"My memory is affected by the queen. Silvan is in danger now, so I have to follow Meme's instructions and fight the brain. Don't look at the queen …
"My memory is affected by the queen. Silvan is in danger now, so I have to follow Meme's instructions and fight the brain. Don't look at the queen … "
In the empty cavity, Lin Sanjiu's voice rang out again and again. Gradually, it drifted into the air and faded away.
It had only been half a minute since she ran out of the container, but Meme had already replayed the recording for her a few times. He had to reinforce her impression before Lin Sanjiu's memory completely faded. The situation was getting worse. If he hesitated for even a moment, Lin Sanjiu would forget what she was doing.
The journey seemed endless in the repeated forgetfulness, confusion, and fear that came with it. In the darkness, she followed Meme's directions and ran forward step by step until she heard the boy shout, "Stop!"
"Fight the brain, fight against yourself …" Lin Sanjiu's voice came from the recorder on her shoulder again.
"In your ten o 'clock direction, about a dozen meters away, it's … it's Sir." Not sure if it was because of fear or his injury, Meme seemed to have a hard time saying every word.
"What happened to him?" Lin Sanjiu quickly asked before her memory blurred, "Is he okay?"
Meme gulped loudly.
"What happened?"
"Do you remember the brain called the queen?"
When his voice subsided, Lin Sanjiu had just finished listening to the recording again. She immediately forgot about the word 'brain', but she still vaguely remembered that she was about to fight something huge. "I have some impression … Is Silvan okay?"
"At least, at least, Sir doesn't seem to have any external injuries. But when I crawled past here just now, Sir was standing up straight, not even a single hair on his head changed. No, no, don't go there first … "
"Why?" Lin Sanjiu remembered that he was very concerned about Silvan. It seemed like as long as it was not related to that thing, her memory was still intact.
Meme was quiet for a few seconds. In the dead silence of the earth, she could clearly hear the boy's heartbeat, beat after beat, pounding against her back. His whole body was hot with fear, but his hands and feet were cold on her shoulders.
"That brain … that brain." Meme mumbled softly, "It … It's so big … I can't even see its top when I look up."
He had to look up?
The hair on Lin Sanjiu's back stood on end. "Are you saying that it's very close to us now?"
Meme heaved a shaky sigh.
"It's right behind the commanding officer, a dozen, a few steps away …" His voice trembled so much that it sounded like it was about to shatter into pieces. "It's getting closer and closer to the commanding officer …"
"How is that possible?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked. "Isn't that thing huge? If it wanted to get close to Silvan, why didn't we hear anything just now? "
Meme heaved a sigh of relief and quickly pressed a few buttons on the recorder. As the tape hummed, he said softly, "It didn't move."
"What do you mean?"
"I … I can't describe it well. This brain is still where I left it … but it seems to be very soft, very elastic, and it is slowly stretching in the direction of the officer, like … like a person pouting. "
The analogy made Lin Sanjiu shiver for no reason.
However, when the shiver passed, she had already forgotten why she was shivering. Why was there a layer of cloth in front of her? Where was she?
While Lin Sanjiu was still in a daze, she heard her own voice, which seemed to have been recorded, "My memory has been affected by the queen …" Lin Sanjiu listened to it for a while, confused. Suddenly, someone patted her on the back, "Quick, go and get the officer here!"
Lin Sanjiu then realized that she was carrying someone on her back. It should be the boy named Meme. She did not have the time to ask what happened to Silvan, and she forgot that she had already asked that question before. She could only follow Meme's directions and grope her way forward.
"Take two more steps," Meme was so nervous that his voice was sharp. "Don't take too big of a step. We are already in front of it. Do you smell the blood?" “
Even though Lin Sanjiu's vision was taken away, her other senses were heightened. She endured the stench and swung her arm a few times in front of her. Suddenly, her fingertips touched something in the air. It felt like human skin, so she immediately grabbed it.
"Don't!"
Meme's shout came too late. Lin Sanjiu only grabbed it for a short moment, but what she touched was no longer Silvan.
A slippery, elastic, shell-like texture sank into her hand unevenly.
Along with Meme's uncontrollable scream, Lin Sanjiu forgot what she was doing.
"Hide! Pull the commanding officer! Retreat! Retreat! "
The boy's scream was close to one of her ears, but her own voice came from the other. Lin Sanjiu shuddered and pulled her hand back. She felt the thing shrink back. She did not know what she touched, and she did not know why she was carrying someone on her back. In the chaos, she raised her hand instinctively, wanting to remove the towel covering her eyes.
"Don't! Grab the commanding officer! " Meme screamed before he suddenly struggled. His voice was muffled by fear and anger. He stretched half of his body out from her back, and the weight caused Lin Sanjiu to lose her balance. Before she could untie the towel, she fell to the ground along with him.
Lin Sanjiu could not see anything, and she could not keep her balance. She fell on something cold and slippery. Half of her body was covered in mucus. Amidst the thick smell of blood, the thing slowly wriggled, and the thin shell that covered it opened little by little against her.
"It's opening its mouth!" Meme yelled as the tape recorder kept replaying. He shouted only four words, but each word sounded farther and farther away than the last. He seemed to be rolling forward at a great speed, and his voice was getting further and further away. "Quick! Quick! Catch me! It's luring me to fall into an opening in the brain! Don't let the commanding officer get sucked in! "
Just as Lin Sanjiu was about to remove the towel, she clenched her teeth and resisted the urge. "Don't look at the queen," the voice recorder said. "You must fight against your own will. Don't obey it!"
She crawled up from the ground, panting, and leaped towards Meme. However, since she had covered her eyes, and her sense of direction was affected, she bumped into someone. The person rolled on the ground with her, and a dull thud came from the back of his head. It seemed like he was hit quite hard.
Meme's last scream and Silvan's painful gasp rang in Lin Sanjiu's ears at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Silvan came back to his senses, and he was filled with confusion. "Where … Where am I?"
Lin Sanjiu did not have the time to explain. The memory triggered by the voice recorder was slowly disappearing like a puff of smoke. She quickly shouted, "Don't look back at the queen! I'm going to save Meme! " Then, she pushed herself off the ground and jumped up.
"Wait!" Silvan suddenly grabbed her ankle, and his tone became heavy and urgent. "Get down!"
Why was that?
"Quick!"
Seeing that Lin Sanjiu was still in a daze, Silvan immediately made his move. Lin Sanjiu felt his palm strike the back of her knee, and her calf went limp. He pushed her forward, and she fell heavily to the ground again.
The moment her face hit the ground, she vaguely felt a burst of blue light through the gap of the towel. Something hit the back of her head, leaving behind a cold sensation.
Then, a shrill scream of pain reverberated in the depths of their minds. That inaudible and boundless voice pressed down on their thoughts as if it was carrying a weight. The queen writhed and struggled, causing the ground to shake. Lin Sanjiu lay stiffly on the ground and asked in a low voice, "What is that?"
"If I didn't glance behind me, I would have forgotten about it," Silvan answered while panting. "When I rushed out, I put down a Guardian Pillar. Once I'm attacked, the Guardian Pillar will automatically activate."
The attack from the Guardian Pillar was initially aimed at Lin Sanjiu. Luckily, Silvan pushed her in time and saved her life. As the queen was too big, it covered almost half of the empty space, so it was hit by the blue light without a doubt.
[Guardian Pillar]
A wooden stick from an Indian tribe. If it can stand up straight after loosening its grip, it can provide protection and counterattack all damage. However, it was old and dirty, and it was round in shape. Once it stood up, it would fall to the ground. According to legend, only the descendants of the tribe who carried the blood of the tribe and were full of devotion could make it stand up straight through prayer. It was like a piece of trash.
In order to sell it at a good price, the Munitions Factory covered it with a metal shell, installed a ring of amplifiers, and added a support frame for land, water, and air. The value of the Guardian Pillar immediately increased by a hundredfold because it could no longer fall.
Even though the blue light hit the queen, it seemed like it was only slightly injured. The heavy, distorted voice howled in their minds for a while before it gradually calmed down. It seemed like the injury was not serious.
Then, the ground shook again. This time, the tremors were rhythmic, as if the gigantic thing was moving back bit by bit.
"Meme! Meme was sucked into that thing!" Lin Sanjiu shouted while her memory was still clear, "But you can't look back!"
Since the two of them could not look, they had no idea what was going on. It had been more than ten seconds since Meme's last scream, and the boy did not make another sound. Their only pair of eyes had disappeared as well.
Lin Sanjiu summoned her [Tornado Whip] and stood up. After making sure the towel was still wrapped tightly around her body, she groped her way towards the source of Meme's voice in her memory. She did not know if it was an illusion, but it seemed like after the queen was injured, her memory lasted a little longer.
She had no other choice but to use this stupid method to try her luck. That thing was huge, so even a blind cat would not be able to find a dead elephant.
"Wait, you don't have to rush over," Silvan suddenly called out to her. His voice was as hard as a frozen rock in winter. "Your artist is here … Turn around first."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. Her heart gradually turned cold, but she still turned around as she was told.
"Take the towel down."
She hesitated for a moment before she untied the towel.
The moment she regained her sight, she couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief from the bottom of her heart. The tape recorder was slanted on the ground, and the tape was still spinning, playing her voice. Silvan sat on the ground. His naked upper body was like a frozen statue, not moving at all. In the dim light that came from somewhere in the hole, the artist was standing not far away from the two of them. He was holding a painting in his hand.
This time, he had painted the queen. The canvas seemed to have absorbed something into it, so it looked very complete. On a brain that was filled with soil and had a crooked trench, there was a dark slit. There was even a little blue light shimmering on the slit. It seemed to be the wound caused by the punch.
Lin Sanjiu could not move her eyes away from the ground in the painting.
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