Energy Storm Incoming: Survive or Transcend

Chapter18

Having experienced being killed, entering the trial space, and finally escaping death, Lorna should have found it difficult to fall asleep. However, this coma solved many of her problems.

But she did not sleep well that night. What happened in the trial space became her nightmare. She kept "seeing" the nine cards and was worried that she would see her face when the cards were turned over. She also dreamed of No.6 and the doctor who she had killed.

The doctor's face was extremely ferocious, with bloodshot eyes, as if he was going to strangle her neck and kill her.

"Huh!" Lorna covered his neck, widened his eyes and gasped.

It took her a while to come to her senses and realize that she had returned to the real world.

After returning last night, the wet clothes stuck to her body and were so heavy that she found it difficult to breathe.

The sweat and blood on her coat mixed together after being washed by the rain, and every time she took a breath, she was reminded of the suffocating b****y smell in the air. She took off her coat without hesitation and threw it aside, wiping the sweat off her face.

She was still holding the murderous dagger tightly in her palm. When she realized this, she subconsciously shook her hand and threw the dagger away.

The dagger fell to the ground with a clang. She breathed rapidly and remembered something.

After coming out of the trial field, she seemed to have been rewarded and exchanged a mysterious gift for a 'Nine-Word Secret Order'. Unfortunately, she lost consciousness afterwards and she didn't know whether it was her imagination or a real thing.

Just as she thought of this, the secret of the nine-word secret order naturally emerged in her mind.

This nine-word secret order command should not be complete, because Lorna recalled carefully and found that he only knew a small part of the "Lin" word technique.

Activating secret commands requires the assistance of mental power to achieve the purpose of the attack.

Lorna had never seen or even heard of such an attack method before.

In the imperial era, the greatest understanding of martial arts by the world was about punching and kicking, and strengthening the body. She had never heard of such a word technique as the Nine-Character Secret Order.

At present, it seems that the nine-word secret order has no lethality. She is a little disappointed, but now she has made her choice and there is no room for regret.

Perhaps because she had experienced too many ups and downs tonight, her mind was in an extremely tense state. Following the guidance of the nine-word secret order, she easily sensed the existence of spiritual power in her sea of consciousness and tried to awaken them.

The process was not smooth. She tried many times before she finally formed the hand seal. Even after just this, Lorna felt mentally exhausted and extremely hungry.

It was already dawn, so she paused her practice, propped herself up, cleaned herself up, and found some food to fill her stomach.

In a corner of the room, her mother was lying drunk and unconscious among a pile of messy items, unaware that her daughter had just escaped death.

Taking advantage of the time before work, Lorna dragged his mother to bed, prepared food and water for her before getting ready to go out.

The alley last night left a shadow on her, so she took a slightly longer route to the Guard House, but it was already a little late when she arrived.

In the locker room, several tall female guards were changing their uniforms. When Lorna came in, several people who were talking and laughing stopped talking and turned their eyes to her.

"New here?"

Everyone in the guard team knew that a weak newcomer had arrived, and they were all waiting with anticipatory eyes to see when the newcomer would be frightened into howling and run away from the place.

Lorna lowered his head and responded softly:

"Um."

She was not wearing a uniform, and looked frail among the group of strong female guards. Her long bangs covered half of her face, making it impossible for the female guards to see her eyes.

Her voice was a little hoarse, and a woman laughed out loud, with contempt and provocation in her tone:

"I really don't know why the people above would hire a piece of trash like you. You really lower our standards."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the others started laughing. She also laughed and reached out to push Lorna . Before she could say anything, she saw Lorna raised his head and glanced at her indifferently.

The woman saw the marks on Lorna's neck. His skin was torn and the surrounding skin was purple. He looked extremely dangerous.

No wonder her voice sounded a little strange before. The newcomer was seriously injured but didn't say a word. The female guard who took action swallowed subconsciously and felt a dull pain in her throat.

Lorna 's look of contempt made her feel a little creepy. The keen sense brought to her by her many years of professional career made her take back the words that were about to come out of her mouth and lower her voice:

"Get out of the way. I want to get out."

Lorna took a deep breath, lowered his head, and stepped aside to let the woman go out.

The people around didn't feel anything was wrong. Lorna only looked up for a moment, and her figure was blocked by the female guard who was pushing people. No one noticed her abnormality. Several people left one after another. Lorna leaned against the cabinet with her back. She heard the "tap tap" footsteps and a female guard asked:

"Is there any news from Lily?"

The moment this name entered Lorna's ears, her whole body tensed up. She didn't know if it was a coincidence. She remembered the first girl who died in the trial space. When the card was turned over, the girl's name was written below: Lily.

"She's been missing for three days. I heard that we found a connection with her at the City Hall. Old An happens to be in charge of this matter."

Lorna clenched his teeth, resisted the urge to chase after him and find out more, and calmed himself down a little.

She wanted to find her locker to change her clothes and get ready for work, but she discovered that her locker had been pried open and locked again, and her other uniform that was in the locker had been thrown onto the storage cabinet in the corner.

She was the only one left in the locker room. Lorna changed into her uniform and took the opportunity to take out the dagger from her bag and placed it in her palm.

She fiddled with the dagger twice. Although she was almost killed by it once, she had also used it to kill people.

Its shape is slightly different from that of ordinary daggers. It is about fifteen or sixteen centimeters long, with the blade and handle in a crescent shape, and is very heavy to hold.

The tip of the blade is extremely sharp, the cutting line is very long, and the blade is slightly thick. After Lorna checked it over and over again, he noticed that there was a special leaf-like totem behind the handle of the dagger.

This dagger with a special shape was not an ordinary dagger in her impression. Coupled with the totem mark, if she continued to investigate in the future, maybe one day she would be able to find out who the murderer was.

She still remembered the killer's scent, the ridges on his fingers when he held the knife, and the sound and back of him humming a song after the murder.

Lorna narrowed her eyes. She didn't know if she had offended anyone or if the killer had acted on impulse. But no matter what, she was in trouble at the moment and should be more careful.

She sighed silently and hid the dagger in her sleeve. When she came out, she happened to meet the person sent by Captain An to call her over.

Captain An was the head of the West District of the guard team where she worked. He was a strong man in his forties with an irritated look on his face. When Lorna came in, he was standing and talking on the phone with someone. He didn't even look in Lorna 's direction and completely ignored her.

"The West End has been short of staff for a long time..."

His voice was loud and his expression was fierce. He must be asking his superiors to send more manpower.

Lorna stood in front of the desk for a while, and saw the water cup in front of Captain An. His attention was all on the phone call with someone. Lorna silently formed a seal with his hands and carefully tried to release his mental power.

Under the pressure of her mental power, the surface of the glass of water rippled slightly.

Captain An seemed to have sensed something was wrong and subconsciously stopped the topic and turned his head. The office was quiet and Lorna stood there with his head lowered, as if the strange feeling before was just an illusion.