Even though she knew that her time was limited, the moment she heard Mrs. Manas' voice, Lin Sanjiu fell to the ground with a thud. She looked as if she wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, "I was right. You are still here!"
"Get up quickly," Mrs. Manas urged, "There are too many messy things around here. Let's talk as we walk."
Lin Sanjiu took two deep breaths and stood up. She turned around and glanced around. She didn't know how many shadows she could no longer see were hidden in the thick fog. After she had turned her head, the shadows could not be seen again; and those who had died noiselessly remained motionless in the same silent pose, until nothing was left of them, eaten away and rotted away.
"So, you heard the voice of the figure on the red wall?" Mrs. Manas was a little surprised after she heard Lin Sanjiu's explanation. "I can sense a strange hostility from you. The more I explain, the more hostile you become …"
Lin Sanjiu chuckled sheepishly.
"After all, I heard a voice from the deepest part of my mind …" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help shuddering when she recalled it. "Even though I don't know what the red brick wall and the figure are and what's going on, the method isn't that complicated."
"You understand it now? Oh, walk a little to the right. We went a little off the path just now. "
Lin Sanjiu moved a few steps to the right. She was still using the stick to explore the path ahead. As she walked, she said, "Yeah, I was blinded by the situation. Think about it. Why did we find that red brick wall in the first place? It's clearly still quite a distance away from our path. "
"Because we heard someone repeating a conversation from the depths of the fog …" Mrs. Manas answered.
"Yeah, the only purpose of that retelling was to lure people to investigate the source of the voice," Lin Sanjiu suggested. "After I blew away the smoke and saw the red brick wall, I didn't hear the red brick wall repeat the conversation of the working group anymore. This is not a coincidence."
If the environment had been changed, retelling the conversation might not have been successful either. There were a lot of posthumans who, like bee stingers, would avoid the sound as soon as they heard it. However, when people were walking in a thick fog that was equivalent to blindness, how many people would dare to let the sound float in the lead fog around them without looking at the source?
"I get it now. After seeing the human-shaped cracks on the red brick wall, you will be influenced. Unknowingly, you will start to … walk like those human-shaped cracks."
Lin Sanjiu exhaled, and a layer of steam rose from her respirator.
"Yes. The more you look, the more you are affected, and the more you are affected, the more you can't help but take a few more glances. " She recalled what she had just experienced and said, "And … indeed, in this kind of situation, it is normal for people to look a few more times. It is this kind of natural and logical action that causes those who get close to it to fall into a hopeless situation that they cannot break free from. "
Even though Lin Sanjiu would sometimes complain about her bad luck, she knew very well that she was already one in a million lucky to be alive today. The Survival Aura shone on her once again today. "I have another guess. The reason why I wasn't affected too much by it and could still think is because I didn't go near the red brick wall. After all, not everyone has a whirlpool or a tornado whip. If I go near the red brick wall to look at the human-shaped cracks, I will be affected faster. "
As she said this, the forest of humans appeared in her mind again. It occupied a very large area. From a few steps in front of the red brick wall to a few dozen meters away, there were people, duoluozhongs, and other creatures that seemed to have some human DNA mixed in them.
It seemed that one had to have something to do with "man" in order to fall for the trick of the red brick wall. If it had been a rat, the cracks on the wall would have been nothing more than cracks. Only human beings could see the features of human faces in patterns or patterns.
"Then what about my voice?" Mrs. Manas asked.
After passing through the forest of humans, the ground was a lot smoother. Lin Sanjiu picked up her pace and answered, "The human-shaped mouth. It gave me the answer."
Amidst the scattered smoke, she leaped over a pram in front of her. It took a lot of imagination to figure out that the pile of rubbish was a pram. It was only when she leaped over it that she realized it was a pram. From the half-hidden hole under the cloth, a small human hand reached out to grab her ankle. The hand brushed past the sole of her boot.
Once Lin Sanjiu landed on the ground, she did not dare to waste any time. She continued to run forward. Behind her, the baby's shrill and urgent cries rang out. It was as if it was starving and needed its mother. Its cries forced all the women around to carry it and take care of it.
"The things here are very good at using their voices to harm people," Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly. She did not slow down and said, "The same goes for the human-shaped red brick wall. I guessed wrongly at first. I thought I would hear the same voice again when I walked in front of the human-shaped red brick wall. But in fact, after I saw it, any voice I heard would become the voice of the human-shaped red brick wall. "
Lin Sanjiu felt that it was hard to explain so she gave an example, "Do you know about the phenomenon of 'imprinting' in animal behavior? Oh, you must know about it because I do. "
Mrs. Manas coughed.
"A duckling that just hatched will think of the first thing it sees as its mother," Lin Sanjiu continued, "In a way, the voice of the red brick wall is also a kind of imprinting phenomenon. After the first time I heard its voice, the voices of all the others were all its voice. And that includes you, my subconscious. "
"But what's the use?"
"I don't know if it's useful for a lone ranger, but it's different if you have a companion," Lin Sanjiu explained. "When a posthuman walks in front of the human-shaped red brick wall, he will hear his companion talking with the voice of the human-shaped red brick wall. When a posthuman walks in front of the human-shaped red brick wall with its mouth closed, even if his companion is talking, you will only hear silence in your ears."
Every time the human-shaped red brick wall in her mind did not speak, Lin Sanjiu would find that she was standing in front of a human-shaped red brick wall with its mouth closed. That was what made her suspicious.
She tried a few times and found that she could only hear the voice in her mind when the human-shaped red brick wall opened its mouth. Normally, this would further support her suspicion that the human-shaped red brick wall was talking. However, if she thought about it more deeply, she would find it very strange.
"Because the human-shaped red brick wall is already fixed on the wall, but the person's voice is unpredictable and uncontrollable … It can't predict when the person will walk in front of the human-shaped red brick wall."
Lin Sanjiu glanced behind her shoulder, even though she knew that she was already far away from the wall. "In this way, when you ask a question, your companion doesn't answer. When your companion speaks, it's like the human figure on the red brick wall is lying to you … Once you spend your mind on whether your companion has been replaced, you'll never be able to walk out of the red brick wall."
"I understand now," Mrs. Manas sighed. "I am the representation of your subconscious. It's impossible for me to be replaced by a few cracks on the red brick wall. Therefore, the problem lies in your own perception."
Once Lin Sanjiu realized that her perception was the problem, everything became simple. She immediately gave up on believing in herself and chose to believe the voice of the human-shaped red brick wall in her mind.
However, how many people in this world would have the courage to do that?
The interlude with the red brick wall delayed Lin Sanjiu for about ten minutes. Fortunately, the rest of the journey was smooth sailing. Aside from a few close calls, she was like a deer that had passed through countless traps. Lin Sanjiu quickly caught up with the others. When Mrs. Manas shouted, "Watch out!", Lin Sanjiu knew that she had reached her destination.
She was still breathing in the air from the oxygen tank, but when she stretched out her hand, she could feel that the haze in front of her was different. It was as if the air was filled with wet cotton. If she didn't have a breathing device, she doubted that she could even breathe in such air.
"Make your preparations first," Mrs. Manas instructed.
Lin Sanjiu held the [Tornado Whip] in one hand and took out the corpse she received from the duoluozhong experience hall with the other.
"I'm sorry," Lin Sanjiu said to the card in a low voice, "The burial place I found for you isn't very beautiful."
This time, she didn't hold back when she unleashed the tornado. The ghastly tornado spiraled forward, tearing through the haze in its wake. The moment her field of vision opened up, she threw the corpse in her hand at the black lake that had been agitated by the tornado with all her might. She had no choice but to throw the corpse in her hand at the undulating black lake that had been agitated by the tornado.
Just like bungee jumping, the giant "fishes" in the black lake — if they could still be called fishes — were extremely sensitive to any human body that came close to the water.
Layers of black waves were pushed into the air by a huge force from the depths of the lake. As the waves bloomed like flowers, a giant fish leaped into the air. In the blink of an eye, the corpse disappeared into its shadow. Lin Sanjiu didn't have the time to see how it looked like. She pressed the recorder she took out earlier and the voice of the ordinary girl in the lodging house rang out, "You can control large creatures …"
Once again, Lin Sanjiu felt the familiar warmth on her neck. She raised her hand and let out a sharp whistle.
When the giant fish fell back into the water, the black waves it stirred up instantly drenched her from head to toe. The giant fish also disappeared into the lake. Lin Sanjiu held her breath and waited for a few seconds. Then, she suddenly retreated a few meters.
As the shore she was standing on was smashed by a gigantic creature, a spider web of cracks appeared on it. A gigantic head covered in iron scales slowly rose from the muddy water and faced Lin Sanjiu.
That's right. The mutated fishes in the lake shared the same name as all the stray cats on the street, "Mimi."
(End of this chapter)
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