Lin Yuan and Ni Ji searched along the deserted streets.

There are two rows of two-story stilt buildings on the roadside, and every room in the long corridor is empty.

Not that kind of neatly arranged holes.

Tousled sheets, overturned perfume bottles, half-eaten lunch boxes, scattered clothes and various traces of dirt.

The building where all the people who had left the atmosphere of life was gone.

Although this contaminated area has been around for hundreds of years, every room here looks like it was occupied by people last night, but those people just left.

Squeak——

Lin Yuan pushed open a shabby wooden door, and several empty buckets fell down in the room with a clatter. A bucket that fell on the ground rolled on the ground and rolled out of the door.

The room was dimly lit, cluttered, and smelled fishy.

Ni Ji made a gesture to her to keep quiet.

The two found a secluded place and squatted down. After a while, someone walked over from the other end of the long wooden corridor.

"I seemed to hear some noise here just now. It turned out that the bucket was blown over by the wind."

"This place is really smelly. It must be the servants' quarters. I don't think there's anything to find."

They were two sentinels, wearing very sturdy combat protective suits, with various advanced weapons hanging all over their strong bodies.

Sentinels are creatures with powerful five senses, and with their keen senses they can easily detect people lurking nearby.

But? One of the lurkers is Ni Ji.

The soldier king lurking in the dark restrained all his breath and emotional fluctuations. It seemed that even his breathing did not exist. He was like a lifeless stone.

The other one was Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan squatted behind Ni Ji, squinting at the two sentinels. The tentacles underground? They kept giving hints.

[Can't see][Can't see][No one][No one][No one here]...

The two sentries were very close to them, but they didn't notice them and even stopped to chat.

"Where is the thing the Queen wants? I've searched everywhere but can't find it."

"Is it true that it can only be found in the dark?"

"Did you see what happened last night? That Ni Ji was too fierce. I don't know who Ji Xuan is, that vixen? Where did they get this guy from?"

"He's a tough guy. Don't let him get the stuff. Otherwise, we won't get the huge bounty. What will happen?"

At this moment, in the darkness underground, the tentacle that had not yet fully grown discovered that the small fish beside it had disappeared.

No, he was still there, huddled together with the original body. But I couldn't feel him anymore.

It was as if a sweet candy suddenly turned into a stone, a wooden stake, something completely lifeless.

This brought back some good memories. In a dark and narrow pipe, the little fish also turned into a stone like this and hid there.

Or was I the first one to discover him?

People usually call the big killer whale "big fish" and the smaller one "little fish". Of course, some people are stupid and don't understand the situation, so they just mix up the names.

Big fish are sweet, sucking big fish can heal wounds. But it thinks small fish are also sweet, and it also likes to cuddle with small fish.

The tentacle hooked Ni Ji's wrist that was pressed to the ground, and used the new pink tip to drill into his black glove, trying to take off the glove.

It's just a glove. I'm not being rude.

Ni Ji glanced at it and silently looked away. His hand pressed on the ground did not move.

The tentacles were quick to notice that the fish had been more tolerant of it since it was injured. If it had done this, it would probably have moved its hands and feet away, or gently pushed itself away.

Now, he acquiesced.

Injured people have privileges and can become even more powerful.

The two sentinels were still talking. They took out water bottles, drank water and chatted. They mentioned Ni Ji and the queen.

Lin Yuan was stunned when he heard it, and he didn't realize that one of his tentacles had slipped out and was doing something bad to the people around him.

After all, she has hundreds of tentacles.

The new tentacles were very tender and had little strength. After struggling for a long time, they finally peeled the glove off the wrist a little, revealing the scarred palm.

Xiaoyu was also injured. He rubbed his scabbed wound, and the veins on his palm tightened.

Such a genuine and adorable reaction.

"There are actually servants here. A group of criminals who were sent to serve in the army are actually being served." One of the sentries kicked the toilet brush off the ground.

"I really don't understand how people in such a place have the nerve to survive. They have committed crimes and ended up in such a situation. They should have committed suicide long ago. They simply have no blood at all."

"I have found this Rose Camp for two or three days. Every night the tree screams. The sound is so scary that we can't get close to it. But other places are very safe."

"I've always found it strange that the night at the Golden Tree is a deadly situation. I don't know how many people died outside, but after entering the Rose Camp, nothing happened. Just don't get close to the tree." The sentry lowered his voice and asked his companion, "You've been in there for so many days. Have you found anything in the dark?"

The man being questioned looked away for a moment, as if he didn't want to talk.

Under Lin Yuan's command, a tentacle quietly moved out from underground and disturbed his subconsciousness.

【Speak up, speak up, speak it out loud. 】

The sentry, who suddenly felt like expressing himself, coughed.

"I didn't find anything. But in every room, something was going on... hehe. It made me angry."

"It's safe here at night, you can do whatever you want. There's food and drink, and those guys react like real people." His voice lowered, with a perverted smile, "No matter what you do to them, they won't resist."

His companions laughed along, "You bastard, you wouldn't be in such a place and still be in such a mood, would you?"

"It's the same everywhere, isn't it? For people like us, there's no tomorrow after today. The weirder it is, the more exciting it is."

It seemed like he was telling his companions something he was particularly proud of, and he became more and more excited as he spoke.

"They were originally criminals used as labor in the past, and when they were alive, they were just animals that were put aside by others."

"I'm meeting a woman. If you can't find your keys at night, I'll take you to see her."

…

The two sentinels chuckled, and the topic of conversation changed from information that Lin Yuan was interested in to uncomfortable and obscene topics.

Fortunately, they finally walked away.

Ni Ji stood up faster than Lin Yuan. He took two steps back, stood up straight, and adjusted his gloves.

The glove on his left hand had come loose at some point, and was only hanging on the fingertips. He quickly pulled the elastic black glove up, tightly covering the exposed skin on his hand.

"You seem to be wearing gloves all the time?" Lin Yuan, who didn't notice what happened secretly just now, looked at his actions and asked a question.

Ni Ji was silent for a moment, then pulled out his sword and showed it to Lin Yuan. The sword that had not absorbed any blood was now just a short white dagger.

"I got this knife from a contaminated area a long time ago."

The bone china-like white blade had no luster and looked ordinary when held in Ni Ji's black gloves.

"This guy is always thirsty for my blood. It's easy to be cut by it if I hold the knife bare-handed. So I've got used to wearing gloves all these years."

A strange sound came from the hilt of the knife. "Hehe, we meet again, Kraken. This guy has been making noises since you took off his gloves once."

The handle of the knife was pinched and ruthlessly pulled back by Ni Ji into the blade.

Lin Yuan showed Ni Ji her knife, which was a gift Ni Ji sent her after she returned to Kyoto.

Her wrist was very slender, as smooth as jade, and the black and white bracelets were connected at the ends, wrapping around her wrist. The black lines flowed beautifully, making her skin look even whiter.

"This one I have is very useful." said Lin Yuan.

Her words were concise and to the point; both love and gratitude were expressed in these few words.

Ni Ji's black fingers tightened slightly.

He wears gloves all year round, and it has become a physical habit for him. When he is not in combat, taking off the gloves is something he feels uncomfortable with.

He originally wanted to explain this matter seriously to Lin Yuan.

He knew that Lin Yuan was a very pure person who respected him very much. After he said that, she would definitely notice the mischief of those spirits and stop it.

I just don't know why, these words rolled around in my throat and then I swallowed them back quietly.

He? He didn't even want to think about why he didn't say it.

The two walked along the wooden corridor.

Just as the two sentries said, this row of houses might be where the servants lived. They were even damper and darker than the two-story high-plank building.

Lin Yuan opened the doors one by one and looked inside. She remembered the girl she met last night.

The girl's name was Windsor, she sang beautifully and was very gentle. She probably lived in these houses.

I just don’t know which one it is.

A frightened cry came from the alley around the corner. It sounded like one of the two sentries who had just left.

Soon, a sentry came out of the alley, tumbling and crawling. He had lost the strength and composure that a sentry should have, and he retreated tremblingly while holding the long knife tightly in his hand, pointing it at the dark and damp alley.

After a while, his partner, the sentry who claimed to have been in the Rose Camp for three days, slowly followed him out of the alley.

The man asked him with a puzzled look, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so scared?"

The sentry's face looked normal from the side; he was still the tall, muscular man.

But, if you change the angle slightly, you will find that he was split in half by a knife right down the middle of his legs.

Half a face, half a body, one hand, one leg.

The sentinel, who was left with only half of his body, walked forward in a strange posture. He was not aware of the terrible changes in himself. He walked towards his companion with a puzzled look on his face and asked him what happened.

There was no blood or dirt in the body that was smoothly split by the blade. Countless strange golden eyes were opening like parasites in the body that should have been flesh and bones.

The golden eyes blinked and stared in unison at the other frightened sentry on the ground.

The sentry waved the long sword in his hand recklessly, retreated repeatedly in fear, and finally ran away in a mess.

The sentry who was left behind stood blankly on his lone leg at the entrance of the alley for a while, then turned his only remaining eye and looked in the direction of Ni Ji and Lin Yuan.

"Ni Ji?" The man recognized Ni Ji and spoke.

His mouth was cut neatly in the middle, leaving only half of his lip. The way he spoke was extremely strange.

"I recognize you, you are Ni Ji." The strange half-human looked at Ni Ji with dull eyes, "What's wrong with me? Why are you looking at me like this?"

Inside his body, golden eyes blinked and crowded together.

"You're deformed." Ni Ji said, pulling out the pistol he carried with him and pointing it in the direction of his head.

"Distortion?" The man's eyes moved back and forth abnormally on his face. "No, no, no, how is that possible? Distortion? That's impossible. I'm obviously fine."

"I will complete the Queen's mission. I will get money, lots of money. I will go back to live a life of luxury and debauchery."

He kept muttering, tears and snot flowing down the tilted half of his face, and he tried to touch the half of his body that no longer existed with trembling hands.

He touched the cross-section of the body and the golden eyes growing inside began to curl their eyelids and giggle.

"Kill...kill me," the sentry, with only half of his body left, burst into tears and cried to Ni Ji.

His eyebrows became crooked, and his body began to dissolve and twist like a candle.

"Kill me now. While I'm still human."

This is what almost all Sentinels will ask their companions before turning into monsters.

Ni Ji raised his hand and shot him in the head.

The powerful explosive bomb did not blow up the man's head, as the bullet was blocked by a thin wing.

The bullet head rotated, making a sharp sound that made one's teeth ache, but it could not break the thin insect-like wings.

The bullet fell to the ground, the wings dropped down, and behind the wings, a pair of compound eyes and antennae grew on the man's head.

That strange half of the mouth was twisted and deformed, protruding forward, stretching infinitely, and finally stretching into a long piercing and sucking mouthpart.

His abdomen was bulging and dragging behind him, and a pair of thin, narrow wings with golden veins spread out on his back, unfolding in the wind.

Like a giant blood-sucking mosquito.

Ni Ji drew out his long sword and attacked the man who had turned into a monster.

A huge, sturdy mutant flew up with its golden wings buzzing.

Ni Ji's speed was so fast that it was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye. In just a moment, Han Dao appeared in front of the transforming monster.

The deformed sentinel accurately blocked Ni Ji's knife with its new mouthparts.

"Actually, the distortion is not as scary as I imagined." The man's voice came from the mosquito's abdomen. "I feel very comfortable, as if I have been liberated."

Ni Ji pulled back his knife without saying a word. The mosquito's sharp mouthparts left an afterimage in the air. Within a breath, both sides exchanged dozens of moves in mid-air.

"I thought you were scary last night. Now it seems that you are just so-so." The strange mutant flew in the air, flapping its wings and making a loud buzzing sound.

It pointed at Ni Ji with its sharp and strong beak, "You don't know how foolish you are. After the deformation, I really understood everything in this world."

"Hehehe, in fact, you are the real enslaved animals. Poor sentinel, you are as stupid as I was before."

"Your blood smells good. I'm interested."

"Why not join us? Just endure a little pain and you will get eternal happiness like me."