328 Proof

All your guesses are correct.

Unexpectedly, An Chi was quite good at telling stories. Zhu Ning could almost imagine his toes and internal organs gradually wriggling and running away from home.

Zhu Ning asked, "What are you giving me?"

An Chi said: "I don't know actually."

have no idea?

An Chi had asked the same question when Yang Qin was telling the story, but she really didn't know. The man then said, "Please... very close..."

After saying this, he died without making any sound.

The rain stopped the next day. Yang Qin got out of the car to take a look. All that was left of the man was a pile of wriggling hair. His internal organs had all run away, but the hair remained in place because it was entangled with tree branches.

Yang Qin sighed. In fact, they were not related at all, and she didn't know what he was going to give her. After the body was decomposed, there was still a backpack left.

She opened her backpack and looked inside. There was a notebook and a broken test tube bottle. She didn't know what was in it originally, but an unknown liquid had been spilled.

The other things were very ordinary, just some odds and ends of clothing. Yang Qin couldn't tell what the gift was, or maybe it wasn't a specific item, but this man was in a trance, and his obsession with going to Utopia drove him crazy.

Zhu Ning was a little disappointed when he heard this. This happened a long time ago. Maybe Yang Qin had a clue at the time but couldn't see it. That's why she didn't know what to send.

An Chi was also quite embarrassed and said, "Yang Qin thinks Utopia might be nearby. That person must be very close, otherwise he wouldn't have said it was nearby. Yang Qin shared the coordinates of the forest."

Zhu Ning finally heard the key point. If a pilgrim wants to go to Utopia, he must have a route and cannot set out blindly. The place where Yang Qin met the pilgrim may be close to the destination.

An Chi: "Yang Qin has never forgotten that dead man in the past two years. You want to go, and she is eager for you to go, but I don't know if sharing this location will be useful."

"It's useful." Zhu Ning didn't expect to find any clues in the shelter.

An Chi shared the coordinates with her, and Zhu Ning asked, "Why didn't Yang Qin give it to me herself?"

An Chi was a little embarrassed and coughed lightly, "She's embarrassed."

An Chi didn't say it explicitly, but Zhu Ning knew it. People inside the wall now have tendencies. Yang Qin is considered a devil. Especially after seeing Zhu Ning eating pollutants, he doesn't want to deal with Zhu Ning.

Zhu Ning didn't feel anything about this answer and asked, "What about you?"

An Chi was stunned for a moment, "I'm not afraid."

Ever since the day she knew Zhu Ning, she has been inclined towards the True God faction, and An Chi believed in the stories about the True God told by Huo Wenxi.

Zhu Ning smiled and said, "Thank you."

An Chi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Where are you going?"

Zhu Ning: "Northern, what about you?"

This was a very vague answer. An Chi said, "I'm going to look for contaminated items..." She took a deep breath and asked, "Are you short of people?"

Zhu Ning looked at her curiously. Did An Chi want to join her? This was the first hunter she had met outside the Wall who had a clear interest in her.

Zhu Ning was silent for a while. If Pei Shu hadn't fallen ill, Zhu Ning would have considered whether to add more people. Now it seemed that the size of this team was just within her control. She had just established a certain relationship with Pei Shu and didn't want to continue it.

Zhu Ning: "Not for now."

An Chi was a little disappointed, but that was understandable. Zhu Ning's team wasn't easy to follow. Zhu Ning then said, "Leave me your contact information. I'll contact you if I need anything."

An Chi was very surprised. She added Zhu Ning in her communication and sent her price list. If Zhu Ning needed anything, she could contact her for help. The price was very fair.

After An Chi left, Zhu Ning took the coordinates to find his two guides. Pei Shu and Bai Cheng's maps overlapped, and they studied a specific route.

Bai Cheng marked the coordinates on his map, "In the north."

Pei Shu: "We'll stop by."

They wanted to find Prometheus and might pass by Utopia.

Zhu Ning asked, "What is the Far North like?"

Pei Shu: "It's winter all year round, and it gets colder the further north you go."

Zhu Ning glanced at him. Pei Shu's attitude was very natural when he talked about the Far North. Her eyes fell on Pei Shu's neck. The red silk thread was invisible to others, but it was quite conspicuous in Zhu Ning's eyes.

Pei Shu pointed at the forest and asked Bai Cheng, "Have you been here?"

Bai Cheng: "I passed by here, but I didn't know there was a Utopia."

"Me too," Pei Shu seemed to find this very strange, "Didn't we find the entrance?"

Is it a very hidden location that requires some special angles to see?

Bai Cheng suspects that he is a Utopian, Zhu Ning wants to find something related to Lin Xiaofeng, and Pei Shu wants to find clues about Liu Yu. Everyone has similar goals.

Zhu Ning gave the map to Bai Cheng to keep. "Let's set off once the storm stops. We'll explore the surrounding area. If we find any clues, we'll go deeper. If not, we'll continue north."

That being said, this dust storm was more terrifying than anyone had imagined. The storm didn't stop on the second day, or the day after.

On the fourth day, the survivors in the shelter gathered together to share supplies. They almost thought that they would run out of supplies here and would have to kill each other to survive.

On the fifth day, the storm outside gradually stopped. On the sixth day, the wind could no longer be heard. It was not until the tenth day that the sandstorm completely stopped.

When Zhu Ning walked out of the shelter, he felt as if he was in another world. Everyone was the same. The suppressed emotions accumulated over more than ten days made everyone look haggard, as if they had walked out of prison.

They opened the door of the shelter and everyone was stunned. The sand outside the door poured down like a mountain and they took a few steps back.

Then I looked outside. The area outside the factory had become a desert. The cars that had not had time to escape to the shelter were buried in the sand, with only half of the windows exposed.

The corpse inside had a look of despair on its face, as if it had suffocated to death after using up all its supplies.

There were many corpses hanging on the roofs in the distance, probably blown in from nearby.

The skyline in the distance was still yellow, but all the buildings were cast in a dim shadow, and visibility became low.

As a result of nature's elimination, a group of people were killed by sandstorms, and another group of people who fled into shelters were killed by cans.

They are like the last few survivors of the apocalypse. They don't even feel grateful. They always make people feel that they may survive this time but not the next.

This was the first time that Zhu Ning stayed in one place for so long after leaving the wall, making her feel like a creature outside the wall. The further north they went, the worse everyone's condition would be.

Everyone was stunned for a moment before realizing that these people were not from the same team and were going their separate ways, some were going to continue their mission, and some were going to return to the wall.

An Chi and Bai Cheng chatted for a while before parting. Zhu Ning didn't know what they talked about, but he saw them shaking hands. They didn't get along well before, but now An Chi and Bai Cheng can barely appreciate each other.

Lin Xiaofeng has repaired the car and made special improvements to it, adding a sand-proof function to prevent sand from getting into the gaps in the car and getting stuck.

Zhu Ning and his companions got into the car and looked back at the shelter. As they left, sand gradually blew into the shelter and would soon be covered with yellow sand.

The more Zhu Ning looked at the yellow sky, the more he thought of the science fiction movies he had seen before. Unfortunately, reality was even darker than in the movies.

As they walked along, they saw more and more corpses and abandoned cars. Until they got close to the base station, Zhu Ning got out of the car to make a call.

The others were somewhat envious. Pei Shu and Bai Cheng had no one to contact. Lin Xiaofeng took advantage of the good internet connection here and actually opened the game in his secondary brain and chatted with his netizens.

Zhu Ning stood under the base station, his boots in the sand, with the yellow sky behind him.

Zhu Ning was like an exiled kite, flying farther and farther away. Listening to the beeping busy tone, he wanted to regain some of his human feeling.

"Zhu Ning?" Huo Wenxi's voice came from the other side.

Huo Wenxi must be high up, surrounded by the whistling sound of the wind. After Huo Wenxi answered the call, he didn't hear Zhu Ning's reply, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Zhu Ning paused: "I miss home."

This was such a rare thing to say that Huo Wenxi almost blurted out which home you were thinking of, but she stopped immediately. Zhu Ning had lived in many places, including the Beehive, the Noble Queen Store, the Spark Club, and the Red House Orphanage, but none of them was her home.

Spending too long outside the wall would definitely affect one's spirit and slowly lose one's anchor. Zhu Ning was already very strong even though she was having problems just now. Huo Wenxi felt that she did not need his comfort.

Sure enough, Zhu Ning’s next words were: “I really want to eat beef noodles.”

She eats pollutants or nutrients every day. If she really wants to eat something human, it's a hell of a life.

She remembered that after the battle in District 103, she went to a convenience store. A very kind young lady in front of her treated her to a bowl of hot noodles. They were taken out of the iron pot in the convenience store. They were not some kind of delicacies, but now when she thought about it, they were really delicious.

Huo Wenxi naturally met Zhu Ning's request, "I'll show you which supply station is cooking."

Zhu Ning didn't expect that there would be a supply station with a cook, but Pei Shu explained that they would gradually deepen the relationship between people and those inside the wall through such details, so it was not surprising.

Soon Zhu Ning received a report. If she wanted to eat, she could go. Huo Wenxi was indeed a practical person. He would solve problems as soon as they arose.

For the first time, Zhu Ning understood what it meant to quench one's thirst by looking at a plum. Even though he hadn't eaten it yet, he felt a little better knowing that there was beef noodles ahead.

Zhu Ning: "I've made some progress. Utopia might be related to Liu Yu. I found a coordinate and am going to check it out."

"I saw the memories of a pilgrim on the way. They might have left some marks at Exit F-03 on the north wall. I'd need you to investigate. And keep an eye on the pilgrims."

Zhu Ning carefully shared all the information about the pilgrims. There was no response from Huo Wenxi, so Zhu Ning assumed she wasn't interested. However, Huo Wenxi was very calm about any news. Zhu Ning asked, "What about you? Is there anything going on over there?"

Huo Wenxi stood up and lit a cigarette. She stared into the smoke and wanted to share her own story. The autopsy expert said that Huo Wenxi had the smell of a corpse.

But the matter soon came to nothing, and Huo Wenxi didn't want to tell it and cause more trouble for Zhu Ning.

Huo Wenxi tapped off the ash from his cigarette and said, "I have some news that might be exciting for you."

Zhu Ning disappeared for more than ten days this time. When she was trapped in the shelter, Huo Wenxi made some progress. He originally wanted to send the investigation report to her directly, but he still wanted to tell her in person.

Huo Wenxi said: "I've contacted Lu Yuan."

Zhu Ning urgently needed some good news, as all her theories were based on random speculations and she didn't even have any solid evidence to support them. She asked, "And then?"

Huo Wenxi: "We couldn't meet in person, so we could only video call. I used the same interrogation method to sort out the clues she had."

Zhu Ning thought about it and felt that Huo Wenxi’s interrogation was very stressful, and he didn’t know if Lu Yuan could hold on.

Huo Wenxi: "Her mother once tried to escape with young Lu Yuan. Guess which entrance it was?"

"Wait," Zhu Ning's heartbeat quickened. Thinking of Huo Wenxi's calm tone, he asked, "Could it be Exit F-03 on the north wall?"

Huo Wenxi smiled. "Yes, it's this entrance. Just like you said, all pilgrims leave the wall through this entrance, including Liu Yu."

Huo Wenxi's voice was firm. She was now standing on top of the north wall. There was garbage and a bonfire that had been burning for a long time everywhere. The traces on the ground had been erased, but it could still be seen that there had once been a huge symbol.

If you look down from above, it looks like a circle with a bird taking off in the middle.

There were many figures scattered above the wall, and from a bird's-eye view they looked like busy ants. They were the abnormal event team brought by Huo Wenxi.

Huo Wenxi looked into the distance with her good eye. She was standing at the junction of the inside and outside of the wall, and it seemed that she could see Zhu Ning in the distance from here.

Zhu Ning will definitely meet a pilgrim when she goes out of the wall. As long as she reads a person's memory, she will find this hole. Zhu Ning is outside the wall and Huo Wenxi is inside the wall. The physical distance between them is far, but their goals are unexpectedly intertwined.

"All your guesses are correct. Liu Yu is most likely from outside the Great Firewall. She's a Utopian. I hadn't thought of the reason why she came inside the Great Firewall before. Now that you've added to this, there's probably some kind of exchange going on between the inside and outside of the Great Firewall, the content of which is unknown."

"Exchanges between those inside and outside the wall maintain superficial peace. Prometheus is maintaining the relationship between them, but this exchange is unstable, or perhaps it's constantly overdrawing on some cost. Zhu Yao probably originally wanted to take a different path, severing humanity's dependence on pollutants and purifying the world, but this path may have gone wrong. I suspect the Revival Society wants to directly destroy everything."

The outline of the world has emerged, but it lacks details.

"All the clues we've investigated are connected," Huo Wenxi said. "I have a feeling we're getting closer to the truth."

Zhu Ning placed his palms on his chest and felt his heart really beating, very anxiously and excitedly.

Huo Wenxi proved that all this was not delusion, nor was it in vain, and everything Zhu Ning experienced was meaningful.

Huo Wenxi stubbed out his cigarette with his leather gloves. "Zhu Ning, go to Utopia and come back with more information."

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