Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

Upon hearing this, Xia Jiumeng quietly approached the direction of the voice.

"You..." The boy wanted to say something, but under the gloomy sky, several cold rays burst out from the palm of the black shadow opposite the boy, nailing the boy's sleeves and trouser legs firmly to the wall.

It was only then that Xia Jiumeng saw that the boy's left arm and neck were all covered with black crystals, but they were different from those experimental subjects in Tianxing.

Is this an alien?

The mutant boy stuttered for a moment, "I... asked you to kill me, but I didn't ask you to torture me."

He hasn't mutated yet, so he still feels pain. Isn't this Eraser said to be agile?

Does he have some other bad taste?!

The boy couldn't help but imagine himself being tortured and killed by the annihilator in various ways. He trembled all over. It felt more terrifying than the alien. What should he do?

As the boy struggled frantically, a cold voice warned, "You'd better keep quiet."

Xia Jiumeng immediately recognized the voice and couldn't help but take a step forward. The next second, a sharp icicle with a biting chill pierced through the air and stabbed towards her cheek.

Xia Jiumeng raised her hand and threw out an icicle as well. The two icicles collided and shattered, raising debris and dust. The 'Eliminator' who was standing in the dark like the god of death turned around and looked at her indifferently.

"Li Shen?"

Or maybe it was another 'Li Shen', because his expression was cold, without the tenderness and love he had shown her before, as if she was just an insignificant stranger. This was not the Li Shen she knew, but more like... Black Li.

But...how did he show up?

During this period of time, Li Shen has been acting very normally, and his evol has not gone out of control, and there has been no trigger for Hei Li to appear...

Li Shen "......"

The young man took advantage of this brief interlude to break free from his comfort, pulled out the hidden knife from his waist and stabbed Li Shen with red eyes, but the next second his wrist was grabbed again and twisted, and the crackling sound of the dislocated bones was particularly loud in the alley.

juvenile"!!"

Li Shen: "What is the cocoon you just mentioned?"

"Why do you know so much?"

The boy seemed to have felt a prick in a nerve by the word "cocoon". He broke free without caring about the pain in his bones, covered his left arm covered with crystals, and ran hurriedly behind Xia Jiumeng.

He just saw Xia Jiumeng's hunter uniform and the gun in his other hand. He reached out to grab the gun, but Xia Jiumeng dodged it.

"what?"

The boy was stunned for a moment, then looked at the two of them and stepped back warily.

"Are you in the same group?"

"Since you won't kill me, then let me go and don't come near me!"

Li Shen's gaze did not look at the young man, but fell on Xia Jiumeng instead. His eyes were dazed, but the next moment the confusion turned into silence and indifference.

Xia Jiumeng suppressed the doubts in her heart and asked aloud, "Li Shen, why are you here?"

"Aren't you on a business trip?"

Li Shen “….”

Xia Jiumeng “…..”

Li Shen's tactical silence made the two of them feel inexplicably awkward for a moment.

The young man standing not far from them was also confused when he saw this. Aren’t these two people in the same group?

The boy said, "You guys..."

"You haven't reached the point where you have to die."

"You want to die so badly even though you haven't fully mutated yet?"

Li Shen and Xia Jiumeng's voices rang out one after another.

But there was an unusual coldness in Li Shen's words.

Li Shen: "But after tonight, it may not be the same."

He coldly stated the cruel truth, "The crystals will corrode your body, your skin will crack, and your bones will be crushed."

"Once it spreads to your neck, you will no longer be able to make any sound, and all your screams of pain will go unheard."

Xia Jiumeng "........."

Listening to Li Shen's words, she was silent for a long time. It was obviously the same face, but Li Shen like this... really made people feel a little strange.

Now his voice, breathing, and words were as cold as if they were machines without any emotions.

Li Shen's words seemed to remind the young man of something. He gave up struggling instantly, his voice trembling, his body curled up like a bow, and he squatted down, burying his face deeply between his knees.

"You're right. They...they all died like this after coming out of their 'cocoons'."

Xia Jiumeng: 'Cocoon' again? What exactly is that?

Accelerate the mutation of core disease?

The boy murmured in despair, "I want to live, but if I will turn into a monster, then why should I live?"

"I'd rather die than be cocooned into a zombie monster..."

Li Shen didn't say anything, but just lowered his eyes, and a ball of ice crystals gathered silently in his palm.

Xia Jiumeng looked at him.

He wanted to relieve the boy's pain in advance?

Just like what they did in the Eraser branch?

Li Shen: "There is no such thing as a 'death with dignity'."

"Thinking that you can control everything by choosing death is nothing more than a self-comforting lie."

"Did you escape to die?"

The young man was stimulated by his words. He suddenly stood up and pounced on Xia Jiumeng again. His hands were trembling like sieves, but he held her pistol tightly.

"You're a hunter, so if your pistol can kill strays, it must be able to kill me too."

"Just kill me!"

Xia Jiumeng let go and let the boy hold the gun.

"Here's the gun. If you want to die, you can do so."

It seemed that they had not expected Xia Jiu's reaction. Both the boy and Li Shen were stunned.