The dean of the Royal Academy of Sciences was sitting there with a dark expression on his face. A gloomy aura surrounded him.
This was the second time Guan Feng had interrupted him like this. It was common knowledge that it was very difficult for a speaker to regain their composure once they were interrupted. His speech had long since vanished into thin air due to the sudden slap.
The conference room was completely silent. The managers of the engineering department and the people from the literature department who were spacing out just now were pulled back to their senses and looked around blankly. The people who disliked Guan Feng picked up their glasses and pretended to drink in order to hide the gloating expressions on their faces.
Guan Feng, on the other hand, was still staring at his communicator with his head lowered. His expression couldn't be seen clearly, but the pressure around him was incredibly low. His aura was even stronger than the dean's, who was sitting at the highest position in the conference room. The people who were sitting near Guan Feng subconsciously moved their buttocks away from him.
The dean was going to call out Guan Feng's name, but he hesitated for a moment when he saw Guan Feng's aura and decided against it. He coughed and drew everyone's attention back to him. "The situation is very urgent right now, but if you have urgent matters to attend to, you may leave …"
Normally, this kind of talk was just a formality or an indirect knock on someone's head. However, Guan Feng stood up and walked out of the conference room before the dean could finish his sentence. Not a single person in the conference room made a sound to stop him.
The dean's expression grew even darker. His heart was beating erratically, and he wanted nothing more than to slam the table twice.
In reality, Guan Feng wasn't trying to oppose the dean. He just wasn't paying attention to what the dean was saying at all. He was communicating with Huimao through encrypted text. Just now, Huimao had asked him what he should do next, but Guan Feng had lost contact with him before he could reply. The failure analysis of the communicator showed that the other side was suffering from extremely strong signal interference and couldn't connect.
That was why Guan Feng was in such a hurry. He didn't pay attention to what the people in the conference room were saying and walked out of the conference room to contact the others. He had to find Silin as soon as possible, or Silin was dead for sure. A person who was infected with the Zebra Virus and didn't receive any treatment would die very quickly.
While Guan Feng was busy contacting people, something had happened on Silin's side.
Huimao was in the middle of communicating with Guan Feng when something strange suddenly happened around him. Almost all the electronic devices in the area were disrupted by this strange energy at the same time. After a series of bangs, all the machines around him were paralyzed, and a couple of precision detectors even exploded on the spot.
All the hair on Huimao's body stood on end. He looked at Silin, who was sitting there with his eyes closed, as if he was facing a formidable enemy. This strange energy was coming from Silin.
Silin wasn't in a good state either. The two substances in his body were in a state of scorching heat. The unknown substance that had rushed into his body was trying to forcefully assimilate and modify Silin's chromosomes, but the biochip that had been embedded into his chromosomes a long time ago wouldn't allow it to happen.
If the unknown substance won, then Cillin would turn into a pure humanoid virus body. If that happened, then Cillin could no longer be considered a 'person'. In fact, even his consciousness would disappear. The invasion signal his brain felt was pretty strong. Right now, Cillin was adjusting the biochip inside his body to fight for sovereignty with the unknown substance, or to chase the invading unknown substance out again.
The strange energy that had appeared out of nowhere was none other than the energy ripples produced by a round of battle.
Huimao stared at Silin like a statue. He could sense Silin's vital signs, and they were still strong. He hadn't declined because of the virus, but two different colored stripes had appeared on Silin's face. One was black, and the other was white. Moreover, the boundary between the two colors was fairly clear, unlike the other infected, where the stripes were blurry.
"Silin?" Huimao tried calling Silin's name, but he didn't get a response for a long time.
Huimao was about to move closer and poke Silin a couple of times when he suddenly sensed something. He immediately jumped up and grabbed Silin by the back of the collar and dragged him out of the room. While he was dragging Silin, he accidentally bumped into a chair leg and a door frame a couple of times. Silin's forehead was bleeding from the impact.
"I'm sorry, but the situation is urgent. I can't care so much. Don't blame me when you wake up," Huimao said in his mind.
After dragging Silin out, Huimao didn't stop. He ran away from the spaceplane, and not long after, he heard an explosion from behind him.
The spaceplane had exploded.
Due to the abnormal energy disturbance, all of the spaceplane's settings were seriously messed up. Even its alarms were disabled and unable to sound a warning. The reason why the gray cat dragged Cillin out of the spaceplane in a hurry was because it sensed that the spaceplane was about to explode.
"That was close." Huimao let go. He looked at Silin, who was lying motionless on the ground with his eyes closed. He then looked at the wound on Silin's forehead. The strange thing was, even if Silin was cut by a knife, he would recover very quickly. But now, with just two bumps, it was just a scratch. There was no sign of scab forming, and the wound was still bleeding.
'What should I do?'
Huimao panicked. It didn't have a communicator right now, and Silin's communicator couldn't be used either. It couldn't contact anyone on its own.
After thinking for a moment, Huimao tilted its head and pricked up its ears to listen to the movements in the distance. Then, it picked up Silin's collar again and moved toward the direction where the sound of gunfire was the least. In fact, it would've been more convenient to carry a person in its current form, but Silin's body was very strange right now. If the person lying here wasn't Silin but someone else, it wouldn't even spare them a glance, even if it was Guan Feng.
That substance had a huge effect on Mechanical Intelligence and organic lifeforms. After some consideration, it was still easier for an organic lifeform like this. That was why it could only drag Cillin with its mouth in the form of a kitten towards the direction where there was less gunfire.
A few more wounds appeared on Silin's body along the way. They weren't deep, but they didn't show any signs of scab forming at all.
Huimao made sure that Silin didn't run into any big rocks while running. If he did, it couldn't guarantee that Silin wouldn't die from excessive blood loss when he woke up.
The thought that Silin might not wake up made Huimao anxious. It wanted to scratch its paws, so it left very obvious scratches on the ground when it ran.
It finally dragged Silin to a relatively calm place. The buildings here were already riddled with holes, and there were still flames and thick smoke coming out of many places. The smell of all kinds of burnt substances filled the air.
Huimao didn't have time to think too much about it. It checked the network around it and found that it was still in a terrible state. The network was completely cut off, but it could still check the operation of the machines and know what kind of machines they were running.
The good thing was that the energy fluctuations from Silin's body had calmed down, so Huimao could check the operation of the machines in this area more clearly.
Suddenly, Huimao's ears twitched. It found a few medical equipment and a dozen patients there. There were also people in charge of simple injections.
Okay, that's the place!
Huimao dragged Silin closer to the place. At the same time, it was careful not to attract the attention of the people hiding in the ruins with guns. Those people didn't look like good people, and they were very murderous.
The place that Huimao chose was underground. Many buildings on the surface had been bombed out of shape. Some people felt that they couldn't survive, so they wanted to drag more people to hell with them before they died. There were quite a lot of people like this. In their despair, they vented their anger by shooting and killing ordinary people. The army was gone, and the government was long gone. The world was really chaotic and desperate. People who wandered between death and madness were wavering, perhaps waiting for someone to make a decision for them.
Due to the collapse of the network and the destruction of many electronic devices in the gunfire, this underground rescue point could still exist for a long time. In the past, without a high-end shielding device, it was absolutely impossible to hide for a long time with a thick stone slab that was only coated with some simple isotope material.
There were some animals that were dead or not far from death. There were pets and wild beasts. Whether they were struggling at death's door or had been dead for a long time, they were all abandoned there. The people walking around with guns wouldn't even look at them. Maybe they would shoot again on a whim, turning the animals that were still breathing into sieves.
Finally, it dragged Silin to the place. Huimao didn't immediately drag Silin into the building. It wanted to see what was going on inside and find a better way to get the people inside to treat Silin. Even if the treatment was useless, it was much better than the bleeding.
After hiding Silin in a corner, Huimao ran into the building. It could detect the layout of the basement under the building, and it knew where the entrances and exits were. It found an entrance that was blocked by a thick stone slab. The gray cat was just about to force the stone slab open when its ears perked up when it heard movement inside. It retreated and hid behind a broken cupboard to observe the person who had come out.
It was difficult to hear the voices behind the stone slab, and most people couldn't hear them at all. Wheeze, however, could. It was two girls, one old and one young. The older one was around twenty years old, and the younger one was no more than ten years old. Judging from their faces, they had been infected with the Zebra Virus since a long time ago, and the two-colored stripes on their skin were more obvious than usual. They could still move a little right now, but it would probably be difficult for them to do so in the near future.
They looked a little ragged, but their eyes were still bright. Huimao had animal instincts, and it could tell whether a person was trustworthy or not from their eyes.
They weren't bad. They probably wouldn't do anything that would incur the wrath of the heavens. Huimao had already confirmed their character, but Huimao was hesitating about how he should make them drag Silin into the building.
Should he just jump out and say it? That didn't seem like a good idea. Silin said that all animals that could talk were rare in the Mist Bodhisattva Empire. It wouldn't be good if something bad happened because of this.
Should he drag Silin over here? What if they refused to save him?
What a pain in the ass!
God knows what it hated the most was trying to figure out the minds of humans. Humans were too complicated, and even now, it hadn't fully grasped their thoughts. It would rather figure out how to pry open someone's storage cabinet like that Miantuan chameleon!
While Huimao was thinking hard, the girl carefully walked out of the building and exclaimed, "Ah, a puppy!"
Wheeze followed the little girl's gaze and looked towards the direction she was looking at. There was a small pet dog that had been shot in its body lying next to the building. It had lost all mobility due to the virus infection and the gunshot wound, and all it could do was lay there panting with difficulty. It looked like it wouldn't last much longer, but its eyes were still open and staring at the people inside the building.
Some people say that a dog's eyes are the most capable of arousing people's sympathy. This dog was one of them. Although its fur was covered in blood, dust, and the stripes caused by the Zebra virus, it no longer looked the same as before. However, its eyes, reflecting the light from the burning objects on the street, still made people's hearts tremble.
There was no hatred, no jealousy, and no madness common to humans. Even though it had been shot by a human, its eyes were still pure. It was this kind of gaze that made the two people who walked out of the building stop in their tracks.
The little girl looked around, and when she didn't see the people with guns, she quickly walked over and carried the puppy in.
Huimao, who was squatting behind the cabinet, shook his beard. It seemed that he had an idea.
"Meow …"
A low, thin meow sounded. The two people inside the building could still hear it, but it was difficult for the people outside the building to hear it, so they didn't have to worry about being discovered by the people outside.
The two people who were pitying the pet dog heard the meow and looked toward the cabinet. With the light from the fire outside the building, they saw a kitten that was half the length of an arm. Its ears were drooping, its tail was drooping, and its body was close to the ground, as if it was difficult to take another step. Its eyes were filled with endless sadness.
"Meow …"
It was another weak meow like a mosquito. It was really sad to hear it, and it made people cry.
"It's a kitten!" The little girl walked toward Huimao with the pet dog in her arms. She squatted down and looked at the kitten that was crawling over.
Huimao walked to the side of the little girl who was squatting down, tilted his head, and rubbed along the little girl's outstretched hand …
The soft touch made the little girl's heart soften all of a sudden.
"Sister, can I take them down?" The little girl looked at the other person.
After thinking about it, the woman was also affected by such a cat and dog, especially the cat's eyes that were filled with strong expectation and sadness. Her eyes became hot, and she nodded.
Originally, they came out to find some useful items, especially food, under the cover of the night. They didn't expect to meet these two animals.
"Bring them in first," the woman said. If these two animals were left here, they might be shot into sieves by those extremists at any time.
"Okay!"
The little girl hugged the little pet dog in her arms and freed her hand to carry Huimao.
"Let me do it," the woman said as she came over, intending to carry Huimao into the basement.
But before she could touch it, Huimao bit the little girl's trouser leg and pulled it to the side.
Children's empathy was the strongest, so they had to start from the young! Adults had too many thoughts, and the matter would probably be ruined if they pondered over it. Huimao understood this point.
"Sister, what is it going to do?" The little girl looked at the woman and asked.
The woman looked for a while and said tentatively, "Is it taking us somewhere?"
Huimao "meowed" to express its understanding.
The little girl looked at Huimao and asked, "Where are you taking us?"
Huimao bit the little girl's trouser leg again and pulled it to the side. So annoying, should I say something?
After hesitating for a while, the woman touched the little girl's head, "You carry the puppy in first, I'll take the kitten to see what's going on."
The little girl shook her head, "I'll wait for you here!"
"Be good, go down, it's too dangerous here."
Seeing that her sister was so determined, the little girl pursed her lips and carried the puppy into the basement.
"Sister, be careful."
"I know, go in quickly."
After the stone door was closed, the woman squatted down and touched the soft-looking Huimao's head, and asked softly, "Kitten, where are you taking me?"
Seeing that the woman had decided to follow, Huimao was so happy that he forgot his manners, turned around, and ran out quickly.
The woman was speechless.
Where's your softness?!
Seeing that the woman didn't follow, Huimao turned his head and looked over in confusion. Seeing the surprise in the woman's eyes, he came back to his senses and knew that he had gone too far, so he walked over and rubbed against the woman's hand, hooked his tail around the woman's wrist, and pulled her in one direction.
Although he was too surprised by the cat's two completely different behaviors, he also admired the cat's intelligence. But just to be on the safe side, she touched the gun at her waist and the knife in her sleeves. After confirming that they were safe, she looked at Wheeze and said, "I'll let you go for now, but you better not lead me to the rioters."
Huimao shook his head hard.
Seeing that Huimao was looking at her nervously, the woman asked again, "Is your friend or master injured?"
Huimao nodded again.
Standing up, the woman smiled and said, "Take me there, but I'm not sure if I'll let him into the basement."
"Meow —"
Huimao took the woman to Silin's side. It wasn't a long distance, but the woman found that the cat was really too smart, and even good at hiding. She didn't notice that someone was coming, but the cat found out in advance, lowered its ears, and hid behind the ruins, and even used its tail to signal that someone was coming. After the man with the gun walked past, the cat continued to lead the way.
Finally, the woman was taken to Silin's side. After checking Silin's injuries, the woman confirmed that the external injuries weren't serious, and he would be fine after some simple treatment to stop the bleeding.
The woman took Silin to the basement. The little girl was happy to see that her sister came back safely, but she was shocked by Huimao, who was jumping up and down. After listening to her sister's explanation, the little girl kept praising Huimao for being smart.
But the cat didn't care about the praise anymore. It was paying attention to Silin's body condition. His vital signs were a bit messed up. How impatient!!
There were some simple hospital beds in the basement that were pieced together from different items, but it was better than nothing.
While treating Silin, the woman noticed that the wounds on Silin's body weren't deep, and they didn't look serious, but they just couldn't stop the bleeding. Strange, all the other basic tests were normal, so why couldn't he stop the bleeding?
While Huimao was pacing around the dark basement anxiously, Guan Feng had contacted Black Viper's men to search for Silin. They couldn't detect Silin's spaceplane from afar, so they could only send robots to search for him.
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