The road ahead was hazy in a sea of gray fog. Manny was wearing a windbreaker and a thick scarf, only her eyes were exposed, and she slowly walked forward along the uphill road with her hands in her pockets.
After walking for a while, she still couldn't see the top of the slope. Manny stopped in confusion. She looked to her side. Beyond the guardrail was a bottomless canyon. She could still hear the faint sound of water flowing, but she couldn't see it.
The river and the way it came had long been filled with fog, and now she was really lost.
"I shouldn't have been curious if I had known..." Manny took off her scarf, revealing a terrifying face.
I saw that Manny, who once had a good temperament and appearance, now has many broken scars on her fair face, just like a brand new wall has fallen off, and the exposed muscle tissue shows a striking red color.
Manny coughed twice and squatted down, feeling exhausted...
That's right...for more than a month, Manny appeared in this desolate world after waking up.
It was a small town at first. It was not big and not old, but it seemed to have been abandoned for many years. There was no human habitation and not even a trace of living things could be found.
The scar on her heart was still aching, but unexpectedly, Manny found that she had taken her body back, but...
She has nothing but her body.
So Manny had to try to find clothes to wear.
Fortunately, there is a hypermarket in the town. The clothes in the warehouse are well sealed and not too uncomfortable to wear. But in such a silent world, every sound Manny makes seems to be noisy.
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Spent the first day like this.
When she woke up the next morning, Manny didn't feel hungry, and was even more conscious.
She remembered the moment of death.
The dagger pierced the heart, cold, painful, suffocating...desperate...
All kinds of emotions surged up after she woke up, almost driving Manny crazy... Fortunately, that was all in the past. Manny knew that she still existed, but she just didn't know what this existence meant now.
Where exactly is this place?
So Manny began to try to find the memory of this world, whether it was time or the past, she wanted to figure out where this place was...
The first target Manny chose was a residential building located near the park.
The building was very damp, but not too dark. Manny walked up the stairs and looked from room to room, and found that all the room doors were ajar.
Although this facilitated Manny's exploration, it also made Manny feel extremely uneasy.
It's as if everything is prepared for visitors, and there is no need to worry about being observed by others in this world.
And the fact is exactly as Manny guessed.
The furnishings in each room are different, and they are just placed in different positions. These are insignificant scenery. They cannot convey anything to Manny and will only bring about strange uneasiness.
By rummaging through rooms, Manny found many photo albums, letters, and newspapers.
But……
The people in the album have no faces, they have all been crossed out, as if they have been deliberately forgotten by the world.
The letters were all blank, with only a few traces proving that they had recorded some words. Newspapers were the only precious existence that recorded words, but there was also no time, no valuable things, and the messy words made Manny feel angry.
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Anyway, Manny found nothing on the second day...
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But that night, in her sleep, Manny seemed to be entangled in nightmares. She seemed to be blind and could not see anything, but she could hear various sounds in her ears.
It was as if the town came to life, and the disappeared and forgotten people came back. Some of them took to the streets, and some sat down at the dining table. The kitchen began to become lively, and the street market was full of laughter.
Only Manny could only listen with her ears and could not see clearly.
In a daze, the scar on her heart started to hurt again. Manny opened her eyes suddenly and saw the warm sunlight falling through the damaged ceiling of the store.
All sounds disappeared, leaving only Manny's own breathing.
Covering her head and sitting up, Manny felt a chill running down her spine... because she was actually moved from the underground warehouse to the center of the first floor of the store by "someone" without even realizing it.
‘Sure enough, is there something here?’ Manny hurriedly put on her clothes, only to find that her palms were full of blood. She raised her head and saw that there was no foreign object on the ceiling. The blood was her own.
So Manny quickly found a mirror.
And when she saw herself in the mirror, she couldn't help but take a breath...
In the early morning of the third day, Manny confirmed two things.
First, there must be other existences in this seemingly silent world without living things. Second, she is slowly breaking, like a plaster sculpture, and the breaking will not cause pain, it will only make her
Become ferocious.
After confirming these two things, Manny began to think about how to discover and establish contact with this speculated "living creature". In addition, she wanted to record the changes in her body in order to estimate her remaining time.
The easiest way to think of is to find a camcorder that can work for 20 hours.
This kind of equipment does not need to be very advanced, the key is...and Manny clearly remembered seeing similar things in a shop on the street of the town, but she was not sure whether they could still work.
With expectations, Manny came outside the unnamed store. From the window, she could clearly see the equipment. They were covered with a thick layer of ashes, but it should not affect their use.
After breaking in, Manny put down the crowbar and moved everything in the store to the street.
The empty street, illuminated by the gentle morning sun, became Manny's best workbench.
Classifying by size, and then identifying and screening them one by one, Manny soon found the equipment she needed, but another problem stood in front of her.
That is, the batteries inside these things have been aged and damaged, and they cannot start at all.
But this did not faze Manny, and she quickly zeroed in on the antique cars on both sides of the street.
As early as on Gaia, Manny was a fan of mechanical antiques, and she loved tinkering with those antique cars with internal combustion engines.
Therefore, these cars became Manny's treasures.
She found various tools, locked several cars, and used the remaining resources in the town to revive them.
What followed was disassembly and reassembly. At sunset, exhausted Manny collapsed on the ground, holding a button in her hand and smiling.
Wait until the sun finally disappears from your eyes.
Manny pressed the button, and then heard a rumble, the internal combustion engine started to work, and soon after, the dusk began to shine at a few o'clock, and after a while, the lights lit up the street.
With electricity, everything is easier.
Full of confidence, Manny is confirming the equipment
After the operation is normal and the internal storage is intact, the installation work begins.
But in order to prevent the other party from discovering the location of her hidden camera, Manny just used the device to record herself in an all-round way that night.
Then he said a few short words to the camera, which was counted as a diary for this day.
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"What should I say..."
Manny was sitting in the middle of the street. The machine behind her was running normally and the noise was not small. But surprisingly, although she was very tired, she could see peace of mind in her eyes.
"Uh... Anyway, I can't give up until I figure out where this place is... After all, it's a bit unreasonable to be killed in a daze... Of course, I'm still alive... Uh... No... It shouldn't count..."
Let's live, it's more like existing in a surreal state. This feeling is very strange... It's even stranger than when I gave up my body and existed in the form of light particles..." Manny said, unbuttoning her top.
The wound on his heart was still alive but no longer bleeding.
"Just like this wound, it obviously still hurts, but... it no longer bleeds, and it seems to have no impact on my heart... but it does exist... This makes me very confused, but it also makes me very relieved.
, because it proves that I still have some kind of connection with Guan Lingxu, or...this is the power of the factor. Do I continue to exist because of the power of the factor? Maybe..."
Speaking of this, Manny put on her clothes with a wry smile. After being silent in front of the camera for a long time, she raised her head and said, "I will survive! I will!"
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After finishing the recording, Manny did not turn off the equipment. She looked up at the starry sky and made sure it would not rain. Then she took the sleeping bags and tents prepared during the day and placed them in the center of the street, surrounded by a bunch of machines and equipment.
Went to sleep.
It's not that Manny is arrogant, but that she is too tired.
Although she didn't feel hungry, she was still tired. She wanted to hold on for a while longer, maybe she could smell some of "its" scent, but she fell asleep not long after lying down.
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That night, Manny had no more dreams, and the sound of the machine's operation was like the best lullaby.
But on the morning of the fourth day, Manny felt vaguely burning in her left arm while sleeping, as if she was too close to the stove.
The scorching heat slowly turned into boiling hot. Manny frowned, then suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.
Only then did she realize that the tent was on fire and her sleeping bag was also set on fire.
After screaming in surprise, Manny quickly untied her sleeping bag and ran away.
As a result, as soon as I stepped out of the tent, I found that everything around me was in flames.
All the equipment was burning, except for the video recorders she had packed together last night. As for the equipment she used as a diary to record her changes, it fell to the ground at some point, facing the sun.
After staying for a while, Manny hurriedly walked through the sea of fire to find a fire extinguishing device to put out the fire.
After more than three hours of hard work.
The fire was put out.
But all the hard work yesterday was in vain.
Covered in smoke and dust, Manny stared blankly at all this... thinking to herself: 'When did it come...'
Thinking of this, Manny suddenly remembered the camera that was still working.
The battery capacity is still enough for one hour, which is enough for watching playback.
Manny's face lit up with joy, and she looked around hurriedly, as if she was afraid that something would suddenly jump out.
But the surroundings were quiet, except for the sound of embers, there was nothing else.