My game, Orange Flavor, is great!

She smiled, reached out and took the phone, and looked at the comments under the official account that were increasing at an explosive rate, a smile involuntarily appearing on her face.

Very good. Regardless of whether the research institute has a bomb or not, and whether the bomb will explode, the disappearance of the meteorite will not, at least in the public eye, become a trigger for panic.

"Let's go." She held out her hand to Chi Ying. "Take me to the research institute."

Chi Ying took a deep breath, nodded vigorously, and held Lu Zhao's hand for the first time before silently closing her eyes.

In an instant, both of them disappeared from the spot.

"I'm done with my chips...burp!" Messiah walked out of the monitoring room clutching his stomach, looking around blankly. "Where is everyone? Why are they all gone?"

She deliberately gave those two space to talk, but instead, they just abandoned her and ran away?

"Ah!"

As soon as he arrived at the destination, Lu Zhao couldn't help but sneeze.

Someone is definitely talking badly about her behind her back!

"Are you alright?" Chi Ying hesitated for a moment before letting go of her hand and asking somewhat awkwardly.

She quickly shook her head, and only then did she have time to observe her surroundings.

"Is this the meteorite research institute?" Looking at the old, uninhabited houses around him, Lu Zhao even wondered if Chi Ying had mislocated the coordinates and come to the wrong place.

Chi Ying shook her head: "It's about 100 meters from the research institute. To avoid alerting them, I specifically located it here."

Lu Zhao felt a little embarrassed. He was about to invite her to walk towards the research institute together when, before he could speak, a loud bang came from not far away—

exploded!

Chapter Fifty-Nine: All Fires Submit

A burst of flame shot into the sky, accompanied by several deafening explosions that filled our ears. Everything around was utterly destroyed, leaving only a thick cloud of gunpowder-smelling smoke.

The powerful shockwave made it impossible for the two to approach the research institute. Lu Zhao's expression hardened, and he grabbed Chi Ying's hand, shouting, "Let's go!"

The next second, flames instantly surged onto the spot where they had just been standing, destroying everything in their path.

As she led Lu Zhao to constantly change positions, the explosions behind them followed like a shadow. Chi Ying gritted her teeth and gripped her hand tightly, saying, "Hold on tight, don't let go."

As they spoke, the two instantly teleported into mid-air.

The fiery wings behind them then unfurled, stopping them in mid-air just as they were about to fall.

At this moment, the area beneath them had become a sea of ​​fire.

“She not only planted explosives in the research institute, but also in the abandoned buildings around here. As long as we appear anywhere near the research institute, it will trigger the sensors in the bombs.”

Looking down at the buildings engulfed in flames, Lu Zhao clenched his fists and glanced around, wondering, "Are there any other residents around here?"

Chi Ying shook her head: "No, this place has been abandoned for a long time. I'm afraid that's why the research institute was set up nearby."

We need to put out these fires quickly; if they continue to burn like this, they will eventually affect innocent civilians.

Lu Zhao thought for a moment and then said to Chi Ying, "Go back immediately and report this to the higher-ups. I'll stay and put out the fire."

Knowing her abilities, Chi Ying didn't hesitate. She nodded immediately, told her to "be careful," and then disappeared into thin air.

Spreading his wings, he circled twice above the research institute, feeling the scorching air waves crashing against him. Lu Zhao frowned and murmured, "Bai Yan, can you handle these flames?"

A sudden heat surged through her chest, which eased her tension slightly. She folded her wings, closed her eyes, and plunged straight into the sea of ​​fire.

This is the only way she knows to quickly absorb these flames. Anyway, with the white flames around, she won't get hurt; at most, she'll just feel a little pain.

All the flames unconsciously moved closer to her body, and the moment she fell completely, they enveloped her entire body, and the pain of being burned by the flames instantly swept over her.

"what!"

A heart-wrenching scream of pain emanated from the sea of ​​fire, as countless flames, as if being devoured, relentlessly surged towards the white-glowing figure in the center.

Lu Zhao writhed on the ground in agony, feeling a burning sensation as if every cell in his body was about to melt. He stared wide-eyed at the sky shrouded in black smoke.

The brain, which should have stopped thinking, seemed to be stimulated by the flames, constantly flashing back memories that were both strange and strangely familiar.

"Fire! Run!"

"Zhaozhao, you go first! Hurry up and go!"

Two heart-wrenching voices, one male and one female, rang out in her mind, causing Lu Zhao's painful screams to pause.

This...this is...

She stretched out her hand, which was engulfed in flames, and reached into the void as if to grasp something, but only grasped empty air.

"Dad...Mom..."

His vocal cords vibrated unconsciously, trembling and hoarsely uttering two syllables. The crimson flames before his eyes unknowingly turned into white flames, and within the flames, two figures appeared faintly.

The flames were raging, piercing to the core. One should be in so much pain that one couldn't even speak, and one should be too weak to think of anything other than the excruciating agony.

But even as they were surrounded by flames, those two women endured immense pain while desperately trying to get their daughter out of the inferno.

Lu Zhao remembered that in her memory, "she" watched as her parents rushed out of the white flames and pushed her, who was covered in wet clothes, out of the fire.

She remembered the last words those two people uttered before they were completely engulfed by the flames.

"Zhao Zhao, live on!"

The old scabs were ripped open again, and the forgotten wounds, which had never healed, finally revealed their hideous face once more when she recalled them, constantly eroding her sanity at this moment.

Lu Zhao suddenly closed her eyes, clenched her fists tightly, making a series of soft cracking sounds, and countless veins bulged on her forehead.

The flames that had been surrounding her turned from red to white at a visible speed, as if the entire sea of ​​fire was being eroded and assimilated by the white flames.

She slowly stood up, and the flames that had once caused her pain now coiled around her palms like a docile canary.

Unbeknownst to her, her pupils, now tinged with crimson, stared indifferently at the ball of flame in her palm. She clenched her fist tighter and tighter, the flame twisting as if trying to escape, but no matter what she did, it could not escape her grasp.

Lu Zhao glanced casually at the sea of ​​fire that had already submitted to her feet, narrowed her eyes, and clenched the flame in her hand. The sea of ​​fire, which had already stopped boiling, trembled and vanished from the world in an instant.

White Flame, the king of fire, is born to make all flames submit.

It's just that Lu Zhao had never understood its true power until now.

The surrounding area was a complete mess, with only black smoke still lingering in the air, charred beams, and shattered rubble remaining.

"Master, you remember now." A muffled sound came from his chest.

She instinctively touched her chest, and as she became bewildered by everything around her, the redness that had clouded her eyes quickly faded, returning them to their original pure and flawless black.

"Ah, I've remembered a lot." She said with some melancholy. Even though she had successfully extinguished the sea of ​​fire, she couldn't feel happy at all.

The original owner's parents told her to live on. They desperately tried to push their daughter out of the fire, but now, their daughter has still disappeared.

And the one who now bears all these memories is herself.

If the original owner could recall this memory, she probably wouldn't have disappeared so easily, right?

“Master,” Bai Yan’s voice was full of helplessness, “you are indeed my master.”

Lu Zhao ignored him, but instinctively opened his palm and released a ball of flame.

This ball of fire seems to be larger than the ones she released before.

In other words, can the flames absorbed by Bai Yan also enhance her own power for her use?

Recalling the scene of countless flames submitting to him that he had just witnessed, Lu Zhao raised an eyebrow and asked, "Bai Yan, do you know where Lu Zhao's parents are buried?"

“I know.”

"Alright, I should be quite free after today, so I'll go and pay my respects to them then, as if I'm doing it on behalf of their daughter."

Chapter Sixty Suspension

"Lu Zhao, the captain of the first team of the Sky Dome's Operations Department, has been suspended from duty for observation and probation due to poor performance."

On the afternoon of the day the research institute exploded, a penalty notice was circulated throughout all the work groups of the Bureau of Spiritual Affairs, causing an uproar among everyone.

Lu Zhao raised his head, glanced at the Bureau of Spirit Management in front of him, sneered, and turned to leave.

Let's rewind to three hours earlier.

Not long after dealing with the mess left by the explosion, Lu Zhao received a call from Tian Mu, who ordered her to return to the Spirit Management Bureau immediately, where the bigwigs in the General Planning Office were waiting for her.

Lu Zhao was not surprised by the situation at all; he knew exactly what was going to happen next.

"Lu Zhao." Chi Ying's voice came again, but this time, there was a hint of worry in her eyes.

She raised her face and gave the other person a bright smile: "Are you taking me back? Then let's go."

Chi Ying glanced at her with a conflicted expression, placed her hand on her shoulder, and whispered, "This mistake was made by both of us, and I will accept the punishment with you..."

Don't worry, I'll be with you.

She didn't finish her sentence; her long-standing cold relationship with the person in front of her made it impossible for her to say such a thing.

"Yes, I know." Lu Zhao smiled and did not refute her words.

Because she knew very well that the current Bureau of Spiritual Affairs needed to stabilize the situation and guide public opinion immediately, and Chi Ying's somewhat naive ideas were impossible to realize.

She closed her eyes, feeling the space flowing rapidly through her body, until a warm current surged forth. She slowly opened her eyes and realized that she had arrived at the entrance of the General Planning Office on the top floor of the Spirit Management Bureau.

Besides her and Chi Ying, there were several foreigners she didn't recognize.

Hmm... there's a familiar face among them.

She waved to the man: "Hey, Emil!"

"Lu!" Emil excitedly ran to her side, weaving through the group of petite foreign girls. "What are you doing here? Could it be related to the explosion...?"

"Let's talk about this later," Lu Zhao interrupted him with a smile, raising his head to look at Tian Mu who came out of the gate. "Someone is looking for me."

Tian Mu hurriedly walked up to her, his tone urgent: "Lu Zhao, the higher-ups are all waiting for you, hurry up and come in with me!"

She nodded knowingly, then turned to Chi Ying and said, "I'll go in first, you wait here."

Chi Ying replied solemnly, "Okay, if you need anything, I'm ready to go in and testify for you anytime."

That's unnecessary.

Lu Zhao smiled and followed Tian Mu inside. As the door closed, she let out a long sigh of relief and looked around at the small conference room in front of her.

Contrary to expectations, there was no one else present; only eleven small 3D projectors were placed on the conference table.