At midnight, just as the two had guessed, the fog gradually dissipated.
After the fog dissipated, the world returned to what Gu Zhuo was familiar with. It was dark night, without the pure starry sky illuminated by human city lights, and the monsters lurking in the dark.
When the Fortress of Doom is parked next to the highway, the shrill roars of some monsters can always be heard in the distance. They remind Gu Zhuo all the time to be careful of their sudden attacks.
However, with the protection of Doomsday Fortress, Gu Zhuo would not worry about monsters harming him at all.
It's just that the giant octopus today left a shadow in his heart:
If that guy is really threatening him, he needs to consider reinforcing the defense of Doomsday Fortress again.
Of course, if we really want to strengthen the defense of the Doomsday Fortress, it will be something we have to do in the future. The most important thing now is to write down the patterns of these changes.
Chaoying has already started recording these two changes. The first blood moon happened suddenly and without any warning. Today's heavy fog started from a misty mist and gradually became thicker. It was just foggy.
This weather change was not as weird as the blood moon, so it did not attract Gu Zhuo's attention at first.
There were fourteen days between the two mutations, and although they started at different times, their duration was the same, seventeen hours.
Chaoying initially guessed that a special weather phenomenon will occur in the next fourteen days. Similarly, the weather phenomenon in fourteen days will last for seventeen hours.
Monsters mutated from humans appeared in the first blood moon, and ugly octopus monsters appeared in the second fog. What will appear next time?
The two of them had no way of knowing. Chaoying could only pray that his guess was wrong and that these two times were just coincidences.
After recording the pattern between the two changes, it was already getting late. In order to sort out their mood after a day of hard work and exhaustion, the two of them stopped wasting time and went to rest separately.
Gu Zhuo slept for a long time, and his sleep was very restless.
Just like after experiencing the first mutation, Gu Zhuo had a nightmare about a super giant octopus.
In the dream, the super-giant octopus treated him like a plaything, playing with it wantonly. Gu Zhuo wanted to escape, but he couldn't escape no matter what. Every time he tried to break free from the shackles of the super-giant octopus, the octopus would immediately take him back.
Pull back into the abyss of depravity.
Not only that, in his dream, the super giant octopus also learned human language.
It said to Gu Zhuo in an extremely low and hoarse voice, like a metal voice that had been rusted for hundreds of years:
"You can't escape. No matter what, I will find you, crush you, and turn you into nourishment for me."
Listening to its words, Gu Zhuo felt as if he had fallen into an extremely cold ice cellar. A chill suddenly arose from the bottom of his heart and went straight to his forehead...
When he was tortured by the giant octopus for an unknown number of times in his dream, something warm stuck to his face.
The thing was soft and had the unique warmth of living things. The moment it touched Gu Zhuo's skin, Gu Zhuo seemed to be saved and immediately broke free from the restricted dream.
He opened his eyes suddenly and looked at the thing that had rescued him from the abyss of the dream:
That's Sam's tongue.
Seeing that Gu Zhuo had woken up, Sam took a few steps back. From its eyes, Gu Zhuo could see concern and worry.
He glanced at the clock on the bedside table next to him. It was now 10:35 in the morning. He had slept for so long and had such a real nightmare for so long. No wonder he felt so tired, so tired that he felt like he was suffocating.
He felt something cold on his back, and when he touched it with his hand, he found that the back of his pajamas was completely soaked with cold sweat. His forehead was also covered with large beads of sweat, and those who didn't know it thought he had just come back from exercising outside.
"Sam, come here."
Gu Zhuo called Sam and asked Sam to lie next to his legs.
He touched Sam's head. Sam's thick and soft hair felt good to the touch. The moment Gu Zhuo touched it, his mood immediately improved a lot.
After stroking Sam's dog head for a while, Gu Zhuo tried hard to get rid of the entanglement of the bad dream in his mind.
He walked to the bathroom, ready to take a shower and wash off the cold sweat on his body.
As soon as he stood in front of the mirror, Gu Zhuo was stunned for a moment when he saw his pale face in the mirror.
Not only was he pale, but he hadn't shaved his beard for a long time. His beard was now unkempt, and his hair was still messy just after he woke up, making Gu Zhuo look particularly like a homeless man.
No wonder Sam was so worried about him just now and wanted to wake him up. Now his condition looks really bad.
When he thought about how he had been getting along with Chaoying like this recently, Gu Zhuo felt inexplicably embarrassed.
He decisively took a set of clothes, took a quick shower, and washed his head. Then, he took out a razor that he hadn't used for a long time, looked in the mirror bit by bit, and carefully shaved his beard.
After shaving, the messy homeless man in the mirror immediately transformed into another image.
Gu Zhuo's facial features were originally very handsome, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and pointed eyebrows. In addition, he was born in the military, and his figure and height were both there. When he worked as a bodyguard for several popular female stars,
He was also misunderstood as their outsider boyfriend.
The people around Gu Zhuo who are a little bit good at playing don't believe that he is actually single. After all, for them, if he has such a face and his family is relatively wealthy, they can basically pick up any girl they want.
It's a pity that Gu Zhuo just doesn't understand and just likes to play his own games.
It was the first time for Gu Zhuo to experience this feeling of paying attention to someone's image.
After shaving and changing clothes, I felt much better.
Now, he doesn't look like someone who has experienced a life-and-death struggle in the apocalypse. Instead, he looks like a successful and famous star who shines brightly.
"Sam, let's go."
Calling Sam, he stroked its head one last time, opened the bedroom door and walked out.
Chaoying woke up early. She had originally prepared breakfast for two people, but seeing that Gu Zhuo still didn't wake up, she never bothered him.
At this moment, she was sitting on the sofa reading an e-book, as if she was looking up some information.
When she heard Gu Zhuo opening the door, she raised her head to look at Gu Zhuo. When she saw Gu Zhuo's change today, her eyes moved almost imperceptibly.
Gu Zhuo walked over. He was a big man, so naturally he didn't notice Chao Ying's subtle movement just now.
He naturally sat next to Chaoying and said to her:
"I woke up late today and had a nightmare."
He has the kind of fragrance that just comes after taking a shower. This fragrance is not strong, but it is light and lingers on the tip of one's nose. It smells very comfortable. It's like the fragrance after the first rain in spring.
, the smell that permeates the air.
Chaoying smelled this smell, her face was still expressionless, and she still looked cold, but deep down she liked this smell very much.
"What nightmare did you have?"
"I dreamed about that giant octopus. It happens every time. As long as a change occurs, I will have a nightmare. I don't know if there is any connection between the two things."
Gu Zhuo said that he was discussing this matter very seriously, but Chaoying listened seriously on the surface, but in his heart he was paying attention to other places.
"Chaoying, do you have nightmares, or am I the only one who does?"
Gu Zhuo asked Chaoying again.
Hearing Gu Zhuo ask himself, Chao Ying raised his head to look at him, but met his eyes.
His eyes were bright. He was obviously such a mature and experienced person, but he still had such young eyes. Chaoying had never noticed it before.
"No, I haven't had nightmares, because I never have any dreams, good dreams or bad dreams."
She answered Gu Zhuo's question with a calm expression, but deep down she was shouting: Don't look into his eyes anymore, don't look into his eyes anymore...
It can only be said that Chaoying hid it very well, and Gu Zhuo was so thick that he didn't notice it at all.
"Okay, it seems to be my problem alone. Maybe it was because the bedside I slept on last night faced the window. The window was so dirty, which caused me to have nightmares. We have to deal with the end of the world now.
Clean the fortress quickly, don’t let those yellow things stay on it, otherwise it will be troublesome if it can’t be washed off by then.”
As Gu Zhuo said this, he stood up, left Chaoying, and walked to the cab.
The moment Gu Zhuo left, the fragrance also disappeared.
The disappearance of the fragrance made Chaoying feel lonely. She almost couldn't help it and asked Gu Zhuo to stay. Fortunately, she still maintained enough sense and just watched Gu Zhuo walk to the cab.
Chaoying sighed, and she quietly moved her original position and sat where Gu Zhuo had just sat.
She didn't know why she was like this. The experiences of the past ten years didn't teach her how to deal with this matter.
She shook her head, not wanting to think any more, and continued to check the information in her hand.
That information was about the treatment of nuclear radiation. She always remembered that she had promised Gu Zhuo that she would solve his technical problems and design a blueprint for a doomsday fortress that would use nuclear energy as fuel.
She must fulfill her promise to Gu Zhuo and become a helpful person to him.
Chaoying believes that perhaps only in this way can he stay in the Doomsday Fortress legitimately...