Perhaps because the monster in front of her was not real but an image, Shi Wanyun did not feel frightened by the appearance of the monster. However, the appearance of the monster still made her feel a little uncomfortable.
However, the monster's words made her understand a lot in an instant.
Everything she had just experienced... was all part of this monster's plan.
Including the fact that her strength was devoured by the crystal ball and she was unable to move, and the mutant creatures were attracted by the crystal ball, surrounded her, and then launched an extremely desperate attack on her.
All of this is because the other party wants her to experience her situation firsthand, to let her know that she is now just a fish on the chopping board, without any ability to resist, so as to make her feel fear and make her completely surrender.
I have to say…
It worked.
Now it was Shi Wanyun who no longer had the slightest desire to fight against this monster.
Even though this monster made her suffer a tortured death.
A person who has just experienced the pain of extreme despair, facing an abuser who is much stronger than himself, will not be able to muster the will to resist, at least for a long time.
"Remember, as long as I want, I can always make you, and all the survivors in this world, die in agony like you just did."
The monster spoke again.
Only this time, it used its own weird language, so it was much smoother than before.
Shi Wanyun stood there, feeling cold all over: "You..."
…
"Can you understand what it says?" Xu Xin suddenly asked, "You didn't understand it before, right?"
He asked while observing the scene in his memory without opening his eyes.
"I couldn't understand its strange language when I met it in person, but I could through the crystal ball."
Shi Wanyun's emotions were relatively stable at this time, and her voice became as gentle as before, probably because she knew that there would be no more events that would make her afraid and painful. "The crystal ball should have a translation function, so it should be able to understand naturally."
"Is there such a function? Could it be that after the capsule took effect, you can already understand their language?"
"No." Shi Wanyun said softly, "When I recalled meeting that monster just now, I still couldn't understand what it said."
“I see.”
…
The monster didn't speak for a long time.
It seemed to be holding something with its strange hands... drinking tea
However, only the monster's shape can be seen in the image, and no other things can be seen, so its movements do look a bit weird.
Shi Wanyun waited for a long time but it didn't speak. She hesitated for a moment and asked, "Excuse me, how do I complete my mission?"
Her mission is to kill Xu Xin.
But now she is thousands of miles away from Xu Xin and can't even contact Xu Xin, so how can she complete the task
But even after she asked this question, the monster still didn't react, and its movements were still like it was sipping tea.
A monster is drinking tea.
The sense of disobedience is extreme.
…ignore her
wrong.
"Um, may I ask..." Shi Wanyun repeated the question she had just asked.
Still no response.
She pursed her lips and looked at the monster.
So that's how it is.
Only then did she realize that this image was not a real-time communication, but a recorded image.
That's right, No. 5 told her that the crystal ball is used to store information, not for communication.
… No wonder she didn’t feel any oppression or fear towards this monster.
She should have thought of it earlier.
Shi Wanyun breathed a long sigh of relief.
In that case, she doesn't need to be so nervous.
This monster has been silent. Is it trying to put pressure on her in this way
If it were an ordinary person, after experiencing that kind of desperate death just now, he would be so scared that he would be unable to move.
But as Shi Wanyun was the best among the survivors, even if she had no intention of resisting, she would not be afraid of an image.
Her expression relaxed and she walked over to the sofa and sat down.
The monster image projected by the crystal ball was intelligent. It changed direction as she moved and always faced her.
But she was no longer afraid. She raised her wrist, swiped her watch to pay attention to the current situation, and waited for the image to react.
At this time, the situation of the survivors also surprised her a little.
"The heat... the sun will burn my skin and blind my eyes?"
She murmured softly, "This activity was very harmful to my body... But I didn't feel very hot, nor did I get sunburned..."
Apart from the fact that her vision became slightly blurry when she looked directly into the sunlight, she didn't feel any other discomfort.
"My body has been strengthened by that capsule... No, it should be said that my genes have mutated?" Shi Wanyun felt complicated when she realized this.
That capsule...
She still doesn't know what other effect the capsule has on her besides making her skin incredibly smooth.
But she always felt that it was not a good thing.
Fortunately, apart from her skin becoming smoother, her body did not undergo any changes that frightened her.
For example, the neck becomes longer, or the hair turns into insects.
None of these.
There were no blood streaks on his body.
This is a blessing in disguise.
Just when she felt a little relieved, the monster finally spoke again.
"I think you have chosen your side."
Shi Wanyun immediately looked up at the image of the monster.
"Next, what I'm going to talk about is your mission."
Shi Wanyun sat up slightly.
This monster...seemed to have tacitly accepted that she would surrender.
All I can say is that it guessed right.
"Your mission is simple. Kill the man named Xu Xin."
"The capsule I asked you to take before was a drug that changes your physical condition. Now your physical ability is close to the level of a mid-level mutant creature, and it will continue to rise in the future."
"As a fellow human being, your physical abilities are already stronger than his."
Shi Wanyun's eyes moved slightly.
Now, in terms of physical ability alone, she is already close to that of a mid-level mutant creature.
She clenched her fist and waved it again.
really…
Both strength and speed are much stronger than before.
Even though her current condition is relatively poor, she can clearly feel the changes in her strength.
That is to say…
Now, even without weapons or armor, she has impressive abilities with her bare hands.
Originally, she was already able to fight against intermediate mutant creatures. If she took up weapons and put on armor, ordinary intermediate mutant creatures would not last a few moves in her hands and would be killed by her.
"But the power is not given to you for nothing." The monster fiddled with its fingers. The eyes on its head, chest, and even arms opened and looked at its own pitch-black fingers. "You are now completely under my control."
Shi Wanyun was not surprised and watched the video silently.
"Like this."
As the monster spoke, the crystal ball on the ground emitted a deadly scarlet light again.
Shi Wanyun's face changed and she immediately looked out the window.
Fortunately, nothing changed outside the window.
No more mutant biological groups appeared.
This is…
She suddenly felt an itch on the back of her hand.
Then, she began to feel some discomfort in various parts of her body.
She raised her hand and took a look. Suddenly, her eyes shrank and she almost screamed.
I saw silver-grey scales like fish scales beginning to appear on the back of her hand.
And it wasn't just one area, but the entire back of the hand began to show lines and shapes!
She immediately reached out to grab it and could even feel its hardness!
"This...!" She looked at her body. Under her tattered clothes, strange patterns appeared on various parts of her body, especially on her legs, where they appeared in large patches!
She raised her hand and touched her face.
A hard feeling also began to appear on my cheeks.
"No... don't!" She was really pale this time.
Her fear of becoming a monster is far greater than her fear of death!
It would be better to die than to become that kind of monster!
She tried hard to scratch the slowly rising scales on the back of her hand.
As she scratched, she could feel the reality of the scales on the back of her hand more and more!
The scales are gradually taking shape!
"No… "
She slumped down immediately.
I'm really going to become a monster...
Fortunately, things are not that bad.
The scarlet light of the crystal ball suddenly disappeared.
The scales that had already appeared on her body suddenly faded away as the scarlet light faded.
The back of her hand turned back into skin again, leaving only blood marks from her earlier scratching.
The large scales on the legs also faded.
This almost made her cry for joy.
“Didn’t…didn’t turn into a monster?”
Shi Wanyun felt like she was on a roller coaster.
Looking at her fair skin, her breathing became a little rapid.
She was very afraid that something strange would grow on it.
She quickly put on a leather armor set to cover the exposed skin, which at least made her feel a little safe.
The monster spoke again: "I can turn you into a puppet that loses your consciousness and completely obeys my orders at any time, but I don't want to do that. That would be too boring."
If the transformation from that state succeeds, she will become a puppet of this monster...
"So, don't have any bad thoughts. But you can use this power on your own." The monster's voice became a little lazy. "When you enter the gene explosion state, you can become the same as before, and then have more powerful power."
"With your current strength, your explosive state should be at least at the intermediate level. It should be no problem to kill Xu Xin."
"By the way, after you completely enter the eruption state for the first time, you will gain a set of beautiful scales to cover your ugly bare body. This can be considered a reward for you."
… award
Shi Wanyun bit her lips tightly.
She didn't want this kind of reward.
There are scales all over the body, even on the face...
That simply crossed her bottom line!
…
"Explosion mode?" Xu Xin felt very familiar with it.
Isn’t this the ability of Lou Feier’s pill!
After taking it, you will gain the ability to mutate, but the mutation will not occur immediately. Mutation will only occur after entering the outbreak state for the first time.
And because of the irreversibility of mutation, people who have entered an outbreak state will have blood streaks on their bodies that cannot fade.
It almost completely corresponds to the scales that this monster mentioned that could not be shed.
The ability of Lou Feier's pill is not her own ability, but something she obtained from the dungeon at that time.
He suddenly became interested in the dungeon that Lou Feier had entered at that time.
…
Next, the monster began to tell his plan.
"I will send you to a place where you can meet that human."
"It's underground, and it's an underground city that was built illegally. You just need to wait there patiently. Maybe in a few days, or maybe a few months, that human will definitely go there."
"Once you see that human, find a way to kill him."
"Simple task."
The description of the monster still left Shi Wanyun a little confused.
Underground city
The monster leaned back, seemingly leaning on the back of a chair, and spoke in its strange language:
"To be honest, apart from being too ugly, you are much more interesting than those animals with low IQs. I still want to communicate with you. If Xu Xin had been more honest, I might have given him a bright future. Unfortunately, he chose to go against us and hindered our plan."
"Then we can only kill him."
"It's up to you to finish it. If you can't... I'll kill all the rest of you."
The monster's voice was very casual, but Shi Wanyun knew that it seemed casual precisely because it could do it so easily.
It's like a person observing an ant in an ant colony carrying food and saying, "If this ant can't carry the food back to the nest, then kill the whole nest of ants."
This feeling.
Casual, but unquestionable.
Shi Wanyun suddenly felt an extremely heavy pressure.
Her face turned pale.
Is this asking her to make a choice between Xu Xin and the other survivors including herself
to be honest…
Good choice.
"Okay, get ready and leave as soon as possible. Place this crystal ball under your tree house, and its energy will tear open space and send you to where you need to go. I'll explain the next steps when we get there."
"It's really troublesome. I have to leave a message like this... But the appearance of humans is indeed a bit too disgusting. I can't stand talking to them face to face..."
The monster muttered a few words, and then the image ended.
This monster seemed to really want to communicate with humans, which was why it made such an attempt, and was even a little enthusiastic.
Shi Wanyun was silent for a long time, and finally decided not to take any action for the time being.
She is too tired now.
Xu Xin
Contact him first.
As her savior and her mission target, what would happen to him now
She thought about it and got through to Xu Xin.
"Is it Xu Xin..."
She made a sound that sounded a little weak and tired.
Then I apologized in my heart.
sorry.