81 · Chapter 81
The tentacles were exploring around the small pit, as if they wanted to drill in but were still hesitant. The tips of the tentacles were curling up into a circle along the curve of the small pit, and every inch could feel the unevenness around the small pit.
Intuition told the tentacles that this should be a small puddle. Just by walking around the puddle, it seemed as if it could feel the moisture coming from deep inside the puddle, just like breathing. However, the surrounding geology was relatively soft and seemed prone to collapse, so the tentacles became extremely cautious.
The wriggling tentacles slowly stopped and covered the small pit with a suction cup. After a while, water slowly condensed in the suction cup. This was the water that was usually stored, and now it was dripped into the small pit little by little by the tentacles.
Just like the process of drawing water from a well, as this water enters, it will eventually cause a turbulent tide, allowing the octopus to completely plunge into its favorite water.
Of course, the most important thing is to improve the dry texture around the pit, so that when the tentacles enter later, they will not cause damage or collapse, and will not bury it.
This is a smart and patient octopus. It is very attentive to the nest it has finally found after searching for a long time. After all, this will be the place where it will spend its whole life, so the octopus does not want any damage here.
After it patiently soaked the pit with water, it was finally no longer so dry, and the tentacles began to move. In addition, there were 4 or 5 tentacles waiting. The octopus could not squeeze all the tentacles in at once, so it could only do it slowly, one tentacle at a time.
The soft tip of the first tentacle crawled to the small pit amid everyone's anticipation, and followed the path into the small pit. The road ahead was dark but the tentacle moved forward.
The tentacles gradually disappeared.
There are no problems with the small pit for the time being.
The tentacles continued to explore inward and soon came to the position of the first suction cup. Here the tentacles became thicker and were already the size of a small pit, but the tentacles did not give up and continued to move inward. Octopuses are creatures that are very good at digging pits. It doesn't matter if the pit is smaller. They like to be in smaller places so that their bodies can be squeezed together and the octopus will feel more comfortable.
The suction cup flipped over the edge of the pit and entered completely. The moment the octopus came inside, it knew it had come to the right place. Unlike the outside, the environment inside was humid and warm, which was exactly the place the octopus liked best. It wanted to get its entire body in immediately.
But not yet.
The suction cup moves forward little by little with a sense of exploration, feeling whether there is any danger and the specific situation in the small pit. The inner wall of the small pit is not smooth, but it feels good to the octopus, and it still likes to climb on it.
It continued to move forward, trying to confirm whether there was really a water source ahead. After all, this determined whether it was suitable for survival here.
The tentacles were moving slowly in the dark passage. Suddenly, the passage shook and the tentacles had to stop, as if there was a danger of landslide. They could clearly feel the surroundings starting to squeeze towards the tentacles.
The tentacles wanted to retreat, but were squeezed and unable to move for a moment. The danger came too suddenly.
But the octopus remained calm, and its tentacles remained motionless to avoid further exacerbating the risk of collapse. As time passed, the tentacles felt water seeping out from the inner walls that were squeezing it. Although it was not water yet and was just a little damp, it seemed that there was indeed a water source here, and it had not come to the wrong place.
The octopus was delighted by this discovery, and its tentacles suddenly shot forward in excitement, causing the earth to shake violently for a moment.
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The rain outside the window is getting heavier, as if God is furious and wants to use rain to wash away the dirt in the world.
The little octopus in the basin has fallen asleep. It is not leaning on the edge of the basin, so it is floating in the basin. Sometimes its little tentacles will move, and every time it does so, it will drive the water flow, and then its tiny body will spin in the basin.
There was a roar of thunder, and the little octopus shuddered as if frightened. The next second, it sank to the bottom of the basin and covered its round head with all its tentacles, completely turning into a bouncy little ball.
It is asleep.
There were two people who were still awake. Ren Feng, who noticed something was wrong, grabbed Chen Zui's arm. He was a little angry now because the man had done something bad secretly and had not left yet.
He was completely unable to describe the feeling he had now. It was very strange but not completely uncomfortable. The most obvious feeling was that the suction cup was still sucking, and he felt like his soul was about to be sucked away by it.
That feeling really surpassed Chen Zui and his swelling-reducing game, making his scalp tingle and he felt a little panic. This panic came from his fear that he would become addicted.
Because even now, those places that were not taken care of by the suction cups already made him feel a little empty. His mind even began to uncontrollably imagine what it would be like if a suction cup was attached to all the places...
Will it break?
Or will I die?
"You've gone too far." Ren Feng spoke through gritted teeth. If he didn't grit his teeth, he was afraid that he would make some embarrassing noises.
Chen Zui looked innocent. With his handsome face, it was really too much to make such an expression. It was impossible to be angry with him: "Sorry, I don't know what's going on."
There was even a hint of grievance in her innocence: "There are many things I can't understand about how my body became like this. Who knew that if I wasn't paying attention..."
Even as he said this the suction cup was still sucking violently.
However, his attitude did confuse Ren Feng, but Ren Feng didn't want to argue with him about right or wrong now, so he grabbed his arm and tried to pull him away.
He pulled her arm up, but that was all.
Chen Zui looked embarrassed. He glanced at Ren Feng, who was sweating profusely, and said in a low voice, "It's too tight. I can't move."
Ren Feng's head buzzed.
What do you mean? His fault?
Chen Zui seemed to see through his thoughts: "I'm not saying it's your problem. After all, we have no experience in this area."
Just one sentence calmed Ren Feng's temper, not to mention that Ren Feng's temper was relatively stable. This feeling of being understood made people feel comfortable.
At this moment, in his heart, Chen Zui was the truly innocent one, on the same front with him, not his enemy.
Chen Zui saw Ren Feng watching the thorns that were about to explode become soft again. He stared at him and asked with great difficulty, "What should we do now?"
Chen Zui's pupils shrank slightly, revealing an imperceptible danger. He was excited by the ignorant reaction of his prey.
It was like the prey he had caught, naively discussing with himself how to eat him.
Cute, isn't it?
He thought about it seriously, then said tentatively: "Relax."
Ren Feng: ...
How to relax!
Seeing that he was in trouble, Chen Zui offered a considerate suggestion: "Why don't you just ignore it first, I'll help you first--"
He looked at Ren Feng, whose swelling had not yet subsided.
"Maybe then you'll relax."
It seemed like a solution. Ren Feng had no better idea for the time being and could only do as Chen Zui said. The handsome man was a little embarrassed. He avoided Chen Zui's gaze with his strong eyebrows and said in a muffled voice, "Thank you."
Chen Zui raised the corner of his lips: "You're welcome."
996: Stupid straight man.
Forget it, a stupid straight guy like this deserves to be slept with, why should he be the protagonist?
Wuxin continued to observe, it had to start considering its loan. Although the future was unknown, it felt relieved. It didn't have to fight wits and courage with the Anchuan Bookstore anymore. It was really tired recently because of the Anchuan Bookstore.
The superiors didn't offer much support and just blindly punished those who were unable to stop the secret entry into the bookstore.
According to the requirements of the loan, I went to the small world to play the roles of those abused people.
After being influenced by Chen Zui these days, a bold idea emerged in 996's mind. Since Chen Zui could do the protagonist without following the rules, why should he have to follow the rules?
Abuse?
Who loves sadomasochism!
It just acts badly and makes trouble!
Is it really meaningful to succeed in a mission after enduring abuse? If the mission is not completed, then it is not completed. At worst, I can just move on to another world and continue to do whatever I want!
Thinking about it this way, 996 can't wait any longer. There's no telling when Chen Zui's stupid system will be able to break through the firewall and go online. His original system must be inferior to his own, and he's a defeated opponent.
However, the firewall was set up by the upper level and it cannot be removed. Now that it has a revolutionary friendship with Chen Zui, it cannot just leave and abandon Chen Zui in this doomsday.
It still has to wait for Chen Zui's system to come online. It will then mock this stupid system before leaving.
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A black octopus tentacle appeared between the two semicircular hills. The actual size of the tentacle was larger than the two semicircular valleys, but the front end of the tentacle was thin.
The black tentacles slowly moved towards the middle of the hill and miraculously disappeared.
The suction cup on the tentacle suddenly sucked hard, and the two hills began to shake violently, to the extent that people were worried about collapse. Sensing the danger, the tentacle tried for a long time and finally succeeded in escaping from the middle of the hills at some point.
I saw that the front end of the tentacle was shiny, which was the mark of being soaked in water. When the tentacle was thrown out, it even brought out a few drops of water and fell on the bare hill.
The tentacles hung in the air in no hurry to leave.
Where the front end of the tentacle had just disappeared, a gurgling stream appeared, flowing slowly, twisting and turning along the uneven gully to the bottom of the hill.
"Snap"
A drop of water fell from the tip of the tentacle, and the hill seemed unable to bear the weight of this drop of water. It seemed that the tentacles had shown their power here a lot just now. The tentacles came here to find water. After all, octopuses cannot survive without water.
The tentacles fell and were soaked with water from the stream.
From now on, this place belongs to it.
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The raindrops falling in the heavy rain were mixed with some strange things, like some kind of creatures. These raindrops would not slide down when they landed on the window. If you looked closely, you could see insect eggs inside through the transparent film, trying to break out of the film with their tails raised.
A line of strange birds was circling in the sky, and these things were expelled by them.
Two people appeared near the cabin in the darkness. They looked haggard and skinny. They were looking for a place to hide to avoid the monsters on such a rainy night.
The rain hit them with a crackling sound. The normal raindrops slid down, while the abnormal raindrops stayed on their bodies. The insect eggs inside tried to rush out, but the two men were numbed by the rain and did not notice this abnormality.
They saw the wooden house, and the light in their eyes that looked at each other broke through the fatigue.
However, when they arrived at the door, they noticed two cars parked in the yard and the gate locked from the inside. Their intuition told them that there was someone in the cabin.
Some people did not dare to enter rashly, but they really needed a place to shelter from the rain. Their skinny and malnourished bodies could not withstand the heavy rain and they were about to be drowned.
The hot liquid fell on Chen Zui's body. The hand holding his arm increased its strength and then loosened, leaving scratches on his arm that were very eye-catching.
As for the man who left the scratches, his soul has not returned yet. He obviously has a very tough appearance, but at this moment he is inexplicably charming, and his body trembles with his breathing.
Chen Zui stared at Ren Feng and could no longer bear it.
He really liked the way the white liquid fell on Ren Feng's bronze skin. He used his hand to scrape off the liquid that fell on Ren Feng, put his hand to Ren Feng's mouth, and fed it into his mouth before he could come to his senses.
The confused man subconsciously sucked the food that was fed into his mouth, and then... he opened his eyes blankly and saw a pair of smug grinning eyes, so vivid that it made people feel that everything was alive and they couldn't bear to blame them at all.
"ah!"
Screams rang out outside the room, interrupting the moment and depriving Ren Feng of the opportunity to question Chen Zui.
The two of them instantly broke away from the ambiguous and passionate atmosphere. In unison, they looked out the window while putting on their clothes. The little octopus jumped out of the basin and hit Ren Feng's chest with a "pa ji".
Feel the facial cleanser.
Ren Feng was used to it and didn't pay much attention to the little octopus.
It was a man's scream, not Gao Qiang's, outside the house, and the screams were getting more and more tragic.
As soon as the two left the room, they saw Gao Qiang. Soon the two sisters of the Hu family also appeared. They exchanged glances and did not rush out of the house. Instead, they went to the window of the living room and leaned on the window in a row to look out.
Gao Qiang held a flashlight, but he didn't dare to shine it randomly for fear of attracting monsters.
"I see." Hu Yue said, pointing to the left side of the yard, "There are two people there."
Accompanied by a flash of lightning, everyone saw two people in the yard, two people rolling on the ground. They didn't see anything on them nor did they see any monsters, but the two people looked and sounded very painful.
Everyone was a little weird.
Raindrops slid down the window, leaving streaks.
Chen Zui's pupils flickered and he looked back at the raindrops on the window. Several raindrops were motionless. His brows lowered a little bit when he saw the larvae inside.
Hu Xue: "There are bugs in the rain! Look at the motionless raindrops on the window."
A few people looked more closely. Gao Qiang said, "Oh my god!" and stepped back, rubbing his arms. "How disgusting."
Looking closely, there were at least a hundred such raindrops on the window. One could imagine what the situation outside was like. The reason why the two people screamed might be related to the insects in the raindrops. When they looked at the two people again, they saw that they were scratching themselves hard, and all the exposed skin was scratched.
The expressions of several people became more and more solemn.
But this was so common in this world that no one offered to rescue them or take the risk for these two strangers.
The two men almost turned themselves into bloody corpses, looking horrible.
Ren Feng suddenly said, "Why not send them away?"
He said this very calmly.
Everyone looked at him, but for a moment no one agreed with his suggestion. Watching someone die was one thing, killing them was another. Even though they had all killed before, and even though the reason for this killing was to relieve their pain...
But this is not an easy thing to do.
Hu Xue: "Even if they are in pain, they don't necessarily want to die."
If they appeared in front of these two people, they would definitely ask for help.
The weight of life in this world is too light and too heavy.
Gradually, a person lay on the ground and couldn't get up, with his body twitching from time to time. Hu Yue couldn't bear to watch and left the window. The girl's eyes were red. In this world, there is always a kind of sadness of "the death of a rabbit makes the fox mourn".
Hu Xue also left the window, came to Hu Yue, hugged her shoulders and patted her.
There was heavy rain outside the house, and the atmosphere inside the house was depressing. As time went by, the two people's screams became quieter and quieter. The rain stopped at dawn, and the two people were silent before dawn.
Chen Zui looked at the last raindrops falling on the window. The moment the insects broke through the film and appeared, they were killed by the sunlight.
At noon, the accumulated water was almost dried up and a few people came out of the house. Their eyes fell on the two bodies inside, which were already unrecognizable.
You can see off-white flesh worms in the scratched flesh, and each person has at least dozens of them.
The wind blew.
It smells of death and decay.
The few of them continued on their journey in a heavy atmosphere.
Ren Feng was driving the car, and Chen Zui stretched out his hand from the car window, grabbing the sunlight and the wind.
“Death is actually not as scary as you imagine.”
He spoke, the wind ruffling his dark hair, his fair hands gleaming in the sunlight, occasionally casting mottled shadows of falling leaves: "The scary thing is that there will be no more. For those things that we didn't have time to do, we will feel more regretful."
Ren Feng: "Are you not afraid of the unknown?"
This question is not suitable for Chen Zui. He has always lived in an unknown future. He must have had fear of the unknown before, but he forgot it later. All that is left is the anticipation and excitement for the unknown.
Ren Feng: "Before the world became like this, you must have seen a lot of life and death when you were a mercenary."
He could feel Chen Zui's indifference towards death.
He looked at Chen Zui: "Is this doomsday world your playground?"
He not only felt Chen Zui's indifference to death, but also his cynicism hidden beneath his normal humanity.
He didn't have the anxiety that these survivors had.
When their eyes met, Chen Zui felt that he had underestimated Ren Feng. His eyes could see through him so clearly.
He tilted his head: "I'll have to trouble you to turn me into a more flesh-and-blood person."
For some reason, Ren Feng's heart skipped a beat because of these words.
He retracted his gaze and drove seriously: "Actually, it's quite good for you to do this."
It will be easier to live in this world.
Chen Zui smiled: "Are you feeling sorry for me?"
After he reminded him of this, Ren Feng realized that his previous thoughts were out of concern for him.
The man fell silent for a moment, speechless.
They headed north and totaled a car a week later.
The car was parked on the side of the road, and Gao Qiang was trying to figure out if it could be repaired. He was a professional in this area, and he had opened a repair shop before the end of the world.
Hu Xue also checked it together. As a former racing driver, she also had a certain amount of knowledge in this area.
Gao Qiang: "It seems that it won't work."
Hu Xue threw the scrapped wire back in her hand: "Let's find another car."
Only one car was left back on the road.
Hu Yue was secretly pinching the little octopus's tentacles: "Hey, it's nice to ride in a car like this. There are so many people, it's interesting."
The little octopus raised its tentacles and shook them at her.
Gao Qiang sat aside: "We can play a game for a while, play cards, a pair of 3."
He opened and came.
After a moment of silence, Hu Xue said, "Right, 2."
Gao Qiang looked at Hu Xue in surprise. Hu Yue said, "Then I'll give you four Ks."
Then the three of them looked at Chen Zui and the other two.
Chen Zui: “I can’t afford it.”
Ren Feng thought for a moment: "A pair of kings."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Qiang said: "You are cheating. I have a small king, and you can't have a pair of kings."
Ren Feng: …???
Hu Xue said seriously: "The king is here with me."
Hu Yue covered her mouth and laughed.
Ren Feng was very surprised. He glanced at Hu Xue through the rearview mirror and didn't expect that she could be so naughty.
He smiled helplessly, and just when he was about to admit it, Chen Zui spoke up: "We are playing with two decks of cards, so Ren Feng has a pair of kings."
Ren Feng looked at him gratefully.
The three people in the back row seemed like the bystanders. They looked at Chen Zui meaningfully, and then the three of them exchanged glances secretly, as if they had bumped into each other.
They all said "Oh" in unison with a long tone.
Gao Qiang rolled his eyes and said, "Two decks of cards, so I'll give him five fours and bet on a pair of kings!"
The game continues.
A few people were playing with non-existent cards out of thin air and having a lot of fun.
The little octopus lay on the car window, enjoying the breeze and not wanting to participate in such a childish game. The little octopus was disgusted.
While playing, I saw countless ice cones suddenly appear in the sky in front of me and shoot towards the same place.
Ren Feng slowed down the car.
It's obvious from the scene that other psychics are killing monsters.
The moment Gao Qiang saw the superpower, he glanced at Hu Xue.
The battle over there looked very fierce. After the ice cone passed, thunder and lightning appeared in the cloudless sky again.
Ren Feng: "I don't know how many people have awakened their superpowers."
Hu Yue: "The more hope there is, the better. Only then will there be hope for humanity."
They passed by that place and at night they reached the edge of the city and found a house nearby.
Gao Qiang kept his eye on Hu Xue: "Xiaoxue, let's look for supplies together."
Hu Xue nodded, and the two of them left the team. Soon Hu Xue realized that Gao Qiang had something to say to him.
She stopped searching and said, "If you have something to say, just say it. I hate people who are unhappy the most."
Gao Qiang hesitated for a moment, then walked over to her and grabbed her hand. "Xiaoxue, don't feel any pressure. It doesn't matter if you haven't awakened your superpowers. I will protect you."
It turned out to be about this matter. Hu Xue smiled indifferently: "Who told you that I have a psychological burden?"
She lifted her hair, confident and bright. "What's wrong with not having awakened superpowers? If I don't have awakened superpowers, I won't be able to live. I didn't have superpowers before and I don't have any now, but I'm still living well."
"To belittle oneself just because I don't have special abilities is not my character, Hu Xue."
She quickly pulled out the gun from her waist and said, "I have this. If I don't have this, I still have a knife. If I don't have a knife, I still have a stick. If I don't have a stick, I still have my hands, I still have stones, and I still have my brain."
"I'm not inferior to anyone with superpowers."
【Author’s words】
Applause for my sister
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