Chapter 192 Trapped
When Hei Mu came out of the kitchen with a plate of food, Xi Yuan in the living room was being thrown down for the seventeenth time.
Bang—
even though the floor was covered with thick carpet, it still made a heavy sound. The sound was painful just to hear, but the person who fell to the ground stood up again.
You Xi looked at the other party and loosened his fingers twice: "I said, tell me when you reach the limit, otherwise I won't stop." To learn fighting, you must first learn to fight. Today is only the second day of the other party's fighting skills, and he is still on the road to being thrown down.
Xiyuan lowered his head to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips that had been cut when he fell, and once again made a gesture to continue: "I can do it."
Youxi raised her eyebrows, and without him having to say it a second time, she waved at him: "Come!"
Xiyuan rushed over again, his task was to hold Youxi's shoulders. He originally thought that this was a very simple task, but for two days, let alone shoulders, he didn't even touch the clothes on her shoulders.
Sure enough, this time Youxi didn't even use her hands. She quickly moved sideways to avoid his hand. The moment her left foot flew out, she lowered her body to avoid his other hand again. Her left foot had already accurately hooked his calf, and she didn't even use much force, and the other person fell to the ground.
But after being thrown down so many times, Xiyuan felt that he was about to fall to the ground, so he held on to the ground, and quickly stretched out his other hand, holding her ankle tightly, and at the same time, he turned his body hard, and as he landed, he used his own weight to make her lose balance and fall down.
Youxi had suppressed his strength and speed to the lowest level, which was about 1.5 to 2 times that of an ordinary person, so he was not invincible.
But she was a little surprised that he thought of a counterattack so quickly this time, even though it was a method that would hurt both sides - no, even so, she could not be "hurt".
Youxi fell down with his movements, and at the moment she was about to land, his arms that were originally tightly clasped loosened slightly.
She was waiting for this moment. She gave him a slight push, and when he was stunned and tried to tighten his grip, she pushed him with her knee, pinning one of his arms to the carpet. At the same time, she twisted his other arm and bent it behind his back, and put her other knee against his lower back, holding him so that he couldn't move.
When Hei Mu came out of the kitchen with the cut fruits, he happened to see Xi Yuan, who was in a wolf-like state with his hands and waist locked.
His cheek was pressed against the ground. Because his hands were restrained and he had no place to gain leverage, he couldn't lift his shoulders after trying several times, and the locked waist prevented him from turning over. But Youxi leisurely freed one hand and gently patted his shoulder: "Remember, don't let up until the last moment."
"Got it..." Xiyuan knew that he looked very fierce at the moment, but he still blushed and agreed seriously.
Hei Mu placed the fruit platter in his hand on the coffee table that had been moved aside in the living room. He turned around and saw the guest standing on the stairs.
He woke up for a few hours yesterday, but he was still leaning on the sofa and couldn't get up. Even the meal was brought to him by Youxi herself.
She seemed to know her friend's taste very well. She didn't take the meal prepared by Hei Mu, but made a big bowl of vegetable and fruit salad herself, and cooked some light vegetable noodles and put them on a tray to bring into the room.
Yesterday, Hei Mu only stood at the door of the room and looked at him a few times when collecting the plates. At that time, he thought he was very handsome. Today, he realized that the word "good-looking" is still a little thin.
The man is very young, about twenty-three or twenty-four at most. Probably because of the many days of fleeing and the serious injuries that have not yet healed, his figure is slender and thin, and his face is pale and weak.
But his facial features are very beautiful, and with this paleness and weakness, and the nobility between his eyebrows, there is a kind of morbid beauty, which is very eye-catching.
The other party was looking sideways at the two people on the carpet in the living room, his eyes were calm, and it was impossible to tell what emotions he was feeling just from his expression.
But one of Hei Mu's jobs is to read people's expressions. Although the other party restrained all his surface emotions, he could still feel that at this moment, he did not seem very happy.
Hei Mu glanced at Xi Yuan again. He didn't know if it was because he had been suppressed by You Xi for too long, the redness on his cheeks had spread to his neck, and the throbbing and panic in his eyes were clearly seen from his perspective.
Hei Mu sighed silently.
There are never good results when slaves have feelings for their masters. Because in the eyes of natural humans, slaves are just slaves. They are a created group. Even if they have flesh and blood, thoughts and emotions, in the eyes of natural humans, they are just "objects" that are higher than objects.
Youxi caught a glimpse of the figure on the stairs, and quickly let go of the person under his knees, saying that today's fighting training would end here first, and let him continue to do physical training by himself, and then walked towards the stairs: "Why did you get up? Don't force yourself."
"It's almost done. This body can only reach this level at present."
Youxi nodded, and motioned Xingmin to go upstairs to the room to talk.
"..." He didn't move his feet for a while, and his eyes fell on the coffee table beside him. In fact, he went downstairs to find something to eat. Yesterday, this body had not fully recovered, and his appetite was not good. Today, it has almost recovered, so naturally he is a little hungry...
Youxi followed his line of sight and saw the fruit platter on the coffee table.
Youxi: ...
I understand.
She silently reached out, picked up the whole plate of fruit platter, and then walked upstairs.
**
All the inner walls and doors of the villa are thickly soundproofed. With the hearing of ordinary people, as long as the door is closed, even if you pass by the corridor outside, you can't hear the conversation inside clearly.
Yesterday, Xing Min told her in the limited time he was awake that the reason why he spent energy to come in this time was because when he first connected to the mission world, this advanced mission world took the initiative and appeared several times. He finally had no choice but to connect to this world.
It was difficult for him to feel at ease in such a world with incomplete information, extremely high difficulty, and active connection. Although it took him a lot of energy to come in personally and it took him a lot of time to find a suitable body, he thought it was worth it.
"This world... I originally thought that rebirth was a chance to live, but now I think rebirth was a misleading thing that made me think I had an advantage, but it was actually useless."
"What did you guess?" "
This world is called the Seven Hells. I guessed if I would be reborn seven times, but now it seems that the seven hells should correspond to seven different disasters. The 'Red Lotus' disaster is over, and the current disaster is the fog outside the window."
You Xi said, pulling open the bedroom curtains.
It was clearly daytime, but it was gray outside, and everywhere was filled with a thick gray fog that had a real texture.
This situation has lasted for two days, but she guessed it might last longer.
It is known that there is a small soft-bodied creature in the gray fog. It will approach people. After attaching to the human body, it will extend tentacles to penetrate the flesh and blood, produce anesthetics, and make the thoughts and reactions of the possessed person become dull.
She guessed that if the soft-bodied creature possessed for a longer time, it might make the possessed person unable to control their own behavior, such as staying away from the shelter and going to the "nest" where they were born. After being controlled and leaving, these people never came back and became the group of people who disappeared when the fog started.
As for why the soft-bodied creature was born, where the "nest" is, where it hides when the fog dissipates, and the purpose of possessing and controlling the human body... there are still many unsolved mysteries.
But it is obvious that no matter what the answer is, it will not be a good thing.
The possibility that those missing people are still alive is very small.
At present, due to the influence of the fog, all communications and networks have been cut off. Those in large shelters are fine, because there are many people nearby, even if they can't go out, they always have some sense of security.
The real misfortune is the survivors who stayed in the relatively safe area of the city.
In the situation where there are ruins all around, they are trapped in the building by the fog and can't move. A water crisis will soon arise. Not every household has such a thing as protective clothing, and it is not known whether ordinary protective clothing can protect against the blood-red soft whiskers.
If the "Red Lotus" is a physically destructive disaster, then this "fog" is more like a psychological torture.
If you don't go out, you will lack water, and if you go out, you will encounter unknown dangers.
Being trapped and dying in a building is fine if you are surrounded by your closest family members, but if you are surrounded by friends or other survivors, it will inevitably lead to a serious crisis over time.
**
Youxi's prediction was correct. Even in the shelter where the troops were stationed, the situation was not very good.
Because of the huge destructive power of "Red Lotus", everyone was in a hurry when evacuating. In the face of the suction of "Red Lotus", the role of protective clothing was equivalent to nothing. Compared with useless protective equipment, food, water, medical drugs and weapons were the most important at that time. When the troops evacuated, most of them brought these supplies.
The troops had protective clothing, but the quantity was very small.
The troops were responsible for the survival of the people in the entire refuge area. At first, every few days, people wearing protective clothing would go to each building to distribute supplies.
But soon, the water supply was running out. Rescuers would have driven low-altitude vehicles to get new supplies, or coordinated with other troop shelters or the headquarters to airdrop supplies via drones.
But now, network communications were completely cut off, outdoor visibility was only one meter, and any flying vehicles were hard to find.
On the tenth day of the fog, the troop shelters faced the same dilemma as the survivors in the ruins.
What made people even more worried was that after more than ten days without sunlight, the temperature began to drop rapidly. The people trapped in the buildings not only lacked water, but also lacked cold-weather supplies.
Some people in the army gradually became unable to endure it.
"How long do we have to wait? The situation will only get worse if we continue to wait! Can't we get in touch via radio?"
"We've tried it a long time ago. All communications are blocked. Even walkie-talkies will fail if they are beyond a certain range in the fog!"
"What about the research team? How is the research going?" "
The composition of the gray fog is still unknown. Some of the cell tissues of the red soft tissue are indeed the same as those of the petals of the 'Red Lotus', but some are different. Strictly speaking, they seem to be from the same evolved species."
"So this gray fog is helping the 'Red Lotus' evolve?"
"It cannot be said that 'Honglian' was indeed killed. To be precise, this is because a part of 'Honglian', when faced with a crisis of extinction, used certain substances in the gray mist to transform itself and obey. That is why they are now dependent on it. Once they leave the gray mist, they will die completely."
"We can't wait any longer. We will send a convoy to search for supplies tomorrow. As for the personnel, they will be voluntary!"
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