47 Weird Oceanarium (Part 4)

◎These hairs are... alive?◎

Zhu Ning froze. In such a situation, one's first reaction would be to shoot, but she didn't have time.

As soon as she raised the gun, she was suddenly pulled down. In her work clothes, carrying a cleaning backpack and holding a gun in her hand, her whole body probably weighed 180 pounds.

But she never knew that one day she would be easily knocked down by someone just by grabbing her ankle.

The speed is too fast.

Before anyone could react, Zhu Ning was dragged directly into the water by a strange force.

Her vision was instantly flooded by water, and she heard someone calling her: "Zhu Ning!"

It was Li Nianchuan who called her. Chu Ling and Li Nianchuan were closest to her and noticed something was wrong first.

When they turned around, Zhu Ning had been knocked over with his gun.

In the blink of an eye, he sank into the water, as if he was dragged away by some marine creature with brute force.

Tang Ke: "There's something under the water, protect the cleaner!"

Chu Ling originally wanted to shoot, but in the chaos, she was afraid that the bullet spray would cause accidental injuries.

After just a second of hesitation, Zhu Ning disappeared. They stared at the water surface. The water was only up to their knees. It should be shallow water. Even if they fell, it would be easy to get up.

But Zhu Ning was gone.

Where did she go?

The witcher stood ready with his gun in hand. After Zhu Ning was dragged away, the water surface shook for a while, and then returned to calm, as if it was just an illusion.

The water here is not very transparent and is a bit gray. If you stare at it for a long time, it seems like it is not the water surface.

Instead, it was countless wriggling gray worms, their bodies gathered together to form something like water.

Waiting to devour new prey anytime and anywhere.

They were standing in a pool of bugs.

Li Nianchuan felt his scalp tingling as he watched Zhu Ning disappear. It was easy for him to think that he would be the next one.

The gray bugs on the water surface seem to be able to climb up along people's calves and drill into your pores through the gaps in the cleaner's work clothes.

Imagine that people are afraid of bugs and unknown tiny creatures because they are afraid that they will drill into your body.

Before they get in, the human imagination has already scared itself crazy.

Mental pollution.

Li Nianchuan had fought fishmen with Zhu Ning before, and he quickly realized that the water here was a kind of spiritual pollution.

Li Nianchuan held the gun carefully and brainwashed himself according to the method Zhu Ning taught him.

This is normal, this is normal.

Li Nianchuan opened his eyes, his mind was clear, and he seemed to be stronger than before.

Li Nianchuan was constantly trying to prevent himself from being mentally polluted, so he had no time to look around.

He had just come to his senses when he suddenly heard a muffled sound behind him.

Bang!

A demon hunter in front was knocked down, and in the shaking water, Li Nianchuan saw a blurry black shadow flash by.

The sea monster has not left, it is still in these waters.

An unknown monster surged in the water, instantly creating a huge splash.

This time it's their turn.

…

Zhu Ning was pulled down by a hand.

The water flowed past her ears quickly. At high speeds, people's reactions would slow down, and she watched herself getting farther and farther away from the water.

Zhu Ning deeply understood one thing: what marine life is.

On the ground, humans can have absolute initiative, but no matter who they are, once they enter the water, they must give way to marine life.

Just one hand can pull you away.

Thanks to the witcher who beat her up, if Zhu Ning had encountered this situation a week ago, she would definitely not have been able to fight back.

The bottom of the water was so complicated that she couldn't see anything clearly. Zhu Ning raised her left foot and kicked hard downwards. While she was kicking downwards, the hand was still dragging her into deeper water.

Zhu Ning kicked down one after another. When she kicked for the fourth time, her ankle loosened and the ghost hand released.

Gone?

Zhu Ning's body felt lighter and he found himself floating in the deep ocean. There was nothing around him but darkness.

What was that thing that was pulling you just now?

If it was a monster, it couldn't possibly disappear completely all of a sudden, right?

Even after the ghost hand disappeared, people still had to let down their guard and be on guard against the next attack at any time.

The ghost hand just now was too powerful. If Zhu Ning hadn't been injected with the genetic medicine, his ankle might have been broken by the other party.

Zhu Ning was alert for a moment, but there was no one around.

No one.

Her ankles felt strange, like they were restrained even though there was nothing there.

The most taboo thing when swimming underwater is getting entangled by things like water plants. Once you are tied up, you are not far from death.

Zhu Ning touched his ankle and then pulled something off it.

hair.

What grabbed her just now wasn't a ghost hand, but a strand of hair?

Does a strand of hair have such great power?

Zhu Ning carefully grabbed one end of the hair and gently pulled it outwards. Like peeling off a thread of silk, the hair became longer and longer.

It looks like a woman's hair, which is very long. If it were still growing on a human head, it would at least be waist-length.

But things are getting weirder and weirder.

This length is far longer than a human hair should be and has no end.

It was clearly just wrapped around Zhu Ning's ankle, but it had no end, as if one could pull out endless strands of hair.

Zhu Ning only pulled it two meters before he dared not move.

Zhu Ning glanced at his hands, his messy hair tangled around his fingers.

These hairs are... alive?

The hair grew and multiplied, and squirmed in her palm.

Girls will drop a few strands of hair when they take a bath, and they should be familiar with this daily scene of hair in the palm of their hands.

But now, the hair was moving, like wriggling maggots.

The wriggling hair crawled slowly, starting from the palm of the hand and climbing up to the forearm.

Zhu Ning's whole body tensed up. Any normal person would find this thing disgusting. Just the thought of living hairs crawling all over the body would make one feel numb.

Once your mentality is unstable, you will struggle.

According to the current situation, the more you move, the deeper you will be entangled.

Zhu Ning stopped.

She didn't move, forcing herself to accept the fact that there was living hair in the palm of her hand.

This is normal, this is normal, this is normal.

Zhu Ning continued to brainwash himself, it was just a living hair, it was too normal.

The pulled-out hair wrapped around Zhu Ning, and they grew faster and faster, almost like a gushing out.

After only about two minutes, Zhu Ning was covered by a ball of hair.

She had been holding a gun until she fell behind, with the gun belt hanging on her arm, and she has never lost it until now.

But she didn't dare to shoot at all. She had a premonition that if she did, the hair would instantly wrap around her and strangle her to death.

Zhu Ning could only try to relax his body.

Countless strands of hair climbed up her body, trying to find the gaps in her work clothes, and kept trying to flow in from her neck, helmet and the edge of her clothes.

Once a hair strand is inside, the reproductive strand will grow from within.

It probably won't be long before her work clothes are filled with hair.

Zhu Ning himself will be deprived of all oxygen and become a slave to his hair.

All pollutants in polluted areas are trying their best to pollute you, and this place is no exception, except that their actions are particularly disgusting.

The hair probed the edge of the work clothes, but they climbed for a long time without finding the tiny gap.

I don’t know who designed the work clothes, but this designer deserves a top design award, the quality is really amazing.

Zhu Ning suppressed his instincts, deliberately ignored the existence of his hair, and began to look at his situation.

Zhu Ning was dragged far away. She couldn't see where she was, but she knew that the water was very deep.

In order to simulate the seabed, aquariums generally simulate artificial waves.

Artificial waves move every minute, so the water underneath is not stagnant.

Zhu Ning stretched out her limbs, and her hair floated beside her like seaweed.

Zhu Ning and a ball of hair seemed like companion creatures.

Or maybe the hair was a trap, and Zhu Ning was its new prey.

She was like a dragonfly that had hit a spider's web and was bitten by it, but so far she had not seen where the spider was.

She could feel her hair moving, and the movement felt real, the tactile sensors in her overalls clearly transmitting that sensation.

Very itchy.

Zhu Ning didn't move, not even holding the gun.

She was just feeling it.

She was deep in the sea, surrounded only by a clump of hair. Zhu Ning took a deep breath and looked at her current situation.

Looking through the green screen, the seabed was pitch black, and a sense of oppression came over me.

It seems like you are the only one at the bottom of the sea.

The polluted area no longer looks like an aquarium, it feels like the real deep sea.

"Prometheus?" Zhu Ning tried to call it.

【I am here. 】

A clear and calm answer.

This feeling is quite magical. Zhu Ning went into the contaminated area alone on several missions. He was almost driven crazy by boredom during the experiment with subject No. 777.

No one spoke to her at that time.

Zhu Ning began to believe that Prometheus really had the ability to provide hospice care.

If Zhu Ning were to die in a polluted area one day, she also hoped that Prometheus' voice would be heard on the channel at that time.

Before Zhu Ning asked, Prometheus guessed what she was thinking.

[No casualties so far. They were attacked. Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng are with Chu Ling. The other demon hunters are organizing their team under the leadership of Tang Ke.]

It's a very simple sentence, just stating the facts.

But Zhu Ning inexplicably felt that this artificial intelligence was really smart.

He could judge the close relationship between Zhu Ning and others, so when reporting the situation, he would report the news about Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng first.

The Demon Hunter was only mentioned briefly.

Has the emotional development of artificial intelligence reached this level?

Zhu Ning paused. They had also been attacked, so no wonder no one contacted him.

Once you enter a contaminated area, you are in charge of your own life and death.

Zhu Ning quickly stopped thinking about them and started thinking about how to escape.

Zhu Ning asked, "How are my vital signs now?"

Prometheus can connect to the human body. Zhu Ning remembers that one of its functions is to monitor human vital signs.

[Your heart rate is normal, your mental state is stable, and you are in very good health.]

In fact, Zhu Ning was a little too healthy. After going through all this, she was entangled in her hair and rarely felt fear.

Among all the employees who have served Prometheus, Zhu Ning's psychological quality is definitely top-notch.

Good news, she seems to be unharmed.

Zhu Ning asked, "Where's the oxygen?"

The cleaner's helmet has a filtration system, and the work clothes are designed to enter contaminated areas, taking into account various extreme situations. The work clothes that were previously like motorcycle suits now perfectly become a diving suit.

【The remaining oxygen can last about forty minutes.】

After all, the work clothes are not equipped with special oxygen tanks, and forty minutes is the limit.

"Is there any oxygen tank nearby?" Zhu Ning asked.

Who knows how long we will have to stay in the polluted area? In the deep sea, it is more reassuring to have oxygen.

[The nearest oxygen tank is 900 meters away. The interface of the cleaner's work clothes is a universal interface and can be connected to any model.]

A small dot appeared on Zhu Ning's helmet panel, and Prometheus marked the location of the oxygen.

The aquarium should have provided its own oxygen tubes, and staff and performers also needed to go into the water.

Prometheus is pretty useful.

No wonder Li Nianchuan likes him.

Zhu Ning quickly thought about his current situation.

The first step is to escape from this strange hair.

There is basic logic within the polluted area, and pollutants cannot completely change the rules and create something impossible out of thin air.

Such a large amount of hair will not appear in a normal aquarium. Animals only have hair, and most marine creatures have scales and tentacles.

Only one can grow hair.

Mermaid.

This should be a mermaid's thing.

Zhu Ning tried to stretch her arms, but her hair did not strangle her.

Hair is very sensitive and can sense people's emotions. As long as Zhu Ning does not run away or show hostility, these hairs do not seem to have any strong intention to attack.

Zhu Ning stretched out his hand cautiously, without moving his hair.

Once she was sure, she began to move, in small, slow steps, slowing down once the hair started to tangle.

She is exploring the space she is in.

There is sea water all around, but this is not the real deep sea. The water in the deep sea is boundless and you can never find the end.

This is an oceanarium, it should have an end.

Zhu Ning stared at the direction of the oxygen tank and moved forward with it as his goal.

Boom——

A very dull sound.

After about five minutes, she bumped into something.

Zhu Ning felt around and found it very smooth. This should be a transparent glass wall.

Did she touch the edge of the exhibition hall?

The oxygen tank was three hundred meters ahead, but she was separated from it by a thick glass wall.

Zhu Ning was just trying to figure out how big this place was.

As soon as she lowered her head, she suddenly froze.

She came face to face with a human face.

There was a man pressed against the glass wall, his facial features squeezed and deformed by the glass wall, but his eyes were extremely greedy and he kept looking over eagerly.

Zhu Ning frowned, more than one.

Outside the glass wall was a dense crowd of spectators, perhaps hundreds or even thousands.

Hundreds of faces crowded in, their faces pressed against the glass wall, staring straight at Zhu Ning.

It's like looking at some strange animal.

Their eyes were too greedy, pressing hard against the glass wall, wishing they could stick their heads in to get a better look.

The polluted area has its own logic. Once you enter it, you will have an identity of living inside the polluted area.

In Line 1, Zhu Ning is a passenger, in the hot pot restaurant she is a cashier, and in Experimental Subject No. 777 she is the owner of the house.

There are roughly three identities in the aquarium: tourists, staff, and exhibited creatures.

Zhu Ning is now the one being exhibited within the glass wall.

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