340 Painting
Is Liu Yu really dead?
Go there.
Zhu Ning's brain and heart were beating at the same time. She didn't receive Huo Wenxi's information until she reached the third base station.
The sandstorm had lasted for a full forty days at that time. She browsed through Liu Yu's paintings one by one and was stunned when she read the last one.
The unknown road unfolds before your eyes, which cannot be called a map at all. A complete map must have other reference points besides the target route.
But what was forming in Zhu Ning's mind seemed very metaphysical, like an intuition that could not be described or shared with others. It was as if he was attracted by an unknown existence, and as long as he walked north, he would know his destination.
Is this a way of presenting a map?
What is the destination? Assuming Liu Yu is a utopian, is the destination she is pointing to utopia?
Zhu Ning finally understood one thing: the pilgrims didn't have a map, so how were they going to get to Utopia? And why were they so determined to get out of the wall?
This method of map implantation is like mental pollution, planting a seed in the brain that will naturally sprout when the time is right.
The pilgrims must have had the same thing implanted in their brains, so even if Zhu Ning read the memories, he could only see the same paragraph. Their brains had been modified long ago.
Zhu Ning frowned and turned back to look at the second-to-last picture, the lighthouse on the coast.
She had dreamed about this before, and now her dream overlapped with Liu Yu's painting. It seemed as if Zhu Ning and Liu Yu were taking completely opposite paths, Liu Yu heading inside the wall, and Zhu Ning heading towards utopia, and their intersection converged today.
Zhu Ning had never met Liu Yu. They were from two completely different eras, so he couldn't guess Liu Yu's specific motives.
Zhu Ning closed his eyes. Was the lighthouse the destination? Were these paintings depicting different places, or the same thing?
She couldn't verify it.
Pei Shu: "The album was definitely left here by Liu Yu on purpose."
Pei Shu seemed to think that this statement was too arbitrary and explained: "Liao Xianglin is a marginal figure among first-class citizens. He has no vested interests with the Lu family. He is neither an enemy nor a friend. He happens to be the kind of person that the Lu family looks down upon. She must have chosen him deliberately."
Pei Shu knew first-class citizens very well, and was even more familiar with the Lu family's interests. He knew how pleasing this choice was. If it were Pei Shu, he could not choose a more suitable candidate than Liao Xianglin.
Liao Xianglin thought that Liu Yu was sincere in wanting to be friends with him, but in fact, everything had been arranged since their first meeting.
"Can I be friends with you?" Liu Yu asked sincerely, treating Liao Xianglin as a safe. She knew that the information would be safest if kept with her.
Sure enough, many years later, the album successfully bypassed the Lu family's screening and reached Lu Yuan's hands, as if it had completed some kind of handover ceremony.
Liao Xianglin was just a postman delivering picture albums.
"Liu Yu may know that he will die. Either he foresaw it or he arranged all his affairs after his death." Pei Shu rubbed his temples.
He became more and more curious about Liu Yu. Pei Shu suspected that what the world saw, including what Liu Yu's biological daughter saw, was an "illusion", a role she deliberately played.
They could only see the parts that Liu Yu wanted to show, and as for those that she didn't want to show, they had no chance to see.
Pei Shu's mind unconsciously emerged with the figure of Liu Yu, who had a very classical temperament and was always so elegant. She came to the training camp and told stories to a group of children who were about to become investigators outside the wall, planting seeds in everyone's heart.
Liu Yu's influence on Pei Shu has been proven. Even if he goes crazy, he still has a desire for the outside world in his heart.
This mysterious woman seemed to have been "sowing seeds", sowing the seeds of Homecoming to the children in the orphanage camp and the seeds of the picture album to Liao Xianglin.
There are probably many seeds that they haven't discovered yet. Liu Yu is not weak and helpless. In fact, from some perspectives, Liu Yu has some evil temperament.
No one knows who she is, but all her seemingly unintentional actions continue to influence the world.
And they are just tools following in Liu Yu's footsteps.
Even if it's not them, the seeds in other people's hearts will sprout, and Liu Yu just needs to wait quietly.
"Is Liu Yu really dead?" Zhu Ning asked.
Pei Shu was unable to answer this question. When Liu Yu died, Pei Shu was not at the Lu family. She became a taboo. Few people would mention her, and she could not be explored.
If she died, she would not be able to be buried peacefully, and her body would probably become an experimental subject in a laboratory. The Kingdom of God would not give up on such an excellent observation subject.
Pei Shu didn't answer, but Zhu Ning continued to ask, "Did Niannian really see her mother's body?"
Lu Yuan once told her that when everyone was in the cloud of consciousness, they saw the most feared existence in their hearts. What Lu Yuan saw was the moment when her mother died.
Large amounts of blood, the most resolute suicide. For a long time, they all thought that Liu Yu chose to commit suicide because she could not bear the pain of being a reproductive machine.
But is there any other explanation for this incident, or this scene?
What if this was also arranged by Liu Yu?
Zhu Ning looked at the blood-red clouds in the distance and said, "This also looks like a seed, doesn't it?"
Such a powerful woman can plan everything step by step, spend decades, and sacrifice her freedom.
Even if Liu Yu really couldn't bear the pain and wanted to commit suicide, or her life was coming to an end, she could have protected her daughter and not left her with such a strong psychological trauma.
But she didn't. Instead, she chose to die in an extremely visually impactful way, as if using her death to complete a great "performance".
Even adults would find it hard not to collapse when seeing this scene, let alone Lu Yuan who was just a child back then.
Zhu Ning: "Liu Yu's death changed Nian Nian's personality and... her destiny."
Lu Yuan yearned for the polluted world after witnessing her mother's death. She had a strong urge to get closer to the outside of the wall. She went to Area 103, met Zhu Ning, and followed Zhu Ning to upload her consciousness to the cloud of consciousness.
"I'm ready." Lu Yuan was lying in the bathtub in the basement, surrounded by freezing ice. She had no one she could trust, and her guardian was her mechanical butler.
Lu Yuan entered the cloud of consciousness so alone. She thought it was the biggest adventure in her life. With Zhu Ning and Xu Meng accompanying her, she even saved Zhu Ning's life.
Did Lu Yuan know that that was the path arranged by her mother?
Did she know that she would awaken the polluting factors in her body, awaken a certain power, inherit her mother's ability, and become an existence that even Zhu Ning could not judge?
Thinking this way, Liu Yu's terror was far beyond their imagination.
Zhu Ning: "To put it in an analogy, Liu Yu is like painting. She is doing something to us through the form of the painting."
The scene Pei Shu saw in the orphanage, the scene Lu Yuan saw her mother's death, and this series of paintings symbolize the unknown.
Yes, this is painting. Zhu Ning suddenly figured out something that had puzzled him for a long time.
Liu Yu influences the world through painting. Each of her works is an image implanted by her. Is her ability to pollute similar to mind control?
It’s just that this kind of control is more subtle and silent, and even cannot be detected.
The tent trembled in the strong wind. Pei Shu opened and closed his mouth several times, and finally said dryly, "There is no evidence."
Of course there was no evidence, just speculation, but they knew in their hearts that Zhu Ning's speculation might be true.
Zhu Ning continued to ask: "What's the purpose?"
This question was a bit vague, so Zhu Ning changed it: "To destroy, or to change?"
Pei Shu knew that Zhu Ning was just thinking and didn't need his answer. Lu Yuan was a pollutant, and judging from the current information, it was an unknown and more powerful pollutant. Lu Yuan had not even fully awakened.
Putting aside all the complicated discussions, there are only two tendencies in purpose, good or bad?
The Kingdom of God gave birth to pollutants, destroyed the Kingdom of God, and the base of human survivors no longer existed. It was a very simple idea of destruction.
There is another possibility, that is, changing ideas. Lu Yuan is the future direction of mankind, not the Alpha series experiments.
Lu Yuan is different from Zhu Ning, a hybrid that combines machinery and pollution. Zhu Ning is not stable and relies on mental value and technological development. His lifespan is not long.
Lu Yuan is a combination of living things. Survival of the fittest makes her the most perfect existence.
Zhu Ning understood more and more why Yongsheng Pharmaceutical stopped the research and development of the Alpha series. There were better alternatives, and Zhu Ning was indeed a defective product.
Zhu Ning and Lu Yuan's fates are surprisingly similar, one comes from the kingdom of God and the other comes from a garbage dump.
They all have a strong mother. They are the continuation of their mother's will, the works created by their mother, and they also carry their mother's destiny forward.
Zhu Ning was free, but Lu Yuan was not, and she might not even know the role she played.
Destruction or change, no one can answer.
They are most likely inclined towards change, otherwise the Kingdom of God and Prometheus would not support them. Maybe what they are doing is a great feat to guide all mankind forward?
Zhu Ning has always had the impression that the Kingdom of God is made up of celestial dragons who need to be defeated. Now this image may need to be refreshed. After all, it was a country created by the elites of mankind at that time, and to some extent it must have a reason for its existence.
Zhu Ning turned off her secondary brain and stopped thinking. This question was too advanced for her and she needed more evidence.
Pei Shu asked, "Are you still leaving?"
Normally, it was Zhu Ning who asked Pei Shu if he wanted to follow, but this time it was Pei Shu who asked Zhu Ning if she had any new plans after reading the information.
Bai Cheng was also waiting for Zhu Ning's answer. She also looked at Liu Yu's paintings, but strangely, she didn't feel anything.
She once suspected that she came from Utopia. If this was really a map, it would be very familiar to her. But in her opinion, Liu Yu's paintings were just simple paintings.
Bai Cheng felt nothing except that Liu Yu was in a bad mood while painting.
But Pei Shu and Zhu Ning both showed a certain degree of shock. The painting must have implanted something in their minds.
Maybe Bai Cheng's mind is far away, so nothing can affect him.
Bai Cheng is immortal and difficult to be contaminated, and of course it is difficult for him to form a long-term bond with anything.
The place where they are now is a wasteland. The only man-made building nearby is an iron tower, but the shadows of many large creatures can be seen from here.
Not far away, a large flying fish was floating in the sky. It had a blue-purple appearance and a translucent body, so you could see inside.
Everyone outside the wall knows that this is a boundary in the north, and some people call it the Flying Fish Line.
Below this line, you can still see other bounty hunters active. After crossing this line, except for those transferred north, few bounty hunters go forward. After all, hunters make money, not risk their lives.
The creatures ahead will be more primitive, the crises more inexplicable, and the reduction of man-made objects will lead to all kinds of strange things in the polluted areas.
Moreover, Zhu Ning had seen Liu Yu's paintings and was probably already implanted in him. It was hard to say where the things Liu Yu left behind would lead them, perhaps to hell.
So Pei Shu's question was necessary. After knowing this information, would you still move forward? After all, this was a watershed moment.
Zhu Ning responded quickly, "Let's go, why not?"
Zhu Ning patted Lin Xiaofeng on the shoulder as they passed by, as if they were on a road trip. "Let's get going, darlings. The next stop is beef noodles."
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