??54: Chapter 54: Singularity (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote)
54: Chapter 54: Singularity (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote)
With a violent collision sound, He Ao took a half step back, his feet sinking into the ground, while the young man was sent flying backward and landed on the ground with a thud.
KO!
He Ao quickly walked over to the young man’s side.
It seed like the young man had passed out, his muscles that had swelled up rapidly deflating to their original form.
When a person’s jaw is struck forcefully, the imnse impact transmits along the skull, causing a mild concussion within the cranium, which montarily makes the brain lose control over the body.
The external manifestation is fainting.
Once He Ao was sure the young man had fainted, he deactivated the Super mory effect.
With the force he had used, the young man should be out for about ten minutes, which ought to be enough ti for Zhang Ansha to arrive.
In fact, from the mont he activated Super mory to knocking out the young man, only five seconds had passed.
But those five seconds were enough to make him feel a shred of weakness, as powerful as Super mory was, it incurred too great a cost.
Bang—
A crisp door slamming sound caught He Ao’s attention.
He looked up, only to see a pretty girl in a loose sweater and black stockings, bumping into the iron gate of the courtyard.
She held a large elderly cell phone with the flashlight on, looking confusedly outside.
“Liu Nan?” he asked, sowhat perplexed, “Aren’t you waiting outside for rescue?”
“Ah?
He Ao?”
Liu Nan, called by na, turned around, surprise evident on her face as she saw He Ao, “How co you are here?”
Then she looked toward the rust-covered red gate beside her, took two steps back, and seed confused, “How am I here?
Wasn’t I just hiding from the wind behind the haystack?”
He Ao’s eyebrows furrowed, as he lowered his gaze to the spot in front of him where the unconscious young man had been, only to find it empty.
The stone tables and the water jar that the young man had used as heavy objects and thrown away had sohow returned to their original places.
“Run!”
Without any hesitation, He Ao shouted loudly and imdiately dashed toward the gate.
Super mory, explode!
Liu Nan hadn’t yet grasped the situation when He Ao grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards the outside.
They stepped past the doorway and rushed out of the gate.
Outside was a thick mist.
He Ao hesitated for a mont but still turned off Super mory.
The mist was clearly not normal, but he had limited ti to use Super mory, which should only be activated in the face of formidable enemies or during critical monts.
“He Ao, I…
I think I recognize that gate.”
At this mont, Liu Nan, still held by He Ao, suddenly spoke up.
“Hmm?”
As He Ao moved forward, fumbling his way, he humd to signal Liu Nan to continue talking.
“I had just broken free from the kidnapper’s hold and seed to have co up to the courtyard gate we were just at.
The gate was ajar at that ti, so I peeked inside and then got captured by the kidnapper again.”
Liu Nan paused, “I felt like there was sothing in the courtyard that was drawing
in.”
“Drawing you in?”
He Ao continued to walk forward; the dense fog seed to strongly impede vision.
He took a couple of steps forward, and the vague shape of an object slowly ca into view.
“Exactly.
It’s a strange feeling, like I can’t explain it well, as if I was ant to go that way, and then I went.”
Liu Nan explained haltingly as He Ao pulled her along.
“Hmm.”
He Ao nodded his head.
Despite Liu Nan’s description sounding fantastical, he no longer found anything strange about her circumstance given that things like Transcendents and Copy Worlds had co into play.
“You believe ?”
Liu Nan was taken aback; she thought He Ao might suspect her of making things up.
“Our interests are aligned right now, you have no reason to lie to .”
He Ao responded calmly, by then they had arrived in front of the vague object.
It was an ancient stone cistern.
Nowadays, cisterns are generally made of ceramics or tal, carving a cistern from stone is ti-consuming and labor-intensive, this stone cistern had to be several decades old at least.
“Do you still have a signal on your phone?”
He Ao rested his hand on the edge of the water tank and suddenly asked.
“Ah?” Liu Nan was startled, He Ao’s cell phone had been in her hand.
She unlocked the screen and glanced at it.
“There’s no signal,”
Then she paused, “You have two missed calls, how co I didn’t notice just now…”
He Ao turned around, took the phone from her hand, and unlocked it.
The missed calls were from Zhang Ansha.
Zhang Ansha had called twice in a row, and judging by the ti in the record of the assimilation, it must have been when Liu Nan was contacting the police.
Since both attempts were unsuccessful, Zhang Ansha sent a text ssage to He Ao.
[He Ao, your location is showing an anomaly nearby, a place where strange phenona occur.
Be careful.
The anomaly looks like an abandoned mansion with an unlocked, rusty red gate.
It attracts passersby to move antiques from their own hos or items of special nature inside to place them.
Currently, there have been no casualties, but we haven’t started an investigation yet, so we don’t know if there are any other mutations.
Be sure to be careful.]
He Ao looked at the text ssage on the phone, silent for a mont, and then looked back.
“What’s wrong, He Ao?”
Liu Nan, who was coming around to look at the text ssage, was puzzled by He Ao’s actions, then she also turned her head.
What ca into her view was a tightly closed red gate.
They were not outside the gate, but rather inside it.
Ghost wall illusion.
A term erged from the depths of Liu Nan’s mind.
She shivered, instinctively moving closer to He Ao.
They had not charged out of the gate.
Instead, they had circled back and charged into the yard.
“What, what should we do?”
Liu Nan was sowhat panic-stricken.
The strong kidnapper had displayed inhuman strength, but at least he was human.
But the situation they were encountering now seed to have surpassed what humans could understand.
“Let’s try to climb over it.”
He Ao closed his eyes.
The images that Super mory had recorded just monts ago quickly reassembled in his mind, forming a ticulous three-dinsional model.
Then, leading Liu Nan by the hand, he walked a few steps, passed through the mist, and arrived at the wall.
First, He Ao picked up a stone from the ground and made a mark on the wall.
Then, with Liu Nan in tow, he climbed up the wall.
On the other side of the wall was also thick fog.
He thought for a mont, then jumped down—since he couldn’t directly “absorb” when jumping from top to bottom, so he wrapped his arm around Liu Nan’s shoulders.
At this mont, neither of them was concerned with these details.
They were facing a situation they had never encountered before, one that was even sowhat eerie.
“We’re back.”
Liu Nan’s gaze focused on the mark He Ao had just made.
After they had climbed the wall, they found themselves back where they started.
“It seems we can’t get out by regular ans.”
He Ao released Liu Nan and fell into thought.
The ssage from Zhang Ansha indicated that this anomaly wasn’t very dangerous; it just lured people to move things into it, and people wouldn’t get hurt.
But now, it seed that this courtyard didn’t want to let them leave, or perhaps, specific conditions had to be t to leave?
“Shall we go inside the house to check?
There might be so clues in the house?”
Liu Nan suggested after so thought.
She had recovered from the initial panic, and although she was still nervous and scared, she knew that neither would help them.
He Ao’s composure also affected her.
This idea coincided with He Ao’s thoughts.
He glanced at Liu Nan and nodded lightly.
Easily finding the direction to the house by comparing the surroundings with the model in his mind, He Ao led Liu Nan through the mist to the front of the house door.
In He Ao’s mory, the house connected to this courtyard had only one iron-chained, tightly shut door.
But at the mont, the door was ajar, and the chains had disappeared into thin air.
After hesitating for a mont, He Ao slowly pushed open the house door.
Dimly lit kerosene lamps flickered to life inside the house, illuminating item after item neatly placed within.
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