Chapter 51: The Human-Shaped Cataclysm Defuser (Part 4)
An unknown amount of time passed. In the cold, almost numb temperature, the blood flow slowed down.
Because of Lin Ming’s vigilant attitude, Yu Lin sensed something and did not get too close, but just sat in the space at the door.
The entire space was like a small, abandoned apartment, with a dim color tone. Looking out from the door was like looking at a layer of a transparent water film, a blurry expanse.
Just when everyone thought it would go on forever, a sudden ringing sound broke the silence.
The rescue space was specially formed for the cataclysm and had a shielding effect, but the members of the action team could communicate with each other. Lin Ming answered the phone under the gazes of the others. “Hello?”
“Brother Lin, where are you?” The person who spoke was one of the members of the action team. His voice was trembling, and he reported as calmly as possible, “Something has happened. White Bird’s condition is unstable. He seems to be angry.”
“What?” Lin Ming’s expression instantly became serious, his tone puzzled. “What’s going on? Wasn’t his condition very stable in the early stages? Why did he suddenly get angry?”
As the highest-level cataclysm they were monitoring, White Bird’s strength was terrifying, and he was the culprit for the world’s subversion. But White Bird’s power was generally only in the later stages.
They were also looking for a solution to this.
“I don’t know.” The team member was called Cheng Lang, and his superpower was a more sensitive sense. He was listening with difficulty with the help of an instrument and stuttered, “It seems that someone is missing…”
“Someone?” Lin Ming’s tone was puzzled. He glanced at the few pale-faced ordinary people in the rescue space and did not think that they were the factors affecting White Bird. He made a decision and said, “Okay. Are you guys ready? I’ll take them out first.”
The hunting of the cataclysm required precise calculations, especially this kind of field where several cataclysms were fused together. It was not something that one person could solve, which was also the reason why Lin Ming had not acted rashly.
Then he heard Cheng Lang’s difficult voice. “No need, bro… White Bird has cleared all the cataclysms in your area.”
Lin Ming’s tone was placid. “What do you mean by cleared?”
“It’s just…”
Cheng Lang also found it strange, swallowed, and explained, “Uh… cleaned up.”
Outrageous to the extreme. That was what it meant.
The leader of the cataclysms had cleared the small cataclysm soldiers.
After removing the shield and letting everyone out of the rescue space, Lin Ming silently looked at the community.
The rain had stopped, and the scenery at the entrance of the community was clearly visible. The courier station stood silently, and outside was a row of trees, with swaying water droplets still on the lush green leaves.
The smell of oil and fire cooking came from the small stir-fry shop at the entrance. It smelled like the owner’s best chili-braised pork. There were diners sitting inside, completely unaware of the crisis just now.
However, the ones who had been caught in it were indeed ordinary people. Two of them had already passed out. The university student with well-developed motor skills was still holding on, but his eyes were already dazed.
A car from the special action team was parked not far away. A few men and women with serious expressions got out. Yu Lin looked at them and was also a little sleepy, his eyelids lightly closing.
There was a woman with a gentle temperament in the action team. She walked over and said, “They’re all ordinary people who accidentally entered. They probably won’t have any memory when they wake up. Shall we check on them again?”
Lin Ming nodded. “Okay.”
As they were talking, Yu Lin felt his consciousness getting lighter and lighter. His hands were very cold. He wanted to put them in his pocket to warm them up. Just as he had put them in a little, his hand was held, and the blood flow was restored.
He was stunned for a moment and felt himself being held in someone’s arms.
The person holding him was holding him very tightly. His temperature slowly recovered. This person was very tall, and his temperature was also high, like a small stove. He held him and muttered neurotically, “Wife, wife, I’ve found you. Are you okay? Don’t leave me.”
Hearing the familiar voice, Yu Lin found that he had relaxed in an instant.
He tried to open his eyes, but he was too sleepy. He lifted his head slightly in the constantly tightening force and saw Yu Zhao’s tense chin.
“I’m fine.” Yu Lin said softly. He thought he was speaking normally, but from the others’ perspective, they could only see his lips move slightly.
Yu Zhao pressed his lips together, held him tightly with one hand, and desperately rubbed his fingers with the other. As he rubbed, he asked, “Wife, wife, is this better? You’re so cold.”
Yu Lin leaned against his arms and nodded, having no strength to explain to him. He was too sleepy.
In the end, he fell asleep as he wished. Before he fell asleep, he vaguely heard a series of gasps.
But Yu Lin had no idea what happened after that. The script’s setting was that ordinary people did not have any superpowers, and under the influence of the cataclysm, their memories would be blurred, and they would lose consciousness.
He woke up in the intensive care unit of a hospital. The surroundings were a clean and dazzling white. A bottle of lilies was on the table, and the space was filled with the smell of disinfectant.
Yu Zhao was sitting by the bed and peeling an apple. His skills were very poor. He had an apple peel in his mouth, and his arm was stretched out very long. He was fighting with the apple, trying to peel out a complete fruit.
The evening sun was not dazzling, but a brilliant orange-yellow. He sat in the oil-painting-like sunset, his features clear, and he was beautifully and richly colored.
Yu Lin’s throat was a little itchy. He looked at him and for some reason felt like laughing, so he curved his eyes, and his fingers rested on the quilt, and he couldn’t help but let out a low cough.
Yu Zhao heard the sound, suddenly came back to his senses, and looked up at him, his eyes bright. “Wife! You’re awake.”
He stood up, and with a light step of his long legs, he came to the bed. While feeding Yu Lin the water he had prepared, he lifted his knuckle and secretly pinched the side of Yu Lin’s cheek.
“…” Yu Lin, who didn’t know where he had learned this bad habit.
Yu Lin raised his eyelashes to look at him. He was completely unaware that he had done something bad, and his eyes were curved with a smile, and he said with a straight face, “Wife, are you thirsty? Here, have some water.”
He handed the cup over to feed him.
So Yu Lin, who had been secretly pinched on the cheek again: “…”
Yu Lin was puzzled by Yu Zhao’s behavior, but he did not resist and chose to ignore this strangeness.
He took the water and drank a little, and looked around with confusion. “A hospital? Why are we here?”
“Ah…?” Yu Zhao was also very puzzled. He bent his long legs and sat on the edge of the bed to explain, “Wife, you fainted. A few people said you were sick and that you would only get better if you came here to have a look.”
He was aggrieved. “I don’t understand.”
But he didn’t dare to touch him randomly.
After he had taught those few small-scale cataclysms a lesson, he had finally found Yu Lin, but Yu Lin had started to get a fever and couldn’t be woken up. He had been so anxious that he had been spinning in circles, but then a few people had appeared and had told him that he had to go to the hospital.
Although he didn’t like these perverts who were always trying to peek at him, they were obviously more knowledgeable than him, so Yu Zhao had to reluctantly follow them.
Fortunately, he was guarding him, so these people didn’t dare to do anything, and his wife was fine.
Yu Lin didn’t know what had happened, and he only had a slight headache. He didn’t think much of it and thought that he had met a kind person, so he nodded. “Where are they?”
Yu Zhao was puzzled. “I don’t know. They were just here.”
Behind the door, the group of investigation team members who had been blocked outside by Yu Zhao: “…”
Damn it, don’t you know how we got out?
But there was nothing they could do. After they had figured out the identities of the one person and one cataclysm in the ward, everyone had immediately sounded the first-level alarm, and this matter had also been listed as the highest-priority mission of the action team.
White Bird was too unusual and too special to this designer named Yu Lin.
In the intelligence, the arrogant and unpredictable cataclysm, White Bird, had blown up the world at least seven times when he was unhappy.
But this time, he had been so angry that the energy he had released had even blown up a few monitoring instruments and had cleared a small half of the city’s small-scale cataclysms, but he had not chosen to destroy it.
He didn’t dare. He was afraid that he would never see certain people again.
***
Yu Lin felt that the character of the kind people who had passed by was very good.
He had stayed in the hospital for a week. During this time, these few kind people had not only helped him with the procedures and had paid for his medical expenses, but they would also come to take care of him from time to time.
Looking at the fruit they had left, Yu Lin felt bad and refused, “Thank you, but it’s too much trouble for you. We can do it ourselves.”
In front of him, the smiling, crew-cut young man, Cheng Lang, and the gentle-looking female researcher, Shu Yu, shook their heads and comforted him, “It’s fine. If we hadn’t been driving too fast, you might not have fallen and fainted because you were trying to avoid us. We should be responsible.”
Their tone was sincere, but it was the first time Yu Lin had heard this. He was stunned for a moment. “Is that so?”
“Yes!” Cheng Lang shamelessly blackened his own driving skills. “I just got my driver’s license not long ago, and I’m very unskilled. If it weren’t for this matter reminding me, I don’t know what mistakes I would make in the future. It’s only right that I take care of you.”
With them saying this, Yu Lin couldn’t say anything more for a moment and had to let them stay.
Seeing this, Shu Yu quickly put down the chicken soup she had been holding. “This is what my mom made. It’s super nourishing. It’s made with an old hen from the mountain, and it’s very fragrant. Try it.”
She and Cheng Lang had been sent to contact the target mission because of their low threat level. After getting along, her good impression of the gentle-tempered target was only higher, not lower.
The other’s face was too pale, so she had asked her mom to make her signature nourishing soup.
Yu Lin had almost never received this kind of care. He pressed his lips together and nodded, and said softly, “Thank you, and thank your auntie too.”
He liked this. Yu Zhao, who was on the side, keenly sensed his emotional change, and his gaze on Shu Yu was much more pleasant. He kicked over a small stool. “You sit?”
After Shu Yu had sat down, he came over with a bowl, and his beautiful features were full of aggression because of the close distance. While filling the soup, he asked as if it were nothing, “How do you make it? Can you teach me?”
Shu Yu avoided his gaze and did not look at the two beautiful killers in front of her. “…I can.”
Cheng Lang, who was standing behind and could not get a stool, and was ignored: “…QAQ?”
***
The distance between people was always quickly shortened by daily small matters. By the time they were discharged, Shu Yu, Cheng Lang, and Yu Lin were already considered friends.
Yu Zhao was also no longer as hostile to them as he had been at the beginning.
This might also have the meaning of a human-shaped cataclysm trying to get human intelligence.
Ever since he had discovered that besides Teletubbies, humans also had a genre called romance movies, this had already begun to show signs.
“What is love?” One day, after a casual chat, the human-shaped cataclysm had captured the keyword and had begun to ask questions.
Cheng Lang, who could never fit in, was asked this question by him with a condescending attitude. He was so happy that he almost cried with joy. The next day, he had paid for it himself and had downloaded two hundred classic movies for him on a large-capacity tablet.
And he had seriously told him, “Bro, if you learn these, you will be invincible in the world.”
Yu Zhao had not cared at first and had said lazily, “I’m already very invincible.”
He already knew the purpose of these perverts approaching him and his wife, which was to stop him from destroying the world. But this time, he had not planned on doing anything anyway, so he felt that it didn’t matter.
Cheng Lang was choked and couldn’t speak. He looked at him, and after holding it in for a while, he said, “You’re invincible to us now. The invincibility I’m talking about is to Brother Lin.”
The human-shaped cataclysm put away his indifferent expression and became serious.
Soon, he had found what he wanted in these movies of varying quality.
In the dead of night, he had quietly stood by the door, and when his wife, who had just finished her shower, had come out, he had ambushed his fragrant and soft, clean wife with a kiss.
His wife’s hair was not yet dry, and it was wet. He looked at him with confusion, and his eyes, which were not covered by black-rimmed glasses, were beautiful and bright, and they were unbelievably clean.
Not like him, who was just pretending. His wife was really very fragrant and clean.
Yu Zhao looked at him, his eyelashes fluttering lightly, and he couldn’t help but lean over and kiss him again.
The relationship between the two of them had changed bit by bit. Yu Lin would naturally not have been unaware, so he did not reject it. It was just that he was being held and kissed, and he was a little red-faced.
He was also a little puzzled. He pressed his lips together and looked at the person in front of him. “Aren’t we… a little fast?”
Hearing that he did not mean to refuse, Yu Zhao’s eyes became even brighter, and he began to shake his head frantically. “Not fast, wife. Not fast at all.”