Serinda pulled the knife out of a monster, and the monster fell down, turning into a light spot floating in the air. She bent over and supported her hands on her knees, panting.
The monsters were getting stronger and stronger. The power of the dead monsters would be replenished in the remaining monsters, making them stronger and more agile. Fortunately, these monsters still lacked fighting skills, otherwise Serinda felt that it would be difficult for her to survive the battle just now.
One against four, those monsters with long arms and legs surrounded her from all sides, making it difficult for her to use her agility to her advantage. She had to withstand several attacks, leaving several deep bloody marks on her back and arms.
"You, are you okay? Your back was injured by those monsters. We need to find something to bandage you." Li Jia's voice came from behind. Li Jia was wearing a sportswear and holding a mop. He had just joined the battle. Although he was courageous, the result was that Serinda was attacked twice more. "I'm really sorry. I'm not very good at fighting. I'm a burden to you."
Serinda rolled her eyes at him and whispered, "Luckily you don't, otherwise I would have been finished."
"What did you say?" Li Jia asked puzzled.
"Nothing. Let's continue." Serinda stood up, checked the condition of the two knives in her hands, and prepared to continue looking for trouble with the monster.
"But what about the injury on your back?"
"Am I bleeding?"
"Oh, really not, how could this be?"
“You won’t understand even if I tell you.” Serinda sighed, “This is a body made up of consciousness. This is not the real world. A wound that doesn’t bleed doesn’t matter whether you treat it or not.”
"Are you saying that this is a virtual space?" Li Jia asked back.
This time, Serinda didn't understand. But she showed a look of surprise: "Do you understand what I mean? Can you think?"
"I... I don't know. After you killed those monsters just now, my thoughts seemed to become clearer, just like... I feel more energetic after washing my face after waking up from sleep." Li Jia wiped his face and said with confusion.
"Do you remember me then?"
"I... I just met you. It seems like a biohazard broke out here, and you saved me from the monsters, and then we walked all the way here."
Serinda looked disappointed, but she soon cheered up.
"It's okay. Once we kill all the monsters, I'm sure you'll remember. Let's go."
Li Jia did not move. He dropped the mop, held his head, and asked in confusion: "Is this world a game of the Lord God? Or a time travel? Why are there only two normal people like us here? Why are there no police and army here? No, that's not right. You are not a normal person either. Normal people would not kill these monsters so calmly. You, you are very skilled. You must have fought like this many times. Who are you? Who are you? Where is this place?"
Serinda gripped the knife handle tightly, fearing that the other party would suddenly turn into a monster again. However, Li Jia seemed to be much more stable this time. After he questioned her a few times, he just stared at her blankly without any further changes.
"I'm your fiancée." Serinda thought with some self-mockery. Perhaps no fiancée needs to emphasize her identity so many times in front of her fiancée. "This is your world and mine. I don't know what the police are. Anyway, there are only you and me here."
"Fiancée? Fiancée." Li Jia repeated the two words in confusion.
"I hope you'll remember my identity before my patience runs out. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble." Serinda waved the knife in her hand and said solemnly.
"I... I don't know what this fiancée means, but when I heard these three words, I felt very happy." Li Jia's eyes swept across Serinda's face, as if he wanted to remember her appearance. After a while, his face turned slightly red, and he whispered: "I don't know why, but I really want to hug you. Can I?"
Serinda's hand holding the knife was shaking more and more violently. She stared at him for a long time before she uttered two words softly: "Okay."
He opened his arms and embraced her, and she stabbed his chest with the knife.
"Why..." The face of "Li Jia" began to distort and change, turning into the dying face of a monster, "How did you find out... I look so much like him."
“Don’t underestimate a woman’s feelings!” Serinda yanked out her knife and stabbed it into the monster’s chest again. “You greedy demons, you’ll never know how he looks at me! Damn bastards! Die! Die! Die!”
She stabbed hard, again and again, and the monster fell to the ground, stabbed into a tattered doll by her.
When Serinda stopped the knife, she found herself slumped on the ground. The monster had already turned into a light and returned to the world, and she was already in tears. "Li Jia... Li Jia... Stop testing me. I... I can't hold on any longer. I'm really scared that one day when I see the real you, I'll stab you with a knife..."
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"Am I asleep or awake?"
"If I'm awake, why is it so dark?"
"If I was asleep, why would I have such thoughts?"
"Or am I dreaming?"
"However, in dreams, people always feel like they are caught in a turbulent flow, unable to control themselves. But I know that I can think and reflect; I can also think of nothing and let my mind fall into calmness, which is like death..."
"However, I don't want to be at peace now."
"Because I have more important things to figure out than just knowing whether I'm awake or asleep. Something important. So important that it's like a part of me."
"But what is that?"
"What is it?"
"Maybe, maybe I should start from the beginning..."
"I am..., the name doesn't matter, a kid born in a big city."
"My father is from the north, and he has the boldness of a northerner. My mother is from the central region, and she also has the fierceness of a central region."
"But I'm not like them. I'm... silent. I think behind boldness is hypocrisy, and behind boldness is cowardice."
“I choose to remain silent.”
"Silence is not a reason, nor an excuse, nor an escape. It is just my nature."
"People always admire their own kind, but I am an outlier at home."
“So I planted silence and reaped solitude.”
“They think loneliness is a self-imposed prison, but I think loneliness is a quiet ark.”
"This ark has taken me to many places, elementary school, middle school..."
"Until it carried me away from the city where I grew up and came to... yes, to Shanghai."
"In college, I was told to get off the boat. But I couldn't find a reason to do so."
"I had everything I needed in that little boat. Huh? Did I really have everything?"
"Do I really have nothing else to ask for?"
"If so, why is there a touch of red in my memory that makes my heart so excited? I want to dig out my internal organs and put that thing back in?"
"It seems that I should get up and look for it."
"So, back to the first question. Am I asleep or awake?"
"The simplest answer to this question is actually right in front of me. All I have to do is... open my eyes."
He opened his eyes and found himself standing on the roof of the school library. He vaguely felt that this was a very important place, but he couldn't remember why he was here. He leaned on the railing and looked around the campus, and found that the school was empty, with almost no pedestrians walking on the road.
Is it the holiday? Did I fall asleep on the top floor of the library
Suddenly, he heard shouting from the other side of the building. He crossed the roof and looked down from the fence on the other side, and found that there was a fight below the library.
No, it wasn't people fighting, it was a few monsters with long arms, besieging a girl with red hair. The girl held a knife in each hand and fought hard with the monsters.
This is!!
He suddenly felt that something very important had been violated. When he saw those monsters for the first time, he did not feel fear, but anger!
He couldn't help but yell, "Let her go, come at me!"
The monsters heard his shout and looked up. He heard them shouting in hoarse voices: "The last one! That's the last one! We must do it before he remembers!"
As they shouted, they gave up attacking the girl and started climbing up the walls of the library.
"Run! Li Jia, run!" the red-haired girl shouted loudly.
He thought she was calling him. The monsters had long arms, so they could easily climb up on the windowsill. In the blink of an eye, the fastest ones had already climbed to the third floor.
The library was only a dozen stories high, and he estimated that the monsters would climb up in half a minute at most.
"Run, Li Jia! You can't beat these guys!"
He left the fence, opened the door to the top floor, and ran down the stairs.
"Li Jia, Li Jia! Oh, I've remembered my name. My name is Li Jia."
As Li Jia ran, she was thinking, who is that girl? Why did she call my name like she had called it a thousand times
He started thinking about this problem from the top floor, but he still couldn't find the answer when he ran to the second floor. But now, the answer came to him.
The red-haired girl ran up the stairs. She looked very miserable, covered in scars and blood, and looked like she would fall down at any moment. But when she saw Li Jia, she stumbled over.
The two knives fell to the ground. She held his arms with both hands, only in this way she would not fall down due to exhaustion. The two people looked at each other from a distance of half a meter. Li Jia could clearly see every scar on her face. These scars were staggered all over her forehead, nose bridge, cheeks and even lips. The bloody and rolling appearance could not be described as disgusting. But Li Jia felt strangely: she was very thrilling and had a fatal attraction to him.