Chapter 424: Doomed to Death
This is a glacial cave with a large space, and after the cracks in the surface release the heat near the mantle, it cannot penetrate the thick ground at the top, so it can only dissolve the nearest ice layer, and when the heat dissipates, it becomes an empty cave that spreads for several kilometers.
This is also the place where all dangerous S-Class containment items are concentrated.
In the polar research area, all objects have a reason why they must not be released, maybe it is dangerous, it may be to make other things dangerous, in short, this cave can be said to be the gathering point of countless ways to destroy this world.
However, containment procedures here are remarkably simple, requiring only ...... Just leave it alone.
Because those things that are "imprisoned" have become an independent and worldly existence, therefore, whether they want to destroy, release, or even simply move, they cannot be realized, and everything has become a fixed point, which can only exist forever and without end.
Usually, there is only an old man who does not know the age of this place will come to visit, and at this moment, this old man is also sitting in the middle of the cave, he is surrounded by some huge hideous, or not the slightest danger of creatures or objects, the old man closed his eyes, breathed evenly, indifferent to all the vibrations and roars of the outside world just now, just quiet meditation, waiting.
Waiting for the first uninvited guest here in hundreds of years.
Soon, the guest arrived.
The man walked into the cave with his pockets in his pocket, hunched over, humming a little song, and walking into the cave in a posture of walking in the morning.
Then he saw the old man in the center of the cave...... As usual, he put on a smile that he thought was polite, but it was really disgusting, and waved his hand..... "Hi~".
The old man slowly opened his eyes.
looked at each other with a calm gaze that had been precipitated for hundreds of years.
"Chen Xiao?!" He said, not knowing whether it was a question, or an affirmation, or a polite return salute, but he said the name lightly, and then there was no follow-up.
"Uh......" Chen Xiao didn't know how to answer for a while, so he shrugged his shoulders.
"It's useless." The old man said lightly.
"What's useless?" Chen Xiao asked, and began to walk around the cave, touching the lifelike sculptures, as if visiting a "museum of the end of the world".
"You can't change anything here, you can't influence them, they can't affect you, you can't even kill yourself with these things." The old man replied.
"Oh?" Chen Xiao seemed to be interested, and he walked to a meat ball that was more than half a person tall.
This ball of meat has a mouth, and there is nothing else, like a bloody version of "Pac-Man", Chen Xiao swiped his finger at the teeth in its mouth, but the sharp tips of the teeth could not penetrate Chen Xiao's skin, as if there was a membrane separating it from everything in this world.
"I see." Chen Xiao seemed to find it very interesting, and nodded with satisfaction: "Can you introduce me?" He asked, pointing to the "Pac-Man" in front of him.
The old man did not refuse: "S-037" Glutton. You can continue to eat, and grow the same volume, and can be destroyed, but every individual after the break will still grow the same mouth, and continue to eat, even if it is burned and vaporized, it can swallow all the surrounding matter from the molecular level, and if you leave it alone, you can eat the entire earth in 1 week, of course, just in the case of "only one", if you burn the gluttonous demon in front of you, then every grain of dust can eat in a few minutes to be as big as it is now, half an hour later, The world will all become his meal. ”
"Hey...... It's fun! Chen Xiao grinned and said, "What about this?" ”
He walked to a "statue" next to him, a woman, dressed in ancient attire, with her fingers together in a strange pose, and behind her back was a long sword that had just been unsheathed, like some classical figure.
"The civilization of another world has taken a different route from ours, and seems to have fused its own ideas with the rules of the world, which they call 'true yuan'." The old man said.
"Hmm...... Looks like the last human race. Chen Xiao nodded and muttered.
Then he walked to the next sculpture, like a child who was hungry for novelty and full of 'why'.
"Where's this?" He asked, pointing to a creature made of water.
But this time, the old man did not answer again.
"Why are you doing that?"
"Huh?" Chen Xiao was puzzled, as if he didn't understand what the other party meant.
"You know how much of a disaster they can cause when they release those things, and it won't do you any good." The old man explained.
"Just curious." Chen Xiao replied nonchalantly, without even glancing at the old man, still looking at those novelty gadgets as if he were visiting.
The old man frowned: "Crazy ......"
Chen Xiao shrugged: "Actually, from my point of view, you are more like crazy people. You know that this world will come to an end, but you are still using all kinds of means to prevent this moment from coming, just like an old man who should have died, but he used all kinds of methods to hold on...... Well...... No, you are more like a group of dying people surrounded by family members, watching the old man lying on a hospital bed, with tubes inserted into his body, using a machine to drive his breathing, painful, struggling, but still miserable and unable to die...... You cruelly deprived him of the right to die, and selfishly attributed this behavior to 'reluctance, filial piety, or love.'" In fact, you know a bunch of crazy people who don't dare to face reality. ”
"As long as you live, there is hope...... the old man said in a shocking voice.
"That's not hope, you're just afraid of death, or rather, you're just afraid of what you don't have to protect, you're afraid that you've lost your meaning." Chen Xiao easily interrupted the other party's words: "Since you don't want to, then I'll be the one who pulls out the tube." ”
Chen Xiao said hunched back, as if for a moment he seemed full of strength...... But suddenly, it seemed that he didn't hold back, and laughed out loud: "Hahaha, okay, okay, I have to believe what I said, in fact, I just think that since this world is going to die, why not die in my hands, just so I can still see what kind of scene it is." ”
As he spoke, he came to the next sculpture, a strange-looking man, with pale green hair, a very incongruous nose and chin, and a large mouth detached from the anatomy of the human body, grinning to the base of his ears, as if mocking everything he saw.