Invasion - Chapter 83

Chapter 83

Lin Yuan and Ni Ji walked for a long time in the ruins of the underground city.

The space here was incredibly large, with countless rooms and buildings, abandoned shops, markets, cinemas, arcades, everything. Layer after layer, spiraling downwards, it didn’t know how many humans it had once sheltered.

But now, this sprawling underground city had become a dark abyss, a nest where monsters lurked.

Ni Ji threw a stone downwards, he still couldn’t hear the sound of it landing, he didn’t know how much deeper it went.

The two found a hidden room and huddled inside for the night.

The former owner of this room seemed to have left in a hurry, leaving behind many daily necessities.

In the small space, there were two soft single-seater sofas and a magnetic levitation coffee table that had fallen to the ground.

And a large bed. There were blankets, pillows, and even a small pot for boiling water.

Lin Yuan sank into the sofa, feeling her spine and neck well-supported, the sofa had many functions, with many high-tech buttons, it seemed to be able to adjust according to one’s body shape, it could extend, retract, levitate, and even had a massage function.

It was a pity that there was no power, but for someone who had been fighting all day, it was very comfortable to just lie in it.

"The Land of No Eyes is a very old contaminated zone, isn’t it?"

"According to research, this place was very likely a large shelter built by humans to avoid the disaster when the Great Cataclysm first began," Ni Ji said.

He dismantled a few wooden objects, lit a small fire on the ground, and placed the small pot on the fire to boil something.

The flames flickered, the orange light reflecting on his face, the bright light and the shadows of his features clearly defined.

He had taken on most of the close combat along the way. His clothes were covered with dust, his face still stained with blood.

But Lin Yuan felt that Little Fish at this moment looked very good.

She rested her chin in her hand, sitting on the sofa, watching Ni Ji.

Beside the lamplight, the beautiful man was like a painting.

As she watched, she yawned drowsily, before falling asleep, Lin Yuan vaguely felt the sentinel's earlobes reddened by the firelight.

Lin Yuan fell asleep in the dark, ancient underground city, she had a dream.

She had dreamt this dream before, the blurry images often appearing in her dreams, only, this time it was unusually clear.

In the dream, she was a giant monster, her skin sticky, her body huge, countless tentacles wriggling, slowly crawling through a dark underground world.

She could hear fragmented whispers coming from outside.

It was another kind of creature, they called themselves "humans," those humans would offer her sacrifices, praying to her for power.

At first, only cattle and sheep were placed on the altar. But for some reason, those humans gradually started offering her their own kind.

She liked the way humans looked when placed on the altar.

At these times, the tentacles would be excited, climbing up the stairs from the dark, damp underground, to the altar in the moonlight.

The sacrifices, full of emotions, were good toys, only they were a little too fragile, easily broken, she had to treat them carefully.

Above the opening where the sacrifices were placed, arguments would often come.

Some of the voices were very angry, some incredibly frightened, some filled with greed and excitement.

They called themselves researchers, or saviors, and all sorts of strange names.

"You're crazy, truly crazy, do you even know what you’re doing?"

"Such a terrifying, primal… monster, why would you hatch it?"

"When did it become so huge? What are you feeding it? Does anyone even know how far its body has extended now?”

"Extracting its blood, combining it with humans? My god, such a terrifying experiment, how many people have died in this process? How many have silently lost their lives for your crazy ideas?”

"You’re insane, you’re all lunatics!”

"Stop it, this kind of insane behavior will eventually destroy humanity."

"Humanity won't lose to Deviants, it’ll be destroyed by you lunatics."

"Help, let me go… help… murder!"

Finally, Lin Yuan heard those noisy voices disappear, those opposing her, gone, one after another, for some inexplicable reason.

They finally reached an agreement.

"We’ve succeeded, after injecting its blood, a new type of human has appeared."

"Those with enhanced bodies, we call them Sentinels, those with enhanced mental power, we call them Guides. It seems that Guides have integrated more of ‘its’ genes."

"In any case, we now have powerful weapons to fight against the Deviants."

"Finally, there’s hope of counterattacking, of leaving this damned underground city."

"Evolution is the instinct and future of all living beings. We succeeded, humanity will now enter a higher level, a brighter world."

"All sacrifices are worth it, we will save all of humanity.”

Those humans were very excited, their spirits high, filled with things Lin Yuan didn't quite understand.

But it didn’t matter, she didn’t care about this.

Those guys still didn't understand, for her, all humans who had her blood flowing in them were her offspring.

Those still simple and weak offspring, chattering all day, who knew what they were doing.

No matter how they struggled, those little things with her blood inside, would eventually become her people.

She lazily moved a tentacle in the darkness underground. The fact that those noisy things were connected to her by blood made her feel close to them.

These humans didn’t seem to know that reproduction was the instinct of all life.

The ultimate pursuit of all living beings.

Especially for a creature like her, who had such difficulty continuing her bloodline.

She had slept unknowingly in the deep sea for countless years, and had finally awakened, been nurtured and grown into such a giant.

She began to yearn to fulfill her mission, she wanted to claim this land, turn this prosperous land into her breeding ground.

Her mood lifted. The tentacles extended outwards, reaching further, expanding towards the deeper darkness.

Where’s the sacrifice? She hummed.

She wanted the sacrifice in the moonlight.

"Wake up, Lin Yuan."

"Lin Yuan?"

Lin Yuan heard someone calling her name.

She slowly opened her eyes, her mind blank, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

For a moment, she couldn’t even remember who she was, why she was here.

A dark space, a few dying embers on the floor.

A person’s face, a sentinel’s, appeared before her eyes.

The person, his brows slightly furrowed, was holding her shoulder, gently shaking her.

It was Ni Ji.

Yes, Lin Yuan remembered, she was a Guide, she had left the White Tower, entered the Land of No Eyes with Ni Ji.

They had traveled a long distance today, deep into this underground place.

She had only rested for a bit, had a dream, she wasn't really a monster.

Tentacles, it was only the monster in her dream that had tentacles just like hers.

Lin Yuan subconsciously looked for her tentacles.

And found that they, as if influenced by the dream, were messily wrapped around Ni Ji.

More brazenly, more rudely than ever before. One or two wrapped around his long legs, coiling around his waist.

Their suckers moist, the slippery pink tentacles wriggling, sliding into his sleeves, wrapping around his ankles, moving upwards, lifting the hem of his sentinel uniform, trying to slide inside to explore.

Ni Ji, flustered, one hand pulling at his clothes, the other protecting his waist, also trying to wake her up.

The light here was very dim. Lin Yuan, looking at the sentinel before her with unfocused eyes, could only vaguely see the moisture in his eyes.

He looked a little cute.

Lin Yuan almost smiled inappropriately, fortunately, the light was dim, the sentinel shouldn't be able to see her impolite expression.

The tentacles were instantly withdrawn by Lin Yuan, retreating back underground one after another, muttering and grumbling.

These guys were too much, after entering this underground world, they seemed to have become even more excited.

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But it shouldn't be anything too serious. Lin Yuan wasn't worried.

Ni Ji was a very powerful sentinel, it wasn't as if she had been asleep, the tentacles’ actions had just been their own will, a little mischievous.

Even if she were awake, controlling the tentacles, she couldn't easily subdue Ni Ji.

As long as Ni Ji was awake and would resist, the tentacles couldn't do anything too outrageous.

That should be the case, right?

"Sorry, I slept too deeply and didn't control them," Lin Yuan apologized. "Did they do anything?"

The powerful sentinel in the dark world avoided this question, reached for a clay pot, and handed the heated instant food to Lin Yuan.

"I seem to have heard you talking in your sleep," his voice came from across from her, a little soft, a breathy hoarseness in his voice.

"What did I say in my sleep?"

"You mentioned sacrifices, and some other strange words."

Lin Yuan thought back to that dream, the content was incredibly strange.

There, she hadn't been herself, but a terrifying monster from many, many years ago, in this underground city.

At that time, to fight against the large number of Deviants appearing in the world, humans hatched a strange egg. Someone secretly raised that monster with countless tentacles, extracted its blood, and conducted human experiments.

They did many terrifying experiments, offering sacrifices to the monster like it was a god.

In the end, human bodies and that tentacled monster’s blood were mixed together, creating a powerful new human, that was Sentinels and Guides.

Ni Ji crouched by the bonfire, using a wooden stick to stir the remaining embers.

Trying to make the room warmer without attracting monsters.

The red firelight reflected on his face, making his cheeks rosy.

Lin Yuan, sitting on the sofa, holding the warm soup, as if asking Ni Ji, or as if talking to herself, "Why do you think there are Sentinels and Guides in this world? Sentinels can go berserk, Guides are raised in the White Tower, they're so different from ordinary humans.”

So different from ordinary humans that sometimes, she even felt like a monster.

"All the books and information we’ve seen say that sentinels and guides are miracles bestowed by God to protect humanity. The White Tower is a sanctuary given by God to humans, the King is God's representative in the human world," the sentinel by the fire said.

"But once, I found a book in an old contaminated zone," he paused, seeming to be considering whether to say this. Finally, he told Lin Yuan, "That book recorded that Sentinels and Guides seem to have been artificially created after the Great Cataclysm."

Silence fell in the room, each lost in their own thoughts.

After a while, Ni Ji asked, "Lin Yuan, what are you looking for in the Land of No Eyes? Can you tell me?"

This was what many wanted to know, what was the Queen frequently sending sentinels to search for?

Why did a Guide like Lin Yuan repeatedly venture into dangerous contaminated zones?

But since Lin Yuan hadn't brought it up before, Ni Ji hadn't asked along the way.

Until Lin Yuan started acting strangely in this place, excited, unable to be woken up even after falling asleep.

Even mentioning strange words like “sacrifice”, “experiment”, and “progenitor”.

"It's not that I don’t want to tell you, only, I don't know myself what I'm looking for," the Guide, nestled in the sofa, said, “But when I reach the core of the contaminated zone, when I’m close to the source, I’ll be able to feel what I want, it’s always like this. At that time, I’ll share with you what I’ve found."

"Ni Ji…" Her small body curled up in the soft sofa, a rare look of confusion in her eyes. "Do you think I'm human? Or am I a monster?"

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