He had actually already looked over this information once before, but earlier, his focus was on the files of those clearly identified as children of the Future Building victims.
This ti, his gaze focused on so children whose parents weren’t on the list of those injured.
Like Finn.
Finn’s experience was a bit different from Loren and Sui. His parents didn’t die; they disappeared, and because they had been missing for so long, their rent and tuition weren’t paid, resulting in his expulsion from the boarding school and a report to the court.
Since no imdiate relatives were alive, and even his extended family didn’t want to adopt him—and take on his tuition and rent bills—he was directly sent to the orphanage.
He is also one of the children who has stayed the longest in the orphanage.
And the ti Finn was sent to the orphanage was about nine years ago. Loren once heard Finn ntion that his parents also went to work for the Vilensis.
In the ’exchange’ with the leader of the Black Wolf Gang, He Ao had already confird that the orphanage had a ’collaboration’ with Note Intelligence, providing ’volunteers’ for Note Intelligence’s chanized Body developnt experints. The experintal area was in the Three-in-One Building.
Through this way, they could clean out children who didn’t et the ’conditions’ from the orphanage, one by one.
The ones left were the children they wanted.
In the ’Bishop’s’ mory, He Ao had seen that the Archbishop had once given the bishop of Xiluo City a list, instructing him to find children according to this list and handle the children’s relatives.
He Ao didn’t get to the specifics of the list in his mory at the ti, but he could confirm that when the fire finally broke out, all the children should have been on the list.
In other words, Finn himself was also a ’target’ of the bishop.
From the powerful abilities Finn exhibited during the orphanage anomaly, it seed that he was indeed part of the Anomaly Sect’s plan.
So, if you backtrack from this, with the ti and place matching, Finn’s parents should also have been victims of the Future Building collapse.
Considering Finn’s situation where no one in Xiluo would adopt him, it might an all reliable relatives of Finn’s parents in Xiluo City were likely already deceased.
Leaving only Finn, the child who had a hard ti even covering rent and als, without a way to understand the Future Building collapse, let alone care for his parents’ remains.
In the Future Building’s list of victims, there were also many ’anonymous remains’ that hadn’t been identified or claid, ultimately incinerated by Note Intelligence in one fell swoop.
There lies the problem.
If the Vilensis officials, Abnormal Association, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation didn’t know Finn’s parents were victims of the Future Building.
How did the Anomaly Sect know?
He Ao slightly furrowed his brows, flipping through the orphanage files.
The form of existence of the orphanage anomaly was peculiar.
It wasn’t an anomaly that naturally arose as the Abnormal Association understood it, but rather one ’created’ by humans.
According to the ’Bishop’s’ mory, he assembled all the children as per the Archbishop’s orders and perford certain operations to create this anomaly.
Thinking further out from this, the ’Endless Corridor’ anomaly in the Three-in-One Building seems to be closely related to the orphanage.
Aside from the ’Endless Corridor,’ Sui’s ’Unchanging House’ also has so connection with the orphanage.
To be precise, it’s not connected to the orphanage, but rather to the children of the orphanage.
Perhaps, every child in the orphanage is ’key’ and possesses so kind of ’power’ to interfere with anomalies.
So far, He Ao hasn’t figured out how Sui managed to escape from the orphanage anomaly and dwell in the ’Unchanging House.’
Sui doesn’t have any mories of that ti either.
However, He Ao speculates it’s highly likely she ’broke away’ from the orphanage because of so influence.
In so way, this might also prove that the orphanage children possess so kind of power to ’intervene’ with anomalies.
When the orphanage anomaly was born, it couldn’t even ’restrain’ all the children, allowing one child to escape.
And these children, from different families, had many among them who had never interacted before; their only ’commonality’ was that their parents were victims of the Future Building collapse.
In terms of mysticism, this might be a ’symbol.’
A ’symbol’ of sacrificial nature.
He Ao silently looked at the papers in his hand.
Many mystical techniques support ’bloodline sacrifices,’ where parents sacrifice themselves, bestowing so kind of grace upon their children.
Or vice versa, sacrificing children to bestow grace upon the parents.
The Future Building incident gave He Ao a similar feeling.
The victims might have beco so kind of ’sacrifices,’ offered to the anomaly, granting their children sothing ’special.’
Of course, this is more likely not ’voluntary’ and maybe completely unknown to them.
But soone exploited this bloodline sacrificial connection.
It seems the Future Building indeed has issues, and significant ones.
He Ao lowered his gaze, lost in thought.
The sky outside the window had completely darkened, leaving only pitch-black darkness.
At this mont, the plane seed to be passing through a thick cloud layer with fog constantly flitting by outside the porthole,
Thud—
After passing through a certain cloud layer, the plane began to shake violently.
Air turbulence?
Woooo—
At that mont, a piercing alarm suddenly blared inside the cabin.
The lights in the entire cabin turned red.
He Ao raised his gaze to look out the window.
In the depths of darkness outside the porthole, a shadow was vaguely suspended in the air.
Boom—
As He Ao gazed out, a bolt of lightning suddenly streaked across the sky, illuminating the scene between heaven and earth.
It also slightly illuminated that shadow suspended in the air.
A blurred reflection of a city inverted in the sky was etched into He Ao’s field of view.
What is this? A mirage?
"What’s happening?!" At this mont, Ryanke, sitting across from He Ao, also awakened in shock. He glanced at the flickering warning light, imdiately leapt up, and rushed to the cockpit.
He Ao also suddenly stood up, following in Ryanke’s footsteps.
Boom—
At that mont, another bolt of lightning flashed past the plane’s exterior, the intense air turbulence causing the entire plane to shake.
Sui, who was still sleeping soundly on the sofa, was directly thrown into the air, then crashed to the floor, shattering with a bang.
The next instant, the little doll suddenly recovered, staring blankly at the flickering lights around her, "Big guy, what’s going on?"
Her gaze turned forward, falling on the figure of He Ao entering the cockpit, and she quickly followed, "Big guy, wait for ."
Inside the cockpit, Ryanke was already seated in the pilot’s seat, fastening his seatbelt, and pulling the control stick.
"What happened?" He Ao looked at the densely flashing lights on the control panel, and the many warning pop-ups, and asked in so confusion.
"The plane encountered turbulence, and the ground exploration radar is malfunctioning, we need to switch to manual piloting," Ryanke quickly replied, "But don’t worry, it’s not a big deal, we should be fine once we get out of here, though there shouldn’t be any turbulence in this airspace."
Boom——
In the midst of speaking, another flash of lightning passed outside, illuminating the firmant.
"Thunderstorm clouds," Ryanke looked at the lightning flashing across the sky, pulling on the control stick, "Damn, where are we heading, how can there be thunderstorm clouds in this winter?"
"There seems to be sothing outside our window—" At that mont, He Ao imdiately said.
Boom boom boom——
But before he could finish speaking, several flashes of light crossed the sky again, illuminating the edge of the firmant.
The magnificent city, suspended upside down on the firmant, thus reflected in everyone’s pupils.
"Oh my," Sui, who had just walked in, stared wide-eyed at all this, "There’s a skyscraper in the sky."
Thud——
At this ti, the whole plane suddenly shook violently up and down, rapidly descending, and He Ao’s entire body floated towards the sky due to the brief weightlessness, while Sui crashed directly into the cabin roof.
He Ao reached out, grabbing her to prevent her from hitting the cabin top and shattering again.
By this ti, Ryanke, whose face had turned sowhat pale, had stabilized the aircraft.
He Ao fell from the sky, hurriedly sat in the co-pilot’s seat, fastened his seatbelt, and tied Sui to his chest as well.
At this mont, the daylight illuminated by the lightning had dimd, and the scene outside the window was already unclear.
"I just wanted to say this," He Ao looked at Ryanke and quickly said, "That city outside seems to be getting closer and closer to us."
"That’s the anomaly ’Sky City,’" Ryanke seed to forcibly control his emotions, glanced at He Ao, and quickly said, "The anomaly number is 003, Level Zero anomaly."
"You guys have a Level Zero as well?" He Ao’s eyes widened.
This area with anomalies is crazier than outside, full of dangers everywhere.
"Beyond the city’s controllable range, a Level 1 anomaly that can cause large-scale astral changes will be classified as Level Zero," Ryanke quickly shouted, "But Level Zero anomalies are rare, I’ve only seen data on two of them, one of which is ’Sky City.’"
In the middle of speaking, he pulled the control stick forcefully, reversing the aircraft’s flight direction.
Ryanke’s position in the Abnormal Association seed much higher than Reid’s, knowing more confidential information too.
"Since you’ve nad it, you should know its characteristics and rules?" He Ao looked at the tense Ryanke, "Is this anomaly very dangerous? How can we escape?"
Upon hearing the question, Ryanke paused montarily, then loudly said, "You can’t escape! If you enter Sky City, the danger level will actually reduce a lot, and there are rules to leave smoothly, but if you encounter Sky City in the air, there’s no precedent for escaping alive, even a B-level Transcendent is dood."
"What are you talking about?" Sui, tied to He Ao’s chest, loudly said, "What do you an if you encounter it you can’t survive, but if you enter you can? How do you get in without encountering it?"
"It seems possible," He Ao realized the aning in Ryanke’s words and loudly said, "The entry rules for this ’Sky City’ might be different from the ’sighting’ rules."
Sui was still a little baffled.
But He Ao no longer had ti to explain more, he directly raised his bracelet, connecting it to the control platform, "Ryanke, give top clearance."
"What are you doing?" Ryanke was a little bewildered, but still granted He Ao the clearance.
He Ao imdiately let Eve take over the plane’s control system, he looked up at the window and loudly said, "So what exactly have you explored on the outskirts of Sky City?"
The violent airflow was shaking the plane, frost covered the window shield, forming a thin barrier on it.
"The Associaiton’s information is not much," Ryanke loudly said, "It’s only known that on the outskirts of Sky City there’s rapid airflow and thunderstorm clouds, while inside there’s seemingly distorted space, but once you enter the outer airflow, you lose direction and get swept into the inside."
At this ti, the control screen on the dashboard suddenly displayed the radar detection map outside the plane.
"The outer airflow is thinner than the inside," He Ao looked at the detection map, quickly pulling the control stick and guiding the plane to turn, "We seem to be brushing the edge of the airflow, maybe we have a chance to escape."
Along with He Ao’s actions, the entire plane began to sharply tilt, crashing noises coming from the passenger cabin.
Ryanke was slightly stunned.
Boom——
The brilliant thunder light flashed across the firmant again, faintly illuminating the front of the plane.
A grand city appeared vaguely in front of the airplane, looking bigger than before.
"We’re dood." Ryanke trembled as he saw the upside-down city in the front.
He Ao’s expression darkened.
The spatial structure is problematic.
Beep beep beep——
All sorts of dense alarm sounds rang out on the control platform, indicating various radar malfunctions.
He Ao had no ti to explain anything at this mont, adjusting direction while continuing to ask loudly, "Does Sky City only appear in the sky?"
"Yes," Ryanke responded loudly, "Sky City appears at an altitude of about ten thousand ters, purely randomly, and the Association has not yet received sightings below nine thousand ters."
At this mont, a huge pop-up appeared in front of He Ao.
Engine overcooling.
If the engine freezes and stalls, it’ll be completely over.
He Ao’s gaze sank, directly pushing the control stick forward, changing the plane’s direction to start diving downward.
"What are you doing?" Ryanke shouted loudly.
"Judging by what you said earlier, you have received surviving sighting reports?" He Ao asked loudly.
"Yes, but that was without getting caught in the airflow, the witness saw similar airflow from a very far distance on the outside," Ryanke shouted loudly.
"If you can brush the edges and pass, it ans," He Ao said coldly, "there’s still a chance to escape on the outer side."
Ryanke looked at He Ao, wanting to refute, but at this mont, the whole plane had already completed the dive maneuver, shooting downward.
The high-precision radar not yet damaged showed the current state around the plane, the surrounding clouds becoming increasingly thin.
There’s a chance!
Going downward, we can get out.
At this mont, He Ao felt his own gravity, seed to have undergone so subtle change.
In an instant, he suddenly realized sothing, adjusting the course to follow the direction of gravity.
The space has issues, but gravity does not.
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