Chapter 1 Monster Train without a Sentinel Guide
In front of Yueshan Base, a long whistle was heard from the ground covered with yellow sand. Not far away, a dark train slowly approached and arrived at the platform in a short while.
There was only one passenger at Yueshan Station. She picked up her only luggage and walked into the carriage. The door closed quickly and she rushed to the next destination without stopping.
As soon as the girl in the dark green dress entered the carriage, she attracted the attention of all the White Tower recruits.
She has a pretty face, with a pair of soft and bright eyes under her long eyelashes. When she lowered her head to check the seats, her soft black hair slid down from her back to her slender neck, making her look extremely well-behaved.
And there was a special aura about the girl that showed that she was a guide, a lonely guide without any sentinels protecting her.
She walked into the territory of a group of sentinels, like a pure lamb that had strayed into a group of lions filled with the smell of blood.
The sentinels who usually fight against mutants in the contaminated area have never seen such a scene, and some of them can't help but release their spirit bodies to peek around the little guide.
As Xu Nuo found a place to sit down, he felt a thick claw on his new shoes.
She lowered her head and saw a blue-gray dog's head arched in front of her. It was obvious that the dog was quite large, but its entire body was squeezed uncomfortably under the front seat, and the big tail on its butt was shaking like a fan.
Xu Nuo smiled and touched it: "Hello."
What an approachable guide!
The big blue-gray dog's eyes lit up, and its tail flapped like a propeller, making the seat next to it rattle.
Even so, it controlled the distance to ensure that it could not touch the little guide without her permission.
Although the puppy is abrupt, he is polite.
Xu Nuo patted it encouragingly: "Okay, good dog, the car is about to leave, go back quickly."
Although the spirit body exists independently, it has spiritual empathy with the sentinel, and even some habits of the spirit body can be transmitted to the sentinel.
"Good dog." The girl's gentle voice seemed to still be in her ears, and her tone was filled with the exclusive doting for small animals. At this moment, a sentry sitting not far away blushed quietly.
Another sentry beside him nudged his arm and said enviously, "Koli, this guide is so humble! Is there really such a gentle guide in the world?"
You have to know that guides are scarce nowadays. Only B-level sentinels are qualified to seek comfort from them. Those below C level don’t even dare to hope to apply for purification.
I heard from the seniors in Baita that the guides have always been arrogant and looked down on them, a group of low-level "consumables".
Keli rushed back with a red face: "Keep your voice down."
The large blue-gray dog beneath his feet whined a few times, nuzzled Xu Nuo's fingers with its wet nose, and then reluctantly squeezed out from under the seat with its rear end facing backwards. As soon as it emerged, it bared its teeth at the other seats in a protesting manner.
Dozens of other spirits were sneaking over: "..."
Only after sensing that the surrounding spiritual bodies had retreated did Xu Nuo relax and find a comfortable position to rest.
Outside the window, the speeding train passes by the unchanging yellow sand scene.
This is her eighth year in this world.
Eight years ago, I stayed up late to read a novel. When I woke up, I found myself in the wasteland world in the novel and became a scavenger little girl who was not even as tall as a trash can.
The little girl looks exactly like her when she was a child, but she doesn't even have a name. It can be imagined that she is a cannon fodder who is not even a passerby.
What's even more tragic is that she fell asleep after watching the male and female protagonists express their feelings to each other, and she has no idea what happens next - the novel text clearly states that a world-destroying boss will appear in the later part.
But how or where would it appear? She had no idea. Therefore, how to avoid the world-destroying boss and survive the later stages of the storyline, where everything was destroyed at a moment's notice, was something she had been pondering for the past few years.
As she was thinking, the car body shook and arrived at the last platform before the terminal.
Two people carrying suitcases got on at this station. As soon as they entered the carriage, they looked around without even checking their seat numbers. They walked straight across the aisle and into the next carriage.
Wrong way?
Xu Nuo was a little surprised. Logically, even if he went the wrong way, he could still sit down as long as there was an empty seat. After all, the next stop was his destination.
She stared at their backs as they left until they disappeared into the darkness behind the gate.
strangeness.
Someone in the carriage yawned, and she yawned too for no reason.
Turning my head, I saw the sky outside the window was dim. Apart from the spreading yellow sand, there was occasionally a cluster of shadows, which were the abandoned urban clusters.
Due to the rampant spread of pollution around the world, the world's original urban clusters have been divided into relatively independent bases. Travel between bases can only be done by rail trains and driving, which is very inconvenient.
Xu Nuo didn't know whether the sentries around him were responsible for staying on the train to ensure its safety, but judging from their level, they didn't seem able to take on such a responsibility.
Even she could see that something was wrong with those two people, but the group of sentinels didn't react at all.
wrong.
Not only was there no reaction, there was not even a sound in the car.
In a flash, she turned around and found that the carriage that was crowded just now was empty.
The group of tall sentries who made the space so cramped have all disappeared!
A chill came quietly, and in just a few breaths, the temperature in the car dropped sharply, and even a layer of white frost appeared on the glass windows.
Xu Nuo was shivering from the cold air. She tried to shout twice, but no one answered. She had no choice but to stand up, pick up her luggage and walk to the next carriage.
Pushing open the gate, we find ourselves in Carriage No. 7, which has the same layout as the previous one - the tan cloth seats are empty, the lights are turned off at night and only the indicator lights on the walls are on. In the dim light, the area from the luggage rack to the roof is dark, and all we can see are blurry shadows.
Xu Nuo stopped at the door and tightened his grip on the gate.
She remembered that her seat was in carriage No. 5, and the train had a total of six carriages.
Where did carriage number 7 come from?
She held her breath and calmly placed her hand in her left pocket.
In the darkness where the luggage rack met the roof, a vague and huge shadow slowly arched up, casting sharp edges in the dim light.
Mutant?
Xu Nuo's alarm bells rang, and he quickly pulled out a dagger from his pocket and held it in front of him.
She had thought that since there were many sentries in the carriage, the danger was minimal, and she only had a dagger with her, but she didn't expect...
"Guide... there's a guide..." a hoarse voice repeated. A monster with a human head and a lizard body crawled out from the shadows, hanging upside down from the ceiling, its long, bloody tongue lolling out.
"Eat it, eat it, I... want it too..."
It crawled closer and closer, its tongue bending and stretching in a strange way, slowly exploring forward, as if searching for prey bit by bit along the flowing breath.
This is... a human-lizard, mutant number A10, the first mutant species that every guide is familiar with. There is only one possibility for the birth of a human-lizard, that is, after the Sentinel was severely polluted, it became a deformed monster specializing in hunting guides.
Their weak point is...the head.
Xu Nuo calmed himself down, slowly backed away, stared at the human-lizard and asked, "You don't have a guide?"
The long tongue curved in the air as she moved, and the lizardman tilted its head: "Guide?"
"Guide... Fusion!"
It was very excited, its red tongue waving in the air, eagerly trying to find her location.
"Nice to meet you," Xu Nuo slowly squatted down, and her red tongue moved closer as she spoke. She stared at the monster in front of her and said softly, "I don't have a sentinel with me either, so maybe we can get to know each other."
"Understand?" the lizardman repeated. "We understand?"
"You want to be... my guide?" It twisted its neck a little with each question until its white eyes could stare directly at her. "We merge?"
"It's a combination," Xu Nuo corrected it, "Our spirits combine, the more compatible you are, the stronger you will become."
"Can it be cured? Deformation? It's very... painful..." The human head showed an unbearable expression.
"Of course, I'm optimistic about you," Xu Nuo finally opened the suitcase and took out a blue pistol from the interlayer. "To ease your pain, let's start now."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mutant's long scarlet tongue followed the sound and came in front of him, circling around his body like a python strangling its prey in the last second.
"Combined with... the guide..."
With the pistol loaded, Xu Nuo said in a low, coaxing voice, "That's right, combine. Come closer, relax... That's it, we're about to start."
A friction sound was heard from the shadows, and the lizardman approached step by step with his neck hanging upside down, until finally he moved his shriveled body and presented his confused head in front of him.
Its hair had fallen out, and was covered with large gray-white scales. Only a pair of dull eyeballs hung on its face, making it difficult to discern its facial features. The rest of its body was also completely deformed, and it no longer resembled a human form.
No longer a human being, he carried with him the obsessions he had in life, and became a monster with only killing in his heart.
Xu Nuo emptied the magazine directly at the head.
"ah!!"
The lizardman's head exploded with a scream, and hot blood splattered all over the wall. It went crazy, and its huge tailbone swept across the carriage.
A burst of bullets specifically designed to kill mutants hit their weak points, but it didn't kill them in one shot?
Xu Nuo put down his gun and swallowed the inappropriate curse against the arms dealer.
"Liar! I'm going to kill you!!"
The lizard-man was so angry that he swung his long tail over and over, smashing the entire carriage to pieces.
Xu Nuo dodged the first wave of attacks, quickly breaking open the gate and escaping. Behind her, a long, scarlet tongue pierced through, stabbing at her with its own tracking effect.
At the critical moment, she threw herself forward and cried out, "Little Gu!"
"Gu!" A round, yellow, fluffy figure rushed out from the corner, opened its sharp beak, and its small black bean-like eyes flashed with angry flames, and it shot towards the long tongue like a missile.
“Guju!!”
"boom!"
The crisp chirping of birds was mixed with a loud noise, and the lizardman fell sideways.
"Gu?"
The little yellow bird, whose battle had suddenly ended, flapped its wings and landed on the seat. It tilted its head and looked at the monster printed on the wall, as if wondering when its sharp beak had become so powerful.
Without even having time to catch his breath, Xu Nuo climbed up and leaned against the wall of the train, pointing his gun directly at the door, as if facing a formidable enemy: "Xiao Gu, come back quickly!"
Outside the door, regular footsteps came closer and closer, and a blood-stained combat boot stepped into the ruins that the mutants had madly smashed.
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