Free Web Novel10:00 PM sharp, Shancheng Subway Line 1, Jiaochangkou Station.
More than four hours had passed since dusk fell around 5 PM, and the night was already very deep.
The last trains on all Shancheng subway lines had reached their terminal stations two hours ago. Logically, all subway stations should have already closed, but this particular station was still lit.
Within Jiaochangkou Station, there was a special area—the circular passage connecting Subway Line 1 and Line 2. This passage was long and wide, its dimensions far exceeding the specifications of a normal subway passage. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
The reason this passage was so 'ample' was reportedly because it was once a section of Shancheng's vast underground air raid shelter network.
Building subway infrastructure on the existing foundation of air raid shelters could save a lot of manpower and material resources.
Slow and light footsteps came from one end of the passage, echoing in the empty space as if amplified, gradually becoming clearer.
Then, the footsteps stopped, and a rough, hoarse voice sounded.
"Little Fish, I can only help you this far."
Zhang Yu, who had been sitting at the end of the passage with his eyes closed, opened them, smiled at the middle-aged man in a security uniform in front of him, stood up, and patted his shoulder. "Uncle Li, you've already helped a lot. Go back without worry!"
"Oh, right, if someone finds out that you secretly opened the door for us, just say we forced the keys from you. We can't let you lose your job over such a small matter, can we?"
This middle-aged man surnamed Li was one of the few subordinates his father had when he worked for the Eclipse Society. After his father's death, he left the Eclipse Society and returned to a normal life, working as a manager and security guard at this subway station.
Upon hearing Zhang Yu's words, the middle-aged man looked at the young people accompanying Zhang Yu.
Their faces, seen through his eyes, were both familiar and strange.
These young people were all children of his deceased colleague, who had grown up together with Zhang Yu. He had watched them grow up.
He withdrew his gaze from the young people and looked at the bulging backpacks at their feet, sighing silently. He exhorted, "Although I don't know what you guys are planning to do, once you're done, all of you get your asses back home early. What kind of talk is staying out all night?"
"Don't worry, Uncle Li..."
"Exactly, we brothers are together; it's very safe!" ƒreewebɳovel.com
While the young people were chattering, Zhang Yu placed his hands on the middle-aged man's shoulders, rotated his body 180 degrees, and gently pushed him a short distance toward the subway station exit.
"Uncle Li, hurry up and go, or Sister Yuan will scold you again."
"Am I afraid of her? See if she dares to scold me!" The middle-aged man said with noticeably less vigor, but his body honestly quickened its pace.
After walking some distance, he suddenly stopped, turned back to look at Zhang Yu and the others, and frowned.
He had a feeling that after tonight, at least half of these people would never be seen again.
Just like what happened after Zhang Yu's father and the parents of those young people sent him away back then.
But he didn't dare to ask for details, nor would he stop them.
Because he knew that Zhang Yu and the others firmly believed that what they were doing was right, and no matter what others said, it wouldn't change their minds.
Watching the middle-aged man's back disappear into the end of the passage, Zhang Yu slowly exhaled a turbid breath, turned to look at his companions behind him, put his hands on his hips, and smiled, "Uncle Li is gone, it's about time we took action, isn't it?"
"As we discussed before..."
Before Zhang Yu could finish speaking, a young man with messy hair and a height of nearly two meters stood up, lightly slung his backpack over his shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "I'll go to Zengjiayan Station."
Seeing this, the others also stood up, following suit.
"I'll go to the underground loop."
"You guys are dead, so I can only go to the gas station?"
"That's still better than a hot pot restaurant."
In less than a minute, the young people, with unspoken understanding, had assigned their tasks.
The locations they mentioned, like this passage, were all converted air raid shelters.
And within these converted air raid shelters, there were also hidden entrances connecting to the vast underground network.
As the young people, one by one, took their backpacks equipped with high-grade Spiritual Energy items and left the subway station, soon only Zhang Yu and a round-faced girl with a black mole between her eyebrows were left in the passage.
As if ignoring the girl's presence, Zhang Yu stretched, self-sufficiently put on his backpack, and walked deeper into the subway station. Before he had taken a few steps, he heard a resentful sigh from behind him.
"Hey, what about me? I haven't been assigned a task yet! Didn't you say you'd bring me along this time?"
Zhang Yu turned around, saw the pouting little face, and chuckled, "Haha, sorry Mai Mai, I forgot about you."
"Hmph!" Mai Mai snorted, "You never used to take me with you, but now that I'm grown up, don't even think about leaving me out!"
This group of young people almost grew up together, except for Mai Mai.
When a teenage Zhang Yu was hanging out with the others, she was just a child in open-crotch pants with a runny nose. Even if she wanted to join them, they wouldn't let her play.
But now, she, like her older brothers and Sister, was also a Psychic.
She could join them!
"No, no!" Zhang Yu waved his hand, "This time, your mission is the most important."
"Really?" Mai Mai tilted her head, full of suspicion.
"Absolutely." Zhang Yu patted his chest, "Whether our group survives in the end depends entirely on you."
Upon hearing this, Mai Mai's expression became serious. "Then what should I do?"
"Wait." Zhang Yu said, "Wait until we find that old bastard Zhang Shuisheng, and figure out where he plans to enter the underground, then you contact your colleagues."
"Colleagues?" Mai Mai was stunned for a moment, surprised. "You guys are actually planning to ask the Night Watch for help?"
"Correction!" Zhang Yu held up a finger. "Not asking for help, but using!"
"We are just using the power of the Night Watch to achieve our goals. It's fundamentally different from asking for help."
"Just like how I joined the Eclipse Society, I'm just using their power."
Although he greatly respected and thanked Adelaide Phoenix for being willing to do some dirty work for Phoenix within his capabilities, his goal had never changed.
To avenge Zhang Shuisheng and protect this land he loved.
To achieve this goal, he needed power, and the Eclipse Society could give him that power, so he joined the Eclipse Society. In his opinion, this should be considered a form of utilization.
Although some people might not understand his thoughts, there are indeed people in this world like him, who love something that ordinary people cannot understand, and are willing to give everything for it.
As for why he didn't reveal the information to the Shancheng Si Ye Hui through Mai Mai or other more covert means immediately after learning Zhang Shuisheng's true plan...
It was because, after years of dealing with the Night Watch, Zhang Yu knew their modus operandi too well.
They only knew that Zhang Shuisheng, along with a group of x god descendants and their followers, would enter the vast underground network from a certain air raid shelter-converted building at some point late tonight, to complete their evil ritual in an unknown dark corner.
Notifying the Night Watch of such intelligence would be like knowing that someone is about to engage in illegal activities within a large time frame and a wide area, and then rushing to report it to the police.
Although the Shancheng Si Ye Hui would certainly take action, there were priorities. With Tan Qiuming imprisoned in Sanxia Mental Hospital, and Sanxia Mental Hospital under attack by a large number of Sunrise Biotechnology Company employees, the Night Watch would certainly not allocate sufficient resources to investigate such an uncertain matter.
Unless the situation here became more severe than at Sanxia Mental Hospital.
Time gradually moved into the latter half of the night, and dark clouds began to stack up over the city.
An ominous aura, accompanied by thick fog, gradually rose in the almost deathly silent city streets.
【Strife begins tonight, and in chaos, falsehood will die in pain. The Lord devours the blood and bones of ancestors, descending upon the human world through the offerings of devout followers.】
Anonymous User 017: "May I follow my Lord."
Anonymous User 125: "Welcome my Lord."
Anonymous User 887: "Looking forward to tonight's grand event."
Three hours after the log was posted on that eerie Website, the number of replies below it visibly broke through four digits and was steadily moving towards °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° five digits.
The urban legend that once brought terrible Disaster, the descendants were about to descend, and the crazed individuals following it quietly gathered.
On the empty, deserted streets, countless shadowy figures emerged from their hiding places, old and young, male and female.
Ragged homeless people, cute middle school girls, sophisticated social elites with exquisite makeup—people of all kinds, with the same crazed expression on their faces, holding twisted scrolls, like a parade of walking corpses, moved forward in the thickening fog towards a certain direction.
The thick fog drifting through the streets continuously gathered around them, like ghosts hunting living beings, lingering back and forth beside them.
Thus, figures, under the invasion of the thick fog, quickly contracted diseases, falling one after another like felled trees, but their companions continued to move forward as if they saw nothing.
Upon seeing this chilling scene by invading the city's surveillance, Netizen Laosepi couldn't help but change his expression, rapidly typing on the keyboard, inputting text,
and sent a message to Lin Nian.
Netizen Laosepi 10086: "Damn it, what is Disaster doing? Haven't you passed the message to her yet?"
Mumu Jinxin: "Already passed it, but she hasn't replied. Maybe she saw the situation was bad and already ran off."
Netizen Laosepi 10086: "Ah, this..."
"Although... if it's Disaster, it's really possible?" Netizen Laosepi thought.
