"Hurry up, Huai Shi."
"Hurry up, or it'll be too late."
Huai Shi gasped. In the darkness under the moonlight, he clenched the pickaxe in his hand.
He tried his best to shovel the soil under his feet. He was sweating, but he didn't dare to stop. He was pulled by an invisible fear and couldn't stop.
The shadow behind him swelled in the moonlight, laughing silently.
It was like looking down, watching him throw away the soil and sink little by little, as if he was digging his own grave.
Until his shovel suddenly hit something invisible, causing sparks to fly.
Huai Shi was stunned for a moment. He stretched out his trembling hand, pushed the soil away, and glimpsed the cold heart of stone. Under the soil, someone laughed softly.
It was so mocking.
As Huai Shi retreated in horror, a hand reached out from the self-dug grave and gripped his wrist tightly. Amidst the dirt and dust, a face that belonged to him appeared. He raised his head and smiled at Huai Shi.
"Huai Shi, what are you looking for?"
Darkness came.
The rain fell, and the sound of a train came from afar. The cemetery was bleak.
Huai Shi stood in front of the tombstone, staring at the picture of his grandfather on the tombstone. He heard the quarrel behind him. A man and a woman, hysterical and impatient, argued with each other, as if they wanted to push the mistakes of the world to each other.
Even if the funeral was not over.
They were haggling over every penny as they discussed the distribution of each inheritance.
When Huai Shi finally gathered his courage and turned around, the voice disappeared without a trace.
Only two skeletons were left in the thin rain, quietly looking at him with their dark eye sockets.
Huai Shi's vision turned dark. He covered his face tiredly, but suddenly the mocking voice sounded again, from all around.
During the break after class, the boys surrounded him and laughed mockingly. They pushed him, kicked him, and looked at the wooden man with his head lowered, waiting for him to resist.
"He's a thief! He's been here several times! " An impatient middle-aged woman tugged at his collar and pulled out the things in his hand. "You're still lying to me. Where did you get the money to buy these things?"
The collar suddenly grew teeth and ate him from the inside. He opened his eyes and saw the world rolling and contracting again. Everyone was spasming and their skin cracked like lotus flowers.
The blood within the lotus surged and swallowed him.
…
Nightmares, endless nightmares.
In the endless darkness, Huai Shi felt as if there were invisible tentacles wrapping around him bit by bit, shrinking, pulling, layer upon layer, making him fall towards the deepest part of the quagmire.
Reliving all the pain.
There was no end.
Huai Shi watched everything calmly. From beginning to end, he did not say a word.
He waited quietly.
Until she returned to the desolate world, in the decadent forest, and saw the haggard man on the horse again.
He wandered around aimlessly.
However, this time, there were countless staggering figures behind his horse.
He was like a walking corpse.
He walked forward numbly. There was no longer any light in his empty eyes. They were only filled with darkness and pain.
Along with that person, he turned around and looked at Huai Shi.
Once again, he begged humbly.
"Please, mourn for him …"
That hoarse plea was like thunder, sounding from the depths of his soul again. It echoed continuously, filling every corner and will, not allowing him to think or refute.
Huai Shi closed his eyes.
He took a deep, deep breath.
He was serious and solemn.
He made an answer.
Just like the barbarian detective Conan in the comics, when he was lost in the night, he encountered a former researcher of the villain organization who had also been injected with a muscle strengthening drug by the villain and turned into a giant.
He roared at the other party across a long distance.
"— Mourn for you!"
In an instant, he burst out and broke free from the shackles of the dream. He clenched his fists and punched the other party's face with all his strength.
Boom!
At that moment, the weak dream collapsed under Crow's gaze. Huai Shi woke up from the long nightmare.
He panted violently.
He only heard the sound of wheels turning.
In this short trance, he felt his body shaking slightly, as if he was sitting in a carriage. He didn't even realize where he was.
The long dream had exhausted all his energy. He wiped the cold sweat on his face and only felt a wave of exhaustion and weakness in his limbs.
He finally understood why those survivors fell into madness … But now, he suspected that he had also gone crazy.
He realized that he was sitting on a tricycle, and his body was swaying along with the sound of the wheels.
He was moving forward in the dark and long tunnel.
His friendly puppy was sitting opposite him, biting a piece of meat with its tongue hanging out. It didn't know where it was and wasn't vigilant at all.
A low voice sounded from the other side.
"Hey, you, you're finally awake."
The voice said, "You were going to cross the border, right? You almost walked into the ambush of those damn things … "
"Hmm?" Huai Shi froze for a moment.
"When I found you, I almost thought you were dead. Are you okay? Do you want a cigar? "
Accompanied by a cracking sound, the skeletal hand grabbed a cigar that had already cracked and brought it in front of him.
Huai Shi looked up blankly and saw … half a skeleton?
Yes, it was only the upper half of a skeleton. It looked like it had just crawled out of formalin and had a pungent smell.
It was wearing an orange-yellow miner's hat on its head. On the skeleton, there were a lot of gold chains, iron plates, and so on. There were also two limited edition cigarette cards.
Now, it was looking up at Huai Shi, chewing a cigar in its mouth.
It didn't light it, it just chewed.
In the dark eye sockets, a little white mouse timidly poked its head out to look at Huai Shi, then immediately retracted and hid in its empty skull.
"… … Corpses can talk?" Huai Shi was dumbfounded.
Without a doubt, this was a skeleton. And from the color of the bones, it seemed to have been dead for a long time. There was no brain, no flesh, no organs, and no Origin Substance fluctuations.
But it could still move and chew on a cigar. It also didn't have vocal cords, but it could still make sounds.
"Wow, talking like that is so rude." The skeleton opened its mouth and spat out the tobacco leaves in its mouth. "This thing doesn't taste good at all. Why do so many people like it?"
"Uh, that's used to light it … …"
"Hm?" The skeleton was stunned. "Really?"
"Yes, it's probably used to light the other end after cutting off one end to smoke … …" Huai Shi gestured for a long time before the skeleton finally understood. It found a lighter from the trash on the floor of the tricycle and lit it under Huai Shi's guidance.
It wanted to take a deep breath.
But of course, without lungs, nothing could be sucked out.
But in a place like this, it was very reasonable.
But even if it sucked out the nicotine, this skeleton didn't have a nose or flesh to absorb it … …
The skeleton glanced regretfully at the smoking cigar and mumbled in realization, "So that's how it is? I was wondering what was wrong … … Anyway, thank you so much. "
"Uh, it's nothing, it's nothing."
Huai Shi forced a smile. He looked around and asked tentatively, "Were you the one who put me on the tricycle?"
"Yeah, I almost thought you were dead. I wanted to dig a hole and bury you, but your friend told me that you were still alive and would be fine after drinking some water. That's why I brought you back."
The skeleton raised its eye sockets and looked at him. "You look very energetic, unlike the others who go crazy after a night's sleep.
Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Do you want some medicine? "
"Medicine?"
"Yeah, let me see … … I have … …" The skeleton rummaged through the trash on the ground and took out a lot of unlabeled medicine. "I picked these up from a warehouse. They should be effective for you, right?"
"Uh, I'll pass." Huai Shi rubbed the bridge of his nose and tried to clear his thoughts.
He had to figure out the cause and effect.
Roughly speaking, Huai Shi, Danbo's Little Tyrant, came to space and arrived at Helios. He was trapped here by his teammates, chased by a group of monsters, and almost startled something strange. After hiding for a long time and escaping, he fell into a coma and was picked up by a skeleton?
"Hey, brother, do me a favor –"
The skeleton suddenly spoke and interrupted his thoughts. "Can you talk to your friend … … and ask him to return my great rotor to me?"
"Ah?" Huai Shi was stunned for a moment. He looked at the dog and realized that this dog was actually grinding its teeth on someone's pelvis bone!
After struggling for a long time, he finally snatched the bone from the dog's mouth and put it back into the skeleton. The skeleton let out a long breath and tried to twist its lower body that had no legs. It seemed to have let out a long breath and felt a lot more comfortable.
"… … This, brother, I have a question, but I don't know if I should ask," Huai Shi scratched his head and asked tentatively, "May I ask, what are you?"
"Ah?"
The skeleton was stunned for a moment and immediately replied with a trembling voice, "I don't know either!"
？？？
Huai Shi's expression twitched.
Ten minutes later, the skeleton picked up starch pieces and fed them to the little white mouse living in its skull. At the same time, it explained to Huai Shi, "I woke up from the pile of corpses half a month ago and was already like this. I don't know what happened. It felt like I suddenly jumped out of thin air.
I also wanted to find someone to ask what I was, but everyone was dead. No one cared about me … … Other than the two of you, the only living thing I found was this little thing.
But I asked for a long time, and it didn't seem to be able to speak. "
The skeleton shrugged regretfully and made a crunching sound, "I was hoping that you would know and wanted to ask you. Who would have thought that you know less than me?"
At this point, its tone became gloomy, "Could it be that I'm the only one left of my species?"
No, no, no, if you want to talk about corpses, there are countless of them in the entire Discovery Realm.
It's just that no skeleton can move and talk like you.
Huai Shi carefully observed it and found that … … it seemed to be a product of some kind of alchemy, but he couldn't imagine what kind of alchemy could create such a thing.
He couldn't think of anyone who would be so bored.
The most important thing was that there was no sign of any secret mechanism at all, as if it was naturally formed … …
What was this? The dead came back to life?
Huai Shi scratched his head and asked curiously, "Then … … do you still remember your name?"
"Ah?"
The skeleton was stunned for a moment and scratched its head.
It was as if it had never thought about this question before.
"My name … … what's my name … …"
It muttered dully, as if it was trying hard to remember, but it couldn't be sure. It muttered to itself, "I think, I'm called … … Pubu … … Pubu what? Pubu? "
Amidst Huai Shi's sudden shock, the skeleton raised his head in realization and snapped his fingers. "I think I'm called Publius!"
"… … What?!"
Huai Shi cried out in surprise.
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