After the secret door was pushed open, a choking smoke came out of the house, as if something had been burned.
Liu Ping picked up the mask, covered his mouth and nose, and walked down the stairs.
When we got to the bottom, we saw clearly that a big hole had been burned out on one side of the passage below the hiding place, as if something had broken in.
After Hanako followed and discovered this, she reminded in a low voice: "Maybe it's still in there."
Liu Ping knew it very well. He did not move forward rashly, but stopped, took a small thing from his waist and threw it out.
It was a reconnaissance drone.
After being released, the drone's rotors opened and it quickly stabilized in the air.
Liu Ping controlled the drone to fly deeper while pointing the gun forward.
After a while, the drone arrived in the bedroom of the hideout.
But there was nothing unusual in the bedroom or other places along the way, and there was no sign of the hunter.
After confirming that there was no danger, Liu Ping took back the drone and inspected the big burned hole. He found that the bottom of the big hole was unfathomable, and it was densely packed with various interlaced pipes, and the space was
It's very narrow, and I don't think anything can move here.
But just to be safe, Liu Ping sealed the entrance of the cave with a barrier lock.
After coming out of the hiding place, Liu Ping said: "Let's go and see the other two."
Hanako felt very uneasy. She could tell that although Liu Ping didn't say anything, something might have happened to the other two hunters.
…
Sure enough, the other two hunters also disappeared.
Their hiding place is similar to that of the little man before, and there are signs of being invaded by something.
But what is puzzling is that these experienced hunters disappeared without leaving any trace of resistance?
"What should we do now?" Hanako panicked.
Liu Ping, who was at a high place, was hiding in a hidden place. His sniper rifle swept across an open area. There were only various strange animals appearing in pairs, and there was no trace of hunters.
"If they all die, we won't have a few days to live." Liu Ping told the reality.
Although Hanako has long been pessimistic about life and death, she doesn't want to die in such an unclear way.
So she asked, "Do you think it's a problem at the camp?"
"I don't know, but it's best not."
Liu Ping's meaning was very clear. Hanako knew that he had encountered something more terrifying when the camp fell.
"Then what should we do?"
"What to do? Of course, run away while you are still alive." Liu Ping put away his weapon and jumped down from the hiding spot.
The sound of his footsteps falling to the ground was very light, but it still alarmed the animals in the distance.
Their alertness is terrifyingly high, and they can very accurately distinguish what kind of sounds are threatening to them.
Seeing the deer fleeing in fright and disappearing in the blink of an eye, Liu Ping's eyes changed and he thought to himself: 'These things seem to have become more sensitive...'
Hearing Liu Ping's reply, Hanako felt very complicated.
She wants to continue to hold on, but how can she hold on on her own?
Liu Ping, who had already seen through Hanako's thoughts, came over and said: "Stop thinking wildly, and don't get into trouble. If we all die, who will give the outside world an early warning?"
Upon hearing this, Hanako's inner determination was somewhat shaken.
"But... the passage back to the upper level is blocked. Trying to get through there will definitely make a lot of noise. If we alert them, wouldn't we become sinners?" Hanako was still a little hesitant.
Liu Ping smiled: "Who said I would take you away from there?"
"Ah? If you don't go that way, is there another way to go?"
"Of course, I took a very hidden path when I came down to this damn place, but that place is very close to the camp. I'm not sure if it's still safe now," Liu Ping said.
Hanako was stunned, obviously she didn't expect Liu Ping to still have a backup plan.
When I thought about how Liu Ping had never mentioned such a trail when the camp fell, I felt very uncomfortable for a while.
But she didn't show it, and only asked tentatively: "Go and have a look?"
"Well... don't worry, let me think about where that road is first..." Liu Ping sat down against the wall and fell into deep thought.
Hanako didn't know what he was thinking at this time, so he could only wait quietly.
During this time, she had been paying attention to the surrounding environment.
After a while, Liu Ping finally remembered. He opened his eyes and said: "Yes, I remembered! There is indeed such a road, but I fell from above at that time. I don't know where the specific entrance is.
It’s so clear, we may have to take it one step at a time.”
Hanako was stunned when he heard this, and said to himself: 'You are too unreliable? Take one step at a time? Do you think it is a garden tour?'
But now this situation has to be like this.
"Okay, then let's go back and get ready before setting off?"
Liu Ping shook his head: "No, we can't be separated anymore. It's too dangerous."
"Then? Should I go to your place first or mine?"
Liu Ping thought for a while and then said: "I don't have anything to bring, so I'll go directly to your place."
"Um."
…
Putting away the telescope, the little man hiding in the dark picked up the communicator and said: "It seems they are going back to their hiding place."
"receive."
…
Hanako, who had been living in this hiding place for a while, was still a little reluctant when she decided to leave.
She first collected her mother's photos, and then grabbed as many supplies as possible.
Liu Ping was waiting at the entrance the whole time, holding a box of Hanako's bento in his hand and eating it with gusto.
When he finished eating, Hanako also packed up.
"Okay, let's go."
Liu Ping turned around and was stunned: "Why do you bring so many things?"
Hanako looked at the big and small bags she was carrying and said, "Didn't you say you want to go back up there? Do you want to come back?"
"Um...I didn't mean that, I meant...you brought so many things, if you need to fight, will you be able to use them?" Liu Ping was a little dumbfounded.
Hanako was also a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, she threw away a lot of unnecessary things.
The last two big bags turned into one small bag.
Liu Ping then nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."
"Yeah." Hanako took a deep breath and followed Liu Ping out.
But before Liu Ping's hand touched the door handle, a "dah-dah-dah" sound like a shower suddenly came from outside the house.
This was followed by the sound of explosions and flesh being torn apart.
Both of them were stunned. That was the sound made after the active defense system was triggered.
The next second, Liu Ping had dropped his sniper rifle and raised his semi-automatic rifle. While covering Hanako's retreat, he asked: "Didn't you clean the front and back of your house?"
"How could it be! I even eliminated the smell before we entered the house!" Hanako felt aggrieved. She threw away the package and took out two handfuls of microfluidic acid that she had planned to throw away from the cabinet.
After skillfully loading the gun, Hanako checked the situation outside the house.
As soon as the picture came out, both of them took a deep breath.
"wdnmd! All the troops are dispatched!" Liu Ping shouted in surprise and cursed.
In the picture, Hanako's hiding place is surrounded by monsters with pale bodies and no eyes, noses and ears.
There are dozens of them gathered just in front of the door.
Just now, after the active defense system detected an approaching threat, it immediately launched an attack.
More than a dozen monsters had their heads disfigured, and their blood stained a large area of water.
However, this not only did not scare the monsters, but instead seemed to stimulate their excitement, making them even more manic.
"Do you have a backdoor?"
"Yes, come with me." Hanako put the small bag back on her back, picked up the WeChat and took Liu Ping to the bedroom deep underground.
During the movement, the monsters outside the hiding place began to attack.
Although it was protected by powerful firepower from the active defense system, in the face of a large number of monster attacks, the automatic attack weapon systems were soon destroyed.
When the blood was all over the area, Hanako and Liu Ping had already moved from under the bed in the bedroom to another exit to the west of the hiding place.
…
"The effect is remarkable, inform the big man and you can enter the camp." The little hunter showed a strange sneer after seeing Hanako's hiding place being besieged.
"receive."
…
The dark and damp underground passage is very narrow.
You can still clearly hear the sounds of the monsters moving above your head.
Hanako's heart almost jumped out of her chest.
They moved forward, and after passing a pipeline hub, the road ahead was blocked by an old gate.
Seeing this door, Hanako stopped hurriedly.
Liu Ping followed behind, and Hanako braked so suddenly that he bumped into Hanako.
Both of them fell in the passage.
"Ouch! My sister-in-law, why did you stop suddenly!" Liu Ping helped Hanako up and asked, "Are you okay?"
Hanako's knee was slightly injured, but she didn't care. What she cared about now was when the dilapidated door was sealed.
"Impossible! I remember this door was open! How could it be sealed?" Hanako walked to the door and found that its locking structure had been artificially destroyed.
Liu Ping came over to take a closer look and his eyes changed: "It's broken, we have become bait."
"Huh?" Hanako hasn't reacted yet.
Liu Ping didn't explain. He pulled Hanako back and took off the heavy pulse cannon from behind.
This kind of weapon is not an individual soldier's equipment, but the people in the camp dismantled it from the active defense structure of the shelter and modified it.
The thing Liu Ping is holding now is a modified pulse cannon that can be controlled by a single person.
But it can only be fired once per reload.
Each launch consumes a special high-compression energy bullet core.
Liu Ping had previously obtained this powerful weapon from an old hunter when the camp fell, but he had never used it until now.
Now at the critical moment, Liu Ping doesn't care about the consequences! He is a madman!
But Hanako was anxious. She immediately stopped Liu Ping and said, "Brother, what are you going to do? Do you want to blow up everything here?"
Liu Ping said coldly: "Our way of survival has been cut off. If we don't give it a try now, when will we wait? Get out of the way!"
This was the first time Hanako saw Liu Ping's fierce eyes, and she was frightened.
Then a few seconds later, as the ground undulated, a roar like the song of a whale lifted a large area away.
The young man who was watching the show in the dark planned to leave, but by chance, he was nearby when the explosion occurred.
The invisible but destructive pulse instantly shattered his body and the buildings and pipes around him into pieces.
The monsters that were still tempted by the bait to invade Hanako's hiding place all stopped.
Although they have no eyes, their heads are all looking towards the place where the ground was lifted.
When the aftertaste of the explosion dissipated, everything returned to tranquility.
The leader of the monsters, who was obviously taller, opened his mouth and let out bursts of unbearable moans and wails from his throat.
Hearing this sound, the monsters started to
Begin to rush towards the explosion area.
Underground, Liu Ping, who had greatly underestimated the power of the pulse cannon, had been knocked unconscious.
Although the design of this weapon specifically takes into account the reduction of damage caused to the launcher during individual firing, the distance was so close that when the gate was completely destroyed, Liu Ping also flew out.
Hanako hid far away, so she only suffered some minor injuries.
Now she was trying to drag Liu Ping into the darkness, but those monsters were faster.
When she saw them pouring into the gap, Hanako despaired.
She took out her submachine gun and fired at the approaching monsters.
The narrow terrain became Hanako's advantage at this time.
After the corridor was filled with corpses, Hanako's magazine was also empty.
In desperation, she took out her pistol and continued shooting.
But there are too many monsters.
While they were frantically tearing apart the corpses of their kind and throwing them behind them, they continued to pounce on Hanako.
Hanako watched as the ammunition displayed in the magazine decreased little by little.
When there was only one bullet left, she stopped.
A ray of light penetrated through the crack and fell on Hanako, as dazzling as a spotlight on the stage.
The water above fell down like a waterfall, and Hanako, who was soaked in blood, still raised her gun and pointed at the monsters.
But she already had a premonition of how she would end.
Natsume……
mom……
Masato...
This was the last thought in Hanako's mind.
When the monster squeezed out from the piled corpses like maggots, and then rushed towards Hanako with its bloody mouth open.
Hanako suddenly smiled, turned the muzzle of the gun to his own chin, and pulled the trigger!
…
"Empty!" Shen Yinuo imitated the sound of the gunshot, her delicate jade fingers touching her chin.
Su Wanxia, who was listening in ecstasy, was shocked when she heard the words, as if she was waking up from a big dream.
He felt very uncomfortable, as if the bullet had penetrated his own head.
"Haha... There are more and more dreams like this recently, and they are becoming more and more real... I can hardly be sure who I am." Shen Yinuo smiled helplessly, picked up the cup and took a sip of the cold coffee.
.
The slightly bitter taste can still cheer up her nerves.
Su Wanxia was silent for a while and then asked: "Then have you ever thought that... maybe everything you saw... might not be a dream?"
"It's not a dream? What is that? Certain people's memories reappear in my mind?" Shen Yinuo didn't quite understand what Su Wanxia meant.
After hearing this, Su Wanxia said: "Yes, I have been studying "Ancient Theology" for these years, and then I discovered... this knowledge may have integrated history, macro conjecture, micro reality and some knowledge that we have not yet touched from the beginning. With the knowledge of laws, God is just a code, and the description about it is just a code word. What it really wants to convey is a certain truth."
"Well..." Shen Yinuo frowned. She knew that Su Wanxia had been studying "Ancient Theology" over the years, but she didn't know to what extent he had studied it. But... it seems that since six years ago, Su Wanxia has been studying "Ancient Theology". He rarely shares his harvest with them.
At first Shen Yinuo thought he just had no progress.
But now it seems... things are not what Shen Yinuo imagined.
"Are you observing us? Are you right?" Shen Yinuo was very smart, so he naturally clarified his thoughts quickly.
Su Wanxia did not avoid this question intentionally. He said calmly: "Yes, but I am not only observing you, but also myself."
Shen Yinuo understood that she would not blame Su Wanxia for this. In fact, she didn't care about anything now.
"Do you really believe that Qing Shui Huan gave us his 'divine nature'?" Shen Yinuo asked.
"I believe."
"Ha..." Shen Yinuo sneered. She tried to calm herself down, and then asked: "So? Why do you think the story I told was not a dream, but something that really happened?" "
After hearing this, Su Wanxia raised her hand to signal Shen Yinuo to wait, and then got up and walked out of the restaurant with him.
After a while, he came back with a book.
Shen Yinuo was still drinking, but there was another person in the restaurant.
Chu Xiaoming was sitting far away from Shen Yinuo. His recent mental state was very bad, as if he had suffered a huge blow.
Although the health data shows that there is no abnormality in his body, his mental state is really worrying.
Su Wanxia greeted him from a distance and sat down in front of Shen Yinuo with her book in hand.
"'Old God Yaramus', Lord of Dreams, she is the first and last being to embrace both life and death, sleeping in eternal chaos, guiding all the lost with the greatest kindness. Go to the land of rest where there is no more pain." Su Wanxia read out this description and put the book in front of Shen Yinuo: "This is the bunker that an archaeologist interpreted from the "Dead Sea Script" seventy years ago. The fragments of the world and the memories of the old gods don’t have much content, but they seem to fit the divinity in you very well.”
"Yaramus..." When Shen Yinuo read out the name, a blue light flashed in his eyes.
But no one noticed this, including Su Wanxia who was sitting opposite her.
"Yes, there are some records below, but I feel that they are more like some conjectures of the archaeologist named Chen Yuanyuan, rather than scientific records based on archaeological data."
After hearing this, Shen Yinuo continued to look down. As she read, she read: "Dreamland is the only way to the land of rest. In the interlayer of space and time, in the place called the bunker space, the old gods Yaramsi becomes the forerunner who weaves beautiful dreams for all those who pass by here, but she is not evil, but indefinable and transcendent. Her dreams are not lost, but should be guidance."