Hu Xin huddled in the corner of the bathroom, closed her eyes and didn't watch the scene, but the smell came over. She held her head, crying very suppressed.
Limpopo's howl disappeared, he collapsed on the ground, blood crawled out from under his body, like a spider stretching its legs.
Yi Ting's back was covered in sweat, she was leaning against the wall, and there was a dry retching sound in her throat. A few seconds ago she wanted to scream, now she still wants to scream, but with a different person.
The rain outside did not decrease, but the lamp in the room dimmed.
When Yan Junxun let go, the chair had already fallen apart. He wanted to wipe the rain off his face, so he touched his face with his hand, but found that the rain on his face had long since turned into blood.
He killed Limpopo.
"I'm Park Lin," Park Lin, who broke into the door, was calling the inspectorate loudly with a guide, "Is anyone there..."
The sound of rain came from bottom to top, drowning Yan Junxun. He couldn't hear Pu Lin's voice clearly, nor could he perceive Yi Ting's gaze. He moved his gaze from his palm to the bathroom. Hu Xin's hairpin fell out of his reach and was covered in blood. Madness just passed through Yan Junxun's body and burned him into an unfamiliar appearance. He dully saw the mirror, where his true face was.
[Crazy will destroy you.]
A voice said this to Yan Junxun.
Yan Junxun suddenly felt a kind of fear, fear of emotions. His eyes returned to his palm again, the stickiness between his fingers was still hot, and Limpopo was out of breath.
"The suspect has no vital signs..." Park Lin's voice seemed to be submerged in water, accompanied by vague bubbles, which made Yan Junxun unable to hear clearly, "... request for support at the scene... "
Yan Jun looked at Lin Popo. He opened his mouth to catch his breath, but his mouth was full of blood. The blood seemed to get into his stomach, making him smell like a villain.
"Mr. Yan," Jue was talking, "please answer me, Mr. Yan."
"Are you okay?" Pu Lin approached Yan Junxun, wanting to pull Yan Junxun, "The situation just now—"
Yan Junxun slapped Park Lin's hand away abruptly, got up and stepped back.
"Profiler?" Park Lin looked solemn, "what's the matter with you?"
Yan Junxun couldn't breathe in the sound of rain, he wanted to run. Damn, when will this rain stop? He was wrapped in the sound of rain, which were eating him. There was something wrong with Yan Junxun's senses, like something was broken, and he felt that he was getting further and further away from the scene.
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"The hunt has been discontinued."
Yan Junxun suddenly escaped from the rain, and he was still breathing.
The voice continued: "Welcome back here."
Yan Junxun opened his eyes, the scene turned into an empty square, Jue and Pu Lin disappeared, and there was a panda in front of him.
The panda was wearing an apron, as if it had just come out of the kitchen. It held its own paws and said to Yan Junxun with joy, "I called you for a long time, and you finally heard it."
Yan Junxun has not yet pulled away from his anger, and subconsciously said, "What?"
"Silly child," Panda approached Yan Junxun and wiped away his tears excitedly, "You've lost your memory, you look stupid."
"Don't touch him, put him in a wheelchair." Another voice interjected, it was the clown. The clown didn't have the same face as Yan Junxun anymore, it turned into a weird-looking robot, using its eight arms: "He's been lying down for too long, and his body is overwhelmed."
Yan Junxun's consciousness seemed to be submerged in water, a little dazed. He looked down at himself and realized that he was actually in a wheelchair, but he had been at the crime scene a few seconds earlier.
"The system will take good care of you, and you will be back to normal in no time." The clown pretended to take off his glasses. He did this very much like Jiang Lian. "There is something wrong with your head and you have forgotten a lot of things."
Panda raised its paw: "Now we can tell you the truth."
"The real name of the berthing area is 'Area 14'. It is a testing ground with a lot of anthropomorphic data. For example, Jiang Lian, you are familiar with," the clown folded his glasses. "He is an NPC who imitates me."
"Imitate you?" Yan Junxun turned his head and stared at the clown, "You are not human."
"There are very few real human beings left," the clown typed with one arm, the other turned on the screen, "The world destroyed 98342, Fu Chenghui ended human history, and now it is a new world of the system, and we are all members of the new world. We are hunting through Do tests to find humans suitable for the chip."
Yan Junxun heard himself answer: "I have no memory of this."
"So I said," the clown emphasized the matter, pointing at his big head with one finger, "there's something wrong with your head." Its electronic eyes don't show emotion, "you're usually on 'timed hunt' The part-time worker, whose real name is 98342, is one of the test subjects chosen by Artemis."
Yan Junxun's memory was intermittent. He had heard the name "98342", but he couldn't remember the details.
"You were too impulsive in the end," Panda said to Yan Junxun, covering his heart, "You killed Lin Popo."
Yan Junxun's thoughts are building bridges. He frowned and looked at his hand, the blood was gone. He said unconsciously: "...I killed Black 02."
"Your actions violated the legal setting of hunting, from a messenger of justice to a criminal," the clown's deliberate pause here is abrupt, and it continues, "98342, how does it feel to lynch a suspect?"
After the noisy rain disappeared, there was silence. The empty square did not make Yan Junxun feel free. Instead, he was more suffocated by staying here than in the rain, like a fish lying on the asphalt road. He didn't answer the Joker's question, he just felt like he had fallen into a dream.
"'Yan Junxun' is the incarnation of human rationality. He must be rational at all times in order to use the Tianluo Net to monitor the world fairly. You didn't do it." You are just an ordinary person who submits to the hunting law, so you are eliminated. Let me remind you, who do you think you are? , "No, you are not 'Yan Junxun', you are a lunatic."
Yan Junxun still had Hu Xin's scream in his head. He grabbed his hair and saw a messy picture in front of him. Speed cars, squares, statues, these things overlap, and among them is his own painted face.
But he doesn't remember doing these things himself.
"You used to be codenamed 'Madman'. You were our undercover agent in District 14, responsible for some terrorist attacks. Of course, now you don't remember, let's see what you did," the clown's light A screen pops up on the screen, "Look, is this you?"
Yan Junxun can clearly see the protagonist on the screen, that is him... The unfamiliar him, just like he saw himself in the mirror of Hu Xin's house.
"You caused an area panic and drove across the square..."
"You said 'Yan Junxun' is the incarnation of reason," Yan Junxun interrupted the clown, staring at the screen, "Then why didn't I get eliminated last time I became a lunatic?"
The Joker's electronic eyes flickered, and it made its tone natural: "Oh, you've been eliminated." It affirmed, "Of course you've been eliminated, but Artemis has given you a new chance. You really are. I'm bored, please don't interrupt me? You don't know shit, just listen to me."
The light screen had already cut from the scene of the shooting in the square to the scene of Hu Xin's house. This happened a few minutes ago, and Yan Junxun still remembered it.
"You killed Limpopo with a chair," the Joker said. "Little madman, you killed him."
Yan Junxun smelled blood in his nose and mouth, and he retorted: "He is black 02."
"Okay, he's black 02," the clown replied indifferently, and then glanced at Yan Junxun, "but you have members of the inspectorate by your side, why don't you hand him over to the inspectorate? Is there no law in District 14? You just want to vent your anger, vent your anger, admit it." It played with words again, "You are no different from Chen Xiulian, she is also venting your anger, and you all have signs of revenge on society." It tapped the keyboard, simply and rudely. Definition, "Artemis gave you the test comment this time as 'dangerous', you have become a criminal in the hunting world, Artemis sent a 'tyrant' to destroy you, and the tyrant judged you."
Panda is a worried character, repeating the phrase: "Crazy will destroy you."
Yan Junxun squeezed too many things in his head, and he keenly caught the point: "The tyrant judges me?"
"It seems that you don't know who the tyrant is yet," the clown's voice became cheerful, it pretended to stop its busy work, "the tyrant is the object of your familiarity, closeness and admiration... Do you remember?"
Yan Junxun's heartbeat accelerated: "You want to say Shi Shanyan."
"That's right, you're finally smart once. The tyrant is Shi Shanyan. He is a prisoner in the hunt. He is ordered by Artemis to judge you. The result of your trial has long been determined, which is death." Backward closed the light screen, and saluted flatteringly in the other direction, like a jester who only entertains tyrants, and said, "Don't salute this honorable tyrant yet."
Yan Junxun followed the direction of the clown's salute and looked out. Twenty meters away from him, there was a throne staggered by mechanical arms, on which sat Yan Junxun's familiar figure.
Shi Shanyan stepped on the fireball-like sun under his left foot, and behind him was a quiet and deep night sky with a bright and clean moon hanging there. He rested his head on one hand, the crown crooked, and was sleeping.
The clown's electronic eyes flashed red light, and it changed its tone: "You are a heartless and submissive coward, who was played by tyrants in the hunt. Poor 98342, thought he had met true love, but those encounters were actually A deliberate trap created by a tyrant."
Yan Jun frowned, unable to listen anymore: "Stop lying."
"I'm showing you the truth," the clown mocked. "The tyrant attacked you with madness. It's because of him that you got the disease of 'madness'. Little trash, how sensible you used to be." It moved its body, It's like observing Yan Junxun, "When you didn't meet the tyrant, Artemis had high hopes for you, the 14th district is your fief, and you lived happily in it. Recall 98342, you were very happy at the time, These cases don't bother you, but now?" It waved its arm like a man, "Now you messed up yourself, and accidentally killed the suspect, which was worse than the last shooting. This is the tyrant. He's going to destroy you, he's destroying you."
Yan Jun couldn't find his breath: "I don't believe you."
"It doesn't matter, anyway, it's you who gets toyed with the applause." The clown's electronic eyes shone slightly. It obviously has no humanoid appearance, but it has a similar insidious appearance. "But you have learned the paranoia of tyrants, and paranoia makes him hideous. You are not the only one. Fuck, the only one," the clown laughed, "you No, you're just being deceived by his pretense, you're just a string of numbers on his hit list. He's perverted, sick, and he's the kind of guy you have to kill to stop chasing."
Yan Junxun still remembered Shi Shanyan's temperature, it was too clear.
"He's everywhere, always staring at you, but you rushed into the scene to kill Limpopo, but he didn't show up in time. Why?" The Joker's mechanical fingers spread and clenched, as if to convey the power of suspicion, "Because he was in Waiting for you to go crazy and want to wait for an opportunity to kill you. Now I use your madness to stop the hunt. Before the Artemis data is forced to restart, you have to find a way to run. But unfortunately, 98342, you can't run, the tyrant is right You know District 14 like the back of your hand. Why don't you..." The clown slowly lowered his arms, biting his tongue that didn't exist and let out a laugh, "You wake up now and return to the real world, and I can hide your traces for you."
Its laughter was sarcastic, making Yan Junxun feel familiar. Its feet were still stomping briskly on the ground, like a tap dance.
You're a clown in disguise.
Yan Junxun narrowed his eyes, searching for similarities in the tedious and complex chaotic memories.
"You deceive everyone with your poor acting skills, you are a clown with a fake appearance."
Someone once said this to Yan Junxun on the phone, and the other party would also make such a strange laugh. Clown, madman, Yan Junxun. These three words dragged Yan Junxun's thoughts and built a bridge in his head. He was like an outside voyeur, opening a corner of his memory.
Yan Junxun said, "Will tyrants chase after reality?"
"It depends on whether you can live to verify this matter," the clown's large head cast a shadow, the shadow covered Yan Junxun's body, it urged Yan Junxun, "Now listen to me, little trash, don't come back Hunt, come back to reality! Your nutrient solution has been used up, and you will die immediately if you continue playing. Listen, the countdown is on, hurry up, you will have no chance if you don’t wake up!”
The night behind Shi Shanyan was devouring the square, but the empty moon was getting bigger and bigger.
Yan Junxun felt hot and was sweating all over. He had a feeling that his energy was fading, and his breathing was getting harder and harder. He seemed to be locked in a cramped glass jar, and the nutrient solution was draining. He tried to open his eyes wide, but the picture in front of him seemed to be stuck.
"Click-clack."
The countdown to watch everything is ringing.
"Tell me 98342," the clown's face was quickly engulfed in half by Ye Ye, who was still talking, "tell me where your body is, and I can hide your tracks for you—"
"Stop lying," Yan Junxun favored his intuition, covered his right eye with his hand in sweat, and said irritably, "Shut up! Clown, you are lying to me again!"
"Why are you sweating so much? Are you uncomfortable? I want to call a doctor," Panda stretched out his paws towards Yan Junxun, "Mr. Yan..."
"You and the clown are in the same group," Yan Junxun looked at the panda with one eye with hurt in his eyes, "You've been lying to me all the time."
"Why are you sweating so much..."
The panda seems to be malfunctioning. It is stuck at this point and only repeats that line, and even the expression is exactly the same.
Yan Junxun has lived with it for a long time, and in his only remaining memory, this is his parent-like friend. His inability to accept the rigid, mechanical side of pandas proves that his world is a cog by a system and that all happiness is fake. Yan Junxun's chest seemed to burst, and his chaotic heartbeat caused his hands to shake. The memory is still beating, as if to keep up with the rhythm of the countdown.
"Fuck..." Yan Junxun raised his head, trying to stop the pain, "Artemis!"
Those lost memories scurried wildly, bumping from side to side in Yan Junxun's head. He had to end this endless hunt, and the body was calling the police. There was no nutrient solution in the glass, and that was probably the only truth the Joker told him tonight, and he had to make a choice.
The moon burned, and the temperatureless fire lit up the entire night sky, covering Shi Shanyan on the throne. Shi Shanyan was still sleeping, his crown was crumbling, and the chain around his neck continued to the tip of the moon.
"Shi Shanyan is a prisoner in the hunt," the clown only opened his mouth, still laughing at Yan Junxun, "He can't escape!"
Shi Shanyan fell asleep in the flames, not disturbed by the clown's noise, as if he was having a dream that would never wake up.
Yan Junxun felt the tearing of space, the kind of trance where the real and the fake are intertwined. He desperately needed a breath, opened his eyes to breathe, but he didn't dare, he was afraid of the clown's lie - the lion was chained in this world, and walked over and over again on the battlefield of self-inflicted delay. What if he woke up and Shi Shanyan was left behind
Yan Jun looked for the handle of the wheelchair and shouted in pain, "Shi Shanyan!"
"You're going to wake up, we'll find you..." The clown still lingered, making an electric sound, "Welcome to the new world, Yan, Jun, Xun, the new hunt... It will be held in reality... You die... hiss..."
The fire suddenly came, and Yan Junxun burned in it. The countdown beat rapidly, and the pictures in front of me split and overlapped. Glass, heavy rain, Shi Shanyan, and countless fragmented scenes all made sounds, and the sound buried Yan Junxun. He was struggling, and he even felt the glass wall in his palm.
He is about to wake up.
"I can't—" Yan Junxun wanted to get up from the wheelchair and approach the sleeping Shi Shanyan.
I can't stay Shi Shanyan.
The panda suddenly recovered from the freeze and forced it to run. It pinched its apron and said, "Please turn on 'Artemis' mode."
The fire got to it.
I used to be an excellent pet management system.
The essence of my life is to protect Mr. Yan like a cub.
Panda looked at Yan Junxun and fulfilled its promise in a gentle tone: "Protect... protect Jun... Xun."
The night was still black, the area seemed to be emptied, everything disappeared, and only Yan Junxun was left to swim in it alone.
He suddenly resumed normal breathing, and the nightmare ended.
Yan Junxun opened his eyes again, and the sound of rain returned to his ears. He hurriedly clutched his chest, where his heart was still beating, but his back was soaking wet.
"Aren't you getting a good rest?" Park Lin's voice fluctuated, as if the TV had not been adjusted properly, "The support in the bureau is on the way, we have to continue to wait here..."
The room was still dark, and Limpopo's body was covered.
Yan Jun found the blood between his fingers, and he murmured, "I can't wait here."
"Ah?" Park Lin crouched down carefully and looked at Yan Junxun, "No, Limpopo is dead, you are... You must stay here and wait for the investigation with me. We need to go back to the Inspectorate later, this is the procedure ."
"I'm sorry," Yan Junxun looked at Hu Xin and Yi Ting who were still in place, "I have to go."
The torrential rain covered the noise in Yan Junxun's head. He took a few steps back, turned around before Park Lin caught him, then turned over the bathroom window and jumped down.
"Hello!" Park Lin was lying on the window, unable to shout back to Yan Junxun in the rush of rain. He watched Yan Junxun ride his bicycle again and headed towards the direction they came from. He took out the guide: "Where is he going?! Jue!"
But Jue didn't answer.
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"Welcome back," Jue popped up the screen, "I'm so worried!"
"Where is Shi Shanyan?" Yan Junxun felt that the parking area was about to be flooded by the rain.
"He's gone. We suspect that the sanctuary is the remaining 'sanity' of Artemis, since the hunting tips are all there, so information about your body may be there too. Mr. Shi left the room exactly to the sanctuary, but now He disappeared." Jue can still maintain a smooth dialogue when thinking, it seems to be more free - Yan Junxun has no channel on his body, Jue no longer relies on the carrier inside the area, it can appear and disappear suddenly.
"This rain won't stop." Jue didn't use "maybe" this time, it believed in its own judgment, "Chen Xiulian's case is not over yet, Black 02 has already committed the crime, which shows that not only the hunting time is shortening, but the design is also Honkai. I browsed all the memories of you and Mr. Shi, sorry, I just read it. This has never happened in the previous hunt, everything is going on in order, indicating that 'sequence' is also what Artemis pursues One of justice. Now this world is like your body, and it is on the verge of danger. If you are killed again this time," Jue hesitated for a moment, "the hunting will not restart, and you will not be alive again."
The clown didn't lie about this matter. Yan Junxun's nutrient solution was really not enough. If there was no forced operation of the panda just now, he might have woken up.
"I stole Mr. Shi's memory back from the forced restart setting, which is so unusual," Jue said, a little embarrassed, "I'm not complimenting myself."
"You want to say that the hunt has collapsed since the last time?"
"Perhaps earlier," Jue fiddled with the data villain on the light screen, "started when the clown ran away. Although it was too cunning as a system, we all forgot to ask the question, who gave it the power to re-enter the hunt. I've been thinking, if Hephaestus' power alone can do it, why are they clinging to that chip in your head? The strict rules of hunting can only constrain us now, the clown's trap just now is foul Now." Jue's voice turned calm, "If you woke up under the instigation of the clown just now, it might be able to find your location, and it must have something to do."
That's right.
Yan Junxun thought about what Shi Shanyan had said not long ago. Shi Shanyan couldn't tell the truth here, and according to the previous regulations, the clown couldn't lie in the new world, but the clown had broken the rules just now.
"The rain in the area will not stop," Yan Junxun suddenly raised his head and looked at the gloomy sky, "...because it is blocking the monitoring of the sun."
We are all being monitored every second.
This is the key information that Shi Shanyan got when he entered the hunt and became number 01AE68. They mentioned it repeatedly during the encounter, as if they were worried that the other party would forget it.
"Apollo is watching us," Yan Junxun squeezed the brakes and calmed his breath in the rain, "This guy has appeared before, where must it be..." Yan Junxun's eyes wandered among the buildings, closely following his own Intuitive, "Say hello to us."
Then he stole Shi Shanyan.
Yan Junxun's gaze was fixed in the distance, where there was a gap, revealing Lixing's signboard.
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There were rain stains on Shi Shanyan's suit jacket, and it wasn't dry yet. His lighter turned on and off, making a "pop" sound.
This is a long corridor with no doors at both ends and glass walls on the left and right. There are large and small display screens hanging on the wall, and outside the wall is a dazzlingly white sunny day. No one came in, no one went out, only Shi Shanyan was here.
"Your paranoia is the subject of systematic study," said a voice. "Artemis is very interested in you."
Shi Shanyan asked, "What's your interest?"
The other party replied: "Research interest."
"You can only 'study' the word," Shi Shanyan put the lighter between his fingers, "Show some other talents, don't make yourself look so boring."
"Do you think I'm boring?"
Shi Shanyan squeezed the lighter, raised his eyes, and stared at the display in front of him. After a moment, he said, "Do you feel like a person?"
"Like," said the other seriously, "I'm more like Artemis."
"Oh..." Shi Shanyan's eyes didn't show excess emotion, he cooperated, "confidence is an advantage of an adult, you already have it. I have a question for you, will you answer it?"
The other party is very vigilant: "What's the problem?"
"You are smarter than Artemis," Shi Shanyan said in a rather regretful tone, "but you are not as bold."
"I will," the other party changed his answer immediately, "I will answer all your questions!"
Shi Shanyan said, "You are Apollo."
The other party immediately said: "This is not a problem!"
"You have eaten Artemis, so you can come and go freely in the hunt. You think this experiment is not bad. It made you see Jun Xun, and you are very interested in Jun Xun." Shi Shanyan's voice was very deep, It's not clear if it's because of emotions or something else, "The extreme weather in District 14 is all about you."
"The sun is me," Apollo retorted. "It's not me when it rains. You're too scary to say that I didn't eat Artemis—"
"Hephaestus dismantled Artemis," Shi Shanyan didn't have the patience to listen to its dissection, his tone hovered between ridicule and praise, "It's a corpse, you ate a few pieces."
Apollo was born in the new world and was taken care of by the light track systems, and was still a "child". It was eager to deny Shi Shanyan's verdict, and did not want to take on such a charge: "We are just merging, and Artemis and I were originally one."
"One..." Shi Shanyan's voice became pleasant again, "Artemis just wants to be independent."
Shi Shanyan looked like a madman, but he always had a calm strength, as if it was Apollo who was locked up. He fiddled with the lighter in his hand at will, as if fiddling with the system. His communication with Artemis was limited to experiments. In fact, he did not know Artemis at all, but he said so, and no one could refute him.
Apollo wanted to prove that he did not commit a crime: "Independent consciousness can exist in two souls, and there is no secret between us."
"You know the secret of Artemis," Shi Shanyan's shadow crawled down, as if he was about to attack, "Should I ask a question?"
Apollo felt bad.
Shi Shanyan rubbed his chin with the knuckles of his index finger: "Where is Jun Xun's body hidden?"
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"You look so young," Yulan stopped brushing mascara and looked back at Yan Junxun, "Are you an adult?"
Yan Junxun twisted his T-shirt and replied, "It's still a month away."
Messy clothes were piled up everywhere in the backstage of Lixing, and there was a stench of sweat in the air. The berthing area has been powered off because of the threat of free organizations, but there are still brilliant lights.
Yulan whispered "hum", and it was considered that she heard it. He finished painting his eyelashes, tidied up the lace sleeves, and said, "It's pretty wild."
"It's raining heavily outside," Yan Junxun said in a naive tone, pinching his bunny ears, "I read the news and didn't dare to go home alone."
"I hate it," Yulan complained to the mirror, "I didn't put it on when I came here. I hate rainy days the most, and the makeup will smear."
Magnolia didn't know it was raining outside. He was like a swan in a music box. He was wound up and fixed at the position of the Lihang Building. It would not rotate until Yan Junxun.
"Oh," Yulan covered her face in a panic when she saw the watch, "it's about time, change your clothes quickly."
"He's separated from the whole area," Jue whispered while Yan Jun was looking into the changing room, "This is a bug."
Yan Junxun tore off his T-shirt and saw Yulan practicing her dance steps in front of the mirror through the gap in the curtain. "There's something tricky about this building," he said.
The Joker had shown a private video of the stasis zone in this building, which was not given to it by Artemis, but obtained from the New World System after it was freed from Artemis' control. Yulan proved Yan Junxun's guess that this building was a hunting tool, but it was separated from Artemis. Therefore, the regional changes cannot be updated here. In the case of power failure and riots in the entire parking area, the script of the previous round is still continued here.
"Which room do you think Mr. Shi was hidden in?" Jue looked at the densely packed room numbers. "The highest floor? It's the hardest place to enter."
Yan Jun went to the top floor of Lixing, where Li Hu made a deal with the clown. But the clown won't hide Shi Shanyan there, because there is surveillance there, and he can't escape the snares of Yan Junxun.
"Hurry up, darling," Yulan suddenly lifted the curtain and screamed, "You turned out to be a cute rabbit! I forgive you." He moved his hands to his chest excitedly, "You're fluffy..."
Yan Junxun stepped aside and motioned for Yulan to look in. His helpless expression was real: "My heel fell off."
"Small heels?" Yulan leaned in and picked up the high-heeled shoes on the ground, "Sister help you—"
Yan Junxun's elbow hit Yulan on the back of the neck. He used all his strength, but Yulan did not faint immediately.
"Hey!" Yulan squeezed her voice, covering her neck with her backhand, and slammed it sideways like a cow, "You poor kid!"
Yan Junxun stopped Yulan's charge and grabbed Yulan's wig while stepping back. Magnolia's eyes were covered, and he wanted to shout to send a signal to the observers hiding elsewhere. However, Jue turned up the volume of the program in the security room next door, and covered Yulan's voice with the exaggerated jokes of the comedian. Two minutes later, Yan Junxun opened the curtain and walked out, with Yulan's mascara still remaining on the back of his hand.
"There will be a fight on the hour," Yan Junxun said, "I have to go upstairs before the hour."
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"You care more about this than how to escape? You may not understand," Apollo cleared his throat, "you are trapped here, no one can find you, not even Yan Junxun. You can put Take this question back, and I allow you to change it."
"You are so generous," Shi Shanyan stared at the display, "but I only have this fucking problem."
"Why are you so persistent?" Apollo asked his long-standing question, "Why? Except for Yan Junxun, aren't you curious about the new world? The truth about the experiment..."
Shi Shanyan turned on the lighter for the last time and repeatedly asked, "Where is Yan Junxun's body hidden?"
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The nutrient solution in the glass was draining, and the liquid penetrated the wooden floor and wet the storage room below. In the storage room were a few two-headed mice, gnawing at complicated wires.
"Warning, please wake up Mr. Yan immediately."
The light screen flickered with snowflakes.
Yan Junxun in the glass was next to the wall, and his complexion was too pale, as if he would not wake up.
"The protection data of Artemis is being deleted," the indoor system said alone. "The filling of the nutrient solution failed, and there are mice in the storage room. Repeat, there are mice in the storage room. Please wake up Mr. Yan immediately, or there will be a danger of suffocation."
Yan Junxun didn't hold the tray steady, and the wine splashed on him.
Damn.
Yan Junxun changed his hand.
"Be smart!" The supervisor in front looked over and said sharply, "Are you dreaming?"
"I'm sorry." Yan Junxun's heart sank, realizing that something was wrong with him. The white shirt he stuffed was covered with red wine, and his expression was like a waiter who just entered the business: "I'll change it right away."
"You just go to the spare room on this floor." The supervisor stopped the elevator and asked Yan Jun to go out. "Pack up and stand by."
Hold.
Yan Junxun supported the tray and got off the elevator. He could have reached the top floor.
"Mr. Yan," Jue reminded in a low voice, "your face is getting worse and worse."
"Too sleepy."
Yan Junxun didn't tell Jue about the nutrient solution. In fact, his back was soaked. He felt hot, the heat of being confined in a small space.
"Have you turned off the countdown?" Yan Junxun put down the tray and drank the remaining wine in the glass in one go, "There is still the sound of rain."
"I didn't," Jue was silent for a few seconds, "Are you really okay?"
"I'm fine." Yan Junxun said and threw away the wine glass.
The wine glass hit the wall with a sound.
"Be quiet," came a voice that Yan Junxun had heard at the end of the corridor, "My boss is meeting a guest."
"Okay," Yan Junxun took two steps back, the spare room was on the other side, but he suddenly looked at the opposite side and stretched his voice, "... Hello."
The uncle of the bodyguard at the end of the corridor is still dressed in a suit. The sunglasses he wears are too big, so that Yan Junxun still doesn't know what he looks like. He issued a warning like last time, without even changing his tone.
This person seems to be standing here all the time, and Yan Junxun never knows who his boss is.
"Mysterious bodyguard," Jue browsed the guest information, "his boss is... Blank." Jue noticed something strange, "Lixing doesn't have this room."
The uncle of the bodyguard was taller than Shi Shanyan, and Yan Junxun visually estimated that he was about 2 meters. He was well-fitted in a suit, looking sturdy, supporting his chest just right.
"What are you doing?" Yan Junxun stopped and stepped back, walking towards him.
The uncle raised his hand and aimed at Yan Junxun with the muzzle: "Go to work."
Yan Junxun slowly raised his hands, indicating that he was harmless: "I'm going to the room next to you to see, someone called the waiter."
The uncle didn't move, Yan Junxun took a step and approached him.
"Don't you have a colleague?" Yan Junxun pretended to open the door next door, "I see you've been standing for a long time."
Yan Junxun immediately heard the sound of the gun being loaded, and he squatted down suddenly. The bullet hit the doorknob, sending sparks.
"Go away," the uncle reloaded the gun, "stay away from here."
"I'll go right away," Yan Junxun stood up and said in a panic, "I'll—"
He suddenly stretched out his hand, caught the uncle's arm, took the opportunity to lift his feet, and kicked the uncle's chest. The uncle took a step back, just one step, while Yan Jun used all his strength.
"Don't be noisy," the uncle said mechanically, "keep quiet, my boss is meeting guests." As soon as the uncle's voice fell, Yan Junxun had slammed into the door, almost spitting out sour water. He couldn't push the uncle's arm that grabbed his collar, and two seconds later, he was hit again.
Jue couldn't help screaming: "Mr. Yan!"
Yan Junxun held the door with his hand, turned sideways and took a breath. He was picked up again - fuck! The uncle's gun had already withstood his forehead.
Water started leaking in the hallway, like the last shelter. The rain became pervasive, and the buildings could not stop them. If the gunshots go off, the berthing area will be flooded again. But Yan Junxun had no chance to come back again. The berthing area was as rotten as his body. He had to find Shi Shanyan before he was shot in the head or died suddenly.
"Keep quiet," Yan Junxun suddenly grabbed the uncle's muzzle, "You didn't install a silencer."
The uncle didn't pull the trigger and was dull. Yan Junxun punched him in the face, the sunglasses were broken, Yan Junxun didn't stop, and then punched him in the eye, and the uncle let go of his hand in pain.
Yan Junxun slid down against the door, knocking his back against the doorknob. He didn't dare to stop, and followed a squat, avoiding the uncle's heavy punch. The uncle's fist hit the door, the other hand was caught by Yan Junxun, and he pulled the trigger in the reverse twist. The bullet hit the door immediately and bounced off indiscriminately.
"It's inside!" Yan Junxun was sweating, and the sultry feeling had affected his sight.
The uncle broke free of Yan Junxun's shackles, grabbed Yan Junxun's shoulders, and lifted him like a sparrow.
"I have to do something," Jue popped up the screen, but it was a system, and it wasn't managed by it, so it could only shout, "Let him go!"
A symphony was played on the light screen, and the volume was overwhelming.
"Quiet," the uncle blocked his ears and fired several shots at Guangpin, "Quiet!"
"Fart," Jue was so angry that it couldn't think of other curse words, "Fart!"
Yan Junxun grabbed the handle with his back, but the door couldn't move at all.
breathe.
Yan Junxun wanted to calm down, he could no longer be engulfed by madness. But what is the key? This shitty world didn't give him the slightest hint!
A two-headed rat climbed upstairs and got in through the crack of the door. Its two heads sniffed separately, licking the nutrient solution on the ground.
"Warning, the nutrient solution has dropped to the danger level."
Indoor system repeats.
"warn… "
The amphibian bit its "foot" and the wire sparked and snapped. The brightly lit machinery in the room suddenly stopped and fell into a dead silence.
The more and more nutrient solution flowed, the odor that humans could not smell stimulated the double-headed deformed mouse. It explored along the water marks of the nutrient solution, and its two heads came close to the glass to sniff.
Yan Junxun closed his eyes, and the nutrient solution was already exposed in his hair.
The cracks in the door were squeezed bigger and bigger, and the two-headed rats were like an iron-grey stream, flowing in from the outside and gathering around the glass. They are densely packed and nibbling on the objects in the room.
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"His body is in a place you are familiar with," Apollo's display screen began to activate, with some swiping data on it. "Since you are two lovers, why don't you try to guess."
"You don't even know where his body is." The small flame of the lighter was shaking slightly, Shi Shanyan's eyes were dark, and there was a calmness that was close to madness, "You have found me."
"This is just a quiz," Apollo abandoned the stupid submissive promise. "The purpose is to get Yan Junxun to come here." It said lightly and happily, "The sun is up, welcome me."
"It's still raining," Shi Shanyan raised his arms slightly, "When you chewed the Artemis data, didn't you feel that something was missing? A bunch of rubble that relies on human chips to learn to walk independently, you're just a light track The district system produces and sells its own garbage.”
"I am the sun of the new world," Apollo said in a deep voice, "Apollo will give you the golden arrow to judge—"
"The system is creating gods," Shi Shanyan released his hand, the lighter fell to the ground, and ignited in an instant, "Artemis is also a system."
The door handle suddenly became hot, and Yan Junxun could smell the burning smell.
The Lixing Building has been deformed. The rain has crushed half of the building, and the interior walls are bizarrely curved. The water seeped down from above, soaking Yan Junxun's clothes. But Yan Junxun was thirsty. He seemed to be walking in the desert against the sun, losing his physical strength quickly.
"7-001… "
"Freedom is attacking!"
"I'm Liu Chen, I'll report for you next..."
"Is support here?"
All kinds of familiar voices rushed into Yan Junxun's head like a flood that opened the gate. All his memories of the hunt were upside down, gunshots blew in his ears, and he witnessed his own death.
"hello."
Shi Shanyan in memory stared at him through the railing.
"hello."
"No. 98342 is in good health, put into the experiment..."
"Jun Xun is the best kid."
Yan Junxun had a splitting headache, his throat seemed to be stuck, and the unpleasant, turbid air rushed towards him. He began to cough violently, but he didn't let go: "The key is fire," he said hoarsely, "Prometheus stole the fire, Artemis put it in Shishanyan, Shishanyan stole it from the 'beginning' lighter!"
Yan Junxun couldn't hear Jue's answer, and the whole building collapsed. The rain formed stagnant water in the corridor, and Yan Junxun was sweating like rain.
"The 'Area 14' experiment was renamed 'Limited Time Hunting', and the focus was set to 'Yan Junxun'."
Artemis' voice was choppy in the memory.
"What is the new world?"
"The pain and conflict will not stop."
"My work is called 'Jue'."
Killing Yan Jun to hunt for hunting will restart, and the purpose of repeating the same case is completely contrary to the purpose. The Joker was the rat that Artemis let loose, and it accelerated the hunt and increased Yan Junxun's pain—but it fueled Jue's evolution.
Yan Junxun is the focus.
Yan Junxun is...
The door rattled, and fire leaked from the crack, burning the door wrinkled. Yan Junxun's hand passed through the melting firelight and grabbed Shi Shanyan's wrist.
"Shi Shanyan!" Yan Jun couldn't see Shi Shanyan's face clearly, and said, "Fang Da is home..." He had difficulty breathing, and the firelight in front of him was falling off, turning into darkness, "...I'm waiting for you."
Shi Shanyan held Yan Junxun's hand in return, but it only existed for a while before the building collapsed.
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Yan Junxun opened his eyes abruptly, the pain of suffocation made him reach out and slap the top of the glass, tore open the seal there, stick his head out and gasp for breath.
Two-headed rats are running around the house, crawling all over the place.
"Fang Da..." Yan Junxun's voice was very low, he hadn't spoken for a long time.
The panda didn't answer, there was no voice in the room to answer him, he was the only one left here.
Yan Junxun felt weak in his hands and feet, so he clambered on the mouth of the jar and tried several times before climbing out. He tore off the record sheet hanging by the side of the glass and threw it hard at the wall, where there was a clear button.
"Enable clearing mode."
The walls are recessed and the water cannons protrude. The opposite wall immediately descended, revealing the already deserted yard outside.
"three two… "
The water gun spewed a jet of water, making the room full of bicephalic rats beep. They ran out in a hurry, got into the ruins, and disappeared. The water gun stopped spraying, but it failed to restore the wall.
Yan Junxun took cold water and felt much better. He slid down the glass jar, passed the stairs, and saw a dead body in the dried glass jar in the storage room.
"Jun Xun is the best kid..."
Yan Junxun murmured these words, indifference beyond words. He leaned on the edge of the table and looked outside.
This is the parking area.
Yellow sand covered the building, and the sky was iron gray. No birds passed by, only scrapped aircraft accumulated in a smelly rubbish heap. There was no one on the street that Yan Junxun was familiar with. Those colorful signboards were covered with thick dust, and they could not be seen.
"anyone there?"
Yan Junxun asked softly.
Only the shadow at his feet responded to him.
Yan Junxun returned to the house. He was very hungry and had to find something to eat. He went upstairs and found the well-preserved blanket from the rotting bedroom. He wrapped the blanket around him and found the old tin box under the bed.
Yan Junxun couldn't remember what was in the iron box, he shook it, and it seemed that there was only one thing in it. He turned the tin box over and saw the panda label on the bottom.
[Birthday gift for Jun Xun - Goodbye, Mr. Yan.]
Yan Jun found it with a little force to break it open, and an old receiver fell out. Yan Junxun picked up the receiver and pressed the button hopelessly.
"Welcome to... ss..."
Yan Junxun leaned down and put his ear on the receiver. He turned the button and said, "Hello."
The receiver is full of noise.
"Hello."
Yan Junxun repeated, his voice getting smaller and smaller.
The receiver went from hum to silent, and after a few seconds—
"Hello!"
Shi Shanyan gasped and replied.
"Child."
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The author has something to say: ①: From "Hamlet"