Ni Ji asked Lin Yuan to wait for him here for a while.
He took out a small bottle of spray.
There was only a little bit of spray left in the bottle. He sprayed it on his fingers and rubbed it in a circle around the ground where Lin Yuan was sitting.
"It's a mimicry." He said, "Although the effect is not very strong, it should be able to last for a while through a door."
The mimicry agent can cover up the human-like smell, making it difficult for the mutant to detect people hiding nearby for a while.
How long does it take to take effect? Very short, the chance of being discovered is high, and the price is extremely expensive.
Apparently, Ni Ji just used this drug, plus that weird fish bone, to successfully sneak in here.
After finishing this, he glanced at Lin Yuan, opened the door and slipped out.
In the corridor outside the house, the metal guards coming and going did not search into the storage room.
Lin Yuan yawned a few times in the dim and narrow room, and Ni Ji came back.
He brought back a few red envelopes, each two fingers thick and neatly wrapped in red paper, for Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan opened a paper package. Wrapped in red paper was a kind of fine powdered food. The light brown powder was pressed into neat small cubes in the paper package.
"It's food from the contaminated area," the sentry said to her. "I've tasted it. It's edible."
Lin Yuan took a small bite.
The finely crushed powder disperses as soon as it enters the mouth, filling the taste buds on the tip of the tongue with a rich sweetness mixed with the rich aroma of peanuts.
Such high-sugar and high-calorie foods are best suited for replenishing energy for a tired body after a battle.
Not to mention, Lin Yuan also likes sweets.
She ate all the food wrapped in the red paper very carefully, even pouring the little bit of powdered sugar left on the paper into her mouth and licking her lips as if she was still unsatisfied.
Suddenly I felt like I was back to normal, resurrected.
Lin Yuan recalled an incident when she was with her ex-fiancé.
Jiang Yangshuo, who was still very young at the time, gave her a ring that was said to be very valuable.
Lin Yuan took the ring, looked at it, and put it on her finger.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Jiang Yangshuo asked her.
"I like it." At that time, Lin Yuan was still trying hard to be a normal person.
"Xiao Yuan," Jiang Yangshuo sighed helplessly as he faced her, "When you receive a gift you like, you should at least smile."
Jiang Yangshuo was a sentinel, and so was the man in front of him. The sentinels' thoughts should be roughly the same.
So Lin Yuan smiled at Ni Ji.
Thanks for the food, I like it very much.
Thank him too? He went to find food for himself in such a dangerous time.
Of course, for Lin Yuan, filling his stomach is very important, no matter what the environment is.
Ni Ji watched the guide eat all the snacks he found without showing any complaint.
Those weak and lifeless eyes suddenly lit up, and he licked his lips with his tongue as if he was not satisfied.
The worst part was that she turned around and smiled at herself.
Ni Ji turned his face away, and he found that he didn't dare to look at that smile seriously.
He didn't ask Lin Yuan why he came here alone.
Ni Ji knew clearly that Lin Yuan was certainly qualified to come here alone.
Although they had only met a few times, he knew better than anyone the true strength of this seemingly weak girl.
She has strong abilities, the confidence to act independently, and the courage to make decisions. She is the same type of person as me.
Sometimes, he even felt that this girl was more capable of taking advantage of the situation than himself.
She actually did it. The little white arm was lying in her backpack. After eating the candy, Lin Yuan opened the bag and showed it to him.
Ni Ji controlled himself and stopped thinking about unnecessary things.
He lowered his head, took out paper and pen, put a small tactical flashlight in his mouth, and explained the escape plan to Lin Yuan on the floor of the small storage room.
During the brief time he went out to look for food, he also took the opportunity to observe the general distribution of nearby enemies.
He started drawing the topography of the palace and its surroundings on a piece of white paper for Lin Yuan to see, and told Lin Yuan his ideas and plans.
There is a very secret passage that allows them to escape from this palace. It was discovered by those who ventured into this palace in the past.
Those who come in during the day to get their keys all take this route.
But the situation now was different, the monsters were all awake, and alarms were ringing in the courtyard. It was difficult to get through the dense group of monsters, avoid their search, and reach the escape route.
It takes strength, luck, and proper planning.
Lin Yuan stretched out his hand, pointed at the drawing with his white fingers lightly stained with powdered sugar, and put forward his suggestions.
She felt that there was no need to fight or take detours in some levels where enemies were particularly concentrated. She was confident that she could cover two people and sneak through without anyone noticing.
With the cooperation of the sentinels, it would be very fast to pass through those places. In such a short time, it was not difficult for her to complete a large-scale mind interference.
Even easier than many of the situations she'd encountered on her own journey here.
Ni Ji thought for a while, held a flashlight in his mouth, and modified a few positions with a pen.
If he were alone, he would have to stay away from these places. If he encountered an unavoidable situation, a bloody battle would be inevitable.
But with Lin Yuan around, things became different.
An extremely difficult escape seemed to become completely feasible just because of this one partner.
The sentry was half-kneeling on the ground drawing a circuit diagram, his tactical uniform rolled up to his elbows, revealing a section of his arm with perfectly contoured lines.
The fingers wearing black gloves held the pen and quickly and accurately drew lines on the drawing, marking tactical icons one by one.
Then he turned to look at Lin Yuan, waiting for her opinion.
Lin Yuan looked at the circuit diagrams drawn with black pen.
She found that the terrain at many key locations was very different. The route was very refined, but if she was alone, she couldn't walk this way with her physical fitness. She simply couldn't climb such a high wall or jump such a deep span.
Just because there was an extra sentinel by my side, just one person, many extremely troublesome things suddenly became easy.
Huh.
The two of them exclaimed in their hearts almost at the same time.
She (he?) is here.
It's really great to have this person around.
The storage room was very narrow and dimly lit, with only a small tactical flashlight.
The two men huddled close together, pointing at a drawing on the floor.
Ni Ji found his heart waving again.
The moment I saw her, when she said others were her sentinels, when she smiled at me.
In fact, the self-righteous defense line in my heart had already been hit and shattered.
Ni Ji never knew that he was such a weak person. Not long ago, he had made up his mind to stop paying attention to this person and not get close to him anymore.
He was the kind of person who, once he made up his mind, would not change his mind easily even if the tip of a knife pierced his chest, breaking his flesh and blood, and tearing him to pieces.
Too, it's useless.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan turned his head and asked him.
In the dark and enclosed space, a little light shone on her face, like a hazy moon peeking into a dream.
The moon does not know how beautiful she is in the dark night.
She won't know what's going on in my mind.
If you can't control your own heart, at least don't let her know.
Ni Ji withdrew his gaze, folded the paper and put it in his chest pocket.
"Let's go." He pressed the door handle. "The battle won't be easy."
The battle was tough.
Sharp alarms rang out in every corner of the palace.
All metal-headed soldiers? Moving frantically and angrily through the buildings and gardens.
They are not just monsters, but warriors with thoughts and wisdom, as well as strong bodies and fierce attack capabilities.
This makes each of them extremely powerful individually.
"Thief. Find the thief!"
"Find them! Despicable thieves!"
There were red eyes everywhere, the ping-pong sound of metal colliding, and the sound of footsteps rushing back and forth like a hurricane.
Ni Ji stood with his legs apart, steadily on an elevated railing, and caught Lin Yuan who jumped down from a great height.
Then he hung upside down, stretched out his arms and gently placed Lin Yuan on the corridor on the next level.
Almost at the same moment, a team of metal guards with red eyes appeared at both ends of the corridor.
They have heavy metal heads and strange ghostly steps.
Holding their weapons, they leaned forward, stepped on the wall, and passed by silently like the wind. Their speed was fast enough to support them to walk on the vertical wall.
Ni Ji exerted force on his waist and accurately retracted his body before the enemy's red eyes looked at him.
His fingers and toes were clasping the cracks on the outside of the railing, almost like a gecko clinging to the outside of the corridor.
The monsters were flying along the aisle, separated from Ni Ji's hiding place by only a half-person-high wall.
If any monster stretched out its head a little, it would be able to see Ni Ji hanging there.
Ni Ji held his breath, calmed his emotions, and leaned against the wall, not moving.
The black tactical uniform almost made him blend into the night.
A whole team of mutants passed by him.
Among them, a huge mutant dragging heavy shackles slowed down in front of the wall where Ni Ji was hiding.
"I...seem...to feel something." He made a hesitant sound from his hexagonal head.
[No, you found nothing.]
A voice sounded in his mind.
Hexagon was stunned for a moment, "Ah, yes... nothing."
He caught up with his teammates again.
At the other end of the corridor, the search team was about to disappear at the entrance.
The mutant who was walking at the end suddenly stopped.
The single eye on his pyramid-shaped head blinked, revealing a hint of doubt.
"I seem to feel something."
He turned around and walked back, the color in his single eye gradually turning blood red. His fingers in white gloves gently grabbed the wall beside him.
The solid wall turned into powder easily in his slender fingers.
Triangle brushed off the powder on his hands, adjusted the tie on his suit, and walked towards Ni Ji's position step by step, leisurely.
[No, you found nothing]
A powerful and simple command resounded strongly in his mind.
Triangle's eyes were blank for a moment, but they became clear again after a moment.
His eyes showed a deep red of anger after being fooled. But the next moment he fell into confusion again.
Repeat this process several times.
【Go back, you found nothing】
【Turn around.】
【Go back, now! 】
He? In the dark, he heard a majestic voice coming from nowhere.
One after another, the sound rose.
Heavy, powerful, irresistible.
Like some giant creature that he dared not look at, they appeared one by one in the darkness, right before his eyes.
The huge mystery is indescribable, just like the feeling their king brings to him.
The pyramid felt its consciousness dissolving.
Something, a powerful and irresistible will, was dismantling his metal brain and invading his still unstable spiritual world.
The young spiritual world could not resist the powerful and focused invasion.
Begin to dissolve, to disperse.
His mind became hazy and he was gradually losing control of his body.
In front of those indescribable huge existences, the pyramid suddenly felt that it had become extremely small.
He once thought he was strong. He had a strong body and a thinking brain.
Compared to those confused and ignorant companions around him, he is stronger.
Only today did he realize that he was still very young.
Young, vulnerable, and unable to protect themselves.
Just one more strike and that existence would tear him apart, destroying the tiny core in his mind that had been so hard to gather together.
Let him return to the dark, stupid and foolish world.
The metal head felt an emotion called terror. His heart was twitching, his body was shaking, and sweat even soaked his shirt on the back.
He wanted to beg, but he could no longer speak. He could only open his only eye and wait for the final delay.
At this moment, a soft sigh was heard.
"well."
You also know what fear is. A voice whispered.
The powerful invading presence receded like the tide, disappearing into thin air just as it had come.
Pyramid lay limp on the ground, and touched the cold, half-corroded head on his neck.
He knew that he had been spared. He also knew who the sigh came from.
A lady whose voice he had heard twice before and was already familiar to him.
But he knew he couldn't tell this to anyone, nor could he call any companions.
What if he still wants to live.
Triangle stood up with the help of the wall, bowed slightly, and followed his companions without saying a word.
From then on, he had something that his companions did not have.
He learned to be selfish.
The corridor fell silent.
Ni Ji moved silently along the outer wall and landed on the lowest floor of the building. He and Lin Yuan who was hiding there exchanged complimenting gestures with each other.
They just sneaked along like this.
After several battles that had to be fought, Ni Ji's blood-red sword appeared, he cut his palm and drank his own blood, and the red sword chopped off countless monsters that rushed up.
"This is the weapon I got from the No. 100 contaminated area. It's very useful, but a little perverted." He showed the knife to Lin Yuan.
The knife was like a living thing.
The blade was stained with fresh blood, the handle had absorbed Ni Ji's blood, and the veins were bulging. When held in the black palm, it could even speak.
"Hi, it's really rare. A Kraken." When Ni Ji showed it to Lin Yuan, the handle of the knife greeted Lin Yuan in a strange voice.
Lin Yuan: "Ah, hello. Why do you have to make him bleed?"
"Without blood, I can't exert my strength. This is our contract." The voice said, "This kid's blood is very sweet. You can taste it if you have the chance."
Ni Jimian pinched the handle of the knife expressionlessly and put it back into the scabbard.
"You can find a lot of good things in the contaminated area. They have strange functions, but they are very suitable for combat." Ni Ji and Lin Yuan said, "If one day..."
If one day I find a knife that suits you, I will bring it out for you.
He swallowed the second half of the sentence and didn't say it out loud. If he said it, it would seem too intimate.
Some things don't need to be said, just remember to do them.
Lin Yuan also wanted to introduce herself to Ni Ji. Reciprocity is a human custom, right?
She suddenly realized that she seemed to have nothing worth showing off.
Except for those spiritual entities that often don't obey their own orders.
The sentinel's spirit body materialized into a small killer whale.
The distinctly black and white whales float in the air, accompanying them in their actions and taking on important tasks such as vigilance and rearguard action.
As for Lin Yuan's spiritual bodies, because there are too many of them, she often cannot manage those guys with different ideas when she concentrates on fighting.
Often, if you're not careful, one of them will slip out and land on a killer whale floating in the air.
[Very tired, I need to recover]
One particularly brazen fellow was the first to do this.
[It's so hard, can't you take a break?]
[Oh, so long-winded]
[I didn't do anything rude]
[He? He's very strong, he wouldn't mind giving me a ride]
【Big fish is actually very happy】
[Look at him? His voice is so beautiful]
The cry of the killer whale is really pleasant to hear.
Lin Yuan went to listen to the sound and was distracted for a moment, so he didn't have time to hold down the guy who was clinging to the killer whale's tail.
So the other guys couldn't hold it in anymore.
Those twisted tentacles? They're hanging on the killer whale and refuse to walk on their own.
It seems too outrageous.
Lin Yuan was a little unsure whether his behavior was wrong.
Without a reference point, she was often unsure whether she was behaving like a normal person.
Fortunately, the battle was too intense and another wave of mutants chased up from downstairs, leaving her no time to think too much.
Fortunately, the sentry next to him is a professional fighter and a strong man on the battlefield.
He held a red knife in his hand, frowned and looked stern, concentrating on the dangerous battlefield. He didn't seem to care about the quarrel between his spirit and body.
This made Lin Yuan breathe a sigh of relief.
I should learn from him. Concentrating on the battle, always wondering what the spirit body is doing.
Lin Yuan is very good at imitating the behavior of people around him.
Soon, as planned, they ran into a crudely built building.
According to Ni Ji's explanation, there is a long and narrow passage here where humans used to discard garbage, which leads all the way to the outside of the palace.
Ni Ji said at the time, if you look at the residents in this palace, they would think that such a building was built by a mysterious force, but it is not actually the case.
In the earliest times, real humans lived here, and they were man-made products.
As long as there are people living in a place, there is no such thing as a solid rock, there will always be various entrances and exits.
Ventilation, sewage, garbage disposal, servants' access, etc.
The Sentinels will enter the contaminated area during the day, find these gaps, sneak in, and take the keys to the contaminated area.
The passageway leading out of the palace was within sight. The shrill alarm sounds that had been echoing in every corner suddenly changed.
It turned into that kind of giggling laughter.
Lin Yuan had heard that sound before. It was from within that white bird cage that those dark hands that were chasing him everywhere were making that weird, girlish giggling sound.
"They went to the decontamination building."
"They went to the decontamination building."
The sound was full of laughter, almost singing a ballad, and it sang out the positions of Lin Yuan and Ni Ji.
"They're in the basement, hiding in the first room on the left."
"They are in the basement, and now they are in the second room on the right."
The clear sounds of children's songs revealed the hiding place of Lin Yuan and Ni Ji.
Nowhere to hide.
Countless enemies swarmed towards them, and the two had no choice but to stop hiding and go all out, running forward in an endless bloody battle.
As one wave of enemies fell, another wave came up from the corridor, from the window, and from various passages, as if there was no end.
"It's okay." Lin Yuan heard the sentry beside her say this to her.
The sentry was very close to her, sweat on his forehead and murderous purple light in his eyes.
The voice is soft.
Lin Yuan sensed a desire to comfort herself from the other person's voice.
comfort.
She pondered the word for a moment.
This is a very complex human trait.
She seemed to have done something like this before.
It is comforting to touch the head of the shivering little seal with your hand.
Wrapping the wet little lion in clothes is also a kind of comfort.
While running and fighting, Lin Yuan was distracted for a moment.
She imagined her own giant, huge spiritual entities. She thought of a tiny human-like arm reaching out, trying to touch the huge spiritual entity's head and saying to them, "Don't be afraid."
Thinking of this scene, Lin Yuan found it very funny.
Not bad, at least I have experienced the feeling of wanting to laugh several times recently.
It can be considered a gain.
A red, mysterious knife light flashed.
Ni Ji's limbs were covered with several deep knife wounds, and bright red blood flowed out in large quantities, but not a single drop fell on the ground. All of it was sucked into the bloodthirsty long knife.
The blade became extremely wide and long. The long huge blade was placed on Ni Ji's shoulder, stretching across the corridor.
Ni Ji crouched down and drew his knife!
A huge blood-red crescent appeared!
Just this one knife.
Whole groups of enemies were cut off at the waist, along with several floors of stairs and walkways, which broke apart and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
Ni Ji pulled Lin Yuan up, put away the knife, and ran forward with all his might in the flying dust.
Finally, I arrived at that very inconspicuous garbage passage.
The sound of the falling stairs was still rumbling, and the smoke had not yet dissipated. But they all knew that someone would catch up soon.
Ni Ji opened the small gray door of the passage.
It was a square pipe that extended downwards to an unknown distance, barely big enough for one person to fit through. The metal walls were smooth and pitch black, with no visibility of the bottom.
If you slide all the way down from here and don't get caught up by the enemy, you will have escaped.
Ni Ji took a breath, took off his black tactical gloves and put them on Lin Yuan's hands.
He wore it reverently, trying his best not to touch the guide's skin which was as soft as a flower.
The tactical gloves were very elastic and were a little loose on Lin Yuan's small hands.
"You will slide down very quickly," Ni Ji said. "Try to increase friction with your palms and shoes, and don't let your skin touch the wall of the tube."
"After you get out, find the other people, open the door immediately, and leave the contaminated area."
Only then did Lin Yuan realize that the sentry seemed to have no intention of leaving with him.
"What about you?" she asked.
"The passage is very long. If we go down together, they will catch up with us when we are halfway down." Ni Ji checked Lin Yuan's backpack and calmly explained the situation to her, "If we are blocked in a passage like this, we will have no way to survive."
There were frequent footsteps in the corridor. The enemies were coming up again.
Lin Yuan finally asked him: "Then how are you going to get out?"
"Once the door to the contaminated area is opened, it will remain there for 24 hours." Ni Ji put away the palm-shaped key and tied the backpack in front of Lin Yuan. "I will find a way to get out before the door is closed."
His voice was calm, as if he was saying something that could be done easily.
He held Lin Yuan's hands and slowly put her into the narrow tube.
He held her hand, half leaned over, and looked at her through the pipe.
"It's okay. They don't want to kill anyone. At most, they will just catch me."
Lin Yuan had already slipped into the smooth pipe, holding Ni Ji's hands with his black-gloved hands.
The world beneath his feet leads to the path of life, and behind Ni Ji there is smoke of war.
She looked up into the sentry's eyes.
The sentry held her hands, his eyes were very gentle, and there seemed to be a very beautiful emotion hidden in his eyes.
Lin Yuan looked at those eyes and almost forgot the world around him.
This was the first time that she could see and feel someone's emotions without using touch. She could only use her own eyes and hands.
Those eyes stared at him, not at a monster, but at a beautiful life that made him happy.
This feeling was so good that it almost touched Lin Yuan's heart.
In the eyes of others, I am no longer a monster.
Lin Yuan opened his mouth and wanted to say something.
But the man had already let go of his hand.
The square world above my head is shrinking rapidly?
She fell all the way down.
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