Pfft, pfft, pfft …
The stagnant black fog was just ahead of them.
Deng Ximei walked at the front of the fog-breakers. She was wearing a heavy orange airtight protective suit. She walked on the dilapidated village road and the distance between them and the black fog continued to shorten.
Deng Ximei was one of the three brave warriors who went to explore the mutated area at Mo Bei. Because of that, the radiation in her body was higher than the others and the rate of various diseases was higher than the others. However, in comparison, the current mission was far more dangerous than the previous one.
Not only the logistics commander on the other side of the screen, even the other fog-breakers not far behind her were also nervous.
Deng Ximei's connection to the foreign world was the strongest here. If something happened to her the moment she came into contact with the black fog, this mission would be aborted.
Anything could happen. The womb of the black goat could give birth to anything.
"The last meter, there is nothing out of the ordinary," Deng Ximei said. Her crisp voice traveled into everyone's ears through the walkie-talkie.
She was a reticent person and did not have a strong presence in the crowd. However, at times like this, she would be more determined than anyone else.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. It was the sound of her heartbeat.
Deng Ximei continued to move forward, and the tip of her right foot was the first to touch the black fog that was close at hand. Suddenly, her heart twisted violently, and her breathing became difficult. A strange feeling welled up in her belly button. It seemed to be painful, sour, and pulled.
Since she knew about the womb beforehand, she understood instantly that this was … the feeling of birth …
She had come out from the womb and returned to the womb.
It was not just the same feeling, it was also the same danger. Childbirth was always a huge risk for both mother and child. Dystocia, massive bleeding, lack of oxygen, death …
"It's birth …" Deng Ximei said in a hoarse voice, but she didn't know if she had spoken out loud, or if she was just babbling.
Once she stepped into the black fog, she knew she could not return. If she insisted on returning, it would only cause dystocia. Her right foot stepped forward, followed by her left foot. Her entire body was in the black fog, but what she saw in front of her was not a hazy darkness, but an inexplicable luster.
Her surroundings appeared to be filled with a transparent liquid and some yellowish mucus …
Amniotic fluid, she thought, it was the amniotic fluid from childbirth.
At the same time, a huge pressure came from all around her. She felt like she was about to be flattened and pushed away.
Deng Ximei's body felt pure pain. Her limbs and torso seemed to be mutating, filled with unknowns before her birth.
Her mind was flooded with the pain and fear she had experienced as a fetus. It was not only Deng Ximei's pain but also Lydia's pain from the foreign people, the pain of birth, the pain of death …
People come into the world with pain, and people also leave the world with pain.
They were crushing her.
Deng Ximei gritted her teeth and endured the pain. She no longer had the mental barrier. The shadow of Lydia that she was born with had faded away for some time but now the amniotic fluid rushed back … The Conqueror Worm, even the most dazzling star in the mortal world would die suddenly …
The haze was tearing at her soul again.
But did death mean everything?
The most tragic death could not take away the glory engraved on the grave.
Her mental pillars were glowing brightly.
"Brock …" Deng Ximei said slowly. Her voice was shaking but it was firm. "I am also a product of pain, but I am not its slave."
No matter what kind of pain came from around her, no matter how the amniotic fluid squeezed and drowned her, she screamed like the first cry of a newborn. Her legs continued to move forward. No matter what kind of world or environment she was in, she continued to move forward.
This was the courage of a newborn.
Deng Ximei did not know and did not care whether the rest of the team was following behind her or not.
If she was breaking through a channel, then the channel was not that long. Different colors appeared ahead of her. It was more like she was breaking through a layer of amniotic membrane.
At that moment, she did not know that after she entered the black fog, the command central saw that there was no explosion or mutation and the black fog was still as quiet as before, so they approved Yu Chi's team's operation. Yu Chi pulled a cadaver container and walked at the front.
He was the first person to cross the barrier using the mental barrier projected by the foreign people. Once something happened to him, the operation would be halted.
But after Yu Chi entered the black fog, the black fog was still as quiet as before. Just like that, the eight fog-breakers walked into the black fog one after another.
All that was left for the frontline and the headquarters' command center was silence, as if nothing had happened. There was also the still weak beating sound. Thump, thump, thump.
Only the fog-breakers knew how dangerous it was.
Yu Chi did not see Deng Ximei. He walked forward in the strange liquid. Following the plan, he activated the mental barrier before his main persona. Instantly, he was in a strange state. He appeared to have become Brock Lenton but at the same time, he was looking at himself as Brock Lenton.
"Ah …"
But the moment the [Spirit Wall] took effect, Yu Chi felt an inexplicable pain erupt from his stomach.
His chest creaked like every single one of his 12 pairs of ribs was cracking. His heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and other organs were all squeezed together.
Yu Chi's back was bent over from the pressure. His whole body was squashed into a deformed human.
What did Doctor Carlop cure? What did Doctor Carlop cure?
Human beings could not even withstand a single blow from various diseases …
But 'disease' was a sense of alienation, a definition that could change depending on the era and environment …
Disease was not the truth, evolution was the truth.
No ribs, that was normal.
No ribs, that was healthy.
No ribs, that was healthy.
Yu Chi's back was hunched. His chest and face were contorted. The cracking of his ribs became more chaotic. They were breaking, fusing, and dissolving.
He had no idea whether he was still moving forward or not. The mental barrier was about to consume the self 'Yu Chi' and the amniotic fluid around him was reshaping him. But he tried his best to control the remaining mental power to activate the mental pillars. All six of them glowed like lighthouses in the middle of a storm.
The storm grew stronger. The power of darkness blanketed the sky. The lighthouse wavered, and the lighthouse itself was teetering on the verge of collapse.
The two pillars of his mind that he had just built up and hadn't done much to strengthen suddenly began to crack densely.
With a boom, the mental pillar that was the shovel crumbled into a pile of rotting soil.
Yu Chi instantly felt the pain all over his body, especially the pain around his ribs. The pain was tearing him apart. The fifth pillar was about to collapse.
But at that moment, Yu Chi seemed to hear Deng Ximei's soft voice. Her words struck a heavy blow on his mental barrier.
"Brock, I am also a product of pain but I am not its slave."
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