Everything here is quiet.
"Coast," but without all the characteristics of a coast. There is no sound of waves to be heard, no gravel or muddy beach to step on, no smell of the fresh, slightly fishy sea breeze that should be in the air.
It's quieter than a hospital morgue.
Lu Ning stood at the edge of the sea.
Even here, the water appeared green to her eyes. It was that color naturally, not because of reflections or the amount of algae growing in it. The green is vaguely transparent, and you can see through it a little, but there is nothing underneath.
Lu Ning cast her sights further out to the sea.
Is that really water?
She didn't dare to touch it. Although she didn't feel any dangerous aura, the strangeness of this sea still made Lu Ning carefully consider every method of testing.
She continued to walk along the coast. The hard stones and iron made up a path that was not too easy to walk. She could even feel a little bit numb when walking on it. Many discarded gears, rivets and other small parts can be seen among the metal materials that make up the coast. As she moves forward, there are more and more of these metal materials, and the number of normal natural materials is decreasing.
So, the further forward, the more it looks like a huge garbage dump.
I don't know when, stones and other natural materials have disappeared, large pieces of damaged machinery have piled up into a mountain, and the engine oil has given out a smell. Lu Ning raised his head and felt that he couldn't even see the end of this garbage mountain at a glance. But not far away, a cracked trash can was upside down on the garbage mountain, with a piece of scrap metal stuck on it, and words painted on it with red paint——
【go back】.
Can understand.
Lu Ning took good care of herself, because she felt that if the mountain of waste in front of her continued to move forward, it might not just be as simple as abandoned machinery.
not to mention……
Lu Ning turned her head and looked in the direction that should have been the city outside the ring.
There is no problem with her sense of space. The coastline should have surrounded the city outside the ring. However, looking from this direction, it cannot be seen at all - the city cannot be seen, and the fog that shrouds the city cannot be seen either. Lian should stand in the fog. The buildings have also disappeared.
It's the sea, no matter left or right, there is only the sea. The only way left to go was to go straight up in front of me and onto the garbage, or to go back the way we came. The space here is abnormal. Just as the time in the Judgment Island building has been controlled and disrupted, the space here may also have been distorted.
Lu Ning turned around and left, returning to the coast along the way she came, until she reached the place where the mechanical parts disappeared. She picked up a few parts on the way and came back, standing in front of the sea again.
The man named Jiu Qishi hasn't come back yet. Maybe there is some different scenery over there?
She picked out a screw from the parts in her hand and threw it into the sea.
The moment the rusty screw fell into the seawater, Lu Ning felt a change.
It was as if something noticed this momentary disturbance and cast its gaze over - even Lu Ning actually saw that the "sky" beyond the sea level turned into a dark purple wall, with some scarlet spots on the wall. , like eyes. Immediately afterwards, everything returned to normal.
She lowered her gaze and looked at the screws soaked in the shallow water. Some sharp iron needles had grown on the screw and began to bend, crawling like a sea spider. A rust-colored mechanical eyeball was drilling out of the nut.
When seeing this scene, Lu Ning had already raised his gun. She had already expected this change. Blue flames spurted out from the muzzle and hit the screw through the seawater. The flames ignored the seawater and burned the screw. After a violent convulsion, there was a strange thing on the screw. Everything was burned, and a pool of rust-colored pus flowed out from the hole in the eyeball, and soon merged into the sea water.
"It's fragile and can be killed." Lu Ning observed for a few minutes, but the screw didn't make any more movement. However, although the sea water did not surge, the sand under the shallow water slowly swallowed the screws, and soon everything returned to normal.
The problem is still quite serious. The danger hidden in this calm sea is extremely high. Lu Ning doesn't want to experiment with what would happen if ordinary people fall into it. She threw away the parts in her hand and walked in the direction where Jukishi left.
The changes here are indeed different. Increasingly, there are stones rather than machines. The gravel turned into a mountain that was difficult to climb. Lu Ning used his gun to forcefully open several openings in the rock wall to help him climb up.
In a place with a gentle slope, Lu Ning saw a bunch of killed "animals". The weapons were so sharp that they cut almost every animal's body in half. However, the problem is that Lu Ning doesn't know these "animals", and she can't even find prototypes within her knowledge.
Five legs? Seven legs? A dozen eyes on your head? Two mouths open on either side of the body? Are these...animals or some kind of alien?
These things were undoubtedly killed by Jukishi, who had probably ascended to higher ground. The left and right here are quite normal, and you can still see the city outside the ring and the center of Judgment Island.
Lu Ning continued to climb up, and moss gradually began to appear on the rocks, which increased the difficulty of climbing. The traces of Jukishi's climb are also left on it, but the moss has grown at an unnaturally high speed, and now only a few traces can be seen. Lu Ning was too lazy to spend any more time on this, so she touched her waist with her fingers and activated the power of "Plague".
The pathogens generated by her touch immediately began to spread in a targeted manner, and the moss quickly withered and died, turning into powder, making it easier to climb up the rock wall. Lu Ning soon boarded the second flat spot, where there was another large group of corpses, much more than before, and they no longer had the legs of ordinary animals, they had insect joints and older tentacles. , the chaotic organs were like inappropriate puzzle pieces that were forcibly put together, and Lu Ning even found some body parts with human characteristics in them.
But these monsters have also been killed.
There was already a crude staircase forcibly dug out in front of him. It seemed that Jiu Qishi had just dug it out. Just like Lu Ning just now, it provided a place for climbing with hands and feet. It seemed that after reaching here, Jiuqishi could not continue climbing smoothly.
Lu Ning followed the traces he left up. This time, a relatively long time passed, and the surrounding rocks changed from moss-covered stones to frozen bluestones, and the temperature had obviously become very low. Lu Ning saw Jiu Qishi - he was on the third platform. The arc-shaped sword flashed from front to back with every swing of his weapon, easily slicing through every monster surrounding him.
Those things can only be described as monsters now. They are almost all close to regular geometric shapes. They seem to be compressed on the surface and fitted with various limbs and organs. No... they are probably just various limbs. It is stuffed into the mold and pressed like this. They can't even move normally, but rely on weird floating to move position, and obviously, the floating speed is not fast enough.
Jiuqishi's sword attack range was very large, and he cleared these monsters very quickly, but the consumption of three consecutive batches of monsters had already made him feel a little tired.
"Hey." Lu Ning climbed onto the platform and called him. Jiu Qishi also saw Lu Ning coming over and pressed the blade slightly, but did not take off his guard.
"Why did you come here?"
"You can't leave on the other side, you can only come here." Lu Ning said, "What's going on here? Why are there these... monsters that look like they're breaking through a level?"
"I don't know. When I stepped onto the platform, they suddenly appeared. What about you? Were you not attacked by monsters?"
"Didn't I get killed by you?"
"Can such monsters that suddenly spawn be killed?" Jiuqishi frowned, "I prefer that they have made some identifications."
"Recognize what? Recognize you and me as one?" Lu Ning walked to the corpse of a monster. The monster was spherical and was split in half by the light of the sword. From the texture of the cut surface, you can clearly see the neat layers of fat layer, viscera, skin, fascia, bones, etc., as well as obvious organs such as teeth, claws, and eyeballs sandwiched between the layers.
"It's really strange... apart from impact, what other combat effectiveness does this kind of thing have? It's not even as good as the two floors below." Lu Ning said after studying it for a while.
If she wants to create a monster, it must be filled with various threatening organizational structures in the outside world. She must have sharp claws and teeth, and agile mobility is also indispensable. Only then can she meet the requirements of a ferocious beast or even a monster. . These pressed into pieces are like a pile of aspic waiting to be cut, and they don't look like any fighting power at all.
——No, maybe it’s not a combat capability in the first place.
"Jiu Qishi, what kind of thing do you think would be like this? Living is not a possibility." Lu Ning asked.
"Looks like this...if it's not making food, it's disposing of useless garbage. Compressing and landfilling is a very convenient method of garbage disposal." Jiu Qishi said.
"Obviously they were not landfilled." Lu Ning said.
"But no one would care about throwing away this kind of barren mountain, right?" Jiu Qishi also fiddled with the wreckage on the ground, "It's really strange that he didn't die after being crushed like this, and I Immediately after cutting off the body, it loses its vitality. The life composition of these things is puzzling."
"Anything can happen in a place like this, and the situation on the other side is similar." Lu Ning briefly described the situation of the mechanical garbage mountain to Jiu Qishi. After hearing this, Jiu Qishi was silent for a moment and said, "You said that the scrap parts survived after being thrown into the sea?"
"Um."
With a swipe sound, Jiu Qishi cut off a small piece of dead flesh and picked it up on the tip of the knife.
"Let's go back to the beach now and try this."
"Not going up?" Lu Ning smiled.
"I can't hold on. Although these monsters are not strong, they are very annoying. And in this environment, I dare not let them do whatever they want."
The two returned to the coast together. Jiu Qishi threw the piece of meat into the sea just like Lu Ning did.
A group of bubbles emerged from the piece of meat, and then, the recently dead flesh and blood began to wrinkle and shrink, quickly shrinking into a small black mass. Just when Lu Ning and Jiu Qishi thought that seawater had a strong corrosive effect on flesh and blood, the small lump suddenly grew a slender limb and pushed it against the sponge. Then, they felt a gust of wind coming from It blew over the sea.
Is it the wind? still--
Lu Ning raised his gun and smashed the piece of meat protruding from the tip of his limb, while Jiu Qishi directly threw out a red grenade. The grenade detonated before it touched the sea water, and a large number of deep red flames covered the area around the meat piece. Completely covered, even the seawater seemed to be on fire.
However, the sea breeze still passed through the two people's bodies. Lu Ning felt that his breath was slightly suffocated. His eyes seemed to be covered with piles of debris. The taste of death and blood filled his mouth and seemed to have filled his internal organs. She wanted to vomit out all this death, but she became more and more addicted to it.
However, Lu Ning was prepared for this situation.
"Let it rot."
The badge draws a dark green arc. Pathogens are not only viruses, but also fungi. Lu Ning opened her mouth and let the mixed breaths of death knell and plague mix in her breath. She was not afraid of the smell of death, and even felt a touch of intimacy with it. The silent bell spread the sound waves into the distance, and the decomposed remains were already trampled under her feet.
"cough!"
Lu Ning opened her eyes again and found herself lying on the shore, with Jiu Qishi lying next to him. The two of them had been in this posture for some time. There were still some residual flames burning on the sea. The sea breeze is like an illusion.
"It's really... dangerous." Jiu Qishi stood up unsteadily, "I think I have some clues... but it's not suitable to continue."
"Agreed." Lu Ning grabbed a handful of gravel on the coast, "But at least we know the threat here, and this gain is enough."
The two stood up and looked at each other, both knowing that the other had something left unsaid, but who cared? The two of them were not familiar with each other, so what they could say was the limit.
Lu Ning drew a triangle and called Train No. 44.
"Train No. 44 seems to have been a core weapon." Jiu Qishi said as he got on the train.
"Core weapon? A car?" Lu Ning followed and walked up. The carriage was exactly the same as the one she came in.
"Maybe it wasn't a car originally." Jiu Qishi found a seat and sat down.
"So why is it here now as a car?"
"The reason is unclear, but one thing is certain." Jiu Qishi said.
"Oh...if it is really a core weapon, then its owner is probably dead." Lu Ning said.
Jukishi nodded.
"I don't know if your captain has told you." He took out a piece of paper and slowly wiped the weapon. "If the fusion with the core weapon reaches 100, some terrible things will happen."
"Huh? You want to say that this car is actually the result of the owner fusing core weapons?"
"The core weapon...the doomsday core, don't you think it's the same technology?"
