Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 1540 Retracing the Pages and Hearing Echoes

Assistant Kou was slightly dazed.

Just seeing those images made him feel as if he had personally experienced what Gu Wenqing had gone through.

He immediately felt relieved.

The details here cannot be faked, and the way this spiritual power is used is something Gu Wenqing could never have mastered before.

For someone with such power, it would be extremely easy to extract information from their mind; there would be no need for any pretense.

He said, "Then let's get out of here quickly. Those are people from the Three Eyes Bureau, and they might come looking for us again."

"it is good!"

Gu Wenqing knew this wasn't the place to talk, so he immediately spoke to the resistance members who had followed him. One of them called out to them and they quickly left, entering an underground passage and retreating towards the outskirts of the city.

We have to thank the field-disrupting creatures that are scattered throughout Pop Valley, which makes it impossible for the large field to monitor them.

This place was close to the edge of the city center, and we left the city in just over an hour, then quickly got into a car and left.

As dawn approached, they had moved far from the city center and settled in a safe outpost.

Once they arrived here, Assistant Kou was finally at ease. Chiluojiado's control over the area outside the central city was extremely weak, and even the Three-Eyed Bureau wouldn't be able to get into this remote mountain area for a while.

Seeing that there was no one else there, he asked, "Xiao Gu, it's lucky you arrived in time, otherwise I might have been in a bad situation this time. By the way, did you find the things I put there?"

Gu Wenqing said, "We found it. It was because we saw your things, Assistant Kou, that we realized you were in trouble, which is why we decided to come to you."

Assistant Kou was completely relieved.

As long as the data can be preserved, everything else is minor.

He then said with a hint of worry, "I just don't know how Mr. Huo is doing."

Gu Wenqing said, "It's alright. Mr. Chen and I have discussed it. We'll go find the teacher later and then leave together."

Assistant Kou asked, "Xiao Gu, did you come alone this time?"

Gu Wenqing said yes, then thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Commander Chen is here too."

"Oh?" Assistant Kou's eyes lit up.

Huo Zhuifeng's Commander Chen must be a high-ranking figure in his mind. Such a person either possesses strong martial arts skills or has enough power around him. It would be a good thing to have either one.

Knowing this was enough, and he wisely refrained from asking where the specific person was.

Then he remembered something, took out a notebook from his pocket, handed it to Gu Wenqing, and said:

"This is the notebook left by the researcher named Cheng Wan. What I have here is a copy. The original is with Mr. Huo, but the contents are the same. You can take it and give it to Commander Chen first."

Upon hearing this, Gu Wenqing immediately took it; the clues in this notebook were very important.

He opened it immediately when it was placed in front of him.

A wisp of Chen Chuan's spirit was currently attached to Gu Wenqing, so what the latter saw was the same as what he saw.

Then I glanced at the notebook and saw that it differed somewhat from what Assistant Kou had said.

At this moment, Gu Wenqing also raised a question: "Assistant Kou, did you copy this by hand? Did you use an old notebook?"

"No, I have a new notebook."

"But what are these torn pages and bloodstains...?"

Assistant Kou was immediately surprised. Could it be that he got it on when he was injured?
That's not right. To prevent damage, he had been sealing it with a high-strength biofilm.

He took it again, opened it, and his expression changed.

He copied the book down and never looked at it again, but now it looks exactly the same as the original he had seen. Could it be that the gentleman took away a copy instead of the original?

But this isn't right.

He clearly didn't misremember.

Unless the gentleman secretly switched them, but that would be completely unnecessary.

At this moment, Chen Chuan's voice rang in Gu Wenqing's mind: "Brother Gu, take it back and take another look."

"it is good."

After Gu Wenqing took the notebook back into his hands, Chen Chuan sensed it with his spiritual senses. He found that there was a very faint field wrapped around the notebook, and he could understand it pretty well.

This should be an anomaly, or rather, it should be affected by an anomaly.

If that's the case, then the thing Huo Zhuifeng got, and that research institute...

Gu Wenqing also sensed something was wrong and said, "Advisor Chen, is there a problem?"

Chen Chuan said, "There are some minor issues, but Detective Huo is experienced and should be able to handle them. Now that we know where the research institute is, let's go there now."

"Yes!"

Meanwhile, inside the research institute, as Huo Zhuifeng entered, the lights suddenly blazed on, illuminating the entire passageway ahead. The researcher who had been leading the way had vanished, leaving only the sound of his footsteps echoing in the empty corridor.

He observed that everything here looked as if these people had just left, but how could that be? According to what he knew, this place had been abandoned for at least half a month.

This must be the effect of an anomaly; where there is an anomaly, nothing can be viewed using common sense.

Actually, for someone like Anomaly, not seeing people makes him more relaxed; he only needs to deal with inanimate objects. He's afraid of encountering many people, which would complicate things considerably.

Just then, he suddenly realized something, turned around and glanced back, his eyes immediately narrowing.

Right there in the passageway in front of the gate, he saw piles of human bones.

These people were still wearing the institute's clothing, seemingly internal members of the institute. Some were wearing armed protective suits, one of which was particularly eye-catching, standing at six or seven meters tall. This was undoubtedly a fighter.

The bones of all these people are now piled up in one place.

And this direction should be the place he just came from. The lights are on now, and the surrounding dust looks much thicker.

After thinking for a moment, he walked backwards a few steps. After only ten or so steps, he saw that the lights in the area he had passed had dimmed again, and there was more dust on the ground and walls.

If we use the line of light as a dividing line, it seems as if we are divided into two worlds.

"call……"

Huo Zhuifeng took a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but didn't light it; he could roughly tell.

These people might have originally worked in the lab, and some might have broken in from the outside like him, but none of them were able to get out.

Come to think of it, if it weren't for this reason, this place would probably have been razed to the ground long ago, how could it have survived until now?

However, although he was not good at dealing with anomalies, he knew that anomalies all followed rules. Direct confrontation was not an option; he had to go along with them. The more he went along with them, the better he could protect himself.

If he's not mistaken, he's currently standing in an abnormally created environment, and the places he walks through will revert to their real state.

Based on what the researcher said, could it be assumed that if he searched the entire research institute and still couldn't find the key information and evidence, he would end up like those skeletons?

I just don't know if there's a time limit.

Well, we can look at that later. He came here to find evidence, which is consistent with the unusual request.

So where should we start?

His first thought was of the notebook, because no matter what, it was the notebook that had brought him in, so it was the key.

So if you want to get out of here, you have to find a way in this direction.

He took out his notebook. He had previously glanced through some of its contents and thought he had memorized everything. But when he looked through it again, he found that there was a lot of content he had never seen before, and the whole thing was written in Da Shun language.

"January 19th, the food wasn't very good today. Maybe it's just that I have a poor appetite. That experimental subject..."

Huo Zhuifeng noticed some stains on the page, which looked like vomit, and he continued flipping through the pages.

"On February 5th, Alfonso's assistant spoke to me privately. He asked me if I believed in 'the entrance to another world' and 'the child of the world'."

Entrance? Son of the World? What does that mean? Is this some new movie?

"On February 20th, Alfonso's assistant said he had found a possible way to open the entrance, that he had made contact with... he said..."

When Huo Zhuifeng saw this, he noticed that some of the words were missing, leaving only traces of erasure. However, in his eyes, the erasure itself was also a clue.

In particular, he noticed that the scribbling in the notes was done with a deeper pressure, which was different from the usual penmanship of the notebook writer, but the ink used was the same.

"On May 3rd, Alfonso's assistant was transferred. It was very sudden, even though I haven't seen him for more than two months."

"On May 6th, I kept hearing a baby crying. I asked Anila, but she said she didn't hear it. Strange, maybe I should get a mental evaluation. The atmosphere in the research institute is too oppressive..."

"On May 10th, I felt something was off. My memory seemed to be incomplete. I clearly submitted a lot of materials, but they all said they hadn't seen them. Anita told me to rest more, as I haven't been feeling well lately..."

"On May 15th, I took the medicine prescribed by the research institute and I felt much better."

"June 3rd, strange, how come there's a cassette tape here? When did I put it here? Researcher Devica has a radio, I wonder if it can play..."

Upon seeing this, Huo Zhuifeng suddenly paused, instinctively feeling that this tape was a breakthrough.

He glanced at the floor plan when he came in and knew where the researchers' rest area was.

However, judging from this unusual pattern, when he went that way, it might also mean that he was abandoning other areas at the same time.

How should we decide?

He hesitated to turn the page because he felt that continuing to turn it might bring new changes.

After much deliberation, he decided to trust his own judgment and turned to walk towards the researchers' rest area.

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(End of this chapter)