Chapter 302: Memories
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In the majestic palace of Jotunheim, Lilith, the female [king] sitting high on the throne, let out a soft snort. In her slender phoenix eyes, the hexagonal crystals that observed the movements of Zero and Agatha had completely lost the figure of their prey. As the king of Jotunheim, Lilith knows the entire kingdom and the surrounding territories, which benefits from the permanent ability "Insight" she exerts on the entire territory, so that no creature can sneak into Jotunheim without her eyes.
If it weren't for that, Zero wouldn't have noticed it for Lilith by hiding in the van.
However, insight also has its own limits. Now, Zero and Agatha are out of the limits of what they can see, and Lilith's perception is out of her sense for the time being. Faced with this situation, Lilith can only mobilize living corpses for a carpet search. After forcing the two out, send Jotunheim's high-level living corpse warriors to attack.
Zero, they didn't know that Jotunheim's biological weapon system was much more than what they had seen in a college town.
After several commands in a row, Lilith felt a little tired. She sat down on her throne and slowly closed her eyes.
How long have you been?
Lilith asked softly to herself in her mind.
Time is meaningless for living corpses, and low-level living corpses simply don't have enough intelligence to think about this kind of problem. And even high-level living corpse weapons are full of tearing skills in their minds, rather than thinking about their own lives. Only Lilith, and only Lilith, has this kind of thinking that is close to that of a human.
Lilith is a living corpse, and at the same time she is not a living corpse.
Memories don't know when they were formed, but after possessing the ability to perceive domains, Lilith began to search for the source of her memories. At first, there was only a blank space in the memory center. But as Lilith grew stronger, the blank space began to show color. Lilith remembered that she had been a human woman a long time ago.
Memories of human beings are fragmented and chaotic, and even if Lilith breaks down the images in her memories into countless independent data, and then reconstructs them through logical judgment, what she restores is nothing more than a vague past. She only vaguely knew that she was a white-collar woman and had a not-so-perfect home, but everything was okay. But the advent of the cataclysm changed everything.
The clearest part of that memory is when Lilith stood in front of the window of a tall building, watching huge fireballs fall from the sky spitting foehn flames. One of the fireballs landed in Lilith's city, followed by complete darkness.
Darkness doesn't know how long it took for Lilith to see things again. In the rest of her memory, Lilith could sense that her thoughts did not fluctuate at that time. Like a machine clad in human skin, she tore apart the fragile bodies of humans with her deformed fangs and sharp teeth, and fed on their flesh and blood. In this way, Lilith went through the most difficult decade.
It was Lilith's memories of being a living corpse, and the images were stored in her nerve center, which was completely unmixed with any of Lilith's own emotions, as pure as a documentary.
In the documentary, the ten years after the transformation into a living corpse are not very much, but they are just a long hunting record. In these clips, Lilith sees that the surviving humans were not strong, they were like fat rabbits. For the first five years, Lilith was able to hunt humans with ease. But over the next five years, this hunt became increasingly difficult.
Although human beings are the slowest in the evolution of all things, once they have completed a certain stage of evolution, their genes become stable and less susceptible to collapse. This is not like living corpses or other mutant creatures, which evolve at a rapid rate at an unimaginably high cost.
Living corpses like Lilith, for example, are genetically mutated by radiation and viruses that allow them to survive despite their deaths. Life and death became vague concepts in them, and the price paid by the living corpse was partial brain necrosis. The remaining brain function can only provide them with the instinct to survive, and despite the two mutant forms of Butcher and Ripper on the evolved corpse of the living corpse, it cannot escape the low intelligence nature of the living corpse.
No matter how strong a beast is, if it does not possess intelligence, it is only a matter of time before it is hunted.
Living corpses were once very popular in the aftermath of the Cataclysm, and they were the first mutant creatures to adapt to the post-Cataclysm Shijie and survive. But this period of time only lasted for five years, and after five years, the humans who had armed themselves with the weapons of the old times already had the Liliang to fight them. Other creatures are also desperately evolving, and due to the limitations of intelligence, all living corpses that act according to instinct will appear to be very long in the next evolution.
So this exposes another fatal flaw of the living corpse, which is extremely fast aging!
Living corpses are not perpetual motion machines, their genes, cells, and bodies also age, and they are many times, or even dozens of times, faster than humans or other creatures. The powerful butchers and rippers in the living corpses were only in their prime for about ten years, while the ordinary living corpses were only five to eight years old. Once they enter the aging phase, their whole body functions will quickly collapse, and they will often become real corpses without human hands within a year or two.
When Lilith became a living corpse for five years, even if she had no intelligence, instinct told her that she had entered the aging stage. Lilith is getting old, and her basic stats of liliang, agility, and physical strength are rapidly degrading. And it was then that she heard a voice.
Now Lilith searches her memories and discovers that it is not so much a voice as an instinctive call. Whether it was a voice or a summoning, Lilith at that time, under the control of instinct, used the dying corpse, and still crossed the earth to reach the place where the voice wanted her to go. It was a crazy day, and Lilith was in a race against time and death, usually running for days without food or drink, only to stop hunting when her body was almost at its limit.
When she had eaten and drunk enough, Lilith would make another long journey. And so on and so forth, and each time Lilith traveled, it would take thousands of miles. By the time she reached her destination, Lilith was nearly dead.
But there, Lilith saw many different alien creatures. With the exception of humans, one of almost all alien races will be present here. Like Lilith, they are called by the same being. Just as all summoned beings had arrived, the volcano erupted.
Unlike the living mountain behind Jotunheim, which had been active for many years, in Lilith's memory, the unknown volcano erupted in a desperate manner, with flames and magma reaching up to a thousand meters, and heat and smoke filling the entire sky. Thousands of meters of magma fell from the sky in a parabolic shape, bringing up countless fireballs that raged across the land.
Countless alien creatures died in this sudden outbreak of natural disaster, but those who survived felt something enter their bodies.
Lilith survived the volcanic eruption, but she also lost an arm, but for her dying injuries, such injuries were dispensable. However, after feeling something invade her body, Lilith's body has changed drastically!