Chapter 69: Escape
Zhang Xiaoxiao was walking to the meeting place mentioned by Huang Cheng. Since it was not far from the Law Enforcement Security Bureau, she did not consider taking a vehicle.
But when Zhang Xiaoxiao turned into a street with rarely passing people, a silver van parked on the roadside suddenly opened its car door, instantly pulling the completely defenseless her into the car. During this time, she did not even have time to make a sound, only revealing a pair of terrified and helpless eyes as she was forcibly dragged into the car, then watching the car door of hope being slammed shut.
The still shaken Zhang Xiaoxiao shed tears and screamed, but her mouth was tightly covered by a large hand, so she could not make any strong sounds.
“Zhang Xiaoxiao, don’t shout, it’s me.” Just as Zhang Xiaoxiao was in despair, the familiar voice from above made Zhang Xiaoxiao freeze in place. She opened her teary eyes and saw a familiar face.
Seeing Zhang Xiaoxiao calm down, Huang Cheng finally released the hand covering her mouth and let go of the restraint on her.
“Captain Huang Cheng?” Zhang Xiaoxiao turned around, looking at Huang Cheng in astonishment, then glanced at the young man driving, who was the law enforcement officer who had interrogated her before and also Huang Cheng’s apprentice.
“Very sorry, Miss Zhang, we had no choice but to resort to this.” Huang Cheng’s tone was full of sincere apology as he said, “The situation forced it, I had to take a cautious attitude.”
He said this, but felt his words were so pale and powerless, probably hard to convince her.
However, Zhang Xiaoxiao was silent for a moment, then nodded: “I understand you, because this city may hide many people who are uncertain whether they are enemies.”
Hearing this, Huang Cheng was slightly stunned and said: “It seems you really found out quite a bit, tell us what you know.”
Zhang Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, nodded, and recounted the message she obtained from Fish Transformation Miscellaneous Notes: “The organization to which that female killer in black who jumped onto the tracks and committed suicide belonged evolved from villagers in a fishing village in Cuizhu City hundreds of years ago. They collectively believed in a terrifying anomaly called the Gluttonous Daughter.”
“A long time ago?” Huang Cheng blinked, suddenly realizing, “No wonder it could develop to such a large scale today. Hundreds of years ago, even without considering developing believers, just the population reproduced by that fishing village itself could reach a huge number.”
“Focus suspicion on local people in Cuizhu City, and outsiders whose ancestors were from Cuizhu City.” Zhang Xiaoxiao stated her view.
Huang Cheng then shared his discovery: “Your discovery answers one of my doubts. Xiao Zhang and I also slowly noticed some eerie oddities after the capture operation failed and we killed the driver of the last train at that time.
That driver indeed belonged to some abnormal organization. He and the organization behind him jointly worshiped an unknown anomaly, and the reason we determined that anomaly was definitely not imaginary was that when we captured the driver, we personally saw him gnawing raw the flesh and blood tissue of some unknown being placed on the altar.
After eating it, the driver’s appearance rapidly deformed. His body parts became swollen and twisted, with layers of muscle tissue making the driver immensely strong. He almost ignored pain, was abnormally berserk, and we nearly died at that driver’s hands. Fortunately, we finally found an opportunity to kill him.
Do you remember those men in black who interrogated you? They are the Mysterious Group from folk legends, they do exist, specializing in handling such eerie cases. After that near-death escape, we all knew we shouldn’t get involved in this case that would sooner or later cost us our lives, so we handed over the driver’s home and corpse to the Mysterious Group for handling.
In that battle, Xiao Zhang and I both sustained some injuries, and we applied for injury leave to our superior, which was indeed instantly approved just as those Mysterious Group people said.
We originally thought we could rest easy for a while, but almost just a few days after the vacation started, we both felt unexplained attention appearing around us, as if pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness were peeping at us.
Until Xiao Zhang and I teamed up tacitly and successfully caught a watcher, we then learned part of the reason for things from that watcher’s mouth.
It turned out that a mysterious organization called Evolution Paradise had always been hiding in Cuizhu City. They were conducting their organization’s annual Ritual of Wishing. To complete the ritual, on the day before the ritual, they would have the executioner and driver team up to forcibly take the lives of an entire train to obtain fresh bodies.
Their organization’s scale was abnormally huge. We had just caught one watcher and had no time to inquire more before feeling enormous pressure from all directions. The number of people watching us increased, and their watching methods became more and more aggressive.
From initially secretly watching to later openly observing in broad daylight, this was something Xiao Zhang and I absolutely could not accept. Moreover, we couldn’t tolerate those gazes like blade edges hidden in the darkness, fearing that one day they would suddenly appear before us and silently make us die in a man-made ‘accident’.
I don’t know if they were worried that we discovered something we shouldn’t from that driver, but people from that organization kept staring at us relentlessly, even after we fought back, and their methods became more and more terrifying, starting with deliberately breaking into our homes, then killing our pets, and placing some obviously ominous objects in our homes.
Therefore, we had to choose to hide, striving to find an opportunity for counterattack. If we couldn’t eliminate them, we were doomed to live in constant anxiety, which is also why we made the meeting so mysterious.”
Zhang Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and said: “We have to go find the Mysterious Group people to help us.”
“They are doing what they should be doing, unfortunately they can’t provide us with much help.” Hearing Zhang Xiaoxiao’s words, Huang Cheng shook his head, “We can only wait for the Mysterious Group members to return from their mission, then ask them to help us handle it.”
Zhang Xiaoxiao: “How long until then?”
Huang Cheng said: “I’m not sure, but I know the danger they face will be tens of thousands of times more perilous than ours, that is the anomaly worshiped by Evolution Paradise, and that anomaly should now be underground in Cuizhu City, in that hidden tunnel.”
“Then what should we do now?” Zhang Xiaoxiao asked.
“Escape, keep escaping, and firmly believe in hope.” Huang Cheng said honestly, “After you borrowed the mobile phone from Qin Hai, I bet he will catch up. He is someone I have determined has a high probability of being from that organization.”
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