Ni Ji asked Lin Yuan to wait for him here for a while.
He pulled out a small spray bottle.
There was only a little spray left at the bottom of the bottle. He sprayed it on his fingers and rubbed it in a circle around the ground where Lin Yuan was sitting.
"It's a mimetic agent," he said. "Although the effect is not very strong, it should be able to last for a while as it is separated by a door."
The mimicry agent can cover up the characteristic human smell, making it difficult for mutants to find people hiding nearby.
The effectiveness time is very short, the probability of being detected is high, and the price is extremely expensive.
Obviously, Ni Ji had just used this potion and added that strange fish bone to successfully sneak in here.
After doing this, he glanced at Lin Yuan, opened the door and slipped out.
In the corridor outside the house, the metal guards coming and going did not search the storage room.
Lin Yuan yawned a few times in the dim and narrow room, and Ni Ji came back again.
He brought back a few red envelopes, each two fingers thick and neatly wrapped in red paper, for Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan opened a paper package. Inside the red paper was a fine powdered food. The light brown powder was pressed into neat small cubes inside the paper package.
"It's food from the contaminated area," the sentry said to her. "I've tasted it and it's edible."
Lin Yuan tasted a small piece.
The fine powder loosens up as it enters the mouth, spreading a rich sweetness over the taste buds on the tip of the tongue, mixed with the rich aroma of peanuts.
Such high-sugar, high-calorie foods are best for replenishing energy for a tired body after a battle.
Not to mention that Lin Yuan also likes sweets.
She ate all the food wrapped in the red paper with great care, even pouring the little powdered sugar left on the paper into her mouth and licking her lips with satisfaction.
I suddenly felt that I was fine again, resurrected.
Lin Yuan recalled an incident that happened when she was with her ex-fiancé.
Jiang Yangshuo, who was still very young at the time, gave her a ring that was said to be very valuable.
Lin Yuan took the ring, looked at it, and put it on his finger.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Jiang Yangshuo asked her.
"I like it." At that time, Lin Yuan was still trying hard to be a normal person.
"Xiao Yuan," Jiang Yangshuo faced her and sighed helplessly, "When you receive a gift you like, you should at least smile."
Jiang Yangshuo was a sentinel, and so was the man in front of him. The sentinels should have roughly the same idea.
So Lin Yuan smiled at Ni Ji.
Thank him for the food, I like it very much.
Thank him for finding food for me when it was so dangerous.
Of course, filling one's stomach is very important to Lin Yuan, no matter what the environment is.
Ni Ji watched the guide eat all the snacks he found without showing any disgust.
Those weak eyes suddenly lit up, and he licked his lips with his tongue, still unsatisfied.
The worst thing was that she turned around and smiled at herself.
Ni Ji turned his face away, and he found that he didn't dare to look at that smile seriously.
He didn't ask Lin Yuan why he came here alone.
Ni Ji knew in his heart that Lin Yuan was certainly qualified to come here alone.
Although they had only met a few times, he knew better than anyone the true strength of this seemingly weak girl.
She has strong abilities, the confidence to act independently, and the courage to make decisions. She is the same type of person as me.
Sometimes, he even felt that this girl was more capable of taking advantage of the situation than himself.
She did it. The little white arm was lying in her backpack. After eating the candy, Lin Yuan opened the bag and showed it to him.
Ni Ji controlled himself and stopped thinking about unnecessary things.
He lowered his head, took out paper and pen, held a thin tactical flashlight in his mouth, and explained the escape plan to Lin Yuan on the floor of the small storage room.
During the short time he went out to look for food, he also observed the general distribution of nearby enemies.
He started drawing the terrain of the palace and its surroundings on a piece of white paper for Lin Yuan to see, and told Lin Yuan his ideas and plans.
There is a very secret passage that allows them to escape from this palace, which was discovered by those who had ventured into this place before.
Those who came in during the day to get their keys took this route.
But the situation was different now. The monsters were all awake, and alarms were ringing in the courtyard. It was difficult to get through the dense group of monsters, avoid their search, and reach the escape route.
It requires strength, luck, and reasonable planning.
Lin Yuan stretched out his hand, pointed his white fingers, which were slightly stained with powdered sugar, at the drawing, and put forward his suggestions.
She felt that in some levels where enemies were particularly concentrated, there was no need to fight or take detours. She was confident that she could cover two people and get through without anyone noticing.
With the cooperation of the sentinels, it would be very fast to pass through those places. In such a short time, it was not difficult for her to complete the large-scale mind interference.
Even easier than many of the situations she had encountered on her own journey here.
Ni Ji thought for a while, held a flashlight in his mouth, and modified a few positions with a pen.
If he were alone, he would have to stay away from these places. If he encountered an unavoidable situation, a bloody battle would be inevitable.
But with Lin Yuan around, things became different.
The extremely difficult escape seemed completely feasible just because of this one partner.
The sentry was half-kneeling on the ground drawing a route map, his tactical uniform rolled up to his elbows, revealing a perfectly defined arm.
Fingers in black gloves hold the pen, quickly and accurately drawing lines on the drawing and marking tactical icons one by one.
Then he turned to look at Lin Yuan, waiting for Lin Yuan's opinion.
Lin Yuan looked at the route maps drawn with black pen.
She found that the terrain at many key locations was very different. The route was very concise, but if she were alone, she couldn't walk this way with her physical fitness. She simply couldn't climb such a high wall or jump such a deep span.
Just because there was an extra sentinel around, just one person, many extremely troublesome things suddenly became easy.
Huh.
The two of them exclaimed in their hearts almost at the same time.
She (he) is here.
It's really great to have this person around.
The storage room was cramped and dimly lit, with only a thin tactical flashlight providing illumination.
The two men stood close together, pointing at a drawing spread on the ground.
Ni Ji found his heart wavering again.
The moment I saw her, when she said others were her sentinels, and when she smiled at me.
In fact, the self-righteous defense line in my heart had already been hit and shattered.
Ni Ji never knew that he was such a weak person. Not long ago, he had made up his mind not to pay attention to this person anymore and not to get close to him anymore.
He was a person who would not change his mind easily once he made up his mind, even if the tip of a knife pierced his chest, breaking his flesh and blood, and tearing his flesh and bones into pieces.
Too, it's useless.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan turned his head and asked him.
In the dark and enclosed space, a little light shone on her face, like a hazy moonlight shining into a dream.
The moon does not know her beauty in the dark night.
She won't know what's going on in my mind.
If you can't control your heart, at least don't let her know.
Ni Ji withdrew his gaze, folded the paper and put it in his chest pocket.
"Let's go." He pressed the door handle. "The battle won't be easy."
The battle was difficult.
Sharp alarms rang out in every corner of the palace.
All the metal-headed soldiers moved back and forth between the buildings and gardens in a frenzy and anger.
They are not just muddle-headed monsters, but warriors with thoughts and wisdom, as well as strong bodies and fierce attack capabilities.
This makes each of them extremely powerful as an individual.
"Thief. Find the thief!"
"Find them! Despicable thieves!"
There were red eyes everywhere, the ping-pong sound of metal colliding, and the sound of footsteps rushing back and forth like a hurricane.
Ni Ji stood with his legs apart, firmly on an elevated railing, and caught Lin Yuan who jumped down from a great height.
Then he hung upside down, stretched out his arms and gently placed Lin Yuan on the corridor on the next floor.
Almost at the same time, a team of metal guards with red eyes appeared at both ends of the corridor.
They have heavy metal heads but their footsteps are as eerie as ghosts.
Holding their weapons, they leaned forward, stepped on the wall, and passed by silently like the wind, fast enough to allow them to walk on the vertical wall.
Ni Ji exerted force on his waist and accurately retracted his body before the enemy's red eyes looked at him.
His fingers and toes were clasping the cracks in the wall outside the railing, almost clinging to the outside of the corridor like a gecko.
The monsters flew past along the aisle, separated from where Ni Ji was hiding by only a half-man-high wall.
If any monster sticks out its head a little bit, it will be able to see Ni Ji hanging there.
Ni Ji held his breath, suppressed his emotions, and leaned against the wall, motionless.
The black tactical uniform almost made him blend into the night.
A whole team of mutants passed by him.
Among them, a huge mutant dragging heavy shackles slowed down its pace when passing by the wall where Ni Ji was hiding.
"I... seem to... feel something." A hesitant voice came from his hexagonal head.
[No, you found nothing.]
A voice sounded in his mind.
Hexagon was stunned for a moment, "Ah, right... nothing."
He caught up with his teammates again.
At the other end of the corridor, the search team passing by was about to disappear at the entrance.
The mutant who was walking at the end suddenly stopped.
The single eye on his triangular head blinked, revealing a hint of confusion.
"I seem to feel something."
He turned around and walked back, the color in his one eye gradually turning blood red, and his fingers in white gloves gently grabbed the wall beside him.
The solid wall turned into powder easily in his slender fingers.
Triangle brushed off the powder on his hands, straightened the tie on his suit, and walked leisurely, step by step, towards where Ni Ji was.
No, you didn’t find anything.
A powerful yet simple command resounded strongly in his mind.
Triangle's eyes were blank for a moment, but they became clear again after a moment.
His eyes showed a deep red of anger after being fooled. But the next moment he fell into confusion again.
Repeat this conversion several times.
[Go back, you found nothing]
[Turn around.]
[Go back, now!]
In the dark, he heard a majestic voice coming from nowhere.
One after another, the sounds rang out.
Heavy, powerful, and irresistible.
Like some giant monster that he dared not peek into, they appeared one by one in the darkness, right before his eyes.
It was so huge and mysterious that it was beyond description, just like the feeling their king gave him.
Triangle felt his consciousness dissolving.
Something, a powerful and irresistible will was dismantling his metal brain and invading his still unstable spiritual world.
The young spiritual world cannot resist the powerful and focused invasion.
Begin to dissolve, to disintegrate.
His mind became hazy and he was gradually losing control of his body.
In front of those indescribable huge existences, the triangle suddenly felt that it had become extremely small.
He once thought he was powerful. He had a strong body and a thinking head.
Compared with those companions around him who are still confused and ignorant, they are stronger.
It was not until today that he realized that he was actually still very young.
Just one more move and that existence would tear him apart, destroying the tiny core in his mind that had been so hard to gather.
Let him return to his muddled, foolish world.
The metal head felt an emotion called terror. His heart was shrinking, his body was trembling, and sweat even soaked the shirt on his back.
He wanted to beg, but he could no longer speak. He could only open his only eye and wait for the final torture.
At this moment, a soft sigh was heard.
"well."
You actually know what fear is, a voice whispered.
The powerful invading presence receded like the tide, and just as it came, it disappeared into thin air.
Triangle collapsed to the ground and touched the cold, half-corroded head on his neck.
He knew he had been spared, and also knew who the sigh came from.
A lady whose voice he had heard twice before and was already familiar with.
But he knew he couldn't tell this to anyone, nor could he call any of his companions.
If he wants to live.
Triangle stood up with the help of the wall, bowed slightly, and followed his companions without saying a word.
From then on, he had one more thing that his companions did not have.
He learned to be selfish.
The corridor fell silent.
Ni Ji walked silently along the outer wall and landed on the bottom floor of the building. He and Lin Yuan who was hiding there made a gesture of praise to each other.
They sneaked along like this.
After several battles that had to be fought, Ni Ji's blood-red sword appeared, he cut his palm and drank his own blood, then the red sword chopped off countless monsters that surged up.
"This is the weapon I got from the No. 100 contaminated area. It's very useful, but a little perverted." He showed the knife to Lin Yuan.
The knife was like a living thing.
The blade was stained with fresh blood, the handle had absorbed Ni Ji's blood, and the blood vessels were bulging. When held in the black palm, it could even speak.
"Hey, it's really rare. A Kraken." When Ni Ji showed it to Lin Yuan, the handle of the knife greeted Lin Yuan in a strange voice.
Lin Yuan: "Ah, hello. Why do you have to make him bleed?"
"Without blood, I cannot exert my strength. This is our contract." The voice said, "This kid's blood is very sweet. You can taste it if you have the chance."
Ni Ji pinched the handle of the knife expressionlessly and put it back into the sheath.
"There are many good things to be found in the contaminated area. They have strange functions, but are very suitable for combat." Ni Ji and Lin Yuan said, "If one day..."
If one day I find a knife that suits you, I will bring it out to you.
He swallowed the rest of the sentence and didn't say it out loud. If he said it, it would seem too intimate.
Some things don't need to be said, just remember to do them.
Lin Yuan also wanted to introduce something about herself to Ni Ji. Reciprocity is a human custom, right
She suddenly realized that she seemed to have nothing worth showing off.
Except for those spiritual beings who often don't obey their orders.
The sentinel's spirit body materialized into a small killer whale.
The distinctly black and white whales floated in the air, accompanying them in their actions and taking on all important tasks such as vigilance and covering their retreat.
However, because there were too many of Lin Yuan's spirits, she often couldn't manage those guys with different ideas when she was concentrating on fighting.
Often, one of them would slip out and grab the body of a killer whale floating in the air without warning.
[Very tired, I need to recover]
One particularly brazen fellow was the first to do so.
[It’s so hard, can’t you take a break?]
[Oh, so long-winded]
[I didn’t do anything rude]
[He is very strong and would not mind giving me a ride]
[The big fish is actually very happy]
[Look, his voice is so nice]
The call of killer whales is really pleasant to hear.
Lin Yuan went to listen to the sound and was distracted for a moment, so he didn't have time to hold down the guy who was clinging to the killer whale's tail.
Then the other guys couldn't hold it back anymore.
The twisted tentacles hung on the killer whale and refused to walk on their own.
It seems too outrageous.
Lin Yuan was a little unsure whether his behavior was wrong.
Without a point of reference, she was often unsure whether she was behaving like a normal person.
Fortunately, the battle was too intense and another wave of mutants chased up from downstairs, leaving her no time to think too much.
Fortunately, the sentry next to him was a professional soldier and a strong man on the battlefield.
He held the red knife in his hand, frowned and looked stern, concentrating on the dangerous battlefield. He didn't seem to care about the quarrel between the spirits.
This made Lin Yuan feel relieved.
I should learn from him. Focus on the battle, and don't always think about what the spirits are doing.
Lin Yuan is very good at imitating the behavior of people around him.
Soon, as planned, they ran into a rough-looking building.
According to Ni Ji's explanation, there is a passage here where humans used to discard garbage. It is long and narrow, and leads all the way to the outside of the palace.
Ni Ji said at the time that if you look at the residents in this palace, you would think that such a building was created by a mysterious force, but this is not the case.
In the earliest times, real humans lived here, which were artificial products.
As long as it is a place where people live, it is not impregnable and there are always various entrances and exits.
Ventilation, sewage, garbage disposal, servants' access, etc.
The Sentinels would enter the contaminated area during daylight hours, find these gaps, sneak in, and take the keys to the contaminated area.
The passage out of the palace was within sight. The sharp alarm that had been ringing in every corner suddenly changed.
It turned into that kind of hilarious laughter.
Lin Yuan had heard that voice before. It was in that white birdcage that those dark hands that were chasing him made such a strange, girlish giggle.
"They went to the decontamination building."
"They went to the decontamination building."
The voice was giggling, and almost sang a ballad as it sang out the positions of Lin Yuan and Ni Ji.
"They're in the basement, hiding in the first room on the left."
"They are in the basement, and now they are in the second room on the right."
The clear sounds of children's songs revealed the hiding place of Lin Yuan and Ni Ji.
There is no place to hide.
Countless enemies swarmed towards them, and the two had no choice but to stop hiding and fight with all their might, running forward in a bloody battle.
As one wave of enemies fell, another wave chased up from the corridor, from the window, and from various passages, as if there was no end.
"It's okay." Lin Yuan heard the sentry beside her say this to her.
The sentry was very close to her, sweat on his forehead and murderous purple light burning in his eyes.
The voice is soft.
Lin Yuan sensed an emotion of wanting to comfort herself from the other person's voice.
comfort.
She pondered the word in her mind.
This is a very complex human trait.
She seemed to have done something like this.
It is comforting to touch the shivering little seal's head with your hand.
Wrapping the wet little lion in clothes is also a comfort.
Lin Yuan was slightly distracted while running and fighting.
Her mind was filled with images of her own giant and huge spirits. She imagined a tiny human arm reaching out, trying to touch the heads of the giant spirits and telling them, "Don't be afraid."
Thinking of this scene, Lin Yuan found it very funny.
It’s not bad. At least I have experienced the feeling of wanting to laugh several times recently.
It can be considered a gain.
A red, eerie knife light flashed.
Ni Ji's limbs were covered with several deep knife wounds, and a large amount of bright red blood flowed out, but not a single drop fell on the ground. All of it was sucked into the bloodthirsty long knife.
The blade became extremely wide and long, and the huge long blade back was placed on Ni Ji's shoulder, horizontally across the corridor.
Ni Ji crouched down and drew his knife!
A huge blood-red crescent appeared in a flash!
Just this one knife.
Groups of enemies were cut in half, along with several floors of stairs and walkways, which were broken apart and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
Ni Ji pulled Lin Yuan up, put away the knife, and ran forward at full speed in the flying dust.
Finally arrived at the very inconspicuous garbage passage.
The sound of falling bodies was still roaring in the corridor, and the smoke and dust had not yet dissipated. But they all knew that someone would catch up soon.
Ni Ji opened the small gray door of the passage.
It was a square pipe that extended downwards for an unknown distance, barely big enough for one person to fit through. The metal walls were smooth and pitch black so the bottom was not visible.
If you slide all the way down from here and don't get caught up by the enemy, you will have escaped.
Ni Ji took a breath, took off his black tactical gloves and put them on Lin Yuan's hands.
He put it on very piously, trying his best not to touch the guide's skin, which was as soft as a flower.
The tactical gloves are very elastic and are a little loose when worn on Lin Yuan's small hands.
"You will slide down very quickly," Ni Ji said. "Try to use your palms and shoes to increase friction, and don't let your skin touch the tube wall."
"After you get out, find other people, open the 'door' immediately, and leave the contaminated area."
Only then did Lin Yuan realize that the sentry seemed to have no intention of leaving here with him.
"What about you?" she asked.
"The passage is very long. If we go down together, they will catch up with us when we are halfway down." Ni Ji checked Lin Yuan's backpack and explained the situation to her calmly, "If we are blocked in a pipe like this, we will have no way to survive."
There were dense footsteps in the corridor, and the enemies were coming up again.
Lin Yuan finally asked him: "Then how are you going to get out?"
"Once the door to the contaminated area is opened, it will remain there for 24 hours." Ni Ji put away the palm-shaped key and tied the backpack tightly in front of Lin Yuan. "I will find a way to get out before the door is closed."
His voice was calm, as if he was saying something that could be done easily.
He held Lin Yuan's hands and slowly put her into the narrow tube.
He held her hand, half leaned over, and looked at her through the pipe.
"It's okay. They don't want to kill anyone. At most, they will just catch me."
Lin Yuan had already slipped into the smooth pipe, holding Ni Ji's hands with his black-gloved hands.
The world beneath your feet leads to the path of life, and behind Ni Ji there is smoke of war.
She looked up into the sentry's eyes.
The sentry held her hands, his eyes were gentle, and there seemed to be a beautiful emotion hidden in his eyes.
Lin Yuan looked at those eyes and almost forgot the world around him.
This was the first time that she could see and feel other people's emotions without using tentacles, just using her own eyes and hands.
Those eyes stared at him, not at a monster, but at a beautiful life that brought him joy.
This feeling was so good that it almost touched Lin Yuan’s heart.
I am no longer a monster in the eyes of others.
Lin Yuan opened his mouth and wanted to say something.
But the man had already let go of his hand.
The square world above my head was shrinking rapidly.
She fell all the way down.
(End of this chapter)