With a "pop" sound, a shapeless shadow fell from Lin Sanjiu's hand. When it fell to the ground, its empty limbs swung out in an arc in mid-air, and then it fell limply.
The ground fell on the torso. The body bag of old red-haired Jack split open a long gap from the back and was exposed to the fluorescent lamp.
Almost at the same time as it touched the ground, a small shadow suddenly flashed out of the meat nest and rushed towards the corpse bag. With a high-pitched scream, it quickly sank into the gap.
Lin Sanjiu watched quietly as the cloth-bag-like corpse swelled up - obviously what went in was not big, but the torso of the corpse was gradually filled up, and it began to look like a real human being; it was just that
This change did not last long - when "Red-haired Old Jack" stood up from the ground, it and its companions did not look like the same creature at all.
It was as if a fist had been stuffed into the face, and most of the flesh and skin of the head hung limply, resting on a chin shaped like a rotten peach; two empty arms were swinging beside the body, supported by the inside.
The contents of the body bag disappeared at the thigh, and the ends of the soft calves were folded under the thighs dragging two foot-shaped bags - at first glance, it felt like a person had been half melted and was flowing to the floor.
of.
The fourth thing reluctantly opened its mouth, but could not make any sound.
But this was enough - Lin Sanjiu herself was slightly surprised: she never expected that one of her most incredible guesses turned out to be the truth.
Ayu glanced at the half-erected corpse of the red-haired old Jack, then looked at Lin Sanjiu, her mouth tightly pursed - among the four creatures, she most resembled a real living person.
Is it because she was the first to eat human beings and wear corpses? Lin Sanjiu secretly guessed.
"...You are a body bag. There is no flesh, blood, internal organs or bones in it for us to eat. Even if you put a 'soul' in it, you won't be able to become like us." When Ayu spoke again, she looked calm on the surface.
She seemed to disappear for a moment, but after her voice trembled, she returned to normal. "This body bag is our work - who are you? Why does the illusion no longer work on you?"
"I thought you didn't need my answer that much." Lin Sanjiu retorted, showing her white teeth. At her feet, several translucent pieces of flesh squeaked like mice.
He escaped from the broken flesh nest and threw mucus all over the floor. In just a blink of an eye, the piece of flesh penetrated by bone spurs collapsed on the ground. He twitched and died.
Every time a piece of meat dies, Ayu and the other three look uglier.
"Is this what you gave birth to?" Lin Sanjiu's expression could even be said to be a bit cruel. She pinched the last piece of flesh that was still struggling, hiding the disgust and sarcasm in her voice.
Can't help reading: When the female Vajra wears a white lotus. "Killing the child in front of the mother... I'm so embarrassed."
"I already told you that I don't—" Ayu didn't finish his sentence. As Lin Sanjiu suddenly closed his fingers, he immediately raised his voice: "—Wait!"
A pair of amber pupils turned towards her. After the pressure stopped, the piece of meat made a sharp sound.
"Okay, okay," Ayu raised her only hand and said as if surrendering: "...What do you want? We won't touch you, and we won't offend the river, okay?"
Lin Sanjiu smiled slightly. The bone wings on her back rose slightly in response to her emotions - the other party's reaction was not unexpected.
From the confrontation just now, it can be seen that this kind of creature is not good at fighting; and ever since Lin Sanjiu crushed half of the meat nest, Ayu and the other three have not stopped trying to create illusions - once or twice
This time, the illusion did appear realistically for a few seconds, but it soon disintegrated in the images returned by consciousness.
With their biggest support removed, Ayu and the others could only stand defensively not far away, not even daring to rush over to save the pieces of meat she had slaughtered. They also knew very well that in terms of combat power alone, Lin Sanjiu could
They killed several times.
"The problem is, you have already offended me, and more than once." Feeling the greasy touch between his fingers, Lin Sanjiu called out a tube of Ruyue Station's potato chips in disgust, and after emptying it,
He stuffed the piece of meat in. "...Well, where should I ask first...Who are you?"
Ayu's expression looked as if someone had stuffed a handful of dirt into her mouth. She stared at the Pringles potato chip tube and then responded: "...souls. We are souls."
"Does your soul look like this?"
"No, no... Soul is the name of our clan." I don't know if it was because of the hostage relationship, but Ayu cooperated strangely: "This name has been following us since our hometown... I don't know.
Who named it, but it is quite accurate, don’t you think? No matter what kind of creature it is, it is just a flesh and skin bag to us, and the real master is us - just like what you humans call the soul."
"Where did you come from? How did you get here?"
"Have you ever heard of an apocalyptic world called The Walking Dead? That's our hometown." Ayu's dark eyes stared at her. Behind her, the other two bodies that had been hollowed out by their "souls" also moved in.
His face was expressionless. "...When the end came to that world, it was also the time when our clan was born."
Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt a chill coming from her back - "You... are you the reason why the world is coming to an end?"
ayu nodded slowly.
In other words... they are the same thing as the high temperature of extreme temperature hell, the severe cold of ice and snow storms, and the nuclear radiation of the Garden of Eden...
Lin Sanjiu had never thought that the cause of the end of the world could actually... travel.
"No, that's not right," she suddenly remembered something, "the end of this world has already come once, and it was brought by the extraterrestrial creature Red Nautilus——"
The second half of the sentence was suddenly swallowed back by her.
Ayu glanced at her and said with a smile: "What do you think is inside the red nautilus?... It's us."
"The Red Nautilus World is already the third world outside our hometown. In the previous world, we discovered this creature that was as powerful as its size... so we started from the previous skin.
, changed into the body of the red nautilus. After eating the inside of the creature, our soul will imitate a similar structure in the skin, thereby gaining some of the abilities of this creature... This is also why I can be like you humans.
The reason for speaking and moving. In the same way, after we eat the red nautilus, we can also control their mucus and tentacles - manipulating these huge shells, we come to this world."
Lin Sanjiu's fingers that were pressing the lid of the potato chip tube were turning pale. It took her a while before she felt that she finally understood what Ayu said.
"Do you also switch worlds every 14 months?"
"Oh. No." Ayu shook his head. "Human beings in some places already have the ability to travel between stars, and there are also creatures in some places, like the red nautilus, that can travel in space after being eaten by us - because they
It has been hollowed out. So there is no need to consume oxygen and food. Before coming to this world, we have been traveling in darkness for nearly a hundred years."
Nearly a hundred years - Lin Sanjiu was shocked. The apocalyptic world began a hundred years ago? But then he thought about it, if the "soul" family's voyage exceeded a certain speed and crossed dimensions, the time would not be accurate.
Well... Since it involved a field of physics that she didn't understand, Lin Sanjiu didn't think about it deeply.
Knowing that the other party's attitude of answering all questions was a bit strange, she couldn't help but continue to ask: "...Why do you keep going to the new world?"
"Why do sheep eat grass? Why do fish swim? Why do humans struggle in the apocalypse? It's all because of the most basic reproductive instinct in our genes. Just like you, we also have to reproduce; in order to find the skin that allows us to reproduce,
We must keep trying. What’s more, as long as we don’t die, every time we change our skin, we are equivalent to being reborn.”
"...You mean...you can't reproduce?"
Ayu's face darkened, and his eyes fell back on the potato chip tube again. "That's right. All the souls you see came out of the first world of the walking dead. I am just a carrier; for so long
, we only have a reduced share, but we have never had a newborn... You killed five souls today, and we lost five souls. This is why I want to have a good talk with you. There is no deep hatred between us.
, it really doesn’t have to be a lose-lose situation.”
"Oh? What do you want?"
"Do you still have your friends in the R area? Under the influence of our chemical hormones, it is very harmful to the brain for them to sleep like this... If you exchange so many people for a soul and live in peace, you won't suffer a loss, right?" ayu
He even said half-jokingly: "We have nothing but an empty skin, so we can't compensate for your injuries."
The two people behind her and the red-haired old Jack who looked half melted remained silent, as if they were all being handled by Ayu.
Lin Sanjiu felt that her mind had been filled with a lot of information, and it was even a little difficult to think - but finally she nodded. It wasn't long before the spacecraft landed. Anyway, first put the r area in
Save the people from the "soul"'s mouth, and we can talk about the rest later - ayu indeed kept his promise, and a few hours later, when the spacecraft began to land slowly, he asked the other two men to call them all
woke up.
Although she still had doubts, when Lin Sanjiu saw Ward getting up from the ground rubbing his eyes, and Zhang Huabi was startled by two men when she first woke up, she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. The other few
A passenger had no idea that he had just escaped having his internal organs eviscerated, and was still muttering that he had not slept well.
"Okay, now you should return that soul to me, right?"
After most of the passengers left one after another, Ayu, who stayed at the end, smiled and said to Lin Sanjiu: "The savior is definitely not me." Beside her, Ward and Zhang Huabi followed closely as if to protect her.
She followed her footsteps and stared at Ayu and his group defensively - even if they couldn't see the meat nest and the red-haired old Jack at the end of the corridor, they obviously felt that it was too abnormal for them to suddenly fall asleep until the spacecraft landed.
To be honest, Lin Sanjiu didn't quite know what he should do.
She was not willing to hand over her soul just like that - this was the only evidence she could prove the existence of souls - but she also didn't want to get entangled with this clan. After all, after they adapted to the skin, it seemed that
There is no difference between her and a real person; if the Soul Clan keeps sending people to sneak attacks and harass her, even if she is not afraid, she still has to think about her friends around her.
With some reluctance, Lin Sanjiu handed over the potato chip tube.
However, when ayu reached out to take it, she suddenly took it back and narrowed her eyes.
"You talked too much just now, I almost forgot to ask one thing." Lin Sanjiu stared at Ayu closely, feeling her fingers were cold. "...Why did you let the passengers in Area R pass out?"
Ayu's mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out for a while.
"After you gave birth to the first batch of souls, Zhang Huabi discovered that you were pregnant again." Lin Sanjiu desperately hoped that she had guessed wrong, but the hairs on her back had already stood up. "In other words,
, you carried more than nine souls... and then you knocked out the passengers in Area R before going to the Meat Nest to find me."
The person behind him seemed to be moving, but before anything happened, the bone wings had opened rapidly, defending their master like a ferocious beast.
"...On one side is the soul, on the other side is the ready-made skin." Lin Sanjiu's eyes and throat were as dry as uncomfortably dry: "...The people in R-area have been hollowed out a long time ago, right?"
When she finished saying this, she felt someone gently tap the bone wing behind her.
Lin Sanjiu turned around slowly.
Zhang Huabi looked at her expressionlessly, her usually funny little curly hair sticking tightly to her scalp, making her look unnatural somewhere.
Ward is different.
The dark blond haired young man's expression and movements are as flexible and real as when he was alive, as if he were himself.
"I delayed it for so long on purpose just to make their appearance more natural," Ward - or rather, the creature wearing Ward, said with a smile: "I didn't expect you would still discover it."
Lin Sanjiu felt like vomiting.
She didn't know how the soul could hollow out a human being, but she also knew that it was rare for a soul to become so alive in such a short period of time.
"Ward" stretched out a hand towards her and smiled again.
"Hello, I am the queen of the soul clan. I am very happy to... wear you today." (To be continued)
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