402. What Pei Shu saw in the Far North was true...

Zhu Ning's last sense of smell disappeared.

Not long after leaving the ice flower bush, she completely lost her five senses and was completely cut off from the world.

She had guessed this moment long ago, but when she actually lost it, she found herself extremely powerless. She tried to hold on but couldn't. After her five senses disappeared, she lost her existence.

Pollutants that survive in the darkness can see this scene: passing through polluted areas, a shadow suddenly flashes by, which turns out to be a giant lizard bear that crawls quickly.

The dead bodies at both ends of the road were piled up like rice stalks. If Pei Shu was there, he would be able to see the old members of the Shahe team among them.

These are the investigators who chose to continue forward after passing through the ice flower bushes, and their fate was death.

Death is also a very good ending. There is a human running backwards. He is still wearing the Beidiao uniform. The medals on his shoulders have been worn out. He uses human arms as his legs and shouts like crazy.

Zhu Ning did not respond to him, just like most people who came in could not see him. He was a little disappointed, his head hanging from his arms, his hair standing upside down, looking at the upside-down world from this special angle.

Zhu Ning, carrying a heavy load of black slime on his back, ignored his shouts and walked into the valley, into the shadow of the black moon.

The upside-down investigator stepped back, arms bent, as if shivering with fear, folding his body in this way.

Zhu Ning could not sense anything. She was like a traveler in the desert longing for an oasis, and the black moon actually became an oasis.

The darkness was getting closer and closer. It was impossible for humans to walk from the ground to the moon, but Zhu Ning felt as if he was about to walk into the moon.

Are the sky here and the sky gate connected? Can the sky gate over there be opened here?

After the five senses disappear, the soul experiences ultimate freedom. Even though his brain is in chaos, Zhu Ning feels for the first time that he has a soul.

Humans are made up of body and soul. If Zhu Yao created her body, carefully crafted every organ, and programmed her, then who created Zhu Ning's soul?

Zhu Ning's brain continued to be confused, and the memory scenes flashed and blended uncontrollably. In the end, even the sense of the picture was gone, and all the memories became a mixed line and the wailing before death.

The body feels no pain; all harm is felt directly on the soul.

Finally, her body completely merged with the black moon, and there was a distinction between black and black. The surface of the black moon became smoother and brighter, while the black mucus on Zhu Ning's body was darker.

She didn't know she had reached her destination, nor did she know how to stop, so she kept moving forward.

The black moon was like a huge flowing curtain. When Zhu Ning walked into it, she would be temporarily blocked by the curtain, which highlighted the outline of her facial features and the shape of her body.

If Zhu Ning had five senses, she would feel suffocated and feel unspeakable pain, but she didn't. At most, she felt the exhaustion of her soul, but the soul cannot be quantified, and the exhaustion acting on her cannot be quantified either.

Her only feeling was that it was getting darker and darker, and in the already dark situation, the darkness had no boundaries at all.

She felt as if someone was pressing her neck into a dark pool. She saw this scene before she died. The closer she was to the bottom of the pool, the darker her vision became.

It was as if someone had put a black plastic bag around her, which was getting tighter and tighter as she breathed, as if the enemy was trying to suffocate her.

Suddenly, a little light burst out in front of her eyes, as if it was the precursor of dawn. Zhu Ning subconsciously closed her eyes, thinking that the polar night was finally over. She was afraid that her vision would be burned by the sudden light.

But she didn't open her eyes, which meant that her sense of touch had not recovered and she couldn't find her eyelids, so she couldn't execute the commands from her brain.

Later she realized that it was not the polar night that had passed, but her soul had passed from darkness into pure white.

Her body was still in the distance, colliding with the huge black moon. Time stopped in an instant. Her face was covered with black substance. Her body tried hard to break through the darkness, but her soul had already gone far away.

Zhu Ning was liberated in another form, and she was completely dislocated from her own body.

It was snowing in the pure white world of ice and snow, and the snowflakes were falling softly. The world was so bright, without any shadows.

Zhu Ning walked from one world to another, and her five senses conveyed information intermittently. These were not the five senses of her body, but the five senses of her soul.

She could see and hear, feel the coldness of the snow, and see the glaring snow. Before she could be happy, the next moment, she felt a huge sadness enveloping her.

She entered the Far North, and Zhu Ning reacted all of a sudden. She felt the sadness and detachment that Pei Shu had described.

There were no pollutants or monsters, but the pain was hundreds of times more intense than she had imagined, and she couldn't help but cover her chest.

How to describe that feeling? Have you ever tried to suppress your emotions while crying, and tried every possible way to tell yourself to stop, but found that you simply can't do it? Humans become slaves to their emotions and will eventually completely collapse.

Zhu Ning's emotional outlet was blocked, and the high concentration of sadness made her want to die immediately.

Her chest ached, her body gradually stiffened and became numb, her blood seemed to be flowing backwards, and the world alternated between light and darkness.

There was no accurate logic, she didn't even have a reason, and there were no sad images in her mind. The death of her teammates, the memories of the zombie world, Zhu Yao's indifference, these things that would disturb her emotions never appeared.

But she was so sad that she wanted to die immediately, and only death could stop her.

She had imagined her own death thousands of times in her mind, as if Zhu Ning in different worlds was approaching death, with the tip of the knife against her wrist, sinking to the bottom of the bathtub, facing the sea, walking step by step, and standing on the rooftop with one leg out.

And this Zhu Ning was just the last one.

In fact, this is true. Zhu Yao created countless Zhu Nings. The bodies of the discarded experimental subjects piled up into a mountain and were grabbed by mechanical arms to destroy the garbage. She was the last one.

Why? Emotions must have a reason. Dealing with the reason is like treating the lesion, which can heal the wound.

But nothing can be found, nothing at all, which goes against common sense.

Zhu Ning covered his heart with his right hand, gripping it tightly, wanting to resolve the problem physically, and even wanted to stab himself, using the pain of his body to replace the pain of his soul.

Even if she was stabbed now, she could say that her heart was injured or her legs were injured, and she could not find out where the pain was. Unlike now, she could not find the real pain at all.

After entering the Far North, Yi Linghe and other team members ended their journey by committing suicide. Zhu Ning could fully understand this as it had nothing to do with personal willpower. Everyone who entered had the same fate.

Did Pei Shu really see Yi Linghe when he saw him? Would Yi Linghe really turn around and tell him to go?

Maybe the captain he was loyal to was already dead, but he just imagined a captain who would let him go when he died.

Which answer is more merciful for Pei Shu? Is it that the captain actually lets him go, or is it that he fantasizes about it? The second option implies that he is so selfish that he must be selfish to imagine others being selfless.

It is because of the selfish desire to preserve one's own life that one fantasizes that others are magnanimous.

Pei Shu thought about this problem countless times, which is why he collapsed. Compared to the death of the captain, it was more difficult to accept that all the other team members died and only he survived because of his selfishness.

This kind of sadness will definitely exist for a lifetime. Others cannot see where Pei Shu was injured. The Far North is a shadow that follows him everywhere.

Pei Shu will also look for answers and try to return to the Far North for his whole life. It is like a puzzle that can never be solved. The closer he gets, the more painful it becomes, but he can't help but come.

Zhu Ning and Pei Shu felt the same way. Once they came to the Far North, their souls would die there forever, and there was no way to reverse the situation.

Zhu Ning took a deep breath and looked at the vast world of snow. Pei Shu had come this far and Yi Linghe was guiding him to leave immediately.

Her captain Xu Meng had died long ago, her team member Bai Cheng had been lost, her guide Pei Shu had died in the underground of Utopia, her mother was just an indifferent researcher, and Lin Xiaofeng had been driven away by her, causing her to be so lonely at this moment.

Zhu Ning's face was covered with tears, hot tears streaming down her face. She could no longer hold on and wanted to destroy her brain. As long as she destroyed the part that produced sadness, she would not be able to feel it anymore.

Her eyelids drooped limply, and she caught a trace of footprints on the ground.

The footprints were shallow and were covered by the subsequent snowflakes, like a winding road forward.

Zhu Ning was only a moment away from death, and now his heart seemed to ache.

She closed her eyes and accepted the sadness, which was too strong and she could not resist it and could only accept it.

Zhu Ning followed the footprints and walked forward, wanting to see more of the Far North before he could no longer hold on and shot himself. What would the end of the world look like?

The walking soul drives the body. Even if she walks a thousand meters and her body can only move one millimeter, it doesn't matter. She is like pulling a carriage, pulling her heavy body forward step by step.

What stands in her way is extreme darkness and extreme light.

The shell she left behind was enveloped in a black curtain, and the same smooth substance within her brain began to ripple, as if it were not a closed shell but the surface of a black lake.

She only walked forward for a short while before she stopped and saw a woman at the other end of the footprints. She couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or not.

She was wearing a protective suit from the North China Medical University and held her gun to her temples.

Zhu Ning looked at her. The two were connected by a long string of footprints, like the two ends of a painting. Zhu Ning stood on the far left and Yi Linghe stood on the far right. They looked at each other.

Zhu Ning recognized her because she kept lip-syncing at the end, something like "Let's go", with her lips slightly open. A bullet penetrated her head from left to right, and the blood froze in the air, unable to land for a long time.

The other teammates showed despair and sadness on their faces and committed suicide one after another. There were only seven people left in the team. They raised seven guns and fired seven bullets, creating a death scene like a painting.

The moment of death was preserved forever, and what Pei Shu saw was real.

Zhu Ning searched for Pei Shu's past and helped him find the answer. Maybe Pei Shu no longer cares about it now, or Pei Shu had already found the answer before his death.

It wasn't that you were hallucinating out of selfishness, your captain really did ask you to leave, but he couldn't hear it.

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"Let's go." Yi Linghe was overwhelmed by great sadness. She knew that she was at the end of the road.

Her clairvoyant state only allowed her to see greater sorrow. Others could only feel their own despair, but she wanted to sense the despair of everyone.

The remaining teammates had all raised their guns, including Pei Shu. They regretted not entering the ice flower bushes and accepting a more pleasant death.

There was a gun against Pei Shu's temples, and he looked at himself subconsciously. Flames were burning on his body, and when the snowflakes touched him, the ice and snow flowed like tears.

Pei Shu was still gazing deeply at the captain just before committing suicide. He had complete trust in Yi Linghe and never doubted that there was anything wrong with this mission.

But Yi Linghe had read Pei Shu's information. He was an artificial human, and his heart was specially processed during its manufacture. His heart was constructed with materials from the north.

From Yi Linghe's perspective, everyone is in soul state, and everyone's soul has a different color. Pei Shu is in flame state, with a black fragment embedded in his heart, which looks very abrupt on the pure soul, and even beats with the heartbeat.

That thing was like an identification card that allowed him to pass through the barrier of the Far North. Yi Linghe was specifically told this when he accepted the mission, and that was also the most important reason why Pei Shu was chosen.

Yi Linghe should have encouraged Pei Shu to move forward and let him assassinate Prometheus. Stories spanning thousands of years have revealed the same point: the death of teammates can sometimes inspire a person's fighting spirit.

After Yi Linghe's death, Pei Shu will definitely carry out the mission. Pei Shu is an investigator trained by the Federation. It is his destiny to die for humanity. He has been trained to be like this.

Yi Linghe should also carry out her mission and complete this deception. It is even very simple for her. She only needs to say two words: move forward.

But after she opened her mouth, she hesitated for a second, and then gunshots rang out. Some team members had already died. Death was like a knife cutting wheat, and soon it would be her turn.

"Let's go." Yi Linghe said.

Go back the way you came, don't go any deeper, live your own life, and you will be free.