Chapter 134 Unavoidable Death
"Stop, monster, don't come any closer."
Robbins had already raised his weapon, adjusted his breathing and said,
"team leader?"
Lanqi tilted his head, a little confused and puzzled. His inhuman eyes swept over the twelve people in the group. He looked at the captain and then at Lilith, as if he didn't understand why everyone was so scared when they saw him.
"R?"
He took another step forward, and the sentries, stimulated by this, drew their weapons and pointed them at him.
"Don't come over here, you're already a pollutant, don't come over here..."
Jayne shook his head and shouted at the top of his lungs, his eyes already red, and the rest of his teammates were not much better.
Lanqi looked down at himself. He stretched out his hand, and on it were intertwined vines, winding and spreading on his skin. Beneath them were not blood vessels, but flowing green juice.
Then, he reached out and touched his eyes. The rough texture of the tree trunk finally made him realize something. He suddenly felt in his uniform pocket and took out a palm-sized round mirror.
In the clear mirror, a distorted face is revealed, eyes bulging from branches, cheeks occupied by tender buds, and a throat filled with dead leaves.
Everything is beyond common sense and absolutely not normal.
"I... am contaminated?"
Lan Qi looked at his most trusted captain for confirmation, but the calm and steady captain he admired just said indifferently,
"Lanqi, separate the spirit body."
All the contaminated team members will receive such an answer, but few can accept it calmly.
Lanqi was the same. He felt his mind was empty and he was completely unable to respond. He took a step back and looked at the guide who had been silent at the side as if begging.
"R, please help me, please save me. You can do it, right?"
He said that he wanted to approach Lilith, but was blocked by Jayne and Shen Jiaxu at the same time. The gunshot that broke through the air landed on the ground in front of him.
Lanqi timidly withdrew his movements and asked again hopefully,
"R, you, you even purified Bernie, so you can definitely purify me, right? You're the guide of my exploration team. With you here, I don't have to turn into a terrible monster like the previous team members. You can definitely save me, right?"
There was a hint of pity in Lilith's eyes, but it quickly disappeared. She could sense the limits of her mental strength. She could indeed purify the pollutants left by the dead host.
But now, not to mention the lack of mental strength, even in Lanqi's current condition, he can't complete a purification. His instincts and polluted wildness will tear apart every guide who approaches. In this case, even Robbins can't protect her.
So Lilith shook her head and whispered,
"terribly sorry."
"Don't apologize, just give it a try. How would you know if you don't try? Isn't that what you told us when you were treating Bernie? Five minutes, no, three minutes. Just try it for a few minutes, okay? Please, R!"
Lanqi prayed, and the dead leaves in his mouth turned from pieces to clumps, like the rotten remains piled up in autumn, with a decayed smell.
"That's enough, Lanqi. Do you want to become like Bernie? If you don't want to separate your spirit body by yourself, I don't mind helping you personally!"
Robbins looked at his former team members intently. He didn't know when the others had surrounded Lanqi in the center.
They used to be partners in life and death, but now they are going to fight each other.
Lanqi had realized something. He lowered his head and shrank his body.
"I see...I see, Captain, I've turned into a monster, but, but I won't hurt anyone. You know, I'm the most cowardly. If you let me go, I promise I won't appear near you. Please, let me go!"
By the end, Lilith could clearly see that Lanqi's body was about to completely turn into a tree. Once his body was devoured and he died, his polluted spirit would be completely alienated and turned into a pollutant that could not be easily eradicated.
Jayne's tears were already falling. He shook his head and almost screamed.
"Lanqi, separate the spirit body!"
The bird screamed and flew towards the extended branch, biting off a large piece of leaf from the twisted face.
The intense pain almost immediately made Lanqi react. He couldn't help but "sit" on the ground, spread his hands, and stretched his arms like a tree.
"Why won't you let me go? I told you I would leave!"
"Jayne!"
Robbins roared, and Jayne immediately fired two shots at Lanqi's eyes and Adam's apple, but both were blocked by branches.
"Hit the ground, Jayne."
Lilith said,
"The roots are his weak point. Burn them with fire."
Without any time for pain or soft-heartedness, even the tearful Jayne was the first to take action. The fire bomb exploded under Lanqi's feet, and the spirits of the others penetrated the flames and tore Lanqi apart.
Clusters of light were separated from his body. Clearly no flesh or blood could be seen, but the hoarse wails still made people feel the same pain.
"ah!"
It turns out that separating the spirit bodies of the Sentinels while they are still alive is such a cruel thing. It turns out that when they are "unwilling", their former companions have to bear the pain.
They explore the contaminated area, they kill the contaminated companions, no one is spared,
Lilith blinked her eyes, squeezing away the glittering water. After Lanqi struggled for a while, his strength gradually weakened.
The changes in his body were irreversible, but because the trunk had no nutrients, it finally stopped growing. He looked around weakly, his eyes dull.
After his spirit body was separated, he could no longer sense the existence of other people, his eyes were blind, and his ears could not hear.
"I must look ugly now, R. If possible, could you purify me now? Just like you did to Bernie, I don't want to die as a monster. I don't have the ability to resist now."
"May I?"
Robbins still disagreed, but Lilith nodded in agreement.
"Now you can."
Because Lanqi was about to die, she used her remaining mental strength to expel the changes in his body. The dead branches and leaves quickly faded from his body. Lilith held his head and filled his eyes.
"I'm sorry, R. I'm sorry..."
Lanqi kept repeating, and lost his breath in Lilith's arms.
This wasn't the first time Lilith had seen someone die in front of her, but none of those times could compare to the confusion and pain she felt right now.
Polluted areas and pollutants, like a curse, chase after every marching army like maggots clinging to their bones.
She let go of Lanqi and licked the blood from her fingertips where the branch had scraped her.
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