Apocalyptic life from scratch

Chapter 650 The Disappeared Xiaolei
"Lily!"

The girl rushing over was naturally Lily, she threw herself into Kong Zhe's arms and didn't let go.

"Woo...how did you come back..."

After saying this in a crying voice, Lily immediately buried her head in front of his chest, crying so hard that she couldn't make a sound.

"Lily..."

Lily trembled slightly, that pitiful look made Kong Zhe feel distressed for a while, he stroked Lily's head, and comforted him softly: "It's all right, brother is back..."

Although Lily was crying sadly, Kong Zhe immediately saw that she was not injured, maybe she was just frightened.

Kong Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, while comforting Lily, he looked at the cellar.

This cellar is square and square, only about a dozen square meters.There were some boxes and sundries piled on the ground, and a few strings of dried peppers and a few tattered religious wallpapers were hung on the surrounding walls.

After a lap, what worried him was that he didn't see Xiaolei in the cellar.

"Lily, where is Xiaolei? Where did Xiaolei go? Isn't she with you?"

Kong Zhe suddenly had a bad premonition, and he asked immediately, regardless of Lily's still crying.

"Xiao, Xiaolei..."

Hearing this, Lily finally stopped crying temporarily, raised her head while sniffling, with a somewhat terrified expression on her face.

"Woo, brother, what should I do, sister Xiaolei is gone..."

"Gone?"

Kong Zhe was stunned, this line sounded familiar.

"Yeah, brother, save her quickly, sister Xiaolei, she... woo..."

As Lily spoke, she couldn't help crying again.

"what is the problem?"

Kong Zhe had no choice but to turn around and ask Long.

"Your Highness...you sit down first, and I will explain to you slowly."

Long sighed, pointed to the chair next to him, and motioned him to sit down.Then he stretched out his hand towards the wooden board above, and magic power surged in the palm of his hand.

The magic circle above his head seemed to be activated with his movements, and began to emit light continuously, illuminating the entire cellar in a deep blue. The ground became one piece, completely blocking the view from above.

"This is the concealment circle I made. It can hide the breath of the living. As long as it is not the undead with superhuman perception, it is impossible to find this place. Your Highness can rest assured that this place is safe for the time being."

Long first explained.After Kong Zhe sat down, he bowed to Kong Zhe and said apologetically, "Sorry, Your Highness, I lost Xiaolei because of my ineffective protection..."

"...Okay, don't say sorry at this time, let's talk about what's going on first."

Kong Zhe shook his head with a wry smile.

"Yes."

Long nodded and explained: "The undead descended four days ago. In fact, Lily had expected it before, and we were planning to evacuate that morning. It's just that the communication that day was poor, and our communication with Suguang was blocked. After a while, I couldn’t hear the meeting point. It wasn’t a big deal, but the strange thing was that when we left home that day, just as we went downstairs, Xiaolei, who had been with us all the time, suddenly disappeared.”

There was an obvious puzzled expression on Long's face: "To be honest, I still haven't figured out what happened that day. We had no choice but to give up going out of the city and stay to look for Xiaolei. But until we found the places around We searched all over but still couldn’t find it, and because we wasted too much time searching, we lost the chance to escape from the city, so I had to temporarily take Lili to find a place to hide.”

"disappear……"

Kong Zhe couldn't help frowning.

Long's description is almost the same as Shuguang's description of Hongling and the others.In that case, they should have disappeared in the same way...

"Tell me the specifics."

"Yes. In fact, the situation that day was very strange. I was walking in the front, and Xiaolei and Lili followed behind me. I had talked to her a second ago, and she disappeared in a blink of an eye! "

Long recalled what happened that day, and his tone gradually became dignified.

"I can be sure that she was not taken away by anyone. At that time, I didn't feel any other people's breath around me, and there was no magic power flowing around me. So I don't think it's magic that made her disappear .But how it disappeared, I still can’t figure it out.”

"so……"

After Kong Zhe listened, he touched his chin and began to think.

Because of his powerful perception, what Long described was more specific than what Zhuzi and the others said, directly ruling out many possibilities.But that sounds really weird.

Can a living person really disappear out of thin air?
"no!"

In Kong Zhe's arms, Lily, who was still crying, suddenly cried out.

"Miss Xiaolei didn't disappear!"

"No? What's that? Lily, did you see something?"

Kong Zhe hurriedly asked.

"Ah."

Lily nodded, swallowed, and a look of fear appeared on her small face: "Miss Xiaolei, she, she didn't disappear...she was eaten!"

"Eat it?"

Kong Zhe couldn't help frowning: "Eat by something?"

"That's right, it's like this, a big thing...it suddenly popped up and swallowed Miss Xiaolei in one gulp!"

Lily opened her hands, gestured clumsily, and drew a big circle in front of her with both hands, explaining with a terrified expression.

"Uh... the big... what is it?"

Kong Zhe was a little confused.So, abstract things are really difficult to understand.

"Lily also told me about this situation at the time, but I think it should have been imagined by her overly frightened, and it didn't really exist."

Long explained.

"It's not a fantasy!"

Hearing what he said, Lily puffed up her face and retorted: "I was standing next to Xiaolei, and I watched her being eaten with my own eyes!"

"This... But I really didn't feel that there was anyone..."

Long was too embarrassed to argue with a little girl, so he could only pat his head and explain.

"Well!"

Lily just felt very wronged.Looking helplessly at Kong Zhe, shaking his arm, he said pitifully, "Brother, Lily didn't lie, what I said is true, Miss Xiaolei was really eaten, you have to believe me... "

"Believe it, of course I believe you."

Seeing that she was about to cry again, Kong Zhe hurriedly comforted her.

This is not a lie, Kong Zhe believes that with Lily's character, it is impossible to talk nonsense on such an important matter.She should have seen something at the time, but she couldn't describe it clearly because of her clumsy articulation.

At the same time, what Long said should also be true. There were indeed no other creatures around at that time, otherwise it would be impossible for him to fail to perceive it with his strength.

But this created a paradox. One of the two said that Xiao Lei was eaten by something, and the other said that no other creature had appeared. So, how did Xiao Lei disappear?
These two views seem to be contradictory, but if you think about it carefully, are they really contradictory?

In fact, there is a possibility that can explain both situations at the same time.

"What if the thing that 'eats' Xiaolei isn't actually a living thing?"

Kong Zhe made a hypothesis.

"Not a creature?"

Long frowned slightly, shook his head and said, "But Lily said that thing can move, aren't all things that move are living things?"

"This is..."

Kong Zhe was noncommittal, he didn't think that anything that could move was necessarily a living thing, some special dead objects could also move.

But what exactly it was, he wasn't sure yet.

Shaking his head, Kong Zhe continued to ask: "Then you have been nesting here since that day? Have you tried going out?"

"This is..."

As Long said, he subconsciously glanced at Lily.

"What? Is something wrong?"

Kong Zhe looked at him as if he wanted to say something, but what did Lily mean at the end?
"Yes... In fact, I couldn't find Xiaolei that day. I wanted to take Lili away immediately. Although the undead had already entered the city at that time, if necessary, I still have the ability to take her away if necessary. out..."

"Then why..."

Long shook his head and sighed: "At that time I offered to take her away, but in the end it was Lily who refused. Moreover, she brought me to this place."

"Oh?"

Kong Zhe was a little surprised.The location of this cellar is good, and the concealment is very good.He thought it was Long who found it, but he didn't expect Lily to bring him here.

One must know that Lily seldom goes out in Jincheng, and even if she goes out, she usually only goes to a few fixed places, so how does she know such remote places?
"Lily, why did you come here?"

Kong Zhe touched Lily's head and asked softly.

Lily sniffled.After venting in her brother's arms, she felt much better now.Hearing him ask this question at this time, Lily nodded her chin and thought about it, and explained: "Because... I saw some pictures after that... as long as I can see my brother here!"

"what?"

Kong Zhe was stunned.The 'picture' Lily mentioned should refer to the scene in which the future is foreseen.She meant that she came here following the instructions of the future, which seemed reasonable, but Kong Zhe instinctively felt that something was wrong.

"Well, this is indeed."

On the side, Long nodded and praised: "Lily's prophecy is still very accurate. She just told me that His Highness is coming and asked me to go out to meet him, but His Highness really came... Tsk tsk, this level of prophecy, It's not worse than silver..."

As Long said, he was already muttering to himself.Some time ago, Lily had been talking nonsense, but Long didn't believe it at first, only thinking that she was talking nonsense.It wasn't until now that he truly felt that he had underestimated this girl.

Growing up in a blood clan full of talents, especially with an excellent companion like Yin beside him, Long still has a good understanding of divination. One can only roughly predict some future trends using a complex method like astrology, and it is almost impossible to achieve Lily's level of precision.

(End of this chapter)