Chapter 82 The Red Tide Monster City has become a real 'monster' city...
Any regrets?
Li Ming was suddenly stunned. He couldn't understand the meaning of this answer. When did his sister have such regrets? Isn't it a waste of time to deliberately kill someone who is about to die?
But for Li Yixi, perhaps this is what is valuable.
So Li Ming said seriously:
"It's up to you."
Li Yixi remained silent after hearing this. She looked up at the blood moon outside the window, then shook her head: "Brother is right, I was indeed impulsive."
She collected the blood that was flowing out, handed the shopping bag to Li Ming, and emphasized: "I just grabbed it from the convenience store downstairs. It's definitely not because my schedule is messed up. I just happened to be out of food."
Li Ming: “…”
Sister, the more you emphasize it, the more people will think that you have an irregular schedule.
Li Ming reluctantly reached out and took the shopping bag.
He subconsciously opened the shopping bag to check the food, but when he noticed canned fruits and other instant canned foods, Li Ming took them out to check the shelf life.
"In a few months, we won't be able to eat these anymore." Li Yixi said calmly.
"Yes."
Li Ming put down the can with a disappointed tone: "I really don't know how people in the future will survive."
Although the emergence of the talent sequence has brought about an unprecedented rise in the status of individuals, if people want to survive normally, they still cannot do without the means of production provided by the collective.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation.
The first emergency is always the food problem. This is why the little witch took the initiative to find Jiang Huai. If the problem of Qingcheng is not solved, the future development of the capital base will be greatly restricted.
The two continued to return to the living room.
Li Ming placed the shopping bag his sister brought on the glass table. The iron cans and the glass table made a slight collision sound, but neither of them paid attention to it.
The blood color outside the window became darker and darker.
Li Ming saw that the outer walls of the two buildings closest to them were already covered with dense thorns. He turned around and asked his sister: "Li Yixi, do you have anything to take away?"
Li Yixi shook his head.
But soon she looked embarrassed and said, "I'm still a little worried about my bestie."
Li Yixi’s best friend?
Hearing about this person from his sister again, Li Ming's eyes suddenly showed a hint of hesitation: it can be seen that his sister and the other party get along very well, otherwise they would not have called each other best friends in just one year.
But the other party is in Ningcheng?
Do they have to go to Ningcheng for this? Or can Lingcheng go directly to Ningcheng now?
"But it shouldn't work." Li Yixi sighed, "There is only one road leading to the north in the Blood Moon Realm. If we leave Lingcheng through this road, we probably won't be able to turn back."
"To the north?" Li Ming repeated in surprise.
"I saw the map they made in Blood Moon's castle. They were building a railway track to the north. From my geographical location, the terminal should be opposite the 'Wall of Silence'."
"Um?"
Li Ming paused after hearing this. He had just learned from the forum that the Blood Queen had annexed the Wall of Silence last week, so how come the vampires had already built the railway tracks?
No, the Queen was reflected.
Li Ming suddenly realized: she was Li Yixi, who was the target of the previous week and was about to be killed. Her domain already covered the entire south, and it was normal for these things to exist in her domain.
"Li Yixi..."
Li Ming asked gently, "Where is the starting point of the railway, Ningcheng or Lingcheng?"
"Lingcheng." Li Yixi replied, "But it does not rule out that the geographical distance in the field is distorted and changed. If Ningcheng's geographical location is used as the starting point, we will most likely get off at the 'Wall of Silence'."
This is a dangerous thing, but it must be tried.
Li Ming frowned at this.
Li Yixi looked at her brother in deep thought. She tried to speak calmly, "Brother, if you think this road is too dangerous, we can meet on the other side of the 'Wall of Silence'."
“It’s not too late.”
Li Yixi looked at her brother seriously. She sincerely thought this proposal was better, but her brother obviously didn't think so.
"I won't do it." Li Ming said firmly.
But he soon said cautiously: "If you think I will be a burden on the road, I will agree with this approach. But the current situation is more like you want to show off your ability alone."
"Is that so, Li Yixi?"
Li Yixi was silent. She said sadly, "I don't know, brother. The only thing I know is that I can't stay here anymore, but I don't even know which choice is normal..."
This is indeed the case.
Li Ming sighed inwardly: Because even he was hesitating and struggling about what choice to make. This was a road of no return, and they were looking into the unknown distance from the starting point.
"Your bestie should be fine."
Li Ming tried to speak gently and said, "Someone I know is on his way to Ningcheng. I think if he can't handle it, we probably won't be able to handle it either."
"Is he very powerful?" Li Yixi was surprised.
“Very impressive.”
"That should be fine." Li Yixi breathed a sigh of relief. She couldn't help but smile and said, "That's great. I rarely hear brother's comments about others. Since he has received such a high evaluation from brother, he must be a good person."
Although Li Yixi is still hesitating, she doesn't have much time left to hesitate.
She could only end with these light words.
Because if she left in this way, it would be difficult for her to go to Ningcheng again. Because of worry, being trapped in the same area twice was something that should not happen.
Li Yixi suddenly said, "I don't have anything to bring, brother."
She looked up towards the balcony. The crimson moon cast a faint blood-red hue on the streets and walls. The tall buildings in the distance were covered with sharp, dry thorns.
Their roots are not in the soil, but in the mirror-like glass windows.
Layers of water waves rippled on the glass surface along the growth of thorns. Li Ming could hear the sound of tiny glass breaking, coming from the covered full-length mirror next to him.
"Time waits for no one." Li Ming frowned. He turned to his sister and asked, "Sister, do you know where I can get into the mirror? Let's talk while we walk."
"Okay, brother."
On the way, Li Ming asked his sister why she appeared there on the day of the reunion. It turned out to be just as Li Ming guessed, she was there to check the situation of the people who were transformed by the corresponding monsters.
"So how are they doing?" Li Ming asked.
"The situation is not bad." Li Yixi hesitated, "If you can find the courage to kill the corresponding monster, you can still survive."
But if you can't do it, there is really no hope.
Li Ming understood immediately. But just as Li Yixi said, he also felt that the situation was not bad. Although the crisis was brought by his sister, the solution was clearly there.
Li Ming couldn't tell what feeling was rising in his heart, maybe it was the feeling of being disappointed in his friend.
When the two walked out of the apartment building, the scene in Lingcheng was completely different. The streets that used to be clean and bright became dilapidated and dim, and the street lights flickered, like swaying candlelight or aging incandescent lamps.
Many bloodstains appeared inexplicably on the walls and roads.
From time to time, Li Ming could hear the murmurs of unknown creatures from dim corners or the darkness across a wall. They walked with a sticky lubricant, like patrolling snails.
The city was no longer the city he knew.
At the end of the road, in the center of the city, a pitch-black castle loomed before his eyes. Li Ming could see winged monsters wandering in the air above the castle.
Since ancient times, Europe has sculpted statues of monsters on the outer walls of castles.
They are the gargoyles that guard the castle and the demons that punish invaders.
"elder brother."
Li Yixi called softly. When Li Ming turned his gaze to him, she said, "There is still time to hesitate."
"I think I've hesitated."
"If we go in, we may not have time to rest. Because we have to leave the city quickly before the derivatives find us." Li Yixi said stubbornly: "The key to open the train is in the castle. We must go to the castle again."
That sounds really dangerous.
After hearing this, Li Ming couldn't help but blame him: "You should have told me this before you asked me whether I wanted to choose to reunite."
Li Yixi's eyes shifted: "..."
Li Yixi said with a guilty tone: "Aren't you hoping that you will choose another route?"
"hehe."
Li Ming really didn't want to attack his sister, but he really wanted to complain about her concealment.
Li Yixi subconsciously rubbed his nose with his fingers.
She turned around and took her brother's hand, her tone inexplicably cheerful: "I feel particularly good now."
"Um?"
"I am still a little scared. When I think about becoming such a monster in the future, I feel like the sky is falling." Li Yixi couldn't help laughing, "But luckily my brother found me."
"Hmph." Li Ming snorted complacently.
Even though he felt empty inside that he hadn't been able to do that last week, how on earth had his sister managed to hold on through such a difficult time?
"Brother, please go in first."
The two stood on the ground floor of a tall building. Li Yixi first looked at the glass wall with ripples and thorn roots growing on it, and then said to Li Ming.
"Where are you going?" Li Ming asked curiously.
"I'm not going anywhere." Li Yixi shook his head after hearing this. "This place can only allow one person to pass through. I will find another place to enter. When the time comes, please wait for me, brother."
Very reasonable explanation.
But Li Ming was inexplicably worried after hearing this. He hesitated and asked, "Li Yixi, are you planning to go..."
Revenge?
"No, I won't." Li Yixi said calmly, "Brother, what you said makes sense. There is no need for me to waste my time here. It's just that brother..."
She asked with an unreadable expression, "If my brother becomes a disaster one day, what will he think of humans?"
A strange question.
Li Ming immediately expressed his feelings. He answered clearly: "Since our identities and positions have changed, I don't think we need to think too much."
"Just think from the perspective of the disaster."
Li Ming could understand why Li Yixi asked this question. The comics forum had pointed out Li Yixi's thoughts to him, but Li Ming felt that since he already knew the answer, there was no need to dwell on the question.
All Li Yixi wanted was an answer, and her answer itself was Li Ming's answer.
They have spent a lot of time together.
Each other's thinking patterns have long been infiltrated in this process. Although readers often complain that Li Ming's empathy is too high, Li Ming himself thinks that his empathy seems to be quite high, but here -
He subtly reached a consensus with his sister.
"Yes."
Li Yixi couldn't help but smile with relief and said, "Then we'll see each other in the Blood Moon. After we leave the Blood Moon, we can think about where to go in the future."
It's time to worry about these things.
So Li Ming said softly: "Okay, sister."
As his body sank into the mirror, his vision suddenly became dark. But when Li Ming looked back, he found that his sister was still standing there, watching him go away.
It was difficult for Li Ming to describe what this feeling was, as if he had done it with his sister countless times.
Meet, part, meet, part, and then meet again... Until the last parting, he felt that this would be a short separation.
But there's no need to be too sad.
They still have a chance to meet, they just need to wait patiently.
Li Yixi put down her waving hand expressionlessly. She has always been like this, rarely showing emotions except to those close to her. At the last moment before leaving, she looked towards the direction of her school.
That's her university.
She and her classmates had spent a very fulfilling and happy year. She learned a lot from her classmates, and the world she had never known before was opened to her one by one.
But happiness is short-lived after all.
"Goodbye, Alma Mater." Li Yixi whispered to herself. She didn't know when they would meet again, and she gave up on revenge this time.
She leaped into the mirror, and soon after she left—
The red tide engulfed everything.
The Monster City has become a real 'Monster' city.
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