Chapter 167: Soul Detention
When everything had calmed down, and the cautious Yu Lianyun informed everyone with a “delay” that they could stand up, even though everyone had some mental preparation, they were still startled by the scene of devastation before their eyes.
Only to see that in the wounded all over Interrogation Room appeared a huge pit with a diameter of nine meters, the pit bottom about five meters from the ground, Wang Zijin’s twisted and deformed corpse had long disappeared, or rather, she had been unbelievably torn apart in a short time, dispersing into a shocking blood mist, slowly settling in the shattered Interrogation Room.
The rooms connected to the Interrogation Room were all destroyed, a coherent crack extending around the surroundings, black slime everywhere around, gray fluff sprinkling around the people, the foul smell and bloody strange odor becoming more pronounced.
“Cough cough.” Someone carelessly inhaled the air containing fluff particles, immediately their facial expression turned purple-black, followed by a flush spreading over the whole body, eyes suddenly bulging, lust crawling over both eyes, pupils scanning over the people around.
Yu Lianyun saw those who accidentally ingested the contaminated air and were stained with black slime showing extremely obvious anomalies, her heart jumped, and she immediately ordered: “Hold your breathing, retreat outside.”
Everyone retreated, those affected by the unknown influence could only partially maintain a certain degree of reason for some, following everyone to escape the room, while the remaining part turned into impulsive but retarded beasts, their bodies undergoing a certain degree of expansion and deformity.
Seeing this scene, how could Yu Lianyun not guess what exactly had happened just now, she immediately grabbed the stiff and motionless Li Duojin and ran outside the room.
The moment she grabbed the other’s hand, Yu Lianyun was startled to realize that Li Duojin’s body temperature was terribly cold, his body also very stiff, she couldn’t help but turn back for a glance, but with just one look she was scared by Li Duojin’s appearance.
Only to see Li Duojin with his mouth wide open, eyes rolled back and bulging, the entire nose neatly sliced off, blood uncontrollably surging from the wound.
Li Duojin was dying…
The sudden lust-filled riot of panic was resolved after half an hour, those who accidentally inhaled the spores released by the Inverted Creator, and whose skin accidentally absorbed the unknown black slime that organisms could quickly absorb, were carried out almost in shriveled forms, fortunately with no life-threatening worries.
The Mystic Investigators who escaped from death were immersed in fear of the unknown, probably none of them had glimpsed the appearance of the Inverted Creator, but they now all knew that the terrifying being existing in Dimensional Space had truly descended briefly.
No ritual was performed at all, that arrogant perfectionist, the Inverted Creator suddenly descended without any warning, and showed abnormal anger, going all out to destroy.
“What exactly happened?” Some Mystic Investigators who had noticed Li Duojin’s abnormal behavior before the incident now involuntarily turned their gaze to Li Duojin on one side who was receiving emergency treatment while being sent onto the ambulance, their Yu Lianyun Captain also got on the ambulance and left, the on-site command and evacuation work handed over to an A-level Mystic Investigator for disposition.
After a bout of strenuous rescue efforts, Li Duojin was finally admitted to the ICU, currently with stable vital signs, the doctor said as long as he could safely get through tonight, he could smoothly survive.
No one knew what Li Duojin experienced in those short two minutes, but those who saw his miserable state could all imagine what a hellish scene it would be.
Yu Lianyun stood outside the ICU hospital room, looked through the small glass window on the hospital room door at Li Duojin lying on the bed, sighed in her heart, then lowered her head and opened her right hand, holding a withered straw broken into two sections.
“Boss Lin’s thing?” Yu Lianyun guessed in her heart, “If it weren’t for it, perhaps he would have already died.”
While sighing, her mind recalled what happened in the ambulance just now.
Originally on the verge of death, with heartbeat stopping several times, Li Duojin actually briefly regained consciousness a few times, and said a few words to her intermittently, a few terms.
“Woman… red rose… you be careful of her.”
“House of Cards…”
“Rat! Insects… indescribable…”
“Die!”
“…”
Carefully pondering the meaning of what Li Duojin said, standing in the hospital’s cold corridor for a moment, Yu Lianyun scratched the flesh scar on her face, suddenly as if thinking of something, then turned and left.
Chen Xiaolin startled awake at three thirteen twenty-six in the midnight, feeling a splitting headache, her brain groggy, she wasn’t startled awake by a nightmare, nor disturbed by external forces, she just felt the urgent call from her subconscious, urging her to wake up, so she woke up.
The first thing after waking up was to find her mobile phone, but when she dug it out from her bag, she found that the smartphone which had been on standby for a day and a night still couldn’t withstand the mutilation of the battery, already depleted, helplessly could only quickly plug in to charge.
After the phone restarted, Chen Xiaolin was shocked to discover that during the time she was asleep, surprisingly many phone calls had come in, most of them from Li Duojin, but the two most recent calls were from Yu Lianyun.
The most recent call from Yu Lianyun had turned into a voicemail, arriving in her voice mailbox.
Chen Xiaolin felt something was wrong, thinking something big might have happened, so she hurriedly opened the voice message to listen, and upon learning that Li Duojin was seriously injured and in critical condition, admitted to the ICU, she immediately pulled out her backup mobile phone—a old-fashioned keypad phone, though an old model, its standby time far exceeded smartphones by dozens of times.
After swapping in the SIM card, she hurriedly went out again, calling Yu Lianyun while going downstairs.
Yu Lianyun’s side quickly answered the phone.
“What exactly happened during the time I wasn’t around?” Chen Xiaolin asked impatiently.
“Encountered the Dimensional Crossing Inverted Creator, He was very angry because Li Duojin got ahead and captured Wang Zijin’s soul.”
Yu Lianyun’s words stunned Chen Xiaolin instantly, that simple sentence packed with a lot of information made Chen Xiaolin think of many things.
Before Chen Xiaolin could recover from her chaotic thoughts, Yu Lianyun continued to explain the reason Li Duojin did so: “There was some key information in Wang Zijin’s memory, the Mysterious Group previously failed to interrogate the most critical information before her body gave out, Li Duojin probably also didn’t want to see more people get killed, so at the critical moment, he had to make a move, fortunately the cost was worth it.”
Hearing this, Chen Xiaolin hurriedly said: “I’ve also found some clues here.”
“Don’t rush to say it, I’m here…” Yu Lianyun was speaking when a black sedan stopped in front of Chen Xiaolin.
The car window rolled down, Yu Lianyun calmly said to Chen Xiaolin: “Get in the car.”
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