HISO Chapter 44
by VolareSeeing Xie Jinsheng like this, Bai Ning suddenly understood something.
While observing Xie Jinsheng’s expression, he manipulated the wooden vines, trying to find the tentacled monster’s weakness as a breakthrough to escape and survive.
“Shocked, aren’t you? Then I’ll tell you another secret,” Bai Ning pondered, touching his face and smiling, “Actually, you also have a dead wife, who looks exactly like me.”
Of course, this sentence was fabricated to deceive him.
When he said it, he didn’t dare to miss any of Xie Jinsheng’s expressions, for fear of attracting murderous intent.
Who knew that after the Alpha heard this, the surrounding tentacles still didn’t surge up.
Could it be that he really guessed right?
Did this monster really have a dead wife?
Bai Ning wanted to think more carefully, but the critical situation didn’t allow it. He patiently coaxed, “As long as you withdraw your attack now, I will take you to find your dead wife, how about it?”
As soon as the words fell, a coldness like thin ice appeared in the handsome Alpha’s dark eyes.
The next second, Bai Ning’s shoulder was stabbed straight through by the scimitar.
At that moment, his expression was shocked. He didn’t expect the sharpness of this attack to be able to penetrate even countless wooden vines.
“I don’t have a dead wife,” the sandalwood pressure in the air was extremely strong, and Xie Jinsheng corrected him almost word by word, “My wife is still alive.”
Therefore, he didn’t allow anyone to say such unlucky words to Yu An.
In just a short moment, all the rattan was cut through by the ice blades.
Bai Ning tried his best to resist when he came back to his senses, but he also understood that Xie Jinsheng was already angry. He seemed unable to hear that kind of words, and his attacks were fatal.
If this continues, he will die!
Although as a replica, he has no heart, no emotions, and is not afraid of pain, he cherishes his life very much.
Bai Ning had noticed this place a long time ago, there was a self-destruct device.
You know, tentacled monsters will hibernate in excessively cold temperatures.
Thinking of this, he unhesitatingly manipulated his abilities, completely activating the device. In a scene of earth-shattering shaking, he took the opportunity to use all the power of the wooden vines to hold Xie Jinsheng back.
Bai Ning picked up the veil and fled towards an exit, turning back and saying, “Your wife is very beautiful, but he doesn’t seem to love you. As a monster, you should understand… you shouldn’t ask for human emotions.”
He didn’t know what he thought of with that last sentence, and his expression became a little dim as he covered his faintly aching wound.
The wooden vines wrapped around his wrist as if comforting him.
Bai Ning’s expression softened a little, and he grasped the pink flower on the vine, a little surprised, “Hey, you guys are actually blooming.”
Because they rarely bloomed, it took him a while to remember that his wooden vine flowers had a rather useless ability –
[They will reappear the memory of the person’s most intense emotional moment in the past.]
If it is a happy thing, the flowers will bloom more and more brightly, colorful, and will also give the enemy crazy energy (useless, right);
But if it is a sad thing, it will bloom black and white flowers. The more heartache, the more lush it will be, and it will also trap people. When the time comes, the petals will shatter on the spot.
However, Bai Ning had never seen anyone’s sad flowers grow so lush that they could trap themselves.
Because there are more happy emotions, they can dilute the pain. Most people are colorful with black and white.
Unless a person has received all coldness and ridicule from birth, and after a long period of depression, finally has a happy thing, followed by great sadness, an unforgettable pain…
Thinking of this, he was really curious about what color the flowers that tentacled monster would bloom.
By the time Xie Jinsheng solved the remaining wooden vines.
The blood that was accidentally scratched on his chest had already stopped.
Rubbles were falling around, and he vaguely heard the sound of water, which meant this place was about to collapse. He subconsciously wanted to find Yu An, but found that the thin figure was no longer there.
That’s right.
The situation was so critical just now, and the teenager was so timid, he should have gone out long ago. Humans seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, didn’t he already know that?
He shouldn’t have had any expectations for that sentence “never abandon each other.”
Xie Jinsheng mockingly twitched his thin lips.
A very shallow sting flashed through his heart.
He lowered his eyes and suppressed it. He originally wanted to directly destroy the underground city and go out. But not knowing what he thought of, Xie Jinsheng retracted his tentacles, and walked out alone.
This is the bottom layer of the underground city, and also the most dangerous place. There is also a huge abyss and sinkhole under the bridge.
If anyone accidentally falls into it, they will surely die.
Xie Jinsheng stopped and carefully checked several times, but did not find any remaining jasmine scent, and then he was relieved.
Just about to cross the bridge.
He found a section of dying vine with pink flowers, which after absorbing his blood, bloomed a lot of black and white flowers in just a short moment.
Ability?
Xie Jinsheng ruthlessly wanted to crush these flowers.
But at the moment of touching them, a burst of sharp pain suddenly attacked his heart, and the Alpha’s face instantly turned pale, and he froze in place.
Countless painful thoughts, like a flood, poured in and directly swallowed Xie Jinsheng –
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Yu An walked all the way out, running too fast, he was a little out of breath, and even his vision was blurred for a while.
Until he crashed into someone’s arms.
It was Lin Si.
Yu An took a while to open his eyes and said, “Vice Captain Lin, quickly save Xie Jinsheng… He is fighting with a wood-type ability user, and there are also self-destruct devices around.”
After the teenager finished speaking, he was physically exhausted and fainted. Even though he was so weak and the wound on his arm was bleeding, he tightly grasped his clothes and pleaded.
It was for that man.
No wonder he had sensed a strong aura of an ability user before. It turned out that Xie Jinsheng had also come.
Lin Si looked at the unconscious teenager with a worried expression, and quickly called Cheng You and Ling Xiaoxi, saying, “You take Yu An up to find Feng Shu, I’ll go back and save him.”
But the underground city is now in danger and too dangerous. Ling Xiaoxi couldn’t help but say, “Vice Captain Lin…”
“This is an order.”
On the way back, Lin Si saw a lot of broken wooden vines. In the midst of the earth-shattering shaking, he vaguely glimpsed a strange yet familiar figure in the distance, whose profile flashed past.
Xiao Ning?
His heart jumped violently, and by the time he came back to his senses, there was no one in the distance, as if it was just an illusion.
Lin Si felt that he was a little ridiculous.
So many years have passed, how could he still be delusional that his younger brother was still alive.
Yu An on this side only fainted for a while, and then woke up, and found himself on Cheng You’s back, with the female military doctor Ling Xiaoxi beside him.
They seemed to be taking him out.
The fog in the underground city had already been closed by him.
It turned out that the light coming in from the long corridor was not sunlight, but lamplight. The sky outside seemed to have already darkened.
Yu An became more and more uneasy, and quickly asked the system, “089, how is Xie Jinsheng?”
The system was silent for a moment, and said: [The situation is very bad, Lin Si didn’t find him.]
Hearing this, Yu An’s heart turned cold.
He recovered some of his strength and said, “Cheng You, quickly put me down, I… I feel a little uncomfortable.”
“Senior, are you feeling unwell?” Cheng You did not suspect anything and put him down.
Ling Xiaoxi was about to use her ability to examine Yu An, but unexpectedly, at this moment, she heard the sound of her satchel being opened, and then she had something more in her hand.
It was an energy ball.
They were only shocked for a few seconds just now, and when they looked up, the slender and thin figure was no longer there.
Yu An walked back all the way according to his memory, and also took a shortcut according to the map.
On the way, he saw a lot of infected creatures cleared by lightning-type lightning.
It should be Lin Si’s ability.
As expected, he soon saw the Alpha in military uniform in front of him. The other party also saw him, but his face was not very good.
“Vice Captain Lin, did you find Xie Jinsheng? He’s in front…” Yu An was about to walk over, but was suddenly grabbed by Lin Si.
“Don’t go over.”
As soon as the words fell, Yu An also froze in place.
Because the originally barren bottom layer of the underground city was suddenly filled with a large expanse of flowers.
They bloomed all the way from the bottom of the cliff to the opposite side of the rope bridge, lush and prosperous, but all were strangely black and white.
They seemed to be able to swallow people.
As if understanding his doubts, Lin Si opened his mouth to explain:
“This is the flower of the wood vine. After absorbing fresh blood, it will extract the memory with the greatest emotional fluctuation. If the flowers that bloom are brightly colored, it means that the person’s memory is full of happiness and bliss.”
“If it’s black and white…”
Yu An suddenly understood.
It was grief.
What Xie Jinsheng is reminiscing now is a heartbreaking experience.