Lin Sanjiu was about to summon her [Ability Polishing Agent], but she stopped when she heard the faint sound of water dripping from afar.
The entire building was so quiet that it was suffocating. The weight of the deathly stillness pressed heavily on his body. Only the sound of dripping water rippled faintly in the soundless darkness.
The head had been separated from the body for quite some time. In the darkness, it looked unreal. When Lin Sanjiu's eyesight adapted to the darkness, she could see the details of her surroundings. There was blood everywhere on the stairs, like a pitch-black waterfall. Half of the handrail was gone, and the sign hanging on it was now lying on the ground amidst the broken bricks and glass shards.
Rather than a medical station, it was more like a battlefield.
She activated her hypersensory ability and listened intently for a moment. Then, she picked up a piece of broken glass and threw it at the head. The glass shard bounced off the face and rolled down the stairs, creating a series of soft noises. It was indeed a dead head, and the stench of blood in the air did not come from metal.
Lin Sanjiu turned around and walked up the head. She followed the edge of the stairs and went up to the second floor silently. The corridor looked as if it had been trampled by a herd of mammoths. Something had destroyed the original shape of the corridor, and there was not even a place for her to stand. It was dark everywhere except for a faint yellow light at the end of the corridor. It seemed to be the circle of light from a flashlight.
She walked closer to the room and leaned against the wall to take a quick glance inside. She was shocked. A person was sitting on the floor, facing the door. The person was holding the flashlight in his hand. Lin Sanjiu quickly retracted her gaze, but she could only see a thigh wrapped in jeans in the circle of light. The rest of the person's body was hidden in the darkness.
'Is it someone from the medical station? '
Lin Sanjiu did not ask. Instead, she slowly poked her head out of the room. This time, she squinted her eyes and peered into the darkness behind the circle of light.
Sure enough, the shoulder of the person holding the flashlight was empty. There was no head.
She exhaled and walked into the room, facing the headless corpse.
The original purpose of this room could no longer be seen. Cupboards, boxes, curtains, and bottles were strewn all over the floor. The corpse was leaning on one half of the single examination bed, the other half nowhere to be seen. Blood, bodily fluids, and excrement were splattered all over the wall. The smell was so strong that it made one dizzy and breathless. But the clothes of the dead bodies were still intact, not to mention the wounds.
Lin Sanjiu stood not far from the entrance of the room. She took a few glances at the room and decided not to stay any longer. She turned around and was about to leave. However, when she turned her head, she was stunned when she saw the flashlight shining on the corpse.
"Before I came in just now …" She whispered to Mrs. Manas, "Was the halo like this?"
"How is that possible?" Mrs. Manas mumbled.
Indeed, if a line of words had appeared in the circle of light before she came in, she would have noticed it long ago.
Filled with doubt, Lin Sanjiu slowly walked toward the corpse holding the flashlight. The circle of light from the flashlight was still shining on the wall opposite the corridor. However, at the brightest spot in the middle of the circle, there was an additional line of words: "Survival is outside".
It looked as if someone had cut out this line of words from a piece of paper and placed it in front of the flashlight.
She had only been in the room for slightly more than half a minute, and her hypersensory had been activated the whole time, but she did not notice anything out of the ordinary. She was the only one in the room from the beginning to the end. If that was the case …
"It's this flashlight, right?" Lin Sanjiu stopped beside the corpse. Her gaze avoided the open wound on the neck and fell on the flashlight in the corpse's hand.
Upon closer inspection, it did look different from a normal flashlight. It had the same cylindrical body, but the flashlight was covered with complicated and strange patterns. There were also some abstract human faces, scepters, and animal totems.
"Looks like it's a Special Item?"
Lin Sanjiu crouched down and placed her finger on the flashlight. The light was no match for the darkness. In the dim light, the headless corpse that was only a few feet away from her felt as if its chest was going to rise and fall as well. Goosebumps rose all over her body. She quickly pulled the flashlight out of the corpse's hand, and as the darkness engulfed her, the corpse's hand fell limply to the ground.
"It's true!" Mrs. Manas raised her voice slightly and sighed, "You haven't gotten a Special Item for a long time."
"Don't bite off more than you can chew."
In the darkness, Lin Sanjiu took a step back, putting some distance between herself and the corpse. She called out her [Ability Polishing Agent] and used its silver light to examine the card in her hand. "What?" Lin Sanjiu asked.
It was better to have one Special Item that she had mastered than ten half-baked Special Items. Even though Lin Sanjiu knew this very well, her eyes still lit up when she saw the content of the card.
She really needed this kind of item! No, perhaps there was no one in this apocalyptic world who didn't need it.
[Directional Flashlight]
This flashlight is imbued with the mysterious sacrificial power of the ancient Cincinnatis culture. It can help the user pray for blessings and avoid disasters. The flashlight can guide the user to a safe path, a dead end, a dead end, and a path that might lead to a harvest.
Usage: When the user is in a difficult situation, please turn on the flashlight and follow the direction provided by the flashlight.
"I got it. There was no one alive in this room, so the flashlight didn't have any words." The more Lin Sanjiu thought about it, the more convinced she was. "Then, I came in, and the flashlight gave me a hint."
Mrs. Manas did not say anything.
"Did you hear that? Why aren't you saying anything? "
"I said," Mrs. Manas said hesitantly, "Try turning the [Ability Polishing Agent] into a card again … This time, look at the content of the card."
Lin Sanjiu had seen this card countless times. She really didn't understand why she needed to look at it again. However, since Mrs. Manas had said so, she followed her instructions and turned the [Ability Polishing Agent] into a card. The room instantly turned dark again. The pungent smell of darkness made Lin Sanjiu very uncomfortable. She immediately turned on her [Directional Flashlight] again.
The words "Safe Outside" shone on the door again. Just when Lin Sanjiu was about to lower her head to read the content of the [Ability Polishing Agent] card, she suddenly had goosebumps all over her body. It was as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over her head.
"Wait," she said silently in her mind. Slowly and silently, she moved toward the door. "Before this dead man died, he shone the flashlight at the door. He was still in this position when his head was cut off … And the flashlight circle says" Safe Outside "…"
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