Chapter 96 Floating Fish and Algae Lanterns
Li Ming pulled Li Yixi towards the underground subway station.
Although it was indeed unsafe to rashly go to the dark and narrow underground now that the national power supply was completely cut off, Li Ming was more inclined to the former rather than alarming a large number of unknown creatures in an unknown environment.
He still has confidence in his own perception.
However, theory cannot compare to reality. When Li Ming actually walked to the bottom floor of the subway station, he leaned against the wall expressionlessly, allowing his sister to look around excitedly.
Li Ming said indifferently: "...Heh, woman."
His sister really has no resistance to cute things.
[Derivative: Floating Fish]
[Field: Mermaid Reef]
[Disaster sequence: D-22 floating, E-172 self-luminous, E-235 light source tracking]
[Note: The bottom of the pyramid of the Mermaid Reef. Even in a waterless and lightless environment, they can swim and emit light. Their food sources are mostly harmless microorganisms such as algae and fungi, so the fish tend to cluster in dim or humid places. ]
[In the midst of a power outage, their talents add a little light to the city at night. To describe them in the simplest terms, it is -]
[A harmless little fish that eats algae, glows, and can swim in the air.]
As humans approached, the translucent fish swam in groups of two or three toward the deeper, darker railroad tracks, their tails leaving a faint trail in the air.
Li Ming could hear the sound of floating fish waving their tails, as if they were not on land but in the deep ocean.
"elder brother!"
His sister, who always showed no respect to others, suddenly hugged him and lamented, "Why don't I have such a cute derivative? Why can't I have one? I'm so unwilling, I'm so unwilling——"
Li Ming pushed her away coldly: "Sister, this is not something I can answer."
He also wanted to know why his sister was always so obsessed with being cute or not. Li Ming thought from the bottom of his heart: As long as the derivatives were strong, that was enough. Being cute couldn't be eaten.
"And brother——"
Li Yixi coughed lightly and said seriously, "They can glow~"
"oh?"
"Do you know how many candles this saves?"
"..." Li Ming fell silent after hearing this.
He found that after experiencing the "Wall of Silence", Li Yixi not only no longer disliked the Blood Queen, but also had a strong sense of ownership.
"Is this what you should be thinking about now?" Li Ming complained expressionlessly.
"Tsk, it really can't."
Little Li Yixi, who hadn't heard anything at all, first groaned in disdain, then muttered to himself, "I really should go out more and see the world. I should travel more in the future."
Li Ming was stunned after hearing this:
...Why did the topic turn to travel?
"But seriously, this way I don't have to worry about tripping." Li Yixi happily grabbed a paper bag from the coffee shop in the subway station, picked up the discarded cardboard and shoveled it down with a grunt.
Li Ming said mercilessly: "Sister, can't you see at night?"
"Brother, you can't do it, right?"
"Are you going to give me the little algae lantern you made?"
"Of course not~"
The next second, Li Yixi raised his eyes expressionlessly and said, "Do it yourself."
So Li Ming slowly entered the backstage of the coffee shop to look for the remaining paper bags. Under the dim light of the floating fish, he quickly found the unopened paper bags in the store.
only……
Li Ming's eyes lingered on the sealed coffee cans for a long time. The roasted and dried coffee beans still looked delicious even after being left unattended for several months.
Li Ming's heart was eager to make a move.
But when he thought about the fact that the machine couldn't even grind coffee beans during the power outage, he felt regretful. Li Ming could only look calmly at the floating fish gathered next to the cupboard.
They gather here, glowing and gnawing on the moss clinging to the walls.
It stands to reason that——
Will moss appear here?
Li Ming reached out to touch the rough and slippery moss, and the small fish were frightened and quickly scattered. A little green slipped from his fingertips, and realizing that humans had no intention of harming them, they ran to sip the moss on the ground in twos and threes.
Um……
Li Ming suddenly thought: the role of moss might be like the thorns that appeared at the same time as the Blood Queen. When the thorns grew, he did not get any prompts from the Eye of Truth, but they still belonged to the domain.
Shanghai is being invaded by the "Mermaid Reef".
"How strange." Li Ming murmured with a strange expression.
This was the first time he had come into contact with a domain of this type, although Li Ming knew that he had not come into contact with many disaster domains. However, other domains were defined as the scope of the domain, and Li Ming could clearly detect whether he had entered the domain, but the 'Mermaid Reef'...
It was not until he saw these floating algae that Li Ming felt that he was actually in the "Mermaid Reef".
"The reason for opening?"
Li Ming reviewed the hints he had read and it was not difficult to figure out the special origin of the Mermaid Reef. The Eye of Truth had once hinted that the S-level disaster area, the Mermaid Reef, had the characteristics of being owned and open.
"Brother, are you not okay yet?" Li Yixi shouted outside the coffee shop.
"Alright, alright."
Li Ming, whose thoughts were interrupted, hurriedly picked up the paper bag and ran out of the coffee shop. With the help of his sister, he quickly made a simple algae lantern.
But calling it an "algae lantern" is not scientific.
Because the algae placed at the bottom can only be said to be food that attracts small floating fish, and it is these harmless floating fish that play the role of lighting.
"Sister, if Xiaoyu doesn't go with us, your night vision will be the last resort." Li Ming warned in a heavy tone, "Remember to take me out with you when the time comes."
"Who on earth thought that going underground was a piece of cake?" Li Yixi complained after hearing this.
"Isn't it because I think you are reliable?"
"I guess brother forgot at first that I can see at night." Li Yixi said expressionlessly.
“…I can’t refute that.”
Li Ming responded with difficulty. But soon he took his sister's hand, and the two of them jumped over the broken glass door one after the other. The air at the railroad tracks was dull and sticky, just like the deep sea.
Li Ming subconsciously turned his head to look at his sister, but saw that she opened her mouth in a strange way.
Li Yixi shouted out several untuned syllables.
She looked at Li Ming seriously and said, "Brother, there is something wrong with the air pressure here."
Li Ming also felt the difference.
He pinched the clothes on his body, but he didn't feel any wetness. But this was very strange... Li Ming's senses suddenly fought with each other...
"It feels so great." Li Yixi suddenly said.
Li Ming looked at her in surprise, only to see her say with a subtle look: "This is my first time experiencing the feeling of the seabed on land. Maybe the Siren can turn this place into an ocean."
"Then we can go to see the sea without leaving home."
Li Ming was stunned after hearing this.
He thought that what his sister said might be correct. The subway station they were in now might correspond to the seabed in the Siren's territory, so the abnormal air pressure was reasonable.
"Let's go, sister."
Li Ming laughed and said, "If we walk fast, we should be able to reach home in 6 hours."
"Brother, you are dreaming."
After hearing this, Li Yixi looked at Li Ming with disdain and said, "Who on earth was the one who pretended to be sick at home while hiking in high school and refused to go no matter what?"
"snort."
This time it was Li Ming's turn to snort coldly.
The so-called brothers and sisters are two people who always try to sabotage each other. But when Li Ming thought of this, he suddenly remembered: Maybe Jiang Huai looked at the two of them just like he looked at the two of them as brothers.
Li Ming took out the subway map he had picked up from the subway station. Shanghai has been expanding its subway lines in recent years, and he was not familiar with many of the routes.
"If you don't have time to walk home, just go to Fenghe Road."
He pointed to the small dot on the subway and said to his sister, "There are a lot of hotels and B&Bs nearby. But if they have all been cleared out by other survivors, we can go further away and check out the nearby residential areas."
Li Yixi nodded after hearing this.
So the underground hike for two people officially began. The underground is much safer than the ground, the only thing that is a little scary is that the environment is too depressing.
The surroundings were silent except for the sound of the fish's tails and the two people's breathing.
When they reached an area without the light from the fish, Li Yixi took her brother's hand and walked carefully. It was dark and quiet around them, and only the warmth in his hand was particularly real.
"Brother." Li Yixi suddenly shouted.
Li Ming looked in the direction of the sound curiously. Because it was too dark around him, he could only judge his sister's approximate location by feeling.
"When I said I couldn't remember much about the Wall of Silence, it was a little bit false..." She said in a dull tone, "It felt like I walked a very long, dark road there."
"Um?"
"I feel very strange, brother." Li Yixi complained sadly, "Because I have walked for such a long time, but you didn't think of coming to pick me up."
"Forehead……"
Li Ming was helpless after hearing this. He smiled bitterly to comfort his sister: "It was just a dream."
Li Yixi immediately uttered a word of disapproval. She shook her head and pretended to be relaxed and said, "Later, I told myself: Brother is not my brother yet. When this journey is over, everything will be fine."
"You're not leaving the fallopian tube, are you?" Li Ming couldn't help but raised his eyebrows.
“That’s a possibility~”
Li Yixi couldn't help laughing: "Brother, when you said that, I suddenly found it so funny, hahaha..."
Li Ming shrugged indifferently.
When his sister calmed down and was in a good mood, he asked gently, "Why are you talking about this suddenly?"
"Because there are some things I want you to know, brother." Li Yixi confided gloomily, "I feel that hiding these things is a very bad behavior."
Is there anything wrong with that?
Li Ming was very surprised. He thought back to what Li Yixi had said, and suddenly realized that Li Yixi was hinting that he might not be her biological brother.
"..." Li Ming was silent for a moment.
If you insist, Li Ming knew the news before Li Yixi. But in reality, Li Ming pretended not to care and said, "Now my brother knows."
"Yeah." Li Yixi nodded briskly.
The topic ended here, but Li Ming felt inexplicably sad. He could clearly recognize that sooner or later he would lose Li Yixi.
But somehow, Li Ming can accept it now.
Li Ming held his sister's hand tightly and thought:
Even if they are destined to be separated in the future, at least let them complete this journey together.
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