A shapeless figure fell from Lin Sanjiu's hand with a thud. When it fell to the ground, its empty limbs swung in an arc in the air before falling limply onto the body. A long crack appeared on the back of Redhead Ol 'Jack's corpse, exposing it to the fluorescent light.
Almost at the same time the corpse touched the ground, a small figure darted out from the meat nest and dashed towards the corpse. With a piercing shriek, it quickly dove into the crack.
Lin Sanjiu watched silently as the corpse bulged up like a sack. Even though the thing that went into the sack wasn't big, the corpse's torso was gradually filled up. It started to take on the appearance of a real human. However, the transformation didn't last long. When "Redhead Ol 'Jack" stood up from the ground, he and his companions didn't seem to be the same kind of creature.
It was as if a fist had been shoved into his face. Most of the skin on his head hung limply and rested on a chin that was shaped like a rotten peach. His two empty arms dangled beside his body. The thing that supported the corpse disappeared at his thighs. His limp calves were dragging two leg-shaped bags that were folded below his thighs. At first glance, it looked like a half-melted person was flowing towards the floor.
The fourth thing opened its mouth but couldn't make any sound.
However, that was enough. Lin Sanjiu was a little surprised. She didn't expect her most unbelievable guess to be true.
AYU glanced at Redhead Ol 'Jack's half-standing corpse and looked at Lin Sanjiu. She pursed her lips tightly. Among the four creatures, she looked the most like a real living person.
"Is it because I'm the first one to eat humans and wear corpses?" Lin Sanjiu guessed.
"This corpse bag of yours doesn't have any flesh, organs, or bones for us to eat. Even if you put a 'soul' in it, it won't become like us." When AYU spoke again, the calmness on her face seemed to disappear for a moment. However, her voice trembled a little as she spoke. However, after her voice trembled, she returned to normal. "This body bag is our handiwork. Who are you? Why don't the illusions work on you anymore? "
"I thought you didn't need my answer that much," Lin Sanjiu retorted and bared her snow-white teeth at AYU. Beside her feet, a few translucent pieces of flesh squeaked like rats as they escaped from the meat nest. In the blink of an eye, the pieces of flesh that had been pierced by the bone spikes fell to the ground and twitched to death.
Every time a piece of flesh died, AYU and her companions' faces darkened.
"Are these the things you gave birth to?" Lin Sanjiu's expression was a little cruel. She picked up the last piece of meat that was still struggling to break free. She couldn't hide the disgust and sarcasm in her voice. She couldn't hide the disgust and sarcasm in her voice.
"I've already said that I won't —" Before AYU could finish her sentence, Lin Sanjiu suddenly clenched her fist and raised her voice, "Wait!"
A pair of amber eyes turned to her. The meat stopped under the pressure and let out a sharp sound.
"Alright, alright," AYU raised her only hand and said as if she was surrendering, "What do you want? We won't touch you. Let's mind our own business. Is that okay? "
Lin Sanjiu smiled. The skeletal wings on her back fluttered in response to her emotions. Ol 'Ol' Ol 'Ol''s reaction wasn't unexpected.
From the previous confrontation, Lin Sanjiu could tell that these creatures weren't adept at combat. Ever since Lin Sanjiu destroyed half of the meat nest, AYU and her companions had not stopped creating illusions. There were a few times when the illusions appeared vividly for a few seconds. However, they were quickly disintegrated by the images that Lin Sanjiu sent back.
Having lost their biggest trump card, AYU and her companions could only stand guard at a distance. They didn't even dare to rush over to save the pieces of flesh that were being slaughtered by Lin Sanjiu. They knew very well that Lin Sanjiu could kill them several times over in terms of combat ability.
"The problem is. You guys have already provoked me more than once. " Feeling the greasy texture of the flesh, Lin Sanjiu took out a tube of potato chips from Kisaragi Station in disgust. She emptied it and stuffed the pieces of flesh into the tube. "Hmm, where should I start … What are you guys?"
AYU looked as if someone had stuffed a handful of dirt into her mouth. She stared at the Pringles potato chip tube before replying, "Souls. We are Souls. "
"Do Souls look like you guys?"
"No, no … Souls are the name of our race." Perhaps it was because they had a hostage, AYU cooperated with Lin Sanjiu. "This name has been with us since our hometown … I don't know who gave it to us, but it's quite accurate. But it's pretty accurate, don't you think? No matter what kind of creature you are, to us, it is just a bag of flesh. We are the ones who are in control — just like what you humans call Souls. "
"Where did you guys come from? How did you get here? "
"Have you heard of an apocalyptic world called The Walking Dead? That is our hometown. " AYU stared at Lin Sanjiu with her dark eyes. Behind her, the other two bodies that had been taken over by the "Souls" were also expressionless. "When the apocalypse arrived in that world, it was also when my race was born."
Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. "You guys … Are you the reason why the apocalypse arrived in that world?"
AYU nodded slowly.
In other words … they were the same thing as the high temperature of Hyperthermal Hell, the extreme cold of Blizzard, and the nuclear radiation in Garden of Eden.
Lin Sanjiu had never thought that the cause of the apocalypse could actually be … travel.
"No, that's not right," Lin Sanjiu suddenly recalled something, "This world has already experienced the apocalypse once. It was brought by the extraterrestrial creature, Red Nautilus —"
She swallowed the second half of her sentence.
AYU looked at her and smiled, "What do you think is inside Red Nautilus? It's us. "
"The Red Nautilus world is already the third world outside of our hometown. In the previous world, we discovered these creatures that are as powerful as they are huge … So, we switched from our previous skins to the bodies of Red Nautilus. After eating the inner parts of the creature, our Souls will form a similar structure in our skins. From there, we can obtain some of the creature's abilities … This is also the reason why I can speak and move like you humans. Similarly, after we ate the Red Nautilus, we could control their mucus and tentacles. By controlling these huge shells, we arrived in this world. "
Lin Sanjiu pressed her finger tightly on the cap of the potato chip container. It was already faintly white. After some time, Lin Sanjiu finally understood what AYU said.
"Don't tell me you also change worlds every 14 months?"
"Oh, no," AYU shook her head, "In some places, humans already have the ability to travel through space. There are also some creatures like Red Nautilus that can travel through space after we eat them up. As they are already empty, they don't need to consume oxygen and food. Before we came to this world, we had already traveled through the darkness for almost a hundred years. "
"Almost a hundred years?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked. The apocalyptic world had started a hundred years ago? However, on second thought... "If the Souls were to travel at a speed that exceeds a certain speed and travel through dimensions, then the time is not accurate …" Lin Sanjiu didn't think too much about it as it involved physics, which she didn't understand.
Even though she knew that AYU's attitude was a little strange, she couldn't help asking, "Why do you guys keep going to new worlds?"
"Why do sheep eat grass? Why do fish swim? Why do humans struggle in the apocalyptic world? It's all because of the most basic instinct in our genes to reproduce. Just like you, we also need to reproduce. In order to find the skin that allows us to reproduce, we have to keep trying. Furthermore, as long as we don't die, every time we change our skin, it's like we are reborn. "
"Are you saying? You guys can't reproduce? "
AYU's expression darkened. Her gaze fell on the potato chip container again. "That's right. All the Souls that you saw came from the first world of the walking dead. I'm just a carrier. For so long, our numbers have been decreasing, but we have never had a newborn … You killed five Souls today, so we lost five Souls. This is also the reason why I want to talk to you. There's no deep hatred between us, so there's no need for both of us to get hurt. "
"Oh? What do you want then? "
"Do you still have friends in Area R? Under the influence of our hormones, it's very harmful to their brains if they continue to sleep like that … We can exchange so many people for a Soul and peace. You won't lose out, right? " AYU even said half-jokingly, "Other than an empty skin, we don't have anything. So, we can't compensate you for your injuries."
The two people behind her and the half-melted red-haired Ol 'Jack didn't say a word. It was as if they were all up to AYU.
Lin Sanjiu felt that her brain was filled with a large amount of information. She even had a hard time thinking. However, she still nodded in the end. The airship was about to land. No matter what, they had to save the people in Area R from the mouth of the "Souls" first. They could talk about the rest later. AYU kept her promise. After a few hours, when the airship began to land, she asked the two men to wake everyone up.
Even though Lin Sanjiu still had a lot of doubts, she couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief when she saw Walter rubbing his eyes and Jade Zhang being startled by the two men when she woke up. The other passengers had no idea that they had just escaped from having their internal organs dug out. They were still grumbling about how they didn't sleep well.
"Alright, now is the time for you to return the Soul to me?"
After most of the passengers left, AYU, who was the last to stay, smiled at Lin Sanjiu. Walter and Jade Zhang followed closely behind her as if they wanted to protect her. They stared at AYU and her group with a guarded expression. Even though they couldn't see the meat nest and red-haired Ol 'Jack at the end of the corridor, they obviously felt that it wasn't normal for them to suddenly sleep until the airship landed.
Honestly speaking, Lin Sanjiu didn't know what she should do.
She didn't want to hand over the Soul just like that. It was the only evidence she had to prove the existence of Souls. However, she also didn't want to get entangled with this race. After all, after they adapted to their human skin, they looked no different from a real human. If the Souls kept sending people to harass her, even if she wasn't afraid, she still had to think about her friends.
With some reluctance, Lin Sanjiu handed the potato chip cone to AYU.
However, when AYU extended her hand to take it, Lin Sanjiu suddenly retracted her hand and narrowed her eyes.
"You talked too much just now. I almost forgot to ask you something." Lin Sanjiu stared at AYU. She could feel her fingers turning cold. "Why did you guys knock out the passengers in Area R?"
AYU's mouth opened and closed, but she didn't say anything for a moment.
"After you gave birth to the first batch of Souls, Jade Zhang found out that you were pregnant again." Lin Sanjiu really hoped that her guess was wrong. However, the hair on her back was already standing on end. "In other words, you have more than nine Souls … Then, before you went to the meat nest to look for me, you guys drugged the passengers in Area R and knocked them out."
The person behind Lin Sanjiu seemed to have moved. However, before anything happened, he had already spread his wings and protected his master like a ferocious beast.
"On one side is a Soul, and on the other side is a ready-made human skin," Lin Sanjiu's eyes were as dry as her throat. "The people in Area R have already been emptied, right?"
Just as she finished speaking, she felt the wings on her back being lightly tapped by someone.
Lin Sanjiu slowly turned around.
Jade Zhang looked at her expressionlessly. Her usually comical curly hair was stuck tightly to her scalp, making her look very unnatural.
Walter, however, was different.
He was a young man with dark golden hair. Be it his expression or his movements, they were as lively and realistic as when he was alive. It was as if he was Walter himself.
"I deliberately dragged it out for so long to make them look more natural," Walter, or rather, the creature wearing Walter, said with a smile, "I didn't expect that you would notice."
Lin Sanjiu felt a little nauseous.
She didn't know how a Soul could hollow out a human, but she knew that it was rare for a Soul to become so lively in such a short period of time.
'Ward' reached out a hand to her, and a smile appeared on his face again.
"Hello, I'm the Queen of the Soul Race. I'm very happy to be able to … wear you today."
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