Shirazumi walked quickly through the icy forest made of reinforced concrete. The place where his hand was severed was no longer bleeding. After awakening his origin, his physical qualities in all aspects surpassed those of ordinary people, as did his recovery ability.
But on the contrary, I am now extremely thirsty and hungry.
His stomach was like a rag being twisted by someone's hands, eager for something to be filled into it. The feeling of hunger almost drove him crazy, and the same thing happened in his throat, as if there were coals of fire burning his flesh and blood.
He urgently needs something to wet his throat and fill his stomach.
His animal-like senses became increasingly sharp, and he could even distinguish hundreds of different smells in the air, some of which originated from the single-family building not far from him.
——That's the smell of sweet prey.
Bai Chunlio couldn't help but stick out his tongue and licked his chapped lips. The strong demand of his body made his rationality become paralyzed.
In this hazy feeling, he is the king of this reinforced concrete forest, and those guys are just prey. But now, the king of beasts has started hunting, let's hunt tonight!
He rushed into the building with ease, completed his hunt amidst the helpless screams of his prey, and felt the warm flesh and blood entering his mouth, sliding through his esophagus, and finally entering his stomach...
That full sense of satisfaction, that unparalleled sense of happiness, no matter whether it was taking drugs or having sex, could not compare with this feeling. It was as if the dry earth had welcomed the rain and burst out with vitality again, which made him almost cry.
came out.
So he ate harder and harder, immersed in the supreme joy, and did not notice the changes in his body at all.
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"Mikael, what is origin?"
When chasing Shirazumi Rio, Shiki asked curiously. She remembered that Mikael told her once that her murderous impulse came from the origin.
"Shiki, do you believe in past lives?"
"Previous life?"
Shi shook her head. She had never thought about this issue before. She could only say that she neither denied nor affirmed it.
“Do past lives have anything to do with origins?”
"It's just an analogy, the past life of the past life of the past life...just keep going back to the origin of your existence. The law of disorder determines the direction of the beginning of life, and then condenses into a material entity in the flow.
Human beings are part of it, that is, originating from matter."
Hearing Mikael's explanation, Shi's big eyes revealed confusion. It was clear that he could understand it before, but later it turned into something mysterious and mysterious.
"So humans are born from the origin?"
"No, the origin is just the simplest command at the beginning of life, which is the innate instinct of human beings. For example, babies will cry when they are hungry, and children will want to destroy when they are angry... To use a computer as an analogy,
The origin is the most basic running program."
"But humans and computers are different. They only exist for a certain reason and cannot control human behavior."
When Mikael said this, he paused for a moment and looked at the two ceremonies thoughtfully.
"Thousands of years ago in the East, there was a philosopher named Xunzi who proposed the concept of evil nature, that is, [human beings are born with evil nature], but the [evil] here does not refer to negative things such as evil.
Emotions are more [pure].”
"Babies and children are pure. They have no concept of [good] and [evil]. They just act as the original human program, which is the origin of unconscious practice. But the reason why human beings can become human is not just to make tools.
, more importantly, social groups are formed by restraining individual behaviors.”
"In the process of growing up, pure babies and children gain intelligence through education, that is, they gradually become [people] in a broad sense."
"So, Shiki."
At the end of Mikael's words, he thought of the man who looked exactly like Shi Shi, with a sarcastic smile on his face.
"If it is not my will, even if I am aware of my origin, I will not let my origin awaken."
"Your origin is nothingness, and the best way to represent nothingness is death, but it does not mean that you are a murderer. Only if you let yourself go and give up your own intelligence can you become a murderer."
"As for those who give up human intelligence and choose to act according to instinctive impulses, they can no longer be called humans, they are just beasts in human form."
Having said this, he looked up at a house not far away from them. It was obvious that the window had been smashed open, as if something like a wild beast had broken into the house.
Shi's heart sank inexplicably, and he subconsciously clenched the short knife in his hand.
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When I came to the broken floor-to-ceiling window, I smelled the strange smell in the air. The room was pitch black, like a beast's huge mouth, swallowing up all the light, and like a bottomless abyss.
As long as you step into it, you will fall into endless darkness.
But without too much hesitation, Shiki turned over and jumped into the house. It only took less than a second for his extraordinary vision to adapt to the darkness in the house.
What came into view was a mess, as if it had been swept by a hurricane. The chandelier overhead fell to the ground, and the broken wires flashed with blue and white sparks.
She walked out of the living room and followed the stairs to the second floor. The strange smell in the air became stronger and stronger, almost condensing into liquid and dripping down. She followed the traces on the ground and arrived at the door of a bedroom.
Through the broken wooden door, she easily saw the scene inside.
The soft pink wallpaper was covered with fresh paint, and the wooden floor was soaked with warm liquid. The liquid kept flowing, and finally spread to Shi Shi's feet, dyeing her a bright red.
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In this hell-like ukiyo-e, three broken human figures are lying quietly on the ground. In other words, they cannot be called people at all. They are scattered more like parts that make up a human being.
Humanoid beasts crawled on those parts, munching on them like silkworms munching on mulberry leaves, only more violently.
The bright moonlight shines on the beast through the torn curtains, and also illuminates the face immersed in the primitive act of eating.
The instinctive urge to kill faintly emerged again, but this time when faced with this scene, Shiki did not feel pleasure or yearning.
Great sadness surged into her heart, almost drowning her little body.