Chapter 24: Living Fluids
"Light ......?"
I couldn't believe why there was light in this cave.
Is it a hallucination?
However, even if it is an illusion, I can't refuse the light at this moment.
I walked towards the light, step by step, and the tunnel became clearer and clearer because of the light, and I could even see the special liquid on the walls and the ground, which was also shining at this moment. Although I was tired and hungry, my mind seemed to be clearer and clearer because I felt the light. I
In the beginning, my heart was full of hope.
Humanity feels the hope of light in the darkness.
But gradually, the uneasiness slowly penetrated me......
There was silence all around, only my heavier and heavier steps.
So what the hell is glowing? I started to think.
Why does the amount of light increase, so does the amount of slime on the ground and walls? I couldn't help but reach out and touch the wall, the sticky liquid was already over the back of my hand, and I felt like I had grabbed a handful of egg whites. I felt them flowing in the palm of my hand, as if I was "alive".
I immediately wiped it dry, and the source of the light was already very close to me. It can be seen that there seems to be a hole in front of it, and the glowing thing should be in it.
"Is it a dead end?"
Although I couldn't help but ask myself this, my footsteps never stopped. The possibility of going out is very low, and the way I went before is a dead end, and my life and death are no longer under my control.
So, every road in this cave was, for me, a dead end.
"Then let's see, what is the difference between dying on this road and the previous one."
I kept walking, and in the meantime, nothing happened, and although there was still a lot of mucus, it didn't increase more than I could handle. I managed to reach the entrance of the cave, but found that the light here was actually not as bright as I imagined, but because the whole cave was too dark, my eyes had not been exposed to light for a long time, so I would be very sensitive to light, and my ability to capture light would become stronger.
I walked into the tunnel, which was very low and had to be bent over, but fortunately it wasn't too long, and soon I was at the end.
Looking up, I was in another cave, only this time, quite large.
Visually about half a football field, the source of the light, in the center of the entire space, like a pool of water, the liquid in it shimmers, but not reflective. Corresponding to the luminous object is a large hanging boulder, like a large stalactite.
I approached the pool, and the liquid was filled with the peculiar smell I had smelled before.
Picked up a palm-sized stone, dipped in some liquid, very viscous, exactly the slime left behind by those monsters after they appeared!
Is this place their lair?
But it doesn't look like it.
I always feel that something is wrong......
So what the hell is this place?
I circled around the pool, and on the other side of the pool, I found a hole in the wall that was not too high, like the one I had entered when I came.
I turned around and continued to look at the liquid, and I don't know why, but I always felt that this liquid was very strange when I circled around it. It's not why it's stained with the monsters that drive us, it's not its smell, it's not why it's glowing when it accumulates. That strangeness came from a gut feeling on my part.
From the first time I saw this pool.
I crouched down and stared at it closely......
I don't know how long I've been staring at it stupidly, but at one point, I finally realized what it was about the strange feeling that the pool was giving me.
It's the sound.
I hear a sound in this pool!
But it's quite faint, like friction, like washing. But I told myself very confidently that these voices were not my imagination.
I can really hear it.
Little by little, I was able to get closer to the pool.
I saw water overflowing into the pool.
The liquid was slowly flowing towards the outside of the pool, slowly, but evenly. My intuition tells me that the sound I hear comes from this "current".
But this flow of water sends chills down my spine.
Because......
The liquid on the inside of this pool did not cross the outer wall of the pool at all!!
Just like half a glass of water, unless the body of the cup is tilted, the water inside cannot overflow for no reason.
unless
This water is "alive".
My fingers, trembling, reached for the rock wall of the pool, sticking the slow-flowing liquid between my fingers and then close to my eyes.
I watched it quietly,
Time seems to be frozen here, I don't know why, everything in front of me at that moment is extremely clear, that drop of liquid, as if infinitely magnified in my eyes.
I saw translucent things inside, and they swam rapidly in the liquid, like tiny snakes, touching my flesh in the liquid, tearing them apart, burrowing into them, and soon, the liquid completely melted into my skin.
"Ahh
I was startled and relieved, and the liquid between my fingers was completely dry.
They're in my flesh!
These liquids are really alive things!
They are the "poison", and this "poison" cannot be protected by insulating clothes or touching them with tools and palms. They will follow you, climb into your shoes, stick to your clothes, squirm, climb, and eventually find your skin and get in!
Guan Hao and I were the first to encounter these things, so it was us who first infected them.
Guan Hao turned into that kind of monster, much like the ones in the woods outside. But it's not exactly the same, is it because you haven't had enough contact? What happens if you get crazy into the liquids here?
Those monsters, they were, were they also human?
My mind was filled with questions. And now I, in this cave, my clothes, shoes, and even my skin have touched them directly.
So, what will I end up being.
"No......" I thought again, Guan Hao's previous contact with me The opportunity and frequency of contact with the liquid were almost completely synchronized, but he changed, but I didn't, there must be other reasons for this. And what I just thought is just speculation for the time being.
But why do these liquids gather here?
Stalactite!
Thinking of this, I suddenly looked up, and the thing that looked like a giant stalactite was above my head at the moment! But now it seems that it is not a stalactite, from my angle, I can see that its tip is a large pad of flesh, the center is concave, it seems to be a gap, the thing is faintly opening and closing, that thing ......
It's alive!
It's like an organ of some kind of living being.
Ovulation?
Maybe not, but these liquids are inseparable from this large piece of "meat" wrapped in stones! This place can't stay long anyway, I'm going to get out of here at once!
Just as I was deciding to leave, I suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, walking slowly and weakly, and the sound came from the entrance to the cave before!
It's people,
Someone is going to enter here, who will it be?
I looked at the entrance of the cave, and the figure who was possessed and walked in with his head bowed became clearer and clearer, and I had thought of many possibilities before, Ruan Nana, Xia Nan, Guan Dawei, or Cheng Haidong, although I didn't understand why they turned back.
But when the figure was clear, I couldn't believe my eyes.
She is actually Yao Qianwen.