71: Weird dream, weird Qiu Qian

Crack! The woman's fair face cracked like glass, and fresh red blood seeped from the cracks.

"Rules, broken..." The woman murmured to herself, her voice ethereal, with a hint of eeriness. Tian Ming opened his mouth but could not make a sound.

The woman's beautiful face twisted, blood covered her entire face, she opened her mouth, revealing sharp fangs, and suddenly bit towards Tian Ming's neck.

"Holy crap...!" Tian Ming was startled and jumped out of bed.

With a clatter, all the items in the room floated up, and as Tian Ming woke from his dream, all the items that had defied gravity and floated in the air fell down.

Tian Ming wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. This dream was sinister!

The first half was full of spring, the second half scared him to death.

Under Tian Ming's mental control, all the items returned to their original positions, and the messy room instantly became tidy.

He didn't know the woman in the dream, he hadn't even seen her. Moreover, what she said about rules and breaking them left Tian Ming completely baffled.

Opening the door, it was pitch black outside, and it started snowing again. It had been a long time since he had seen the sun in the sky, thick clouds always shrouded the sky, and even when the sun occasionally appeared, it had no warmth at all.

Standing at the door, Tian Ming had no sleepiness. He watched the sweeping beams of flashlights in the hands of the Shelter's patrol team, but it was extremely quiet.

The fluffy snow absorbed a large amount of sound waves, and the Shelter at night was incredibly silent.

"Boss!" Qiu Wuhui's voice came through the walkie-talkie. This was a point-to-point exclusive channel call. It was so late, how did Qiu Wuhui know he wasn't sleeping?

"Hmm, I'm here."

Upon receiving Tian Ming's response, Qiu Wuhui was also quite surprised.

"Speak your mind," Tian Ming urged when the other party remained silent.

"Boss, my sister has been a little strange lately! Can you come over? She's at the northeast corner of the Shelter, by the river." Qiu Wuhui kept his voice very low, not even daring to breathe.

Tian Ming was immediately curious and said, "I'll be right there!"

But when Tian Ming arrived at the scene, Qiu Wuhui was holding a flashlight, and in front of him was his sister, Qiu Qian.

Qiu Qian was clearly sleepwalking, stumbling through the snow, while Qiu Wuhui followed behind his sister with a flashlight.

"What's going on?" Tian Ming asked.

Qiu Wuhui's face was full of worry, but he didn't dare to go forward and stop his sister.

The reason he sought Tian Ming's help was that in the entire Shelter, only his sister and Tian Ming possessed superpowers, and his sister had gained hers after surviving the virus infection.

For this kind of thing, there was no other way but to ask Tian Ming for help.

"Boss, my sister always sleepwalks at night, and it doesn't really seem like sleepwalking. The past few times I called her, she immediately convulsed and fell to the ground. I don't know what to do, so I just follow her at night."

Tian Ming asked, "Have you told Dr. Wu about this?"

"I have, but she couldn't do anything either. Boss, please help my sister. If she keeps doing this every night, what if she encounters danger?"

Tian Ming also felt uneasy. Qiu Qian had indeed gained some self-healing ability, but such an ability was too basic for Tian Ming.

If such symptoms were from a superpower, then he should be more serious than Qiu Qian.

Tian Ming walked forward, and Qiu Wuhui followed him. But soon, Qiu Qian squatted down and continuously dug at the snow with her fair hands, as if searching for something.

Her eyes were hollow, and her hands dug mechanically. Tian Ming reached out his hand, and when Qiu Qian's hand touched Tian Ming's palm, she suddenly froze.

Qiu Wuhui was a little anxious, but Tian Ming gestured for him not to act rashly, to see what Qiu Qian's reaction would be next.

Qiu Qian grabbed Tian Ming's hand and placed his hand against her cheek.

"Master, why did you abandon me?"

"Crazy, crazy!" Qiu Wuhui's mind buzzed. Why would his sister mistake Tian Ming for her master?

Tian Ming's heart tightened, and he quickly used his other hand to signal Qiu Wuhui to keep quiet.

Since things had come to this, Qiu Wuhui could only choose to trust Tian Ming.

Tian Ming slowly spoke, "Don't run around at night anymore. Sleep well. That way, your master won't leave you."

Qiu Qian's gaze was still hollow, but a childlike innocent smile appeared on her face.

"What Master says, I will keep in mind. I promise I won't run around anymore and will sleep well." Qiu Qian held Tian Ming's hand and suddenly stopped moving.

Qiu Wuhui didn't even dare to breathe, waiting for Qiu Qian's next reaction. A moment later, Qiu Qian suddenly woke up, and her hollow eyes instantly regained their sparkle.

She found herself standing in the snow, her hands still tightly gripping Tian Ming's hand. Frightened, she quickly took a step back, but Tian Ming, with a pull, directly pulled Qiu Qian back, preventing her from falling.

"Boss, I'm, I'm sorry!" Qiu Qian quickly released Tian Ming's hand, her cheeks slightly flushed, and she apologized repeatedly.

Qiu Wuhui, however, felt it was incredible, because before, he had also tried various ways to wake his sleepwalking sister, but each time he failed. Now, with just a short sentence from Tian Ming, his sister became normal.

"Do you know what you were doing just now?" Tian Ming asked, frowning.

Qiu Qian's abnormality also made Tian Ming uneasy, because his superpower was much stronger than Qiu Qian's. If he also sleepwalked in the future, wouldn't that be the end of it?

Qiu Qian quickly apologized, saying, "I'm sorry, Boss. Ever since I was infected with the virus, there has always been a voice in my mind telling me to find my master. I can feel the sleepwalking at night, but I just can't open my eyes or wake up. I'm sorry, Boss, for causing you trouble."

Tian Ming frowned. It seemed that after Qiu Qian was infected with the virus and he cleared it, another consciousness formed, and this consciousness regarded him as its master.

But thinking about it, it still felt a bit ridiculous. How could this be possible? How could a virus have consciousness?

Tian Ming said to Qiu Wuhui, "Take your sister back. Observe her for the next two days. I think she shouldn't sleepwalk anymore."

Qiu Wuhui was half-believing, half-doubting. In fact, this matter sounded too strange. That one word, 'master', really scared Qiu Wuhui. If his sister hadn't been sleepwalking, he would have even suspected that Tian Ming had abducted his sister.

"Boss, why were you able to so smoothly bring my sister back to reality from her sleepwalking state?"

Tian Ming waved his hand and said, "Go back and sleep. I don't know why either. I'm still wondering, I don't even know who to ask."

Tian Ming genuinely didn't understand the reason behind it. He also had a strange dream. To be honest, this was the first time he had such a strange dream since he gained his superpower.

Bidding farewell to Qiu Wuhui and his sister, Tian Ming took a direct step, and a light current of air swirled around him as he directly ascended into the air.

Tian Ming's heart filled with joy. His control ability seemed to have strengthened again. Controlling the airflow to fly seemed to have become much easier, and his control over his body's stability was also much stronger than before.