Chapter 127
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Calculating the time, it was still three hours after Lou Yan toyed with Fu Xuezhou in his nightmare that Fu Xuezhou left Chengjiang City.
Lou Yan twitched at the corner of his mouth, feeling both speechless and a little curious. Why did this guy run out in the middle of the night without sleeping?
Fu Xuezhou was always so mysterious, appearing and disappearing without a trace. When Lou Yan didn’t want to see him yesterday, he encountered him three or four times. Now that he needed someone to do something, he disappeared again.
Unreliable indeed, Fu Xuezhou.
But Lou Yan didn’t put all his hopes on Fu Xuezhou. Even if Fu Xuezhou wasn’t here, Lou Yan had a way to deal with it. After all, he wasn’t facing the “water ghost” for the first time.
After hanging up the phone, Lou Yan and Li Sanxin returned to the living room. Li Sanxin quickly prepared breakfast, and during the meal, he informed Duan Zege and Lu Haoxiu about the meeting at the Anomaly Control Bureau.
Lu Haoxiu rubbed his eyes, his messy hair standing up, and obediently nodded, yawning, “Okay, I want to go too.”
Duan Zege did not refuse either, but asked, “If we all leave, what about Little Yu?”
Little Yu, with swollen cheeks from eating, looked up with big, clear eyes, filled with confusion.
That was indeed a problem. It wasn’t suitable to take Little Yu outside due to the dangerous situation. While the villa was safe, leaving Little Yu alone there would also make everyone uneasy.
Stuffing half a pancake into his mouth, Lu Haoxiu asked casually, “Little Yu, do you want to go out with us or stay at the villa by yourself?”
Little Yu tilted her head and gestured with sign language, expressing her desire to go out with them.
Duan Zege patted Little Yu’s head gently, “It’s very dangerous outside.”
But Little Yu’s little face was full of determination. She shook her head, indicating that she wasn’t afraid.
Although Little Yu was a child, she was very determined. Seeing Little Yu wanting to go out on her own initiative, even though they were careless men in raising a chid, they didn’t try to dissuade her too much. After finishing breakfast, the group went to the warehouse, put on raincoats, and brought out the inflatable boat.
They were halfway up the mountain, so they had to drive the car to transport the boat to the foot of the mountain first.
When they finally reached the foot of the mountain, they realized just how deep the water had risen. The trees on both sides of the road were submerged halfway up their trunks, with only their lush canopies visible.
The water was murky and yellowish. Duan Zege picked up a branch washed onto the mountain road and inserted it into the water. The two-meter-long branch was just submerged below the water surface.
“D*mn, this is unbelievable!” Lu Haoxiu exclaimed, shocked. “It’s only been one night, and the water has risen so much! It’s as tall as a building!”
“The three-story research institute at the Anomaly Control Bureau has been flooded, and you still want to talk science with anomalies?” Li Sanxin joked. “Quickly get on the boat, and be careful not to touch the water!”
The inflatable boat was placed on the water, and the group boarded one by one. As soon as the engine started, the boat swiftly moved across the water’s surface.
Along the way, they saw various scenes of devastation.
There were bodies floating on the water, people forced to climb onto roofs and treetops, people and animals paddling on door panels as makeshift boats, and even babies crying loudly in plastic basins.
Faced with these scenes, Lu Haoxiu silently hugged Little Yu, his mood heavy. Li Sanxin and Duan Zege were also speechless. Lou Yan’s gaze swept over these scenes one by one, his expression unchanged. Many people they encountered along the way waved and shouted for help excitedly, but Lou Yan only ignored them unless they were truly in imminent danger and he could bring them onto the boat. He didn’t pay attention to the pleas for help from others.
Lu Haoxiu and the others understood Lou Yan’s style of doing things very well and cooperated in helping along the way. Lou Yan was the most resolute among them, as well as the most rational one facing this scene. Lou Yan could always distinguish who was truly in need of help and who was just taking advantage of the situation. Lou Yan wasn’t a soft-hearted person, nor did he want to be a savior, but he had a sense of moral responsibility that all humans should have—to help when possible and do one’s best.
Those who were not rescued after seeking help from them turned to cursing them, using extremely harsh words that were unbearable to hear. Lu Haoxiu covered Little Yu’s ears, his eyes red, like an injured rabbit, enduring the sadness and anger in his heart.
Lou Yan ignored those words. After leaving the severely affected area, there was only one more baby in a plastic basin on the boat, along with two children under ten and a woman with a branch piercing her abdomen. As for other adults, Lou Yan found a tall building and left them there.
The inflatable boat continued towards the direction of the Anomaly Control Bureau. When they reached a corner, they noticed a man struggling in the water.
The man was frantically splashing the water with both hands, shouting, “Help… help me… help! I can’t swim…!”
Li Sanxin exclaimed in surprise, “Yanzi, isn’t that Qin Feng, your assistant?”
Lou Yan also recognized him, “It’s him, hurry over!”
The inflatable boat accelerated towards Qin Feng, but just as their boat was about to reach him, Lou Yan’s Crisis Perception suddenly kicked in!
[Spiritual Power: 135/140]
The warning was extremely intense—the Water Ghost was coming!
Subconsciously following the direction of the perceived danger, Lou Yan quickly said, “Hurry and pull him up, the Water Ghost is coming!”
At this moment, the distance between the inflatable boat and Qin Feng was only about half a meter, and Duan Zege was closest to him. Without waiting for the inflatable boat to get closer, Duan Zege leaned out half of his body and grabbed Qin Feng’s clothes on both sides of his shoulders, pulling him forcefully onto the boat. His biceps bulged as he pulled Qin Feng’s upper body onto the inflatable boat.
At this moment, only Qin Feng’s lower body was still in the water.
“Hurry, stretch your legs up!” Lu Haoxiu anxiously rushed over to help pull Qin Feng’s legs.
Qin Feng coughed several times, spitting out water. His glasses were gone, and he looked extremely miserable. He had no strength left at the moment. His vision was blurred, and he couldn’t see clearly who was in front of him. His ears were filled with water, his brain was deprived of oxygen, and the sounds outside sounded chaotic and incomprehensible to him. Weakly, he said, “Thank you—Ah!”
His legs, still submerged in the water, were suddenly pulled down by a strong force, and Qin Feng was abruptly dragged back into the water! Duan Zege reacted quickly, immediately grabbing Qin Feng’s left hand. Qin Feng struggled to lift his hands and grasp Duan Zege’s arm, his face full of pain from the tearing force pulling him up and down.
Lu Haoxiu also managed to grab the pants on his legs in time, but the pants weren’t sturdy and were torn apart by Lu Haoxiu, causing him to fall backward onto the inflatable boat, shaking it violently.
The tension underfoot was too great, and Qin Feng was continuously sinking uncontrollably into the water. He thought someone was pulling him underwater to harm him, so he kicked around randomly with his feet, but to his astonishment, he found that there was no one around his feet!
D*mn it!
No one was pulling him, he didn’t feel entangled by any rope, then what was pulling him down?!
In just the blink of an eye, Qin Feng’s entire face was pulled below the surface of the water. His face was deathly pale, constantly struggling to resurface. The veins on Duan Zege’s neck bulged as he exerted force, and in just two or three seconds, he could feel his strength rapidly diminishing.
When Duan Zege was about to lose his grip on Qin Feng, Lou Yan and Lu Haoxiu changed positions and both grabbed Qin Feng’s left arm, pulling him together with Duan Zege.
The sudden increase in strength from the two of them briefly allowed Qin Feng to expose his nose to the air, but he was pulled back underwater by the “Water Ghost” once again.
The tremendous force from the two sides made Qin Feng’s expression extremely painful and distorted under the water.
The inflatable boat had to maintain stability, or it would capsize, so Li Sanxin and Lu Haoxiu didn’t dare to act rashly and could only watch anxiously. Lou Yan stared at the water surface around Qin Feng, and he was certain that the “Water Ghost” was within a five-meter radius nearby!
He suddenly remembered the world covered in blood after his eyes were blinded. In that red world, Lou Yan could see things that the naked eye couldn’t see, so he called this ability [True Sight]
Now was the time to use this ability.
[Spiritual Power: 125/140]
Blood gradually filled Lou Yan’s eyes, covering them in a layer of crimson red.
The world before Lou Yan turned red, with a crimson Qin Feng and crimson water. He stared at the water surface and clearly saw a blurry, deeper red object surrounding Qin Feng’s body within the red water.
—That was the “Water Ghost”!
Lou Yan swiftly drew out his Spinal Whip and exerted his maximum strength to lash out at the “Water Ghost”! His whip strike was earth-shattering, like a heavy stone smashing through the water surface, fiercely hitting the “Water Ghost”!
The deep red object under the red water surface shook violently, as if angered. Lou Yan took advantage of the moment when it slightly loosened its grip on Qin Feng to instantly pull Qin Feng back onto the inflatable boat. “Go!”
Li Sanxin immediately started the engine and swiftly left the area, leaving behind the approaching “Water Ghost” under the water surface, obviously not intending to let them go.
Lou Yan tightened his grip on the Spinal Whip, ready to attack at any moment. He didn’t blink, because the “Water Ghost” was too fast. If anyone blinked, they might all capsize into the water. But also because of the long time without blinking, more and more blood accumulated in Lou Yan’s eyes, as if it could roll down from his eyes at any moment.
With a bang, a large wave suddenly rose from the calm water surface, sweeping towards them.
This wave seemed ordinary, but Lou Yan saw the “Water Ghost” hidden beneath it.
The blood in his eyes blurred Lou Yan’s vision. He squinted, trying to focus his gaze, but a drop of blood squeezed out due to the sudden force and fell onto the water surface.
At the moment this drop of blood fell into the water, the “Water Ghost” seemed to sense an extremely terrifying aura, and suddenly retreated like the ebb tide, quickly moving away from Lou Yan’s tear of blood, instantly retreating ten meters away.
The high-rising wave, without the support of the “Water Ghost,” heavily crashed back into the water, not even hitting their inflatable boat.
Lou Yan was stunned.
He watched as his tear of blood dispersed in the water, and as the “Water Ghost” quickly left the area when the tear of blood dispersed, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
“…”
Lou Yan raised his hand to touch his eyes, and the crimson color in his eyes gradually faded away, returning his vision to normal.
But Lou Yan’s heart was not calm.
He suddenly realized a fact that he had never realized before.
—Right now, he seemed to be much stronger… than he had imagined.
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Author’s note:
In fact, Chief Lou is really strong, but he himself is still stuck in his previous impressions and has not fully grasped this power (after all, he defeated a world-destroying boss).
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