368 Utopia (End)
◎Let’s go together◎
Zhu Ning closed her eyes. The anchor completely lost its function. She felt His breath in the darkness. To be precise, it was His breath that brought about the catastrophe. However, Zhu Ning was not included in the channel of life. She should have been classified into the camp of death.
The terrifying suction reached a peak, and she felt like a screw being sucked into a huge machine, with her skin and flesh about to leave her bones.
Zhu Ning collided with countless skeleton cars, as if she was thrown into the air, and her spine was broken apart section by section. In the severe pain, she actually reached a kind of empathy with this huge creature, like a diver encountering a shark on the seabed, a tiny cell encountering a huge organ, or a stone encountering a mountain.
It didn't even matter what species they were; their eyes met briefly, just for a split second, and she felt the other person's gaze.
Compassion, pain, and many other emotions mixed together made Zhu Ning feel very familiar, but he couldn't figure out where he had seen it before.
Then her whole body stiffened. The gaze from the huge creature was enough to terrify mortals, but Zhu Ning was no longer afraid. Her eyelashes trembled, her eyelids kept shaking, and she looked back with her head held high.
But His gaze had already shifted, without any explanation.
The pressure reached its extreme and she felt powerless to resist it. The next moment, it was pushed by an overwhelming force. Her consciousness returned to reality again. She thought that the most important thing now was to leave immediately.
The escape route was open for only a moment, and if she missed it, there would be no chance again. She felt that this place was declining and might die naturally in a short time. But Zhu Ning couldn't afford to take the risk. She struggled to grab Pei Shu's collar, and before she completely lost consciousness, she even tried to identify Bai Cheng's direction and wanted to pull other teammates with her.
But it was completely in vain. There were only bones all around them, and the mountains of bones completely swallowed them up.
…
That day, a strange light emanated from above the small town hidden deep in the forest, illuminating the skyline.
The basking shark naturally devours seawater, and all the plankton sucked in are passively sucked in. It lies quietly underground, operating day after day.
Now the breathing has stopped and the eating is complete.
An echo came from the huge crack below the town, the light gradually dimmed, and seven or eight tumor-like creatures squeezed out of the crack. Then the crack in the earth closed, and the ground healed again, leaving only a scar-like mark.
This trace will disappear again before the next group of pilgrims arrives, and this place will become an extremely clean town again, but the crack still exists, like a wound sutured during surgery.
The town was in ruins, the neat commercial street had collapsed, there were transparent water stains on the ground, and several pieces of flesh lying on the ground were wriggling rapidly.
With a puff—
One foot broke through the surface, like a balloon filled with water bursting, the flesh suddenly became shrunken, and more water stains overflowed.
After the flesh shrank, it looked like a piece of clothing, wrapping the outline of the woman's body.
A wet woman walked out. She was already an adult, but the experience just now still made her feel surprised, as if she was reliving her birth all over again.
She looked down at her hands, each of which had five fingers. She then touched her face, and saw that she only had two eyes and one mouth.
She used to have two mouths, one in her stomach and the other on the inside of her left calf, and even if it was harmless, talking at the same time would frighten others.
She groped her body even faster. The surface of her skin was very slippery and covered with mucus. She stopped moving and the next moment she burst into tears. She was a normal person with two eyes and a mouth, no longer deformed. It was as if all the previous ridicule and discrimination had disappeared and the debt was written off.
She couldn't help but lie down with her ear to the ground, trying to listen to His voice below, trying to hear what the God who bestowed blessings had to say, but the crack was closed and she could hear nothing.
There was only the sound of the wind. He had fallen asleep again, or had lost his strength after pregnancy and entered a dormant state.
She was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously curled up and hugged her knees, hugging herself tightly. Her tears were restrained at first. In the adult world, crying was equivalent to weakness. Later, she realized that she was still in Utopia, not in the Federation, and she did not need to fear the eyes of the people around her, so she burst into tears.
She is just a human being.
Utopia gave her a chance to be reborn. Looking up, she saw the blue sky and white clouds. She felt the miracle of life in the small town.
Puff, she heard the familiar sound again, which meant something had happened. They were like eggs in a hotbed of a farm, waiting to hatch, and she was the first one to come out.
She stood up and walked to the nearby fleshy ball. The woman in the fleshy ball seemed confused. She stuck her head out first, buried her face underneath and couldn't support her body. She seemed about to suffocate.
No one explained the current situation to her, and no one wrote a professional first aid manual, but she seemed to have learned it all by herself and immediately understood what specific help the other person needed: breathing. The other person needed to breathe.
She carefully lifted the outer film, fearing that she would suffocate.
The flesh balls broke open one after another, and on the road in the town, there were shriveled pieces of flesh and seven women, who were standing on the scars of the earth.
There was only one piece left, and the piece was surprisingly small. She was very skilled at this, like a professional midwife.
But she was still stunned when she tore off the film. It was a baby, who looked about one year old, definitely less than two years old. Why was there a child?
She tried to recall her journey. All she saw were adults, wrapped in protective suits so tightly that they couldn't recognize each other. Everything happened so quickly after entering Utopia, a dramatic change that occurred in just a few minutes. She had never noticed a baby. How did a child get here? Where was her mother?
There is no scar on the baby's skin. She must have been a deformed baby before. It is impossible to tell what her appearance was before, but she is taken very good care of by her mother and her eyes are shining.
The moment she opened the film, she was met with such a pair of eyes, dark and bright, which made her even a little overwhelmed, because the baby soon cried:
"Mother--"
Her heart skipped a beat. She had never been a mother and didn't want to be one. She was completely panicked at this moment. She hurriedly tried to wipe the mucus off the baby's face and wanted to find something to wrap her up. Her first reaction was to make her feel better.
"Mother--"
The baby was still crying. She looked around for the child's mother, but only saw puzzled looks from other people. The survivors were gathered there, and they were all shocked as to why there was a child, so young at that.
She could tell that none of these people were the child's mother.
Her expression suddenly darkened. The child's mother might be dead, and she quickly thought of the answer.
"The town is healing," someone said, looking into the distance, "it's time for us to leave."
After the light disappeared, there was endless cold. When they joined the Pilgrim Organization, someone told them what to do: please leave this place immediately and don't stay.
With Teacher Qi's instructions in mind, they had come here relying on instructions. They had to return to the high walls of the Federation. This task was only half completed, and it was time to return.
She got goosebumps all over her body, and the crisis of survival immediately hit her, along with other more specific worries.
"What about her?" she asked.
The baby is so small, she has no autonomy and cannot walk into Utopia alone, and of course she cannot leave alone. If she is left here, she may die.
"Let's go together." Everyone answered.
…
Zhu Ning felt like he was walking on a dark road, feeling extremely sleepy and tired. The sound of waves kept coming into his ears. There was water all around him, and the white noise was hypnotic. His eyelids became very heavy, and he couldn't wake up even if he wanted to.
She struggled several times and felt a flash of fire in front of her eyes.
Like the only signpost in the darkness and chaos, she opened her eyes, and the black mucus slowly faded from the surface of her eyeballs. At first glance, she actually saw a cluster of flames.
She blinked again, and the flame had a special fragrance. Then she saw a red thread wrapped around the dejected Pei Shu's neck, like a collar.
That was the thread of her consciousness, and it still proved that she was not dead.
She survived.
Zhu Ning opened her eyes and closed them again, not fully recovered. Her body seemed to be still shrouded in death, her consciousness was still unclear, and her thinking was much slower than before. She recalled the moment of escape and the glance he gave her, wondering if that scene was just an illusion.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath and smelled the fragrance of fire. The surroundings were pitch black with only a little light.
Pei Shu leaned against the wall, his right hand hanging limply, and fire ignited in his palm.
Zhu Ning's thoughts slowly returned to him, and he realized that Pei Shu had already woken up. He looked sick, his body covered with wounds, with a gun on his leg. He might be very tired, but he still had a little flame burning, becoming the only light in the unknown world.
Pei Shu was waiting for her beside her and said weakly, "Finally one of them woke up."
Zhu Ning raised her body, pressing something foreign under her palm. She frowned. She had seen too many corpses, and judging from the brief contact, it should be a human skull.
Zhu Ning woke up immediately, thinking he was in trouble again, but it was just bones, with no signs of life. Zhu Ning asked in a deep voice, "Where is this?"
"How would I know?" Pei Shu's voice came: "My brain exploded in the sky a second ago, and I woke up here. This seems to be a cave. It's quite scary."
Pei Shu said this as he moved his hand with difficulty to illuminate the wall he was leaning against. It was not a wall at all, it was simply made up of countless skeletons. Even the sacrificial sites were not so terrifying. In addition to the skeletons, there were also flying cars of all sizes.
Zhu Ning took a quick look and saw a familiar armored vehicle. It was the one he saw when he entered Utopia. The rich man should be dead too.
Zhu Ning reacted immediately and succeeded. Countless instructions from Chen Qihang led her out of danger.
They should have passed through the fish's gills and been excreted along with the waste.
Without Chen Qihang, they would definitely die if they entered Utopia. Zhu Ning was silent for a moment and asked, "What about them?"
Pei Shu is so calm, Xiaofeng and Bai Cheng must be fine.
Pei Shu: "There, I can't open it."
Zhu Ning stood up. The passage was a bit narrow and people could only move forward by bending over. She groped for a while and Pei Shu raised his hands to illuminate Zhu Ning in order to cooperate.
Zhu Ning soon saw another scene. There was a special existence in the twisted skeleton. The bones were in order and rearranged, surrounding the white body.
Bai Cheng's face was pale, and when he closed his eyes he looked like an exquisite doll. At this moment, he was holding Lin Xiaofeng in his arms, and the two of them looked like they were asleep. They seemed extremely calm among the corpses.
Bai Cheng covered herself with a layer of bones. She was determined to save Lin Xiaofeng's life even if it meant her own death.
Zhu Ning witnessed Bai Cheng's ability. When there were enough corpses, Bai Cheng could completely control the situation. Her ability was stronger than he thought.
She thought that reaching Utopia would reveal many secrets, and that Bai Cheng or Lin Xiaofeng would be able to find a home. Unfortunately, Utopia was completely different from what she imagined. It was not a city-state for humans at all, but just a birthplace.
So who is Bai Cheng?
Zhu Ning couldn't think of an answer, so he could only reach into the cracks of the skeleton to check Bai Cheng and Lin Xiaofeng's body temperature. Good, they were both still alive. However, unless Bai Cheng woke up, Zhu Ning couldn't open the skeleton armor.
Zhu Ning finally confirmed the last thing and breathed a sigh of relief. His mind was empty and he couldn't think of anything.
She sat by Pei Shu's fire, leaning against the wall, and asked, "How long have you been awake?"
Pei Shu shook his head: "I don't know, my mind is very heavy, and it took me a long time to sort out the current situation."
This was the scene Pei Shu saw when he woke up: in a nest full of corpses, and all his teammates were unconscious.
Pei Shu's heart ached, as if someone had dug out his heart. He could actually guess who had done it based on the traces. It must have been Zhu Ning who had performed the operation. After he cooled down, Bai Cheng wrapped him in a layer of gauze, like a mummy, and the gauze was two fingers thick.
Pei Shu could only light such a big fire with great effort. After seeing the current situation clearly, he groped around and found a gun.
On the left was Zhu Ning, on the right were Lin Xiaofeng and Bai Cheng, and Pei Shu was between them. He put the gun beside his leg and loaded it.
He didn't know what exactly happened, but he knew that his teammates didn't abandon him, so he acted as a guard. If anyone in their team woke up first, they would automatically take the responsibility.
Pei Shu was seriously injured. He should have been recovering after the explosion, but their team was so unlucky that they probably didn't even have the chance to recover. It was certain that nothing good happened to them.
He felt like his mental state had been eaten away by something, his head was dizzy, and even his thoughts were sporadic.
Now that Zhu Ning was awake, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He automatically lowered his guard and quietly released the trigger he had been holding. Pei Shu asked, "Did my spirit value get eaten away?"
Zhu Ning: "I was eaten too."
Everyone's spirit should have been severely damaged, but it seems that Teacher Pei's spirit value is quite high and he has not become a fool.
Pei Shu shook his head. No wonder he was so tired. He still remembered that their destination was Utopia. He tried to look at the map in his mind to see where they were, but he was too weak to do it. He could only ask, "How long until we get to Utopia?"
Zhu Ning: "...We are done."
Pei Shu: “…”
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