256 Under the Wall
◎Zhu Ning's other guide◎
"Pollution is spreading across the northern region tonight. Please stay away from the north as much as possible. Residents in the northern region, please evacuate in an orderly manner..."
The in-car radio was broadcasting something, and the female anchor's voice sounded very powerful. From her tone, one could tell that it was extremely important.
Zhu Ning opened her eyes and found herself in a car, which was speeding away. There was no one in the passenger seat. Zhu Ning knew that Lin Xiaofeng was in a transparent state, so she instinctively reached out her hand, but found that she touched nothing.
Zhu Ning frowned and felt the seat. There wasn't even any human warmth on it. The driver's seat was empty? Who was driving?
There was something wrong with this car. The light inside was dim, and the accelerator was pressed by unknown pressure, as if it was heading towards hell.
Where's Pei Shu? Is he gone? Zhu Ning didn't even turn around. He just raised his eyes and suddenly met a pair of cold eyes. Pei Shu looked at him expressionlessly. The next moment, a pair of hands reached out from the back seat of the car and fiercely strangled Zhu Ning's neck.
Zhu Ning's neck suddenly tightened, nearly breaking her larynx. She grabbed Pei Shu's hands with both hands and opened the system panel, but the system kept flashing, and she couldn't use any of her talents.
The black slime could not be summoned, and she seemed to have been deprived of all her supernatural powers overnight and turned into an ordinary person.
Pei Shu's arms tightened, and flame patterns burned on his arms. Zhu Ning's breathing became less and less, and her lungs ached every time she breathed. A dagger slipped from Zhu Ning's sleeve and she held it in her hand. She turned her hand and wanted to stab backwards, but before she could use any strength, she suddenly felt her back go weak, and it seemed that what she was leaning against was not the car seat, but the swamp.
Zhu Ning was sucked deeply into something, and Pei Shu's arms pressed down, trying to press her completely into the car seat.
Zhu Ning had no place to put her strength, so she changed her hands from stabbing behind her to grab the car body. She held on to the car body tightly, but it was useless. The suction force behind her was so huge that it bent her backwards with her spine as the center and sucked her into the vortex.
The soft leather seat cushion quickly covered Zhu Ning's mouth and nose. She was trapped in the passenger seat, and her airway seemed to be blocked by cement.
Although he was clearly in a state of suffocation, crazy mutterings were echoing in his ears. The mutterings were getting louder and louder, as if the source of the sound was getting closer and closer. Zhu Ning's mind was filled with mutterings. The black box of the system in his brain opened, and the tentacles inside surged, trying to drill out of his head to respond to the mutterings.
At the same time, the tentacles in her chest were beating violently. The pollutants became her heart, connecting to other blood vessels and replacing the heart to beat like a pump. Now it was beating faster and faster, and was about to explode.
call--
Zhu Ning exhaled and suddenly opened his eyes. The blanket on his body slipped off and he saw the windshield wipers working. It was raining heavily outside and the car had stopped long ago.
The in-car radio was playing: "Pollution is spreading in the northern region tonight. Please stay away from the north as much as possible. Residents in the northern region, please evacuate in an orderly manner..."
The identical female anchor was reading the script, and Zhu Ning couldn't understand for a moment whether this was a dream or reality.
Zhu Ning calmed down and felt carefully. His heartbeat was normal and there was nothing unusual in his mind. Was it a dream?
Hiss—hiss—ha—
It felt like something was licking her ear. She felt as if a bug had fallen on her body. She quickly touched her ear, and the black mucus licked Zhu Ning's earlobe like a wet tongue.
After Zhu Ning touched it, the black mucus rolled up his fingertips as usual, as if nothing was wrong.
Zhu Ning's first reaction was to turn her head. She reached out to touch the seemingly empty driver's seat, but this time she touched something solid, Lin Xiaofeng's shoulder. Lin Xiaofeng had probably parked the car and was leaning against the driver's seat to sleep. Zhu Ning's touch woke him up and he asked blankly, "What's wrong?"
Lin Xiaofeng's voice sounded no different from before. He probably just woke up, so it sounded a little soft and unreal.
"A nightmare?" Pei Shu's voice came from the back seat of the car. "You look very pale."
Zhu Ning's neck hurt when she heard Pei Shu's voice. She remembered that he wanted to strangle her to death just now. Zhu Ning saw her face in the rearview mirror. She was pale, with fine beads of sweat on her forehead, and there was no bruise on her neck.
It seemed like it was just a dream.
But she heard the exact same broadcast in her dream. Zhu Ning didn't think it was just a nightmare. Nothing that happened could make her relax.
Zhu Ning looked out the window and found that it was no longer a real city outside. It was a desolate place with a high wall in the distance. It was already night, and in the rain, the high wall looked gloomy, like a huge tombstone.
What kind of creature could have such a large tombstone? This is the Federation's defense line, of little use to civilians. Most people can't see it, and it has been useless for a long time.
Once they cross this wall, they will truly be outside the wall. They are now at the foot of the wall.
Zhu Ning rubbed her brows. The blanket had fallen off. This must have been covered by Lin Xiaofeng. Zhu Ning said, "Thank you."
Lin Xiaofeng said: "I saw that you fell asleep, so I didn't wake you up because I wanted you to sleep a little longer."
Zhu Ning touched Lin Xiaofeng's head. She was so cute.
Lin Xiaofeng reported the mission in a serious manner: "We have arrived at our destination."
Zhu Ning had given an address before, and Lin Xiaofeng drove here according to the navigation. They made an appointment with Bai Cheng to meet under the wall.
Zhu Ning checked the time and realized she had slept for at least sixteen hours. She often slept like this, sleeping soundly for the whole day, but this time she felt particularly uncomfortable after waking up.
Pei Shu leaned against the back of the car and said, "Your other guide is late."
Now Zhu Ning wants to kill people when he hears Pei Shu's voice, and he has no trust in Pei Shu after the dream.
There was a little distance between Zhu Ning's back and the car seat, as if he would be eaten by the back seat in the next second.
Zhu Ning looked at the high wall that looked like a tombstone. Something was calling her outside the wall. This was definitely not an illusion.
Zhu Ning thought back to his "dream." Was it a warning? Or a premonition? Zhu Ning felt damp and sticky, and not very comfortable.
The windshield wipers were working, scraping the rain off the car windows, only to be covered up again. The radio had already played the next message, "The Federation has announced its latest developments, sending thirty investigation teams outside the wall, determined to investigate the truth behind the world's fall. This is the largest number of investigation teams sent by the Federation in the past 25 years. The World Pollution Department claims to have obtained valuable findings..."
Pei Shu tutted, "An old trick, that's how I was sent out back then."
Every time public opinion in the Federation declines, exploration of the world will intensify. Pei Shu was an unlucky guy back then.
When public opinion stabilizes, they will recall the investigators. Pei Shu has always felt that the Kingdom of God does not expect the investigators to really find out the truth about the bullshit world outside the wall.
The only result of this action is that 95% of the investigators will die outside the wall, and 5% will go crazy.
Pei Shu knows too well the behavior of those people in the Kingdom of God. The Second District will definitely be dissatisfied with the Kingdom of God, but this trick of the Kingdom of God has always been very effective. Other regions will temporarily give in. After all, no one wants the land of the whole world to be infected.
Pei Shu taunted, "Lucky, we even met the official team outside the wall."
Pei Shu didn't want to meet him. He guessed that the purpose of the investigator outside the wall was not that simple. Maybe investigating the world was fake, and hunting Zhu Ning was the real thing.
Zhu Ning attracted too much firepower.
Zhu Ning nodded. She had already controlled her expression and there was no sign of anything wrong on the outside, so Lin Xiaofeng and Pei Shu didn't take her reaction seriously.
Zhu Ning is a demon, and Pei Shu is just a small guide. He doesn't have the time to worry about the demon.
Zhu Ning turned a button and the radio changed the channel. Every channel was reporting on the Federation's big moves. There was no news about Zhu Ning bombing the Kingdom of God. The Federation blocked the news.
Most media outlets are lackeys of the Kingdom of God, so it's normal that there's no news. Zhu Ning changed several channels but heard different voices reading the same report. In the end, he simply turned off the radio.
Once turned off, the interior of the car seemed too quiet. This was a deserted area with no street lights under the wall. The only lighting was from the off-road vehicle's headlights. The two headlights shot out in the night like two glowing sticks.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, hitting the car body with a crackling sound. Even though Zhu Ning had become fearless inside the wall, he was now a little scared for the first time in a long time.
The distance is unknown and anything can happen.
After a while, nothing unusual happened in the car, and there was no vortex in the back seat. Zhu Ning finally recovered and asked, "Teacher Pei, you're not leaving?"
Pei Shu didn't leave, which means he joined.
Pei Shu must have been thinking while Zhu Ning was sleeping. Pei Shu smiled like a butler and said, "At your service."
Pei Shu didn't explain why he joined, but said, "As for the reward, just promise me a wish. Don't worry, I won't ask you to kill or burn anything, and I won't go against your wishes. If you find it difficult, you can refuse."
Zhu Ning: "So simple?"
She thought Pei Shu would want mountains of gold and silver or something.
Pei Shu: "The devil's wish is very valuable."
Pei Shu is investing in himself. It is hard to say how Zhu Ning will grow up in the future. He buys original shares while she is still a little underage, and then he can wait for the stock price to skyrocket.
Zhu Ning: "Deal."
Pei Shu held out his fist, "Employee number three?"
Zhu Ning bumped his fist perfunctorily and said absentmindedly, "Congratulations on joining the company."
Pei Shu asked, "How much knowledge have you learned outside the wall?"
Zhu Ning: "I read a book written by an old investigator and studied most of it seriously. But when I turned to the last page, the old investigator said the last sentence. None of my words were useful, hahahaha."
Zhu Ning's laughter was very mechanical, imitating the laughter of the last sentence. Zhu Ning felt that he had been fooled after reading the book. Pei Shu knew which book Zhu Ning was reading and said, "It was written by Qin Youhong, right? She went crazy and committed suicide in the end."
Zhu Ning: “…”
She suddenly felt that all she had learned was useless. Pei Shu said, "When it comes to investigating outside the Great Firewall, the results will vary depending on who you learn from."
Zhu Ning asked, "How do you say that?"
Pei Shu: "There are many types of people outside the wall. There are official investigators, wild investigators, and bounty hunters. They do more diverse things. Some help people find rare pollutants, and some help people hunt down."
Zhu Ning asked, "Chasing?"
Pei Shu: "Yes, some murderers would run outside the wall to avoid being caught."
Zhu Ning might also face Prometheus's pursuit after he goes out of the wall. This kind of thing is also very common.
"In addition, there are some pilgrims who are tired of the capitalist oppression of the Federation and firmly believe that there is a utopian dreamland outside the wall, where everyone is equal, there is no oppression, and everyone is happy." It was raining outside, and Pei Shu's voice sounded a little unreal.
Zhu Ning asked, "Does it really exist?"
"Who knows?" Pei Shu said, "I haven't seen it. These pilgrims are all rookies. They dare to go beyond the walls without any experience. I have seen many of their corpses."
Zhu Ning roughly knew what kind of person Pei Shu was describing. It seemed that the people he met outside the wall were of very complex composition.
Pei Shu continued, "There are also some individuals sent out here and there for various purposes, so I won't go into detail. Besides those who left from within the wall, there are also some indigenous people from outside the wall. In other words, they've been combined with pollutants. They look quite strange, and you'll see when you meet them."
Zhu Ning guessed that the floating sand island in the cloud of Bao Ruiming's consciousness should be of this type. They have some human behaviors, but have fish gills on their bodies, and humans and fish are combined.
It is a very "perfect" state, so Bao Ruiming feels that the combination of humans and pollutants is an inevitable trend in the future.
Pei Shu: "There's a saying that pollution is the world reshuffling, that God has messed up all the elements, which is why the pollutants take such bizarre forms. For example, fishmen have fish heads growing out of human bodies, flowermen have flower heads, and sometimes, human feet grow out of radish pits on the ground. It's the same with us psychics. For example, metal psychics have absorbed some metal, making them half-metal people."
Zhu Ning felt that it made sense. She had many superpowers that she could use, but some of them had not been improved. It was probably because there were too few factors involved.
Pei Shuzhen was a good teacher, explaining things very carefully. He continued, "I've gotten off topic. In my opinion, the only truly powerful people outside the wall are investigators and bounty hunters. These two types of people have different supreme principles."
Zhu Ning asked, "What's the difference?"
"An investigator's highest principle is to leave a message behind, even if it means death. Bounty hunters, on the other hand, have more freedom. Their highest principle is to survive and return to the inner walls alive."
Zhu Ning: "I prefer the style of a bounty hunter. Bai Cheng is a bounty hunter."
Pei Shu frowned. "Bai Cheng? Your other guide is Bai Cheng?"
The rain outside was getting heavier, and Pei Shu's voice suddenly became deeper. Zhu Ning was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Pei Shu smiled and wanted to touch the cigarette, but then he remembered that there were minors in the car and gave up. "Bai Cheng is a well-known lunatic in the wilderness. She killed three of her employers."
Zhu Ning turned around and saw Pei Shu sitting in the back seat with the lights off, half of his body in shadow. His words sounded like a curse.
Zhu Ning asked, "Why?"
Bounty hunters are employed by others, so how could they kill their employers? Now Bai Cheng’s new employer is Zhu Ning.
Was the person Huo Wenxi found for her unreliable? Was Zhu Ning being scammed?
Pei Shu: "How would I know what a madwoman is thinking? You can ask her yourself when you have time. I want to know too."
"No one would agree to cheat on you unless they were crazy. For example, I would," Pei Shu said, as if he was enjoying the show. "But it should be quite difficult for her to kill you."
Zhu Ning suddenly felt exhausted. This team wasn't easy to lead. Lin Xiaofeng was a minor, so his support was limited. Pei Shu didn't seem particularly loyal either. Was Zhu Ning's dream a hint from the system? Would Pei Shu betray her one day?
Now there is a madman who loves to kill his employer. Zhu Ning has to be on guard against Bai Cheng while carrying out the mission. She sighed and wanted to lie down before she got out of the wall.
boom--
Suddenly, a loud thunder exploded outside, and lightning illuminated the wall. While Zhu Ning and Pei Shu were chatting, a figure appeared in the rainy night. The woman was wearing a black raincoat, and her face was as pale as a sculpture in the rain.
This place is close to the wall and close to pollution. The woman didn't drive and dared to walk alone in the rainy night. She looked like a murderer.
She saw Zhu Ning's car and smiled. It was a very exaggerated smile, and her neat teeth could be seen, but only the corners of her mouth were raised, and there was no smile in her eyes, so she looked gloomy.
Zhu Ning's other guide, Bai Cheng, arrived.
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