367 Utopia (V)

◎There must be a road below◎

"My name is Chen Qihang..."

Chen Qihang's narration did not stop, and countless notes came towards her. Zhu Ning felt as if she was in a library built by Chen Qihang. The bookshelf behind her was filled with Chen Qihang's investigation notes. She selected one piece of information from the massive amount of information.

Explorer Chen Qihang, investigator Chen Qihang, scholar outside the wall Chen Qihang, etc., narrate again and again, die again and again.

"I suspect the creature down there is a basking shark."

Zhu Ning's pupils widened slightly, as if someone had hit him hard. Like countless Chen Qihang relay races, he gave the most crucial piece of information, saving Zhu Ning the step of exploration.

No one can complete a complete exploration of this kind of area. They may die as soon as they enter. Even Chen Qihang is exploring based on countless Chen Qihangs.

Every representation of a polluted area always requires a carrier.

The brain is eaten by maggots, and the twisted and clumped maggots form the pattern of a new brain, temporarily replacing the brain's functions. The blood vessels of the fishing village are occupied by tadpoles, and each tadpole is like a cell.

After entering the town, Zhu Ning had no right to explore the entire picture. She guessed through the association between blood vessels and the brain that the town served as a uterus, used to nurture life.

But what about His vehicle?

It was a huge shark that had been buried underground for years because the ocean had dried up.

Although the basking shark is a shark, it has a very gentle personality and feeds on plankton and small fish. After entering the town, Zhu Ning felt the suction that made her unable to move her feet or leave the area. This was because she was the tiny plankton being sucked in.

Floating in the depths of the boundless ocean, the basking shark swallows sea water and the plankton will be sucked away. If Zhu Ning remembers correctly, the basking shark has a filtration system that allows it to eat in this way.

The basking shark's breeding period is two to four years, and it spends a long time of its life nurturing life.

The huge creature below was wriggling, and Zhu Ning finally outlined the overall outline of the town in his mind. Below the unbelievably clean town was a basking shark.

Maybe this place used to be an ocean. After the pollution spread, the land appearance changed completely. The former ocean became land, and the former land turned into ocean. Forests covered the ocean, and the remaining sea water turned into lakes. Land grew out of the corpse of the basking shark, and a human city was built on it.

Zhu Ning felt as if he was in the sea, and even the ground under his feet became soft.

Chen Qihang's notebook stopped here, and no new words were produced. Those who surrounded Chen Qihang disappeared one by one, and Zhu Ning returned to reality.

Zhu Ning became the new Chen Qihang, standing on the shoulders of his predecessors and beginning to observe the world anew.

Chen Qihang and the others had already revealed everything. Instead of directly telling Zhu Ning where the way out was or what the correct answer was, because Chen Qihang and the others didn't know, they gave her hints.

The moment Zhu Ning closed her notebook, she felt the crack in the ground widen and her body was being dragged downwards by something.

Chen Qihang's notebook has a price. Once it is turned on, the danger will immediately increase, and now the danger has come.

Even if the basking shark has no malicious intent, simply sucking in seawater is a disaster for plankton.

Zhu Ning could hardly stand, and her body staggered forward, bringing her only half a meter away from the abyss. With a "puff", two bony hands suddenly stretched out from the ground, with even a little bright red flesh residue on the surface, as if they had just died not long ago.

The bony hands emerged from the ground. Instead of attacking, they held Zhu Ning's feet tightly, locking her legs like shackles.

Not only Zhu Ning and Lin Xiaofeng, but also Pei Shu who was lying unconscious on the ground, were all trapped by the white bones that emerged from the ground.

It’s Bai Cheng.

Bai Cheng's ability is to control corpses, and there are countless corpses in this place.

Lin Xiaofeng's shoulders were held by Bai Cheng. She had long lost her ability to move. She felt very cold and shivered. A murderous intent spread from behind her, as if the hand holding her shoulders was also a corpse's hand, which made her have a brief hallucination. The Bai Cheng behind her was even more terrifying.

But that murderous intent immediately dissipated with the wind. The person holding her shoulders was Bai Cheng, but he was even colder than an ordinary person.

Bai Cheng stood behind him with a gloomy face, her brows furrowed, and her left hand drooped with five fingers curled inward, almost pinching them to bleed.

The corpses buried underground were all her soldiers, and the number of corpses far exceeded others' imagination. She stood on the sea of ​​corpses, like the queen of corpses.

Bai Cheng didn't mind fighting with the huge creature below. To be fair, she had the highest chance of survival among everyone present, but she didn't care much about it. She was immortal, so it didn't matter whether she lived or died. She hoped that there would be a proper way to keep Lin Xiaofeng and the others alive.

Before entering Utopia, Bai Cheng thought she was from here, but it didn't seem like it. She had no good impression of this place at all, and it didn't even evoke any additional memories.

Utopia is not Bai Cheng's destination.

Bai Cheng tried to delay time as much as possible. If Zhu Ning had a new method, she could cooperate. If Zhu Ning had no idea, she could provide support.

But fighting to the death is never the best option. Others cannot be resurrected infinitely like you, and they cannot withstand the hardship at all.

Bai Cheng subconsciously looked at Zhu Ning, waiting for an order, while at the same time giving the captain the best environment for thinking.

Ever since reading the notebook, Zhu Ning felt more and more like a pitiful plankton.

The bony hands grabbed her legs, but this desperate resistance was easily defeated, and the bones were crackling and breaking with the huge suction force.

Zhu Ning thought that she had no way of defeating such a large creature. Chen Qihang's information must be useful. There were rules in this place. From what the notebook revealed, the two most direct ones were.

1. The female offspring of a person with special abilities will be re-cultivated after entering the womb and will become more powerful.

2. Other organisms enter and serve as mere food.

Zhu Ning had experienced this before. From her mind to her body, nothing was spared. She would become nutrients for the creatures below. Even while she was thinking, her spirit was being sucked away.

Are there any descendants of people with special abilities in their team? Bai Cheng is a plastic person, and perhaps she herself is not very clear about her true life experience. Lin Xiaofeng and Pei Shu probably are not.

As for Zhu Ning, she is a mixture of machinery and pollutants, and does not meet the judgment criteria at all.

There is a very cruel solution. Utopia should be to re-fertilize the embryos and keep a notebook to record that all the female experimental subjects survived and successfully walked out.

If the female offspring of people with special abilities can survive, can they use each other's embryos?

But she quickly gave up the idea. Even if this method was feasible, it would only rob others of their chances of survival. Zhu Ning couldn't imagine herself robbing Xiaobao of his chance of rebirth, which was the chance Zhou Haiqing had sacrificed everything for.

If you think about it, there must be a way.

Basking sharks feed on plankton. If they were large enough, wouldn't they be swallowed? It's like one shark can't swallow another. No, it's hard to say how large that would be, so we can't take the risk.

There is only one remaining method that affects the judgment of Rule 1. How does this creature make this judgment?

With so many pilgrims coming every year, how does it accurately distinguish which ones are the offspring of those with special abilities, so as to avoid harming them and select the embryos it wants?

The larger the creature, the harder it is to do delicate work. This has always been a natural law. There must be some judgment mechanism that has not been discovered.

Could it be that he had been detected to have a deformed appearance? Did Zhu Ning chop off one of his legs and gouge out one of his eyes on the spot, so that he could be mistaken for the offspring of someone with superpowers?

No, it can't be that simple.

The humans before us were still committing suicide, falling into the abyss either actively or passively. Some had fear on their faces, having realized that this was a trap, but it was too late to escape.

The people disappeared quickly after colliding with the creatures below, as if they were crushed. Zhu Ning listened carefully and discovered just now that there was no sound of bones breaking after each person who committed suicide fell.

She stared at the skeletons holding her feet. Bai Cheng said that there were flying cars and human corpses below.

The flying cars and corpses did not disappear, but were spit out. Over time, they settled below like a large grave.

Just like a fish eating, when it inhales, it passes through its filtering system and expels the things that don't match the food.

There is a road below.

Zhu Ning's throat tightened. There must be a path below. This was in line with the laws of a living being.

Zhu Ning wanted to look again, but she couldn't see clearly. It was like throwing an ant on a shark. She could only think through limited things.

His mental strength was being eroded, there was no time left, and if his spirit was completely devoured he might become a walking corpse. Lin Xiaofeng had just recovered from a serious injury and could not hold on for that long.

The bony hands holding Zhu Ning's legs broke one by one. Zhu Ning dropped his hands and looked back at Bai Cheng. Their team was now covered in wounds. Pei Shu was still seriously injured. The members rashly entered Utopia and found that Utopia did not exist. The crisis was so sudden that they were caught off guard.

It was the first time Zhu Ning saw Bai Cheng bleeding. She seemed to have reached the limit of controlling the corpse. Her fingers dug into her palms and blood dripped down.

Bai Cheng has persisted for too long, making her look very inhuman.

Zhu Ning turned around and said to Bai Cheng, "We're going in."

Bai Cheng was stunned for a moment, instinctively resisting this plan, but she tensed her body for a moment, then relaxed.

Because she is undead, she doesn't care about her own death, so she can take risks with Zhu Ning indefinitely to fulfill her plan.

Bai Cheng was stunned for less than a second. Zhu Ning grabbed Pei Shu's collar, and Bai Cheng also grabbed Lin Xiaofeng's. They didn't need to talk, and subconsciously grabbed the teammates around them who needed care.

At Bai Cheng's call, the bony hand loosened its restraints and Zhu Ning's body was quickly sucked away. In his poor physical condition, he fell into the abyss before he could react.

Before, she had watched other humans committing suicide on the shore, but now she could see the whole process clearly, as if someone had made a cross-section, and she saw the structure below the abyss.

There were indeed corpses under the road in the town. The corpses and the wreckage of the flying cars were like spitted out garbage, accumulating near the ground.

It was also the first time she saw the creature below clearly. Being in such close contact, she felt fear in her heart, but her first reaction was actually awe.

This is where life begins, where embryos are selected for further development. Humans can only feel awe when witnessing birth.

Zhu Ning's body was submerged. She didn't know where she was. There were corpses all around her. Zhu Ning covered herself with black mucus, which also covered the Pei Book in her hand.

On the other side, Bai Cheng was more like a ball made of bones. Countless bones were summoned by her and formed a bone armor when she fell. Bai Cheng hugged Lin Xiaofeng tightly in her arms, and then the bones surrounded them in their arms.

The squeezing felt terrible. They lost their bearings and were being sucked in like plankton. Dead bodies floated beside them, and the pilgrims fell into the abyss.

The suction from below was strong enough that Zhu Ning rolled over in it. She couldn't tell what was going on at first. She took a breath and quickly used the thread of her consciousness to hook somewhere, which seemed to be the upper jaw or teeth.

The thread of consciousness on the other side hooked Bai Cheng. It was great. Even if this road was blocked and the ending was death, they were very close to him.

Zhu Ning heard the sound of breathing. With each breath of the ancient creature, she felt as if she was really at the bottom of the sea, in the mouth of a basking shark.

Zhu Ning saw Zhou Haiqing holding Xiaobao. Zhou Haiqing's eyes were closed and her face was pale. She had been dead for a long time. Her spine might be fractured and her head was tilted to one side.

They were floating. Zhou Haiqing was not a powerful psychic. It was possible that her spine was dislocated just by colliding with other people, and she died so lightly.

Or maybe the consciousness has been completely eaten away and the spirit in the brain is gone.

But no matter what, Zhou Haiqing kept holding the baby in her arms until she died, just like when Xiaobao was born, the nurse was terrified. She looked at the tiny child, a creature without even human hands and feet, a deformed baby with no mouth or nose. That was her child.

Zhou Haiqing was frightened and regretted it, but she hesitated for a moment and chose to fish out the deformed creature and hold Xiaobao in her arms for the first time, just like the last action she would do before her death.

Now that her arms were loosened, Xiaobao was separated from her for a moment, like an astronaut in the universe without a rope. Once he was loosened, he would never be able to find his original place again.

Zhu Ning couldn't see Xiaobao's expression. The deformed creatures entered a certain passage, while Zhou Haiqing entered another. It was like a program sorting packages. They were not the same kind of people at all.

Some people are qualified to be reborn, while others can only face death.

Zhou Haiqing knew all this, but still stubbornly took this step, like a mother sending her child to school, who would not feel at ease until she saw the child to the door.

Zhu Ning didn't know what Zhou Haiqing was thinking before she died. Maybe she was relieved, maybe she was regretful, or maybe her consciousness was just occupied by severe pain, but none of this mattered anymore.

Because according to the information Chen Qihang obtained, Zhu Ning might die, but Xiaobao would definitely survive.

This is the gentle womb that represents pregnancy. Teacher Qi’s promise is correct. This is Xiaobao’s utopia, and she will survive.

Zhu Ning tried hard to look, his body rolled forward, and he couldn't help but want to enter Zhou Haiqing's path.

The thread of her consciousness kept changing its anchor point, and sometimes she had no idea where the other end was tied. When the thread of her consciousness broke, she used a dagger, and when the dagger broke, she used an axe, and when the axe broke, she used mucus.

Bai Cheng behind her was also struggling. They groped around and found three paths in front of them: one leading to the uterus where she was pregnant, one leading to the esophagus, and the other leading to the outside.

Fish gills expel excess seawater and impurities, which is their only way to survive.

Zhu Ning struggled until she was completely exhausted. In her drowsiness, her hands loosened and the thread of her consciousness lost its anchor. Her mental state dropped to the extreme and she could no longer tell where she was. She was like a real plankton, with only darkness before her eyes.

The author has something to say:

The basking shark is very gentle in nature, so it is called the "basking" shark. It mainly feeds on planktonic invertebrates and small fish. Its hunting method is very peculiar. It first opens its big mouth to "swallow" the bait and water, and then uses its slender keratinous gill rakers to "sieve" and filter. Imagine such a huge creature. To fill its stomach, it has to filter a lot of seawater every day. In order to adapt to this kind of life, the basking shark has also "modified" some of its organs. For example, its gill rakers have become thin and long, and densely packed, so that some small fish and shrimp cannot slip away, so as to increase the catch. Secondly, in order to speed up the drainage, the gill slits on both sides of its head extend to the dorsal and ventral sides. In this way, water can enter and drain out, and the bait can remain. - From the Internet

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