When Lin Yuan heard the shrill scream, he didn't move except for his eyeballs sliding across the room.
The tentacles moved slowly, wrapping Lin Yuan more tightly, leaving only the eyes exposed.
"Help, please save me!" The sentinel cried out to her, "I know you are a human, please save me, let your spirit save me."
"This place is so perverted. These beasts, you don't know what they have done to me!"
He burst into tears, spoke incoherently, and begged in a shrill voice.
Lin Yuan rolled his eyes and didn't move, just staring into his eyes.
Those were a pair of eyes filled with strong negative emotions, and fear, pain, and resentment seemed to be flowing out of that person's eye sockets.
Already on the verge of collapse.
But I can't save you. At least not yet.
The strong pig man stopped and twitched his thick nose, but he still didn't see Lin Yuan who was standing not far from him.
He tugged at the chain, dragging the man forward.
The man was dragged further and further away. Seeing that Lin Yuan refused to come to rescue him, his face became distorted. He suddenly pulled the chain, pointed in the direction of Lin Yuan and shouted,
"There, there is a person."
He pointed in the direction of Lin Yuan and screamed with all his might, as if he would be free if he could catch Lin Yuan as well.
“There’s someone there, you can’t see her, she’s there!
The pig turned its head slowly and listened with its ears tilted. After listening several times, it finally understood what the prisoner in its hand was saying.
Lin Yuan had already started retreating when the sentry started shouting.
But the pig was too fast, his speed was totally incompatible with his fat body.
Almost the next moment when he understood what was said, the smelly nose and fangs suddenly appeared in front of Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan moved to an open window when the pig man pounced on him.
She fell backwards, and the tentacles carried her through the dark window.
The moment he fell into the house, the sharp light of a knife flashed before his eyes with a heavy whistling sound.
Lin Yuan felt a strong pain in her mind. A tentacle blocked the knife for her, and the soft tentacles were cut into two by the blade.
The pain was transmitted to her brain stem, as if a hand had reached into her brain and pulled out a nerve, causing her whole body to twitch slightly in pain.
But Lin Yuan's face was expressionless.
His body was shaking with pain, but his bloodless face was unresponsive, as if he was wearing a ceramic mask.
With her expressionless face, she rolled on the ground and rolled herself into the corner of a sideboard in the living room.
He huddled in the shadow beside the cabinet, his eyes blank.
Dense tentacles surged up and quickly covered her.
The wooden door of the house was smashed with a bang, wood fragments flew everywhere, and a fat pig-headed man appeared at the door with his back to the light, holding a bloody knife.
On the street, the sentry with his neck tied was still lying on the ground, shouting and screaming.
Lin Yuan's eyelashes drooped in the shadows.
A tentacle emerged from the street ground and penetrated into the sentry's brain.
In an instant, the man's eyes bulged out, his expression became stupid, and he could no longer utter complete words.
Lin Yuan's move drove him completely crazy.
A pig-shaped monster was panting heavily in the dim living room, stepping on the messy floor step by step, and the house was shaking with the footsteps.
A monster with bristling mane, a big mouth dripping with saliva, and a bloody knife.
He couldn't feel Lin Yuan at all, and couldn't find the human girl who had just flashed in through the window.
So he angrily swung the sharp butcher knife and hacked around the house.
The back of the knife was extremely thick and the blade was sharp. I don't know what it had been used to cut before, and it was stained with thick black blood.
Countless pieces of furniture in the house were smashed to pieces under the sharp thick knife.
There were many times when the knife wind that passed by at close range and the debris flying all over the room scratched Lin Yuan's tentacles, and even one or two scratched her face.
But she just sat in the corner with her knees hugged, not moving.
Pain came from the body, and the spiritual body was injured one after another.
The pain stimulated Lin Yuan's nerves, but that was nothing. The pain only made her calmer.
The pig-headed monster wreaked havoc in the dark room for a long time before finally leaving.
Soon, sharp screams were heard outside the house, and the sound, one after another, tore apart this silent and eerie space.
Mixed in with the sound was the pigs' breathing and the chewing of food.
Lin Yuan hugged her legs and sat in the dark, listening to the torturous sound for as long as it lasted.
The darkness grew thicker amidst such horrific sounds.
A distorted world, eerie silence and being alone in the darkness.
When she was young, during the fire, her father, who was a guide, sealed her sense of pain, five senses and all emotions.
After my father's death, the blockade of mental power was lifted long ago.
But Lin Yuan seemed to be locked in that cold winter forever.
I don't know how to be reverent, I'm not afraid of pain, and I'm not afraid of such darkness.
But if you stay in such a place for too long, human emotions will be erased again and again. Sometimes she even feels that such a dark and absurd world will be her final destination.
Lin Yuan sat in the small corner with his legs crossed for a long time, and heard the noise outside the house gradually disappear.
She felt for her broken tentacle in the dark.
The soft tentacle lost part of it. Without the flexible tip, half of the tentacle appeared pitifully, wrapped around Lin Yuan's arms, and showed Lin Yuan the bowl-sized cross-section.
Lin Yuan stroked it for a long time but found it was useless. It was very difficult for him to comfort his spiritual body.
Many of the tentacles were injured and scratched, and no longer looked as lustrous and moist as before, and they squirmed around the feet with a humming sound.
Lin Yuan suddenly wanted to eat something sweet, a candy, or any sweet food.
But there was nothing at hand.
Lin Yuan thought of the sentry who would find candy for him, the killer whale, and the sweet candy figure he had eaten.
Thinking of this, she felt a little better, dusted herself off, and stood up.
A little blood flowed down his face and stained the corner of his mouth. Lin Yuan licked it and only tasted a little blood.
There is no candy here, and no one will go find it for her
Touching the mottled wallpaper, Lin Yuan slowly walked through the dark and empty living room, pushed open the door, and walked out along the street.
The road was difficult to walk on, and the monsters that appeared from time to time forced her to stop and go, and constantly change direction.
She even saw a giant mushroom, with white mycelium floating in the air, standing in a plantation. A pale human body was lying in the soil at the foot of the mushroom.
When countless spores of all sizes floated over hand in hand, Lin Yuan ran away.
When it was safe, Lin Yuan realized that he was hiding in a place similar to a farm.
Maybe it should be called a "farm".
The breeder was not there, and the spacious shed was filled with two rows of metal cages, similar to a chicken coop, with a feeding trough at one end and tracks for laying eggs at the other.
But the animals locked in those narrow metal cages were not chickens or ducks, but humans, adult male humans.
Lin Yuan hid under a shelf. Opposite her, within her sight, a young man lay in a cage.
His head was exposed from the cage, and his neck was restricted by the narrow gap, so he could only lie on his back. There was a drainage tube in his mouth, and he was constantly fed food, so his abdomen was bulging.
Below that, Lin Yuan could no longer be seen.
The tracks at the other end were humming and turning, and after a while, a huge, snow-white hard-shell egg was teleported out, but no one knew where it was being sent.
No one knew what had happened to that person. One of his arms was broken at the arm, and the other was locked tightly in a cage. His abdomen was covered with horrible and strange symbols, and the blood-red runes glowed on the human flesh.
The inhuman torture and abuse broke the man's will. He lay there with his eyes open, allowing the food flowing through the tube to be force-fed into his stomach.
Lin Yuan squatted under the shelf, stared at the sentry opposite for a long time, and began to chew his fingers.
Almost all the men in this greenhouse were in this state. While they were eating food, huge hard-shelled eggs were being carried away on the tracks on the other side.
Almost everyone was completely mentally broken. Some of them giggled strangely and stretched their necks to lick the food in the trough.
Some of them lay there, muttering, "Golden tree, hehe, golden tree..."
Only the sentinel in front of Lin Yuan still barely retained human consciousness and emotions.
Lin Yuan thought of the sentry who had just pointed at her and yelled at her on the roadside. That person had caused her to break one of her arms and legs.
She recalled that in the courtyard of her own home, Nicole sat opposite her, holding her chin with her hands, and said to her with sparkling eyes,
"There are some very annoying guys among the sentinels."
“But there are some very nice people too.”
After we have met many people and encountered many bad things, we truly realize that there are many lovely people in this world.
Lin Yuan crawled out from under the shelf, poked half of his head out, looked at the sentry lying in the cage, and carefully took out the esophagus stuffed in his mouth.
She was ready to put the thing back if the person screamed or yelled.
But no matter what, she still wanted to ask this person,
"you… "
Do you need my help
Lin Yuan actually didn’t know whether she should ask this question.
She was not sure if she could take away such a seriously injured person, and she even felt that she might not be able to take herself away.
"Kill me." The sentry saw Lin Yuan appear beside the cage.
He closed his eyes and pleaded in a soft voice, "Kill me."
Lin Yuan thought for a moment and asked the man seriously, "I should be able to open this cage. Are you sure you don't want to live?"
The sentry's tightly closed eyes trembled, and after a long while, tears slid down the corners of his eyes.
He glanced to the side, opened his mouth, and spoke in a very small voice with a little sob.
Lin Yuan couldn't hear what he said at all.
But she understood that he wanted to live.
Meanwhile, the tracks were clattering, and the room was filled with giggles and gibberish. New eggs fell and were carried away by the tracks.
A giant hen several meters tall, wearing an apron, walked past the window, with huge red glasses approaching the glass window.
Lin Yuan quickly shrank back under the shelf and lay motionless.
The chicken stuck to the window glass and looked for a while. Not finding anything unusual, it took out a handkerchief, wiped the glass, and left with satisfaction.
Lin Yuan came out again and continued to struggle with the padlock.
With a click, the cage lock finally opened.
The sentry lying in the cage bit his lip and couldn't help shaking his shoulders and crying.
He didn't cry for long. When Lin Yuan untied the chain on his wrists and reached out to help him, he had already calmed down and was struggling to climb out of the cage.
He had probably been locked up for a long time, and his legs were weak. He struggled to stand up with the help of Lin Yuan, his legs stained with blood.
But he gritted his teeth, fire in his eyes, and limped out.
He seemed to know the way here. He led Lin Yuan out of a small hole and hid in a house where hay and sundries were stored.
There were several pairs of farmer's trousers in the room.
The sentry, covered in wounds, walked into the room and the first thing he did was to tear off a pair of trousers from the wall and put them on himself.
His only arm kept shaking until he pulled up his trousers and put them on. Then he squatted down beside the haystack and leaned against the wall as if exhausted.
It seemed that putting on clothes could help him regain his sense of security and reassure himself that he was still a human being.
Rather than being a livestock locked in a cage and force-fed.
"Excuse me," the man leaned against the wall, holding his trembling body with his only remaining arm, "Do you have a guide element?"
"Guide Su?" Lin Yuan was stunned. "No. Do you need spiritual guidance?"
The sentry opened his eyes wide in surprise and looked up.
Only then did he realize that the person standing in front of him was actually a guide.
Under normal circumstances, the natural spiritual attraction between the sentinel and the guide would make it easy to distinguish each other's identities.
But he was so weak and miserable that he did not realize that it was a guide who rescued him from such a miserable situation.
In such a horrifically polluted area, a guide appeared
He recalled the legend he had heard a few months ago: There was a guide who stayed at the sentry post for a long time and even entered the contaminated area like the sentinels.
When I heard about this, I just laughed it off as a strange story. I never thought it was actually true.
The guide was now standing right in front of him.
"Guide? Why... why are you here?" The sentry looked at the young and beautiful girl standing in front of him.
The girl's face was wounded and bleeding, her body was covered in dust, and her hands were stained.
But her eyes were firm, and she showed no fear in such a bizarre world.
"I want to find the golden tree," the female guide said, "and then get the key to open the door here."
Lin Yuan wiped his hands and reached out to press the sentry's forehead.
The sentry turned his forehead away.
"No."
His voice was dry and hoarse, and he could only sit up by leaning against the wall, but he refused Lin Yuan's help.
“You keep the good energy and do your own thing.”
"how about you?"
"I'll be right here, waiting for you to open that door."
There is a row of narrow skylights high up in the utility room. Sitting in front of the haystack, you can see the sky in the distance.
If the escape door was opened, he would see it from here.
Lin Yuan looked at the sentry.
He was very weak, covered in wounds, had a broken hand, and had suffered inhuman torture.
But there was light in his eyes, and he wanted to live.
I did the right thing, Lin Yuan thought.
"You will succeed," the sentry said to her sincerely, "I'm waiting for the door to appear in the sky. When the door appears, we'll meet at the exit."
"Okay. See you at the exit."
When Lin Yuan turned around and was about to leave, the sentry called her.
"Do you know where to find the golden tree?" He told Lin Yuan everything he knew. "Go to the rose garden. The rose garden at night."
***
Ni Ji stood in a long street.
He came in with several elite members of the Royal Guard. As soon as they stepped into the border, they found that all the personnel had been dispersed.
He walked a long way alone in the strange and silent streets. He wanted to find a figure, but he didn't see that person after running to many places.
Finally, he ran into an acquaintance.
Not long ago, there was the tall, bearded sentry nicknamed "Blind Man" who had laughed at him in the tavern.
When Ni Ji met the blind man, a minotaur carrying a sharp knife suddenly appeared from the ground.
The cold and sharp blade was almost touching his face, piercing his eyes.
The blind man pulled him from behind, and the two of them rolled to the side of the road, narrowly avoiding the running bull that was running as fast as the wind.
Ni Ji flipped over and jumped onto the high roof. Lying in the shadow of the roof, he instantly suppressed all the emotions around him.
From the information obtained before entering, we know that the monsters here rely on emotional fluctuations to find humans.
All the subtle emotions need to be hidden.
Ni Ji was very good at this. He had been in and out of the contaminated area more than 300 times, and this skill had been honed through countless trials and tribulations.
He almost never failed, except in front of someone.
But not every sentinel can do this. The blind man can't control his emotions to the extent that he can control them freely.
The murderous intent that arose when he was rolling just now could not be completely controlled and was captured by the monster.
The crazy Minotaur, holding a long knife, rushed towards him.
The tip of the knife is icy cold and as fast as lightning.
The blind man has strong arms, is tall and strong, and carries a two-meter-long sword.
He raised his knife to resist, and the man and the bull collided suddenly. The burly sentry, who was proud of his arm strength, was knocked back until his back hit the wall.
"Damn it. What kind of monster is this, with such great strength?" the blind man cursed in his heart.
Before he finished his words, a whole team of identical minotaur monsters turned out from the corner.
They all held long swords, made deep throat sounds, and rushed towards him in neat rows.
No way. Is this the horror of Area 77? The blind man widened his eyes in horror.
Could it be possible that I died when I just came in? This thought flashed through my mind.
Countless sharp blades have stabbed in front of my eyes.
The wind from those long swords almost stung his skin, but at the last moment they lost their strength and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
The blood-red blade light still lingered in the air. Ni Ji's blade had already been sheathed.
The legs of those strange minotaurs were cut off by the flash of red light, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Ni Ji grabbed the blind man's arm and said, "Let's go!"
The blind man who escaped death reacted and rolled with him into a dark house on the side of the road.
The two men rushed into the house, immediately held their breath and concentrated, hiding in the dark house without moving.
Outside the house, the bull monsters with broken legs crawled up one after another, and the legs that had been completely severed a moment ago had recovered as before.
But this little gap was enough for the skilled sentinel to conceal his mental fluctuations and completely hide himself.
The bull monsters began to moo and could no longer find their target.
Soon, they forgot everything that had just happened, lined up, held their knives, and slowly walked away.
"Damn it, you actually saved me." The blind man in the room took a deep breath, "Thanks, brother."
He took out a guide essence and handed it to Ni Ji.
Ni Ji shook his head and declined.
"It's different in Kyoto. You've seen a real guide, right? You don't even look down on guides." The blind man couldn't help but sneer. Then, he slapped himself lightly, "I just have a bad mouth. Forget it, you saved me, I won't make fun of you anymore."
"Have you seen anyone?" Ni Ji, who was standing by the window, suddenly asked a question without any context.
"Who? Who are you looking for? Name, gender?" The blind man lowered his head and nodded.
"Have you seen anyone?" Ni Ji asked again, "Not a sentinel."
"Not a sentinel?" The blind man lit up the guide essence, took a puff, and said in confusion, "Ordinary people wouldn't dare to come to a place like this. Who else could it be if not a sentinel?"
Ni Ji stopped talking and raised his foot to jump out of the window.
"Wait a minute, where are you going?" the blind man called out to him.
"Look for the golden tree."
"Take a breath, silly boy. It's going to be dark soon." The blind man pulled him. "Why are you in such a hurry? In such a dangerous area, you have to wait and see what others are doing. You have been a sentry for so many years, and you don't even know this?"
"I want to open the door." Ni Ji said, "The sooner the better."
It's too dangerous here. I need to open the door so that she can go out first.
He didn't say that out loud.
The figure disappeared from the window, and after a few leaps, it was no longer visible in the distance.
What's wrong with this kid? The blind man stood at the window, looking in the direction where Ni Ji disappeared.
He was so impatient, not like him at all.
Forget it, think about it, it’s not easy for him. The blind man touched his beard and decided not to make sarcastic remarks about him anymore.
(End of this chapter)