Returning from the abyss

Chapter 608
When Lu Ning returned to the entrance of the passage, everyone had disappeared, and Yan Rong and Zhu Qinyuan were still standing there.Seeing that Lu Ning was back, Yan Rong asked, but before Lu Ning could answer, the figure of the king appeared on the other side of the door again.

This time was different from the previous ones. Although the previous king was well-dressed at first glance, at least he didn't have any obvious royal accessories other than the crown.This time, the obviously mature king wore a blue velvet cloak, with royal patterns drawn with gold threads of various colors on the corners of the cloak, and even the king's clothing lined with many golden badges.

The king walked to the door hidden in the wall, opened the door with a wave of his hand, took a badge from his chest, and walked in solemnly.The three of Lu Ning followed immediately.

[In the end, I still stopped at about 80.00% of the project progress according to what I thought was the right way.In the subsequent psychological tests, most of the researchers here have already shown an overwhelmed mental state-although Vera has already explained everything to them, the long-term mental torture still wiped out most of their mental state. will.If the cost of solving the time catastrophe that occurs in the country is to sacrifice these venerable researchers, then I would rather spend more time looking for other methods. 】

Following the king, the three walked into Vera's office.Compared with other places, this place is full of life. Vera seems to like plants very much. There are even two flower stands in her house with various flowers and plants on them.Some of the handmade models presented by the employees were placed in a small display cabinet, and the name of the giver was written on the label instead of the serial number.

There are no research records or anything like that here, and it looks like Vera should have taken all of that with him when he left.

The king stared at the large and comfortable chair in the room for a long time before placing the badge in his hand on the table carefully and cherished.

[I brought Vera and all her researchers back to the capital, and I announced her achievements to the people. Most of the time, the phenomenon disaster has been eliminated, and everyone has received corresponding rewards, money, titles... It's ironic, facing people who have made such contributions to the country, these are the only rewards I can actually give.I can only guarantee that they will not fall into that painful life and death again in the future.

...But I must still be wrong.

When I got the news that Vera committed suicide in my mansion, I didn't feel any surprise in my heart, as if I had expected such a day.It's not that I'm not sad, as a friend, as a subordinate, as a researcher, Vera is perfect.But apart from sadness, I am also afraid—when people are praising the King's name, I know that those who really made contributions and gave their all to this country are slowly leaving. 】

The king turned around, and at this moment his figure had turned into a mass of pitch-black shadows, only a blood-red slit opened at the mouth.

"This is the king."

It wasn't the voice of the young king, nor the voice of Vera that Lu Ning heard, but many muddy voices mixed with men, women, old and young at the same time.Lu Ning took a step back, Yan Rong immediately blocked the front with a horizontal spear, and Zhu Qinyuan also clasped his hand on the handle of the knife.

"Look, if it weren't for him, this place would have been just a research institute happily studying the things you like. Vera and everyone can have a peaceful and peaceful life."

The black shadow took a step forward, and his smile became more and more malicious.

"But the king destroyed everything. He used the kindness and ingenuity of Vera and the researchers here to dump the filthy garbage in. The stench of corpses stinks here every day. I remember that at the beginning, Vera every day They are all crying, she was such a good person before, but her temper is getting more and more irritable!"

"This thing should be some kind of earthbound spirit attached to the research institute." Zhu Qinyuan whispered, "I don't know if it's a treasure."

"This place has become a place occupied by the evil spirit of time! You should never come here! You will all die here!"

The black shadow suddenly screamed, blood began to seep from the surrounding walls, Lu Ning felt his head startled, his eyes blurred for a while, and he was already in a crimson room with countless pieces of flesh crawling on the ground. All human beings who have lost some part, or rather, the researchers here.

"We were given numbers..."

"The first set of letters represents our former name."

"The second set of numbers represents the department we belong to."

"The third set of numbers is the number of times we died!"

A body with only the lower half of the face and the left side of the body stood up abruptly, reaching out to grab the identity card on its chest—【D·K·S-4-1563】.

Lu Ning took a step back and looked left and right, but she couldn't find Yan Rong and Zhu Qinyuan, she cursed secretly, it was this kind of isolated isolation again.

At this moment, her ankles tightened, and she looked down, and it turned out that a piece of flesh began to crawl over from behind, and she stretched out her shapeless hand to grab herself.She instantly pulled out the long knife to cut off the hand, and the fragments flew quickly and cut off all the parts of the ankle, then turned her head and rushed towards the entrance.

"Suddenly yesterday."

Like a distorted image, all the flesh and blood were pulled out of the action, and the single-frame overlapping shadows could no longer hinder Lu Ning's progress. She easily bypassed the bodies of the dead and came to the door.

"Do you really think... that you can escape?"

Lu Ning raised her head upon hearing the sound, and saw that dark figure was sticking to the ceiling, laughing at her with a red mouth.

"No one can break away from time, this is our destiny. It is because Vera touched the taboo of time that misfortune befell her. You have long been entangled in the chains of time, and you cannot escape at all..."

"Even time, in the 'Sudden Yesterday' separation, will only be presented in fragments. You can actually catch up here... You really are just a phenomenon caused by treasure." Lu Ning laughed instead , "In this way, I feel relieved. Although I still don't understand your attack method, our strength is still the same."

"Oh...you can think about it however you like." The black shadow fell from the ceiling and stood on the ground again, "You can't leave here, that door can only be entered and exited by authorized persons."

Behind the black shadow, countless flesh and blood are swarming.In the fragment of time, they are just useless efforts, but Lu Ning also knows that she cannot maintain this state forever.

a little tricky...

If there is any part of the past that can be re-edited here, it’s okay to say, but the area presented by Caibao is full of such flesh and blood, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t change it. After thinking for a while, she quickly gave up and reached out to the door He tapped on it, then snapped his fingers.

"Yesterday" is over, and the time has returned to the present. The flesh and blood rushed towards Lu Ning frantically, but Lu Ning disappeared in an instant, and flames gushed out from the door, roasting the frontmost pieces of meat into coke in an instant. The black shadow turned around, as if he didn't understand where Lu Ning went at all.

"Ah... it will be clearer if you observe it from the outside."

The red light shone down from above, and Lu Ning's eyes looked down from above: "The black shadow and the flesh and blood are independent individuals, but even if I put the whole room in, there is still the same room outside, it seems Just being locked up won't fix you."

She closed the lid of the lock box again. This space was not real in the first place, and there was still no change in the place where she was. handicapped people.

Just when she was about to think about the next step, the black shadow suddenly let out a scream, and then the whole space exploded, even the box in her hand was blown open, Lu Ning only had time to activate the light body in a hurry After removing the strength around him, he still fell to the ground unsteadily.

"Hey!"

In the blink of an eye, the flesh and blood on the wall had faded a lot. Lu Ning saw Yan Rong and Zhu Qinyuan again. They were still in the room of the Liaison Department before, but there were many dirty clothes hanging on their bodies. There was even a big piece of blood clot on Yan Rong's spear, she was the one who yelled just now.

"Cough cough..."

Zhu Qinyuan coughed twice, she looked much worse than Lu Ning and Yan Rong, with many wounds on her body and face, and blood was still flowing out.She was holding a knife in her left hand and a sticky lump of blood in her right hand.Lu Ning hadn't tried to solve the problem yet, Yan Rong was obviously having a great time playing, it seemed that the three of them were out of the state just now and it was Zhu Qinyuan's credit.

"Are you okay?" Yan Rong shook off the point of the gun and approached Zhu Qinyuan.Zhu Qinyuan shook his head, put away the knife and scratched his throat with his hands, and then said in a hoarse voice: "It seems that this thing is responsible."

She shook the pile of blood clots on her hand, and pulled out a square card from it.The outer plastic seal is still intact, it is an identity card, an identity card that does not exist in memory: [V-0-0].

"How did you find it?"

"It's nothing, I just think it might be difficult to get out anyway, so I just grabbed the royal badge first to see if it's required for the mission. That pile of meat is really disgusting, but I managed to snatch it after all." Zhu Qinyuan The expression on his face was slightly satisfied, but then he became disgusted again, "How come these things can still exist even after the illusion has disappeared?"

"After all, it's something that really existed, and this is a research institute of time. Maybe there's something important about it. Look at the back of the identity card. It stands to reason that all treasures should have names," Lu Ning said.

Zhu Qinyuan wiped off the dirt on the identity card, and sure enough, he saw a line of carefully engraved text on the dark green material behind it.

[The world is clear——I should probably give it to you.I thought I had prevented your death, but it was still my stupidity.Now that I think about it, the only solution is that I never visited you. 】

"Hey, this king... really did a lot of strange things." Zhu Qinyuan pinned the identity badge to his chest.

"Do you think it's just a weird thing?" Yan Rong asked.

"At least what he's doing is looking for a solution to the country's problems, right? From what we know, when the king took over the country, it was full of internal and external troubles, cannibalism, famine, time disaster, just These two sound pretty terrible." Zhu Qinyuan sighed, "As for Vera, his conscience is disturbed here. If someone is more hard-hearted, he will probably feel that the pain of a research institute is exchanged for a refugee who is [-]% of the time disaster. It was a great feat to be rescued."

"If we want to bury the king in the future, these information may be useful." Lu Ning nodded, "Since we have obtained this treasure, let's call them back."

"There is no movement for such a long time, maybe something happened to them." Yan Rong said casually.

So the three of them went down to look at the second floor, but they couldn't find Rang, Lian Bisheng and Yuan Jie.

"Did we enter that illusion for too long?" Zhu Qinyuan asked suspiciously.

"No, I think my crow's mouth is right." Yan Rong covered his face.

Lu Ning was also a little helpless, what she could use time to trace back must be the scenes she had witnessed, like this one who didn't know what was going on downstairs would only be a mess.

"Now it seems that we can only trust their abilities. How about we go to Vera's office and take back the royal badge?" Lu Ning asked.

"How to get in?" Yan Rong didn't respond.

Zhu Qinyuan tapped the ID badge on his chest. V-0-0 can only be Villa's identity card.

As expected, when Zhu Qinyuan walked to the wall, the front door opened automatically, and the three of them walked in. The furnishings here were exactly the same as before the king turned into a shadow in the previous illusion, and time kept everything in its original state. The badges are still shining brightly.

Zhu Qinyuan picked up the badge, and Lu Ning closed her eyes.The task information came to mind, and the task of collecting royal badges has increased by one count.

"That's right." Lu Ning opened her eyes and said.

"I didn't expect to get the royal badge so easily." Zhu Qinyuan put the badge away.

"It won't be so easy. This thing is probably given by the king to those who have made great contributions to the country. There are not many people left in the world. The king gave one of Vera's great achievements after his death. Although we I don't know if she got it when she was alive... But we are not so lucky to be able to enter the ruins of such a character every time." Lu Ning is not so optimistic.

"Then take one step at a time." Zhu Qinyuan shrugged. Getting the treasure obviously put her in a good mood.

Lu Ning didn't deny it either. After all, the task of royal badges is optional. According to the main storyline, you should go to the inner city of the royal capital to see it. The probability of collecting badges in the inner city should be higher. It is already very lucky to have such a chance now. Not bad.

Vera's own private office was also connected to the place where she lived. The three discussed it and then rushed into the bathroom together.After all, there is no change of clothes in this scene.

(End of this chapter)