Lin Yuan and Ni Ji walked in the ruins of the underground city for a long time.

The space here is huge, with countless houses and buildings, abandoned shops, markets, cinemas, game halls, and everything else. Layer after layer of spirals downward, it has sheltered countless people.

But now, this underground city with many connections has become a dark abyss and a lair for monsters.

Ni Ji threw a stone down, but still couldn't hear the echo of it hitting the ground. He didn't know how deep it was.

The two of them found a secluded house and stayed inside for the night.

The previous owner of the house left in a hurry, leaving behind a lot of daily necessities.

In the small space, there are two soft single sofas and a magnetic floating coffee table that falls to the ground.

There was a big bed with blankets, pillows, and even a small pot for boiling water.

Lin Yuan sunk into the sofa and felt that her spine and neck were well supported. The sofa had many functions, with many high-tech buttons. It seemed that it could change shape, stretch, suspend, and even have massage function according to body shape.

It’s a pity that the battery is out of power, but for someone who has been fighting all day, it’s quite comfortable to lie down in it.

"The Land of No Pupils is a polluted area from a long time ago, right?"

"According to research, this was most likely a large shelter for humans to avoid the disaster when the catastrophe just started," said Ni Ji.

He dismantled some woodwork, built a small fire on the ground, and put the pot over it to cook something.

The flames flickered, and the orange light reflected on his face. The bright light and the shadows of his facial features were clearly demarcated.

He had undertaken most of the close combat tasks along the way, his clothes were covered in dust and his face was stained with blood.

But Lin Yuan thought the little fish looked very pretty at this time.

She supported her chin with one arm and sat on the sofa looking at Ni Ji.

Beside the lights, the beauty is like a painting.

As he watched, he yawned in a daze. Before falling asleep, Lin Yuan vaguely felt that the sentry's ears were illuminated red by the bonfire.

Lin Yuan fell asleep in the dark and ancient dungeon and she had a dream.

She had dreamed about the scene before, and those blurry images often appeared in her dreams. But this time it was unusually clear.

In her dream, she was a giant monster with sticky skin, huge size, countless wriggling tentacles, crawling slowly in a dark underground world.

From time to time, I can hear some subtle muttering coming from outside in my mind.

They were another kind of creatures, and they called themselves "humans." Those humans would offer sacrifices to her and pray to her for strength.

At first, the only sacrifices on the altar were cattle and sheep. But for some reason, those humans gradually offered her their own kind.

She likes the way humans are 'placed on the altar'.

Every time this happens, the tentacles become excited and climb up the stairs from the damp underground to the altar in the moonlight.

The offering is full of emotions and is a good toy. However, it is a little too fragile and can be easily damaged, so it needs to be treated with care.

From above the gap where the sacrifices were placed, sounds of quarreling could be heard from time to time.

Some of those voices were angry, some were frightened and abnormal, and some were full of greed and excitement.

They call themselves researchers, or saviors, or other strange terms.

"You are crazy, really crazy. Do you know what you are doing?"

"Such a horrible, primitive...monster, why did you hatch it?"

"When did it grow so big? What did you use to feed it? Does anyone know how long its body has lasted?"

"Extract its blood and combine it with humans? Oh my god, what a horrible experiment. How many people died in this process? How many people have quietly lost their lives for such a crazy idea of ​​yours?"

"Crazy, you are just a bunch of crazy people."

"Stop it! This kind of crazy behavior will eventually destroy humanity."

"Humanity did not lose to the deformed creatures, but was destroyed by a bunch of lunatics like you."

"Help, let me go... Help. Someone's been murdered!"

Finally, Lin Yuan heard that all the noisy voices had disappeared. The opposing emotions disappeared one by one inexplicably.

They finally came to a consensus.

"It worked. After injecting His blood, a new type of human emerged."

"The one whose body was enhanced was named Sentinel, and the one whose mental power was enhanced was named Guide. It seems that Guide has more genes of 'it'."

"Anyway, we have a powerful weapon against the aberrant creatures."

"Finally, there is hope for a counterattack and to leave this damn dungeon."

"Evolution is the instinct and future of all living things. We have succeeded. From now on, human beings will enter a higher level and step into a bright world."

"All sacrifices are worth it. We will save all mankind."

Those human spirits were very excited and passionate, and filled with things that Lin Yuan didn't quite understand.

But it doesn't matter, she doesn't care about it.

Those guys don't understand that to her, all humans who have merged with her blood are already her cubs.

The weak cubs were still alone, chirping all day long, and no one knew what they were doing.

No matter how they struggle, her blood has been integrated into those little guys' bodies, and one day they will completely become her people.

She lazily moved one of her tentacles in the darkness. She felt that those noisy guys were connected to her by blood, which made her feel very close to them.

These humans seem to be unaware that reproduction is the instinct of all life.

It is the ultimate pursuit of all living things.

Especially for a creature like her, who finds it extremely difficult to continue her bloodline.

She slept unconsciously at the bottom of the sea for countless years, and finally woke up and was raised by the sea to maturity, becoming such a huge creature.

She began to desire to complete her mission. She wanted to obtain this piece of land and make this prosperous land a hotbed for her seedlings.

Her mood brightened. The tentacles stretched outward, crawling farther, expanding deeper into the darkness.

Where are the offerings? She hummed.

Want that moonlight offering.

"Wake up. Lin Yuan."

"Lin Yuan?"

Lin Yuan heard someone calling her name.

She slowly opened her eyes, her mind went blank, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

For a moment, she couldn't figure out who she was and why she was here.

In the dark space, a little extinguished spark was burning on the floor.

There was a person, a sentinel's face, swaying before her eyes.

The man frowned slightly, held his shoulders and shook gently.

It’s Ni Ji.

Oh, Lin Yuan remembered that she was a guide. She left the White Tower and entered the Land of No Pupils with Ni Ji.

They walked a long way today and went very deep underground.

She just took a break and had a dream, she wasn't really a monster.

Tentacles, are they just in my dream? The monster has the same tentacles as mine.

Lin Yuan subconsciously looked for his tentacles.

I found out that they were not affected by the dream. They were entangled in Ni Ji's body in a mess.

More unbridled and more rude than before. One by one, two of them circled the long moon's back and rolled up the moon's waist.

The suction cup was wet, and the slippery pink tentacles twisted back and forth, drilling into the cuffs, locking the ankles and moving upwards, lifting the hem of the sentry's uniform and twisting to explore inside.

Ni Ji was at a loss as to what to do. He had to tear at his clothes with one hand, protect his belt with the other, and was busy trying to wake her up.

The light here was very dim. Lin Yuan looked blankly at the sentry opposite him. He could only see that his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fine mist as he was busy and flustered.

That look is kind of cute.

Lin Yuan almost smiled at an inappropriate time, but fortunately the light was dim and the sentry should not be able to see her rude expression.

The tentacles were instantly retracted by Lin Yuan. Cursing, they reluctantly retreated underground.

These guys are too bad. After entering this underground world, I seem to become more excited.

But it shouldn't be anything too extreme. Lin Yuan was not nervous.

Ni Ji is a very powerful sentinel. Don’t say that he is asleep, but the tentacles are making a little noise on their own consciousness.

Even if she was awake and controlling the tentacles, she couldn't easily take down Ni Ji.

As long as Ni Ji is awake and won't resist, the tentacles won't be able to do anything too excessive.

That should be the case.

"I'm sorry, I was sleeping so soundly that I didn't keep an eye on them." Lin Yuan apologized, "Did they do anything?"

In the dark world, the powerful sentinel avoided the question, reached for a clay pot, and handed the instant food he had heated to Lin Yuan.

"I seemed to hear you talking in your sleep." His voice came from the other side, a little soft, with a vague and ambiguous throat sound.

"What did I say in my sleep?"

"You mentioned sacrifices and some strange vocabulary."

Lin Yuan immediately recalled the dream, the content of which was extremely strange.

It felt like I wasn't myself there, but a terrifying monster that existed in this underground city many, many years ago.

At that time, in order to fight against the large number of deformed creatures that appeared in the world, humans hatched a strange egg. Someone secretly raised the monster with tentacles all over its body and extracted its blood for human experiments.

They performed many horrific experiments, offering sacrifices to monsters as if they were gods.

Eventually, the human body and the blood of the tentacle monster mixed together, creating a powerful new human being, the Sentinel and the Guide.

Ni Ji squatted beside the campfire and used a wooden stick to stir the remaining charcoal on the ground.

Try to make the house warmer without attracting monsters.

The red firelight reflected on his cheeks, making them look red.

Lin Yuan sat on the sofa, holding the pot of warm soup, as if asking Ni Ji, or talking to herself.

"Tell me, why are there sentinels and guides in this world? Sentinels can go berserk, and guides are raised in the White Tower. They are so different from ordinary humans."

I am so different from ordinary people that sometimes I even feel like a monster.

"All the books and materials we can see say that the Sentinels and Guides are miracles bestowed by God to protect mankind. The White Tower is the sanctuary bestowed by God to mankind, and the King is the spokesperson of God on earth." said the sentinel guarding the torch.

"But one time, I found a book in an ancient polluted area." He paused, as if considering whether to say it out loud. Finally, he told Lin Yuan,

"The book states that the Sentinels and Guides appear to be man-made creations after the catastrophe."

The room fell silent, and the two men fell into deep thought.

After a moment, Ni Ji asked, "Lin Yuan, what are you looking for in the Land of No Pupils? Can you tell me?"

This is something many people want to know. What is the Queen searching for by sending out sentinels so frequently?

Why does a guide like Lin Yuan risk entering dangerous contaminated areas again and again?

But since Lin Yuan hadn't brought it up before, Ni Ji didn't ask along the way.

Until Lin Yuan started to act a little weird in this place. He was so excited that he couldn't be woken up after falling asleep.

Even strange terms such as sacrifice, experiment, and original body were mentioned.

"It's not that I won't tell you. It's just that I myself don't know what I'm looking for."

The guide, who was trapped in the sofa, said, "But when I reach the core of the contaminated area and get close to the source, I can feel what I want. It's like this every time. Then I will share with you what I found."

"Ni Ji..." Her small body curled up in the soft sofa, her eyes rarely blank, "Do you think I am a human? Am I? Am I? A monster?"