'Face? '
Yu Yuan's breathing was sometimes light and sometimes heavy. His eyes were tightly shut and his brows were slightly furrowed. Yu Yuan's youthful face was covered in tattoos. The tattoos extended down from his eyes, nose bridge, and lips. His smooth skin glowed with a faint ink. Lin Sanjiu stared at his face blankly, but she did not notice anything out of the ordinary.
Just when she wanted to raise her head and ask what happened to his face, Silvan's shadow suddenly flashed in the fog. Accompanied by a series of footsteps that were so light that they were almost inaudible, he disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Her voice traveled far, but there was no response.
She quickly looked down at Yu Yuan who was in her arms, then turned around and glanced at the direction where Meme left. However, the fog was like a curtain that covered the sky. She could not see where the boy went, and she did not know whether Meme heard Silvan's voice or not.
Lin Sanjiu hesitated for a moment before she clenched her teeth and pulled Yu Yuan over her shoulder. Then, she trudged towards the direction where Silvan disappeared. She no longer struggled to leave, and she instantly felt a lot more relaxed. Her limbs and bones felt relaxed. The closer she got to the bottom of the slope, the lighter her footsteps became.
She held the flashlight in her mouth and grabbed Yu Yuan's arm that was hanging from her shoulder with one hand, leaving her right hand free to deal with any accidents. More and more people crawled on the ground, but most of them were pulled up and laid on top of each other. It seemed like Silvan had moved them. In the fog, she saw a few people with their faces lowered. She could only see the shadows of their facial features, but she could not see anything strange about them.
"Silvan!" She called out in a low voice. She listened carefully, but there was no response.
She placed Yu Yuan next to the group of people leaning on each other and sat him on someone's back. Then, she went to a person who was kneeling with his face on the ground with his arms stretched out.
Silvan did not touch this person. In fact, with this person as the dividing line, no one else was pulled up. Only a mushroom-shaped back could be seen, gradually spreading out in the mist.
Lin Sanjiu thought about it and forced herself to reach out her trembling hand to grab the person's collar.
She pulled the man up with all her strength.
Before the man could swing his arm away and reveal his face, a black shadow suddenly pounced out of the mist. Lin Sanjiu quickly took a few steps back. At that moment, Lin Sanjiu suddenly realized that something was wrong with her body.
She was not in the least afraid.
No matter how far they had evolved, fear, as one of the means of survival for humans, had never disappeared from their bodies. But now —
Lin Sanjiu stood at the same spot and watched as the face broke through the fog. It was getting clearer and clearer in the air, but she did not move her feet. It was indeed a "face" because when she took a quick glance at it, she realized that the person whom she had just pulled up was still in her hand. His head was hanging low. She loosened her grip, and the person fell to the ground with a thud.
When she turned her gaze back, the shadow of the human face had already shrouded her vision.
On the face, there was a slippery eyeball wrapped around one side of the eye socket under the eyebrows, and the other side was empty. The nose had lost its support, so only a piece of skin was swaying in the air, and a mouth was slowly opening underneath it.
"Don't touch the people I didn't touch." Silvan's voice suddenly rang out of nowhere. Even though his voice was extremely soft, it sounded as if he was very close to her. She could even hear his breathing clearly. "If you touch them and see it, you must … resist!"
However, he was too late. Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. Just when she was about to force herself to move, the face had already touched hers. The eyeball was squeezed between the two faces when Lin Sanjiu's forehead touched it. A cold, wet, fishy smell filled her nostrils. When a purplish-black tongue stuck out of the mouth and touched her cheek, she caught a glimpse of a white glow on her face.
Mrs. Manas activated her [Defense Forcefield] just in time to protect Lin Sanjiu.
Lin Sanjiu was wrapped tightly by the human face, so she couldn't see anything for a moment. She could only vaguely feel that something was licking at her [Defense Forcefield], as if it was trying to drill its way in. She stood there in a daze for a few seconds before she finally mobilized her body. She took out a small knife from her card bank and used her trembling hands to pry off the human face bit by bit.
When she finally peeled off the human face, she felt that she had never done it so hard before.
The human face fell to the ground with a thud. With a quick glance, Lin Sanjiu vaguely saw a few purplish-black "tongues". The moment the tongues touched the ground, they immediately retracted with a whoosh. Lin Sanjiu panted heavily and used the tip of the knife to pry open the two lips that were like dead meat. However, other than the pink soft tissue in the oral cavity, she could only see the grayish-white ground through the mouth.
The person whom she had just pulled up was lying next to her face with his head drooped.
Lin Sanjiu raised her leg and kicked him over. Something clattered, and grayish-white dust fell from his hair to the ground. Even though she didn't feel nervous or scared, she couldn't help feeling disgusted when her gaze fell on the dust.
After the skin was detached from his face, his facial bones had somehow become dry and brittle. When he flipped over, they scattered all over the ground like a plaster statue. Behind his facial bones, there was only a black hole. There was no brain, no soft tissue, and not even a drop of body fluid.
Even though it was still a human body from the neck down, the part where the head used to be was now half a rubber ball that was hollowed out and covered with a wig.
Lin Sanjiu stared fixedly at the black "rubber ball". For a moment, she couldn't understand why she wasn't afraid at all. Even though she knew that if it wasn't for Mrs. Manas' quick reaction, she would have ended up in the same situation, she couldn't feel nervous at all. It was as if a string had been loosened.
"Oh, right." Lin Sanjiu looked at the half-empty skull and came back to her senses. "Silvan? Where are you? "
Other than the slowly drifting fog and the backs of the people kneeling on the ground, she couldn't see him anywhere. She looked around and suddenly bent down to pick up a paper crane from the ground.
It seemed like he was using this to remind her.
"Where are you?" She whispered to the most popular communicator in this apocalyptic world, "I'm going to find you!"
Lin Sanjiu loosened her grip and released the paper crane. Then, she followed closely behind it. The slope was getting steeper and steeper, and the number of people kneeling on the ground increased. There were a few times when she almost rolled down the slope. She had no idea how these people could maintain their balance on such a steep slope.
The further she went down, the more shocked she became.
There were only about a hundred people with them. Compared to the vast, bowl-shaped depression, it was really not a big number. However, on the ground covered by the fog, she could see the backs of the people squeezing together. Their hands were touching their feet, and their waists were touching each other. The light from the flashlight could only illuminate a distance of two to three meters. Lin Sanjiu had no idea how many meters she ran, but the number of people in front of her was getting denser and denser. In the end, she realized that she had nowhere to land her feet.
The number of people lying in wait had already exceeded a hundred.
While she was looking for a place to land, the paper crane flapped its wings and flew far away, quickly disappearing into the fog.
"Shit," Lin Sanjiu cursed under her breath.
She looked around carefully and realized that the clothes of the people around her were covered with a layer of dust. They looked old and white, as if they had been lying there for a long time. Suppressing the resistance in her heart, Lin Sanjiu flipped over a person who was kneeling at her feet. The white bone fragments fluttered like smoke, revealing half of the skull.
"I'm here. Come here."
Silvan's soft voice drifted into her ears along with the fog. Lin Sanjiu suddenly jerked her head up.
"Be quiet. Don't make any noise."
Lin Sanjiu quickly followed the voice. She had to fight against the urge to kneel down with every step she took. She had no idea how many hands she had stepped on. Just when she was about to take another step, a figure on the ground suddenly stood up and grabbed her wrist.
She lowered her head blankly. She couldn't understand why she wasn't alarmed or afraid. Even when she met Silvan's jade-like eyes, she did not "heave a sigh of relief".
The blond man gestured for her to keep quiet and gestured for her to squat down beside him.
She squatted down, and the smell of sunlight and figs enveloped her. It made her feel like she had been pulled out of the stinky face. Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"
Silvan had one knee on the ground and was supporting his body with both hands. His head was lowered. His blond hair fell from his forehead like the shadows of the sun that had been picked out of the sky. The fog blurred the color of his hair and eyes. Even at such a close distance, he still looked blurry.
"Come, try it." His voice was hoarse as he laughed. His eyes were watery like the surface of a lake. "It should be easy to stick your face to the ground, but it's hard to keep it at a certain distance, right?"
Lin Sanjiu nodded. Her body was trembling as she tried to resist the pull.
"I'm not doing this to challenge myself." His gaze seemed to be able to see through a person's mind. Silvan laughed again. "There is something underground."
"What … What is it?"
"It's dark purple. There are strips of it. I can't see what it is," he said softly. "But I found out that they will only be attracted by the face. They will drill out of the ground and into the face. Look at these people around us. They probably came in before us. I don't know how long it has been … Everyone's head and face are hollowed out. "
At this point, Silvan sighed and lowered his head again. He stared at the ground.
"I am using myself as bait to attract those things back to these empty shells. This way, the people behind us won't … won't have their faces hollowed out. "
He seemed to be having a hard time saying that. Not only that, he seemed to be fighting with himself. Every movement he made was very difficult.
Lin Sanjiu nodded and lowered her head to the ground silently. She was afraid that her shaky willpower would not be able to support the two tasks of lowering her head and talking at the same time. She was afraid that she would completely collapse.
After a few seconds, Silvan suddenly laughed in a low voice. His voice was indescribable, but it made one's skin tingle.
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