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"wake up."
"Zhu Ning is waiting for you, wake up."
Lin Xiaofeng blinked her eyes. The coldness on the surface of her eyeball gave her an illusion that her small eyeball was shrinking and would eventually turn into a bean and fall out of her eye socket.
Such a horrifying imagination quickly woke Lin Xiaofeng up. She was lying on her side in the snow, curled up like a baby. It was indeed a dream. Song Zhizhang did not appear at all. She looked around blankly, but did not see Bai Cheng, nor even the timid mammoth. She still remembered that the mammoth was covered with long human hair and quickly took her away when the polar night shrouded it.
They fled to the far north, far away from the end of the world, as if struggling to return to the human world.
She forgot some things and only remembered that Bai Cheng threw her away. The short-haired Bai Cheng left her with a cold face. Then Lin Xiaofeng's body rolled in the snow and she fell into a coma before she woke up.
"Bai Cheng?" Lin Xiaofeng's voice blended into the wind and snow and soon disappeared.
Bai Cheng never appeared again, and Lin Xiaofeng missed her very much.
She guessed that she needed to find a cemetery, but she didn't know where Bai Cheng was buried, so she was isolated and helpless, and she was all alone in the world.
Lin Xiaofeng climbed out of the snow pit. She was extremely cold. Her blood stopped flowing when she was extremely cold. It made people suspect that she would be frozen to death.
This was Lin Xiaofeng's first time outside the wall. She was not a well-trained investigator outside the wall, nor did she have any experience as a bounty hunter. She acted purely on her instincts.
She looked up and saw a huge black mass spreading across the sky. When the polar night came, a black full moon rose. Then the darkness that could swallow everything spread to the far north. People would lose their five senses in such darkness. Even after Pei Shu returned to the wall, he could not feel the sunshine and happiness.
Now there is a very obvious boundary between black and pure white, like a Tai Chi Bagua formation, but the black is constantly seeping and eroding outward, and the edges are not neat, but twitching black lines, like the moment before the pollution area expands.
It's time to wake up. Lin Xiaofeng heard Song Zhizhang's voice in a half-asleep state. If she didn't wake up, she would soon be swallowed by the darkness.
That was the far north. Lin Xiaofeng escaped but Zhu Ning did not. Zhu Ning's body was still there. Lin Xiaofeng was sure that Zhu Ning was not dead. Even if he had lost all consciousness, he would still have a body left.
She didn't know Zhu Ning's specific condition, but she felt the same way as Zhu Ning, and she was paranoid that Zhu Ning was in the same pain and confusion as herself, as if he was pressed into the bottom of the frozen water looking for a way out.
Zhu Ning is being suppressed and is almost driven crazy. Her last love is in jeopardy.
The creeping darkness was terrifying. Lin Xiaofeng should leave immediately, heading south. But she didn't know where she could return to, back to the base of human survivors? Lin Xiaofeng took a stiff step forward and walked toward the darkness.
She must go find Zhu Ning, Zhu Ning needs her.
Lin Xiaofeng understood earlier than anyone else that Zhu Ning's process of searching for the truth about the world was a process of losing herself, and her process of saving the world was a process of sacrificing herself.
Lin Xiaofeng is Zhu Ning's anchor. Zhu Ning's wish is very simple, she just wants her to be alive.
Lin Xiaofeng was too cold to walk fast. Her teeth were still chattering at first, but later even the trembling slowed down. She forced herself to move forward, as if she was having a nightmare. She tried her best but her legs and feet were out of control. She thought she was running fast, but in fact she was just spinning in place and could only watch the monster chasing her.
Lin Xiaofeng was afraid that he would not catch up and that he would die if he went into the Far North again.
She was afraid that Zhu Ning would not know that she was still alive before making a decision, and thus would come to an end.
She didn't know what the end meant, but she knew what she had to stop.
She was moving towards the darkness, or perhaps it was not she who was moving towards the darkness, but the darkness that was moving towards her.
"I'm still alive." Lin Xiaofeng said hoarsely. Her voice was so weak that she didn't know where Zhu Ning was. She hoped Zhu Ning could hear her.
Don't give up, Lin Xiaofeng said to Zhu Ning, no matter what you are fighting against, don't give up first.
"I'm not dead yet." Lin Xiaofeng recalled that when they were underground, Pei Shu had just died, and Zhu Ning refused to let Lin Xiaofeng leave and act alone. Lin Xiaofeng would shout as he walked, "I'm still alive."
This sentence was like a rope tied around Lin Xiaofeng's waist, with the other end of the rope in Zhu Ning's hand. Now that the other end of the rope was loosened, Lin Xiaofeng was stubbornly looking for Zhu Ning, repeating the same sentence over and over again.
I'm not dead yet I'm not dead yet I'm not dead yet.
Later, there was no sound, only a single thought in my mind, repeating like mental pollution.
Lin Xiaofeng felt that the scene in front of her eyes was getting darker and darker. The white was rapidly receding, and the darkness was rushing towards her like a tide. Just before she set foot in the far north again, she suddenly stopped.
…
The theory of the unification of world pollution means that the pollution that appears scattered on the surface is actually a whole. As long as the core source of pollution is found, the entire world can be purified.
This view was put forward very early, but it was extremely difficult to confirm in the early years until Zhu Ning's team entered the fishing village and found a section of blood vessel. Other teams of investigators outside the wall also found similar evidence one after another.
The Raven Team where Bobcat is located is also conducting an in-depth investigation into one of the areas. The investigators outside the wall are far away from the high wall, and they are even more behind in getting news from inside the wall. Their only goal is to collect as much truth as possible.
Therefore, when the sandstorm raged, they had no idea what level of disaster was facing the inside of the wall, and thought that something had suddenly happened in the area where they were.
After getting out of the wall, Bobcat joined the Raven Team, an investigation team outside the wall. After suffering the death and injury of teammates, they entered a strange space. There was a heavy rain in the depths of the forest, and after encountering a sandstorm, they turned into mud falling from the sky.
There is an underground space similar to a bunker, which is obviously a man-made building, but there are always sounds similar to the beating of a pulse or the sticky sound of flesh wriggling coming from the empty underground, which makes them suspect that this place is alive.
Black slime seeped out of the wall, like leaking oil, or like the blood of an injured person that could not be stopped.
The Ravens set up camp and conducted three reconnaissance missions into the area.
The first investigation revealed suspected parts of a giant's body, supporting the theory of the existence of a unified source of pollution in the world.
The entire world is connected and follows certain patterns. They have a high probability of finding a certain organ or skin tissue. If the world is unified, then victory will come as long as they kill the core source of pollution.
The Raven Team did not retreat. Beidiao gave new orders to continue exploring, but later the sandstorm became more and more severe, the signal tower was destroyed, and communication was interrupted.
The Raven Team wanted to retreat but found that there was no way to move forward. The sandstorm came from nowhere, but its route was very precise, moving towards the south.
If the Ravens want to retreat, they must ensure that they can successfully pass through the sandstorm, but they are too far away from the north wall, and it is better to stay where they are than to risk passing through the sandstorm.
One team member also proposed a risky plan. They were far away from the North Wall, but there was a Homecoming train stop nearby, so they could take the Homecoming train back home.
The Homecoming train has one stop right at the entrance of the north wall. Their signal tower has been broken for a long time. The Raven Team is not clear about the situation inside the wall and thinks that as long as they get close to the north wall, they will be accepted by the people inside.
They knew that the world was in danger and might soon collapse completely, so they wanted to take the risk and go home. As human beings, they should die on human land.
The Raven Team did not stop this group of people from taking action. The others hid in the exploration point, which was the strange underground cave. There were only six investigators left in the stronghold, and Bobcat was one of them.
Cheng Mofei and Xu Meng are both dead, and Shanmao has no intention of returning to the wall.
The actions outside the wall would wear out everyone's mind, making them numb and dull, and always unable to sleep. Shanmao became more silent than before. He didn't want to go back to see Xie Jiazu and Daju like this.
What are Daju and Xie Jiazu doing? Shanmao thinks of them from time to time. Will Xie Jiazu still visit his grave? Daju probably can't travel anymore, right?
He often thought of Zhu Ning, and the time when he picked up Zhu Ning with a dirty face outside Hang Seng Science Park, and she smiled and said to him, "My name is Caracal."
But more often than not, Bobcat recalls the scene of watching a game when he was young. Zhu Ning was the star player of the Spark Club, and Bobcat sat in the audience as a fan. He liked to listen to the cheers after the game and also liked to see Zhu Ning's smile on the stage.
The charm of competitive sports is to constantly transcend and break the boundaries of human beings. That kind of passion will continue to inspire the audience, until the Bobcat jumps out of the wall, until he is about to have a mental breakdown.
He recalled that the underground shooting competitions were getting longer and longer. It was like a placebo that belonged only to him. He wanted to sit in the audience for the rest of his life.
After going deep underground, the Ravens completely lost their concept of time. Three more teammates died, and only three people were left in their team.
Bobcat buried his teammates with his own hands, and the captain was seriously injured, but they still decided to continue exploring.
Later, they all felt that there was no point in exploration, and they just numbly followed orders and looked for some reasons to live.
They had gone deep enough underground that even the sound of the sandstorm on the surface had disappeared, and the communication channel could only occasionally be received.
Suddenly, the captain of the Ravens dies.
At first, Bobcat didn't know why the captain died. His death outside the wall was so inexplicable, as if a plague was spreading. When Bobcat examined the captain's body, he found a hole in his chest. The muzzle of the gun was against his chest, and the silencer blocked the noise.
Faced with a hopeless future, the captain shot himself while the team members were resting.
It was also at that time that the Bobcats stopped, as if the momentum supporting their forward movement suddenly disappeared.
He fumbled two devices from the captain's body, one of which was an information recording device, which was very familiar to investigators. Everyone could not carry weapons, but must wear an information recording device.
The second thing is a very flat black box. The Raven team obtained the human-machine joint device before leaving, but it is not known whether it was forgotten, or no one wanted to contact Prometheus, or the captain hoped to keep his spirit pure before dying and not become a puppet of mycelium.
Bobcat opened the message recorder and knew he had to write something like a last will.
After he opened it, he was silent for a long time. There was no last words. He didn't dare to say his real last words, which left him speechless.
He thought again of his victory in the arena, which was not a good sign.
Bobcat closed his eyes and began to record like a professional investigator: "As we go deeper underground, the underground pollution is changing. It's like it came alive overnight, and there's more and more black slime."
"The holism of the world has been confirmed, and we don't know what else we can do when we go deeper underground."
They have been stationed here for a long time, but the activity in this area is not high. It is impossible to determine whether it is the activation of the sandstorm or some changes in the world as a whole that give him a very strange feeling that the world is constantly connecting.
Bobcat didn't know that Zhu Ning's body was forced to connect to other contaminated areas, and that he was very close to Zhu Ning in a sense, and he was actually in Zhu Ning's body.
Bobcat recorded two meaningless sentences and later played the recording back to make sure the information was not contaminated.
But other sounds appeared in the recording, "We... clatter... I don't know... clatter..."
Bobcat was stunned. He listened to this passage over and over again. The message he had just recorded was mixed with noise, like the sound of plastic shaking.
Bobcat's eyes searched involuntarily. Some of the techniques trained by the investigator were ingrained in him, making him want to find clues immediately.
Why is there plastic?
Black slime flowed in the cave. The mountain cat took two steps deep into the ground, following the sound of plastic. The sound was getting louder and louder, as if a piece of plastic sheet was dancing in the wind.
…
Crash——
Lin Xiaofeng stopped where he was. White bones emerged from the snow and solidified into a dam. The bones were embedded in each other, but their heads were always facing in one direction. Countless corpses were staring at the darkness.
A familiar figure stood among the group of bones. She had short hair and her limbs were as stiff as a puppet. She was not wearing protective clothing but a tattered down jacket. The down jacket had long faded and was covered with a layer of white snow. It did not look like a product of this era, but more like a corpse crawling out of a grave.
She noticed Lin Xiaofeng's presence, rolled her eyes, and looked back coldly.
There was no warmth in Bai Cheng's eyes. That look did not mean that he had forgotten Lin Xiaofeng. Lin Xiaofeng clearly felt that Bai Cheng still remembered him, but Bai Cheng had countless split bodies, and all his emotions were diluted in the sea.
Bai Cheng's feelings for Lin Xiaofeng are easily overlooked.
What happened to Bai Cheng?
Lin Xiaofeng's attention was all on her hanging hand. There was a deep wound on her wrist that could be seen to the bone. Lin Xiaofeng had dug Bai Cheng up before. Her body was wrapped in plastic bags. At this moment, a red plastic bag flew out from Bai Cheng's wound, like a glaring streak of blood.
Lin Xiaofeng inexplicably remembered that Bai Cheng was a plastic man, her ability was to control corpses, and the world was the corpse of the female giant.
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