On the gravel and weedy road, crumbling signs quietly block the way, and the surrounding tilting buildings are in dilapidation.

"Why did you run away?"

Repetitive questioning, repetitive doubts.

Xia Xiaoyu, who was standing in the center, repeated the questioning again, and there were crystal tears gushing out of the eyes that were stained with crystals.

Her body was swelling.

The surrounding plants are in different ways burrowing under her cortex.

Such a painful and terrifying scene, Xia Xiaoyu didn't feel anything, just looked at Lin Ling blankly.

Traces of humanity faded on her body.

"Why?"

The swollen body exploded like a balloon, splattering rotten flesh all over the ground, and the open and closed lips fell to the ground, merging with the gravel ground.

"Why?"

The same words were repeated on the lips, and the flesh and plants on the ground gradually merged, eventually forming a human-like female shape, outlining an appearance that was extremely familiar.

That's Xia Xiaoyu's human appearance.

"Why?"

The monster looked up, revealing a vegetative face full of pain.

Strange blue crystals smeared all parts of its body, and a gelatinous black substance spilled out of the vines.

Between the gaps in the plants, there was something like teeth that opened and closed.

The creature on the opposite side stood in place, raising its face.

Blue tentacles with snake-like scales protruded from its body like a stinger.

Lin Ling rolled and dodged, and she could only face the danger of being besieged after losing her flight.

Thankfully, the metal flakes that swirled around her body blocked most of it.

The spilling mucus spread on the ground with Xia Xiaoyu as the center, and the small particles that emerged from it were like gel, one by one, making Lin Ling secretly say bad.

As soon as she was about to block the tentacles with a metal sheet, the sound of a broken bone from her feet clearly fell into her ears.

The small particles that flew out quickly evaporated when they hit Lin Ling's feet, but the powerful effect still caused the latter's feet to break directly.

Lin Ling lay face on the ground, looking at the monster that moved towards her through her tentacles, her face expressionless.

"Do you want to abandon me too?!"

The long-term loneliness was deeply engraved in the heart that had already been crazy, and the monster with Xia Xiaoyu's face asked madly, but he couldn't get any answer from Lin Ling.

Under Lin Ling, the black shadow that had long since spread at some point covered the ground and enveloped the entire city, but it did not attract the slightest attention of the monster.

Looking at the figure that was getting closer and closer to her, Lin Ling finally closed her eyes and muttered a few words.

The monster didn't know what Lin Ling was talking about, but as the words fell, a strange vibration came from beneath its feet, which made it stop.

"You...... What was done? ”

A strange sensation rose from within it, and by the time it turned its gaze to Lin Ling's place, it was empty.

"I didn't do anything."

At some point, Lin Ling, whose feet had recovered, was standing behind the monster, white bone covering most of her cheeks.

"Body, no, I'm just eating."

The sloping buildings began to sink, and the sky-high giant trees tilted around, and black shadows spread throughout the city, pulling everything into their bodies.

The broken cement rolled down with the mud and sand, revealing endless darkness on the collapsing road, as if even the light was about to swallow it together.

The shadow that spread from under Lin Ling's feet was devouring every inch of land.

"Didn't I say that?" Lin Ling smiled and tilted her head, and her fair skin fell off her face one by one, revealing a dark hollow.

Inside, there was nothing.

"What the hell are you?"

The strange feeling from the bottom of his heart made Xia Xiaoyu feel a little sober, and he avoided the collapsed ground under his feet and looked around blankly.

"I'm not the same kind as you."

Lin Ling's limbs shattered like ceramics, and the mechanical arm that fell off her shoulder fell straight into the darkness.

A black liquid poured out of the ground and enveloped her, wings of blood-colored substance blooming from her back.

When she appeared in front of Xia Xiaoyu again, the bone-like shell covered her intact limbs and a small part of her torso, and the other exposed parts were as strange as shadows on the ground, as if they had no thickness, but they were presented to the outside like a human body.

And the most noteworthy thing is Lin Ling's face, the pitch-black color is as strange and ominous as the all-engulfing darkness on the ground.

"Seeing such a gesture." Lin Ling tilted her head, "Do you still think we are the same kind?" ”

Countless huge tentacles protruded from the ground, obscuring the entire sky, as if countless human hands were reaching out from the ground and dancing.

"You ...... Obviously more like ...... than me, "Monster......

Xia Xiaoyu looked at the surroundings that were constantly being devoured, and retreated tremblingly.

"I didn't know that my mission was to clear the source of infection, but I'm not sure if I could get rid of it if I killed you, so I decided to eat it all here to be safe, anyway, there shouldn't be a living person in this world, right?"

A familiar voice came from the empty face, an expressionless but faint smile.

"Impossible! You can't kill me! ”

"Does that mean you have to get rid of all the mutated creatures?"

Lin Ling clapped her left hand into a fist and slapped her right hand, and then replied.

"Then wouldn't I just eat the whole world?"

The natural tone that emanated from her face was indescribably terrifying.

"Of course, if you really don't die completely."

With her fingers wrapped in white bone armor standing up in front of her face, Lin Ling raised her head as if looking at Xia Xiaoyu.

Xia Xiaoyu's face made of plants was suddenly stunned, and he turned around and waved the tentacles of the second half of his life to hook the surrounding buildings that had not yet collapsed, and tried to escape out of the city.

Then, black teeth burst out of the ground, jagged edges that smashed her lower body.

Her body was even flying in the air, and the expression on her face was still surprised before she could react.

The out-of-control body rolled to the ground, Xia Xiaoyu felt the feeling of falling from under her, and watched as black arms stretched out from under her body, grabbing every inch of her skin.

Stepping on the dark ground, Lin Ling walked slowly forward and walked in front of Xia Xiaoyu, who was gradually sinking.

“……”

Their eyes met in the air.

"Can I ask a question?"

Xia Xiaoyu, who had half of his face sunk into the darkness, looked at Lin Ling in a daze.

The madness and fear on her face had disappeared for some reason, replaced by the same expression as the Xia Xiaoyu when they first met.

"How did you find out? Will I be the source of the infection? ”

"Because I have a golden finger."

Lin Ling looked at the locking arrow in the upper right corner and spread her hand.

The shape of a body of white bones and shadows looks a little cute under this action.

"That's why the AI called you host?"

"Yes, I also have a question, who are you now?"

Lin Ling looked at Xia Xiaoyu, who was completely different from just now, and already had some guesses in her heart.

No matter what kind of creature it is, it is impossible for a huge change in personality all of a sudden, but this happened to Xia Xiaoyu.

The bedroom was a turning point, and now it is a turning point.

“…… I'm Xia Xiaoyu, do you believe it? ”

"I believe it."

The same words appear again in the dialogue between the two, this time by Lin Ling, and in the background of a scene full of sunken buildings.

"That......" The girl's face showed the same smile as when they first met, but it was mixed with relief and relief, "It's wonderful." ”