Invade the World

  Chapter 106 Nosebleeds

After leaving the undeveloped area, Xu Xiangyang saw from a distance the only official staff member he knew so far-Meng Zheng.

  At this moment, the man in the windbreaker, as always, is with a blonde foreign woman. The two seem to be familiar with each other. One is sitting on the bench and the other is standing by the armrest. The two are chatting.

…foreigner?

  This is really strange.

  Xu Xiangyang guessed that Meng Zheng is here, maybe it is because of a date with his girlfriend, or because of work needs.

  If it is the latter, it means that this woman is very likely to be also a person related to supernatural events and evil spirits.

  A psychic from another country?

  Xu Xiangyang was in deep thought, when he suddenly saw the two get up and leave from their original positions, he quickly followed.

  He really didn't mean to follow him right now, he just wanted to come forward and say hello.

  Furthermore, this happened so coincidental. Since the two met in this newly opened mall, Xu Xiangyang decided to ask each other about the old man in the haunted house by the way, hoping to have some peace of mind.

  However, the pace of these two people was quite fast. The men and women moved along the trend in the corridors of the shopping mall where people came and went, and soon disappeared into the crowd.

  Xu Xiangyang didn’t care if he bumped into others, he speeded up his pace to keep up.

  He found that Meng Zheng and the blond woman walked side by side into a winding corridor.

  The traffic of people passing by here is at least half short compared with the inside of the mall. Xu Xiangyang was feeling puzzled, and soon found himself at the end of the corridor, where there was a door.

  He looked inside, guessing that this is probably a safe passage.

  The door was slightly open, unable to completely hide the scenery inside. Meng Zheng and the woman walked in here and disappeared.

  At this kind of place, Xu Xiangyang did not dare to follow along casually.

  This is both vigilance and politeness.

  The reason why the two were still meeting there just now, and now they are here again, is obviously afraid of leaking news in a crowded place.

  It is certainly not an ordinary thing that allows them to be so cautious and would rather talk about it in another place—at least it is a “secret” that ordinary people do not want to discover.

  This is not to say that he suspects that the other party must be doing something ugly now, but if the secret conversation between two adults is met by a high school student who has only met him, it will be a bit embarrassing.

   While Xu Xiangyang was hesitating, someone came from behind and said impatiently behind the boy:

   "Do you want to enter? Don't block if you don't enter. We are going to move things in."

  He turned his head and found that two men were struggling to carry a heavy wooden table, standing behind him.

  Xu Xiangyang stepped forward to help them, and moved the table into this door together.

On the other side of the    door, there are two stairs leading to the top and the bottom respectively; but in addition to these two stairs, there is a horizontal long corridor leading to a dimly lit distance with no end in sight.

  The face of the other party improved because of Xu Xiangyang's enthusiastic help. Taking this opportunity, he asked:

   "Uncle, can you tell me where this is?"

"Are you a customer? Don't come in casually in the future. Be careful to be locked inside." One of them asked with a smile, "When you went to the third floor of the mall, did you see a place covered by blue plastic sheet? "

   "I saw it, the back is separated by barbed wire, is it not finished yet..."

"You're right." The person replied, "I heard that there are still a few months before the official start of construction, so basically no one cares about it. Used as a warehouse. Then, do you see it?"

  He pointed to the promenade.

   "There is the way to the warehouse area."

   "...That's it."

  Xu Xiangyang nodded thoughtfully.

  Sure enough, Meng chose this place deliberately as the place to talk.

  The three people carried the table together and walked slowly through the corridor. After a while, they came to an empty and dark area.

  As far as the eye can see, there are random piles of debris discarded by people in the shopping mall. Boxes are built into towers of different sizes, and the place is full;

  He also saw a few abandoned mannequins, some leaning against the wall, some falling to the ground, all quietly and motionless, just like lifeless "corpses".

  Xu Xiangyang immediately understood: This is what he saw on the other side of the wire fence.

   "Hey, boy, you can just help here, thank you!"

Seeing Xu Xiangyang looking a little struggling, the two said quickly.

"Row."

  He didn't say anything, and after letting go, he was going to leave directly.

  When he was standing in front of the barbed wire on the opposite side, he also wondered if it would lead to a certain place in the back. He knew very well that for safety reasons, he couldn't get in, let alone get in.

  Unexpectedly, this time around, I followed my acquaintances and came in directly from another road...

  Don’t say much about what to do next, just let him go with Meng Zheng's affairs, and you have to hurry up.

  ...

  Xu Xiangyang returns along the original road.

  The paint on the side is mostly peeled off, revealing the rough and uneven cement underneath, and the rest is the passage wall stained with dark yellow stains;

  From time to time, you will step on broken light bulbs or plastic products under your feet, and make a sharp "creaking" sound.

  Occasionally, there will be a cold wind blowing from the corridor behind, the fluorescent tube above the head is swayed gently, and mottled shadows are scattered on the messy concrete floor.

  The surrounding environment looks so cold and quiet, giving people the illusion of being in ruins.

  Far away, he heard a dull echo from behind, echoing along the wall. Probably the sound of the two people throwing the table away.

  Obviously I feel that when the three of them were moving the table with great difficulty just now, this corridor didn’t seem so far away...

  Xu Xiangyang couldn’t help speeding up his pace, wanting to leave this place as soon as possible and return to the bustling shopping mall.

   Soon, he saw two stairs and the door that looked rather heavy. Under the influence of the weight, the door will slowly close every time it is pushed open, and in the end only a gap is left to hide the scenery on both sides.

  This made Xu Xiangyang quietly relieved. He was ready to reach out and push the door open—

  Suddenly, his footsteps stopped.

  Xu Xiangyang’s eyes have not seen yet, but his keen psychic ability has provided him with a new "view", and he has long been accustomed to perceiving the world in this way—

  It's approaching...No, it's an alien breath that's already lurking somewhere nearby!

  Xu Xiangyang's gaze patrolled around vigilantly, and soon found the existence of "it" in the dark corner of the ceiling, covered with stains, damp and mildew.

"It" crawled out of the corner slowly, like a gecko. It was milky white and looked like a dry cloth bag. Its hands and feet were distributed asymmetrically, without eyeballs. The mouthparts above the cloth bag, towards the middle. It splits, revealing a dense row of teeth growing inside, but they don't look very sharp.

   Seeing this appearance, he immediately understood: the "creature" with such a weird appearance would naturally not be a native species on earth, but a monster from another world—that is, the evil spirit in Meng Zheng's mouth.

   However, compared to the similar people Xu Xiangyang had seen before, this evil spirit did not look very deterrent, it was just a bit disgusting.

  Xu Xiangyang narrowed his eyes.

   Borrowing abilities, he can see more clearly.

On both sides of its bag-like body, there are two organs that resemble human ears, which are the most conspicuous part of this evil spirit. There are circles in the "earna" that resemble annual rings on a tree. , Spreading to the outside, the two organs just quivered slightly in the wind.

  ...Not an ordinary evil spirit.

  He can vaguely feel that there is a looming "rope" that closely connects the evil spirits in this place with someone in the distance.

  This wonderful feeling has not appeared for the first time.

  This can only show that there are people like Lin Xingjie and Meng Zheng hiding in this deserted area, manipulating this evil spirit behind the scenes.

   Could it be said that this is the evil spirit of Meng Zheng? Or is it the woman next to him, or...someone else?

  Because it is a shopping mall, the distance between the floors is very wide, and the evil spirit lying on the top of the fire escape is still more than ten meters away from him.

  But Xu Xiangyang didn’t mean to relax at all

  Because he knows very well that for a heterogeneous with super athletic ability, a distance of more than ten meters is no more than one step away.

  The reason why Xu Xiangyang was able to remain calm for the time being was because he discovered that this evil spirit did not seem to have the intention of carrying out a swift hunting operation, and was still wriggling slowly there...

   Standing there and observing carefully for a while, Xu Xiangyang realized that this evil spirit might not have found himself at all. At this time, if he panicked or called people directly, he would easily attract attention.

  Because he discovered that the opponent's head had only a split mouth, without eyes and nose.

  Instead, in Xu Xiangyang’s perception, there is a certain invisible fluctuation, centered on the organs on both sides of the head, like a radar, continuously spreading outward, and the coverage is getting larger and larger.

  It's like dropping a stone on the surface of the water, and the ripples will spread.

This phenomenon almost reminds Xu Xiangyang of himself for the first time: when he activates his psychic abilities, he also subconsciously imagines his consciousness as tentacles extending to every corner, so that he can capture a wider range of information. …

  The perception of evil spirits spread from the corner of the wall, enveloping the upper and lower fire exits, and will soon reach Xu Xiangyang.

   Soon, his presence will soon be noticed by the other party, and the manipulator connected to it will also understand this fact.

-no!

   is almost an action driven by instinct. Xu Xiangyang gathered all the tentacles of "consciousness" scattered around to avoid direct contact with the perception radiated by the other party.

  At the same time, he also built an invisible and intangible "wall" around him, and the breath of the whole person was isolated.

  Although he had thoughts before, Xu Xiangyang was the first time he tried to use such abilities.

  It’s just that, judging from his past experience, his psychic ability stems from the level of consciousness, so it is closely related to his imagination. This might be useful...

  But Xu Xiangyang was not sure, because it was the first time he met an evil spirit with this ability, and the whole figure stood there stiffly like a sculpture.

  And the result was better than he expected.

The perception released by the creeping evil spirit was like air flowing along the surface of his body along a layer of plastic film, without making any noise.

  Xu Xiangyang quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

   "...is this the end?"

  At present, it seems that this evil spirit is good at using special abilities to retrieve the surroundings; moreover, it is not known whether it is a compensation phenomenon with special sense organs, but it does not have normal observation organs such as "eyes".

  Xu Xiangyang did not move, but continued to hide in a corner blocked by a fire hydrant.

  After several rounds of wide-ranging perceptual diffusion, it seems that because the surrounding conditions have been determined, the white evil spirit wriggled on the wall for a while, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

  ...

  Xu Xiangyang stood up, patted his aching thigh, and continued to walk towards the door. He wants to rendezvous with two friends as soon as possible.

  But at this moment, a wave of unsettled waves rises again—

  As if not wanting to make him feel at ease for a moment, a man’s scream suddenly came from the end of the corridor.

  More than one sound.

  The scream sounded abruptly and stopped abruptly.

  Which two were attacked? !

  ...There is more than one evil spirit hiding in this abandoned space!

  Just when this thought of him came to mind, he heard a series of hasty footsteps, and a figure emerged from the darkness at the other end of the corridor.

  The figure staggered towards this side.

  At first, Xu Xiangyang thought it was the injured person who escaped after being attacked, so he subconsciously wanted to go up and help...

  But the rationality in his mind restrained his impulse.

  When the figure staggered out of the darkness and showed its true face in the light of the incandescent lamp, he felt lingering.

  —That is not a living person at all, but a human body model that can move on its own for some reason!

  The reason why it looks staggered is that it is limited by the material used to build the body, and can only rely on repeatedly moving two plastic thighs and rubbing forward on the ground, which looks like it may lose balance at any time;

   Its arms swayed back and forth along with the movement, fresh blood dripped down the lifeless stiff body, or splashed around, leaving a long string of blood marks on the ground and walls.

  Is it that attacked those two people? Xu Xiangyang thought, compared to the harmless sensory evil spirit lying on the wall just now, this movable doll is obviously more aggressive!

   "Click... Click..."

  The mannequin walked forward slowly in a weird posture, and quickly approached where he was hiding.

  Xu Xiangyang's eyes narrowed slightly.

  He no longer hesitated, and quickly stretched his hands to the pockets on both sides.

  On one side is the eraser Lin Xingjie gave him, and on the other is the pen that Zhu Qingyue gave him.

  He immediately activated his psychic abilities on the belongings of the two girls.

  Compared to the last time, after several training sessions, this time the ability to launch is almost instantaneous.

only…

  As soon as he saw them, Xu Xiangyang's face went flush.

  He was sluggish for a while, suddenly felt itchy nose, and smelled a fishy smell. He quickly raised his palm to cover it, but he still didn't stop the nosebleed.

  (End of this chapter)