Chapter 19: Searching

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Lin Zhiqi, Xu Yien.

That is, the man and woman with special identities at the beginning.

After greeting Officer Lan and Officer Liu, they had been in this dormitory building for a while.

Except for the environment mentioned by Xu Yien at the beginning being a bit strange, it seemed that no unexpected things had appeared.

It even seemed that the surrounding environment didn't have anything special.

In the two people's feeling, almost every dormitory had people, and the only difference was that some seemed to be still playing, and some were already asleep.

And the target of the two at this moment still hadn't appeared for a long time.

Lin Zhiqi frowned; his tall figure was very obvious even in the dim light here.

They were currently standing next to the stairs on the 4th floor.

He turned his head and asked: "How do you feel? It looks like the two of them are not in this dormitory building."

Xu Yien's gaze flickered, but she didn't answer immediately.

Instead, she bent down, slowly scanned the direction of the stairs they came up, and then looked toward the direction of the stairs on the floor above.

"No, they are here, or rather, they were here."

"Oh?" Lin Zhiqi raised an eyebrow and looked over following Xu Yien's gaze.

Sure enough, he discovered some extremely subtle footprints spreading upward from the stairs below.

The footprints led to the floor above.

It's just that on the stone floor of this dormitory building built who knows how many years ago, it looked a bit blurry, and the only footprints that appeared were those shown by the dust.

These footprints were just right for two people.

One big, the other a bit smaller.

What made people feel eerie was that these footprints actually showed a faint entanglement of black energy, but this black aura disappeared quickly, as if it couldn't last long.

Lin Zhiqi scratched his head, his expression looking a bit embarrassed: "Too careless just now, didn't see these."

Xu Yien nodded and glanced at him from the corner of her eye.

"Yeah, you haven't been careless just once or twice; it's mainly because the injuries on your body caused some changes in perception, right? How are the injuries on your body now?"

Lin Zhiqi was stunned for a moment, but still said: "Nothing serious, recovered almost there, there are still some small problems that can't be cured, still have to rely on time to recuperate."

"Yeah, got it." Xu Yien continued to walk up, and at the same time said: "Don't stand here stupidly, go up, they are probably above; whether we can truly find them still depends on our luck, or rather, it will depend on your skills in a while."

Lin Zhiqi followed quickly at this time.

However, when continuing to walk up to the 5th and 6th floors, Lin Zhiqi said strangely.

"With such an obvious aura leakage, that thing probably isn't simple; the two of us have to be careful in a while, don't fall into a trap on this matter; you also know, according to what the boss revealed, these things have been increasing recently..."

Xu Yien continued to walk up without any change in her gaze: "Got it, let's find those two first; what should come will come eventually, no matter what, it can't be stopped."

Soon, after passing the 5th floor, the two of them also explored slightly and found that there were no unexpected things like the results obtained on the floors below.

Finally, the two of them arrived at the 6th floor quickly.

After some exploration, the two of them discovered that although this 6th floor also had dormitories, it seemed that no one lived there.

To put it clearly, this entire 6th floor was empty.

And there was a small floor above.

Which was equivalent to the roof position.

It was also equivalent to having a small floor space, only it wasn't for people to live in above.

To put it more colloquially, it was an insulation layer.

The two of them still observed slightly and discovered that this insulation layer space at the very top should be quite large, and the only entrance to go up was the open hole above their heads.

Next to it was a wooden ladder, only this wooden ladder looked a bit old.

Lin Zhiqi looked down slightly and said: "The footprints disappeared at the position where we are standing, which also corresponds to this entrance above our heads; just searched and explored slightly, it's empty above, those two are not here, but the disappearance of these footprints is indeed a bit strange, which makes me think of one thing."

"Off-world Boundary." Xu Yien said the thing Lin Zhiqi guessed first.

"Right."

Lin Zhiqi looked at Xu Yien and said: "Then can you find the entrance to get in? Or find the existence of the medium."

Xu Yien gave the answer quickly, "No, can't find the entrance; the danger of that thing is very high, so the quality of the Domain is also very high, hidden too deep, but the medium might be some things above, go and see, it's right above."

Just after saying this, her eyes narrowed slightly again, "And... I also discovered some things that are not quite the same."

Lin Zhiqi looked at her subtle action and also gradually became vigilant.

Regarding the understanding of Xu Yien, in his heart at this moment—

He understood very well what her expression represented.

But there was something above that aroused her interest; whether the danger, safety, or stability brought by this interest was actually something even he couldn't tell.

Lin Zhiqi knew that if it were before, he could still detect this kind of danger perception outside the line of sight, and could even use some means to predict the development of things later.

But since that injury, he hadn't recovered yet, so facing this kind of situation, he could only make some other preparations.

"Okay, then let's go up."

Lin Zhiqi quickly moved the ladder from the side and set it on this entrance, then he went up first.

However, in the process of moving forward, his movements hadn't been idle; he took out a bright red fruit from a pocket of his clothes.

To be precise, the shape of this thing looked like a peach.

Only, this thing actually had its own life, at this moment, it was twitching slightly, just like—

A heart...

Lin Zhiqi subsequently threw this thing upward and threw it up directly.

Only then did he go up through the wooden ladder.

Not long after, he poked his head down and said to Xu Yien: "Come up, the things here are indeed a bit strange, but it seems there is no danger."

Xu Yien went up quickly just like that.

And after going up, her brows also wrinkled slightly, looking at the things on the floor of this platform in front of her.

In the middle of this area, it was the heart-like thing Lin Zhiqi just threw up.

What attracted her attention was naturally not this thing, but something else.

Lin Zhiqi's expression was about the same as hers, only a bit colder.

The floor in front of the two of them was very messy.

There were a large number of flies buzzing and flying by, all buzzing sounds.

And what caused the subtle changes in the expressions of the two people was actually the things in front of them.

It was a floor full of corpses.

Only they were cats, lying everywhere in an extremely miserable state; almost none were complete, and some were even highly decomposed.

Even in this environment, one could see some maggots wriggling and rolling back and forth.

The stench was even more overwhelming, almost filling the entire space.

And the flies just now, naturally, appeared on these cats.

Lin Zhiqi observed for a while, and the sharp him quickly discovered some patterns or strange places in this.

He turned his head and said to Xu Yien: "These should be the stray cats of the school, the number is quite large, they all died here, and what's strange is that there are no black cats among them, and even a cat with a black spot on it can't be seen; these should also be caused by that thing, right."

Xu Yien nodded: "Eight or nine out of ten, they also have the aura of that thing to a certain extent, only it's very faint; it's probably that thing thought it was fun and made it."

Lin Zhiqi listened to Xu Yien while scanning the surroundings, and soon his gaze was attracted by the clean-looking wall on their left.

"This should be the thing that is not quite the same that you mentioned." Lin Zhiqi's gaze seemed to be able to see through the wall.

"It should also have been there for some years, quite miserable, the resentment hasn't dissipated even now."

…… ===== CHAPTER 20 =====