Lin Sanjiu had only recovered half of her Higher Consciousness, and she had only slept for seven to eight hours over the past two days. Lin Sanjiu knew very well that she was not in her best condition.
"Can I get through tonight?"
She walked softly on a gravel path. On both sides of the path were thick and tall barbed wire fences. The fences extended endlessly, intersecting at a point in the distance before disappearing again. In the moonless night, she felt like she was walking in the middle of a swarm of insects. She didn't know when she would be swallowed by the swarm of insects.
Fate never seemed to be willing to let anything go smoothly. It always threw all sorts of twists and turns and unexpected things when people took action. Lin Sanjiu stopped and rubbed the spot between her eyebrows that was throbbing. She started to regret not coming with Silvan.
Under the night sky, the Rare Animal Protection Garden had completely turned into a maze.
This was not a metaphor.
With every step she took, Lin Sanjiu could feel the path under her feet slanting slightly. She was very sure that she was walking in a straight line, but the straight line eventually brought her to a stone wall. A few minutes ago, when she looked into the distance, the coarse bluestone wall did not exist on the path.
Tonight, she decided to follow the path that she had taken before. She planned to pass through the Rare Animal Protection Garden and enter the Arsenal. As she walked, she did not see the "gray-faced" duoluozhong that had almost tricked her the last time. When she felt that something was wrong and turned around, the path that she had taken had already disappeared behind another wall.
Of course, she was not stupid enough to follow the path that suddenly turned around and entered the wall. However, the further she walked, the more confused she became. Lin Sanjiu did not expect that she would end up on the wrong foot. She sighed and looked around again.
The high and low shadows of the walls and barbed wire fences were even darker than the night sky. They were thick against the night sky. Occasionally, she would see a creature trapped in the wall or the barbed wire fences. They would rustle as if they were following her footsteps. After a while, they would stop.
Up until now, she had not seen anything that made any noise. The air mixed with a faint fishy smell blew through the night. Every time the mist floated, the road in front of them seemed to be different from before.
"What's the point of turning this place into a maze?"
Lin Sanjiu grumbled in a low voice. Usually, no one would come in at night.
"Because it's time for a walk."
A voice so slippery that it seemed to slip into her ears rang out close to her calf.
As soon as the voice uttered the first word, a faint white glow appeared behind Lin Sanjiu, shielding her all the way to her feet. In that split second, without turning around, she clasped her arms behind her back and sent two surges of Higher Consciousness toward the center.
When Lin Sanjiu twisted her body and took two steps back, the thing that was talking to her calf had disappeared. She was quite sure that her blow had struck something, but there was no other suspicious mark on the gravel path than a cloud of dust and a few scattered stones.
"You're so fierce," the slippery voice chuckled. "Let's go!"
Lin Sanjiu was startled. When she raised her head, she only caught a glimpse of a shadow flashing past the speaker on the wall. She couldn't even tell how big the shadow was or what color it was before it disappeared into the night.
"What was that thing?"
She stopped, and the pure touch immediately spread out from her body, turning the surrounding environment into a part of her senses. It was as if a piece of cloth had been removed, revealing a sensitive world that resonated with her heartbeat and breathing.
In her hypersensory, there were many things moving around her. They were crawling under the night sky. Of course, this was not a strange thing in the Rare Animal Sanctuary. However, the thing that had spoken just now was so fast that it disappeared in a single leap. Even her hypersensory senses could not capture it now. Perhaps it had slowed down and pretended to be some other creature in the image that she had sensed.
Lin Sanjiu didn't think too much about why it was unscathed even after being hit. What bothered her the most was the sentence "This is time for a walk".
"What does it mean by a walk? "It can't be like a dog, right?
No, more importantly, that thing said "we".
In other words, the "protected" animals in the Rare Animal Sanctuary were probably out for a walk?
Lin Sanjiu swallowed her saliva. Her headache was getting worse. She didn't expect such a simple plan to cross the sanctuary would go awry … Everything she wanted to do was never smooth sailing. Her desires were never granted easily. It was as if she had to go against the flow of the universe in order to survive.
"Come to think of it, everyone is like this."
She let her imagination run wild as she stood there, waiting for the limping figure in the distance to come closer and closer to her.
"Save, save me."
The thin, withered shadow staggered out of the darkness, and gradually revealed the shape of a little girl. When Lin Sanjiu saw her for the first time, even though she was mentally prepared, her heart still skipped a beat. A large piece of skin was missing from her cheek. Amidst the mess of flesh and blood, Lin Sanjiu could faintly see her teeth that were stained with blood. Without the cover of her cheeks, her teeth were exposed to the wind.
Perhaps because of the injury, the young girl's voice was muffled and the sobs in her throat were getting louder and louder.
"Sis, I beg you, I beg you," she sobbed as if she would fall to the ground at any moment and never get up again. "Save me, I want … I want to go home."
Lin Sanjiu didn't move. She stood there with her arms crossed. She watched as the young girl slowly and shakily reached her hand out.
Before the young girl's hand could touch her, it first touched a black metal that was shaped like a canine's fang. The black metal was more than a meter long, and Lin Sanjiu held one end like a sword hilt. The tip of the canine's fang glowed with a dark light and was so sharp that it almost pierced through the night. It was a weapon produced by the Munitions Factory that Silvan had prepared for her. It was the best weapon to use at the beginning of a battle when she had not figured out the situation.
Under the sharp metal's sharp edge, the little girl froze.
"Get lost," Lin Sanjiu spat out.
After all, this was a "rare creature". Lin Sanjiu didn't want to complicate the issue. However, these duoluozhongs were really boring.
The young girl's body trembled. She quickly retracted her hand and glared at Lin Sanjiu. She staggered a few steps to dodge, but she fell heavily to the ground. She whimpered in fear and curled herself into a ball, making way for Lin Sanjiu like a piece of mud. "Please, please don't kill me …"
A small black shadow lay on the ground, trembling like a withered leaf.
Using human sympathy as a hunting strategy, what a disgusting thing. It was precisely because of these things that the posthumans in the apocalypse became less and less "human". Sympathy, kindness, and salvation seemed to have become infuriating jokes.
Lin Sanjiu walked over. She gripped the canine's fang so tightly that her knuckles turned white. She didn't expect that she couldn't suppress her killing intent. "What's the point of keeping this thing in this world? What's the point of protecting and breeding it? Killing it while it's still a good thing for humanity … "
Lin Sanjiu twisted her body, but she froze.
The young girl was still curled up into a ball, hugging her shoulders. She was so scared that she kept burping. Even though it wasn't a real living person, it looked no different from a frightened young girl. Lin Sanjiu's killing intent was like oil that had cooled down, slowly solidifying.
This time, she finally turned around and walked away. She didn't look back. With her hypersensory activated, she wasn't worried about the ambush that might happen behind her.
She was only worried about how she was going to get out.
Since these "rare creatures" could be released for a stroll, it proved one thing: the park management was very confident that these "rare creatures" wouldn't be able to escape from the maze. Well, if these creatures couldn't find a way out even when they came out for a stroll every night, what more Lin Sanjiu?
Lin Sanjiu used her canine's fang to knock away a rag that was trying to cover her face. She propped it on the ground and pondered for a few seconds. She couldn't wait until daybreak for the maze to return to its original state. Moreover, she didn't know how it would return to its original state. If that happened, her plan to sneak into the Munitions Factory would be a complete failure.
Even though it was a little embarrassing, she could only ask the hairy brothers if they had any clues about how to get out.
Lin Sanjiu sighed and took out a paper crane reluctantly. It wasn't a big deal to embarrass herself, but it was, after all, a bird folded from a piece of white paper. It couldn't hide in the dark. Lin Sanjiu could only hope that no one saw the paper crane fluttering into the night.
A huge, flat, long-bearded face suddenly rose from the ground behind the wall, swallowing the small white paper crane in one gulp, and then sank back into the wall with a loud bang. In just a tenth of a second, the night was completely empty. It was as if Lin Sanjiu's eyes were playing tricks on her. Before she could even react, the paper crane had been torn out of the night.
That face, which had the features of both a catfish and a human, was still vivid in her memory.
"What exactly is hidden in this protective garden?"
Lin Sanjiu was shocked. She hesitated, not knowing if she should release the second paper crane. She had given half of the paper cranes to Bohemia and used a few more herself. She didn't have many left. If she released another one, and the same thing happened …
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