Chapter 38: The Giant Whale My brother, my blood relative, I share with you...
On the sixth day after saying goodbye to the two, they met other people.
"That's rare. Are you guys planning to go out on the market too?"
A fat man with slightly gray hair sighed to the two of them the first time he saw them: "There are so many strange things these days."
He had a weathered face and was wearing a gas station work uniform. He was sitting alone in front of the convenience store in the gas station, with an unlit cigarette in his mouth.
Thick grey fog obscured the distant landscape.
He didn't notice the other person until he got off the car at the gas station.
Li Ming looked up in the direction he came from without any expression. The gray-white haze had already covered the road. From the naked eye, Li Ming felt that the visibility was within a hundred meters.
In this case—
Walking is safer than driving.
The fog covered the area faster than Li Ming had imagined, but this time they were not pulled into a new disaster area. They were just blocked from leaving by the large area of fog.
Li Ming suddenly felt fortunate that he did not choose to go home.
Judging from the current concentration of fog, a new disaster area is emerging. This is why the two of them did not choose to abandon the car and leave. The sooner they leave Shencheng, the less likely they will be involved.
"Uncle, have you met other people before?"
Li Ming lifted up a strand of messy hair and asked in a casual tone.
"Yes." The fat uncle picked up the cigarette beside his lips and said absentmindedly: "Just this morning, a young girl came here to refuel. At that time, the fog was not as thick as it is now."
"Little girl?" Li Ming suddenly murmured.
"Yes, the little girl said she was working away from home, and now she is thinking about going home after encountering such a big thing." When the fat uncle said this, he sighed and said:
"China hasn't seen such a big disaster in a long time. I don't know what the situation is like outside Shencheng."
Li Ming fell into silence.
But soon he couldn't help but be curious and asked, "Uncle, can I ask if you have met other people? Did they tell me what they encountered?"
"Others?" The fat uncle maintained this posture and muttered, "Someone passed by here about a week ago. After all, this is the gas station closest to the highway."
"Some said they encountered ghosts, some said they encountered zombies, and some even said they encountered another version of themselves."
The fat uncle paused and said with emotion:
"You can really encounter anything these days."
Li Ming: “…”
It sounds like there are a lot of disaster areas within Shencheng.
He suddenly became a little worried about his roommate who was still in Shanghai. Li Ming pursed his lips and asked patiently: "Finally, can I ask, is there anything that you find strange?"
"Maybe..." the fat uncle murmured hesitantly, "I met two college students. They both encountered ghosts and they were from the same school. But they had no impression of each other. It's really strange..."
"From listening to their experiences, I can clearly feel that the monsters they encountered were all similar."
Derivative areas.
A subsidiary domain born from a disaster domain, or it can be said to be a copy of a copy.
Li Ming pondered for a moment and explained, "They should be trapped in two dimensions. It's just that the monsters in the two dimensions are the same, so it sounds like they are describing the same dimension to others."
"Is it like this?" the fat uncle asked in surprise.
Li Ming nodded heavily.
In fact, this is easy to understand for teenagers who surf the Internet intensively in today's era. Two college students teamed up with different teammates to attack a dungeon.
Their copy is a copy, but not the same copy.
"Li Ming?"
Jiang Huai, who had just filled up the car's gas tank manually, came over curiously and asked, "You seemed to have been talking just now. Who were you talking to?"
His figure gradually became clear in the fog.
But Jiang Huai's footsteps suddenly stopped when they were less than ten meters away from Li Ming.
"This is really a bit presumptuous..."
Jiang Huai murmured in a low voice with embarrassment on his face, then put his hands together towards the chair where the fat uncle was sitting, bent down and bowed to him.
"Hey, young man!" The fat uncle grumbled loudly in dissatisfaction, "Why are you bowing to me all of a sudden? Didn't your family teach you that this is to worship your ancestors? You're making me so angry--"
"Are you still planning on going to the convenience store?"
Jiang Huai turned and asked Li Ming.
He acted like he didn't care at all about what the fat uncle said.
Li Ming shook his head without any interest and said, "Let's go now."
He turned and walked towards the parked car, the fat uncle behind him still yelling: "How come even you are so rude now, young man! It's not a good thing to treat your elders like this!"
"Hey, hey, don't leave! Stay and chat with me, an old man!"
Realizing that the two had no intention of stopping, the fat uncle could only shout urgently: "You must remember not to get close to the water. The sea monster and the waves are fighting, and you may be swept in at any time!"
Li Ming's footsteps suddenly stopped.
In the end, he couldn't control his actions and turned around and bowed respectfully towards the corpse lying on a chair not far away.
[The Revelator: ? ? ? (In the process of falling)]
[Identity: C-level Revelation]
【Talent: C-411 Visualization】
[Note: Death is only a brief moment in life, and the process towards death is destined to be long. At the last moment of his life, he did not choose to go home, but chose to perish here.]
[In the future, every traveler who passes by this place and every explorer who comes to explore the city will have the honor of communicating with him. ]
【only……】
[The deadline is limited to before the abyss drowns him. 】
"I originally thought that if I was farther away, you would be able to see it." Li Ming suddenly sighed, "Now it seems that it can only be triggered once at a time."
"Huh?" Jiang Huai tilted his head in confusion.
He turned his head to look in the direction of the strange body and asked, "Is there anyone there?"
In Jiang Huai's eyes, he only saw a shriveled, emaciated corpse. He originally wanted to not help the uncle collect the remains, but Li Ming's attitude was obviously not that.
"Just let him stay there." Li Ming said, "That's the cemetery that the uncle chose for himself."
So Jiang Huai nodded heavily.
They got back on the SUV. Jiang Huai silently pulled his seat belt, stepped on the accelerator, and drove carefully into the depths of the fog. Li Ming, who was sitting in the passenger seat, sighed heavily.
"Is there anything bothering you?" Jiang Huai asked.
"..." Li Ming said weakly, "I'm not sure whether my choice is right or not. My mind is a mess now..."
Apocalypse, Degeneration, Disaster... He couldn't even guarantee that the next time someone arrived at the gas station, they would encounter the ghost of the fat uncle, or the disaster that looked like the fat uncle.
Li Ming couldn't make a choice.
Because he didn't know how to stop the Apocalypse from degenerating. Keeping it as it is is the best option, but is it really the best option?
“No one can be sure that the choice is completely normal.”
Jiang Huai responded calmly: "Now we can only explore the boundaries of the world step by step."
“Explore with your life?”
“Use your life to explore.”
Li Ming fell into silence after hearing this. Although he was still in a bad mood, Jiang Huai's affirmative words gave him a lot of comfort. I really admire the protagonist of the comic for being so determined...
Although he is the protagonist now.
"Jiang Huai, I was just talking to the ghost of the fat uncle." Li Ming cheered up and shared with his teammates: "He finally told us that the waves and sea monsters were fighting and told us not to get close to the water."
“Yo——”
A long whale cry suddenly sounded from the depths of the fog. A huge black figure swam in the gray-white fog, as if it was wandering in the sea water formed by the fog.
"Li Ming, we are about to pass the cross-sea bridge."
Jiang Huai looked calm, his hands firmly grasping the rudder, and suddenly said, "It may be a bit bumpy later, let me tell you first."
However, before Jiang Huai could finish his words, he stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the smog where visibility was less than 100 meters. An off-road vehicle performed an extreme overtaking on the cross-sea bridge.
Li Ming was caught off guard and bumped into the car window.
His face was deformed by the collision, and the next second he quickly hugged the seat and shouted to Jiang Huai: "Your reminder is useless!"
“Yo——”
Another whale cry sounded, but this time it was louder and clearer.
Li Ming suddenly turned his head and looked out of the car window. On his right, on the right side of the cross-sea bridge, a huge black shadow was emerging from the misty ocean.
It's getting closer and closer.
Until the huge whale's body finally showed part of itself in the haze with extremely low visibility. A hint of human doubt flashed in the whale's silvery white eyes.
Suspicion, but no malice.
It seemed to want to ask something, but before Li Ming could understand its intention, the vehicle drove out of the cross-sea bridge, leaving Li Ming alone staring at the window in a daze.
[Derivative: Giant Whale]
[Field: Mermaid Reef]
[Disaster Sequence: S-20 Siren (inferior), A-117 Telepathy, D-96 Self-healing, D-110 Blood Relatives, E-11 Consciousness Sharing, E-232 Voice Empowerment, E-233 Visual Enhancement]
[Note: The ocean is no longer their home. He and his relatives set foot on the land only to continue their race. When the race learns to fly, a new civilization will be born.]
[“My brother, my blood relative, I share the throne with you.”]
Li Ming lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
He just had the feeling that an extremely soft existence had invaded his ocean of consciousness, but strangely, that existence suddenly chose to withdraw without any explanation.
Only an unclear and interrupted speech was left.
"He should be a good person..." Li Ming thought hesitantly.
He felt absolutely no ill will from the other party. To use an inappropriate metaphor, it was as if his neighbor's six-year-old kid had shot him a few times with a water gun.
Forehead……
Damn it, I need a forum.
"Li Ming, are you okay?" Jiang Huai hurriedly stopped the car, reached out and patted Li Ming on the shoulder.
"It's okay." Li Ming turned around in confusion. After a long silence, he suddenly said excitedly: "Jiang Huai, did you see it? It's such a big whale!"
"Forehead."
"This is the first time I've seen such a big whale. It can even say hello. Could it be the sea monster the uncle mentioned? It doesn't look like a sea monster."
"Um."
"I suddenly became excited."
"I can see that." Jiang Huai said silently, "I just hope you remember that the situation is still unclear, so we'd better be careful."
Li Ming's passion was suddenly extinguished.
He pretended to be serious and said, "You are right. Now let's get on with our journey."
Jiang Huai was suddenly at a loss after hearing this. He thought to himself: This was obviously not his original intention. He just wanted Li Ming to be more alert.
"But it feels like Shencheng is about to become an empty city."
In the gray fog, Li Ming rolled down the car window beside him, looked at the dead silent city behind him and said, "I haven't seen anyone for five consecutive days. If I hadn't met the ghost of the fat uncle today, I really wouldn't have known that there were still people."
S-level disaster area 'Mermaid Reef'.
Li Ming thought about the information he had just seen, and his brows suddenly frowned. He wanted to deny this, but it didn't make sense that an S-level disaster sequence had appeared, and it wasn't an S-level domain...
Shanghai has been plagued by disasters.
"I just hope the situation in other cities is better than in Shanghai." Jiang Huai gripped the steering wheel tightly and pretended to be calm.
Other cities?
Li Ming realized belatedly: As for other cities, it is still possible. After all, Shanghai is close to the sea... No, it should be...
There is no 'Mermaid Reef' in other cities.
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