399. The Dark North Enters a Peri-Night State...
Another storm arose outside the shelter. When the storm stopped, Zhu Ning planned to take the opportunity to send Lin Xiaofeng away immediately.
Lin Xiaofeng was wrapped in a thick coat, and his whole body looked three times bloated, like a fat little raccoon, with his small face framed by the furry collar.
Zhu Ning was originally fixing her collar, but at this moment he stared at Lin Xiaofeng's face for a long time. This face looked too much like a comic girl. When Zhu Ning got Lin Xiaofeng's information before, he sighed that she was almost flawless in beauty because it was shaped by modern industry.
Lin Xiaofeng had no choice over her facial features and obeyed her father's wishes. She hated looking in the mirror.
Pei Shu once said that when she wanted to be seen, she would naturally be seen.
She no longer cared about the specific meaning of her facial features, she just wanted to stand out in the darkness so that Zhu Ning could find her.
Zhu Ning had not thought about this matter carefully before, but now she realized that Lin Xiaofeng gave her all his trust and love.
The little girl thought Zhu Ning wanted to tell her something, so she looked very serious, waiting for him to speak.
But Zhu Ning just helped her button her collar and put her helmet on, as if he was sending her to school, and said, "Wait for me to come back."
Lin Xiaofeng's head sank as Zhu Ning closed the helmet panel from the outside. She was stunned for a second before she realized that the new program she had written for Zhu Ning was taking effect.
Zhu Ning will not die after killing Prometheus, and will come to her as long as she has a breath left.
It wasn't Lin Xiaofeng's wishful thinking; Zhu Ning was responding to him seriously.
Lin Xiaofeng thought about it, and took out a collection bottle from his three inner and three outer pockets, which still contained Pei Shu's ashes.
Just like Zhu Ning released Xu Meng's contaminated spores, she wanted Pei Shu to return to the Far North.
Zhu Ning received the signal, put it away silently, and then sent Lin Xiaofeng onto the human-headed elephant back.
Zhu Ning can hike in the snow, but she hopes Lin Xiaofeng can get out of the north safely.
The human-headed elephant was still lying there, like a bored dog wagging its tail. Lin Xiaofeng didn't even struggle when he climbed over it, and then the three Bai Chengs also climbed over it.
The human-headed elephant stood on all fours, and the head on its trunk turned back and rubbed Zhu Ning. This thing looked really weird, as if the animal was attached to humans. Zhu Ning had no choice but to reach out and touch its head, very reluctantly, and fed it an energy bar.
But the human-headed elephant seemed satisfied. It shook its head, rubbed its hooves excitedly, and walked away with Lin Xiaofeng and the three Bai Chengs on its back.
Zhu Ning stood outside the shelter and watched them go away until all he could see was a black dot.
The temperature in the snow continued to drop, and now it was only minus fifty-nine. Zhu Ning was about to return to the shelter, but when he turned around, he suddenly narrowed his eyes.
A black arc of light appeared above the distant mountains at some point, as if a giant, using the vast northern land as his canvas, held a black brush and casually drew an arc.
It is also like the slender crescent moon that appears during the day in the human world, but it is several times larger than the sun and moon from an ordinary perspective. Even the mountains appear very small in front of it. If it were a full moon, it might completely cover the north.
The black arc of light cast a shadow on the snow-white ground, and the shadow was thousands of miles long. Zhu Ning could even walk into its shadow.
The moment Zhu Ning saw it, her mind seemed to be emptied, and then a large number of memories were instilled into her. They were clearly her memories, but in the process of being extracted and put back, it seemed as if something shifted, just like a thief rummaging through the drawers at home and then putting them back, and all the furniture shifted an inch.
Even the reminders of Pei Shu in his memory were changing. Before, every time Zhu Ning recalled the memories related to Pei Shu and the North, the atmosphere was mostly relaxed, and the picture that emerged in his mind was Pei Shu leisurely knitting a sweater.
But now, every word Pei Shu said sounded like a roar, and it was as if countless loudspeakers were shouting into Zhu Ning's ears. Her world suddenly became noisy.
"In the North, be careful of something. Some call it the Black Sun, or the Black Moon. No one knows what it is. I prefer the latter."
"After the arrival of the black moon, the North enters a state of polar night."
The images in his mind were jumbled, as if memories were overlapping and intertwined, and the scene began to spin. Pei Shu put down the ball of yarn and looked straight at Zhu Ning through the rearview mirror. There was something strangely evil in his eyes.
"If you encounter one, either evacuate the North immediately and come back the next day, or set off immediately and reach your destination before the polar night falls."
"The destination," Pei Shu sneered, "is only the Far North."
Pei Shu was too unfamiliar to her, making it difficult for her to tell whether these were memories or her imagination?
Zhu Ning rubbed his brows and breathed slowly, trying to drive away the disordered lines.
But she immediately thought of another question: why did Yi Linghe enter the Far North in the first place? Perhaps humans have the adventurous spirit, but as the Federation said, exploring the North would consume a lot of energy.
Throughout human history, any organized adventure was not a purely individual act, and the original motivation for discovering the New World was to find gold.
Moreover, Yi Linghe's team was definitely the best in her time. Considering the climate in the north, she chose Pei Shu, who was a fire-type, and the other psychics were probably the best configuration.
Who gave the order to this team? After all, further north than the Far North, the only known host to humans is the Prometheus.
Has someone wanted to kill Prometheus?
Such a question appeared in Zhu Ning's mind, and then became more and more uncontrollable, almost occupying her brain.
She continued to think along Chaos's lines. If that was the case, then who was this person? Who would benefit from killing Prometheus?
First-class citizens like Lu Yao certainly don't want this to happen. After all, they are complete vested interests. Prometheus is even very obedient and tries his best to meet any unreasonable demands.
Could it be someone similar to Lu Yuan? Liu Yu?
Not really. Zhu Ning can't push all the problems onto Liu Yu. She is not an omnipotent God who can do so many things.
Maybe he was from the lower class. A long time ago, someone tried to overthrow the rule of the Kingdom of God. History has always been written by the victors. After the failure, even their names were erased. Zhu Ning had no idea.
Zhu Ning suddenly felt that he was not alone in assassinating Prometheus. It was probably because his predecessors had failed countless times, and Zhu Ning was just restarting the dusty historical mission.
Another question: if the team's ultimate goal was to kill Prometheus, why didn't Pei Shu mention it at all? In his impression, the team's ultimate goal was just to gather information.
Was he keeping a secret? Was he losing his memory due to mental contamination? Or was it just Yi Linghe, the team leader, who had gotten the news?
Yi Linghe, Zhu Ning silently repeated the name. There was very little information about her. From Pei Shu's description, one could only infer that she was very capable, but there was no clue about her personality.
Hiss—Zhu Ning thought of Pei Shu’s evil smile again, and his head ached slightly. Had the mental pollution begun?
Zhu Ning's thoughts were like a speeding car on the highway. The brakes failed and he couldn't stop it no matter how many times he tried.
Why is Prometheus's host designed to be located in the northernmost part?
Crash——
A huge noise interrupted Zhu Ning's racing thoughts. When she looked up, she saw a large flock of flying birds suddenly appear in the distant sky. The birds screamed and flapped their wings, and soon passed over Zhu Ning's head.
White feathers were flying everywhere, as if a heavy snow was falling overhead.
Each bird was surprisingly large, like a truck. The pupil of the bird that passed over Zhu Ning's head moved downwards, and she was caught off guard and looked into its eyes. This bird had a snake's head.
Zhu Ning immediately went on alert, but the bird seemed to have no interest in her at all and was flying hard towards the south, as if it wanted to escape from the north immediately.
Zhu Ning's gaze passed through the flock of flying birds, and his pupils shrank slightly. The black arc hanging in the distance became larger, and it was visible to the naked eye that it was growing rapidly.
The darkness would fall completely faster than Zhu Ning expected. She wanted to call Bai Cheng to come out quickly, but Bai Cheng had already heard the noise outside and lifted the curtain and walked out.
Bai Cheng was more experienced and had guessed it while inside the shelter. He asked directly, "Shall we go?"
Zhu Ning knew that she still regarded herself as the captain, so she would ask for the captain's opinion every time. They had two choices, to move forward or to retreat.
"Let's go." Zhu Ning didn't need to make a choice.
Bai Cheng threw over a backpack full of equipment. She replenished her weapons and hung a snow climbing rope around her waist.
The eight Bai Chengs and Zhu Ning formed a new team. Zhu Ning walked in the front and felt as if he was Yi Linghe from the past.
Yi Linghe should have done the same at that time, wanting to seize the time to enter the Far North before the polar night arrived.
The wind and snow in the north are difficult to deal with. The wind can blow at any time, and people cannot move forward smoothly in the strong wind. They walk ten meters and then retreat eight meters.
But since the black arc hung in the sky, even the wind and snow disappeared, as if every snowflake here was eager to escape.
Zhu Ning and the eight Bai Chengs ran quickly. The further they went, the more fleeing animals they encountered. It was like an earthquake zone. All the animals had sensed something was wrong in advance, and only they were swimming upstream.
Zhu Ning's progress was already amazing, but it was still too slow compared to the speed at which darkness spread. It was a coral reef.
The snow-white corals are the "forest" under the snow-capped mountains. Each coral is huge, and the coral branches are connected to each other, forming an aerial tunnel above.
The animals and plants in the north are all huge, more than a hundred times larger than normal size, and several human heads are hanging on the top of the coral.
Animals can escape, but plants can only stay where they are. The hanging human heads are shaking, and everyone's expression is horrified, with their facial features stretched to the limit. Some people are almost crying, as if they saw something extremely terrifying before they died, and after death they can only show this expression.
Zhu Ning felt very uncomfortable at the sight. Those people lowered their eyes and opened their lips, as if telling them to run away quickly.
Zhu Ning and Bai Cheng had just entered the coral forest when the mountains in the distance came closer. Logically, as long as they kept running, they could reach their destination in an hour at most.
But Zhu Ning suddenly stopped in front, and one of the Bai Chengs jumped onto a coral tree and looked into the distance, trying to see the road conditions ahead clearly.
The real night fell, like a black curtain, closing inch by inch, and they were experiencing this moment. The light was squeezed into a narrow line, falling on Zhu Ning's face, passing through her pupils, as if splitting her eyeballs in half.
But the light disappeared immediately, and darkness completely swallowed up the world. Zhu Ning did not blink. The searchlight beam on her chest melted away. The flame on her body had no color. She could not see any inch of the world from a God's perspective.
It’s not that Zhu Ning is blind, but that there is no room for any light in the polar night.
There is only darkness in her world. In the polar world, the biggest enemy is not pollutants, but loneliness.
The current temperature is minus sixty degrees Celsius. If it goes any higher, Zhu Ning will have entered the coldest place in the world and will not even be able to retain the heat of his breath.
She heard rustling noises behind her. The darkness amplified all sounds, and the sound of people stepping on the snow was so clear.
The heads were shaking violently, even though there was no wind. These heads were not blown away by any external force, but seemed to be able to move suddenly.
Zhu Ning got goosebumps when she thought about the countless heads hanging in the darkness, but the problem was that she couldn't find any trace of the movement.
But Zhu Ning was wondering, did Lin Xiaofeng leave smoothly?
…
Lin Xiaofeng was on the back of the human-headed elephant. At first, the elephant's steps were very leisurely. It was full and walked as if it was taking a stroll.
But it suddenly stopped, turned its head to look behind it, and changed its leisurely attitude, then ran for its life with a look of fear on its face.
Lin Xiaofeng grasped the hair tightly to control her body. She turned her head and took a look. The first thing she saw was the sky full of giant white birds. Each of their wings was bigger than the human-headed elephant body. There were fleeing mutant animals everywhere.
The human-headed elephant and they were just one of them. The other animals were much faster than the human-headed elephant and were soon overtaken. Lin Xiaofeng's team was instantly submerged in the refugees.
While running, she tried hard to look back and saw a black arc appearing behind the mountains, like a black moon, which was spreading rapidly under Lin Xiaofeng's gaze.
She only took a quick look and just heard some crazy mumbling before Bai Cheng immediately pressed her head down and said, "Don't look."
The three Bai Chengs protected Lin Xiaofeng inside, and Lin Xiaofeng lay on the elephant's back. They were racing against the darkness, and the shadow fell too fast.
The fleeing team was very complicated. The human-headed elephant was knocked off balance by the white rhinoceros behind it and almost knocked over the people. It was like watching a concert with tens of thousands of people, and a stampede could easily occur. Not to mention that these were out-of-control animals. Once they were caught under the feet of a large creature, they would be doomed.
Lin Xiaofeng thought the human-headed elephant was big enough before, but now he discovered that there are even larger creatures.
A Bai Cheng suddenly jumped up and stabbed backwards in such a chaotic situation.
A white light fell, and the axe chopped off the next giant python that tried to approach. Another Bai Cheng was responsible for controlling the elephant body, and the third Bai Cheng protected Lin Xiaofeng.
Without saying a word, the three of them quickly assigned tasks and carried them out in an orderly manner.
Lin Xiaofeng observed the world through the gap, with darkness shrouding her back. Because she was closer to leaving the Northland, it was like the farther away from a mountain, the more one could see the outline of the mountain from the side. What she saw was much more objective than what Zhu Ning saw at close range.
In Lin Xiaofeng's eyes, the darkness itself suddenly became tangible, as if it had come alive, and the sticky black substance spread like erupting oil.
Her first reaction was the black covering on the surface of Zhu Ning's system and the black fragments on Pei Shu's heart.
What the hell is this?
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