Chapter 95
Wu Yongnian and He Ping went around in circles again, only to find with dismay that they were going in circles, unable to find the way forward or the exit.
Their physical strength was gradually being depleted during the exploration.
"You haven't found any clues either?" Wu Yongnian asked.
Xiao Shengyun and the others exchanged glances. This Wu Yongnian was like an artificial intelligence, capable of deceiving the real thing. Unfortunately, they couldn't interfere with this part of the historical footage.
"No."
“Let’s go take another look at the murals,” He Ping suggested.
The corridors all have the same structure, and no matter how far you walk, you will see the same scenery, giving you a maze-like feeling, except for the murals.
The ripples on the mural have disappeared, revealing the underlying layer, and above that is a layer of interwoven black and red lines, just like the land that appeared after the snake-men's corpses disappeared.
He Ping placed his hand directly on the mural.
"Be careful!" Wu Yongnian reminded him from the side.
The moment the mural was touched, the patterns on it changed drastically, and then a new mural appeared on it.
Above the sky, a colossal figure appeared, with the snake-men below raising their arms in submission to their god, and then they were granted a place to live in a new world.
He Ping couldn't understand the content of the mural, but he found the exit; behind the mural was an empty space.
"Captain, please blast this open; there's a path behind it."
After a violent tremor, a dark cave appeared, and Wu Yongnian and He Ping went inside.
In Xiao Shengyun and his companions' eyes, the cave entrance was already damaged, and the two of them would not return here. This was a road of no return, and these words appeared as everyone stepped onto the road ahead.
They proceeded along the road that Wu Yongnian had cleared.
A sound came from ahead, and the group tensed up instantly, unsure whether it was a projection or reality.
The core area of the building is an octagonal area resembling an altar, in the center of which a crystal hovers alertly.
It is another source of a god-level pollutant, and also a channel connecting two worlds.
"You've finally come!" A man sat in the center of the altar, somewhat at a loss, as the sound of a baby crying rose beside him.
This man had deep-set eyes, disheveled hair, long stubble on his chin, and eyes as sharp as an eagle's.
"Xiao Cheng!" He Ping shouted, running over in surprise.
His steps were interrupted by a violent shaking, and this was not a projection, because the ground beneath everyone's feet was truly shaking.
"What happened?" Chen Buyan turned on the light source, and then his expression froze.
Because a large number of pollutants appeared out of nowhere, not the small ones like the fish monster, but real pollutants.
Each one possesses strength at least at the A-level.
Of these pollutants, some are real, and some are projections.
This is a cycle.
Twenty years ago, a large influx of pollutants occurred here, and Wu Yongnian and He Ping were swallowed up by the black tide.
"Where did those two babies come from?" He Yongnian's firelight illuminated an area.
"Found in the ruins, it sounds ridiculous, but I saw these two little things here as soon as I arrived." Xiao Cheng said, firing one contaminant at a time.
But some pollutants cannot be killed by bullets. He threw the two babies to He Ping: "These two little ones are the key to saving the world. Take them out of here. We'll hold them off."
Pollutants and phantoms intertwined, and everyone prepared for battle.
"You're too late!" Shen Xiuping's figure emerged from the shadows, his eyes flashing with madness. His wish had finally come true; a new world was about to begin.
Shen Xiuping is a complete madman. In his view, introducing pollution into the human world is like taking seeds into outer space—a way to drive evolution.
Greater power, longer lifespan, and humanity will enter a new form—that is his mission.
He dissected Shen Yao's body and extracted the source core.
The defective woman was looking at her so-called father as she died.
In Shen Xiuping's eyes, what is a defective product if one abandons the power of the gods in order to crave human emotions?
He used this power to successfully connect two worlds at once.
Flames ignited on this battlefield, a testament to Wu Yongnian's talent. Under the illumination of the Black Tide, this light resembled a tiny candle, about to be extinguished.
This is the battlefield from twenty years ago.
He Ping did not hesitate. He always obeyed his captain's orders unconditionally. He quickly fled the battlefield with the two children and the memory card, with Xiao Cheng's gun behind him forming a shield.
He was the weakest and youngest in the team, and was always protected by his seniors.
After eliminating the first batch of pollutants, Wu Yongnian breathed a sigh of relief, but he soon realized something was wrong.
Because the second batch of pollutants has arrived.
Not just one or two, but a continuous stream.
He stared in disbelief at the monster that had appeared out of nowhere, feeling powerless despite being the first to arrive.
He couldn't find the tap that was releasing the Kuroshio Current.
"I can't hold on any longer."
A continuous stream of flames surged from Wu Yongnian's body; the candle was about to burn out.
Xiao Cheng helped Wu Yongnian, who set off with the "prophecy" and was about to reach the end of his destiny.
We hope He Ping can take those two children back.
Wu Yongnian suddenly remembered the gauze left by Liu Ying. He took it out of his backpack and threw it on the edge of the altar, where contaminants swarmed over it.
This action only bought him a few seconds to catch his breath.
Pollution poured down like a tidal wave.
"Captain, Brother Xiao! I've found the mechanism to seal off this building." He Ping returned.
“I’ve taken the two children to the area beneath the mural. You can leave now, and I can seal this place off.”
Parts of the building's walls can be used to seal off pollution, thus creating the first line of defense against it.
The ending has already been written: Xiao Cheng's figure disappeared at the exit, and He Ping arrived at the center of the altar.
As the mechanical whirring sound began, the building started operating, with Wu Yongnian standing guard beside him like a loyal protector.
That's a story from the past.
Chen Buyan illuminated the altar with light, and everyone and the pollutants fought each other in the most primitive way, creating chaos.
"Go to the middle," Zhou Zhi's voice rang out as he struggled to control the movement of the pollutants.
Mind control is a very abnormal ability. The pollutant's movements became slow and sluggish in an instant, and the remaining people cut the pollutant like mowing grass.
Zhou Zhi glanced at something and manipulated the pollutants to attack Shen Xiuping. Regardless of what happened afterward, he wanted to kill the culprit first.
Shen Xiuping's body was submerged in pollutants and torn to pieces.
In his final moments, he looked at the spatial passage in mid-air with a slight smile.
Space was torn open, and air from another world flowed in.
With the pollutants significantly reduced, Xiao Shengyun was pulled to a corner.
"Take my heart out. After all, I'm already dead, and it should be returned to its rightful owner," Zhou Zhi's voice echoed in his mind.
Xiao Shengyun turned his head, and the madman winked at him and gave him a smile.
"I told you, I'll take it back after you're dead," he said through gritted teeth, casually swatting away two pollutants that had come close.
"If you don't take it, I'll do it myself."
Humans are sometimes far more perverse than pollutants.
Xiao Shengyun felt like he was being threatened, and he had no way to deal with this person.
"I may not succeed. If I don't come back, you will be the last line of defense."
As pollutants continued to arrive, the light source flickered on and off.
Chen Buyan is injured.
Darkness can make these monsters even stronger.
Black source particles filled the space. Xiao Shengyun passed through the black waves and came to the very center. His hand touched the black crystal.
He devoured Shen Yao's source core.
He glanced back at the exit, the spot where Xiao Cheng's projection had last disappeared, and he himself was probably in his father's hands.
Separated by a pile of blood and severed limbs, he and Zhou Zhi gazed at each other from afar. In the other's shocked eyes, he felt a passage between two worlds.
He wants to block the exit from another world.
Xiao Shengyun turned and fell into darkness.
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