Returning from the abyss

Chapter 976
Everything is quiet here.

"Coast," but without all the hallmarks of a coast.There is no sound of waves to be heard, no gravel or muddy beaches to be stepped on, and no fresh sea breeze with a slightly fishy smell in the air.

It's quieter here than a hospital morgue.

Lu Ning stood on the edge of the sea.

Even here, the water appeared green to her eyes, which was the color it was, not because of reflections, or because there was a lot of algae growing in it.The green is vaguely transparent, and it can be seen a little bit, but there is nothing underneath.

Lu Ning turned her gaze to the farther sea.

Is that really water?

She didn't dare to touch it. Although she didn't feel any danger, the weirdness of this sea still made Lu Ning think carefully about every means of probing.

She continued to walk along the coast, and the hard stone and iron formed a not-so-easy path, and she could even feel a little harsh when walking on it.A lot of discarded gears, rivets and other small parts can be seen among the metal materials that make up the coast, and as she moves forward, there are more and more of these metal materials, while the normal natural materials are decreasing.

So, the further you go, the more it looks like a huge garbage dump.

At some point, natural materials such as stones have disappeared, large pieces of damaged machinery have piled up into mountains, and the engine oil has emitted a stench. Lu Ning raised her head, feeling that she couldn't even see the end of the mountain of garbage at a glance.However, not far away, a cracked trash can was turned upside down on the garbage mountain, with a piece of scrap iron inserted on it, and the words were smeared with red paint——

【go back】.

able to understand.

Lu Ning followed good advice, because she felt that if the mountain of waste piled up in front of her continued to move forward, it might not be as simple as abandoned machinery.

not to mention……

Lu Ning looked sideways in the direction that should have been the outer city.

There is nothing wrong with her sense of space. The coastline should have surrounded the outer city, but from this direction, she couldn’t see it at all—the city couldn’t be seen, and the fog that shrouded the city couldn’t be seen either. Even the coastline should stand in the fog The buildings have also disappeared.

It is the sea, no matter the left or right, only the sea remains.The only way to go is to go up to the garbage mountain in front of you, or go back the same way.The space here is abnormal, just as the time in the Judgment Island building has been disturbed by control, the space here may have been distorted.

Lu Ning turned around and left, returning to the coast along the way she came, until she reached the place where the mechanical parts disappeared.She picked up a few parts along the way and came back, standing in front of the sea again.

The man named Jiu Qishi has not come back yet, maybe there is something different over there?

She picked out a screw from the parts in her hand and threw it into the sea.

The moment the rusted screw fell into the sea, Lu Ning felt a change.

It was as if something had sensed this momentary disturbance and cast its gaze over - even Lu Ning actually saw the "sky" beyond the sea level turned into a deep purple wall, with some scarlet spots on the wall. , like eyes.Immediately afterwards, everything returned to normal.

She lowered her gaze and looked at the screws soaked in shallow water.Some sharp iron needles had already grown on that screw, and it began to bend, crawling like a sea spider, and a rust-colored mechanical eyeball was drilling out of the nut.

When seeing this scene, Lu Ning had already raised her gun.She had expected this change long ago. Blue tongues of flame shot out from the muzzle of the gun and hit the screw through the sea water. The flame ignored the sea water and burned the screw. After a violent convulsion, the strangeness on the screw All were burned, and a pool of rust-colored pus flowed out from the opening of the eyeball, and soon merged into the sea water.

"Fragile and can be killed." Lu Ning observed for a few minutes, but the screw didn't move any more.However, although there was no surge in the sea, the sand under the shallow water slowly swallowed the screw, and soon everything returned to normal.

The problem is quite serious. The danger hidden in this calm sea is extremely high. Lu Ning has no desire to experiment with what ordinary people will become if they fall into it.She threw away the parts in her hand and walked towards the direction where Jiu Qishi left.

The changes here are indeed different.Gradually, stones were added instead of machines.From gravel to a mountain that was difficult to climb, Lu Ning forced a few openings on the rock wall with a gun to help herself climb up.

In a place where the slope was gentle, Lu Ning saw a bunch of "animals" that had been killed.The weapons were so sharp that almost every animal had its body cut off with a single blow.However, the problem is that Lu Ning doesn't know these "animals", and she can't even find the prototype within her knowledge.

five legs?Seven legs?Dozens of eyes on the head?Two mouths open on either side of the body?Are these... are they animals, or are they aliens?
These things were undoubtedly killed by Jiu Qishi, and Jiu Qishi had probably ascended to a higher place.The left and right here are quite normal, and you can still see the outer city and the center of Judgment Island.

Lu Ning continued to climb up, and moss gradually began to appear on the stone, which increased the difficulty of climbing.The traces of Jiu Qishi's climbing also remained on it, but the growth rate of the moss has become unnaturally high, and now only a few traces can be seen.Lu Ning was too lazy to continue to spend time on this, she touched her waist with her finger, and activated the power of "Plague".

The pathogens produced by her touch immediately began to spread in a targeted manner, and the moss quickly withered and died, turning into powder, making it easier to climb up the rock wall.Soon Lu Ning landed on the second gentle place, and there was another large pile of corpses, much more than before, and they no longer had the legs of ordinary animals, they had the arthropods of insects, and even older tentacles , The chaotic organs are like inappropriate jigsaw puzzles that were forcibly put together, and Lu Ning even found some human-like limbs in it.

But these monsters have also been killed.

And in front of him, there was a crude ladder dug out by force, which seemed to be dug out by Jiu Qishi just now, just like Lu Ning just now, providing a place for hands and feet to climb.It seemed that even here, Jiu Qishi couldn't continue climbing smoothly.

Lu Ning followed the traces he left, and this time it took a long time, and the surrounding rocks also changed from moss-covered stones to frozen bluestones, and the temperature had obviously become very low.Lu Ning saw Jiu Qishi - he was on the third platform, the arc-shaped knife light flashed back and forth with every swing of his weapon, easily cutting through every monster around him.

Those things can only be described as monsters now. They are almost all geometric shapes that are close to regular shapes. On the surface, they seem to be compressed and fitted with various limbs and organs. Stuffed it into the mold and pressed it like this.They can't even move normally, but rely on weird floating to move position, and obviously, the floating speed is not fast enough.

Jiu Qishi's sword light had a huge attack range, and he was very quick to clear up these monsters, but the three consecutive batches of monster consumption had already made him feel a little tired.

"Hey." Lu Ning climbed onto the platform and called out to him.Jiu Qishi also saw Lu Ning approaching, and slightly pressed down on the blade, but did not withdraw his vigilance.

"Why did you come here?"

"You can't leave on the other side, you can only come here." Lu Ning said, "What's going on with you here? How come there are these... monsters like breaking through the level?"

"I don't know, when I got on the platform, they popped out of nowhere, how about you? You weren't attacked by monsters?"

"Didn't you finish killing me?"

"Is it possible to kill this sudden monster?" Jiu Qishi frowned, "I'm more inclined to recognize them."

"Recognize what? Recognize you and me as one?" Lu Ning walked up to the corpse of a monster, which was spherical in shape and was split in half by the knife light.From the texture of the cut surface, you can clearly see the neat layers of fat layer, viscera, skin, fascia, and bones, as well as obvious organs such as teeth, claws, and eyeballs sandwiched between the layers.

"It's really strange... Apart from impact, what kind of combat power does this kind of thing have? It's not even as good as the ones on the bottom two floors." Lu Ning said after studying it.

If she is going to create any monsters, it must be full of various threatening organizational structures in the outside world. She must have sharp claws and teeth, and agile mobility is also indispensable. This is in line with the requirements of fierce beasts and even monsters. .These crushed pieces are like a pile of jelly waiting to be cut, and they don't look like fighting power at all.

——No, maybe it wasn’t a combat power in the first place.

"Jiu Qishi, what kind of things do you think will be made into this appearance? Alive is not considered alive." Lu Ning asked.

"It looks like this... If it's not making any food, it's just disposing of useless garbage. Compression and landfill are very convenient ways to dispose of garbage." Jiu Qishi said.

"Obviously they have not been landfilled." Lu Ning said.

"But no one will ask if this kind of barren mountains are thrown away, will they?" Jiu Qishi also fiddled with the wreckage on the ground, "It's really strange that I didn't die after being crushed like this, and I Immediately after cutting off the body, it loses its vitality, and the life composition of these things is puzzling."

"Anything can happen in this kind of place, and the situation on the other side is similar." Lu Ning briefly described the situation of the mechanical garbage mountain to Jiu Qishi.After hearing this, Jiu Qishi was silent for a moment, and said, "You said that the waste parts came back to life after being thrown into the sea?"

"Ah."

With a sound of swiping, Jiu Qishi cut off a small piece of dead flesh and picked it up on the tip of the knife.

"Let's go back to the beach now and try this."

"Not going up?" Lu Ning smiled.

"I can't hold it. Although these monsters are not strong, they are very annoying. And in this environment, I dare not let them use them arbitrarily."

The two returned to the coast together, and Jiu Qishi threw the piece of meat into the sea just like Lu Ning just now.

A ball of air bubbles emerged from the piece of meat, and immediately after that, the flesh that had just died began to wrinkle and shrink, quickly shrinking into a small black ball.Just when Lu Ning and Jiu Qishi thought that the seawater had a strong corrosive effect on flesh and blood, a slender limb suddenly grew out of that small lump, pushing it against the sponge. Immediately afterwards, the two felt a gust of wind blowing from them. Blowing over the sea.

Is it the wind?still is--

Lu Ning raised his gun and smashed the piece of meat protruding from the tip of his limbs, while Jiu Qishi threw out a red grenade. The grenade exploded before it touched the sea water, and a large number of dark red flames surrounded the area where the piece of meat was located. Completely covered, even the sea water seemed to be on fire.

However, the sea breeze still passed through the bodies of the two of them, and Lu Ning felt her breathing was slightly suffocated, as if her eyes were covered with piles of wreckage, and the smell of death and blood filled her mouth, as if her internal organs had been stuffed.She wanted to vomit all these deaths, but she was drowning in it more and more.

However, Lu Ning was also prepared for this situation.

"Rot."

The badge draws a dark green arc. The pathogen is not only a virus, but also fungi.Lu Ning opened her mouth, allowing the breath of death knell and famine to mix into her breath.She was not afraid of the smell of death, and even felt a little kindness.The silent bell spread the sound waves into the distance, and the decomposed wreckage had already been trampled under her feet.

"cough!"

Lu Ning opened her eyes again, and found that she was lying on the shore, and Jiu Qishi was lying next to her. The two of them had maintained this posture for some time, and some residual flames were still burning on the sea. The sea breeze is like an illusion.

"It's... dangerous." Jiu Qishi stood up unsteadily, "I think I probably have some clues...but it's not suitable to continue."

"Agreed." Lu Ning grabbed a handful of gravel on the coast, "But at least we know that there is a threat here, and this harvest is enough."

The two stood up and looked at each other, knowing that the other had something to say, but who cares?The two are not familiar with each other, and it is already the limit to be able to say so much.

Lu Ning drew a triangle and called train number 44.

"Train No. 44 seems to have been a core weapon." Jiu Qishi said when he got on the train.

"Core weapon? A car?" Lu Ning followed and walked up. The carriage was exactly the same as the one she was riding in when she came.

"Maybe it wasn't a car." Jiu Qishi found a seat and sat down.

"So why is it here as a car now?"

"The reason is not clear, but one thing is certain." Jiu Qishi said.

"Oh... If it is really a core weapon, then its owner is probably dead." Lu Ning said.

Jiu Qishi nodded.

"I don't know if your captain has told you." He took out a piece of paper and slowly wiped the weapon, "If the fusion with the core weapon reaches 100, something terrible will happen."

"Huh? You want to say that this car is actually the result of the owner's fusion of core weapons?"

"The core weapon... the doomsday core, don't you think it's the same technology?"

(End of this chapter)