Who says a sickly daughter can’t break through the weirdness?

I don’t know whether to praise the other person for being smart or scold myself for being so stupid for not thinking of this trick!

Although doing so can only ensure one-way communication between Shen Qinyin and himself, it is enough. After all, it is himself who needs intelligence support.

Under Shen Qinyin's guidance, Zhou Yun soon arrived at the exhibition hall on the first floor of the cultural center.

Before the apocalypse, this place had been a place to enjoy cultural performances, but in just a month, the place had become deserted as if it had been abandoned for decades.

Broken chair legs, shattered glassware and the remains of various cultural exhibits were scattered on the ground. Dried corpses were lying or sitting there. The blood had long since dried up and solidified into dark brown marks, intertwined with the dust and stains on the ground.

There are all kinds of strange symbols drawn in blood around these corpses, and it seems that this place has been used for some kind of ceremony.

It seems the medicine is not here, where should I go now?

Just as Zhou Yun was thinking about where to go next, the dust guiding her suddenly turned into an exclamation mark.

Is this, an enemy?

As I was puzzled, dust began to float in the air, and a line of text appeared one by one:

I'm behind you.

After the last word was displayed, the dust dispersed and Shen Qinyin slowly floated out from the shadow in the corner.

Zhou Yun felt his heart skip a beat when he saw this scene.

To be honest, if Shen Qiyin hadn't warned her in advance, she would have thought that a female ghost-like entity had appeared.

Shen Qiyin floated to her side and hovered, whispering, "There's movement in the storage room inside, but it doesn't seem to be from the Doomsday Cult."

"It's very likely that they have captured a hostage!" Zhou Yun said excitedly, "We must go and take a look. Their supplies may also be stored there!"

"...Let's go."

Shen Qiyin seemed to have noticed something, but she didn't point it out.

What she cared more about was Exhibition Hall No. 2, which was located in the deepest part of the cultural center.

There seemed to be something in that place, but it didn't feel like a physical entity to her.

What will it be...

The two of them arrived silently at the door of the storage room at the innermost part of Exhibition Hall No. 1.

It's strange to say, it's obviously a storage room, but there is no one guarding it. Even the members of the Doomsday Faction who are patrolling around didn't make a special trip to patrol here.

Shen Qiyin's insight perception network covered the entire storage room. From the human outlines she scanned, she had a vague feeling that after the door was opened, she might see something not so good.

The door of the storage room was not locked, so Zhou Yun just needed to turn the handle lightly and the door opened.

Almost at the same time the door opened, a disgusting stench mixed with the smell of blood hit me in the face.

Although she had prepared herself mentally, Shen Qiyin couldn't help but shudder when she saw the scene inside.

In a storage room of less than 30 square meters, a dozen survivors were hung in mid-air with steel hooks piercing their collarbones, and transparent hoses that were wriggling and sucking blood were inserted into their wrists.

There were several dead bodies lying all over the floor.

These survivors include men and women, old and young, and the youngest girl is only about 13 or 4 years old.

Some of them had their arms cut off, some had their legs chopped off, and some even had their internal organs dug out.

The instigator seemed to want to use their different parts to piece together a complete body.

“Save, save…”

The middle-aged man on the outermost side, who was hung up with only one eye left, met Shen Qinyin's gaze. He tried hard to purse his cracked lips, and let out an indistinct whimper.

"They're already beyond saving..." Zhou Yun said calmly, "Even if they were saved, in this apocalyptic world, they wouldn't be able to survive without their limbs. They'd only suffer more."

Shen Qinyin did not respond. She raised her finger silently, and a blood-stained dagger in the corner slowly floated to the middle-aged man's chest.

The pupil of the man's only remaining eye trembled slightly. Two seconds later, he closed his eyes silently as if he had figured something out.

The next second, the dagger pierced his chest and pierced his heart.

"Don't do unnecessary things..."

Zhou Yun quickly looked around the "slaughterhouse" and said, "Let's go! Our target isn't here. We need to look somewhere else. Hurry!"

"..."

Shen Qinyin nodded slightly and walked out of the "slaughter room". Zhou Yun followed closely behind her and closed the door with his backhand.

"Since there's nothing here, the only thing left is the underground warehouse."

Shen Qiyin stroked her hair with her fingers and spoke slowly, "I just noticed the structural diagram of the cultural center. The northeast area is the workers' canteen here.

Blood bags need to be kept in a frozen environment. The Cultural Center cafeteria keeps vegetables and meat in a freezer in the basement warehouse. Perhaps we can look there."

"Maybe there are other survivors." Zhou Yun rubbed his fingers nervously and said, "We should first look for the pregnant woman they captured.

I have a feeling they're specifically arresting expectant mothers as part of some horrific plot. If we can rescue them, we might be able to disrupt their plans."

"..."

"The piano room... that place has a lot of space, we can look for it there! Let's go, quick!"

"Zhou Yun, the piano room is empty. I think I know where the expectant mother you're looking for is."

Shen Qiyin stretched out her hand and pointed to the north: "Over there, Exhibition Hall 2."

"Let's go then, we don't have time to waste."

Zhou Yun's face was filled with anxiety that could not be concealed, but Shen Qinyin could see that she was not worried about Tang Miao who was in urgent need of a blood transfusion, but about something else.

Exhibition Hall 2 is not far from Exhibition Hall 1, and only requires walking through a straight corridor.

Zhou Yun's eyes swept across the two sides of the corridor. The glass display cases that once displayed folk musical instruments were now filled with severed palms soaked in formalin. Each palm was posed as if playing an instrument, as if expressing the perverted aesthetic of the instigator.

"Lift your foot."

Shen Qinyin, who was floating in the air, suddenly grabbed Zhou Yun's shoulders, and a thread of mental power spread from her hand, lifting the flap disguised as a floor tile.

A tiny silver thread was barely noticeable in the sunlight.

Shen Qiyin snorted disdainfully: "It's a trigger trap. No wonder no one has come to patrol this place."

"This means that Exhibition Hall No. 2 at the end must be hiding something important!" Zhou Yun said, his expression becoming increasingly serious. "We need to speed up."

Before the end of the world, Exhibition Hall No. 2 was used to enjoy music performances, so it was decorated like an opera house.

But now, it’s hard to say what it looks like inside.

The most important thing is that Shen Qiyin's spiritual perception constantly feedbacks that there is something inside, which is obviously very similar to a physical entity, but it is not a physical entity.

If it were an entity, those doomsday guys would have died or gone crazy long ago. It is impossible for ordinary people to resist the cognitive pollution of an entity.

Never mind, no matter what it is, it is a hidden danger to me and needs to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Soon, the two arrived at the entrance gate of Exhibition Hall 2.

Zhou Yun wanted to open the door and enter immediately, but the moment she put her hand on the door handle, an invisible force suddenly rushed towards her and lifted her body into the air before she could react.

Zhou Yun's eyes widened when he realized what was happening, and he immediately questioned Shen Qiyin in front of him: "What are you doing?!"

"I should be the one asking this question." Shen Qiyin stroked her hair lightly and said, "Tell me your real purpose."

"You, what are you talking about? Aren't we here to find medical supplies and blood bags?"

"First, you claimed that you needed to ensure the safety of the survivors and rescue them, so you didn't let me use force to clear the area. But just now in the 'slaughterhouse', you showed no concern for those survivors.

Second, after seeing the appearance of the group of survivors, you were obviously much more anxious than at first, and you were obviously worried that someone else would suffer the same thing;

Third, as you said, we are here to look for medical supplies and blood bags, but don’t you think we are gradually going astray?”

"..."

"Tell me the truth, is it related to your daughter?"

When Zhou Yun heard the word "daughter", his face turned pale.

After a while, she let out a bitter laugh and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't ask you for help for the survivor base, but for my personal matter.

My daughter was abducted by those beasts three days ago. I remember it very clearly.

The leader, the guy in the robe, used my daughter as a threat and proposed the following terms to me:

Three babies in exchange for my daughter's life."

"You changed?"

"Change? You know, I'm an obstetrician and gynecologist. I've been practicing for twenty years and have witnessed the birth of hundreds of babies. I know better than anyone how important a newborn baby is to its mother!

My daughter's life is of course important. She is everything to me, the only treasure I have now...

But I still won't exchange her life for an innocent child! This is my bottom line!"

As she said this, Zhou Yun's eyes were swollen and red, and tears flowed uncontrollably, as if she had accepted the fact that her child was destined to die.

Shen Qinyin's fingertips unconsciously stroked the telekinetic ring, and her eyes, like a cold pond, seemed to be able to see through her heart.

"Then why did you lie to me?" Shen Qiyin asked expressionlessly, "As long as you tell the truth, I will naturally help you."

"because......"

Zhou Yun's face suddenly turned pale as if he was stabbed in pain, his lips trembled continuously, and the muscles on his face shook non-stop.

After several seconds, she gritted her teeth, revealed a look of painful determination, and said frankly: "Because I used to be a member of the Doomsday Cult..."

"Ok?"

Shen Qiyin's eyes shone, and her telekinesis gradually gathered towards Zhou Yun: "Sorry, what did you say?"

“When the apocalypse first arrived, I was so scared. Everything I had believed in for decades suddenly collapsed, and I didn’t know where to go.

It was at that time that I believed the words of the Doomsday faction, who believed that human death was a sacrifice to the gods, so I joined them. But I was a doctor, not an executioner. I was only responsible for healing them..."

"And then let them kill more innocent people? If the bad guys are not eliminated, they will bring disaster to the good people. The people you saved will kill more people the next day. Maybe many people died indirectly because of you."

"I know, I know..."

Zhou Yun couldn't stop shaking, holding her head with both hands, tears streaming down her face. "So I took my daughter and fled to a shelter..."

But why did it fall? Why did they come after me again? Why won’t they let me go…?!

Seeing that Zhou Yun looked like he was about to collapse, Shen Qiyin couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

At the end of the world, the impact of the collapse of faith is indeed terrifying, and she cannot judge Zhou Yun's goodness or badness just because she heals the evil people.

As an unarmed person with no "qualifications" and a mother with her daughter, Zhou Yun is also a poor person swept by the tide of doomsday, drifting around like duckweed.

Shen Qiyin withdrew the threatening telekinesis and said calmly, "I am not a devout judge of justice, and it is impossible for me to do good things all the time.

Bad is bad, evil is evil. The degree of evil is relative, and the size is vague. If you are truly guilty, fate will naturally judge you.

"..."

"Now, let's solve the trouble at hand first."

After saying this, Shen Qinyin used her telekinesis to push open the door of Exhibition Hall No. 2.

She wanted to see what was hidden behind it.

"Click."

As the door opened, Shen Qiyin and Zhou Yun's pupils shrank at the same time—

The stench of decay mixed with formaldehyde hit me in the face. The hundreds of square meters of stage floor was covered with solidified blood plasma. In the center, human vertebrae were used to form an inverted pentagram, which was a metaphor for "summoning the devil."

The velvet curtain of the past had long since rotted into flocs, and the remaining dark red fabric hung on both sides of the stage like the peeled skin of a giant.

Half the cherrywood seats in the auditorium were shattered into pieces, and scattered among the overturned seats were broken violins with human finger bones strung on the strings.

Below the stage, the bodies of thirteen women were arranged in an inverted cross and chained to delivery beds. Burning green candles were inserted into their hollowed-out chests, and their bulging abdomens were painted with blood-colored () totems.

The most terrifying thing is the altar in the center of the stage, which is as high as a hill and is built with hundreds of white bones crossed together.

The top of the altar is covered with a platform made of human skin and spine. Skulls are embedded in the grooves of the cervical vertebrae, and the empty eye sockets face the dome.

The pool of blood on the floor had already solidified into dark brown, but strangely, fresh blood began to flow out from the altar of bones, winding around it.

Several grooves were dug out at the bottom of the altar, corresponding exactly to the edges of the inverted pentagram, and blood flowed along the indentations, covering the entire pentagram.

"What the hell is this?"

Zhou Yun's heart was already restless, and after seeing this hellish scene in front of him, he couldn't help but swear.

While she was shocked by this, Shen Qinyin's attention had already been focused on one of the seats in the front row of the audience.