400. Black Surface But what about that smooth black surface of the system? ...
"Bai Cheng!" Zhu Ning called out loudly, but there was no response, and she couldn't even hear what she was shouting.
It seemed like the throat just rolled over, and all it said was vague mumbling.
Bai Cheng and the others disappeared.
After the polar night fell, the loudest sound in Zhu Ning's ears was her own breathing. Other sounds were gradually becoming weaker. She could hear someone talking. It might be Bai Cheng trying to determine their location by making sounds.
But soon Bai Cheng's voice was swallowed up. Zhu Ning couldn't describe it. It was as if this darkness had substance and could block out all light sources, including sound.
The rustling sound of snowflakes melted away, Bai Cheng's shouts disappeared, and the people's heads moved without making any sound, or even if there was any, it was only a vague outline.
It was as if there was a dark monster right behind her, standing close to her back, extending its long tongue and licking her cheek carelessly, swallowing all sound and light.
People need to interact with the world in order to act, and sound is a very important aspect. Humans have five senses: they can hear and see, but now Zhu Ning's connection with the world is disconnected in two ways.
She closed her eyes and slowly sorted out the current situation. The world was dark and silent, but fortunately she could still feel the cold.
Zhu Ning lowered the heat of the flames on his body, and the cold air penetrated through his pores, causing goose bumps to appear. His instinctive reaction was to shiver.
It was this shivering that saved her and pulled her out of the inhuman situation. It turned out that she was still a human being.
After Zhu Ning sensed this, he slowly lowered his body's center of gravity, trying to get closer to the ground.
Suddenly, Zhu Ning's left foot tightened, as if she had accidentally stepped into a high-speed rotating wheel. The instep of her foot was crushed into a bloody mess. She didn't know what happened, but her body reacted faster. The next moment, a dagger appeared in her hand and she stabbed it towards her left foot.
Logically, she should have heard a "puff" sound, but she only felt the hot blood splashing on her body, and the back of her hands and the helmet on her face were all sticky and steaming.
What did she kill?
The most terrifying thing about killing people in the dark is not death, but accidentally killing a teammate in ignorance.
Zhu Ning was afraid that she had killed Bai Cheng, so she slowly loosened her clamped left foot. She bent down to feel the enemy's shape, but before she could cover it with her palm, she suddenly felt a pain on her face. She had no hearing or vision, so all the enemy attacks were sudden.
There are other creatures that can survive in the polar night. Those that can run have run away, and those that survive have adapted to the extreme environment.
The human head was like a hard stone, and it shattered her facial helmet as soon as it made contact. Fortunately, she was wearing a helmet, otherwise her head would have been broken.
If you could see it, you would see the heads on the coral swooping down, faces filled with fear as if they were about to cry, as if the attack was not an active one but forced.
I don’t want to kill anyone, the head shouted.
When it hit Zhu Ning, six thin arms immediately extended from the ears on both sides of the head. Compared with the football-sized head, the outstretched arms were similar to the branches stuck on the snowman, only twenty centimeters long at most.
The arms growing on both sides of the human head were like fish fins. After hugging Zhu Ning, they made a hissing sound. Zhu Ning was pushed back three steps. He covered the human head with his palms and immediately ignited the flames. However, the strange human head was not afraid of fire at all. Instead, it wrapped around him tighter and tighter.
Zhu Ning's helmet had begun to deform, and he didn't need her guidance at all. The black mucus on his body began to move on its own, quickly overflowing from the back of his neck. In the blink of an eye, it expanded into a five-meter-tall human figure. A black giant stood behind Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning is now transforming into a giant. Whether she likes it or not, this process is irreversible. Now she even feels a sense of familiarity with the giant on her spine.
There seemed to be a solid barrier behind her, like a mountain for her to rely on, and she and the black slime coexisted in the same body.
The devouring was taking effect, and the head fell into the black slime like a stone into rice.
Even though the human head was wrapped in black slime, it was still rushing around inside. There were crackling sounds inside, and the giant crushed the head with an expressionless face.
The black slime and the dark matter in the north are not the same thing, at most they just have the same color. Zhu Ning thought of this inexplicably.
Zhu Ning ran quickly, resisting the attacks of unknown creatures. Most of the time, she didn't know what she was fighting against. She couldn't see the enemy, she just felt like she was killing indiscriminately.
In her world, she was in darkness, dancing like a madman. Did the enemy really exist? She could hardly tell.
The most terrifying attack was invisible. Her brain became confused again, and her soul shifted. She could not hear the sounds from the outside world, but the noise inside seemed to be amplified, making her want to go crazy.
There was only one picture in his mind. After entering the Northland, Zhu Ning was reminded of it many times by Pei Shu. Now the whole picture was very dark, as if a car had caught fire, with ashes falling. Pei Shu was sitting in the back seat, staring straight at the rearview mirror, not saying a word, just watching silently.
There must be something wrong with Zhu Ning's brain.
When she stopped, her body was soaked in blood and steaming.
There were corpses of monsters all around her feet. Bai Xue was now red, and Zhu Ning, standing in the middle, looked like a monster in the dark.
The other creatures bared their teeth at Zhu Ning, especially fearing the giant behind her. That was animal nature; once they realized the enemy was stronger, they would wisely stop attacking.
Zhu Ning concentrated the fire in his spine, needing the cold to wake himself up.
She still remembered each other's status a second before the polar night. One Bai Cheng was on the tree, and the remaining seven or eight Bai Cheng were scattered around.
Bai Cheng and the others share the same brain, so it should be easier for them to find their other selves even if they are deprived of vision and hearing.
Based on Zhu Ning's understanding of Bai Cheng, she will definitely stay somewhere waiting for Zhu Ning to find her.
Zhu Ning tilted her neck, and the black slime slowly crawled back. She walked in one direction, and her feet were stained with blood and monster slime, making her soles a little sticky.
Her legs were as stiff as ice sculptures. The cold had stimulated her, but it also had some side effects. Now her knees were trembling.
Zhu Ning had memorized the topography of the coral reef in her mind. She counted her steps as she walked, one, two, three. She realized she was laughing as she silently recited the numbers in her mind, as if this damn place had liberated her bloodthirsty nature. Darkness would reveal a person's dark side.
When there are other teammates around, humans are bound by moral constraints and will not show a frenzy for killing, but Zhu Ning's mind is a little abnormal now.
Or perhaps the long-term repression has finally erupted, and the desire for revenge always requires an outlet.
In his mind, Pei Shu, who was sitting in the back seat, was still looking at him. Now Pei Shu's image became three-dimensional, as if he opened the door from the back seat, walked out of the car and came in front of Zhu Ning, breaking through the boundary between illusion and reality.
"The first principle of midnight is to protect yourself." Pei Shu's image was definitely an illusion. "To resist those creatures of darkness, imagine yourself in a bottomless cave. There will be some insects adapted to darkness inside. Your enemies are these insects."
"It just so happens that your flashlight is broken, and you need to fight the mutant bugs in the dark." Pei Shu's voice became frivolous, as if a mastermind behind all this was behind the scenes.
"At the same time, you must find your teammates as quickly as possible."
Zhu Ning's hand touched a foreign object, and all the hairs on her body stood up. The most realistic guess in this situation was that she had touched a contaminant, but her first reaction at that time was that she had touched Pei Shu.
He really came out of the hallucination.
But the next moment, Zhu Ning's tense hand was touched by someone, and Bai Cheng's body was very cold, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.
Bai Cheng had no heartbeat and no temperature, and Zhu Ning was not sure if she was the real Bai Cheng.
Bai Cheng must have said something. Zhu Ning heard a buzzing sound similar to flapping wings. In her world, Bai Cheng had become a mutant insect, speaking words that she could not understand.
They stopped their meaningless conversation.
Zhu Ning and Bai Cheng seemed to be in two different worlds. They could touch each other, but they could not communicate at all.
Bai Cheng and the others were a little dazed. After the polar night fell, they immediately realized the horror of mental pollution. The main brain immediately cut off communication, and they were abandoned by the unified brain.
In order to ensure the cleanliness of the main brain, this kind of disconnection is necessary, but it also frightens Bai Cheng. The intensity of the mental pollution in this place actually makes her take the initiative to cut off contact to protect herself.
Now Bai Cheng is in a "non-networked" state and has become an independent individual, but this situation often means trouble, because it is equivalent to eight puppets that are out of control.
All the actions taken by these eight people can have a lasting impact on Bai Cheng later.
"Disconnecting" and then "reconnecting" is likely to leave wrong information, or if she wants to deliberately deceive the main brain, this is the best opportunity.
Bai Cheng fought in the chaos, and soon she found that she had little room to maneuver. Zhu Ning cleaned up the scene almost quickly, and the creatures in the coral reef did not dare to approach.
So she waited quietly there, hoping that Zhu Ning would find her, and sure enough, she bumped into herself.
Bai Cheng wanted to share the news with Zhu Ning so that she could prepare for her situation, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she found that she was telling lies and even she couldn't understand what she was saying.
Zhu Ning seemed to have noticed something, that Bai Cheng was not in a good condition, and he looked very dull.
She shook Bai Cheng's hand with her backhand.
Bai Cheng didn't react at all, really like a puppet. Zhu Ning guessed that Bai Cheng might have been disconnected from the Internet.
How will Bai Cheng handle their relationship without internet access? Will they even acknowledge each other? Zhu Ning tries to find the other Bai Chengs, but only finds seven. The remaining one is truly untouchable in the darkness.
Zhu Ning didn't know whether she was dead or lost, or had defected after gaining self-awareness, and had no idea of her specific condition.
She raised her head and looked forward. She could open her eyes but didn't see anything, but she knew clearly that there was a black substance there, like a huge black full moon shrouded behind the mountains.
Zhu Ning could sense this and quickly thought of the smooth surface of the system and the black fragment found on Pei Shu's body. That fragment was swallowed and fused by himself.
Darkness is not darkness itself, it has some kind of entity. Regardless of whether Zhu Yao has really been here, he at least possesses this substance.
The darkness isolated the pollutants in Zhu Ning's brain, allowing it to function in an orderly manner, but it also isolated Prometheus.
On the one hand, it protected Prometheus, but on the other hand, it actually imprisoned him.
Imagine the North as a barrier, and Zhu Ning is now breaking through it.
There are still many unanswered questions in the Alpha series of experiments. Zhu Ning knows the origin of the pollutants inside the system. The tentacles wriggling in her brain come from the heart of the underground giant of Utopia.
Her memory storage model is based on Bai Cheng's, and is composed of countless selves.
Her ability to predict the future comes from Huo Huaiying's Eye of Prescience.
But what about that smooth black surface of the system? Something that could imprison the giant's heart and allow it to function, the part of the implanted technology, the smooth black surface must be very stable.
Was Pei Shu born with the black fragment implanted in him, or was he acquired during an attack in the North?
This journey suddenly took on more meaning. She needed to understand the origins of all the parts of her body, not only to piece together the truth about the end of the world and the death of the giants, but also about herself.
Zhu Ning was covered in blood, carrying the giant behind him and Bai Cheng, heading towards the black moon behind the mountains.
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