Lin Yuan heard the shrill scream, but his eyes rolled back and he didn't move at all.
The tentacles swam slowly, wrapping Lin Yuan more tightly, leaving only the exposed eyes.
"Help, help me!" The sentry cried to her, "I know you are a human, please save me, let your spirit save me."
"This place is so perverted, these beasts, don't you know that these beasts are right? What did I do!"
He burst into tears, spoke incoherently, and begged in a shrill voice.
Lin Yuan's eyes rolled, but didn't move, just staring into his eyes.
Those were a pair of eyes filled with intense negative emotions; fear, pain, and hatred seemed to be tangibly flowing out of that person's eye sockets.
Already on the brink of collapse.
But I don't have the power to save you. At least not yet.
The strong pig man stopped and his fat nose twitched, but he still didn't see Lin Yuan who was standing not far from him.
He tugged at the chain, dragging the man forward.
The man was being dragged further and further away. Seeing that Lin Yuan refused to come to rescue him, his face became distorted. He suddenly pulled the iron chain, pointed in Lin Yuan's direction and shouted,
"There, there is a man."
He pointed in Lin Yuan's direction and screamed with all his might, as if he could be freed if he could catch Lin Yuan as well.
"There's someone there, you can't see her, she's right there!
The pig turned its head slowly and listened with its ear tilted. After listening several times, it finally understood what the prisoner in its hand was saying.
Lin Yuan had already started retreating when the sentry started shouting.
But that pig was too fast. His speed was totally incompatible with his fat body.
Almost at the next moment when he understood what was said, the smelly nose and fangs suddenly appeared in front of Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan moved to an open window when the pigman pounced over.
She fell backwards, and the tentacles carried her through the dark window.
The moment he fell into the house, the sharp light of a knife flashed before his eyes with a heavy whistling sound.
Lin Yuan felt a strong pain in her mind. A tentacle blocked the knife for her, and the soft arm was cut into two by the blade.
The pain was transmitted to her brain, as if a hand reached into her brain and pulled out a nerve, causing her whole body to twitch slightly in pain.
But Lin Yuan's face was expressionless.
His body was shaking with pain, and his bloodless face looked like it was wearing a ceramic mask, with no reaction at all.
With her expressionless face, she rolled onto the ground and landed in a corner behind a sideboard in the living room.
He huddled in the shadow beside the cabinet, his eyes blank.
Dense tentacles swarmed up and quickly covered her.
The wooden door of the house was smashed with a bang, wood fragments flew everywhere, and a fat pig-headed man appeared at the door with his back to the light, holding a bloody knife.
On the street, the sentry with his neck tied was still lying on the ground, shouting and yelling.
Lin Yuan drooped her eyelashes in the shadows.
A tentacle emerged from the street ground and burrowed into the sentry's brain.
In an instant, the man's eyes bulged out, his expression became stupid, and he could no longer utter complete sentences.
Lin Yuan's move drove him completely crazy.
A pig-shaped monster was panting heavily in the dim living room, stepping step by step on the messy floor, and the house was shaking with the sound of its footsteps.
A monster with bristling mane, a big mouth with saliva dripping from it, and a bloody knife.
He couldn't feel Lin Yuan at all, and couldn't find the human girl who had just flashed in through the window.
So he angrily swung the sharp pig-killing knife and hacked around in the house.
The back of the knife was extremely thick, and the blade was sharpened. I don't know what it had been used to cut before, and it was stained with thick black blood.
Countless pieces of furniture in the house were smashed to pieces under the sharp and thick knife.
There were many times when the blade's wind and the debris flying all over the room scratched Lin Yuan's tentacles at close range, and even one or two scratches cut her face.
But? She just sat in the corner with her knees hugged, not moving.
The body felt pain, and the spirit body was wounded one after another.
The pain stimulated Lin Yuan's nerves, but it didn't matter. The pain only made her calmer.
The pig-headed monster wreaked havoc in the dark house for a long time before finally leaving.
Soon, sharp screams were heard outside the house. The sound, one after another, tore apart this silent and eerie space.
Mixed in with the sound were the pigs' snorting and the chewing of their food.
Lin Yuan hugged her legs and sat in the dark. She listened to the tormenting sound for as long as it lasted.
The darkness grew thicker amidst this terrifying sound.
A twisted world, eerie silence and being alone in the darkness.
When she was young, during the great fire, her father, who was her guide, sealed her pain, five senses and all her emotions.
After my father's death, the blockade of that mental power had long been lifted.
But Lin Yuan seemed to be locked in that cold winter forever.
I don't know how to be reverent, I'm not afraid of pain, and I'm not afraid of such darkness.
But if she stayed in such a place for too long, her human emotions would be worn out again and again. Sometimes she even felt that such a dark and absurd world would be her final destination.
Lin Yuan sat in the small corner with her legs crossed for a long time, and heard the noise outside the house gradually fade away.
She touched her broken tentacle in the dark.
The soft tentacle lost part of it. Without the flexible tip, half of the tentacle appeared pitifully, entangled in Lin Yuan's arms, and showed Lin Yuan the bowl-sized cross-section.
Lin Yuan stroked it for a long time, but found it was useless. It was very difficult for him to comfort his own "spiritual body".
Many of the tentacles were injured and had scratches on them, making them less shiny and moist, and they wiggled around the feet with a hum.
Lin Yuan suddenly wanted to eat something sweet. A candy, or any sweet food.
But? There is nothing at hand.
Lin Yuan thought of the sentry who would find candy for him, the killer whale, and the sweet candy figurine he had eaten.
Thinking of this, she felt a little better, brushed off the dust on her body, and stood up.
A little blood flowed down his face and stained the corner of his mouth. Lin Yuan licked it and only tasted a little blood.
There is no candy here, and no one is willing to find candy for her.
Touching the mottled wallpaper, Lin Yuan slowly walked through the dark and deserted living room, opened the door, and walked out along the street.
The road was difficult to walk on, and the monsters that appeared from time to time forced her to stop and go, and constantly change direction.
She even saw a giant mushroom, standing in a garden with its snow-white mycelium floating. Under the mushroom's feet, crouching in the soil was a pale human body.
When countless spores of all sizes floated over hand in hand, Lin Yuan ran away.
When it was safe, Lin Yuan found himself hiding in a place that looked like a farm.
Maybe it should be called a farm.
The keeper was not there, and the empty shed was filled with two rows of metal cages, similar to a chicken coop, with a feeding trough at one end and a track for laying eggs at the other.
But the things locked in those narrow metal cages were not chickens or ducks, but humans, adult male humans.
Lin Yuan hid under a shelf. Opposite her, within her sight, a young man lay in a cage.
His head was exposed from the cage, and his neck was restricted by the narrow gap, so he could only lie on his back. There was a drainage tube in his mouth, and he was constantly fed food, so his abdomen was bulging.
Lin Yuan couldn't see the area below.
The tracks at the other end were turning rumblingly, and after a while, a large, snow-white, hard-shelled egg was sent out, but no one knew where it was sent.
No one knew what had happened to that person. One of his arms was completely broken, and the other was locked tightly in a cage. His abdomen was covered with horrible and weird symbols. The blood-red runes glowed on the human flesh.
The inhuman torture and abuse broke the man's will. He lay there with his eyes open, allowing the food flowing through the tube to be forced into his stomach.
Lin Yuan squatted under the shelf, stared at the sentry opposite for a long time, and began to chew his fingers.
Almost all the men in this big shed were in this state. They kept eating food while huge hard-shelled eggs were being carried away on the tracks on the other side.
Almost everyone's spirits had completely collapsed. Some of them giggled strangely and stretched their necks to lick the food in the trough.
Some of them lay there, muttering, "Golden tree, hehe, golden tree..."
Only the sentinel in front of Lin Yuan still barely retained some human consciousness and emotions.
Lin Yuan thought of the sentry who had just pointed at her and yelled at her on the roadside. That person had caused her to break one of her arms and legs.
She recalled that in the yard of her own home, Nicole sat opposite her, holding her chin, and said to her with sparkling eyes,
"There are some annoying guys among the sentries."
"But there are some very good people too."
Only after we have met many people and encountered many bad things, do we truly realize that there are many lovely people in this world.
Lin Yuan crawled out from under the shelf, stuck out half of his head, looked at the sentry lying in the cage, and carefully pulled out the esophagus stuffed in his mouth.
She was ready to stuff the thing back if the person screamed or yelled.
But? No matter what, she still wants to ask this person,
"you……"
Do you need my help?
Lin Yuan actually didn’t know whether she should ask this question.
She wasn't sure if she could take away such a seriously injured person, and she even felt that she might not be able to take herself away.
"Kill me." The sentry saw Lin Yuan appearing beside the cage.
He closed his eyes and pleaded in a low voice, "Kill me."
Lin Yuan thought for a moment and asked the man seriously, "I should be able to open this cage. Are you sure you don't want to live?"
The sentry's tightly closed eyes trembled, and after a long while, tears slid down the corners of his eyes.
He glanced to the side, opened his mouth, and spoke in a very small, slightly choked voice.
Lin Yuan couldn't hear what he said at all.
But she understood that he wanted to live.
The black and white bracelet on Lin Yuan's wrist melted and flowed into the keyhole of the cage. Lin Yuan squatted beside the cage filled with dirt and stench, struggling for a long time.
Meanwhile, the tracks were whirring, and the room was filled with giggles and gibberish. New eggs fell and were carried away by the tracks.
A giant hen several meters tall, wearing an apron, walked past the window, and its huge red glasses approached the glass window.
Lin Yuan quickly shrank back under the shelf and lay there motionless.
The chicken stuck to the window glass and looked for a while, but didn't find anything unusual. It took out a piece of silk and wiped the glass, then left with satisfaction.
Lin Yuan came out again and continued to compete with the lock.
With a click, the cage lock was finally opened.
The sentry lying in the cage bit his lips and couldn't help crying with his shoulders twitching.
He didn't cry for long. By the time Lin Yuan untied the chain on his wrist and reached out to support him, he had already calmed down and was struggling to climb out of the cage.
He had probably been locked up for a long time, and his legs were weak. He stood up with great difficulty with the help of Lin Yuan, his legs stained with blood.
But? He gritted his teeth, fire in his eyes, and limped out.
He seemed to know the way here and led Lin Yuan out through a small hole and hid in a room where hay and sundries were stored.
There were several pairs of farmers' trousers in the room.
Are you covered in wounds? The sentry walked into the room and the first thing he did was to tear off a pair of trousers from the wall and put them on himself.
His only arm kept shaking until he pulled up his trousers and put them on. Then he squatted down beside the haystack and leaned against the wall in a vain manner.
It was as if putting on clothes could help him regain his sense of security and reaffirm that he was still a human being.
Rather than a livestock locked in a cage and constantly force-fed.
"Excuse me," the man leaned against the wall, holding his trembling body with his remaining arms, "Do you have a guide?"
"Guide element?" Lin Yuan was stunned. "No. Do you need spiritual counseling?"
The sentry widened his eyes in surprise and raised his head.
Only then did he realize that the person standing in front of him was actually a guide.
Under normal circumstances, the natural spiritual attraction between the Sentinel and the Guide would make it easy to distinguish their identities.
But he was so weak and desperate that he did not realize that it was a guide who saved him from such a miserable situation.
In such a horrible polluted area, a guide appeared?
He recalled the legend he had heard a few months ago: There was a guide who stayed at the sentry post for a long time and even entered the contaminated area like the sentinels.
When I heard about this, I just laughed it off as a strange story. I never thought it was actually true.
The guide was now standing right in front of him.
"Guide? Why...why are you here?" The sentry looked at the young and beautiful girl standing in front of him.
The girl's face was bruised and bleeding, her body was covered in dust, and her hands were stained.
But her eyes were firm, and she showed no fear at all in such a strange world.
"I want to find the golden tree," the female guide said, "then get the key and open the door here."
Lin Yuan wiped his hands clean and reached out to press the sentry's forehead.
The sentry turned his head away.
"No."
His voice was dry and hoarse, and he could only sit up by leaning against the wall. However, he refused Lin Yuan's help.
"You save your good energy to do your own thing."
"What about you?"
"I'll be right here, waiting for you to open that door."
There is a row of narrow skylights at the top of the storage room. Sitting in front of the haystack, you can see the sky in the distance.
If the escape door was opened, he would be able to see it from here.
Lin Yuan looked at the sentry.
He was very weak, covered in wounds, had a disabled hand, and had suffered inhuman torture.
But there was a light in his eyes, and he wanted to live.
I did the right thing, Lin Yuan thought.
"You will definitely succeed," the sentinel said to her sincerely, "I will wait for the door to appear in the sky. When the door appears, we will meet at the exit."
"Okay. See you at the exit."
When Lin Yuan turned around and prepared to leave, the sentry called her.
"Do you know where to find the golden tree?" He told Lin Yuan everything he knew. "Go to the rose garden. The rose garden at night."
***
Ni Ji stood in a long street.
He came in with several elite members of the Royal Guard. As soon as they stepped into the border, they found that all the personnel had been dispersed.
He walked a long way alone in the strange and quiet streets. He wanted to find a figure, but he did not see that person after running to many places.
Finally, he ran into an acquaintance.
The tall, bearded sentry nicknamed "Blind Man" who had laughed at him in the tavern not long ago.
When Ni Ji met the blind man, a minotaur carrying a sharp knife suddenly appeared from the ground.
It was almost touching his face, and the cold and sharp blade stabbed in front of his eyes.
The blind man pulled him from behind, and the two of them rolled to the side of the road, narrowly avoiding the running bull that was running as fast as the wind.
Ni Ji flipped over and jumped onto the high roof. Lying in the shadow of the roof, he instantly gathered all the emotions around him.
From the information obtained before entering, we know that the monsters here rely on emotional fluctuations to find humans.
Need to hide all the subtle emotions.
Ni Ji is very good at this. He has been in and out of the contaminated area more than 300 times, and has honed this skill through countless trials and tribulations.
He almost never fails, except in front of someone.
But not every sentinel can do this. The blind man can't control his emotions to the extent that he can control them freely.
The murderous intent that was ignited when rolling just now could not be completely controlled and was captured by the monster.
The crazy Minotaur, holding a long knife, rushed towards him.
The tip of the knife is icy cold and as fast as lightning.
The blind man has strong arms, is tall and strong, and carries a two-meter-long giant sword.
He raised his sword to resist, and the man and the bull suddenly collided with each other. The burly sentry, who was proud of his arm strength, was knocked back all the way until his back hit the wall.
"Damn it? What kind of monster is this, with such great strength?" the blind man cursed in his heart.
Before he finished his words, a whole team of identical minotaur monsters appeared from the corner.
They all held long swords in their hands, made deep roars, and rushed towards him in neat rows.
No way. Is this the horror of Area 77? The blind man widened his eyes in horror.
Could it be possible that I died when I just came in? This thought flashed through my mind.
Countless sharp blades have already stabbed in front of me.
The wind from those long knives almost stung his skin, but they lost their power at the last moment and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
The blood-red blade light still lingered in the air. Ni Ji's blade had already been sheathed.
Those strange minotaurs had their legs cut off by the flash of red light and fell to the ground one after another.
Ni Ji grabbed the blind man's arm and said, "Let's go!"
The blind man who escaped death reacted and rolled into a dark house on the side of the road with him.
The two rushed into the house, immediately held their breath and concentrated, hiding in the dark house without moving.
Outside the house, the bull monsters with broken legs crawled up one after another, and the legs that had been completely severed a moment ago had recovered as before.
But in this small gap, the skilled sentinel was able to conceal his mental fluctuations and completely hide himself.
The bull monsters let out mooing sounds and could no longer find their target.
Soon, they forgot everything that had just happened, lined up, held their knives, and slowly walked away.
"Damn it! You actually saved me." The blind man in the room took a deep breath and said, "Thanks, brother."
He took out a guide and handed it to Ni Ji.
Ni Ji shook his head and declined.
"It's different in Kyoto. You've seen real guides, right? You don't even look down on guide elements." The blind man couldn't help but sneer. Then, he slapped his lips lightly, "I just have a bad mouth. Forget it, you saved me, I won't make fun of you anymore."
"Have you met someone?" Ni Ji, who was standing by the window, suddenly asked a random question.
"Who? Who are you looking for? Name, gender?" The blind man lowered his head and nodded.
"Have you seen a person?" Ni Ji asked again, "Not a sentinel."
"Not a sentinel?" The blind man lit up the guide, took a puff, and said in confusion, "Ordinary people wouldn't dare to come to a place like this. Who else could it be but a sentinel?"
Ni Ji stopped talking and raised his foot to jump out of the window.
"Wait a minute, where are you going?" the blind man called out to him.
"Look for the golden tree."
"Take a breath, silly boy. It's going to be dark soon." The blind man pulled him. "Why are you in such a hurry? In such a dangerous area, you should wait and observe the situation of others. You have been a sentinel for so many years, and you don't even know this?"
"I want to open the door." Ni Ji said, "The sooner the better."
It's too dangerous here. I'm going to open the door so that she can get out first.
He didn't say that out loud.
The figure disappeared from the window, and after a few leaps, it was no longer visible.
What's wrong with this guy? The blind man stood at the window, looking in the direction where Ni Ji disappeared.
So impatient, not like him at all.
Forget it, think about it, it's not that easy to blame him. The blind man touched his beard and decided not to say anything rude to him anymore.
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