Chapter 127: The Possibility Of Not Being Dead
Yu Lianyun drove toward the destination, filtering through in her mind the conversation she just had with Drake and Li Nuowei, feeling that something was somewhat unreasonable.
That young man named Li Nuowei, she had already investigated him; he was a local resident of Liuhua Port, his parents were originally migrants who settled in Liuhua Port thirty years ago, and the couple took nearly ten years from meeting to falling in love, getting married, and having children; now Li Nuowei was a student at Liuhua Port Comprehensive University.
This student’s twenty years of life could be described as mundane, and he himself had no experience of contact with anomaly events, but such a young man actually waded into troubled waters without any warning, and in his words he was not unfamiliar with anomaly, and even occasionally revealed some knowledge she had never heard of.
So where did his cognition of these anomalies come from?
“Could he be the same as me?” Yu Lianyun thought; as someone who had experienced a fusion with an ancient person’s “soul,” she was not entirely unfamiliar with suddenly gaining knowledge she had never been exposed to.
Therefore, Yu Lianyun thought that Li Nuowei might have acquired this knowledge through a similar channel.
Besides Li Nuowei, Drake was also an unexpected role for Yu Lianyun.
For Drake, this dispatched support personnel, Yu Lianyun actually had no great expectations for him at the beginning.
This was not because Yu Lianyun looked down on others too much or thought too highly of herself, but since the establishment of the folk investigation bureau, the dispatched investigators from outside really had business capability that needed improvement. She had seen too many pretenders who got into the profession just because it seemed novel; when those people encountered anomalies that could distort human cognition, those unprepared investigators almost always made fools of themselves, and making fools of themselves was actually still good, at least better than dying directly.
Therefore, all Yu Lianyun could do was have Drake handle some marginal tasks, stay away from danger, and start contacting anomalies from the edges, which could also help them grow somewhat.
But she didn’t expect Drake to be involved so deeply with this anomaly event, so deeply that his blood ties could be traced back to the mastermind behind this Liuhua Port mysterious disappearance case.
Although Yu Lianyun also felt quite sympathetic toward Drake’s encounter, at this moment she valued Drake’s mutation more.
Mermaid Disease was not just a simple physiological mutation; after the mutation ended, the transformed person’s soul and thoughts would also seem deformed, possibly no longer being the same person at all, and Drake might thereby transform from a human into a merman who only obeyed the Sea God of Anhai’s commands.
Although both Drake and Li Nuowei said that there might be something hidden in the air-raid shelter beneath the tunnel near Cape of the Horizon that could “cure” Mermaid Disease, she remained skeptical about it.
If that thing did not exist, or if it existed but did not have such strong efficacy, then Drake might ultimately still become the “Son of God” in the Anhai Divine Society prophecy, and he would become a key link in that mad doomsday prophecy.
Yu Lianyun could not watch disaster descend helplessly, and the method she thought of to prevent the birth of doomsday was also very simple.
No matter whether the prophecy was true or false, once Drake completed the transformation, he would be a harmful merman to humans, and she had to prepare to execute him by firing squad at any time.
Killing the Son of God would halt the prophecy; killing the transformed merman could reduce the harm merpeople posed to human society.
In either case, killing Drake was indeed the most reliable choice.
But Yu Lianyun was not such a barbaric and crude person; she at least had to confirm whether Drake could truly recover to his original state through the Green Light Gemstone; if he could, that would be best, and she did not want to be a murderer’s executioner.
When Yu Lianyun arrived near the tunnel, she got out of the car and looked puzzled at the several cars casually parked on the roadside; she was wondering who else besides herself and those two—Drake and Li Nuowei—would come here at this time; she went to the tunnel entrance and soon noticed the drips falling into the tunnel: besides a large amount of water stains, there was also viscous unknown creature bodily fluid.
Yu Lianyun put on gloves and touched it; even through the gloves, she could feel the creature’s temperature; she held it to her nose and sniffed lightly, and the fishy smell and the sea’s scent rushed into her nose.
“Merman?” Yu Lianyun’s expression turned grave; this meant that besides Li Nuowei and Drake, there were other creatures—most likely a group of merpeople—who had followed Li Nuowei and Drake into the air-raid shelter.
“How to get in again? Right, pray to the dead and ‘entrust’ oneself out?” Yu Lianyun thought.
Then, Yu Lianyun clasped her hands together and began to chant the name “Li Yingqi” in her mind.
If asked who was the best guide on her mystic investigator path, it was undoubtedly Li Yingqi; whether as her colleague, friend, or teacher, Li Yingqi was the best; after Li Yingqi died on the Night of Collapse, she had been emotionally low for a long time because of it.
“Yingqi, I’m here to see you.” Yu Lianyun closed her eyes and murmured for a while, then opened them, then couldn’t help pouting and muttered speechlessly to herself, “Was I tricked? I’m still in the same place, aren’t I?”
But immediately after, Yu Lianyun thought of another possibility: “If praying to the dead and entrusting oneself out can get one into the air-raid shelter, then if this is true but I didn’t succeed, does that mean some step went wrong?”
“Did Li Yingqi not die?” Yu Lianyun couldn’t help thinking.
But she was curious: if Li Yingqi had not truly died, where could she have gone?
Yu Lianyun thought of the forest cabin; after all, after Wei Jiang died, with nowhere to go, he also came to Boss Lin’s small shop to do odd jobs.
But soon Yu Lianyun denied her own idea that Li Yingqi went to the forest cabin after death, because if Li Yingqi was really alive in another way like him, Wei Jiang should not still feel briefly melancholic about it.
However, Yu Lianyun thereby developed some conjecture that Li Yingqi might still be alive.
Yu Lianyun then tried praying to her deceased father, entrusting herself out.
Uh—
Just as this thought arose in Yu Lianyun’s mind, amid flashes of lightning and thunder, in the tunnel illuminated by lightning, the shadow at Yu Lianyun’s feet showed strange fluctuations, and then a middle-aged and elderly person crawled out from the fluctuating shadow, rasping lowly at Yu Lianyun.
Hearing this, Yu Lianyun looked at him helplessly, “I didn’t call you; I called my real father.”
The Blessing Incarnation that had taken her father’s appearance seemed not to understand her words, letting out a “hehehe” silly laugh and even reaching out to touch her hair.
Yu Lianyun sighed, but in the blink of an eye, spacetime changed; she suddenly felt the ground give way under her feet, her body unsteady, and she almost fell into the darkness before her.
Yu Lianyun barely steadied herself and then realized she was no longer in the tunnel; before her was only a dark underground staircase; she had finally successfully arrived at the air-raid shelter.
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