Act 1: Broken Heart Chapter 4: Xinxin's Dream
Since birth, there has been no light in Xuan Xin's life.
The world is on the verge of collapse, and order is largely non-existent. Human nature is tested everywhere, but it can't stand the test everywhere.
The Celestial Beast Plague was on the verge of eruption, and Xuan Xin was born in this context.
Unable to raise her, in order to keep her alive, her parents sent her to the experimental institution of the Explorer Alliance. As an experiment, if you succeed, there is still a glimmer of hope for survival, and if you fail, there is no difference from the original result, which is a chance to gamble on your life.
As experimental material, in the face of high-intensity experiments and genetic rejection, it is generally not enough to live for three months, perhaps it is God's favor for Xuan Xin, she has an extraordinary adaptability to cat genes, and she has become the only surviving case among the earliest animal genetic experimental subjects.
As she slowly grew, her sweet appearance gradually became noticed by researchers, and she was sent to the headquarters of the Explorer Alliance, where she was trained and brainwashed accordingly, becoming one of the most special and expensive commodities in the Explorer Alliance.
Growing up, she didn't feel cared for, she didn't know the feeling of family affection, she just repeated her work every day, no matter what she did, she seemed very cautious, and her past experience and the influence of cat genes made her wary of anything.
In the 15 years since she was born, she has spent her life like this, and if there is anything that makes her happy, it is probably to go around the colorful world outside with the Guardian after working every day.
The caged bird, after all, still yearns for the boundless sky.
Yan Xin's biggest dream is to be able to save up to 10,000 exploration points, she wants to buy herself, she yearns for a free life, not all the time, with invisible shackles imprisoned on her body.
Although she was trained and brainwashed by the Explorer Alliance, as a flesh-and-blood, living person, well, maybe she wasn't a human anymore. But as a flesh-and-blood, living being, everything now she is obedient.
She has a mind of her own, and she will yearn for the life she wants, even though she knows it is a distant dream.
Every morning when she woke up, she prayed in her heart that she would not be bought. I don't know how many times, she will wake up from the nightmare of becoming someone else's plaything.
Every time she woke up, she could only be alone, sitting alone on the bed sobbing softly, shivering.
However, today, Xuan Xin's mood is still very good, a young handsome, and powerful explorer gave herself 30 points of exploration value, which may not be a lot for the explorer, but for her, it is at least three months to save the amount.
She still remembers that her good friend Ye Mosha, with her hot body and wild beauty, only saved more than 800 exploration points. Thinking of this, Xuan Xin suddenly found that she was suddenly looking forward to meeting the unknown explorer again.
Yan Xin covered her cheeks, which were a little red and hot. What's wrong with you? How could such a strange idea suddenly come to you?
In fact, special commodities like Yan Xin, which have a clear real price within the Explorer Alliance, also have admirers.
Her guardian, Slen Dinn, is one of them, but according to his current subsidy of 100 exploration points per month, it will take nearly 10 years to save up to 10,000 exploration points, even if she is not used at all, and by that time, it is estimated that she has already become the plaything of a certain family's children.
Being able to protect her in her time of need was enough for him.
As usual, Xuan Xin went out shopping after work, and of course the guardian followed her the whole time.
On the one hand, the guardians need to ensure their safety, after all, there are many wanderers in this apocalypse, they have nothing, there are some radicals, although the guardians are very fragile in the face of heavenly beasts, but in the face of humans, they are extremely powerful existences.
On the other hand, the guardians also have to play a monitoring role, so as not to escape from them, although they have been brainwashed, and some even have control centers in their brains, but humans are wonderful creatures, and the Explorer Alliance will not allow accidents to happen, and even if there are many commodities in the human-animal stage, the guardians can still easily deal with it.
With a happy smile on her face, she looked at the beautiful night scene around her, she had never been in contact with the real day and night, the sun, moon and stars on the earth since she could remember, and this false starry sky was so beautiful in her eyes.
The silent starry sky and the lively market are contrasting and harmonious at the same time.
Such an atmosphere makes Xuan Xin not only vigilant, but also full of a trace of yearning, it can be seen that the busy people here are basically ordinary people who have no combat ability, and it is a corner that is basically about to be forgotten by people.
Here, a delicious barbecue meal often requires only 1 exploration point.
In this regard, Xuan Xin wanted to try, but every time she stood for a long time, and reluctantly walked away.
She knows that these ordinary people have suffered a lot in order to survive, but her exploration value is to complete her dream, even if it is 1 point, she is reluctant to spend it in order to satisfy her appetite, she has her own persistence.
Obviously, these people here are also very familiar with Xuan Xin, who comes to visit every day, although she doesn't consume, but such a cute and quiet, always polite girl who greets everyone, everyone also likes it from the bottom of their hearts.
There are also some wanderers who like to find trouble, they have been taught a lesson by the guardians of Xuan Xin, and over time, there are no wanderers here who come to find trouble, after all, the Explorer Alliance is not something they can offend. So the people here are also very grateful to Xuan Xin.
Carefully took out his pink crystal card and looked at the time, it was already late, just when Yan Xin was a little unsatisfied and the guardian Slen Dinn was preparing to return to the Explorer Alliance, disaster struck.
Violent vibrations and the sound of glass shattering came, and Xuan Xin only felt a light not far away, and then a violent shock wave swept over, and the huge impact pushed her backwards.
Slen Dinn's reaction was not slow, and he pulled Yan Xin back to block him, and then a dense transparent light pattern appeared on his body, which was the reaction of the aftershock wave of the gravel hitting his energy barrier.
Immediately afterward, the roar of the earth-shattering beast and the sound of gunfire came from not far away, mixed with the desperate roars and wails of human beings, which made people's hearts tremble.
Before Yan Xin could react to what was happening, the originally dark starry sky in the sky turned blood-red, and a dazzling red light enveloped the earth, painting the space with a touch of blood:
"Alert: The walls of the space are damaged, and the defense protection function has failed.
"Alert: A large number of Celestial Beasts have been found to show signs of activity, please go to the Jumping Area and prepare to evacuate."
"Alert: The beast tide is starting to enter the node, please send nearby guardians to the C-Z29 area immediately to support and cover the evacuation of survivors."
Slen Dinn's face was a little ugly, as a Tier 2 Guardian, in this case, they must have node safety as the highest goal, but ..................
Looking at Xuan Xin, who was dazed and a little frightened behind her, he read the panic and helplessness in her eyes. Slen Dinn stretched out the defensive barrier as wide as possible.
Responsibility made him rush to C-Z29 for support as soon as possible, and they were so close to each other that they were only a block away.
But after seeing Yan Xin's appearance, he couldn't let go of her, if he wanted to shoulder his own responsibility, then the girl he had been silently guarding was doomed to death.
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When she recovered from the explosion and concussion, the first thing she noticed was not her own injured flank and calf, nor the Slen Dinn, who supported the barrier to protect her.
The old street behind her that she liked most attracted her attention.
At this moment, the streets have long since lost their former liveliness, and there is only a hell of blood.
Patches of rubble and mutilated corpses, these people are ordinary people, unlike genetically modified human-beasts, guardians, explorers, and other special groups of people who have a certain ability to protect themselves, and they are powerless to resist the shockwave damage caused by the breaking of the barrier.
Xuan Xin saw some familiar faces in the past, but at this time, they all collapsed in a pool of blood, and their mutilated bodies had long lost their vitality.
The sound of the impact in front of him attracted Xin's attention, and the energy barrier on Slen Dinn's body had begun to fade, and this impact broke him as the main resistant.
The sound of gunfire and the roar of the beast not far away showed the fierceness of the battle.
Everything in front of her made Xuan Xin a little overwhelmed. She didn't know what was going on, she was still in the lab at the time of the last Celestial Beast Disaster, and she didn't know what was going on in the outside world.
Coming out of the lab, she always thought that the world in the node was the real world.
So when something like this happened again, she didn't know what she was supposed to do or how to do it.
As the minutes ticked by, Slen Dinn's energy barrier was finally broken, but fortunately, the storm turbulence had almost dispersed. Compared to a small injury, the ability is basically depleted, which is the most troublesome.
Seeing that Yan Xin was fine, Silen Dyn let out a sigh of relief, he didn't care about the emptiness in his body, and quickly confirmed Yan Xin's injury, and then gave Yan Xin the only quick recovery reagent he was carrying.
Seeing the wound on Yan Xin's calf heal rapidly, Slen Dinn grinned, patted Yan Xin on the shoulder, and then ran in the direction of the Explorer Alliance.
Nothing was more important than her safety.
Along the way, the two of them did encounter a lot of wanderers, but after seeing Schlen Dingen's Guardian outfit, they stayed away from the two, they may not be able to get the Schlen Dinn wearing tactical equipment, but Slen Dinn only needs one bullet to get them.
The gunfire not far away gradually thinned out. Slen Dinn's heart is also beginning to be bottomless. He didn't know if the situation was under control or if it was out of control. However, as things stand, things may be out of control.
He had already killed 3 waves of man-beasts, and if the situation was under control, he would not be able to break through beyond the three zones with the strength of man-beasts.
Although these beasts are not very strong, Slen Dinn, who is a second-order guardian, is still a little difficult to deal with.
After several battles, his injuries gradually worsened, and after taking out another wave of humans and beasts, Slen Dinn and Xuan Xin found a more hidden alley and began to deal with his injuries.
Judging from the current situation, the two of them encountered scattered human beasts, which was still within Slen Dinn's ability. However, the safest way to be rescued is to travel to other nodes via the Hop Device.
Frostfall can't stay any longer, who knows if he will appear next time he is broken through by the beast tide.
Bandaging the wounds on his body quickly, without an effective potion, Slen Dinn could only make sure that he would not collapse from excessive blood loss on the way.
Xuan Xin looked at Slen Dinn with some concern, this quiet-looking big man was very injured, he had never seen her as a commodity like other guardians, and with him, Xuan Xin was able to experience the feeling of being seen as a human being.
"We ...... Can you still get out of the frost? ”
Silen Dyn was slightly stunned when he heard this, although Yan Xin looked sunny, he was usually very sorry to speak, and most of the time the two of them spent together was silent with each other.
He could understand the worry in Xuan Xin's words, and as before, he grinned at the corners of his mouth: "Of course! We'll be ............ Ho...... Ho ........."
As he spoke, Slen Dinn's mouth began to bleed profusely, his gaze slowly slid down, and an electromagnetic knife flashing white light came out of his chest.
In his ears, Yan Xin's screams became smaller and smaller.
The paralyzing sensation characteristic of the electromagnetic knife made it impossible for Slen Dinn to gather strength.
Immediately after, he was kicked down, and the bright electromagnetic knife was drawn from his chest, bringing up a large amount of blood.
"I didn't expect to be able to pick up such a big guy!" A cruel laugh sounded in his ears, but he couldn't hear what the other party was saying.
A thin figure appeared in his blurred vision, and the figure walked towards Xuan Xin while untying the rags around his waist.
Slen Dinn's consciousness, which had been getting more and more groggy after understanding something, suddenly woke up a little. Resisting the paralysis on his body, he picked up the gun on one side, and with trembling hands, he aimed the crosshair at the figure's head.
On the other hand, the scene of Slen Dinn being stabbed in the chest had already frightened Xuan Xin, and she wanted to use her ability, but the repeated frightening made her unable to change her claws.
The figure is getting closer and closer to Yan Xin............
"Woo ............"
The huge tearing force knocked the figure's left arm to the ground, leaving only a trace of flesh and skin sticking.
The figure of ".................." stopped and turned to Slen Dinn, his left arm squirming at this time, and the wound was not bleeding, but dark green mucus.
"The Deviant"
Slen Dinn's face was ugly, the mutant was much more difficult than the average human beast, and he was ............
Before he could finish his thoughts, a white light flashed in front of him, and his gaze began to shake violently, and finally fixed on a headless corpse.
Slen Dinn was decapitated, and Xin's pupils contracted violently, gradually turning like vertical pupils, her fingers were sore and itchy, and her nails gradually began to sharpen into claws. It's just that she has changed a little, but it's not worth mentioning compared to that figure.
The figure was a wanderer, and at this time it was obvious that he had begun to mutate, he lowered his head and licked the dark green slime off his arm, but his whole body began to squirm, as if there were small snakes swimming under his skin.
Transparent saliva with a hint of dark green mucus runs down the corners of the mouth. It didn't take long for the figure in front of him to be no longer able to describe him as a human except for his physique.
The deviant's sanity had apparently begun to dissipate, and only a few of the roars in their mouths could be understood, more often than beast-like roars.
Xinxin slowly stepped back, and although Slen Dinn's death spurred her on to transform, the instinctive madness warned that she was no match for the guy in front of her.
The mutant roared and pounced, and Yan Xin hurriedly dodged, but the narrow alley and the previous leg made her not very sensitive in the process of dodging, and as soon as she fought, she was hammered in the abdomen by the deviant's giant arm that was several turns larger, and she herself took the opportunity to grab it on the deviant's left shoulder.
The claws were flicked off, and Xuan Xin was blasted out like a cannonball. Knocking out a human-shaped crater against the wall behind her, she couldn't stand on her own, and at this moment, she felt as if she had been broken by a giant hammer.
Lying weakly on the wall, Yan Xin stared blankly at the blood-red on the sky.
"Roar roar ~ ~ seedbed ........., reproduction.................. Oh, hey, hey~~~~" The deviant's piercing whisper came into her ears, but Yan Xin was powerless to stop all this, she had no strength.
"Thorny ............" clothes were easily torn apart.
In the corners of Yan Xin's eyes, tears could not stop slipping down. She didn't dare to imagine what she was going to face next, it turned out that what she had been trying to achieve was really just a dream............