroke.
He pulled hard.
The door instantly emitted a piercing screech as it was forcibly opened.
Outside the door lay a small tunnel, not long, only about three ters, sloping towards a square stone slab.
Li Chengyi shone his flashlight down, making sure there were no issues, before carefully crawling inside step by step.
The passageway was low and narrow. With his Armor on, he was too big and had to crawl forward, otherwise, his head would bump against the earthen ceiling.
Crack.
After just a few crawls, he suddenly felt sothing tightening on his right foot, as though sothing was pulling at him.
Li Chengyi quickly looked back.
At the entrance of the underground bedroom, the pale face of a little girl was smiling up at him.
His foot was being tightly gripped by a charred little hand.
Seeing the ghastly, eerie face, Li Chengyi’s heart chilled.
He was about to take action.
But suddenly, the little girl let go on her own accord.
Just like that, smiling at Li Chengyi,
she began to retreat, further and further,
until she disappeared into the deep darkness.
Strangely enough, as Li Chengyi watched where she vanished, a strong sense of loneliness suddenly welled up in his heart.
It seed to be a feeling transmitted from the other side.
In his mind, he inexplicably flashed through the clues he’d found earlier and the materials he had looked over.
Without lingering, he quickly crawled to the underside of the stone slab, elbowed it hard, and imdiately broke it open forcefully.
He squeezed out of the small exit.
He then realized that he was outside the earthen walls of Mukesa Town.
’An escape tunnel leading outside the wall!’
He got the picture.
Without further delay, Li Chengyi looked around—Blue Deer’s people hadn’t arrived yet.
The surroundings were still deathly quiet.
There were no satellite surveillances nor was the Tianyan System covering the area.
There was no need to worry about any potential surveillance.
He stood up and carefully picked up the Flying Yi, which contained the MV machine that might hold important information he had just obtained.
Recollecting the entire exploration process, Li Chengyi faintly felt there was a thread running through Mukesa Town.
But for the mont, due to incomplete information, he couldn’t be sure.
’Ti to go back.’
After killing so many of Blue Deer’s, they must have noticed and sent people this way.
He was not willing to engage in a severe conflict with them, at least not here where it was unsuitable.
However, he had only killed a few dozen of them. It shouldn’t be a big deal.
Looking around, Li Chengyi didn’t imdiately head back the way he ca but instead sprinted in another direction, making a fast getaway.
He needed to take a detour and then use the single-person flying equipnt he had hidden to take off and erase his footprints.
Though the sand and wind wouldn’t take long to completely obscure his footprints,
the others might catch up sooner.
After a series of cautious maneuvers, half an hour later,
inside the hotel room at the airport,
Li Chengyi took out his phone from the hotel drawer again and turned it on to check for ssages.
There were four missed calls.
And in the Late Night Cucumber Chat, there was a deluge of ssages, with the ssage count at 99 .
He felt alard, knowing for certain that Rainbow Candy and the others must have found so clues.
He hurriedly opened the chat.
"Things are bad, I’ve been attacked." — Rainbow Candy.
"Sa here! Got shot unexpectedly." — Da Hei.
"Xiao Zhong and I brought the dical kit!" — Dragon Gate Crane.
"They have too many people. We need to find a way to avoid them for now." — Da Xiong.
"Let’s regroup first and then try to break out!" — Rainbow Candy.
Upon reading this, Li Chengyi’s heart tightened.
He instantly thought of the Utopia Organization he had offended. Among all the troubles, only Utopia had the power to make Rainbow Candy and the other Blind Spot Individuals so beleaguered.
He quickly began to type a ssage and was about to send it.
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