99 The Lost Village (Part 3)
◎Degenerated into a standard plant in nature◎
Do people pick flowers randomly?
Actually, this is also quite uncertain. Zhu Ning recalled that when he was a child, he would play with flower petals. There are many factors to consider when picking flowers.
The good-looking ones, the ones that are pleasing to the eye, are blown by the wind and are right next to your hand, but they are picked because they are close to you.
Humans are gods to plants. They can decide the life and death of plants without giving it much thought or careful consideration at all.
But is this also true of this flower?
No, it must have some rules, such as don't move, if you move you will definitely die. Those who tried to escape before would be captured instantly. It must be able to detect moving things.
The first one is, don’t move. This is definitely correct.
But what happens after that? How does it lock onto its target while patrolling among a crowd?
What are the characteristics of these people? Is it because of fear? Who can it detect who is more afraid?
The flower man was already wandering in front of Zhu Ning, and many people were on alert. They had all seen the consequences of being discovered by it. Most humans would think of getting weapons and fighting to the death before they died.
This is almost ingrained in our instincts. People with a gambler's mentality always feel that they won't lose if they take a chance.
Ordinary people cannot really sit still and wait for death.
hostility.
What this flower senses is not fear, but hostility?
The first cleaner who took it off didn't want to touch it, but to "pick" it off.
When the previous cleaner was locked by the yellow flower, what stimulated the yellow flower to eat his head?
The man kept touching the handle of his gun. Even though he remained still and suppressed his inner fear, he was still full of hostility towards the flower man.
When such a terrifying thing appears in front of you, your instinctive reaction is to kill it.
This thing can sense human hostility.
Huang Hua stayed in front of Li Nianchuan. Li Nianchuan didn't move at all. He felt his body was stiff, but Huang Hua was still standing in front of him.
Why?
Li Nianchuan couldn't help but think about this matter. He obviously didn't do anything wrong.
He carefully recalled every subtle move he had made, just like when the exam time is about to end and you know you have made a mistake on a question. You stare at the test paper and check your answers desperately, trying to find the mistake.
But you can't find it, the teacher is approaching and is about to give the order to collect the papers.
You only have one minute left. You still have a chance to change the answer and a chance to survive.
But you can't find it.
It's Li Nianchuan's turn.
Snap——
The yellow flower opened its petals in front of him, making a very sticky and disgusting sound as if it were opening some rotten meat, and then the inside of the yellow flower was revealed.
The sharp and dense teeth were stained red with blood, and there were meat scraps in the gaps between the teeth. You would inevitably feel fear when you thought that this mouth had eaten your colleague, not to mention that there were two human heads in it.
There are two human heads inside the yellow flower, two faces of cleaners overlapping, and their eyes turn in the same direction.
They are clearly dead, yet they seem to be still alive.
When Li Nianchuan saw the previous victim, he felt that there was something wrong with him. Maybe he had done something wrong, which brought disaster upon himself. He might not die if it was his turn.
I could probably do better than him, and I certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to touch a gun.
But when the real danger comes, you realize that it is not the case. You can't control it. You will be afraid and find it difficult to control your thoughts. You also want to touch the gun and want to kill this monster.
“Don’t be hostile to it.”
A line of words suddenly appeared on the panel of Li Nianchuan's helmet, just below the prohibition text issued by the garrison troops.
Because no one knew what was going on with the flower, everyone remained eerily quiet. No one spoke, and only Zhu Ning and the garrison troops tried to communicate using text.
The text panel inside the helmet can be "typed" with eyes. Sent by Zhu Ning.
What did she mean? Don't be hostile to it?
The petals of the other party have already opened, and the two human heads inside are staring straight at me. In this situation, shouldn't I be hostile to it?
“Don’t get emotional.”
Emotions? How can people control their emotions?
"Ignore it." Three more words appeared on the panel.
Li Nianchuan's fingers were a little stiff. He originally wanted to pick up a weapon, but at this moment he froze for a moment. Should he listen to Zhu Ning or himself?
When people face yellow flowers, it is easy for them to have the thought that no one can save them except themselves, and they must save themselves.
Li Nianchuan had seen yellow flowers eat people, but it only took a second. Zhu Ning's guns were of little use here. If he was eaten, Zhu Ning wouldn't even be able to react.
Last time, Zhu Ning had a gun behind him to protect his safety, but this time he only said one sentence, without even an explanation.
Should I believe Zhu Ning?
Should I trust her unconditionally?
Ignore it? They also ignored the murlocs in the sewers before.
Li Nianchuan's tense fingers relaxed. He decided to take a gamble and trust Zhu Ning, and this trust was unconditional and supreme.
Li Nianchuan looked at the two heads in the yellow flowers and forced himself to change his hostility. He stared at the two sticky heads through his helmet.
When he put aside his hostility, a calm compassion welled up in his heart.
Those were his dead colleagues, not monsters, and they were not scary.
Maybe there were people waiting for them at home, but they died here, their deaths were unclear, and there was not even anyone to provide them with hospice care when they were dying.
At that moment, Li Nianchuan actually felt very relaxed, and his tense muscles relaxed.
When a breeze blows, the petals and vines of the yellow flowers will shake due to the wind.
Li Nianchuan became a quiet plant. It turned out that the key point was this: don't be hostile, don't be emotional, don't be afraid, and don't move.
When the positions of humans and plants are reversed and the flower people are the pickers, humans must honestly play the role of a flower.
A flower has no thoughts.
Snap——
The yellow flower closed its petals, and the closed petals looked like a bud. It moved and began to walk towards the next person.
Zhu Ning passed those two sentences into the public channel, and Li Nianchuan added: Pretend to be a plant.
Zhu Ning was stunned when he saw it for the first time, and then he found that Li Nianchuan's words were easier to understand.
The so-called avoidance of hostility is superficial, the core is actually to act like a plant.
Many people saw it, some did not believe it and wanted to avenge their companions.
Some people believed it, but they couldn't control themselves and became the next "trophy" of Huanghua.
They all fall into a state of madness before they die, and many people have the same reaction, they always want to take their weapons.
Some lucky people were able to control their emotions, and the yellow flowers passed by them. They could do nothing but watch the yellow flowers plunder the lives of their colleagues.
This was a very cruel massacre. The people were not human beings, but plants. The criterion for whether people could survive was whether they looked like real plants.
Human beings must abandon all their instincts and give up all their weapons. They have evolved for so many years to conquer nature, but in the face of nature, they must degenerate.
Degenerated into a standard plant in nature.
This is the only chance to survive.
Huang Hua walked through the team, and blood dripped wherever she went, like a moving bloody shower.
It was probably full, the whole flower was so full that it was about to burst, and it couldn't eat any more heads.
So Huanghua walked past the cleaners and headed towards the forest.
Half an hour later, the figure had completely disappeared into the depths of the forest.
Gone?
Rustle, rustle——
A gust of wind blew, making the leaves rustle. This was the sound of the wind that Zhu Ning heard when he just got off the car.
Now the wind blew through the flowers, plants and leaves, blew through their bodies, and gently caressed the corpses on the ground.
To nature, nothing makes any difference. These cleaners are so immersed in the game that no one has moved until now.
They seemed to become real flowers and plants.
They were born and grew on this land. Their feet are no longer feet, but roots, and they must maintain this posture until death.
Even Zhu Ning had this illusion. She actually felt that her current posture was very relaxing and she could stand there forever without any problem.
The world outside the wall is so strange.
There's not even a polluted area here, just a flower.
A flower came and went, leaving behind the bodies of the cleaners. Their blood soaked into the soil, dyeing a large area red. They could not bring back the bodies of these people, and the bodies would remain here forever.
The survivors must come to terms with the circumstances of their colleagues' deaths.
"How many people are left?" The voice of the garrison broke the silence and reached everyone's ears through the helmet.
As expected of someone who had lived outside the walls for a long time, his voice didn't even sound fearful. "Count."
No one paid any attention to him. Some people were too immersed in their plants to react, while others heard it but didn't want to answer. Their colleague had just died, and no one wanted to cooperate.
Who are you?
Why should I listen to you?
"Report your numbers!" the garrison spoke again.
The stationed troops were soldiers, and the cleaners were company employees. Although they knew their lives were in danger and the mortality rate when they arrived, they did not have such strong courage. It was a blessing that they did not collapse at this time.
Their captain is already dead, so why should the garrison troops order them around?
Not only did they refuse to cooperate, they even developed a natural hostility towards the stationed troops.
"One." Zhu Ning spoke first.
Zhu Ning was born into an athlete family, and she had a sense of collective honor in her bones. She knew that they had to retreat as a group, and no matter how many people were left alive, they had to leave here.
The team is very troublesome, different from the Mechanical Oceanarium. At the Mechanical Oceanarium, Zhu Ning cooperated with the Grey Eagle team. The demon hunters themselves have high quality, high spirits, and high teamwork.
The only cleaning team in the aquarium is Zhu Ning's. Xu Meng is an undercover agent, and the only weak person who needs to be taken care of is Li Nianchuan.
The current situation is that most people are ordinary people, at the same level as Li Nianchuan, or even worse than Li Nianchuan's qualifications. After all, Li Nianchuan has experienced two spiritual value advancements.
The team is almost a loose group, and they have to stick together to survive.
Zhu Ning had acted in a high-profile manner before. She was too famous in the forum, and relying on her reputation, her words were very effective.
"One," she repeated.
Li Nianchuan immediately replied: "Two."
Li Nianchuan supported Zhu Ning without a second thought. No matter what she did, Li Nianchuan was the first to respond.
"Three." The third person to count was Xu Meng.
Xu Meng probably knew what Zhu Ning was going to do. The current situation was that a group of scattered sand needed someone to unite them. Zhu Ning was the most suitable person to take the lead. After all, she had rich experience in taking the lead.
Everyone has seen the message Zhu Ning just posted on the public channel. Even if they don’t trust the garrison troops, they will at least have more trust in Zhu Ning.
Three people counted, and then the process continued naturally. The counting sounds came one after another. Some people counted very perfunctorily and reluctantly, but they still participated.
"eighteen."
After eighteen, they fell into silence. They still hadn't heard from nineteen, so there were still eighteen cleaners left.
Eighteen liquidators plus three garrisons, twenty-one people are still alive. This is the actual number of survivors.
There were thirty people when they arrived, but now there are only twenty-one left, and nine of their colleagues have died.
There was a long silence, they did not move, and they did not even dare to look at the body of their colleague. If it seemed like an absurd dream before, they now truly felt the departure of their colleague.
The garrison's voice came over the public channel: "Continue to contain the contaminated spores."
This order seems extremely inhumane. Even in this situation, we still have to let people continue to contain the contaminated spores?
The contaminated spores were spreading. They had been struggling for an entire hour, and some of the contaminated spores were already drifting away.
"You, are you a human?"
"Whoever wants to do it can do it. I'm quitting. Can't I just give up my salary?"
Everyone is in a bad mood. It is possible that there will be a collective riot and the killing of the garrison troops at this time. Who would be willing to listen to you?
The garrison's voice was very cold: "Contain the contaminated spores and evacuate."
This was the established plan and that was what was said when we came. It's not the garrison's fault. We warned from the beginning not to touch it.
It was the cleaner who made the mistake first. That person picked a flower, which then caused a series of problems.
The garrison's voice sounded stern. "If the contaminated spores spread into the wall, do you think your family will survive?"
The garrison troops are facing the world outside the wall, and they must ensure that no external contamination spores can pass through the wall. This is the significance of calling the cleaners over.
People became cleaners not for any lofty ideals, but initially for the money, the high salary, and the money they earned to support people outside for a year.
Zhu Ning earned 700,000 yuan on his first mission. Behind this high-reward salary was the price of life, which was like licking blood on the edge of a knife.
Demon hunters are more aware because the dangers they face are more intuitive. Many cleaners have never encountered danger and find it difficult to change their mindset.
At that moment, Zhu Ning could understand why some demon hunters looked down on cleaners. In comparison, the cleaners' quality was indeed the worst.
The Demon Hunters and the Garrison are both fighting on the front line for the safety of mankind. The Garrison is right. If the contaminated spores spread into the wall, it will be meaningless even if they return safely.
This is the truth, but it sounds a bit too cold and hard to convince people.
Everyone was still immersed in panic and no one even dared to move. No one knew whether moving now would attract the yellow flower again.
The garrison troops were familiar with the terrain, and if they fell out with them, there would be no one to lead the team back.
Zhu Ning had already been the first to speak out, so now he could only be the last. He tried to negotiate with the other party and asked, "Will you take us out after we're taken in?"
The garrison realized that Zhu Ning was the leader and acted as if they were open to conversation. "We should have taken you out anyway."
They abide by the principles and will not lead the team until all the people have been taken in.
Although Zhu Ning didn't know what the garrison troops were supposed to do, she knew what was important and what was not. She asked, "Can people be moved now?"
The garrison troops were seniors, and the judgment they could make was the most favorable one. They had already shouted not to shoot.
Zhu Ning didn't quite understand the real rules of survival outside the wall. Even the logic of pollutants outside was different from that inside the city, but it seemed that the general rule should be, don't move around.
Random shooting would cause new chaos, so the garrison remained stationary from beginning to end.
Garrison: "Move slowly, don't make unnecessary moves, just do what you should do."
So this is what it means to not make unnecessary moves. The garrison troops are leading the team, so they have been leading the team from beginning to end. They would not shoot the mutated yellow flower just now.
Cleaners are supposed to sweep up garbage. It would be best if they did nothing but contain pollutants. If they really followed this principle, they could evacuate safely and complete their mission very smoothly.
The death rate Li Nianchuan had found before was true, it was either 0 or 100, with no middle ground.
But one of the cleaners may have been mentally polluted. He picked a flower and triggered the world outside the wall.
In theory, they should continue to contain the inmates, complete their mission, and then return home, but no one dared to move.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath and said, "I'll take care of it."
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