Chapter 20: Strange
Lies have always been what intelligent creatures are good at.
Lin Ling is also very good at it, but what she is even better at is misleading with real words.
The shadow monster with the shadow as the main body is indeed very consistent with her racial characteristics, and it is also related to her.
But to be more precise, she's just a "Chimera"-like monster.
An alien made up of humans, shadow monsters, and a variety of unknown xenomorphs.
Whether it's about race or work, it's all true.
However, it is full of irony and misleading.
Just like her job, "Cleaner" is also a colloquial name for her profession, but the more accurate official name is "Cleaner of Anomalous Phenomena".
Because in her original world, abnormalities can be seen everywhere.
It is also common for creatures to suddenly mutate due to infection, but fortunately, the human beings in that world are not completely without the power to resist, and they will not fall into the end of extinction like the current world.
This is where the profession of "Special Cleaner of Xenomorph Phenomena" was born.
Originally, at the beginning, Lin Ling just thought the option of traveling through the world was very interesting.
If she could, she planned to clean up the system after the mission and keep its valuable stuff for collection like any other anomaly.
Because visitors from another time and space are also counted as abnormal phenomena.
But in the end, the decision was changed by the presence of a "virus spores".
Although the cheesy name of "Viral Spore" made her want to complain, it didn't change her mind about experimenting with it.
If she could, she hoped that this thing would help her achieve her long-standing obsession.
But......
Lin Ling looked at the paralyzed system and held her forehead.
Some of her hairs sticked out of her wrists, and some jagged bones were hidden under her skin.
All of her body compositions are patchwork, except for the exoskeleton armor she usually wears for work, and she is more accustomed to keeping her clones of pure human blood.
But she still didn't mind adding other monsters.
To be honest, she still thinks highly of the system's receptivity.
The child's thread collapsed the moment she witnessed her assimilate the body of the Moth Girl.
I don't know how long it will take to recover.
Fortunately, the system is not like her teammates, and some of them who were directly frightened crazy also caused her a lot of trouble......
When Lin Ling climbed to the exit with it, Xia Xiaoyu, who was squatting in a more spacious area, stared straight at it:
"What's wrong with it?"
"Weapon overload before is now dormant." Lin Ling replied, her gaze shifting slightly.
Her black hair was draped over her shoulders, and her long coat wrapped around her body, which was a completely different look from before.
"Let's change your clothes."
Noticing Xia Xiaoyu's soaking wet appearance, Lin Ling hesitated for a while, but still took out a piece of clothing from the shadow and handed it to Xia Xiaoyu.
The latter looked a little strange, but he still received it in his hand and said, "Can you turn around?" I changed my clothes. ”
This restrained appearance made Lin Ling almost unrecognizable that this was the talkative little girl before.
When Xia Xiaoyu changed her clothes, the journey started again.
The narrow tunnel didn't last long, and soon she and Xia Xiaoyu saw the light in front of them, and after a while, they came to a hole full of plants.
The sun is pouring down from above.
Cement and vehicles embedded in the vegetation also appear in front of both.
Lin Ling jumped forward without fear, gently stroked the glass and vines on the abandoned car, and saw the bones in the car that had changed phenomena.
The same is true in other cars.
These humans were lucky enough to die at least before they could turn into monsters.
With a slight sigh, Lin Ling re-covered the abandoned cars with vines, covering the corpses in them.
She picked up Xia Xiaoyu and jumped towards the top of the pit without paying attention to the latter's struggle.
Even though she was carrying a 45-kilogram little girl, Linling's movements were as light as ever, and she quickly reached the bare road.
It was then that both of them noticed that it was a road, and the pothole was located in the middle of the road.
It is also surrounded by abandoned houses.
Crowded vehicles are clogged all around, broken guardrails have rusted, and directly ahead, the target city is not far away.
Xia Xiaoyu, who was placed on the ground, was stunned, she looked at the surrounding vehicles blankly, and then looked ahead, the sloping building made her very familiar.
That's the city she used to live in.
Once again, the most unfortunate truth is confirmed by the eyes.
Xia Xiaoyu sat on the ground with some hazy tears in her eyes.
When she first woke up from the crystal, she felt nothing but novelty and vague loneliness.
And now, an illusory feeling like a bubble bursting is filling her heart.
Lin Ling watched all this quietly and did not make a sound.
After being silent for a long time, Xia Xiaoyu wiped the water in her eyes, stood up and walked forward.
"Can you accompany me to see my home?" The smile that appeared on the girl's face was no longer bright.
"Let's go."
The pace was neither fast nor slow behind Xia Xiaoyu, and Lin Ling's bone spear was not withdrawn.
As she walked, the bones of the corpses in the abandoned car continued to appear in Lin Ling's eyes, and the road blocked by the spikes and high walls also appeared in front of Lin Ling.
A road sign also reads: "E City"
"Is this your house in front of you?"
Walking into the city through a gap, Lin Ling felt a mark on the wall that seemed to have been corroded by something.
"Well...... My parents and I had a trip to City X a month ago, a month before I traveled, and then I woke up and went to the cave. ”
Xia Xiaoyu looked at the vines scattered all over the building and looked at the weeds growing on the ground.
The abandonment made her feel an indescribable heaviness in her heart.
She didn't know how to face the reality of the present.
"Do you remember what happened?" Splitting open a plant that tried to tie herself, Lin Ling pulled the sleeve of her coat to prevent the fluff from being exposed.
"I don't remember...... I heard that there was a meteor shower that night, though. ”
Walking to a shop, Xia Xiaoyu looked at the trademark that had fallen off and walked into it.
In a trance, the overgrown shop returned to its former bustle and prosperity.
"I remember that the hot pot here is delicious, and I like to eat it with my parents the most."
The hand was gently pressed on the wall, in Xia Xiaoyu's memory, this is the place where the boss usually sticks the QR code label, but now it has become a blur.
She walked out.
"It was a shoe store, and it often opened a 10-day clearance sale, but it didn't sell out after a month."
"It was an Internet café, and it was here that my mother and I asked my friend to go to the Internet café for the first time."
"It was the grocery store, and that's where I sometimes bought cigarettes for my dad."
The footsteps stopped and stopped, and Xia Xiaoyu's mouth did not stop.
Her gaze swept from place to place, and finally stopped in front of a small courtyard.
"By the way, Linling, where did you come from? And why go to that cave? ”
"It's from a far away place." Lin Ling looked at the back of the person in front of her, "If I came to save this world, would you believe it?" ”
Xia Xiaoyu looked back at Lin Ling.
She couldn't see any deception in those dark eyes.
"I believe it."