The northern suburbs of Donghai City.

In a half-collapsed villa, several homeless people were disassembling the tables and chairs they had picked up and throwing them into the fire in front of them to keep warm.

And in the shadows not far behind them, Lin Xing's figure slowly emerged.

The spiritual thoughts in his sea surged out, turning into a delicate net and sweeping towards the entire villa area.

Collapsed walls, clumped weeds, ants running in the floor slabs, and basements soaked in all kinds of sewage came to his eyes.

In addition, you can see sliced buildings, smashed cars, and security doors that seem to have been torn open by wild animals......

There are all kinds of indications that there was a great war here, which caused the entire villa area to fall into ruins.

In the midst of this ruin, there are still some intact rooms that allow the homeless to hide in them.

At this moment, Lin Xing's gaze moved slightly: "Found it." ”

I saw his figure flash, and he had silently crossed the door of a basement.

As he moved on, the sewage that filled the basement seemed to be parted by an invisible force, revealing a dry, neat pathway.

After crossing the passage, the space in front of me suddenly became larger, and it turned out to be an artificially enlarged underground space.

At this moment, a man and a woman are resting on a shabby sofa with tired faces.

And with Lin Xing's action of lifting the sewage, the two of them immediately jumped up from the sofa like frightened mice, and looked in the direction where Lin Xing came in with a wary face.

Looking at the strange young man who walked in, the girl pulled out her dagger and seemed to be about to attack.

Lin Xing looked at the middle-aged man beside the girl with a face full of vicissitudes, and said lightly: "Six years have passed, and it seems that your fungus technique has indeed achieved something." But can be forced to be like this, is it because the third inheritance has not been completed? ”

Ma Hong, who was already full of gray hair, was stunned when he heard this, and reached out to stop the girl who wanted to attack on the side.

He remembered that six years ago, there was a man who called the power he had not yet mastered mycosm, but that man must have died on the moon.

And just when Ma Hong was thinking so, he found that he was still lying on the sofa, the girl on the side was still resting with her eyes closed, and the young man who had just appeared was gone.

Ma Hong rubbed his eyebrows: "I...... Dreaming? ”

Thinking back to the time when he was chased everywhere and fled from place to place, he showed a trace of bitterness on his face, wondering if he was too tired.

At this moment, the sound of flowing water sounded again.

"Six years on, it seems that your bacterium has indeed achieved something. But can be forced to be like this, is it because the third inheritance has not been completed? ”

Ma Hong listened to the other party say the exact same words, his eyes were slightly stunned, and then he reacted instantly, and a trace of shock flashed on his face: "Really...... Is it really you? ”

The girl beside him looked at Lin Xing vigilantly, and asked suspiciously, "Master, who is he?" ”

In the girl's mind, there was obviously no memory of the last time she met Lin Xing, and for her, this was the first time she had seen the young man in front of her.

Ma Hong looked at Lin Xing, who looked like a stranger in front of him, and the other party's actions just now, and could understand that the old man in front of him didn't want to reveal his identity.

So he thought for a moment and replied, "An old friend who can be trusted." ”

He looked at Lin Xing and asked, "Really?" ”

Lin Xing curiously looked at the underground space in front of him, looked at the pots and pans on the side and said, "The people of the new country are chasing after you?" ”

Ma Hong nodded helplessly: "I have been hiding in the suburbs of Donghai City for the past few years to conduct research. ”

"Since a few days ago, these guys didn't know where to find me, and they were desperately trying to catch me like crazy."

"They also have a lot of power in Donghai City, and there are many people in Xia Guo, even if I hid in several state institutions set up by Xia in Donghai City several times, they were also rushed in."

Thinking of this, Ma Hong couldn't help but sigh.

In the past, he was also an elder of Zhou Tianhui, the overlord of one side who was in charge of countless manpower and material resources.

But after the great changes in the world, more and more geniuses emerged and gradually caught up with him in the realm, and because he wanted to combine the technology of the present world to create a new power, the realm ascension became slower and slower, and now it was still the second inheritance, and he was chased by a group of juniors and fled everywhere.

Ma Hong continued: "Then I thought that since the great changes in the world, the population of Donghai City has skyrocketed, and many people with poor qualifications and who cannot find jobs have become homeless. ”

"There are a lot of these homeless people, and they are scattered in the ruins all over the city, and the current Xia Kingdom lacks resources to govern them, so they are extremely loosely managed, and there is little monitoring in the ruins."

"I hid among these homeless people, and I was able to escape tracking ...... for the time being."

Speaking of this, he looked at Lin Xing and said, "Who did you find me through?" ”

Lin Xing didn't answer, but said casually: "Next, you can go with me first, I will protect you." ”

Ma Hong's face was relieved when he heard this, and the whole person seemed to be relieved.

I saw him nod and readily agreed: "I'm relieved to have you." ”

The girl on the side frowned, looking at Lin Xing in front of her with a suspicious gaze.

At this moment, Lin Xing maintained the appearance of an ordinary young man, and he couldn't see the slightest toughness on his body, just like any passer-by on the street.

For her master Ma Hong trusting the young man in front of her so much, the girl was full of doubts.

"Master, the power of the new country in Donghai City is very huge, and there are super masters like heavenly beasts, will it be too dangerous for us to go out now?"

Ma Hong rubbed the girl's head dotingly: "Feixia, if he can't protect us, I'm afraid no one in this world can protect us." ”

When Lin Xing was once his enemy, Ma Hong felt that he was always oppressed by the other party, and he didn't ...... It should be said that the entire world was under the oppression of the other party, and all the masters in the world were suppressed by Lin Xing.

And at this moment, instead of being an enemy of Lin Xing, but getting the assistance of the other party, that invisible oppressive force turned into a full sense of security, so that he no longer had the fear of the previous few days.

Duan Feixia had never seen this master of her own trust someone so much, and looked at Lin Xing in surprise: "Are you from the Xia Kingdom?" Can you use a lot of people to pick us up? ”

Lin Xing said lightly: "I'm enough alone." ”

"Let's go."

Looking at Lin Xing, who turned to leave, Duan Feixia became more and more puzzled in her heart, but out of trust in her master, she still obediently followed her master out of the basement.

Lin Xing, who walked out of the basement, suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky: "Ma Hong, prepare to speed up and leave." ”

Ma Hong asked, "Is it someone from the new country who is chasing after you?" ”

Lin Xing walked forward quickly: "More troublesome things." ”

"Now is not the time to confront him head-on."

Next, Ma Hong and his disciples followed Lin Xing all the way, first leaving the abandoned villa area and coming to the side of the commercial street, and after turning left and right for a while, they came to a community.

After waiting for ten minutes in the underground garage of the complex, they left the complex and walked to another shopping street.

Just stopped and stopped all the way, constantly detouring, and what surprised Duan Feixia was that there was no pursuit along the way.

She couldn't help but think in her heart: "What's going on? Walking around so openly and brightly, no one chased after us, did the people of the new country give up chasing and killing us? ”

At the same time, in the abandoned villa area on the other side, not long after Lin Xing and the three left, a tiny pillar of light suddenly fell from the sky, and then instantly covered the entire villa area, and then disappeared in an instant.

It's like a flash of light, illuminating every corner inside and outside the villas, so fast that people can't react.

The homeless man who was cooking the fire was flickered by the light and couldn't help but close his eyes.

But just as he closed his eyes, the firelight that was still flickering just now seemed to slow down a little bit, and the originally erratic firelight became slower and slower, slower and slower, and finally turned into a frozen state.

Not only the firelight, but the homeless man still closed his eyes and remained motionless, the ants that were still crawling back and forth in the floor just now seemed to have pressed the pause button, and even the weeds blown by the cold wind outside the house stopped at the moment when they were blown down.

Everything in the entire abandoned neighborhood seems to freeze in the moment when the flash of light sweeps by, showing an eerie stillness, which contrasts sharply with the noisy streets around it.

And in this stagnant abandoned community, a paper crane does not know where it appears, but it flutters flexibly in this static world.

The crane floated slowly past the homeless man's room, flew all the way down the hallway, drilled through the jelly-like sewage, and finally circled the underground space where Mahon's master and apprentice had just been hiding.

"Did you get out of the way in advance?"

"But since even I can dodge in advance, doesn't it mean that you made the move...... Lin Xing......"

The next moment, the paper crane had disappeared without a trace, and the abandoned community that had just fallen into a stillness seemed to come back to life.

The weeds shook back and forth in the wind.

The firelight continued to flicker in the night.

But the homeless man's closed eyes never opened, and the ants that fell into stillness also remained still, as if they had completely lost their breath of life.

There was a soft clatter, and another homeless man standing in front of the fire fell forward, and the upper part of his body had fallen into the flames, engulfed in flames.

But he remained motionless like a corpse, letting the flames scorch him without the slightest struggle.

Until the flames were extinguished, everyone at the scene was completely hidden in the darkness.

Just like this abandoned villa area, it is engulfed in the shadow of Tokai City and no one notices.

……

The other end of Tokai City.

Mo Xingyao's home.

Duan Feixia kept pinching her fingers, and her big eyes kept looking at the dormitory in front of her, and she said, "Is it really okay for us to live here so openly?" ”

Lin Xing waved his hand and said, "I asked Xiao Mo, she doesn't mind two more people living in." ”

"But the bed is still hers, you have a sofa seat, and a bunk can be chosen."

Duan Feixia bit her lip, stared at Lin Xing and said, "I didn't mean this, I meant ...... This is the dormitory of the Institute of Quantum Intelligence, right? There is surveillance everywhere, and there are many people in the Xia Kingdom who have taken refuge in the new country. ”

Lin Xing said casually: "Don't worry, the monitoring here has been handled by Xiao Mo, and there will be no information from us to pass it out, but then don't leave this room unless necessary." ”

After explaining casually, Lin Xing looked at Ma Hong and asked, "You...... Can you contact Shangjing Shiyu? ”

Ma Hong sighed, looked at the night outside the window and said slowly: "Miss Jing has been supporting my research for the past six years, and she is very concerned about the progress of the development of mycology. ”

"Including my newly created scientific research skills, biological sublimation, and new mastery, she will personally inquire about it."

"Even after she left, she actually kept in touch with me."

"Basically, once a week, I talk to her about the latest development plans and the resources needed to submit."

"But since a month ago, I haven't been able to contact her again."

"Without her support, the development of the project has come to a standstill, and there is no way, after I waited for a month, I tried to contact some acquaintances a few days ago, Mo Xingyao is one of them, you should have found me through her, right?"

Speaking of this, Ma Hong frowned helplessly: "But I don't know which other person has revealed the news, and the people of Xinguo have begun to track me." ”

Lin Xing asked, "Did anything noteworthy happen before Jing Shiyu lost contact with you?" ”

Duan Feixia on the side also listened carefully to Ma Hong's words.

Jing Shiyu in Duan Feixia's eyes is easy and well-organized no matter what kind of situation she handles, and she has always been a strong woman she admires.

Ma Hong narrowed his eyes, and a strange look appeared on his face: "It's true that there is a strange thing, but it may be that I heard it wrong." ”

Lin Xing asked, "What?" ”

Ma Hong said slowly: "During the last call, I heard another person's voice on her side, saying that he wanted to ...... I want Miss Jing to marry her. ”

Lin Xing frowned and wondered, "Can you tell who that person is?" ”

Ma Hong shook his head: "I don't know, I only know...... It sounded like a female voice. ”

She also said something as if it was...... I'm disgusted with you too, I just want to turn the three of us into a family through you......"

Then Miss Jing seemed to be very angry, and they quarreled, and the call was disconnected.

(End of chapter)