Chapter 123 – The Best Protective Color

Shencheng!

Su Lifeng had not expected the place he was searching for to be so close to Ningnan.

As an international metropolis, Shencheng far surpassed Ningnan in both population and influence. If a Spatial Gate appeared directly there, the casualties and serious consequences it would cause were easy to imagine.

Su Lifeng had always understood his own strength and the role he could play very clearly, but this was the first time he felt a kind of panic.

That would not mean hundreds of thousands of casualties. It would mean millions, even tens of millions.

Those were not merely numbers!

And the appearance of that hand was aimed directly at him…

“Ge!” At this moment, Su Lian suddenly spoke, interrupting his thoughts. She blinked her clever, mischievous eyes and turned to Su Lifeng with a wicked little smile. “Ge, do you want to see what the person trying to extort me looks like?”

“What?” Su Lifeng had not yet reacted when Su Lian had already reached out and hit the Enter key.

Another somewhat blurry image immediately appeared on the screen. One glance was enough for Su Lifeng to know that this was the street he had seen in his Precognitive Vision. It seemed the person who had replied really had not found the wrong place.

At the same time, quite a few pedestrians were moving about in the image. It seemed that although the Ningnan Incident had caused a huge commotion, Shencheng was still maintaining the most basic stability. At the very least, it had not become like Ningnan.

However, those pedestrians all looked rather tense as well. Unlike the usual office workers coming and going in peacetime, many people were now carrying all kinds of bags, their expressions full of worry.

And at the top of the image, a hand was swaying back and forth…

Su Lifeng immediately understood. Through some unknown method, Su Lian had secretly turned on this person’s phone camera remotely.

But when ordinary people used their phones, they usually held them in front of themselves. This person seemed to have placed it on the other side of their body instead.

Judging from the clothing and long hair, however, the person extorting Su Lian was not a “he,” but should be a woman…

“You…” Su Lifeng had just opened his mouth when he abruptly heard a sharp screech of static from the speakers.

The image vanished at once.

“What happened!” Cheng Xiaomei, behind him, hurriedly covered her ears and asked in surprise.

Su Lian also pressed both hands over her ears, then quickly lowered them again.

She clicked the mouse twice, then turned her head to look at Su Lifeng. “The signal cut out.”

“…Why do I feel like the phone was smashed?” Su Lifeng frowned.

“Eh?” Su Lian thought for a moment. She had not seen the phone get thrown out just now.

“Forget it. It’s good enough that we found the place. Don’t waste your energy on boring things like this in the future. After dinner, go downstairs and rest early,” Su Lifeng said.

It was only a matter of opening up the floor and replacing the furniture. With Jiang Fusheng’s arrangements, it had been completed within a single day.

From the outside, they were still living in Su Lifeng’s home, but in reality, only Su Lifeng lived upstairs.

The doors and windows downstairs had all been sealed shut. With light-blocking curtains and a large quantity of reserves added in, it was basically like a small hidden shelter.

Su Lian pouted, but still nodded. “Got it! Come taste Xiaomei-Jie’s cooking!”

“It’s not as if I have any real cooking skill…” Cheng Xiaomei smiled shyly. Her right hand suddenly stretched backward, a cold gleam flashing. When it retracted again, there was already an extra small dish of soy sauce in it. Embarrassed, she said, “I forgot to bring this over…”

Su Lifeng turned a completely blind eye to every sort of “nonhuman” abnormal scene in the room. He turned to look at the computer screen. On the map, that dot of light had already turned gray, but it was frozen in that position.

He seemed to see that gray point explode with a roar, then rapidly spread across the entire map…

“Crack.”

In Shencheng, beside that street, a woman dressed like an ordinary white-collar worker lowered her head and glanced at the phone that had been crushed in her hand. Then she slowly walked over to a trash can and threw it in.

At that moment, another ringtone sounded from her body. The woman reached into her handbag, took out a new phone, held it to her ear, and said, “Hello?”

The woman’s tone was very flat, but as her lips moved, there was a faint smile hidden there.

“My child gave you the phone number long ago, yet only now have you called me for the first time. As fellow Wisdom Species, we should communicate more,” the woman said. “By the way, where is my child?”

A burst of laughter came from the other end of the phone… Ren Xiaoying lay on the sofa, swinging her bare feet as she laughed and answered, “I ate him.”

“Is that so? Then he should be very happy, to be able to provide a tiny bit of nourishment to a Wisdom Species like you.” The woman’s tone did not change. “So, why did you suddenly call me?”

“Of course it’s because the preparations are almost complete, and humanity’s attention has been drawn away by the chaotic situation. The next step is the most important one. Our division of labor back then should have been very clear, right? How is your guarding work going?” Ren Xiaoying asked.

“Naturally, very well.” The woman lifted her eyelids, revealing a pair of rather listless eyes. She swept her gaze over the street in front of her and said, “Although I did discover a little interlude these past two days.”

“An interlude?”

“Yes. Someone was searching online for this place. But I used money to test how badly this person wanted the location, and he didn’t take the bait,” the woman said.

Ren Xiaoying had already stopped swinging her legs. Her tone turned somewhat cold as she asked, “Then does he know the location?”

“That… naturally not. Since he didn’t take the bait, I cut off contact,” the woman said.

“That’s best.” Ren Xiaoying’s expression instantly relaxed again. “Speaking of which, why did you also choose a female skin?”

“Same as you.” The smile at the corner of the woman’s mouth became more obvious, but paired with those eyes of hers, which held no trace of laughter and even seemed lifeless, it appeared extremely strange. “To drape myself in the best protective color, isn’t it? Besides, it also makes it more convenient for me to observe humans.”

“Is that so? What have you observed?”

“A phone is a very convenient thing. If the human race goes extinct, what I may miss most is the phone. Being one of those people who always looks down at their screen is rather interesting too… hehehe…”

After hanging up, the woman shook her shoulders and laughed silently again.

Just then, a man carrying a bag walked over from behind her. “Honey, let’s go home.”

The woman turned around, glanced at this ordinary-looking man, and nodded. “All right.”

“I bought two pork bones to take back and make soup for you. The world may be in bad shape, but you’re pregnant, so you still have to eat properly,” the man said. From his tightly knitted brows and forced smile, it was not hard to tell that he was just like most ordinary people now: anxious, yet forced to keep living his days.

“Yes…”

“I wonder if it’ll be a boy or a girl,” the man said with some longing. After all, his wife was already seven months pregnant.

“I want to know too. I wonder what will be born… hehe.”

Not far away, several special police officers were holding guns and scanning left and right. But when this heavily pregnant woman passed in front of them, none of them paid much attention.

At the instant they brushed past one another, the woman lowered her head and revealed a faint smile.

“The best… protective color…”