our secret base

Chapter 48
The silent and dark corridor submerged in the night stretches forward like an endless one.

Yan Jingxing ran at the front, and what lingered in his ears was the echo of three pairs of shoes landing on the ground, as well as his own intense panting and heartbeat.

He couldn't remember how long this chase lasted—maybe it wasn't too long, but the process was too tortured and long.

He didn't have much thinking power left in his mind, he only knew to follow Ji Chunzao's instructions and run around after the target's ass.

Sometimes I ran to the top floor, sometimes I ran to the bottom floor, and sometimes I had to go through the crowded crowd—among the dancing patients, but I missed every time.

The closest time to the target was when they chased all the way to a corner that seemed to be a dead end, Yan Jingxing opened a nearby window with a flash of inspiration, and immediately saw a dark shadow flashing past them , Jumping from one wall of the outer floor to the other, "Ceng Ceng Ceng" quickly disappeared from the field of vision and disappeared.

It is too difficult to catch up with a beast that can fly over walls.After activating his "Battle Instinct", he has the confidence to act like a professional parkour master, but it is still not an easy task to catch up with the speed of the beast running between the roofs.

Moreover, with the decline in physical strength after intense exercise, the running speed also slowed down, and the distance between them and the monster became more and more distant every time.

Next time... If you don't succeed next time, maybe there is no hope of catching up.

"Which side is next?"

Run down the stairs again, up or down?
Yan Jingxing turned his gaze to Ji Chunzao behind him.

Panting and sweating from running, the curly-haired girl was bending over the banister to rest.After hearing the question, she narrowed her eyes and looked upwards with her sight blocked by the beaded sweat.

"Up, up... about two floors up."

"Is it the fifth floor? Okay, let's continue."

Supporting his knees, Yan Jingxing climbed up a flight of stairs with some difficulty.

At this moment, he heard Xie Yuzhi behind him calling out to him.

"Wait, stop chasing. This is not going to work. Looking at the current situation, we are just wasting our energy in vain."

He turned his head and saw that the eldest lady was caressing his slightly raised chest, trying to calm down her breathing.

"I feel like that guy is probably playing us. Because so far, none of us can even see what it looks like."

Xie Yuzhi said that her smooth and long straight hair, which was neatly combed before, has been completely loose now, but under the sweat-soaked bangs, the girl's eyes are still calm.

"Thinking about it carefully, this matter has been unnatural from the very beginning. When did this chasing process start?"

"Uh……"

Ji Chunzao tapped his chin with his finger and began to recall.

As a priest, she was the only one among the three who could confirm the target's trajectory, and she had been pointing the direction during the previous chase.

"I remember, right from the beginning?"

"Oh?"

"At that time, Jing Xing knocked down the patient all at once, and then almost at the same time, I suddenly 'felt' a strange and strong electric wave. Although it is far inferior to the king of predators, but compared to the general hairless Or, its presence is very strong.”

"That's the black dog with 'two mouths' that the doctor said. From this point of view, it is indeed another alien creature that invaded the earth."

"I also speculated like this, so after I noticed that it appeared on the floor above us, I thought maybe I could catch it; but when I ran almost directly below it, the guy suddenly started to shift positions It's gone, and the speed is very fast. As soon as I got up in a hurry, I said that I would catch up quickly..."

Ji Chunzao rests her chin with her hand.

"But every time, when we were about to catch up, it would immediately change direction. ... Now that I calm down and think about it, I really feel like I have been tricked."

"I see."

Xie Yuzhi pondered.

"Judging from this series of reactions, it shows that the black dog is likely to have the ability to detect us in turn, or to detect the approach of threats."

"I think that's pretty certain."

Yan Jingxing sighed.

"You know, ever since Chunzao discovered its traces, we have been chasing after it, but we have never even seen its face. If the black dog does not have strong anti-detection capabilities, then It's impossible to escape that fast and play us all around."

"Well. It seems that what we have to deal with is not an ordinary beast. It has the ability to resist detection and demagogy, and has a considerable degree of intelligence. It is far more cunning than ordinary beasts. The hairless are higher creatures."

The three looked at each other.

"Then what shall we do next?"

"...Since it wants to trick us and let us run around behind its ass to exhaust our energy, then we shouldn't follow its idea. So give up, we just don't chase."

Xie Yuzhi leaned against the wall, as if she really planned to stop there, her tone became more relaxed.

"If you don't chase...then let it escape?"

Ji Chunzao was still puzzled, but Yan Jingxing already understood what Missy meant.

"By the way, there is really no need to run around behind it. It is a coincidence that we appear here. We are the most aware of this, aren't we? But the black dog is different, it will appear In the hospital, it can only show that it has another purpose."

"Purpose, purpose...is the purpose?"

Ji Chunzao lowered his head thoughtfully, chewing the word over and over again.

"The doctor mentioned it, and he wondered why it took ten years for the 'dog barking' to appear again in this hospital..."

Yes ah, in the end is why?

"If more information can be obtained from the mouth of the person involved, maybe we can detect the commonality between the hospital situation ten years ago and the current situation; as long as we can understand 'what' made it appear, or caused it When it comes to this hospital, we can figure out what to do with it."

But with the current chaotic situation in the courtyard, it is obviously impossible to do this.

Perhaps, the reason why the black dog, which has made a comeback after ten years, interfered with the mental state of the patients and caused this chaos was for the purpose of confusing the public.

……

The boys and girls rested in the stairwell for a while, and for the time being, they didn't discuss any good ideas to solve the predicament.

But after they stopped blindly chasing monsters, their mentality did calm down.

"Chunzao, can you still feel its existence?"

The little girl closed her eyes, she focused on using her ability, and replied after a while:
"The radio signal has become very weak, but it is still there. The source of the signal is a little higher than before. Maybe it has reached the rooftop?"

"It didn't choose to leave the hospital building after we stopped the chase. In other words..."

"The 'thing' it wanted was in this building."

Yan Jingxing took up her conversation.

The question is, what can be inside a mental hospital building?All they could think of was the mental patients living here; but there has been no shortage of patients in the past ten years, why did the black dog choose to appear at this point in time?What makes this moment special?
The problem seems to be back to the original point——

"—Wait, I suddenly have an idea."

Yan Jingxing had a flash of inspiration.

"Maybe, we will appear in this place, and the appearance of the black dog, these two things are really not purely accidental."

"……What's the meaning?"

"We came here to visit Mr. Gao, who had his brain injured by the hairless man, right? In fact, at that time, we had already noticed that something was wrong."

"...You're talking about 'there is only one hairless person boarding at Mr. Gao'?"

"That's right. The key to this question is where the remaining hairless people went. If they are still in this mental hospital, but Chunzao didn't find them in time, there is only one reason—"

"—they are lodged on other people's body again." Xie Yuzhi replied, "This kind of monster lurking in the body will cause a lot of interference to the priest's perception ability. aware of their presence."

"... What Jing Xing means is, those patients who were locked up in the North District?"

Ji Chunzao's eyes widened, she obviously recalled it.

"Well. After they saw us, they all ran away, leaving only one patient with a disabled brain."

Yan Jingxing nodded.

"If these people are actually the hosts of the hairless people, it is easy to guess why the black dog will appear. It is for this group of hairless people. It is very likely that there are alien creatures of different ethnic groups. Follow the same food chain as the ecosystem on the earth. According to my speculation, since the black dog is a higher-level creature than the hairless one, the two are likely to be the relationship between the hunter and the prey."

"How about it?"

Yan Jingxing smiled. He did some stretching exercises and felt that his physical strength had almost recovered, and it was time for him to act.

"If you agree with this guess, we'll go find those patients in the North District now. If the black dog's target is really the hairless ones on their bodies, there is a high probability that they will appear in front of us; of course, what I have said so far It's all just unfounded speculation, and I have no problem with it if you disagree."

"I have no opinion."

"I think this is the best way right now."

Xie Yuzhi and Ji Chunzao shook their heads at the same time.Missy also added:

"Even if we can't catch the black dog, if the group of patients are really boarded by the hairless people brought by Teacher Gao, it is still a threat. It is better to solve their problems than to waste our efforts and achieve nothing."

"Very good. Then there is only one question left. Yuzhi, can you control so many hairless people?"

"No problem, I have my own way."

Miss Xie showed a confident smile.

*
Since changing the target, their operations have become smoother.

Although the patients in the North District seemed to be deliberately avoiding the young people, there were more than a dozen of them. With Chunzao’s sacrificial ability and Yuzhi’s use of the hairless man controlled by her to expand the search area, they quickly One target after another was found.

The dense and inextricably dark night is enough to block the sight of the naked eye, but it cannot stop the detection of superpowers.

"Corner in the front corridor!"

A reminder from a girl came from behind.

Yan Jingxing held a small knife behind his back in each of his hands, and rushed forward, staring at the dark eyes in front of him, which instantly became calm.

The man wearing a hospital gown and lying in ambush at the corner of the wall held the hanging needle holder and rushed over, grinning, but before he could get close to the boy, the insteps of his feet were pierced by a knife, and he fell heavily on the ground and slipped. After several meters, Yan Jingxing stepped on his back.

"There's another running down the stairs!"

Before Ji Chunzao finished speaking, Yan Jingxing didn't raise his head, and quickly wiped out the third throwing knife from his waist with his left hand, and threw it towards the direction of the stairs without looking at it.

"Whoosh-"

A cold light cut through the night, like a white rainbow penetrating the sun, piercing the palm of another patient who was trying to escape by grabbing the railing.

Blood splattered, and the flying knife was still there, and it was nailed to the wooden guardrail next to it with this hand.

The patient screamed in pain. After he was stunned for a while, he subconsciously wanted to reach out to draw the knife, but he only heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from far and near. When he turned his head, he saw the young man rushing to him, his head muffled. With a shot, a pushing palm hit his chin hard.

The man's eyes darkened, he fell unconscious for an instant, and his body fell limply.

……

"This is the third one."

Yan Jingxing grabbed the patient's collar, dragged his head down the stairs, and threw him with the second host.

"How about it?"

"Hmm! There are indeed signs of hairless people boarding on them."

"It seems that my guess has been confirmed in the direction."

Yan Jingxing heaved a sigh of relief.

The boys and girls have a tacit relationship and cooperate seamlessly. With the joint efforts of the three, they have controlled several patients in less than 5 minutes.

It seems that the hosts don't intend to escape from here for some reason, and there are too many things that can be done.

What's more, if the black dog that was running around in the sick building, the dragon sees its head and its tail is really coming for the hairless, the range of activities of the hosts will only be reduced even more.

On the side, Xie Yuzhi had already closed her eyes and began to use the power of the king.

The hairless person invaded by consciousness was dominated by her, and slowly crawled out of the patients' mouths accompanied by the intense trembling of the hosts' bodies.

"It's now!"

Xie Yuzhi opened her eyes and finished using her ability.

Without further ado, Yan Jingxing shot the leech monster's vitals with two throwing knives, killing them.

The monster manipulated by the king can be regarded as a fixed target, so there is no pressure for him.

That's right, this is Xie Yuzhi's method: Since she can't control a large number of monsters at the same time with her current strength of consciousness, she can only do temporary manipulation, as long as they crawl out of the body.

"call……"

Having said that, Xie Yuzhi's expression is still not too relaxed, every time she uses her ability, sweat will ooze from her forehead.Ji Chunzao on the side asked worriedly:

"Are you okay? Can you still hold on?"

"... At this level, it won't be a problem to do it another twenty times."

Miss Xie's tone was still calm, it didn't sound like the tone of a brave person.

Yan Jingxing nodded, and when he was about to say something, suddenly——

"Ow!"

The barking of the dog sounded again, this time more clearly than ever before, as if there was still the anger that the prey was taken away.

"It seems that I can't sit still."

Yan Jingxing laughed, and began to slowly wipe the blood on the recovered knife.

Young people stare into the darkness deep in the hallway.

"This time, I can finally see your 'true face of Mount Lu'... Come on, don't let us down too much."

(End of this chapter)