Ni Ji saw Lin Yuan rummaging through the sundries in his backpack.

At the beginning, the atmosphere was very relaxed, flipping through this and that.

Until she found a keychain with a photo on it, held it in her hand and looked at it for a while, then suddenly her face turned pale, her eyes widened, and she stood up staggeringly.

Ni Ji held her up.

Lin Yuan's face turned pale and her pupils shrank. Something drastic was happening in her mind, impacting her mental picture and making her feel so painful that she could hardly stand.

When Ni Ji supported her, she grabbed Ni Ji's arm with her backhand and dug her fingers into his arm tightly.

"Ni Ji..."

She called Ni Ji's name and told him that she remembered everything.

She held the small keychain tightly and told him that it was her mother's relic.

There was a whirlpool of confusion in the depths of those dark eyes, and pain filled the depths of his eyes.

It was the first time that Ni Ji saw Lin Yuan like this. He didn’t know what had happened and could only support her.

Lin Yuan fell down with cold sweat dripping down, and fell into his arms.

The mutants around them raised their heads one by one and made threatening low guttural noises.

They have no eyes and rely entirely on their breath to identify others.

Just now, at the moment when Lin Yuan fell down, they felt that the gods who supported this entire land of pupillessness suddenly disappeared.

A human girl with a strange smell appeared beside the campfire.

Their god disappears and a girl with a strange smell suddenly appears in the depths of their territory.

This made them feel uneasy and panicked, and their emotions became violent.

In the dark underworld, a bonfire illuminates a small area.

Around the campfire, a low and eerie roar came from the endless darkness. From all directions, the footsteps of monsters running could be heard from the floors.

The shadows in the dark gathered, more and more, surrounding the two humans by the campfire.

The monsters growled and snarled, clawing at the ground with sharp noises.

It seemed as if it was about to pounce on them at the next moment and tear apart and devour this strange guide who suddenly appeared and made them feel frightened.

Ni Ji held Lin Yuan with one hand and drew out his long sword with the other.

The blade was blood red, and beads of red blood slid down the tip of the knife and dripped onto the edge of the flickering firelight.

The sentry shook his long sword, shook off the blood drop, and the broad blood blade was across the two men.

He rarely drew his sword before the battle started, but at this moment, he held Lin Yuan with one hand and had already drawn the bright red long sword with the other.

The flames of the bonfire jumped, and occasionally a spark or two popped.

The sentinel stood beside the blazing flames, his face as cold as ice, holding a bloody blade, confronting the monsters that were ready to move in the darkness.

A huge whale swam out silently from the void behind him.

Perhaps he was shocked by the sentinel's tenacity, or perhaps he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have just eaten something he had given him.

The mutants growled softly, swam closer, slowly narrowing the encirclement, and did not rush up immediately.

Lin Yuan leaned on Ni Ji's arm and saw the cold sweat on his forehead dripping to the ground. The firelight in front of his eyes flickered, his vision was difficult to focus, and his body was twitching in pain.

She seemed to have had a very long nightmare and had just escaped from the terrifying mental invasion and finally woke up.

The mental picture is severely damaged, and there are too many fragments of memory flooding into the mind, causing the brain to be in chaos.

For a moment, I couldn't figure out what happened, and I didn't even know where I was at the moment.

But she could sense the danger.

All around him were violent and ferocious emotions, and aggressive murderous intent was approaching him.

There are many of them, they are powerful, and they are dangerous.

But she couldn't move. The flames flickered before her eyes, just like the terrible fire in her childhood.

Lin Yuan heard her own heartbeat, and it seemed as if she had returned to that period. She was weak and powerless, just a child, standing in the snow and watching the fire.

Alone, unable to do anything.

But it seemed like something was different. At this moment, there was a familiar figure leaning closely against me.

The memory in her head was confused and she couldn't remember many things, but she knew that the person leaning against her was her partner.

Ni Ji.

When I think of this name, my heart seems to be much calmer.

With him around, no matter how difficult the situation is, it doesn't seem that bad.

They can always rely on each other, and when they are most vulnerable, they will stay by each other's side, allowing the vulnerable person to take a breath on the other's shoulder.

The arm supporting me was firm and strong, and my warm body temperature was transmitted through my skin.

Lin Yuan rested his splitting headache head on the sentry's shoulder and put his arms around his waist.

She closed her eyes, rested her head on the shoulder for a few seconds, and then slowly opened her eyes.

Those eyes were as black as ink, and a little fire lit up in the depths of the dark pupils.

When those eyes opened, the low roars around them disappeared.

Many mutants seemed to have suddenly forgotten their goals and stood in the darkness in a daze.

"Strange, what were you doing just now?"

"You're saying... that beautiful people can't be trusted?"

"Aren't you eating meat? There's a delicious stew."

"Oh yeah, where did the pot go? I want to lick it."

They were talking to each other, looking around, and gradually started to do their own things. They seemed not to notice Ni Ji, nor to see the guide leaning against Ni Ji.

【Walk slowly】

Lin Yuan used his mental power to communicate with Ni Ji, and the sweat on his forehead fell on the sentry's shoulders.

Ni Ji tightened his arms, held her, and slowly backed away. The two of them slowly passed by the monsters that were roaming all over the ground.

As if they didn't notice them at all, most of the monsters were completely unaware that Ni Ji was holding Lin Yuan passing by them.

Occasionally, some would react particularly quickly. Just as they raised their heads and before they could open their mouths, a red blade light flashed in the darkness, instantly splitting them in half.

The bonfire went out, and in the dark red afterglow, a strong smell of blood was spreading.

The sentry's black boots stepped on the ground silently, without making any sound.

Lin Yuan leaned on Ni Ji, closed his eyes, and let him lead him.

She didn't have to worry about fighting or how to dodge. She only had to control the monsters in her mind, which was much easier for her at the moment.

She even discovered that her mental strength had been tempered at some point and seemed to have become much stronger.

Even in this injured and weak state, he can still control most monsters well.

The same was true for Ni Ji. Most of the enemies had lost their will to fight, so he only had to dodge them carefully and deal with the individual monsters that had regained consciousness with care.

What should have been a life-and-death battle turned out to be a lot easier.

At this moment, they both admired each other's strength and felt that they were being protected by another person.

"Seven Hands" and three or five mutants gathered around the empty iron pot, licking the sauce at the bottom of the pot.

When Ni Ji approached, he raised his head alertly and moved his nose.

Ni Ji gripped the knife handle tightly.

Seven hands flicked their tails and muttered,

"Ah, it's that good sentinel." He buried his head and said, "Hulu, hulu, forget it, forget it."

In the end, that small group of powerful mutants didn't even raise their heads.

Ni Ji looked at them carefully, moved slowly, and passed by them silently.

The two of them avoided the mutants roaming around all over the ground and slowly retreated into the nest.

The nest was very deep, and it got darker as we went deeper, with almost no light at all.

The sound of dripping water can be heard clearly here.

This is an underground maze with roads leading in all directions, and inside is a magnificent temple.

A monster hiding in the passage rushed out from the corner. It was very small, similar to a human baby, and it moved very fast, crawling on all fours.

Ni Ji kicked it away with his leg, and chopped off its head with his knife. The monster screamed and spurted out a puff of dirty blood.

The filth poured down on his head, and the sentry leaned sideways to block it, preventing the smelly blood from splashing onto Lin Yuan's face.

Lin Yuan, leaning on his shoulder, closed his eyes and did not move.

Ni Ji found a corner, put Lin Yuan down, turned on the flashlight, and checked her condition.

Lin Yuan's condition looked very bad. His face was pale and his forehead was covered with sweat. After he sat down, he bent over and vomited.

But she seemed to have not eaten anything for several days and could not vomit at all.

She sat there, looking into Ni Ji's eyes. Although she looked very weak, she smiled at Ni Ji.

Although my head hurts, my memory is recovering a little.

She knew that this time was very dangerous. She almost died here and almost turned into a monster living in the underground world forever.

But she was fine in the end, alive and conscious. That was enough.

She even found something her mother had left behind.

My mother had also been here before and explored this pupilless place?

This shows that she has been on the right path all along.

The wreck of the Mary - the golden tree - the land without pupils? Following the instructions given by the wooden box, walk down to the contaminated areas one after another.

The route on the wooden box is the path that my mother walked before but ultimately failed to walk through.

Is she there? The mother had looked for it but could not find the answer.

From the very beginning, when she made this decision in her childhood, she knew that this was a very dangerous path.

It's very difficult, and there is almost no chance of survival.

Both my father and mother were strong people, but they died in the man-made fire because of their exploration of the truth.

When she decided to do this alone, she walked towards this path with the mentality of going to die.

But now she is here, still alive, not dead, getting closer to the unknown truth.

That's good, and worth being happy about.

What's more, she is not alone now. She even has friends, family and reliable sentinels around her.

Lin Yuan seldom smiles.

In the dim flashlight, the pale face leaning against the damp wall, revealing a smile, had an almost breathtaking beauty that captured the sentry's heart.

"I'm so hungry. Ni Ji, do you have anything to eat?" Lin Yuan said weakly.

Her old memories came back, but she couldn't remember what happened between the time Ni Ji was knocked out by the anesthesia and the time they met again.

I can't remember what happened during this period of time after I separated from him.

I just felt like I had been living in a state of confusion these past few days, as if my mental strength had been severely affected and I had turned into a huge monster.

She had been wandering in this underground cave with nothing to eat until Ni Ji found her.

Now that I've woken up and regained my memory, I find that my body is empty and my stomach is terribly hungry. I don't know how many days I've been hungry, but my hands and feet are so weak from hunger.

Ni Ji searched all his pockets and realized that he was not wearing his original clothes, but the sentry uniform that Lin Yuan had found for him. There was no candy in his pocket that he always carried with him.

They had ducked in so hastily that he had nothing with him except the flashlight on his shoulder and the knife in his hand.

He had no choice but to move closer to Lin Yuan and said to her, "Be patient, you will find food soon."

In the darkness, two men who had just escaped from a fight came close to each other.

Lin Yuan leaned his head on the sentry's shoulder and closed his eyes. "Then take a break first. Let me lean on your shoulder for a while."

Her breath was weak and blew on the sentry's skin.

Ni Ji's shoulders stiffened.

During these days, their mental images were always connected to each other, and they seemed to have done too much physical contact.

At this moment, their skin touched each other, and immediately, the spiritual endings of the two people were naturally connected together.

Ni Ji instantly felt a strong stinging sensation in his head.

That was empathy. The pain that Lin Yuan was feeling in his body at the moment was transmitted through the spiritual connection and was felt by him in reverse.

The guide who was leaning against him had a serious mental picture. It turned out that he was suffering such pain at this moment. The pain was so intense that even a sentinel like him felt it and found it unbearable.

She broke free from the powerful control brought by the pollutant. It was very difficult for her to break free from that strange state and regain consciousness.

The mental picture was traumatized, and I felt weak, tired, and in unbearable pain.

But he couldn't help at all. He was a sentinel and couldn't even comfort her mentally.

The only thing I can do is to lend her my shoulder to lean on so that she can rest for a while.

"I want to eat something sweet. Very sweet."

In the darkness, Ni Ji heard Lin Yuan's weak voice asking him for candy.

"I? I know." Ni Ji's heart was in a knot, and he hated himself deeply. "I will give it to you, a lot."

"I can't remember what happened after we separated." Lin Yuan's voice kept ringing, leaning on his shoulder and asking, "How did you get down? How did we get together again?"

The sentinel in the dark fell silent.

"What happened during this time? Tell me."

“…”

"Why aren't you talking?"

Ni Ji didn't know what to say.

His guide held his chin and kissed him. And did this and that to him.

But now she says she doesn't remember it and wants him to tell her orally.

He had no choice but to keep silent and put his hands over his face in the darkness.