"Stop struggling …"
Wu Zong muttered as he sat on top of the platform.
Insects began to crawl out from the ground beneath his butt, these half-foot-long ants were baring their sharp fangs.
"Is that so?"
Lan Mu quickly put his pistols away, a handsome greatsword suddenly appeared in his hand, and swiftly cut down the insects at his feet.
Following that, his body began to burn with crimson flames, the greatsword had also turned into a demonic sword and began to swing wildly.
The crimson flames sent sand and insects flying as the sword swept through the enemies. Under the crimson flames, no living creature could approach within a 3-meter radius of Lan Mu.
Seeing the crimson flames dancing in the air, Wu Zong could feel the sharp edge of the sword and hurriedly hugged his head and hid on the ground.
About 5 minutes later, Wu Zong felt the sound of the insects getting further and further away, so he looked up to check the situation.
Wu Zong was surprised to find that he was surrounded by insect corpses, covering the ground with a layer of disgusting and sticky black armor.
As for Lan Mu, he had already rushed out of the platform and was only a few meters away, circling around the platform at high speed.
His sword cut through the air without leaving any gaps, as if he was cutting grass in the middle of the insect swarm.
The insects seemed to have received an order and quickly retreated.
When the last insect ran back underground, the only thing left on the ground was a pile of insect corpses.
Lan Mu stepped on the corpses as he walked back, causing the ground to creak and squeak.
He was wearing a red coat that was completely clean, all the dirt on him had been repelled by the crimson flames.
"So you have two anomalies, that's quite impressive, you've also managed to extend your life for quite a bit" Wu Zong was only surprised by Lan Mu's strength for a short while, but he quickly regained his composure.
Lan Mu returned to the platform, took out two bottles of water from his coat, and gave one to Wu Zong.
"So you're finally concerned about my identity?" Lan Mu asked. Ever since he met Wu Zong, the other party had been completely indifferent to his identity, not even asking who he was. He didn't have the care and composure of a high-ranking member of Qianlong.
Wu Zong happily took the water and said with a laugh, "What's there to be concerned about? It doesn't matter if you're from CANC, Qianlong, or any other forces, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not Qianlong's special agent. I'm just a man waiting to die. "
Lan Mu was speechless. This guy had already abandoned the things that Qianlong had taught him since he was a child. After being abandoned in the enchantment, he had probably spent a hellish period of time, right?
"Have you really given up hope? Do you think you'll never be able to get out? "Lan Mu asked.
Wu Zong glanced at Lan Mu with a glimmer of hope in his eyes. From Lan Mu's words, it seemed that there was still hope, so he said, "Can you still get out? It's impossible to open the enchantment. Even the teleportation of the Sky Enforcers will be ineffective in the enchantment. Do you have a better idea? "
Lan Mu shook his head and said, "No …"
"Really?" Wu Zong said.
Lan Mu said, "I came in to kill the Zergs. If I kill all the Zergs, I might be able to wait until the enchantment opens."
"Ha? Are you kidding me? " Wu Zong laughed and said, "You're definitely not from Qianlong. You're not even from CANC."
He said, "The enchantment is like a siege. It blocks all information from the inside. The people outside don't know what's going on inside. Even if you really kill all the Zergs, this enchantment will always be here. Because the higher-ups won't take the risk unless the outside world has the confidence to deal with the Zergs. "
"Do you understand? We can see the outside, but the outside can't see the inside. This dark curtain blocks our life. Even if a country is built here, to the outside world, it's still hell! The lack of information caused a dead knot in the chain of suspicion. From the moment the enchantment appeared, it will never be taken back. "
"If you and I are trapped here, we will be imprisoned for life!"
Lan Mu was expressionless. Of course, Wu Zong didn't know that he had something like the Void Cloud that could create spatial passageways.
Controlling the sky, capable of flight and teleportation, as well as manipulating the wind, clouds, and airflow. Even the owner of such a super anomaly would be restrained within the barrier, unable to contact the sky, which was a clear indication of how much of a shackle the barrier was.
Lan Mu asked, "What if? If the barrier is opened and you make it out alive … "
Wu Zong continued, "If? If I can leave this damned place alive, I won't return to Qianlong. Maybe I'll find a small place to secretly live. "
Lan Mu said in surprise, "Oh?"
"You're probably wondering why I chose to stay away from Qianlong, right? That's right, I've been instilled with the idea of protecting the country since I was young. In fact, I'm willing to give up my life for that. However, when they left me in the barrier, that Qianlong Wu Zong had already sacrificed himself for the greater good. I'm already dead! "Wu Zong indifferently declared.
He suddenly raised his hands and stared at them with a complicated expression, then said, "The me that the country needs is already dead. Now that I'm alive, am I still a human?"
Lan Mu furrowed his brows. This person was speaking incoherently.
What do you mean by 'am I still a human'? If not a human, then an insect?
The only thing that could be confirmed was that the other party was indeed a living person. As for whether or not he was being controlled by the insectoids, Lan Mu quickly eliminated that possibility.
Because it was meaningless. Especially when controlling Wu Zong to say something that could easily be exposed, it was definitely not something the insectoids would do.
Therefore, there was only one possibility for Wu Zong to say a bunch of nonsense like 'I'm dead and I'm alive'. He had a mental problem. Either it was a side effect of that ahoge, or he had developed a mental illness in this oppressive barrier.
Lan Mu shook his head, feeling that he was a little pitiful. He reached into his bosom and prepared to take out some food from his spatial ring.
For the time being, Lan Mu was not sure if he should take him out of the barrier, but at least he could ensure that the other party had enough to eat and drink.
"Hmm?"
At this moment, Lan Mu noticed the disgusting insect corpses on the ground. He reached out and picked up a small insect, immediately feeling the corrosive nature of it.
His psychic power hurriedly scanned the structure of the insect, and Lan Mu discovered that something was wrong.
"These insects' bodies are surprisingly hard, and they contain a lot of acid. They don't look like living creatures at all, more like biological mining vehicles …"
Lan Mu's confusion turned to anger. He suddenly threw the insect at Wu Zong's face and watched as the acid corroded Wu Zong's face, burning a scar on his face.
Wu Zong's expression changed, and he lowered his head in silence.
"Say something! Clumsy liar, why did you lie? "
Lan Mu asked with a gloomy face. The other party had obviously deceived him.
What did he mean by eating insects to survive? Nonsense, eating these insects would only make one die faster!
"How did you survive? This place is barren, and there is no food at all. Did you evolve the ability to eat ores like the insects? Eat these insects and digest them for me to see! "
Lan Mu became more and more suspicious that Wu Zong had been controlled by the insects, but no matter how he probed with his psychic power, he could not find anything suspicious. His body was 100% normal.
However, the insects were experts in psychic power, and they might have some ability to control minds.
But this was not right. Even insects could only be forced to eat soil here. What did Wu Zong eat?
Wu Zong smiled, but his smile was very strange. He lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, I lied to you."
"Indeed, insects can't be eaten. Their bodies contain a lot of minerals, and they don't even have flesh."
Lan Mu suddenly widened his eyes, as if he had guessed something.
He asked, "What did you eat?"
Wu Zong said without any tone, "You shouldn't have forgotten that I still have more than a hundred brothers …"
Lan Mu kicked Wu Zong, sending him flying more than five meters away and falling into a pile of insect corpses.
Wu Zong had openly admitted that what he ate was a corpse, not an insectoid, but a human.
The barrier was barren, and there was no food to speak of. Lan Mu thought that after the hundred or so people were killed by the insects, the corpses would not go to waste and would be dragged away and eaten.
He did not expect Wu Zong to eat them too. He actually survived by eating human flesh.
Wu Zong did not care about Lan Mu kicking him. He got up and continued, "In the first three days, we could still fight against the insects. After all, we were an elite containment team."
"However, there was no supply, no support. When the steel base was completely eaten, we had no choice but to die."
"In the end, I was the only one who survived by relying on my psychic power, and hunger made me not want to think about anything."
"I remember when the insects thought I was an insect because of their psychic camouflage. I was really like a big insect, mixing in the swarm and eating the corpses of my companions, competing with them for food. "
"Because of the existence of the barrier, the insects paid attention to storing precious meat and did not eat it all. That was why I could rely on these corpses to survive the first month."
"I'm sorry … I'm really sorry … You don't know how torturous it was when I thought of myself as an insect. They were all my brothers. Do you understand this feeling? I don't know why I coveted more than a month of life. Maybe I should have sacrificed myself with them … This is the end of us agents, isn't it? "
"But I can't commit suicide. I don't know why I have to endure hunger here."
"When you appeared, I had been hungry for ten days. If you didn't appear, I would have starved to death soon. "
Listening to Wu Zong's description, Lan Mu was speechless. In order to survive, he ate the corpses of his companions. This kind of thing was not unheard of. He did not know how to evaluate Wu Zong's behavior. After all, he was forced by the environment. If he did not eat, the corpses would have been eaten by the insects.
No wonder Wu Zong was already a little crazy. In this cage of despair, he must have endured unimaginable torment to survive until now.
This was also why he said, "I'm already dead. Now that I'm alive, am I still human?"
He could not go back to Qianlong. Even if the barrier was released at this moment, Qianlong would definitely ask him how he survived.
Eating the corpses of your brothers is absolutely unacceptable in society.
P/S: There are many loopholes in Wu Zong's last statement. I think the meticulous readers have already understood the truth.
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