When Jia Yang and I were forced onto the helicopter heading to A City, I was still a little confused.
In my mind, the conversation with Professor Xu in the conference room kept replaying.
"Can we refuse?" I tentatively asked.
He smiled, with a fake smile: "I'm sorry, you can't."
"It's okay, sis." Jia Yang held my hand to comfort me.
A pair of eyes were staring at us in the rearview mirror of the helicopter, it was that officer.
The helicopter quickly arrived at the rooftop of our building in A City.
The rooftop garden had been flattened and replaced by a huge iron cage.
"We need you to... lure it into the cage." After placing us on the rooftop, the officer handed us a plastic bag.
Inside were potato chips and canned food.
He smiled: "Then we'll figure something out."
In other words, if we die, we die.
I was trembling with anger.
Jia Yang, who had been standing silently on the side, asked, "Can we have a drone?"
The officer took a drone from the helicopter and handed it to Jia Yang before returning to the helicopter.
The helicopter ascended into the air, and a rope ladder was lowered.
I knew that if we didn't make it up in time, we would die here.
I nodded. I always carried the keys with me, even when we were in the safe zone.
Jia Yang started manipulating the drone, and it followed the open fire escape on the top floor and found it on the twentieth floor.
It was curled up in the fire escape, and the noise of the drone startled it.
When it slowly raised its head to look at the drone, I noticed that it had only one tentacle left, with bullet holes all over its body, and even bullets embedded in it.
The live feed from the drone showed it staring blankly at the drone, slowly raising its sole remaining tentacle into a small fist and gently tapping it.
Jia Yang followed my instructions, and it indeed followed.
The drone slowly flew to the rooftop, and it also slowly moved its steps to follow the drone, step by step, to the rooftop.
My heart was about to jump out of my chest, and I couldn't even breathe as I stared at the drone's footage.
The next second, its massive body appeared in the fire escape on the rooftop.
Jia Yang held his breath and flew the drone into the cage. It stared at the drone inside the cage for a while, then suddenly turned its head towards us!
We stared back at it, and Jia Yang threw the bag of potato chips and canned food towards the cage. "Hey buddy, here's your favorite!"
Then he whispered to me, "Get ready."
It slowly walked towards the canned food and potato chips on the ground, moved in an extremely strange and slow manner, and shook its head mechanically towards us. Then, it reached out its long tentacle clenched in a fist towards us.
I was about to lower my head, but its tentacle stopped just a short distance from us on the rooftop railing.
Its clenched tentacle slowly opened, and lying inside it were several crumpled pieces of paper.
It kept staring at us, seemingly waiting for us to take the paper. In its lifeless eyes, I could see a plea and longing.
Almost involuntarily, I reached out and took the crumpled paper from its hand.
Before I could unfold the paper, it suddenly rushed towards us!
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In that split second when it rushed towards us, Jia Yang and I both lowered our heads and slid down. After kicking off the edge of the terrace on the twenty-fifth floor, we quickly fell into the terrace on the twenty-fifth floor.
As we landed on the twenty-fifth-floor terrace, I saw its tentacles reach down before its body, and then its entire body began to fall. It went straight past our twenty-fifth-floor terrace. Jia Yang and I glanced at each other, got up, and leaned over the edge of the terrace to look down.
Its tentacle firmly grabbed the wire mesh of our twenty-fourth-floor balcony, which was electrified because we had forgotten to turn off the power when we left. Its expression was extremely painful, but it still held onto the electrified wire mesh tightly. The smell of its burnt body gradually reached us, making me almost vomit.
The helicopter hovered above us, the officer in it had a solemn expression and a very bad complexion.
He was wearing a communication headset, and it seemed like he was being scolded. Angry voices filled with rage faintly leaked through the device, and although I couldn't hear what was being said, I could guess it was the professor named Xu Jianyan.
The officer sat in the co-pilot seat, nodding obediently to Xu Jianyan's anger. After the communication was cut off, his tone towards us was very unfriendly.
I took out a fake note that I had written and handed it to him, along with the death notification I had found.
The note read: "Please help me find my wife, thank you." He glanced at it, uttered a single dirty word, crumpled up the note, and threw it out the window.
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