Ke Lan and the others stayed on the shore of the underground lake for two days.

The seriously injured mercenary died on the first night due to a bunch of complications caused by wound infection, while Ivan and Asano Akira did not wake up until noon the next day.

It was almost the same as Ke Lan's initial speculation. Ivan dreamed that he was completely devoured by the erosion seed, and turned into an inhuman monster, slaughtering on the ark uncontrollably... He felt most afraid of it.

What is, even though his self-consciousness is still remaining in his body, he has been assimilated by the eroded and violent and bloodthirsty personality. He can't curb this impulse at all... so much so that after waking up from the dream,

His mental state is still in a very unstable state.

"I...I can't believe it...that's my own thoughts...I want to kill someone...No, not kill...it's eating..." Yifan said in a trembling voice, behind him

Her clothes were completely wet with sweat, and her facial muscles were twitching involuntarily. The desperate and painful eyes, as long as she looked at him once, it would be difficult to erase it from her mind.

"Doctor, please cheer up a little, that's a dream, that's just a dream!" The hound grabbed Ivan's shoulder, pulled his body over, and shook it hard for a few times, "You've just had a nightmare, you're basically

It's not a monster!"

"No...you don't know that feeling..." Ivan said, his expression was very strange, making people unable to see whether he was crying or laughing, "That is my own will, my subconscious mind.

The hidden desire... I clearly did not lose control of my limbs, but I did not want to stop my atrocities... The flesh and blood tempted me... I killed people and then ate their flesh, I didn't feel nauseous or afraid

, instead, it is full of a strange pleasure... This pleasure urges me to prey on more... "

He continued, "I don't know if I'm a person yet... Maybe I've become a monster..."

"Okay." Ke Lan stood up and interrupted Ivan, "Eating is a human instinct, so there is no problem."

"But...I..."

Ke Lan turned around and walked away. By the time he came back, there was a piece of not very fresh meat in his hand, and there was still a lot of dark brown coagulated plasma on it.

Without saying a word, he walked directly to Ivan and stuffed the piece of flesh into Ivan's mouth.

"This is... um... um... what?!"

"The meat that just cut off from the dead." Ke Lan replied calmly.

"Puff! Woo wow... uh..." After hearing Ke Lan's answer, Ivan immediately spit out the things in his mouth, and then knelt on the ground and started to retching.

Until his throat became hoarse when he vomited, Ke Lan handed over a pot of water and said, "Wait."

"I..." Ivan originally wanted to say something, but in the end he swallowed all the words. As a result, he took a kettle, rinsed hard for a few times, and then spit the liquid mixed with filth.

On the ground.

"I also said that I wanted to eat people, but I couldn't swallow a piece of dead meat..."

Ivan immediately shook all over, raised his head and looked at Ke Lan in surprise.

"Now, do you still think you are a monster?" Ke Lan asked with a smile on his face.

"...Thank you." Yifan was silent for a few seconds, raised the back of his hand, and wiped the water stains on the corner of his mouth.

Although he looked very embarrassed, his expression was much normal than before, and his eyes also returned to his original calmness.

"Ke Lan really has you-" the hunting dog said, "Tsk, I can't think of this way."

"From another perspective, the dreams you have experienced are not at all true... Humans are just containers of erosion seeds." Ke Lan said, "When the erosion seeds enter a period of rapid change,

After the emergence of the 'core', it has an independent consciousness... For humans, as containers, are just a body that provides nutrients."

"There is a very classic science fiction movie, "Alien". You have always watched it. Do you think that those monsters that "break out of the shell" from the human body were transformed by that human?" Ke Lan glanced at Yifan.

, continues, "Everything that appears in the dream world comes from your imagination - you think that human self-consciousness can be attached to the erosion seed in the mature stage, so you feel that you have become a monster, and in reality

You were already dead by that time.”

"My imagination... comes from my imagination..." Yifan repeated this sentence softly.

"You think monsters will kill humans at will, so when your consciousness is attached to the monster, you will mistakenly think that you are killing... You think you still maintain control of your body, but in fact, you are not

Can't control anything?" Ke Lan's tone slowed down a little, "This is just a dream, it's no big deal... When I play a certain strategy game, I always execute the (defense of harmony) clan (defense of defense) (defense) clan (defense of defense) when I play a certain strategy game.

Harmony) and the policy of destroying (preventing harmony) and severing the policy... and even processed all of a certain species into canned food... In reality, I have not become a big devil who kills without blinking."

"I get it." Ivan nodded and said to everyone, "I'm fine, sorry, I'm worried."

"What's there to apologize? It's a good thing to wake up." The hound patted Ivan's back hard, but accidentally pulled the wound that had just been bandaged under his ribs, and immediately frowned, "Hiss... no

Taking painkillers...it hurts so fuckingly...but just now, doctor, you almost scared me. I thought you were going crazy."

"Old dog, I suggest you better sit quietly and lie down... Although I will help you with your broken bones, this position cannot be fixed with plaster. If it is healed for a long time

It's crooked, and you have to knock it off and pick it up again... If you accidentally insert it into the internal organs..."

"Damn, don't scare me!" The hound's eyes widened in an instant, "Okay, okay, I won't move anymore, okay?"

"If the ribs are fractured, you can use a chest strap to fix the externally, and you cannot perform vigorous exercise for about a week. However, if the number of broken bones is large, you need to put a stent in the body for internal fixation through surgery." Ivan said - and

Compared with Ke Lan's "fill-in-place", he is the full doctor in the team.

"If there are not many, just two of them are broken, which means that the soft tissue contusion is more serious." Ke Lan said.

"Then I can make a simple chest strap for you, just find some elastic fabrics and some bandages." Ivan said.

"That's the best," said the Hound quickly, "Ke Lan likes to scare me, so I don't dare to move."

...

Asano Aki woke up half an hour later than Ivan, but compared to Ivan, he seemed much calmer.

Ke Lan: "Awaken?"

Akira Asano: "Yes."

Ke Lan: "Have you had a nightmare?"

Akira Asano: "Well... a dream that I don't like very much, but I don't know if it's a nightmare."

Ke Lan: "What did you dream of?"

Akira Asano: "I went back to the experimental base I used to experience it again."

Ke Lan: "And what? Have you started a big killing and cracked everyone else? Or did you see some indescribable monsters, stepping on a hole in the ark with one foot?"

Akira Asano shook his head and said, "No, everything is exactly the same as before. I am still the rear of the crane. Every one of the people participating in the experiment is much better than me..."

He paused and continued, "But they were all dead, or crazy, and I was the only one who survived."

"I actually always knew that it was a dream," Asano Akira's voice was not at all emotionally fluctuating, but Ke Lan heard a hint of reluctance, "But at least, at that time, I could still see it with my eyes.

thing."

"Will you regret it?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking, "I participated in that kind of experiment."

"I don't have a chance to regret it, and regret is useless." Akira Asano replied.

"Indeed, regret is the most useless thing in the world... So even if I do something wrong, I will only reflect, not regret." Ke Lan said with emotion, "Only mediocre people can spend time

Wasted on regret.”

"Why, why do you say this? Why don't you think about where to have a big meal after going out? Don't you Chinese say that, 'Food is the most important thing to fill your stomach." The hound chewed while chewing

He said while wearing compressed dry food like soap, "I'm really fed up with this kind of pig food. It's either bland or tasteless, or it's salty, and it's so fucking greasy like synthetic fat..."

"Then what do you want to eat?" Ke Lan joked, "Do you want me to cut the meat off that guy again and let the old dog taste the taste?"

"Damn it, I'm just nicknamed "Hunter". I'm not a real Hunter. Stop mentioning such disgusting things." The Hunter waved his hands repeatedly, "Hey... to be honest, I've always wanted to eat Japanese cuisine.

Yes, I used to hear that there are several very good restaurants in Dongjiu District, such as sushi, tempura, teppanyaki, etc., but unfortunately, those stores accompany the entire Dongjiu District module and turned into fireworks.

”

As he was talking, the hound suddenly turned his head and looked at Akira Asano: "By the way, Asano, you must know where Japanese cuisine is delicious, right? How many stores are introduced?"

"I have never eaten Japanese cuisine." Akira Asano replied.

"No?" The hound showed a look of astonishment, "You...you are a Japanese man, have you never eaten Japanese cuisine?"

"I haven't eaten it before," Akira Asano said, "When I was a child, I ate standard nutritious meals for Ark residents at every meal. After the compulsory education stage, I joined the army and started eating in the canteen of the military camp... Oh, and the execution is also

Standard military rations distributed during missions.”

Asano Akira's "Ark Resident Standard Nutritional Meal" is called, and its only function is to provide residents on the Ark with all kinds of nutrition required to "maintain health" and the taste and taste of the food has never been involved.

Within consideration.

This food is provided free of charge to every Ark resident in the compulsory education stage. Of course, if you don’t like to eat, you can give up collecting it and spend credit points to buy other foods.

Ke Lan has also eaten this standard nutritious meal for a while. The outer packaging is a sealed plastic bag, and the inside is a pack of flour. It is made into a paste with hot water. It also comes with a few free items inside.

Pack seasonings so that the batter tastes less difficult to swallow.

In addition, there are several oral pills to supplement various vitamins and trace elements that are not found in the batter.

This kind of food is probably slightly better than the cockroach protein blocks distributed to miners by large consortiums, and even the hunting dogs are now eating compressed dry food.

If it weren't for filling your stomach, no one would have wanted to eat this kind of thing.

"You were also... born in a human cultivation center?" Ke Lan asked subconsciously. Only children of this kind of origin will have a clean account in their accounts. For any child from a family, even if they have financial conditions, they will have no credit.

If it's bad, you won't eat this thing every meal.

"No, I have parents, but they were exiled when I was very young. As for the reasons for the exile, I don't know." Akira Asano said, his tone as if he was saying that two people had nothing to do with him.
To be continued...