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Chapter 471: Dark Castle Insect Experiment [2]

The old lady's son and daughter were called over to discuss the matter. The old lady's son's attitude improved significantly, and he said to Yao Gang: "Since the compensation has been paid, we won't say anything. Be careful next time."

……

It was already dark when Yao Gang came out. Looking at his empty wallet, he smiled bitterly.

When I returned to my rented apartment at night and lay on the cold bed, I remembered that I hadn't eaten all day, but I didn't feel hungry at all.

He looked at the needle hole which was as thin as a mosquito's leg and felt worried.

I had a strange dream all night. I kept dreaming that I turned into a monster, running rampant in the city, biting everyone I saw and laughing miserably with blood in my mouth.

He woke up with a startled "Ah!", staring with his eyes wide open, and couldn't fall asleep again.

The company he worked for was a small website company with a total of ten people, located in an inconspicuous office building in a commercial district.

When Yao Gang was at work, his eyes felt dry and he felt sleepy all the time. The receptionist was called Li Bingrou, a very cheerful and pretty girl. When she saw Yao Gang, she was surprised and said, "Yao Gang, what's wrong with you? Where did you fool around last night?"

Yao Gang didn't know he had panda eyes yet. He rubbed his eyes and said, "I didn't sleep well last night. I had a nightmare."

Li Bingrou looked at him sympathetically: "Yao Gang, you didn't ask for leave yesterday. The boss is angry, you should be mentally prepared."

Yao Gang nodded expressionlessly. He sat in his seat, thinking about talking to his boss about the matter and being more proactive.

After waiting for a whole morning, the boss Zhou Xiaohu didn't show up. Yao Gang suddenly felt very uncomfortable, nauseous and wanted to vomit. He was extremely depressed, his ears were buzzing, and he was sweating all over. He thought that the medicine he took yesterday might have taken effect.

The colleagues around him looked at him strangely.

Yao Gang was in extreme pain, his face was extremely pale, and he couldn't open his eyelids. At this time, he vaguely heard someone calling him, and he barely came back to his senses. Li Bingrou pushed his shoulder: "Are you okay? The boss is here, let you in."

Yao Gang supported himself and staggered towards the office. Every step he took was extremely painful. His stomach was churning and he felt like vomiting.

I barely made it into the office and saw Zhou Xiaohu sitting behind his desk packing his things.

He was a middle-aged man in his thirties, very fat, with a face full of flesh, and was known in the industry for being stingy, deceitful, and dishonest. When he saw Yao Gang staggering in with a sickly look on his face, he was disgusted.

Zhou Xiaohu has mysophobia, and what he hates most is seeing his subordinates catch a cold or get sick. He has made a rule in the company that anyone who catches a cold must take a leave, and if anyone does not inform others of their illness, they will be fired immediately.

He already had a grudge against Yao Gang. Now with the economic crisis, it's very difficult to maneuver his finances. He had to fire a few employees to relieve the pressure. Yao Gang, Yao Gang, you really walked into my trap.

Zhou Xiaohu frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Excuse me, boss. I didn't sleep well last night."

"You didn't come yesterday, why didn't you ask for leave?"

Yao Gang lowered his head and said, "I had something urgent to do, so I forgot about it."

Zhou Xiaohu coughed and said, "Yao Gang, you are a good employee. You have been in the company for two years, so you are considered an old employee. How should I put it? I am very satisfied with your work, but..." Yao Gang was not a fool. He knew from the sound of gongs and drums that Zhou Xiaohu was going to fire him. He got excited and suddenly opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of mucus with a "wow".

The mucus was extremely viscous and dark purple in color, very much like the vomit of a tuberculosis patient. The sticky mass was spraying onto the imported carpet.

Zhou Xiaohu jumped up from his chair as if struck by high voltage electricity, his eyes widened, and he cursed: "Yao Gang, what are you doing! Get out of here, I'll fire you from the company."

Yao Gang was almost exhausted, and said weakly: "Boss Zhou, I, I, I still have one month's salary and bonus not yet given to me."

"Get out of here!" Zhou Xiaohu cursed, "This imported carpet of mine is worth thousands of dollars. I'm glad I didn't ask you to pay for it. Get out of here now. Why are you like garbage? You disgust me wherever you go."

Yao Gang stood up shakily, raised his hands, and found that a lot of mucus had oozed out of his palms at some point, as if he was sweating. He wiped it on the sofa, leaving a clear large handprint.

Zhou Xiaohu picked up the phone: "Security! Come quickly!"

Yao Gang waved his hand: "Boss Zhou, I hope you can settle my salary."

At this time, the door opened and two security guards came in. Zhou Xiaohu pointed and said, "This employee is causing trouble. Pack up his things and throw them out. I don't want to see him."

The two security guards, each about 1.80 meters tall, with red faces and great strength, held Yao Gang on the left and right and said, "Brother, just walk honestly and don't make things difficult for us."

Yao Gang seemed paralyzed at this time, and let them carry him out. He had nothing to pack, so he was taken out of the office building. Li Bingrou and other colleagues looked at this scene in shock.

Yao Gang was really thrown into the alley behind the office building by them. He collapsed on the ground, motionless.

One of the security guards said, "Brother, you are not going to kill him, are you?"

The security guard waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and leave. Don't let anyone get close to you."

Few people passed by this alley, and Yao Gang just lay there, with a lot of mucus oozing out of his body. Just after nightfall, dark clouds rolled in the sky and heavy rain fell. He fell in the rain, motionless.

Yao Gang was awakened by the pain.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself half submerged in the water. Lightning flashed in the sky, the wind howled, and the rain was getting heavier.

He was about to stand up while holding onto the wall when he suddenly screamed "Ah~~"

My body felt as if it was torn apart, burning and in extreme pain.

He was almost unconscious from the pain and hurriedly took off all his clothes in the hope of alleviating the pain.

He saw that his skin was completely torn, every texture was torn apart, and his entire body was covered with strange stripes, which was very tragic, just like the tattoos on the body of an ancient warrior.

When he opened his hands, he could see his arms, with bulging blood vessels and the skin slowly expanding as if it was about to tear apart.

He was completely stunned. The intense pain made his mind extremely clear in an instant. Will I explode and die?

Yao Gang felt that he was getting taller and taller. Everything in front of him was extremely clear. He could even observe the entire process of a single raindrop falling! It was so slow that it seemed like a slow motion.

He estimated his height, at least two meters. His hair was wet and stuck to his shoulders, and he suddenly realized, I have a short flat head, how come my hair has grown longer.

He placed his hand in front of his eyes and saw that his originally black hair had now turned a deep red.

He seemed to be recharged, and it felt like his energy, physical strength and intelligence had reached their peak.

As if he was summoned or bewitched, Yao Gang slowly opened his arms and looked up at the sky. Unconsciously, his feet slowly left the ground and his whole body actually flew up.

This feeling was extremely strange, and his whole body was extremely painful, but deep down he had a strong urge to try. At this moment, his mind was extremely clear, but he seemed to be on drugs and was in an extremely psychedelic state.

The surrounding high walls, raindrops, empty streets, and street lights all seemed to be floating and deforming.

At this moment, he realized that he was actually about three meters above the ground, suspended in the air!
If someone saw this, they would be shocked. A man taller than Yao Ming, with loose red hair, was suspended in the air with his hands spread out and a painful expression. Anyone who saw this would ask his wife to come out and see God together.

Slowly, Yao Gang felt the pain ease, his skin seemed to be recovering, and there was a tight feeling. At the same time, he slowly fell in the air until his feet were on the ground.

I touched his head again, and it was still a short black flat head. I had returned to my original state.

Only then did I feel the extreme cold.

He then realized that he was still standing naked in the heavy rain. He quickly picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on, then ran to the station like a drowned rat.

Not long after, a bus came. When he got on the bus, everyone looked at him like a monster. What did this guy do? Did he take a shower in the rain? He was soaked in water, and his clothes were soaked.

When he got home, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening. Yao Gang took off all his clothes and quickly wiped himself with a towel. The rented house was very simple and he couldn't take a hot shower indoors, so he could only lie on the bed shivering under a thick blanket.

Only then did I begin to think carefully about what happened today.

My ability to float in the air must be related to the drug injected by the mysterious organization. Yao Gang thought over and over again, could this drug change the structure of the human body? I remember learning about bird flight in high school biology, and there was a sentence that I remembered very clearly: "The bones are hollow and filled with gas." At that time, the biology teacher explained that the reason why birds can fly has a lot to do with their own physiological structure. For example, they have no teeth, no bladder, a short rectum, no feces storage, efficient double breathing, complete double circulation, streamlined appearance, feathers, etc., and the most important point is the special bones. Their whole body is hollow bones filled with gas, so they can float in the air. Is it the same for me?
Yao Gang couldn't sleep anymore, so he turned on his laptop and went online, searching for "human suspension" as the keyword on the website.

There is no clear statement about human levitation. Most of them come from magic. Human levitation is the supreme secret in magic, and many world-class magicians can perform this magic.

I found some videos on the Internet that revealed the secrets. It is easier to explain the levitation on stage. Take David Copperfield's levitation performance as an example. He used the clever combination of the steel wire and the steel ring behind him to deceive the audience with the mechanical sophistication. But there are some magic videos that no one can explain. These magicians perform on the streets or squares, surrounded by crowds of people, and there is no condition for hanging ropes, but they can also suspend the human body. They can even hypnotize others to suspend in the air.

Although these magic tricks are exquisite, they are not what Yao Gang cares about. No matter how exquisite the magic is, it is still magic. It is completely different from the physiological abnormalities that occur in oneself.

He checked other information and found a scientific article reposted by a netizen from overseas that caught his attention. A natural scientist from Sri Lanka claimed that he met an ascetic monk who practiced in a deep mountain forest in Linghai, Yunguo. The ascetic monk personally performed human levitation for him.

The scientist was so amazed that he wanted to take a photo with his camera, but was severely stopped by the ascetic monk. The scientist wrote in the article that the monk's eyes were as sharp as a knife and could kill people, and he did not dare to do anything improper at that time.

When the monks were performing, they discovered something very strange.

The monk's body burst, and a whirlwind blew around him, and the surrounding leaves rustled. Scientists said that he was absorbing energy, and this behavior was very similar to insect mimicry.

Insects?! This word popped into Yao Gang's mind. He was an extremely enthusiastic insect lover and knew many secrets from the insect kingdom.

I only thought of birds, why didn’t I consider that insects can also fly.

He didn't care about anything else, got out of bed and flipped to a book about insects.

In the Carboniferous period hundreds of millions of years ago, when the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere reached a peak, insects began to evolve from crawling to the air. Since flying consumes dozens of times more calories than crawling, more energy - sugar and oxygen - is needed.

The high oxygen concentration in the Carboniferous period was also an important reason for inducing species to expand into the sky.

Seeing this, Yao Gang was a little confused. He remembered the state when he was suspended in the air. His skin was chapped and his height increased rapidly. It must be to absorb more oxygen and sugar in the air!
Although there are many unimaginable and bizarre things in this world, the underlying settings they form will not change, and that is the law of conservation of energy!

The structure of his entire body has changed. Although the extent and method of the change are not clear, it seems preliminary that this structure can enable his skin to cooperate with the respiratory system to increase the purity and concentration of the surrounding oxygen absorbed, thereby achieving the purpose of flying.

Yao Gang came to the mirror and looked at his naked self. Can I really fly?

He decided to try out this ability of his.

A strong urge to vomit came over him again. Yao Gang ran to the toilet and vomited a lot of dark purple mucus. Could this be the side effect of body modification?

After a long pause, he slowly returned to normal. Thinking of the intense pain his body had felt when he was suspended, he was a little hesitant.

Forget it, I don’t want to think about this anymore. I feel dizzy and I’d better go to sleep.

When he woke up, it was already the next afternoon. He opened his eyes and felt refreshed as never before. His stomach was growling. He called for takeout and had a big meal.

Looking at the sky outside, he secretly made up his mind that this was an opportunity to change my life. I have been a good student since I was young, and I was taught to listen to my teachers and parents, and to be honest and not to cause trouble. I developed such a cowardly character, always hoping to keep things quiet and get by, which is why I was stepped on and shit on by social scum like Zhou Xiaohu.

After dinner, he surfed the Internet aimlessly for a while, and when it was dark, he got dressed and went outside. The community where he lived was backed by a mountain, and a mountain road leading to the cement factory in the suburbs was dug out of it. On this road, only large trucks could be seen passing by occasionally. The road was wide and sparsely populated, especially at night, under the moonlight, it was cold and deserted, and very gloomy.

……

Zhu Yao is a crazy movie fan whose biggest dream is to become a director and compete for an Oscar. His family is very rich. His father is a real estate developer and bought him a full set of equipment after his son graduated.

He and a few friends planned to shoot a horror series of short films. Horror films require great effort, and the atmosphere and story are extremely demanding and must be handled properly. They also need to consider sound, lighting, and the scene. That night, they went to the mountain and planned to shoot the ghost kissing scene.

Zhu Yao carried a camera and patrolled the forest path in the mountains from a human perspective. It was eerie here, with trees standing in clusters and strange branches, reflecting the moonlight, just like ghosts.

A girl, wearing a red wedding dress as required by the script, loomed in the distance. Zhu Yao and the actors communicated via Bluetooth. He said as he filmed, "Not bad, not bad, just like that, come over slowly."

As they were filming, suddenly everyone heard him shouting through their headphones: "Look, what is that?"

Seeing that everyone was still in a daze, Zhu Yao quickly added, "West, nine o'clock."

Everyone went to see, and saw a 2-meter-tall man floating in the air with his arms outstretched in front of the bright moon. The moonlight was like water, reflecting on the man's body, as if he was coated with a layer of holy light.

He had loose red hair and a muscular body, with an indescribable beauty. His arms and body formed a perfect cross. He closed his eyes tightly, with an expression of both pain and intoxication on his face.

It was really terrifying that such a person suddenly appeared in the middle of the night.

Zhu Yao was still somewhat professional, and quickly took out his camera and took photos of the man. The girl in the red wedding dress was fascinated by him, and murmured, "So handsome. I wish I had a boyfriend like him."

Yao Gang entered a very mysterious state. He tried his best to maintain this state, but every second seemed to reach his limit and was completely supported by his will.

He didn't dare open his eyes, for fear of destroying the conserved energy field, but his mind was extremely active, and his brain seemed to be like a radar, emitting radio waves that spread out to the surroundings with his body as the center.

No one noticed that in the grass not far away, the weeds were shaking and there was a person hiding. He was lurking on the ground, looking at Yao Gang floating in the sky with great caution.

Suddenly, Yao Gang opened his eyes, his eyes were gleaming with brilliance, and his eyes were cold to the bone. At this moment, he felt a strong murderous aura.

This killing intent, like a peerless sharp knife, spread rapidly from a certain point and attacked like a ghost crying or a wolf running, making people feel like they have entered hell.

Yao Gang had never experienced such a strong feeling of looking death in the face in his life.

His body suddenly contracted like a bow, gathering strength, and disappeared into the dark sky at an extremely high speed.

Zhu Yao was stunned. Was this a magic trick? Or a special ability? If it was a magic trick, this big guy must be the greatest magician in the world.

The person in the bushes also disappeared silently.

Yao Gang hid on the balcony of the building, panting and sweating. The flying state just now exhausted all his physical strength, and he was so weak that he could be knocked down by a three-year-old child.

Where does this murderous aura come from?

At this time, his mind was still very calm. He looked up at his watch and realized that he could enter the suspended state easily, but it could only last for 4-5 minutes. If he flew in the air at full speed, it could only last for less than 10 seconds.

Flying was too exhausting. His whole body felt hollowed out. His head was buzzing and everything he saw was double. He sat in a corner of the balcony, recovering a little, and then carefully went downstairs to go home.

He didn't expect that what he did that night would cause such a sensation.

Zhu Yao lost interest in filming and hurriedly took a taxi home overnight. After exporting the video, he immediately uploaded it to major video websites.

The title can be summed up in one sentence: The world's greatest magician appears in Yun Country!
No one expected that this video, which was less than five minutes long, would explode on the Internet. In just one night, the number of hits on the Internet alone approached 2, and there were countless replies below, with people expressing amazement, expressing emotion, and even pretending to be cool, claiming that they could see the steel wire.

In less than a week, the video ranked first on all major websites.

Many netizens expressed that in today's world where Xizhou magic has unified the magic world, the emergence of such a great magician in Yun Country is an honor for all Yun people. In comparison, magic tricks like Liu Qian's, such as changing a ring or cutting a newspaper, are just like children playing house.

There are also some minority netizens who think that this has little to do with magic, and that it is either a shocking scam or that this person has special abilities.

But in today's society, everyone believes that human nature is evil, and the idea of ​​special abilities quickly disappeared. A small number of netizens even formed a professional brick-smashing team, flooding major websites with messages to criticize brick-smashing, saying that it was a dirty scam that deceived the Chinese people.

Regardless of their attitude, netizens strongly demanded that this magician step forward and show his skills to the world.

In different corners of different cities, there are a few people who are watching this video over and over again with great interest. Some of them are in Internet cafes, and some are in luxury villas. A very handsome boy wearing glasses and full of bookishness is sitting in the computer room of a music college, pinching a few small mustaches on his chin and squinting his eyes. If there are careful people around, they will find that his eyes are emitting a chilling light that makes people shudder.

Yao Gang didn't know this yet. As long as he wasn't in suspension, he was still an ordinary person.

What he must do now is to get back the salary that Zhou Xiaohu owes him.

Yao Gang looked through his wallet. He only had a few thousand yuan in savings and cash. It was so hard to find a job nowadays, and he didn't know how long a few thousand yuan would last. Although the salary Zhou Xiaohu owed was not much, it could solve the problem temporarily. Now it was like a thorn in his heart. If he just let it go, he would not be able to bear the anger.

Having made up his mind, he came to the company again. Li Bingrou was on the phone, and was surprised to see him. She hung up the phone and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Very good." Yao Gang said lightly.

Li Bingrou whispered, "Are you here to ask for your salary? Zhou Xiaohu may not be able to come today. I just saw a few murderous people coming to his office."

"Even if the sky falls, I will get the money out of his mouth!" said Yao Gang.

Li Bingrou looked at him as if she didn't know him. In her impression, Yao Gang was a cowardly, quiet, and even autistic scholar. What happened today? Did he get a shot of chicken blood or take some choking medicine?

The company's internal line rang, and Zhou Xiaohu's tired voice came from the phone: "What's the matter?"

Li Bingrou hesitated and didn't know what to say. Yao Gang looked calm: "Just tell him I'm here."

"Yao Gang is here and wants his salary." Li Bingrou said.

Zhou Xiaohu took a breath as if he had a toothache and said, "Damn it."

Both of them heard these two words. Li Bingrou blushed and was embarrassed to look at Yao Gang. Zhou Xiaohu said, "Let him in."

Zhou Xiaohu was really fed up. In addition to this Internet company, he also contracted several real estate projects and hired two construction teams to work for more than half a year. Because of the economic crisis, the prospects of these projects were very bleak, and the best forecast was to barely break even. Zhou Xiaohu then started to have evil thoughts and tried every way to find faults with the construction team. He found some people who claimed to be experts to say that the work was crude and did not meet the standards at all.

The two contractors were both veterans who had seen all kinds of people.

Now two people brought a few strong migrant workers and rushed directly to Zhou Xiaohu's office to negotiate. Zhou Xiaohu was always cautious, and he didn't know how they knew his lair, and he was actually blocked in the room. He was stunned at the time. Coincidentally, Yao Gang also came to join in the fun.

Zhou Xiaohu immediately came up with an idea.

Yao Gang was shocked when he entered the office. There were five or six burly men sitting on the sofa, wearing ill-fitting clothes. They looked fierce and seemed to want to bite anyone they saw.

……

As soon as Xiao Si and Xiao Wu walked into the alley, they felt something was wrong. The alley was empty, no one was there, and the guy they were chasing just now disappeared out of thin air!
They stared at each other, their throats gurgling. There was a high wall at one end of the alley, and the two brothers had been blocking this end, so how could the man disappear?
Xiaowu gasped: "Old Four, why do I feel this is weird? Could it be that this guy has wings and flew away?"

Xiao Si spat on the ground and said, "Don't talk nonsense. There must be a dog hole at the bottom of the wall and the kid went through it."

The two walked along the alley to the end and carefully checked every corner of the high wall. The wall was at least half a meter thick, and the brick joints were clear, with no holes at all.

The two people subconsciously looked up at the sky, which was blue.

Xiaowu felt a sudden chill on his back and grabbed Xiaosi's hand: "Let's go, let's go, why do I feel so scared?"

Xiao Si was still a little unwilling. He looked around the alley, but he couldn't imagine where the boy could have run to.

At this time, Yao Gang was in a suspended state, his whole body hiding in the shadow under the eaves. He could clearly see two people talking about something right below him.

Time passed by minute by minute, and it was almost four minutes, which was approaching my limit.

It was too urgent just now, and before he could climb over the high wall, the two men chased in. Yao Gang's control over suspension was very poor now. To be in a balanced state, he had to remain stable and still. Any slight deviation would destroy this functional harmony.

He was suspended quietly in the air, the sweat on his head running down his cheeks.

A drop of sweat fell from the sky and landed on Xiaowu's shoulder.

Oh no, I have reached my limit. He clearly felt that his body was slowly shrinking, and his original super-strong ability flow was slowly dissipating.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a faint murderous aura coming from not far away. He was very familiar with this feeling, as he had encountered it when he was practicing the levitation skill in the back mountain.

Oh no, how come we meet again? It’s really a narrow road for enemies to cross.

The murderous aura was not as strong as that day, but it was also like a sharp knife cutting your throat or a sharp needle piercing your body, very uncomfortable.

Yao Gang was sweating profusely. He had lived for twenty-seven years, and today was the first time he was on the verge of death.

His levitation function was about to fail. At this moment, he saw a window next to him and without caring about anything else, he opened the window and climbed in.

After entering, I could see clearly that I was in an extremely magnificent house, decorated in an extremely luxurious style. There was a large bed that could accommodate two elephants side by side. The floor was covered with a gorgeous red carpet, and the ceiling was hung with a dazzling chandelier that looked like a spaceship. A row of large bookshelves stretched across the entire wall, filled with large books and many antiques from unknown dynasties.

Yao Gang could no longer hold on and fell to the ground, but luckily he didn't fall hard. He curled up in the corner, gasping for breath, and had no strength left.

Xiao Si and Xiao Wu searched the alley carefully, but there was not even a fly. Xiao Si covered his face and said, "This kid got a good deal."

It took a long time for Yao Gang to regain his strength. His body was refreshed, but he felt a little tired. He wiped the sweat off his face and stood up, looking around carefully. He felt uneasy, thinking that someone might catch him as a thief.

He walked cautiously to the door and listened carefully. There was a faint piano sound coming from outside, floating and very pleasant. Then he opened the door and walked out.

I was on the second floor of a mansion. Leaning on the railing and looking down, I saw a girl in a school uniform playing the piano in the middle of the magnificent hall.

Because I was looking down from a high place, I couldn't see the girl's face clearly. I only saw that she was slender and had nimble fingers, playing a piano piece from the popular movie "Castle in the Sky". There was a half-grown black cat lying on the piano, yawning lazily. The scene was really beautiful.

The music was so beautiful, a young woman could interpret the piano to such a beautiful level. Yao Gang had never heard a real person play the piano before, and he was completely intoxicated.

He rubbed his temples and sorted out his thoughts. There seemed to be no one in the whole mansion except this girl. The little girl was so easy to deal with. I just had to say a few nice words to her.

He straightened his clothes, walked down from the second floor, and arrived at the hall. The hall was decorated very simply. On the wall hung a large calligraphy written by someone unknown: Straight to the sky. The strokes were vigorous and powerful, and it was obvious that it was written by a master.

There were floor-to-ceiling windows in the hall, and sunlight slanted in from outside, falling on the girl, making her seem coated with a layer of holy gold.

She had her back to Yao Gang, her whole heart absorbed in the sound of the piano, and she hadn't noticed anyone behind her at all.

The cat, on the other hand, was extremely alert. It slowly stood up on the piano, shook its black fur, and stared at the strange visitor with its sharp eyes.

(End of this chapter)