104 The Abandoned Village (VIII)
◎Red worms wriggled between her fingers◎
When people rub their eyes, they bring in countless bacteria. The moment this action is completed, your eyes are contaminated.
Zhu Yao is a doctor and she cares a lot about Zhu Ning's hygiene. Zhu Ning has never had the habit of rubbing his eyes since he was a child.
Now Zhu Ning raised one hand and wanted to rub her eyes. She really felt that there was something wrong with her eyes.
But her action of rubbing her eyes was hindered by the helmet, and her knuckles hit the helmet with a crisp sound, which instantly woke her up.
Once a person suspects that there is something wrong with his eyes, he cannot stop. There seems to be some kind of infection in this village, and Zhu Ning still hasn't figured out the real way of the infection.
She turned on the camera inside the helmet to see the current condition of her eyes.
The camera was pointed at him. There was a real-time monitoring screen inside the helmet. Zhu Ning used the camera as a mirror to check himself.
A pair of eyes appeared in front of the screen. Zhu Ning's eyes were quite big, and originally the black and white were clear, but perhaps due to the high intensity of mental exertion, her eyes showed a tired look, and there were some red bloodshot on the surface of her eyeballs.
It is normal to have red bloodshot eyes due to excessive fatigue. Zhu Ning zoomed in the camera and took a close-up of the eyes.
Why did her eyes feel itchy?
The camera zooms in, revealing a larger eyeball filling the screen inside the helmet. It's a strange moment, as if you're looking at your own eyes, but it's not as if you're looking at your own eyes. It's as if you're looking at another independent creature.
The eyeball seemed to have a life of its own, a separate entity.
Every blink, every slight movement of the eyeballs will be captured and magnified, and even the calmest person will feel terrified if they look into his eyes for a long time.
Zhu Ning controlled the direction of the camera, zooming in, zooming in, and zooming in again. She could clearly see the lines of red blood vessels.
I guess you didn’t get enough rest. You should go home and have a good sleep. So many red blood vessels may be the precursor of some disease.
Suddenly, Zhu Ning paused, and the red blood vessels on the surface of his eyeballs moved.
Those are not red blood vessels, but tiny red worms attached to the surface!
Red worms were wriggling on Zhu Ning's eyeballs.
At first, it was just a slight twitching of the body, and then the twitching frequency became more and more crazy, swallowing up the black eyeball and densely occupying the entire eyeball.
Zhu Ning's eyes were now occupied by red worms, which were twitching and trying to struggle out of her eyes.
[Spirit value decreased by 5%]
Zhu Ning suddenly woke up and looked at the camera again. There was only a pair of normal eyes in it, just with some red bloodshot.
What did I just see? An illusion?
This is spiritual pollution. Diaries, eye pain, and red bloodshot eyes are all forms of spiritual pollution that are constantly accumulating.
Zhu Ning was not the only one who wanted to check his eyes after reading the diary. Xu Meng should have had the same idea. Zhu Ning could see that her body suddenly shook violently.
Li Nianchuan next to him reacted even more violently, his entire body stiffened. He must have been contaminated.
Li Nianchuan was looking at his own eyes, and those bugs crawled out of his eye sockets, tiny and dense. The red bugs crawled all over his face and then drilled into his mouth, nostrils and ears. They did not miss any corner.
The reproduction speed was extremely fast. In just one second, the wriggling worms continued to expand and finally occupied the entire interior of the helmet.
Li Nianchuan wanted to struggle, but he was completely unable to move his fingers and could only watch himself being devoured by the insects.
The red worms blocked his throat and filled his nasal cavity, and he felt like he was suffocating.
Snap——
Someone patted his back, and instantly the insects began to run around as if startled.
"Li Nianchuan!" Zhu Ning called him, "Wake up!"
Li Nianchuan gasped for breath, and fresh air rushed in from the helmet filter. The drowning man finally emerged from the water. He widened his eyes and looked inside the helmet again.
No, the red bug disappeared.
Li Nianchuan felt that his mental state was rapidly decreasing. He might go crazy if he stayed here any longer.
Zhu Ning: "Hey, are you okay?"
Zhu Ning's helmet appeared in Li Nianchuan's sight. Zhu Ning replaced those disgusting bugs. Li Nianchuan's teeth were still chattering. He tried hard to grit his teeth and said, "Not bad."
Zhu Ning: "Give me a shot of mental healing potion."
They are equipped with mental healing agents for this mission, which are for injection. They are distributed inside the protective suit. There is no need to open the protective suit. Just press the button on the arm and a tiny needle will pop out from inside the protective suit and penetrate into the skin to complete the injection.
The entire process directly avoids infection outside the wall.
But there are only two needles per person, and Li Nianchuan wants to use them sparingly. "I, I can still hold on."
Zhu Ning didn't say anything. Mental value can be trained. Li Nianchuan probably is not as fragile as before after experiencing two advancements.
"Tell me if you can't hold on." Zhu Ning said, otherwise it would be too late when hallucinations appear.
Li Nianchuan hummed and asked, "Where's the captain?"
Xu Meng didn't know what illusion she saw. Zhu Ning could only see her left hand shaking, and Xu Meng was pressing down her shaking left hand with her right hand.
Xu Meng's voice was surprisingly steady, "I'm fine."
Li Nianchuan felt that his captain was really powerful, but wasn't Xu Meng just the captain of the cleaning team?
The quality of cleaners is so high nowadays, it turns out that Li Nianchuan is not suitable for this job.
Li Nianchuan asked: "Spiritual pollution?"
Li Nianchuan's only two experiences of entering a closed contaminated area were with Zhu Ning, and he was instinctively dependent on Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning closed his notebook and said, "Yes, don't read the following clues."
Everything in the polluted area is trying to pollute you. Before in the sewer, Zhu Ning didn't let him look too much.
Li Nianchuan did not try to be stubborn. He struggled to think, trying to suppress the nagging thoughts and began to think about the contents of the diary.
"So the one playing the piano is Old Man Wu?"
Zhu Ning: "It should be."
This Happy Village Observation Log records that Old Man Wu can play the piano, and his current level is only that of a beginner, so the piano sound they heard should have come from Old Man Wu.
He was the first person to disappear and come back.
Old man Wu used to hang around the old lady's house. He was a key figure.
Surveillance, eyes, bugs.
What do these three mean together? Was the village once infested with an insect contaminant?
The old lady said that a ghost had sneaked into the village, and Old Man Wu was the source of the pollution?
"Jiang Ping and the others went to Old Man Wu's house." Li Nianchuan said.
Before leaving, Zhu Ning left the channel number with Cui Kai. She tried to contact Cui Kai and ask about the progress. It was just a try, and it was hard to say whether there was any signal in this place.
After opening the channel, a crackling sound was heard from the other side.
"Cui Kai?" Zhu Ning dialed.
"What's wrong?" Someone actually responded on the other end, and the answer was very clear.
But Zhu Ning didn't feel safe at all. Judging from the voice, he couldn't tell whether it was the real person.
Zhu Ning was silent for a moment, then asked, "Have you guys gone in?"
Cui Kai's answer was unremarkable: "When we first came in, this place was very strange. The people outside disappeared. It was like we had entered another dimension."
It seems that they encountered the same thing as Zhu Ning and the others. They all entered another level of this world.
Zhu Ning briefly told him the clues they had found. Cui Kai listened carefully and asked, "Is this old man Wu the first one to get into trouble?"
"Yes," Zhu Ning said, "I suspect something's wrong with him. You guys should be careful."
"Okay," Cui Kai said, "I'll contact you if I find any clues."
Cui Kai hung up the channel. Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng both heard the call on Zhu Ning's public channel and waited until he hung up before speaking.
Xu Meng asked a crucial question: "Are you really sure you're in contact with Cui Kai?"
Zhu Ning: “Not sure.”
I only hear the sound, who knows if it’s a human or a ghost on the other end of the channel?
Zhu Ning was not afraid to share the information with them. If it was a ghost, they would definitely know what Zhu Ning knew. If it was a living person, it would be really useful to them.
Li Nianchuan: "Should we go find them?"
If they both entered another space, they should be able to meet.
Zhu Ning: "I want to go find Lao Zhang."
Judging from the old lady's narration, Lao Zhang was really strange. He asked her to help with surveillance, but later when something obviously happened, he refused to share information.
Lao Zhang must have discovered something.
They had no objection. The place was getting colder and colder. When they walked out of the cabin, the sunset outside was still motionless. Time had not passed. The place was completely still.
The warm red sunset falling on people only makes them feel cold.
Before leaving, they searched the house again. This house was empty and no one was in it.
Zhu Ning found a box of cigarettes and a box of matches in the house, but they were damp and would fall apart with the slightest touch.
Xu Meng found a hunting rifle and said, "Zhu Ning, look at this."
Zhu Ning knew the most about guns. This old hunting rifle should be homemade. Zhu Ning weighed it and found it was quite heavy, about eight kilograms. An ordinary person could not hold it steadily, let alone aiming it.
This old lady is really tough, at least she has the habit of hunting.
Zhu Ning's mind flashed with an image of an old lady who loved smoking pipes, hunting, and had a bad temper.
No wonder Lao Zhang wanted to ask her for help. If anyone in this village was more likely to survive, this old lady should be more likely to survive.
Zhu Ning and the other two wanted to find out the old lady's name, but it was strange. After searching around and checking everything in the house, they found no clues related to the name.
The name was erased?
The key characters in the diary are Ah Fen, Old Man Wu, and Old Zhang. Because they are acquaintances, they are not usually addressed by their full names. In fact, at most they are known by the nicknames between acquaintances.
Zhu Ning took the old lady's hunting rifle. Although this gun was not as sophisticated as the equipment provided by the cleaning center, it should be quite useful.
There were no more clues in the house. Zhu Ning took a look before leaving and saw that the footprints by the window were still there.
They opened the door, and sure enough, there was no golden waves outside, only a village road with deserted houses, and they looked in from the window again.
There was no old lady in the deserted house. It was empty, like a real abandoned house.
When Li Nianchuan walked out of the door, he heard another strange noise. His ears moved, as if someone was talking and shouting something.
Zhu Ning asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Nianchuan: "I keep hearing voices, can you hear them?"
Zhu Ning had taken genetic drugs and had good hearing. He stood there and listened for a while but didn't hear anything unusual.
Li Nianchuan: "Maybe I heard it wrong?"
Li Nianchuan suspected that he was mentally polluted and always had hallucinations.
Zhu Ning: "Not necessarily, you might have actually heard it."
Xu Meng took over the conversation, "If we walked into another world, and this is a superposition of two worlds, you might hear the sounds of the previous world."
If Jin Tao was in the first world, then Li Nianchuan and the others walked into the second world. The two worlds were folded in space, and what Li Nianchuan heard was the voices of Jin Tao and the others.
Li Nianchuan couldn't imagine that Jin Tao was standing on the same spot where he was standing. They were clearly on the same anchor point, but they couldn't touch each other at all.
Jin Tao shouted loudly, did he want them to escape?
Li Nianchuan: "If we can't get out..."
"Then we will be in more trouble than Jin Tao and the others. We will die here." Zhu Ning said. This is the fact. If Jin Tao and the others are on the first floor, there is still a chance that they can find a way out by breaking through with violence. Then Zhu Ning and the others may really be buried here forever.
Moreover, Zhu Ning always felt that this place was very strange, probably because it was outside the wall and it seemed to be more than just a Class A pollution area.
The environment outside the wall was complicated, and even Xu Meng was very nervous.
She touched the back of her neck and felt the black goo buried deep in her neck twitching slightly.
Because he sensed the pollution outside the wall? Was the substance on Zhu Ning the same as the source of the pollution outside the wall?
How did this village get abandoned?
Zhu Ning: "Look for Old Zhang's family."
There should have been house numbers at the door of each house in Xingfu Village, probably saying "This is So-and-so's house", similar to Zhang's House or Li's House, or at least a number would be written on it to facilitate couriers in delivering goods.
Now the house number plate has disappeared, leaving only a square mark, as if someone has deliberately erased the evidence. From the outside, it is impossible to tell who the house belongs to.
So they could only use the most stupid method to search room by room, and the first target was the first house on the right side of the old lady's house.
Zhu Ning still hasn't given up on the rules of the polluted world, and here you need to find an identity for yourself.
Zhu Ning knocked on the door next to the old lady's house. "Hello, is anyone there? We are lost."
It's this line again: in a mountain village composed of only acquaintances, the only role you can play is that of an outsider.
With a sound of yelping——
The wooden door was opened from the inside, and a face suddenly appeared in the crack of the door, revealing half of her old face.
There is someone, there is actually someone in this family.
Half of the old lady's face was in the shadows, with only her right eye showing. Her eyes were gloomy and her eyeballs were full of red bloodshot.
Zhu Ning couldn't help but stare at the old lady's red blood vessels for a few more seconds. This time it was not an illusion, the red blood vessels were wriggling.
And it was visibly moving, as if covered with red worms crawling on the surface of her eyeball.
As it crawled over the eyeball, the insect's tail even swung, detaching from the surface of the eyeball and almost falling out of the eye socket.
[Spirit value decreased by 2%]
Zhu Ning heard the prompt and moved her stiff body to block Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng behind her.
Her instinctive reaction was faster than her brain, and she couldn't let her teammates see it. This was not noble, but to preserve her teammates' morale.
"Don't look into her eyes." Zhu Ning warned in a low voice.
"Is there something wrong?" the old lady spoke. This house also had no electricity, so she was standing completely in the shadows.
Zhu Ning tried to calm himself down. This was normal. It was normal. It was normal for people to have bugs in their eyes.
"We are lost." Zhu Ning repeated.
"Oh." The old lady responded, only saying one sentence, but her attitude was already very clear, I don't welcome you, and I don't want to answer your questions.
What does it have to do with me if you get lost?
Zhu Ning didn't expect the other party to be so strange, so he changed the question: "Excuse me, where did the family next door go?"
The old lady paused as she tried to close the door. "Do you know her?"
Zhu Ning: "She called us here."
Zhu Ning's mind raced, and he immediately found a reasonable excuse for his presence. "She called me and said the surveillance camera was broken and asked us to come and fix it."
This is very reasonable. The surveillance camera in the old lady’s house really cannot be turned on, so it is normal to call for on-site repair.
"I went to her house and found no one there," Zhu Ning continued to lie, "Where did she go?"
The old lady said "oh", and Zhu Ning's voice was so firm that it was impossible to doubt it.
The old lady looked up at Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng. The three of them were wearing black cleaner protective suits and helmets. They looked abnormal, but this village was also abnormal.
Old lady: "Would you like to come in and wait for her?"
She didn't answer Zhu Ning's question, but gave her a new idea.
Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng both frowned. This didn't seem normal at all. Zhu Ning hesitated for a second and said, "Thank you for your help."
If you want to get out of the contaminated area quickly, you can't miss any opportunity to find out the facts.
The old lady opened the door and let them in.
The room was a little dim, and the whole house looked dilapidated. The mottled table and the chandelier that had fallen to the ground were also covered with a thick layer of dust. It didn't look like a place where people lived at all.
Zhu Ning's first reaction was to look towards the window. There was a pair of very clear footprints by the window. Just like the old lady's house next door, there was only a single pair of footprints and no signs of walking.
"sit."
The old lady was only 1.6 meters tall, with a hunched back that made her look like she was carrying a tortoise shell.
The only place to sit in the room was the sofa, which was very old. When the three of them sat down, it made a creaking sound that sounded very uncomfortable, like someone scratching a blackboard with fingernails.
In the old sofa and dusty living room, Li Nianchuan sat down with Zhu Ning and didn't even dare to move too much.
The old lady entertained the guests and brought out a plate of rotten fruit, "Have something to eat."
Zhu Ning hesitated for a while, then reached out and took an apple from the fruit plate. The apple was rotten, felt soft in his hand, and gave off a foul odor.
The texture is also very strange, not like fruit, but like human flesh.
Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng also followed Zhu Ning and took down an apple. They kept it in their hands without eating it. The old lady sat opposite them.
She didn't say anything, but her eyes seemed to have some kind of power. You would feel very pressured when she looked at you, as if she was watching you eat an apple.
If you don't eat it, she will keep looking at you until she is sure you have eaten it and she will not be satisfied.
Li Nianchuan had completely closed his eyes. He held the apple as if it were a human head, and he always felt that the apple would jump.
Zhu Ning looked at the apple. There was a hole on the surface of the rotten apple, and it seemed like something was drilling into it.
Zhu Ning wanted to divert the old lady's attention, "What's your name?"
As the old lady spoke, bugs crawled in her eyes. "Just call me A-Fen."
Ah Fen? Is she Ah Fen?
Zhu Ning recalled the contents of the notebook. Afen had discovered a long time ago that the locust tree at the entrance of the village was growing. From Zhu Ning's perspective, the old locust tree had grown unusually large.
Moreover, she was influenced by the old lady next door and bought herself a batch of equipment. The old man Wu also appeared at her doorstep once.
Ah Fen: "Eat."
Afen smiled, and as her facial muscles moved, a piece of the worm in her eye socket fell out, and its tail was twitching.
Zhu Ning looked at the apple in his hand and said, "It looks like it's been bitten by insects."
Ah Fen continued to stare at Zhu Ning: "Just bite that piece off. It's okay to eat it. It's a fruit worm. It's very nutritious."
In the past, when Zhu Ning went to her grandmother's house in the countryside, her grandmother didn't care much about the worm-eaten apples. If Zhu Ning didn't eat them, her grandmother would eat them, and she would say they were very nutritious while eating.
It was a very warm memory, but now it feels horrible when the scene reappears.
Zhu Ning felt a chill down her spine. She stared at the hole in the apple. The hole was about as thick as a pen refill, which meant the worm inside should be about the same size.
Zhu Ning fiddled with it with his index finger, and through his gloves, he felt something soft under his fingertips, and a red worm was wriggling inside.
Almost instinctively, Zhu Ning used his fingers to pull the worm out. When eating fruit, even if it was a rotten apple, a normal person's reaction would be to pull the worm out. This action was very reasonable.
Generally speaking, a worm in an apple is considered to be one centimeter long.
But Zhu Ning seemed to have pulled the end of the sweater, and she pulled out a two-meter-long red worm.
The blood-red worm squirmed in her palm, like a blood vessel emitting a fishy smell. Half of it was in her palm, and the other half fell on her thigh. She suppressed her instinct and did not throw the worm away.
The rotten apple collapsed instantly, but Afen was still looking at herself, "Eat it."
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