HISO Chapter 39
by VolareThe room was empty.
It was as if it had all been an illusion.
The surrounding fog grew thicker and thicker. Yu An subconsciously wanted to touch the person beside him, but he touched nothing. He was stunned for a few seconds and quickly said, “Xie Jinsheng, are you still there?”
No one responded.
The system seemed to say something.
But he didn’t hear it clearly, and his foot stepped on something, and a piece of ground gave way.
“Ah!” Yu An fell downwards rapidly.
He didn’t know how long it had been before he realized he had fallen onto a soft mat. He shook his head, feeling a little dizzy.
The system’s voice came from his ear: [Host, you’re finally awake! We fell into a secret room, look at the wall!]
Through the luminous stones in the secret room, he tried to focus his vision, and saw a map carved on the wall in front of him.
The upper part was the residential area and the church.
The underground part was the storage and combat equipment.
So this was the core area of the old city.
Then the energy orb must be stored in a warehouse somewhere.
Yu An wanted to find something to write down the map, when he smelled a floral fragrance.
He followed the scent and was stunned.
At the end of his vision, a huge statue of a goddess wearing a blue cloak appeared.
The woman sat on the altar, her eyes closed, a beauty mark under her eyes, her expression both joyful and sorrowful. She held an old-fashioned golden pocket watch in her hand.
Beneath the altar, there were dozens of iris flowers planted. He didn’t know what method was used, but they still bloomed so beautifully in this place that had been abandoned for more than ten years.
Yu An paused for a moment, his gaze moving upwards again.
For some reason, the appearance of this goddess statue felt familiar.
As if he had seen it somewhere before.
At this moment, 089 said: [Wait, Host, there seems to be something under these flowers.]
Hearing this, Yu An reached into the iris flowers. After five minutes, he found a box, with several scattered pages inside.
And a delicate and beautiful small box, engraved with countless ancient and intricate symbols.
089 quickly scanned it, but found that there was no data even in the all-encompassing system library.
Yu An picked up the paper next to him, and after reading it, he realized—
The mist outside was one of the protective measures of the old city, with the purpose of protecting… the box he was holding now.
Inside was a key.
As long as he collected three keys, he could open the underwater secret passage, awaken a god-level ability, and obtain supreme power.
Suddenly, a brainwave connected for 089: [Could it be that K6’s real purpose for this trip is for the key in this box?]
However, how could such powerful force exist here? Just looking at the description on it, one could imagine the scene of global destruction…
“It seems I have to hold on to it and not let K6 succeed.”
Otherwise, if the world is turned upside down, his mission will fail, he will be trapped in this world, and he won’t be able to go back.
He didn’t want to see such a world, and of course, he didn’t want to stay.
Thinking of this, Yu An put the box into his small satchel. 089 also quickly burned the paper materials to ashes.
After doing all this, Yu An looked at a rolled-up piece of paper. When he opened it, he found it was a handwritten map of the underground city, much more detailed than the one on the wall.
In particular, it also marked the location where the train’s energy orb was stored.
Looking at the neat handwriting, printed on the extremely old and yellowed paper, Yu An was stunned.
Which senior left this behind? So prescient, able to predict the future, knowing that a train would suffer this calamity twenty years later, and specifically noted it down.
Yu An picked up the map and rearranged the disordered irises. He put his hands together and bowed to the goddess statue, “Junior has disturbed you just now, please forgive me.”
After apologizing, he left with 089.
The luminous stone reflected the thin and frail figure of the young man as he walked away. And at this moment, the goddess statue behind him seemed to shed a tear at the corner of her eye.
Not like weeping, but like tears of joy.
Even the old-fashioned clock in her hand began to slowly turn.
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Yu An walked outside for a long time without seeing anyone else. He didn’t know what happened to Lin Si and Feng Shu.
And of course, Xie Jinsheng…
[Don’t worry, Host, he is the top villain in terms of strength across all planes, he will definitely be fine.] 089 said.
Maybe the other party is frantically looking for you now.
After all, Alphas are possessive mad dogs, not to mention that the host is so beautiful. When the tentacle monster sees that his weak Omega wife is missing, he will definitely turn the world upside down to find her.
Although 089 sometimes dislikes a certain monster, it has to admit that it feels safe to have a big boss protecting its host at this time.
It secretly extracted a bit of the host’s jasmine scent and scattered it in the air, hoping that Xie Jinsheng would find him soon!
The location of the energy orb was a bit far away.
It would probably take another ten minutes to walk there.
But gradually, Yu An felt like someone was following him, so he stopped.
He vaguely heard a bit of sobbing nearby.
Yu An gripped the small knife in his pocket and walked towards the sound—he saw a boy who looked seventeen or eighteen years old huddled in the corner, covering his face with a veil, trembling constantly as if extremely frightened.
When the other party saw him, it was as if he had seen a savior, and said, “Brother, save me, there are so many infected here.”
He was an Omega with a bell hanging on his waist. He was clearly a younger brother one or two years younger than him, but when he stood up, he was actually a little taller than him.
At least 178 centimeters tall.
[Host,] 089 knew that this sentence was inappropriate, but still couldn’t help saying, [You are even more ‘shou’ than a normal ‘shou’.]
Yu An: “…”
He had long known that he was a small, soft shou who couldn’t grow to 180, so there was no need to remind him again.
“Who are you? Are you from the old city?” Yu An did not relax his vigilance.
The boy said timidly, “Brother, I’m really not a bad person, my name is Xiao Bai. I heard that an infected wave was coming, so my father took me to flee. Who knew that when we passed by here, we encountered the infected…”
As he spoke, Xiao Bai cried again. It was obvious that he had experienced something sad. It took him a while to restrain himself:
“In short, now I’m the only one left. Can brother take me out? I’m willing to be your slave for the rest of my life.”
“…” Yu An pursed his lips before squeezing out a “no need”, and then looked at the other party’s veil.
“I’m very ugly.” Xiao Bai seemed to realize his thoughts and quickly said:
“If brother wants to see, you can. It’s just that there’s a custom in our hometown that men should abide by male virtues, and can only actively lift their veils in front of the person they love. Brother is so beautiful, if you are willing to be my wife…”
Yu An: “…”
You and I are both Omegas, so there’s no need to be like this.
“I won’t look at you,” he interrupted. “Just follow me.”
[Host,] 089 said, [Are you really letting him follow?]
“If I don’t let him follow, wouldn’t he be in the dark?”
It’s better to bring him to the front, so I can notice any movement.
Yu An let Xiao Bai walk in front.
The other party didn’t seem to realize his vigilance, and quickly thanked him, then pointed to the front and said, “By the way, brother, I heard voices over there before, there might be someone.”
As soon as he finished speaking, fighting sounds came from the front.
They passed through the aisle and saw Zhen Yuan.
The other party was knocking down a pile of low-level infected.
Finally seeing a familiar person, Yu An breathed a slight sigh of relief, but he didn’t know what he thought of, his nerves tensed again, and he didn’t move forward.
Zhen Yuan also noticed him and said, “Yu An, I finally found you. Lin Deputy Team asked me to come. They found the train’s energy orb, come, I’ll take you there now.”
“Brother, have we found the main force?!” Xiao Bai’s tone was very happy, and he took several steps forward.
Zhen Yuan led the way in front.
Yu An walked at the back, his steps very slow. As he was about to pass the lifting wall switch marked on the map manuscript, he asked calmly:
“Zhen Yuan, how are Lin Deputy Team and the others, are they injured?”
“No, after we fell into the underground city, it happened that the warehouse was nearby, and there was also a military doctor, so minor injuries were healed quickly.”
It sounded perfect.
“Okay.” Yu An paused, and then asked: “Then what about Xie Jinsheng, how is he, is he with you too?”
“Oh, him, he’s here too.”
As soon as the words fell, Yu An stopped.
Zhen Yuan felt something was wrong and wanted to make amends, when he heard the young man’s soft and slightly cold voice:
“Zhen Yuan, how do you know Xie Jinsheng is also in the team? Do you really think I’m easy to fool?”