00852 Silent World

The road ahead was hazy in a sea of gray fog, and Mannie wore a trench coat and a thick scarf, showing only two eyes, and slowly walked along the uphill road with her hands in her pockets.

After walking for a while, there was no top of the slope, Mannie stopped a little confused, she looked at the side, beyond the guardrail is the bottomless canyon, faintly you can hear the sound of water, but you can't see the river, the road when you came has long been filled with a sea of fog, now she is really lost.

'I shouldn't have been curious if I knew I wouldn'......' Mannie took off her scarf, revealing a terrifying face.

I saw that Mannie, who used to have a good temperament and appearance, now had many broken scars on her fair face, as if it had fallen off on a brand new wall, and the exposed muscle tissue showed a striking red.

Mannie coughed twice and crouched down, feeling exhausted......

That's it...... For more than a month, Mannie has been in this deserted world since she woke up.

At first it was a small town, not big, not too old, but as if it had been abandoned for many years, there was no human habitation, not even a trace of living creatures.

The scars on her heart still ached, but to her surprise, Mannie found that she had taken her body back, only to ......

She had nothing but her body.

So Mannie had to try to find clothes to wear.

Fortunately, there is a hypermarket in the town, and the clothes in the warehouse are well sealed and not very uncomfortable to wear, but in such a silent world, every sound Mannie makes seems to be noisy.

Spent the first day like this.

When she woke up the next morning, Mannie was not hungry and more conscious.

She remembered the moment of death.

The dagger plunged into the heart, cold, painful, suffocating...... Despair......

All kinds of emotions rushed up after sobering up, almost driving Mannie crazy...... Fortunately, it was all in the past, and Mannie knew that she still existed, but she didn't know what it meant to be like this.

Where is this?

So Mannie began to try to find a memory of this world, whether it was time or the past, she wanted to figure out what this place was......

Mannie's first target was a residential building located near the park.

The building was damp, but not too dark, and Mannie searched up the stairs to find all the doors open.

Although this facilitated Mannie's exploration, it also made Mannie feel extremely uneasy.

It's as if everything is ready for the visitor, and the world doesn't worry about being prying eyes at all.

And it turned out to be exactly what Mannie had guessed.

The furnishings in each room are different, they are just placed in different places, and these are inconsequential sets, they don't convey anything to Mannie, they only bring eerie uneasiness.

Through rummaging from room to room, Mannie found a lot of photo albums, letters, and newspapers.

But......

The people in the album have no faces, they are all crossed out, as if they have been deliberately forgotten by the world.

The letters were all blank, with only a few traces of the words they had ever recorded, and the newspaper was the only precious thing that recorded the words, but there was also no time, nothing of value, and the messy text made Mannie angry.

Anyway, the next day, Mannie found nothing......

But that night, in her sleep, Mannie seemed to be haunted by nightmares, she seemed to be blind and couldn't see anything, but she could hear all kinds of sounds in her ears.

It was as if the town had come to life, and the vanished, forgotten people had returned, and some of them had taken to the streets, some of them had sat down at the tables, and the kitchens had begun to come alive and the streets were full of laughter.

Mannie was the only one who could only hear with her ears, and she couldn't see clearly.

In the midst of the confusion, the scars on her heart hurt again, and Mannie snapped her eyes open to see the warm sunlight falling through the broken ceiling of the store.

All sounds were gone, except for Mannie's own breathing.

Sitting up with her head covered, Mannie felt a chill down her spine...... Because she was moved from the underground warehouse to the center of the first floor of the store without realizing it.

Is there still something here? Mannie hurriedly dressed, only to find that her palms were covered in blood, and when she looked up, there was nothing foreign on the ceiling, and the blood was her own.

So Mannie hurried to find a mirror.

And when she saw herself in the mirror, she couldn't help but gasp......

In the early morning of the third day, Mannie identified two things.

First, there must be other beings in this seemingly silent world without living creatures. Second, she is slowly shattering, like a plaster sculpture, and the shattering does not cause pain, but only makes her hideous.

Having determined these two things, Mannie began to think about how she could discover and establish contact with the "living thing" in this speculation, and in addition, she had to record the changes in her body in order to estimate how much time she had left.

The easiest way to think of that is to find a camcorder that works 20 hours a day.

This kind of equipment does not need to be advanced, the key is to have ...... Mannie distinctly remembers seeing similar things in a shop on the streets of town, though she doesn't know if they can continue to work.

In anticipation, Mannie went to the outside of the nameless shop, and from the window she could clearly see the equipment, which was covered in a thick layer of ash, but it should not affect the use.

Breaking down the door, Mannie put down the crowbar in her hand and moved everything in the store to the street.

The empty streets, illuminated by the gentle morning sun, became Mannie's best workbench.

Sorting by size, and then identifying and sifting through them one by one, Mannie soon found the equipment she needed, but another problem lay in front of her.

That is, the batteries inside these things have been aged and damaged, and they can't start at all.

But that didn't bother Mannie, who quickly locked on the antique cars on both sides of the street.

As early as Gaia, Mannie was a fan of mechanical antiques, and usually liked to tinker with antique cars with internal combustion engines.

So, these cars became Mannie's treasures.

She retrieved various tools, then locked up several cars and used the remaining resources in the town to reawaken them.

Then it was dismantling, reorganizing, and by sunset, an exhausted Mannie sat down on the ground, holding a button in her hand and smiling.

Wait until the sunlight finally disappears from your eyes.

Mannie pressed the button, followed by a rumbling sound, and the internal combustion engine began to work, followed by a few o'clock when dusk began to shine, and after a while, the lights lit up the street.

With electricity, it's all easy to say.

Confident, Mannie began her erection work after making sure that the equipment was working properly and that the internal storage was in good condition.

But in order to prevent the other party from discovering the location of the hidden camera, Mannie just used the device to make a full record of herself that night.

Then he said a few short words to the camera, which counted as a diary for the day.

……

"What should I say......

Mannie sat in the middle of the street, the machine behind her was functioning normally, and the noise was not small, but unexpectedly, although she was tired, Mannie's eyes were reassured.

"Uh...... Anyway, I can't give up until I know where this is...... After all, it is a bit unreasonable to be killed in a daze...... Of course, I'm still alive...... Forehead...... Wrong...... I don't think it's alive, it's more like it exists in a surreal state, which is a strange feeling...... It's stranger than when I gave up my body and existed in the form of light particles......" Mannie said, unbuttoning her blouse, revealing the fresh, but no longer bleeding wound of her heart.

"It's like this wound, it's still painful, but ...... It stopped bleeding, and it didn't seem to have any image of my heart...... But it does exist...... This confuses me, but it also gives me a lot of relief, because it proves that there is some kind of connection between me and Guan Lingxu, or maybe ...... This is the power of the factor, and I continue to exist because of the power of the factor? Maybe ......"

Speaking of this, Mannie smiled wryly and got dressed, and after being silent in front of the camera for a long time, she looked up and said, "I will live!" Certain! ”

……

The recording ended, but Mannie didn't turn off the equipment, she looked up at the stars, and after making sure that there would be no rain, she directly took the sleeping bag and tent she had prepared during the day, and slept in the center of the street, surrounded by this pile of machinery and equipment.

It's not that Mannie has a big heart, it's that she's too tired.

Although there was no hunger, the exhaustion was still there, and Mannie wanted to hold on a little longer, maybe she could smell some of "it", but not long after lying down, Mannie fell asleep.

……

That night, Mannie didn't dream anymore, and the sound of the machine was like the best lullaby.

But on the morning of the fourth day, Mannie felt a faint burning sensation in her left arm, as if she was too close to the stove.

Slowly the heat turned hot, and Mannie frowned, then opened her eyes abruptly and sat up.

Only then did she find out that the tent was on fire and her sleeping bag was also set on fire.

After exclaiming, Mannie quickly untied her sleeping bag and fled.

As soon as I got out of the tent, I found that everything around me was in flames.

All the equipment was burning, except for the video recorders she had put together last night, and the one she had used as a diary to record her changes had fallen to the ground at some point, facing the sun.

After being stunned for a while, Mannie panicked and walked through the fire to find a fire extinguisher.

After more than three hours of fighting.

The fire was extinguished.

But all the hard work of yesterday was all in vain.

Mannie, covered in smoke and dust, stared blankly at all this...... The heart said, 'When did it come......

Thinking of this, Mannie suddenly remembered the camera that was still working.

The storage power is still enough for an hour, enough to watch the playback.

Mannie's face was overjoyed, and she hurriedly looked around, as if she was afraid that something would suddenly burst out.

But the surroundings were quiet, except for the sound of embers, nothing else.