Chapter 158: 155 Missing

Falling into the abyss, consciousness lost, Chen Xiaolin vaguely felt that she and Li Duojin had fallen into a pitch-black subterranean river; they rose and fell within the dark river, following the rushing current.

Unable to struggle, they seemed to merge with the river water, breathing appearing to be her only vital sign, switching back and forth between states of suffocation and gasping, consciousness gradually losing itself in chaos amidst the floating and sinking...

"Dark Young of the Woods confirmed expelled." A Mysterious Investigator reported this heavily to a leader of the Zodiac Squad, only the leader he was reporting to was not the Dog Team leader Zhou Shaobo, but a short-haired woman with a beautiful face, "Captain Yu, I am afraid this Abnormal event in the Magic City will have to be taken over by you."

The short-haired woman turned her head, and her perfect profile instantly lost its stunning quality; a scar like a giant centipede coiled across the other half of her face, and the eye on that side was also like it had been injected with scarlet pigment, a sheet of blood-red, with only the pupil still appearing in its original form.

Seeing such a flaw on a beauty, those around could not help but sigh deeply for the short-haired woman.

Yu Lianyun smiled indifferently, her fingers subconsciously scratching lightly at the raised scar; she had almost died in an Abnormal event at Liuhua Port a few months ago, and the scar on her face was left behind at that time.

Because the wound came from an Abnormal creature like a fish-man, the fish-man's body carried a certain special anti-healing factor; even though she had tried her best to preserve her beauty, the injury on her face could ultimately only be stabilized to this point.

She did not know if those anti-healing factors were still lingering on her face, or if it was just her own psychological effect, but Yu Lianyun would still feel the itch of the scar from time to time, unable to control the urge to touch that scar.

Yu Lianyun nodded to the Mysterious Investigator who had come to report, indicating that she was already aware, and then her gaze turned to the people being carried away on stretchers, some pushed into hearses for transporting corpses, others sent into ambulances.

Yu Lianyun walked toward one of the ambulances; she did not step into the carriage, but stood outside the door, just looking at the blood-covered Zhou Shaobo, and said: "You all are still too reckless. I understand the spirit of your Dog Team Suicide Squad, but I still hope you can cherish your lives."

Zhou Shaobo's weakly opened eyes stared at Yu Lianyun, unable to see her appearance clearly; he could only imagine her expression at this moment through her voice. He opened his mouth and mumbled a few times, as if wanting to say something, but his throat could not emit a sound, and after a few moments, he could not hold on and fainted.

"Send him away." Yu Lianyun shook her head; although she did not understand lip-reading, she had barely guessed what the other party had just been saying.

The very concise three words: "None of your business."

"I'll go check the scene." After watching the ambulance carrying Zhou Shaobo leave, Yu Lianyun turned her head and said she was going to check the scene where the Dark Young of the Woods had been "expelled."

The so-called scene was actually near the center of the theme forest in JOJO Amusement Park. As soon as Yu Lianyun arrived at the scene, she saw human tissue and fragments of various unknown black and green biological tissues intertwined everywhere. She walked gracefully, stepping over those mixed, viscous, and fishy-smelling liquids without a care, finally stopping in front of a mass that had lost its vitality.

"Dark Young of the Woods... the vitality is truly astonishing." Yu Lianyun looked at the mass and remarked, "As expected of a product related to the 'Creator', this deformed yet vigorous life force."

Hearing Yu Lianyun's words, those around felt a jolt in their hearts. The Mysterious Investigator who led her all the way asked nervously: "Captain Yu, are you saying it isn't dead yet?"

"I don't know, but my feeling is that it is best to burn it completely clean." Yu Lianyun shook her head. If she did not have such highly developed intuition, perhaps she, like others, would think that a Dark Young of the Woods in this state must be dead without a doubt, but she happened to be able to feel an unsettling palpitation from this huge black mass. Having relied on her intuition to avoid life-and-death crises countless times, she was very certain that this mass was problematic.

After hearing Yu Lianyun's words, the Mysterious Investigators handling the scene put down their work one after another, looking everywhere for gasoline and gunpowder, preparing to burn this mass.

But Yu Lianyun chuckled and said, "You don't need to bother," then took a small bottle of unknown green oily liquid from her bosom and poured the liquid inside onto the mass.

As if sensing a life-and-death crisis, the mass, which was like some kind of fungus, suddenly had a violent reaction. It suddenly accelerated its growth crazily, and strips of soft, tentacle-like objects suddenly emerged from the white flesh of its body; they split apart, opening several sharp maws to bite at the people around.

Yu Lianyun, as if prepared in advance, calmly took a step back and dodged the mass's fierce attack. Then she flicked a match, the match struck sparks on the ignition paper, pungent smoke emerged in the air, a small flame burned in the air and fell to the ground, and then a fierce dark green flame burned over the entire body of the mass, and those grown tentacles were also instantly submerged in the sea of fire.

The silent screams had no sound, but in the eyes of everyone who saw the scene, they became a vivid Dream Demon, the screaming sound automatically synchronized and generated in their minds.

The flames of the Forbidden Weapon Green Oil were indeed powerful; in less than a moment, even the vigorous Dark Young of the Woods perished because of it, burned to nothing in the green flames that brought endless pain.

"How many are still alive in the Dog Team?" Yu Lianyun looked at the withering life of the Dark Young of the Woods and asked casually.

"There are two... three left, I think." The leading Mysterious Investigator thought for a moment and said uncertainly.

Yu Lianyun felt it was strange and asked in detail what the other party knew and what doubts they had.

Upon hearing this, the leading Mysterious Investigator replied: "I heard from the surviving Dog Team members that there was actually one more person who entered the forest with them at the beginning, an Investigator sent by the Investigation Union to assist, but later, they parted on bad terms and did not continue to cooperate with them."

"Where is that person now?" Yu Lianyun frowned; her intuition told her that she could directly find that Investigator, and it was possible to see something from that Investigator.

The leading Mysterious Investigator shook his head: "I don't know, but I heard he is also a master invited by the boss of JOJO Amusement Park, specifically to drive away ghosts and catch monsters, and to pray for blessings and ward off evil for their amusement park. Perhaps we can ask that Zhang Laoban for the whereabouts of that Investigator."

When Yu Lianyun found Zhang Laoban and inquired about Li Duojin's whereabouts from him, Yu Lianyun tried to dial the phone to contact the person himself, but the long period of no answer made Yu Lianyun realize that something was wrong, and she hurriedly called the technical department to lock onto the location of Li Duojin's phone.