Chapter 383 Accident at the Heating Plant

The man outside the door was wearing very thick clothes and a thick cotton hat. In order to let the people in the villa see his appearance clearly, he deliberately took off the cotton scarf around his neck, revealing a resolute young face.

Liu Cheng had never seen him before, and the other party was not a nearby resident, so when he saw the other party, Liu Cheng frowned.

However, he was not too vigilant. Since he rang the doorbell and showed his appearance in such cold weather, it proved that the other party came with good intentions.

Liu Cheng needed to consider only one question.

That was Li Qi's opinion.

Through the surveillance, Li Qi's eyes swept across the face of the man outside the door, and then nodded to Liu Cheng, indicating that the other party should come in.

Liu Cheng pressed the button next to the surveillance to open the door outside the door, and the man whose purpose and name were unknown walked into the courtyard outside the safe house.

Liu Cheng went out to greet him personally, and Li Qi returned to his room, intending to continue compiling his magic book and alchemy notes.

When a stranger came, Li Qi was reluctant to stay outside.

After all, he still had to act like a child in front of outsiders. Even though Li Qi was indeed more playful now, he didn't want to pretend to be childish in front of others all day long.

So unless someone who knew Li Qi's "specialness" came to visit, such as Zhao Chenghu, Li Qi would basically go back to his room when someone visited him.

But this time seemed different from usual.

Not long after Li Qi returned to his room, he was called out by Liu Cheng.

"Meng An, looking for you."

"?"

Hearing Liu Cheng say this, Li Qi walked downstairs with doubts.

The man who came to visit had taken off his hat and scarf, revealing a backcombed hair, looking like a business elite.

When the man saw Li Qi, his tough face showed a little softness, and he said to Li Qi:

"Meng An, my name is Zhao Hong, and I am a student of your grandmother Zhang Fengyun. I think you should have heard of me."

"...Agent?"

Li Qi instantly thought of those students of Zhang Fengyun in the Ancient Monuments Society that Sun Xiaoqing had mentioned to him, one of whom was the agent in front of him.

And the one in front of him is the one with the highest achievement among all Zhang Fengyun's students.

"It's me."

Zhao Hong was not surprised at the maturity shown by Li Qi.

The knight had told him about Li Qi's performance in the town, so he came here with preparations today.

Li Qi also knew that since the knight was Zhao Hong's subordinate, he must have told Zhao Hong what happened in the town.

So he didn't pretend and asked directly:

"Aren't you at the headquarters of the Ancient Monuments Association? Why are you here?"

The Ancient Monuments Association has an overseas headquarters prepared for the end of the world. That headquarters is on the high seas and shielded from satellite detection. It is an extremely mysterious place.

In today's world that is plagued by pollution, it is undoubtedly one of the safest places in the world.

Why didn't Zhao Hong stay there and run back to China?

"Come here to investigate some things, and... take away your custody rights."

Zhao Hong said with a smile.

Li Qi was speechless when he heard this.

Why do one or two of them want their custody rights? Even if they are students of their grandmother Zhang Fengyun, there is no need to rush to raise them.

By the way, what kind of person is Zhang Fengyun, and what kind of personality charm does she have? Why are so many people willing to help her deal with her after death...

Li Qi thought of a lot in his mind in an instant, but on the surface he did not delay the communication with Zhao Hong at all.

He leaned on the sofa and said:

"I think I have the right to choose who will raise me, and I choose Liu Cheng. Apart from him, I will not accept anyone else as my guardian."

Li Qi once again brought out the same rhetoric he had given to Zhao Chenghu.

In fact, the main reason was that Liu Cheng was implanted with a spiritual seed by him, which made him feel more at ease.

Perhaps Zhao Hong had already inquired about Li Qi's general situation before coming, so he was not surprised by Li Qi's words at this moment.

He glanced at Liu Cheng, then quickly retracted his gaze and said to Li Qi:

"I know that the reason you chose him is because he has been influenced by your magic item, and you trust him more, but... he can't protect you."

"Can you?"

"I can."

Zhao Hong said confidently: "I heard from the knight that you are not an ordinary child, so I don't need to lie to you with those childish words.

"If you are willing to let me be your guardian, I can guarantee that no one will hurt you before you come of age. I will do my best to keep you away from possible dangers in the future, and provide you with more magic items to protect yourself.

"Even if you want, you can choose to join the 057 Bureau or the Ancient Monuments Association. If you join one of these two organizations, I guarantee that you can immediately become a formal member, or a code member."

Zhao Hong seemed to treat Li Qi as an adult at this moment. He directly stated the above conditions in front of Li Qi and let the other party choose for himself, instead of saying toughly, "I am your grandmother's student, you should listen to me" and other disgusting words.

It seems that he did a lot of homework before coming here, at least he knew that Li Qi would be soft-hearted and not hard-hearted.

Li Qi thought about the conditions Zhao Hong said and did not answer for a long time.

After a while, Li Qi continued:

"Just these are not enough for me. I am a greedy person. If you can't come up with conditions that impress me, I will not give in."

"...You are more like a..." Zhao Hong opened his mouth, and countless metaphors rolled through his mind. Finally, he gave up the metaphor and said bluntly:

"Then let's talk about another condition."

As Zhao Hong spoke, his eyes turned around in this safe house. He spread his palms to feel the warm temperature in the room, and finally asked Li Qi:

"How long do you think you can live like this? With a warm room, fresh food, and no need to worry about the invasion of wind and snow outside... How long do you think this kind of life can last?"

Zhao Hong asked the same question twice, wanting to confirm Li Qi's thoughts.

Li Qi did not answer, and turned to look at Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng answered for him:

"With our current resource reserves, we can live with just the two of us, and without considering whether we can get new resources in the future, we won't have to worry about it within five years."

Zhao Hong said: "That is to say, your coal, food, and water are only enough for two people for five years. What about after five years?"

Li Qi still didn't respond to this. After thinking for a moment, Liu Cheng suddenly showed a shocked expression and asked:

"You mean, this doomsday will last more than five years!?"

"What do you think can be considered the doomsday for humans? If it is just a five-year dark winter, with the current level of human technology, what kind of doomsday is this?"

Zhao Hong sneered and asked back. Without waiting for Liu Cheng to respond, he continued:

"We can be sure that the eternal night will definitely last more than five years, and it's not just the eternal night. There will be more and more pollution, and there will be fewer and fewer safe areas in the world. Even if you have five years of resources, you can't stay here for five years.

"But if you follow me, you don't have to worry about these. I will let you maintain a good life before the doomsday, or even better than that. "

Zhao Hong opened his palm and told Li Qi a beautiful vision for the future.

It must be said that his words were indeed very tempting. If Li Qi was just an ordinary child, if he didn't have the Dream Town in his hands, he might really be moved by Zhao Hong.

It's just a pity that these are not enough for Li Qi.

He said:

"All you said is based on the premise that I don't have another safe house."

"?"

Zhao Hong was stunned. He couldn't understand what Li Qi meant for a while.

Li Qi smiled and said:

"I think the knight should have told you about our experience in the Dream Town, so guess...who owns the Dream Town now?"

"..."

"So instead of the topic of adopting me, let's talk about something else, Zhao Hong...Uncle Zhao, I should be able to call you that, can you tell me about my grandmother Zhang Fengyun? I'm a little curious about her now. "

Li Qi tapped his fingers on the table, and jumped the topic from the adoption issue to Zhang Fengyun.

At this point, he was really getting more and more curious about Zhang Fengyun.

At the same time, he also suspected that Zhang Fengyun might not be dead.

How could Zhang Fengyun die so easily if he could train such loyal "students" like Zhao Hong.

It just so happened that Zhang Fengyun's most outstanding student was right in front of him. Li Qi wanted to take this opportunity to get to know his only relative in this life.

Perhaps, he could find some clues from it.

...

The heavy snow kept falling, and the city was covered with snow.

The snow-clearing truck went one after another. They barely cleared a road, but it was covered by heavy snow again soon after.

Under such circumstances, coal transportation became a problem.

In addition, the city's heating plant was operating 24 hours a day and was already overloaded. Everyone knew that it only took a small mistake or a small change to cause an accident in the heating plant that everyone relied on for survival.

This accident would not come too late.

In the second week after the doomsday, accidents happened without notice.

A special incident occurred in one of the two heating plants in Suhe City. Hundreds of employees in the entire heating plant were killed. Everyone is missing! Even the heating supply of half the city is out of order!

This makes the already chaotic city even worse.

And at this time, Ye Yue's "master" Yi Cheng in this life just wants to intervene.

But Ye Yue can understand why Yi Cheng intervened.

After all, the heating supply of the high-end community where Yi Cheng lives is the responsibility of the heating plant where the employees disappeared.

Once the heating there stopped, the temperature in Yi Cheng's home dropped to single digits in just one day, and moved towards negative numbers.

For this reason, Yi Cheng decided to personally take action to solve the problems that plagued the city.

So, at 8:00 p.m. that night, Yi Cheng Cheng and Ye Yue were fully armed and stood on a tall building not far from the heating plant.

"Humph, a mere nightmare barrier actually caused such a headache for the mortals in this world, I have to do something..." Yi Cheng stood on the edge of the tall building, wrinkling her nose that was red from the cold and complaining unhappily.

If possible, she would also like to stay at home and have a good rest.

But there was no way, the heating plant was infected by pollution, ordinary people were no longer able to solve this problem, and the authorities had been slow to take action.

For the sake of her future life, Yi Cheng would stand here.

Of course, according to Yi Cheng, this is not pollution, this is a 'nightmare barrier' that emerged from hell.

Besides her, there are not many people in this world who can handle this nightmare barrier.