When Lin Yuan came over, he found himself placed in a dry corner, wearing a sentry's coat.

In that short period of time when she was in a daze, the sentinel seemed to have completed countless detailed tasks.

They went deep into the maze, avoiding the large numbers of monsters roaming outside the nest.

Ni Ji lit a bonfire again in the dark passage.

At this moment, he was sitting by the fire with his upper body naked, assembling a complex metal instrument with his head down.

The firelight illuminated his profile. He lowered his eyelashes and looked focused.

Extremely fine metal wires and fragmentary accessories were pieced together in an orderly manner between his dexterous fingers.

Next to him, there was a makeshift iron frame over the bonfire.

He took a cylindrical metal that he had dismantled from somewhere and transformed it into a container, filled it with water, and hung it over the flame to boil it.

There is a very sweet smell in the air.

He is really an all-round warrior, Lin Yuan thought. It seems that under any harsh conditions, he can always be meticulous and orderly.

Provide a careful plan, create conditions for survival, and protect your teammates.

He is a partner you can trust with everything.

At the end of the fire, at a fork in the passage, lay the corpse of a giant mutant.

It lay there on its back, and looked very similar to humans, except that the places where its eyes should have been had degenerated and were covered with a flesh-colored membrane.

The red lips were wide open, and the blood from the corners of the mouth was flowing down, flowing through the huge ears, and seeping into the cracks in the bricks on the ground.

His head and face were in the light, but his body was in darkness, and he looked dead for some time.

"I don't want to eat the meat of mutants." Lin Yuan said.

She moved her body under the sentry uniform and stuck out half of her head. The uniform was very loose and carried her body temperature, so it was really warm to curl up inside.

She was very hungry, but she didn't want to eat the mutants.

I always feel that they are evolved from humans, and cannibalism is difficult for humans to accept.

Ni Ji saw that she had woken up, put down the metal instrument in his hand, and turned to check on her condition.

"It's not a mutant, it's snake meat." He found a clean metal can, filled it with milky white meat soup for Lin Yuan, and showed Lin Yuan a piece of peeled snake skin.

"Drink slowly, don't drink too fast."

The soup is milky white, the snake meat is very tender, and it tastes rich with a slight bitterness. It is perfect for someone like Lin Yuan who has been hungry for many days.

Lin Yuan drank it in small sips. All the pores on his body felt so soothed by the heat. He felt like he had returned from the gates of hell.

She pressed her forehead with her fingers. It didn't hurt there anymore, but the feeling of being invaded by a powerful will still remained.

I vaguely remember a silent and fierce battle taking place in a magnificent and huge temple.

A powerful mental force is coldly invading, corroding, and attempting to forcibly annex Lin Yuan's mental image.

They pulled and struggled for a long time.

Eventually her personal consciousness awakened, and that consciousness died.

I want to find that temple and explore it. That is the key to the entire Pupilless Land. Lin Yuan held the pot of warm soup and thought to himself.

His fingers were still trembling a little, but his dark eyes had become firm again.

Physical injuries could not bring down a strong warrior. Nor could mental injuries weaken a guide like her.

She was once again the guide who focused on her goal and had no fear in her heart.

Ni Ji finally assembled the metal parts in his hand and showed the small screen with a simple shape and exposed lines to Lin Yuan.

Most of the contaminated areas were formed in the old days, and are littered with all kinds of high-tech products from the most prosperous period of mankind.

Any veteran who frequently goes in and out of contaminated areas has almost mastered this skill - being able to make full use of and modify the weapons and equipment here at any time and anywhere on the battlefield.

"Positioning mapping device." Ni Ji tapped the screen with his finger, and a small triangle icon lit up. "The terrain here is too complicated. I can use this to simply record the route."

"I think we should go explore that temple." He looked over and looked at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan's eyes met Ni Ji's gaze.

Explore the temple. Both of them were thinking the same thing.

Lin Yuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something to Ni Ji, but then he felt there was no need to say more.

Accustomed to the battlefield, the two people's spiritual powers naturally touched each other. What would take a long time to say in words, in the spiritual world, they understood each other in an instant.

In the dark underground world, there is a temple hidden deep in this maze.

There is the ultimate secret of the entire Pupilless Land. The road to explore is very dangerous and difficult.

But the two people have the same goal, they both want to do this.

Every time Lin Yuan went deep into the contaminated area, he went alone.

One person makes up his mind, and the other person goes deep into the dangerous area.

She knew the danger of her actions and was determined to never return.

She didn't want another person to risk his or her life just to accompany her or to protect her.

But Ni Ji is different.

Like her, Ni Ji has the desire to explore the truth and uncover the true face of this world.

For this reason, I am not afraid of the danger and want to go to the temple deep in the place.

It's not just about protecting and accommodating yourself.

But he has the same goal as her.

Lin Yuan looked at the sentry standing by the campfire.

His eyes were amber in color, painted very beautifully by the bonfire, as if they were smiling.

With a kind of tenderness that shows a willingness to live and die together.

He? Why does he love to laugh so much? When he laughs, he looks like thick honey.

Lin Yuan felt that a part of his icy heart seemed to warm up slightly, and the snow that had been frozen for many years was slowly melting.

It made her want to smile back at the sentry.

This world may be twisted and crazy, full of man-eating monsters and despair.

But it always retains a gentle corner, a little sweetness that gives people courage, and one or two people who make you feel that it is still good to be alive.

There was a slight noise in the corner.

Ni Ji looked over with great vigilance. He saw a small head that was barely holding itself together sticking out from the dark tunnel in the distance.

A mutant that is about the size of a human baby, very fast, and has weak attack and defense capabilities.

Ni Ji remembered him. Not long ago, he attacked them when they entered the maze and they were cut in half by his knife.

It is obvious that although this mutant is not very strong in all aspects, it has a very strong regenerative ability.

He did not die, his body was glued back together. The little bald head still had a long scar from being split in half by the demon sword, and he could even move, track, and follow them all the way here.

A bloody little head poked out from the darkness, and a thin, soft white arm was clinging to the wall. Since it was not easy to die, it didn't seem too scared of Ni Ji.

He pointed with his thin, fingerless arm at the snake soup on the campfire.

"Um, can you share some with me?" He could not speak, and his voice sounded very weak, like the accent of a human baby.

Ni Ji looked at him without saying anything, and refilled the jar in Lin Yuan's hand.

Then he found an empty earthenware jar, poured out the remaining snake meat, and pushed it far away.

He is a sentinel who is very good at fighting, but he is not actually belligerent. There are many ways to avoid fighting in the contaminated area. He was once a sentinel captain who was able to skillfully use various items, potions, food and other conditions to avoid fighting.

The little mutant ran out quickly, grabbed the hot iron can and dragged it back.

He was too small and not very strong, so carrying the heavy metal jar was quite difficult for him. He dragged it along with a grunt, and a lot of soup splashed out.

"Where are you taking it?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

The little mutant seemed to want to take the food away and had no intention of eating it right away.

"This smells really good." The little mutant continued to carry the iron can. "My mother is sick, and I want to give her some to try. Maybe she can get better like that human."

The thin white hands were burned by the outer wall of the iron can, making them grimacing, but the burns healed immediately.

The little mutant was very persistent and would shake his arms from time to time, refusing to let go and trying hard to carry the iron can full of hot soup.

The person who got better after drinking the soup was referring to Lin Yuan.

He was looking forward to bringing such food back to cure his mother's illness.

"So they have mothers too? Can mutants reproduce?"

This was the first time Lin Yuan heard about this.

Humans who are polluted will be distorted, and sentinels whose mental power is in turmoil will be distorted.

As for how they continue to live and how they extend their lives after becoming another kind of creature, most humans do not know and are not interested.

In the White Tower, no one seemed to care about the species and habits of these deformed creatures, their life forms, and the reasons why they attacked humans.

They are simply uniformly defined as man-eating monsters and the natural enemies of mankind.

"Only in polluted areas that have been mature and stable for many years will the deformed creatures begin to reproduce." Ni Ji told Lin Yuan what he had seen and known, "But the habits that each of their species has passed on are not exactly the same."

He hesitated for a moment, "You may find it difficult to adapt when you see it sometimes."

The little mutant who was trying to carry food for his mother dragged the iron can and hummed as he walked.

"I love my mother very much and hope she can live longer. If she really can't make it, I will eat her whole." He said very seriously and devoutly, "It won't be a waste at all."

After the little mutant left.

Ni Ji reached out and pulled Lin Yuan, who was barely able to walk slowly, and extinguished the campfire. The two of them walked slowly in the dark passage together.

As we walked, we used the makeshift surveying device to record and identify directions.

There were sounds of dripping water and some strange whimpering sounds in the passage.

Occasionally you will need to deal with one or two monsters that suddenly appear.

Lin Yuan even saw a centralized "nurturing" place in the intricate maze, where five or six tiny deformed creature cubs gathered in a small cave.

Two huge mothers were guarding outside the cave. They stretched out their eyeless heads and stared warily at Ni Ji and Lin Yuan who were passing by. They made threatening and driving sounds but did not take the initiative to attack.

Ni Ji avoided them and passed by quickly in silence.

During this process, both sides stared at each other vigilantly, and in the end no fighting took place.

The cubs even curiously stretched their heads out from behind their aunt and mother, twitching their noses and asking in baby voices,

"What is that?"

"They are humans, not good people, and very dangerous." The mothers pressed their heads back and whispered, "Remember their smell and stay away from these beasts."

There are many strange sculptures on both sides of the passage. They look like a mixture of humans and various creatures, perched high up and looking down from above.

In the darkness, a tiny flashlight flickered on their lifelike faces, like ferocious monsters that could wake up at any moment.

Exquisite and beautiful murals appear on the walls between the statues.

It was a high-tech product from the old days. The light of the metal wire sculpture would light up automatically when people passed by.

Those images were not depicted by anyone, but they are recorded autonomously and gradually increase with the changes in history.

The two people held hands and walked forward in the darkness, as if they were walking through a long historical scroll in a dark corridor.

Lin Yuan's fingers stroked the wall, and the murals kept lighting up at her fingertips.

The flashing images gradually overlap with the fragmented memories that have appeared in my mind.

Every time I fought against a powerful spiritual being in the contaminated area.

In that vast spiritual universe, when the spiritual forces of the strong collided with each other, Lin Yuan could often read fragments of each other's memories.

The memory images of the columns and the murals on the walls kept overlapping.

Lin Yuan witnessed many stories about the great catastrophe of humankind. The advent of evil creatures, the desperate resistance of humans, the emergence of sentinels and guides, and the joint efforts to fight against the inhuman monsters.

Polluted areas rise up on the earth like spores, spreading, growing, and occasionally disappearing.

She even saw a familiar golden tree in a painting.

Seeing that Xunhua's spiritual power was polluted, it became the pillar supporting the entire golden tree pollution area.

Having lost its human will, it continuously absorbed and devoured spiritual energy in order to hatch the scarlet egg.

Lin Yuan's finger stopped on a bright totem.

It was a totem of a worm jade and a powerful spiritual being invading each other.

The huge egg and the column merged with each other. The column supported the world, and the egg was the pollution area itself.

The mutants are the people and bloodlines, living in a small world supported by pillars and egg branches.