The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

7) Paradise Lost (Part 5)

Along with the spatial disturbance like broken snowflakes, the two figures in front and behind the desk gradually became clear.

Sitting behind the desk was an elderly man, probably the principal. Standing in front of the desk was a woman dressed as a teacher. She placed a book in front of the principal and said solemnly:

"Principal, you know why I am here."

The principal behind the desk didn't even open the book. He just stared at the teacher silently and sighed softly:

"Xiaoying, you shouldn't take this risk by giving up your comfortable life to come here to teach."

"But I have to do it," the teacher's voice rose a little, "You know why I came here, I want to see it with my own eyes."

"If you mean the voices you mentioned before, they were just hallucinations." The principal nodded.

"No, principal, I'm sure this is not an illusion. Many people in Lulintun heard it," the female teacher said excitedly, "some of them even began to worship the machine!"

"So this is what you want to do? Join a bunch of villagers and worship a machine?"

"What I want to say is that the voice is real!" said the female teacher. "Look at those children! They can't even use complete books. If we rely on ourselves, Lulintun will not be able to get rid of poverty in another ten years. But the voice said... He said..."

Silence, a brief silence filled the room, and the two dark shadows stared at each other.

After a long time, the principal sighed deeply:

"Xiaoying, you are tired. You have given so much to the children of Lulintun. Even your two children have to live a difficult life with them. I deeply believe in your good intentions."

"So, please let me--"

"But no, we can't touch that big machine," the principal said firmly, "It is the source of disaster left over from the Day of Judgment. It is a forbidden area that cannot be touched."

The principal grabbed the book written by Sakura Sugimori and put it in the cabinet:

"As for your book, I will read it. I believe in the research you have done and your heart to serve the people. But please understand me. I cannot let you take risks."

"..."

The shadow dispersed, the book remained on the table, and silence returned to the room once again.

Against the backdrop of a strange atmosphere, Perlis saw the book open automatically and stop on a picture.

It was a tall drilling machine, standing on the ground in a streamlined structure, with a deep cave underneath.

"This is the drilling machine from the previous era that Yan Chu mentioned before," Carly murmured, "It was from this mine that the black tide surged, submerging the entire hinterland and turning it into a [Black Dead Zone]."

"The female teacher said that she heard a noise coming from inside..." Perlis frowned, "Why would she want to go there?"

"Maybe that voice promised her something," Carly analyzed. "In short, no matter what she did after that, the principal was right, because the black tide came out of that mine, just like in the previous era."

Perlis recalled the faces of the children in the classroom again. The marks left by them in the underworld had no expression, no emotion, and there was endless emptiness in their eyes.

"Maybe, she wanted to save those children," Perlis shook her head, "I don't know."

Under the temptation of the snake, humans picked up the forbidden fruit in paradise.

But if we are really in paradise, why would we be tempted?

Is there really a paradise?

......

Cover Team - 1 hour into dead zone - 2 hours and 25 minutes left to extract

"We have set up interception nets in all four directions, but there is still no trace of any black water entities."

"receive."

Su Yao looked in her direction with sharp eyes, looking at the ruins in front of her which were stained with a layer of darkness, she held the gun tightly in her hand.

More than half an hour had passed, and there was still no reply from Pearlis and Carly, and there was no movement from the school.

Su Yao also tried to contact them, but did not receive any response.

At this point, she could only trust Pearlis and Carly. After all, if even those two couldn't do it, she probably wouldn't be able to do anything either.

"Shaya, how is the situation in the air?"

"It feels a bit boring," Shaya sounded depressed, "It's really strange, I thought it would be exciting this time."

"Not being stimulating is a good thing," Su Yao said, "Didn't you hear the sound?"

"I heard it, but it was very far away, so I couldn't hear it clearly," Shaya said. "Those sounds were very strange. They might be the unique structures of the dead zone. Anyway, I didn't hear them..."

Shaya's voice suddenly stopped. Su Yao thought the radio was broken at first, but she soon heard Shaya shouting:

"Attention all teams! The [wolves] are approaching from all directions! It is estimated that... uh... there are about two thousand..."

In the helicopter, Shaya fiddled with the screen while holding her head which was stinging from the noise:

"How is it possible... I didn't hear anything at all... Could it be that it was transmitted from the [Netherworld]?"

Shaya turned up the frequency of the noise reduction in her headphones and turned on the onboard fire control system.

She aimed at Su Yao's side and pressed the launch button:

"Boom boom boom——"

Three missiles flew out and hit the black waves, but only splashed some water.

What horrified Shaya was that those [Wolves] were well-trained and dispersed their formation when the missiles came, thus avoiding the fate of being annihilated at the same time.

"They have brains! There are higher-level entities. Where are they? In... in..."

Saya gritted her teeth and endured the severe pain caused by the noise. She lowered the noise reduction level and used her extraordinary hearing to search for that different sound in the ocean of noise.

Then, she heard an order issued by the ancient divine language:

"...Dlter kis...ins duta... (ancient divine language)"

"I heard it! It's the Black Khan! It's the Black Khan!"

Shaya quickly adjusted the helicopter's optical lens, and then, for the first time, she saw the dark figure -

——He had raised the giant bow and was facing the helicopter.

"...!"

On the ground, Su Yao only heard a loud slingshot sound. She looked up and saw a high-temperature arrow stained with red light streaking through the sky and hitting the helicopter where Sha Ya was.

"Boom!"

"I've been hit! I'm making an emergency landing! I'm making an emergency landing—"

The helicopter spun and fell, dragging its burning nose, and finally landed in a ruin in the distance.

"boom!"

"Shaya!"

Su Yao yelled, she turned her head tremblingly and ordered the two soldiers beside her:

"I have to go save people, please...please..."

"Go! We can hold on here," the soldier patted Su Yao on the shoulder, "Trust us."

Su Yao took a deep breath, nodded to the two soldiers, picked up her rifle, and ran towards the place where Shaya crashed.

7) Paradise Lost (Part 6)

Core Team - 1 hour and 30 minutes into the dead zone - 1 hour and 55 minutes until extraction

"The signal still can't be restored..." Carly adjusted the transmitter and frowned, "Even the interference sound can't be received..."

"This is the [Netherworld], we are below that layer of space." Perlis was helpless.

After watching the conversation between the principal and the female teacher Sakura Shanmori, Perlis and Carly were once again in a stalemate and made no further discoveries.

The book written by Sakura Shansen had been completely corroded by the darkness, and did not provide any more clues. After the two shadows disappeared, the whole room fell into complete silence.

Pearlis and Carly searched the room almost thoroughly, but in the end they found nothing.

"Ahhh... It's all my fault for not knowing enough about the netherworld!" Carly complained to herself inexplicably, "If only I had asked Tianshi or someone earlier if they had any literature or something, damn..."

"Don't blame Carly." Perlis comforted.

"There's no way out of this situation now," Carly said, feeling unexpectedly irritated. "The classroom... the principal's office... can't these people just fix the house? Where should we go next? To the drilling rig?"

"Carly~ calm down~"

"How can I be calm? I'm actually stuck because of my lack of knowledge! Ahhh, it's all my fault for being tired, tired!"

Looking at Carly's somewhat hysterical and anxious appearance, Perlis sighed softly.

In fact, she could completely understand Carly. After all, Carly had been known for her extensive knowledge since she was a child, and she could solve almost any problem with her knowledge.

But after learning the truth about the barrier above the sky and factor energy technology, Carly developed a huge fear of lack of knowledge because most of her knowledge was denied.

This is also why she wanted to argue with the archaeologists when they told her she was “uneducated” in Chaoqu City... She used to be so calm...

Looking at the anxious Carly, Perlis's brain was working fast, thinking of ways to comfort her.

Hmm... I didn't expect that I can't comfort people...

How did Carly usually comfort me? Perlis raised her head, and it seemed as if countless stars and mathematical formulas intersected in her mind, forming a huge picture.

She thought about understanding the law.

"...No, if you don't know the underlying logic...it's useless. Ah, is there any other way..."

Carly was struggling with her thoughts and when she looked up, she saw Pearls walking towards her with a silly look on her face.

"What's the matter? Little White Flower, I'm...eh!?"

Carly's words turned into a short exclamation as Perlis hugged Carly and held her in her arms.

"Okay, baby," Perlis imitated Carly and patted her back, "Don't worry... Don't worry..."

"Little...little white flower..."

Carly opened her mouth, the little sanity she had left was evaporating rapidly, and her face was so hot that it could almost boil water.

"Ah...ah..."

She collapsed in Perlis's arms, looking at Perlis's silly and clumsy face, not knowing what to say.

After her brain raced, the calm scholar finally squeezed out three words:

"What are you...doing..."

"Isn't this how you usually comfort me?" Perlis tilted her head blankly, "Well... I thought this was how you comforted people."

So cute... Is she a fool?... Carly was almost bleeding from her nose because of this cuteness, and the anxiety in her mind instantly disappeared.

Although the scene around was so strange, but when Perlis hugged me like this, I suddenly felt as if nothing was a problem anymore.

At worst, I can just spend my whole life here with my little white girl, isn’t that good?

"..."

The dissipation of anxiety was naturally accompanied by the rapid progress of thoughts. Carly's eyes fell on the photo frame on the table again, and a light bulb was lit in her mind -

"I...I figured it out! Ah, I didn't even think of it before!"

Carly slapped her head, broke free from Perlis's arms, and quickly walked to the side of Sakura Shansen's works.

She turned to the page that had the factor that could drill a well and tore off the picture that showed the factor that could drill a well.

Then, she took out the picture of the classroom from the frame and stuffed the picture of the factor energy drilling into it.

Seeing Carly do this, Perlis suddenly understood.

"This photo frame... uses the picture to find the teleportation point?"

"It should be," Carly clapped her hands, "Okay, then..."

"Wait a minute, let me come."

Perlis first crushed the paper ball used for lighting, dimming the entire principal's office. Then, she put the picture frame on the table.

When I raised it again, the picture frame and the pages had completely merged into one, as if I was looking at another world through the picture frame.

"Candlelight anchors the shadows, so the lights need to be turned off," Pearlis explained.