Chapter 171 Parasitism
That’s right, in such a strange environment, it seems that there is no choice but to run. If people don’t run, they will die.
Yu Leng wanted to get up, but at this moment he realized that twisting the gun barrel just now had consumed too much of his energy. Any movement would make him dizzy and his head buzzing.
Not only that, the not-so-nice emotions of those kids and the killers just now were also affecting him. All the malice in the entire world was pouring into his mind, making him want to vomit on the spot.
Lu Jiamu had already pulled him up, and the two of them pulled each other and stumbled together to follow the child in front.
Even though their calves were short and in poor condition, they did not lose track all of a sudden.
Because the surroundings were all ruins made up of collapsed buildings, and one could see very far away at a glance, there were not many places to hide.
The only intact buildings in sight were a large fence and a spire in the distance.
The sky and the earth were dark, almost the same color, and dilapidated gray ashes were falling from high above like snowflakes.
The same expulsion broadcast they had just heard was still coming from far away, and occasionally a searchlight flashed across the ruins, as if catching someone.
Although they still don’t know what is going on in this world, it probably won’t be a good thing if they are caught.
The child in front suddenly disappeared after running for a while.
When Lu Jiamu pulled Yu Leng over, they saw a narrow manhole cover under the ruins. The other person had already jumped down.
Lu Jiamu immediately pulled Yu Leng and jumped down as well.
The well was pitch black, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. They jumped down rashly and fell into a heap along the wall, with bruised noses and swollen faces.
The child who jumped down in front probably walked this road frequently and was very familiar with it, so he didn't seem to fall like them. He has run far away now.
However, this place seems to be more hidden than outside, and the probability of being caught is lower.
Both of them were so exhausted from running that they didn't dare to continue exploring forward. They could only stop where they were, enduring the pain and breathing heavily.
Yu Leng touched his skinny little face. Although he had never looked in the mirror, he could imagine how malnourished he looked.
This situation was actually worse than when they were in the first world. In that world, at least they had school and food to eat, and if they behaved well, they would get candy, but here there might be nothing.
As the saying goes, children are the future and the hope for the continuation of the flame. Even in the end of the world, as long as there is a little living space, there will always be people who think about the continuation of education and new forces.
But those people just now indiscriminately attacked children on a large scale, which only means one possibility: this world has no future at all.
The previous world was clearly full of spring sunshine, and they had just said goodbye to their other companions, but this world is so broken that it is hard not to feel a sense of psychological gap.
Even if they were adults, they would probably not be able to survive in such a world, let alone now that they have become skinny children.
Yu Leng clenched his fists and murmured in a low voice, a little overwhelmed: "How could this happen... How could I become a child again..."
Lu Jiamu took a moment to calm down, and after catching his breath in the darkness, he whispered to comfort him: "No matter what happens here, we will keep going."
"Then the mission...what is our mission this time? Did you hear it?"
Up to now, the Wheel of Time has not issued any so-called mission. Yu Leng has no memory of being on the train, and is still a little confused about this situation.
Lu Jiamu ignored him. He adjusted his breathing quietly in the darkness and thought carefully.
This is the second time this has happened.
So far, missions have been issued in most of the worlds. Perhaps it was because there were still options in those worlds. There were too many possibilities for their activities in such worlds, and too many things they could do, so they needed a mission as a guide to allow them to do what the Wheel of Time wanted them to do.
However, in a special world like the train, they have little room for maneuver due to extreme environmental factors, which means that no matter what they want to do, they will eventually face the core of the Wheel of Time and Space's mission, so the Wheel of Time and Space does not need to issue missions.
The fact that there are no missions now may indicate that this is also a special world and is very tricky.
However, the train world is a closed and narrow space with limited range of activities. If you want to get clues, you only need to conduct a simple investigation.
This is a vast apocalyptic wasteland. There are only a few people who can communicate. Everyone is fleeing for their own lives, and there is no way to get any clues.
Moreover, Lu Jiamu guessed that when the Wheel of Time and Space did not issue tasks, the tasks still needed to be completed by one's own judgment. These tasks were often some events. After solving the core of the task, one could leave immediately, otherwise he would continue to live here.
And this kind of task usually has nothing to do with survival time.
In such a doomsday scene, I guess few people would want to stay there for a long time.
The urgent question is, in this vast rather than closed doomsday scene, what exactly is it that they have to face no matter what?
All the information they had about the world at the moment came from those few brief glimpses. They knew too little and had no way of judging.
Lu Jiamu gave up thinking.
Yu Leng was even more uneasy that he didn't even have a goal to work towards.
He seemed to be saying to Lu Jiamu and himself over and over again: "Together, the two of us, all problems will be solved..."
After he finished muttering, he gradually fell into silence.
The two people lay there and rested silently in the unpleasant smell.
I don’t know how long I remained silent in this situation.
Yu Leng had used up most of his energy trying to calm himself down, and when he finally began to feel drowsy, the voice from the diary suddenly and extremely inappropriately came over: "Hey, hey~ little friend..."
"Hello~"
Hearing the voice again while half asleep and half awake, Yu Leng was frightened and woke up with a shudder: "You again?"
"Yes, it's me again."
It was pitch black in the well, but in the darkness one could clearly see a darker mass of messy lines like wool forming a messy human figure, sitting in Lu Jiamu's direction with legs crossed, very comfortable: "Just to remind you, now is a good opportunity."
Yu Leng's eyes had already adapted to the darkness. He subconsciously glanced at Lu Jiamu and found that Lu Jiamu was lying on the side with his eyes closed, but he didn't know if he was taking a nap.
"He has fallen asleep," the diary said, "and is sleeping soundly."
Yu Leng asked: "How come you are here?"
"My presence is not restricted by the occasion." The diary chuckled a little proudly, and the messy hand gently stroked the side, "Read the diary while he is asleep. Otherwise, everything will be too late."
Yu Leng fell into a brief silence.
He is not a fool, so of course he would not just believe whatever some ghost thing says.
Could it be that this ghost thing kept telling riddles out of kindness? This confusing behavior only aroused Yu Leng's vigilance.
Although they had only met twice, Yu Leng vaguely felt that this ghost thing was actually very good at playing with people's mentality.
It leaves things half-spoken, and as long as you are curious and have the motivation to obey it, it will say nothing, leaving only a large blank space for you to guess, just like the old riddle man.
Anyway, we can no longer ask it why it can't verbally ask questions that seem to show interest in the content, because once it sees that others are interested, it will just run away.
So Yu Leng just shook his head this time and replied firmly in the diary: "I believe in him, and I believe in our friendship. I don't need any initiative."
This didn't seem to be what Diary had expected. After a moment of silence, Diary grinned and sneered: "How could you believe in the so-called friendship of a man like him? You really have a short memory."
The diary seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly became particularly malicious: "In that case, then you should continue to be his friend."
After saying this with full malice, its lines began to dismantle and disappear.
Yu Leng tried to call it: "Hello?"
But the diary just crossed her arms and smiled and said, "Have faith in your friendship."
Apart from that, there is no more to say.
But it seems to have said a thousand words.
Yu Leng was caught by its reverse fishing technique again.
Lu Jiamu said more than once that the diary was a legacy of his good friend, but when it came to the diary's mouth, things seemed to have completely changed.
Why is this?
Yu Leng looked at Lu Jiamu, who was standing opposite him with his eyes closed and looked harmless, and took a closer look at him.
Although Yu Leng just said it with conviction, he actually knew in his heart that what he thought of as friendship might just be a one-way friendship.
He actually knew Lu Jiamu's ruthlessness better than others. Traveling alone with such a person would be a bit risky.
For such people, they walk together only because their goals and interests are the same. Once the interests conflict, they often will not care about the old friendship at all.
And Lu Jiamu just refused to share information with him, so he must have been hiding something from him.
What was he hiding? Was he really, as the diary suggested, a survivor from another round who had been pretending until now?
Yu Leng crawled silently to Lu Jiamu's side and stared at the diary.
It’s not that Yu Leng didn’t want to know what was in the diary, especially after Lu Jiamu had shown strange evasive behavior.
Now there are only him and Lu Jiamu. Lu Jiamu is not an absolutely good person like Coleman, so he is actually very eager to grasp as much information as possible in order to seize some initiative.
The diary was currently being held in Lu Jiamu's arms. If it was taken out forcibly, it would definitely alarm him.
The voice of the diary reappeared mysteriously: "That's right, don't be a fool."
Yu Leng looked back and saw the messy figure reappear, squatting beside him. The virtual eyes seemed to be looking up and down his body with a little greed: "If you move, he will wake up. Grab the diary and run quickly. Don't let him find you. You will be grateful to me after reading it."
But just because Yu Leng feels that there is something wrong with Lu Jiamu doesn’t mean that he will completely believe this ghost thing.
The biggest contradiction in it is that if there is something wrong with Lu Jiamu, and it has always had the ability to communicate with people, then why didn't it show up earlier to explain the situation?
When Coleman and the others were still there, wasn't it the best thing to do for it to tell everyone about Lu Jiamu's problem?
Yu Leng tried to sort out his thoughts and made a guess.
The first possibility is that the key information that can cause the dispute has only appeared recently and was not available before. According to the nature of the Wheel of Time and Space, it may be because of the confidentiality rule.
The second possibility is that the diary was used for some purpose to get rid of everyone around him.
Yu Leng didn't rush to grab the diary immediately. He thought for a while and asked, "Why do I feel that you said so much just because you want me to hold you alone?"
The diary began to say some sarcastic words indifferently: "Ah, right, right."
Yu Leng asked one last question: "Why can't you just tell me what happened?"
The diary said, "I have become such a horrible state now, and you still expect me to remember the details clearly? I asked you to read the diary because I only remember the bad things in it."
That makes some sense. It's just a messy ghost, and probably doesn't remember much.
Yu Leng considered it carefully and felt that even if he stole Lu Jiamu's things right now and broke off relations with him, the other party would not be able to kill him in one go.
Even if there are huge secrets in the diary, they will most likely be able to talk it out in this harsh environment and reach a consensus again.
He wanted to read the diary, but at the same time he couldn't be too far away from Lu Jiamu.
The light in the well was very poor. Yu Leng first groped his way to the ladder leading upwards, climbed up and pushed open the manhole cover.
A little light from the searchlight came in. Although it was not bright, it was better than nothing.
Diary was still standing below, looking at him, and sighed in disappointment when she saw him.
Yu Leng crawled back again and carefully took out the diary from Lu Jiamu's arms bit by bit.
When Lu Jiamu was awakened by the movement in his arms and opened his eyes, Yu Leng took out the diary before he could react and ran to the bottom of the wellhead, holding the book close to the light and flipping through it quickly.
As expected, on the first page of the diary, there were already understandable words.
Written on it in a slightly sloppy and childish handwriting:
[You are so weak, with your ability, you will definitely not make it to the end.]
[Instead of wasting your life and suffering, let me live on in your place :D]
Just as Yu Leng could vaguely see the words, the diary suddenly seemed to come to life. It gathered enough strength to bounce up and hit his face with a "pa" sound.
In order to see the handwriting clearly in the dim light, Yu Leng's face was very close to the diary, and he had no time to react.
Hmm!
It was like some kind of alien that had been disguised as daily necessities for a long time. At this moment, it stretched out its dense spiritual tentacles without reservation and pierced into Yu Leng's spiritual world.
In order to have the near-perfect opportunity to take action at this moment, and to seize this perfect puppet that matches its ability type, it disguised itself from beginning to end, which can be said to have been planned for a long time.
Yu Leng wanted to pull it off, but the diary was stuck to his face and had a strong suction force like a facehugger, so he couldn't pull it off no matter how hard he tried.
I could hear Diary's excited and slightly satisfied chuckle.
The diary said some bewitching words softly: "Don't struggle. This world is so hard and difficult. It's not good at all. Don't you think? With your ability, you may end up with nothing after working hard for a long time. Why not let me be you and live for you? I am stronger than you. I will use your name to reach the end for you and go home for you."
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