Chapter 4 Now, We Are Comrades

When Li Yelai saw the strange light and fog, he knew that he had come to the black shadow's dream again.

It seems that he is still alive? But this time is different.

He is no longer bound and can move freely in the dream.

At the same time, he did not see the black shadow.

Instead, he saw the skinner whose skull he had opened.

He was resurrected in Li Yelai's dream, but now he screamed in fear and was dragged into the thick fog by the dark tentacles.

Then, the sound of biting flesh and breaking bones came from the depths of the thick fog.

A few seconds later, a dark tentacle stretched out from the depths of the thick fog and slowly unfolded in front of Li Yelai.

The object inside was revealed, which was a snow-white mask.

Li Yelai was confused when he saw this scene and didn't quite understand what happened.

Sacrifice?

Li Yelai thought of this word inexplicably.

He killed the skinner, making the skinner a sacrifice, and thus obtained the gift of the black shadow? Obtained a blank mask? Or a mask?

Li Yelai did not take the mask.

It was so funny. What price would he have to pay for taking the mask?

After surviving the danger, Li Yelai did not want to touch the strange existence of the black shadow at all.

As if sensing Li Yelai's thoughts, a light hum came from the depths of the thick fog.

In a flash, Li Yelai left the dream.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a strange ceiling and was lying in a strange ward.

"Hey, you're awake?" someone said beside the bed.

It was a young girl in a sweater, wearing a pair of large-framed glasses, with a quiet look and short hair that looked very capable.

At this moment, she looked at Li Yelai with a smile on her face: "The operation was successful, you are already a girl."

Li Yelai was shocked when he heard this, the price was a bit too high.

The old man with a square face standing next to the girl, wearing a black windbreaker, with a calm temperament, sighed to the girl: "Don't scare him, he just met the skinner."

Then, the old man turned to Li Yelai and said: "Don't worry, you are in good health now."

"Who are you?" Li Yelai sat up from the bed and looked at the old man: "Guard Hall? Or the City Defense Army?"

He vaguely remembered the sirens he heard after killing the skinner. They should have rescued him.

The older youth and the girl exchanged glances, then slowly shook their heads and said, "No, but our duties are the same as those of the Guard Office and the City Defense Force, which is to protect the citizens of the Giant City. You can think of us as the relevant agencies that specialize in handling incidents like the Skinners."

'Relevant agencies? 'Li Yelai thought of what the Skinner said to him before he died, and tried to say: "Official of the Giant City?"

"You can say that, we are indeed official psychics." The older youth stretched out his hand and smiled: "The full name of the organization is the Disaster Handling Department. I am a disaster handler, Yang Chen."

The girl also said: "Disaster handler, codename Cheese."

Li Yelai got up from the bed, shook hands with Yang Chen and the girl respectively, and introduced: "My name is Li Yelai."

"Nice to meet you." Yang Chen nodded and continued: "And thank you for eliminating the Skinner, he is the murderer of several recent murders. But because of his special ability, it is very easy to hide and we have not been able to successfully catch him. Thank you."

Li Yelai was a little embarrassed and responded: "I just wanted to survive for myself, and I didn't have the idea of ​​being brave. Is Doctor Wang still alive?"

"Unfortunately, Doctor Wang has been killed." Yang Chen shook his head.

Li Yelai sighed in his heart, he and Doctor Wang were quite familiar with each other.

But at least I avenged him

Li Yelai pondered, and suddenly thought of something, and hesitated for a moment.

"You can ask me any questions." Yang Chen said.

"Uh, I seem to have broken something in the previous battle."

"It doesn't matter, we are fully responsible for this loss." Yang Chen was slightly stunned, but still smiled: "Not only that, you can also receive a bonus. Although it's not much."

There is also a bonus? Li Yelai's eyes lit up: "Then the backpack I carried myself, and the antiques in it. They were also lost in the battle, and they are worth some money."

Antiques? Those inferior crafts, the production date is probably within ten years. How can they be antiques?

Yang Chen's face was a little weird, and Cheese had an expression of 'You haven't taken advantage of enough, right? '.

I thought Li Yelai would ask them about psychics, but I didn't expect him to ask this.

"Can it be reimbursed?" Li Yelai asked.

"Yes, yes." Yang Chen smiled bitterly.

"Listen to me, I know you still have a lot of questions, you can ask us." Cheese said. For some reason, the girl's words made Li Yelai feel inexplicably trustful.

So, he suppressed other questions in his mind and asked: "What exactly is a skinner? Why do you call me a fellow? Can I ask this question?"

Yang Chen seemed to have expected this question, and nodded and said: "Of course, you are qualified to know this. But first, do you know how the giant city was built?"

Li Yelai nodded, this is common sense, and it is a history that every citizen of the giant city knows.

Seventy-one years ago, strange fog appeared in mountainous areas around the world.

They have no physical form and seem to be no different from ordinary fog, but no buildings or terrain can stop their steps.

It was called the fog of disaster by humans at that time, or disaster fog for short.

In areas covered by disaster fog, humans will mysteriously disappear. The rest of the animals are not affected at all.

Even a fully armed army will not leave any traces after the disaster fog.

Faced with the sudden danger against humans, countries have conducted corresponding research, but have gained nothing.

Neither the explosive airflow nor the cold and hot reactions can dispel the disaster fog.

Then, seventy years ago, the disaster officially came.

A large amount of disaster fog appeared all over the world, in wastelands, villages, and cities.

Wherever the disaster fog went, it was a ghost den, leaving a dead silence and desolation.

That year, it is said that 70% of the human population disappeared in the disaster fog.

Perhaps it is because the entire human race has a strong sense of self-rescue, at the most critical moment.

Humans finally mastered the means to defend against disaster fog.

At the same time, countries used their last strength to build huge cities to defend against disaster fog in order to preserve the fire of mankind.

In the beginning, the whole world was in chaos in order to seize resources or prevent disaster fog.

That period is also called the Age of Chaos.

It was not until sixty years ago that the world settled down after the construction of the various giant cities.

This is the origin of the major giant cities, and the same is true for Border City No. 3.

Humans stayed in the giant cities and carefully guarded against the disaster fog.

Fortunately, the disaster fogs that swallowed countless humans have stabilized one after another, and with the protection of the giant cities.

There has been no case of humans being swallowed by the disaster fog again.

"Yes, this is well-known history for ordinary people."

Yang Chen responded: "But in fact, the world has undergone tremendous changes at that moment. The disaster fog did stop moving and stayed in certain areas. But it does not mean that humans are safe. Those beings in the disaster fog always threaten humans."

The existence in the disaster fog? There is life in the disaster fog?

Li Yelai was a little surprised. He had never known these things.

"Nearly six billion humans were swallowed by the disaster fog, but it is not that no one escaped from the disaster fog.

It was also those humans who returned from the disaster fog that brought the means to defend against the disaster fog, thus promoting the establishment of the giant city.

But in the disaster fog, there are also so-called indigenous creatures. They are powerful and weird, and some even have extremely high intelligence. And they can leave the disaster area at any time, directly threatening human survival.

The giant city is not so much about defending against the approach of the disaster fog as it is about defending against these disaster creatures. Our Disaster Processing Department is the defense department in this regard." Yang Chen whispered the secrets of this world.

Li Yelai was shocked, and then asked: "And that skinner is actually a creature that walked out of a disaster fog?"

"No." Yang Chen shook his head and explained: "Since that period, humans have also gained the power to resist disasters. That is the power of the same origin as the disaster, that is, psychics."

"Same origin?"

"Yes, this power comes from a non-physical universe, which we call the virtual world or the void. Each disaster fog comes from the virtual world to the physical world. And it was from that period that the probability of psychics being born among humans has greatly increased. Some talented humans may awaken to become psychics after receiving certain stimuli. For example, you, such as the skinner." Yang Chen looked at Li Yelai with a complicated look: "You can't get in touch with the follow-up, so I won't expand on it."

Li Yelai nodded, digesting this information in his heart.

I guess he is not a regular awakened psychic.

He became a so-called psychic entirely because of the deal with the "black shadow".

What is the black shadow? What is its relationship with the disaster fog? Is he also from the "virtual world"?

If the authorities knew about the existence of the ‘black shadow’, would he be in trouble?

Li Yelai thought to himself, and understood the intention of Yang Chen and others.

In their eyes, I am now a psychic, and I have entered their field of vision.

For safety or supervision, the authorities will inevitably contact me, the "wild psychic" in the mouth of the skinner.

I just don't know what they think of me?

So, Li Yelai asked: "You said that the probability of psychics being born among humans has increased, so why do you still have to conceal the existence of psychics? The more psychics there are among humans, the better for humans, right?"

At present, it seems that in the case of external disasters, the more psychics there are among humans, the better?

"That's what I want to say, becoming a psychic is both a gift and a curse." Yang Chen shook his head and responded: "After years of exploration and research, humans have roughly mastered the intelligence and power of psychics. Psychics are to open their soul wells, connect to the virtual world, and gain power while also gaining curses!"

"Curse?" Li Yelai was stunned.

"That's right, every psychic has a curse while having abilities that are difficult for ordinary people to understand." Yang Chen said: "The types of curses are different. For example, aren't you troubled by your own curse?"

Curse? Li Yelai thought for a moment and responded: "Are you talking about my bad luck?"

At this time, Cheese said: "It is not clear yet, but in order to send you to the hospital, three ambulances broke down mysteriously after you got on the car. In the end, it was our colleagues who carried you into the hospital. Anyway, your curse makes it difficult for you to take a car."

There is such a thing? Li Yelai was a little surprised: "Do I need compensation?"

".No!" Cheese replied with his forehead supported.

Bad luck is actually your own curse?

But why did it appear before you became a psychic?

"Because you will get a curse, so you conceal the existence of psychics?"

Yang Chen continued: "The curse is just one of the points. More importantly, every psychic is at risk of distortion."

"Distortion?"

"Yes, the power of psychics comes from the virtual realm connected to the soul well. And the virtual realm is not a stable place.

The price for humans to gain power from it is not just the curse. Many psychics will be affected by the virtual realm and become distorted. Some will have a drastic change in personality and become more cruel and murderous. Some will pursue desire and pleasure at all costs. Others will simply distort their bodies and turn into monsters. "Yang Chen paused and said: "And the Skinner is a wild psychic whose body was distorted when he first awakened. We call distorted psychics victims."

After digesting the cognition, Li Yelai said in surprise: "Then becoming a psychic is not entirely a good thing. Although you have gained some wonderful powers, you will be cursed and affect your life, and there is also the risk of being distorted and mutated into a victim! "

At the same time, he also understood why the authorities hid the existence of psychics.

If there is no control, psychics will appear in large numbers in society, and they will all be walking mobile bombs!

One skinner has caused several murders. If there are ten, twenty, hundreds, or even more! The entire border city will probably be destroyed!

No wonder the skinners said that wild psychics are natural allies. They are all psychics who do not want to be supervised and discovered by the authorities.

In the eyes of the authorities, those psychics are potential dangers. The two sides are naturally opposed.

This made Li Yelai look a little gloomy. Now that he has become a psychic, he also faces the risk of possible distortion.

Black shadow, black shadow, you have hurt me so much. Can't you just blow up the skinner with one punch and stop me from becoming a psychic?

Li Yelai complained to the black shadow in his heart.

As if seeing Li Yelai's worries, Yang Chen said: "But don't worry, the authorities have safety measures for this. Although distortion cannot be completely avoided, the probability is greatly reduced. And under normal circumstances, psychics will not be distorted for no reason. Unless you try to awaken again. "

Li Yelai nodded: "Then I understand, whether I want it or not, I am now a psychic. In the days to come, I need to be under your supervision. "

"Yes, we will try not to disturb your life. But if you become distorted, we will kill you immediately. "Yang Chen said calmly, his tone was firm and hard as a rock.

"If this really happens, you must be fast and save my sister. This is my only relative." Li Yelai said solemnly.

Yang Chen looked at Li Yelai, and finally nodded seriously: "I will!"

Li Yelai didn't want to cause any danger to others because of his distortion, especially Li Yunyan.

Thinking of his sister, Li Yelai suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

If his bad luck is a curse, then is his sister's weird fear of strangers also a curse?

Li Yunyan might also be a psychic!

At this time, Yang Chen took out a file from behind: "Of course, you have a second choice."

"Join us and protect the giant city!"

Li Yelai took the file in front of him, a little confused: "Join you?"

"Yes, in many cases, only psychics can fight against psychics. Therefore, official psychics are the first line against disasters and victims."

Yang Chen looked at Li Yelai and said: "You can think about it carefully. The benefits and treatment of becoming an official psychic are very good. And when performing tasks, you will get support from the Guard Department and the City Defense Army. But at the same time, once you become an official psychic, you will face dangerous anomalies and victims. Even, face the disaster itself!"

Li Ye took a look at the document titled 'Application Form for Handler of Disaster Handling Department of Border City No. 3'.

The salary and benefits are indeed very good, even for psychics who have just awakened.

There are more than 5,000 Giant City coins a month, and it will increase with the number of awakenings. If you handle certain anomalies or victims, there will be bonuses.

You know, Li Yelai works in an antique shop, and only makes 1,000 Jucheng coins a month.

Occasionally, he sells some antiques, and the commission does not exceed 1,500.

This time he has directly entered the system of Jucheng.

As for the rest, psychic skills training, psychic weapons supply

Li Yelai is not very interested in it. The salary alone is enough to make him excited.

But he still hesitated.

He is not a brave person, he just wants to live a good life. Becoming a psychic is an accident, and if he takes risks for this

But thinking of his sister's possible curse, Li Yelai hesitated and asked: "If I join the official, can I get a method to suppress the curse."

"Of course." Yang Chen nodded: "We will provide help as much as possible. But not all curses have solutions."

"That's enough." Li Yelai stretched out his right hand and shook it with Yang Chen again.

Yang Chen chuckled: "Then, we are comrades!"