Like a drop of colored ink spreading out in the cool lake water.
The dead, pale things around me began to show colors.
Lin Yuan looked back.
The objects around me, frozen in time, were dyed with vivid colors.
The entire institute was centered around her position, and gradually became lively and active.
"Make way, make way." Three or five researchers in white coats pushed a metal bed past her.
Lin Yuan moved aside and saw an unconscious man chained to the iron bed.
The man's eyes were dull, his mouth was open, tears and saliva flowed uncontrollably all over his face.
Yellow and black circular markings appeared on his skin, his abdomen and legs deformed and melted, and dense hair grew on his face. He no longer looked like a human.
A loud scream was heard behind me.
Lin Yuan looked back and saw a half-human monster struggling frantically on a bloody bed.
Blood-red eyes grew on his body, and huge red bone tumors bulged out on his skin.
The chain broke under the heavy weight during the struggle, and a monster with eyes swooped down and swallowed up a researcher in a white coat next to him in one gulp.
The crowd nearby screamed and scattered, and three high-energy electromagnetic guns descended from the roof.
Three heavy weapons opened fire in a triangular formation, dazzling white light flashed violently, and powerful firepower covered the area.
After a while, the scene became quiet.
The monster covered in eyes and the devoured researcher turned into a pile of charred remains on the iron bed.
Lin Yuan stood there, staring at the charred skeleton.
I realized that this was once an underground city and humans still lived here.
Everything in front of me is what really happened in this research institute.
The sounds around became noisy.
Many people were walking hurriedly to and fro, without even looking up, as if they were accustomed to these tragic changes.
"Another sentinel has gone berserk. The mental state of the sentinels on the battlefield is too unstable." Those people said.
"We need more guides to join the fight."
"The birth rate of Guides has always been very low, and there is no solution. Should we make the Primals more mature?"
"Pick a few more sacrifices."
Lin Yuan's body floated up, and someone held her hand and led her upwards.
The field of vision moves upward, taking in the entire scene like a camera moving its lens.
See all the tiny details of this earth through your eyes.
The hurriedly walking researchers and the human experiment subjects chained to their beds,
A large number of high-tech equipment are in operation, and security weapons are ready to fire at any time.
There is a huge hole on the ground in the very center, and the entrance of the hole is sealed by the power grid.
Dark red tentacles were wriggling beneath the power grid. There was a pure white altar and high steps.
The staff members who come and go call the underground cave in the institute the temple.
In the most advanced scientific research center of mankind, there is a basement called the Temple.
Researchers who are exploring science and technology are adhering to theories and doctrines that offer sacrifices to evil gods.
Lin Yuan's vision rises higher and the space is infinitely enlarged.
She saw the entire dungeon.
This is a huge shelter built underground by humans, which once housed countless people.
Countless humans live busily in it like ants in underground caves.
There are soldiers running hurriedly with battle reports in their hands, a mother in the delivery room suffering the pain of childbirth, a group of students sitting in the classroom listening to the teacher lecturing on the latest "mutant" "birth theory", and a veteran with a broken hand and a broken leg standing silently in front of the densely packed tombstones...
Finally, Lin Yuan's consciousness fell into a narrow and dim room.
Outside the door was a long corridor with countless narrow compartments like this lined up on both sides.
The cold iron doors and railings, the simple beds and tables, it was hard to tell whether it was a prison cell or a military barracks.
In front of Lin Yuan, on a small hard bed, sat a blind girl.
"Hi. Nice to see you again." The girl who lived in another time and space suddenly raised her face towards Lin Yuan.
"My name is Zero. Everything you see here is my only memory left in this world," she said.
"zero?"
"Isn't it a coincidence? You, who I met hundreds of years later, have a name similar to mine."
Ling was sitting facing Lin Yuan, her eyes were closed, her pupils were dark, without light, without focus, she was blind.
Lin Yuan realized that she was the one who occupied Fujilu's body, held her hand and communicated with her consciously.
Everything I see and hear at this moment are the memories of this girl named Zero.
There were footsteps in the corridor and two people walked outside.
Two men in institute uniforms stopped in the corridor, and one of them reached out to light up the electronic screen on the wall.
The man's finger slid across the photos on the screen, and finally stopped on Zero's photo.
"He has no sight and is physically weak, making him a useless guide who cannot go to the battlefield. But the values in his mental strength tests are quite high," he said to another person beside him.
The other person reached out and swiped Zero's data, browsed it and nodded.
His finger brought up a row of options, paused on the sacrifice column, and ticked it.
The footsteps outside the corridor faded away and the lights dimmed.
The man holding Lin Yuan's hand said, "At that time, I didn't know my fate. I didn't know that I would become a sacrifice to her."
In the room, Zero, who was living at that moment, had no idea that he had been chosen as a sacrifice.
She fumbled for the sheets, lay down on the bed, and closed her eyes quietly.
Ling is a girl who has been blind since childhood. She has never seen the light and the colors of this world since she was born.
For a little pitiful money, her impoverished family sent her to a research institute for human experiments.
She was injected with some kind of drug. Fortunately, she did not die, but "evolved" into a guide.
Zero, who became a guide, felt very happy. Although she still couldn't see anything, she had a pair of special eyes, which allowed her to see countless magnificent and colorful spiritual worlds.
Although the life locked in the house was monotonous and poor, she did not feel bored.
Every day, when she doesn't need to take tests, she travels in the vast spiritual universe.
She "sees" pain, anxiety, excitement and happiness...sometimes pure malice, selfless love, and those primitive desires.
Her greatest pleasure every day is to close her eyes and explore the spiritual world in the darkness until she falls asleep and has equally magnificent and colorful dreams.
Until that day, she was put into a metal cage and lowered from a high altitude into the deep ground.
There was a palace with high steps and scarlet carpets.
The blind girl was placed alone on a jade platform.
She became a sacrifice, an offering to the monster.
"You've been here. Remember this altar?" Ling said to Lin Yuan.
They held hands, their wills floating in the air, and both looked at the girl on the altar in front of them.
Here are Zero's memories, things she experienced personally hundreds of years ago.
Lin Yuan had seen this altar many times, both in his dreams and in reality.
Countless lives have been sacrificed on the bloody altar. Those so-called scientific researchers use human spiritual power to nourish the insect jade so that it can hatch.
"This is where the original beings were born. After tasting the sweetness, humans hatched more insect jades. They mass-produced sentinels and guides with various powerful abilities."
"People at that time felt that they had obtained powerful weapons and were finally able to fight against those strange and powerful mutants on the ground."
Ling said to Lin Yuan with regret, "Hundreds of years later, you still haven't realized that it was humans themselves who opened the door to destruction."
The blind girl on the altar heard the sound of water splashing, and something wet crawled up the steps and approached her.
The girl's eyes can't see, and she encounters a powerful and pure "person" in the spiritual world.
"Who are you?" Her mental power swam out and gently touched the soft will.
"I?" The man seemed to be stunned for a moment, and replied, "I don't know. I just woke up not long ago."
"They call me the Prime. You can call me the Prime, too."
I don't know why. Maybe it's because Zero didn't show any fear, or maybe it's because Zero was willing to communicate with it.
The tentacles that climbed onto the altar did not tear apart its offering as usual.
They curiously rolled up the blind girl and took her deep into the palace.
"Chu was very pure at that time. She was a very simple life." Ling said to Lin Yuan.
"I even felt that the days I spent together with Chu were very happy. We were together and there was nothing else to do. I told her all kinds of stories every day, about human affairs and the dreams I had. No matter what I said, she listened happily and seriously."
"She also takes good care of me and brings me a lot of strange foods, just like you did to the sentry."
"What should I do to that sentry?" Lin Yuan thought puzzledly after hearing this.
She understood the previous content, but she didn't understand this part.
What sentinel? Who? Ni Ji?
When had she ever found some strange food for Ni Ji? Why didn't she remember doing that?
"Oh, you don't remember." The girl next to him said, "You look a lot like Chu Zhen. After all, her blood runs in your body."
It took the researchers a long time to realize that the sacrifices they had thrown into the temple were not dead.
Not only was the weak and blind guide not devoured by the monster, she even survived in the temple.
She was beside the Primeval Being, being fed by the tentacles, living in harmony with the Primeval Being. She was neither dead nor contaminated.
The people in the institute were almost devastated by the news.
They were extremely excited, thinking they had discovered a new direction to explore. So they paid a huge price to severely damage the original body and brought Zero back from the temple.
After that, the poor girl was treated as a rare experimental subject and suffered endless monitoring experiments that were almost torture.
She was locked on the laboratory table, and for the ambitions of some humans, she endured the unnecessary torture from her peers day after day.
Ling, who had been lying on the laboratory table for a long time, never had the chance to see "Hatsu" again. She would never see the friend who was leaning on her spirit in the darkness.
There would never again be a soft touch to hold her fingers in place, to listen to her tell her dreams and stories over and over again.
Sometimes when I am in pain, I wish I were not a human, but a monster like Chu Yi.
After a long time, Zero, who was fixed on the experimental bed, finally heard a familiar voice. That voice was no longer as pure and childish as before. It became strong and full of anger.
At that time, the earth shook and some powerful creature broke out of the ground, destroying this indestructible human fortress from the inside.
Cold, powerful tentacles emerged from the ground and grabbed her ankles.
"I promised her at the beginning. I gave up my human body and became a part of her."
"Her mental power is terrifyingly strong. I have gained endless power from her. I use that power to expand my dreams and mental visions infinitely, and support an independent space isolated from the human world."
"That is what you later called the contaminated area."
"I lost myself and became the pillar of the contaminated area, and she is the contaminated area itself."
"She and I are no longer distinguishable. Our withering and death will mean the end of this world."
"I am the first guide to become a pillar. Perhaps, I can also be considered a sinner among humans."
After listening to Zero's calm narration,
Lin Yuan didn't say anything to comfort her.
The scenes of Zero's life passed by before his eyes. But even if he saw it with his own eyes, it was difficult to truly understand the despair and pain she endured at that time.
Lin Yuan simply hooked her fingers lightly with his touch. The thoughts in his mind were transmitted in the communication of consciousness.
It's not her fault, it's those overly twisted and greedy people, and this is a wrong era.
Lin Yuan thought of the pillars he had seen in the Many Polluted Areas, of Xun Hua, and of the White King in Area 5.
It turns out that every pillar in the polluted area is a guide, and the spiritual will of the powerful guides was eaten away by the insect jade, resulting in such a tragedy.
"It's okay." Ling said to her, "No matter how long the nightmare is, there will be a day to wake up. Now I have finally reached the end of my life and will soon get eternal sleep."
Ling gradually let go of Lin Yuan's hand, and her face and those images disappeared in front of Lin Yuan's eyes.
"But they sent you here, hoping that you would take over my position and become the pillar here. You have to be careful... Chu is completely different from what she was then. She is very strong, irritable, and unwilling to accept the end."
"You have to be careful, be careful...about everything in that white tower."
Ling's body disintegrated, and the hand holding Lin Yuan turned into ashes in the dark world.
The dreamlike mental picture disappeared.
Lin Yuan found himself standing in the temple below the research institute, which had been abandoned for hundreds of years.
The pure white altar is still placed on top of the scarlet steps. The air seems to be filled with the souls of countless innocent people who died tragically here, silently accusing them of their tragic fate back then.
Lin Yuan saw Chu.
The original form that survived for hundreds and thousands of years.
Now that it has lost its pillar and the source of its spiritual power, its body appears to be extremely decayed.
Like dead branches, huge and endless, it stretched out from the darkness and spread across the base of the entire temple.
At the moment when Zero's spiritual power completely disappeared, a terrifying sound came from deep inside the temple.
The huge, dry and rotten body of the god twisted and trembled as if in a death struggle.
The entire temple shook violently with her twisting and screaming.
…
Ni Ji shook off the hand that was holding him. The cold, pale hand shrank back.
What appeared in front of him was Fujilu wearing a white skirt.
Half of Fujilu's face was hidden in the shadows, while the other half exposed in the light was as white as a dead person.
The tentacle under the skirt was no longer a single small one, but countless old and gray tentacles crawling out from under the snow-white skirt.
"You've completely turned into a monster." Ni Ji slowly pulled out his knife, "No, you've always been a twisted monster."
"So what if I'm a monster? It's better than being a weak human being who gets bullied." Fujilu, with half of her face exposed, slowly climbed up the wall in the dark. "You are such a strong person, you have never experienced the pain of being a weak person, right? That's why you don't understand."
"No matter what, even if I have to sacrifice myself to Him, I will never become the powerless and pitiful insect I was before."
The scene around Ni Ji changed.
He saw a sentinel...many, many sentinels.
Some people were deceived by the girl's delicate appearance, while others were seduced by her beautiful face.
In this dark world, those powerful warriors were like prey caught in a spider web, falling one by one under the white skirt.
They struggled, revealing pitiful, helpless, and even ugly and embarrassing looks. They were tortured repeatedly until their spirits were completely broken. In the end, even their bodies were not spared, and they became puppets that could be manipulated at will.
Until total destruction, there is no way to escape from the dark hell forever.
Ni Ji even saw himself, seeing himself being wrapped up by the tentacles and dragged into the depths of the nest without any resistance.
The picture began to become distorted and dim.
A suggestive cry was heard in the darkness.
"Hehehe, you've experienced this too." Fujilu's voice was infinitely amplified in the darkness, "Your guide is so powerful, he must have done this or that to you from time to time. I've always wanted to see you begging for mercy in a weak state."
Half of her face emerged from the darkness, and she saw with satisfaction the sentry's embarrassed look.
"In fact, the sentinels are the most vulnerable and pitiful insects." Teng Lu smiled and quietly extended her borrowed spiritual tentacles in the direction of Ni Ji.
"You are sensitive and fragile, without any resistance, and you are all afraid of my mental control...ah!"
Fujilu screamed while crawling, she covered her arm that was cut off by the sentry and stepped back in disbelief.
The sentry in front of him had a knife in his hand and fire in his eyes. He was a murderous desperado.
She was completely different from the person she had seen before, the delicate and weak one who was easily defeated by Lin Yuan's tentacles.
"Why!" the completely deformed monster shouted, "I know what you are afraid of. You should be afraid of it. You can't resist mind control. You Sentinels are completely defenseless."
"Are you mistaken?" The sentry in front of her stared at her with sarcasm in his eyes.
"I am a little afraid of this. I am afraid of that person who is so strong and unique in the world. How could it be possible that you are a monster who is so weak and pitiful from the inside out?"
The blood-red long knife was slowly pulled out, and the blade reflected Ni Ji's cold eyes. Deep in his eyes resided a powerful soul.
"I feel sorry for the sentinels you fooled. If I show even a little bit of weakness in front of you, I will lose."
The blood-red blade light is the sentinel's flame of revenge.
The distorted and false picture was shattered into pieces under the knife light.
The deformed creature cut by the demon sword? The twisted and strange body was covered with turtle-like cracks.
The man who deceived countless Sentinels eventually died as a weakling in this dark world.
Ni Ji saw Lin Yuan,
In the cave at his feet, his guide stood beside the altar, facing off against a monster of infinite size.
He rushed towards Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan looked up and saw the sentry running towards her.
Their eyes met for a moment, staring at each other.
There was a smear of blood on Ni Ji's face, and Lin Yuan was not much better off, covered in dust.
They? Lost each other again - even though they had been holding hands all the way.
But this time, neither side panicked, and they firmly believed that they would be able to meet again soon.
Lin Yuan felt that Ni Ji, who was running towards him, was a little strange. He was not as restrained and reserved as before.
At this moment, the anger in his heart seemed to be ignited, shining like a knife.
As he rushed down, his handsome face was tinged with a layer of wildness, which was very charming and he looked more handsome than ever.
He smiled at himself.
Facing a powerful enemy, his smile was cold, sharp, and unstoppable.
After landing, there was a little distance between the two people, but they did not reach out to hold each other.
At this moment, the ends of their spiritual powers were connected to each other, which was more stable than physical contact, so they no longer had to worry about losing each other.
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