Walking to the two destroyed iron gates, Ye Peitian's footsteps paused for a moment, but then he took Chu Qianxun's hand and slowly walked into the dark and extremely narrow corridor.
The railings of the cages on the side followed them forward and backward.
"In Goose City, at night, I also stay in such a place." Ye Peitian's voice sounded in the empty corridor,
"There were a lot of interesting people locked up there. There was a man of the plant department, and when the guard was not there, he would stick out thin vines from the gaps between the railings, and then bloom a few beautiful flowers. Amuse the person opposite me. A little girl reached out and picked it."
"A few times, he also sent flowers to my door, but I had a bad temper and ignored him."
He tried his best to say something that sounded interesting, as if he wanted to tell Chu Qianxun that his life was not just a mess of the past.
"There is also a young man, his eyes can't see, but his power is very special, he can sense the movements of everyone within a certain range. If the garrison is approaching, he will tell us in advance. God's love seems to use the development of his The supernatural powers created the dog people today."
"Later, I heard that they escaped, and I don't know if they are still alive in this world."
Ye Peitian rarely talks so much, and Chu Qianxun listens all the way along the way.
They unknowingly reached the end of the corridor, where the beds of two adjoining cells were leaning against each other across a thin wall.
Ye Peitian turned his face to the side, and his eyes fell on the two beds that were leaning against each other across the wall. This place really made him both familiar and fearful.
On those nights when he was almost insane, there was often a man's voice on the clammy wall beside the bed. In fact he didn't hear what the man was saying most of the time.
Sometimes that person talks about the past of the golden age, or that they will be able to escape one day, how to get revenge and how to live a better life after they escape.
When Ye Peitian leaned against the wall in pain and curled up in the boundless darkness, that person would knock on the wall, lean against the wall, comfort him softly, and swear to him that everyone would escape one day.
"When we escape, I'm going to have a good meal, catch a pheasant, roast it nicely, and I'd better go get some wine somewhere. That's like being alive."
His voice often passed like this.
Ye Peitian still doesn't know what the man looks like, only that his name is Ah Xiao.
Because it didn't take long for the next door to quiet down. I heard that A Xiao was sent to another research base.
Ye Peitian and Chu Qianxun finally passed through the too dark corridor and pushed open the door to the exit.
The sun shines brightly outside the door, with blue sky and white clouds. The warm winter sun hit Ye Peitian's face, he stretched out his fingers to block the too bright sun,
Through the silver veil, the world he saw was no longer dark and dull, with green trees and grass, and a free-flying eagle hovering high in the sky.
Ye Peitian's heart was pressed against a heavy and huge stubborn stone for many years, and the obscure stone was so heavy that he could hardly breathe.
Originally, he thought that he would endure it in silence for the rest of his life, and it was impossible to dig out these things and tell them to others.
But when he tried to break the stone and poured out the blood-stained fragments, he realized that it didn't seem to be that difficult. The first sentence he said was spoken, and then he continued naturally.
When those things were pulled out from the bottom of my heart little by little, the feeling of depression that had been stuck in my heart for a long time began to slowly dissolve.
Ye Peitian turned his face, there was a person beside him, looking at him in the sun.
"I'm sorry." He suddenly felt a little sorry, "All you hear is some bad things."
"I'd like to hear your story, but I'm just a little regretful that I didn't appear in your past earlier." Chu Qianxun raised his hand and touched his resolute cheek, "But for your future, we can go together. "
The heavy door behind them squeaked shut in these words, shutting the dark corridor behind them forever.
In that building where many half-demon humans live.
A woman in a hood is pushing a trailer of food, distributing food to the half-magic people with reduced mobility. She was the same woman who persuaded Kong Haobo and others not to enter by the well earlier.
"Miss Danqin. Thank you, you are such a gentle and kind person." The man with a tumor-like demon body on his back said sitting on a chair. The heavy demon body weighed on his body and made his movements very inconvenient.
"Don't say that, these are what I should do." Danqin lowered her head, took the empty bowl in the man's hand, and used a clean damp cloth to clean his face and neck from the food that was everywhere.
"If there were more kind-hearted people like you in this world, we wouldn't be what we are today. There were some outsiders today, and I persuaded them, but they still insisted on going down."
"Really?" Danqin sighed. She put away the towel, pushed the dining cart, and walked down the door. "We can't stop those who are looking for death. We can only hope they don't find those two."
She made a bowl of batter, placed it in front of the woman crawling on the ground next door, and walked to the next room. Some people thanked her gratefully, and some people were already delirious and only fumed. roar. She seemed very accustomed to taking care of everyone with swiftness and tenderness.
When she pushed the cart out of a room, she saw Chu Qianxun and Ye Peitian appearing at the entrance of the stairs.
"Why is someone here again." Danqin stopped and glanced at them helplessly, "Go back, outsider, there is nothing you want here."
Seeing so many half-demonized but not dead humans, Chu Qianxun was almost shocked by the situation in front of him. She didn't even know whether to call these creatures monsters or humans.
A species whose half of its body is no longer compatible with humans, crawls past her with its body arched in front of her eyes.
Then a young child with long silver horns on his forehead rushed out of the room and almost bumped into Chu Qianxun.
"This... what are these?" Chu Qianxun avoided him, unable to believe his eyes.
"God's love is trying to create a fighting machine that has the powerful fighting ability of a monster and can communicate and control like a human being. What was abandoned here is only in their eyes..." Ye Peitian glanced at the child, and finally did not fail Say three words.
Danqin, who was pushing the dining cart, walked past them, picked up the child, put it on a chair, brought a bowl of food, and spooned the batter into his mouth.
"They are all human beings, just like us," Danqin said. "They can no longer return to human society. They can only stay here and live. I hope you leave and don't disturb their peace."
The little boy showed Danqin a flower in his hand, "Sister Danqin, I just went to see Sister Huahua to play, and she gave me this."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Chu Qianxun sighed, "Who are you? Why are you here."
Danqin lowered her eyebrows, "I used to be a nurse here, everyone else has left, I just want to stay and take care of their lives."
Ye Peitian said suddenly: "I want to find a person here. His name has the word Xiao. Everyone calls him A Xiao."
Danqin's hand holding the spoon stopped, and a trace of panic was evident on her face.
"You know where he is." Ye Peitian used an affirmative sentence.
"No, he's dead." Danqin lowered her head, "A Xiao is no longer here."
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In the underground space, the members of the Creation Team walk in the basement with huge space and complex structure.
"It turns out that there is still so much space here."
"Liu team, how did you know?"
"Be careful, don't talk nonsense." Liu Hezheng, who was walking at the front of the team, had a rare trace of nervousness.
"Don't be so nervous, Team Liu. This research institute is nothing but ruins. We searched for a day. Except for those monsters that are neither human nor ghosts, we haven't encountered a single powerful monster."
"With the configuration of our team, the eighth-tier old Kong and the seventh-tier Xiaofeng. Tsk tsk, everywhere is a strong team. No matter whether it is a human or a demon, there is nothing to be afraid of. I just I don't understand why the president sent us to do such a small thing."
As the group was talking, a pale face of a little girl suddenly appeared in the shadows ahead.
Taking a closer look, the face was covered with black feathers. Those black wings were almost merged with the darkness, so that the boundaries could not be distinguished, making the face look like a mask suspended in mid-air. .
Liu Hezheng raised an arm and made an alert gesture. At that moment, the team members quickly formed a formation with tacit understanding, and the defensive warriors holding shields gathered in front of them.
The little girl slowly spread out her black wings, and the black feathers gradually faded. Under her innocent face, everything seemed to disappear, leaving only an endless dark void.
Kong Haobo's flaming arrow shot through the air, but it seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness, and disappeared silently.
When Kong Haobo reacted, he was no longer in the dim basement.
There is only boundless darkness around, the ground is dry and cracked, no grass grows, and a few solitary red rocks stand abruptly on the vast expanse of land. In the night sky in the distance, a huge red eye hangs high.
The companions around him did not know where they had gone, and he was the only one left.
This might be an attack from the spiritual system, Kong Haobo thought.
But unless the other party's rank is much higher than himself, or his spirit is flawed, he shouldn't enter such a different world that has a real touch and cannot be cracked without warning.
"It's not a mental attack, it's a space power superimposed on mental power. It belongs to Xiaoyan's world." A voice came from behind Kong Haobo.
Kong Haobo turned around abruptly, and sitting on a tall rock not far behind him was a young and beautiful man. His facial features were very handsome, his skin was shiny and white, and his white-blond hair was shining in the dark. .
He bent one foot, rested his cheek in the other, and looked at Kong Haobo from a height with a smile.
"Xiaoyan's ability has nothing to do with rank. Only people who are really strong in spirit can break through this space. Flowers like you who are protected and grown in a greenhouse, without my guidance, probably can only stay here forever."
"Who are you?" Kong Haobo took out his sword and tightened his guard.
"Oh, you came to me on purpose, and you don't even know who I am? Didn't your president Gu Zhengqing tell you?" The man raised his eyebrows and smiled tolerantly. A record book, "Look, the records are so detailed that even how to find this basement is clearly written down."
Kong Haobo recognized that it was their captain Liu Hezheng's notebook, "Who the hell are you? Where are my companions? What have you done to them?"
"Do you know that there is often a queen-like being in the lair of the blasphemer. It can induce the demonization of the humans in captivity and make them the same blasphemers as them?" The man answered the question,
He shredded the notebook at random and scattered the pieces of paper in the air. "One day, God Love discovered that there were similar supernatural beings among human beings. That person was me. The human body is demonized to create a powerful weapon of war."
So, because God Love once imprisoned this man, was he able to refine a half-demonized soldier? Kong Haobo was shocked.
"Since you want this ability so much, I will let you get your wish."
The man laughed and turned his fair and slender fingers. A wound opened on his fair wrist, and a black liquid flowed out of it, spreading over the pale skin and staining the entire palm black. Blood kept dripping on the ground.
The ground surging and cracking, echoing the drilling of countless black semi-gel-like liquids, those liquids continued to pour out of the ground like tentacles, and lifted a human who was bound by his hands and feet, and lifted him up in the air.
It was the captain of Kong Haobo's squad, Liu Hezheng.
At this moment, Liu Hezheng's expression was sluggish, his eyes were staring at the sky, his mouth was open, and countless black liquids were pouring into his mouth, and he could only make a gurgling sound of unknown meaning.
His back and limbs began to grow sharp demonic bodies, which was a sign that demonization had begun.
"Stop! What have you done to him!" Kong Haobo's eyes were splitting, the long sword lit up with a sky-high flame, and the huge flaming sword light slashed at the opposite enemy.
"Then why are you angry?" The man jumped up from the rock and avoided the attack. "Isn't he just trying to find this power? I'll let him taste the taste of being forced to be demonized."
His face went cold, "It's just the pain we've all experienced."
Kong Haobo rushed forward quickly, slashed the gelatinous tentacles with his sword, and caught Liu Hezheng who fell from the air.
"Kill... kill me, Lao Kong, I... can't bear it, the pain... hurry up. Kill me." Liu Hezheng's expression was distorted, the veins on his forehead burst out, the bones of the body were creaky and creaky, the skin was cracked, and a lot of blood flowed out , regardless of his pain, his body is constantly growing sharp scales belonging to monsters.
"Uncle Liu, hold on, Uncle Liu!" Kong Haobo desperately called him.
But soon, the companion in his hand stopped struggling and fell limp.
"It's useless to die so soon. It seems that without the cooperation of the Holy Blood, most people can't survive this level." The man squatted on another stone and looked at the dead man with a little regret. .
Kong Haobo raised his red eyes and looked at him fiercely.
…
Chu Qianxun heard a huge roar from the ground, and pillars of fire penetrated the ground, connecting the sky and burning.
"It's Kong Haobo's ability!" She looked out the window.
Just not far from this building, the ground was washed away by the flames, revealing a basement with a cave in the ground, where crimson flames gushed out, and it was obvious that a fierce battle was taking place.
The building was affected by the fighting, the glass shattered, the walls cracked, the roof collapsed, and the ground shook violently.
The half-demon who lived in this building with limited mobility, several people were crushed under the collapsed walls or furniture for a while.
The boy with the long silver horns on his head jumped off the chair and used his horns to pry a collapsing wall, trying to drag a girl out.
Ignoring the shaking of the corridor, Danqin rushed forward to help. She is not a power user, she can only support the heavy wall with her weak shoulders.
"Quick, pull Huahua out." She could only pin her hopes on that young child.
Even the relatives of these children in the village were reluctant to approach them, and Danqin didn't expect the two ambitious outsiders to come to help.
But one arm quickly supported the wall on her shoulders, slowly propping up the heavy wall.
"I'm holding on, you drag people out."
Chu Qianxun used the name "human". If these human beings who have undergone some changes in appearance cannot be called human beings, then they cannot be called human beings as saints with demons residing in their bodies.
Ye Peitian pressed his hands on the ground, and soon the shaking of the entire staircase stopped and stabilized.
"I'll go out and have a look, Chihiro, you stay and help."
Chu Qianxun nodded, and Ye Peitian's figure quickly disappeared from the window.
Helping to move those people who were inconvenient to move, but with unusually large bodies, to a safe place in the yard, even Chu Qianxun was exhausted and gasping for breath.
Danqin looked at the place where the fire was blazing into the sky, tightened her embroidered eyebrows deeply, folded her hands and prayed on the wasteland, "Almighty God, please forgive them and give them merciful redemption. They just couldn't forget the hatred in their hearts, so much so that I can't find my way back."
"I said that you believe in God so much. Have you really seen the gods you worship appear or show miracles?" Chu Qianxun sat on the ground and asked, "You see we are half-dead from exhaustion, and we haven't seen any of them. Do him a favor."
"Although God doesn't come to the world easily, I know that he must exist. He exists in my heart and in the world." Danqin looked at Chu Qianxun, she was very grateful to this girl who helped everyone, and said There are more words, "With the existence of God, I have the direction to pray and know how to atone for the sins I have committed."
"What sin do you want to atone for? Who is that A Xiao?"
Danqin lowered her eyelashes, "Axiao, he has completely changed, he is no longer the Axiao he used to be."
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In the cracked ground gap, the gel-like black tentacles tightly bound the scarred Kong Haobo.
"Good job, in the end you can break the boundaries of Xiaoyan's domain," the man was still sitting on a stone in the ruins, and seemed to be a little disappointed, "but it's too late, your companions have fallen into my hands What can you do by yourself?"
Kong Haobo gritted his teeth and struggled desperately to prevent the black blood that climbed up his neck from getting into his mouth.
Xiaoyan with a human face and a bird body appeared behind the man and supported his back with her wings.
"Don't worry, Xiaoyan, my body can hold on for a while longer." The man patted the girl's wings and whispered.
But he quickly raised his head and saw Ye Peitian who appeared not far away.
"Lin Fei, run away. You are not this person's opponent." Kong Haobo choked with blood, barely struggling to shout, his throat was quickly strangled by the black tentacles and fell into a coma.
The man sitting on the ground stood up, looked at Ye Peitian for a long time, and showed a surprised smile.
"It's Pei Tian, I've been waiting for you. Pei Tian." He looked excited and his chest heaved slightly, "With your participation, we can finally take revenge on those enemies! We can let everyone in the world have a taste. Our pain."
Ye Peitian also looked at him and slowly called out his name, "Axiao."
"Yes, it's me," A Xiao took two steps forward and reached out to Ye Peitian, "Peitian, with your holy blood, we can work together to create a large number of semi-demonized people. Justice for the world."
Ye Peitian frowned tightly: "If you do this, how is it different from those of them?"
"Pei Tian, what are you talking about? Have you forgotten the humiliation we have suffered, the revenge we swore to avenge?" The blue veins on Axiao's neck moved, and she raised her hand to look at her pale fingers, "We Those people should be stripped of their skins and soaked in rancid water so that they can't live or die."
Ye Peitian looked at the friend in front of him, and saw himself in those crazy eyes,
He said slowly: "God's love, I will destroy it with my own hands. But I can't be like them, hurting other innocent people in the way I once hated."
A Xiao laughed, his smile even seemed a little gentle, as if he was just talking to his friends about his ideals,
"You are wrong, we should let everyone in this world taste the taste of being tortured, how can they live so happily? And we are not allowed by the world like this? Let everyone sink in together. Hell, we can't be so painful, right, Pei Tian?"
Ye Peitian looked down at his hand, which was once stained with blood, "Axiao, like you, I hated the world madly and wanted to kill everyone. But I finally found that killing It can't really quell the hatred in my heart, the more enemies I kill, the bigger the hole in my heart."
"In the killing, the only thing you get is more pain and numbness, and you will never be able to free yourself from the pain."
A Xiao's excited face slowly cooled down, "You have changed. I always thought you would be the partner who understands me the most."
Ye Peitian pursed his lips, he knew that they could no longer convince each other.
He couldn't help recalling the night when he was imprisoned in Goose City. This friend often comforted him through the wall, joked with him, and told him what kind of life he would live after he was free.
But after so many years of inhuman torture, the young man with good intentions may no longer exist.
"Ah Xiao, we have suffered for many years before we are free. If you spread the hatred you once had on people all over the world, you will find that you will never get happiness and freedom. I'm locked in that dark hell with no escape."
"Huh?" A Xiao raised her brows and pointed her finger on her chest, "What did you say? Happiness? Relief? Do people like us deserve happiness? I don't even feel like I'm alive, for me Only the endless blood of the enemy can make me feel alive."
"You've changed, Pei Tian. You're not the same person you used to be, and I'm disappointed in you." He lowered his face, his eyes showing a gloomy look, "Why on earth? Make you say such a thing?"