398. Resurrection, I'll Go with You to Revenge...
Zhu Ning was extremely exhausted. In contrast, Bai Cheng's hands were very strong. Because it was a restored corpse, it was as stiff as an ice sculpture.
The ice tomb cracked layer by layer, and large pieces of plastic surged out. Zhu Ning had seen these plastic layers several times. The first time he was digging Bai Cheng in the Guitou Cemetery, he almost suffocated because of the plastic.
But at this moment, the plastic was all around him, and because of the whistling sound of the wind, Zhu Ning seemed to be in a hallucination.
Finally, she saw a pair of emotionless eyes among the layers of red plastic. The pupils were pitch black, staring straight at her. The face was too pale to look like a human, and the white and clear appearance had a cold beauty.
Bai Cheng sat up from the grave. Zhu Ning felt a chill on his right hand and a faint flame on the back of his hand.
Bai Cheng said nothing, lowered her eyelashes, and her gaze lingered on Zhu Ning's flames, her eyes reflecting a fiery red.
That was Pei Shu's fire.
The next moment, crisp crackling sounds erupted all around. With the tomb of Bai Cheng that had been resurrected as the core, the snow began to break apart, as if there had been a sudden earthquake. An extremely terrifying crack spread out like lightning.
The earth was shaking. The human-headed elephant that was resting not far away was gasping for breath when it suddenly woke up. Thinking that danger was coming, it wanted to run away immediately, but it was so nervous that its limbs slipped and it fell down again.
Its head was lowered, and it looked around vigilantly, with its neck shrunk like an ostrich, trying to wait out the aftermath of the earthquake.
Lin Xiaofeng also had to lower his body's center of gravity. The oppressive feeling from Bai Cheng made him feel fear instinctively.
She thought Bai Cheng wanted to summon the body of the dead investigator, but Lin Xiaofeng had tried it before. If the ice was broken violently by external force, it would be impossible to only dig up the outer ice layer without damaging the body inside. In fact, she was thinking too simply.
Boom——
The sound of the earth breaking suddenly stopped, and the snow flew because of the vibration. Suddenly, many figures appeared in the blurry wind and snow.
Even though they were far away, Lin Xiaofeng recognized that it was not the investigator's body at all, because the figure was very familiar. Lin Xiaofeng had been with her day and night, and he could tell the difference just by looking at the outline.
It’s Bai Cheng, lots of Bai Cheng.
Bai Cheng and the others were standing in the distance, like layers copied and pasted, actually converging towards them. Compared with the creatures in the north, the human body seemed very small. The previous metaphor was correct, that is, countless sesame seeds, but now many sesame seeds are moving.
When one person wakes up, all the spare Bai Cheng here actually form an undead army.
Before the end of the world, Utopia is the ocean, and the North must also be the ocean, with countless plastic wastes in the ocean.
After the apocalypse, these garbages took on a life of their own and were resurrected under the name of Bai Cheng.
Lin Xiaofeng's throat tightened and she didn't know what to say. She felt the atmosphere was unusually serious, so she could only count silently. There were about eleven Bai Chengs, which was the largest number Lin Xiaofeng had ever seen.
In the City of Lost, when Lin Xiaofeng was trembling with fear at the sight of two identical Bai Chengs, he never imagined that one day he would feel so overwhelmed with emotion after seeing so many Bai Chengs.
Bai Cheng and the others approached silently, and finally stopped about one meter away. The shivering human heads raised their heads cautiously and looked at the strange scene here. Everyone looked the same, except for the different sizes of scars on their bodies.
Some of the Bai Chengs had serious abdominal injuries, some had bones clearly visible on their backs, and some had a broken leg.
These Bai Chengs are all incomplete, but their expressions are extremely calm.
Zhu Ning, who was surrounded by Bai Cheng, had flames burning on her body. She didn't look like an opponent being besieged, but more like Bai Cheng and others coming to make a pilgrimage. She responded to Zhu Ning's call with her own actions.
Zhu Ning didn't say a word, and Bai Cheng didn't let go of her hand, still holding it tightly, as if he was holding her whole body.
"I'll go with you to seek revenge." Bai Cheng's voice was stiff, but every word was powerful.
Bai Cheng heard Zhu Ning's voice in the grave. She would not persuade Zhu Ning to give up. As long as you call me, I will definitely go.
Without too many words, Zhu Ning understood that Bai Cheng had common memories. She had clearly died very early, and when Prometheus tried to control her, she simply blew herself up to protect her brain from being contaminated by mycelium and to ensure that she would not become a puppet.
Bai Cheng had no idea what happened next, but she knew Pei Shu was dead when she saw the flames. The last time she died, her heart was filled with resentment. After she woke up, the hatred did not disappear, but instead grew stronger like a fire.
New and old grudges, the hatred between Bai Cheng and Prometheus continues to accumulate, waiting for a breaking point. Even if the whole army is wiped out this time, they will send Zhu Ning across the Far North.
Zhu Ning finally recovered and pulled Bai Cheng from the grave to his feet, "Welcome back."
The last time it was Pei Shu who said this, now it’s Zhu Ning.
If it were the previous Bai Cheng, she might want to come over and hug her. She liked social gestures, but there was no such thing. She just nodded lightly and said, "It's dangerous here. Let's go first."
The corners of Lin Xiaofeng's mouth slowly stiffened as he realized that Bai Cheng, who had died before, was really dead.
The wind is about to blow in the distance, and the whistling sound is extremely terrifying. They must leave immediately before the next death icicle sweeps across. Bai Cheng knows the route to the north and should have been here before.
She quickly found the buoy Pei Shu mentioned. That thing was artificially chiseled into the snow. Most routes of the northern transfer would have some deployments along the way. The person who chiseled the buoy as a logistics worker should have died.
But these buoys later served as guides for countless people, leading them to explore further north.
The buoy was flashing a very faint cold light, buried in the wind and snow, and required a specific angle to be seen. As long as you found one, you could find the next one. Finally, Bai Cheng led the way to an ice cave.
"There is a temporary shelter in the north. That is the last place you can rest after entering the Far North." Pei Shu once said this.
Bai Cheng led Zhu Ning to the shelter. There was a logistics team in the shelter under the Feiyu Line, but there was nothing here, not even any effective defense, at most it could only withstand the wind and snow.
The wisdom of the Inuit people is worth learning from. The houses made of ice and snow are surprisingly warm. Bai Cheng lit a bonfire, which instantly illuminated the interior.
She rummaged around in the area with familiarity and tossed over two coats. They weren't protective suits but some kind of furry coats that would be effective against the cold in places like this.
Lin Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief. She felt that she might have become tear incontinent after entering the Northland, and wanted to cry at everything she saw.
After Bai Cheng came back, they finally stopped running around like headless flies.
There was no one else in the shelter, so the human elephant found a corner and huddled there. This was much better than facing unknown risks in the wind and snow.
The eleven Bai Chengs had different postures, but there were actually two Bai Chengs chatting. Lin Xiaofeng was a little curious. Didn’t they share the same brain?
Bai Cheng, the one Zhu Ning had dug out himself, sat across from the campfire. Zhu Ning, wrapped in a furry coat, looked like a native northerner. He asked, "How many of yourselves can you call out at once?"
"The more people there are, the easier it is to get out of control," Bai Cheng said. "This is the most I remember ever having. Before, there were probably about six at a time."
Bai Cheng finished speaking and asked, "Not enough?"
Zhu Ning shook his head, "That's enough."
It even far exceeded Zhu Ning's expectations. Before she started, she thought it would be enough to find one, but she ended up digging out one and bringing out a bunch.
Bai Cheng: "We have no advantage in numbers when entering the Far North. Most of us are just scouting dogs and could die at any time. You have to be prepared and don't get attached to me."
Zhu Ning was silent. She needed to step on Bai Cheng's body to move forward.
Bai Cheng knows Zhu Ning very well. She will be sad for the death of every companion. Before setting off, Bai Cheng wants to give Zhu Ning a shot of prevention. This is the price of revenge, and she must have this determination.
After a long while, Zhu Ning finally managed to squeeze out a word, "Okay."
"Also," Bai Cheng thought of something, "I've never been to the Far North, and I haven't even found the entrance. The only person who knows about it, Pei Shu, is dead. We'll have to spend some time exploring."
When Bai Cheng joined Zhu Ning's team, he had a requirement that Pei Shu must join the team, but plans could not keep up with changes.
Zhu Ning hummed and asked, "You are so powerful, but you can't find the entrance to the Far North?"
Bai Cheng shook his head: "It's not the same thing. We speculate that the Far North is not a dead place, but a living drift zone that will select some humans to enter."
If it were a fantasy novel, this damn place would only be open to those who are destined to visit.
Zhu Ning frowned at the thought of the death of Yi Linghe's team and asked, "Is it collecting souls?"
A special area drifting in the ice and snow sounds like a soul-harvesting machine, but why was Pei Shu able to escape?
"I don't know. Maybe I don't have a soul," Bai Cheng said calmly. "If that's the case, I can only take you to the entrance."
Zhu Ning: "Absolutely."
Bai Cheng acted like a bounty hunter applying for a job. He didn't ask about the circumstances of Pei Shu's death, but only the most crucial question: "What are your plans?"
"No plan," Zhu Ning said. "Cross the Far North, for revenge."
Bai Cheng gave a stiff smile. It was true that no matter how many plans he made in this kind of ghost place, it would be useless. The simpler the better.
Zhu Ning: "I guess Prometheus's defense isn't very strong."
The Far North is a natural barrier, and perhaps Prometheus himself is as fragile as a mushroom and will break with a single pinch.
Prometheus's last interception failed, and he would surely die as long as he reached his host's location.
Zhu Ning asked, "Where's the equipment?"
Zhu Ning himself was penniless, and Bai Cheng suddenly smiled. The one chatting with Zhu Ning did not move, and the ones who stood up were actually the two Bai Chengs waiting behind him.
They walked to the southernmost end of the igloo and used a shovel to dig out an ice brick. It's not quite accurate to call it an ice brick. It was one meter long and half a meter thick, and it took two people to take it out.
Bai Cheng fished out a black box from below, and after opening it, there was a wide variety of weapons. After Zhu Ning entered the air gate and lost his flying car, he suffered all the way without even any supplies, and he had never seen such abundant supplies again.
"I planted it a long time ago. After entering the North, try not to use large-scale thermal weapons, as they will trigger avalanches. That's why no one came to pick it up."
Bai Cheng herself is not afraid of death. After being buried, the worst that can happen is that her body is replaced. Zhu Ning guessed that she might have caused an avalanche.
Bai Cheng: "There are still some supplies here. If you want anything else, I'll try my best to find it."
Zhu Ning quickly asked, "Is there a flying car?"
Bai Cheng shook his head: "The flying car can't be used, we can only walk."
Zhu Ning asked, "Where is the human-headed elephant?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the eyes of the eleven Bai Chengs all fell on the human-headed elephant in the corner, as if they were scanning its entire body through its thick hair, and as if they were wondering what kind of weird thing it was. It shuddered, expecting Bai Cheng to say no.
"Probably." Bai Cheng sentenced it to death with just one sentence. This time, it couldn't escape even if it wanted to.
The human head drooped and whimpered.
Lin Xiaofeng observed Zhu Ning. When she talked about revenge, she seemed like a different person. Her mind was clear, as if a surge of vitality was suddenly injected into her body. Revenge became her new fuel.
Lin Xiaofeng knew that he had made the right decision to leave temporarily and wait for Zhu Ning to return for revenge.
"By the way," Zhu Ning asked, "Do you remember the reason for going to Utopia?"
Bai Cheng went to Utopia with Zhu Yao many years ago. Was it because of this rumor that he thought he was a Utopian?
"Not at all," Bai Cheng tried to smile bitterly, but she couldn't control her facial features, so her face looked twitching. "Maybe anyone who knew is already dead."
Zhu Ning asked, "Don't you have any way to assist memory?"
With the development of technology, we can record it in writing or through video. Why not just find a safe place to bury it?
This time Bai Cheng was silent for a while, "I guess it's easy to be deceived."
Zhu Ning initially thought that she was being deceived by others, for example, her diary or video records would be tampered with, but after thinking about it, she found that this was not the case.
Bai Cheng was afraid of being deceived by herself. If she recorded a wrong piece of information, then countless Bai Chengs would continue to carry this information forward. Sometimes it was accidental, and the most terrifying thing was intentional.
The previous Bai Cheng deliberately deceived the next one. This kind of thing may have happened before, so the Bai Chengs modified the attributes and would not record it even if they used stupid methods to search for it.
It's quite scary. Apart from Bai Cheng, few people can understand what it feels like to deceive themselves.
Zhu Ning did not delve into this issue too deeply, because if he did, he would not be able to stop. For example, who exactly is Bai Cheng? If Zhu Ning's goal is to purify the world, then someone like Bai Cheng should also die.
Zhu Ning imagined that he was making a deal with the devil. Now that the deal was made, he didn't need to think too much about the devil's rules. At least now Bai Cheng was on his side, which was enough.
Zhu Ning said, "I need three of you to escort Lin Xiaofeng away from the Northland."
Zhu Ning was very worried about Lin Xiaofeng, and the three Bai Chengs should be able to guarantee his safety.
Bai Cheng glanced at Lin Xiaofeng and understood what Zhu Ning wanted to do. "Okay, when do we start?"
"Now." Zhu Ning said without hesitation.
This time it was Bai Cheng's turn to be surprised, "Now?"
"Yes, the sooner the better," Zhu Ning said, "After we send her off, we'll set off immediately."
She couldn't wait to get revenge.
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