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 Chapter 967 The Lost World

The black shadow jumped out from the ground and rushed directly towards Ekeler. Looking at the black shadow in front of him, Ekeler was...

 “Whoa————!”

At almost the same time, Mary and Lumière also screamed in terror and quickly retreated to the side. Instead, Ogis reached out and wrapped the black figure with silk thread. It was only then that Eclair ran away like an electric shock and jumped up from the side of the black figure.

As for why the girls were so frightened, the reason was very simple, because it was a cockroach with several pairs of legs, smooth curves, black body, and about the size of a human... cockroach!

 “No, no, no, what is this!”

Marie desperately took the initiative to climb on Duanmu Huai's body and hugged his jetpack tightly, even her usual ladylike reserve was gone. Even Lumiere rarely hid behind Duanmu Huai, and the "demeanor" and "elegance" he always talked about were nowhere to be seen.

 “Zhizhizhi——!“

However, the huge cockroach didn't seem to be willing to give in. It still waved its tentacles desperately and made a creepy sound. Not only that, but what was even more creepy was that along with the scream of the cockroach, the nearby ground began to rise, and then one after another equally huge cockroaches came out of it...

 “No ah ah ah ah ah ah!!”

The girls' screams reached the sky, and even Duanmuhuai had to lower the volume of his helmet - the screams were comparable to the sonic attacks of the Noise Warriors.

However, Duanmuhuai also admitted that it was quite scary to see a group of human-sized cockroaches coming out from below.

 But, after all, it’s just a cockroach!

 “Look at me!”

Duanmu Huai roared angrily, raised his hammer, and smashed it hard against the ground. The cockroaches crawling all over the ground were suddenly exploded by the smash, and countless smelly, sticky white liquids shot out and scattered everywhere. land.

"ah---!"

However, what Duanmu Huai didn't expect was that he had just helped the girls solve the problem that made them yell. The next moment, they let out another scream, quickly got off of him, and then distanced themselves from him. , even Ogis and Qiuwei are no exception.

 “What’s wrong with you?”

Duanmuhuai glanced around. All these cockroaches were killed. What do they call them?

 “Duan, Mr. Duanmu, on your body...”

Mary stretched out her hand tremblingly and pointed at Duanmuhuai's body. Duanmuhuai looked down and saw a layer of blood sprayed by cockroaches on the front of his armor, and a few cockroach legs on his body—— But even outside the armor, Duanmuhuai didn't feel it at all.

"It's just such a small thing. What are you afraid of? Didn't you kill all the cockroaches?"

As Duanmuhuai spoke, he wiped off a few cockroach legs on his body, and then walked towards the girls.

As a result, as soon as he took a few steps, he saw the girls taking a few steps back, staring at him as if they were seeing a scary big cockroach.

　　　…………”

When I saw the cockroaches just now, they all ran toward me in fear. Now that I saw some cockroach blood on my body, they all stayed away from me? You know, I beat this cockroach to death for you.

 Hehe, woman.

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes silently.

　　It wasn’t until Duanmu Huai silently disinfected his armor all over his body and washed it again that the girls dared to come closer again—the way they acted just now, they almost regarded Duanmu Huai as a large cockroach!

 “This, what is going on in this world?”

Mary held her chest and gasped for breath - even facing the children of the old **** had never made her so nervous, right?

 “Why are there such big cockroaches here!”

Eclair even held his arms in his arms, feeling numb all over. It was just an ordinary little bug. A cockroach as big as a human would really give people nightmares, right?

 “Ahem.”

Duanmuhuai coughed and spoke.

 “I have heard of similar situations.”

"similar situation?"

"Yes, I seem to have heard that there is a mad scientist who wants to fuse the genes of cockroaches and humans to create a kind of super cockroach people. Then his experiment was successful, and a bunch of super cockroach people appeared. They have On the outside of a cockroach, underneath the shell is a human body full of muscles, and their heads are also like cockroaches..."

 “Yah—ah—please stop talking, Mr. Duanmu!”

Mary was the first to cover her ears, and was so frightened that she almost knelt on the ground - and then jumped up again. After all, she still remembered that those cockroaches crawled out of the ground.

What’s more terrible is that Mary is also a writer. Writers generally have rich imaginations, not to mention Duanmuhuai’s descriptions so clearly...

Mary felt like she had goosebumps all over her body.

Even Eclair and Lumière were pale and trembling. Only Ogis and Qiuwei seemed calm - as dolls, they seemed unable to understand humans' fear of such strange insects.   So why did Ogis and Qianwei leave Duanmuhuai just now?

Hmm, Ogis’s answer is simple.

 “Very dirty and smelly.”

As expected of his own little cotton-padded jacket, Duanmuhuai was almost penetrated.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the girls in front of him, Duanmu Huai chuckled.

This is retribution for causing you to dislike me just now.

 “So…what is going on in this world?”

After a brief stay, the group of people immediately left the wasteland. Although there was nothing there, the cockroaches emerging from the ground alone were enough to make them change their direction.

 “A fragmented world, the afterimage of a world that has died.”

Ogis and Qianwei knew about it, but Mary, Lumière and others didn't know much about it. Duanmuhuai hadn't told them about it, so he took the opportunity to do some popular science. Of course, this kind of fragment World knowledge is of little use to ordinary people. If they are not soul messengers, it is indeed of no use.

“It’s really unimaginable. Are you saying that there was another civilization on this planet before our world? I have never heard of it...”

Eclair looked incredulous. She wouldn't care if it were anywhere else, but what Duanmuhuai was talking about was the planet she was on. She had worked on this planet for hundreds of years, and now someone told her that before them, there were still There was another ancient civilization... To be honest, Eclair couldn't imagine it.

“It is very far away from you. It may be destroyed before your civilization is born.”

Duanmuhuai glanced around. He did not let the girls take off their helmets. Although according to the auspicious test, the various data of the fragmented world were better than the previous planet wrapped in clouds and lightning, but there was also some high radiation pollution. Data - Of course, just look at that cockroach. Where can there be such a big cockroach in the normal world?

So for the sake of caution, Duanmuhuai still asked them to continue wearing helmets - Star Alliance's protective clothing was still in place.

This world looks desolate, but scattered buildings can still be seen in the distance, indicating that there should still be civilization in this world. It's just that it's too far away, and Duanmuhuai can only see a rough outline even with a telescope, so so far, he hasn't figured out what the world is like.

But at least Duanmuhuai is sure that the situation in this world is definitely not much better.

 After all, there are cockroaches as big as human beings crawling all over the ground. If there were people in this world, life would definitely be very hard.

Of course, unless they are in a world of giants, that is a different matter.

 Fortunately, they don't seem to be in a world of giants - at least when everyone walks up to those buildings, they can see that the buildings here are all built according to standard human sizes.

but……

 “It’s so miserable...what happened here?”

Looking at the ruins everywhere, as well as the corpses and blood stains everywhere, the girls couldn't help but take a breath. Although they had seen a lot of strange things, they still couldn't bear to witness the tragic state of the corpses in front of them. Not only that……

 “This...what is this? Is this a human being?”

Mary held the gun carefully, approached a human corpse lying on the ground, and whispered. No wonder Mary was so suspicious, because although this person had a human body, its head looked like an exploded mushroom with only a mouth underneath, which looked extremely weird and scary.

“The devil knows what this is. Even if it was a human before, it is not a human now.”

Duanmu Huai took out the auger and scanned it, and then came to a conclusion.

 “Then...how do we leave this world?”

"Currently? There is no way at the moment. I need to find the core of this world and then make a decision..."

This fragmented world does not yet belong to Duanmuhuai, so Duanmuhuai has no way to open the portal. Just like other worlds, Duanmuhuai needs to change the original destiny of this world.

 But...Does the world still need to change?

 Isn’t this all over? Are you going to change your life? They're all dead.

“Anyway, let’s take a look around first, um…”

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai stopped and looked at the steel behemoth in front of him - they were currently at a station. There was a train parked on the platform here. It seemed that it had not been destroyed and everything was normal. look.

"What's wrong?"

 “A good idea suddenly occurred to me.”

Duanmu Huai turned his head and looked at the girls. Looking at the train, Duanmu Huai suddenly remembered a game he played before, in which the protagonist controlled the train to move forward in the apocalypse. It seemed quite interesting... There happened to be a train parked here too. , Well, if this is treated as a game, wouldn't it just happen that the protagonist comes here and finds transportation?

“Idle time is idle, let’s take the train and go around.”

 (End of this chapter)