ryethenovel Chapter 38 Whose Brain?
Chapter 38 Whose Brain?
It's the kind of sound where grass blades rub together over a large area.
Jiang Yu subconsciously turned his head and glanced at it…
The dense thicket of weeds inside the barbed wire fence was shaking violently!
The shaking was even greater than when Nagi Hikari went inside.
Much bigger!
The tips of the grass swayed wildly, as if some enormous force was pushing them upwards from underground.
The waist-high weeds were stirred up by an unseen force…
It actually formed a huge vortex with a diameter of several meters.
The blades of grass at the center of the vortex were undulating violently, as if they were about to be uprooted and flung into the sky.
The grass at the edge of the vortex was also bending to one side, flattening a patch and revealing crescent-shaped gaps.
It was as if the entire grass was boiling.
The dense, yellowish-green grass clippings were thrown into the air and mixed with the dust, forming a large, hazy mist.
next second.
The grass stopped moving.
The vortex disappeared.
Grass clippings settle, dust dissipates...
A pair of hands, covered in mud and green sap, emerged from the patch of weeds.
The fingers of those hands gripped the ground, the knuckles turning white from the force, and the veins on the back of their hands bulging slightly…
The grass pulp stained the lines on my palms green.
Immediately afterwards, those hands pushed hard against the ground...
Nagi Hikari crawled out of the bushes.
She knelt down, placed her hands on the ground, and slowly dragged herself out of the weeds.
It's like a swamp hidden in the grass.
She looked terrible.
His hair was disheveled and stuck to his sweaty forehead…
A few bits of grass and withered yellow leaves were tangled in his black hair.
A strand of hair fell to the side of her face, the ends of which were wet with sweat and stuck to the corner of her mouth.
His brown trench coat was covered in mud.
Big chunks...
Some were wet clumps of mud, and some were small patches of dry mud.
Her chest heaved violently, and it was clear that she was breathing heavily with each breath.
The rise and fall of his chest was also ridiculously large.
Her trench coat collar was open, revealing glistening sweat above her collarbone.
Her face was etched with exhaustion.
It's that kind of exhaustion that only occurs when the body has completely depleted its energy, a state of near-limit fatigue.
She looked as if she had just gone through an extremely intense and long battle.
A battle that no one saw.
After lying half-prone on the ground for a few seconds, she slowly raised her head.
Those peach blossom eyes looked over the five-meter-high barbed wire fence and over the overgrown wasteland, landing on Jiang Yu not far away.
She forced a smile, pulling the corners of her mouth upwards.
"Alright...it's all over."
Jiang Yu: "?"
He paused for a moment, thinking he had misheard.
My eardrums were still buzzing, as if I had just crawled out of the explosion site.
"Is it... over?"
"Okay, it's over."
Nagi stood up and brushed the grass clippings and mud off her body.
The movements were casual, as if he were brushing dust off the sofa.
She reached up and gathered her messy hair behind her head, took a hair tie from her wrist, and quickly tied it into a low ponytail.
"But…"
Jiang Yu turned around instinctively.
I go?
Those tourists who were just acting crazy... have disappeared!
Security guard, middle-aged woman, little girl with mushroom haircut...
They're all gone!
The dense wall of people blocking his way, the distorted and ferocious faces, the wet tongue sticking out to poke him…
At this moment, they have all disappeared.
The surroundings were completely empty.
Several sparrows hopped around on the ground, pecking at something, chirping softly from time to time.
The grass blades that had just been trampled were still swaying, but they were slowly springing back.
The leaves, shaken by the crowd, were still rustling, but the shaking was lessening.
If Jiang Yu hadn't just witnessed that "zombie entry" scene...
These unusual phenomena are hard to believe were caused by human intervention.
Rather, it was blown by the wind or for some other reason.
But those traces are still there.
But the person has disappeared.
It's like someone pressed a delete key, erasing them from the world with a single click.
Look at the ground again…
The half of the brain that had just been vomited out had also disappeared.
The ground in front of them was spotless, without a single drop of blood left.
There were only two shallow dents on the ground from when he knelt down.
At the bottom of the pit, a few crushed blades of grass were slowly bouncing back...
Jiang Yu looked down at his hands.
Clean and tidy.
There was no blood or dirt under the fingernails, no sticky blood streaks between the fingers, and not a speck of blood on the skin.
He touched his forehead...
Dry.
Nose, mouth, throat... all clean.
There was no foreign body sensation, no smell of blood, and no trace of the terrifying events that had just occurred.
There wasn't even that foreign body sensation you feel after vomiting.
He stood there, mouth agape, not knowing what to say.
Someone is laughing in the distance.
It was the relaxed laughter of tourists who genuinely came to enjoy the scenery.
A breeze blows by, carrying the fragrance of flowers, grass, and earth…
It was as if nothing had ever happened.
Jiang Yu felt as if his head had been twisted.
Five seconds?
Five seconds at most!
He hadn't even run far yet...
All those men with ferocious faces, yelling and raising their arms to chase him just now have disappeared.
Just a few seconds...
They all disappeared in an instant, is that alright?
It was like extras on a film crew getting their lunchboxes killed—the speed was unbelievable.
What exactly is going on?
Also, whose brain is that half-brain on the ground?
What's with all that blood?
Hallucination?
Could it be that I have low blood sugar because I haven't been eating properly these past two days?
and also…
Where did Master go in those five seconds?
Did it hide in the bushes for five seconds?
Nagi Hikaru stood up from the bushes…
The movements were no longer as agile and nimble as before, but instead carried a kind of sluggishness as if they were exhausted.
She took out her phone, opened the planning bureau's office app, and took a picture of the dense grass inside the barbed wire fence.
She then uploaded the photo to the logistics department with a line of text.
"The anomaly at Yushan has been dealt with. The disaster level was incorrect; it was not level 3.1. The preliminary assessment is at least level 4. Please arrange for follow-up actions."
After doing all this, she let out a long sigh and put her phone back in her trench coat pocket.
Then she raised her captivating yet weary peach blossom eyes and looked at Jiang Yu outside the barbed wire fence.
She crouched down slightly, preparing to jump out.
But the posture was different from when he jumped in earlier.
Her movements were noticeably more sluggish, and her knees bent less, as if she couldn't squat down.
The arms also appeared weak when swinging back.
She gritted her teeth and let out a "ha!" before she was "flying" into the air.
However, the altitude at which it "flew" was far less than before.
The brown trench coat, stained with mud and straw, billowed in the wind, narrowly missing the sharp, snake-belly-shaped knife at the top of the barbed wire fence...
Clippings of grass from the trench coat fell onto Jiang Yu's hair.
Perhaps her clothes were scratched by the knife, because Nagi Hikari flew in a somewhat flustered arc through the air.
She lost her balance, her trench coat billowing wildly...
Her fleshy legs were spread wide apart, and she slammed down towards Jiang Yu's head like a banquet for all directions.
Unexpected good fortune!
Jiang Yu's pupils suddenly contracted, and he instinctively dodged to the side.
"Whoosh!"
A fragrant breeze, carrying the scents of earth and grass, wafted towards me.
Luckily, he dodged quickly.
Otherwise, I'd definitely sit right on his face.
Nagi's thigh almost grazed Jiang Yu's shoulder as she landed.
Her legs buckled, and her body slumped uncontrollably to the side.
"Guang-jie!"
Jiang Yu reacted quickly and immediately reached out his hands to steady her.
He held her arm with one hand, and instinctively put his other arm around her hip to prevent her from falling.
But he could only barely manage to embrace half of the other person's body.
Because Nagi's hips were so wide, Jiang Yu couldn't even wrap his arm around them.
There was no other way, so he slid his hand up and wrapped it around her waist.
Wow, her waist is so slim!
How can such a thin waist support such a heavy upper body?
and…
This lady is so hot!
He could sense that the other person's body temperature seemed higher than normal, and they were trembling slightly.
Do you have a fever?
After being helped up by Jiang Yu, Nagi leaned against him.
It was obvious that her body simply couldn't take it anymore.
The two maintained this intimate posture typical of couples.
After a while…
She slowly raised her head, looking at Jiang Yu with a hint of apology in her peach blossom eyes, and spoke in a self-deprecating tone.
"Sorry, I forgot again..."
"I thought I was one of Tchaco's men, but I haven't been for a long time..."
"But the bureau didn't revoke my Special Branch authority; I still have the authority to handle anomalies."
"However, doing so is against the rules."
Her tone became more serious, and a hint of earnestness flashed in her peach blossom eyes.
"Especially doing this in front of a new recruit in the patrol department..."
"This is a major taboo."
Jiang Yu, supporting Nagi, didn't know how to respond.
All I could do was offer a perfunctory word of comfort: "It's okay, it's okay."
Seeing Jiang Yu's absent-minded look, Nagi Hikari smiled weakly, "I'm too weak, help me to sit over there for a while..."
"Okay, sure."
Jiang Yu carefully helped Nagi Hikari to a wooden bench not far away and helped her sit down.
Jiang Yu felt like he had walked an eternity in just a dozen meters.
Because Nagi's body was limp, like a dough ball that had absorbed too much water.
Jiang Yu's hands felt like they were gripping cotton; he couldn't exert any strength at all.
The idea that women are made of water is embodied in Nagi.
The two of them sat quietly back in their chairs.
However, this brief period of calm did not last long.
A few minutes later...
Suddenly, police sirens sounded at the foot of the mountain.