386 Heart
◎Zhu Yao saw the heart of the giant◎
The flames on Zhu Ning's body were still burning, and his skin and flesh were torn and emitting a burnt smell. Zhu Ning did not move for a long time until the flames on his body became smaller and smaller, and the wall of fire between Zhu Ning and Pei Shu began to disappear. Zhu Ning could finally see Pei Shu himself.
A handful of ashes, only a fiery red thread remained.
The thread of consciousness was loose and had long lost the object of its restraint. Zhu Ning reached forward in a daze. There was a residual fire burning on the back of her hand, and ashes were left between her fingers, which shattered even more with the slightest touch.
It originally had some shape, then it became invisible, and then it disappeared, and could be blown away by any gust of wind.
So Zhu Ning stopped touching her, and she withdrew her hand like a child who had done something wrong.
All that remained around was the crisp sound of Prometheus burning. After a while, even her enemies were burned out, leaving only ashes underground and falling into a dead silence.
Zhu Ning was kneeling on the ground, with a crack on her back, like a patient who had just completed an operation and had rushed off the operating table before the incision was sutured. Most of her skin had been burned, and she must have looked no different from a ghost.
Fiery red contaminated spores gradually emerged from the ground. It was not known whether it was because of Pei Shu's death or because the land had regained its vitality. The spores slowly floated to the surface and slowly filled the surroundings.
Zhu Ning realized the cruel fact that Pei Shu was dead.
Strangely, she could only recall Pei Shu leaning against the car, the wound on his body burning, holding a cigarette and saying, "Hello, young lady."
Zhu Ning thought about it over and over again, but other than that, she couldn't remember anything else. It was like the same scene was replaying.
Zhu Ning wanted to cry, but all her tears had been burned dry. There was no enemy for her to vent her anger, no corpse for her to pay tribute to. She felt a lump in her chest that seemed like it would never dissipate.
She reached out her hand to the ashes again. This time the ashes were no longer hot, only a faint residual warmth remained.
As soon as the fiery red silk thread touched Zhu Ning's hand, it immediately wrapped around it, licked her fingertips like a living thing, and was absorbed by her body and disappeared with a rustling sound.
The black slime stood behind her, lowering its head and looking at its host. It was clearly a creature on Zhu Ning's body, but it seemed to have its own complete and independent personality. It lowered its head and looked at Zhu Ning with pity.
In the empty underground, all the living people were dead. Bai Cheng turned into countless pieces, Pei Shu turned into ashes, and Lin Xiaofeng seemed to have disappeared from the world, with no trace left.
The black slime watched curiously, as if waiting for Zhu Ning to collapse so that it could be free, and looked forward to what Zhu Ning would do next.
"Xiaofeng?" Zhu Ning said in a hoarse voice. She regained some of her thoughts and called Lin Xiaofeng's name. She still had things to do. Give her something to do.
Just now, Lin Xiaofeng was controlled by Prometheus and wanted to attack Pei Shu, but was pushed away by Zhu Ning's consciousness. Where did she go?
The black slime only had a human shape, without any human facial features. At this moment, it froze and actually seemed to be smiling. Zhu Ning could not see its expression.
It didn't need Zhu Ning's command. Its body collapsed and sank, like a deflated ball, shrinking inch by inch into Zhu Ning's body.
"Xiaofeng, where are you?"
Zhu Ning felt a sharp pain in her throat. She guessed that Xiaofeng might still be in a transparent state and had fainted. He was currently lying in the corner.
She might be dead, but Zhu Ning can't see her, so he has to find her. Xiaofeng will be scared if she's alone.
"Xiaofeng?" Zhu Ning groped among the body parts and shouted, "Xiaofeng!"
Her voice was so weak and small that no one responded.
Xiaofeng might have gotten lost, so Zhu Ning expanded the search range and moved forward with her weak legs.
Contaminated spores spread wherever her toes moved. She had passed Prometheus's ambush site. If this was a ruler, she had already surpassed the farthest distance Liu Yu had walked that year.
The contaminated spores became more numerous, like another ocean of spores. Zhu Ning walked on the giant's spine as if she was walking on her own spine.
Suddenly, she stumbled and Zhu Ning's body rolled down quickly, as if rolling down a mountain.
Human instinct is to protect her head. When Zhu Ning subconsciously raised her hand, she found that she still had the desire to survive. Why did she still want to live?
After experiencing the death of teammates, it is easy to blame yourself. They are all dead, why are you still alive?
Everything became blurry as she rolled down until her body hit something stiff. When Zhu Ning raised her eyes, she saw a corpse.
…
Huo Huaiying is dead.
Zhu Yao had just taken out her eyes. This step had to be done while Huo Huaiying was still alive. She laid Huo Huaiying's body flat and opened the medical kit she carried with her.
Without a professional sterile environment, assistants and hand guards, Zhu Yao needs to complete an operation independently.
Zhu Yao is a professional researcher who has dissected countless subjects and performed surgery on humans. At this time, Huo Huaiying is her new patient, so she must remain calm and suppress her sadness.
She doesn't have much time left. It's so cruel. Her teammate is about to die, but she can't say goodbye to her or cry. Instead, she has to race against time to take her organs before she dies.
Zhu Yao injected anesthesia, and Huo Huaiying's eye movements slowed down and her eyes gradually lost focus. Huo Huaiying's eyes were very beautiful and usually very sharp, like a sharp eagle's eyes that could detect clues from the details.
Zhu Yao often had long conversations with Huo Huaiying all night long. They talked about the future, ideals, the fate of the world, and their careers.
Huo Huaiying was more experienced. On those rare occasions, Huo Huaiying would take advantage of the time when the main force was resting and say that she wanted to take Zhu Yao to see the world.
The majority of the troops are moving forward towards a certain goal and cannot satisfy the desire for exploration of scholars outside the wall.
Liu Yu usually turns a blind eye, acquiesces to such outrageous things happening, and pretends to know nothing.
Under the leadership of Huo Huaiying, they are like two rebellious students who skip classes. Huo Huaiying will introduce her to the strange and beautiful creatures outside the wall.
"This is a kind of grass that moves. It usually migrates with the seasons. Every winter, they will migrate collectively to the outside of the south wall to spend the winter. This is the first time I have discovered that animal-like migration can occur in plants." Huo Huaiying took Zhu Yao on foot to a hillside.
The grass she introduced was light orange in color and produced small white flowers. It was quite cute if you looked closely, and it was shaking in the wind, as if stretching its limbs.
Zhu Yao asked, "What is this called?"
Huo Huaiying stroked it, as if stroking the furry head of a puppy, and said, "There is no name. I don't like to classify creatures outside the wall, nor do I like to name them in the human way, but the researchers inside the wall will force me to name them."
Zhu Yao looked at Huo Huaiying's movements and thought that this thing should not be dangerous, but he did not try to touch it. "Then you can't call it a cat or a dog, right?"
"I think this one should be called Damao and this one should be called Wangcai." Huo Huaiying said seriously, and Zhu Yao was amused by her.
"But that would make it look like I wasn't doing any work, so I'd always open the dictionary and look for a few rare phrases or use some allusions and make up something."
"You are too unreliable, aren't you?" Zhu Yao couldn't imagine that before she went out of the wall, she hurriedly took a book written by Huo Huaiying and read it seriously, thinking that she had learned some great knowledge. She didn't expect that this was just a prank by Huo Huaiying.
"But they never doubted me." Huo Huaiying blinked, "Everyone is too blindly trusting of authority."
Huo Huaiying paused. "Assuming that everything will eventually perish, naming it is meaningless."
Things are constantly changing outside the wall. Usually, if you name a creature you encounter once, you will never encounter it again next time.
Huo Huaiying: "What I mean is, if our ideal can really be realized, the world will definitely be purified. By then, my profession will disappear, and naming it will be useless."
Zhu Yao originally wanted to say that you are too optimistic. Although she herself is on this path, she never thought that it would definitely come true. That would be too stressful.
Huo Huaiying is not like that. She seems to be certain of her future.
Huo Huaiying is an observer, she sees something that Zhu Yao cannot see. Zhu Yao heard her say that Huo Jinsheng does not agree with her cheating, and they have a disagreement as mother and daughter.
It was as if the two of them were standing at two different crossroads, both sides had the possibility of realization, but they parted ways.
She walked out of the walls, betrayed her family, and is paying the price for the path she chose.
How did the last day end? Zhu Yao wanted to touch the migrating grass, which looked harmless enough, but Huo Huaiying snapped, "Don't touch it, or you'll get bitten."
Zhu Yao quickly retracted her finger, as if the flower would really open its mouth and bite her, and asked, "Why can you?"
"Because I'm different," Huo Huaiying repeated, with a hidden meaning in her words: "Zhu Yao, I'm different from you."
It is easy for observers to speak in a mysterious way. The Huo family members are all fortune-tellers. Zhu Yao did not understand at the time.
Zhu Yao has worked with her for a long time, and the two have a tacit understanding. He can usually read Huo Huaiying's intentions from a glance.
At this time, Huo Huaiying looked at herself and had no complaints about her death. Zhu Yao remembered that Huo Huaiying had a daughter left inside the wall. She thought Huo Huaiying would take the opportunity to leave some last words and take her back, but she said nothing.
The prophet has a glimpse into fate and knows that any of his actions will affect the future, so he suppresses his humanity and selfish desires to the greatest extent and cannot make any mistakes.
She had seen everything, yet remained silent about everything.
Zhu Yao looked deeply into Huo Huaiying's eyes. There was no need for the two to communicate as the operation was about to begin.
Zhu Yao took a deep breath, her fingers didn't tremble for a moment, and the first cut was extremely precise. She could hear the blade tearing through flesh and blood, like a soldier firing the first shot.
Zhu Yao's world was extremely shrunk. She could not hear Liu Yu's movements in the distance, nor did she know what was around her. The only thing in her eyes was Huo Huaiying.
She moved quickly, quickly replacing injections and hemostatic forceps. The protective suit reduced her accuracy, but she had to push her limits. The poison was already spreading, and she had to save Huo Huaiying's eyes.
She was fighting Prometheus, using Huo Huaiying's body as the battlefield.
It took Zhu Yao less than three minutes to remove the two eyeballs. There was no damage at all. The eyeballs were sealed intact and soaked in the medicine. Through the transparent glass jar, the two eyes seemed to be still alive.
She succeeded. Zhu Yao was exhausted, as if she had undergone the most important operation in her life.
In the lab, every time they made a breakthrough, the researchers would celebrate. She subconsciously looked for her teammates' gratified eyes, but was met only with empty eyes.
Huo Huaiying's chest stopped rising and falling, and he was dead.
The smile on Zhu Yao's lips froze, and a huge sadness hit her. She was a little at a loss, unable to face such a fact, and immediately reached out her hand to cover Huo Huaiying's eyes.
She then realized that closing the eyes of the dead was not to let the dead rest in peace, but to comfort the living.
Zhu Yao's palm was burning hot; it was Huo Huaiying's blood.
She maintained this posture for a long time, trying to breathe deeply. Breathing helped her relieve her mental stress. She wanted to find an oxygen tank immediately, but this action was of no use.
With every breath, her eyes became more and more stinging, her eyelashes became extremely heavy, and the first tear fell. Zhu Yao finally couldn't hold it in anymore. She no longer pretended to be strong, and fell on Huo Huaiying's body and cried loudly.
There was no hand to comfort her. Zhu Yao sat beside Huo Huaiying until her body became cold. She could not take Huo Huaiying's body away, so she could only shake out a blanket and cover Huo Huaiying's face.
But when the blanket covered her face, it quickly became soaked with blood, highlighting the outline of her death.
Zhu Yao's lips trembled and she opened her mouth. This should be the last time she saw Huo Huaiying in her life. Liu Yu was nowhere to be found, and the entire team was dead, leaving only her.
"I will succeed." Zhu Yao said.
She couldn't say too much because she still had a mission to complete. Huo Huaiying's death gave Zhu Yao a chance to move forward, and the entire team sacrificed just to allow her to take another step forward.
Zhu Yao must succeed.
Huo Huaiying told her a lot before he died. It was as if she had obtained the prophet's script in advance and moved forward with her blessings.
So Zhu Yao stood up. She was no longer confused. Huo Huaiying gave her new instructions. She waded through the contaminated spores, as if she was stepping on the blood of countless people, moving forward, and moving forward again and again.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Zhu Yao stopped and was blinded by the blood-red light.
The abyss unfolded before her eyes, and Zhu Yao stood on the edge of it. The ground below was blood red. She calmed herself down, as if an ignorant mortal was peeping at the true face of a god.
Countless tentacles were shaking, each one was blood red, like a sea anemone lurking deep in the seabed, but it was incredibly huge. Zhu Yao's eyes didn't know where to look first because it was so big.
Zhu Yao heard the roar of the waves. She had heard the sound of the waves since she entered the underground of Utopia. Now she finally found the source. Because she was too close, the sharp noise echoed in her mind.
The tentacles were wriggling, and although the movement was very weak, from the perspective of a mortal, it was as if the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing.
As Zhu Yao's body squirmed, she couldn't stop shaking. The sadness that had been lingering in her heart was instantly defeated. She couldn't think of sadness or any other emotions.
Her sanity was about to collapse, her spiritual world was collapsing rapidly, and Zhu Yao's eyes were stinging with pain. Logically, she should close her eyes and immediately run away from this damn place.
Or retreat first and look for an opportunity to start again. This is what a smart person would do, but Zhu Yao's legs didn't move at all. She opened her eyes wide and forced herself to look almost like self-abuse. The moisture on the surface of her eyeballs evaporated quickly, as if the extremely dry land was cracking, and salty tears flowed uncontrollably.
Zhu Yao saw the giant's heart.
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The equidistant sea anemone is a species of sea anemone in the family Actinidae. Its body color varies widely, ranging from deep creamy yellow to deep red, reddish brown, or rose-red. Its tentacles have six rings and can reach up to 192 arms. It is found in the Mediterranean, the eastern Atlantic, and northern Scotland, in waters up to 2 meters deep. Its toxin can rapidly lower an animal's blood pressure, slow its heart rate, and inhibit its respiration, leading to death. Therefore, its toxin is used in antihypertensive medication. —From the internet.
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