wavenovel Chapter 24: One sentence, like a command from heaven and earth!
Chapter 24: One sentence, like a command from heaven and earth!
Li Huimin was peeling an orange and was about to reply when the scenery in front of her suddenly changed color.
The orange-red color that was just visible was swallowed up by a thick scarlet, like ink drops into water, instantly covering the entire window.
The once warm sunshine suddenly turned cold and biting.
"What is this? The sunset can drift here, but why is it this color?"
Fan Kexin paused for a moment, then smiled and reached out to touch the scarlet stain on the glass with her fingertips, saying cheerfully.
"Don't touch it!"
Li Huimin sensed something was amiss and quickly reached out to pull her best friend's hand back.
But just as she touched her best friend's palm, she also accidentally touched that smear of scarlet dye.
In an instant, a piercing pain, like the soul being burned, suddenly shot through my entire body from my fingertips.
At the same time, the two of them let out a piercing scream.
"Aaaaaah!"
"Aaaaaah!"
"My hands, my hands, how could this be..."
A piercing pain accompanied by a putrid smell assaulted my senses.
Fan Kexin could see her own hands aging at a visible rate.
The fingers, which were originally fair and delicate and painted with pink nail polish, have become wrinkled and the skin has become dry and shriveled, like the bark of an old tree that has been exposed to the sun for decades. The wrinkles are layered on top of each other and climb up the palms and forearms.
Li Huimin was even worse; her entire arm was rapidly losing its luster, her skin was sagging loosely, and even the veins on her arm were bulging, making her look like the hand of a seventy or eighty-year-old.
"What is this?"
Li Huimin wanted to shake off the crimson stain that had gotten onto her skin, like shaking off a water droplet.
But this crimson stain was like a maggot clinging to her bone, slowly burrowing into her skin.
"Li Huimin, you, you, how did you become invisible?"
"Fan Kexin, you've become invisible too!"
The two discovered that each other's bodies were gradually becoming transparent, as if being erased by an invisible eraser, their outlines being gradually wiped away, and their life force was rapidly disappearing.
This discovery horrified them.
"What?...What happened?... "
Fan Kexin's voice trembled uncontrollably, and tears welled up instantly.
She tried to raise her hand to wipe her tears, but found that her fingers were almost translucent and she couldn't touch the skin on her face at all, let alone the tears that had slid down from the corners of her eyes.
"Huimin, are we going to die?... But I don't want to die... I haven't said goodbye to my parents yet, I haven't lived properly yet..."
"It's okay...we'll be alright."
Li Huimin panicked, unsure whether the words were directed at her or meant to encourage her best friend Fan Kexin.
She tried to reach for her phone in her pocket, but she couldn't even touch the screen, let alone the loose leg of her pants.
This bizarre scene, this desperate sight, overwhelmed Li Huimin like a cold tide.
She had lived for over twenty years and had never seen such a bizarre and suffocating scene.
Just when they thought they were doomed, a voice came from the direction of the police station building across the street.
The voice was very soft and faint, yet it carried an undeniable domineering power, penetrating the walls and the crimson light, and clearly reaching their ears.
"Get back here!"
The moment those three words were uttered, a miracle occurred.
The transparent bodies of Li Huimin and the other woman began to solidify rapidly. Their withered and aged skin became plump and fair again, regaining the elasticity that young girls should have. The excruciating pain also disappeared instantly.
The crimson hue that enveloped the window seemed to be violently pulled back by an invisible hand.
In the blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace. It seemed that all the suffering was caused by those wisps of scarlet, like a virus. Once the source of this calamity disappeared, they naturally returned to normal.
Outside the window, the sunset was still orange, and the warm sunlight fell on the two pretty girls, as if everything that had just happened was a nightmare.
Fan Kexin froze for a few seconds, then burst into tears, hugging Li Huimin tightly, weeping with joy.
"Li Huimin, we're alright, we...we survived!"
Fan Kexin buried her entire face in the hollow of Li Huimin's slender neck.
"Yes, we...we're alright now."
Li Huimin also breathed a sigh of relief; the back of her clothes was already soaked with cold sweat.
She patted her best friend on the back, but the sound from earlier kept echoing in her ears.
The voice was so familiar; it seemed to be the same voice of the boy in the blue and white school uniform who was stopped at the gate by the butler at the entrance of the Chu family villa earlier today.
The same calm demeanor, the same inherent domineering nature—even though he only said a few words, they remained unforgettable for her.
Therefore, she absolutely could not be mistaken; that voice just now belonged to the boy named Su Nan.
"Quick! Change your clothes!"
Li Huimin snapped out of her daze, grabbed the police uniform she had thrown on the chair, her hand still trembling slightly, glanced back at Fan Kexin, and then said, "Come with me to the police station lobby. We must thank you in person for saving our lives."
"Ah, you know the owner of this voice? Okay, okay, I'll change my clothes right now!"
Immediately afterwards, the sound of people changing clothes could be heard from the girls' dormitory.
Soon, two beautiful policewomen with tall, straight figures and curvaceous figures pushed open the door and went out.
Meanwhile, two minutes earlier.
In the room where the severed finger was sealed, the moment Su Nan lifted the lid of the golden box, a thick, scarlet liquid shot into the sky, like a splash of dye, covering the entire room.
The first to be affected were naturally Luo Shaofeng, Lin Luoxue, and the other six people standing in the room.
Although they wore life-suppressing artifacts, in the face of this crimson wave that was like a tsunami, their life-suppressing artifacts were utterly insignificant.
In the blink of an eye, the seven of them showed signs of aging, becoming transparent, and other terrible states.
Two team members even had a dark purple boil on their arms, with something seemingly swimming rapidly inside, and they were making inhuman roars from their throats.
Just when they thought they were doomed, Su Nan finally spoke up.
His voice remained calm and devoid of emotion, yet the three words resounded throughout the house like thunder.
"Get back here!"
The moment Su Nan finished speaking, the crimson sky that had dyed the sunlight blood red seemed to be violently pulled back by an invisible hand, then slowly pulled back, like the receding tide, rapidly rolling back and shrinking back into the opened golden box.
In just over ten seconds, the crimson stain disappeared, and the room returned to its previous state.
Sunlight still streamed through the curtains, falling quietly onto the floor, as if the apocalyptic scene had never happened.
Luo Shaofeng, Lin Luoxue, and the other six men's legs went weak, and they collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, their training uniforms soaked with cold sweat.