Relying on one's own hair

"Joe, where have you been? Come out quickly, don't scare me!"

At first, Julian thought that Qiao Ran had gone away, but after he shouted a few times and got no response, he became a little panicked. Qiao Ran would not make jokes regardless of the occasion, and there must be some special reason for telling him not to.

Yu Fenglei inspected Xi Ruier's situation, and made sure that he was just a little bruised and nothing serious. Then he heard a student asking everywhere who saw Qiao Ran. His heart that had just been let go suddenly lifted up again, and he shouted: "What happened? Where's Qiao Ran?"

Julian hurriedly said: "I don't know, he was still a few steps away from me just now, but he disappeared after a while, and he didn't respond when I called him."

Someone said: "Will he run to the front alone, wanting to be the first to reach the finish line?"

Xi Ruier immediately denied: "No, Teacher Qiao is not such a person."

Yu Fenglei already had a premonition that the situation was not good, so he strode forward, turned the headlight to the brightest, carefully checked around the direction Julian pointed, and found that a nearby vegetation was broken.Looking out, the side is a steep hillside with a slant of 60 degrees, and a trace of being crushed can be vaguely seen. The bottom is dark and bottomless.

Too bad, something happened to Qiao Ran, and he was careless just now.Yu Fenglei was so remorseful that he almost wanted to slap himself.

The visibility in the forest is extremely low now, and unstable factors are hidden everywhere. Rushing to let the students who are not accompanied by spirit bodies go to the bottom of the steep slope to find Qiao Ran will only put more people in danger, and they say they want to monitor them. Baird, who finished the last five kilometers in the team, doesn't know where he went now.

The situation was so strange that Yu Fenglei made a decisive decision, regardless of whether he would violate the rules of the competition, he sent an instruction to his golden eagle to return immediately with his mind, and then told a group of students who were at a loss: "Everyone stay where you are and don't mess around. Let’s go, summon your spirit body back as soon as possible, and I will immediately ask the command for help.”

Yu Fenglei took out a flare from his uniform pocket, pulled the fuse at the tail, and a ball of fire shot straight into the sky with a sharp noise, and exploded over the northern forest, illuminating a small piece of dark sky.

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Qiao Ran's head was dizzy, and his body was as cold as if he had been immersed in ice water.It was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. He opened his mouth to shout, to call for help, but his throat seemed to be filled with sand, and he couldn't make a sound.

Suddenly there was a sharp pain in the top of his head, as if an awl was being pierced in hard, and then the pain spread to the whole head. The pain made him bounce up like a fish stranded on the shore, but he couldn't because his hands and feet were bound. When he bounced up, his body just twitched slightly.

"His brain waves are quite abnormal, which is different from all the samples we have recorded. The fluctuation frequency and amplitude range of neural electrical activity are very large, which is between ordinary people and top-level guides. It's so strong, it's so strange..."

"I know that his brain nerves are different from those of ordinary people. Otherwise, what would you do? Let's not talk nonsense. I don't want to know what kind of strange method he has. I just want to know how to get his spiritual body out. Does mental power help!"

"Mr. Quint, don't worry about this, you have to take your time. After all, this is the first time I've seen such a situation in my whole life."

"Come on slowly! Dr. Hua De, I'll give you three days, if you can't come up with something, I'll kill you with one shot!"

In the haze, I vaguely heard someone arguing and saying some incomprehensible words.Qiao Ran slowly opened his heavy eyelids and looked around.

A room with an area of ​​about twenty square meters, the floor, walls and ceiling are all made of stone, the surface is uneven, with gray-green moss growing, exuding a damp musty smell.There are no windows on the wall, only a heavy rusty iron door, with a crack open, and a section of upward stone steps can be vaguely seen.The room was dimly lit, like a rough basement.

Qiao Ran was lying on a hospital bed in the middle of the room, his camouflage uniform was dirty and dusty.Several complicated medical instruments were placed on the cabinet next to the bed, and several wires protruded out to connect with his head.

The current situation is somewhat similar to Qiao Ran's situation when he woke up in the Olive Tree Nursing Home more than two months ago, except that his limbs and neck are fixed on the bed board by restraint belts, and he cannot move at all.

There were two strange men standing beside the bed. One was a shy, skinny old man in a white coat; The muscles on the shoulders and arms are exposed, and two light bullet guns are stuck in the waist. The expression on the face is sinister and fierce. There is a twisted and ugly scar on the bald head, which extends from the top of the left head to the back of the neck, like a crawler. With a big centipede.

The middle-aged man named Quint should be a high-ranking sentinel, because there is a huge crocodile with a length of nearly three meters and a very ferocious appearance lying on his feet. It appears and disappears, just like the virtual image projected by the optical brain hardware is damaged and flickers.

Finding that Qiao Ran was looking at him with his eyes open, the giant crocodile flicked its tail and got up excitedly towards him, but disappeared before it got close to the bed.

Quint immediately turned around, and a strange light burst out of his iron-gray eyes, "He really can see my spiritual body, not to mention, the black eyeballs are quite beautiful, no wonder he fascinated little Hall. "

Quint walked to the bedside in twos and threes, reaching out his hand to touch Qiao Ran's eyes, but immediately felt the pressure from a higher-ranking sentinel, his face changed suddenly, and he had to back away again.

Dr. Huade also pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose excitedly, looked at the updated data on the instrument, and then turned his head to look at Qiao Ran up and down, as if appreciating a rare treasure, "Although this young man doesn't have a spiritual body, he has a spiritual body." His strength is still relatively strong, almost as good as an A-level guide now. However, a large part of this should be due to his partner. Is the little Hall you mentioned the legendary super-S-level iron-blooded major general? No wonder, from the bonding mark on the back of his neck, it can be seen that the strength of that major general is really quite strong."

Quint spat on the ground in disgust, and said angrily: "MD is too late, if only two months earlier. Can he give me a spiritual guidance now? Little Hall is willing to marry him It's not just because of his beautiful little face full of oriental style that he became a partner."

Dr. Ward spread his hands: "Ask him if he is willing now? The subjective willingness of a guide is crucial to the display of spiritual power. He is now in a period of passionate love with Major General Hall. The relationship is deep and cannot tolerate the intervention of a third party. If you force him, I'm afraid it won't be of much use."

Quint looked at the undisguised disgust and hatred in Qiao Ran's eyes, so he could only swear a curse word to dispel the idea, and then said: "By the way, there is no way to remove the guide's mark and the one left by the sentinel." Pheromones?"

Dr. Howard said: "Yes, but this method will cause great harm to the body and mind of the guide. His mental power is not very stable. Once it is forcibly eliminated, his brain nerves are likely to be completely destroyed. It's useless to you."

"Then what should we do?! Aren't you known as an authoritative expert in the study of spiritual power? You can't do this or that, so what's the use of you old bastard!" Quint was very irritable, and his facial muscles twitched nervously. , then reached out and grabbed the old man by the collar, and lifted him up like a chicken.

Dr. Ward shouted in panic, "Don't kill me, there is another way!"

Quint threw him back on the ground, "Say!"

Dr. Ward put his glasses back on, and said tremblingly: "The instrument shows that the concentration of sentinel pheromone in his body is not high enough, and it should be that the ultimate combination has not been completed. It can be as little as three days or as long as five days. The temporary mark disappears naturally, and you can combine with him again, even if you can't fully recover your mental body, it will definitely be of great benefit."

Quint said viciously: "Okay, I'll just wait a few more days. Take care of him, don't let him die, don't let him run away, otherwise—"

"No, no, don't worry!"

Quint gave Qiao Ran one last look, and then went out.

There were only two people left in the room, and Dr. Ward was relieved, then sighed again.

Only then did Qiao Ran speak in a low voice with some difficulty: "Dr. Hua De, who is Quint? Why did you arrest me here?"

The old man didn't want to say it at first, but he couldn't hold back anymore. He glanced at the surveillance camera installed in the corner of the ceiling, turned his body slightly, and then said in a low voice: "Quint is an S-rank sentry. He used to be a notorious mercenary. The leader, who specialized in accepting underworld vendetta business, was once a headache for the federal government, so it ordered heavy troops to kill him. Five years ago, Quint's subordinates were all cleaned up, and he himself was seriously injured in the head, so he hid It got up and stopped for a year or two.

Later, Quint gathered a group of men to make a comeback, but he acted more secretly than before.The sequelae of brain trauma caused him to have unstable mental strength, and his mental body sometimes disappeared, and his personal strength was greatly reduced. Therefore, he has been trying to find ways to restore his mental strength in the past two years, but it has been in vain.The day before yesterday, Quint suddenly tied me here, saying that there is a way, and then you were arrested today. "

Qiao Ran asked: "I never knew Quint, how did he know me?"

Dr. Howard shrugged, "I don't understand this, that's all I know, and I heard it from Quint's subordinates chatting."

Qiao Ran had no choice but to put this question aside, and asked instead: "Then where is this place, and how far is it from the northern forest?"

"Just under the forest in the north is Quint's old lair. The location is very hidden. Even if you pass by from the outside, you can't find the entrance without looking carefully."

Qiao Ran was secretly startled, and begged: "Dr. Hua De, please let me go, my partner must be very anxious now."

Dr. Ward said with a bitter face: "I can't let you go. Not only myself, but my whole family will be ruined if you let you go. This ghost place is as strong as a fortress, and there are several people guarding it outside. They are all desperadoes. If I could run away, I would have run away long ago. Why would I wait until now? Boy, it is not easy for you to be young. After a few days, the temporary mark disappears. Combining, help him restore his mental strength, maybe he will let you go, then I can get out of this ghost place."

Qiao Ran said decisively: "No, I will never betray my partner to help a fugitive who is full of crimes!"

Dr. Ward sighed again, "That's up to you, when Quint insists on using force, do you think you can hide?"

Qiao Ran was extremely angry, bit her lip and said nothing.

"So let's be obedient, so as not to suffer more. It's late, you go to rest, I'm going to bed too."

After Dr. Ward finished speaking, he yawned and went out. Qiao Ran was the only one left in the room. Although he had just completed nearly [-] kilometers of cross-country training, he was tired and exhausted, but how could he sleep now.

He originally thought that he just stumbled and rolled down the hillside for a while, and that he would suffer some trauma at most, and he would have been caught here unexpectedly.In connection with the cause and effect, it is obvious that this was a premeditated crime, and among the students or teachers who participated in the cross-country training with him today were moles who were in collusion with Quint.

What Qiao Ran is most worried about now is not his own safety. He is useful to Quint, at least within a few days, his life will not be in danger. What he is most worried about is Valentine.He suddenly disappeared for no reason, and the sentinel didn't know how anxious he would be. Without his comfort, would that person lose control of his emotions and do something that hurt others and himself.

There is also Yu Fenglei, who lost him halfway as the instructor of the team. He must be very anxious whether in public or private, and he doesn't know what punishment he will suffer.

But no one could have predicted this kidnapping case in advance, even he himself did not expect the situation to become so bad before he woke up just now.

Right now, I can only pray that I have a chance to escape, or that people from the academy can find this place as soon as possible.