The clear and melodious sound of whales came from a distance, and soon it got closer and closer, and everyone on the airship heard it.
A big fish swam over from the distant sky.
Black back, vertical fins, and beautiful white spots.
When we got closer, we realized it was not a fish but a whale, a gigantic killer whale.
The huge killer whale broke through the dense black cloud of deformed creatures. Its tail fin swept across with great force, knocking away all the monsters that were clustered on the top of the cabin.
The force, like a hurricane, was so strong that it swept through the airship's cable.
The entire airship was blown all over the place and shook by the strong wind brought by the fish's tail.
All the people who were still alive tried to grab the objects around them that could stabilize their bodies and pull their unconscious companions. In the chaos, they looked up and saw the fish belly that covered the sky and the sun swimming over their heads.
This whale is so huge and majestic like a battleship, giving people a strong sense of oppression.
"It's a sentinel. This is the spirit body of a high-level sentinel."
"Oh my god, such a big body. How high is the level of this sentinel?"
"It's the rescue team, the rescue team is here!"
Is it a rescue? The people who were still alive on the spaceship almost wanted to cheer. They couldn't believe that the White Tower had sent rescue so quickly.
But why did only one person come
On the big fish's pure black back stood a high fin like a sword. In front of that fin stood a warrior.
With a pistol in hand, a short blade on his waist, and his legs firmly on the smooth back of the whale, he stood as steady as a rock even when he was flying high in the sky.
His gaze swept from top to bottom as the whale passed through the gap; it was cold and indifferent, without much enthusiasm.
The orange sunlight shone on his frowning brows, but could not add any warmth to his cold face.
Ni Ji felt a little irritated.
He actually didn't understand why he rushed in.
I am a person who has neither the qualifications nor the time to take care of such matters.
Perhaps it was Tan Shu's annoying words, or maybe the word "guide" caught his attention, or maybe it was some messy reason that he didn't understand.
In short, by the time he reacted, he had already entered the newly formed contaminated area.
Now that they are here, we have to take care of them, Ni Ji thought as he looked at the wounded men staggering in the boat.
The lives of the people on this airship are more valuable than my own miserable life. If I can get a few out, even if I mess up, the brothers below won't laugh at me.
From the broken and messy gap of the shaky airship, he suddenly saw the only person standing in the mess.
Ni Ji's pupils contracted.
is her
How come the guide is here too
Ni Ji had seen this guide three times.
The first time, she was still a little girl, sitting barefoot in the snow, hugging her knees, staring at the sky in a daze with a calm face.
The second time, the grown-up girl was wearing a white dress embroidered with gold thread. The lace border surrounded her little face, making her look delicate and beautiful.
The third time, she changed into a black dress that looked like smoke and mist. She was ridiculed by others, but she remained calm and unmoved.
That time, she pressed herself into the dark pipe, and suffered a great loss that she could not speak of. But she still looked cold and delicate, as if she had done nothing.
This was the first time that Ni Ji saw her in such a miserable state. She was standing in the ruins, her fair face covered with sweat and dust, her hair stuck to her neck, and her clothes were wet and stained with blood.
However, those eyes that had always been calm and composed now lit up in the rising smoke.
There was a hint of anger, a little resentment, and a bit of unwillingness to admit defeat.
It seemed as if he had become more human, no longer like the ignorant and emotionless man of the past.
Fortunately, I came in.
Ni Ji didn't realize that his heart softened at that moment.
He didn't even realize that his cold and stinky face softened the moment he saw the guide.
"Hey, are you from the rescue team?" On the shaky airship, an injured sentry struggled to get up and shouted to Ni Ji in mid-air, "How many of you are here?"
Ni Ji pointed at himself and then at a snowy owl following behind him.
"Just me and him."
The owl was Song Yuansi's spirit body. It followed him in timidly but stubbornly.
Only two people
Only two people came.
Everyone's hope, which had just been rekindled, sank again.
Ni Ji loosened his hand and threw a fist-sized bead down from the sky.
The amber bead was very hard. It bounced a few times on the deck, rolled around, and finally stopped.
It looks smooth and has beautiful texture, like a round gem that has solidified for many years.
But if you look closely, the mottled texture inside looks like a giant eyeball.
The moment it encountered the impact of falling to the ground, it seemed to come alive and blinked its vertical pupils.
After the rotation stopped, the mottled pupils became petrified again. Lying quietly on the deck of the airship, looking at the sky, he became like a dead object, frozen in time.
"Here is the key." Ni Ji pointed to the sky in the distance, "I have opened the door."
Following the direction of his fingertips, a door-shaped hole was opening in the distant sky.
It was as if a hole had been cut in the dusk-colored canvas, a hole leading to another world, a door to life.
Although the door seems a little far away, the dark entrance in the distance is the hope of life.
"The key, he got the key!"
"Look there, there's the door. It's open and we can get out."
The wounded Sentinels hugged each other and cheered.
The guides may not quite understand the meaning of these terms, but the experienced sentinels were already very surprised.
The conditions for entering the contaminated area are very random, but getting out is extremely difficult. The only way is to find the "key" to get out and use the key to open the "door".
Sometimes, you are walking on the road normally, but when you take a step and look up, you find yourself inexplicably trapped in a completely unfamiliar and strange space.
This is the contaminated area that now covers the entire planet.
The contaminated area always appears suddenly and then keeps expanding. It devours everything silently and greedily, like a blood-sucking worm attached to the planet, squeezing out the space for humans and all living things to survive.
Any creature that is devoured by it will find it almost impossible to find a way out.
They can only despair in that chaotic world, being painfully and slowly polluted and eroded until they become a part of them, becoming a twisted and strange mutant.
Only those veterans who have risked their lives to go deep into contaminated areas for many years know the trick to find the key in such a place.
In short, they now have the "key" to escape and see the door to survival.
The airship ran at full speed, dragging its damaged hull, and flew as fast as it could towards the "door".
The heads of those people that were previously held down by Lin Yuan were blown away by the killer whale's big tail and scattered all over the sky.
Of course they were not dead. They even woke up quickly and began to condense again, gathering into a dark cloud.
The snowy owl spread its wings, grabbed Ni Ji's clothes with its beak, and pulled hard.
Ni Ji pointed in the direction of the door and said only two words, "You go first. Take them away."
The owl did not dare to disobey his order and had to get up and fly away. Following its lead, the airship flew hurriedly towards the door.
Ni Ji turned the fish head around and went in the opposite direction, heading towards the black cloud that was chasing him closely.
The sea of heads was densely packed and covered the sky.
Ni Ji took out a bottle of inducer from his pocket.
He suddenly felt like laughing and almost wanted to laugh out loud three times at this familiar scene.
At one point I thought I would never use this thing again.
Sometimes, Ni Ji would think of the dead souls and the faces of the brothers who he could rely on.
There used to be many people around him.
With friends and brothers, it's always lively.
I don't know why, but I have ended up in such a miserable state now, all alone and without any support.
When he was in school, he was surrounded by countless classmates, training together and winning competitions together.
But there was one time when he refused a private job that the principal secretly assigned to him.
The job was too dirty and involved the life of a child. He refused to obey and even caused trouble. From then on, the relationship between teacher and student was completely broken, and soon all the brothers around him left for various reasons.
Arrived at the northern outpost, although the environment was terrible.
But life was happier than in Sentinel Academy. Soon, I had a group of friends who would stand by me through thick and thin.
He just didn't know why, but those people disappeared again, leaving so quickly, one by one, all dying right in front of his eyes.
It doesn't seem so bad. Ni Ji smiled sarcastically, at least there is no one around to stop him now.
No one would hold his hand, call him captain, and stop him from committing suicide. No one would get angry and disagree with him pouring inducer on his head.
As a lonely ghost, I can finally do whatever I want to die.
Ni Ji opened the cap of the inducer bottle with one hand.
A cold thing came out from somewhere, wrapped around his arm, crawled over his wrist, and stuck to the back of his hand.
It was... the feeling at that time.
Ni Ji was stunned and felt half of his body numb.
The small tentacle that crawled onto the back of his hand was not as moist and plump as usual. It was dry and panting, and seemed very tired. It pinched the skin on the back of Ni Ji's hand with its moist little suction cup.
A consciousness that was not in standard language was transmitted through the skin.
[Throw it away.]
The tentacle said unhappily.
Ni Ji had never been influenced by others in such a dangerous battlefield. He was a madman who acted arbitrarily at the critical moment.
The tired little tentacle raised itself up impatiently and slapped the back of the strong hand hard.
In fact, it doesn't hurt, because the guide's spirit body doesn't have much physical attack power.
It was just that inexplicably, it felt like a whip mark was left there, and the burning sensation was clear and abrupt.
The hand that could hold a heavy weapon steady as a rock was inexplicably loosened by the blow, and he failed to hold the small bottle properly, leaving it open and falling from the air.
The inducer's transparent liquid was scattered in the air, and it would have no effect unless it was applied to a living creature.
Ni Ji looked at the flying liquid falling all the way down, and looked back somewhat unable to react.
Behind him, at the tail of the airship, Lin Yuan found a ladder from somewhere and just climbed up from the broken gap, panting.
The wind was blowing hard above the airship. She barely managed to hold onto a handle and pull her head out.
"Come back." she said.
[return.]
[hurry up.]
[Don't act like a spoiled child.]
[obedient.]
[Tired to death]
[Let me touch it quickly.]
The chattering consciousnesses were transmitted into the mind almost at the same time.
There were some confusing sounds in between.
Several tentacles whose shapes were not clearly visible had climbed up from the huge killer whale's tail at some point.
The tentacles drooped tiredly and powerlessly on the killer whale's smooth tail, as if trying to draw some restorative energy from their favorite big toy.
So the killer whale, the spiritual body of Ni Ji, began to ignore the will of its original body, shyly turned its head, swayed its tail and followed the airship.
He felt that perhaps he had already fallen into a frenzy and was living in a mentally confused world without knowing it.
Otherwise, why would I know it's irrational, but still feel an unconcealable sense of happiness in my heart
This is a battlefield, and the fierce battle will not be eased by changes in emotions.
The first batch of heads that were caught up had transformed into long spear-like mouthparts. They no longer acted independently. Instead, they formed a neat angular matrix in the air, and rushed down from a high altitude in unison with the force of the charge.
They followed one after another and supported each other.
He vowed to nail the man who fell at the stern of the ship to death with a whale nail.
It was as if someone was directing the dark mass of monsters, letting them know that they should first concentrate their firepower to kill this newly joined powerful force, and the remaining soldiers on the ship would be their meal.
Ni Ji drew the short knife from his waist.
The blade, like flowing water, brushed across his own palm, and a red mark flowed along the tip of the knife, trailing in the wind.
The short white blade was stained with his blood, and a strange laugh came from the handle. The bloodstained short white blade changed in an instant, and finally solidified into a long sword that was strangely red.
Ni Ji raised the knife around his head, used the arch of his foot to exert force, and attacked the matrix of human heads.
The moment he flew up, he suddenly thought he saw the moon.
The false figure in the dim sky seemed to disappear in that instant.
A silvery, cold, mysterious star appeared, hanging quietly high in the night sky.
Looking down, the cold moonlight spreads, illuminating the countless living beings on earth.
It is a spiritual picture. Who has unfolded such a huge spiritual power
There was something wrong with this battle, Ni Ji discovered.
His knife is much faster.
It's not that the knife is fast, it's that the enemy is slow!
Ni Ji fell back onto the whale's back, holding his sword in front of him.
A large number of heads were chopped into pieces and fell like rain.
The tentacles were withdrawn from the shadows with a rustling sound, and returned to the killer whale's huge body with him, exhausted.
[Hurry up, little fish.]
[I am almost dying of exhaustion. ]
[I want to take a break.]
[Make way, give me a hand, and keep me alive.]
It turned out to be her.
Is she helping me
No, she was behind me, watching everything, controlling everything, and fighting alongside me.
It was as if he was in his own home turf. The wind in the sky, the invisible moon, the tentacles surging in the dark, and the eyes standing behind him, silently watching him, were all fighting side by side with him.
Obviously alone.
But it seems like it is still the same as before, with friends around me and comrades behind me.
When Ni Ji first saw the guide in the chaotic cabin, her pale face covered in blood and sweat, she felt a little uncomfortable.
Anyway, I came in and rescued her. He thought so.
Save her. That was my thought at the time.
Save a soft, incapable of fighting, but kind-hearted guide.
But the guide said to him, "Come back."
Come back and we'll fight together.
Ni Ji stood on the whale's back and could clearly feel the person behind him without looking back.
Silence, stillness, and being firmly with oneself.
The blood in my heart began to warm up, from where it had completely cooled down.
They were rivals back then, and in the spiritual sea, she was a formidable and difficult enemy.
The Guide, the one who restrains the Sentinel. The Tentacle, the monster in the ocean, the enemy that the Killer Whale fights against.
Who could have thought that one day, when her status changed and she stood beside him, she would be such a compatible comrade-in-arms.
Ni Ji stood up and fought again.
The afterimages of the blood-red knife light crisscrossed in mid-air, interweaving into a torture net that strangled all flesh and blood.
The huge whale followed closely in front and behind him.
Large pieces of black clouds broke apart and fell like rain.
They held on to the tail of the airship, protecting the lives of everyone on board.
Lin Yuan leaned against the stern of the boat, watching carefully the man and the whale fighting among the group of monsters.
The exit was approaching, and the mutants became extremely manic, rushing up in waves madly and without regard for their lives.
But Lin Yuan felt different. It was not like before, when he felt powerful but unable to use his strength.
Fighting is full of dangers, like walking barefoot on a knife's edge.
It was dangerous, forcing her to concentrate.
Perhaps one mistake, a tiny deviation, and the sentry would die tragically before his eyes.
Then all of them would be swallowed up by the dark mass of monsters in the last section of the journey close to the exit.
But they work really well together, don't they
If they hadn't made a single mistake, they wouldn't have had to die.
Lin Yuan felt that such danger made a little bit of excitement surge in his numb heart.
Working with such a strong man, she grew quickly, learning and absorbing combat experience like a sponge.
Fighting is comfortable, exhilarating and makes your blood boil.
The coordination is perfect and becomes more and more natural.
Everything was because of that sentinel.
A more powerful and more suitable sentinel. In other words, a sentinel that is more suitable for her mental strength.
Cooperating with such a strong person allows her to exert her mental strength freely and comfortably.
She found herself gradually, bit by bit, learning to take control of the situation.
Use less mental energy.
That sentinel, he has a strong body and amazing fighting power.
The most important thing is that he can keep up with every mental fluctuation of his own.
It’s like two people are traveling together in the sea. Without words, they can feel each other’s subtle thoughts through the waves.
He can feel it and has a strong ability to execute it.
As if he had sensed her thoughts.
The sentry in mid-air turned his head and looked.
Lin Yuan stretched out his hand towards him, made a tactical gesture, and pointed downwards.
That was the gesture she had seen from Ni Ji's memory, the gesture that sentinels like Ni Ji used to communicate on the battlefield.
She learned it secretly.
On a battlefield like this, use it like a warrior.
Ni Ji laughed and jumped off the whale's back.
The mutants have a leader, and Lin Yuan's gestures told him to hide right below and kill it.
The sentry jumped off the whale's back without hesitation, falling rapidly in the air with a blood-red long knife.
The orange-red sunlight shone on his thin body, leaving his wild laughter in the afterglow of the setting sun.
An endless stream of monsters flew out from the black city wall in mid-air, pouncing on the hot flesh and blood that they longed for.
No one noticed that among them there was a particularly huge mutant with half of its head destroyed, which had been hiding far away under the black cloud where the monsters gathered.
It was the intelligent mutant with the face of a middle-aged man who had raided Lin Yuan several times without success.
At this moment, the monster was hiding stealthily in the safest place below, the only eye left on its bloated face was spinning around with a resentful look.
It felt very hungry, and its broken body made it even hungrier. The heart-wrenching hunger kept tormenting it.
Although it has no heart and no lungs, it still has strong desire and pain in its fuzzy brain.
It wanted to tear those people apart, pierce them, and drain the hot blood from their bodies to soothe its own pain that would never stop.
It drove and mobilized all the ignorant companions, rushing forward wave after wave.
At this moment, a bloody long knife suddenly fell from the sky with a huge downward momentum.
There was almost no obstruction as the entire long sword penetrated the huge head.
Ni Ji held the knife in both hands, squatted down, stepped on the broken brain, and twisted it with both hands. The red light from the knife overflowed in all directions, breaking the hard monster into pieces.
The mutant's shattered eyes fell down blankly.
The world turned upside down, it looked at the dim sky while falling,
Strangely, the pain seemed to disappear.
It looked at the illusory city hanging in the sky, and suddenly felt that the twinkling lights were strangely familiar to it.
It feels so familiar there, as if it used to be my home.
After the giant mutant shattered, the monsters in the sky lost control and scattered in all directions.
Although there were still some people chasing the airship, they were independent and disorganized, and were no longer a deadly threat on the escape route.
Ni Ji chopped off the huge head, holding a long knife in his hand, and fell down on his back.
A thrilling battle.
The heart in my chest is beating vigorously, and my chest is rising and falling.
The cold blood becomes hot again.
It almost made him want to laugh out loud.
As he was falling, he saw a tiny head sticking out of the tail of the airship.
He smiled at the guide, who was also looking down at him.
Such a guide.
Such a guide.
If, if only I could be the one standing by her side forever.
The killer whale swooped down from the sky and caught the falling Ni Ji.
My back touched the killer whale's spine and I stepped on solid ground. The feeling of weightlessness from falling disappeared and my floating heart fell back to its original place.
Ni Ji closed his eyes and smiled bitterly at himself.
He almost wanted to slap himself in the face.
She saved your life and helped you, but you want to drag her into the abyss as well.
The orange-red sun hangs in the sky. The remaining debris floats everywhere. It's like an exciting dream.
The killer whale carried him upwards and flew towards the real human world.
He looked at Lin Yuan's fair and bright face all the way, and hurriedly cut open his chest, stuffing all the hot fighting spirit, throbbing heartbeat, and messy shyness and desire back in.
Stuff it in and seal it.
He refused to reveal any clues.
(End of this chapter)