HPDBC Chapter 40: Respect him as you would a god!
Chapter 40: Respect him as you would a god!
Da da da……
Da da da……
A series of unhurried footsteps came from the stairwell. The footsteps were light, but they seemed to strike the heart of everyone on the floor, even as they stepped on the dusty cement.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a boy emerge from the shadows at the stairwell. He was wearing a faded blue and white school uniform, with a few specks of dust from the night road on his trousers.
Slender build, narrow shoulders
They look ordinary, just like any other high school senior you'd see on the street.
"It's a bit too sweet. How much sugar did they put in this ice cream?"
He held a mung bean ice cream in his left hand, taking a bite now and then, his movements casual and out of place in the gloomy hallway.
It is in southern Jiangsu.
"You're not late, senior. You're just in time, perfectly timed."
The moment Luo Shaofeng saw who it was, he slammed the lightning-struck wood in his hand to the ground with a loud thud, making a slight sound.
He froze on the spot, his face, which had been filled with fear and despair just a second ago, now flushed red.
"We're saved."
These three words exploded wildly in Lin Luoxue's mind. Her eyes widened, her gaze, which had been dimmed by despair, now...
At that moment, it seemed to be ignited, bursting out with dazzling light.
Tears welled up without warning.
It dripped down her cheeks, but she was completely unaware.
One second ago,
She thought she was going to die here today, leaving no trace of her body.
The next second, Su Nan's figure appeared.
This ordinary-looking boy,
In her eyes, it was like a beam of light piercing through boundless darkness.
It is the only salvation, shining brightly.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
The other members of Bureau 749 also relaxed, their tense bodies finally loosening up. Their legs were weak, and they had to lean against the wall to stand up. They all breathed a sigh of relief, their eyes filled with the joy of surviving a disaster.
They all understand.
They were saved when Su Nan arrived.
This boy possessed extraordinary abilities that they could not even imagine.
This is not made up.
Even the strangeness of the three hundred peaks could be obliterated by a few words from him.
Even the severed finger, of unknown origin, hidden inside the golden box, its surging crimson blood, could be suppressed by a single sentence from him.
Not to mention the five hundred bizarre peaks right before our eyes.
With him around,
Today, this deadlock has been broken.
"It smells rancid."
Su Nan took a bite of the ice cream, and the cool, sweet liquid melted in his mouth.
He frowned and uttered a single sentence.
As he finished speaking, he took a step forward, his footsteps making soft sounds on the concrete.
With each step he took, a strange change occurred.
The gray, hazy color that had enveloped the entire corridor, resembling the image of an old black-and-white television, seemed to be pushed rapidly backward by an invisible hand.
The walls were blackened and moldy.
It gradually returned to its original snow-white color.
The decaying mold on the ground receded at a visible rate.
The cool, clean air filled the entire corridor once again.
"Da da".
"Da da".
As Su Nan takes a step forward, this black and white world, which has been strangely tainted, retreats a step, returning to vibrant color.
In just a few breaths, the once gloomy and dilapidated stairwell returned to its original state.
"This scene...it's like watching a science fiction movie."
Luo Shaofeng, Lin Luoxue, and the others stood there dumbfounded, staring at the scene before them, their mouths agape, wide enough to see their throats.
They first looked at the world around them, which changed from black and white back to color.
He then looked down at his own body.
The skin, which had originally turned black and gray from being corrupted by yin energy.
Gradually, the skin color returned to normal, and the limbs, which were icy cold, were restored.
A warmth surged back, and the life force that had been eerily stripped away and was constantly draining away was rapidly returning.
"Captain Luo, have you felt anything...?"
"Lin Luoxue, can you feel it...?"
The two men were startled and asked each other in unison, their faces displaying an expression more absurd and horrified than the sun rising in the west.
They make their living this way, and they know better than anyone what this means.
A life force stripped away by strange and evil spirits, a destiny corrupted by malevolent forces.
Once damaged, it's like a body corroded by sulfuric acid.
There is absolutely no possibility of reversing it.
This is an undeniable common sense in their line of work.
It is a lesson learned at the cost of countless lives.
But now,
What now?
Su Nan simply took a few steps forward and did nothing, yet he restored all their damaged life force and reversed ominous signs.
This!
This isn't human skill; it's divine skill!
"Not even a trace was left."
Luo Shaofeng gasped, raised his hand to touch his arms and cheeks, and found that the mold and wrinkles were gone, and his skin had returned to its original smoothness.
He had lived for forty years and dealt with hundreds of bizarre incidents, and he had never seen, or even heard of, anyone who could do this.
But now,
There is such a person,
They did it with just their footsteps!
He didn't do anything; he just walked this path step by step.
Awe!
I feel utterly awe!
Luo Shaofeng stared intently at Su Nan, as did the other team members, who didn't dare to even breathe loudly, their eyes filled with reverence as if they were seeing a deity as they looked at Su Nan's back.
Saying.
Meanwhile, inside the rented room.
Shen Wenjing, Zhao Meiting, and Zhu Xiaohua slid down to the ground with their backs against the door, their bodies trembling like leaves.
The sounds of gnawing, screaming, and eerie roars outside the door, along with the black-and-white images and aging bodies, struck their hearts like hammer blows.
All three of them covered their mouths tightly, tears streaming down their faces, afraid to make a sound, lest the things outside the door notice them.
"It moved."
"Look, the color is changing!"
Zhao Meiting's voice trembled uncontrollably as she pointed at the wall and then at her own hand, her eyes filled with disbelief.
The hand, which was grayish-white just a moment ago, gradually regained its original fair color.
The dimly lit room gradually brightened, and the black and white world was replaced by bright red colors.
"It seems so."
Shen Wenjing and Zhu Xiaohua looked up at the same time and also noticed this strange change.
They watched as their bodies changed from black and white back to color, feeling the biting cold gradually recede. They looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
Reinforcements have arrived!
It must be reinforcements arriving!
This thought exploded in the minds of all three of them at the same time.
After all, they had overheard Luo Shaofeng making a phone call to call for reinforcements while they were downstairs.
Saying.
At that moment, the footsteps outside the door continued, unhurriedly, one after another.
Zhu Xiaohua was the first to react. She knelt down and slowly moved to the door, pressing her eyes tightly against the crack in the door to look outside.
With just one glance, her breath caught in her throat.
Under the corridor lights, the boy stood there, his figure slender.
It stood like a firmly planted mountain, blocking the way between that terrifying and eerie group.
It looks completely ordinary.
But in her eyes, he was breathtakingly handsome.
This is also due to the hope she found in despair.
It casts a tinted lens on southern Jiangsu that is invisible to outsiders.
"So handsome...so charming..."
Zhu Xiaohua was so infatuated that she didn't even realize it herself.
"What do you see? Let me see!"
Zhao Meiting was incredibly curious, so she quickly squeezed through the crowd, leaned on Zhu Xiaohua's shoulder, and pressed her eyes against the crack in the door.
Upon closer inspection,
Zhao Meiting felt as if she had been electrocuted, and she shuddered violently, her lips trembling with excitement.
She would rather die than mistake this figure.
The boy who lifted a massive boulder weighing tens of thousands of kilograms with one hand tonight in Zhongshan Park...
The fairy she missed, the one who made her cry all the way home.
That's him, no doubt about it!
"Him! He's the immortal I was talking about!"
Zhao Meiting's voice cracked as she cried and laughed, her face streaked with tears.
"It's him! The greatest opportunity of my life that I missed tonight is him!"
Her voice wasn't loud, which stirred up an indescribable curiosity in Shen Wenjing's heart.
She wanted to know,
This is something that can command the utmost respect from even a big shot like Luo Shaofeng.
A supreme figure capable of breaking through this seemingly inescapable predicament.
Who is it?
What does he look like?
"Get out of the way!"
Shen Wenjing reached out and shoved the still excited Zhao Meiting and the infatuated Zhu Xiaohua aside.
She pressed herself against the crack in the door, staring wide-eyed outwards.