It's raining.
The woman lying in the mud moved her fingers. Humid air mixed with the smell of earth filled her chest, causing her to cough twice before spitting out a cloud of mucus that had blocked her trachea. Using her arms to prop herself up, she squinted at the gloomy sky before noticing what she was holding.
Soft, cold, sticky, and slippery.
It is a piece of human tissue.
Fear washed over the woman, and she retracted her arms as if struck by lightning. Gravity pulled her unsupported upper body back to the ground, splashing a few splashes of reddish-brown water. She frantically kicked her legs, trying to get away from the situation, but the hard touch above her head suspended all her stress reactions.
She turned her head with bated breath, her mind went blank.
It was a copper-colored shoulder, and attached to it was an arm holding a chitinous limb as thick as half a thigh. The limb was a leg of a massive animal, pierced by a spear. The animal's hindquarters had been shorn off, but its powerful vitality still dealt a fatal blow to the shoulder's owner. A tooth, like a scimitar, lodged itself permanently in the man's collarbone, likely damaging his heart.
The blood of both bodies had been drained, and the surrounding soil was stained dark red.
The woman felt a sharp pain in her head, but she couldn't remember anything now. It seemed to be just a sequelae. She could only vaguely remember her name.
"I am... An... Eighteen?" she muttered silently. "I am... on the run?"
A sudden feeling of hunger interrupted her recollection. The contraction of facial muscles changed her beautiful face. A few wrinkles appeared between her eyebrows. Her light blue eyes were shrouded in mist, and crystal liquid silently gathered into a river under her eyelids.
An Shiba helped the corpse to her feet. Only then did she realize she was in a bomb crater. A puddle had formed at the bottom of the crater. Something strange had dissolved in the water, and a strange yellow-green floc filled the entire surface, with some foam floating on top. Even from this distance, she could hear the sound of bubbles bubbling in the water.
She instinctively wanted to get away from here, but the exhaustion she felt prevented her from moving normally. Crouching would have been easier, so she hesitated for a moment before using all four limbs to crawl out of the crater. The wind blew from the surface, and she could smell the aroma of food. Like a stray dog, the scent guided her in the right direction. No matter how many filthy mud pits lay along the way, hunger had already made her lose all her composure, and at the same time, her vigilance against danger.
The sweet food worked. The ample nutrition was like fuel for a machine. It helped An Shiba regain some of her spirits. The feeling of fullness brought peace to her heart, and more memories began to grow:
Time went back to before dawn. She watched Zu Sanshiyi wrapping a straw rope around herself. The other end of the rope was tied to the central pillar of the water tower, and the excess was coiled in Fu Sanshisan's hands.
Three minutes later, Zu Sanshiyi climbed down the edge and was then lowered by Fu Sanshisan to about five meters above the ground, which was the maximum jumping height of the eight-legged monster;
Another five minutes later, Zu Sanshiyi sent her a message, saying that he had broken through the monster's brain encryption. He said that the monster had three brains and used triple asymmetric encryption.
Two minutes later, the light of an explosion suddenly came from below. Fu Sanshisan protected her and avoided the initial impact.
In a trance, she saw a dark brown thing rushing towards her.
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