Human Shackles

The torrential rain outside the house was like a note. From time to time, there was a thunderstorm. The heavy wind was wrapped in the torrential rain, and the people were itchy.

The people in the small building are tightly surrounded by the bonfire, cuddling and falling asleep. In this night of wind and rain, only fire can warm people.

Only Uncle Yan is very vigilant. He always pays attention to add firewood and keeps the bonfire vigorous. The rumors of weirdness are extremely afraid of fire. Time passes by little by little with the crackling of the firewood burning, just getting confused. When I was sleeping, I suddenly heard a faintly discernable footstep in the rain, sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right, seeming to be walking around the small building.

He hurriedly cheered up and walked to the door lightly and looked out through a gap. I don’t know when there was a silhouette standing outside, only less than half a meter, and the whole body was covered by a layer. Long hair covered, very weird, a white face slowly emerged from the hair, without facial features, like a piece of white paper.

Can’t help but take a big step back in horror. If it is a real thing, no one is afraid, but this kind of weird thing is too infiltrating!

At this moment, the shoulders were held by a pair of warm palms, and a soft word came from my ear: “Don’t be afraid.”

The door was opened, and the ear was faintly heard When there was a sorrow and wailing like an old woman, the door closed again, as if nothing happened.

Uncle Yan was sluggish and turned his head. The man with a gray complexion returned to his original position. He has been working with the Business Group since he was a child. It is quite experienced and knowledgeable, and he understands that he has encountered an expert. , He sighed: “Thank you, what is that?”

The man pondered for a moment, and replied: “An evil lifeform similar to a nightmare beast.”

Uncle Yan startled : “Is it an ominous beast?”

“That’s right.”

Uncle Yan returned to the campfire anxiously and sat down. Now this world is getting more and more weird, and animals have evolved. The ominous beast that came is still in the category of human understanding, but how did these things come from?

“Lao Zhang, when did your disease appear?” It was the man who asked him.

Uncle Yan looked at the bark-like wrinkles that grew on his arm, and sighed: “About ten days ago, many old people and children have grown this thing, this thing has grown. Later, he will lose his sense of touch a little bit, so people call it xylem.”

The man continued to ask: “Is it related to heavy rain?”

Uncle Yan nodded and said: “Yes, the more humid and hotter this thing grows faster, if it spreads to the internal organs, the person will die, and the final corpse will become rotten wood.”

The man is frowned, his face is a bit cold, The temperature of the small building immediately dropped a lot, and Uncle Yan couldn’t help but leaned against the bonfire. Cautiously asked, “Brother, where are you going?”

The man’s expression eased. He whispered softly: “Like you, there is nowhere to go, wandering around that’s all.” Uncle Yan moved in his heart, he is already very old, and he will age rapidly after getting xylem. I am afraid that there is not much time. But if he is alive, he and the Old Guy in the small building don’t care, but those children are no longer taken care of. Although they don’t have much contact with this person, they can see that the other person is not a bad person.

While thinking about it, the man asked again: “Where is the largest human gathering place here?”

“Of course it is Wuchuan City. Now the whole Yunling Only Wuchuan accepts refugees and can also treat lignin disease.”

“Lao Zhang, if you don’t mind, I will send you to Wuchuan in these two days?”

Uncle Yan was taken aback:” You send us?”

“en.”

Uncle Yan shook the head: “No way, now there is a flood, there are swamps everywhere, there is no way to go.”

The man smiled and said: “Don’t worry, I have a way.”

Uncle Yan stood up gratefully: “Thank you so much.”

“You’re welcome.”

The man is Luo Kai. His spirit strength has been consumed too much, and human bears have been injured more seriously. He has lived in the forest for more than a month, and he didn’t plan to come out. In the past few days, it was discovered that a strange disease spread in the jungle, which is what Uncle Yan called lignin. All animals have a certain chance of getting this disease, including Insect, birds, animals, and even some ominous beasts. After this disease, the body will gradually appear woody reaction. The mysterious unknown energy will eat their life force little by little. Not only will they not be able to evolve, their body will become weaker and weaker, and some will even become weird. Combination of animals and plants.

Leaving the forest, he discovered that human society has undergone tremendous changes in this short period of more than a month. There is almost no place to live. The prosperous cities in the past have become separated by dense forests. Isolated island.

Things that were previously faintly felt come true. In this era of great evolution, plants are the biggest winners. Earlier, the energy of stars passed through Earth. Although it was only a few tens of seconds, Earth was Like a sponge, it absorbs a lot of energy and releases it little by little in the years that follow, and plants benefit the most.

If plants are still at the bottom of the food chain as before, they will definitely contribute the most benefit to the explosion of life, but no life will be willing to be the bottom. Now plants have evolved ways to deal with other life As a result, mysterious ligninosis is born. When the peaceful plant life turns to plunder and brutality, it is the greatest disaster for the entire world.

In addition, there are many weird lifeforms in human society, similar to nightmare beasts, but slightly different, more like a combination of dark creatures and nightmare beasts, they evolved from humans , Lurking in the dark and shadow during the day, coming out at night, has the powerful hypnotic ability of the nightmare beast, is good at motivating the negative emotions in the heart of life, and has the bloodthirsty instinct and battle strength of the dark creature. It is called “weird” , The evil forbidden technique created by mankind finally harmed itself.

Along the way, a small number of human gathering points have almost returned from industrial society to primordial society. Ominous beasts look at it, unknown energies are lurking, and aliens surround themselves. The sight of the coming human end is faintly visible.

Luo Kai closed his eyes, spirit strength came out through his body, carefully studying the unknown energy in the air, this kind of thing that causes woodification seems to be a kind of chaotic energy, they have wisdom , Will choose the host themselves,

Strong life is not their choice, but if they are sick or injured, they are easily infected. In other words, the main route of transmission is blood. The child will be directly infected, and the life force continues to strengthen, but the power of consciousness is constantly attenuated, as if it is overdrawing the host’s life force.

With a gentle wave of his hand, the unknown energy in Suorao’s small building continuously gathers in his hand, and finally condenses into a faint, substantive gray mist. His powerful spirit strength is like the most advanced one. Like a Microscope, I want to see the true face of this energy.

At this moment, the energy in the hand seemed to feel something, and it began to decay and dissipate quickly, before turning into nothingness.

He is frowned, this unknown energy really possesses a kind of terrifying collective wisdom, and he will discover that there are other beings studying them.