Lin Yuan didn’t know how long he had been falling, and the feeling of weightlessness was very strong.
She remembered the sentry's instructions and used her hands and the soles of her shoes to support the inner wall of the pipe, trying to increase friction to control her falling speed.
Later, the soles of the shoes began to heat up, and Lin Yuan even suspected that they would burn. Fortunately, the gloves were of good quality, and although they rubbed his palms sore, they did not wear out until he reached the exit, protecting Lin Yuan's hands.
Lin Yuan rolled out from a patch of weeds, startling countless flying insects in the dark night.
There were bursts of frog calls in the distance, night insects flying nearby, and several bags of garbage of different sizes piled up around.
Lin Yuan touched the grass leaves under his butt. They were soft and fresh, no longer the crystal clear emerald green.
She came out and escaped from the cold and eerie palace.
Lin Yuan was stunned for a while, then he leaned back to the pipe mouth and listened. There were only some meaningless roars, and no specific sounds could be heard. There was only a dark hole, and he could not see what was happening at the top.
Lin Yuan knew that she could no longer do anything. She did not have the ability to climb back along the steep pipe.
Ni Ji's decision is rational, correct and logical.
Rather than two people dying in the pipe together, it is certainly more reasonable for one of them to escape first.
Lin Yuan knows that she is an emotionally deficient person, and all her actions are driven by rational thinking.
Since there is nothing I can do, there is of course nothing much to think about.
[The little fish is still on top]
[Are you really going to ignore him? ]
[The little fish will be bullied]
[He will definitely be bullied badly]
[He is so soft, so easy to bully]
Lin Yuan ignored the tentacles' mutterings. She stood up, looked at the sky above her head, and began to walk away.
The sky was still full of stars at night, but it seemed as if the sky here would never get brighter.
No matter it is "day" or "night", time seems to be frozen here and will never flow.
The sentinel might not be able to get out. She made a decision in her mind as she waded through a thin stream. He would be left here forever.
A little water seeped into the soles of my shoes, making them cold and sticky and very uncomfortable.
Lin Yuan touched his backpack and found a piece of red paper that he had stuffed inside.
Open the folded red paper, there is no sugar inside, only a little peanut-flavored powder.
Lin Yuan licked off the last bit of powdered sugar.
It's really delicious. I don't know where the sentinel found it. Maybe no one will find this for themselves in the future.
Lin Yuan thought of Rachel and the scene he had seen in that broken mental picture.
She thought that the sentry might also encounter those things, be pressed on the platform by those black arms, and endure long and cruel torture.
Eventually he will be unable to bear the pain. The mysterious underwater world will become turbid, and the beautiful whale may die...
She didn't know why she was thinking about all this.
In the past, if she thought about something that was useless, she would usually stop thinking about it.
She walked through the streets filled with monsters and felt that she looked no different from these monsters.
"Did you find my cat?" the giant boy, three stories tall, asked her from the same location.
Lin Yuan raised her head. She had to raise her head very high to see the boy's face clearly. "What does your cat look like?"
"A black cat with a white belly." The boy gestured in the air, "It feels very soft..."
Lin Yuan pointed him in the direction of the palace: "I saw a similar cat in there."
Under the starry sky, the pure white palace glowed with a faint white light and could still be seen clearly here.
The boy started walking in that direction.
"Hey." Lin Yuan called him.
The huge face turned around, revealing a slightly confused look.
"Do you know that it's very dangerous there and there's no coming back once you go there?" Lin Yuan said.
"I know, people are eaten there," the boy said slowly, "but I want to find my cat."
He still left.
The boy's huge footprints crushed the weeds and a few purple wild flowers on the ground.
Compared to the giant child, the delicate flowers can only bear the fate of death.
Lin Yuan stared at the broken petals in a daze.
She saw a broken flower, trembling and standing up again in the gentle night breeze.
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly started running.
She soon met Xiaomu who came down from his hiding place to look for her.
She opened her backpack and handed the white jade arm inside to Xiaomu.
"Go, take the birds out." After stuffing the things in, Lin Yuan turned around and ran back.
Xiaomu hurriedly called her: "What are you going to do?"
"Once the door to the contaminated area is opened, it will remain there for 24 hours." Lin Yuan waved as he ran, "I will find a way to get out before the door closes."
After she finished speaking, she remembered that this sentence was exactly the same as what Ni Ji said to her.
Even the tone of voice is the same, as if they are talking about something that can be accomplished easily.
The tentacles happily followed Lin Yuan back.
Lin Yuan was a little confused about them. They were so dejected when they escaped from the land of death. But they were so happy when they were on the road to exile.
Although there is a saying that the spiritual body represents the truest thoughts in one's heart, Lin Yuan feels that he is not that crazy.
When he was halfway through the run, he heard a subtle roar in the sky above his head and the stars trembled slightly.
Lin Yuan looked back. A door slowly opened in the sky above the high ground where Xiao Niao and the others were hiding.
That was the exit, the escape door, and the way out of this contaminated area was opened.
Okay, there's nothing else to do now.
Just worry about that last one.
Worry.
Lin Yuan savored the word in his heart.
She spent a lot of time.
But in the end, he returned to the gate of the palace.
Lin Yuan sat on the step where he had rested last time and began to eat the remaining food he had collected from the small herdsman's bag.
It has probably not even been a day since I last sat here.
But Lin Yuan inexplicably felt that he had become stronger.
There is a heart in my chest that has to go in.
It's not about dying here, nor about turning into a monster, but there is something that must be done, there is someone who must be rescued.
Even the tentacles were rubbing their hands, cleaning their suction cups, and shaking their muscles. They were all full of energy, and there was no sound of being tired, hungry, lazy or complaining.
At this time, the palace gate not far away was in chaos.
A giant boy, taller than the door, was rushing in regardless.
The red rays intertwined in the air, cutting the giant's body into several pieces.
Blood, flesh and internal organs were smeared on the snow-white palace walls and beautiful jade steps.
Soon, the limp pieces of flesh began to wriggle again, transforming into several boys of different sizes but identical appearances.
Boys of all ages stood up from the blood and flesh on the ground, shouting and continuing to rush in.
Repeat this cycle several times.
Outside the pure white palace walls, blood flowed like a river, and scattered red flesh and blood piled up like a mountain.
Countless boys stood up from their flesh and blood with angry faces, pulling at the gate, gnawing at the pillars and the laser weapons.
With a squeak.
The door that was almost never opened finally opened.
Metal-headed guards appeared through the door.
They drew their weapons and began stabbing and capturing the boys who rushed in one by one.
The metal guards were very strong and quickly held down the children running around. But there were still some very small ones who slipped in.
Little boys, some the size of thumbs, some the size of insects, and some with barely visible eyes, shouted the kitten's name and rushed into the open door.
Lin Yuan stood up, shook off the food residue in his hands, took advantage of the chaos, stepped on the slippery red flesh and blood on the ground, and walked into the door.
There were so many guards coming and going that not one of them saw her.
She seemed to be walking in a blind spot of everyone's sight.
In fact, it is very difficult to control so many thoughts at the same time. As long as there is one mistake, even if one person wakes up and notices her, it will be a failure.
But there was no failure. Lin Yuan's spirit was more focused than ever before, and the tentacles cooperated more than ever before.
The palace covers a vast area, and the little commotion at the gate did not affect the tranquility of the garden.
In the garden, the emerald green plants and sapphire mechanical birds are still as beautiful as the last time I came in.
Lin Yuan found a little boy's clone the size of a fist in the grass.
A bloody mess of flesh and blood, it was wriggling back and forth in the crystal clear grass leaves, and had not yet fully recovered its human form.
Lin Yuan picked him up and let him sit on his shoulders.
They walked to the palace where the black cat was kept last time and heard a faint cat meow.
A kitten with a black back and a white belly slipped out from the crack in the door.
"Go ahead." Lin Yuan said to the boy on his shoulder.
The bloody little man jumped off Lin Yuan's shoulder, climbed up the stairs with difficulty, and threw himself into the black cat's furry neck.
The kitten, which was much bigger than him, stuck out its tongue and licked the little head that was gradually taking shape.
The door opened and Mr. Triangle walked out in a suit and tie with a white towel hanging on his arm.
When he "saw" Lin Yuan, he was stunned for a moment, looking as if he was in a dilemma.
Then he coughed, reached out to adjust his tie, and walked past Lin Yuan with his eyes open and a towel draped over his shoulders.
It was as if he didn't see Lin Yuan at all, and his behavior was exactly the same as other metal heads who were influenced by Lin Yuan.
Of course Lin Yuan knew that he saw her.
"Hey." Lin Yuan called him, "You saw me."
The triangle in front stopped and did not look back. Its single big eye blinked nervously.
"Where is my sentry?" Lin Yuan asked, "Where did you take him?"
Triangle didn't turn around. He turned his back to Lin Yuan, calmly took off one of his gloves and threw it into the grass by the roadside.
"Oh, where is one of my gloves? I wonder where I lost it?" The tall and thin Mr. Triangle stood there thinking for a while, "Maybe it fell on the road I just came from? I have to go back and look for it."
The triangle, who had lost one of his gloves, walked forward with an elegant step.
Lin Yuan followed him from a distance, following his back.
She found the sentinel.
He was chained by the neck and chained in the very center of the garden, above a pile of cold gems.
Lin Yuan didn't know what he had experienced during this period of time.
In order to prevent him from escaping, the monsters twisted his legs and broke them. The trouser legs of his black tactical suit were torn, and his beautiful long legs hung limply from the large piece of lapis lazuli.
There was a lot of blood on his body.
The beautiful killer whale was not able to return to the mental image. It was stuck by a strange spiritual white thread, piercing through its tail, and hanging alive on a sharp moonstone.
Perhaps feeling the tentacles approaching, the killer whale opened its mouth and let out a few painful whimpering sounds.
The tentacles fell silent in an instant.
Lin Yuan felt a strong pain in his head.
Something was cracking. The place where spiritual beings usually came in and out was cracking and expanding.
They made a low groaning sound.
The gigantic deep-sea monster hiding in another dimension, the spirit of Lin Yuan, which had never appeared in its entirety, squirmed its huge body and made a low sound.
It couldn't wait to squeeze out of the narrow passage and come into the world in its full form.
Lin Yuan raised his head, his eyes lit up with the cold moonlight.
For a moment, the colorful stars above my head were dimmed by the cold moonlight.
***
On the cold and hard gem mountain, a strange mutant that looked like a leech crawled up to Ni Ji's side.
The tiny mutant, which had been born not long ago, squirmed its translucent body, carrying a young man's head, and crawled towards Ni Ji's limp hand beside his body, revealing an excited and distorted look on its face.
Lin Yuan had just seen that face not long ago. On that golden beach, this man proudly snatched her energy stone. His name was Tan Shu.
Who would have thought that before long, the man who thought he could dominate others at will turned into such a pitiful and ugly monster.
Ni Ji lay motionless on the cut surface of the gem. His slender fingers, without the protection of the gloves, were touched by the sticky body of the leech and he only trembled slightly weakly.
"What did I say? Sooner or later, you will end up like me." Tan Shu clung to Ni Ji's arm and climbed onto his bloody shoulder. "It's useless. Give up. No one can stand this."
"Haha, hurry up, I can't wait to see what you look like after you give up." He swallowed, half panting, half madly said, "Let me see how our glorious senior finally fell into depravity in tears."
Ni Ji opened his eyes slightly. His face was pale, without a trace of blood. Even opening his eyes was difficult.
But he looked at the face close to him, at the twisted monster, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"You're so pathetic." He lay there, laughing weakly and mockingly.
The only part of Tan Shu's face that still retained its human appearance instantly became distorted.
Twisted and uglier than a monster,
"You too!" he almost screamed. "Do you think you have a chance of getting away?"
"No one will come to save you. No matter how hard you try here, you will never be saved. You will soon become like me, ugly, pitiful, at the mercy of others, without even the right to beg."
His disgusting body, which was clinging to Ni Ji tightly, was suddenly kicked away by a foot.
Tan Shu rolled a few times on the smooth gem mountain, stuck to a protruding stone, and raised his soft neck.
He saw in disbelief that a human woman, a guide, suddenly appeared in this place where no human could appear.
"Who is like you?" The woman who climbed to the top of the Gem Mountain lowered her head and tried to remove the shackles on Ni Ji's neck. "I'm going to take him away now."
The leech-shaped mutant screamed in disbelief.
(End of this chapter)