Chapter 226
Ji Jinning felt as if she had been thrown hard.
The sudden pain, accompanied by the numbness and stiffness from the impact, came in an instant, and she subconsciously opened her eyes.
Dark.
Very dark.
As far as the eye could see, this was a rather cold and damp place. Only a small window at the top reflected a small patch of light from the outside, but it was still so dark that she couldn’t see anything clearly.
The sound of footsteps that followed was heavy and messy. There was more than one person, and they were very rough. Ji Jinning watched as the person who was close to her grabbed her hands and tied them, and then pulled her up.
The pain and discomfort of being pulled made her slightly dazed consciousness a little clearer, but she would rather not be awake, because it was really painful.
“Who is it?”
“Where is this? You guys… ahhhhhh…”
Before she could speak, the next moment, a stream of water as thick as a wrist suddenly sprayed, washing her body. The huge impact washed over her body.
Pain, cold. Every bit of heat from her body was mercilessly taken away by it. Her already weak and powerless body was soon frozen blue and trembling.
The good thing was that Ji Jinning was finally, completely awake.
In the small space, knowing that they would not let her go, she no longer cried out. Her eyes were wide open, and she stared at the two people in front of her.
Two Alphas, probably in their thirties or forties, their faces were expressionless, their expressions dull, and they gave off the feeling of being puppets. This made Ji Jinning’s heart sink.
Are they being controlled?
But Ji Jinning could no longer think so much. What she saw was a blurry image. She didn’t know how long had passed, but they had finally stopped washing her.
The sudden disappearance of the huge force made Ji Jinning take a few seconds to come to her senses. At the same time, her tense spirit also relaxed, and then her entire body immediately collapsed.
Her hands were bound by a rope, and her entire body was being pulled. Ji Jinning was in great pain, and she couldn’t even move her body. She was soaking wet, and a chill came over her, making her shiver.
The two male Alphas quickly moved her to another place and then turned and left without a word. Looking at their backs, even though Ji Jinning also knew they couldn’t possibly answer her, and perhaps couldn’t even answer her at all, she still couldn’t help but open her mouth.
“Where is this? Where’s my mother?”
“Hey! Who are you? What do you want by bringing me here? Where’s my mother?!”
But the two male Alphas, as expected, did not answer her and quickly disappeared from sight.
Bang!
The iron door slowly closed on its own, making a muffled sound.
Having just been drenched in cold water, and not yet having recovered from that bone-chilling feeling, Ji Jinning closed her eyes and tried to calm the burning sensation caused by her rapid breathing.
It wasn’t until it had gradually subsided with the passage of time that she had the energy to loosen the somewhat loosened rope and look around.
To say it was a room, in reality, Ji Jinning felt it was more like a closed cell. The lights were not on, so it was unusually dark. Only a window high on the wall would occasionally flash with a bit of light. She used the occasional passing light to carefully observe this place. It was a single room, rectangular, with only two beds, one on the left and one on the right.
Her side was empty, but on the other bed was a… person?
It was too dark, and her body was in great discomfort. Her vision was blurry, and Ji Jinning couldn’t see very clearly, but she could still tell that the person was a woman. After all, a woman’s curvy figure was something a man couldn’t compare with. As for her second gender, she didn’t know.
What is this place?
And what’s with this person? To be so indifferent.
Although she really wanted to complain, she really didn’t have the mood or the energy. Ji Jinning struggled to get up and asked her, “Can you tell me where this is?”
“Were you also captured? What are they going to do by bringing us here?”
There were many questions she wanted to ask, but before she could ask much more, the woman on the opposite bed, her voice tinged with impatience and hoarseness, said, “You have a lot of questions.”
She tsked. “You’re so noisy, cough… cough cough!”
Before her voice had even fallen, a series of coughs followed. The sharp, increasingly intense cough, as if she were about to cough out her lungs.
“Are you okay?”
But what answered Ji Jinning was still a series of coughs, and then the person in the darkness turned over and no longer paid her any attention.
Ji Jinning opened her mouth, and in the end, looking at the person’s back, which was still trembling from the cough, she didn’t say any more.
This person, her health isn’t very good, is it?
She wasn’t sleepy. After all, she was missing, and she didn’t know where her mother was. Were they also captured? It would be strange if she could fall asleep.
But her body seemed to be working against her. She was too tired. In the dark environment, with the occasional cough, she slowly fell asleep.
By the time Song Xun had rushed to Menjing City, it had already been more than a dozen hours. The helicopter had been flying at full speed. There was no other way. The distance was there, and this was already quite fast.
Just as they were about to arrive overhead, and without waiting for the helicopter to land, Song Xun opened the cabin door, and with lightning flashing under her feet, she propped up her body and, as if with a pair of lightning wings, she rushed down towards the dark ruins.
“Song Xun, wait for us…”
Ai Fei couldn’t fly, and Xia Jin didn’t want to deal with her. With her fingertips together, she shot out a word-spirit wing and, with a flap, she also leaped down, chasing after Song Xun from a distance.
“Hey, no! Don’t leave me! I can’t fly!”
Ai Fei held out her hand, her face full of frustration. But there was nothing she could do. She could only hold onto the cabin door and watch as the two figures, one after another, quickly disappeared from sight.
Ho ho!
Ho! Ho ho—
Before she had even gotten close to the ruins of Menjing City, she could smell the foul, rotten smell coming from below, accompanied by a sharp, chaotic howl.
Seven or eight Corpse Slayers rushed at her from all directions, and there were even more behind them. But Song Xun’s face didn’t change. The lightning around her erupted, crackling, and with a single strike, it blew the few pouncing Corpse Slayers to smithereens.
She landed lightly on the ground, and Xia Jin, who was behind her, had just gotten close when Song Xun had already looked up and called out, “Wronged, I have something to talk to you about. Come out and see me.”
“Wronged, I have something urgent to talk to you about.”
While Song Xun was sending out a barrage of lightning to blow up the pouncing Corpse Slayers, she was also shouting at the top of her lungs, not at a person, but at a skeleton.
After about three or four minutes, a slightly rough and hoarse voice came from the dark ruins of the eternal night. And Song Xun could even hear a certain helplessness in that voice.
But she couldn’t be bothered.
The next moment, the constantly howling and pouncing Corpse Slayers, as if they had been suppressed by something, all stopped and no longer attacked.
Song Xun knew Wronged had agreed.
Xia Jin had just landed on the ground, having dispersed her word-spirit wings. She stood behind Song Xun and looked at the corpse swarm, which was eager to move and howling, but was being held back by something and was unwilling to pounce.
For a moment, she couldn’t help but be filled with emotion.
She had never expected that in such a short time, she would be back here again.
But before she could finish her sigh, looking at Song Xun’s hurried figure, she also quickly chased after her.
This time, she was going to see Wronged. If she went back and told Ye Bai, he would probably be so envious he would die.
The underground space of the experimental center.
“You have the remnants of Yan’s aura on you. Did you run into it?”
Yan?!
Song Xun was taken aback for a moment. She had never expected that the first sentence of their reunion would be this.
But she didn’t care. Although she had a faint guess in her heart, “I came this time to ask you about something.”
In the strange darkness of the green glow, on the high, bony throne, the still-skeletal figure of Wronged looked down. “Ask? What do you want to ask?”
A wave of light flowed over the strange and terrifying skeleton. A thin layer of liquid, like skin, wrapped around the dry, huge skeleton. A green glow flickered in its eye sockets, and its mouth opened and closed. That scene, if it weren’t for the fact that Xia Jin was mentally prepared, was exceptionally creepy.
Is this Wronged?
Xia Jin didn’t speak. Anyway, she had come with Song Xun. If she didn’t speak, Wronged wouldn’t care either, just said, “What do you want to ask me?”
“Among the Evolved you know, is there one with the ability to possess, mimic, transform, or mentally manipulate?”
Wronged was slightly taken aback and asked back, “Why do you ask this?”
Although he didn’t answer directly at first, this undoubtedly showed that the answer was yes.
And he knew.
“My wife and child are missing.”
Song Xun said simply, and she didn’t answer in too much detail, just said, “If you know, then tell me.”
Hearing her, Xia Jin turned to look at Song Xun in surprise. She was surprised by her description. Did she not suspect He Qing at all?
Wronged didn’t speak.
Song Xun stood in the darkness below and looked up at it, a few strands of lightning flashing in her eyes.
After a moment of silence, Wronged seemed to have moved, and the skeleton made a cracking sound. He asked, “Why should I tell you?”
“You are human, and I am a reincarnated Evolved. We are not on the same side, are we?”
The atmosphere suddenly became serious and heavy.
Xia Jin’s lowered hand subconsciously clenched, and she became alert. But Song Xun…
“Because of your deal.”
“A deal?”
Wronged suddenly began to laugh, his dry voice sharp and piercing. “Your wife and child have been captured. Among the two of them, there must be a high-level healing ability user, right?”
“Yes.”
After a moment of silence, Song Xun nodded.
It was indeed for Ji Tang’s ultimate healing technique. But since it was for the ultimate healing technique, it also meant that this Evolved also had a problem.
“Then why bother with a deal?”
Wronged said, “I can wait until Chaos has prepared everything and then go and make a deal with it.”
Is it called, Chaos?!
Song Xun narrowed her eyes. There was no expression on Wronged’s skeletal face, and she couldn’t understand anything. She didn’t know if what he had said was deliberate.
But, what did “everything prepared” mean?
In the end, she was impatient. She took a deep breath. “Perhaps you’re right. But it seems you’re not very willing to help with this.”
Crackling!
A sudden burst of lightning, like a silver snake dancing wildly, a thick bolt of lightning cut through the darkness, as if it were about to split this underground space in two.
The thunder roared, deafening.
“Then there’s no other way. I’ll have to beat it out of you—”
