Chapter 157

Everything happened too fast, leaving Xu Ming with almost no time to react.

Screams, whoops, warnings, blood, fishy smells, and violent shaking. The car fell down as if out of control. Gu Yunshu tried his best, but could only slightly slow down the car's descent - with a loud bang, the car completely hit the ground.

... Miraculously, Xu Ming, who was sitting in the back seat, seemed to have no external injuries except that his arm was sprained by the collision.

But his head was still dizzy, and it took a lot of effort to sort out the situation again. Xu Ming felt a commotion, and then he lost consciousness. He didn't pay attention to anything while falling. He only heard Kuai Le beside him shouting "Wingardium Leviosa"...

and all the futile struggles ended in painful screams, and then there was no sound.

His vision seemed to be blocked by something, and he could only see a layer of blood. Xu Ming struggled to get up, and asked the other two people about their conditions, but he only heard Gu Yunshu's muffled response. She struggled to unbuckle her seat belt, and pushed away the shield in front of her, and then she realized why she was not injured -

this car... had changed.

Whether it was the hard iron or the high-tech interior, everything had changed, turning into a mass of red and white flesh, bulging and trembling, with bulging blood vessels visible on the surface.

What had just blocked his vision was a piece of soft flesh hanging from the bottom of the car... It looked like a tonsil.

Kuai Le curled up beside him, motionless, and the black meridians on his face, which had already disappeared for the most part, began to spread again; the doors on both sides had also completely deformed, connecting with the surrounding flesh, without any gaps.

The backrest of the driver's seat turned into a pink and white film, making it impossible to see the situation on Gu Yunshu's side.

All the props smuggled in by Guo Shuyi were also scrapped and turned into fishy internal organs. Fortunately, the rule book was still intact, not far from Xu Ming.

He opened the book, but saw that every stroke inside was trembling visibly, as if it had been greatly frightened.

Without thinking carefully, Xu Ming quickly put Kuai Le back into the rule book, and then bit the bullet and tore open the film in front of him, and found Gu Yunshu lying on the driver's seat - the latter's condition was obviously not very good, with messy hair and gray skin. Noticing Xu Ming's arrival, she still tried her best to stand up, and pointed to her side.

The car door that should have been next to her had now transformed into a large piece of rotten meat. However, unlike the changes of other car doors, there is a huge gap in the middle of this piece of meat, just enough for one person to pass through.

"......?" Xu Ming paused when he saw this, and then reacted, "You took off the car door?!"

Gu Yunshu lay on the ground and responded weakly.

——I don't know if it's because of the position, when the accident happened, she was relatively less affected, and the mutation progress around the driver's seat was the slowest. Therefore, she was the only one among the three who clearly perceived the mutation.

After realizing that the whole car would eventually turn into a piece of meat, she made a prompt decision and kicked off the door on her side.

Facts have proved that her judgment was correct.

Without any time to hesitate, Xu Ming quickly put her back into the rule book, and used his hands and feet to climb out through the gap. After finally getting out of the mutated carriage, he looked around and his face changed instantly.

In front of her was a black wall, and behind her was a large plant with a human face. Behind the plant was the dark building that represented the exit.

...They landed on the open space in front of the building.

But this is not the point.

The point is the blinding white brightness around, and something that should not be here -

a lighthouse.

The lighthouse that should have been on the other side of the horizon came here at some point.

The cylindrical tower stood diagonally in front of Xu Ming, blocking her path to the building. Xu Ming knew that she shouldn't look at the lighthouse at this time, but as she turned around, the thing came into her sight.

Because of the distance, she didn't even realize that it was a lighthouse for a moment - the distance was too close so that she couldn't see the lamps on the tower at all, and she just instinctively felt that she couldn't get close to this thing. Her confused mind turned slightly, and when she thought about the incident just now, she came to the conclusion that this might be a lighthouse.

She tried to look away, but her sight was still involuntarily drawn to it, and she even took a few steps forward. Only then did she see clearly that the support at the bottom of the tower was not a solid base, but a pile of tangled, dense white worms.

Each worm was as thick as a finger, and from Xu Ming's perspective, he could even see the circular patterns on their bodies. They weaved themselves like wool, and together they supported the cold, tall lighthouse.

This thing... could it be that it relied on these insects to move?

Could it be that it just followed them all the way here under the cover of the mist?

Xu Ming was stunned. She imagined a huge building chasing a small car on the ground, and for a moment she found it a little ridiculous - but she soon realized that something was wrong.

She couldn't laugh.

The corners of her mouth seemed to be nailed down, and she couldn't move even a little bit. The same was true for other muscles in her body.

It's hard to tell when it happened - maybe when she was illuminated by the overly bright light, or maybe it was the moment she noticed the lighthouse. All control was silently taken away, and her body seemed not to be her own, and she couldn't even blink her eyelids.

But this was not the worst.

Because the next second, Xu Ming felt that he was moving again.

His feet retreated uncontrollably, and he gradually distanced himself from the tall tower in front of him. Immediately afterwards, the muscles in his neck moved, and his head rose up by itself. His eyes, which could not be closed, were forced to keep raising his sight until he caught sight of the ball of light at the top of the tower.

A bright ball of light.

That ball of light, projected straight down from the top of his head. Without the influence of distance and without other obstacles, Xu Ming discovered for the first time that it was so dazzling, like the stars hanging above her head, and so warm, like the most praiseworthy sun.

However, soon, she even lost the concept of "thinking".

Her mind was blank and all her thoughts stopped. She just stood there, like a pilgrim doll, staring at the light above her head. The light was reflected in her pupils, casting a dazzling spot of light.

Not long after, this spot of light began to tremble like a living thing - but Xu Ming was completely unaware of it.

It was as if her consciousness was thrown into the abyss and her self was locked in a box. She could not sense anything now, so she naturally did not know that the reflection of the light in her pupils was trembling and breaking like an egg - a small white insect crawled out of the egg and turned slightly in Xu Ming's pupils.

It looked very similar to the insects lying under the lighthouse, but much smaller.

The moment it was hatched, it seemed a little dazed and turned a few times in the lifeless pupils. However, soon, it seemed to sense something, turned around and slightly raised its body towards the center of the pupil, revealing its sharp mouthparts on the top.

- And just as it was about to bite down, Xu Ming's eyes suddenly went black.

Something blocked her eyes, blocking the light from the lighthouse.

Xu Ming shuddered, her eyes widened as if she had just woken up from a dream, and she blinked subconsciously. When she opened her eyes again, her eyes had returned to normal. Her

stiff self-awareness also recovered a little bit.

She woke up, but not completely. But at least her body could move, and she could sense the external situation. It was not until this moment that she noticed that there were rustling sounds in her ears.

... Moths.

A velvety touch came from her eyelids and cheeks. The brain finally made a slow judgment.

Blocking her eyes were two moths.

The next moment, there was another loud waterfall, and the moths blocking her way also flew away. Xu Ming raised his eyes in surprise, only to see large groups of moths flying up from in front of his eyes, with their thin wings connected into one, like a black waterfall!

The waterfall then flowed back up and flew straight to the top of the lighthouse. The moment it was about to touch it, it scattered again, and one after another, it flew onto the surface of the lamp -

little by little, piece by piece, layer by layer.

Until finally, like satin, it completely enveloped the light of the lighthouse.

At the moment when the last bit of light was blocked, Xu Ming's vision went dark instantly.

His vision went dark, but his consciousness suddenly woke up - the awakened brain immediately gave an order, run!

The brain turned together with instinct, and Xu Ming understood almost immediately. Those moths were buying time for her to escape. Once she faced the light of the lighthouse again, she would not have a chance. The only thing she could do now was to run!

However, the moment she turned around, her steps stopped again.

She couldn't see... She couldn't see anything now.

The only light source in this world was blocked, and she was now completely in the dark. But Xu Ming remembered clearly that in front of the exit building, there was a whole field of human-faced plants -

according to Kuai Le, if you touch them, you will be eaten directly.

Not to mention that she couldn't even determine the direction of the exit now... Would it be this way? Or should she go this way?

Xu Ming hesitated for a moment. She touched her body without hope. In addition to the rule book and the aunt's notes, there were only a few work cards left. The flashlight from the pickpocket was also mutated in the previous incident.

The rule book was also heating up, like a power bank that was about to break. Xu Ming's finger stayed on the cover for a moment, then moved away, looked at the indistinct darkness in front of her, gritted her teeth, and simply closed her eyes.

Although it was not too obvious, she just heard it - after the swarm of moths above her head swooped onto the lighthouse, there were still rustling sounds around her. This

means that there are still moths around her... and Kuai Le said that moths can show the way.

She also said that in this place, you can't trust the light.

If you really get lost, you have to trust the sound.

Xu Ming didn't know what kind of sound was worth trusting, but at this moment, she could only choose to believe it.

Close your eyes and hold your breath. The sound captured by your ears became clearer and clearer. There were the sounds of flapping wings not far away, the crawling of insects at the bottom of the tower, and the swishing sounds of the human-faced plants as they swung their roots.

She could even hear the sound of moths falling. The moths that had been floundering on the surface of the lighthouse turned into corpses due to the scorching heat, and fell one after another to the ground, very lightly, like withered leaves.

However, soon, new moths would come, flapping their wings, one after another to take over, not letting the imprisoned light escape at all.

Xu Ming didn't know how long they could hold on, she only knew that she had to seize the time.

So be clear, please, let me hear it more clearly -

"Here."

A thin voice suddenly rang out, and Xu Ming's heart skipped a beat.

The next moment, more tiny voices were heard, mixed with the sound of the moth's wings, saying the simplest words:

"Here, come here."

"Can you hear it? Can you hear it?"

"It's the right, it's the right."

The faint voices merged into one, echoing one after another a few steps away. Xu Ming took a tentative step forward, moving forward little by little, at first walking very slowly, but getting faster and faster as he got to the back.

"Stop here, the grass is shaking its leaves."

"Okay, okay, go over."

"Don't reach out and touch it, you'll touch it, it's a big weird grass."

"Go here, go here."

"Right, right, that's right, sister is awesome."

"Almost, almost, hold on a little longer."

"A little bit forward, a little bit further forward."

- Following the sound, he walked forward carefully until he finally stopped at a certain place. Xu Ming didn't dare to close his eyes, he just stretched out his hand tentatively, but suddenly, he heard another voice behind him.

"Don't use your hands, use the book."

"Your rule book."

...!

Xu Ming opened his eyes in shock, and felt as if someone had hit him hard on the chest.

The familiar name instantly came to his lips, but he didn't dare to make a sound, as if he was afraid of awakening something. After a pause, he turned his head back slightly and tentatively.

He knew he couldn't see anything, but he couldn't help wanting to confirm. However, just as he turned his head, the voice sounded again:

"Don't look back, go forward."

"..."

The voice was a little cold and hard, like the way it sounded when she was angry before. Xu Ming was silent for a moment, but still turned around stubbornly - at the same time, facing behind her, she opened the rule book in her hand.

No one knew, not even Kuai Le. She had prepared a special area in her rule book a long time ago.

It was drawn when Kuai Le was stored. At that time, it was just a vague thought, thinking that if she met her aunt, if the other party encountered something that she couldn't get rid of, she could still be like a hero, throw the work card in her hand to her, open her book to her, and take her into her arms from a distance.

Of course, it was just an imagination. She never expected that this paper room would actually be useful one day; and she didn't expect it to be in such a situation.

In the darkness, Xu Ming tried to adjust her direction based on her perception of sounds. She was standing at the bookstall, holding a handful of work badges in her hand like a nouveau riche. After a long while, she could only utter a slightly trembling sentence.

She asked the person in the darkness, "Are you going home?"

The voice was dry and cautious, and it was completely different from the cool adult she imagined.

The person opposite did not answer.

He just reached out and gently took the work badge from her hand.

He gently pressed Xu Ming's hands again and helped her close the rule book in her hand. There

was a strange touch on her skin, as if there were dense thorns, gently rubbing against her fingers and the back of her hand. The next moment, the touch came to her shoulder again. Xu Ming was turned around by someone and was gently pushed from behind.

She still had the rule book in her hand. The cover of the book hit the wall in front of her, as if it hit a layer of water.

Xu Ming was pushed over the wall by the man, and when she took the last step, she heard the man say the third sentence.

"Don't forget to close the door after you go out." She heard the other party say this.

Just like what he said countless times when he sent her away from home.