Chapter 21: Plan To Burn The Building
Watching Cai Yong’s corpse turn into a horrifying yet magnificent sea of flesh and flowers, He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun both felt a surge of heroic sadness.
This is the belonging of Mystic Investigators—unnatural death. Dying with an intact corpse is the greatest fortune; most of the time, it’s like Cai Yong and all these corpses on the ground, no longer humanoid.
He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun did not linger in sadness for too long. The first lesson for Mystic Investigators is to control emotion. Their opponents are often devoid of humanity, and fighting such opponents is absolutely unfair, so they either become madmen or rational madmen. The choice is obvious.
“Captain He, what exactly is the deity he mentioned?” Bu Gaojun clenched his fist; even as he gripped it so tightly that his finger bones creaked, he still felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
He Jia’an pondered for a moment and said, “This world, this universe—all life may not necessarily possess human emotions, but they absolutely have desires similar to humans. Where there are desires, there is faith. Or rather, without faith, life has no power to continue living. Even human atheists have their own faith; it’s just not in so-called deities. In reality, we’ve discovered that the deities worshipped by different races in this universe are mostly higher lifeforms with abilities beyond normal reason.
Therefore, it’s not hard to judge that the dimensional life behind the female corpse—the extradimensional creature race currently named Three-handed Ice Giant—should be worshipping some higher lifeform. Think carefully: they’ve continuously failed to invade this world, so who can they send next? Read any internet novels? Beat the small ones, and the big one comes. That’s the reason.
Also, don’t try to deeply analyze other races; just skim the surface. Trust me, no race can fully understand another race, not even anomaly creatures with higher wisdom can fully understand human behavior patterns. Think too much, and you’ll go mad.”
“So, the big one is coming?” Bu Gaojun’s mind shook.
He Jia’an glanced at him. “It’s already here. Think carefully: from last night when the female corpse’s manner of invading humans changed, our opponent has already changed. That’s why Yu Lianyun’s blessing released into this world has lost its effect—because the role now invading Earth is an existence even more powerful than the Three-handed Ice Giant.”
Bu Gaojun drew in a sharp breath and hurriedly inquired, “Then what should we do?”
He actually wanted to say that this shouldn’t be something they could handle.
He Jia’an saw through Bu Gaojun’s thoughts but did not despise him. On the contrary, recognizing the situation at this time showed that he possessed the qualities of an excellent Mystic Investigator.
“Originally, I planned to directly activate the mechanism and transfer the female corpse’s containment room to the isolation transport pod. That way, we might greatly reduce the female corpse’s influence. But now, it seems the female corpse’s room has already been opened; we may not get our wish.” He Jia’an analyzed. “So I think, let’s just burn this floor entirely.”
Bu Gaojun nodded in understanding, but then realized something was off with the other’s words. He looked at He Jia’an in horror and stammered, “Burn… burn it?”
“Yes, burn it.” He Jia’an nodded affirmatively. At his age, he had reached Class A Mystic Investigator, naturally versed in the way of survival.
After speaking, He Jia’an paused slightly and supplemented, “But before that, let’s first check if there are any survivors. If there are, take them out as much as possible.”
“Yes.” Bu Gaojun responded solemnly.
Just as the two were preparing to continue the search and rescue operation, they suddenly felt two gusts of eerie wind pass behind them one after another, both involuntarily shivering a few times.
“What is that thing?!” Bu Gaojun turned back abruptly, only to find nothing behind him.
He Jia’an frowned. Although he also felt a chill down his spine, he could clearly sense that this cold was completely different from the icy chill emanating from the anomaly behind the female corpse. The former came from the bottom of the heart, from inside out; the latter pierced from outside in, into the soul.
“Could it be the power of the blessing?” He Jia’an found a familiar sensation in that gust of eerie wind, feeling some shock and doubt in his heart.
Shouldn’t the blessing have already been distributed worldwide? Why could it still exert this power? And why had it suddenly appeared now?
He Jia’an immediately thought of Yu Lianyun lying on the hospital bed downstairs. He guessed that this matter was definitely related to Yu Lianyun.
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Yu Lianyun was still struggling madly, while the four Mystic Investigators suppressing her had already exhausted all their strength.
“How much longer do we have to hold her down?” Wei Jiang, this robust adult male, was starting to feel unable to bear it. He had never imagined holding down a younger sister for over ten minutes—especially one covered in plaster cast—would be more tiring than a full afternoon at the gym.
Li Yingqi gritted her teeth and said, “Don’t talk; I feel like I’m about to run out of gas.”
Wei Jiang and the other males immediately shut their complaining mouths and focused on pinning down the younger sister.
Just as the four were in a stalemate with the out-of-control Yu Lianyun, the sound of rapid footsteps accompanied by heavy gasps grew closer and closer.
“Captain He is back?” Someone guessed, immediately showing a delighted expression.
“No! It’s not Captain He!” Wei Jiang suddenly sensed something, his facial expression changing drastically. He abruptly released his hands restraining Yu Lianyun, rushed a few steps to the hospital room door, quickly closed the hospital room door, and locked it from the inside.
Losing Wei Jiang’s power suppression, Li Yingqi and the others could no longer hold down Yu Lianyun. Yu Lianyun let out a strange cry from her mouth, flinging off the three people on top of her. The plaster cast on her body immediately shattered, returning to a state where Yu Lianyun’s limbs could move.
Seeing this, Wei Jiang felt caught between two sides and jumped back, locking Yu Lianyun’s arms and nape tightly from behind.
The few flung away also mustered their strength and crawled back. The four once again joined forces to lock Yu Lianyun in place.
At the same time, the rapid footsteps stopped outside the hospital room, accompanied by a biting cold chill that surged in massively from the door crack below.
Crack crack crack—
Frost appeared on the door lock and door handle, drilling out from the keyhole and gradually spreading across the entire hospital room door.
Seeing this eerie scene, the Mystic Investigator who had just judged it was He Jia’an returning immediately shut up. This absolutely could not be He Jia’an returning; He Jia’an did not have this freezing ability.
Bang bang bang!
When the entire hospital room door was completely frozen, suddenly three fist prints struck the door one after another. The entire specially made door deformed, then the fist prints on the door disappeared, replaced by several ice spikes that directly pierced through the fist prints into the hospital room.
Followed by another crisp sound, those ice spikes suddenly shattered and disintegrated, leaving only several large holes in the door leaf. Through the large holes in the door, everyone saw a male wearing law enforcement officer clothes standing outside. His face was not visible, but his clothes and build were clearly discernible.
Li Yingqi was tightly holding one of Yu Lianyun’s feet. Due to the upward angle, she inadvertently glimpsed the law enforcement officer’s number and name hanging on the law enforcement officer’s chest.
“Jiunian 03111528, Chen Jinshan.” Li Yingqi’s facial expression changed. “He’s the captain of Jiunian City’s third law enforcement team. How did he find this place? No, he’s already contacted the corpse long ago; his body has completed modification. He’s been possessed for a long time! He’s always performed normally… Could all this be his disguise?”
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