Chapter 889: The Crazy Thunderstorm
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Nothing special happened after Leng Xuantong and his team left the base. Meanwhile, Wu Chengyue still stayed in All Being Base, as if he had no work to do in his own base.
Lin Qiao was jealous of him for having people doing his work for him.
Thankfully, Wu Chengyue hadn’t been doing anything particularly. She couldn’t directly ask him to leave, which would be too unfriendly.
It was raining out there, and the air was moist. The rain water contained acid, and was harmful to humans; it could even cause diseases. That rain was hurtful for healthy plants too. As the rain started, the crops in the base seemed to grow unhealthy.
Fortunately, Lin Qiao’s lake water was able to solve that problem. People only needed to water the plants after the rain before the plants died.
Rumbling thunders were heard from the sky, and lightning bolts flashed across the clouds from time to time. Gradually, the thunder and lightning grew more and more frequent.
Lin Qiao raised her head from her desk and then stood up. She was wearing a loose-fitting white dress and a black suit jacket, as well as a pair of flat shoes. It was already warm enough for her legs to be bared.
Currently, she dressed more like a capable businesswoman from the old world and less like a fierce Chief from the post-apocalyptic era.
She walked to the window. As she moved, her pregnant belly could be seen occasionally.
Standing by the window, she raised her head to look at the thunderclouds in the sky. The thunderclouds grew thicker and thicker, giving out a pressure that made her feel a little uneasy.
The rain was heavy, and the moisture made the temperature drop a lot. Healthy human beings might feel a little cold, but Lin Qiao didn’t.
Right at that moment, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky.
Bang!
The lightning bolt landed on top of a building and made someone in it scream.
Lin Qiao was in Base Number Two, but could hear the sounds from miles away. That scream helped her locating the lightning.
Her heart leaped; she had a bad feeling.
‘No way !’ she said to herself.
With that thought, Lin Qiao quickly turned and walked out of the office with big steps while saying, “Prepare the car, now!”
She told Shen Yujen to prepare her car.
Seeing the serious look on her face, Shen Yujen realized that she might have something important in her mind, and quickly ran downstairs to prepare the vehicle.
Lin Qiao walked quickly but with stable pace.
Soon, she came downstairs, where Shen Yujen held an umbrella for her. As they both got into the car, the driver drove speedily toward Base Number One.
Bang! Another thunderous sound was heard. Lin Qiao turned to look outside the window from the backseat.
It was dark outside. The raindrops landed on the car window wave by wave, then flowed on the gla.s.s along with the wind.
Along with a series of m.u.f.fled thunder, Lin Qiao’s car was parked by a building.
“Evacuate the building now! Stay five-hundred meters away!” Once she got off the car, Lin Qiao saw that the lightning had struck off a corner of the building, and clouds of smoke were rising from that area.
She didn’t ask any questions, but immediately told her people to evacuate the crowd that was running outside in a panic.
About a hundred people lived in that building. The top floor was where Wu Chengyue lived.
She didn’t need to ask any question, because on her way approaching the building, she sensed a violent energy coming from the top of the building. She also sensed that the energy was suppresed, but the suppressive force was obviously not strong enough.
Soon, Yun Meng and Qiu Lili showed up beside Lin Qiao.
“What’s going on? Did he go crazy?” Qiu Lili stood on a stone beside Lin Qiao. She was standing in the rain, but the rainwater that fell on her evaporated in a faint red glow on her skin, without wetting her clothes.
Yun Meng was also covered in an energy layer that protected her from the rain.
Lin Qiao was still under the umbrella. She wasn’t able to keep herself dry in the rain with her energy, because she had no energy.
“Let’s get in there and take a look first. We better draw him out of the base. If he completely loses his mind in here, things would be bad,” Lin Qiao looked at Wu Chengyue’s window and said, then flashed into the building.
That area was full of tall buildings, with no smaller buildings or trees. Therefore, Lin Qiao couldn’t leap straight onto the top floor. She was only leap about ten meters high, yet the building was nearly sixty meters tall.
The stairs were her only choice, as the elevator wasn’t working.
That was one of the bad things about losing her energy. She couldn’t even leap high.
Yun Meng and Qiu Lili did it much easier than her. Qiu Lili rose straight into the sky while Yun Meng speedily crawled up the building like a large lizard. However, she turned herself invisible, so no one could see her.
Qiu Lili flew to Wu Chengyue’s floor and carefully landed on the balcony. She couldn’t enter the flat, not because the door was locked, but because a strong wave of energy had been surging in the flat, stopping her from approaching.
The energy wave brought up a strong wind, making Qiu Lili’s white dress and long ponytails flutter. A strong force had been pus.h.i.+ng her outside as she raised her arms to s.h.i.+eld her face. She tried to walk into the room, but failed. Once she made one step forward, that force pushed her back out for two steps.
Yun Meng soon came up too. However, she was weaker than Qiu Lili. Qiu Lili could at least approach the door while she was only able to stay outside the guardrail of the balcony without being able to move at all.
“d.a.m.n! This is bad! How are we supposed to make him come out? What if he got mad and went straight maniacal? Is he still awake?” Yun Meng burst in screams. She wasn’t capable enough to solve that huge problem.
Qiu Lili s.h.i.+elded herself against the strong wind with her arms while trying very hard to look at the person in the room. She saw that man squatting on the ground with Wu Yueling held in his arms. His face was turning blue, and his widely opened eyes had turned red, with veins standing up from his temples. He seemed to be trying so hard to fight with himself.
“Ling Ling is still in there! I think she has pa.s.sed out!” Qiu Lili shouted.
Her words might have triggered something that boosted the energy in the room.
Bang! The two girls were sent out of the balcony by an invisible, strong wave of energy.
“Ouch!” Thankfully, they both reacted fast enough. One of them turned in the air and managed to float in the sky and the other nimbly flipped with a twist while falling off the building, landing airily on the ground.