After midnight

A little boy raised his slender arms and was about to attack them with An Yan's water ability. Lin Nuan's good fighting skills made her immediately stand in front of Song Xinjun. But she felt a strange feeling in her heart.

She couldn't regard this boy as her enemy because of his emotionless eyes. Through these eyes, Lin Nuan knew that he didn't know what he was doing at all.

The surging water rushed over again, and Lin Nuan made up her mind to fight back mercilessly. To solve the problem of this little boy, she must first defeat him.

As if it had hit something, the water slapped hard, stirring up waves, and when it hit Lin Nuan, it turned back and rushed back to the ground. The water flowed silently over the boy's feet. The boy looked at Lin Nuan for a second and then evacuated decisively.

“Hey!” The boy rushed out and Lin Nuan quickly followed him.

"Wang Hai, hurry up and follow."

"But Master, you..."

"Don't worry about me, I have a way, just follow me."

Wang Hai followed, and Song Xinjun activated his ability, and the swamp began to swallow up the ice from the bottom.

"Hey! Stop! Don't be afraid!" Lin Nuan shouted, the boy's figure kept swaying in front of her. But he ran too fast, and Lin Nuan couldn't catch up.

Oh no, there was a corner ahead, Lin Nuan accelerated to turn around, but still lost the person. She stopped and gasped.

"Hello." Lin Nuan turned around in surprise but immediately became alert. It was a man's voice.

"He's not afraid of you," the man said.

"Who are you?" Lin Nuan stared at him and asked.

"Yang Rong." Wang Hai caught up with him breathlessly from behind and called out to the strange man.

"Oh, that's what I thought. It turns out that they were able to get here so quickly with the help of an old man like you. I said that the people at the bottom of the tower were not reliable."

"Okay, Yang Rong. Where is the boy?"

"I advise you not to have any more fantasies about him. He is the most promising piece after Zero One, and there is absolutely no way you can take him away."

"What about you? Come with us."

"I told you, don't daydream, Master."

"Master?" Lin Nuan exclaimed.

"Wang Hai is my master. He was the one who guided me step by step to cultivate those monsters. It's not an exaggeration to say that we created these monsters together. Don't you agree, Master?"

"Are you going to deny it, Master?" Yang Rong pressed on.

"No, I don't deny it. This is the thing I regret most in my life. My sins are so deep that no amount of money can redeem me. Yang Rong, listen to Master and turn back."

Yang Rong shook his head. "Tell me these things after you die. My research won't wait for anyone."

As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of men in black suddenly came out and surrounded them. Lin Nuan moved closer to Wang Hai, and her eyes wandered around, and she found that the little boy was not among them.

"Don't let them harass me again. If they go any further, someone will be unhappy." Yang Rong gave a few instructions and left calmly.

"Miss Lin..."

"Uncle Wang, no need to say more. I won't abandon you." Lin Nuan didn't know where these people came from or what abilities they had. If she rashly abandoned Uncle Wang, the consequences would be unpredictable. She had to keep Uncle Wang.

Lin Nuan pinched her fingers and flexed her knuckles. She had never been afraid of fighting.

"Come on, Yin. I'll let you be my first sacrifice." Lingyi raised his knife and chopped it up. The hard rock was instantly cut open by pure energy, leaving a deep cut.

That was a close call! Yin dodged to the side and used his ability to surround Xue Di with indigo electricity.

Lingyi held pure energy in one hand, and seemed to want to end the battle quickly. He flexibly danced his wrists and arms, and pressed towards Yin step by step.

Yin's ability was not at all advantageous in this narrow room. In the initial fight, he almost dodged with all his strength and retreated step by step. In this narrow corridor, Yin had nowhere to hide and no way to retreat in an instant. The cracked rubble on the rock wall rolled down and pierced his nerves and eardrums.

Being cornered, the blade was suddenly enveloped in pure light. Yin tightly grasped the Snow Di and blocked Zero One's next move. Are you kidding? Pure power can only be used to deal with pure power!

Zero One pulled back his hand in surprise, and Yin seized the opportunity to feint at him, then quickly distanced himself from him. The long-planned lightning quickly struck out, hitting Zero One in full force, so fast that it took only a blink of an eye.

Lingyi used his pure energy as usual, but he was a little careless. The force of thunder and lightning was not something that the pure energy that was only 20 centimeters long could absorb. The tentacles that escaped hit his body, causing him to howl in pain, and even his hands and feet could not stop shaking.

It seemed that Lingyi had no power to fight back at this time, and Yin continued to swing the Snow Di again. However, when the lightning roared, a thin layer of light suddenly enveloped the surface of Lingyi's body. Under the high-intensity impact of the lightning, the thin light only fluctuated slightly.

Yin's heart sank instantly. It was 'absolute defense'.

With just a short breath, Lingyi stood up again. He exerted a little more strength, and the blade created by pure energy instantly grew longer, becoming the same length as Xue Di.

The pain faded away, and Lingyi pointed the tip of the knife at Yin. He was calm, as if nothing had happened and he was not hurt at all. He attacked like a ferocious little beast with fierce fangs bared, and Yin was forced to meet him. With each opening and closing, blood gushed out of Yin's body.

A cloud of mist rose up, and Lin Nuan lightly grabbed the hands and feet of several of them, and then dodged the attacks from others. As soon as they attacked, Lin Nuan understood that these people were not difficult to deal with, but there were too many of them, so Lin Nuan had to fight with them for a while.

The fog gradually thickened, and Lin Nuan became more and more anxious. Although she couldn't defeat them for the time being, it would be easy for her to escape, but...

"Lin Nuan, leave this to me." With the sound of nature, Song Xinjun finally got rid of the thing that had just trapped him and rushed here.

“Okay, be careful.” The next second, Lin Nuan decisively pulled away, walked a few steps, and escaped from the fog trap she had set.

"Let me play with you guys before the fog dissipates." Song Xinjun said, and the swamp rose up under his feet.

Lin Nuan quickly searched in the direction Yang Rong left. There were locked rooms along the way. Who knows where the monsters and ghosts are hiding. It was strange, where did the child just now go, and where did the man named Yang Rong who claimed to continue his research go?

With a clang, a piece of ice fell to the ground. Lin Nuan looked up and saw the little boy sitting on a platform not far away, looking down at her. The platform was cast with mud and was three meters high. It stood abruptly in a square space. In that space, there was nothing except the platform where the little boy was sitting, which was about to touch the ceiling. It seemed so inexplicable and redundant.

Lin Nuan walked over and felt that the space and design of each floor were different. She guessed that the fourth floor where she was now was the largest, and then it gradually decreased upwards and downwards.

"My name is Lin Nuan, what's your name?" Lin Nuan asked softly.

"Then I'll call you little babe." The boy didn't answer, so Lingyi said.

"I don't have this ugly name." The boy frowned slightly.

"What's your name?" Lin Nuan said with a smile.

"I don't have a name."

When the boy said these two sentences, his emotions remained calm, and his expression was as cold as the air here.

"Then I'll call you Lin Bei, okay?"

"not good."

"Why not? Is the name not nice?" The boy did not answer again.

"Then let me ask you another question. Are you okay here?"

The boy stared at him, not understanding what she meant. He had been here since he could remember, and there was nothing good or bad. Some people would come, and some would suddenly disappear. No one would stay with him for long, and he had to be vigilant against the adults at all times. This was the lesson he learned here.

"Do you want to go out?" Lin Nuan asked again.

Go out? Where to? Can I go out?

"I have always dreamed of having a younger brother who would accompany me and I would accompany him. Unfortunately, this wish has never come true since I was a child. I even thought of a name for him, Lin Bei. Lin Bei, are you willing to come with me?"

The boy looked straight at her and jumped down.

“Be careful!” Lin Nuan screamed as he jumped down from the three-meter-high platform.

After he jumped down, when Lin Nuan tried to approach him, the little boy ran away again.

However, Lin Nuan did not chase after him. She turned sideways and saw a door had quietly opened.

Yang Rong, wearing a white coat and protective goggles, said: "The girl is really good at tricks. Even I am almost falling into the gentle land. What, you don't want to chase her?"

"I don't plan to chase him." Lin Nuan said.

"You don't want me anymore so soon. Women always have endless lies to tell."

"Men too, and I'm not lying. I'm going to take that little boy away with me."

"It's up to you." Yang Rong leaned against the door frame and shrugged. "It's not my decision whether you take him with you or not."

Yang Rong wanted to close the door after he finished speaking. He turned his back to Lin Nuan and didn't seem to worry that Lin Nuan would attack him. And Lin Nuan guessed that the room behind this man must be his laboratory. Too curious, this man's behavior, language and movements all showed his weirdness. Lin Nuan was about to call him, but a shrill scream came from behind.

It was Song Xinjun's voice. Something must have happened, Lin Nuan thought instantly. Because those men in black really couldn't hurt him. Lin Nuan glanced at the door that was about to close, and decisively turned around and ran back.

Yang Rong leaned against the door and smiled. Ever since Yin came to him, he knew this day would come. Now, he stretched himself. The show was finally about to begin.

After Lin Nuan left, the fog had not yet dissipated, and the swamp quietly engulfed the entire concrete ground. These people were big and strong, and they could only use their abilities in vain. After Song Xinjun simply resolved them, he used the swamp to catch them all.

When the fog cleared, the men looked at each other in bewilderment. They had no idea how they, or even themselves, had been caught and tied up in mid-air. Their bodies were all sticky, and they tried to struggle with their hands and feet, but they couldn't get free, and could only twist their bodies in an extremely funny way.

Song Xinjun watched for a while and confirmed that they were not a threat, so he planned to leave and catch up with Lin Nuan. But Wang Hai stopped him. "Master, listen."

Wang Hai raised his head with a solemn expression. He had lived in this environment for a long time and was terrified every day, so he was more sensitive to this place than Song Xinjun. He stared upward and listened clearly. There were two footsteps coming towards him.

Song Xinjun moved his ears and seemed to have heard it. He asked, "Where is the staircase?"

"Young Master!" The one coming from above must be an enemy, not a friend.

"Take me there!" I can't run or hide, I have no choice.

"...It's not far away." In fact, there was a hidden side exit on the road they had just come from.

Song Xinjun was the first to ambush nearby. At the entrance of the stairs from the fourth floor of the underground tower to the third floor, he could hear the footsteps very clearly. There were two of them, one in front and one behind, but their footsteps were very close, and it seemed that they walked down together.

The swamp emerged from the ground and leaped into the air. Song Xinjun planned to launch a surprise attack. As he got closer, he could already see human figures. The swamp attacked the two people, hoping to trap them, but a blue light flashed by. In an instant, a gap appeared in the tight swamp, and Liujiu and Saner looked at him through the gap.

Liujiu's face was tense, like a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey, and pure energy repeatedly passed Saner and slashed at Song Xinjun. Song Xinjun retreated repeatedly, using the swamp to resist hastily, but the result was self-evident. Pure energy was superior to energy, and because Liujiu was in a high position, the attack power was too strong, and Song Xinjun was bounced onto the rock wall.

Pure energy scratched his chest, bright red blood oozed out, and he screamed in pain.