Luo Binhan hadn't really killed anything with bullets (or rays) since he learned to shoot at a shooting training facility near his sister's house. Not long ago, he wounded Zhou Wenxing with the gun given by Yaleriga, and that could be said to be the closest he had ever come to killing someone. At that time, he saw the gunshot wound on Zhou Wenxing's body: there was a lot of blood, but the wound was almost invisible.
Just like the earliest gift he received during the journey, what Yaleriga provided him was still a ray gun without electromagnetic or gunpowder bullets. This may have affected the lethality of the weapon at some point, but it is not as ferocious as what he was told in the training course. There is no expanded opening of penetrating wounds, and there is no huge cavity caused by the bullet rolling. It is like The indestructible metal skewer penetrates the human body. He could only see the blood gushing out, and that was much easier for him to accept than a blur of human flesh.
Despite this, the image of "Zhou Yu" being shot was still rolling before his eyes. Those strange body reflexes, as well as the weird expression on her face, everything made Luo Binhan feel strange and nauseating, as if he was attacking a realistic plastic model.
He stopped thinking about it and continued running outside the Silence. There is actually no basis for this action. He just wants to go to a position with a wider field of vision. Besides, if that thing - if it is indeed something conscious - then I hope he can pilot the spacecraft to the twisted light belt. The best way is to do the opposite.
He ran to the exit and encountered a little difficulty in opening the door of the spacecraft (∈ would normally open the door for him), but in the end he found the identity authentication option and successfully fell into a sea of purple grass. During the process, he took a quick glance at the entire environment, and felt that the phosphorus-rich planet had turned into a weird world that only hallucinogen users could see.
The sight heightened his dizziness. In addition, he also faced an unexpected situation: his leg injury that seemed to have fully recovered a few days ago relapsed with unprecedented severity. When he took off his pants to check in the sub-cabin aircraft, he found that the back of his legs was completely covered in a deep emerald green like moss. It spread below the skin and did not cause much pain to Luo Binhan, but it was undoubtedly the culprit of the severe itching.
The feeling made Luo Binhan want to scratch his legs, but at this moment he couldn't say that this was a bad thing. The cat people's scratching cream was still working on him, and unless the weird potion also worked on the soul, he was still in his fragile and hapless mortal body. So what does the person who plays "Zhou Yu" want to do? He couldn't tell, but he wasn't going to let it go his way.
He climbed up from the grass and looked up at the sky. As expected, he found the strip of light that trapped him here, rolling endlessly like a giant python in the void. He involuntarily took a step back, and then realized that he had nowhere to escape. Facing this behemoth in the void, where else could he hide?
An unnatural wind blew in the grass. It tightened around Luo Binhan in circles, overwhelming the knee-high grass all the way, like an invisible stick scraping a spiral on the colored sand. Luo Binhan keenly discovered that the overwhelmed grass soon stopped glowing. This phenomenon made him hesitate for a few seconds, unable to leave the surrounding grass. As the wind blew over his body, he had that feeling of being drenched in cold water again.
"You're really messing around." Someone said behind him.
Luo Binhan turned around and saw "Zhou Yu" standing there staring at him. Her dress was spotless and there was no trace of gunshot wounds on her body, as if nothing had happened between them just now.
"Starting again?" Luo Binhan said, crossing his arms. He pretended that he was not blocking the gun with his arm, but held the machete upside down on the inside of his wrist.
Neither of these two things might be enough to deal with the thing in front of him, but at least it didn't pounce immediately. Luo Binhan understood this as some kind of scruples on the part of the other party, although he hadn't yet figured out what it was.
"Zhou Yu" started to comb her hair with her fingers again, and said in the same gentle tone as before: "You would be so cruel to attack your former classmates. It's really you. Are you frightened by the situation that is beyond your common sense? "
"Yeah, I was scared." Luo Binhan said, "You didn't even blink when you heard the word Zhou Yu, and you pretended to be a butterfly spirit with me? Do you really think I've never seen a monster?"
"Zhou Yu" raised her eyebrows and showed a smile. At first Luo Binhan thought she was going to continue to struggle with him, but then her smile grew bigger and bigger. The corners of his mouth extended past his cheeks and ears, all the way to the back of Luo Binhan's head where he couldn't see. Her entire body skin was divided into two parts. The skin below the lips fell off like a loose bag, while above the lips it swelled dramatically. Her eye sockets grew large enough to fit through a full fist in a matter of seconds, and even her eyeballs swelled with it. Those pupils were facing Luo Binhan like deep holes, allowing him to see another version of himself with a frightened face from the depths of darkness.
This terrifying image only lasted for two or three seconds, and then the human skin was completely torn. Luo Binhan heard a burst of fierce and unfamiliar laughter coming from above his head.
"Very good, very good, very good -"
An excited, more masculine voice echoed in the starry sky above him. It repeats a word from Luo Binhan's hometown, and the sound sources come from all directions. Luo Binhan felt a splitting headache from the repeated malicious words.
"Come out!" he shouted, covering his head.
His voice was drowned in the laughter of the stars, and even he could barely hear it. But then the entire grassland was blown upwards by the strong wind. Torn blades of grass hit the mask of Luo Binhan's protective suit, making him unable to see anything for a moment. When the strong wind finally subsided, he put down his arm that was blocking his eyes, and all that was left was a dark wasteland.
Those fluorescent grasses are floating in the air. They gradually gathered together under Luo Binhan's gaze, entangled into a human figure with doll-like hands and feet. This eerie scarecrow floats freely in the air like a balloon, spinning back and forth in the erratic wind. When its face turned to a position facing Luo Binhan, Luo Binhan suddenly discovered that the grinning straw man's face looked exactly like himself.
The straw man was flying in the air, sometimes far away from Luo Binhan. Its limbs and neck were apparently devoid of bone structure, always twisting into weird angles in the wind. Almost all the weeds that make up its body are dead and pitch black, with only the eyes and mouth emitting a coquettish purple light. The grass blades in those two parts are also particularly finely woven, like carefully sewn faces.
"Hello, mortal."
It greeted with shrill laughter. Luo Binhan recognized that it was actually his own voice, but he had never had such a weird, excited and vicious tone.
He held the machete in front of him and asked, "Who are you?"
"Who am I?" said the straw man, and then began to laugh wildly. It wasn't until Luo Binhan's scimitar ignited with blue fire that it retreated slightly.
"Oh, polite, mortal." it said, "I am just a star, a guest who likes to attend banquets-sometimes uninvited-but the place where I am is always full of joy! So you also There’s no need to worry so much, eh? Let’s continue the party!”
