Chapter 315 Chapter 315

The content in the diary was very short. Qu Zhongyi tried to translate it, but he was not sure about many words, so he skipped them. The rest of the text was roughly translated as follows:

[As agreed, I will peel off the skin and make a book to record everything.

Everything started with the black fog. The fog blocked the sunlight, the world turned into night, life died, and everything was dying.

Without food, hunger and pain surrounded us.

Grandma died of hunger first, and then we ate.

My father left home and never came back.

My mother fed us, and I haven’t had a full meal for a long time. I feel so sad.

My sister said, there are only two of us at home.

She doesn't want to leave me, and if that day ever comes, she wants to accompany me in another way.

I followed her wishes and made her into a book. I left it there for three days, but nothing happened and she didn't come out of the book.

I'm full.

I am the only one left.]

Qu Zhongyi flipped through the pages of the book: "Most of the content at the beginning is like this. The content at the end is a little blurry."

[The streets are empty.

No one came to rescue us, and no one would come, so we couldn't get out.

This city is an isolated island in the deep ocean.

Humanity will perish.

The guy next door went crazy, he was running while singing, and was dragged away.

He became food.

I'm so hungry. Really hungry.

I also want food and want to eat.

food.

Anything is good, anything edible.

It's edible.

I am the only one left who can eat.]

"Stop translating!" Gan Xiaoqing interrupted him quickly, "No, I can't listen to it anymore, it's too scary."

"It's just like the famine times recorded in history." Lan Tiantian thought, "The husband and wife starved to death together. It's better for me to go to the vegetable market. I can get three thousand dollars to support my husband and one piece of meat can carry me one mile.①"

Huang Tianzhen hugged his arms and said, "It's so hot, why do I feel so cold on my back?"

Lan Tiantian: "These are all historical facts. If one day in the future, there is a food shortage all over the world, these terrible scenes will no longer be history, but the future."

Qu Zhongyi closed the book and said, "Thank you to all the predecessors who have contributed to increasing grain production."

"So, this world is destroyed by famine?" Lan Tiantian pondered.

Qu Zhongyi: "The source should not be food, but strangeness. It mentions black fog, which covers the sky and blocks the sun. Without sunlight, plants cannot grow."

"Don't we have greenhouses? The technology for artificial sunlight is mature enough."

"Let's not talk about how far the world's technology has reached. Even if there is technology, the biggest impact of losing natural sunlight is not whether there are vegetables to eat, but ecological problems. In addition, the diary mentioned that we can't get in or out. I don't know if it's besieged by monsters or a strange domain... black fog, wait, this should be the strange domain." Qu Zhongyi's eyes widened slightly, "From what the diary said, the scope of the strange domain should be very wide, and it may have covered a city."

After all, there is a sentence describing "this city is an isolated island in the deep sea".

I don't know how big this city is, but even if it is as big as the smallest city in his world, the monster that can cover such a large area is likely to be S-level.

Thinking of this, Qu Zhongyi broke out in a cold sweat and glanced at the scorching sun outside the window.

There was no black fog outside. Either the S-class anomaly had been destroyed or it had left.

"I hope I won't encounter it." Qu Zhongyi put the human skin book into his bag, "This thing is not a strange thing, you can take it back directly."

"It doesn't matter who holds it. I won't touch it anyway." Gan Xiaoqing said quickly, waving his hands.

According to the contents of the human skin book, the source of the skin was most likely the girl who looked very similar to her. Thinking of this, she felt even worse.

"Let's see if there's anything else. Let's get out of here as soon as possible." Gan Xiaoqing wiped the sweat off his face, "Let's go look inside other buildings."

"The captain is still upstairs." Qu Zhongyi looked in the direction of the stairs, "Yu Huan and Su Sanan have also gone upstairs. Let's wait for them."

"Upstairs." Huang Tianzhen touched his chin, a little curious.

"The space upstairs is smaller than the space downstairs, so you'd better not go there." Qu Zhongyi said, "There are two rooms next to it, go there and take a look. Be careful."

"Okay."

At this time upstairs.

Qingtong was observing the space on the second floor, where there was supposed to be a small living room, two bedrooms and a bathroom. Because half of the ceiling had fallen down, one bedroom had completely collapsed, and the small living room was also half buried, leaving only a bathroom and a small bedroom to explore.

There was nothing to see in the bathroom. The walls inside had been damaged, and the water pipes buried in the walls were exposed. The ground was covered with broken bricks and debris. Qingtong just took a quick glance and then lost interest.

He tried to walk around the rocks that had hit the floor and towards the small bedroom.

Just as he was about to reach the door of the small bedroom, Qingtong stopped and looked at the ground.

Yu Huan and Su Sanan, who were following behind him, almost bumped into his back.

"Captain?" Su Sanan tilted his head and followed Qingtong's gaze to look at his feet.

In front of Qingtong's toes, where the stone had hit them, an arm stretched out. The hand was as dry as a stick of firewood, and it was unknown how many years it had been dried by the wind.

"Ah..." Su Sanan pulled Yu Huan back a step.

Qingtong raised his hands to move the large piece of rubble, and the whole face of the person who was trapped under the rubble was revealed. This was a boy who was less than 1.6 meters tall, and judging by his height, he should not have reached adulthood. He held a box in one hand and stretched out the other hand forward, lying on the ground and fell into eternal sleep.

The boy's back was sunken and there was a bulge on his head, which was the cause of his death.

Qingtong lowered his head and seemed to be interested in the box that the boy had held in his arms until his death. He forcefully pried open the boy's wrist. With a click, the fragile arm was broken, and the fingers that were tightly holding the box were also broken one by one and dropped to the ground.

Because it was difficult to land, Qingtong kicked the boy's head when he took a step forward. The dry skull with exposed gums was kicked and rolled three times and rolled under the wall.

Su Sanan widened his eyes slightly and looked at Qingtong.

Qingtong didn't notice Su Sanan's shocked expression. He opened the box and saw some worthless junk inside.

A few crystal beads, a torn necklace, a pair of wedding rings, hairpins, small photos, hand-woven strings, and a few handwritten letters.

No weird things.

Worthless.

After Qingtong made this judgment, he threw the box away, and the items inside were scattered all over the floor.

"Captain?!" Su Sanan shouted in disbelief.

Not only Su Sanan, even Yu Huan felt something was wrong when he looked at Qingtong.

"Ah?" Qingtong turned around to look at him, her face full of confusion, not understanding why he called her.

Then I saw Su Sanan squatting down, picking up things on the ground one by one and putting them into the box.

"There are no strange things, and nothing to study." Qingtong said his judgment coldly, "These things are not important."

Su Sanan paused while picking up the beads. He looked up at the captain with mixed feelings: "When we were having dinner before, Han Qi said that you were a little strange. I don't think you have changed at all. You are still the same captain. But now I think there is something wrong with you."

"These things are useless to us, they can't help us, and they don't have much value to the people in the institute. But..." Su Sanan frowned, "This doesn't mean that their existence is meaningless. At least to this dead boy, they should be priceless treasures."

"But he's dead." Qingtong tilted his head. "When the people who valued them die, the value of their existence will be stripped away at the same time, and they will become meaningless items because no one remembers why they exist."

"I know. But..." Su Sanan continued to pick up things with his head down, "As a person with feelings, this shouldn't be the case."

People can empathize.

But strange will not.

The one who controls Qingtong, the mirror puppet, is Bai Yixin, and he really doesn't understand this kind of emotion.

Of course in his memory, he was a little gentle when he was Qingtong, although not much.

Qingtong used to be kind. When faced with people asking for help, he would make a calm judgment and decide how to help. He was willing to lend a hand without falling into a trap himself.

If Bai Yixin were to face someone asking for help now, he would only say one thing: Call the police.

He has no obligation to help.

He did not give up the mission of saving the world because of his persistence.

But this persistence has nothing to do with the good intention of saving the world. It is just the obsession that once you have decided to do something, you must complete it.

And a selfish desire not to let this world really perish and then be buried with it.

It is incomprehensible, but it does not prevent Bai Yixin from making up for it in order to maintain Qingtong's previous personality.

Qingtong will soon disappear in front of everyone. If he shows any signs at the last moment and is discovered, he will definitely be severely punished by the original body.

No, now you should call him the little leader.

Qingtong is gone, leaving only Mangtao, the little leader.

"Sorry." Qingtong said dryly, then he bent down and picked up the things scattered on the ground. He also brought back the boy's head and put the boy's broken arms and fingers back to their original positions.

Yu Huan felt indescribably strange when he saw Qingtong Mibu's behavior.

The captain's behavior seemed like he was admitting his mistake, but his expression and tone seemed a little perfunctory.

He was not really admitting his mistake, but he just did it because Su Sanan said so.

Captain... Could it be that he has been affected by the monster because he has used it too many times? Yu Huan guessed.

There are risks in using strange objects. Although some of them will not attack people, frequent contact will more or less affect the mental state. Yu Huan remembered that the strange object used by Qingtong was the kind that was attached to the body, which might be more dangerous.

Let me go back and remind Su Sanan and the others that the best way to deal with this situation is to see a psychiatrist regularly.

Qingtong and Su Sanan picked up the things together, put them back into the boy's arms, and then went to check the small bedroom, but found nothing.

Several people went downstairs like this.

Qu Zhongyi breathed a sigh of relief after watching the three people safely get downstairs. Then he noticed that their expressions seemed a little strange: "What's wrong? Did something happen upstairs?"

Not knowing how to explain, Su Sanan said vaguely, "No, nothing happened."