Void Jigsaw Puzzle

Fan Ting followed Guo Ling's gaze, turned back to look at the horizon, and was also stunned.

I saw that the originally sparkling sky began to turn black from the very end, and the black was advancing towards this side in a very neat and uniform manner.

She didn't know what the black was, but it was obviously not a dark cloud.

Guo Ling also recovered from his shock at this time and muttered to himself: "What on earth is this phenomenon..."

He had never seen anything like it.

If I must make an analogy, the changes happening in the sky at this moment were very similar to what he had read in a book, that Earth civilization had once invented a porthole for an airplane.

The porthole was originally transparent, but it could be adjusted to several different levels of transparency until it became completely black, creating the same effect as if the sunshade was completely closed.

That’s right, if the sky was bright just now, it is now gradually turning dark and no longer translucent.

Seeing the darkness quickly spreading above their heads, everything around them suddenly became dark.

Guo Ling's pupils shrank suddenly. "Now is the best time! We should take advantage of the darkness and their attention to sneak into the factory! Otherwise, when they react and turn on the lights, we won't have a chance anymore!"

Fan Ting immediately understood what he wanted to do and whispered firmly, "If you go, I will go too!"

Guo Ling stared at the two security guards at the factory gate, only to see that they were also looking up at the darkness spreading in the sky.

When the blackness covered the area directly above their heads, the two people at the door had their backs completely to them.

"It's now!"

Guo Ling spoke hurriedly, pulled Fan Ting's hand, and then took a step forward and rushed towards the railing across the street.

The railings were only half a person's height. At that time, they climbed over them in the heavy snow and got into a car parked on the side of the road. Now, they were going to do the same thing again.

It's just that the direction is reversed.

Fan Ting also threw away her fear, followed Guo Ling's footsteps closely, and rushed towards the railing.

The two men flipped over one after the other, and then quickly entered the complex buildings in the factory area.

The security guards at the gate didn't notice the sudden change a few dozen meters away. When the sky was completely shrouded in darkness and their necks were sore from looking up, they finally lowered their heads to stretch their legs.

One of them yelled into the intercom, "Turn on all the lights!"

A few seconds later, lights all over the factory came on, illuminating the area at the door as bright as day.

Guo Ling and Fan Ting were hiding in an abandoned factory building at this time. They saw the light at the factory gate from afar through the window and felt very scared.

"If I hadn't tried so hard just now, I would probably never have been able to get in..." Fan Ting murmured.

Guo Ling didn't follow her words, but frowned slightly. "Why are there so few people in the factory? And the security guards at the door act like they're facing a great enemy? It seems like there must be something fishy going on here."

Indeed, after they climbed over the railing, although they luckily arrived at this abandoned factory as a place to stay in the darkness, when they thought about the people they saw along the way, there were indeed very few.

There were only three or five of them in total, and it was easy to avoid them.

The only thing that reaffirmed their judgment was that one of the three or five people had a bright red halo above his head.

At this moment, the two of them were more convinced than ever that under this factory, or in some corner that they had not yet discovered, Pierce and Pu Yue were secretly doing something shameful.

Fan Ting's eyes suddenly lit up. She walked gently to the wall of the abandoned factory building away from the factory gate, stood on tiptoe and peeked out through the deformed window, as if looking for something.

Guo Ling followed and asked softly, "What are you looking for?"

"Remember the reception room where Pierce received us? I remember it was in this direction. Since there are so few people here now, I think I can take a risk..."

"You mean, capture the leader first? Let's go see if Pierce is there?"

"Yes."

"You're quite brave, little girl." Guo Ling said with a smile.

Fan Ting met his somewhat provocative gaze and asked, "You dare not?"

"Humph! What are you afraid of? Let's go!"

The two of them groped their way out of the factory, leaned against the wall and looked around, but did not see any sign of anyone. Fan Ting led the way and walked towards the reception room based on her last impression.

Her feeling was correct.

The two of them crossed two small paths and turned a corner, and indeed arrived at the door of the reception room.

They did not rush to the door rashly, but hid far away behind a row of outdoor steps in the passage of the factory building opposite, observing through the gaps between the steps.

The reception room was a relatively independent small room, placed at the edge of the entire factory building. In other words, several meters above its roof was the factory roof. Beyond that, the sky was completely dark.

The room is surrounded by passages and is not connected to any other buildings.

This meant that if they wanted to observe the situation inside the room clearly, they had to quickly go to the window next to the main door and look through it. There was no other way.

However, in this case, the observer himself would be in extreme danger, because the door is a main road in the factory, and there is no place to hide nearby. Once discovered from a distance, especially when seeing the halo above the head, it is likely that he will be in great danger.

Guo Ling and Fan Ting looked at each other, and Guo Ling said, "You wait here first, I'll go take a look."

In the darkness, his eyes were exceptionally bright.

For some reason, Fan Ting had a bad feeling and couldn't help but hold Guo Ling's hand: "Don't be impulsive, let's observe and see."

"But we've been observing for a while and there's been no movement. Don't worry, it should be fine."

He gently shook off Fan Ting's hand.

Having said that, Guo Ling still glanced sideways.

Between them and the reception room was a wide avenue, considered spacious for the factory, which should have been the main route when it was originally designed.

The reception room is at the edge of the factory building, and outside the factory building is an open space with a pile of discarded construction materials scattered around.

Without the factory roof blocking the view above the open space, the bright black sky was directly visible.

A faint light shone through the reception room, and together with the street lamps a few meters apart on both sides of the avenue, they constituted the only source of light.

Although it looked insignificant in the darkness, it was enough to make his figure visible at a glance.

Guo Ling took a deep breath, poked his head out a little, and confirmed again that there was no one on either the road or the open space.

In the room opposite, there seemed to be no movement, and there was no sense that anyone was about to open the door to come out.

The moment he took a step forward, he inadvertently looked back at Fan Ting.

In the darkness, only a beautiful outline of Fan Ting's face could be seen, but her eyes were staring at him.

His eyes were full of concern, and an emotion deeper than concern.

Guo Ling's heart moved slightly, but he no longer cared about it. He took a step forward and went to the reception room opposite.

He had already figured it out in his mind.

With his pace, he only needed two steps to rush to the window at the door, and then quickly glance inside - because he had been in the room last time and was familiar with its internal structure, so one or two seconds was probably enough.

Then, he could quickly return to the hidden area under the stairs behind him, which would take only two or three seconds at most.

Just now, they had been observing for more than ten minutes and there was nothing wrong. From a probability point of view, the possibility of something happening within the next two or three seconds would not be very high.

But just as he took the first step, a burst of light came down from the sky above the open space!

Guo Ling felt his scalp tingling, his whole body froze in place, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky.

Not far behind him, Fan Ting, who was hiding behind the stairs, also exclaimed in her heart and looked up at the sky.

If the black sky before was just pure and shiny black, it now became brighter as if it was electrified and coated with light.

The background color is still thick black.

This was not the strangest thing. What made Guo Ling even more unbelievable was that he seemed to see a woman's figure on the black sky.

The figure was so familiar, yet so strange.

He forgot what he was supposed to do at the moment and completely ignored the reception room not far in front of him. Instead, he stared blankly at the figure embedded in the sky.

That was clearly Hou Chang, the wife he had been looking for for a long time!

At first, the figure had her back to him, but she was walking happily, with her hair swaying in the air. Soon, she turned her head and looked in the direction of Guo Ling, but seemed to see nothing. She smiled and looked in other directions with an innocent smile on her face.

But Guo Ling was completely shocked and stood there.

Who else could it be but Hou Chang?! But why was Hou Chang in the sky? Where on earth was she?

Ever since the "singularity moment", the unreachable phone call, the strange voice on the phone, and the longing in countless dreams afterwards, all the memories of the past few months, all rolled over like a tide, hitting his head.

Fan Ting could have reminded him not to stay in such a dangerous position and stay still, but she couldn't do it because she herself was staring at the sky in a daze.

She did not see the woman that Guo Ling saw, but instead saw a tall man there.

She hadn't seen the man for a long time, but when his outline and vague appearance appeared in her retina, everything about him was resurrected from the dust underground, traveling through time and space, penetrating between heaven and earth, and drilling straight into her head.

Zhang Chuyu!

The first love she never forgets.

Like Guo Ling, Fan Ting completely ignored the existence of her surroundings and just stared blankly at the man in the distant sky. Even though she could not touch the man's every move, and he was not aware of her existence at all.

Suddenly, a noisy sound of footsteps interrupted their thoughts.

"There's someone there!"

"stop!"

Shouts were heard from far away on the left side of the avenue.

Guo Ling suddenly woke up, moved his eyes away from the sky, and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw five or six big men with beige halos on their heads staring at him and rushing towards him.

His pupils constricted violently, and he realized that something was wrong.

Fan Ting also came back to her senses from her previous immersion, and looked worriedly at Guo Ling, who was only a few meters away. She found that Guo Ling did not turn around to look at her, and even completely ignored her existence. However, he put his right hand behind his back and moved his palm towards her quickly and covertly, the direction of the movement just behind her.

It seemed to say, "Go! Return to the place where we just hid!"

"how about you?!"

Fan Ting asked anxiously with her eyes.

Guo Ling ignored her and just stared at the direction where the sound came from on the avenue.

He had no other choice.