A huge bloody mouth appeared faintly in the frost and mist, roaring towards the false sun in the sky. A bright candlestick appeared above Lu Ning's head, and the flame was beating uneasily.
"It's crazy..."
Lu Ning took a step forward. The shadow in the sky was slowly fading away, showing the most realistic appearance. Most of them do not have a very specific form, but rather a weird state made of geometric shapes and slime. This is normal. Although their believer base is not large, they only start with a hundred people. With so many mixed fantasies, it is normal for them to be unable to present a stable posture.
But appearance has nothing to do with strength.
Something floated up in the cold water. Those were black corpses that had been covered in oily substance, and it was not even possible to see what their original faces looked like. Lu Ning narrowed his eyes slightly. The number of such corpses has become more and more, so much that they even cover the sea surface. Currently, only the shallow sea area around him has not been filled with corpses.
Why are there so many bodies here? Or... is that not a corpse at all? The mantra around him only knows how to stare at the sky and confront him, which really has no effect at all.
Lu Ning was a little disgusted, but she didn't want to be touched by those corpses, so she started to retreat. As she retreated, the chaotic mantra in the air began to return to the shape of the sun.
"Ha, it seems like it's not a sea at all..."
This was another cognitive game, and Lu Ning quickly realized this. When she steps towards the ocean, her thinking will become more and more consistent with the mantra, and she will be able to recognize more of the ocean and the beach. However, if she steps back, her thinking will return to something closer to human beings. level, but will also lose the ability to understand the world.
Lu Ning was not prepared to adjust the difference in this aspect. It was better for her to stay away from the mantra. As she quickly retreated, the sky returned to the appearance it had first seen, but the corpse on the sea did not disappear. It was still That's almost enough to fill the sea.
At this time, a human voice came from behind: "What are you doing here?"
Lu Ning turned around and found a woman wearing a top hat behind her. She was wearing a black hunting suit, with two short knives hanging from her waist, and she was looking at her with her arms folded.
She seemed to have seen this person in her memory, but it was a little blurry.
"Sorry, I should have had an impression..."
"I really didn't expect that besides memory, time and life and death, there is still room for you and me to meet." The woman chuckled, "It seems that you have got rid of the curse involved in blood and bloodline."
Lu Ning finally recalled this face - Wu Que.
"It's strange, I always run into people I know." She smiled.
"You are bound to meet people you know. After all, the anchor point has the ability to remember smells. Unless another anchor point is used to throw you over, you will definitely be pulled by the anchor point to a place where there are familiar people." Wu Que He explained, "But why did you come here directly instead of arriving at the harbor? Even if you don't become a ghost ship, it's still very dangerous here."
"An accident...do you know what's going on here?"
"I'm guarding this coast." Wu Que sighed, "After all, there are still many people who will be called by the sea and become a member of the ghost ship. My mission is to find these people and help them become ghost ships. Completely eliminate them before."
"Cough, cough, I thought you were an ambulance worker..."
"You can't stop a dying person after all." Wu Que said with a hearty smile, "If you hadn't stepped back just now, I probably would have chopped off your head with a knife."
Lu Ning probably also wanted to know this situation, but she didn't expect that there were such guardians at the edge of the sea.
"Do you know those five suns?" Lu Ning pointed to the sky.
"Chaos from delusion, I don't know when they began to exist, but their power is more powerful than blood and the moon, and there is not even an entity for me to hunt." Wu Que answered.
"So, can you tell me something related to the harbor and the sea? Our world has been troubled by these things. And..." Lu Ning turned back and looked at the corpse on the sea, "Are these the sea and ghost ships? ?”
"No, strictly speaking, this is still the coast. People who actually enter the sea cannot come back with anything. These are just the residue that fell off the body before entering the sea."
Wu Que took Lu Ning away from the coastal area and walked into the jungle of the ruins of the city. On the top of a tall building, Lu Ning saw Wu Que's current stronghold - a place that was almost as simple as the previous hunter's cabin.
There is no concept of time here. Wu Que doesn't remember how long she has been guarding here. She doesn't even know who gave her this task. However, after killing several people who were about to transform into ghost ships, she Instead, I started to like this work.
"Seaports" are not just the places Lu Ning saw before. There are many of them, with different sizes, and most of them are in a deserted state. Only those shopkeepers who hold an anchor and set up shop in the harbor have the power to make a harbor prosper. However, even so, most people, including the shop owner, experienced changes in different states. After all, in such a world, maintaining human posture is not necessary. People who have lost their anchor are more likely to pervert themselves in this way.
Wu Que also tried to take a look at the true appearance of those suns, but after seeing their strange appearance, she never went there again.
The location where the two of them are now is also a "harbour", but the people who once existed here have probably disappeared.
"So what you see are generally people who have lost their anchor."
"Yes, I don't have the ability to give anchors to others. All I can do is to free those people. Occasionally I will go to other seaports to take a look, but I don't like the state of those seaports. Many people In order to survive, he distorted himself and exposed all his ugliness."
Based on Wu Que's experience, she would never like those lifestyles that involve losing dignity in order to live. After all, she can be considered a person who voluntarily gave up eternal life.
But Wu Que didn't have a complete understanding. She was more aware of the things between the harbor and the sea, and knew very little about the inland because she had never thought about going back. However, the chat between the two did not last long, and Wu Que suddenly rushed to the window.
"What's wrong?"
"It's people, three, nine, seven... hum."
Wu Que put his hands on the window and jumped down from the ten-story building. Lu Ning also picked up a few stones from the ground, set up a simple ceremony table on the windowsill, and blew on it. An ice slide extends down from the upper floor.
Someone is running fast across the street.
Lu Ning could already see some of them as he slid down. Most of their bodies had undergone changes that were different from ordinary people. For example, black asphalt-like things were constantly dripping from their arms; their feet turned into cars. Wheel-shaped; the ribs on the back extend out and become arthropod-like feet. But the changing appearance does not include faces. Everyone has a hollow and stiff expression on their faces, as if they no longer care about everything in this world.
Wu Que had already passed through the space in the process of falling and landed beside the trio. When he raised his hands, the knife wrapped in cyan and purple flames was already burning in his hands.
There was a crisp impact sound, and Wu Que's double swords were actually blocked by one of the shirtless men with six arms raised their hands - with flesh and blood.
"Please don't stop us, okay?" The man didn't even look at Wu Que, he just pushed her away for a distance, "You have no compulsory responsibility."
Lu Ning also slid to a nearby place at this time. She landed on a roof and took a closer look at the three people. An old man, a man and a woman, all three of them had no expression on their faces, and their eyes were wide open, as if their only target was the ocean in the distance.
In addition to the fact that the man had four extra arms, a large number of thin branches of trees sprouted from the old man's shoulders to his back, which were disorderly and without a single leaf on them. Red and yellow pus was dripping from the sleeves of the woman's large hospital gown, and several bandages were also hanging down.
"It's the same as death, so is being killed by me." Wu Que replied calmly. His body passed through the space again, and this time he flashed to the old man's side. The fire knife slashed past him, and the old man quickly moved his sleeves horizontally. , a metal pipe stretched out, knocking Wu Que's fire knife crooked.
"You alone can't stop us."
"Put out the fire first, old gentleman." Wu Que disappeared in a flash, and the branches behind the old man suddenly exploded into rapid purple flames, instantly surrounding him.
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At this time, in real time, it is within Area 25. Wearing a protective suit, Kilgour was transporting incapacitated people to the medical center on trolleys.
"Most of them are ordinary people..." Qiao Gao whispered. Soon, the voice of his teammate Pu Dongning came from the headphones he was wearing: "I haven't found anything here. It seems that the person who caused the accident has already been Just ran away.”
"I really don't know what our base group can do. Someone died before and there is still no unity within." Kilgour said with some regret.
"If we go through too many scenes, we will always encounter similar things. If we can't do more, then at least we can collect all the information." Pu Dongning comforted Qiao Gao.
"Alright alright……"
Kilgour walked into a building, which was also a set for future filming. However, it was too close to the explosion site and was burned several times by the flames. It is estimated that the exterior wall will at least need to be repainted in the future. He didn't see anyone who looked like he was immobilized outside, so he was ready to come in and take a look.
But as soon as I entered the house, I felt that the light had dimmed a lot. Kilgour's sixth sense as a tourist also reminded him that there was something going on in this building.
"Pu Dongning, there seems to be something going on here..."
"What? Don't explore alone, be safe!"
"No, I'm safe. Things here...are over."
Kilgour looked at the pool of blood at his feet. He was very careful not to get closer, but the scene in front of him still made him feel inexplicably weird.
Mass suicide.
He certainly wasn't afraid of corpses, but the way the group of people died before him was deeply unsettling. They used a thin red thread to sew their mouths together, and then used the same thin thread to sew their fingers together. The final cause of death was that a needle drawn from a thin thread pierced each person's heart. The blood was now in a semi-coagulated state, and the nine people in the room all had their eyes wide open and smiled with satisfaction. In this gloomy hut, nine people held hands and formed a circle, everyone staring at the door.
Kilgour had seen more miserable corpses, but the scene in front of him made him feel inexplicably terrifying. He seemed to feel that these people were still alive, and they were staring at him and laughing at him.
"...suicide?"
There was more than one person in charge who received the report at the other end. All six responsible persons received the report and found several mass suicide scenes around the exploded building. The number of people and the methods of suicide were all different. Disposal of so many corpses is already a troublesome matter, but what is even more troublesome is that there is no way to know what conspiracy this group of people is engaged in.
Yun Shu was actually a little shocked inside.
As someone who has reached the level of a reality twister, Yun Shu knows very well what the mentality of someone who has mastered the secret of the mantra should be. The low-level people are looking forward to finally reaching the level of reality twisters, and the high-level people are waiting for the day when they can enter the palace. Even if they have entered the eternal stage, they will continue to pursue the true meaning of assimilation with the mantra.
In short, after entering this field, no one will give up their life unless they die in the killing of each other among the believers of the truth. Not to mention that these people who committed suicide were definitely not low-level believers who didn't know the truth, because Yun Shu knew the names of at least two of them.
This situation was beyond Yun Shu's expectation. She originally thought that the fight that occurred here would be similar to what happened before, but this suicide was already beyond the normal range among believers.
"We must find out..." Yun Shu whispered to himself.
"We must find out!"
Yin He said loudly and righteously.
"No matter where they come from or what their purpose is, this kind of behavior is obviously to completely destroy our plans. We will never tolerate such malicious behavior! Even if the identities of these deceased are exposed, we must find out the truth clear!"
"Ms. Yin is right!" Fei Haojun loudly agreed, "If they use intrigues and tricks, then we should use upright methods to deal with them! Otherwise, there will only be more and more such villains' tricks! We have a clear conscience!"
Yun Shu pretended to agree a few times, but thought sarcastically in his heart that this incident was actually a problem that started from within, but it was a pity that they didn't know it yet. But it just so happens that letting the ignorant deal with the professionals can hide the identity of people like themselves.
