Volume 7: Frost Chapter 28 Dancing
The girl turned back carefully and slowly, looking down at the spider silk in her palm.
About ten centimeters long and very thin.
Stinging and burning.
The palm cracked.
A look of horror appeared on the girl's face. She pulled her hand out and quickly floated backwards and upwards, but it was too late. Many cuts had already been made on her instep and calf, and the stinging and burning sensation spread from the wounds to her entire body.
She searched hard in the laboratory .
No.
Nothing at all.
She tentatively floated forward one step, then another, then she clenched her injured hand and moved backwards at a faster speed. Her body hit the wall, at the place where Tang Butian had previously made a hole, and she went straight through.
After escaping the lab, she didn't stop .
She moved in the direction of the voices.
She had more and more wounds on her body and her shirt was torn.
She didn't stop.
She turned through corridors and passed through room after room.
She made her way through a group of researchers...
Then, suddenly, she stopped.
The wounds have not increased, could it be...
She turned her head and glanced at the group of busy researchers. She picked up her speed again, moving forward, and finally arrived at an office where someone was.
Two researchers in work clothes were still working overtime on their computers.
A square face.
The other wears glasses.
The researcher wearing glasses picked up the thermos cup beside him and drank some hot water. Then he asked the square-faced researcher, "Do you guys from the Special Operations Department want to visit again tomorrow?"
“I heard that he will stay with us for a few more days.” replied the square-faced researcher.
"No way, so many things have been delayed today." complained the man with glasses.
"It's no use complaining to me, go talk to Xiaolin."
The man with glasses sighed, put down the cup and continued working.
Neither of them was aware of the girl's presence.
The girl slowly sat down on the ground against the wall.
Her body was shaking.
The cut wound first turns red, and then turns into a charred black color like carbonization.
She waited in the office for a long time.
It was not until the two researchers got off work that she slowly followed them. She floated slowly and cautiously, sticking to the wall, and floated into the elevator.
The researcher with glasses suddenly felt dazed. He pressed the button for the negative third floor. Then he realized something and pressed the button for the first floor again.
The elevator doors closed.
Going down layer by layer.
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Jiang You and Tang Butian appeared on the third underground floor of the research institute.
In front of them was a black metal box floating in mid-air.
Behind them are numerous barriers and seals.
Jiang You walked around the metal box.
"What did you see?" Tang Butian asked.
"The patterns on it," Jiang You pointed to the intricate and ancient symbols carved on the metal box, "look familiar, some of them seem to be similar to the patterns on Meng Xianyang's grandfather's ruler. Let me take a picture first and send it to you..."
He took out his cell phone and took a complete picture of the metal box from top to bottom and left to right.
After taking the photo, he walked over to Tang Butian and handed her the phone screen. "How is it? It's quite artistic, isn't it?"
Tang Butian looked at the photo, then looked at him, and said nothing.
Jiang You put the phone back into his pocket. He suddenly felt a little emotional. "He is very smart. He has always been very smart."
"Is that him in there?"
Jiang You held Tang Butian's hand and said, "To be exact, no."
She saw something black inside the box, something that looked like a worm or a tube. It was moving. Tang Butian observed its movement, it seemed to be moving according to some mysterious rules, and gradually, it became illusory and blurred. She seemed to see a long black river pouring down from the sky, the water waves were surging, and the water droplets were scattered in all directions.
It's the sword intention.
Just as he was about to take a closer look, Jiang You let go of his hand.
After a dizzy spell, the long river disappeared, and the black bugs disappeared. Tang Butian looked at the black metal box in front of her and said, "I feel the sword intent. What is inside?"
"It's part of his inheritance, or part of his law. It depends on how you understand it."
At this time Jiang You looked back.
"What's wrong?" Tang Butian asked.
"A small insect flew in, but was scared away by the chirping."
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The elevator reached the first floor.
The two researchers walked out.
The numbers on the girls' floor display, -1, -2, -3.
The door opened.
She floated out quickly and headed straight for the room where the boxes were placed. When she was about to arrive, she suddenly stopped. She saw a shadow appear on the ground, a bird shadow, a huge bird shadow, pressing towards her with majestic momentum.
She immediately floated backwards again. She was a little panicked and saw the elevator door just opened, so she floated in. She saw a spider silk hanging from the ceiling light of the elevator.
The girl immediately leaned back.
The spider silk began to move, sometimes forming a circle into a 0, sometimes jumping into an 8.
"Who are you?" the girl asked.
The spider silk stopped for a moment, and then the girl saw the spider silk began to move rapidly in a complex trajectory. After a moment of dazzling, she saw a spider made of spider silk.
"spider?"
The spider also nodded.
"What do you want?"
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Jiang Mo sat on a rock not far outside the institute's barrier. He pulled a piece of grass from the ground and bit it in his mouth, seeming to be thinking about something.
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The girl saw that the spider was not moving.
At this time, the elevator stopped at the first floor again, and a researcher walked in. The girl did not hesitate, she rushed out of the elevator, then rushed out of the door of the hall and ran to an open space.
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Jiang Mo lay on the rocks. She looked at the moon in the sky for a while, then raised her little unicorn and waved it at the moon, as if to say hello. Then she drew a circle with her finger in the direction of the research institute.
The girl didn't notice that a spider silk fell on her hair, then the second, the third...
When she ran past a tree, she suddenly found that she could not move. She was tightly wrapped by spider silk.
Jiang Mo drew a straight line towards the moon.
The girl was hung upside down, hanging from a tree branch.
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Jiang You picked up Tang Butian's wooden sword, "He probably couldn't find the right material to contain this inheritance, so he made a part of his body into a container. It's an appropriate description to say it's the remains of a god."
"Why did he do this?" Tang Butian asked.
"You have to ask him, but..."
"What?"
"There are so many researchers in the institute who believe that this mass is a part of God. Studying it is, in a sense, a way of recharging their faith." Jiang You squinted at the pattern on the box for a while, and pointed at a certain part of the box with a wooden knife. "Look at this stroke. Is it lighter than the ones next to it?"
Tang Butian took a closer look and said, "It seems so."
Jiang You traced the stroke with a wooden knife and said, "That's it."
"What will happen if I recharge my faith?" Tang Butian asked, following up on what he had said before.
"A new soul will be born." Jiang You returned the wooden sword to Tang Butian. He looked at her and said, "After all, this is the law of God's flesh and blood."
