269 City of the Dead (XI)
Brain in a Vat
Normal people would just run away when they see the most dangerous place. They would definitely try to find the weakest point, but Zhu Ning insisted on diving towards the most dangerous place.
Zhu Ning didn't know where to look for clues, so he felt he had to go around the school again.
Pei Shu patrolled the sky in his flying car. From the perspective of the sky, the zombies seemed to be moving in a certain direction. Zombies from all over the city were running towards this direction. The whole place was black and looked like there were corpses running all over the ground.
Pei Shu is now confused about what is so attractive about the school. Maybe it is not just an illogical polluted area.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, as if it was going to knock the car out of the sky.
The gun barrel of the speeding car opened and dropped a bomb on the roof of the teaching building. The bomb exploded with a bang, and it was particularly bright in the rainy night. Seventeen-year-old Zhu Ning saw the explosion at such a close distance for the first time. His heart was pounding. He thought it was worth dying for, no matter whether he was dreaming or not, this was too cool.
The explosion attracted the attention of the zombies. The zombies on the rooftop of the laboratory building turned their heads at the same time. Their ferocious faces were illuminated by the firelight. They were not afraid of death and wanted to run directly from the rooftop to the roof of another building.
The zombies were slow to move, had clumsy bodies, and no brains. They fell from the sky one after another, making crackling sounds like ripe fruits.
Pei Shu took the opportunity to open the car door and pressed the button for automatic disengagement. Zhu Ning held the shoulder straps tightly, and his buttocks felt empty. His head tilted back, and he was suddenly dropped from the sky like a bomb.
This was countless times more thrilling than riding a roller coaster. Before Zhu Ning could catch her breath, the new parachute opened and she had already reached the ground.
Seventeen-year-old Zhu Ning's first reaction was very naive. If she could return to her previous world, she would learn skydiving. Later, she thought that maybe she couldn't return to her previous world. It seemed that she just lost her memory, not traveled through time.
Bai Cheng landed behind Zhu Ning. She made a deal with Zhu Ning to be her mobile memory card. Zhu Ning's life or death had nothing to do with her.
After landing, Zhu Ning quickly took off his parachute and nimbly got into the teaching building. Pei Shu drove a car to attract the zombies' attention.
After they gathered, they split up and started moving again. Lin Xiaofeng was with Pei Shu, Mechanical Bai Cheng followed Pei Shu, and Gentle Bai Cheng followed Zhu Ning. Both had "memory cards" on their side. Bai Cheng was stunned for a moment when he heard the assignment, probably not expecting someone to "use" their abilities in this way.
The focus is not on immortality, but on the separate body.
After Zhu Ning rushed into the teaching building, she stopped and immediately found an empty classroom and closed the door. She was very alert and didn't dare to look at the corridor to see if there were any zombies. She would find a safe one first. Bai Cheng always kept in sync with Zhu Ning, so this was not difficult for her at all.
After Zhu Ning hid himself, a zombie indeed walked over with a limp leg. When passing by the classroom, it took a look and the shadow it cast covered Zhu Ning's toes.
Zhu Ning stared at his feet, silently repeating to himself, "You can't see me, you can't see me." Later, the zombie was attracted away by the sound of the bombing outside, and Zhu Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
Bai Cheng thought Zhu Ning had no special abilities, and that he was quite interesting at such a young age. But after the zombies left, Zhu Ning whispered, "Who are you? Where is this?"
Bai Cheng: “…”
It seems I just lost my memory and was running around following my instincts.
Bai Cheng simply reminded: "Look at the helmet, you are looking for clues in the teaching building."
Zhu Ning glanced at the notebook. Her memory was now two months shorter and she was getting younger and younger.
In her hand was an investigation notebook with integrated notes. Based on Pei Shu's investigation, there was a note from Zhu Ning. At first glance, it looked like a collection of wrong questions.
There was also a page of notes containing information about Zhu Ning herself, and there was a sentence that she couldn't understand.
Alienation Panel: Devour activated.
What panel? Playing games? My last amnesiac self didn't leave behind any instruction manuals.
However, there is a crucial piece of information. One of our teammates, Lin Xiaofeng, is only ten years old. If he regresses to below five years old, he will be completely out of control. If he regresses to the infant state, it is unknown whether he can be saved.
If they can't get out in the end, the first one to become a zombie will be Lin Xiaofeng, followed by Zhu Ning and Pei Shu, and Bai Cheng, who will not lose his memory or die, will be responsible for collecting their bodies.
It has to be fast.
With Bai Cheng's guidance, Zhu Ning quickly figured out what was going on. She ran into the first teaching building, which she had roughly groped her way around before. Now with Bai Cheng's guidance, she groped her way around even faster.
She pushed open the doors of one classroom after another, while keeping an eye out for any attacks. She had a gun on her waist, but she felt guilty because she had never used this kind of gun before, and it was not so easy to shoot zombies.
Pei Shu said that there were limited bombs in the car and the delay time was also limited, so he gave Zhu Ning a countdown of at most twenty minutes.
Now, every second counts, and the hands of the mechanical watch keep turning. Zhu Ning has never been so nervous even during competitions. He feels like his heart is about to explode.
She ran for a while and realized that this was not right. If she continued running like this, it would be strange if she could finish running around the school in twenty minutes.
Bai Cheng just looked at her, without giving any hints or helping, and even didn't react when he saw the zombies. After Zhu Ning stopped, she lay motionless. She took a breath. Five minutes had passed and she had gained almost nothing.
It would definitely not be possible to find a needle in a haystack, but she had been to all the key locations, some more than once.
The notes listed the places she had visited. She had been to the experimental building and the first teaching building, and Pei Shu had also been to the first teaching building. Was there any problem here?
Regarding Class 1, Grade 3, the first classroom Zhu Ning checked this time was this one, but there was nothing inside.
Zhu Ning was thinking about something when he suddenly saw a reflection in the window. It was a female student in a red school uniform, half of her body hidden behind the door frame. She had bangs and looked at him sinisterly.
Zhu Ning felt a chill run down his spine. What was this? The unknown creature the note mentioned? Was it such a generalization?
Memories recorded on slips of paper are unreliable, and many sudden events may be forgotten after they are dealt with.
She didn't dare move. In horror movies, this situation could be over in the blink of an eye. She subconsciously touched the handle of her gun. If not now, when? Maybe there was something wrong with this ghost.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath, then turned around and was about to draw his gun. However, just as he turned around, he suddenly stopped, like a toy doll with a stuck spring, his arms stiffened, and there was a dazed look in his eyes.
What was she trying to do just now? Zhu Ning asked herself this question for the umpteenth time: what on earth was she trying to do?
Zhu Ning asked, "Who are you? Where am I?"
Her memory had regressed to the age of fifteen, and there was only a woman in front of her, her face as pale as a corpse, so Zhu Ning could only ask her.
Bai Cheng didn't see what Zhu Ning saw, and said quietly, "You're checking the classroom."
Zhu Ning looked towards the door again. There was nothing there. What horrible thing had she just witnessed? Why was the aftermath of the horror still there?
Zhu Ning had no choice but to rub his goose bumps and start reading the notes on the helmet.
With Bai Cheng's suggestion, Zhu Ning's memories seemed to be stored while playing games, and he was able to recover quickly. There was a simple record of the interval between amnesia in his notes. It was two months before, but this time it was suddenly shortened to two years. Why did it speed up?
Looking for clues, Zhu Ning remembered his task, closed his notebook, and began to walk around the classroom and explore, because every time he lost his memory it was like the first time to look for clues, which was very fresh.
There are two doors behind the classrooms in this school, one is the back door, and the other is a narrow door of the storage room, which is used to store brooms and trash cans.
When the door of the storage room was opened, there was really a pile of junk inside. The upside-down mop looked like a long-haired female ghost. Zhu Ning was scared when he opened it, and thought a ghost was about to jump out.
Maybe after losing his memory he could find things he couldn't find before. Zhu Ning frowned and rummaged through the mop that was placed upside down inside.
There is also a door on the inside of the mop.
There was a very tiny gap in the door and an inconspicuous keyhole, which was particularly easy to overlook. Zhu Ning didn't have a key, so she was groping here to figure out how to pry the door open and whether she could open it with a gun.
A mechanical voice rang out in my head: [A valid keyhole has been identified. Do you want to use the master key?]
To Zhu Ning, it felt too much like a game, so unreal. But this world was unreal to begin with, so she clicked yes.
With a creaking sound, the keyhole turned unexpectedly, as if there was an invisible key to open the door. The narrow door opened before my eyes, looking very much like a tomb in the theme of tomb robbery.
Zhu Ning stared at the door for a while. It was clearly right in front of her, but for some reason she didn't want to go in. The pointer clicked, reminding her that what was passing away was not only her memory, but also time.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath and walked in.
When she entered, she heard a rustling sound. It must be Bai Cheng coming in.
There is a small table at the door. There used to be a computer and a notebook next to it for recording experiments. Now it is empty, leaving a square dust mark.
The space inside the door was surprisingly empty. Zhu Ning's breath was held and he almost vomited when he saw the front. However, Bai Cheng smiled after seeing it, as if he thought it was very beautiful.
In front of me was a wall filled with skulls, both male and female, seemingly hundreds, thousands of them. Slender tubes connected to the heads, their necks neatly severed, wires, tubes, and blood vessels tangled together. Their heads were bathed in green liquid, their hair floating up and down.
The heads seemed to still be conscious. One of the male heads had its eyes half-closed, but when he noticed someone coming outside, he blinked slowly.
If it was an attack, such as rushing towards people with a bloody mouth, Zhu Ning could treat them as monsters, but he just blinked, as if his classmates were leaving get out of class and someone patted his shoulder and called his name, and he just turned around and blinked naturally.
Brain in a vat.
Zhu Ning had seen this concept before in movies. It was about saying that you don’t necessarily exist, you may just be a brain soaked in potion. These are all your fantasy worlds, or worlds coded by others.
Zhu Ning had never had such an intuitive understanding of these four words. It was the literal meaning. No matter from which angle you looked at it, it was a human head soaked in a water tank.
Zhu Ning recalled what was written in her notebook: the experimental researcher was called Zhu Yao. When she lost her memory, she was amazed that there was someone in this world with the same name as her mother. Her mother was an ordinary heart surgeon, not a mad scientist at all.
The experiment in front of him was a bit crazy. There were not just one or two people, but hundreds of people. Maybe a whole grade of students were here. Zhu Ning looked extremely small standing in front of them. If it was shown in a movie, Zhu Ning would not be able to watch it at his current age.
What are these? Do they hold the memories of the zombies out there?
The zombies ran like the walking dead, rushing towards the school to get their memories back?
Zhu Ning's heart skipped a beat. Due to amnesia, she couldn't recall her experiences in this world, but she felt a chill down her spine. It wasn't just the shock of the scene itself; this feeling was directed only at herself. It was as if the answers to the test had been told to her, but she didn't have the test paper in her hand, so she couldn't understand it at all, and had no idea what it meant specifically.
Bai Cheng took a quick look and found that none of the Federation scientists had clean hands. Their hands were all stained with blood. After the emergence of artificial humans, human experiments became very popular, since they were consumables after all.
Maybe this place was once an abandoned experimental base, which became a polluted area after being abandoned.
This researcher named Zhu Yao is no different from others.
Zhu Ning looked at so many heads floating in the water, blinking at different frequencies. After looking at them for a long time, he felt dizzy, as if he was looking at a kaleidoscope.
Soon, Zhu Ning's eyes focused on one point. The glass jar was empty, leaving only the green and strange potion. It was like a bathtub covered with moss, with several tubes scattered inside, but they had long lost their connection objects.
And under the glass jar it was written who the head belonged to: An Shi.
Zhu Ning took out his student ID from his pocket. The space where the photo was originally placed on the ID was now empty, just like this glass jar, with a missing head. There were two words written below it: An Shi.
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