The huge shadow brought about a deafening roar, which made Tang Rou, a human being, black out just by hearing it.
"We couldn't reach your world, but after you broke the rules, we can come."
These alien creatures are restricted by rules and have never interfered with humans.
But humans were the first to break the rules.
This place was a nuclear radiation pollution area a hundred years ago, causing ecological alienation.
Human experiments are, in a sense, humans killing each other.
Are these behaviors what he calls breaking the rules?
Tang Rou's body felt cold, and she felt that Alphinaud had become extremely strange.
The horrific scene like a catastrophe gradually subsided.
Those dark greens slowly disappeared, and the city of Os became what it looked like on the day it was destroyed sixty years ago.
The tsunami submerged this broken city of sin little by little.
The scene in front of me seemed to be a closed loop, perfectly overlapping with a certain day in history.
Humans are creatures that live under the rules of time, but "they" don't seem to be.
Tang Rou knew that the concept of time in her own eyes was probably different from that in Alphinaud's eyes.
It can be seen from the torn food.
The dark-haired young man lowered his head, and his dark green tentacles wrapped around Tang Rou's waist, like a large pet seeking the care of its owner.
His idea was simple: destroy the place that made her sad.
"I can protect Rou." Alphinaud repeated in a low voice, breathing a sigh of relief as if he had fulfilled his promise.
Tang Rou finally remembered.
Why is this sentence so familiar?
Not long ago, he said this when she wanted to leave him alone in the sea at the Tower of Babel.
He eagerly told Tang Rou that he wanted to protect her and not leave himself in the sea.
Thinking about it this way, everything he is doing now seems to be just confirming to her that he can protect her.
Alphinaud raised his hand, and with his hands that could turn everything around in an instant, he carefully tucked her hair that was messed up by the sea breeze behind her ears, straightened her collar, and then showed a happy look.
Tang Rou looked at him steadily.
It's not that he's unintelligent, he just simply doesn't care about anything other than her.
Not far away, a few dumbfounded people on the beach watched all this.
Lin Li's original mission was to secretly monitor Tang Rou's breeders and experimental subject SS17.
But now, he suddenly felt that his mission was a bit ridiculous.
Lin Li sighed, somewhat thankful that he had expressed his feelings to the Tang breeder not long ago and joined the team in advance.
Even the gods are standing behind her, how can they control her?
…
Everyone in the town disappeared.
There are still some people alive in this ruined city.
Some people who look a little weird, with slightly bluish skin.
Most are children who are sixteen or about to turn sixteen.
Tang Rou has no way of judging whether this kind of living is salvation or death.
She thought of another crucial question.
Alphinaud was seriously injured before entering here and was in the form of a poor little octopus. Why did he suddenly become a human and be able to walk on his legs?
Even the language system is richer than before?
And...she thought about that time she took him out to buy clothes.
Why do so many people disappear wherever he goes?
Some things can become painful if you think about them carefully.
Alphinaud did not tell Tang Rou that human fear, pain, and sadness would also become his nourishment.
He doesn't have any so-called concept of good and evil, and judging whether something is good or bad purely depends on Tang Rou's attitude.
Tang Rou and the others have gone through a long reincarnation here and experienced so many things. In Alphinaud's eyes, it was just for such a trivial reason as wanting to make her happy.
Or the entire human civilization is insignificant in his eyes.
In his eyes, even if human civilization dies, it has nothing to do with him.
The illusion is collapsing.
They wake up in an instant.
The sea water had already submerged 1/4 of the carriages, and they realized that the convoy had not reached the so-called city of Oss at all, but was driving towards the sea.
Behind them is the deserted hotel.
Tang Rou looked over and realized that this "unmanned hotel" seemed to be the house she lived in when she was Anna.
In the low-tide water, broken walls and houses washed away by the tsunami were vaguely visible.
Those ruins covered with moss and algae are exactly the city of Oss sixty years ago.
The convoy in front was in a panic, and Duolong was screaming.
Atherland tried hard to turn the car around and drove it next to them. Only then did he realize how terrifying Dolon's car, which had been full of people, now looked.
Through the glass, the faces sitting on the seats slowly turned gray.
Like he's been dead for a long time.
"vomit……"
Doron opened the car window and vomited until he was dizzy.
He had indeed been dead for a long time, at least sixty years, and his sealed box car was filled with the stench of corruption.
Not only is it smelly, it’s also dangerous. The car may contain a hodgepodge of elements from the periodic table, including nitrogen, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide.
Tang Rou covered her mouth and turned blue.
The waist was wrapped by cold tentacles.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
The young man covered her eyes and looked soothing.
"..." Tang Rou felt that he seemed even more terrifying.
Wasn't he responsible for these horrific scenes?
After sorting out those "companions" in the car, Tang Rou and Alphinaud changed their identities.
Lin Li received a message from "z" on his watch ten minutes ago, asking about Tang Rou's experimental subject SS17.
According to Lin Li, "z" is an organization that is superior to all major experimental bases, and monitoring Tang Rou is "z"'s proposal.
An organization that claims to lead human progress.
In fact, only the leader of the special biological research team, Xu Shihong, is a member of Z.
Lin Li didn't want to reply to the message, but Tang Rou suddenly said, "Tell the truth, tell them that many people died, but don't answer the questions about me and Alphinaud, just say that we disappeared."
With so many people dying in the convoy, Tangrou and Alphinaud only need to pick two special researchers who have not uploaded their faces for verification, and then they can change their identities and disguise themselves to enter Noah.
Anyway, we need to leave this place first.
After they regrouped, they drove away from the small town in no man's land.
The fog is very heavy.
The coast stretches for nearly 100 kilometers and can normally be reached in one hour, but heavy fog seriously blocks the view and increases the driving time.
The waves were getting stronger and stronger, lapping against the rocks.
The Ring Road is full of dark watermarks.
Alphinaud is not in good condition.
He desperately wanted to regain his human form, so he devoured many things that he had never devoured before, and now he was as depressed as a cat that had accumulated food.
Tang Rou set up the automatic driving, and Aslan went to the trunk to reminisce with her "Eight Clowns".
Looking at the bloated figure in the water tank, Tang Rou recalled inexplicably that Atherland once said that the name Os City appeared in Xiao Ning's computer on an encrypted file marked in red.
Alphinaud had been hiding in this car, in the same van as the "little monster".
Could it be that something was exchanged between them?
As a creature who has never stepped out of the Tower of Babel, Alphinaud should not understand the outside world.
He had no reason to know that the "pain" in that fantasy city was caused by experiments on living people.
Tang Rou can't talk to the now mutated Xiao Ning, what about Alphinaud?
Could it be that Xiao Ning told him something that made Alphinaud think of taking her to the city of Oss sixty years ago?
Nothing can be proven.
The city of Os was finally submerged sixty years ago, silent in the sea.