My organs are too abstract.

Chapter 92 Your legs are initiating an emergency evacuation procedure!

Let's rewind a little.

Just as Xu Yuan and the shadowy figure disguised as his mother were enacting a touching scene of "filial piety between mother and son" in the room, the atmosphere on a quiet street in Wutong District was unusually serious.

A group of people dressed in black, exuding a sharp and professional aura, were staring intently at a building not far away.

Just then, an SUV slowly drove up from a distance. Yu Hanqiu, with neat red hair and wearing sunglasses, led Gu Ya out of the car. Without stopping, she asked bluntly, "What happened?"

A middle-aged man with glasses and a calm demeanor strode forward and pointed to a building across the street, saying, "Captain Yu, something's not right about this building."

"Something's not right with this building?"

Yu Hanqiu asked back as if to confirm, she understood the meaning in the other person's words: it was not that a particular household had a problem, but that the entire building itself had a problem.

The middle-aged man, Fan Hong, said with certainty, "That's right, Captain Yu."

Yu Hanqiu's expression became more serious as she silently surveyed the clean and tidy building in front of her.

Gu Ya was also observing intently from the side, but she couldn't find anything unusual, so she frowned and said, "What's wrong? I can't see the problem."

"It's normal that we can't see it now," Fan Hong explained, "because what we see now is not its true appearance."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Hanqiu raised her hand and took off her sunglasses. Her beautiful, pale red eyes, like amber, were now filled with a faint halo of light that seemed to flow and fade within them.

—This is part of her ability to see through illusions and discern the truth hidden behind things.

However, just seconds later, the light in her eyes returned to silence, and her brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

In her field of vision, apart from the building appearing as a pale red due to her gaze, everything else about it remained exactly the same as before, unchanged.

"How is it, Captain Yu?" Gu Ya asked in a low voice.

"No change." Yu Hanqiu shook his head slightly, calmly putting his sunglasses back on. "My ability—did not work."

"It didn't work?!" Fan Hong and Gu Ya's expressions both changed.

The two knew about Yu Hanqiu's abilities. More importantly, she was an expert-level fighter who had faced severe calamities. If her abilities were ineffective, the abnormality level of this building was probably far beyond what was expected.

Yu Hanqiu's expression did not change much. As the backbone of the group, she could not panic before everyone else.

"Don't panic. Calamities and the sick have all sorts of strange abilities; maybe it just happens to be the one that counters me?"

She first gently calmed the two down, then looked at Fan Hong and changed the subject: "But if I didn't notice anything unusual, how did you two initially realize something was wrong?"

"It's like this, Captain Yu," Fan Hong said, composing himself. "Didn't you previously order us to investigate a young man named Xu Yuan? We confirmed through interviews in the surrounding area that he's a student, and his address is in this building."

"But strangely, we immediately went inside the building to search, but—we didn't find the target that matched the description. It was as if he had vanished into thin air."

"Disappeared?" Gu Ya asked, her face full of surprise.

"Yes, at first we suspected that the information was wrong, but after retrieving and repeatedly checking the surrounding surveillance footage, we confirmed that he did enter the building and never came out again."

Yu Hanqiu listened quietly. Investigating Xu Yuan was indeed her order, and the reason was not limited to the memorable and awkward encounter on the street the day before.

A few days ago, the calamity codenamed "Vertical Pupil" briefly appeared in Wutong District and then quickly disappeared. She personally led a team to investigate, and it was in the off-road vehicle that she first met the young man named Xu Yuan.

After several days of repeated investigation, she could basically confirm that [Vertical Pupil] had left the area, but one question remained in her mind.

As Yu Hanqiu searched Wutong District, she felt increasingly familiar with the area, as if she had been there before, but her memory was completely blank.

Trusting in her intuition and abilities, she concluded that this was no illusion.

At that moment, she suddenly thought of Xu Yuan, whom she had met a few times. She had never met him before coming to Wutong District.

Yet, I still felt a strange sense of familiarity with him, just like I felt about Wutong District.

Therefore, when she unexpectedly encountered Xu Yuan on the street, she thought of asking him to do her a favor and see if he could help her remember something. However, she did not expect to witness his bizarre and outrageous actions that left her speechless.

Now it seems that there are more mysteries surrounding this person than she imagined.

Yu Hanqiu's mind raced, and she asked in a deep voice, "What happened next? What else was discovered?"

"After discovering the suspicious points, we immediately arranged for people to take turns keeping watch here. Everything was normal for the first two days, until tonight—" Fan Hong's tone turned somber, "This building, for a brief moment, changed its appearance."

"Another version of itself?"

"That's right, for a very brief moment, it revealed another appearance: an old building with peeling paint and dilapidated walls, before immediately reverting to its current state."

"We speculate that Xu Yuan entered not the residential building in front of us, but that—strange old building."

"Old building————"

Yu Hanqiu repeated softly, as if blurry images were faintly appearing in her mind. Trying to break free from the fog of memory, she immediately asked, "What kind of old building?"

Fan Hong thought for a moment and described it as follows: "It's just—"

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"Captain Yu, I think there's no need to describe it!" Fan Hong's words were interrupted by Gu Ya's sudden voice.

"I bet that building—" Gu Ya murmured, pointing at the building in front of her with a shocked expression, "looks like that—"

Yu Hanqiu and Fan Hong suddenly turned their heads, and then their pupils contracted sharply!

Before my eyes, the neat, modern residential building had disappeared, replaced by an old building exposed to the pale moonlight.

The exterior walls are mottled and peeling, with large chunks of plaster revealing the bricks and stones underneath. The walls are covered with many small cracks, and moss has grown in some places, making them look somewhat desolate and dilapidated.

However, what truly sent chills down their spines was not the building itself, but what lay behind the windows inside.

Behind a window, a woman in white with long hair covering her face, obscuring her features, stood quietly, silently watching the crowd.

From another broken window, sticky, wet tentacles slowly emerged from the shadows, their cold, damp sheen reflecting light, and quietly wrapped around the decaying window frame, the suction cups contracting eerily in the night.

Shifting my gaze to the side, I could vaguely see a long-decayed corpse through a window, hanging from the roof beam with iron hooks piercing its shoulders.

But the next second, the corpse suddenly convulsed, and the iron hook trembled violently along with its shoulder, emitting a mournful wail that was not human.

Not far away, a stark white skeleton sat before a decaying piano with hardly any keys left, its fingertips gracefully rising and falling, playing an unpleasant and jarring melody.

And at the window next to it, a humanoid creature with a smooth, even face was leaning against the window, drawing its features in front of a mirror.

Behind almost every window in the entire building, there were strange figures like these swaying.

They simply stood quietly by the window, some without even glancing out, yet they brought a suffocating feeling, like drowning, to the people downstairs.

Strangely, compared to the chaotic scene on the other floors, where everyone was showing off their unique talents, the fourth floor was unusually quiet, standing out from the rest of the building.

"Could it be that the people living in this building—" Fan Hong stared blankly at the figures, his voice trembling uncontrollably, "are all victims of this calamity?!"

Yu Hanqiu's eyes behind his sunglasses froze, and Gu Ya was completely stunned by the scene before her, exclaiming in disbelief, "What...what's going on with this building?!"

Let's return to the present.

Old building, room 424.

Xu Yuan was completely unaware of the commotion outside, sleeping soundly as if he were having a sweet dream, with a faint smile on his face.

But at that moment, his bed—suddenly shook almost imperceptibly.

At first, the vibration was so subtle it was almost an illusion, but soon the vibration became more noticeable, the bed frame made a muffled creaking sound, and the pillow slid gently along with it.

However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that it's not just the bed that's vibrating—the entire room, no, the entire old building, is emitting a low and slow tremor.

Dust fell from the walls, the window frame rubbed against the glass with a soft sound, and finally, a loose patch of plaster on the ceiling gave way and fell to the ground with a "thud".

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Strangely, despite the commotion, Xu Yuan on the bed remained fast asleep.

He even subconsciously adjusted to a more comfortable position as the bed swayed, smacked his lips, mumbled a mumbled, indistinct sleep-talking, and then drifted back into a deeper sleep.

A line of light gray text suddenly appeared in the void:

Your legs have detected some unknown danger. Immediate evacuation is recommended! Immediate evacuation is recommended!

After waiting a few seconds, seeing that Xu Yuan was still lying motionless on the bed, new small characters appeared in the void:

[Your legs have detected that you are in a dreamlike state and cannot wake up on your own. Emergency evacuation procedures have been initiated!]

The small characters slowly dissipated into the void.

The next second, Xu Yuan's legs moved on their own.

She deftly kicked off the blanket, precisely moved off the edge of the bed, and steadily slipped on the slippers by the bedside. The whole process was incredibly smooth, creating an odd sense of discontinuity compared to Xu Yuan's upper body still lying on the bed.

And so, without Xu Yuan's knowledge, he closed his eyes, lowered his head, swayed as he got up, and, controlled by his legs, staggered out of the bedroom as if sleepwalking.

The slippers rubbed against the floor, making a soft "shush" sound, dragging the oblivious Xu Yuan towards the darkness by the door.