Cen Yu felt that the man was hiding some information, but it had nothing to do with him.
He walked silently behind the five people, but Sleepy Bro couldn't hold back any longer. He chewed his gum and finally couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you curious?"
Aren't you curious how I know these things?
“Every time I come to Planet Nott with other people, they are always curious about how I know these things.”
Cen Yu made a stop gesture. "I'm not curious."
"Don't harass your teammates."
Sleeping Guy paused for a second, then said, "No!"
“If you’re not curious, I’ll definitely tell you.” He moved closer to Cen Yu and kept talking, “I’ll tell you, I saw all of this with my own eyes.”
Surprised? Unexpected?
Cen Yu: "..." He glanced up at the man.
After leaving the mecha, they all concealed their original appearances, except for one pair of eyes that were visible—the other person had brown eyes and a high nose bridge, and Cen Yu could not see anything else.
How did you know?
“Didn’t I say I saw it with my own eyes?” Sleepy Guy continued, pointing to himself, “I followed the fleet to Planet Nott and then saw the survivors.” He looked at the five people in front of him, “The survivors were waiting in a fixed place at the time; we didn’t go deep underground.”
Cen Yu didn't want to judge whether his words were true or false, but he guessed that they were mostly true.
What happened back then?
“My teammates died during the retreat,” the man said.
At this moment, the five people in front seemed to have finally reached the finish line. "We're here," the man who jumped out first hurriedly turned around and said to Cen Yu and the other man.
The casual conversation ended there, and Cen Yu and the man followed him deeper into the underground space.
...
Unlike the imagined Frankenstein's monster base, once you enter the underground, you can only see countless computers, as if they are calculating something.
However, because the power system here has been completely destroyed, everything has been turned into scrap metal... There is an unpleasant smell in the air, but it is not stuffy, and Cen Yu guesses that there are other ventilation facilities.
“The remaining three teammates are over there,” the man said.
"We left enough water and food before we left." Seemingly worried that Cen Yu might think they were bad people, the man explained, "We didn't want them to die; we just went out to seek help..."
He held a communicator, saying, "There's no signal here; we just want to call for help."
Cen Yu ignored the man's clumsy explanation—their selfish motives were obvious from the moment they left no one uninjured to wait there. Cen Yu was too lazy to judge them; he just wanted to complete his mission.
He pushed the man aside, grabbed his weapon, and headed towards the small room.
He could feel the gaze on his back...
"You," Cen Yu beckoned to the man, "come with me."
The man was somewhat reluctant, but he still obediently walked beside Cen Yu, "...they had been injured before."
"How long have you been gone?" Cen Yu interrupted the man's nonsense.
"...Two days?" the man said uncertainly, "It could be three days."
“We stayed in the box for a long time, so it was hard to keep track of time.”
Cen Yu exchanged a glance with the man standing in front of the computer.
The man shrugged.
Cen Yu gestured for the survivor to walk in front of him... Although the man was puzzled, he still walked ahead of Cen Yu.
Cen Yu raised his weapon from behind and aimed it at the man's head—
"Bang!"
The man's body fell to the ground, and before the remaining group could even scream, four more bodies fell to the ground.
Cen Yu glanced at the strange worm crawling out of the man's fallen corpse, then raised his weapon and shot it until it was mangled to pieces. Only then did he turn back to look at the man.
The man had already deftly pierced the four crawling insects with his dagger.
"It seems the system's prompts are somewhat useful," Cen Yu said.
He only realized something was wrong after entering this underground space—because he had used his mental power to investigate and found no living people here, and there were no three injured survivors at all.
The man, in particular, said that they had been gone for two to three days and along the way, they hadn't seen any discarded food wrappers or anything else, and the area around the box was clean—these people, apart from looking somewhat frightened, didn't seem like they hadn't eaten for two or three days—which was very strange.
What truly caught Cen Yu's attention was the task panel, which remained completely inactive.
Logically, the mission panel shouldn't remain unchanged after encountering these five survivors.
—Taking all of this into account, there is only one possibility: these five survivors may not be survivors at all.
"What is this thing?" Cen Yu kicked away the insect he had smashed.
He discovered that these insects were much smaller than those they had seen outside, and he had never seen such insects in the previous beginner mode.
“Some very rare insects.” The man walked to Cen Yu’s side, squatted down and observed the insects that Cen Yu had smashed apart with him. “I heard that they can parasitize, read the memories of humans before their death, and imitate their ways of doing things.”
"But the time was very short."
"After all, human corpses decompose, and even if these insects are specially treated, they can only last for two days at most." He lifted the man's body lying on the ground, and saw that the area covered by the clothes already had lividity.
Cen Yu glanced again at the location that these "survivors" had mentioned.
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