263 City of the Dead (V)
Kill Zhu Ning
Zhu Ning seemed to really feel a long and huge tongue moving in the grooves on the surface of her brain, gracefully and slowly. Wherever the tongue passed, the brain was sucked in, and the brain sank and collapsed. The speed kept accelerating. Just as Zhu Ning was thinking, she actually lost another piece of memory.
What was she going to do?
Humans often have this thought or say this. As we age, our memory deteriorates. The elderly at home ask themselves countless times a day, "What should I do?"
Zhu Ning was in a quiet, dark, abandoned teaching building. She sat in the first row of the classroom. There was an iron sign hanging at the door of the classroom, and the words "Class 1, Grade 3" were already mottled.
Opposite Zhu Ning was a blackboard filled with mathematical formulas. On the blackboard behind him was a student's newspaper with the words "God rewards hard work" written in colored chalk.
It’s a very standard classroom, in the style of Zhu Ning’s era. Classrooms in the cyber world are all very high-tech.
Why was Zhu Ning here? Was this a grave-painting mission given to her by Prometheus? Had she entered a contaminated area again?
But there was an abandoned school in District 103, how come she didn’t know?
Zhu Ning thought carefully. Her last memory was of having just completed a task at the dentist's office, being caught in a disgusting tooth rain, receiving Gao Zijian's notebook, learning she was an experimental subject, and then experiencing a brief mental breakdown, with black slime clinging to her body. This incident also resulted in her damaging Song Zhizhang's prestigious Queen's shop, forcing her to pay 15 million in compensation.
Fifteen million, Zhu Ning felt pain in her heart just thinking about it, Song Zhizhang really settled the account with her.
But why did she come to school? Was this mission also a clue left by Prometheus? She had a dislike for Prometheus and always wanted to blow up his computer.
Zhu Ning instinctively opened the system panel and was almost dazzled by the item bar and talent bar. She didn't recognize most of the system items and talents, and there was also the alienation panel.
Zhu Ning actually awakened a gray alienated panel and swallowed it.
How did she do it? But she quickly frowned. The world is fair. What price did she pay to be devoured?
Zhu Ning must have lost some of his memories. Judging from this system panel, the lost memory is very long.
She wanted to check the helmet's video recording function and found that this protective suit had no internal camera. It was even stranger. This protective suit was not the same as the previous one. Was it a revised version?
Because she had lost her memory, Zhu Ning could only grope for clues on her body. She touched near her neck and felt a tiny bump under her fingers.
There seems to be a pendant on her neck. Due to her job, Zhu Ning rarely wears jewelry and has no habit of wearing necklaces. What is this?
The pendant was inside the protective suit. Zhu Ning was afraid of being infected and did not dare to open the protective suit to check. Zhu Ning touched the pendant through the protective suit and felt inexplicably upset. Could it be a meaningful souvenir?
Zhu Ning had a hunch that the necklace she was wearing was related to the extra system panel she had, and this might be the price she paid.
After losing her memory, she had a subtle feeling of traveling through time and space to the past, and many of her habits in the future had changed.
Zhu Ning looked around. This was a classroom on the second floor. Judging from the role she had to play when entering the contaminated area, her current identity might be a student.
Zhu Ning looked out the window, as if he was distracted at school. Outside the window was a small forest, and there were a few students in red school uniforms, jumping...?
Zhu Ning found it a little difficult to describe their specific actions. Under the cover of the woods, several students bent their knees and jumped. Their knees were bent to the lowest point, but they jumped at an extremely fast speed. Zhu Ning's eyes were like a cat following a toy, watching them jump high.
One meter... one and a half meters... one and eighty meters...
The spirit level on the helmet can estimate the data. The students jump higher and higher, two meters and five?
Zhu Ning remembered that the world record for high jump was 2.45. These students had such developed athletic ability that Zhu Ning couldn't help but stand up and go to the window to watch. Wait, two meters and eighty centimeters, so that student jumped three meters high?
The jumping student turned his head in mid-air so that Zhu Ning on the second floor could look him in the eye. His entire face was exposed. The boy's face was red and he had a bright smile. If you ignore the weird high jump and the blood at the corner of his mouth, he was very suitable to be the protagonist of the school promotional video, full of youth.
But the moment he turned around, Zhu Ning immediately hid behind the curtains. Unexpectedly, his speed was much faster than he thought.
Zhu Ning frowned, his heart pounding. What was that?
Just now, she saw that in addition to several students who were high jumping, there was also a corpse lying in the woods. The corpse had long been gnawed away until only a pile of bones remained. Before, Zhu Ning was concentrating on watching the students high jumping and did not notice such an obvious problem at all.
Bang--
The child jumping high outside the window had uncoordinated hands and feet. After jumping too high, he fell stiffly to the ground. It looked abnormal no matter how you looked at it.
Zhu Ning hid behind the curtains and discovered more problems. Her hearing was amplified and she heard continuous footsteps, as if some creature was wandering around.
Moreover, the footsteps did not sound like those made by normal humans. People walk with a purpose, but people without a purpose walk mechanically and numbly. This group of people walking seemed like... zombies.
It reminded Zhu Ning of zombies after a long time.
Zhu Ning knows herself very well, and she will definitely make some judgment on this situation and leave some information.
She sat on the floor, leaning against the wall, holding a student ID card with no photo on it. Zhu Ning only knew the student's name was An Shi. Her mission was to find this student? What role did Zhu Ning need to play this time?
Zhu Ning put her student ID card without a photo aside for the time being and fumbled around. She reached into the pocket on her right thigh and then took it out stiffly, grabbing a handful of notes as if they were candy.
What is this?
Zhu Ning used to get so engrossed in passing notes and chatting with his deskmate during class that his drawer was filled with a pile of notes when class was over.
Zhu Ning felt a sense of crisis. Time was running out. If she delayed any longer, something terrible would happen. She leaned behind the curtains and unfolded the scraps of paper one by one. They were written in her own handwriting.
The first one: My name is Zhu Ning and my mother’s name is Zhu Yao.
The first one is so explosive. Of course she knows who she is and who her mother is. Maybe as she continues to lose her memory, she has completely forgotten everything. The note should be a hint left in case she forgets.
Second picture: This is the city of zombies.
Are those things outside zombies? It was unexpected, but also understandable. I had my suspicions when I saw them before, but the zombies that contaminated the world were so strange, and the way the virus spread must be different.
The third picture: There are unknown creatures that will eat your memory. Please record the current situation at any time and leave a message for the next self who loses his memory.
This one has the most words on it, and basically explains the current situation.
Eat away memories? Memory is an important part of a person. Losing memory is like changing a person. Is this contaminated area so difficult?
Zhu Ning thought it was already explosive enough, but he didn't expect that the fourth note was even more explosive in terms of information. The note said: You are outside the wall, your companions are Pei Shu, Lin Xiaofeng, and Bai Cheng, please find them as soon as possible, inform them of the danger and leave immediately.
Lin Xiaofeng and Zhu Ning could barely understand. Zhu Ning remembered that he adopted her from the aquarium and she became Zhu Ning's first employee.
But wasn't Pei Shu Liu Niannian's bodyguard? Why did he become her companion? She really couldn't understand why Pei Shu, who was as decadent as an old dog, would follow her and have an affair with her.
Who is Bai Cheng? This name is so unfamiliar, I have no impression of it at all.
No matter what the mission is outside the wall, the current problem is that we must get out of this damn place.
Zhu Ning quickly unfolded the fifth note: Don't listen to the ticking sound, don't look for corpses, please evacuate immediately.
Tick-tock
Zhu Ning was just thinking about the corpse when she suddenly heard a dripping sound, as if the faucet was not closed tightly. She immediately turned off the hearing function of the helmet.
She followed the warning on the note completely instinctively. The next second after the ticking sound, the world fell into absolute silence. At that moment, she could hear nothing, not even a sound.
After shutting off the source of the sound, this ghost world became even more weird. She did not forget that she was outside the wall, and it must be more chaotic outside than inside.
Hurry and find out, the note must contain what she should do next.
Zhu Ning continued to tear open the notes. The rustling sound of the notes being opened echoed in the classroom. If an outsider saw her, they would think Zhu Ning was a lunatic. There were crumpled papers scattered on the ground in front of her.
With a sound of yelping——
Zhu Ning was so focused on reading the note that she blocked out the sound and didn't notice that the old door of the classroom was pushed open. A figure was standing behind the door, staring at her silently.
…
What was he trying to do just now?
Pei Shu was sitting in an abandoned noodle shop with several corpses at his feet, but he had no idea how he had killed them.
At his feet was a corpse, half of its brain blown off, but the inside was empty. Pei Shu looked closely at the corpse's head. The edges of the skull were spotless, as if someone had wiped it clean with a hot towel.
There was a headless corpse in the middle of the pile of corpses, which looked particularly out of place. Secretary Pei remembered that he did not have the habit of beheading people.
Pei Shu's world was silent. He didn't know when he turned off the hearing function of his helmet. Logically, the investigators outside the wall would not do such a dangerous thing. It was easy to lose the ability to judge the source of danger if the hearing was blocked.
Dadada——
There were footsteps at the door. Pei Shu stood still, watching a group of people staggering past like zombies, numb and weird.
Pei Shu stared at the group of people, and his first thought was not that there was danger, but that he might become one of them.
This is outside the wall. Pei Shu immediately deduced this point. He didn't need any instruments to analyze it. He could smell that the pollution concentration here exceeded the standard with his nose. There was no need for a traditional pollution concentration test meter outside the wall. It was beyond the standard anyway.
The smell outside the wall is very heavy.
How could he possibly be outside the wall? Given Pei Shu's understanding of himself, it was hard to imagine him voluntarily leaving the wall.
Pei Shu analyzed the current situation. He was holding an artificial device in his hand, which he had taken from somewhere. It was a very old pollution shield that had been modified by a genius.
This is evidence of human manipulation, and the trouble index is soaring.
Pei Shu opened the secondary brain, hoping to find the call records between him and other people to get more information. However, he found that the screen of the secondary brain was distorted and he could not retrieve any records.
The snowflakes kept flashing, and looking at them for a long time made people feel a little abnormal. Pei Shu had an illusion that it was not only the secondary brain that was contaminated, but also Pei Shu's main brain. There was something wrong with his brain.
He was certain that he had lost some memory, but the problem was that he only knew that he had lost the memory, but he couldn't tell how much he had lost. An hour? A year? Ten years?
If it was ten years, then those ten years of memories would be erased like an eraser. Would he still be himself?
Even though there was no monster attack, Pei Shu felt creepy, as if there was a vortex somewhere, which broke his cognition. This was outside the wall. His right hand trembled unconsciously, and he had to hold his right wrist with his left hand. Unfortunately, he didn't have a ball of wool on him to pinch to relieve the pressure.
Calm down, it shouldn't be that bad, find the clues, and go back.
The last memory Pei Shu could recall was that Zhu Ning invaded the cloud of consciousness of Chuangshi Technology. The eldest lady caused a big disaster and almost ruined the future of Chuangshi.
The cloud of consciousness is not a pure land, and pollution will also occur. Pei Shu has known this for a long time, but he doesn't care. Why should the chaebol's lackeys care about how the chaebol made its fortune?
Lu Yao appeared in time to clean up the mess, and the eldest lady was put in solitary confinement.
In the past, the eldest lady would contact him first when she got into trouble, but this time surprisingly, she didn't. Pei Shu didn't even know what had happened to her. He was not qualified to enter the place where she was, but as a young lady from a wealthy family, he didn't need to worry about her. At most, she would be put in solitary confinement by Lu Yao, and she would be able to go out and adventure again after a while.
One of the invaders was Zhu Ning. Pei Shu once told her that if Zhu Ning harmed the interests of the Lu family, Pei Shu would have to become her enemy.
When he said this, he had a vague premonition that Zhu Ning would definitely provoke the Lu family.
It's a pity. It's rare for the eldest lady to have a true friend. Zhu Ning is very talented. She is a good candidate for cheating. Pei Shu admires her very much.
In his memory, Pei Shu received a mission from Lu Yao. The Lu family targeted Zhu Ning. Based on Pei Shu's understanding as a professional lackey, Lu Yao wanted to kill Zhu Ning.
Pei Shu looked at the gun and the shield in his hand and made a reasonable guess. Could it be that he was carrying out the mission of assassinating Zhu Ning?
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The world record for high jump is 2.45 meters, and the record holder is Javier Sotomayor~ - Information from the Internet
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