Chapter 3: The Situation

Everyone has been walking on the bus for two days and two nights, and they have passed through more than ten towns of different sizes on the way, but these towns are completely empty, except for the ghosts that "smell" everyone's powerful soul bodies, and the ghosts that appeared, there is not even a living person, gradually, everyone's mood is very heavy, and they all began to speculate, isn't it that all human beings have perished?

"No, it shouldn't be, the number is not right, the number of those ghosts is too small, it is estimated that most of the people have fled elsewhere, it is estimated that those major cities and the like, since the world political axe dares to do this kind of thing to absorb the obsession of the living, then they should naturally have certain defensive measures, it is impossible to use the whole human race to complete their plan, right? Power can only be in effect in the crowd, and then they don't care about power, so they must protect the majority of people, who are probably concentrated in large cities. Yang Xuguang said with great certainty.

His remarks also attracted Yu Yongchen's approval, but it is one thing to know rationally, but what is seen is another thing, and everyone is still inevitably muttering in their hearts.

In this way, it was not until the early morning of the third day that everyone finally found some traces of human beings, that is, some garbage left on the side of the road, such as packaging bags, waste paper, food scraps, etc., and these food scraps have not yet rotted, proving that this group of people had passed by or stayed here not long ago, this discovery finally made everyone excited, and they also stepped up their speed to move forward, hoping to find the location of this group of people.

In this way, it was not until dusk in the afternoon that everyone saw the pillar of fire smoke rising in the jungle beside the highway, and faintly heard the noise of some people.

After a while, everyone saw several young Europeans hiding on some short tree trunks, looking around intently, when they saw the people coming, the first few young people could not help but scream, but they immediately found that the people were not ghosts, and immediately these young people were also excited, when the first few jumped off the trees, they immediately ran to the people, while the rest of the people shouted loudly into the depths of the jungle, as if to report the situation here to the large crowd.

Among the people, Gong Yeyu is a pure grabber, there is no need to expect him to know any foreign language, and among the rest of the people, Pei Jiao, Yang Dingtian, Yang Xuguang, Yu Yongchen, and even Zhang Heng, are all able to speak several foreign languages, but unfortunately they are not occupations that rely on foreign languages to eat, especially some small Chinese languages in Europe They are not clear, and it is very obvious that these people in front of them are using these small languages.

β€œ...... Which of you can understand them?" Pei Jiao looked at everyone with some distress.

Everyone shook their heads with a wry smile, and when Pei Jiao was about to ask the young people in English, Xue Na said with a smile: "Brother Odin, why have you forgotten me again? I have very strong translation skills, so let me come." As she spoke, Xue Na stretched out her hand again and kept scratching in the void, and strange runes appeared from her fingers, and then somehow merged into the air, forming a circle of ripples, and before everyone could react, the young men began to scream again.

"Oh my God, did you see it? What was it? magic, or magic? Ah, look closely, this little girl has a third eye! God, could it be the legendary Three-Eyed Eye?" one of the young men shouted.

Another young man also exclaimed: "No, it should be a special function, yes, yes, I remember reading a novel that records oriental mythology, and it says that India seems to have a way of practicing that allows people to open the third eye on their foreheads, and by the way, that practice is called alayya, yes, alaya!"

These young people were extremely surprised, they were all chirping there, no one was convinced by other people's statements, and they all believed that their guesses were correct, but they didn't know that what they said had been understood by Pei Jiao, and it was like the most normal Mandarin, without the weird tone of foreigners speaking Chinese.

Xue Na smiled and said, "Understand, right? The result of this translation is to directly translate the meaning that the other party wants to express into your native language, or directly instill the meaning into your mind, and it will sound like your native language, how about it? This technique is great, right?"

Pei Jiao was also stunned, he looked at Xue Na carefully for a long time, and then said: "This kind of rune is really amazing, it is simply beyond the scope of technology, just like the magic of legends." ”

Xue Na pursed her lips and said: "The technological means beyond imagination are like magic in front of people they don't know, this is not surprising, when our Three-Eyed Clan dominated the galaxy, didn't the alien races who saw our technological means also think so?" They think that these are miracles, miracles, but they don't know that only life itself is a miracle, it is a miracle, what are these scientific and technological means, but one thing Brother Odin, you are right, the Luna script is indeed beyond the scope of science and technology you know, because it is one of the most extreme scientific and technological means of our Three-Eyed Clan, and it is called the ultimate of the Three-Eyed Clan along with causal line technology. ”

Pei Jiao sighed, on the one hand, he was happy to get Xue Na's help, the addition of such a remnant of the Three-Eyed Clan was unimaginably helpful to the team, and on the other hand, it was because of the unimaginably brilliant civilization of the Three-Eyed Clan, such a powerful civilization, which dominated the galaxy and almost reached the realm of the Creator, was actually defeated in the hands of 'Original Sin', so human beings ...... Perhaps human beings are not even as good as ants in the eyes of 'original sin'.

At this moment, nearly a hundred people came out of the depths of the jungle one after another, and there were obviously several times the number of people in the back, the leaders were all middle-aged and middle-aged people in tattered clothes, there were very few elderly people, and some women were nervously watching from the rear, but fortunately, these people did not show any hostility, and after seeing that a few people were not ghosts, the people led by them actually smiled.

"Everyone, please come into the camp, everyone is a survivor who escaped from the city, don't see outside, please come in and eat something together, drink some water, we passed by a small town supermarket before, and by the way, we took a lot of food there, you must be hungry, right?"

The leader was a kind middle-aged man in his forties, who smiled and said to everyone, while the rest of the people behind him also showed a relieved smile and a relieved look.

Everyone glanced at each other, and they all looked at Pei Jiao and Gong Yeyu, as if they were waiting for the two to come up with an idea.

In fact, Pei Jiao and Gong Yeyu are both the kind of people who have the potential to be leaders, and they originally had their own teams, but they were gathered together because of various circumstances, so it has evolved into the current situation, it seems that both of them have the power to lead the team, so on key issues, both of them can come up with ideas.

Pei Jiao and Gong Yeyu glanced at each other, and Pei Jiao whispered: "Let's go to their camp, we can get some important information from them, such as what happened in this world, and just now he mentioned escaping from the city, what is going on, they need to tell us." ”

Gong Yeyu nodded, obviously agreeing with Pei Jiao's statement, and then everyone followed the group of people in front of them into the depths of the jungle, and sure enough, not long after entering the jungle, a simple camp area appeared in front of everyone, in fact, it was not so much a camp, but a small open space from another place, but the branches on the ground were cleaned up, and more than a dozen camping tents were built haphazardly, this is the so-called camp.

Pei Jiao could see that this group of people had obviously escaped from the settlement not long ago, although their clothes were a little dusty and tattered, but there was no yellow and thin appearance in this group of people, except for the slight mental aggrieval, the physical condition was very good, plus in terms of physique alone, the physique of the white race was indeed stronger than that of the yellow race, so these people in front of them looked like a donkey friend camping, there were like refugees fleeing.

Perhaps there is another reason, this apocalyptic catastrophe has not been long coming, although people are frightened, but they have not completely lost hope, and the world political axe still has the most basic control of the regime, so in this case, people's thinking is still stuck in the original peacetime, for example, in the camp in the dozen or so tents, all the people living in them are old people or children, and then women, and the young men are very gentlemanly and give up the tents, obviously they have not become beast-like humans like in those apocalyptic novels。

The middle-aged man had been accompanying everyone to the center of the camp, and he smiled and pointed in a certain direction: " The food we get in the supermarket is all over there, although you can get one of them, but we have to walk to Paris, although there are some supermarkets in small towns and villages on the way where you can get food, but after all, not every town is safe, maybe there are devourers in that town, in that case you have to give up, so everyone only has a ration of food every day, and everyone here is like that, so please don't mind. ”

Pei Jiao smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, but our situation may be a little special, and there are many questions I want to ask you, please find a place to talk." ”

The middle-aged man looked at everyone suspiciously, when he saw Xue Na, the surprise in his eyes was really unbearable, in fact, Xue Na's third eye was not very conspicuous, her third eye was always closed, it seemed that there was a gap on the forehead, but if you look carefully, you can still clearly see that it is the existence of one eye, before this middle-aged man has been observing everyone, but he felt that the group of people in front of him had an indescribable momentum, but he didn't notice this seven or eight-year-old girl, and when he took a closer look at it at the moment, he was stunned to find that this little girl had three eyes, so he didn't know what to say for a while.

After a few seconds, the middle-aged man looked at everyone: "It can be seen that you seem to be very extraordinary, in fact, it is right, with such a small number of people, you can actually travel on the road alone, which already shows that you are extraordinary...... Well, there are five principals here besides me, and we are in charge of leading you to Paris, and I will go and call the five of them. After speaking, the middle-aged man hurriedly walked to the side and said a few words to several young people, and then these young people hurriedly ran around.

In a short time, five men and women hurried from all around the camp, a total of three men and two women, all of them of middle-aged age, and it could be seen that they did not have any abuse of power for personal gain, and the clothes on their bodies were also dusty, no different from the people around them.

When these five people came to the front, the middle-aged man briefly introduced Pei Jiao and the others, and then he said to Pei Jiao: "Let's go, there is a small stream outside the camp, it is still clean and quiet, how about we go there and talk?"

Pei Jiao nodded, and followed behind the six people with the rest of the people, and in addition to these six people, there were more than a dozen young people with fire axes or large machetes to follow, obviously these six people were also wary of them, after all, they came suddenly, and they made such a strange request, and no one could not doubt it.

Pei Jiao and the others don't care, anyway, they don't have any malicious intentions, the most important thing at the moment is to quickly figure out what happened, since they want to follow, let's follow, not to mention these dozen young people with cold weapons, even if it is tens of thousands of troops with hot weapons and heavy weapons, they don't pay attention to it, so they don't mention it at all, and follow these six people to a jungle stream.

When the six people stopped, the dozen or so young people stood not far away in a semi-surrounded posture, and the six people each smiled, found a few clean rocks at random and sat down, and Pei Jiao and the others didn't care, they also took a few rocks at random and sat down, and then Pei Jiao couldn't help but say: " I know you are a little suspicious of us, but it doesn't matter, let's talk about our origin first, because the situation is a bit complicated, and it can't be explained clearly for a while, we were trapped somewhere for various reasons, and we stayed there for more than a year, and we didn't escape from there until more than ten days ago, who knows that as soon as we came out, we found that the outside was completely changed, almost not even a living person could be seen, and not a single body was found, if it weren't for the fact that those buildings were basically intact, we even thought there was a nuclear war, so can you please tell me what happened in this worldοΌŸβ€

The six of them all showed expressions of surprise and surprise, and there was more of a kind of disbelief in this expression, and after a long time, the middle-aged man asked strangely: "I'm sorry, it's not that I doubt you, it's just ...... Just listening to you, it seems that you have been to several small towns, and just a few of you? Didn't you meet anything along the way? How many people died?"

Pei Jiao shook his head and said: "Just a few of us, none of us died halfway, as for the middle of the way, I did encounter some things, to be precise, it is a ghost-like thing, at first glance it looks like a phantom-like human form, but it will keep changing, the image looks terrifying, and nothing else has happened." ”

The expressions of the six people became even more weird, they opened their mouths, but they didn't say anything for a long time, but looking at their appearance, it was obvious that they hadn't encountered anything?

In this way, the two sides were silent for a long time before the middle-aged man said with a wry smile: "If it weren't for the fact that you didn't have a single soul weapon on your body, I would have thought that you were a warrior of the Soul Legion, otherwise how could you enter the town with just such a few people?"

Pei Jiao said affirmatively: "I know that those ghosts will attack people, but don't you also go into some small villages and towns to find food? ”

The middle-aged man immediately laughed, not only him, but the other five people also laughed, and one of the middle-aged women said with a smile: " How is it possible, when the number of those ghosts is far less than the number of living people, they will be afraid of the soul fluctuations emitted by our gathering, we have a total of more than seven hundred and forty people, and we only dare to face the number of ghosts below a hundred, so they dare not attack us, once the number of ghosts exceeds a hundred, then we will immediately flee away from the villages and towns, and dare not stay inside, otherwise there will be dead among us, and you have such a small number, even if you encounter two or three ghosts, you will directly attack you, so how can it be luck。 ”

Xue Nacai pouted next to her and said: "It's the blood, the spirit belongs to the yin, and the most is to expect to get the soul, that is, the part of the yang in the soul, but a large amount of yang is poison for them, so when a large number of people gather together, the spirit will not attack people, this phenomenon of a large number of people gathering together is actually the accumulation of blood and qi, what is so strange about this." ”

The six of them immediately looked at Xue Na in surprise, but after all, these six people have rich social experience, so they will not ask anything rashly, but look at Pei Jiao and wait for Pei Jiao to start asking.

Pei Jiao thought for a while, his eyes suddenly flashed, and a laser sword appeared in his hand, and then he said to the six people: "Does the soul weapon you just mentioned mean this thing?"

The six of them were all taken aback, almost all of them jumped up from the rocks, not only them, but also the young people not far away were also stunned, and they even forgot to rush over for a while, and when they reacted a few seconds later, they found that Pei Jiao was just holding the laser sword in his hand, and there was no malice, but they didn't know whether to rush over or not.

The six of them looked at each other in shock, and the middle-aged man at the head said: "No, this is not a soul weapon, the so-called soul weapon, it is a firearm bullet specially developed by the political axe to fight against ghosts, your sword...... It's a laser sword, right? Did you hide it in your sleeve before? You guys...... You weren't supposed to be trapped in the secret lab of the political axe, right?

Pei Jiao smiled bitterly, these foreigners have really watched too many science fiction movies, and they can guess anything about the secret laboratory of the political axe, but the meaning of their words is very interesting, they can fight against the ghost's firearms and bullets...... You must know that those ghosts are not actually souls, even if the environment of the earth has begun to approach the subspace now, those ghosts are still invulnerable illusory, and it is impossible to hurt them with human weapons, unless it is a super electromagnetic alloy left over from the Three-Eyed Clan, or an innate weapon, as for this so-called soul weapon...... Could it be that the political axe can already make super-electromagnetic alloys on a large scale? Or is it a weapon that extracts the souls of living people and uses them to make weapons?

The light in Pei Jiao's hand flashed, and the innate weapon disappeared into his eyes, and now the six people saw it clearly, the laser sword was not hidden in the sleeve, but entered Pei Jiao's eyes, this situation was too incredible, it couldn't be explained by science, so the six people were surprised again, but fortunately, they were surprised enough just now, and they didn't jump up this time, but looked at Pei Jiao with a silent gaze, as well as the people behind Pei Jiao.

Pei Jiao smiled and said: "That's why I said that our identity experience is too special, and it must be a long time to explain, so I hope you can tell us about the changes in this world, okay?"

The six of them looked at each other a few times, and the middle-aged man at the head muttered, "Were you trapped somewhere more than a year ago?

Pei Jiao shook his head, and the middle-aged man said slowly: " If you want to say that the world has changed, it is about nine months, no, it should have been about ten months ago, at that time, various forums on the Internet, or some public websites, vaguely mentioned the increase in suicide cases in the world, people in the society did not pay attention to it at that time, and even the political axe only increased public psychological counseling, until nine months ago, many strange videos suddenly appeared on the Internet, most of them were videos captured by mobile phones, and some were selfie videos, on these videos, there was some kind of indescribable distortion, like a cassette in a movie, blurry, but the content on each video is almost identical, which is that when the distortions approach the living person, another distortion is sucked out of the living person's body. ”

After the ......, the living people who were absorbed in the video all committed suicide, and with more and more videos, the political axe began to control the Internet, and it seems that it also involves cults or something, but with the network control, the reality has not improved, and a large number of suicides have occurred in our city, just like that, people in society are becoming more and more panicked, and many have gone to the countryside or remote towns for refuge, and many people speculate that this may be a new type of virus, which will destroy some organ in the human brain, make people lose their self-restraint, and then commit suicide。 ”

"In this way, the time came to eight months ago, at that time, the first large-scale ghost attack appeared, in many small villages and small towns around the world, the more sparsely populated places, the more likely this attack is, and this time even the reporters of various TV stations filmed its picture, although the ghost that appeared on the screen was a distorted object, but the ghost seen in reality was that terrifying image. ”

The middle-aged man spread his hands and said: " And that's what happened after that, as more and more people died, the ghosts became more and more numerous, guns couldn't hurt them at all, and they would be invisible, and then they didn't know where to run out, and whoever was sucked out of their souls by them, that person would commit suicide and then turn into a cloud of ashes, even if the person was tied up, the person would naturally die in the bondage, and then it would still turn into ashes, and it wouldn't be long before the ghost of the person would appear, so the situation was getting worse and worse, but fortunately, with a large number of people dying, we also found some patterns of the ghosts' activities, such as they don't attack a large number of people gathered togetherBut if they are scattered in their respective rooms, then they will attack these people, so many people began to gather in the middle of the city, or in some squares, even to go to the bathroom, you must call a dozen more people, otherwise your life may be in danger. ”

"Then, about three months ago, the political axe announced that the research on ghosts has reached a stage of results, that is, the soul legion I mentioned earlier, they hold special soul weapons, which can hurt ghosts, and they will also make this soul weapon materials to make a lot of barbed wire, these barbed wire fences can also resist the invasion of ghosts, but the amount of this soul material is too scarce, so the political axe can only protect some important big cities, before we all lived in a protected big city, but about a month ago......”

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man showed a frightened expression on his face, not only him, but the other five people also showed the same expression, as if recalling something very terrifying, the middle-aged man took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms with trembling hands, he took out one of them, lit it on his own, and then took a deep breath, which stabilized his mood and continued: " But more than a month ago, a large number of mutants suddenly appeared among those ghosts, they were no longer afraid of the breath of a large number of people gathered together, and the damage of soul weapons to them was also extremely low, the most terrifying thing is that no matter how much damage these mutated ghosts received, as long as they sucked one or two living souls, they would immediately heal the damage and become stronger, just like that, more and more ghosts became mutants, and our city was also breached, at that time everyone fled in all directions, and our only one gathered so many people, God knows how many people escaped, maybe...... Perhaps more than ninety percent of the people died in that city. ”

Pei Jiao and the others looked at each other in surprise, and Pei Jiao couldn't help but ask: "What about the soul body? What about the breakaways? What about the high-level breakers? This is Europe, the number of soul bodies in Europe is the highest in the world, and there are many break-freers, and there are even several high-level break-freers, and the Blue Fist Holy Envoy I know alone is very powerful, what about them?"

The middle-aged man and the other five people all showed puzzled expressions, and the middle-aged man asked strangely, "What are soul bodies, breakaways, and high-level breakaways, who are they?

Pei Jiao and the others suddenly felt heavy in their hearts, and it was very obvious that the world political axe did not announce their existence, and even ...... Maybe these people don't exist anymore!

Yang Xuguang smiled bitterly and said: "Shouldn't the World Political Axe use all of them to make soul weapons? Damn, how can that kind of soul weapon be comparable to an innate weapon? And the demon-level souls can already slaughter these ghosts at will, not to mention the souls of the real demon level, killing these ghosts is like killing pigs and dogs, it seems that the World Political Axe has really done something earth-shattering." ”

Pei Jiao was also there with a wry smile, and the six people in front of him were still looking at him with doubts, these six people had only told them about the world situation before, so he didn't intend to hide it, and said directly: "I know you are very curious about our origin and identity, let's put it this way, in fact, we are all dead...... Well, except for this little girl and this woman, we've all died, and we're what humans often call souls. ”

The six people glanced at each other, and there was an obvious expression of disbelief in their eyes, and Pei Jiao could only say: "That's why I said that our origin is very bizarre, as for whether you believe it or not, it is up to you to decide, I can only tell you that after the death of human beings, a soul will be generated, and this soul will be wrapped in a layer of sin as soon as it is born, uh, this sin is the original sin you call in the Bible, such as greed, such as ** And so on, it can also be said that it is the cause and effect in our Eastern mythology, in short, the souls produced by human beings are not free at all, and they are wrapped in sin as soon as they are generated, and then at midnight, these souls wrapped in sin will be pulled into a strange space, that space you can think of as the underworld in your Bible, or you can recognize the underworld in our Eastern mythology, in short, it is the place where the souls of all dead creatures return. ”

"As for the freers and the advanced freers, they are the souls that struggle out of this layer of sin on their own, and their souls are extremely tough and powerful, several times more powerful than the souls of ordinary people, or even dozens of times, as for the soul body, it is the help of the freers and the advanced freers, and the human souls that are free from sins, this is the origin of the soul body, the freer, the high-level freer. ”

The expressions of the six people suddenly changed to the kind of expressions that looked like crazy people, and the middle-aged man led by them even said: "But we can see you, and your actions, behaviors, and even thoughts are completely different from those ghosts, even those mutated ghosts are not like you, their only idea is to suck the soul, but you ......"

Pei Jiao waved his hand and said, " We are human souls, not those ghosts, those ghosts only have spirits, but no souls, so they naturally do not have the same thinking ability as us, in fact, in addition to our different life forms, you can see us as another variant of human beings, in fact, as early as a few years ago, our soul body, the freer, the higher freer already existed, and the political axes around the world even established soul organizations, we have been protecting the world since several years ago, fighting those ghosts everywhere, but you don't know. ”

The expressions of these six people became even more weird, but fortunately, the current world situation is also very weird, and it cannot be explained by science at all, so they gradually have some beliefs, but when they heard such a secret at first glance, they didn't know whether to believe it or continue to doubt it.

"More than a year ago, we accidentally learned that the World Political Axe was doing an experiment, extracting the souls of living people, and then raising them with evil thoughts and fears, and then using this soul to create all kinds of weapons and the like, so at that time, we turned against the World Political Axe, and then were sealed into a Jedi, and only escaped from that Jedi not long ago, and as soon as we came out, we found that the whole world situation had changed greatly, and after listening to what you said, we knew that maybe these ghosts were the research experiments of the World Political Axe。 Pei Jiao continued.

Speaking of this, the expressions of these six people have become unknown how to describe it, the secrets are one after another, and they are also related to the political axes of the world, and even the secrets that have changed the situation in this world, these things are too far away from them.

Pei Jiao stood up when he said this, he smiled and said to the six people in front of him: "Since the situation is clear, then we should also leave, about the appearance of ghosts in this world, we will go to the world political axe to investigate, and you should also rush to Paris as soon as possible, although those ghosts can't help us, but for you who are alive, they are too terrifying." ”

The middle-aged man at the head suddenly said anxiously: "Wait, please wait a minute, just now you said that your soul body has been fighting ghosts a few years ago, so can you destroy those ghosts?"

Before Pei Jiao could speak, Zhang Heng next to him had already laughed and said: "What are these ghosts, they are not even souls, those ghosts are a hundred times more powerful than them, this is not a two-level thing at all." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man immediately took a few steps forward and said, "Can you stay for a while, can you protect us from going to Paris?" Although this request is excessive, and I don't know that you must have something important to do, but we have more than 700 people here, and there is not a single person who can harm those ghosts, and we usually do not dare to approach those larger towns, and even the vehicles on the road do not dare to go to the towns to get them, so we walk to Paris...... In fact, it is just a hope that we have found for ourselves, and we don't know how many people are left when we get to Paris all the way, so ...... So can you please help us, protect us to Paris!"

(To be continued)