"When the blood becomes rancid, it means that you are dead, even if... you are still alive..."
This was the first sentence Zhang Heng heard when he opened his eyes and woke up.
"Are you awake? How do you feel."
Unlike the men and women in red around him, a one-eyed young man wearing a white windbreaker and a blindfold on his right eye smiled and looked down on Zhang Heng who was lying on the bed.
Zhang Heng’s first impression of this one-eyed youth was that he looked like a hero in The Matrix. That handsome face that kept smiling all the time, coupled with the unique white cloak, if not one-eyed, Zhang Heng believes that he must be a handsome guy of the "disaster" level.
"Here...Where are you...and who are you?"
Zhang Heng didn't have any headaches or other feelings. Even if he found out that he was not at home at the moment, he was not much flustered. Keeping a clear mind at all times made him very calm.
"Come on, I'll take you to a place first."
The one-eyed youth lighted a cigarette and took a sip. Although it was not clear what the reason was, Zhang Heng felt inexplicably relieved after seeing his smiling and determined face. He seemed to feel that this one-eyed youth was not a bad person. .
When Zhang Heng stood up silently, the two of them walked to a manor not far in front.
On the way, Zhang Heng looked around and found that it seemed to be a suburb, surrounded by big trees in the sky, and there were a few birdsong from time to time.
Quack! Quack...
Standing at the gate of the manor, Zhang Heng hesitated for a long time until the one-eyed youth who was walking in front beckoned him, and then he gritted his teeth and followed in.
Everything seemed a little weird, and Zhang Heng had to be careful.
However, after entering this manor, Zhang Heng's vigilance was replaced by curiosity.
Is it a hospital here
Zhang Heng looked at everything around him dumbfounded. In the room, some people in white overalls kept walking around, communicating with each other, and many medical instruments that Zhang Heng hadn't seen.
In the room, a faint rancid smell and medicinal smell wafted.
"Sin, patient 106 is afraid..."
At this moment, Zhang Heng saw a staff member wearing a mask coming in front of the one-eyed young man, and his tone was a bit regretful.
"I understand."
The one-eyed young man waved his hand and sighed, his face showing grief.
"correct."
After a while of sadness, the one-eyed youth suddenly turned his head to look at Zhang Heng, making Zhang Heng's face a little nervous.
"Zhang Heng, come together."
The one-eyed youth and the staff gave a few words, and then came to Zhang Heng, regardless of whether Zhang Heng was willing or not, he directly pulled him and walked to the underground corridor beside him in silence.
"Hey, I said, where are you taking me?"
There was a cold sweat on Zhang Heng's forehead. He wanted to break free of the one-eyed youth, but found that the one-eyed youth was so powerful that he could only passively pull down the dark corridor that made people feel flustered.
Who is he
Zero, that burly man, and that Amy with glasses
Are they... really normal humans
Zhang Heng gritted his teeth and his mind was full of questions. All this was too sudden for him, and too weird, and for a time he couldn't accept it.
"Sin, No. 106 is already..."
Standing in the dim corridor, a staff member who looked like a guard saw the one-eyed youth coming, and quickly wanted to say something.
"I see."
The one-eyed youth interrupted him, then led Zhang Heng to push open an iron door behind the man and walked in.
Inside the room.
It was extremely dim, with only one hospital bed, and the rancid smell wafted around, making Zhang Heng almost vomiting.
"Maybe this is not your own name, but, Zhang Heng, what you see next is your "kind"."
After the one-eyed young man said something that Zhang Heng didn't understand, he let go of Zhang Heng's hand, came to the bedside of himself, and turned on the light.
The moment of light made Zhang Heng feel very dazzling, and he couldn't help but stretch out his hand to block it.
Slowly, lower your arms.
Zhang Heng was stunned.
He finally saw and saw the "person" lying on the hospital bed.
No, such a state can already be called a "human".
It was a little boy who seemed to be seven or eight years old. He closed his eyes tightly. His face was so festering that he couldn't see his appearance. He seemed to have an expression of pain. His hands were on the outside of the quilt, and he was as dry as being exhausted. The dead wood of the juice. ,
Obviously, the little boy is dying, and now he is just lingering in pain.
"As you can see, he is cursed just like you, the cursed..."
The one-eyed youth clenched his fists and said in a heavy tone.
"Wh, what! What, how could it be possible! What curse... what curse one!"
"You, you guys... don't lie to me, when I am a child?!"
Zhang Heng roared hysterically.
"I didn't deceive you. To me, deceit is a "crime". It needs to be tried and sanctioned..."
The one-eyed youth gently touched the little boy’s hair, turned to look at Zhang Heng, and said seriously: “Although you don’t know why you are different from other cursed ones, you will only have the “Awakened”. "Aura", but Zhang Heng, the blood flowing on your body is indeed cursed. If you don't believe it..."
Speaking of this, the left eye of the one-eyed young man suddenly burst out with a red light.
This red light was like ultraviolet rays, and instantly penetrated Zhang Heng's arm in a daze!
Fresh blood, dark red blood exuding a rancid smell, flowed along Zhang Heng's arm to the ground.
"When the blood becomes rancid, it means that you are dead, even if... you are still alive..."
Zhang Heng looked at the ground blankly, recalling what the one-eyed youth had said in his mind involuntarily.
died
I am already dead
Are you kidding me
I'm dead
Zhang Heng's eyes became hollow and dull, and he didn't know whether he was still alive at the moment.
Is it going to die like that little boy
Recalling the rotten face and dry and terrifying arms of the little boy on the hospital bed, Zhang Heng's body trembled uncontrollably.
…
I don't know where the strength came from walking out of the dim ward, and Zhang Heng sat blankly in the one-eyed young man's office, the first time his mind was so confused.
"You don't need to be so nervous, at least for now, you are still "alive"."
The one-eyed youth sitting opposite lighted a cigarette, pushed a glass of water to Zhang Heng's body, smiled faintly, and signaled Zhang Heng to calm down.
But how can you calm down? How can you calm down
Zhang Heng raised his head, gritted his teeth and stared at the one-eyed young man. He knew that someone should explain all this to himself.
"Okay, okay, it seems that your memory loss is very serious, then I'll start from the beginning."
The one-eyed young man stretched his hands out seemingly helpless, changed to a more comfortable sitting position, closed his eyes and leaned on the wicker chair, and said slowly: "As you can see, this world is not the same as the original one."
"Can you think of this as the seventh world war on the earth? Ah, how many times I can't remember exactly."
"In short, since fifty years ago, humans have developed a biochemical genetic weapon, which is the first generation of "cursing genes."
"The reason why this biochemical gene is called a curse is that as long as it has been injected with this biochemical gene weapon, the structure, power, and everything of human beings will have unimaginable and incredible changes. The original researchers I think that this kind of beyond imagination and subverting the world's ability is not a force that humans can control, but a kind of...curse from hell!"
"For example, my ability... "Hell Judgment". Of course, this is the name I chose. After all, it is a painful thing to have demon eyes like me..."
"But compared to what you said, I'm lucky. The curse gene I was injected is the "first generation", and the curse gene flowing in your body now seems to be the newest gene with the highest mortality rate developed by "them". ."
"Of course, you can survive now, perhaps because the gene is completely fused, or it is possible that the gene is still hidden in your blood and has not burst out, that is, you have not "awakened" like us."
"In this world, there are almost no normal human beings. In order to survive, everyone chooses to take up the weapons in their hands, in order to survive, to plunder other people's everything, even life!"
"To show all sin and evil nakedly, this is the reality of this world!"
"so… "
"This world is a cursed world..."
At the same time, in a European-style villa near the manor.
"Amy, I, I always have some strange thoughts lately."
In the lobby of the villa, Ling had her little feet bare, leaning on the sofa, her eyes staring blankly, and her two delicate little feet flicked back and forth, which seemed to represent her somewhat disorganized thoughts at the moment.
Such a situation is very rare. At least Amy, who is sitting opposite, has hardly seen such an unusual behavior when crossing zero.
Amy put down the book in her hand, pushed her glasses, and smiled: "Are you strange thoughts? This is a good thing. If I guess correctly, those so-called strange thoughts should be your forgotten memories."
"My past..."
Zero two little hands dragged her chin, staring at her little feet blankly, what was her past? Why did I have those strange but invisible "pictures" after I met Zhang Heng
"Ah, you don't have to deliberately think about those things. For people like us, it is very "lucky" for people like us not to know our past."
Amy took a sip of coffee and continued reading. This wise young man in his eyes always knew that such a state was very unfavorable to Zero, so he would rarely speak comfortably and wanted to divert Zero's attention.
"Happiness? Even if you don't know who you are or your past, can you really be considered happy?"
However, Amy did not expect that for Zero, after living here for seven years, she had no real goals and lived a life without troubles, just like Amy said, because she did not carry the past. , So you can live a life without worries heartlessly, right
but.
"Is this really "alive"?"
"I don't even know my past, is this a real person?"
Like Zhang Heng’s frequent self-questions, Zero Secretly decided to find those lost things back, not for anything else, just to become a "complete person"...