Looking at the orange wristband on her hand, Lu Cai frowned and suddenly thought of something. Just as she was about to leave the tent, her ankle was suddenly grabbed. The cold touch startled her so much that she almost jumped up.
Seeing a skinny, pale hand reaching out from under the bed, Lu Cai decisively stepped back, pulled his legs and broke free from the shackles.
A whimpering sound of "mumbling" came from under the bed, and the hand retracted inside. It seemed to be curled up under the bed and shivering.
Lu Cai always felt it was weird. Why was the biting noise outside so deafening, but it was so quiet in this tent?
She thought of the tumorous zombies that were afraid of the skinning monster. There were also different levels among zombies, and there was an insurmountable level of repression between them.
So... Lu Cai squatted down, slowly crouching. What kind of zombie was hiding in this tent? Why were the zombies outside, so bloodthirsty and mad at killing, afraid to enter?
She bent down and saw a shivering figure under the cot.
The light was too dim, and Lu Cai couldn't see clearly. He vaguely saw that the figure was wearing a loose T-shirt and a pair of baggy old trousers. His hair was very long, but it was messy and tangled on top of his head.
Lu Cai watched quietly. The man, sensing her gaze, tilted his head slightly. She knew the figure beneath the bed was also observing her, and the mumbling beneath the bed gradually subsided.
She just watched, and suddenly, it quickly crawled towards her.
Lu Cai stood up, jumped onto the simple bed behind him, and held the dagger in defense.
The man had already crawled out from under the bed, but seeing Lu Cai's stance, he suddenly stopped. He backed away, crouching on the ground, his grumblings resonating again, like mournful sobs.
Lu Cai looked at its shape and inexplicably had a guess. Thinking of that possibility, she suddenly felt a sense of bitterness and anger in her heart.
She slowly got out of bed, keeping her guard up while gently hiding the dagger behind her. She carefully squatted down and moved closer to the shivering body.
"Zhao Manman?" Cai Lu called out tentatively.
The other person's body shook violently, and the mumbling gradually stopped.
Lu Cai's heart sank, and for some reason, his nose felt a little sore.
Seeing her approach, the other party was so frightened that he tried to hide under the bed again. Lu Cai rushed over and grabbed it: "It's me! I'm Lu Cai!"
Zhao Manman froze, her head bowed low. From beneath the flesh of Lu Cai's tightly held hand, several plump, yellow-white maggots struggled.
Lu Cai acted as if he hadn't noticed. He gently pulled Zhao Manman towards him and mumbled, "I'm sorry—"
I failed to protect you...
Zhao Manman began to tremble, but Lu Cai was puzzled as to why he had such thoughts.
The body that had been lying on the ground, half hidden under the bed, finally moved. Zhao Manman slowly emerged from under the bed and slowly raised her face. Her long, tangled hair, like a ball of discarded yarn, covered her face.
Cai Lu loosened his grip on her arm and slowly smoothed away the hair that was covering her face.
A familiar face appeared before Lu Cai. Its once fair, delicate skin had become dry and pale, with bluish-purple patches faintly visible. It had a pair of pure white eyes, bloody scratches on its nose, rotting flesh protruding, and white maggots clinging to it.
Thick, dark red liquid flowed from her eye sockets, just like her tears, leaving two crooked tear marks on her face. Her mouth was slightly open, and a fishy smell emanated from her mouth.
Lu Cai did not dodge, and Zhao Manman suddenly retched and turned her head to vomit, vomiting out a pile of black and smelly rotten meat, which was crawling with white maggots and mixed with her rotten and fallen tongue.
Lu Cai's breathing quickened a little, and his head suddenly felt a sharp pain.
The red data was garbled, and I began to hear auditory hallucinations: children laughing and crying, and the sounds of grown men beating and scolding...
She raised her hand and hit her head hard. It hurt so much!
It was as if two hands were jammed into her scalp, trying to tear her head open. Or as if someone had dumped countless thumbtacks into her head, and the slightest movement would impale her, leaving her unable to move.
A pair of strong arms held her, and hair as dry as dead wood brushed against her face.
Lu Cai heard Zhao Manman crying on her shoulder, if the indistinct sobbing could be considered crying.
The world seemed to have fallen silent, even the sound of breathing gradually stopped. Lu Cai looked at the red numbers in front of him and saw many images.
The scene was fragmented. At first, it showed a little girl, wobbling as she walked, following a sister two years older. She followed her sister wherever she went. When her sister got tired of her, she turned and scolded her, but she could only hide aside and sniffle.
——Afterwards, when they were older, a drunken middle-aged man hit the elder sister with a broom. The elder sister curled up in a corner without saying a word, while the little girl cried loudly...
—The middle-aged man, annoyed by the little girl's crying, turned around and beat her. The sister, who had been curled up and pretending to be dead, suddenly got up, hugged the middle-aged man's leg, and bit it hard...
When she grew up, the little girl was laughed at by her classmates, who called her a "money-loser" whose parents didn't want her and whose parents didn't want her. A worn-out schoolbag hit her from behind...
—And then there was the Chinese New Year, when the weather was freezing cold and the sun was blazing. A little girl, her face red with frostbite, sat on the stone steps and cried. Her older sister had cheated her out of her only White Rabbit candy, and she was feeling so wronged she had nowhere to vent. Then her older sister came down from behind and handed her a crumpled candy wrapper, and the little girl cried even louder...
Lu Cai breathed heavily and realized what these were.
——She saw herself, younger than she is now, about sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a blue and white school uniform, holding an English test paper in her hand, with the number 29 written in red on it.
Zhao Manman, two years her junior, took the test from her and offered to help her correct it. With a month left until the end of the semester, she thought she could pass if she tried hard. Lu Cai said no, she'd decided to go to a technical school. Zhao Manman stood behind her, looking sad and dejected...
She read the data in Zhao Manman's mind.
The numbers in front of Lu Cai were in chaos, as if they were refreshing the data rapidly but could not keep up with the speed of the data changes.
She gently hugged Zhao Manman, feeling that this decaying body had reached its end.
Scraps of flesh slowly fell to the ground, and white maggots struggled beneath the skin. Zhao Manman finally remembered her forgotten sister, but she never expected that the line between life and death would be crossed when they met again.
Why did she forget? Zhao Manman didn't know.
Dark red liquid flowed from her eye sockets. At least, she was not an abandoned child.
Lu Cai was somewhat bewildered. In Zhao Manman's memory, they were sisters. But Lu Cai had no memory of that at all, only bitterness and disbelief.
The arm that was around Lu Cai moved, and Zhao Manman propped herself up, with no expression in her white eyes.
Zhao Manman grasped Lu Cai's right hand, which was clutching the dagger. She stared at him, her skin peeling. She slowly lifted Lu Cai's hand, placed the dagger's tip against her forehead, and muttered something.
Lu Cai's face froze, and he instantly understood what Zhao Manman meant.
Life is worse than death, or living as a dead person, enduring the bugs crawling in and out of your body, enduring the stench and rotten flesh, it is better to end it here.
It can be considered as retaining a trace of human dignity.
Zhao Manman watched as Lu Cai put away his knife, her eyes fixed on him. Then, a pistol appeared in Lu Cai's palm. Zhao Manman grinned, the dark flesh in her mouth moving repeatedly.
She watched as Lu Cai tremblingly raised his gun, the muzzle against her forehead. The coldness of the muzzle gave her an inexplicable sense of peace.
When he looked up, he saw hesitation and evasion in Lu Cai's eyes, and he slowly lowered the muzzle of the gun that was pressed tightly against his head.
"Maybe we can find an antidote..." Lu Cai said hesitantly. She looked at the rotten flesh and tongue on the ground and choked.
Zhao Manman smiled. With her broken body, could she still survive even if the antidote was found?
Suddenly, Zhao Manman grabbed Lu Cai's hand, pressed it against her forehead, and pressed the wrench hard with her fingers.
Bang--
There was a burst of sparks, and rancid liquid splashed onto the bed behind her.
Zhao Manman's broken body fell straight down. Until her death, she was looking in the direction of Lu Cai, with endless satisfaction in her heart.
A voice in her head told her that even if she had a chance to live again, she would never have a sister again.
Like countless past lives, she had walked through the years of being bullied, ridiculed, and abandoned by her parents. Suddenly, in one of her past lives, she had a sister who would protect her.
There will be no more sister... There will be no more sister...
Filled with longing, she was reluctant to close her eyes. This was the last time they would see each other in this life. It would be the last time they would see each other again.
Lu Cai's mind was not clear to begin with, and he was frightened to the point of being motionless. He looked at Zhao Manman with her pure white eyes wide open, her hands hanging on the ground, lifeless.
Perhaps sensing that Zhao Manman was completely dead, the zombies outside rushed into the tent.
Lu Cai was suddenly awakened by the roar. She changed her knife and stabbed the zombies that rushed in.
Rushing out of the tent, outside the door curtain, Lu Cai looked towards the eleven o'clock direction.
It was a solid stone wall.
This is the message Qin Yu left behind. Where did she go before she disappeared?
Lu Cai took one last look inside the tent. Zhao Manman's body lay peacefully on the muddy ground. She withdrew her gaze and ran towards the stone wall.
He touched the stone wall with his hand, injected his data into the wall, and felt the red numbers moving through the wall.
The red numbers moved slowly, not in a hurry to infect and devour, but carefully squeezed into the gaps between the numbers, causing the green and orange numbers to tremble slightly.
Until the red numbers stopped and lingered in an area.
Okay, here it is—
Lu Cai took the dagger with his left hand and clenched his right fist. The empty battery symbol on his wrist flashed red intermittently.
She was also nervous, feeling the power flowing through her body, and a burst of heat ran through the veins in her arms.
Finally, with the thought of a last-ditch fight, she threw a punch! Her fist pounded against the stone surface, and the numbers trembled slightly. The red data roared, releasing infinite power.
The wall seemed motionless.
She clenched her fist and struck again fiercely! The red data, fueled by the force of her fist, suddenly expanded outward, tearing a crack in the unbreakable data.
There was an almost undetectable crack in the wall.
On the city wall, the guards noticed something unusual here. They raised their guns and aimed at the figure hammering the wall.
The gunshot rang out, smoke billowing. The bullet flew, clattering against a red fluorescent barrier half a meter away from the figure, and scattered to the ground.
In order to prevent interference from nearby zombies, Lu Cai set up an outer protective barrier, but forgot that there were guards.
Another punch, and gravel fell down with a rustling sound.
With one last powerful punch, he punched a hole.
There was a burst of gunfire and bullets were flying everywhere.
Lu Cai dodged and a bullet shot out from the hole, hit the red barrier, and fell to the ground without any sound.
She looked gloomily at the dimly lit cave entrance where sparks flashed frequently.
Are you afraid of beasts who treat their own kind as ants?
Lu Cai stood firm and threw a few more fierce punches, creating a doorway in the small hole.
The sound of gunfire was deafening, and such noise naturally attracted many zombies.
She gripped the dagger tightly and dodged through the doorway. A thin shadow moved through the crowd, its blade bloody, but she did not take their lives.
After all, she couldn't kill a living person with one knife, treating him as a zombie.
But if she was injured and died at the hands of a zombie, she would just consider it karma.
The light and shadow of the blade slid past the guards' wrists like a nimble little snake. They felt hot blood flowing, their hands became weak, their guns dropped, and they screamed in pain.
Lu Cai squeezed through the gap in the crowd and saw a winding staircase. Under the dim light, he went straight upstairs.
I walked to the iron door on the second floor, and after a few beeps, the door lock clicked.
Lu Cai kicked without thinking.
He kicked a group of guards who had just left the house and caught them off guard. The guards behind them reacted quickly and started shooting wildly with their guns.
She couldn't hide either, so she could only think about ending the fight quickly, otherwise her energy would go on strike halfway through the fight, and she would die before she could even accomplish her goal.
Lu Cai didn't care. The bullet hit ten centimeters in front of her and fell to the ground with a clang. The group of people retreated all the way, looking at Lu Cai in horror.
"Do you choose to risk your life, or do you choose to save your own?" She pointed behind her as screams and gunfire intertwined. "You've risked your lives for the camp managers. Do you think they care about your life or death at this point?"
The guards who were kicked to the ground also got up and retreated one by one. Lu Cai stepped into the door frame, glanced at the door lock on the side, raised his foot and kicked it, kicking the square little box into pieces.
Well, the door can't be locked either--
Some people roared and cursed, and were ready to raise their guns to shoot.
"Bullets are life-saving. Are you planning to waste them on me?" Lu Cai said calmly, "Listen, here it comes—"
The sound of sporadic footsteps on the stone stairs and sobbing sounds slowly came.
Lu Cai turned and rushed into the corridor, no longer paying attention to these bastards who were accomplices to the evil.
She checked her surroundings carefully.
No! No! Nothing at all!
She even pushed the closed door on one side, but could not find any trace of Qin Yu's system.
She met some guards on the way, and when they realized they couldn't do anything to her, they fled.
After running for a long time, Lu Cai finally stopped. The road in front of her was blocked by a tightly closed black iron door. The iron door directly blocked the entire corridor. She put her hand on the iron door. The data here was showing obvious abnormal fluctuations.
There was only a large iron lock hanging on the door. Lu Cai weighed it and found that the lock was really very simple. Compared with the electronic locks and high-end equipment she had encountered along the way, it was almost the same as a piece of thin iron wire wrapped around it.
It seems that this is a place that people from outside will never enter, which can only mean that it is extremely dangerous in here.
Lu Cai grasped the iron lock, paused for a moment, and then gave it a strong tug. The iron lock snapped, and the broken parts hanging on the door fell to the ground.
She pushed open the pitch-black door, and inside was a bright red light. Many iron cages were placed side by side against the wall, near and far.
It looked like a dog kennel. The cage was covered with a dirty quilt that was stained with stains. Unknown yellow and black liquids were stuck to the fabric. There were water bowls and food bowls on the side. The water was turbid and difficult to distinguish, and the food was smelly and infested with insects.
As I walked along, every cage looked similar, but there was nothing in the cage and the iron doors were ajar.
Lu Cai swallowed nervously. This routine could only mean... the thing in the cage came out.
Listening carefully, she heard no movement. She counted eighteen cages in total. There couldn't be no movement at all...
Just then, she heard a piercing scream from next door.
The voice was childish and had a crying tone.
Every year!
Now that something has happened to Xiao Yue, Nian Nian will definitely not have an easy time either.
Lu Cai ran forward in a hurry, and was met with a powerful oppressive force.
She stopped and felt that this force was like a black hole, aggressively absorbing all the energy nearby.
"You're such a pleasant surprise—"
A man walked out of the darkness, with a tall figure and sharp features.
"Who is Zheng Miao?" Cai Lu recognized him.
The fact that he was the one who appeared at this moment was enough to explain everything. But she didn't understand why someone who had never appeared in the fragments would have such a big move?
Also, why is everything here game data mixed with player data?
Zheng Miao smiled and walked closer slowly: "You found it."
"Did the real Zheng Miao die in the submarine?" Judge Lu flexed his fingers. "You took his place."
"What else did you discover?" Zheng Miao's expression relaxed and he smiled faintly.
Lu Cai frowned, thinking about his chances of winning: "You are a player."
Zheng Miao raised his eyebrows: "You are more perfect than them." He smiled twistedly.
She suspected he was a player after seeing the city wall data. If she, an NPC, could awaken and join the player side, then why couldn't the players integrate into the game world and join the NPC side?
Although Lu Cai didn't know why he wanted to be an NPC, this explained many puzzles.
0589 in the submarine copy is so abnormal because he should have died, but in the game consciousness, "Zheng Miao" is still alive, so he issued the task to the player and found a way to survive by himself.
The main clue pieced together from the memory fragments directly points to Cao Zhongzheng as the boss behind the scenes, without mentioning Zheng Miao at all, because in the established main line, it is Cao Zhongzheng who is obsessed with his "research on the mysteries of life."
As a player, what is the purpose of "Zheng Miao"?
There is an unknown devouring force in the air. Is this his special ability?
Lu Cai's expression changed slightly, and "Zheng Miao" opposite him sneered.
"You finally realized it—" He fixed his eyes on Lu Cai, like a greedy beast seeing its delicious prey, "You will definitely be the most delicious delicacy I have ever tasted."
——
The lights in the aisle were all off, and there was no end to the aisle.
Qin Yu supported Xiao Yue and stumbled forward, but they couldn't find the exit after walking for a long time.
When she discovered that Zheng Miao had the ability to "devour," she thought she was going to die. With the ability to devour, it's impossible to let go of food that's already in your mouth.
But he just locked Qin Yu up, which was beyond Qin Yu's expectations.
Qin Yu speculated that his ability might not be stable, and he couldn't devour endlessly. He might be waiting for the previous meal to digest, or perhaps he was emptying his stomach to eat something he wanted more...
Lu Cai...Zheng Miao wants to devour Lu Cai!
From the beginning of their acquaintance, Zheng Miao was particularly concerned about Lu Cai. At that time, she thought Zheng Miao was attracted to Lu Cai... It was true that he was attracted to Lu Cai, but what he was attracted to was Lu Cai's ability.
That nearly perfect body was not afraid of water or fire, nor of poisons. Powerful strength could burst out from her frail body.
Qin Yu also tried to send a message to Lu Cai, but unfortunately the signal was always disconnected.
When she escaped, she accidentally discovered the imprisoned Xiao Yue and rescued him. Now the two of them were walking in a long corridor, but they didn't find any stairs going up or down.
The most outrageous thing is that Xiao Yue actually said that he had never been here and didn't know the route.
I could only walk slowly all the way, and finally I was blocked by a black iron gate, which was ajar.
Just as I was about to go back, I heard a shrill scream from inside the door—
"It's Niannian!" The wounded Xiao Yue immediately rushed towards the iron gate. His steps were obviously shaky, but Qin Yu couldn't hold him back.
After all, she was Xiao Yue's niece. Qin Yu understood his feelings, but also hoped that he could calm down. Who knew that he would move so quickly, directly opening the iron gate and rushing in.
"Niannian!" he shouted and stopped where he was.
Qin Yu followed in, his scalp tingling.
The little girl sat in a cage, which was locked tightly with an iron chain. Surrounding the cage were a group of skinned zombies with bloody flesh.
They were like skinned frogs, their muscles exposed to the air, their features blurred but a hint of white could be seen in their eye sockets. Their limbs were twisted and bent on the ground, pus oozing everywhere.
Xiao Yue's rushing in made such a loud noise that it immediately attracted their attention.
Seeing them turn around and open a gap that could barely be called a mouth towards them, Qin Yu suddenly used his telekinesis.
The skinned zombies leaped up suddenly, colliding with the telekinetic barrier. They were stuck in the telekinetic barrier, unable to move forward, and could only bar their fangs and claws, roaring and spitting pus all over the ground.
When Xiao Yue was locked up, all the guns on him were confiscated. Now he had no weapons in his hands and could only look around. Finally, he picked up a wooden mop handle.
A five-fingered shadow curved out from the telekinetic barrier and enveloped a zombie.
Qin Yu made a clenching gesture with his hands and twisted his five fingers hard. The skinned zombie over there hung in the air, twisting and twitching, and finally its head exploded.
The shadowy hand loosened its grip, dropping the zombie to the ground. All the skinned zombies roared in anger. The hand turned, picked up another zombie, and squeezed it hard.
"Get ready, I can't hold on for much longer--" Qin Yu said weakly to Xiao Yue on the side.
Xiao Yue hummed and tightened the stick in his hand.
The skinned zombie pounded frantically against the barrier, its sharp claws scratching at it. Qin Yu took a breath, a sharp breath, and finally his hand went limp. The skinned zombie's head, gripped tightly by the shadowy hand, shattered, but the protective barrier also vanished.
The skinned zombies rushed over. Qin Yu raised his submachine gun and fired fiercely. One of them rushed closer and had its skull smashed by Xiao Yue's stick. Seeing that it was still struggling to get up, he hit it again with the stick.
Nian Nian was crying non-stop over there, and the skinning zombies seemed to be stimulated and extremely angry.
As they drew closer, the stone wall opposite them exploded. A red light burst out, and a stream of air rushed through the stones, pushing them back.
In a hurry, Qin Yu grabbed Xiao Yue's hand and pulled him out of the crack of the door. The two of them fell on the aisle outside the door.
The group of skinned zombies fled and ran away from the aisle.
Xiao Yue fell to the ground with his eyes open, looking a little dazed, with some confusion in his eyes.
Qin Yu on the side sat up and said, "Niannian is still in there!"
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