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A tall figure walked through the wind and snow and came from the other side of the empty street.
Siena was wearing a snow-white coat, hunting pants and boots. If it weren't for her long dark gray hair, she could almost be completely hidden in the frost and snow. She put her hands in her pockets and walked quickly with her head down.
An Yu wondered: "Can you sense her?"
"You can when you get close." Qin Zhilu glanced at the painting on the table, "Maybe it's the same kind of perception."
An Yu suddenly remembered the painting on Siena's door - a small piece separated from the large piece of sheep blood.
"Sir..."
"Shh." Qin Zhilu put her index finger on his lips and pressed lightly, "Let's see what she wants to do first."
Siena came straight to the house, and she was close in a blink of an eye. She was about to cross the street, but she suddenly stopped at her feet.
The wind and snow were still howling, but she stopped where she was and listened carefully to something. After a moment, she suddenly turned around and went directly into the store next to her.
It was a hunting gear repair shop. The door was very small, and the door was opened with great force, giving a clear view of the inside.
In the ice and snow, an old man in his fifties or sixties stood naked with his back to the door. His loose skin was covered with dark gray hair, his ears were sharp, his legs were slender, and his arms were extremely thick.
An Yu has seen too many people with similar physical appearance to his, which come from jackal genes.
This is a biological aberrant, and may be considered a minority in District 99.
The wind and snow poured through the door, but the old man did not move, but turned his head stiffly.
Jiang Xiao's recorder flew to the door silently and captured the hoarse voice.
"Boss Siena? I haven't seen you for several days. Where have you been?"
"I'm passing by to see you." Siena's voice was cold and arrogant, and she asked without answering: "Why don't you turn around?"
"I was changing clothes, and you surprised me when you suddenly came in." The old man sighed, "We usually haven't spoken a few words, why did you think of coming to see me?"
"Oh?" There was a hint of sarcasm in Siena's laughter, "Didn't you first aim your gun at me behind the door? I thought that was a unique way of greeting you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the old man turned around suddenly and swung the long sniper rifle hidden in his chest on the table. His arms swelled several times in an instant, the full blood vessels burst under the skin, and sharp fingers bloomed. Nails come. He squatted down, jumped up quickly, and slapped Siena with one claw!
Siena stepped aside, but the coat on her shoulders was still scratched, hairs flew, and the cut flesh quickly bled.
An Yu stared at her legs - when dodging, her lower body did not move at all, deliberately letting the opponent succeed.
In the camera, Siye remained still and smiled, and she tore off the remaining sleeve - the muscle fibers of a woman's arm are naturally thin and long, but in the blink of an eye, the white skin began to swell and bulge, and sharp nails grew from the fingertips. And out.
The old man was so shocked that he took a step back. Jiang Xiao, who was not far away, also hesitated and said: "Lv..."
"Come closer, she has already discovered you anyway." Qin Zhilu's voice said without any surprise, "Put your terminal closer to her."
Just when Jiang Xiao was approaching the door, Siena sneered and defeated the old man's second attack. She knocked him to the ground, stepped hard with her riding boots, kicked the head, bent down and cut his throat with her sharp claws. .
The old man's body was still twitching on the verge of death. This time, the tip of Siena's claw pierced directly into his chest——
A few seconds later, the old man's exposed skin began to tremble crazily. Seeds with strange colors shot out of the skin, then shrank back in the blink of an eye. Scales grew on the side of his neck, which were soon covered with feathers. All kinds of strange physical signs appeared on his body. Measured, in the blink of an eye, the blood vessels and skin all over the body burst together, as if someone spilled a bucket of blood on the ground, and the floor of the maintenance shop was flooded in an instant.
Siena deeply smelled the rich blood in the air, her muscles and claws slowly disappeared, and she returned to the normal appearance of a woman.
Then she raised her head and looked at Jiang Xiao who was standing at the door.
"Hi." She raised her eyebrows and casually put the sniper rifle that the old man had left on the counter on her shoulder. "Hello, we met in the factory just now, Mr. Octopussy."
Jiang Xiao frowned, "Eight-clawed snake?"
Before Siena could explain, his terminal had already started to flash a warning - a strange ultra-high genetic entropy creature had been detected, and the value exceeded 300,000, and continued to soar.
Jiang Xiao frowned and stared at Siena in disbelief, "Lv...could she be..."
Above the attic, Qin Zhilu lowered the curtain.
"You should be familiar with her abilities. Acquired gene expression, genetic infection, and predictably - genetic entropy will explode soon."
He looked back at the painting, "It looks like the second me has appeared."
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Qin Zhilu used the bandage on An Yu's wrist to bandage the most injured left arm. During the bandaging process, the wound began to drip blood again, trickling down along the gaps in the wooden floor of the attic. He simply used a knife to completely scrape off the part stained with gunpowder powder, leaving a deep and bright red wound.
Siena watched him treat the wound and said: "You have changed a lot compared to when you were young. It seems that Black Tower has not deliberately developed your character in these years. You are indeed as cold and dangerous as the legend says. This temperament makes you more It’s charming.”
She said provocative words, but there was no smile in her heroic bright eyes, "Back then, researchers called you an extreme abnormality, but it wasn't until today that I opened my eyes. The massacre just now, your battlefield capabilities It’s really unforgettable.”
Qin Zhilu raised his eyes and glanced at her, "Soon, you will be like me."
"Me? I'm just a broken fragment. I'm lucky enough to be able to reflect some of the light of the gods." Siena shook her head with regret, "Acquired gene expression does not always succeed, and it will always fail five to six times out of ten. Times. In theory, high gene entropy should obviously be closer to a steady state, but as genes accumulate, I feel more and more confused, and it is gradually difficult to control the genes I have. I believe you have not encountered these obstacles. "
Qin Zhilu was a little surprised, "Indeed not."
"Look, this is the difference between gods and fragments. A leopard can be seen through a tube. You are a leopard, and I am just a speck on the leopard's body."
Qin Zhilu stared at her and asked straight to the point: "What happened in District 99?"
Siena picked up the half-burned candle on the table, approached the scroll of parchment, and whispered: "Maybe everything originated from this painting."
"Colonel Disf happened to be drinking in my shop before he disappeared. It was an ordinary night. He came back from patrolling the collection factory, ordered half a dozen brandy, a roast beef shank sandwich, and sat in the shop chatting with the hunting team. . In the middle of the night, everyone else left, leaving only the colonel lying drunk on the table. I was going to push him upstairs to sleep, but the postman suddenly ran over..."
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"Colonel, I finally found you." The postman poked his head through the door and shook off the snow on the big envelope. "I have your documents, please sign for them!"
Disfu stood up from the table, looked at the abnormally thick envelope with drunken eyes, and cursed, "It's so late, why don't you send it to the garrison center?"
The postman yawned, "I have been to both the garrison center and your home. This is an urgent item from the main city. The sender requested that it be delivered to me immediately."
Disfu immediately stood up, "Main city?"
Siena gave the last sandwich to the postman, and when she closed the store door, she saw Disf standing at the table with his shoulders stretched out, checking the mail. His hawk-like eyes were no longer drunk, and he said solemnly to himself : "How could the main city communicate in this way..."
Siena smiled and joked, "It's been almost thirty years, and you are still as rigorous as the first day you were stationed."
"You and I have both experienced that weird catastrophe. We know better than anyone here how much fear and high pressure the Black Tower has lived under over the years." Disfu said in a heavy tone as he fumbled around every corner of the envelope. Again, "There is no Black Tower watermark, nor is it a letter from the military..."
"Maybe it's the brain? Researchers work more freely. I remember when my brain network was paralyzed once when I was a child, my researcher copied the data from my physical examination on a napkin and asked the orderly to take it to the Black Tower..." Sieye The man smiled and glanced at the envelope. Dis just pulled out a heavy roll of sheepskin. He unfolded the sheepskin with one hand and casually threw the envelope on the table with the other hand.
Siena was stunned, "Why do you have such an expression?"
"Colonel?"
"Colonel, how did you..."
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Siena looked at the dancing candlelight, "I have heard people say that 'the face faded with fear', and I always thought it was an exaggeration. But that night, I saw with my own eyes that the blood on the colonel's face faded layer by layer. It was even worse than a ghost town." It was scary, his whole body was shaking, I thought he was having a stroke due to drunkenness, and when I was about to help him, he grabbed the parchment and envelope and rushed out, never looking back no matter how loud he shouted..."
Qin Zhilu asked: "Didn't you catch up?"
"I thought something big happened in the main city. I didn't want to hear about those disasters, so I didn't pursue it. But I didn't expect that was the last time I saw the colonel. Then, abnormalities in Area 99 followed one after another. First, the colonel went crazy and disappeared. Then frost and snow struck, and more and more people were captured in dreams. Weird distortions invaded everyone who sold their souls in dreams, and my partner also died. As for me, a picture was hung on my door. Similar parchment—" Siena frowned as she spoke, with a worried look in her eyes, "just like the next victim who was marked. At that time, I couldn't figure out the meaning of the parchment painting at all, so I could only follow my intuition. Hiding first.”
Jiang Xiao asked: "Have you seen the shipping information on the envelope?"
Siena sighed, "It has the main city postmark, but no written signature. When the colonel grabbed it and ran out, I saw an eye painted on it."
An Yu's heart moved and he clicked on the second photo of the poet's painting, "Are these eyes like this?"
Above the sky, countless eyes opened and closed.
"Yes!" Siena pointed to the middle one in surprise, "It's exactly the same as this one. What kind of painting is this?"
What she pointed at happened to be the most completely opened eye in the painting. It stared directly at the person looking at the painting, with a certain insight and strange meaning. It made people feel bad after looking at it for a long time.
An Yu thought: "The parchment that caused the disaster in District 99 was actually from the poet, and he deliberately sent it to Colonel Disf..."
"The things Disfu wanted to hide when he built this house may be the same as the pattern on this painting." Qin Zhilu looked at the painting again and continued to question Siena: "How did your partner die?"
"He was sleeping above me. That night I suddenly heard a crash on the ceiling. I ran up and saw him rolling on the ground. It was like a nightmare. He ran out with a ferocious expression. I kept chasing him. When I caught him, He had fallen to the ground and vomited blood... He probably died of some kind of spiritual curse. Before he died, he told me not to surrender to anyone in my dream, but also not to kill the inducer, otherwise I would be the next one."
Jiang Xiao was surprised, "You mean, not only did he not surrender his faith, but he also tried to kill the other party in his dream? What a terrifying mental power."
"Siena's partner is a soldier with the strongest mental stability carefully selected. Unexpectedly, this actually killed him." Qin Zhilu stared at the screen and whispered: "The colonel disappeared, the partner resisted the death of the dream, and This painting mysteriously returned to the religious group activity room..."
"This is a cursed painting. It triggered my awakening, and also triggered the colonel's strangeness. The colonel should be the super abnormality behind the scenes. He wants to kill me. I have been hiding these days, and everyone I meet Anyone would suddenly attack me."
Qin Zhilu stared at her, "Did you just say that you already knew the meaning of the painting?"
"Maybe." Siena paused, "I also had a dream, and the voice in the dream told me that he and I are both part of the puzzle and should rely on each other."
"puzzle?"
Siena pointed to the painting, "The god was wandering in time and space, and accidentally stepped into the abyss to sleep. His huge body was broken: order and chaos, ability and cognition were separated from each other, just as they were once separated from a mass of chaos. The sky and the earth are like that. It's just that the world will eventually merge back into one body and disappear into a mass of heat death, but He will never be able to wake up due to the willful actions of Chaos."
Siena paused for a moment, looking at the small piece of separated sheep's blood in the corner of the painting, "Although I can't fully understand the meaning of this dream, I guess that I belong to a part of the chaotic body, a small piece of blood that fell accidentally." Fragments. I even think that the super abnormal bodies that have awakened over the years may also be part of the chaotic body, but they are smaller, like crumbs and powder, scattered in every corner of the world. Because they are tiny, they are also smaller. The quick awakening has become the source of distortions that have become increasingly severe over the years.”
No one answered, and she was the only voice in the attic. Siena twitched her lips in a self-deprecating tone, "Of course, this is just my random speculation based on the inducement of dreams. I have asked some residents that the inducers in their dreams are all familiar people, except for the voice in my dream. identity."
An Yu suddenly raised his eyes and said: "That's because their dreams come from super abnormal bodies, and your dreams come from the person who painted this painting. This nagging tone is so familiar. The voice in your dream - —" He casually clicked on a video of the poet praying at night, "Is it him?"
Sienna only listened to a few sentences before nodding in astonishment, "Who is he?"
Before An Yu had time to answer, Qin Zhilu quickly sent a brief message to the Black Tower.
"Arrest the poet immediately."
"Sir." An Yu hesitated: "If the poet tells this fable to the Black Tower, the Black Tower will be suspicious of you..."
"Don't care about that anymore." Qin Zhilu held up the parchment, "We underestimated him too much. Not only did he have supernatural cognition, but he also used a painting to wake up Xiye, who had been sleeping for more than twenty years. That and Disif, this ability is almost the same as a curse, this person must not stay in the main city."
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"Shangfeng said that the poet has disappeared..."
Jiang Xiao's face turned pale and blue with anger, making his red eyes seem to be burning. He gritted his teeth and said: "A living man with disabled legs disappeared like this. The Black Tower imprisoned him in the church. I sent someone to keep an eye on him, but not only did he secretly send illegal letters, but I couldn't even find out when he ran away."
Siena said in disbelief: "How is this possible? People who the Black Tower wants to guard cannot escape even with wings."
"Maybe he really has wings." Qin Zhilu whispered and looked at Siena, "You have been hiding for so many days. Do you have any clues about finding Disfu?"
Siena shook her head, "I have searched every corner of District 99 these days, and he seems to have disappeared from the world. Now the bewitched believers in District 99 are very malicious to me. In order to find him, I have gone to countless places to find him." I don’t know how many times I have fought to the death with people.”
"His people have been actively attacking you?" Qin Zhilu frowned and stared at her, then asked again after a while, "Then how did you know to come here to join us?"
"I can sense you." Siena reluctantly took off her coat and threw it on the stool, "Don't forget, I am your kind. Maybe your sense of me is weak because I am too small. But in my eyes, your presence is very strong. The moment you set foot in Area 99, I already felt it."
