When Ye Xi smiled and walked towards them, Lian Chuan pulled Ning Gu back two steps.
Ye Xi also stopped: "What? Don't be afraid, I just..."
"Who are you?" Lian Chuan asked.
"You just said he was Ye Xi." Ning Gu whispered in his ear.
Ye Xi didn't speak, just looked at them.
"You're not Ye Xi," Lian Chuan said, "He can't get out of that room, who are you?"
"The house?" Ye Xi seemed a little confused, and after a while he seemed to suddenly understand, "You actually met him?"
Lian Chuan didn't answer the question, and repeated again: "Who are you."
"I'm Ye Xi," Ye Xi thought for a while, "how should I tell you?"
"Speak straight," Ning Gu said, "Speak humanly."
"Call me Ye Xixi." Ye Xi said.
"What's your relationship with Ye Xi?" Lian Chuan asked.
"The same person," Ye Xixi turned around, "but not the same person, I am a few years younger than him... Come, do you want to visit?"
"What did he say?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't understand." Lian Chuan said.
"Your IQ didn't understand?" Ning Gu was a little surprised.
"...my IQ may not be as high as you think," Lian Chuan said, "follow him first and see what's going on here."
"Okay." Ning Gu nodded.
The two followed.
There are four characters written on the top of the gate of the park, Shahu Park.
It seems that what they saw just now is a lake named Shahu.
The entrance of Shahu Park is a wide road, similar to the road leading to Guangthorn, but in comparison, other roads in the main city are not so wide. After all, apart from public transportation, there are no other large roads that need to be on the road. Communication tool.
But the road in front of him is obviously different.
Complicated white roads are drawn on the ground, and words are printed, bicycle lanes, motorway lanes, polite pedestrians...
"Lantern." Ning Gu looked ahead.
There is a horizontal light group above the road, a red light is on, and after a while, it is replaced by a green light next to it.
"That's a traffic light," Ye Xixi introduced to them, "You don't have it there, right? Some major cities have it, some don't, it depends on each."
"What are the traffic lights for?" Ning Gu asked.
"Stop at a red light, go at a green light," Ye Xixi looked back at him, "When driving a car, you have to look at the lights. If the light is red, you have to stop at that line and let pedestrians cross the road first."
Ning Gu didn't speak, and didn't know whether he understood or didn't understand. Lian Chuan was about to ask something else, but Ning Gu said: "It's so complicated, what about the car? What about the people? It's an empty city."
"Empty city?" Ye Xixi stopped.
This action made Ning Gu a little nervous, and Ye Xixi's reaction was as if he didn't realize that there was no one around, nor did he realize that it was an empty city.
"It's been empty for a long time," Ye Xixi sighed. "I'm used to it. Today is Sunday. It's normal that there is no one on the street, especially in this district."
"What?" Ning Gu asked.
"This is the mutation area," Ye Xixi said, "it's not open now."
"What mutation?" Lian Chuan suddenly remembered the original traveler.
"Some kind of mutation caused by pollution," Ye Xixi said, "but it has been controlled. Except for this area, other areas are normal. I will take you to have a look."
"What mutation?" Lian Chuan always cared about this point.
"Mutation that will die," Ye Xixi turned around and looked at him. "At the beginning, he will become very strong. He can do many things without eating or drinking. His brain turns very fast and he becomes very smart. He can do everything. Learn to…”
"This is very good," Ning Gu said, and added in a low voice, "Lost Valley needs it."
"And soon," Ye Xixi turned her head and continued walking, "it will die, like a pile of mud."
Lian Chuan didn't speak.
"More and more people are infected," Ye Xixi said, "but because the onset period is very short, it can be controlled."
After that, the three of them didn't speak any more, and Ye Xixi led them along the road.
Ning Gu was very curious all the way, trees, flowers, tall buildings, glass upstairs reflecting sunlight, billboards, and many, many paintings. Lian Chuan told him that judging from the words above, those paintings were all movie posters , he doesn't quite understand the meaning, but these are paintings, and this is what he wants.
"These," Lian Chuan said, "can you take them out?"
Ye Xixi turned her head: "A poster?"
"Yes." Lian Chuan said.
"Yes," Ye Xixi went to the back of the billboard and turned on the light box, "Which one do you want?"
Lian Chuan hesitated for a moment, then reached out and pulled out all the posters inside.
"I can't take it back." Ye Xixi smiled.
Lian Chuan glanced at him, didn't speak, and handed all the posters to Ning Gu.
"This counts as robbery or stealing." Ning Gu took the posters and looked at them one by one, feeling very happy.
"Stealing and stealing." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu laughed a few times, and pointed to the person on the poster: "This person's uniform and equipment are a bit similar to your cleanup team."
"Hmm." Lian Chuan thought so too.
"All the main cities use this as a template," Ye Xixi said, "so you will see many similarities, but there are still many differences. After all, you have to try all the roads...to know that none of them will work."
Following Ye Xixi, he continued to walk for a while. Based on the estimated time, he had already walked for almost half an hour. Lian Chuan found that something was not quite right.
He glanced at the road sign in front of him. The road sign at the entrance of the park said Shahu East Road.
But now, the street sign ahead is still Shahu East Road.
He turned his head and looked behind him, making sure that this was the second time they had passed this road, although he hadn't noticed until now because of the novelty in his eyes.
Lian Chuan gave Ning Gu a hand and stopped.
Ye Xixi also stopped and turned around: "What did you see again?"
"I saw the hospital again." Lian Chuan said.
"What hospital?" Ye Xixi asked.
"At the intersection we just passed, turn left and there is a hospital sign," Lian Chuan said, "Pass by the second time, Ankang Hospital."
Ning Gu was stunned when he heard that, turned around and ran back to the intersection, took a look at the small road that turned left, and turned his head suddenly: "Ankang Hospital."
"I live here." Ye Xixi said, but did not answer their questions.
"Live here?" Ning Gu looked at him, Ye Xixi didn't look like he had any illness and needed to be hospitalized, "What kind of hospital is this?"
"It is now a shelter for late-stage mutants," Ye Xixi said, "It used to be a mental hospital."
Mental hospital
Lian Chuan walked a few steps towards the intersection of the hospital, and when he turned back, he found that Ye Xixi had disappeared.
"Where's the person?" Ning Gu was stunned.
Lian Chuan looked at the small road in front of him, and guessed that even when there were people everywhere, it would be quiet here.
The hospital is at the end of the path, an inconspicuous white sign, with walls on both sides, green plants on the top, long branches hanging down from the top of the wall, like a thick blanket, there is no other place except the hospital This road leads only to the hospital.
"Is this man a lunatic?" Ning Gu said, "Is he really a lunatic? Or is he a fake lunatic like Uncle Crazy?"
"Go and have a look." Lian Chuan walked into the path.
"Be careful, the two of us are no different from ordinary people in the main city now," Ning Gu said, "When I was in the ghost town, I always fought like this. I'm afraid that if you don't have a special physique, you won't be able to beat others, but There should be ordinary people here, I can protect... "
When Lian Chuan grabbed Ning Gu's hand, he hadn't finished speaking, and then his hand was twisted behind his back. Lian Chuan had already turned behind him somehow, and pressed his fingers on his throat: "Okay."
"...What's wrong?" Ning Gu was very annoyed after recovering.
"You protect me." Lian Chuan said.
"I take it back," Ning Gu said, "I won't protect you anymore, let go!"
Lian Chuan let go.
Ning Gu rubbed his wrist: "Have you learned how to lie?"
"No," Lian Chuan said, "You were not prepared."
Ning Gu clicked his tongue and said nothing, rubbed his wrist, and suddenly grabbed Lian Chuan's hand as well.
Unprepared.
Before the fingertips touched Lian Chuan, Lian Chuan had grabbed his wrist again with his backhand.
This time, she didn't pinch his arm again, but just looked at him.
"Okay," Ning Gu nodded, "I can't."
"I'm an experimental subject," Lian Chuan said. "In human terms, I'm not a human, but a weapon. Even if I don't have a specific physique, I'm much stronger than ordinary people."
Ning Gu didn't make a sound, and when Lian Chuan let go of him and continued walking towards the hospital, he said: "You are human."
Lian Chuan turned to look at him.
"A living person." Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan smiled.
"What are you laughing at?" Ning Gu said, "Is it funny?"
"No," Lian Chuan said, "I'm happy."
"It's not very obvious," Ning Gu glanced at him, "It's too obvious."
"Laugh harder next time." Lian Chuan said.
There was no one in the hospital either.
There is a hut at the gate, which says visitor registration, but it seems that no one has registered for a long time, and the table is covered with dust.
Lian Chuan flipped through the register book on the table.
"It was actually written with a pen?" Ning Gu said, "Registration in the main city is done by scanning the ID card, right?"
"Ye Xi is hospitalized here," Lian Chuan said, "Here is his visitor registration."
"Who came to see him?" Ning Gu immediately moved over.
"Sun Yi," Lian Chuan said, "the unit only wrote the research institute, not any research institute... October 7, 2030... this date..."
"Two thousand years?" Ning Gu was a little shocked, "What kind of world is this? Can it exist for two thousand years?"
Lian Chuan flipped forward again. According to Ye Xi, this hospital was used to receive late-stage mutants. Is Ye Xi a late-stage mutant or a mental patient
Turning the registration book all the way to the end, Lian Chuan found that there were not many people visiting the hospital. The first page of the visitor registration book in half was already in 2029, and half of the records of the visitors came to visit Ye Xi Yes, there are several names, but the handwriting is the same.
"Ye Xi is a lunatic," Lian Chuan came to a conclusion, looking at Ning Gu, "but he must have a relationship with a certain research institute, and the people who came to see him were all from the research institute, with no relatives or friends."
"What kind of lunatic?" Ning Gu felt a little unbelievable.
"Ye Xi, after we jumped into the water, there was one in the room I entered, and another one just now." Lian Chuan turned and walked slowly into the hospital building, "Is there a third one here? ?”
The building is already very dilapidated, and at a glance, there is a feeling of returning to the D area of the main city, which makes Lian Chuan subconsciously want to activate the recovery weapon.
The first floor feels abandoned, the floor is full of debris, but all the doors in the corridor are closed.
"It's broken like this, why are the doors closed?" Ning Gu whispered, wanting to kick one of the doors.
Lian Chuan stopped him and pointed to the window next to him.
"...Oh." Ning Gu responded.
The windows were closed, and the glass was still intact.
It's just that when you see the scene inside, it makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Ye Xixi said that the mutant will eventually become a pile of mud.
There are several piles of this... mud in the house.
Can see the hands, can see the mud of the head.
"Go up and have a look." Ning Gu turned and walked towards the stairs.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan glanced at the sign on the door, observation room.
Halfway up the stairs, I heard footsteps and someone talking on the second floor.
The two paused, then quickened their pace and ran up to the second floor.
The second floor is relatively tidy, there are no sundries on the ground, and there are even plants planted in the corridor, with purple flowers blooming.
The sound came from an open door.
When they got to the door, they saw Ye Xi.
It's just that this Ye Xixi is obviously different from the previous Ye Xixi, her hair is a bit messy, and her clothes are also hospital gowns of the same color as the bed sheets.
Ye Xi was sitting in front of a table. There were several monitors on the table, as well as several instruments that were shining brightly. There were also several keyboards in front of him.
A man stood behind him, watching with him the line of characters dancing on the screen in front of him, and there were changing pictures on the two screens.
Lian Chuan could clearly see fire on both screens, a raging fire.
"Impossible to succeed." Ye Xi said.
"There's still time," the man said.
"There's no time." Ye Xi replied, "It's late."
"Is there any other way..." the man asked.
"Yes." Ye Xi said and stood up.
While turning around, a small silver stick in his hand had already pierced the man's chest.
The man looked at him in shock, and slowly fell to the ground.
Ye Xi let out a sigh of relief, and turned her head towards the door: "You are here."
Lian Chuan didn't speak, the crazy look in Ye Xi's eyes seemed to be able to poke into people's hearts all the time, with a chill.
"It's been a long time since anyone came to see me," Ye Xi grabbed the man on the ground by his collar, dragged him slowly out of the room, and walked to the other end of the corridor, "I don't know how long it has been, who was the last one, When and where it came from... I can't remember exactly... "
"Follow?" Ning Gu asked in a low voice.
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
The two followed Ye Xi and walked slowly to the door at the end of the corridor.
Ye Xi pushed open the door and dragged the man in.
Inside the door is a large room with no tables and chairs, only a lot of shining instruments.
In a huge glass box in the middle, electric light kept flickering.
Between the lights, there are three brains hanging.
But when Lian Chuan looked down at his feet, he found that the man dragged by Ye Xi had disappeared.
Ye Xi stood in front of the glass box: "He is the last one."
Lian Chuan understood at this moment that this was a memory, and Ye Xi showed them the origin of the three brains.
"They are yours..." Lian Chuan said, "Colleagues."
"They are my nightmare," Ye Xi tilted his head, "What they entrusted to me is a task that will never be completed, an imagination that will never be realized."
"What task?" Lian Chuan asked.
"A living space, a refuge," Ye Xi said, "a... a world that can free us from the fate of destruction."
"Why do you need such a world?" Ning Gu asked, "Isn't your world very good? There are sunshine, flowers and grass, and many colors..."
Ye Xi didn't speak, just looked outside the door.
The two turned their heads.
There is a corridor outside the door, and the windows in the corridor can be seen.
The sunny and windy scene outside the window just now has disappeared, replaced by darkness, and a raging fire in the darkness.
Ning Gu ran to the corridor in shock, stood by the window and looked outside.
All the places that can be seen have been turned into a sea of flames, and the flashing lightning has woven a net in the sky.
"Have you seen the endless disasters?" Ye Xi walked behind them, "but everything is caused by ourselves, how did the mutants come from, we made them, why do we need mutants, because we don't have enough life The space to go down, we need to find a way out..."
Lian Chuan was very familiar with these words. He turned his head and looked at Ye Xi: "So, you failed to do it, you didn't find a way out, so you created countless main cities, and the end of each main city is destruction. The task of a main city is to find a way out."
"It's not a mission, it's a destiny." Ye Xi said.
"Then... after trying all the ways, I realized that none of them worked." Lian Chuan said.
"We are doomed to perish, we are doomed to disappear," Ye Xi said, "How much hope we have, we will be exchanged for how much despair."
"The other two Ye Xi," Lian Chuan said, "how did they appear?"
"Other?" Ye Xi said, "I am another, I am not Ye Xi, we all have our own names, but we are called Ye Xi to the outside world, there is only one Ye Xi, and we have our own missions."
Lian Chuan looked at him.
"Remember the world that no longer exists, endure everything that has been destroyed, and try to find a way out in an endless cycle," Ye Xi said.
"You are," Ning Gu said in a hoarse voice, "the hand holding the revolving lantern."