"Okay, that's all I want to say." The monster said in a clumsy voice, "For the rest, go ask No. 5."
Then, Xu Xin saw that the entire seat was emitting a purple-black light.
Then, this monster, which looked extremely physically uncomfortable, leaned back and immediately disappeared as if it had merged into the seat.
Before it disappeared, Xu Xin heard it mutter in that strange language: "Earthlings are so disgusting..."
Shi Wanyun, who was kneeling on the ground with her hands on the ground, didn't know that the monster had left.
She just felt a warmth flowing through her body, and felt somewhat... comfortable
After hearing no movement from the monster for a long time, she carefully raised her head and looked over there.
The monster had long disappeared, and the two eyes on the blue-black armrests of the chair had also closed.
Her body suddenly went limp and she collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.
The feeling just now was really... horrible.
At this moment, the picture in Xu Xin's mind suddenly went dark.
He felt that Shi Wanyun no longer pressed her forehead against him and loosened his arms.
He opened his eyes and saw that Shi Wanyun was soaked all over, her hair stuck to her forehead, beads of sweat were sliding down her cheeks, and her eyes were full of fatigue.
"Let me... rest for a while." Shi Wanyun said softly.
"Okay." Xu Xin nodded.
She looks kind of miserable now.
It seems that I was really reluctant just now.
"... I never thought that I would be so afraid of something from the bottom of my heart." Shi Wanyun was silent for a while, and suddenly spoke.
"You..." Xu Xin seemed to say something but didn't know how to say it.
In his opinion, this thing would indeed cause some mental shock to people.
By analogy, it is the kind of...
The feeling as if cockroaches, spiders, and mice were crawling into your clothes through the sleeves and collar.
But for Xu Xin, this was more of a physical discomfort and nausea than fear.
It's just something you get used to.
It's like a person who lives in a very clean environment seeing a cockroach for the first time, he might even scream.
But for a person who lives in a not-so-clean environment and is often exposed to cockroaches, cockroaches will not cause much impact to him, and he can just reach out and catch them, crush them or step on them to death.
Although he had only seen the monster in Shi Wanyun's memory just now and for only a few minutes, he had basically adapted to it.
Therefore, he really couldn't understand Shi Wanyun's fear.
His current thought is actually...
Are you that scared
Of course, he didn't say this out loud.
A bit rude.
Moreover, he was not in the situation himself, so there is still a huge difference. The degree of horror between watching a horror movie and experiencing a real horror event is completely different.
"I know what you're thinking." Shi Wanyun's body softened, and she lay down on the sofa, looking at the ceiling tiredly, "You must think I'm making a fuss, or that I'm timid."
"That's not the case." Xu Xin shook his head.
"Hehe..." Shi Wanyun laughed helplessly, "I'm really scared. This fear is not the kind of fear of death because the other party is very strong, but a kind of... a spiritual fear of the monster itself."
Xu Xin indeed saw it.
The monster clearly didn't do anything to her, and even though it looked disgusted by Shi Wanyun's appearance, its overall attitude could even be described as polite.
There wasn't even a hint of arrogance.
Moreover, after somehow understanding the monster's self-talk, he even felt that the monster could communicate normally and get along normally with him.
Well... after all, they are highly intelligent creatures.
"I don't know what's going on. I'm just... scared."
Shi Wanyun probably felt that she had already lost face in front of Xu Xin, so she simply threw away her previous reserve as a strong person from Area 1 and spoke to Xu Xin as if she was confiding in him.
Her voice was choked.
"I originally thought that after injecting this gene drug and getting rid of its control, I would no longer be so afraid of it, but the result... is still the same..."
She shielded her eyes with one arm.
She began to question whether she had ever gotten out of control.
"… Have you gotten rid of control? Can't you feel it yourself?" Xu Xin asked.
"I... feel like I've gotten over it." Shi Wanyun wiped her eyes with her sleeve and sat up. Her eyes were slightly red.
"Didn't you say before that you couldn't tell me these things, otherwise you would turn into a monster?" Xu Xin looked at her and said, "But you are still fine now, doesn't that explain everything?"
"But..." Shi Wanyun sat up, a little hesitant.
"Also, you still feel scared when you recall it. That's because your ability will also remember the feeling at that time, right?" Xu Xin continued, "That's how you felt at that time, so you feel scared when you recall it. Maybe the next time you really see the other person, you won't be so scared."
"… Yeah, what you said… makes sense."
The shadow that had originally covered Shi Wanyun's face gradually dissipated.
She stared at her hands blankly for a few seconds, and finally her brows relaxed and she looked at Xu Xin: "Thank you."
Xu Xin shook his head: "You're welcome. I'm waiting for you to tell me what happened next. What was the capsule that the monster gave you?"
"That..." Shi Wanyun thought of something, her cheeks slightly reddened, and she said softly, "I can't show you the next scene."
"Hmm?" Xu Xin frowned immediately, "What do you mean?"
"... Let me tell you what happened next. After that..."
"Don't change the subject." Xu Xin interrupted her. "Since you can actually see it, why do you still need to tell it? Or do you want to hide something? What is the effect of that pill?"
"… Listen to me." Shi Wanyun grabbed his arm and looked up at him. "You mentioned something about shedding before, didn't you?"
"Shedding skin...ah." Xu Xin understood.
"So, don't watch it." Shi Wanyun blushed, "I was a little out of control at the time, and I took a long bath afterwards..."
Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.
So that's how it is.
Indeed, as a woman, it is normal that she does not want others to see her face that will peel off if touched, and does not want others to see her when she takes a bath.
Thinking of this, Xu Xin couldn't help laughing: "I don't know who just said that as long as I agree, she is willing to do it anytime."
"That... that's different." Shi Wanyun's ears turned red, and her tone became slightly embarrassed and annoyed, "I don't want you to watch me taking a shower in front of me, and I played it for you."
This is indeed a bit outrageous.
Are all women like this
Wen Xi is the same.
Even though we were in that kind of relationship, when I woke up in the morning, I would not let myself watch her get dressed.
By the way, I don’t know how Wen Xi is doing now.
With Xu Ying protecting her, she will definitely be fine.
…
In the human territory of the underground world, Li Wenxi was already lying on the bed.
She did not take off her clothes, but lay in bed with them still on.
Although Xu Ying told her that she would be safe as long as she stayed away from the room, she still felt a little insecure.
It was far inferior to her own tree house or Xu Xin's creatures.
"Hmm... What is Xu Xin doing now?" She looked at the ceiling.
The night in this underground world is not called night at all. There is no difference between the outside and the day. It can only be called rest time.
"Ah... What on earth was Yingying doing? She teleported me back and ran away."
Li Wenxi had no desire to sleep and tossed and turned in bed.
Finally, she sat up and looked out the window: "Go out for a walk? There's not many people outside now..."
…
Xu Ying was walking in a small forest at this time.
The trees here are very short, basically no trees are taller than five meters, and their numbers are relatively sparse.
In addition, the underground world was brightly lit, so she could basically see everything in the woods.
"That shadow just now, could it really be..."
Her face looked solemn.
If she hadn't seen it wrong, then the matter would have been really serious.
All her caution during this period became a joke.
"It can't really be those running dogs..."
The more she thought about it, the more impatient she became.
My heart was almost hanging in the air.
"No, no, no... If it's really those people, it's too strange..." Xu Ying carefully observed the surroundings and thought, "If this place has been discovered by them a long time ago, then why can humans develop so smoothly down there until now?"
After walking a few steps, I didn't find the shadow I had just seen, but I saw a small red fruit.
Xu Ying immediately walked over, took one, wiped it and put it in her mouth.
"Puff! Pfft!"
A bitter feeling filled her mouth, and she immediately took out another bottle of water and started gargling frantically.
"… Contaminated fruit!" Xu Ying gritted her teeth, "The soil here is contaminated!"
She leaned over and grabbed a handful of dirt.
From the color, it feels like normal soil.
Even if Li Wenxi came here and grabbed a handful of soil, she would only get an introduction to soil (green).
But Xu Ying knew that the soil had changed.
The soil underground is really being polluted!
However, it is not the kind of soil that is completely contaminated, but rather a slightly eroded type of soil.
On the surface, the soil here is no different from normal soil. It is the normal soil color, not the blood red color of the completely contaminated soil on the surface.
If you look at it alone, you really can't tell.
But the trace elements in it have begun to change.
"Mildly contaminated soil?" Xu Ying threw away the soil in her hand and stood up.
Slightly contaminated soil is the initial state of soil contamination.
Not only does it look the same as normal soil, it can also be used to grow crops, fruits, etc.
The crops and fruits produced are non-toxic and edible, but the taste of these things is totally unappealing.
Under the influence of slight pollution, the taste of these edible plants will become extremely strange, and...
Sweet things become very spicy, sour things become very bitter, spicy things become very sour...
There are all sorts of variations, but they all have one thing in common… they taste terrible.
The little red fruit she had just eaten tasted very strange.
The small red fruits from the plant that she and Li Wenxi ate together tasted extremely bitter, several times more bitter than Huoxiang Zhengqi Water and 100% Chunqiao.
The small red fruit she ate this time was indeed sweet and spicy, with an extremely sour and smelly taste, which made people feel as disgusted as if some mixed slop had been poured into their mouths!
"Why would such a thing appear underground!" Xu Ying took another sip of water to ease the bitterness in her mouth.
She is very familiar with this kind of thing!
When they were still lackeys of the alien invaders, this is what they ate for the first period of time!
Although the alien invaders chose them, it was naturally impossible for them to provide food, so they had to solve the problem on their own.
But at that time, the whole world was polluted and it was almost impossible to find clean soil. They could only use less polluted soil for planting.
Everyone was complaining bitterly at the time, and this situation lasted for three years until they found a way to improve the soil and made special fertilizers. Only then were they able to use normal soil and grow normal things.
Those three years were the first three years after the war. All kinds of things that destroyed people’s worldviews happened during this period, impacting the spirits of all the survivors, but the ugliness of the food was what impressed her most.
At one point, she fainted from hunger due to anorexia.
Now eating this again, she thought of that time again.
"elder brother… "
Xu Ying sighed and shook her head.
"Now is not the time to think about these things! Something big has happened!"
The underground human base, the last piece of pure land for mankind, is also about to be infected!
It seems that she was not wrong just now!
Although she only saw one leg just now, the style and color of the leg armor that flashed by did make her immediately think of the group of running dogs.
"The keepers of order... they're really coming down!"
She looked around.
There is definitely nothing to be found now.
Let’s go back first!
Nothing can happen to my sister-in-law!
A purple-black vortex immediately appeared under her feet. Her body sank and she immediately disappeared from the spot.
Peace returned to the grove.
…
Xu Ying and Li Wenxi sat on the edge of the bed.
Xu Ying has already told Li Wenxi about her recent discovery.
"… If it's really as you said, then why didn't they destroy this underground base?" Li Wenxi raised his question.
"I don't know either, but..." Xu Ying frowned, "It's not like there are no problems here, such as being besieged by a tide of mutant beasts, which was a problem that had never occurred in the past nine hundred years."
"Didn't the tide of mutant creatures appear a hundred years ago? In other words, this place has really been discovered a long time ago?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise.
"That's what I'm confused about." Xu Ying was puzzled. "If those alien invaders discovered this place a hundred years ago, then why are these people still living well even though they were only attacked by the beast tide?"
"Hmm... I don't understand this either, but what's more important to me is..."
Li Wenxi suddenly grabbed Xu Ying's shoulders and stared at her.
"If this place has been discovered long ago, then should we... not be so careful?"
"Ah? You mean..."
"I mean... I should be able to move freely between the underground and the ground, right? Can I... go back now?"