Chapter 20: Dimensional Deity
Wei Jiang noticed the obvious expression change on Yu Lianyun’s face and immediately realized the female corpse had started moving again. He stood up alertly, issued an alarm with the others, and quickly asked Yu Lianyun, “What’s your situation right now? Can you control it?”
“It hurts so much. My body wants to get off the bed.” Yu Lianyun said through gritted teeth. She felt her whole body straining, but her injured body couldn’t exert force, let alone break through the mummy-like full-body plaster cast, so her body was just writhing inside the plaster.
Soon, He Jia’an and Li Yingqi both received the message and rushed to the scene. Seeing Yu Lianyun’s face turning ferocious from the pain, their expressions also changed drastically.
A member of the Mysterious Group dressed in black clothes then ran into the hospital room and reported to He Jia’an and the others, “The corpse has shown new changes. That flower growing in the corpse’s mouth seems to be rapidly growing using the female corpse’s body as nutrients. The female corpse is rapidly decaying.”
Hearing this, He Jia’an was suddenly startled. He said in a deep voice to Li Yingqi and Wei Jiang, “I’ll go take a look. You two stay here and protect Xiao Yu’s safety.”
Li Yingqi and Wei Jiang both nodded seriously. They knew there was no room for discussion in a situation like this.
Immediately after, He Jia’an ran out the door with the member who had come to report the message, heading straight to the shelter upstairs.
Li Yingqi turned back, looking at Yu Lianyun who was trapped in extreme pain with her consciousness gradually becoming sluggish and blurred, and said sincerely, “Don’t worry. No matter what happens next, we’ll stand by your side.”
Yu Lianyun barely heard Li Yingqi’s words and only managed a ugly smile after a long time. The pain in her limbs felt like they were about to break again, truly twisting in agony.
Uh————
In her hazy consciousness, Yu Lianyun heard a low roar from nearby fading into the distance. She vaguely saw two black shadows suddenly leap from beside her and instantly bound out the door.
They were the two Blessing Incarnations that had transformed into Yao Zhenzhen and Father! Yu Lianyun was shocked for a moment, but before she could think much, her consciousness fell into complete chaos.
At the moment she lost consciousness, Yu Lianyun’s body suddenly moved on its own. An unknown force lifted the Yu Lianyun with broken bones in her limbs back to her feet.
Li Yingqi and Wei Jiang looked horrified. The two acted in perfect sync without a word and immediately pressed Yu Lianyun back onto the hospital bed. However, they both clearly felt an anomalously huge force erupting from Yu Lianyun’s body. Even working together, they couldn’t hold down a patient with severe limb injuries!?
Hearing the commotion in the hospital room, the guards outside rushed in immediately. Seeing the situation, they joined Wei Jiang and Li Yingqi in suppressing her.
“Whoa, where’s this girl getting this strength from? It’s way too much!?”
“Damn, the plaster cast is about to be burst from inside by her.”
Li Yingqi never expected that now it would take four people working together to barely suppress the out-of-control Yu Lianyun. She gritted her teeth and shouted, “No matter what, we have to control her right now!”
When He Jia’an rushed into the shelter, the lights on the entire floor turned dark red. The power system on the whole floor was almost paralyzed. The air was filled with a chill, with the bloody smell entangled in the air, making every breath feel like blood qi surging through the respiratory tract.
In the corridor ahead, more than a dozen Mystic Investigators had died in horrific states. Most of their bodies were no longer recognizable as human. Distinct spiky flower buds densely grew on the flesh and blood, waiting to bloom. Vines and roots wrapped around the corpses, some hanging from the ceiling, some coiled on the ground.
“Hold your breath quick!” He Jia’an’s pupils contracted. He quickly covered his mouth and nose, clenched his fist, and smashed the storage box of emergency disinfection masks on the nearby wall, taking out several masks and handing one to the young Mystic Investigator beside him.
“How… how could this happen? It’s only been a few minutes…” The Mystic Investigator with He Jia’an couldn’t believe it. He hurriedly put on the mask and saw a few familiar faces on the ground, his eyes filling with sadness.
“Kid, stay calm.” He Jia’an patted the other’s back and asked, “What’s your name?”
The young Mystic Investigator adjusted his breathing and replied, “Report to Captain He, I am a Rank C Mystic Investigator agent, Bu Gaojun.”
“I am He Jia’an, Rank A Mystic Investigator, Tiger Squad Captain.” He Jia’an looked at the other through the mask and said seriously, “I am unilaterally confirming that the situation has escalated to Earth-level affairs. I need your assistance. I’m temporarily appointing you as my temporary teammate and assistant. Can you accept?”
“I can!” Bu Gaojun nodded, excited amid his panic.
Tiger Squad Captain He Jia’an, known as the Vulture, had resolved dozens of Mysterious-level Anomalies since joining the Mysterious Group, experienced more than five Earth-level Anomalies, and even escaped intact from a Heaven-level Anomaly. He was a legend in every newcomer’s mind in the Mysterious Group.
Being able to work with He Jia’an felt like a glory worth dying for to Bu Gaojun.
Although personal adoration was discouraged, in this organization where work was tied to life and death, often facing dangerous anomaly affairs, a certain level of adoration and faith could unexpectedly shine in crises and desperate situations.
So, in the Mysterious Group organization, as long as you didn’t worship some strange deities or overly absurd figures, everyone would maintain an attitude of acquiescence and respect.
And if the worship and faith were for people within the organization, it was even less of a bad thing. The organization might even secretly promote and publicize it.
“Let’s go. I’ll take the front, you cover the rear.” He Jia’an stopped talking nonsense and led Bu Gaojun into this “primitive jungle” woven from flesh and blood and modern steel.
The further they went, the more corpses they saw, all in horrific states of death. Yet the red Lycoris radiata growing on their lives were vividly beautiful.
Those were stolen brilliance, from one vibrant, brilliant life after another.
Along the way, He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun tried to contact any survivors on this floor and the main force at headquarters, but they found the signal here wouldn’t go out. They also found no signs of any living life along the way.
“Hm?” Just as He Jia’an was about to give up hope of any survivors, he suddenly discovered a Mystic Investigator who barely retained human shape leaning against the wall in a corner of the corridor, barely surviving.
Seeing this, He Jia’an immediately ran forward and stopped three steps away from him. “Hey, brother! You okay?”
It was a man in his thirties, wearing a white coat, looking like a research department member. At this moment, his chest was exposed, with a Lycoris radiata deeply rooted in his heart blooming gorgeously. The work ID on his chest clothes read the man’s name “Cai Yong”.
Hearing He Jia’an’s voice, Cai Yong woke faintly. Seeing two living people, his first words were, “Run… run fast…”
“What exactly happened?” He Jia’an tried to remove the flower on the other’s chest but found that just touching it made Cai Yong writhe in pain. He then realized the Lycoris radiata had fused with the other’s heart as one.
In other words, he was beyond saving.
Cai Yong’s face was full of pain. He said weakly, “This time, what came from the dimensional… was not the Three-handed Ice Giant we knew, but… but… an unknown deity… anomaly of anomalies, weirdness of weirdness…”
After saying this, the light in Cai Yong’s eyes slowly faded. He spat out a mouthful of heart blood and stopped breathing completely. Immediately after, his corpse’s skin surface surged with dense granular objects flowing. Red flesh buds then burst through the skin one by one.
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