After the recording of the paper crane ended, both the cat and the man quietened down.
The flesh-colored pillars behind them grew taller and taller. In just a short while, the overturned truck had disappeared into the forest of pillars. There was almost nothing left of the carcass. Almost all of it had turned into nutrients for the forest of pillars. Occasionally, they could vaguely make out the head, the limbs, and the outline of the clothes. More than half of the clear night sky was covered by the pillars. When they looked up, they could only see clusters of round, black shadows swaying in the sky.
"The species that grew this time … is very rare …" Darby said to the forest of pillars as he raised his face. However, for a moment, no one paid attention to him.
"Is Xiaojiu … surrounded by the 'servants' that this thing mentioned?" the cat doctor asked.
"I'm a human …"
"Although you must have your reasons for saying that," Bohemia frowned, "but … she is obviously more than a hundred kilometers away from these flesh-colored pillars. She can't hurt them at all. Why would she be surrounded by their servants?"
"Hmm," the cat doctor waved his front paw generously. "I might be wrong. She said 'we' just now. Is there someone else besides her? "
"You are so perceptive!" Bohemia clapped her hands. As she clapped, the forest of flesh-colored pillars swayed slightly in the night breeze. "… Puppeteer is with her, but he's unconscious now."
In the dark night, the cat's eyes lit up. It was as if the name "Puppeteer" had a fishy smell.
"Oh, I didn't expect … she's so capable. I've taken the Hippocratic Oath as well. "The cat was in high spirits. Even his tail was raised high." We can't leave a wounded person alone! We have to go and find her. But, we still have to think of a way to ensure her safety. "
"You're right! She's very tough. I'm sure she can hold on until we come up with a plan. "
The cat and the human pondered for a while. After a few seconds, both pairs of eyes turned to Darby at the same time.
He swallowed hard. Even though he did not have the structure of a throat, it looked like it.
"I, I can't go into the city," he stammered. "If I go in like this, the fact that I am a human will be exposed... They, they will not let me go, but most importantly, our plan to save the human race will be affected..."
"You think too much." Bohemia waved her hand. "There shouldn't be anyone who would think you're a human after seeing you like this. Huh? What do you mean by that? "
She didn't care that Old Da looked weird and disgusting. She moved closer and asked, "Are you trying to say that the people in this country are different from you? Not a bag of flesh like you? "
"Of … of course it's different. I'm a human, they're not … "Old Da panted heavily, blowing half of his head up and down." Our goal is to eliminate the artificial humans and save humanity … "
There was probably no one in this world who was more unsuitable to say this than him.
"Don't squeeze the toothpaste." The cat doctor slapped the ground impatiently with the tip of his tail. "Just pretend that we're born for the first day and don't know anything. If you finish your introduction in one breath, we won't bring you into the city. If you're right, we can even sew your wound back up."
The temptation seemed to be huge. Old Da's lifeless face changed. Suddenly, he rolled his eyes and looked at the clusters of flesh-colored pillars around him. They were almost three stories high. Finally, he opened his mouth slowly.
"Don't you know what these things are?" He was exhausted and his voice was weak. "Then I suggest that you don't get too close to them. Although you don't look like the artificial humans in this country and I don't know where you came from, I can feel that you haven't been modified. Your structure is different from mine … If you get too close, once you're corroded, you won't be able to 'squeeze' the invaders out like our bodies. "
"Squeeze?"
Old Da had to take a few deep breaths before he continued to speak.
"In our bodies … only our heads have been modified into this kind of flesh bag structure. Starting from the neck down, the structure of my body gradually returns to normal … Other than the bodily fluids, I'm no different from the humans you know. "As he spoke, he tucked his scalp back together. His pupils seemed to have shrunk a lot. "Because … if we don't want to be modified into artificial humans by the invaders … we have to hide our brains well."
Neither the cat nor the human could understand what he said next. "Through the surgery, we changed the location and shape of our brains and hid them somewhere else in this body. There are only some camouflage around the original skull and brain … So, even if our heads are torn open, we won't die … All of this is to prevent the invaders from modifying our consciousness … turning us into the servants of these things. "
Bohemia raised her head in a daze. The tall shadows of the flesh-colored pillars had completely shrouded them. Unknowingly, the whole area was filled with these tall and big "meat bean sprouts".
"But most of the people in this country … I'm afraid that most of them have been infected by the invaders. In order to defeat these things, our country sent us here to steal some samples … Our goal is to protect our country and save mankind. "
Old Da's words sounded like he was about to disappear. Judging from the injuries he had sustained, it was unbelievable that he was still alive. However, as he spoke, his eyes began to glow, and his face became flushed. He seemed to have regained some of his strength.
It was hard not to think of the phrase "final radiance of the setting sun".
"You and your companions … It seems like you haven't become artificial humans yet, but you have abilities that we can't even imagine." He raised his hand and pulled Bohemia's sleeve gently as if he was pleading, "I can feel that I don't have much time left. Please, please, can you help us and save the fate of mankind? Remember, they are airborne, so don't breathe them — "
At the same time, more than a hundred kilometers away, Lin Sanjiu was standing in the dark. She could only hear Puppeteer's faint breathing.
Apart from that, the building and the night were as quiet as a ghost town. The only loud sound came from her heart, which was beating wildly in her chest.
Frozen figures stood quietly in the deep pit, just below the second floor. They surrounded the building without moving an inch.
Black figures that looked like they were frozen stood quietly in the deep pit. They surrounded the building motionlessly under the second floor, which looked like an umbrella. They didn't come in, nor did they make a sound. They had been standing outside the building for five to six minutes … Even when the paper cranes flew out, they still didn't move. They were like a circle of standing corpses.
No, if they were corpses, then there was nothing to be afraid of.
What really made Lin Sanjiu tense up was the strong warning in her head, "Run!" which kept twitching and throbbing. Compared to now, the warning she felt at the old lady's house was as gentle as a child's. She had already wandered around the hall a few times, but every direction seemed to be more frightening than the others.
The only purpose of these figures was to trap her inside ….
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