Sink into nightmares, confused thoughts, run for your life, and shatter your memories.

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The boundless darkness is terrifying, and it can sink the soul completely.

She didn't know how much time had passed, only that she seemed to have been struggling in this endless darkness, and she could hear the sound of water rushing in her ears, with an icy breath flowing on the surface of her body.

I...... Who am I?

Her thoughts were chaotic throughout, unable to think clearly and logically, until at one point, she breathed slowly, and suddenly realized that the firm shackles that had lasted for an unknown amount of time seemed to be gradually loosening, and new questions emerged from the depths of her consciousness and echoed in her mind......

Where am I? Who's hurting me? What about my companions?

She didn't know how long this state lasted, until that moment, she suddenly noticed that the whole world became clear, the endless darkness was illuminated by the light piercing through the cracks, and there was a noise in her ears, as if there were many people shouting something inaudible.

The clear sound of shattering became the final stimulus, allowing her to see the light she had not seen for a long time, and the image in front of her was still a little blurry, but as her vision became clearer, she found herself bound by some kind of chain against the wall behind her. Strangely, the chains weren't very strong, and after breaking the restraints with a little force, she thought to herself a little confused, for some reason, she didn't think it should be.

She staggered to her feet on the smooth ground, and the sensation coming from her body seemed strange, but she didn't bother to think about it that much at this point...... Or rather, she seems to be in a half-dreaming state, and her thought process seems blurry. As she stumbled out of the room that seemed to be shaky, she saw about a dozen Shiokai people with various weapons and special symbols on their bodies, looking at it with a wary expression. They didn't relax when they saw her, but instead aimed their weapons at her.

It was the emblem of the Quds Law Enforcement Team, and the phrase appeared in memory.

But does it make any sense? She thought in a daze, but she couldn't decipher the specific meaning of the sentence, all she knew was that one of the people in front of her shouted something, and then the others didn't hesitate to launch a strange device at her...... It was an inconspicuous-looking little thing, and there was a faint tingling sensation on her, but there was only so much to it about.

She took a few more steps forward, which obviously startled the Shiohai people a lot. They were shouting something, but they couldn't tell what was being said when they were completely audible...... There was no memory loss, no inaudible hearing, just as the brain couldn't process this information, and she couldn't understand what they were saying.

She looked at them with some confusion, but the action made the Shiokai people cry out even louder, and several of them threw out a large white net, which seemed to be made of tough sea tree silk threads, and followed the current directly around her body.

The net was indeed tough, and she tried to tear the mesh with brute force, but the force was cleverly unloaded by its structure, so she couldn't force it out, and the Shiokai people pulled the net hard while assembling weapons that they had never seen before.

Even though she couldn't analyze the situation rationally now, her instinct made her feel that it was dangerous, something that could really cause her serious damage, and under the instinctive reaction of the creature to the danger, she struggled to escape from the net, but could not tear through the tough wires.

If only there was something sharp that could cut the threads, she thought, and the thought just turned, and the wire on her body cracked as if something had cut it. Without having time to think about it, she jerked free from her restraints again, and ran all the way through the unprepared Shiokai people, fleeing there.

It's dangerous, run, run, you have to get out of here as soon as possible......

The world was once again in chaos, light and darkness flickering rapidly, sounds and images turning into blurred phantoms. She couldn't remember exactly what she had encountered, only that some force was driving her to run, to run, to run...... Those Shiokai people felt as if they were vulnerable, they couldn't keep up with her speed at all, and for some reason, she felt like they would shatter when they touched it.

So instead of touching them, she chose to flee from the place that made her feel dangerous. She didn't know where she was going, she just kept running away, without rest or pause, like a machine walking towards the unknown end.

She didn't know how long she had been running, but it was definitely not a short time, and it wasn't until the touch of nothingness passed through her body, and the bright light she had never seen before stung her eyes, and her consciousness was awake again.

She looked up, and it was a glow too bright for her eyes to bear, shining on the world at infinity heights...... She seemed to have crossed a boundary, and the current of water that had filled her body suddenly disappeared, replaced by some very hollow and eerie feeling.

Where am I? Where the hell is this? Why am I here?

She stared blankly at the top of the water, a sight she had never seen before, the boundless sea had reached the limit of height, turning into a rippling plane, refracting the bright light of the sun in the sky. There seemed to be something above her head, and as she thought about it, she could clearly feel that she could control the thing above her head to bend down...... Then she saw some kind of slender tentacle slowly bend in front of her, the tip splitting into dozens of tinkerer tentacles, all wrapped around a small orb of shimmering yellow light.

This is...... The part of her? Even though something didn't feel right, after trying a few times and discovering that she could take full control of this weird organ, she had to admit that it seemed to be part of her body, and then, she discovered something even weirder. She had been in this void for a while, but she didn't feel uncomfortable, it shouldn't be, she thought, she didn't seem to be able to stay in this environment for long, but now she could.

She turned her head and saw something called land, a world beyond the edge of the sea, a world where the people of the Tide Sea could not really stay. When these contents emerge from vague memories, the confused mind makes this judgment...... Those Shiohai people seem to want to hunt her down, she doesn't want to kill Shiohai people, then they should not be able to find her, once they go to land, they will not be found.

Then, she decided to leave the waters that felt familiar to her, and although she was completely unknown to the land, she had no fear...... It's strange that she seems to have completely lost her fear, and she never felt fear no matter what she encountered.

Even when she found that something seemed wrong, she could not feel a trace of fear or uneasiness, and after stepping onto the rising continental shelf, she looked back at the deep ocean and gently reached out to reach into the rippling sea again. Then, as if for the first time, she noticed her palms and the reflection of the sea.

Instead of the iconic cyan exoskeleton carapace of the Shiokai people, the surface of the palm is covered by something like a ruby. As she tried to clench her palm, she could see a faint glow circulating in the red hedrons, like nerve signals. As she looked down, she saw that she was also covered with a similar shell, and there were several small devices stuck to it that the Shiohai people had shot at her before, and she immediately grabbed them and threw them into the sea. Between the joints of the body, there seemed to be many sharp blade-like structures growing, and these things seemed to shimmer with a terrifying cold light...... Maybe it's these things that cut through the big net of tenacity that was before. She couldn't see her own eyes, which was weird, and when she saw the reflection of her face on the surface of the sea, all she could see was that the face was a smooth crystalline surface, and there were only two hollows where the eyes should be, and there were no eyeballs, but she was really looking with her eyes.

Who is this monster? This monster is...... I?

She was slightly stunned, as if she understood why the Xihai people were looking at her with frightened eyes before, although she didn't know what was going on, she didn't want to kill them, and she didn't want to be caught by them, so she had to flee to a place where they couldn't catch up...... It was great that she found that she seemed to be able to live in the air, and that memory told her that those Shiokai people couldn't do it.

She still couldn't swim, but she had reached the end of the sea after running for an unknown amount of time, and at this point, she just had to keep moving towards land...... The buoyancy of the water made her body heavy, but her muscles seemed to be much stronger, and she could even continue to move forward in that void environment, and finally her feet stepped out of the shallow water, exposing every corner of her body to the air. The seawater on the surface of the crystal was gradually evaporating by the sun's rays in the sky, and she did not feel burned by ultraviolet rays, nor was she uncomfortable with the dry air.

She stood a little dumbfounded, looking at the completely unfamiliar world in front of her, and this action continued for a long time, until a green light suddenly shot out from the trees in front of her and struck her in the head.

It was a laser beam that was enough to penetrate the brain for an ordinary creature, but the attack on the surface of the body covered with red crystals was immediately absorbed by this strange crystal, refracted into countless rays of light scattered in different directions, and she immediately instinctively ran to the source of the beam, and saw the bug lying on the trunk of the tree with a huge focused crystal on its back, which was obviously a laser bug.

Her body seemed to act more than her brain could think, and without even measuring the consequences of doing so, her palm had already grabbed the laser worm, which she didn't know what was going on, and blasted its body mercilessly, pulling out the beautiful focused crystal and throwing it into her mouth.

It seemed to taste good, and she said of the first meal she enjoyed on land, with no pity for the laser bugs. One last glance at the rippling sea, she turned and headed inland.

"Xiao ...... Xi...... Who does this name refer to? It's weird......"

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