Chapter 35
The camera slowly pulls away, and normality covers the earth again.
The pigs were still rolling in the mud, devouring decaying matter, or curled up in corners and sleeping.
Never ending.
In this chaos, the forms of Ji Dong Zang and Sui Chun Sheng quietly changed.
The body is covered with rough hair, the mouth and nose are prominent, and the body is swollen.
Silently fade away and dissolve.
They regained their human features and appearance.
Ji Dongzang's gaze followed the corrupted surveillance ball that was fading and dissipating.
In the last moment before it completely disappeared, a very brief trace of light seemed to flash beneath the sphere, piecing together incomplete words:
"Freedom will eventually devour..."
The light went out and the words disappeared.
She walked towards Sui Chunsheng, who was looking down at the battered "Handbook of the Fallen World" in his hand.
Most of the pages in the manual had been torn and gnawed away, and the remaining parts were covered with foul-smelling mud, making the words blurred and difficult to read.
There is only one exception.
That's the last page of the manual.
The material was unique, tough and smooth, and mud could not stick to it. The handwriting was clearly visible to the two people:
Conclusion
"The Fallen World is not hell, but the ultimate freedom after being freed from the shackles of civilization."
——But freedom will eventually devour the free.
——Resolution 471 of the Interdimensional Civilization Observatory
Faced with this final maxim, the two remained silent for a moment.
The silence didn't last long.
When they looked up at the swamp again, seven figures had appeared silently not far away.
Seven pigmen.
They did not roll around or eat like their peers, but just stood silently in the mud, watching the winter hibernation and spring birth.
…
Ji Dongzang struggled to open his eyelids which were stuck with blood clots and sand.
The light was dim, not glaring. The first thing she felt was the heavy pressure on her body - broken tree branches and rubble half buried her under the rubble.
She used up all her remaining strength to push away the debris that was weighing her down and struggled to sit up.
Before the vision became completely clear, a huge white figure came into view.
It’s Gao Jie’s white tiger.
The terrifying "embroidered human head" decoration on its body disappeared, and Gao Jie was nowhere to be found.
And at this moment, sitting on the back of the white tiger is a robot cat with an emerald green body!
The robot cat seemed to be waiting.
After Ji Dongzang struggled to get up, Sui Chunsheng, who was also in a miserable state, also struggled to climb out from the rubble on the other side.
It then emitted a short electronic sound and began to drive them in a specific direction.
Ji Dongzang looked around in confusion, and as far as the eye could see was a scorched earth wasteland with no end in sight.
The earth is cracked and no grass grows.
However, just as the robot cat was leading them forward, a gigantic creature suddenly appeared on the ground without any warning.
An unimaginably huge suspended tower!
Just as Ji Dongzang's eyes focused on the giant tower, something strange happened.
It wasn't just the physical vision that began to fluctuate and distort violently.
An even stranger perception exploded deep within her consciousness.
The air around him was no longer empty, but was filled with countless flickering and jumping particles whose colors could not be described in words!
They defy common sense and have a dazzling, unnatural brilliance.
These strange "particles" and "energy flows" flickered, flashed, and reorganized wildly in her perception.
Sometimes it is clear, sometimes it is blurry.
Every flash gave Ji Dongzang a headache, making her already painful head feel as if it was about to explode.
Ji Dongzang instinctively closed his eyes tightly, but the flickering lights and distorted sense of space did not disappear.
Instead, it leaps more vividly in the darkness of consciousness.
This was the first time she "saw" the other side of the world so clearly, a dimension composed of flowing energy and distorted space that ordinary people could not perceive.
They seem to be performing some kind of movement around the base of the tower.
A strong feeling of nausea rose in her throat, and she couldn't help but retching violently, her body curled up in a ball due to the pain and the overload of sensory information.
Ji Dongzang squatted on the ground, suppressing the weakness after vomiting and the severe pain in his head.
She barely managed to distract herself and glance at Sui Chunsheng, who was completely unaware of all the strange things happening around him.
Only she was tortured by this crazy and distorted "vision".
The green robot cat in front handed over a bottle of water.
Ji Dongzang took it without hesitation, rinsed his mouth and washed his hands.
He supported himself and stood up, continuing to follow the silent mechanical cat.
As the distance got closer, the oppressive feeling of the giant floating tower became stronger and stronger.
The base of the tower seems to be held up by an invisible force field, suspended in the air.
Its surface is not static, but continuously emits an indescribable stream of energy particles.
Just at the edge of the shadow cast by the giant tower, they saw Zhou You.
The photographer was holding a camera in one hand pointing at the giant tower in an almost absurd and leisurely posture, and with the other hand... holding a rough rope.
Walking a hideous mutated giant dog.
Not only that, there are also other mutated creatures of various shapes wandering around the base of the tower: pandas, squirrels, wild boars, giraffes, elephants...
As if attracted by an invisible magnet, they paced around the giant tower in anxiety and awe.
Zhou You also noticed them, a tired but excited smile appeared on his face, and he waved from afar.
“Come in quickly!”
She shouted, then swung the camera onto her back with a swift movement, supported herself on the thick back of a mutated leopard beside her, and used the force to lightly jump onto the edge of the floating tower.
Ji Dongzang and Sui Chunsheng also stepped forward, grabbed the edge of the tower and climbed up.
The space inside the tower base is wider than expected.
The first scene that caught my eye was strange enough: Gao Jie, whose hair was half white, was climbing along the metal wall nimbly.
The huge white tiger followed closely and jumped onto the base of the tower, rubbing Gao Jie's hanging hand affectionately with its huge head.
Gao Jie flipped over quickly and landed steadily on the tiger's back. He nodded slightly to Ji Dongzang and the others as a greeting.
Then the white tiger carried her, jumped off the base of the tower, and disappeared in the dust of the wasteland.
Bang bang bang!
A dull thud came from not far away.
Ji Dongzang followed the sound and saw Qiu Lian, who was wearing a white combat uniform, fighting with a mutated hedgehog that was as big as a car and had spikes standing up all over its body.
Her movements were agile and strange, as if she were fighting, or as if she were... playing?
Qiu Lian seemed to have noticed their gazes as well.
She stopped, hugged the hedgehog that was still twisting in anger, turned her head, and glanced at Ji Dongzang and Sui Chunsheng, who were dirty and in a mess, with an expressionless face.
Then, she held the struggling giant hedgehog like a large stuffed toy and turned away.
After Qiu Lian left, the little girl sitting behind her was revealed.
The girl sat on a metal table, with mutated animals all over the ground below her.
She was holding strips of cloth of different colors and tying them around the legs of the animals. There seemed to be some words written on the strips.
The three of them walked over.
Zhou You introduced them to each of them. Ji Dongzang recognized the girl - The Fool.
The fool saw Ji Dongzang's doubt and took the initiative to speak: "Master has left. Master said that she has not forgotten what she promised you, and gave me to you."
A fool's words are shocking.
Zhou You looked at Ji Dongzang in surprise, and Sui Chunsheng also turned around and glared at her.
Ji Dongzang's face was filled with questions. "I don't know anything."
Looking at the fool, Sui Chunsheng thought of his missing sister. For a moment, he didn't care about Ji Dongzang and immersed himself in his own world.
She had already asked Ji Dongzang, and the most urgent task was to find the two companions she mentioned who had turned into animals - the blue wolf and the elephant.
At this time, Zhou You noticed the strips of cloth that the fool had tied to the animal's legs.
"Hey, fool, didn't I tell you to give them all names? Why are they all numbers?"
The Fool stroked the head of a blue cat in front of him and whispered, "They will always give themselves names. It has nothing to do with me."
Zhou You didn't say anything else. She turned to the other two and said, "Look, these are animals transformed into beasts. Xia Changjie, the human transformed into a beast, seems to be still checking.
"But you need to change your clothes and tidy yourself first."
Soon, Zhou You brought new clothes and water to the two of them - carried by two mutated dogs.
The two people's attention was attracted by different things. Ji Dongzang's attention was on a white combat uniform of the same style as Qiu Lian, which looked like it would never get dirty.
Sui Chunsheng's attention was focused on the buckets held by the two mutated dogs.
"Where does the water come from?" she asked.
Zhou You smiled and pushed the two of them into the room, saying, "Of course I made it for you. I'll show it to you when you come out!"
While the two of them were packing up, Zhou You sat on the ground outside the door and told them about the sudden appearance of the floating tower and everything she had recorded with her camera...
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