Chapter 518: If Four People Walk Together, There Will Be an End
Chapter 518: Four People Going Together Must Have an End
Chen Xue was keenly aware of Lin Yi's emotions, and quickly pulled Lu Zhao, then asked in a low voice: "Um... Old Lu asked too hastily, can you tell us why?"
Her tone softened.
Lu Zhao also realized that something was wrong and quickly adjusted his glasses to ease the atmosphere.
But when he adjusted his glasses, he found that they had fallen on the side of "Teaching Building-023" and he didn't pick them up at all.
I didn’t pick it up…How did I see it so clearly along the way? !
Lu Zhao's scalp was slightly numb, and he always felt like he had missed something. At the same time, he seemed to hear some strange whispers in his ears. The expressions of Lin Yi and Chen Xue in front of him also seemed a little strange to him. He always felt that the people around him were hiding some malicious smiles.
Lin Yi naturally didn't know what kind of strange state Lu Zhao was in, so he answered Chen Xue directly: "After leaving this lamppost, we will enter the dormitory area... Based on my rich experience, that area is much more dangerous than the teaching building area."
"If you still intend to follow us... we may become one of the units that pose a threat to you."
Lin Yi felt that what he said was already very subtle. If he continued, it would be like saying to his face, "If you follow us, you will really be dead"...
Chen Xue pursed her lips and didn't ask any further questions.
Lin Yi thought about it and decided to give them a glimmer of hope: "You can stay here, or go to the gymnasium... If you are lucky, there will be athletes to pick you up at the gymnasium. It is much safer than staying here."
"Or, if you really want to go back to the dormitory, wait until we are far away..."
After Lin Yi finished speaking, he no longer cared about what Lu Zhao and the other three did. He, Wei Liang and Wei Shan, held umbrellas and walked out of the lighting range of the "Teaching Building-001" street lamp pole and entered the dormitory area.
Chen Xue watched Lin Yi and the others leave reluctantly, then slowly looked away.
"Old Lu, what should we do next?" Chen Xue looked at Lu Zhao worriedly. She felt more and more that what she had learned from the organization was completely not enough here.
According to their mission and combat instructions, this time when they come here, don't they just need to do this, then this, then this, then that, and finally this, and then that, and they'll be done?
But...why is there such a big gap between reality and plan?
If it weren't for Lin Yi, they would have been killed just now.
Seeing that Lu Zhao did not respond, Chen Xue looked over, but after just one glance, her body froze in place.
Just outside the range of the lamppost's light, in the green forest belt, a sculpture of an angel with its face covered by its hands appeared at some point. The angel sculpture faced them, standing quietly in the wind and rain, as if it had never moved at all.
At this moment, Lu Zhao's whole body was tense, staring at the angel sculpture intently.
"The Laughing Angel...?!" Chen Xue cried out in horror. At this moment she finally understood why the Forest of the Dead stopped chasing them.
It’s not that the Forest of Dead has stopped chasing, but that someone else has taken over, and it’s now the turn of the Laughing Angel to play with them.
Lu Zhao tightly gripped the fire axe, his whole body seemed to be petrified.
"Old Lu?" Chen Xue shook Lu Zhao worriedly, but Lu Zhao didn't react at all.
"Sister?" She looked at Chen Bing again. Now, Chen Bing's body gradually took on a bluish-gray texture under the light, as if she had turned into a sculpture.
She looked at Jin Jiuyao again, but found that Jin Jiuyao's eyes were flashing with extreme fanaticism behind the goggles. He seemed extremely eager to catch up with Lin Yi, but he didn't dare to really follow him. His whole body exuded an aura of fanaticism, cowardice and panic.
She wanted to call out to others, but found that there was no response at all.
The only one who responded was her voice...
[Chen Xue...]
[Chen Xue...]
A series of low calls came from her own bones. She was stunned for a moment, looked at her arms, and then discovered with horror that her arms had turned into the shape of a sculpture without her knowing when.
"This? I...?!"
She was terrified, but found that she seemed to have lost control of her arms and could not raise her hands at all.
Endless fear filled her heart. Turning around, she found that the angel sculpture in the green belt had appeared beside her at some point - right under the light!
Right next to Lu Zhao!
"Oh no! Old Lu! Old Lu!!" She wanted to move but was powerless. She could only keep calling out to Lu Zhao. However, Lu Zhao remained indifferent to her response.
She was really panicked, not knowing whether there was something wrong with the world or... with her!
But suddenly, Lu Zhao moved!
"The laughing angel! Kill!" Lu Zhao tightly gripped the fire axe and chopped fiercely at the laughing angel in front of her.
Chen Xue was overjoyed, but the next moment, the smiling angel who was originally there disappeared strangely, and the heavy fire axe fell on her without any surprise!
"Old Lu?!" Chen Xue instinctively wanted to dodge, but she couldn't. With a "puff" sound, she was killed by Lu Zhao on the spot without any strength to resist.
However...when she died, an even more horrifying scene occurred.
Chen Xue found herself still standing in the same place, but another part of herself had fallen to the ground. Blood was gushing out from her chest, soaking the pebbles on the ground, but was immediately washed away by the rain.
"I...?" She was a little slow to react. "'I' died... then what happened to me now?"
She doesn't understand.
But if Lin Yi was here, she would know that her will was separated from her body. The almost frozen scene just now was actually nothing else but a manifestation of her "high-level perception" between life and death. However, her adaptability was too poor, and she was killed by Lu Zhao before she could react at all.
But now her will is floating here in a strange state.
She saw the smiling angel again...
The angel with a strange smile slowly removed the hand that was covering its face.
Chen Xue saw the smiling angel's face clearly.
That's her face.
That angel with a strange smile is her.
Then who is she...?
She rubbed her eyes in disbelief, and when she opened them again, she found that the smiling angel had disappeared again.
Not only did the Smiley Angel disappear, but even her own position had undergone some strange changes.
She found that she had somehow appeared in the greenbelt, and through the gaps in the greenbelt, she saw a lit lamppost not far away, and in the light range of the lamppost, she saw Lu Zhao, Chen Bing, and herself.
A strange and creepy feeling suddenly arose in her heart, and she suddenly realized that her palm seemed to have turned into the transparent shape between illusion and reality like the laughing angel.
"I...I turned into that weirdly laughing angel sculpture?!"
She turned into the eerily smiling angel sculpture she had just seen?!
"How could this happen?! How could this happen?!" She was terrified again. At this time, she found that Lu Zhao was holding the fire axe tightly. "No! No!"
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!!"
"Chen Xue!! Chen Xue!" she yelled anxiously.
[Chen Xue...Chen Xue...]
It was almost weird, and when she said this, she felt like she was struck by lightning.
The fear continued to spread, and she suddenly realized that not only was she now the same smiling angel sculpture she had just seen, but even the calling voice was actually her trying to save herself? !
In a trance, she found that everything around her became blurry. When the blurry feeling became clear, she had flashed in front of her former self.
At this moment, she really felt creepy and realized that she seemed to be trapped in some terrible curse cycle.
The next moment, Lu Zhao raised his knife and killed her.
Her consciousness began to blur...
In a daze, she found that Lu Zhao's eyes had turned red, and she could vaguely hear Lu Zhao muttering something: "Smiling angel...smiling angel...you are all smiling angels...you must all die, you must all die..."
“You…you must survive…sister…Jin Jiuyao…wait, Jin…Jin?!”
At the last moment before her consciousness faded, she suddenly discovered the point where she had felt something was wrong before - there was no Jin Jiuyao under the lamppost!
From the beginning to the end, there were only three people: her, Chen Bing, and Lu Zhao!
As for Jin Jiuyao...she had no idea where he was...
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X023年5月10日，20:43，宿舍楼区域。
In the wind and rain, Lin Yi frowned slightly, as if he was recalling something. Finally, he asked, "Wei Sang, do you think that Jin Jiuyao is a little strange?"
"Jin Jiuyao? The guy holding the fire axe?" Wei Shan said, "He has been contaminated. No matter what he sees, he might mistake it for the Laughing Angel... That state is very dangerous to himself and others."
Lin Yi corrected him: "That was Lu Zhao. The Jin Jiuyao I was talking about was the one wearing goggles."
"The one with the goggles?" Wei Shan was stunned for a moment. "Wasn't he already dead when we met them?"
"But he clearly followed us for a while!" Lin Yi asked puzzledly.
Wei Shan frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and corrected: "Maybe he is not following us, but following you... I can't see him, and what you see may be... another 'him'."
"But he is definitely dead. His body is under the lamppost of "Teaching Building-023"."
"And I don't think the remaining three will live until tomorrow."
"Lu Zhao will kill them, and then be killed by the Laughing Angel."
"Then I saved them in vain?" Lin Yi was a little unwilling. Although he just did it casually, he did something after all. But if he found out now that this was all in vain, it would be too unhappy.
"We were also very confused at that time, so we let you make your own decision." Wei Shan confessed.
Lin Yi couldn't help but pursed his lips. So was this what you meant at the beginning? Please, our understanding is completely different!
"You don't want to go back, do you?" Wei Shan asked.
Lin Yi said without hesitation: "I'm not a saint. Let's go back to the dormitory. The most urgent thing is to find a way to get Maozi out of the art building and run away."
"Let's save our own people first, and then see if it's convenient to do something else."
Seeing this, Wei Shan just nodded in agreement and didn't say any more nonsense.
At this moment, Wei Liang suddenly said in a trembling voice: "Lao Lin, I feel a little cold..."
Lin Yi quickly asked: "Are you okay? Is it like last time again?"
The so-called "last time" naturally refers to the time when Wei Liang's body became like a sculpture.
Wei Liang said slowly: "It will take a while, but it feels like it will be soon... If you call me and I don't respond later, don't worry about anything, just take me to the dormitory building. Don't worry, I will be fine."
After Wei Liang finished speaking, he put his hand on Lin Yi's shoulder, and then his whole body seemed to have shut down his self-awareness and turned into a walking corpse who only knew to follow him instinctively.
Lin Yi always felt that Wei Liang's current state was very similar to his state when he was in "custody", except that when he was in "custody", he could control his body instinctively, and his fighting power was almost off the charts, but Wei Liang's "custody" was like shutting down the computer.
Lin Yi called out twice, but when Wei Liang didn't respond, he felt a little overwhelmed: "Wei Sang, can we do this?"
"Yes..." Wei Shan said slowly.
Lin Yi calmed down immediately after hearing this.
"......right." Wei Shan added a word.
Lin Yiding's heart suddenly tensed up again.
Suddenly, as if he sensed something, he looked up at the sky.
As luck would have it, with a "boom", another bolt of thunder tore through the night sky. The dark sky was like a cracked mouth, and the art building castle that was looming and hanging upside down in the sky appeared in his sight again.
Sometimes, he really couldn't tell the difference between the black sea and the real black sky, which one was real.
The only thing he could clearly recognize was that he was now in "reality", and he had been to that art building before. That side... might also be a part of the real world, just like a quilt has a front and a back, and that side might be the inside.
In the lightning, there were still many smiling angels trying to pass through the cracks in the layers, but most of them were still annihilated in the cracks of the layers, and only a few were able to reach the campus dragging their broken bodies.
But in the black and white light and shadow, he seemed to see a figure made up of blurry mist shadows - the outline was very similar to the "Original Ash Apostle", but in the blink of an eye it turned into flowing breath.
The thunder was fleeting, but the rainstorm on this campus became even heavier.
“Swish, swish, swish…swish, swish…”
The whole world was covered by thick dark clouds, as black as ink, which seemed to fall down at any time. The wind was howling, making strange noises, like mournful roars coming from the underworld. The raindrops became bigger, hitting the umbrella surface as densely as water bullets, making the umbrella surface appear concave curves.
"Lao Lin, get ready, this umbrella... may not work." Wei Shan's voice slowly sounded at this moment.
(End of this chapter)