304 Go to the Free Zone
Lin Sanjiu didn't know the place he was in at all.
It's been a while since I woke up. She stood a little dazed in the cold wind, not knowing what was all about. None of them made sense - she tried to list everything that had happened before the next copy, but still couldn't explain why she was here.
The flesh cavity behind her had been trembling slightly since she leaped out, like a wounded animal; Milky white smoke leaked out of the cracks for several minutes. Lin Sanjiu, who was originally very vigilant, soon found that once these "milks" flowed into the outside air, they were like being diluted, and after losing their original characteristics, they involuntarily dissipated in the cold wind. The occasional little bit of her accidentally breathing into it only made her mind wander for a moment, and it didn't have a big impact.
The rough, cold, hard rock pressed heavily on the sides of his body, as if he could close and swallow Lin Sanjiu at any time. The gaps between the stone walls were narrow and irregular, making the bone wings behind her a headache; No matter how hard she struggled to adjust the angle of her wings, it was always uncomfortable. The only space that is spacious is where the cavity is located: as if a pocket has been carved out of the stone wall, the cavity is right in the center, and there is a ring of open space around it.
Lin Sanjiu had long since stopped looking up—as far as her evolutionary vision was concerned, the stone wall stretched all the way to the end of her line of sight before drawing a light white line on the top of her head; The first time she looked up, it took her a few seconds. Only then did I realize that this line turned out to be an incomparably distant sky.
Sighing, she groped for the stone wall and took a few more steps forward. The cracks in the stone were covered with a thin layer of earth, and from this thin nourishment came a few sparse clumps of dark green leaves, which looked like people in the cavity of flesh, as if they were about to die.
She had obviously followed the members of the Smiling Mermaid into a copy - but why she had woken up in a cavity of flesh under the abyss, Lin Sanjiu had no clue.
The shattered flesh cavity flowed out a sticky and slippery liquid, and every step made a "coo, coo" sound on the soles of the shoes. In the thin and dim light of the sky. The original tooth-sour crimson flesh color of the flesh cavity gradually withered. There was a dying dark brown - whatever it was, Lin Sanjiu's blow sent it to its death.
Moving people out was much more difficult than she thought - though a few seemed healthy. But most people suffer from prolonged coma and lack of nutrition. All that has been consumed is reduced to a handful of bones; Lin Sanjiu was trying to pick up a girl. Accidentally brushed her thigh, and with a "Kala" sound, the girl's leg bone broke away from the pelvis. Only a thin layer of dry yellow skin remains, connecting the legs to the body.
After there is no "milk", maybe these people will slowly wake up, but Lin Sanjiu does not plan to wait here until that moment. There were about thirty or forty people rescued from the flesh cavity, and they were all carefully placed on the corridor by her; After doing all this, she took water out of the card library again and fed some to everyone. Then, she stepped on the pitiful open space between human bodies, like a ballerina, Lin Sanjiu walked towards the depths of the stone wall with some difficulty.
On the other side, the light is a little brighter, and the terrain is slightly higher, and in less than two hours, there is only a dead end made of dirt and rocks; Although Lin Sanjiu was very reluctant, the only way out at present was the dark and narrow stone gap in front of him.
This is the most uncomfortable "road" that Lin Sanjiu has walked. At a distance of several thousand meters from the ground, in a crevice somehow separated from the depths of the rock layer, in a small cramped and pitch-black space that was enough to make anyone suffer from claustrophobia, Lin Sanjiu struggled, not knowing how long he walked.
At first, she was just confused and worried; But when she got to the end, all she had left in her heart was the hatred of the bone wings behind her—bumps and frictions were just small things, and some places were so narrow that they didn't allow the huge bone wings to pass through; As if she had broken her limbs to an impossible angle, Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth and endured the pain to open and stretch the bone wings, and sometimes even folded them, and even she didn't know how she finally squeezed through - but fortunately, no one could hear her screams of pain in such a deep underground.
Just before she thought she was about to break off the bone wings and throw them away, the space between the stone walls finally gradually became larger-the light became brighter and brighter, the corridor became wider and wider, the slope extended more and more, and after several hours of crawling hand and foot on the ground, Lin Sanjiu found himself feeling back on the ground.
The cacophony of human voices, the occasional engine sound of a spaceship passing through the air, and the muffled thud of an unknown sound, followed by a thousand other sounds, made her almost suspect that she had returned from hell to earth.
…… Two huge full moons hung over countless dilapidated buildings with hundreds of floors, divided into countless pieces by layers of wires, and the bustling flow of people wrapped in cacophony filled every corner where the lights could or could not shine.
She still seems to be in the cyber zone.
The earth has obviously been torn open a deep opening, but for passers-by, it seems that the appearance of an abyss in the middle of the road has become a commonplace; From the place where Lin Sanjiu climbed out, there was only a yellow band around it to warn people to be careful not to go in. When she came out, her skin was cut by the hard rock, her head and limbs were covered with mud and dust, and her whole body ached—but no one looked at her more.
Lin Sanjiu endured the pain and found the map.
“…… It's weird, how did we get back here? After staring at the map for a while, the teacher in his mind spoke first.
Although she was unfamiliar with the red nautilus, it didn't stop her from quickly finding where she was - across the abyss of most of the cyber area, named "the Grand Canyon" by the people here, and presented like a scar on the map. At one end of the "Grand Canyon" is a wasteland. Lin Sanjiu was at the other end of the business district at this time—when she looked out of the appraiser's window, she had already seen the "Grand Canyon" once.
But there is still a long distance between the Grand Canyon and the territory of the smiling merfolk; Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out why he ran to the bottom of the abyss.
Since the loss of the "Sorrow of a Girl", nothing has made sense and can be connected.
Lin Sanjiu rubbed the map irritably, and her hand paused again, because she remembered the red crystal spent on the map. "I don't know—" she was a little annoyed, "but, whoever or whatever hurts me, let's make it their lucky day—I'm going to buy a ticket now." ”
She's kind though. But not stupid - when a dozen of them fell out of a man she was moving out of her flesh. Lin Sanjiu knew that his ferry ticket was no longer a problem.
Although the money is not particularly reasonable, even the teacher Yi, who has always had a high moral standard, agrees that perhaps the people who are unconscious under the abyss need water more than red crystal.
"But...... What about the copy that is devouring the red nautilus? Don't you care either? "Teacher Yi is not so easy to talk this time.
"I can't ignore this." Lin Sanjiu admitted. "But where's this copy?"
"You know. It's the smiling merfolk—"
"It stands to reason that I should also be in the territory of the smiling merfolk." She interrupted what she hadn't finished. "And yet here I am."
Teacher Yi didn't speak for a while, and after a while he said in a low voice, "That'...... Maybe it's because the copy has been devoured here......"
"I don't see any difference from before."
"That's because Sajay said—" Mr. Yi just said this. I was stunned for a moment, and then stopped.
Lin Sanjiu smiled slightly, but there was not much smile in his eyes. “…… That's right, it's all Sajah. We went into the dungeon with her, but she wasn't in that cavity. ”
The girl who looked very abnormal must know something, but she didn't tell Lin Sanjiu and his party.
"When I meet Lou Ye and them, I will come back to investigate Sajie with the help of the power of the Grower Alliance." She muttered to herself in a low voice as she walked in the direction of the ship's landing point. "Until I find that woman, I have to hope that the forces of the Red Nautilus will be smart and not let things develop beyond control."
- Maybe the idea isn't so unreliable; It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu walked into the spaceship login point where the people were shuttling and stood in front of the electronic information board and watched it for a long time.
She clearly remembered that the smiling mermaid had already received information about the "Devouring Dungeon", but from the "Cyber Current Affairs", there was no clue about this matter, but it was full of news such as "CLASH has successfully returned from a Class A world", "12 new apocalyptic world information entry systems", and "someone has purchased special plant items at a high price".
"What's going on......" Lin Sanjiu frowned, and didn't come up with a reason. Shaking her head, she strode over to the ticket counter and blended in with the flow of people.
After the tall woman with her wings in her tow left, the young woman who sold the ticket glanced down at her electronic information board and went through the auction prices of the visas four months later. For the D-class world, her bid was still too low; Just as she sighed and didn't know what to do, she felt another figure come to the ticket counter.
"Hello," the young girl looked up and smiled semi-professionally, and then her voice froze in her throat.
This woman's eyes were like two deep dry wells, without a single white. Even though she had to see hundreds of strange-looking people every day, there was something special about this woman that did not look like a human being, and the young girl couldn't help but shudder.
As if realizing that something was wrong with her, the woman wrapped in a thick scarf looked down at the reflection of the metal countertop, and then raised her head again. This time, the whites of her eyes appeared; As if she had pinched her black eyeballs hard to finally reveal a little whites of her eyes, she blinked vigorously and smiled.
"Where did that bone-winged sister go? I also want a ticket to go there. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm back, what's the reaction in the comment area...... What the hell did the author enter the village......
Thank you for your monthly pass and reward, I'm about to go out now and it's too late to write a list, so I'll put it together in the next update~
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