Ni Ji ran very fast.
But Lin Yuan could still feel that something was catching up with him.
Those things broke out of the ground, hiding underground, hiding in the shadows, surging and chasing after them.
From a distance, one could only see some thick black smoke rising in the distant streets and alleys.
Lin Yuan knew what it was. Although they had only fought once, Lin Yuan was already very familiar with that style. It was those twisted and perverted black arms that always wanted to leave themselves behind.
Ni Ji ran all the way to the beach, and at the golden coast, he suddenly put down Lin Yuan from his back.
"Don't turn around yet," he said.
Lin Yuan was puzzled until she heard a splash of water. She turned around and found that the sentry beside her was gone. Only a tattered black combat uniform was left on the beach at her feet.
A killer whale's head emerged from the white foamy sea.
It was an adult male killer whale, with a huge body of eight or nine meters long, a broad back and a tall, upright dorsal fin.
"No one can catch up with me in the sea." Ni Ji's voice came from underwater.
Lin Yuan threw off his shoes and lay on the killer whale's pure black back. The whale's tail swung, and the whale's body broke through the waves and rushed forward.
"Can you catch it?" Ni Ji's voice came from underwater.
Lin Yuan didn't say anything. The waves hitting her face made her feel very comfortable. She reached out and touched the killer whale's smooth skin.
Ni Ji realized that what he asked was nonsense.
Something changed in the guide's feet. Something very familiar to Ni Ji swam out, with a familiar smooth and cold touch, and the small suction cup grasped him tightly.
The guide riding on the killer whale's back held him tightly.
The huge whale in the sea was swimming very fast, and Lin Yuan could feel the strong wind, waves and the sound of water.
This was the first time she tried to transform part of her body into a half-beast. Her tentacles tightly wrapped around the killer whale, and the killer whale took her swimming in the sea.
Lin Yuan discovered that his spiritual body and this sentinel were really in tune, no matter what the situation.
She also discovered that she really loved the sea, even during such a moment of escape.
In the sea, her consciousness seemed to be able to expand further. The tentacles sent a warning, they felt that something was rising up from the depths of the sea.
Perhaps it's beneath the wreck of the Mary, or somewhere deeper and darker.
Something surging, dark, and malicious was chasing them.
This time, Lin Yuan was certain that the black arms that were chasing them all the way and the thick malice that was surging from the bottom of the sea were all aimed at her.
Or maybe it was because of the inconspicuous little box in her backpack.
She stood up on the killer whale's back, holding onto its towering dorsal fin and looking back.
Huge waves rose on the sea in the distance. Those black arms twisted and condensed on the seabed, chasing and fusing with countless corpses on the seabed, gradually combining into an extremely strange behemoth, raising its strange huge head in the sea.
The monster made noisy and strange noises, as if countless lives were screaming and clamoring at the same time.
They roared and surged, with great momentum, rolling in, as if determined to catch up with the man and the whale, dissolve them into the pure black world, and drag them into the dark abyss.
However, even such a strange giant creature could not easily catch up with Ni Ji's speed in the sea after he transformed into an orc.
The killer whale, moving at an astonishing speed, didn't even look back, it pushed away the sea surface and sailed forward through the waves like an arrow.
But Lin Yuan knew that this whale, this sentinel, was using his own blood and flesh, and burning his life, to achieve such a speed.
"I can't let you catch him again,"
"I won't give you the chance to torture him like that again."
Lin Yuan stood on the back of the killer whale, his feet on the rolling waves, and the bright light of the moon appeared in his eyes.
At first the moon is cold and bright, then it gradually turns red.
In the sky, thousands of bright stars disappeared in an instant, and a huge blood moon appeared.
Under the blood moon, the girl standing on the back of a killer whale has slender hands and is very graceful, but her eyes reveal a strange red light, and she is facing the giant sea monster that is chasing her from behind.
There was an older, larger creature, and under the light of the blood moon, its shadow loomed in the deep sea.
Numerous giant tentacles were swimming, touching the reefs on the seabed, slapping and stirring up huge waves, slowly heading towards the black-handed monster that was chasing them.
Those fierce, surging and entangled black arms hesitated.
They slowed down their pace, hesitantly and unwillingly wandering on the seabed. They were unwilling, resentful and annoyed, but they were still hesitant and dared not move forward rashly.
In this polluted area, in this nightmare that belongs only to them, this is the first time they have encountered a huge spiritual entity that makes them wary and hesitant, and they dare not approach rashly.
Just not for long.
The blood moon in the sky disappeared, and the shadow of the giant sea monster blocking their way also dissipated into nothingness.
However, with just this little delay, the figures of the man and the whale could no longer be seen on the sea.
They swam to the escape door, rose up from the waves, and jumped into the half-open door in the void.
Lin Yuan and the killer whale jumped out of the escape door in the air.
The dreamlike and gorgeous starry sky disappeared.
It was early morning in the world outside. The cool morning breeze blew on the skin, the rays of the rising sun dyed the sky white, and two or three ordinary stars dotted the horizon.
This is the normal world.
Finally they got out. From that weird and strange contaminated area No. 5, the two of them escaped alive together.
This time, the escape door in the real world was also located on a vast blue ocean.
Lin Yuan had just come out of the sea when she fell into the cold water again. The killer whale swam up from the bottom and lifted her up and swam towards the shore.
"Are you okay? I'll release everything right away." Lin Yuan touched the smooth back of the killer whale under him.
"Wait a moment." Ni Ji's low voice came up from under the water. The voice was very calm, without any extra words.
This is deep sea, far from the coastline. The moment the shield is unlocked, a hundred times the pain will sweep through the sentinel's body.
This is not the right place to suddenly lift restrictions.
The killer whale swam towards the shore with Lin Yuan in its arms at a very fast speed.
Swim halfway.
"Lin Yuan, I seem to..."
Lin Yuan heard Ni Ji's voice. The voice was very soft, and something was wrong.
The next moment, the force supporting her suddenly disappeared.
Lin Yuan reached out and grabbed a smooth and cold arm.
The owner of the arm regained his human form, completely lost consciousness, and was sinking into the sea.
Lin Yuan has lived in Baita since he was a child and has never swam in the ocean in the real world.
She grabbed Ni Ji's hand and was carried into the water by the unconscious sentry.
The moment his whole body sank into the water and the sea water covered his face, Lin Yuan had a very familiar feeling, as if he had swam in the sea many times, as if he could swim naturally.
She swung her legs and arms and soon floated to the surface of the sea. She pulled Ni Ji, lifted his jaw and lifted his mouth and nose out of the sea, and swam hard towards the distant coast with the unconscious sentry.
Lin Yuan didn’t know how long they had been swimming in the sea. She was completely exhausted. In the end, she was almost pushed to the shore by the waves.
When I woke up on the beach, it was already bright.
Lin Yuan opened his eyes and saw several seabirds flying in the sky.
She sat up and found that she had fallen asleep on the beach. She looked around and finally found the sentry under a large reef.
The sentry, who had recovered his human form halfway, was naked and huddled in the waves under the reef.
The sea water rolled up with white foam, washed over the bare back, submerged the drooping head and black hair, and then retreated.
One after another, but the body half submerged in the sea water did not move.
He had his back to Lin Yuan, his bare back covered with criss-crossing scars, his long legs curled up, stained with yellow sand and blood, and turned white by the sea water.
It looked like a body washed ashore by the waves.
Lin Yuan slowly stood up and walked over there.
She walked to the body lying in the water and put her hands on the sentry's shoulders. The skin there was ice-cold, without any body temperature.
She twisted the cold shoulders, turned the sentry over, pinched his chin, and turned his face, which was soaked in the sea water, towards herself.
Half of the face was covered with sand and sea water, his eyes were tightly closed, and his lips were completely bloodless.
Did he die, too
Lin Yuan felt that he shouldn't feel anything.
Isn't this normal? She had experienced this when she was very young, so it was nothing to experience it again.
But for some reason, I felt like someone had stuffed a heavy piece of pig iron into my heart.
Lin Yuan didn't know whether time had stopped or a long time had passed.
Until she finally caught a slight fluctuation of emotion, until the eyelashes covered with sea water on the face she was holding in her hands trembled slightly.
The eyes slowly opened.
The sentry saw her, weak and unable to speak complete words, but smiled at her.
As if to say, look, we're all fine.
Lin Yuan remembered what her good friend Yunyun once said to her.
"You asked me when I should laugh?" At that time, Yunyun touched her head helplessly, "Xiaoyuan, people will laugh when they are happy."
"As long as you are happy from the bottom of your heart, you will laugh naturally."
Lin Yuan felt that he must be smiling now, smiling at the sentinel who had not died in the morning light.
The sentry turned his face slightly away.
"I feel so cold." A little blood appeared on his earlobes.
Lin Yuan took off his coat and wrapped it around his naked waist.
"It's okay, just be patient, I'll take you to see a doctor now." She comforted the sentry happily.
There is a small outpost near the No. 5 contaminated area, which looks barren and messy.
But Lin Yuan actually found a clinic with a treatment cabin inside.
The doctor in charge of reception was very excited when he saw Lin Yuan brought the wounded, and he praised the only old-style treatment cabin in the clinic to the sky.
"Wrap it up, wrap it up. All the sentries injured in Area 5 were cured by me."
Ni Ji was placed in a semi-glass enclosed treatment cabin. Light green treatment fluid flowed out, slowly submerging his entire body.
It hurts, he thought. It hurts so much.
He is a soldier accustomed to pain.
But he couldn't imagine that there was such pain in the world.
Although he was floating in the warm healing fluid, he felt as if he was being put on a execution ground. Red-hot iron nails repeatedly pierced his body, melting all the bones, and even every breath he took was accompanied by sharp pain.
He couldn't even control the shaking of his arms.
This is backlash. It is the price of overdrawing your body.
But he felt that he was willing to bear this.
At least he was alive, at least he didn't implicate anyone.
He didn't die, so the guide didn't have to experience that kind of hurt again.
Ni Ji clenched his teeth, not letting any sound of pain escape from his throat.
"I think this sentinel was too badly injured." The bespectacled doctor looked at the sentinel in the treatment cabin and deftly adjusted the data on the dashboard. "It's a miracle that he managed to escape from the contaminated area."
"But it's nothing. Just lie in my treatment cabin and any injury can be cured." He quickly showed the adjusted data board to Lin Yuan, and emphasized the price column. "I'll give you a discount price and give you a broken bone. I guarantee that you will be a lively Sentinel in return."
Lin Yuan's cold face was expressionless, which made the enthusiastic doctor feel a little frustrated.
"Where is the anesthetic?" Lin Yuan asked after looking up.
"Anesthetic...anesthesia?" The doctor was surprised. "You have to know that he is a sentinel. Ordinary anesthetics are useless to sentinels." Ordinary anesthetics have no effect on sentinels with strong five senses. Special anesthetics for sentinels are very expensive. Most sentinels at the sentinels cannot afford such precious things.
Besides, the doctor thought it was unnecessary. The sentinels had strong physical fitness and good recovery ability, and they could just endure the pain and it would go away.
"But he's in pain now," the little girl said calmly.
Ni Ji in the treatment cabin opened his eyes.
"Are you sure? That's going to cost a lot more money." The doctor murmured, "The cost is nearly double that of ordinary treatment. What a waste. In fact, it won't kill you if you get hurt a little."
He opened the safe and took out a thin needle from it. After obtaining Lin Yuan's consent, he injected it into the medication tube in the treatment cabin.
The sentinel, suspended in the healing fluid, was finally able to relax his tense shoulders.
He couldn't help but let out a comfortable sigh.
It was like being brought out from an endless hell of burning and burning and falling into a warm ocean.
No one understood the feeling at this moment, because no one knew the pain he had been enduring.
No, there is one person she knows. Ni Ji thought of what Lin Yuan just said.
Give him anesthesia, he is in pain now.
Ni Ji did not turn his head to look at the guide who was talking to the doctor outside the glass window. He opened his eyes and looked at the treatment cabin above his head.
The green healing fluid floating before my eyes was beautiful, a bit like the sea in my mental picture.
Lin Yuan was talking to the doctor. She didn't expect that someone had listened to every word she said, carefully collected it, turned it into a beautiful pearl, and stored it in the deepest part of her spiritual picture.
"He has a lot of old injuries." The doctor said to Lin Yuan, "Why don't you take this opportunity to treat him together? This way, the patient will suffer less in the future."
"For example, the old leg injury can be operated on at the same time. There are also some problems with the elbow, finger bones, and lungs..." The doctor said, looking at the increasing bills in his hand, he felt that the expenses were too huge. Even if he reduced the profit to the lowest, it still looked shocking.
He looked up hesitantly at the little girl standing next to him.
"Of course," said the guide, who looked very cold, "give him the best treatment."
Ni Ji, who was isolated in the treatment cabin, closed his eyes and curled his hands slightly.
"Change this U55 to U96. Also, this regeneration fluid, do you have No. 233 regeneration fluid? Change it to the best one."
"Yes, yes. Are you sure?" The doctor took a breath, counted quickly, and handed over the digital tablet. "This is not a small number."
The sound of conversation outside the treatment cabin continued to be heard.
Ni Ji was a little dazed while floating in the cabin. He recalled what happened when he was still in the Sentinel Academy. When he was still very young, he was seriously injured in order to win the championship for the school. He had to enter the treatment cabin to have a chance of recovery.
Cao Junmin showed an awkward look in front of him, "Xiao Ji, the school really can't afford such expenses, so I have to inconvenience you for now."
It was only after several years that he realized it was not that he couldn't afford it, but that it was not worth it.
In the teacher's mind, a student like him who is not very obedient is not someone worth spending so much money on treatment.
"Use the best medicine to cure him completely. No amount of money is a problem."
The guide's voice came through the water waves.
She didn't even know she could hear it.
Ni Ji really didn't want to fall asleep at this moment, but the pain had subsided, his body was tired, and his heart was at peace.
Eventually, he could no longer withstand the exhaustion and floated in the healing fluid, falling into a deep sleep.
When he opened his eyes again, the pain that felt like it was tearing his body apart had subsided a lot.
My legs, which had been broken once, and my lungs, which had been tormenting me for years, seemed to be feeling much better now.
He felt that he was truly alive.
Suspended in the emerald green waves of the healing fluid, looking at everything outside, the world seemed unreal.
The lights in the treatment room were dimmed, the doctor had left, and it was very quiet.
He looked out through the lake green glass and saw the guide sleeping on the sofa not far from him.
Her delicate white porcelain face was covered with sand from the beach. She was sleeping soundly, half lying on a square table next to the sofa, with her slender arms as a pillow.
The warm yellow light from an overhead lamp shone on the girl's sleeping face and on her small exposed shoulders, softening her outline.
Ni Ji couldn't help but wonder how she managed to carry him on her back with such slender shoulders
How she used such soft fingers to pry open the iron chain on her neck and rescue herself from such a humiliating situation.
A small killer whale appeared in mid-air, picked up the wrinkled coat that had been soaked in sea water and was hanging on the edge of the sofa, and gently covered Lin Yuan's shoulders with it.
Lin Yuan moved his shoulders slightly in his sleep.
One of the tentacle woke up at some point, saw the little killer whale, and happily rolled up to it.
While no one was paying attention to it, this tentacle, which often does bad things, wantonly ripped off the killer whale's head and dorsal fin, without forgetting its soft belly.
The little killer whale waved its tail awkwardly, but did not run away or make any sound.
It just stood there at Lin Yuan's feet, a little pitifully, indulging someone to do whatever they wanted. Lin Yuan was sleeping soundly, dreaming of something good, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
The tentacles wrapped around the tail and touched the area that was severely injured.
The pointed tip bent up, touched carefully at first, and then began to stroke delicately, repeatedly, licking the white bones exposed outside the wound.
The little whale let out a slight whimper, and its dorsal fin and tail fin became soft and scraped against the ground.
The punctured wound on the tail began to heal slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye under the touch of the tentacles.
If a doctor came here at this time, he would find that there was something wrong with the data on the dashboard outside the treatment cabin.
The heart-shaped red sign was flashing continuously, indicating that the patient lying in the solution had an abnormally high heart rate.
(End of this chapter)