Ni Ji saw Lin Yuan rummaging through the miscellaneous items in his backpack.
At the beginning, the atmosphere was very relaxed, flipping through this and that.
Until she found a keychain with a photo on it, held it in her hand and looked at it for a while, then suddenly her face turned pale, her eyes became fixed, and she stood up shakily.
Ni Ji held her in place.
Lin Yuan's face was pale and her pupils contracted. Something drastic was happening in her mind, impacting her mental picture and causing her so much pain that she could hardly stand.
When Ni Ji supported her, she grabbed Ni Ji's arm with her backhand, and dug her fingers into his arm tightly.
"Ni Ji..."
She called Ni Ji's name and told him that she remembered everything.
She held the small keychain tightly and told him that it was a relic of her mother.
There was a vortex of confusion deep in those dark eyes, filled with pain.
It was the first time that Ni Ji saw Lin Yuan like this. He didn’t know what was going on and could only support her.
Lin Yuan fell down in a cold sweat and fell into his arms.
The mutants around raised their heads one by one and made low, threatening sounds.
They have no eyes and rely entirely on their breath to identify others.
Just now, at the moment when Lin Yuan fell down, they felt that the gods supporting this entire land of pupils suddenly disappeared.
A human girl with an unfamiliar smell appeared next to the campfire.
Their god disappeared, and a girl with a strange smell suddenly appeared deep in their territory.
This made them feel uneasy and panicked, and they became violent.
In the dark underground world, the campfire illuminates a small area.
Around the bonfire, a low and strange roar could be heard from the endless darkness. From floor to floor in all directions, the footsteps of monsters could be heard one after another.
The shadows in the dark were gathering, more and more, surrounding the two humans beside the campfire.
The monsters growled and roared, scratching the ground with their claws, making sharp noises, as if they were about to pounce on this strange guide who suddenly appeared and made them feel terrified, and tear into pieces and devour them.
Ni Ji held Lin Yuan with one hand and drew out his long sword with the other.
The blade was blood red, and beads of red blood slid down the tip of the knife and dripped onto the edge of the flickering firelight.
The sentry shook his long sword, shook off the blood drop, and the wide blood blade was across the two men.
He rarely drew his sword before the battle started, but at this moment, he held Lin Yuan with one hand, and with the other hand he had already drawn the bright red long sword.
The flames of the campfire jumped, and occasionally there was a spark or two popping.
The sentinel stood beside the blazing flames, his face as cold as ice, holding a bloody blade, confronting the monsters that were ready to move in the darkness.
A huge whale swam out silently from the void behind him.
Perhaps he was shocked by the sentry's tenacity, or perhaps he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have just eaten something he had given him.
The mutants growled softly, stalked closer, slowly narrowing the encirclement, and did not rush up immediately.
Lin Yuan leaned on Ni Ji's arm and saw the cold sweat on his forehead dripping onto the ground. Flames flickered in front of his eyes, his vision was difficult to focus, and his body was twitching in pain.
She seemed to have had a very long nightmare and had just emerged from the terrifying mental invasion and finally woke up.
The mental picture was severely damaged, and there were too many fragments of memory flooding into the mind, causing the brain to become messy.
For a moment, I couldn't figure out what was happening, and I didn't even know where I was at the moment.
But she could sense danger.
There were violent and ferocious emotions everywhere, and aggressive murderous intent was approaching him.
They are numerous, powerful, and dangerous.
But she couldn't move. The flames flickered before her eyes, just like the terrible fire in her childhood.
Lin Yuan heard her own heartbeat, and it was as if she had returned to that period. She was weak and powerless, just a toddler, standing in the snow and watching the fire.
Alone, unable to do anything.
But it seemed like something was different. At this moment, there was a familiar body beside me, leaning closely against me.
The memory in her mind was a mess and she couldn't remember many things, but she knew that the person leaning against her was her partner.
Ni Ji.
When I think of this name, my heart seems to calm down a lot.
With him around, no matter how difficult the situation is, it doesn't seem so bad.
They can always rely on each other, and when they are most vulnerable, they will stay by each other's side, allowing the vulnerable person to take a breath on the other's shoulder.
The arm holding me up was firm and strong, and my warm body temperature was transmitted against my skin.
Lin Yuan rested his splitting headache head on the sentry's shoulder and put his arms around his waist.
She closed her eyes, rested on that shoulder for a few seconds, and slowly opened her eyes.
Those eyes were as black as ink, and a spark of fire lit up in the depths of the dark pupils.
When those eyes opened, the low roars around them disappeared.
The numerous mutants seemed to have suddenly forgotten their goals and stood in the darkness in a daze.
"Strange, what were you doing just now?"
"You're saying... that beautiful humans can't be trusted?"
"Aren't you eating meat? There's a delicious stew."
"Oh yeah, where did that pot go? I want to lick it."
They were talking to each other, looking around, and gradually started to move about. They seemed not to notice Ni Ji, nor the guide who was leaning against Ni Ji.
[Walk slowly]
Lin Yuan used his mental power to communicate with Ni Ji, and the sweat on his forehead fell on the sentry's shoulders.
Ni Ji tightened his arms, holding her and slowly backing away. The two of them slowly passed by the monsters roaming all over the ground.
As if they were completely unaware of them, most of the monsters were completely unaware that Ni Ji was carrying Lin Yuan passing by them.
Occasionally, some of them would react particularly quickly. They would just raise their heads, but before they could open their mouths, a red blade light would flash in the darkness, instantly splitting them in half.
The bonfire went out, and in the dark red afterglow, a strong smell of blood was spreading.
The sentry's black boots stepped on the ground silently, without making any sound.
Lin Yuan leaned against Ni Ji, closed her eyes, and let him lead her.
She didn't have to worry about fighting or how to dodge. She only had to control the monsters in her mind, which was much easier for her at the moment.
She even discovered that her mental strength had been tempered at some point and seemed to have become much stronger.
Even in such a weak and injured state, he was able to control most monsters well.
The same was true for Ni Ji. Most of the enemies had lost their will to fight, so he only needed to dodge carefully and deal with the individual monsters that had regained consciousness with caution.
The difficult battle that should have been a matter of life and death actually became much easier.
At this moment, they both admired each other's strength and felt that they were being protected by another person.
When Ni Ji approached, he raised his head alertly and moved his nose.
Ni Ji gripped the knife handle tightly.
Seven hands flicked their tails and muttered,
"Ah, it's that good sentinel." He buried his head, "Huluhulu, forget it, forget it."
In the end, that small group of powerful mutants didn't even raise their heads.
Ni Ji looked at them carefully, moved slowly, and passed by them silently.
The two of them avoided the mutants roaming all over the ground and slowly retreated into the nest.
The nest was very deep, and it got darker the deeper you went, with almost no light at all.
The sound of dripping water can be heard clearly here.
This is an underground maze with roads leading in all directions, and inside is a magnificent temple.
A monster hiding in the passage rushed out from the corner. It was very small, similar to a human baby, and it was very fast, crawling on all fours.
Ni Ji kicked it away with his leg and chopped off its head with his knife. The monster screamed and spurted out a puff of dirty blood.
The filth was pouring down on his head, but the sentry stepped sideways to block it, preventing the smelly blood from splashing onto Lin Yuan's face.
Lin Yuan, leaning on his shoulder, closed his eyes and did not move.
Ni Ji found a corner, put Lin Yuan down, turned on the flashlight, and checked her condition.
Lin Yuan looked very bad. His face was pale and his forehead was covered with sweat. After he sat down, he bent over and vomited.
But she seemed to have not eaten anything for several days and could not vomit it out.
She sat there, looking at Ni Ji. Although she looked very weak, she smiled at Ni Ji.
Although my head hurts, my memory is recovering little by little.
She knew that this time was very dangerous. She almost died here and almost became a monster living in the underground world forever.
But she was okay, alive and conscious. That was enough.
She even found something her mother had left behind.
My mother had also been here and explored this pupilless place.
This shows that she has been on the right path all along.
The Mary Shipwreck - Golden Tree - Land of No Pupils. Following the instructions given by the wooden box, walk through the contaminated areas one by one.
The route on the wooden box is the path that my mother walked but ultimately failed to take.
There were answers her mother had sought but hadn't found.
From the very beginning, when she made this decision in her childhood, she knew that this was a very dangerous path.
It's very difficult, and there is almost no chance of survival.
Both my father and mother were strong people, but because of their exploration of the truth, they were destroyed in that man-made fire.
When she decided to do this alone, she went down this path with the mentality of going to die.
But now she is here, still alive, not dead, and getting closer to the unknown truth.
That's good and worth being happy about.
What's more, she is not alone now. She even has friends, family and reliable sentinels around her.
Lin Yuan seldom smiles.
In the dim flashlight, the pale face leaning against the damp wall, revealing a smile, had an almost soul-stirring beauty that captured the sentry's heart.
"I'm so hungry. Ni Ji, do you have anything to eat?" Lin Yuan said weakly.
Her previous memory was restored, but she could not remember what happened from the time Ni Ji was knocked out by the anesthetic to the time they met again.
I can't remember what happened during the time since I separated from him.
I just felt that I had been living in a daze these past few days, as if my mental strength had been strongly affected and I had turned into a huge monster.
She had been wandering around in this underground cave without eating anything until Ni Ji found her.
Now that I've woken up and regained my memory, I realize that my body is empty and my stomach is extremely hungry. I don't know how many days I've been hungry, but my hands and feet are weak and tired from hunger.
Ni Ji searched all his pockets and realized that he was not wearing his original clothes, but the sentry uniform that Lin Yuan had found for him. There was no candy in his pockets that he was used to carrying.
They had sneaked in so hastily that he had nothing with him except the flashlight on his shoulder and the knife in his hand.
He had no choice but to move closer to Lin Yuan and said to her, "Be patient, you will find food soon."
In the darkness, two people who had just escaped from the battle stood close to each other.
Lin Yuan leaned his head on the sentry's shoulder and closed his eyes. "Then take a break first. Let me lean on your shoulder for a while."
Her breath was shallow and soft, blowing against the sentinel's skin.
Ni Ji's shoulders stiffened.
These days, their mental images are always connected to each other, and they seem to have too much physical contact.
At this moment, their skins touched each other, and immediately, the spiritual endings of the two people were naturally connected together.
Ni Ji instantly felt a strong stinging sensation in his head.
That was empathy. The pain that Lin Yuan was feeling in his body at the moment was transmitted through the spiritual connection and was felt by him in reverse.
The guide who was leaning against him had a serious mental injury. It turned out that he was suffering from such pain at the moment. The pain was so intense that even a sentinel like him felt it and found it unbearable.
It was very difficult for her to break free from the powerful control brought by the pollutant and to break free from such a strange state and regain consciousness.
Because of this, my mental picture was traumatized, and I felt weak, tired and in unbearable pain.
But he couldn't help at all, he was a sentinel and couldn't even comfort the spirit.
The only thing I could do was to lend her my shoulder so she could lean on it and rest for a while.
"I want something sweet. Really sweet."
In the darkness, Ni Ji heard Lin Yuan's weak voice, asking him for candy.
"I know." Ni Ji's heart was in a knot, and he hated himself deeply. "I will give it to you. I will give you a lot."
"I can't remember what happened after we separated." Lin Yuan's voice sounded intermittently, leaning on his shoulder and asking, "How did you get down here? How did we get together again?"
The sentinel in the dark fell silent.
"Tell me what happened during this time."
"… "
"Why are you silent?"
Ni Ji didn't know what to say.
His guide held his chin and kissed him. He did this and that to him.
But now she says she doesn't remember it and wants him to tell her orally.
He had no choice but to keep silent and put his hands over his face in the darkness.
(End of this chapter)