Chapter 187

The soul lingered in the dark abyss for an unknown time.

On the eve of a complete mental breakdown.

Vanessa waited for the light after all.

Slowly open your eyes, and you see the ceiling of the hospital intensive care unit you saw not long ago.

It should be night. The light embedded in the ceiling is not dazzling. At least in Vanessa's view, this light makes her feel at ease.

Covered with soft bedding, the warmth all over made her subconsciously recall the cold she had experienced in her dream, and then it was difficult to restrain herself to produce a feeling of happiness.

Although not long ago she calmly faced "death", now she still mumbles in her heart.

Living is really a happy thing.

When she woke up, her confused thoughts were gradually sorted out, and Vanessa began to think about why she was here.

BIU~BIU~BIU~

A slight shooting sound came into her ear from the bedside, Vanessa turned her cheek, and the question in her mind about how to escape was answered.

I don't know when a recliner was added beside the hospital bed. Someone was leaning on it, holding an old-fashioned game console in his hand, playing with the buttons in high spirits.

There was also a naive orange cat in his arms. No matter whether he could understand it or not, he just opened his stomach, stared at the screen with wide glasses, shouted twice from time to time, pushed two small short legs on the man's stomach and rubbed his chin with his forehead.

Vanessa wanted to tell him about her awakening.

Just opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything. He narrowed his eyes, pretended to be in a coma, and looked carefully at the man guarding the bedside.

"He should have just returned from his dream. He can play games here so leisurely. It seems that the sealing work is very smooth... His hair is a little long. It's estimated that he hasn't cut it for some time. Did he come to help when he came back from the wilderness?"

Somehow, the thoughts in Vanessa's mind were always spreading out uncontrollably. At first, she was still thinking about sealing the evil things. Soon, her eyes fell on the face that was supposed to hit some good equipment and giggling. Immediately, there was only this scene left in her eyes, and there was nothing else.

"Am I handsome?"

Suddenly, the head asked without answering.

"Um... Um?"

Vanessa subconsciously answered, and then she came back to herself, silently closed her eyes and buried her head in the quilt.

This bastard!

After waiting for a few seconds, I didn't hear Xu Jiu speak, but a strong smell of meat floated in.

Vanessa is undoubtedly a "hard" bone, but her intestines and stomach, which haven't eaten seriously for a few days because of her dream, rebelled first.

The belly screams like thunder. I'm afraid I can hear it clearly across a quilt.

Can only abandon oneself to lift the quilt and struggle to get up.

The long absence of exercise and the sequelae of the long separation of soul and body made Vanessa sour and frown when she acted. In the end, she just moved up and stopped moving.

"Now I know the pain. Isn't it brave to rush to the dream world?"

Xu Jiu, who put down the game console, got up, took a pillow and put it behind Vanessa's neck, then put a straw into the thermos and handed it to her. She asked angrily.

"Time is pressing. I was influenced by evil and was the most suitable candidate."

Vanessa took a sip of broth and soon found a warm current flowing down her throat to all parts of her body. The previous feeling of acid swelling subsided a lot for a time. She couldn't help but go to see Xu Jiu.

"You're lucky with the soup made of invasive alien animal meat. I still have some left over."

This broth is much more useful than any tonic on the market now.

"Has the evil seal been sealed?"

Barely regaining some strength, she held the thermos in her hand. Vanessa asked again,

"What about the rest of the seal team? How are they doing?"

"Of course, how else could you lie here unharmed... Other people are OK. Their lives are saved, but some of them are expected to suffer. You should also feel something different. Listen to them. I'm afraid you can't participate in the task of evil seal for a while."

Two people ask and answer.

Xu Jiu quickly described what had happened before.

When the broth in the thermos bottomed out, the ward became quiet gradually.

Looking back on her previous experience, Vanessa's mood dropped visibly, and she said in a muffled voice,

"We still underestimated the power of evil... Xu Jiu, do you think Wusu city can escape this disaster?"

"It depends on whether your people can find them before they recover their power. Those monsters are really troublesome to deal with."

Xu Jiu knows Vanessa's character. Naturally, there is no need to hide her.

Rao is Xu Jiu. He doesn't dare to say that he is 100% sure of the evil deeds of the seal. After all, their ability is really incredible. If you don't pay attention, you may get caught.

Seeing Vanessa drooping her head, Xu Jiu said helplessly,

"Hey, you managed to escape from death. You didn't have a good body, so you began to worry about Wusu city again... When the sky fell, a tall man supported it. Where do you need to carry it?"

"I'm the lieutenant colonel of the different adjustment Bureau. The people guarding Wusu city are..."

Vanessa subconsciously explained, and half of her words were interrupted by a face that suddenly appeared in front of her.

Xu Jiu squatted by the hospital bed, looked sideways at Vanessa and asked with a smile,

"You should not be as tall as me. When I can't hold it, how about you think about going up by yourself?"

"You..."

Words choked in her throat. After a while, Vanessa whispered,

"I must be taller than you in high heels."

"... I'm gone. It hurts my self-esteem. If I don't talk like this, Fuling, let's stay away from this bad woman!"

Xu Jiu turned his eyes and said hello. Fu Ling immediately jumped up from the cane chair next to him and fell on the former's shoulder.

No one goes out without looking back.

Vanessa pursed her mouth and looked at Xu Jiu's back. She silently counted three, two and one.

Xu Jiu's figure did not flash out at the door as expected. Vanessa looked around to find her mobile phone, but she had only a set of sick clothes and no pocket for her mobile phone at all.

When I raised my hand, I was about to lift the quilt and get out of bed, but as soon as my foot stretched out, there was another wave of light and shadow by the bed.

"There seems to be a very good restaurant in the middle of the city. There is a half price discount tonight. Why don't you have a meal before you go back."

Xu Jiu took her mobile phone, turned to the web page and talked to herself. Suddenly, she seemed to notice something. She looked back at Vanessa, who had half of her body outside, with a surprised face,

"What's the matter with you? I'm not going to take you to eat... Are you so hungry?"

Silence.

Vanessa stared at Xu Jiu. A force appeared in her tired body and raised her hand to the latter.

Xu Jiu pretended to block, but found that his palm was just on his shoulder, and then a warm body leaned over.

"I want to eat, you carry me."

Leaning on Xu Jiu's shoulder, Vanessa whispered in his ear.

"Well, I don't care, but are you sure you don't change your clothes first?"

Twisting her waist and rubbing her back and forth, Xu Jiu immediately heard the exclamation behind her. Before she became angry, she got up and took clothes from the counter next to her and put them by the bed. She walked out leisurely.

Fifteen minutes later.

Hospital gate.

Xu Jiu carries Vanessa on her back and walks on the sidewalk.

The rain stopped in the afternoon. The cold night wind swept the street and scattered Vanessa's ponytail. Her hair was scattered on Xu Jiu's cheek, because she had just washed it in the bathroom of the ward, with a touch of fragrance.

Vanessa leaned on Xu Jiu's back. The latter seemed to be in a good mood. She hummed a strange tune. After a short hesitation, she still leaned close to his ear and whispered,

"Thank you for coming to save me. I'm still standing by when I'm unconscious..."

Vanessa, who was born in a welfare home, doesn't know where her parents are. Colonel Zongze, the only relative, is also cultivating.

"How are you going to repay the favor?"

"I'm not going to repay you."

"Hum, if you want to rely on me, you will pay the price!"

"I'll lie!"

With a little rare simplicity in her tone, Vanessa, who let herself go, turned her mouth,

"What can you do with me?"

Oh~

Because there was really no place to stay, Fu Ling, who could only choose to lie on Xu Jiu's head, turned his head and called back, as if to support his master.

Vanessa was stunned for two seconds and immediately chuckled.

Carrying her back, Xu Jiu laughed and began to run forward.

Not far ahead is the brightly lit commercial street in the central city.

......

After having a meal with Vanessa, Xu Jiu did not stay in the hospital after returning the person to the ward, but chose to contact Wang Fulin and return to Wushan gathering point with his empty boat.

Vanessa needs a quiet environment to rest. With the careful care of medical staff, she naturally doesn't need Xu Jiu's escort.

What's more, Xu Jiu has his own things to deal with right now.

For example, sort out the materials obtained from the secret society in the afternoon.

Although he has a cooperative relationship with the secret society at present, this does not mean that Xu Jiu is not wary of them.

It's too cautious to be cautious about the secret of his existence. In order to prevent the secret society from judging the things he pursues through his choice of information, Xu Jiu deliberately mixed many valuable information with some casually found content.

It was late at night when I returned to Wushan gathering point.

Xu Jiu didn't plan to burn the midnight oil. He didn't have to get over his hairline for these hours.

Many times, however, things don't always go what people want.

Just after taking a bath here, the door was knocked.

He put on his pajamas and went to open the door with a popsicle in his mouth. As soon as he came to the door, he heard golia's voice.

Because Gloria had asked herself for the source energy structure map before, Xu Jiu sent her a message when she came back, but if he remembered correctly, he should meet and talk tomorrow morning.

"It's almost 12 o'clock now. If I lose sleep later, I'll hang you on the balcony and blow the wind all night. How long have you been awake?"

With the door handle in his left hand and the popsicle in his right hand, Xu Jiu looked at golia outside the door in amazement.

Compared with the state when I set out for Wusu city two days ago, the woman standing in front of me at this time has no image.

He only wore a loose light blue work clothes, his hair was scattered on both sides of his cheeks, and his eyes were full of blood from staying up late for a long time. His face, which should have been tired, showed incomprehensible excitement.

"I succeeded! Guess is right, I cracked the password!"

Holding Xu Jiu's arm, Gloria said loudly.

At this time, Xu Jiu found that the latter was still carrying a wooden box in a plastic bag. Before he could speak, Gloria squeezed into the door and took him by the wrist to the living room,

"The item I mentioned to you before is the relic left by my master. I decoded it by relying on the part of the design drawings you gave me."

"So?"

Xu Jiu yawned and raised his feet to close the door.

"I want to prove to you that what I said before is true... In order to get more design drawings, I can share the secret hidden in that strange thing with you!"

I have to admit that Vanessa really has exaggerated patience when studying various technologies. Even if she seems to know that she has endured for a long time, she can still keep a clear idea when she speaks.

"Didn't you say you had finished deciphering?"

Xu Jiu is pushed to her position and looks at Gloria suspiciously.

"I'm just a preliminary decipherer. You'll know what I mean right away... Look."

Taking out the wooden box from the plastic bag and a pile of utensils under it, Gloria opened the wooden box like a child who scored 100 points in the exam and couldn't wait to show it.

Xu Jiu sighed and still cast his eyes on the past. With only one look, he didn't move away.

In the palm of goliato's hand is a brownish yellow "square" with full mechanical feeling. Its shape is somewhat similar to the magic cube often played by Xu Jiu in his previous life, but unlike the latter, there are a lot of exquisite structures on all sides of the "square", just like those mechanical watch disks.

After taking a big bite of the popsicle, Xu Jiu cheered up and watched gelia take out a special pair of adjustable magnifying glasses and a hand-painted design drawing from her arms. Immediately, she began to operate on the "square" with the appliance, and her mouth was still explaining to Xu Jiu,

"At first, I thought this was a souvenir left to me by the master. I didn't expect to find that the structure on it was very similar to the path of some source energy equipment when studying the source energy equipment. The facts proved that my guess was correct... Ah ~"

In the middle of the conversation, Gloria opened her mouth and made a long voice.

The intention is self-evident.

Xu Jiu rolled his eyes, got up, took a popsicle from the fridge, opened it and fed her.

"Hoo, it's comfortable. Look at the structure on this side. I can turn these parts into channels by changing their orifices."

Completely immersed in the research atmosphere, Gloria showed herself whether Xu Jiu wanted to listen or not.

Holding a small metal rod in each hand, stir up the structure of one side of the square.

Before long, a little glimmer was gradually released from it.

Click~

The crisp sound of machine operation sounded.

Xu Jiu looked at the mechanical structures that had been embedded in the surface of the "square" and suddenly operated upright.

A sudden mental shock.