Volume 7: Frost Chapter 20 Witness
Lin Shunan turned over and sat up with difficulty.
Through the gaps between the dead branches, he vaguely saw the fluttering skirt and the hand holding the wooden sword tightly...
The person who caused the instability in the small world was Tang Butian, and Lin Shunan realized this.
Sirens wailed overhead.
"Tang Butian, Chief..." Guan Nuo jumped to the wall.
The hole was completely blocked.
Guan Nuo punched the hole, but it felt like he punched into a ball of soft liquid and was bounced out before he touched the dead branches.
"This is a soft material that can absorb energy and isolate spiritual power," said Lin Shunan.
Guan Nuo turned around and saw Lin Shunan standing up.
Guan Nuo said: "The section chief is still inside."
"I know, come with me." Lin Shunan took off his hood, turned around and limped forward along the corridor.
Sun Yu stood up, holding onto the wall.
Guan Nuo took a look at the cave entrance and followed.
"Every project here has risks, and every laboratory is equipped with the same emergency equipment," Lin Shunan explained to Guan Nuo and Sun Yu as they walked. "This is why we want to build the laboratory in the small world. Once a problem occurs, we can directly disconnect it from the main world to ensure that the main world is not affected."
When he turned the corner, Guan Nuo saw a row of soldiers wearing isolation suits and holding weapons walking towards the laboratory.
Lin Shunan quickened his pace.
"I have always believed that you and we are on the same side. You fight for ordinary people and evil cultivators and demons and monsters, while the institute wants to solve this problem fundamentally, crack the mysteries of metaphysics, explore and develop the beneficial parts, and find some solutions that can be popularized for the harmful parts. All researchers in the institute, we are also fighting."
Lin Shunan took Guan Nuo and Sun Yu through several empty laboratories and arrived at the monitoring room.
There were many people standing in the monitoring room.
Ji Xiaozhen was standing in front of the surveillance screen. When she heard the footsteps, she turned to Lin Shunan and said, "Shunan, come and take a look."
Lin Shunan walked quickly to Ji Xiaozhen's side. He looked at the picture on the screen and the fluctuations in the displayed data.
In the picture, Tang Butian is fighting with dead branches.
The wooden sword was divided into eight pieces, and the dead branches growing from all directions were chopped off to the ground one by one.
Guan Nuo and Sun Yu also stood in front of the surveillance screen.
Ji Xiaozhen said to Guan Nuo: "I just talked to your mother on the phone. She is on her way here."
Guan Nuo said, "Okay, okay."
Sun Yu looked around and saw Chang Lizhang sitting next to him.
Chang Lizhang nodded at him.
"This data," Lin Shunan pointed to a curve on the screen and said, "This small world regards Section Chief Tang as a threat. It seems that it would rather collapse completely than break through the isolation zone and eliminate Section Chief Tang."
"What should we do now?" Guan Nuo asked.
"Why did this happen?" Ji Xiaozhen asked.
Lin Shunan looked at Ji Xiaozhen and said, "Chief Tang has something that threatens the small world."
Ji Xiaozhen looked at Tang Butian who was spinning in mid-air and falling to the ground on the screen.
Tang Butian stretched out her hand and the wooden sword returned to her hand.
"Is it a wooden sword?" Ji Xiaozhen guessed.
"No," Lin Shunan saw the scar on Tang Butian's hand. The originally black scar seemed to be burning. "How did this scar come about?" He looked at Guan Nuo and Sun Yu, "Do you know?"
"The section chief said this was a mark left by a natural disaster," Guan Nuo replied.
Ji Xiaozhen and Lin Shunan looked at each other.
Lin Shunan said: "This small world is just a fragment of the 'yard'. The laws that support its operation are incomplete. It can maintain stability..." He sighed and said: "Teacher Ji, now we can only disconnect from the small world."
"We'll talk about it after Qingtong arrives. Now we'll try our best to ensure that the isolation zone is not breached and reduce the pressure on Section Chief Tang." Ji Xiaozhen said.
"OK."
"Teacher Ji, I want to contact Jiang You, a clerk in our department." Sun Yu said.
"You contact him." Ji Xiaozhen agreed.
"Dr. Lin, can I borrow your phone?" Sun Yu looked at Lin Shunan, "My phone is in the closet."
"I'll take you outside to play. There's no signal on this floor." Lin Shunan said.
"Let me take him there." Chang Lizhang stood up.
"Okay, thank you for your help." Lin Shunan said.
Chang Lizhang took Sun Yu out of the monitoring room, took the elevator to the second floor, walked through the tea room, and entered a small meeting room. Chang Lizhang unlocked his phone, found Jiang You's phone number, and handed it to Sun Yu.
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Jiang You followed Guan Qingtong downstairs.
He said to Lin Yu: "I have to go out for a while, please help me look after my son."
"Okay, go ahead." Lin Yu said.
"If I'm not back after eight o'clock, you let him go to bed. He usually goes to bed at 8:30. Give him a cup of hot milk before bed," Jiang You instructed. "When he falls asleep, you lock the store door and go home."
"I'll stay here for one night."
"That's fine. Thank you for your help," Jiang You said, and then he shouted upstairs, "Listen to Uncle Lin, okay?"
Bang.
There was a sound of a door closing upstairs .
When walking out of the insect house, Jiang You received a call from Sun Yu.
"Brother Jiang, it's me, Sun Yu. Something went wrong during the visit. The section chief threw me, Guan Nuo, and Dr. Lin out, leaving her alone inside. Dr. Lin speculated that it was the mark of the heavenly tribulation on her hand that caused the small world to destroy her," Sun Yu's thoughts were clear. He said, "If we want to rescue the section chief, we have to disconnect from the small world. The institute may not be willing to do this. Now we are waiting for Guan Nuo's mother to come."
"Okay, I got it. I'll come over now." Jiang You hung up the phone and looked at Guan Qingtong. "Guan Nuo is fine. The section chief is trapped."
Guan Qingtong nodded.
As they walked out of Wenhua Street and waited for the bus, Guan Qingtong looked at him and said, "You don't look very worried."
"It's OK."
"I thought Tang Butian was special to you," Guan Qingtong observed Jiang You's expression, "You joined the Special Operations Department for her, and you did a lot for her."
“It’s very special.”
Guan Qingtong asked tentatively: "Do you think she will be okay?"
"The research institute doesn't dare to let anything happen to her," Jiang You took out a candy box from his bag and poured two candies into his hand, "She is much more important than a broken fragment of a small world."
"The institute didn't know the wooden sword in her hand was that sword."
Jiang You held the candy in his mouth and said, "She is pretty, that's enough."
"She is very beautiful."
"It's not that pretty," Jiang You looked at the traffic light not far away where his taxi was parked. He said, "There is a possibility in her. She will take the step that belongs to her. I am looking forward to witnessing that moment."
