Shen Ti has been pretending to be a human being who can empathize with them.
Laughing and cursing, he has learned everything very well, but only he knows that he cannot understand and empathize with anyone else's emotions except An Wujiu. He was just relying on experience to make a fairly normal reaction.
But at this moment, facing Wu You who has become a pollutant and still doesn't know that Nanshan is dead, Shen Ti feels it.
Wu You didn't even feel the pain himself, because he didn't know it yet, but Shen Ti felt it.
"He..." Shen Ti clenched the spell in his hand, "It's no fault he went to help."
This is the most difficult lie Shen Ti has ever told since becoming a human being.
He saw Wu You supporting his body with long tentacles, probably trying to get out of the car, Shen Ti took the initiative to help Nan Shan up, keeping him as far away from Wu You as possible.
[But I feel that he is by my side. ]
Wu You's voice came from Shen Ti's mind.
"He is indeed nearby." Shen Ti's tone was firm, even though he hadn't figured it out yet, leaving Wu You behind, what should he do next.
Whether Wu You, who has been polluted, will suddenly cut off contact with him, whether he will go crazy and attack other people, he has no way of judging.
Shen Ti only knew that if An Wujiu was here, he would definitely not want to kill Wu You.
"I want to tell you one thing first." Shen Ti closed the door on Nanshan's side, walked around the front of the car and walked to the other side, the pollutants that were intended to be surrounded also retreated under Shen Ti's movement, They seemed to neither intend to leave nor dare to approach easily, a kind of animal instinct derived from the same kind made them stop here and observe Shen Ti's every move.
Shen Ti opened the door on Wu You's side, trying to let him out. He told Wu You honestly, "You have been polluted, so you can't see."
[How can it be… ]
Wu You couldn't accept this. He tried to recall what happened before he fell into a coma, but his mind was blank.
[But I can still talk to you. ]
"So you are different from them." Shen Ti untied the seat belt that trapped him, "So you also remember this."
Wu You suddenly understood something. After losing his vision, the sensitivity of his other senses has increased sharply. The sound of Shen Xing, the breathing and panting of the pollutants around him, everything is extremely clear.
He tried to reach out and touch his face, but at this moment, he found that what stretched out and touched his cheeks were not human hands, but many slippery tentacles.
Shen Ti looked at his appearance and knew that he was obviously frightened by himself.
"Don't think about it, you will change back, this is only temporary."
Shen Ti temporarily appeases Wu You with another lie.
Not far away, he saw An Wujiu who had been killed, his face was covered with blood, and the bamboo leaf green in his hand was covered with monster's slime.
At the same time, he also saw An Wujiu's stunned expression after discovering Wu You.
Shen Ti retracted the gun, the last bullet was useless to him after all. A wind blew up in the lonely wilderness, blowing dust and sand. He saw that the pollutants left here in unison. Looking around, there was no trace of the masked man. It seemed that they were under the cover of these chess pieces. left.
"Wu You..."
Shen Ti saw An Wujiu's frown after discovering Nanshan, the sadness and remorse lingering in his eyes, as if everything in front of him was his fault, all caused by him.
Zhong Yirou didn't recognize Wu You at first, but only saw a tall "monster" standing beside Shen Ti. Those tentacles made her scalp numb, so she didn't notice the monster's head at all. When she calmed down, she looked over carefully , only to find out that it was Wu You.
She can't understand. She didn't understand what happened that night, and couldn't accept it.
"Wu You's sanity value is cleared? Is it?"
Shen Ti nodded.
"The Nanshan..."
Shen Ti shook his head at her, his eyes beckoning her not to speak.
An Wujiu lowered his eyes, his eye sockets were dry.
He didn't understand why things turned out like this. Could it be that his decision this time was also wrong.
So what exactly is correct
[Brother Wugui? ]
Suddenly hearing Wu You's voice, An Wujiu raised his head in surprise, looked over in disbelief, and walked towards the polluted Wu You in front of him.
"Wu You? Can you hear my voice?"
[I can hear you. ]
Wu You stretched out his long tentacles and touched An Wujiu's shoulder.
[Brother Wujiu, where did Nan Shan go? I can not find him. Where's Miss Rou? And Miss Erci...]
"Yirou is by our side." An Wujiu saw Shen Ti's eyes and understood what he meant, "Nan Shan and Er Ci, they split up."
[Why separate? What are they going to do? ]
Wu You didn't believe it at first, but suddenly, he thought of his current appearance and was afraid of being seen by Nan Shan.
He is already a monster, Nanshan is a Taoist priest, isn't his duty to get rid of monsters like him
[Then... when will he have a round with us? ]
"Tomorrow," An Wujiu held one of his tentacles instead, "tomorrow noon."
At this time, Zhong Yirou found that An Wujiu seemed to be talking to Wu You who had become a pollutant, and she could only hear what An Wujiu said. Judging from the reaction, Wu You seemed to be able to communicate with him.
This place has been discovered by the masked people, so it cannot be considered a safe area. Although they don't know why the masked people escaped, they still plan to get in the car and leave first, but they don't know the destination for the time being, so they can only stay away from the city and go to a remote place Walk.
Shen Ti sat in the driver's seat, looking at An Wujiu through the rearview mirror while driving.
An Wujiu's arm was injured, dripping blood was dripping down, his face was grim. With her gun on her back, Zhong Yirou buried her head and shook her hands to open the medical kit she brought out from home.
"I'll give you an injection of pain relief first." Zhong Yirou picked up an ampoule and was about to open it when An Wujiu said no.
"Don't waste it." An Wujiu told her, "Just sew it up for me, I'm not afraid of pain."
Shen Ti clenched his hand on the steering wheel even tighter.
Zhong Yirou had no choice but to agree, put back the analgesic, disinfected and sutured him.
"sorry."
In the quiet carriage, An Wujiu spoke in a low voice.
"Why do you apologize?" Zhong Yirou checked the bandaged wound, Yang Erci's face couldn't be taken away, but she still comforted An Wujiu, "It's not your fault."
Shen Ti could vaguely feel that An Wujiu might be different from them, starting from the vending machine, An Wujiu's eyes showed a different feeling from before, like a pessimistic prophet.
An Wujiu looked out the window, struggled in his heart, but decided to tell them about his reincarnation.
He sorted out his emotions and recounted everything he had experienced from the beginning.
After hearing this, Zhong Yirou frowned, "That is to say, you were killed by a monster that suddenly appeared in the last round because the time expired, but you didn't die, but returned to the previous one. But why are you the only one with this ability?"
An Wujiu shook his head, "I don't know."
[Then... can this ability still be used? ]
Wu You asked, what An Wujiu said lit a glimmer of hope for his dead heart.
He really doesn't want to be a monster.
"I'm not sure." An Wujiu told them truthfully, "But I still have a time retrospective card, which may be my last hole card."
He had already figured it out, even if his life was exhausted to the last point, he would use up this card, he couldn't let Nanshan and Yang Erci disappear like this.
They passed by a gas station, Shen Ti drove very fast, but he still saw with his own eyes the staff who turned into pollutants devoured other humans, his arm merged with the gas pipe, and ruthlessly inserted into the chest of humans.
"Let's not talk about this card." Shen Ti directly skipped what An Wujiu said, and also cut off his adventurous thoughts, "I have always felt that something is not right, the things you said, I feel that I There are also some memories, such as your arm being corroded, and Wu You, whose throat was cut, including the factory, I have the impression."
He wondered if other people had the same feeling, so maybe they all had flashbacks, but An Wujiu's memory was the clearest.
But the result after the discussion was that neither Wu You nor Zhong Yirou had any memory about the "last time", not a single bit.
"This is strange." Zhong Yirou thought for a while and told them, "Not only this matter, after Wu You was polluted, I couldn't hear his voice at all, but it seems that you and Wu Jiu can still communicate with him. I Guess Wu You can't hear me either."
After verification, they found that this was indeed the case.
These phenomena undoubtedly point to a fact - An Wujiu and Shen Ti are special.
They have abilities that are different from others, and in terms of performance, An Wujiu is slightly stronger, he has traced his entire body, while Shen Ti only retains a part of his memory.
This point is logically unreasonable, An Wujiu knows Shen Ti's identity, his ability must be higher than her own.
"The front seems to be a farm." Shen Ti said to everyone, "Should we stop there and have a rest?"
The lights on the farm were off, it was dark, and it seemed extremely silent. Shen Ti parked the car on the side of the road, "I'll go down and have a look first."
The car door was closed, An Wujiu was sitting in the car, holding the handle of the knife.
Shen Ti left for about ten minutes, and came back with a handful of new guns in his hand.
"There is no one inside, get out of the car and come to the house first."
They just got out of the car together, Wu You managed to squeeze himself into the co-pilot, and it's inconvenient to get out now. He felt like a squid stuffed in a can, with no room to breathe.
With the flashlight on, Shen Ti walked at the front, An Wujiu stood at the back, they entered the house and found a room where they could escape easily.
"Do you have enough time?" Shen Ti said to Zhong Yirou.
"I can make it through tonight." Zhong Yirou glanced at him, and the inside of his wrist showed 8 hours left, "It was Wu Jiu who led me to kill a lot of pollutants with a gun, and accumulated so much time."
But also because the battle had to face those monsters, Zhong Yirou's sanity was only half. She had slight dizziness and hallucinations, but she didn't tell them.
An Wujiu glanced at his wrist, there are still twelve hours.
[I don't think I need time anymore. ]
"Yeah." Shen Ti also smiled, "You are like a bug now, although you still have human consciousness, but there is no time limit, and you don't need to worry about the decline in sanity."
"I still have 4 hours." Shen Ti said.
His time was clearly not enough.
"Then what should we do?" Zhong Yirou said to him, "Otherwise, we will only rest for two hours before going back to the city."
"No need." Shen Ti stood up, checked the bullets in the chamber of the sniper rifle, and put the sniper rifle on his back, "There is not much gas in the car, we passed a gas station when we came here, anyway , I always have to go to the city to kill some pollutants on the way to make up for the time."
An Wujiu also stood up, grabbed Shen Ti's wrist, "I'll go."
Shen Ti turned around and raised his hand to touch his face, "You stay and protect them, I'll be back soon."
His voice was gentle, with a warm smile, "You wait for me here, okay?"
An Wujiu can only compromise, for the sake of everyone's survival, he cannot be selfish.
"good."
He stood by the window and watched Shen Ti leave the farm alone, drive the broken truck away, and drive towards the way he came.
Wu You's body became much larger than before, and he could only lean against the wall to rest. He had a heavy load and was very tired, so he fell asleep just leaning on it.
An Wujiu let Zhong Yirou sleep on the bed, and leaned against Wu You. He found a green insecticidal lamp in the room that farmers use to disperse pests, so he turned off the flashlight and placed the lamp in front of his eyes as the only source of light.
He said he was going to sleep, but he didn't intend to close his eyes at all.
Everything happened so fast, it was not that he didn't experience life and death in the altar, but none of it happened in reality, nor did he feel confused and out of control once.
Out of control means that behind all this, there is a frightening unknown.
Those may be beyond his comprehension as an ordinary human being.
They were born as human beings, accepting the chicken soup for the soul that man will conquer the sky, and believe that they are the spirits above all things. They think they know the laws of the world and understand the natural logic of the predecessors. Everything on the earth is regular. , as Nanshan said, this is destiny.
His father, mother, and all living beings are probably like this.
An Wujiu thought, maybe they are the turkey thinking in Russell's mouth, because they saw that the farmer who raised them came to feed them at nine o'clock every morning, regardless of rain or shine, no matter what happened, this event would come, so the turkeys summed up Make a "rule"-someone will feed them at nine o'clock every day.
They believe that this law must work normally, and it will continue in the future.
But in the eyes of the farmer, it is just a temporary breeding. One day, these turkeys who think they know the rules will be caught, their heads will be cut off, and they will become a delicacy on the table.
That day was the day when the logical beliefs of the turkeys collapsed.
What could be more terrible than breaking all that a man has ever known
For example, fish should live in the sky, seabirds are native organisms, 1 plus 1 is not equal to 2, human beings eat soil, live in the crust of the earth, their growth cycle is from old age to juvenile, and they need Killed by creatures from another world, made into special delicacies to celebrate festivals, and all the impossible and counterintuitive facts.
What if these are the real worlds
What made my father collapse back then was probably not the true face of God, but the moment when the tower of science that I firmly believed in collapsed.
They have the courage and ability to explore the unknown, but they accidentally touched the world that should have been forbidden, and witnessed the absolute gap between human beings and unknown gods in all directions, so they fell into madness.
No, the turkey analogy isn't even going too far.
They may just exist on a plane, and they are lines that cannot cross the dimension to be at the same level as the "God".
What are the rules
An Wujiu stared at the light in front of him, easily accepting that he was just a speck of dust in the vast unknown.
He grew up in a small experimental prison, the product of scientific intervention, even his breathing was measured, he was not a normal human being, he believed in nothing.
So An Wujiu was not afraid of anything.
Only Shen Ti.
He is the only certain unknown in An Wujiu's tiny life.
is his god.
Zhong Yirou woke up in the middle of the night, she seemed to be having a nightmare. An Wujiu looked up with concern, and saw that she sat up from the bed and covered her face.
An Wujiu held the lamp and brought her a small cup of water that he found in the house.
"Are you okay?"
Zhong Yirou raised his head, his face was full of tears.
"Can you really go back in time?"
An Wujiu was instantly stung by her words.
Zhong Yirou wiped away tears and said with a smile: "If there is another time, can you tell her for me that I... I actually like her very much."
She clenched the cup tightly, her fingertips turning white.
"I haven't even had time to say..."
Zhong Yirou closed her eyes, all she could see was Yang Erci's blood-stained face, and the picture of her body getting colder and stiffer in his arms.
Even if she exhausts all she has learned all her life, she can't get her heartbeat back.
An Wujiu suddenly thought of Yang Erci's appearance standing on the roof, obviously learned the news of his father's death and had to rely on smoking to relieve it, but he still remembered that Zhong Yirou hated the smell of cigarettes.
"How can I help with this kind of thing." He sat on the side of the bed and said softly to Zhong Yirou: "If there is a next time, you have to say it yourself."
Zhong Yirou looked up at him, "But... if there is a next time, I won't remember."
"
I will remind you. "An Wujiu smiled at her, "I will supervise you, you have to confess to her yourself." "
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of pulling the hook.
"An Wujiu, I'm not a little girl." Zhong Yirou sniffed, pushed An Wujiu's hand away, and smiled through tears.
An Wujiu also smiled, "Big sister, let's rest for a while."
"Sleep too, don't keep vigil." Zhong Yirou pointed to his arm, "If you don't sleep, you won't be able to recover well."
An Wujiu nodded and returned to the position just now.
Even if Zhong Yirou said so, An Wujiu wouldn't be able to fall asleep if Shen Ti didn't come back.
He stared at the green light in front of him for a long time, his eyes became a little blurred, so he had to close them temporarily.
Some visions flickered before his eyes.
Suddenly, some hallucinations emerged from his mind and appeared before An Wujiu's eyes. He seemed to have turned back into a child, very small, lying in a clean white room, with the long sound of the heart rate monitor stopping beside his ears.
A long beep.
The cries were isolated from the wall, and seemed to be there, as if it was a mother.
Soon, a clear voice appeared beside An Wujiu's ear.
[No fault. ]
An Wujiu really wanted to open his eyes and break free, but he couldn't.
Those hallucinations faltered and became incoherent fragments, and even the voice in the hallucinations was broken.
He could only hear fragmented fragments.
[Of course...we will...]
The voice was interrupted, and when it disappeared, An Wujiu was sure that it was Shen Ti's voice.
He opened his eyes, and a voice came from the door in front of him.
An Wujiu woke up instantly, raised the gun in his hand as quickly as possible, and lowered his head to aim.
The next second who pushed the door open was Shen Ti who was covered in blood.