When he first saw this man's back, Zhang Yi was both frightened and extremely excited.
He pushed the door open with trembling hands, and then shouted tentatively: "What are you doing?! I'll beat you to death for stealing the fruit!"
As soon as these words came out, not only did the other party stiffen, but Zhang Yi himself was also dumbfounded.
What the hell am I talking about?
I haven’t seen anyone in so many years, how many fruits do I care about?
However, the other party actually said: "I'm sorry."
This time it was Zhang Yi's turn to be confused, but he was extremely happy in his heart.
He can talk! At least the other person feels polite to him! After all these years, he finally found someone who can talk to him!
So Zhang Yi walked over and asked: "You...who are you? Why did you appear in my garden?"
The other party never looked back, no matter how close Zhang Yi was.
But when Zhang Yi came to about five meters away from the other party, he spoke.
"Just stop there, don't get too close... This is a good thing for you and me."
Zhang Yi stopped and asked: "Who are you?"
The other party did not answer, but asked instead: "Why don't you tell me first, why are you here?"
"Me?" Zhang Yi was startled and didn't care. After thinking about it, he said: "I forgot... I was here when I woke up. It has been many years... I thought there was nothing else in this place.
It’s a living thing…”
After hearing this, the other party made a meaningful noise and then said: "You shouldn't be here."
Zhang Yi smiled bitterly.
"You think I thought, I thought this place was hell at first! But I found that this place doesn't seem so scary! It's just that there's no one... there's no one around... it's so lonely..."
"Loneliness...well..." The other party put his hands in his pockets and looked up at the sky. After the sea of fog left, the sky became clear again.
"What about you? Can you tell me who you are now?" Zhang Yi asked.
"I……"
"Yes, why are you here? Where is this place? It's..." Zhang Yi suddenly stopped as he spoke, realizing that he probably shouldn't expose himself.
The other party didn't seem to notice this. He lowered his head and thought for a while before saying: "I don't have a name."
"You don't have a name...how is that possible? Then how should I call you?"
"You...you can call me guest."
"Guest? What a weird title... Tsk..." Zhang Yi began to feel that this guy was perfunctory, but when he thought about it carefully, the past in his mind was awakened...
"Guest?! You are a guest?!"
The other party hummed, and his voice was very dull.
"Then...then you must know the factor?" Zhang Yi's heart trembled. He clearly remembered that it was these guys who found him and Hong Yan, and then the confusion that existed today.
However, when the guest heard Zi Zi, he turned around suddenly.
Zhang Yi originally had a smile on his face, but when he saw that person's face, his expression instantly stiffened, and his heart skipped a beat.
Because this guy has no face at all...
This description does not mean that he has no facial features...or that all the skin tissue has fallen off like Zhang Yi...but that he really has no concept of a face.
Where the face should have been is now indeed a dark abyss like midnight.
Zhang Yi only took one look, and the fear in his heart was instantly released... He couldn't speak, couldn't move his body, and could only look at the other person stupidly like this.
But he could clearly feel that the other party was stripping away some things from his memory, stripping away some things that he had hidden.
The feeling was very strange, as if I was suddenly stripped naked and presented naked in front of everyone.
Is this the power of guests?!
Although Zhang Yi knew that his guests were dangerous...even the alienated female devil had warned him...but he still didn't know how dangerous it was.
Now he understands...
This danger is overriding...
In front of the guests, he is like a speck of dust with no resistance and can only be played by them.
The guests continued to observe Zhang Yi for a long time.
When Zhang Yi felt that he might die again, the guest put on a hood to hide his face.
At that moment, Zhang Yi remembered everything...
The guy he met on Gaia...on Earth...in Xuzhou...
That guy who he couldn't kill no matter what, and whose ghost lingers... must be in the same group as the one in front of him.
They all have a collective name - guests.
But why is it called a "guest"? What is this weird, mysterious, and hopelessly powerful existence?
Zhang Yi fell to his knees and beat his heart painfully. He tried hard to breathe, and it took him a long time to recover.
And the other party just kept looking at him quietly.
Until Zhang Yi raised his head, the guest said: "Originally...according to the agreement of "Blue New Testament", I should erase you, but...I saw some extraordinary things in you, these things are extremely
Rare variables...so...I'll give you two options."
Zhang Yi has never been afraid of anyone, but today, in front of the guests, he chose to accept the arrangement.
"Say it."
"First, I can free you and let you leave this world forever and return to the most primitive state of chaos, which is the ultimate death."
Zhang Yi was startled when he heard this, and then smiled: "Death...I have already experienced it...it's not very comfortable...I still want to live. Is there any possibility of living?"
"Second, I can keep you alive, but you will join us and become a member of the guests. From then on, you will fulfill your mission according to the guidance of the "Blue New Testament", coexist with time and space, and become a person who can never
The guardian of stripping.”
Guardian...hehe...
Zhang Yi suddenly felt very ironic... When he was on Gaia, he was the leader of the mouse hole... The blood stained on his body was enough to rival Shura... Such a sinful person could actually become a guardian?
But after laughing at himself, Zhang Yi looked up at the guests in front of him and said: "It's better to choose the second way!"
——
"Then you...have become a 'guest' now?" Zhang Yu looked at Zhang Yi with suspicious eyes.
Completely different from the mysterious attire of the guests, the Zhang Yi in front of him was like a monster crawling out of the mire.
He said: "Of course not... becoming a 'guest' is not that simple..."
"Then what are you doing now..."
"This is a trial... Captain Zhang, you are one of my trial targets." Zhang Yi's tone was very relaxed.
But Zhang Yu became wary: "Oh? What kind of trial?"
Zhang Yi: "It's very simple. Help you leave here, or erase all of you. This is my trial goal."
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
But soon, Zhang Yu smiled: "Then are you going to help us? Or erase us?"
Zhang Yi also smiled: "Captain Zhang, if I wanted to erase you, I would not show up. Of course, my choice would be to help you leave."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu glanced at Zhang Yi meaningfully, and then said: "Okay, are you finished telling your story?"
Zhang Yi shook his head: "Not yet, there is one more thing. This part is very important to you and me."
"Oh? Then continue."
——
Zhang Yi doesn't know why the "guest" chose him, and what the "variables" he refers to are.
But so what, he survived and had a new goal.
The price of being a "guest" is high.
When Zhang Yi chose the second path, the "guest" deprived Zhang Yi of his gender characteristics.
Yes, Zhang Yi at this moment is already a "neither male nor female" asexual being...
Later, the "guest" told Zhang Yi that he would observe Zhang Yi's every move for the next hundred years, and during these hundred years, Zhang Yi would complete ten trials.
The ten trials are..."Redemption", "Death", "Zen Enlightenment", "Contemplation", "Eternity", "Loyalty", "Destruction", "Instinct", "Desire" and "Creation".
When he first heard about these ten trials, Zhang Yi thought that the "guest" would tell him the specific contents of these trials.
However, the guest only asked Zhang Yi to remember these keywords and then left.
Yes...it appears suddenly and disappears even more suddenly.
After sitting there for a long time, Zhang Yi got up and said in surprise: "Hello? No uniform for me? What kind of entry is this?"
However, no one paid any attention to him anymore.
Is this the beginning?
Zhang Yi was very confused inside.
He stayed in his garden for a few more days, and then he decided to hit the road again, because he felt that if the trial had begun, staying in one place would definitely not work.
——
Zhang Yi's mood was very different from before when he embarked on a lonely journey again.
He had gone out with hope before, and then slowly...the hope turned into despair...
But this time, he went out with a goal. Since there are other existences in this world, it proves that his existence is still meaningful.
This feeling is more real than hope.
Moreover, facts proved that Zhang Yi's decision was right.
On the second day after he continued to move westward, he came to a mountain range.
When he saw the mountain range, Zhang Yi suddenly felt ridiculous.
He remembered reading a story before.
It's about a pilot who disappeared during World War II.
Many people were tortured to despair by the endless war, so they chose to fly the plane into the lake on the way back to end this painful life.
However... some pilots made such a decision the day before the end of World War II.
What they had been holding on to so hard was so ruthlessly played by fate...
Zhang Yi feels the same way now.
The thick fog is like a scene from a movie.
He is the survivor, the hero who kills his family in despair and then faces the monster alone.
After his family left, he realized that as long as he persisted for a little while... the nightmare would be over...
——
The mountains Zhang Yi mentioned are not far from the town.
When Zhang Yi led Zhang Yu and his party to the foot of it, Zhang Yi reminded: "There are many natural phenomena on the other side of the mountain. You must be mentally prepared!"
Zhang Yu nodded, and then said to oo3: "You guys stay here to take care of Chang Yuan, and I will take the others up."