Chapter 1175
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Chapter 1175 Fire Recurrence
At the entrance of the Night Watchers’ station in Linjiang City, a stretched Lincoln slowly started moving.
Wu Quan sat with his head lowered at the edge of the car seat, with Lin Qiye sitting beside him, constantly monitoring the surroundings with his mental power.
Lin Qiye looked up at the two motionless teenagers sitting on the opposite seat, then turned to Wu Quan:
“What’s going on with these two? Did you forcibly control them?”
Wu Quan shook his head, “No, although I can control their bodies, I can’t control their minds… I can only control tangible things.”
“Then this is…”
“Do you want to know?” Wu Quan looked into Lin Qiye’s eyes, “Me, Brother Qingzhu, and these two… the truth about that fire years ago, do you want to know?”
“Yes.”
“I can tell you, but you have to exchange it for information about Brother Qingzhu.”
Wu Quan’s expression was extremely serious, his eyes flickering with a faint light.
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes, “Is this… the purpose of your surrender? Just to know his whereabouts?”
“Does it matter?” Wu Quan asked in return,
“The current result is what you wanted. It doesn’t matter where you take me, as long as you tell me Brother Qingzhu’s whereabouts, I can guarantee I’ll stay quiet the whole way, without causing any trouble.”
Lin Qiye stared at him for a while, and finally nodded:
“Alright.”
Wu Quan was now classified as a superhuman, not an ordinary person, and considering his relationship with Shen Qingzhu, there was no need to hide things from him anymore.
“But I don’t trust words, I only trust what I see myself.” Behind Wu Quan, a black rope as thick as a thumb slithered out from the black chair like a snake, one end wrapping around his index fingertip, the other swaying in the air,
“This is the [Memory Worm]. By tying two people’s fingers together, one can see a specific part of the other’s memory. I’ll open my memories about the fire to you, and you open yours about Brother Qingzhu to me.”
Lin Qiye curiously examined the worm for a moment, and after confirming there were no issues, nodded:
“Alright.”
He extended his index finger and connected with the [Memory Worm]. The next moment, the scene around him rapidly distorted!
…
Two figures were running rapidly through a dim alley!
The crimson firelight illuminated the pitch-black night sky. Not far away, several buildings in the compound were completely engulfed in raging flames.
Lin Qiye’s perspective merged with young Wu Quan’s. He ran through the alley with his frail legs, trying his best to sprint, but could never catch up with the youth running ahead.
From the silhouette, that was undoubtedly Shen Qingzhu from four years ago.
Wu Quan followed Shen Qingzhu into the orphanage, stopping in the courtyard. They looked up, and the firelight cast their faces in red.
The small dormitory building before them was completely consumed by the sea of fire. Faintly, they could still hear the increasingly weak cries of children and Old Liu’s violent coughing.
And amid this raging fire, at the top of the small dormitory, a distorted face made of flames appeared intermittently.
“What the hell is that thing…” Shen Qingzhu frowned at the flame face, his expression extremely grave.
Eleven-year-old Wu Quan, protected behind Shen Qingzhu, stared at the fire face in terror, his small face pale.
As the two were frightened by this eerie sight, the children’s cries from inside gradually disappeared, and the coughing grew extremely faint, leaving only the crackling sound of flames licking the building echoing in the empty courtyard.
Shen Qingzhu’s face grew increasingly grim.
“Wait here! I’m going to save them!”
He gritted his teeth, picked up a hot iron rod from nearby, and ignoring the fire face above, plunged headfirst into the sea of flames without hesitation!
However, as soon as he reached the entrance of the dormitory, tentacle-like fire snakes extended from the flames, quickly grabbing for his limbs.
Shen Qingzhu’s eyes narrowed. Gripping the iron rod and relying on years of fighting experience and battle instinct, he nimbly dodged several tentacles. Just then, a flame-wrapped support pillar shot out from inside the building, hitting him squarely in the chest!
Thud—!
With a dull sound, Shen Qingzhu flew backward like a broken kite and crashed heavily to the ground.
“Brother Qingzhu!!” Wu Quan shouted, quickly running to his side.
Blood trickled from Shen Qingzhu’s mouth as he struggled to stand, supporting himself with both hands on the ground, but several fire snakes had already slithered to his front.
A look of determination flashed in Wu Quan’s eyes. He quickly picked up the iron rod from the ground and stood in front of Shen Qingzhu. With strength from an unknown source, he forcefully beat back two fire snakes.
“Watch out!” Shen Qingzhu tackled Wu Quan to the ground, avoiding the attacks of several more fire snakes. If he had been half a second later, Wu Quan’s body would likely have had several more holes in it.
He glared at Wu Quan beneath him and shouted:
“Are you trying to get yourself killed?!”
Wu Quan lay on the ground, lips tightly pressed together, the firelight dancing in the reflection of his eyes, his young face full of stubbornness.
Shen Qingzhu glared angrily at the eerie face above the fire, grabbed the now-bent iron rod from the ground, and charged like a madman directly toward the third-floor rooftop.
He stepped on the edge of the rooftop, briefly soaring into the air, his sharp eyes filled with ferocity, raising the iron rod in his hand to smash down on the fiery face before him!
Whoosh—!
The iron rod passed through the flame face as if it were nothing; physical attacks had no effect on it.
Shen Qingzhu’s pupils contracted sharply as he lost his support in midair and plunged headfirst into the sea of fire below.
“Brother Qingzhu!!”
Seeing this, tears uncontrollably streamed from Wu Quan’s eyes, his heart-wrenching cries echoing through the sky.
At the same time, strands of chaotic black light rippled around him, and his anxious eyes took on a blackness, becoming deep and mysterious!
Just as he was desperately trying to rush into the fire, a roar came from within the flames!
A vacuum domain swept through the surroundings, sucking out all the air in the courtyard. The flames covering the building and the eerie fire face in the sky instantly vanished without a trace.
An unprecedented feeling of suffocation enveloped Wu Quan, making him dizzy and nearly causing him to collapse. Fortunately, this suffocation lasted less than two seconds before the air returned.
Black embers swirled in the hot air. Among the ruins, a figure slowly stood up.
He picked up a child from the rubble and staggered forward, but after just two steps, he tripped and fell.
Wu Quan quickly crossed the debris-strewn ground and ran to Shen Qingzhu. His clothes were now in tatters, his face covered in soot. Even as he fell, he still tightly protected the child in his arms.
“Wu Quan…” Shen Qingzhu spoke hoarsely, one hand trembling as he grabbed Wu Quan’s clothes, looking at him in a daze,
“Quickly save them… the ambulance will be here soon… our brothers and sisters… none of them can die…”
With those words, the mentally exhausted Shen Qingzhu passed out on the spot.
“Brother Qingzhu!”
Wu Quan shouted, immediately checking his breathing, and only slightly relaxed after confirming he was still alive.
But when his hand touched the nose of the child in Shen Qingzhu’s arms, his body trembled almost imperceptibly!
No breathing, no heartbeat…
He pried open the child’s mouth, which was full of smoke and dust.
The child was dead.
He had died before Shen Qingzhu rescued him.
Wu Quan knelt in the deathly silent ruins, staring at the unconscious Shen Qingzhu and the dead child he had so firmly protected, completely dumbfounded.
