Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

After the supernova explosion, in order not to affect the operation of Tianxing, an artificial floating island that relies on energy, an air shield was activated above the city.

After a brief burst of light, night fell again.

Tonight, Xia Yizhuo still has to go out to carry out a mission.

According to him, the martial law in Tianxing City has entered its final cycle and the cleanup operation will be over soon.

Xia Jiumeng said goodnight to Xia Yizhuo in advance and then lay on the bed pretending to be asleep, waiting for Xia Yizhuo to go out first.

But late at night, when she heard a slight noise in the living room and thought Xia Yizhuo had gone out, the door of her room was opened.

The slow footsteps finally stopped beside her ears. Realizing it was Xia Yizhuo, she slowed down her breathing and pretended to be asleep.

The next second, a gentle touch fell on the corner of his lips.

"!!"

Oh my god, last time it was still my forehead. Brother, your progress is much faster than Xiaoxiao's.

You won’t gossip about me next time, right?

She stood up again after Xia Yizhuo left, calmed her excited heartbeat, looked at the night outside the window, and turned on the tracking function.

Looking at the words "Tracking successful", she knew that Xia Yizhuo did not notice anything unusual with the necklace.

He secretly apologized to Xia Yizhuo in his heart.

When she was about to go out, she found that the door of her house was locked.

Did he lock her up at home on purpose?

It seems that what he is going to do is quite secret.

Unfortunately, a small lock can't trap her.

The hand holding the door handle glowed with a golden luster, and the locked door opened by itself with a click.

Following the guidance of the signal, Xia Jiumeng tracked all the way to a dilapidated street. After entering, he saw that the flares illuminated the entire area as if it were daytime, and the street lights on the roadside that were reported to be damaged were also shaking in the wind.

Not far away, a several-story steel building cast a black shadow on the cracked road surface, and the surrounding area was filled with a solemn and cold atmosphere.

The only thing that stood out was the glaring orange cordon.

I didn’t expect that such a dilapidated and dark place would exist in the prosperous Tianxing City.

This should be an abandoned area, right?

She looked at the overgrown weeds at her feet and could tell that this place had been abandoned for a long time, but the metal shells she could see were shiny as new, which was out of tune with the environment here.

The metal objects vaguely reveal the outlines of some aircraft.

Xia Yizhuo's signal disappeared here. It seems that there should be some kind of blocker here.

I had just walked a few steps into the building when I heard someone talking.

[Test Site No. 5 has been cleared and is advancing towards the east area...]

Xia Jiumeng squatted down and touched the wreckage, feeling a slight residual energy.

The scraping sound of someone getting up was very conspicuous in this eerily quiet place. Several non-commissioned officers who were searching immediately became alert and asked, "What's that sound? Who's there?!"

Several footsteps were gradually moving towards this side. Just as Xia Jiumeng was about to move, a hand came from nowhere and instantly dragged her into a shelter made up of countless huge abandoned instruments.

"Shh...Come here, they won't be able to find you if you hide here."

The next second after he finished speaking, a beam of light swept across his head.

"It's just the sound of rain. Don't waste time. Let's go."

Behind the cover, Xia Jiumeng turned around and looked at the girl who was pulling her. In the dim light, most of her skin was covered with strange crystals, and she was only wearing a thin skirt.

After making sure that the girl posed no threat to her, she distanced herself from her.

The girl's vision dimmed for a moment but she didn't say anything. She knew that she had turned into a monster and it was normal for others to be afraid.

Xia Jiumeng saw several non-commissioned officers in uniforms of the long-space fleet in the distance through the gap in the bunker.

"That's strange, don't you think these monsters have become more violent?" said the sergeant who just discovered the noise.

"The pollution level in the area has reached its upper limit. Those guys are no different from strays. We'd better be careful."

"Don't let them end up as rations if they haven't been cleaned up properly." Another sergeant rolled his eyes at his companion and picked up the communicator and said, "This batch of test subjects is on the verge of alienation and has no recycling value.

Requesting cleaning confirmation."

tester?

Xia Jiumeng turned her head to look at the girl who was pulling her to hide. Her infection level was obviously much higher than Xiaosen's. It seemed that she might turn into those "monsters" in area N109 at any time.

The girl felt Xia Jiumeng's gaze and directly pulled her hand to her heart and asked, "Can you help me check, am I still alive?"

"Is my heart still beating?"

"......"

Her gaze fell on the girl's heart, which had been eaten away by the black crystal, leaving only a hole. The place where the heart should have been had turned into a crystal emitting a strange light.

This crystal looked very similar to the cores she had brought back during the mission in Luoxia City.

"How did you become like this?"

The girl was silent for a moment, she realized that her heart was probably gone.

"When I was about to die, someone lifted the white cloth covering my face and pushed me out of the ward."

"I heard them say... I only need an experiment to come back to life." She whispered, clutching the tattered hem of her skirt. "Of course I want to come back to life."

As she spoke, the crystals on her body continued to spread upwards.

"What a shame! If only I could pass the test and become the professor's child."

She buried her head in her knees and sobbed quietly, the sound of rain covering up the tiny movement.

After listening to her words, Xia Jiumeng guessed that the professor the girl was talking about should be the person who took Xiaosen away.

Does he have something that can reverse the mutation?

But it doesn't seem to work for everyone.

The so-called experiment is probably closely related to that professor and the long-space fleet. The so-called cleanup by the fleet is not aimed at wandering bodies, but... these failed experimental subjects, right?

No wonder martial law was imposed. If something like this were to become known to the outside world, who knows how much of a commotion it would cause.

"The power in you is so warm and smells so good."

While Xia Jiumeng was thinking, the girl slowly raised her head from her knees and uttered strange words.

The crystals on his face peeled off with a "click", and the eyes that were dark and bright just now became empty, with the whites of his eyes and pupils completely disappearing.

"Can I eat you?"

It seemed like a question, but in fact it was because of the close distance. Her cold hand quickly grabbed Xia Jiumeng's wrist.

"Give me your...power."

"Let me...eat you..."

Xia Jiumeng sensed danger and instantly broke free from the girl's hand, quickly retreating a few steps away.

Looking at the girl who suddenly lost her balance and fell to her knees on the ground, her whole body was wet from the rain. There was still some normal human skin on her forehead, but the rest of her body was covered with crystals.

The girl who was conscious just now has now mutated into a monster that is neither human nor body.

Xia Jiumeng became alert and guarded against her, but did not take action immediately.

The next second, a string of extremely long crystal spikes protruded from the girl's shoulder armor and attacked her. Fortunately, she was prepared and was not pierced by them, but only had her skin scratched.

Bright red blood oozed out of the wound, dripping down the slender calf and melting into the muddy water from the rain.