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Cold, wet, like a drop of water dripping onto a scorching iron pot, Vilna swallowed the drop in pain, she wanted more.

She moved her fingers, only to feel like bones that were about to fall apart. Her body creaked in protest of her recklessness. Her face ......

Verna gasped, her left cheek was burning as if it had been burned, painful and numb, as if a torn layer of slime had been peeled, she wanted to moan, she wanted to scream, but in the end she only squeezed out two tears, and the cold wind hit her wound, stirring the trembling flesh, which intensified the welling of tears.

Her mouth was hoarse from dryness.

Where is this?

What is she doing?

In her mind, a huge black shadow flashed, it was a monster from the abyss, and she finally remembered the cruel faces of those monsters, and their even more cruel madness.

One by one, from above the tunnel, from the ground, in front of them, and even from the forks behind them, they rushed to and from behind them, like the coldest tide, and behind them, a suffocating monster commanded them in the distance. It's more bloodthirsty, more violent, like a titan behemoth, it's their king, a monster that has become more radical.

The monster easily shredded a soldier who couldn't dodge, bullets raining down, but nothing could be done about it.

Verri's light drove back the great monster and its endless minions of darkness. But that wasn't enough, they dropped their communicators to fend off the chasing monsters, and then plunged headlong into the deeper darkness, where they didn't know. They just keep going, keep going...... Go down...... They were lost in the darkness.

"I survived?" The girl could no longer control her emotions and began to cry.

Almost all of them died, Kuaishou, Luben, Old Sentinel, Haig, Asha, and many more soldiers whose names she only remembered once. They collapsed in the tide and were soon reduced to a blur of flesh and bones.

Even her father, who came in a wheelchair with a gun, but before he could get close, a dark fluffy arm grabbed him, and it bit his father's neck with its teeth, suffocating him, and its companion tore his father's chest and his organs rolled to the ground, all covered in blood....... It's all blood......

Father's eyes before he died....... Those eyes full of fear, and the hand that reached out to her, he wanted her help, but she couldn't do it, she was just an ordinary little girl, she couldn't do anything, she couldn't do anything.

I want to save you too, father.... Vilna deceived herself over and over again in her heart, I was just a useless fellow, I can't help you, father.

She was like a lone ghost, she had lost everything, her father, her sister, her grandmother, her neighborhood, and Grey River Station.

She saw countless monsters swarming behind them. From that moment on, she knew that the Gray River was finished.

"Why is this happening?" She seemed to be asking herself, or perhaps her father, who had fallen into eternal sleep, "Why is this happening?" ”

For the sake of the !!!!sake of the

In this shadow world forgotten by light, the only residence that has accompanied her for more than ten years is now in ruins. Why exactly? Was it God's punishment for her?

"Who is it?" Werna turned a blind eye to the shadows behind the light dozens of meters away, and the vigilant voices, she survived, but as if she were dead.

"A woman?" Another, slightly sharper voice asked softly, "Why are you here?" ”

The man with the flashlight looked at Verna uncertainly.

"She came from the "lair"? ”

A gentle woman stepped forward, "You don't know how to save it, why do you still want to treat her as a monster?" ”

"What's the difference between her and a monster just like her? I'm sure she'll want to die as soon as she wakes up. ”

"Have mercy," the woman helped Verna to her feet, and she looked at her through the faint lightning, "it doesn't look too badly injured, but you can't let her bleed to death, you keep patrolling, I'll take her back for treatment." ”

"We don't have a lot of medical supplies, it's more effective to use them on our soldiers, what can she do?"

The woman did not respond.

.......

When Verna woke up again, she felt like she was surrounded by a yellowed lamp. Her tired eyelids were half-open, and she swept everything under the lamp into her eyelids with a misty gaze.

She closed her eyes, preferring that the darkness continued to envelop her, she just wanted to keep sleeping.

"You've been lying down for too long, I hope you'd better move your muscles, and of course, don't move your left leg, which is broken there."

Broken bones? Vilna opened her eyes in confusion, why didn't my neck break.

Why is the darkness so cruel, it has taken my sister, it has taken my father, it has taken away my men, it has even taken my home, but it has left me here.

"Forget it, you have a good rest," the woman sighed and stood up, "let the muscles move a little, but remember, don't move your left leg, if you don't want to become lame." ”

Verna closed her eyes again, and she continued to fall into a deep sleep.

She struggled for a long, long time in a nightmarish dream.

It was a bloody dream, in which gunfire was filled, gunsmoke billowed out, and the entire station was stained red with thick black blood. She saw her sister being dragged away by those things, she saw her father torn apart once more, the station, her station and the endless flames fused into one, and then devoured by a black monster as big as a mountain of stones.

She saw the strange man named Summer, the man who had shown her and her sister the starry sky and the daylight, standing behind the endless monsters, the sunlight casting a huge shadow on him, and on his body, with endless threads of silk, he controlled the threads to manipulate the monsters, causing them to pounce on him.

She picked up the dagger and screamed like a madman and rushed at him, but she was entangled in the silk threads in his shadow, and the tighter and deeper the entanglement, she was strangled so that she could not breathe, and at this moment, a black monster pounced from the side and bit the flesh off her face.

No! Vilna snapped her eyes open, and she found herself lying on a bed made of white cloth, sweat soaking the sheets. Damn, her foot bones hurt so much, it was like a dagger stuck there, white bandages and two cold metal plates wrapped around her legs and feet.

She hissed coldly, her fingers clutching the sheets tightly, and she only felt that her face was even hotter, as if layers of white salt had been sprinkled on the wound.

"Drink a cup of bitter millet tea, it will relieve your pain."

Verna got up, and there was a cracking sensation of muscle cramping behind her back, she snorted, resisted the protest of the skeleton of her body, and swallowed the sour and astringent bitter tea, and sure enough, the tea was as its name suggested, and she spit it out.

Wilna wiped the corners of her mouth, she looked at the woman in front of her who was over forty years old, she looked ordinary, her body was athletic, and her facial features were a little out of proportion. But she spoke softly, like the heat blowing gently in her ears.

After a long cold silence, the air gradually froze.

"I wonder what happened to Greyriver Station?"

"Grey River Station? I guess it's next to the head of the Great Bay Station," the horse-faced woman sighed and shook her head, "After being attacked, maggots, bones, and plague occupied the head of the Gray River Station and the Great Bay Station, and the surrounding station masters set it on fire, which was the news from the aquarium two days ago. ”

It's been two days? "What about the survivors?"

"Most of the time at the Feishui Station and the Aquarium, they have built layer after layer of defense."

"Where is this again?"

"This is the Ranger's territory," the woman gently replaced the plaster on her face, "you're one of the few survivors of Greyriver Station, and this is the other side, and you'll have to go far, far to get to Greyriver Station unless you pass through the lair."

There's one thing I have to tell you, child, you've hurt yourself far more than you think," the woman seemed reluctant to continue, and she took out a mirror and placed it on the head of Vilna's bed.

"Look at yourself and think about what you should do in the future, child, the past is gone."

Verna wanted to shrink her knee but her bones were gurgling, and she gritted her teeth and asked herself, what should I do? She kept asking herself, but she was dazed to find that she couldn't come up with an answer at all.

She thought about her father again, what would he do? What will I do? What will my sister do? Her stomach was cramping, and her mind was tangled into a mess of threads.

She couldn't find the answer.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the door, and Vilna looked at the iron door with fear on her face, and the doctor stood up and walked out.

"What's wrong?"

"Some of the mongrels bit off Sheehan's leg, give him an emergency first," it was a strange man in a tight black suit, and he glanced at Verna, his face did not change, as if he was looking at a salted fish.

"We need your ......."

The doctor sighed and put on his overcoat, "Girl, don't move," a hint of gentleness appeared on her horse's face, making her even more ugly, "for your own good." ”

Vilna watched in silence as the door was closed, and she lifted her palm, her slender fingers now wrapped in bandages, and one of her fingers ached under the white silk cloth, and her wrist was mostly kissed by the edges and corners of the wallstone, although it had begun to heal.

She looked to the side, her clothes had been changed by the doctor into a plain cotton yellow, and her hair was scattered, some of which had been broken. The most terrifying thing was the left side of her face, the flesh of her cheek on the side of her ear was shattered, and half of her ear was missing, which was the work of a certain monster.

Her proud delicate face also fluttered away like a relative, and her delicate face turned into rotten flesh. The monster's sharp teeth left her with several rugged rancid cracks like slicing meat, and the doctor gave her a few injections to sterilize her, but to no avail, she looked terrible and pathetic at the moment, and she escaped a demon from the abyss.

Vilna's stomach churned even harder, and she couldn't hold back any longer, spitting up the sour water in her stomach to the ground.

It's merciful, why didn't the gods take my life so that I could be ruined.

Soon, the pain that pierced her bones returned, and before a moment the thick darkness overwhelmed Verna.

.......

When she woke up again, she found herself lying in another place. Warm, bright, and noisy.

She opened her tired eyelids and took in her surroundings. Two rows of dimly baked light bulbs glowed, and the dark tunnel walls were covered in an eerie gray moss with rhizomes extending from nowhere.

Is it an ancient tree on the ground, a strong root branch that can go 100 meters deep into the ground, and it can break through the stone slab tightened with steel screws and go deep into the tunnel...... How huge this ancient tree must be.

She thought of the night star that night.

She admits that the starry sky is a wonderful scene that has never been seen before. The girl in her heart had longed for her future lover to propose to her under the stars a thousand times.

She suddenly wanted to go back to her old self, the carefree girl, the sweet, weak and laughing girl.

At that time, she was so beautiful, before she became the stationmaster of everyone's eyes, before she put on the power mask of the manager, she was so charming, everyone looked at her young with some kind of appreciation or almost obsession. She was annoyed by these gazes, but her sister was the fruit of her joy.

At that time, the younger sisters always went out with themselves, they played tireless mud games, they searched for forbidden treasures, they played the role of stalkers and rangers, sometimes they also played the dialogue between princesses and princes, sometimes they were civilian heroes and the daughter of the stationmaster.

"I am Artyom, the hero of the tunnels," she calls herself a Stalker hero born at a certain station, the legendary figure who sacrificed his loved ones to save the station and fight off the tide of darkness, "Who are you?" ”

The younger sister elegantly pulled up the skirt, she declared herself to be the most powerful merchant daughter of the Han Court, because she wanted to see the starry sky, but secretly infatuated with the hero Artyom, so she entrusted Artem to take her to the ground.

It's a wonderful and old love story.

Yes, the story of heroes and beauties has been sung for many years, but the storyteller has changed wave after wave.

At the end of the story, my sister became Artyom, she wanted to see the stars, she wanted to set foot on the ground, she wanted to find her love, and I became the father of the daughter, the villain who thwarted her daughter's love and dreams.

Artyom saves the station, but she can't, that's the difference between her and the hero? How cruel, this cruelty made her shiver.

Verna's lips were as pale as milk, and her lips and teeth were terrible. Her toes hurt too, and she looked at her legs and feet, which were tightly bound by white bandages, and it was no wonder that she fled all the way, where she could see if her feet could stand it. This resulted in two fractures in her toes.

Her left leg was also heavily bandaged, and with a slight movement, the cold pain would strike her perception from time to time, as if it were a sudden blow.

He became an ugly cripple, suffering and suffering. Does she deserve it? Give up your sister, give up your father, give up the curse of the station? The gods are truly merciful.

"Girl, do you want to take a sip, it's not bitter millet tea. However, it can also relieve pain slightly. ”

The horse-faced female doctor took good care of her, and it was no wonder that she was the only girl among all the patients around. Even though she was covered in a white shroud, like a dying mummy, she looked like she was just a child.

"What is this?" She stared at the clear water, how she wished it was poison.

"Intoxicating good wine, except for those rich people, and only we rangers have, drink a little, it will be very comfortable."

Verna took the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, the taste of the wine was bitter and spicy, which made her sick to her stomach, why is it similar to bitter millet tea? She snorted in pain, then bowed her head silently.

"Niu'er looks lost," the patient giggled at the side, "and she wants a man to comfort her." "The man was lean, and he had a shield-like mark on his face.

The man on the other side let out a lewd laugh. Why do these two scarred men still have the energy to speak and tease others? Vilna closed her eyes irritably, she would rather bask in her own grief than listen to these damn criss.

"Marco, with a bit of virtue on your lips, she just escaped from Grey River Station."

"Aha, ma'am, is it good to accumulate virtue? Oh, perhaps, no one told those two bastards when I killed my dad and mom that they should earn some virtue. ”

Vilna looked indifferently at the man named Marko, who did not speak.

"Madame means you should find a second brother to gag your mouth, you talk as noisy as sleeping," the man on the other side sighed, "I'm curious, why the people over there at Grey River Station can break through the nest and run to this end, this guy is just a little girl, don't those mongrels eat women?" ”

"Fools, of course they don't eat, they take women back to reproduce and be sex slaves," Marco's smug look almost made him want to beat him.

"They're going to kill all the women who are still alive, and I think she's got out of that woman's nest, and she's got a litter of monsters with her."

Verna listened to him quietly, "Is there still any wine?" She asked the doctor.

"Don't be surprised, they're just a bunch of prisoners....... "Doctor Horseface brought her another glass of wine, "you can't drink too much of it." ”

"Well," said Werna, swallowing another glass of wine as if no one was around, she wanted to die in the glass, but she couldn't even do that.

"Ma'am, which Ranger are you?"

"We?" Madame was a little stunned, and she whispered, "It's the guard cavalry." ”

Oh, Verna knows the guards cavalry. They are the most mysterious of the rangers, and they are rumored to be a group of heroes who have volunteered to sacrifice themselves against the dark creatures of the fringes.

"Why are there such a thing in the cavalry guards," she asked casually. The cavalry guards were far from the center of the station, and their duty was mostly to fend off the darkness deeper into the no-man's land, for whom Verna was not very clear.

The horse-faced doctor kindly took the cup away for her, and turned back, "There are only two kinds of people in the guard cavalry, the heinous bastard, and the noble knight, and the two next to you are the former, they have been assigned here for committing crimes, and they will be branded as the guard cavalry for the rest of their lives. ”

Doctor Horseface looked at the men with a compassionate look, "They are not allowed to leave their station, they are poor creatures who have been deprived of their freedom. ”

"They are led by upright men who are willing to dedicate their lives against the creatures of darkness, and you should understand, girl, no one wants to take the initiative to deal with criminals except for the truly noble, and no one wants to deal with the darkness."

Is it, really noble? Vilna didn't know.

But she remembered that her sister had said that it was a great duty to guard the cavalry, far from humanity, and stationed in the dark to fight evil.

Yes, who would be here if they didn't have a clear sense of responsibility and integrity. Naturally, in order to replenish the manpower of the guarding cavalry, the sensible people at the station had to be supplemented with criminals, but just in case, they would arrange for innocent volunteers to lead the guarding cavalry, and arrange whistles at the entrance and exit of the border to prevent the scarred cavalry from escaping.

The cavalry guards who want to escape have no chance of escaping unless they choose to go deeper into the more terrifying darkness.

However, since this is the edge, why is it that the other end of it leads directly to the Gray River Station, near the center of the underground tunnel system.

Verna couldn't understand why the Edge of Darkness was only so far away from Grey River Station.

It's a question that probably only the people who built the station know about, or maybe only the dark creatures in this lair.

After a long time, Vilna's eyes began to blur, and the alcohol numbed her and blurred her. The horse-faced doctor was especially kind enough to put her in a separate compartment and locked it from the outside.

Two of the cavalry guards stood silently outside the ward.

At least here, these rogue looking bastards don't dare to act rashly. God knows how long it's been since they've seen a woman.

Verna lay down for two days, but even then, the horse-faced doctor told her that it would take at least three months for the fracture to heal.

Verna had to spend her days in a daze, thinking of herself, of her sister, of her father, and of her mother, who was long gone. She had long forgotten what her mother looked like, and she couldn't even remember her voice, but she seemed to be the one she wanted to see the most.

More often than not, she was always crying silently. Verna struggled to her feet, dragging her crippled leg towards the door. The air of the tunnel made her heart flutter, and she leaned against the honey-like bulb in the doorway, looking into the depths of the tunnel.

She didn't know what she was thinking? Do you want to rush into the darkness and find those dark creatures to fight to the death, or wait for a miracle to happen with a glimmer of anticipation. Maybe she just wanted to get out and take a walk.

"Our little fairy is weeping again."

Marco came from the other side with a white cloth bandage, his branding looking ugly in the darkness like a writhing black viper, why did the insignia of the guardian cavalry look so disgusting on his face.

The other man pinched his chin with a smile and looked at the girl in front of him, "Marco, she's uglier than the skinny pigs you just sent, you actually said you wanted to her before?" ”

"I'm just joking, girl, don't be afraid," Marco smiled warmly at her, "We don't have women, but we're not so hungry that you can get on it, or we'll have nightmares!" Fucking kidding, haha....... Don't look at me like that, look, I'm angry, I'm going to have nightmares now. ”

The two men looked at each other and smiled, striding into the darkness, leaving only the girl who was staring at them indifferently, and she pinched her fingers, but the pain of her broken finger bone forced her to let go again.

Soon, a bonfire was lit in the distance, and in this place like eternal night, the flames always attracted people, and they watched the golden flame dance in the darkness. Men sang and danced in the flames, some held a simple musical instrument to accompaniment, and many more were drinking, boasting, making noise, and fighting.

She couldn't help but want to get closer. But she knew that in the past, she would only attract criticism from others.

She's been listening too much for the past two days. People will talk about where she came from and what happened to her. Who would have imagined that such a wound was earned by her while fighting.

They took it for granted that she was "violent" by those beasts, and opened a market for this. Whoever can coax her into telling her what happened to her will get a good sum of money, and whoever can take her to bed will be paid more, these people are no different from the rich bastards who tried to trick Ville in the first place, they are all rubbish, but this time, she really felt the feeling of her sister at the beginning. She misses her sister again, and she just wants to find her, hold her, and seek comfort from each other.

In this underground world where men dominate the world, no matter where and no matter which man knows that his mother is also a woman, this still can't stop these people from despising women in their bones.

"Don't have the idea of going up?" A shadow emerges in the darkness.

"I don't want to be near them."

"You are wise," the horse-faced female doctor stepped out of the silhouette in the shadows, "these people haven't seen a woman for many years, the closer you get, the more dangerous you will be, the last time I saw Anan playing with Ahua, it was a female dog, Anan is a man who has never touched a woman." Another time, Marco was being ....... by two other men You should understand that he is just a little perverted by bullying, so when he sees someone weaker than himself, he ......."

"He killed his own relatives?"

"The two people who abused him, saying that they were his parents, were actually not as good as those slave smugglers, and the greatest courage in his life was to pick up a knife and kill his abusive parents, and since he came here, he has become cowardly, because most of the people here are bastards, and they are more dangerous."

The horse-faced doctor didn't seem to have any dislike or disdain for these people.

"But, to be honest, they are all a very poor bunch of people, don't look at them dancing so happily, when they die, they will only be worse than the Ah Hua. No one will give them a funeral, no one will know that they are dead, no one will even care if they are dead, most of the time we will give them their last ride, and we will watch them indifferently as they turn into a pile of powder in the flames, without shedding a single tear.

People call them guardians in the dark, and I only see a pack of wild dogs that are tightly leashed, and when they are not full, they bite anyone, and once they are full and drinkable, they look like individuals. ”

Why aren't we? Vilna thought of her situation and couldn't help but feel sad.

"I want to go back to Grey River Station."

"This is not a good choice, little girl, if you want to go back, you only have two paths, and for you, either means death."

I want to rebuild the Gray River Station, "I'm worried about my loved ones," she said, "There's a good chance she'll survive." ”

"Your leg ......."

"I've made up my mind."

"Then you think about it, there are only two paths here, either forward or backward."

"I chose to ...... backwards If I could, I would like to leave now. ”

"Again, your leg will leave a ....... of sequelae," the doctor frowned, "a fracture is not a simple injury that can be healed......

"I wonder if my family is still ....... Otherwise I'll have a legacy for the rest of my life," Vilna insisted, "and now my legs and feet are better, and I can walk away on my own." ”

Well, stubborn little guy.

The horse-faced doctor roared at the campfire, and soon two men came over, their faces also black and purple with shield marks.

"Come with me to take her to the edge station and take out the wheelchair from the warehouse," the horse-faced doctor instructed, "I'm just going to buy some materials." ”

The two soldiers were surprisingly young, they were young and had dull expressions, but they seemed to be quite obedient and respectful. Perhaps, Vilna guessed, the horse-faced doctor in front of her also had an unusual identity.

"We'll talk as we walk." Doctor Horseface hugged Verna, "I'll clean up before this, and you can rest for a while." ”

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