Chapter 66: After Despair

  Following his finger, he looked back and saw that the fluorescent lights below had unknowingly risen from the ground, with broken arms and legs, and even those who were supposed to be quietly lying down. The corpses that should have been quiet were already crawling up from the ground, not to mention the ones with disheveled hair and those that had rotted away to only leave white bones, all of them moved! Like a tsunami, in the fluorescent light below, all the dark shadows were stirring, like waves on the sea, one wave after another, all moving towards this side. If you ignore the true face of these "waves", then under this mysterious fluorescent light, it would be an absolutely stunning sight!

  Alas, those waves were corpses, one after another of long-decayed corpses!

  They, it seems, have regained their vitality, although stiff like wooden puppets, but with piercing eyes, their target is flesh and blood, living flesh and blood! Ah, it seems that this is a burial pit after all. There's nothing here, only the dead bodies left behind, and now the corpses in the pit are all crawling towards me. I couldn't help but think, am I really so popular?!

  Suddenly, his heart cooled down from inside out!

  My legs had already been paralyzed when I saw this scene, the sarcastic angry roar of Da Bao's voice in my ear also gradually became muffled. I only knew that many rotting corpses were crawling towards me, would they tear me apart or devour me? Was I going to die?

  I closed my eyes in despair, with a strong sense of unwillingness in my heart, but my hands and feet were already unable to move, I could only feel countless pairs of icy hands grasping my hands, my feet, every part of my body! All the hairs on my body stood up, and the strength in my body seemed to be sucked dry, I could only stare blankly at that chilling cold...

  The only feeling now is - pain! Despair! Unwillingness!

  I'm so useless after all! At this time, I still had a glimmer of hope that someone would suddenly jump out and save me... It turns out that I was too weak after all! I know that this glimmer of hope has made me feel even more desperate! And extreme despair, extreme fear, extreme collapse is destroying the last shred of hope I have left!

  Just as I was trapped in irretrievable regret and fear, a cool feeling suddenly swept from my arm to my brain, it was an extremely wonderful coolness, like an oasis in the desert, that was power! That was also hope!

  The mind suddenly cleared up, and after the extreme collapse, it was a numbness to indifference! Fear did not disappear, but instead turned into an extreme power, as if reborn, the mentality became numb to calm! That is the numbness of the heart!

  We can't give up like this!

  Open your eyes, the corpse with disheveled hair is already within arm's reach. Although those hate-filled eyes are terrifying to look at, I feel an unusual calmness in my heart, for the first time feeling fearless! What about the corpse? What about the evil spirits? Aren't they all just transformed from humans?! The most frightening thing isn't ghosts or monsters, but the human heart!

  I gazed faintly at the surrounding corpses with eerie postures, and without hesitation, I lifted my foot to kick the face covered in corpse turtles. Perhaps the force was too strong, or perhaps the corpse was too fragile, but with just one kick, the body was overturned, and the foul water splashed onto my face.

  It doesn't matter, I wiped it with my sleeve, looking at the dark and dry corpse's hand, I frowned, quickly took out a flashlight from my bag, and smashed! I smashed one by one! Those smashed hands immediately changed shape, then "whoosh" quickly drilled into the corpse and disappeared at an incredible speed. After adjusting my clothes, I smashed the crawling corpses while climbing out of the pile of bodies, looking at Da Bao's eyes widening in disbelief for a moment, I smiled lightly, kicked down the nearby crawling corpse with one foot, and stepped on the already unrecognizable corpses to walk towards the shore.

  "You... aren't you afraid?" Da Bao asked, trembling as he stood up and pointed at me.

  I trampled on the corpses at my feet and walked towards Da Bao, feeling calmer than I ever had before. At this moment, I was fearless!

  "Afraid? Why should I be afraid?" I replied with a light laugh.

  "Then you..." Da Bao still pointed at me incredulously...

  Rather than being terrified to death, watching myself die in such a miserable state, I'd rather take a chance and make a move, maybe there's still a glimmer of hope, right? And besides... As I finished speaking, I had already walked up to Da Bao's face, looking at his pale, weak, and emaciated cheeks. In the end, I let out a sigh and said softly: "And you're not really willing to kill me."

  "You're dreaming! I'd rather kill you right now!" Da Bao roared in anger, his pale face becoming even more ferocious and twisted, like a demon from hell.

  "You could have killed me, but why did you end up being a mere illusion?" I didn't wait for his response and continued, "Don't say your body is out of control, maybe there's some truth to that, but you know your own body best!" The reason you turned transparent at the critical moment was because you never wanted to kill me in the first place! Your body betrayed you! That's what your inner self thinks! Da Bao, I know you hate me, but I also know deep down you still consider me a brother!

  "No! It's not like that... it's not like that..." Da Bao hugged his head and let out a painful wail, I turned around, although my heart was unbearable, but still didn't say any comforting words, before leaving, I only said one sentence to him: take care, see you next time.

  The wailing behind has turned into loud crying, I am deaf to Da Bao's angry scolding and shouting, what I wanted to say has been said, it's time for Da Bao to make a decision, saying more is useless, when things reach an extreme they must turn back, this matter is a ridge in Da Bao's heart, I believe he can get over that ridge!

  The scene around me changed in an instant, the corpses that had been surging like waves disappeared, everything returned to calmness, and the empty space was left with only the mournful howl behind me and the sound of my footsteps...

  Illusion...?

  Bitterly hooking the corners of my mouth, I still couldn't force out a smile. Da Bao's matter hadn't been resolved, and I felt guilty, extremely guilty. But I absolutely wouldn't stop moving forward because of the guilt and self-blame in my heart. I had to meet up with others as soon as possible, whether it was Qing Ning, Xian Xian, or anyone else. If I didn't replenish food soon, I would really die here...

  At first, it was because of Xianxian's injection that I could drag my exhausted body to the present. Although I don't know if the effect of the medicine has completely disappeared, I have really reached my limit now and am walking purely on instinct...

  I can no longer feel my legs, I don't even know if I'm still walking. Maybe I've already fallen down, maybe I'm like Dabao was at first... already dead... But in my heart, I really can't accept it! All I know is that right now, I must leave this place, I must get out of here...

  The scene in front of me gradually became blurred, gradually dimmed, and finally turned into complete darkness...