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Chapter 5: The Unrestrained Airspace
The crescent Moon has risen in the night sky.
The bell for the ending of evening self-study class rang. The students walked out of the classroom in twos and threes, talking and laughing among themselves under the illuminated crescent moon. This is their most relaxed time after the suffering for almost whole day.
There will be no homework or rebuking of teacher after this evening study time.Only surrounded by a few friends to chat on the way to home and after getting into a warm bath can they comfortably climb onto bed to rest, is this not bliss.?
In this scattered crowd, a large team of more than a dozen people moving out of the school compund, neat and steadily toward the school gate.
In the center of this crowd, a young man wrapped in black satin in the eye is looking like a stuffing meat of a dumpling, wrapped tightly.
Such a large team immediately attracted the attention of all the students around.
“Actually… I can walk back myself, believe me!” Lin Qiye’s mouth was slightly twitching by watching their overprotectiveness towards him. Lin Qiye helplessly said by slightly opening his mouth, “I can see slighly by perceiving shadows around me, but my eyes can not endure the light…”
“Don’t say anything about it,classmate Lin!” Jiang Qian interrupted Lin Qiye’s words, and said in stern words, “We promised your aunt that we would take good care of you, and we will do it!”
“Yes! and Lin Qiye,he is right as our houses are in the same direction so it will be on the way.”said another student.
“I’m on my way, too.”
Lin Qiye:……
Honestly he prefers to stay isolated from other.Being in the dark for a long time feels familiar. He is not used to this feeling of being cared by too many people, which makes him feel quite uncomfortable.
Of course, Aunt and Yang Jin do not count in his introverted nature because they are his family.
But seeing that they were showing kindness earnestly towards him, he could not say anything to them and could only follow with the crowd and move forward.
“I’m going to turn right at that corner ahead of me, but I can walk with you a little longer.”
“I’m about to turn here, see you tomorrow.”
“See you tomorrow.”
“……”
As they were moving farther away from the school, the students around Lin Qiye began to diminish.One by one they said goodbye to him and left when they found that they were near their respective way to home. A few minutes later, Lin Qiye’s side had only five people.
The original noisy atmosphere was gradually became quiet. The space around Lin Qiye soon become abundant and he breathed a long sigh of relief.
” Say… Will the mist really rise again and swallow up Bactria?” Li Yifei carrying a bag curiously turned his head and asked.
“Didn’t you listen to the experts? The probability of fog recovery is very small, perhaps for the last hundred years the situation will not change, as for how will be after a hundred years… We won’t be around then anyway, so why bother?” Jiang Qian rolled her eyes.
“Jiang Qian, you know that experts often highlight how unreliable things can be; if we truly accepted that reality, we might realize that summer was consumed by fog rather than lost in an explosion of experiences.”
“So that’s why you’re just messing around and not concentrating on your studies?” Jiang Qian walked to Li Yifei in front of, “I have to remind you, teacher Wang has said that if you take the last place in this exam, you will move the table to the edge of the podium.”
“I know, I know.” Li Yifei smiled.
“But I really don’t think the fog will come back.” Walking in front Wang Shao suddenly added, “After all, the fog is just a natural phenomenon.After reaching a certain critical intensity, it will gradually subside.Just like the ice age when the glacier covers the land. As the temperature rises, it will slowly subside and a new era will follow.”
“I know what you mean by that, isn’t it called the natural disaster theory? There’s a lot of recognition now.” Jiang Qian nodded.
“And what if… this fog is not a natural phenomenon?” At this time Lin Qiye who had been silent all the way suddenly opened his mouth.
Wang Shao was stunned at first, and then smiled: “Lin Qiye, you don’t really believe those so-called theologians’ remarks that this fog is related to supernatural forces?”
“It’s the 21st century. We have to believe in science.There are no gods and ghosts in this materialistic world.” A student named Liu Yuan interjected.
Lin Qiye did not answer whether there was anything in the world beyond the understanding of science. He knew it best in his heart but there was no need to say these things to outsiders.
“I think the world would be more interesting if there were such things,” Li Yifei muttered.
“Why so much useless discussion is going on?These things are not our concern.Rather than obsessing over whether the fog will recover, it is better to wait until the survival Day three-day holiday to sleep in the reality.” Jiang Qian smiled.
“Yes, holidays are the real thing!”
…
At the moment, the old town of Cangnan City.
A man is carrying a sign, calmly walking in the lonely and dim street, the old street lights shed dim light, will elongate his back…
He glanced at his phone, walked to a narrow street corner, and stopped.
“This is it…”
He muttered, lowered the sign from his shoulder, and straightened it.
Under the flashing street lamp, the shadow of the sign flickered and flickered, and on the black background, several bright red characters stood out!
The man leaned under the street lamp, lit himself a cigarette, took a hard inhale, and turned on his headset.
“Captain, the third sign is in place.”
“Roger that. Here we go.”
“HMM.”
With a cigarette in his mouth, the man stepped in front of the sign, put his thumb on the tip of his teeth, and gave it a hard bite!
A drop of blood beads spilled from the wound, the man squatted down, with a bloody thumb in the “front prohibited” four characters on a long horizontal line!
His eyes solidified, an inexplicable momentum to him as the center burst out!
He looked up at the dark night sky and murmured in a voice that only he could hear…
“Forbidden market, [no ring airspace].”
The next moment, the bright red blood stains on the sign in front of him quickly faded, as if it had been absorbed, and then, the four big words “No ahead” flashed red!
And then gradually restore the original.
The man sat down on the ground with a long sigh of relief and some complaints.
“Shit, it’s gutted again…”
At this moment, if someone looks down on Cangnan City from the sky, they will find that near the old city, three lights flash, and then with these three lights as the apex, quickly outline a dark red equilateral triangle!
At the moment the triangle was formed, the covered half of the old city was like being erased from the map, gradually disappearing…
From the ground, however, the old town is still the same old town.
At the same time, in the center of this triangle, six black and red cloaks streak across the sky like lightning!
The man at the head looked up at the dark red sky and reached behind him and grasped the handle of the knife, his eyes narrowing slightly.
“Operation Ghost Face Purge, begin.”
