Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 304 294. Rescue

The bright light tends to soften, and the orange sunset sinks into the horizon.

Dean returned to Jonathan's home in the suburbs with his five children. As soon as he opened the door, he heard an urgent ringing of the phone, and Will hurried over to pick up the phone.

"Joyce?"

"Will, where are you? I called several times but no one answered!" A woman's voice of relief and hysterical questioning came from the phone.

Will looked at Dean, and when he saw his index finger raised to his mouth, he said vaguely, "I'm going to ask Dustin and the others to help find my brother..."

"Please, baby, don't run away! Jonathan hasn't been found yet. If something happens to you again, I don't know what to do!"

"Okay, I promise!"

"I will stay at the police station for a while before I come back. There is dinner in the refrigerator. Can you prepare it yourself?"

……

"Mrs. Joyce is so scary, like an erupting volcano." Dustin patted his chest and said, "My mother is still gentle."

Mike immediately retorted, "If you disappear, I'm sure your mother will be even crazier than Joyce, and she might pull out all the fur from your naughty cat."

Dustin shook his head, "That's impossible, she raised Miaomiao like a child."

"Okay, be quiet and get down to business." Dean walked through the corridor, activated his skills and looked around to monitor the nodes in the room.

"No need to look for it, Jonathan is right here." Jane took his hand and ran to the bedroom, pointing to the wall.

But when Dean activated his skills, he discovered that the space nodes were as vast as a sky full of stars, including hundreds of unstable nodes. Dean could not determine which ones led to the upside-down world and which ones pointed to the endless void.

Just try your luck.

He selected a node based on intuition, and moved his hands from top to bottom, like unzipping a sports suit, to pull out a gap that was two meters long and one meter wide and could accommodate an adult.

The five children immediately opened their mouths like funny wax figures.

Dustin sucked his baby teeth excitedly, "Is there a starry sky here, a black blond?"

Lucas was as serious as a scientist, "Don't you think this is dangerous? It's like a monster's big mouth."

Mike looked at Jane, "It's so dangerous, is Jonathan really inside?"

Jane's brows condensed into caterpillars and she shook her head, "This is different from what I saw. It's not an upside-down world."

Will couldn't help but put his head towards the crack and shouted,

"Jonathan! Are you there? Can you hear me?"

"He's not in there."

Dean stretched out his hand to close the crack leading to the void, turned his eyes, picked out the second node again, opened it, and cycled...

But he was really not lucky enough. He opened five space cracks in succession in the bedroom, which consumed nearly half of the energy in his body. In the end, all he found were cracks leading to the void.

However, the ability has been slightly improved - Skill lv0 (3→4/100)

Seeing the owner's troubled look, Qiandian, who was hiding in his pocket, immediately used his rich experience to solve the problem. "You didn't know the coordinates of the world, so you just gambled your luck and searched for it. You exhausted all your energy ten times and still couldn't find it. You need people." You point the way."

Dean raised his eyebrows, "Who?"

"Jonathan's brother Will, you can do this..."

After hearing this, Dean looked at the children with serious eyes, "There is only a door that turns the world upside down between us and Jonathan, but the location of this door is hidden very deeply. There is no link between me and him to locate it. Never found."

"What is a link?" Will clasped his hands on his chest and asked with a pale face.

"A kind of mutual induction that can transcend time and space." Dean stared at Will's eyes and said slowly according to Qian'an's explanation, "And you and Jonathan are brothers and have a good relationship. You are connected by blood. A deep emotional bond, maybe you can create that link.”

Will seemed to have received some kind of revelation. He trotted into Jonathan's bedroom, took out a tape of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the drawer, and played it. The ambiguous and smooth melody like body fluids reverberated throughout the house. .

"Jonathan, can you hear me? This is our favorite song. Just three nights ago, we sat on the edge of the bed and listened to it five times!"

"You asked me to keep it a secret, and then secretly revealed that you have a girl you like...but she doesn't like you..."

"Can you hear me? Answer me!"

……

The pendulum-like melody is mixed with childish roars.

The four children outside the bedroom exchanged complicated looks.

"Does this work? Jonathan can hear music across two worlds?"

Dean frowned. In his skill perception, the spatial nodes did not change at all.

"One-sided contact is not enough to affect time and space..." Qian Quan's voice rang in his mind, "Will needs Jonathan to respond. The two brothers have to talk to each other!"

After hearing this, Dean sat on the sofa in the living room, closed his eyes and entered the dark space of his mind, searching for Jonathan.

In this dark realm, Dean's image is no different from the state of his soul. His body changes like gas, radiating brilliant colors like an aurora.

Under the illumination of the aurora, he quickly found Jonathan in the thick black fog, wearing a tattered down jacket and carrying a broken camera on his chest.

The guy held his knees with his hands, his face was sickly pale, his wide-open eyes were bloodshot, and he was trembling nervously, as if there was a huge danger hidden nearby.

In the darkness of his mind, Dean couldn't help shouting at him,

"Jonathan, do something!"

"Answer Will!"

Dean's past experience has proven that the black area of ​​​​the mind can only be used to search and observe the target. Even if the target is found, he cannot talk to or shake hands with the other party, and cannot have any substantial contact or communication, just like there is an insurmountable natural chasm between them.

But this time after Dean shouted, he saw Jonathan standing up from the ground and looking suspiciously into the air around him.

"Dean, are you talking?"

Dean was shocked when he heard the sound. What happened? The black area in his mind could suddenly talk to the target?

He continued to use telepathy to confirm,

"Can you hear me?"

"Yes! But where are you, I can't see you!" Jonathan in the dark patted his temple in annoyance, "Am I hallucinating?"

"This is not an auditory hallucination. I am in another world that is upside down with you. Of course you can't see me. Can you feel it?" Dean tried to stretch out his colorful palm and pinch Jonathan's neck.

The latter immediately gritted his teeth in pain, and a red mark was clearly visible on his fair neck, "Who?"

Dean couldn't help but laugh, and then gradually figured out the reason for the change in the dark area in his mind.

The black field of the mind is essentially projecting part of one's soul and consciousness through the black field to the vicinity of the target at a long distance for observation, which is the so-called teleportation.

Therefore, when the power of the projected soul is weak, you can only watch on the sidelines. As the power increases, you will naturally be able to further make substantial contact with the target.

Not long ago, Dean's will and spirit both exceeded 25 points. His soul was greatly strengthened, and he could even leave his body and "leave the body" at will. The dark area of ​​​​his mind was also strengthened. No, it was simply an epic evolution.

Dean's heart suddenly surged with a lot of inspiration.

In the future, the black zone in the mind can not only be used to remotely search for the whereabouts of a target, but can also have conversations and physical contact with the target.

It's the equivalent of having a remote communication machine that can never be tracked or listened to.

This also means that he can use the black field of his mind to communicate with friends and relatives anytime and anywhere.

He can even try to assassinate the target silently from thousands of miles away, without leaving any trace of crime, which is perfect!

But now, saving Jonathan matters.

"Listen, Jonathan, we're going to get you out, but I don't know your exact location."

"Your brother Will is playing your favorite song, Space Oddity, and he's talking to you."

"You have to do something to respond to him and strengthen the bond between you brothers! You have to pour your feelings into it!"

"Will?"

Dean saw Jonathan suddenly turning towards the dark space, where the wall seemed to be, and beating his hands,

"Will, I'm here! Are you and Joyce okay?"

……

When Dean saw Jonathan starting to respond, he lifted the dark zone in his mind and returned to the real world.

His eyelids twitched twice and then opened, feeling an uncontrollable feeling of dizziness and weakness coming over him like a tide.

A large bright yellow double image appeared in front of his eyes. People, furniture, lights... everything became blurred, and his temples felt like being cut repeatedly with sharp knives. The pain was so painful that his cheeks twisted and his body stretched like a spasm. Originally, Using the black area of ​​​​the mind to find people is a very mentally demanding job. Now that contact and dialogue are added, the consumption is further increased.

The exchange between him and Jonathan for just half a minute had completely exhausted his mental energy!

Dean endured the discomfort and looked at the 2 free attribute points retained in the system after the last upgrade, adding them evenly to spirit and will.

精神：25.3→25.8（20点以后，2点自由属性提升1点。）

Will: 25→25.5

For an instant.

As if he was about to starve to death, he swallowed a piece of roasted meat with a fragrant aroma.

Nutritious food fills an empty stomach.

The sense of satisfaction replaces the feeling of weakness and mental exhaustion.

Dean sat up from the sofa refreshed and looked up. In the bedroom ahead, Will was still shouting at the wall with all his heart, as if there was a portrait of his brother on the brown wallpaper.

This quiet boy has probably never talked for so long as he did today. His voice was smoky and hoarse, and Dustin's four friends looked distressed.

"Since Joyce and Lonnie divorced a few years ago, Joyce has spent most of her time at work in order to earn money to support her family. Except for Christmas, she has worked overtime in the supermarket on other holidays and even birthdays. The remaining time It’s all spent on me.”

"The total time you can talk to her in a week is less than five minutes." "I can feel that you obviously want your mother's care and greetings, but you always keep everything in your heart, get up early and go out, and go directly to the store after school You are working here to support your family... You seem to be avoiding Joyce on purpose."

"I haven't been able to figure out why for the past few years."

"But I finally understand today, Jonathan..." Will sniffed and stretched out his hand to rub the wall, as if to hold an invisible hand, "You deliberately acted mature and good at taking care of yourself, so that Joey Put more focus on me."

"You refused your mother's care because of my weak brother."

"You didn't enjoy your mother's care, so you gradually became a freak in the eyes of your classmates."

"But Jonathan, you know what, you're not a freak, you're the best brother in the world!"

"Please, don't leave me!"

"return!"

"Come back!"

Sizzle...

Will's cry with a cry echoed in the old house, as if it contained powerful magic. The lights in the house began to flicker erratically, the songs played on the radio were intermittent, and the hands of the wall clock in the living room stopped moving.

The shallows began to suck emotions like crazy.

In front of Dean's eyes, just outside the bedroom, among a large area of ​​unstable nodes glowing with white light, a tiny node jumped lively, blooming into circles of sometimes strong, sometimes weak ripples.

Like the fluctuations of the heart.

Dean stretched out his hand and pressed it gently, injected one-tenth of the energy into it, and pulled it open——

A circular passage was revealed in mid-air. Behind it was no longer the same black, but brown wall coverings, carpets, dusty desk lamps, and telephones. They corresponded one-to-one with the living room where Dean was located, but the two sides were like those in the mirror. Outside, the decoration in the gap was standing upside down on the ceiling, but it happened to not fall down.

"Will, I'm sorry, I will never leave you, I will never leave you!"

Jonathan's cry came out,

"Jonathan! Come here!" Dean shouted into the gap, and then rapid footsteps sounded.

In front of Dean's eyes, Jonathan was running upside down. He immediately used his telekinesis to go through the passage and pulled him out of the upside-down world. The passage was closed like lightning.

Jonathan sat slumped on the carpet, dripping with cold sweat as he looked around at the familiar surroundings, then turned to the friendly smiling face in front of him.

"Dean, am I really back?"

"Dude, welcome home!" Dean grabbed his hand and pulled him up. He glanced at the system. After saving Jonathan back to the real world, the event progress jumped to 70%.

"Jonathan!"

"Will!"

The boy in the bedroom stumbled out, his watermelon head flying in the wind, and he cried and rushed towards Jonathan.

Jonathan opened his arms and embraced his brother,

"I'm back, Will, don't cry, I'm back!" Jonathan wiped the tears from the corners of his brother's eyes,

"Woo...are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?" Will looked up and down at his brother's tattered clothes with red eyes.

"No, it's just that my clothes were damaged. I didn't bleed a drop of blood." Jonathan bulged his biceps with a smile that looked like he had survived a disaster. He was in good spirits.

Upon seeing this, Will's worry turned to joy.

Dustin and several other children also gathered around and jumped up and celebrated with Jonathan, asking questions all over the place.

"Man, how do you feel after traveling around the world upside down?"

"Is the tree hole called the Upside Down World? That's quite accurate. But I would rather starve for a week than go in again." Jonathan took the glass of water handed over by Will and gurgled, then sat down on the sofa and took a long breath. Taking a breath, he said with palpitations, "It's empty and dark inside, and there's something like soot floating in the air. It makes me uncomfortable to inhale it into my lungs."

Lucas nodded, his big, round eyes showing admiration, "No matter what, you are a great hero! You are the first person in human history to complete plane travel, and you also escaped the pursuit of monsters!"

"Yes!" Jane blinked her big curious eyes and added, "I saw a monster chasing you, how did you escape?"

Jonathan nodded heavily, with a trace of hesitation in his eyes, "After I was chased into the tree hole, the monster disappeared... I thought I was still in the real world, and I wanted to go home. After running for a long time, a place exactly like home suddenly appeared in front of me. I hid in the house and hid in the bedroom, but I didn’t expect anyone to come to rescue me.”

Dean listened to his description and found that the progress of the incident began to increase slowly, "Wait a minute, you didn't encounter any attacks while running from the tree hole to the house?"

Dean was halfway through the run but was "warmly welcomed" by the slit monster in the cave and was almost attacked by a big spider.

"No, I thought it was weird, too," Jonathan said, shaking his hand gratefully, "But man, you saved me again!"

"You can't just thank me," Dean patted him on the shoulder and looked at the group of children around him. "These troublemakers almost built a collider to save you, but they can't save you. They deserve a lot of credit." without."

"Thank you, no need to say more!" Dustin opened his hands and hooked Mike and Will's shoulders, grinning, "Who makes you the brother of my good brother Will!"

Mike also quietly hooked Jane's shoulder on the left, "It turns out that as long as everyone unites together, there is no insurmountable difficulty!"

Will smiled gratefully at his friend, opened the refrigerator, took out a portion of bread and milk, and handed it over as a gift.

"Jonathan, you haven't eaten all day and night. You are hungry. Please fill your stomach first."

"Well...I'm starving."

"By the way, we have to discuss how to explain it to Joyce later," Dustin suggested calmly as he sat on the sofa. "Those adults have poor imagination and will never believe what we said about turning the world upside down. "

A group of children nodded wildly.

"Ahem, please stay in the house first and don't run around." Dean turned to look out the window, and the shadow flew out after the insect on Jane's hat. The mastermind who was tracking and monitoring them finally closed the net.

"I'm going out to do some errands. I'll be back soon."

……

Soothe a bunch of kids.

Dean entered a bush outside the door, his cheeks squirmed and transformed into the snake monster Seth, then he jumped into the air and followed him at a short distance from the flying insect.

……

In the snowfields a few miles to the north, pine trees stand out with steel-like bodies, spreading their needle-like leaves and branches, and shaking their silver-white crowns.

Under the canopy of the tree, Damien, wearing a floral shirt and sunglasses, reached forward and gently caught the flying insect. The faint black light circulated and melted the flying insect into his body.

He closed his eyes for a moment to digest, and then opened them again. Uncontrollable enthusiasm flashed through his eyes, as if he had won a lottery worth hundreds of millions.

"There is a big surprise hidden behind No. 11."

"Dean is an Asian. He is less than twenty years old, but he possesses extremely rare space superpowers. He can open space-time rifts and establish stable channels to other worlds with just a few movements. He is more powerful and valuable than 11."

The joy on Damien's face turned into deep fear. His "scout" perception was the most acute. From a long distance just now, he could detect the terrifying vitality and mental power in Dean, just like a beast. The giant humanoid beast spreads out a powerful energy field, disturbing the surrounding space and energy all the time.

Damien was 100% sure that he couldn't even withstand the opponent's punch.

"It's so terrifying. No wonder Dr. Brenner and the Sulian people suffered such a big loss in the first place."

"At least three, no, four special teams must be contacted for support, and a dragnet must be laid to 'persuade' this precious space user to surrender."

After making up his mind, Damien was about to move when a feeling of uneasiness so intense that he felt dizzy suddenly surged in his heart.

Suddenly he entered an icy purgatory of more than 100 degrees below zero. The cold penetrated his bones, freezing his soul and every drop of blood in his body.

Years of experience made Damim immediately realize the problem——

exposed!

Being targeted!

He didn't have time to think about why the other party found out, and instinctively jumped into the air. The T-shirt radiated a moon-like black light, and his body then transformed into a black frigate bird, spreading its huge wings of more than four meters and swinging its forked tail. Sweeping through the air, he sprinted over two hundred meters in an instant.

He used all his strength to fly towards the orange sunset ahead, flying towards the road of escape.

But next second.

The bright light in front of Damien's eyes disappeared in an instant, and the suffocating infinite darkness rushed towards him. In this darkness, a pair of whirlpools rotated, and the sparkling eyes firmly attracted his sight and his soul.

Destroy his will.

Damien fainted without saying a word, his body stiffened in mid-air, and he fell down like a kite with its string broken.

The bird's body transformed back into a human's body in the blink of an eye, falling to a height of half a meter above the ground and suspended in motion.

"You're so weak, you can't even withstand a blow from the Illusion Abyss."

Dean slowly fell to the man's side and stared at this handsome and unfamiliar face.

"Eavesdropped on so many of my secrets and just walked away like that?"

Dean rolled his eyes, restrained his murderous intent, used his telekinesis to lift the unconscious man up, and pulled his neck over.

Then Dean opened his mouth, and a black snake of power came out of his mouth. Hissing and spitting out the snake message, it squirmed in mid-air, revealing two conical fangs, and then coiled its body to accumulate power, like a spring. Ejaculate, bite the man's neck, and mark it!

(End of this chapter)