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 wavering 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.]
一個聲音，在他?腦海中響起。
六邊形愣了愣，“啊，對……什麽也沒有。”
他?重新?跟上了隊友們?的腳步。
走廊的另一頭，穿行而過的搜索隊也即将消失在走道口。
走在最後的一只畸變種，卻突然停下腳步。
他?三角錐型的腦袋上，單獨的眼睛眨了眨，露出了一點疑惑的神?色。
“我好像感覺到了一點什麽。”
他?轉頭走了回來，獨眼中的顏色逐漸變得血紅。戴着潔白手套的手指輕輕抓了一把身側的牆壁。
那堅固的牆體在他?修長的手指中輕易變成粉末。
三角錐拍掉手上的粉末，整了整西裝上的領帶，一步一步，好整以暇地，朝着倪霁所在的位置靠近。
【沒有，你什麽都沒有發現】
一道強大而簡單的指令，在他?腦海中強勢響起。
三角錐的眼神?茫然了一瞬，片刻之後卻又恢複清明。
他?的眼中現出了被愚弄之後憤怒的深紅。可是下一刻又再一次陷入茫然之中。
如此轉換數次。
【回去，你什麽也沒發現】
【轉過身。】
【回去，立刻！】
他?冥冥之中，聽見了不知從何處而來的威嚴聲音。
一道，又一道的響起。
沉重，強勢，不容抗拒。
像是某種不敢窺視的巨物，隐隐地一個個出現在黑暗中，就在他?的眼前。
巨大詭秘無法形容，像是他?們?的國?王帶給他?的感覺一樣。
三角錐覺得自己的意識在溶解。
有什麽東西，一個強大而難以抗拒的意志在拆解他?金屬大腦，入侵他?還不太穩定的精神?世界。
幼小?的精神?世界抵擋不住強大而專注一致的入侵。
開始溶解，潰散。
意志變得恍惚，他?在逐漸失去身體的控制能力。
在那些無法描述的巨大存在前，三角錐突然覺得自己變得很異常渺小?。
他?曾經以為自己很強大。他?擁有強大的身軀和能夠思維的腦袋。
比起身邊那些還渾渾噩噩，茫茫無知的同伴們?都強大。
到了今天，他?才發現自己其實還很幼小?。
幼小?，脆弱，毫無保護自己的能力。
只要再一下，那個存在就會撕裂他?，摧毀腦海中那一點好不容易凝聚起來的小?小?核心。
讓他?重回渾渾噩噩，癡癡傻傻的世界。
金屬的腦袋體會到了一種名為恐怖的情緒。心在抽縮，身體在顫抖，汗水甚至濕透了後背的襯衫。
他?想要乞求，卻已?經無法開口說?話。只能睜着唯一的眼睛，等着最後的淩遲。
就在這個時候，一聲輕輕的嘆息聲響起。
“唉。”
你居然也知道何為恐懼。某個聲音輕輕說?。
強勢入侵的存在像潮水般退去了，像來時一樣，消失于?無形。
三角錐癱軟在地上，用手摸到了自己脖頸上冰冷的半腐蝕的腦袋。
他?知道自己被放過了。也知道了那一聲嘆息聲來至于?誰。
一個他?聽過兩次的，已?經熟悉了聲音的女士。
但他?知道自己不能把這件事說?出口，也不能喊來任何同伴。
如果他?還想活下去。
三角錐扶着牆壁站起來，微微鞠了一個躬，一言不發地追着同伴去了。
從這以後，他?又多了一項同伴們?沒有的東西。
他?學會了自私。
走廊安靜下來。
倪霁無聲無息地貼着外牆游走，落在建築的最底層，和藏在那裏的林苑互相比了一個誇贊對方的手勢。
他?們?就這樣一路潛行。
歷經數場不得不進?行的戰鬥。倪霁血紅的妖刀出現，劃破手心飲了自己的血，紅刀斬碎無數湧上來的怪物。
“這是我從一百號污染區裏得到的武器，很好用，就是有點變态。”他?把那柄刀給林苑看。
那刀就像是一個活物。
刀刃沁着新?鮮的血色，刀柄吸了倪霁的血，鼓起彎彎曲曲的血管，握在黑色的手心裏，還會開口說?話。
“嗨，真是罕見啊。一只克拉肯。”那刀柄在倪霁把它展示給林苑的時候，用一種古怪的聲音和林苑打招呼。
林苑：“啊，你好。你為什麽非要讓他?流血？”
“沒有血，我就不能發揮實力，這是我們?的契約。”那個聲音說?，“這小?子的血很甜。你有機會也可以嘗嘗。”
倪霁面?無表情地掐住刀柄，把它收回刀鞘中。
“污染區裏能找到很多好東西。功能怪異，但很适合戰鬥。”倪霁和林苑說?，“如果有一天……”
如果有一天，找到合适你的刀，我會帶出來給你。
他?把後面?這半句話咽了回去，沒說?出口。說?了，顯得太親近了些。
有些事也本不用說?，只要記得去做就好。
林苑也想和倪霁介紹點自己的什麽。禮尚往來是人類的習俗對不對？
她突然發現自己好像沒有什麽拿得出手的身外之物。
除了那些時常不太聽自己指令的精神?體。
哨兵的精神?體具像化為一只體型不太大的虎鯨。
黑白分明的鯨魚浮游在半空中，伴随他?們?行動，承擔起警戒，斷後等一切重要任務。
而林苑的精神?體們?，因?為數量太多，經常在她專心戰鬥的時候，就管不好那些各有各想法的家夥們?。
時常一個不小?心就被它們?溜出一條來，扒拉到浮游在半空中的虎鯨身上。
【很累了，我需要回血】
有一條特別厚顏無恥的家夥率先這樣幹。
【這麽辛苦，休息一下都不行嗎】
【哎呀，好啰嗦】
【我又沒幹什麽不禮貌的事情】
【他?很強壯，不會在乎載我一段路的】
【大魚其實很高興】
【你看他?叫的聲音那麽好聽】
虎鯨嘤嘤的鯨鳴聲确實好聽。
林苑去聽那個聲音，走了一下神?，就沒來得及按住這個賴到虎鯨尾巴上的家夥。
于?是其它的家夥也就都按不住了。
歪七扭八的觸手們?挂在虎鯨身上不肯自己走路。
好像太不像話了。
林苑有一點拿不準自己的行為是不是很不對。
在沒有參照物的時候，她時常拿不準自己的行為是不是像個正常人。
幸好，戰鬥過于?激烈，又一波的畸變種們?從樓下追了上來，讓她無暇多想。
也幸好，身邊的哨兵是一位專業的戰士，戰場的強者。
他?手握紅刀，凝眉冷面?，專注于?兇險的戰場。似乎并不把精神?體間?的吵鬧放在心上。
這讓林苑松了一口氣。
我應該和他?學習。專注于?戰鬥，老想着精神?體們?幹什麽。
林苑很擅長模仿周圍人的行為舉止。
很快，按照計劃，他?們?跑進?了一棟造型粗曠的建築中。
按倪霁的說?明，在這裏有一條從前人類丢棄垃圾的通道，長而窄小?，可以一路通到宮殿的外面?。
倪霁當時這樣說?，你看這個宮殿內的居民?，會覺得這樣的建築是神?秘的力量所為，其實并非如此。
最早的時候，這裏住着真正的人類，是人工制造的産物。
只要是人住的地方，就沒有固若金湯的，總有各種各樣的出入口。
通風，排污，垃圾處理，仆人進?出，等等。
哨兵們?會在白晝的時候進?入污染區，找到這些缺口，潛進?來，拿取污染區的鑰匙。
離開宮殿的通道已?經近在眼前。一直循環響徹在各個角落的尖銳警報聲突然變了。
變成那種嘻嘻哈哈的歡笑聲。
那聲音林苑聽過，就在那棟白色的鳥籠中，那些鋪天蓋地追着自己的黑手們?，就是發出這樣少女一般，古怪的嘻笑聲。
“它們?去了污化樓。”
“它們?去了污化樓。”
那聲音嘻嘻哈哈，幾乎是用唱歌謠的方式，唱出了林苑和倪霁兩人的位置。
“他?們?就在地下室，躲在左邊第?一間?的屋子裏。”
“他?們?就在地下室，現在又去了右邊第?二?間?的屋子裏。”
清脆的兒歌一聲聲響起，暴露了林苑和倪霁的藏身之處。
無處藏身。
無數敵人蜂擁前來，兩人只能不再躲藏，全力以赴，在一路不斷血戰中向前奔跑。
一波的敵人倒下，另一波敵人從走廊，從窗外，從各種通道追上來，仿佛永無止境。
“沒事的。”林苑聽見身邊的哨兵這樣對她說?。
哨兵離她很近，額頭挂着汗，雙眸中燃着殺氣騰騰的紫色螢光。
聲音卻柔和。
林苑從對方的聲音裏品味出一股想要安慰自己的情緒。
安慰。
她把這個單詞放在心裏琢磨了一下。
這是一種很複雜的人類特征。
她好像也做過這樣的事。
用手摸一摸那只瑟瑟發抖的小?海豹的腦袋，是安慰。
把那只濕漉漉的小?獅子用衣服包起來，也是安慰。
在奔跑和戰鬥中林苑稍微走了一下神?。
她的腦海中浮現自己巨型而龐大的精神?體們?。她想到一只屬于?人類的細小?手臂伸過來，企圖摸一摸龐大的精神?體的腦袋，并對她們?說?“別怕”。
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.