Chapter 622: Memory and Truth
Cheng Chuan had been mostly consumed by the zombies' energy, and his hands had become less flexible. He couldn't untie the chain, and was afraid of hurting Xia Qiao who was tied around the neck, so he tore at it for a while but to no avail.
In anger, he pulled out the end of the chain that was connected to the wall with great force.
The necrotic skin on his hand was pulled until the bones were exposed, and pieces of flesh piled up on the edge in a state different from normal skin.
The people led by "Zhuang Mingxu" have blocked the entrance, and they have no chance of leaving.
Zhuang Mingxu looked at this scene in disbelief, turned around through layers of space, and seemed to see Lu Weiyi still sitting there.
He wanted to know what was going on, and saw Cheng Chuan holding Xia Qiao, who had turned into a zombie, in his arms. The energy around him was violent. After "Zhuang Mingxu" and his men left in a panic, the entire underground was completely reduced to ruins.
The zombies besieging the Kyoto base seemed to have pressed the pause button. After a while, they became less excited. Some were killed by psychics, and more left the siege walls.
Zhuang Mingxu followed "Zhuang Mingxu" and searched the laboratory and learned about their situation.
As expected, the two were rescued to the Kyoto base along with the people from the Cangnan Research Base. However, the journey was full of dangers, and it wasn't long before Cheng Chuan's abnormality was discovered.
Surrounding him are people who are researching weapons. In addition, they have been living in isolation in the research institute since the apocalypse, and they still have some humanity. Everyone just asks Cheng Chuan to cooperate with the research, hoping to develop something to deal with the zombies' energy.
However, as the research progressed, some researchers gradually began to go against their original ideas. They began to conduct a series of experiments on Cheng Chuan, under the guise of research needs.
Under the surveillance of various crystal cores and instruments, it is not a problem for Cheng Chuan to escape with his own abilities, but Xia Qiao is still in their hands.
They promised to cooperate with the experiment and not make things difficult for Xia Qiao, but they broke their promise.
Cheng Chuan, who knew everything, escaped from the research institute, upgraded at all costs, and controlled the zombie army to fight back.
Zhuang Mingxu, who knew all this, was unable to react for a while. He turned to look at Lu Weiyi, who was as silent as a sculpture, and thought about the situation when they met Cheng Chuan.
At that time, Lu Weiyi told him that perhaps they could research a way to control the energy of zombies from him, but after bringing him back to the base, Lu Weiyi insisted on not putting him into the research institute. Even though countless researchers threatened him with various opinions, Lu Weiyi stuck to his promise to Cheng Chuan and did not give in.
The reason why Zhuang Mingxu would rather create an explosion later and let all the researchers fake their deaths instead of letting them do it was also because of Lu Weiyi's firm attitude.
So why was he so persistent?
Zhuang Mingxu followed "Zhuang Mingxu" and saw that he was silent for a long time after knowing the truth. After returning, he increased the intensity of "Lu Weiyi's" training.
As the same person, he could clearly feel that he was afraid, afraid that one day his weak spot would be treated in the same way.
Zhuang Mingxu followed Lu Weiyi and watched the surrounding scenes constantly changing. It was as if he was standing in the long river of memory with him. Going upstream along the river, he could even vaguely see the scenes of their childhood.
This gave him an incredible thought: could it be that these were originally Lu Weiyi's memories...
What about him?
Which one is the real him?
There seemed to be a whirlpool stirring in Zhuang Mingxu's mind, making him begin to doubt himself. At this moment, from the distant horizon, he heard the childish voice of a child calling for his father.
Without time to say goodbye, Zhuang Mingxu floated away towards the source of the sound.
"Are you okay?" Just as he returned to his body, his shoulders were gripped forcefully. Zhuang Mingxu looked up dizzily and saw Wu Yue.
Isn’t Wu Yue defending the city?
"Why are you..." Zhuang Mingxu felt something was wrong after he finished speaking. He shook his head, his mind was like a mess, making all his thoughts churn, and he couldn't find a clue for a while.
Seeing him like this, Wu Yue immediately wanted to call a psychic to come and help check on him, but Zhuang Mingxu raised his hand to stop him, "Let me take it easy."
Taotao lay in his arms worriedly, holding his arms with her little hands and calling "Dad" in a low voice.
After a while, it was as if I had grasped the thread in my brain, and all the information slowly fell into place.
"It's okay," said Zhuang Mingxu.
"What's wrong with you? Taotao said you were in pain and called me over." Wu Yue looked nervous. The key point was that he didn't see Zhuang Mingxu in any pain. His body looked very relaxed, exactly the same as Lu Weiyi's.
"Maybe I was affected by the illusion." He began to doubt his own existence.
Zhuang Mingxu glanced in the direction of Lu Weiyi not far away and frowned, "Has the coverage area of Xiaoyi's mental power shrunk?"
At first, he covered the surrounding area of several kilometers, and then slowly shrank. When they moved underground, it was only about a thousand meters. Now Zhuang Mingxu felt that it seemed to have shrunk again.
"Yes, I just discovered it too. It has shrunk by about 100 meters." Wu Yue did not look happy. No one knew whether this was a good or bad development. The future was unknown to them.
"You should take a look at Taotao first." Wu Yue's worried voice drew his attention back. Zhuang Mingxu then discovered that Taotao, who was lying on him, had shrunk another size.
Taotao seemed to have noticed nothing and was fluttering around on Zhuang Mingxu with her short arms and legs. When she saw Zhuang Mingxu looking at her, she giggled.
"What's going on?" Zhuang Mingxu picked up the person and felt him. No one would believe that the child, who looked three or four years old before, was only three years old now.
"I don't know either. He was already like this when I came here." Ever since Taotao and Zhuang Mingxu appeared here inexplicably, Wu Yue felt that he must have some secret, but he never expected this to happen.
This is no longer a normal situation.
He looked at Taotao, wanting to see what it was.
But what I saw was just an ordinary kid.
"Is this... okay?" Wu Yue looked at Zhuang Mingxu.
Zhuang Mingxu was also unclear. He asked Taotao a few questions in a low voice and learned that Taotao was not feeling unwell. Zhuang Mingxu had no idea for a moment.
Now that he has lost contact with the base, he can't find Taoist Tianning to inquire about the situation, and the jade... he has lost all of it.
Seeing that he couldn't answer, Wu Yue didn't continue asking, but instead asked about his situation in the illusion.
"I feel... I seem to have touched upon the reason why Xiaoyi's illusion appeared." Although he still felt it was a little unbelievable and was still trying to prove his denial, "there was an external force controlling me and I couldn't continue thinking."
If Taotao had not woken him up in time, Zhuang Mingxu felt that he might have been immersed in the illusion.
"Do you have any idea?" Wu Yue asked hopefully.
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head and said, "Let me think about it again."
"Okay." Wu Yue had expected this and was not too disappointed. "But you'd better be careful." He glanced in Taotao's direction with an obvious hint.
Zhuang Mingxu also wondered if every time he took him into the illusion, Taotao's energy was being consumed. In addition, he had been lacking energy recently, so this change would become more and more obvious. Even though he had many guesses in his mind, he did not dare to continue.
On the other side, Zhou He and his team members successfully entered the Panshui base.
Unlike other bases that need to carry supplies into the city, the Panshui base is now completely open. It is better to call it a gathering point than a base.
Unlike the Panshui base they described before, where they originally lived underground, this place was just like everyone else, living on the ground. It was a group of newly built houses by earth-type mutants, gathered together in no particular order, without any rules at all in their construction.
A quick glance seemed to show that it was built at random. There were no walls in the outer city, and only a few psychics doing lazy work under the guise of guarding.
Even after leaving the territory of Laoshan, the winter wind was still biting, but the supernatural people here gathered in groups of three or four to play cards and drink, and the noise was endless. From time to time, you could see someone taking off his shirt and laughing with his bare chest.
His face was flushed with ruddy light, which didn't look like someone in the end times at all.
"Aren't they... afraid of attracting zombies?" Zhao Lei asked in a low voice.
Considering that the several psychics they had captured before were obviously different from people in the outside world, Zhou He did not lead them directly in, but occupied a high ground to observe secretly.
"Look over there," Guan Wei pointed in a direction and motioned for everyone to look.
I saw a few people playing mahjong in the corner of the street, surrounded by a circle of spectators. With the shout of "Hu Le" from the center of the crowd, there was a loud laugh and a scream.
Looking through the gap in the crowd, I saw that the person who was so excited at the card table just now was now covered in blood and unconscious.
Several card-playing friends seemed to have gotten used to it. They took out their food bowls from under the table. Some of them called out to the people around them, and from a distance they could vaguely hear them talking while the game was hot.
The sight of Xuehu Lacha sharing the food was so brutal that Guan Wei couldn't help but vomit violently on the side, and the others weren't much better off.
With this in front of me, it seems less unacceptable to lose a few pieces of flesh and blood or an arm in other places.
"Are they betting their lives?" Du Wen, a space-powered person in the team, lowered his voice to the lowest level, as if he was afraid that the slightest movement would be noticed.
"Maybe it's just the flesh and blood of a person with special abilities." Zhou He pointed in a direction and asked people to look. Then they saw a person who was just at the card table running towards a tube building with a stainless steel basin in his hand. He was running so fast as if he was being chased by someone.
At the door, there was an old woman with a hunched back, leaning on a cane, with half of her body leaning out, looking forward to something.
Just when the people were about to arrive, a scream came from the side, and then a group of people rushed out of the tube building. Several people were directly stepped on by the people pushing and shoving. By the time they were stepped on, the people on the ground were already motionless.
The last one to fall was a zombie.
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