113 The Lost Village (Seventeen)
"Shengxin, my name is Shengxin."
"Don't you want my body?" Zhu Ning said.
At that moment, it was a little dazed, as if the person standing in front of it was not Zhu Ning but Shengxin, who was the first human who tried to kill it.
The blazing fire silhouetted the old lady's face, which was full of wrinkles. Some people are afraid of getting old, and many people find aging itself scary.
Shengxin has lived a lifetime. She has experienced many events that later generations called history. She has witnessed the radiation and witnessed humans building a high wall.
Shengxin walked here and looked at the huge monster in front of her. It finally revealed its true face.
Shengxin's face was blood red against the fire. The heat wave rolled in, she stared blankly, the torch fell to the ground, and her face was covered with tear marks.
She had tried her best, had done everything she could, and she fought desperately but found that she was powerless to resist.
She was desperate, not because of her own impending death, but because of the insignificance of human beings in the face of pollutants.
The human mentality at the moment of death is very complicated, which is difficult for insects to understand. They call this feeling despair.
It rested on Shengxin's forehead, browsing through her lifetime of memories, watching her smoke a pipe and hunt.
I've seen her climb the snow-capped mountains and plant her own flag on the peaks.
At that moment, it was very confused about Shengxin's choice and did not understand her motive for killing itself.
Hunters hunt all year round and live in danger. They have their own estimates of prey and will weigh the pros and cons when encountering large prey that cannot be hunted. Giving up in time is also a basic requirement for hunters.
So it also couldn't understand Shengxin's words. The last words she left before her consciousness disappeared were:
"Shengxin, my name is Shengxin."
She said her name. Human beings only have one name to prove who they are.
All along, it felt that these words were its last words, like a meaningless howl of its prey before dying.
It simply didn't understand that it was a flag left behind by Shengxin.
Just as rock climbing leaves flags, humans climb mountains to leave their mark, proving that it is the pinnacle of human conquest. The same is true of the desire to win.
Seventy years ago, the extreme distance that mankind had traveled in the fight against pollutants was marked.
The human spirit is constantly being passed on. What she cannot do today, someone who comes after her will be able to do one day.
The process of fighting pollutants is a long relay race, passing the baton from one person to another step by step, and there will always be someone who can kill it.
Can a worm understand? It seems to understand.
Zhu Ning and Sheng Xin's figures overlapped. Back then, Sheng Xin had gone to great lengths to get to her, but she was just one step away from completing it.
Now Zhu Ning took over the invisible torch and took the last step.
Just as insects evolve, so do humans.
Seventy years later, evolved humans return to the battlefield to retake their lost land.
This is not a contest between Shengxin and insects, nor is it a contest between Zhu Ning and it, but a contest between humans and pollution.
Only then did it realize how ridiculous it was. It had evolved from a crawling worm on the ground to one that possessed wisdom and understood human emotions. However, it was always like a bystander. It used the identity of humans to survive, but never participated.
But there is only one of it, it has endless larvae, but no trustworthy companion.
It thought it was the closest to the God portrayed by humans, that God only played tricks on people and never felt fear, but now it felt it.
It took insects seventy years to complete the evolution of humans, but only one second to degenerate.
The moment it touched Zhu Ning's brain, it touched something it could not touch, like a pair of eyes opening in the abyss.
She looked down at herself.
It thought Zhu Ning was an attractive red apple and allowed itself to be parasitized, but she was a yellow bird.
It was like a real insect in front of her, unable to resist or struggle, and shouldn't even have the slightest thought.
Whenever she looked at him, it felt like being pricked by dense needles, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up, and he couldn't help but tremble all over.
Zhu Ning stripped it of its human body, its unnecessary emotions, and everything, leaving only pure fear.
Then she stretched out a finger, and that simple gesture was like a mountain looming over its head.
Fear, it couldn't help but feel fear, it was very strange, even made it feel a little weird, it turned out that it could also be afraid.
The aliens feed on fear, and they make loud cries before feeding.
Rustle, rustle, rustle——
It could hear its own fear and subconsciously wanted to hold its breath.
The black slime flowed and climbed up densely, making rustling sounds wherever it went, forming a closed space here.
By the time it reacted, it was already surrounded by black mucus. They were squeezing in from all directions, tightening continuously, and it could feel endless pressure.
There was slime all around, no way to escape, and fear was everywhere, piling up layer by layer like a tide.
"I'm hungry." Zhu Ning said expressionlessly, which sounded like a verdict before death.
With a puff—
It was crushed, squeezed, and swallowed.
It was dying, and it opened its mouth wide, trying to shout something out loud like Shengxin before death, but it couldn't do it. The moment it opened its mouth, it realized it had nothing to say.
That is a human emotion, it has nothing, not even a name.
…
Countdown 59 seconds.
In the last minute, the numbers inside the helmet decreased rapidly, and humans could not stop the flow of time.
In the second world, Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng were running low on oxygen and could no longer hold on.
Li Nianchuan tried to calm himself down, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't calm down. Both his physical and mental state told him that he was on the verge of death.
His heart was beating wildly, even harder than usual, and he was dying.
Human shadows appeared in the thick fog. They were the charred bodies of villagers. They maintained a human form and were gradually approaching Xu Meng and Li Nianchuan.
Li Nianchuan was dazed, his spirit was in danger, with only thirty seconds left in the countdown and he was even unwilling to resist.
He didn't react at all when he saw the approaching charred corpse. Even though it was very close, Li Nianchuan didn't move.
Suddenly, a blade flashed before his eyes, and a long knife broke through the air, drawing a straight line in the air and chopping the charred corpse in front of him into two pieces.
Xu Meng grabbed Li Nianchuan by the back of his neck and gritted his teeth, "What are you standing there for?"
Li Nianchuan's helmet was soaked with sweat, and there was fire all around him. He couldn't breathe, and Xu Meng should be the same. The captain was still resisting.
Xu Meng yelled, "Pick up your gun and go back to running your fish restaurant!"
Li Nianchuan blinked his eyes. He felt like he was crying. He had never seen the gentle captain curse.
Not only was he not upset after being scolded, he was quite happy instead.
At this time, Xu Meng seemed to have torn off his disguise and revealed a little of his true nature.
Pick up the gun and leave here. Don't you have to trust Zhu Ning? Then trust him to the end.
As long as you are not dead, you can resist. As long as you are alive, you can fight, even if there are only twenty seconds left in the countdown.
I have to make sure I am still alive within the time promised by Zhu Ning.
First world.
The main road of the deserted village was in chaos. Some people were rolling on the ground, countless insects had crawled into their protective suits, and the cleaners were struggling and twisting on the ground.
The cleaners were besieged by villagers, wriggling insects were scattered on the ground, and three team members had already been possessed by insects.
The deserted village felt like hell for a moment, and the team members kept wailing.
boom--
Someone turned on the flamethrower and flames swept over in an instant.
"Fire!" the chaos cleaners shouted. "Fire! Kill them!"
Cleaners have always been looked down upon by witchers, who think their jobs are safe and that these people are heartless.
The cleaners were also looked down upon by the garrison troops, who felt that the people inside the wall lived in luxury and did not understand the dangers outside.
For a long time, when cleaners encountered danger, they would stay where they were and wait for rescue. This was a rule written in the employee handbook, and they could only sit in a position to be rescued.
They huddled on the main road of the deserted village, unable to participate in the search for the source of the pollution. The most difficult task left for them was to maintain their sanity and not kill each other.
The villagers who rushed over aroused their bloodiness. They had received training, participated in assessments, and fought against demon hunters, although most of them ended in failure.
But they were the cleanup workers chosen to be the most suitable for the work outside the wall.
Don’t talk about whether they believed Zhu Ning or not. At that moment, they didn’t have that awareness. They had to survive. When people are on the verge of danger, this is all they think about.
The flames shot out like dragons in an instant, the burning pollutants rolled around, the flames jumped out of the deserted village, and the fire burned in the village of deserted houses.
The cleaners fought hard, not knowing where the end would be. As long as they were still alive, they would continue to resist.
Since you are destined to die in a contaminated area, you cannot do nothing before you die.
We can’t put all the pressure on one little girl. They have to resist, and they have to resist as long as they are still alive.
The fire blazed fiercely, and the flames engulfed the entire village, making a crackling and roaring sound.
Thick smoke billowed, and soon they couldn't even see clearly. The protective suit's oxygen device automatically supplied oxygen, and the internal prompts told them to escape as soon as possible.
We are at the end of the road and can no longer hold on here.
Sudden--
One man stopped and saw a blood-red object in the smoke. It was very faint at first, like a firefly, emitting a blood-red glow.
Is this... contaminated spores?
At first, only one spore was seen, and then thousands of contaminated spores began to fly around. The spores seemed to have life and swept over in an instant.
Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng had reached their limit. Xu Meng's long knife chopped through the pollutant's body, but this time it did not touch the solid bones.
Her knife was like cutting tofu, and the contaminant was extremely soft, like a piece of rotten meat.
Only six seconds left.
Xu Meng lowered his head and saw a pool of rotten meat on the ground, with contaminated spores precipitating from the rotten meat.
Contaminated spores, rotten flesh, Xu Meng realized what had happened in an instant. The contaminated area... was flattened?
Did Zhu Ning really kill the source of pollution?
Xu Meng had never trusted someone so blindly before, but Zhu Ning actually did it and she did not let him down.
The surrounding environment changed in an instant, the three worlds collapsed and overlapped, constantly merging, and the attacking pollutants collapsed instantly and turned into pieces of rotten meat.
"Clean, purified?" someone said.
"We won?"
Li Nianchuan's ears moved. It seemed like there was something separating him from Jin Tao. He could hear the voice from the other side. The voice sounded like someone was shouting with their mouth covered.
Now that layer of barrier seemed to be removed, and clear sounds poured into his ear canals. He really heard the noises coming from Jin Tao and the others.
"We won," someone said.
They were not far away, only a few hundred meters away.
The thick fog was dissipating. They were standing together on the same village road. Li Nianchuan could see a large group of cleaners in the distance.
The fog dissipated, and the true appearance of this place was revealed.
There had been a big fire in the deserted village, and the houses were burned down to their skeletons. They seemed to be about to collapse when the wind blew, and they were basically standing on a pile of ruins.
Large pieces of rotten flesh were scattered throughout the village, and contaminated spores were flying everywhere.
This is a polluted area that has been purified, and it is standard. The cleaners have seen it countless times.
The setting sun above my head was fading, and the motionless cloud seemed to have pressed the play button, and the clouds in the sky began to float again.
For a moment, it was like the passage of time, and the sky changed from sunset to night, as if an invisible hand reached out and turned the clock.
"The clock is ticking," someone said.
The last time they lost time was 5:59 and the clock now read 7:46.
"Are we really out?" someone asked uncertainly.
Their nerves were stretched to the limit and they couldn't relax. They didn't even know how to react. Their first feeling after surviving the disaster was not joy, but confusion.
There was still a lingering sense of fear, and everyone's heart was beating fast, and they looked around blankly.
I couldn't scream, and I didn't want to cry. I was just stunned.
Surrounded by contaminated spores and rotten flesh, they stood in the deserted village like real villagers.
Xu Meng asked, "Where's Zhu Ning?"
Her first reaction was that the polluted area was being purified, so where was Zhu Ning?
Li Nianchuan seemed to have just woken up from his dream. "Yes, where is Zhu Ning?"
Jin Tao quickly counted the number of people and said, "They are not here."
Xu Meng: "Go to the village entrance."
Their road was not straight, the village houses were all burned down, and they had to walk two steps before they could see the big locust tree at the entrance of the village.
Xu Meng and Li Nianchuan were more anxious. Zhu Ning was their teammate, and he had already run towards the big locust tree while the other cleaners were still confused.
Li Nianchuan's legs were shaking, numb and trembling even when he walked. No matter how much he wanted to keep up with Xu Meng, his physiology would not allow it.
It took Li Nianchuan ten minutes to catch up with Xu Meng. He jogged all the way over and wanted to go up to Zhu Ning to recognize him after seeing him. However, when he arrived at the village entrance, he was stunned.
Xu Meng did the same thing as him, and both of them stood there in a daze.
The huge locust tree at the entrance of the village has fallen down. It must have broken naturally after being burned to the end.
The real exit was revealed behind the big locust tree, but Xu Meng did not pay attention to the exit. Instead, he frowned and looked at what was in front of him.
There was a mountain of rotten flesh in front of the big locust tree. Xu Meng was a cleaner. She had seen many polluted areas and countless rotten flesh and contaminated spores, but she had never seen this.
The pile of rotten flesh was so large that it was impossible to tell what shape it had. Half of Zhu Ning's body was stuck in the rotten flesh, and he was surrounded by even denser contaminated spores.
The blood-red contaminated spores floated around her as if following her.
She was not wearing a helmet, her head was exposed, her long hair was loose and messy, and her face was pale.
She looked up at the sky, motionless like a statue.
Zhu Ning didn't know what he was looking at. When he heard the noise, he turned his head and looked over quietly.
Because she was on a high place, she was looking down when she looked over. Her eyes were black and white, and her gaze was cold, without any warmth at all.
At that moment, Zhu Ning looked more like...a god than a human.
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