novelsite Chapter 230 It's you again!
Chapter 230 It's you again!
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Jiang Xingni's pupils contracted slightly.
She kept her attention focused on controlling the fire in front of her to prevent it from spreading to the entire building.
Jiang Xingnian could see that the strange creature in front of him did not occupy the entire building.
However, it was far beyond the scope of Jiang Xingni's own home.
In order to avoid harming innocent people—it's hard to say how many people in the lower city are "innocent"—Jiang Xingni still had to devote some of his energy to controlling the flames in front of him, and another part of his energy to keeping an eye on his partner next to him.
Soon, Jiang Xingni spotted a figure amidst the raging flames.
Shanqing did not die.
Shan Qing is certainly not dead.
After all, it was Shanqing who suggested setting the whole house on fire; she had no intention of committing suicide yet.
However, she didn't have time to escape through the window like Shantang and the others.
She was closest to the wall, and her whole body was pulled into it by the black flesh. Apart from the corrosive rotten flesh—the good news is that the equipment of the 49th Bureau was really good quality, at least better than the piece of black cloth that Jiang Xingni had just found. The cloth on Jiang Xingni's calves had been almost completely corroded, but the equipment of Shan Qing and his group did not seem to be damaged too badly—it was just the suffocating feeling of the wall.
Squeezed by bricks and cement, even with strange creatures sharing the pressure, it was still not something that Shan Qing could easily endure.
Moreover, when Shanqing opened her mouth to speak and try to direct the situation, a lot of rotten juice almost fell into her mouth through the mask.
There wasn't much time left for Shan Qing to hesitate.
She had no choice but to set the entire mountain ablaze, burning down the entire ghost town, along with Jiang Qishi and Ji Hanzhang's homes.
Setting fire to the monster without eliminating it completely will only provoke its wrath even greater.
Right now, their only target is Jiang Qishi and his group. But once their anger level rises, they might even threaten Jiang Qishi's neighbors.
The belongings of the dead, and the living.
After silently apologizing a few times, Shan Qing resolutely chose to live.
And so it is what it is now.
She believed that with Jiang Xingni's help, Shan Lan and Jiang Xingni together would definitely be able to burn the entire monster to ashes.
Shanlan also focused his efforts on making sure the burning fire just went around Shanqing.
Since he started the fire himself, building a temporary safe zone wouldn't be too much trouble.
The cooked meat gradually shrank, and finally the whole piece of meat, which was rotten and dripping with putrid juice, was burned into black charcoal.
The overwhelming stench spread through the air.
After rotting, it was burned, and it smelled quite like a corpse that had been rotting for who knows how long and might have been enormous, roasted.
"Who's having a barbecue? Wait a minute..." Someone poked their head out of the window, covering their nose in disgust. "What kind of barbecue skills do they have? The meat smells so bad!"
When the man peeked out, he saw Jiang Xingni and his group standing side by side downstairs.
Even in the lower city, it's not uncommon to see a group of people who are all covered up and look well-equipped, not like they're cosplayers.
When the neighbor peeked out, he made eye contact with Jiang Xingni.
Although the neighbors couldn't see Jiang Xingni's face through the mask and hood, Jiang Xingni could see his face clearly. They weren't particularly close, and it couldn't be said that he took good care of Jiang Xingni after he lost his parents.
However, he did not take advantage of her misfortune, and occasionally he would lend a helping hand to the little girl who was alone.
This is precious enough for an orphan living alone.
The neighbor abruptly stopped mid-sentence, glanced at them silently a few more times, and then quietly closed the window.
Pretend that you didn't see anything and didn't say anything.
Only after the neighbor closed the window did Shanqing jump down from the charred, almost collapsing window frame.
Even if the 49th Bureau is well-equipped and has the protection of Shanlan, it doesn't mean that her equipment will remain as good as new after being beaten by walls, tentacles, and flames.
—Then the superhumans should investigate how the 49th Bureau's equipment was made.
After being scorched by the flames, Shan Qing jumped down, covered in soot.
Just outside the window was a small alley, which was dimly lit even though it wasn't daytime.
Several homeless men glanced at them warily, then wisely withdrew, not wanting to invite trouble.
"The monster has been chasing us," Shan Qing murmured.
She took the well-preserved original document out of her backpack and handed it to Yamasumi.
"My equipment is worn out too quickly," she said succinctly. "It's safer with you."
Yamasumi nodded.
Then Shanqing made further preparations.
The two files, which had already been scanned into electronic versions, were uploaded to the storage devices of the teammates nearby.
I have backed up several copies, both in the cloud and locally.
"Do you think these monsters are here for the information you found?" Jiang Xingni asked thoughtfully, watching Shan Qing's actions. "Lu Ming doesn't have any information on him."
To be honest, Jiang Xingni didn't think so.
So far, none of the monsters they've encountered in the lower city seem to possess the intelligence to recognize the importance of the data, and their primary objective during the fights isn't protecting the data in their hands.
Besides, this information had been in the lower city for nearly ten years. If it had really been targeted, a monster like the one that walks through walls today could have stolen it long ago.
Back then, young Jiang Xingni didn't have any special abilities, much less the ability to protect her parents' belongings from the monsters she's in now.
If they really wanted to steal it, it would have been much easier to do so back then than it is now.
However, these things cannot be directly told to Shan Qing and the others.
If their goal wasn't the data... Jiang Xingni's gaze fell on Shan Qing and the others.
That can only be them.
"Isn't that right?" Shan Qing was about to retort when she suddenly realized the implied meaning in Jiang Xingni's words.
I didn't come here for the information.
I came for them.
Strange creatures rarely think.
Someone is manipulating things behind the scenes.
The direction they are now investigating has already threatened someone.
Seeing Shan Qing deep in thought, Jiang Xing glanced at the corners of his lips and subtly curled them into a smile beneath his mask.
She also had her own guesses about the organization behind it—since it's just a comic book plot, it's always safe to blame the villains in the comics when something like this happens—VOID.
But for the same familiar reason, Jiang Xingni could only guide the conversation, not say it directly.
"And..." she whispered. "Was it really true that all traces of Jiang Qishi and Ji Hanzhang were erased after their deaths?"