A moment after Lin Yuan left the nest, Ni Ji followed him out without making a sound.
This was not the first time he had quietly come out after Lin Yuan left.
He knew it was dangerous. If Lin Yuan found out, the trusting relationship they had built with great difficulty would deteriorate instantly.
But he had to act, he had to find out the secrets here, find out why Lin Yuan lost her memory, and find a way to make Lin Yuan recover and take her away.
Ni Ji sneaked all the way, releasing the sentinel's perception ability to the maximum, and listening attentively to every subtle movement in the distance.
At the same time, he completely suppressed his outward emotions, allowing himself to be like an unconscious creature, quietly lurking in the darkness.
He had known Lin Yuan for a long time, and they often worked together. He was very familiar with Lin Yuan's way and style of exploring the world, so he knew better how to avoid Lin Yuan's spiritual perception ability.
It's difficult and dangerous.
All the creatures here are well adapted to the darkness, move silently, and have sharp hearing, so they can detect even the slightest movement.
You have to avoid all the deformed creatures and follow Lin Yuan without being noticed.
For this reason, Ni Ji patiently rested himself for several days to recover his physical and mental strength.
Quietly, carefully, and with all your strength.
Follow all the way.
A long distance away.
He could clearly hear the unique wriggling sound of the tentacles as they moved.
Lin Yuan is talking to that Teng Lu.
Ni Ji stopped and listened, and felt that they were walking through a long corridor.
He heard what Fujilu said.
"You can increase his sensitivity tenfold or even a hundredfold, and then he will cry for mercy with just the slightest touch."
"There are more things you can do in the mental picture. The sentinel will find that he doesn't even have the chance to beg for mercy. Hehe, that's the most interesting moment."
"You'll get used to it soon and like this feeling. Here, there are many sentinels entering every day, and there are plenty of toys for you to choose from. There's no need to pay too much attention to one person."
"You pamper that sentry too much. Sooner or later, he will run away."
Ni Ji hid in the dark ceiling, holding his breath, listening to the sound of their footsteps getting farther and farther away.
He counted the distance they had traveled in his mind and estimated the direction they were turning.
Finally, he heard Lin Yuan's voice, "He won't, he promised me."
The trusting voice struck his heart and made his brows droop slightly.
He heard a heavy door being pushed open and Lin Yuan and Teng Lu went in.
Ni Ji waited until they were completely far away, then silently jumped down from the roof and bypassed a mutant guarding the door.
Following the footsteps of Lin Yuan and Teng Lu, I walked into the long passage.
This place is very similar to Lin Yuan's nest, probably they are connected somewhere.
The internal passages are interconnected with countless forks in the road. The dark corridors are silent, with only the occasional dripping sound from groundwater dripping from the roof.
This is a huge maze deep underground.
The maze covers an extremely large area. Without the two people leading the way ahead, Ni Ji would never be able to find such a deep place on his own.
He moved forward quietly in the darkness, occasionally turning on the low-intensity flashlight on his shoulder.
As we walked deeper, the decorations on the walls became increasingly gorgeous, and many towering and huge statues appeared on both sides of the long corridor.
Those strange sculptures lurked on the roof and on both sides of the walkways, looking down at the sentinel who sneaked into the darkness alone.
Ni Ji's fingers gently stroked the wall. The tall underground palace had cold and hard walls made of special metal.
There are countless exquisite murals carved on the smooth and flat walls.
When Ni Ji's fingers slid across the murals, the metal lines lit up with a soft glow, revealing the stories recorded in the darkness one by one.
Ni Ji had occasionally seen murals of this type in other polluted areas.
There have been some fragmentary murals on the palace gate in Contaminated Area No. 5 and on the inner wall of the cave where the Scarlet Egg is located.
No one seemed to care about these paintings.
There is no official organization that has compiled, collected, or made public any of these records. It seems that for today’s human beings, history is irrelevant, and survival is the most important thing.
Ni Ji raised his head and looked at the huge group of murals in front of him.
This was the first time he had seen such a vast and continuous mural.
The fluorescent lines flowed like water as Ni Ji touched them.
A large mural appeared in front of Ni Ji, completely recording the story that had happened.
First, a huge cruise ship, the sailors discovered a strange egg in the deep sea. It was some unknown creature on the seabed that contained huge energy.
Everyone on the ship was extremely happy. In that era, human technology was highly developed, but energy shortage was the biggest problem facing mankind.
On the mural, a silver-haired man wearing a captain's hat holds up the box of insect eggs and says, "We will change the future of mankind."
The fluorescent lines moved and came to the next group of murals.
Most of the crew members on the cruise ship began to behave strangely.
The side of the painting is labeled "The Beginning of Human Distortion"
A fierce battle broke out between the distorted monsters and the normal crew members. More and more crew members were infected and mutated. The situation became out of control.
In order to prevent such pollutants from being brought back to land, the captain made a tragic decision to sink the entire Maria into the sea along with all the crew members on board.
There is an inconspicuous picture on the mural.
The captain locked the box that once held the insect eggs - a wooden box inlaid with exquisite gems, with exquisite workmanship and simple style - into the secret compartment of the table.
Ni Ji frowned and stroked the small mural with his fingers, making it light up back and forth.
The captain in the picture looks sad, holding up the small box as if holding on to the last glimmer of hope.
The small box looks sparkling and exquisite, as if it has magical powers. Similar to the technology on these walls, it can light up the corresponding historical picture scroll when triggered by certain conditions.
It was just a mural, and no matter how finely it was carved, it was impossible to see the entire picture.
But Ni Ji felt that the box looked very familiar. He thought for a while and remembered that on the golden beach in the fifth pollution zone, Lin Yuan handed over all the precious energy stones and only hid a shabby wooden box.
It was just a broken and inconspicuous box, completely different from the sparkling treasure box on the mural.
But Ni Ji keenly felt that the two boxes were the same thing.
Ni Ji's fingers slowly slid across the lit images, thinking of the lonely girl.
It turned out that she was alone, searching for some huge truth buried by history.
The lines of flowing water illuminate the pictures. The Mary sank tragically in the sea, but it failed to stop the spread of distortion.
The crew members who turned into monsters crawled all the way back to the shore from the bottom of the sea and entered the human world.
From that moment on, humans were infected in large numbers and transformed into powerful distorted creatures. Cities fell one after another and the era of great destruction arrived.
The golden age of mankind, which was once glorious and technologically highly advanced, is collectively referred to by later generations as the "Old Days."
Ni Ji saw this underground city among many flashing murals.
This was once an underground fortress built by humans for refuge after mutated creatures spread across the globe.
In order to take back the sky for mankind, countless scientists are developing powerful weapons deep underground.
One group of researchers hatched a worm jade, raised the ancient monster to maturity, and mixed its blood into the human body.
Finally, the strongest humanoid weapons of the time, the Sentinels and Guides, were born.
Ni Ji looked down and saw that the sentinels and guides formed a powerful team, carrying humanity's high-tech weapons, and fought their way back to the ground.
They attacked cities and villages, advancing triumphantly all the way and taking back piece by piece of human land.
That was hundreds of years ago.
The mural shows soldiers with high morale, marching on with powerful ships and cannons at their backs. The people who see them off are jubilant. Humanity looks very good.
Ni Ji stroked the wall, looking at the murals that shone brightly in the darkness.
There is no record of what follows.
Why has mankind come to this decadent state from that moment
Why did such a prosperous and vast underground city become a deserted city and fall into the underground lair of monsters
Before he had time to think carefully, Ni Ji heard noise coming from afar.
In the darkness, there was a large-scale rustling sound, and something wet was moving quickly.
They are tentacles. They are leaving the center of the temple and moving rapidly at an abnormally fast speed.
They ran straight towards their direction without hesitation.
Ni Ji's pupils suddenly contracted.
Discovered!
He turned around and ran out.
When he ran at full speed, almost no one could catch up with him.
The mutant guarding the entrance of a passage noticed the movement and just as he raised his head, a blood-red knife flashed by and cut it in half.
The sentry leaped over its stumps and ran without stopping.
He could feel countless monsters gathering behind him and chasing in the direction he was running.
Among them, the sound of tentacles crawling and surging mixed with the sound of water is the most obvious, and it is fierce and biting tightly.
She is angry.
Ni Ji thought so while running away.
If I get caught by her again this time, maybe she won't let me go as easily as she did last time.
Maybe, I will die at Lin Yuan's hands.
This thought flashed through the sentry's mind, and he felt a pang of bitterness in his heart, and he didn't want to think about it anymore.
With long legs flying, a figure rushed out of the dark tunnel like an arrow.
At the entrance of the tunnel, the mutant hiding there was huge, with a human-shaped head and a long snake-like neck.
Ni Ji rushed out of the cave, drew his sword, stabbed the monster's skull with the long sword, and flipped over its head covered with long algae and jumped off.
This is a fork in the road, two roads.
Turning right leads to Lin Yuan's lair, and turning left leads to the corridor that leads to the upper floors.
Turn left and run up to escape from this underground abyss. But it is probably impossible to get down again and return to Lin Yuan.
Turn right and enter the cave of Linyuan. You are doomed to be captured as you are surrounded by numerous monsters.
Afterwards, he would most likely be executed, imprisoned, or die at the hands of those familiar white hands.
The sentry standing at the fork in the road stopped.
The long-necked mutant caught up, its pale, noodle-like neck wrapped around it, and it opened its bloody mouth, trying to bite the outsider to pieces.
At that moment, facing the monster's dripping saliva, Ni Ji felt a gloomy emotion in his heart, and he almost wanted to let the monster bite him to death.
I really don’t want to face Lin Yuan and her disappointed and angry face.
The red blade continued to grow like a sharp claw. Ni Ji held the knife with both hands and split the giant mutant in half from the crack in its head.
The long knife was bright red as it chopped down along the long neck, tearing the monster that looked like a giant python apart.
The blade's force did not diminish, red light flashed out, ferociously and domineeringly, chopping the monster's body and internal organs into pieces.
When Lin Yuan caught up, she saw her sentinels chopping up the bodies of countless deformed creatures around them.
He sat on a pile of bloody flesh, holding a long knife with a ferocious look on his face.
Countless mutants coming from all directions crouched in the darkness, making low guttural sounds.
They had surrounded him, but he was so frightened that he dared not move forward.
Lin Yuan's tentacles moved around, taking her up to the platform. She perched on the high ground, staring at the sentinel sitting in the circle of monsters.
When Lin Yuan found out that the sentry had deceived him, the anger in his heart was like boiling water, and he couldn't suppress it no matter what.
She actually didn't understand why she was so angry.
Fujilu was right, many humans and sentinels entered this place every day.
The one in front of her was disobedient, so she could just abandon him. She could just go up a few floors and grab another one. No matter how many sentinels she wanted or what kind of sentinels she wanted, it would be easy.
She actually didn't mind being deceived. Teng Lu always smiled in front of her, but she actually knew that Teng Lu was hiding a lot of things from her. She just didn't care, at least she wasn't angry.
Why did I feel so angry when I found out that Ni Ji had deceived me and tried to leave
Lin Yuan couldn't understand.
Fortunately, he did not run away, but obediently returned to the outside of the nest and waited for himself there.
Lin Yuan walked around the sentry and felt a little better.
If he had not turned back to the nest but instead fled towards the ground, she didn't know what terrible thing would have happened.
A tentacle stretched out and bound the sentry's wrists, and the tip of the tentacle lashed the skin on the back of his hand.
The sentry threw away the bloody red knife as if resigned to his fate.
Another tentacle swam up, wrapped around his tight waist, and lifted him up.
The bound sentry turned his head and whispered, "No one else."
From all directions, the mutants lurking in the darkness let out mocking screams and growls.
Lin Yuan only said one word, "Get lost."
No one understood her thoughts, but every creature underground knew that she was in a rage.
The mutants who wanted to stay and watch the fun all retracted their necks and scattered in an instant.
Ni Ji was tightly bound by the tentacles, dragged all the way back to the nest, and thrown to the ground.
The bonfire in the nest had long gone out by now, leaving only the flickering glow of the charcoal in the embers.
Ni Ji looked up and saw Lin Yuan perched on the wall.
Her expression was cold, like a sculpture wearing a ceramic mask.
Ni Ji thought of the murals he had seen and the strange sculptures standing in the corridors of the temple.
From those murals, he knew that in this polluted area isolated from the outside world, in this dark underground city, there once lived a gigantic being with powerful spiritual power, called a god, who supported the operation of this world.
Now the monster is gone, and Lin Yuan has taken its place.
Looking at Lin Yuan, who had no expression on his face and had completely lost his memory in the darkness, Ni Ji felt an unspeakable sadness and anger in his heart.
He now understood why the Queen had sent only one guide, Lin Yuan, to go deep into such a dangerous contaminated area.
Although I don't know for what purpose.
But it was obvious that they sent Lin Yuan deep into here to complete such an impossible task.
The purpose is to make her look like this and become the pillar here.
Ni Ji has had many teammates around him, and they are all very good and lovely people.
However, they were sent into the contaminated area by the White Tower's top leaders and lost their lives for no reason.
Now, he has nothing left but this guide.
His only companion, a warm and strong girl.
But those people sent her here again, made her lose all her memories, and turned her into this cold and heartless person.
She is obviously such a good person, as warm as the moon.
But those people wanted her to fall into the abyss, become a man-eating god, and live forever in this dark underground.
The fire of hatred burned in the sentry's heart, turning that red heart into a piece of hot iron.
He hated this filthy world and the seemingly pure white tower.
He thought angrily that as long as he was still alive, as long as he had a breath left, even with his most broken body, he would one day climb back to the white tower and overthrow that stinking tower and that corrupt empire.
In the dim nest, there was the sound of dripping water.
A dot of dark red firelight smeared half of Lin Yuan's face, while the remaining half was plunged into darkness.
This place no longer looks like reality, almost like a dream.
A scarlet and terrifying nightmare that Ni Ji had once experienced.
He looked at Lin Yuan's face, which looked cold and distant.
On the battlefield, most of the time when the two of them were together, Ni Ji was the more rational and calm one. Lin Yuan's thinking was very jumpy and sometimes very emotional.
But Ni Ji knew that Lin Yuan was actually more resolute and resolute than himself. As long as she really made up her mind to do something, even if he pulled her and begged her, she would still go forward resolutely without looking back.
Now that she has completely lost her memory, she might really punish herself cruelly.
This time she was really angry. After all, she was the one who was deceived.
The girl with a cold look was lurking in the dim nest. She walked down the wall with crisscrossing pipes with an expressionless face.
Ni Ji felt an inexplicable panic in his heart.
He repeatedly reminded himself that he was a soldier who had experienced many battles and that any physical torture or interrogation would be unbearable for him.
Even if he was abused and tortured, he could endure it. Hasn't he experienced enough physical torture in his life
As long as Lin Yuan lets him live, there is still chance and hope.
Ice-cold tentacles wrapped around his limbs and secured them in place.
Ni Ji watched Lin Yuan come to him, his lips slightly parted, and he said indifferently,
"To punish you for lying, I will raise your sensitivity tenfold."
(End of this chapter)