When Naga-ashi realized that it had been betrayed, it went berserk. Even Lin Sanjiu was shocked. It slammed its body against the door again and again, and every bone in its body rattled. Its blade-like arms seemed to be fragile against the metal door that was as sturdy as a fortress wall. No matter how many times it slashed, slammed, and stabbed, the door remained as firm as a rock. Only a few scratches were left on the door.
In desperation and anxiety, Naga-ashi let out a mournful howl like a dying owl. Even the person behind the door couldn't help taking two steps back when she heard the howl.
"Wh — Why?" Naga-ashi's words didn't sound like a human's. Instead, it sounded like the shrill scream of an animal.
"What's so strange about that?" When the voice behind the door spoke again, it still sounded a little surprised, "They don't care whether you can get your revenge or not. They just want to see a massacre. Isn't that part of your nature? "
Even though every duoluozhong was filled with hatred towards posthumans, it was more likely that Nagisa would be killed. In order to satisfy their desire to see blood being shed, the duoluozhong who told Nagisa the news would probably leak their conversation the moment they turned around.
Naga-ashi slowly slid down the metal door. Its teeth were chattering, and its body was trembling. Lin Sanjiu strode forward and grabbed its collar. She pulled it up, "Now is not the time to fall. Look over there!"
Naga-ashi followed her gesture and turned her head.
Under the snow-white light from the searchlights on top of the door, they could see a few black figures of different shapes and sizes emerging from the darkness. They were approaching them. The air seemed to have been stirred up by the smell of their bodies. The air was so thick that it flowed slowly. The light cast a glaring grayish-white light on the cement floor. The black figures on the grayish-white ground were like a dark forest that had emerged from the ground. They were getting closer and closer.
"I didn't expect that duoluozhong could find a posthuman to help us," the voice chuckled.
Lin Sanjiu didn't reply. She stared at the creatures that were rising and standing up. She took out a card. Not far from her, Zhang Zhi also stood up again, panting heavily, and tore off all the clothes on her right arm.
While the duoluozhong and Lin Sanjiu tensed up, the voice continued to ask Lin Sanjiu, "What do you do? Mercenaries? Did it give you money? "
"Mercenary — she often eats my milk cakes without paying." Duoluozhong sneered. He turned around and looked at Lin Sanjiu warily, "You should give me your weapon now, right?"
"I've fought side by side with all kinds of people," Lin Sanjiu pulled out her metal umbrella and tossed it to the dog without looking at it. "… But this is my first time fighting a duoluozhong."
"Don't think too much," Nagashi grabbed the metal umbrella. "If there's a chance later, I will definitely use it to stab you in the back."
"And then you buried yourself here?"
The two of them exchanged a few words, but their gazes never left the creatures in front of them for half a second. A sigh came from the door behind them. It was obvious that the owner of the voice had heard their conversation.
"Posthuman, you are different from it," the voice advised softly. It sounded regretful, "After all, you are one of us. If you are just someone hired by it, I can let you go, but you have to explain your identity first. "
Just as Lin Sanjiu was about to say something, she suddenly realized something. Almost at the same time, a black figure not far from them suddenly lunged forward like a swimmer diving into the water. It instantly sank into the ground and turned into a slithering snake that was slithering between the concrete slabs. Then, it charged toward them with its mouth open.
The owner of the voice must have picked this moment to throw an olive branch at Lin Sanjiu so that she would be distracted. They probably didn't plan to let an outsider who knew about the inner workings of the Sanctuary walk out alive.
Just as Lin Sanjiu cursed inwardly, the long black shadow had already reached her feet in the blink of an eye. It was so fast that it was hard to believe. Once it got close to her, the black shadow immediately dispersed. From a snake, it turned into a small lake. It spread out like a dark mass, like oil spilled into the water.
Lin Sanjiu's [Defense Forcefield] had already covered her from head to toe, but she didn't dare to be careless. She leaped backward and kicked the steel door behind her. Using the momentum from the door, she somersaulted in the air and leaped toward the empty space beside her. Before she could heave a sigh of relief that she had dodged the black shadow, a question suddenly popped up in her mind.
"Why did they turn on the searchlight?
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to the creatures they raised if they attacked in the dark? "
Before she could figure out the answer, she had already landed on the ground. A searchlight was shining on the door not far from her. It was so bright that she had to squint her eyes. Suddenly, Nagashi screamed, "Shadow!"
"It caught up again?"
"No, that's not right." Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She suddenly understood what was going on. She quickly rolled away and jumped up. When she twisted her body, she felt a chill on her shoulder. She looked down and realized that a piece of cloth was missing from the shoulder of her combat suit.
The shadow in the cement ground wiggled and bunched up its body again. Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell which side was the head and which was the tail, but now, she could see it clearly. The side of the head was wriggling as if it had just swallowed something.
She couldn't help touching her bare shoulder that was exposed to the night breeze. Not only her combat suit, but her undershirt and singlet were also missing the same piece. The edges were so smooth that it was as if they had never existed.
"This thing can swallow our shadows!"
All of a sudden, Lin Sanjiu understood everything. She yelled in shock and anger. She twisted the card in her hand, and it turned into a long pointer. "Wherever our shadows are missing, our bodies will also be missing something!"
No wonder the [Defense Forcefield] didn't work. She couldn't cover her shadow with it.
However, Nagashi couldn't answer her.
Just a moment ago, he was still able to shout "Shadow!" The duoluozhong on the ground was stretching its head forward, but its body was struggling to move backward. It was gurgling heavily in its throat, and its eyes were protruding out as if someone was pulling its eyeballs out with a string. The body of a duoluozhong was indeed different from a human's "soft flesh". Even though its eyeballs had been pulled out of its eye sockets, it still seemed to be able to resist the force of the duoluozhong.
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