Hidden Corners

Outside the town of Mukesa.

The tour guide Elf and Li Wei waited boredly against the outer earth wall.

"Why don't you go in? Didn't you say you want to go in with you?" Elf asked Li Wei in Su Tan.

"Didn't you also say you want to be together before?" Li Wei replied to her.

"Am I not thinking about the privacy of my clients?" Elf argued.

"Me too." Li Wei patted his chest.

"I think you are timid, right? Hehe." Elf sneered.

"I" Li Wei still wanted to speak.

Suddenly, three soldiers in khaki military uniforms hurried over from a distance, and they all had the mark of a blue stag on their bodies.

It was the three people who came here just now.

"You guys!" The leading squad leader raised his gun and aimed at the two of them.

"Just received a notice that you are not allowed to enter here. Hurry up!"

"Oh? No, we just came here. We just arrived, didn't we say that we were allowed to go in for an hour?" Elf quickly argued.

"It's not allowed to stay. If you have something to say, go to them, I don't care. Hurry up!" The team leader said impatiently.

"But our customers are still inside." Li Wei added on the sidelines. "Can you wait for someone to come out before leaving, let's go in and call him." He stepped forward and secretly stuffed a roll of Su Tan banknotes to the team leader.

"Client? Did he go in?" The captain was slightly taken aback.

"Go in, just go in." Li Wei nodded.

The squad leader's complexion changed slightly, and it wasn't just him.

The muzzles of the other two men began to raise slightly, and their hands on the trigger slowly tightened.

"Okay, then go find him and come out." The captain nodded solemnly. "Move faster."

"Okay, let's go right away. Li Wei, go and call someone." Elf pushed Li Wei.

"You guys go together." The captain scolded.

"Okay, let's go together." Elf turned around, took out the walkie-talkie from the backpack with Li Wei, and turned it on.

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"Mom, I'm calling, will you come and save me?"

"Yes, my dear baby." The blond woman lowered her head slightly, leaned over and kissed the girl.

"You just need to hide here well, and we will come back soon to pick you up." The woman said softly.

"I'll be good." The girl raised her head and opened her eyes wide.

"What about my brother? Can he come with me?" She looked at her brother who was carrying a small schoolbag at the door and asked.

"Brother, he is going to see a doctor. He will go to the small clinic in the town with us. You have been there too, haven't you?" the woman comforted.

"Okay, it's time to go, hurry up, it's going to be too late." A man's urging voice came from outside the door, with a trace of panic.

"Finally. Finally, I will have a word with Iselin." The tone of the woman's voice changed for a moment, but she still suppressed it and was still gentle.

She bent down and hugged the girl gently, holding her tightly.

"Etherine."

"Mom, I will obediently wait for you to come back at home." The girl said seriously.

"Mom knows." The woman's voice softened, "Mom knows that you are the best and the best."

"It's time to go!" The man urged outside, becoming more and more sharp.

The woman let go of the girl and turned her head.

"Jers! Can you?"

"No! We don't have enough money!" The man replied quickly.

"Can"

"Here they come! They're coming! Hurry up! We must go!" the man yelled.

There were hurried footsteps outside, and other people shouting and crying.

"Mom." Estherine looked up at the blonde woman, a little confused.

"Mom, it's time to go, Estherine, be good, be good" the woman broke away from her daughter's grasping hand, walked quickly to the door, and picked up her younger brother.

Boom.

The door closes.

As if escaping, she quickly joined the man, mixed into the crowd, and ran away.

Not long after, there was the sound of a car going away.

Everything slowly quieted down.

"Damn this place is empty! Those bitches are all gone!"

After a while, a rough male voice came.

"Then set it on fire and burn it all. I don't want to stay in this ghost place for a moment."

boom! ! !

Countless flames rushed in through the doors and windows.

Orange, yellow, dark red, different flames accompanied by black smoke, drowned everything in the room in a blink of an eye.

Li Chengyi's eyes suddenly lit up, as if a white light flashed, and he came back to his senses.

He was standing at the top of the stairs on the second floor.

Just when he stepped up the first step, he lost his senses for an instant. Then saw the scene just now.

call.

He bowed his head and took a deep breath.

'What was that just now? Memory recall? Is it Etherine's memory? '

He raised his head and looked around.

The khaki stairs are also pasted with light yellow tiles with patterns of flowers and birds.

The steps on the ground were covered with sand, dust, and broken soil. He stepped on them, leaving clear footprints one by one.

"It seems that this place is likely to be the prototype of the dead end of the Clenched Hand."

A purple light flashed on the back of Li Chengyi's hand, which belonged to the secondary evolution form of the wisteria flower scale clothing, and it immediately fused with all parts of the body.

At the same time, the flower language brilliance force field also naturally emerged, spread out, and covered the body surface.

Even wearing flower scale clothes and using flower language will continue to consume physical and mental energy.

But this time is not the time to save.

In addition, his physical foundation was poor in the past, and he would be physically exhausted and mentally sluggish after a short period of time.

But now the physique and spirit are much stronger than before, and it is no problem to use the two together for half an hour.

After shrinking the radiant force field, reducing consumption, and sticking it to the body surface, Li Chengyi continued to walk up the steps step by step.

Up to the second floor.

In the dark hall, there are cracked tables and chairs, a collapsed sofa, and a scorched black piano full of dust.

There were some broken and blackened logs lying on the ground, and I don't know what fell from them.

click.

A soft sound drew Li Chengyi's attention to the left.

He followed the sound and saw a shadow of a white dress slowly disappearing from the door of a bedroom on the left, as if he had entered the bedroom.

He narrowed his eyes and slowly approached the bedroom step by step.

Looking closer, he suddenly discovered that this was the room he had seen in the flash memory before.

There are many types of memory flashes in blind spots. When he was in Grius, he encountered situations mixed between reality and dead spots many times.

Did not expect to meet again now.

'If the memory flashes back, Etherine must be dead. Bombed and burned alive. So, in this case, where should I start my escape method? '

When he reached the door of the bedroom, Li Chengyi didn't go in.

He came here not to find the truth, but to find a way to get himself out of the clutches.

After hesitating for a while, he had no idea.

‘Perhaps, I should leave here, and then get out of here as quickly as those people did thirty years ago? '

'But Skittles' data shows that the Jilkini people have basically become extinct. Only a handful of survivors also disappeared mysteriously. '

After a pause, Li Chengyi gritted his teeth and took a step forward.

He ran all the way here, not just to stand at the door in a daze.

You can't go wrong with getting more dead angle details anyway.

Snapped.

The moment he stepped into the room.

boom!

Everything in front of him instantly turned into a fiery red.

The flames engulfed everything.

Like a bystander, he stood aside, watching the fire flood into the bedroom with the explosion, and hit Etherine who was hiding under the bed.

ah!

The little girl screamed and flinched back desperately.

She patted the burning hair with her hands, waited for a while and finally extinguished it, she put down her hands, and covered her eyes again.

Her eyes were hit by two pieces of earth slag from the explosion and pierced in, and blood flowed continuously down her cheeks.

Fortunately, the fire outside did not continue to pour in, but slowly burned and ignited other things.

The flame just now was just like that.

"I can't see. Mom, I can't see. My eyes hurt"

Etherine cried and rubbed her eyes, but instead rubbed the crumbs deeper into the wound, causing her to twitch in pain and curl up under the bed crying.

Li Chengyi instinctively wanted to go up and reach out to save someone, but when he raised his hand, he realized that he had no hands at all.

'This is what happened in the past...'

He reacted in his heart.

He watched Etherine struggle, trying to get out from under the bed, but couldn't find her way.

puff.

Suddenly, a meter-long shadow rushed in from outside the door.

It was a big yellow dog with a lot of burnt hair.

It bit Etherine's clothes, whimpered and dragged her out from under the bed, and ran to a corner of the room.

The big yellow dog let go of the girl, grabbed something from the ground and pulled it, and actually pulled up a slate cover, and inside was a dark and narrow small passage.

woof!

It yelled at Etherine, trying to duck her into the passage.

Etherine seemed to understand something.

"Aqiu. Did your mother ask you to come to me?"

There was a hint of hope in her tone, and it seemed to be full of hope.

Wang! Wang!

The big yellow dog barked twice again.

"I see, let's hide together, you have to take me to find my mother." She reached out and stroked the big yellow dog's head.

"Aqiu is the best."

Although she was trembling with pain, she still comforted the big yellow dog with a trembling voice.

The big yellow dog whimpered, as if agreeing to her.

click.

Suddenly a wooden beam on the roof broke.

Rhubarb sensed something was wrong, and slammed Iselin hard into the tunnel, but the back half of his body was pinned down by the fallen square log.

Li Chengyi hurriedly wanted to get closer to see how Iselin was doing and where she was going.

"Mr. Cheng Yi?"

"Mr. Cheng Yi, are you there?"

A rush of calls seemed to come from afar.

Everything in front of me began to fade, dissipate, and return to darkness.

Standing at the door of the bedroom, Li Chengyi realized that he was sweating profusely all over his body.

It was as if he had really been in the fire just now.

The pager on his body kept beeping.

He looked around, but didn't find the little girl just now.

So he took out the pager from his waist and connected it.

"I'm here. What's the matter?" he replied.

"Great, something happened here, you may need to come out and deal with it." Elf on the opposite side said solemnly.

"Must it be now?"

"It must, otherwise the situation will be very troublesome and serious." Elf replied.

Li Chengyi looked at the room in front of him, he already had some doubts, that passage might be the key to hiding the escape method.

But now... how much time it will take, he doesn't know.

"I'll come out right away." He took a breath, stepped back slowly, suddenly turned sideways, and flew out from the window on the second floor.

He landed with a bang, and ran towards the place where he came in from the outside.

A few minutes later, he returned to the entrance where Elf Levi was, by the earthen wall.

There were also three Blue Deer soldiers who had been here before standing by the wall.

Elf made a look, and secretly made a gesture of money with his right hand.

Li Chengyi understood, quickly took off his backpack, showed a smiling face, and took out a large stack of thick banknotes.

"money!"

"nice one!"

"give you!"

He spoke a few simple words he had just learned, and stuffed the banknotes into the hands of the three soldiers one by one.