A black shadow was wandering in the gathering place. After the evil disaster, various resources in human society gradually became scarce. The most obvious one was the disappearance of the electricity supply that represented modern civilization.
After the power station was left unmaintained, it soon fell into paralysis, the city's power supply disappeared, and humans seemed to have returned to their most primitive way of life.
There are indeed solar panels in the gathering place, but that amount of electricity can only sustain the basic electricity needs of a few main buildings.
The entire gathering place was pitch black, and the rare light was the faint light of oil lamps or candles.
It is hard to imagine that this was a bustling metropolis just a few months ago, but now it has regressed back to the barren state it was hundreds of years ago.
Occasionally, there would be soldiers on night watch passing by on the street with their hands on their hands, but other than that, no one else could be seen.
There is a curfew in the gathering place, so people can only stay indoors at night.
There are no entertainment activities, no lights, no mobile phones, no TV, no games, and the work during the day is very heavy. People can only go to bed early. Except for a few rooms where whispers can be heard, most people have already fallen asleep.
No one noticed that a black shadow appeared on the street, and this shadow moved strangely through the buildings.
There was no one or anything, but there was a black shadow moving. This was an extremely strange thing.
But this gathering place has long been shrouded in darkness, and no one will notice this slight abnormality.
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This black shadow is naturally our classmate Gu Wenyu. She doesn't know where the jade is, so she can only search aimlessly in the gathering place.
If Ding Rou's real soul power value was not high, as the person who discovered jade, Ding Rou would have had the opportunity to come into contact with jade.
However, the gap between Gu Wenyu's previous strength and Ding Rou's actual strength was too big, which also made the officials suspicious of Ding Rou. Although they would not do anything to Ding Rou, they would definitely not reuse Ding Rou, let alone
Not to mention coming into contact with things like jade.
Gu Wenyu walked in the darkness, but she actually knew that these buildings in the darkness were unlikely to store jade.
The most likely ones were the main buildings with lights on, but Gu Wenyu didn't know which building they were in. With so many floors and so many rooms, he didn't know how long it would take to find them one by one.
Moreover, there are many people with awakened soul power in those buildings, and there are demon slayers from major aristocratic families stationed there. It is inevitable that some people have the ability to see through illusions.
Gu Wenyu tried his best to walk around people, especially individuals with relatively strong soul power fluctuations. Gu Wenyu avoided them from a distance, but no one really noticed a group of high-speed moving shadows.
What makes people more troublesome is that jade is not like a holy weapon or a magic weapon. It has no special aura. Even if you are close to the jade, you will not feel it.
This means that it is useless even if Gu Wenyu and Yu Shi are in the same room, she still has to dig out the thing.
Gu Wenyu's attempt to find a small piece of jade in the gathering place was like finding a needle in a haystack. She felt that she still needed to return to her old profession.
She had to find a suitable place to squat in the corner. Her current state was more suitable for squatting in the corner than the little black cat. As long as she avoided certain people with particularly strong soul power fluctuations, squatting in the corner would definitely be more efficient than running around everywhere.
There is also a more efficient method, which is to set fire to create chaos, and then release the news that someone has stolen the jade.
It is not convenient for Gu Wenyu to show up on her own, but she has a lot of helpers in the spiritual world. Huohuo and the others are also demons, so they are very convincing in preventing fire from doing bad things in the gathering place.
In this way, someone will definitely check the condition of the jade, and Gu Wenyu can just hide in the dark and observe.
It's just that this method is too immoral. After the disaster, human beings' survival is already very difficult. It's pointless for her to add fuel to the fire.
So this idea was rejected by Gu Wenyu himself as soon as it came up.
but……
Just as Gu Wenyu had such an idea, a series of explosions were heard not far away, and a window next to Gu Wenyu was shattered.
Immediately afterwards, I saw that the second and third floors of the building opposite were on fire, all the windows facing the outside were on fire, and thick smoke billowed out. The glass on the fourth and fifth floors were all shattered, but
No fire has been seen yet.
It means that the explosion should have occurred on the second or third floor, but according to Ding Rou's memory fragments, the building was just an ordinary office building with no combustibles and no explosives.
Gu Wenyu watched all this in the dark. She even wondered when she had awakened her spirit. She was just thinking about it, so why did it really catch on fire?
There are also many awakened souls in the building opposite. How could such a big explosion suddenly occur?
If she hadn't awakened some strange ability, then the explosion was definitely a man-made disaster.
Some people have the same idea as her and want to create chaos to achieve a certain purpose.
At this moment, there was indeed chaos outside, with shouts and shouts everywhere.
"It's on fire! It's on fire!"
"Hurry and help put out the fire!"
"Help! There are still people inside!"
"Quickly put out the fire..."
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There was chaos outside, and many people ran out of the building where Gu Wenyu was located. Some people rushed out directly to help put out the fire, while others just came out to watch the excitement.
In the chaos, Gu Wenyu saw a very embarrassed woman running out of the building opposite. Her face was blackened by smoke, her hair was messy, she was wearing a wet dress, but her hands and feet also had obvious burns and black marks.
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The woman ran and shouted in panic, "Quick, quick, put out the fire! There are people inside!"
Although she shouted like this, she had no intention of going back to save others.
Originally, this was nothing. After all, I managed to escape, so why would I want to go back?
But her next behavior made Gu Wenyu feel a little strange.
I saw the woman shouting for fire while running in the opposite direction. She seemed panicked, but her legs were strong and she ran in a certain direction with a clear goal. After running away, the panic in her eyes disappeared. It didn't look like she was being attacked at all.
A frightened look.
If she was really frightened, her normal reaction would be that her feet would become weak after she ran out of the fire scene, and she would not run far away so firmly. Moreover, she shouted that there were people inside. Even if she did not dare to go in to save her, her normal reaction would be to wait outside.
, let’s see if the people inside can be rescued.
But this person ran away while shouting for help, as if she had set the fire.
Gu Wenyu was not sure that this woman set the fire, but she had an intuition that this person was weird. Even if this woman did not set the fire, there must be something else, so Gu Wenyu followed him in the darkness.