177 Another Self (VIII)

You found me

"She went into the Red Room."

There is an abandoned house outside the garbage dump, and the interior is full of surveillance devices. No one would notice this inconspicuous location.

The red house is located in a garbage dump. There are many robots nearby, and their old mechanical eyes can be used as cameras.

There were only two monitors, who took turns on duty. One of them was a man wearing a baseball cap and his face couldn't be seen clearly, while the other was a woman wearing a black jacket and had long curly hair. If you looked closely, you could see a mole at the corner of her eye.

If Zhu Ning could recognize her here, she was the "boss lady" who sold her motorcycle.

She narrowed her eyes and looked at the screen. They had been watching this place for a month. Today they confirmed that Zhu Ning really showed up. She had been in the red room for half an hour.

"Is she going to be alright?" asked the man in the baseball cap.

"It's been a while," the man in the baseball cap said to himself, not hearing the answer. "Is it really that complicated?"

It's just a Class B contaminated area. According to Zhu Ning's ability, it should be over in ten minutes.

The long-haired woman glanced at him and said, "Even if the boss gets weaker, he won't be that weak."

The man tutted, feeling a bit impatient, and prepared to continue guarding.

The woman's gaze as she looked at the monitor became increasingly gloomy. There was only a red house on the screen, which looked eerie in the night. Because no one had appeared for a long time, the entire picture seemed to be still.

…

Interior of the Red House.

bite--

[Intermediate talent Danger Prediction has been triggered. A two-minute advance warning has been sent. Please be careful.]

As soon as Zhu Ning touched the tombstone, he heard the system prompt. In the danger prediction, spider-men hatched from the human cocoon. Zhu Ning didn't react in time and was bitten to death by the nearest spider-man.

Time was running out, so she pulled out her heavy firearms and fired three shots in quick succession.

The first shot was fired at her own "tombstone", just above her name. The gun was very powerful and could blast a huge hole in any iron wall with one shot.

But no one knew what material the wall was made of, and only a dark shadow was left on her tombstone.

Zhu Ning turned around and fired a shot to the left, where a human cocoon was hanging, which was also the cocoon closest to her.

The bullet hit the human cocoon, blood spread out and dripped into the abyss, but it may not have hit the vital part, and the thing inside was still struggling.

Puff——

The human cocoon was torn open from the inside, and a human arm stretched out. It was originally a human cocoon, so it was extremely normal to stretch out a human hand.

Immediately afterwards, the second, third, fourth... a total of eight hands stretched out from the inside.

Spiders have eight legs, they have eight human arms.

The face wrapped in the white cocoon became more and more obvious. It was the face of a very young boy with a child's innocent smile.

The human cocoon was completely broken, and the eight human arms became spider legs with human heads growing on them.

Spider-Man.

He opened his mouth wide, making a hissing buzzing sound, and looked at Zhu Ning. He wanted to correct the mistake made that year, and the Red House wanted to bury Zhu Ning here.

Zhu Ning had seen Spider-Man in the danger warning before, and without even frowning, he quickly loaded his gun and shot at the nearest Spider-Man. Zhu Ning had a photographic memory and had seen his tombstone and still remembered that this man was called Xu Sinan.

Her memory was a bit troublesome at this time, because most of the time she didn't need to know the names of the pollutants. They were just simple monsters to her, and she wouldn't feel anything if she killed them.

Now that I know the name, the feeling of killing is even stronger. They used to live together.

Just as Xiaoyuan said, they were her "brothers and sisters".

They were once abandoned by society together and waited for death after knowing their own death date.

Xiaoyuan has lost all fighting spirit because he knows he will die. The same is true for everyone else in the Red House. They know they have no future and living is like being dead.

Every day feels like I'm getting closer to death.

No one can remain calm knowing the date of their death.

Zhu Ning is a defective product. She knows what it feels like to have a countdown in her life. It's like there's always a guillotine hanging over your head. The scary thing is that you know the exact time when the guillotine will fall.

Zhu Ning’s product only has a one-year expiration date, and they are all “near-expiry products”.

But the defective Red House could not even enjoy its last moments. The small garden clearly still had three years to live, but now it has degenerated into a pollutant and is forever left in the past.

The monster borrowed their faces and was still "alive" with their faces.

Spider-Man acted quickly. Xu Sinan pounced towards Zhu Ning with his mouth wide open. At this time, you could see the mouthparts wriggling in his mouth, and sharp spider silk was about to be sprayed out from it.

Zhu Ning had seen that kind of spider silk before, and it was enough to cut off her head.

Zhu Ning did not hide. He supported his body with his left hand and put one foot on the opposite wall to maintain stability. The most important thing when shooting is to maintain stability.

She raised her gun and pointed it at the fast-moving Spider-Man.

At this critical moment, she chose the most classic way, using a gun.

Bang--!

The Spider-Man who pounced on her froze in mid-air and fell to the ground like a bird with broken wings. Zhu Ning pierced his mouth.

Purple-red blood spurted out and sprayed down like a shower.

After the danger prediction was extended to two minutes, this ability was like a prophecy. Zhu Ning had already seen in the death notice that firearms were useful against human cocoons.

The human cocoons on the entire wall were awakened and hatched, and the cracks in the wall were crawling with Spider-men, both male and female. The oldest looked no more than fifteen years old, and the youngest was probably only four years old, with a little baby fat.

They were hung so densely that all one could see were hundreds of pairs of red eyes.

Zhu Ning shot so fast that she used the acceleration function of the rotten fish head to move along the wall while shooting.

The only exit should be the entrance, which was only fifty meters away from her, but at this moment fifty meters seemed extremely far away.

Zhu Ning was wrong just now. She knew who the source of the pollution was.

boom--

She shot and blew off a Spider-Man's head, causing the skull and flesh to explode, and the entire inside of the wall was filled with debris.

Spider-men fell one after another. She was injured and had not dodged just now. The spider silk spit out by Spider-men cut off a corner of her helmet. The spider silk in the human cocoon was slightly weaker than that outside, so it did not completely cut off her head.

This behavior pattern is effective, but it requires a lot of physical strength from the person. One has to hang in the air while firing accurately and moving upwards, and all the muscles in the body have to be mobilized accurately.

Ten meters.

Spider-Man's blood splashed in from the gaps in his helmet, and the cold and smelly stuff stuck to her cheeks. It was the blood of her former brothers and sisters.

Three meters.

The entrance of the cave looked very bright, like a beam of light in the darkness. It was not the light of a flashlight, but a kind of hope.

A Spider-Man grabbed Zhu Ning's ankle.

Zhu Ning's feet sank, and he almost lost his grip on the wall. He almost slipped and was dragged into the abyss.

Not just one, a second Spider-Man grabbed her right leg.

Zhu Ning felt a sharp pain in her wrist, and the force from below almost tore her arm apart.

Zhu Ning reacted completely instinctively. He took out a knife and tried to embed it into the wall to ensure that he had a foothold.

But this action was ineffective. The wall was too hard, as it had just been proven that guns could not blast it open.

More spider-men grabbed Zhu Ning's ankles and strung them together under her feet. Zhu Ning felt like she was trapped in a swamp, with countless hands reaching out and spider silk wrapping around her. No matter how she struggled, it was useless.

Zhu Ning fired at the ground below. Other pollutants that tried to rush over would fall, but the pollutants under her died. Before they died, they had already bound themselves and Zhu Ning tightly together.

Three spider-men's corpses were hanging under Zhu Ning's feet, connected by spider silk, which became the heaviest burden at this time.

Zhu Ning had practiced with weighted sandbags during training, but only now did he know what the extreme weight was like.

The transparent spider silk wrapped around Zhu Ning's calves, and she was completely entangled like a bird that stepped on a fishing net discarded by humans in the wild.

The protective suit turned on the automatic defense mode and deployed soft steel plates inside. The spider silk had not tightened yet, but the protective suit would not be able to hold on for much longer. If it continued like this, her legs might be completely cut off.

Zhu Ning gritted her teeth and was forced to open the hardened skin. The cuts made by the spider silk were covered with a layer of hard skin. She only covered a few key areas.

Her health was burning as her skin hardened and opened, and she didn't want to waste time.

The weight of her entire body was supported on her right hand. Even after taking genetic drugs to improve her body functions, she was already approaching her limit.

She was resisting the urge to blow up the red house.

There are only two explosives left. Once they are blown up, everything will return to dust. Just flatten it with violence.

But she had never been so eager to find the source of the pollution.

Zhu Ning raised his head and looked at the faint light above his head, his whole body tensed.

There were corpses under her feet, and living Spider-Men on the inside of the wall kept rushing towards her.

In this situation, Zhu Ning did not give up her plan and she continued to climb up.

She is not dead yet, why is she buried in a grave?

As long as she has breath left, she can continue. Just kidding, her ideal is to survive the end of the world.

Her life is much longer than this shitty world.

Zhu Ning reached out and touched the next fulcrum, almost biting her teeth. She took a deep breath and felt that she was about to reach the critical point.

Snap——

She grabbed the entrance of the cave with one hand, which gave her more leverage than below, and touched the edge with both hands, just like touching driftwood in the water.

She propped up her upper body and lay completely on the wooden board, then threw a bomb down. Fire exploded instantly, and all the monsters trying to catch up were engulfed by the explosion.

The Spider-Man beneath her feet grew heavier, the silk binding her tightly, sinking into her flesh, blocked out by her hardened skin.

This leg was almost broken.

And she also saw the person in Xiaoyuan's room, the real source of pollution.

A little girl stood at the door. She was wearing striped pajamas and her face was covered with freckles. There were ants and spiders crawling all over her.

The source of pollution has already appeared.

Normally people in polluted areas would hide themselves and try every means to avoid being discovered, but Li Xin did the opposite. She was the first to contact Zhu Ning.

Zhu Ning still remembered walking around in the red house. When she first came in, there was no one there. The place looked like a dead place.

After the contaminated area came back to life, the first person to speak to her was Li Xin.

In other words, it was only started because of the pollution area caused by Li Xin.

It was Li Xin who told her Xiaoyuan's real name, and it was also Li Xin who discovered her "other self" for the first time. She appeared at the key points of every "plot".

Most importantly, she knew that Zhu Ning possessed the master key.

Before seeing the tombstone, Zhu Ning was not sure whether this polluted area was spiritual, and might have some kind of reading ability, converting memories into details, constantly polluting, making Zhu Ning really think that he lived here.

But after seeing the tombstone, she was sure that if the source of the pollution was the mechanical mother, she could not have known the key.

This person must be someone who really knows Zhu Ning. They used to have a very close relationship, and Zhu Ning was even willing to share some little secrets with the other person.

Zhu Ning didn't even see Li Xin's tombstone below.

After Zhu Ning entered the contaminated area, he has been playing the role of himself.

Zhu Ning really lived here and was taken care of by a robot. The robot mother model was too old and no one was using it outside anymore.

The mechanical mother didn't even have the money to repair herself, so she could only patch up the fallen skin with needle and thread.

She was overwhelmed and had to clean the display window every day, calculating all the time for a little money.

She was desperate for someone to donate some money; she could hardly hold on any longer.

She was unable to discipline her children, so she used the simplest and most brutal method, raising them like raising cats and dogs.

Zhu Ning was sometimes afraid of her, and sometimes felt sorry for her.

Zhu Ning lives with dozens of defective products. She listens to two ringtones every day, one is the lights-out bell and the other is the wake-up bell.

When the wake-up bell rings, she will go to the shabby bathroom to wash up like other defective products, with Zhu Ning's name written on the toothbrush cup.

The lights-out bell rang, the mechanical mother forbade everyone to go out, and the red house entered a "curfew".

But Zhu Ning couldn't be locked up and was still making trouble late at night.

At that time, she had just arrived in this world and felt that the red house was very strange because children there always had accidents one after another.

They will behave very abnormally for a period of time, disappear for a few days and then reappear.

This phenomenon is still spreading like a silent infectious disease, but no one feels anything is wrong and they are unaware of the potential dangers.

Zhu Ning was too young at that time and didn't even know what a demon hunter was, and the official authorities rarely talked about pollutants.

She only keenly felt that this world was terrible, different from the obvious dangers in the zombie world, as if something dark was invading her life.

After Zhu Ning came to the wasteland world, the first pollution incident he encountered was the Red House. He had no idea about it and didn't know that he was approaching danger.

She couldn't figure out what was going on and felt that if she stayed there she would be killed one day, so she had to find a way to leave.

Only Li Xin was willing to participate in this activity. She knocked on Zhu Ning's wall, which was their secret signal.

"Is Zhu Ning here? Li Xin is calling Zhu Ning. Please answer if you hear me."

"When are we going to look for Xiaoyuan?"

Li Xin existed before Zhu Ning came to the Red House. She was very cute, with freckles all over her face, and was an abandoned artificial human.

Zhu Ning didn't doubt her at first, as the little girl naturally made people let down their guard.

Once, she was even seen by Li Xin opening the door of the mechanical mother. Zhu Ning had to confess that she could unlock the door. She made up a lie and said she had a magic key.

Li Xin looked over curiously at that time.

Later, Zhu Ning searched for Xiaoyuan in the context of her death, but she didn't find her because she appeared by herself three days later.

She looked so healthy and perfect, and even participated in swimming competitions.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, except Zhu Ning, who felt something was wrong and became increasingly anxious to leave.

Until she discovered the truth, like an ant in a colony of ants suddenly finding the ant spider lurking nearby.

At that moment, he suddenly woke up and realized that the other party was not of the same kind at all, but a hunter.

"You found me." Li Xin said.

The Li Xin of the past and the Li Xin of the present overlap. They are like two photo negatives, piecing together to form a complete person.

Zhu Ning leaned against the wall, her legs in excruciating pain, and Li Xin was smiling at her.

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