Invade the World

  Chapter 34 New Power

  The sunset has long disappeared. After the last half of the afterglow disappeared on the skyline, the black velvet sky finally sank unstoppably.

  Beside the cobblestone path in the courtyard, a street lamp was erected every some distance, and the dim light bulb could not illuminate the dense bushes and tree crowns nearby.

  In this place during the daytime, occasionally patients will come out to hang out with medical staff or family members, appearing alive; it will be dark, empty, and gloomy everywhere.

  Lin Xingjie right to take a walk and pass the trail.

  She doesn’t seem to worry at all that the target will run away.

  A few minutes later, the girl walked to a glass door.

  The two doors are all posted with notices, and there are a few bicycles on the side of the stairs. The lock hanging on the door was rusty.

  Standing at the door and looking inward, only a piece of darkness could not be seen. The reception desk, corridors, seats... all seem to be sunk in the deep sea.

The door is shaded by lush bushes. The metal sign with "Supply Room Warehouse" is inconspicuous in itself, and it is covered by a creeper. Even in the daytime, it is difficult for anyone to notice, let alone in the middle of the night when the lights are in front. It didn't light up.

   Lin Xingjie walked up the stairs without hesitation.

  She glanced at the padlock on the door, reached out and tried it, and she took it off easily.

  The weak lock was twisted with brute force, but after breaking the lock, this man hung it back to cover his eyes.

  "It's kind of clever...it's a pity it doesn't make sense."

  She has already locked the opponent's position, and she is in this building.

  Lin Xingjie opened the door and stepped into it with his head high.

  ...

  Walking through the silent corridor, passing by unmanned rooms, when he was about to reach the passage connecting with the building next door, Lin Xingjie seemed to be aware of it and raised his head.

  There are surveillance cameras at the corners of the ceiling.

  She raised her brows slightly. Accompanied by an inaudible noise, the current flowing through "crackled" a short circuit, and the red light on the monitoring instrument quickly dimmed.

  Whether it is Xiaoan or the old man in the haunted house, it seems that the "spiritual body" that exists in another world seems to have the ability to interfere with electric waves. It can be described as the nemesis of modern human society based on electricity.

  Now that she knows this, it is impossible for her to make good use of it.

  When he was about to pass by one of the rooms, he glanced at the sign, and Lin Xingjie deliberately slowed down and made the sound of footsteps aggravated.

  First, she walked slowly to the place opposite the room, paused for a while, silently for a few seconds, and then returned to the corridor; after walking a dozen steps forward, she quickly turned back using her “superpowers”.

  Lin Xingjie kicked the door open, and Shi Hui really caught his eye.

  He heard the footsteps far away, thinking that people had already gone far, subconsciously heaved a sigh of relief, and walked out of the hiding place, but at this moment, the door in front of him bounced open.

"Got you."

  The long-haired girl standing at the door could not touch the ground, staring at him like a ghost, and said coldly.

"what-!"

  Endless darkness poured into the room. Shi Hui screamed in embarrassment. He had an expression of seeing a ghost. He didn't even have the idea of ​​struggling to resist. He slammed directly into the wall next to him.

  The wall that had been in disrepair was knocked over by him. Shi Hui could not take a breath and stumbled from the next room to the corridor.

  Lin Xingjie looked at Shi Hui, who was leaving with a gray head and face, Lin Xingjie couldn't help but want to laugh.

  At first, she wanted to hold back and avoid destroying the image; but at this moment, the words of her friend rang in the girl’s ears:

   "Cry when you want to cry, laugh when you want to laugh."

   So, Lin Xingjie really laughed. She laughed until she bent down to hold her belly, and even laughed until tears came out.

   Rampant laughter echoed on the silent corridor, like the scream of a female ghost, sweeping through every corner like a hurricane, Shi Hui, who heard the laughter, ran faster than before.

   "Cough...cough cough!"

  Lin Xingjie’s laughter gradually ceased, and coughed twice because of dust choking into her throat. She raised her head indifferently, and looked towards the front of what should have been empty, her pupils glowing with strange colors.

   "Sure enough, I can see it."

   Lin Xingjie murmured softly.

  Of course, she is not so bored that she deliberately uses pranks to scare people. If possible, she only hopes that the time spent with her friends can be longer and longer, instead of wasting on cat-and-mouse-like farce.

  The reason why girls do this is because...

  —Fear.

  In the depths of Lin Xingjie’s eyes, the fear that does not belong to her is reflected.

  "Could it be that this is the real power of'Xiao'an'?"

  Shi Hui, running in fear and panic, even though he was far away from her vision, in Lin Xingjie's view, this guy was as conspicuous as a torch burning in the dark.

  Human emotions should be intangible, fleeting and intangible...but she could really feel it through Xiao An and grasp it clearly at that moment.

  I said before that, just as a beast can smell the scent of its prey through its sensitive nose, Xiao An can also detect the presence of “food”. But using that method, Lin Xingjie can only roughly determine a certain range where the alien is located.

   But now, through this ability to master emotions, she can pinpoint an object she is fearing.

She still has a feeling, she feels that as long as she stretches out her hand, she can hold it firmly in her hand; you can use it as fuel and continue to burn, or you can put it out, leaving only a pile of burning ashes. …

  However, human fear is naturally not static.

  It will accumulate, it will subtract, it will reach a certain threshold, it will be mixed with other emotions, or it will change after reaching a certain level—for example, it will turn into anger, such as a nervous breakdown due to excessive fright.

  And Lin Xingjie’s power is closely related to this.

  She will cause it, nurture it, suppress it, and let it continue to reach its peak and enter another level—

  If you put it more simply, she can "substantialize" this deep-rooted fear;

  As for the substantive result, even Lin Xingjie didn’t know the answer.

  But Lin Xingjie knows that she can do it, and she knows that she is eager to do it:

  Because Xiaoan can rely on absorbing fear as the source of his own strength, just as it can grow by swallowing other alien methods.

  The cognition of this ability is the knowledge that Lin Xingjie naturally acquired after Xiao An was born in this world, with the passage of time and the continuous growth of devouring prey, like an innate instinct.

  When getting along with friends before, she occasionally noticed some signs from the other person, and this kind of feedback is becoming clearer and clearer.

  Until this morning, after she flew Shi Hui with a punch, when the opponent sat on the ground and looked at her, Lin Xingjie saw consternation, panic, and...real fear in Shi Hui’s eyes.

  At that moment, she saw the germination of "materialized fear", a new possibility.

   Lin Xingjie is very curious, really curious.

  She wants to witness the rooting and sprouting of this fear and the final fruit.

  This kind of thinking is quite normal. After possessing the power to surpass common sense, no one will not have the idea of ​​digging into the roots.

  Since ordinary people cannot see Xiao An’s existence, they naturally do not have fear, and Lin Xingjie is even more unlikely to experiment with her best friend...

  So, this opportunity should not be missed right now.

   Obviously, a scum like Shi Hui who is not worthy of sympathy is the best choice.

  Even the locations were booked by Lin Xingjie in advance.

  After entering the hospital, she did not go to Shi Hui the first time, but patiently looked for the location and asked someone to ask; she also looked at the internal structure diagram and found that only this place was not recorded on it.

  After asking a few nurses, the answer I got was: This was once a storage room mainly used to store items. Later, because the hospital built a new warehouse, it became a semi-abandoned utility room.

  So, Lin Xingjie chose the location here.

  The location where she and Shi Hui met were close, which was a surprise; if it was not so coincidental, she would use Xiao An to drive each other to this place nearby.

  Of course, if others are involved in this process, the risk of causing riots is even greater.

  Lin Xingjie doesn’t think her actions can completely cover people's eyes, but she hopes that the time of exposure will come later so that at least she will have enough time to complete the experiment.

  Compared to dealing with Shi Hui, Lin Xingjie thinks more on the level of not attracting too many people’s attention...

  A friend once said to her that only the result of an experiment is likely to be accidental, and a conclusion can be drawn only after excluding external factors and repeated attempts.

  For this, she needs to consider the first step better.

   "If he was there—"

  Xu Xiangyang's face slid across her mind.

   "Um...more on that, I'll talk about it later."

   Lin Xingjie said to herself.

  In fact, she had thought about it several times, but in the end she was still a little bit empty and couldn't open her mouth.

  It’s nothing more than devouring the alien, and she can still draw strength from the negative emotions of others... Lin Xingjie realized that things about Xiao An seemed to be getting more and more weird.

  And she hasn't made up her mind yet, whether she really wants to involve the other party in it.

  The guy Shi Hui was right. Xu Xiangyang was not like her. She didn't even know if her friend was really prepared.

  So, it was obvious that Lin Xingjie had first said that she had to take a path, but she was the one who flinched first.

  If...If she tells him frankly, and it turns out to make him feel scared, what will happen to the relationship between the two in the future?

  This is not something that can be solved by just talking. Because regardless of the rest of the emotions, as long as it is the fear hidden in others' hearts, they can't be hidden from her.

  By then, will she be able to draw nourishment from Xu Xiangyang, and will she really be tempted to do so?

   Lin Xingjie did not want to think about it. Rather than vowing to say no at that time, she would rather let this never happen.

  No matter what happens, Lin Xingjie will of course choose to stay with her only friend, and so will be from now on, but this does not mean that they must stand in the same world.

  Some things she needs to solve alone. Maybe only by doing this can he really protect him...

  ...

   "Who is there?!"

  While Lin Xingjie was meditating, there was a shout from a distance.

  She was not too surprised, raised her head, and quietly looked at the bright beam of light that came forward.

  (End of this chapter)