abyss rose

The neighborhood is extremely quiet, there are no herds of beasts, and no strange beasts acting alone.

Chai Yuening should have thought earlier that the foggy area will not be too quiet, the quieter the place, the more unpredictable the danger.

This may be a giant beast that devours everything around it, it is greedy, it does not live in groups with any creatures, and naturally it will not let every prey here go.

In fact, from the moment she left alone, Chai Yuening knew that she was doomed not to be with Chu Ci.

All of this is just like what she was afraid of at the beginning, there is an insurmountable distance between a human and a foreign species.

Alien species can only live well if they leave the crowd, and humans will die quickly if they leave the crowd.

They are already ignorant and have missed the best time.

Chai Yuening took off the black vine wrapped around her body, and gently placed it in a broken corner full of rubble.

She was about to get up when she saw the black vine wrapped around her wrist again.

"I'll lure it away and come back to you, okay?"

Chai Yuening spoke softly, but the thin rattan branch was unwilling to let go of it.

"You're not as good as you used to be..."

A bitter smile appeared in Chai Yuening's eyes.

She no longer tried to coax this stubborn little guy, but pulled her off her hand forcefully, threw her on the ground cruelly, turned around and ran downstairs.

She had to lure the giant beast away, and not let it destroy the dilapidated tall building, otherwise the weak little black vine would be injured.

She ran downstairs quickly, and at a glance saw the huge monster floating outside a street, with a red-purple halo flowing on its body, even in the thick fog, the huge silhouette was still clearly visible.

——It is the instinct of every alien beast to hunt humans.

Chai Yuening is not sure whether Chu Ci still has a human breath left.If so, if she leaves like this at this moment, the giant beast will still come rushing towards this tall building.

After a short hesitation, she pulled out the gun at her waist.

"boom!"

Gunshots sounded in the silent fog.

Chai Yuening turned around and ran towards the distance, continuous gunshots burst out from the dark muzzle of the gun.

The bullet shot at the monster's body, although it failed to penetrate its "skin", it caught its attention instantly.

The giant beast flew towards her at a speed that a human being could never escape with his legs.

She could only think of a way to bring this thing as far away as possible from here.

She ran to the depths of the unknown thick fog, to her own death from which there was nowhere to escape.

Along the way, black vines grow and take root in the dust and mud that the city has accumulated over the years.

Suddenly, these black vines seemed to come alive.

They swayed in the mist without wind, winding towards the giant beast like a snake.

The giant beast not far away was stunned, and seemed to be a little vacillating.

The ground under Chai Yuening's feet suddenly trembled.

She saw the giant black vine that crossed the two old buildings not far away, slowly wriggling like a giant snake, and a deep purple halo overflowed from the vine trunk as thick as an ancient tree.

The giant black vine flower that bloomed among the tall buildings slowly sprouted fangs, like the mouth of an abyss, quietly facing the huge monster, the dark red halo was like bloodstains, dull and depressing.

The broken mud pillars and broken bricks fell down, and the two dangerous buildings were crumbling, but they were pulled by it to maintain a delicate balance.

Soon, all the other black vines seemed to be inspired by something, and they all turned towards the giant beast.

The indescribable behemoth let out a low roar like thunder, and the scattered black scales covering its body suddenly bloomed like flowers.

Chai Yuening has seen this scene before. On the night of waiting for rescue in the dungeon, the jellyfish-shaped monster also bloomed the "flowers" on its body, which were used to absorb the energy of the black vine.

She had been in the research institute for a long time, so she had naturally heard a saying.

In today's new mutant ecology, the final form that a species can evolve into is similar to the giant beast that appeared above the base of the dungeon, capable of growing black vine flower-like organs, and absorbing the energy of black vines for itself used form.

The behemoth in front of him obviously wanted to absorb the vitality of these black vines.

Chai Yuening's breathing froze for a moment, but she quickly came back to her senses, turned around and ran at full speed towards the old building where she dropped Chu Ci.

In the next second, the surrounding fog was stained with a reddish-purple gleam, which flowed strangely in the hazy city ruins in front of me.

The power of the black vine was not absorbed by the giant beast.

On the contrary, the huge monster suddenly struggled and whined in pain.

The light on it that is similar to the black vine, and maybe even belongs to the black vine, is pulling away bit by bit, gathering towards the giant black vine.

It began to want to escape, but its huge body seemed extremely cumbersome at this moment.

Countless wildly growing vines bound it silently, piercing into that terrifying body, greedily sucking every inch of flesh and blood from that huge body.

The giant beast wailed and fell to the ground, and the moment it fell, the whole earth was shaken.

It struggled desperately, its terrifyingly huge body tore through the vines again and again, each time it seemed to be about to escape, but in the end it was still entangled and unable to move by the black vines that came one after another.

The huge monster died, gradually dying under the "nibble" of these black vines.

It had lost all luster, and the weird black vine-like organs on its body were also withered.

The originally dim stream of light above the black vines became clearly visible at this moment.

Chai Yuening couldn't believe her eyes, this was a sight she had never seen before.

For more than 50 years, Heivine, who has been judged by countless anthropologists as having no infection and attack power, unexpectedly killed such a huge beast.

She walked into the building where she left Chu Ci with lingering fear.

In the dilapidated building full of gravel and dust, it has been completely covered by black vines at some point.

After the death of the giant beast, the black vines fell silent.

They no longer continued to grow wildly, and did not attack those who approached them. They just lay quietly on the broken ground, hiding in dilapidated pipes, or piercing through stone walls, entangled with broken steel bars.

The black rattan exudes strange purple and bloody red, not as dim as usual.

Chai Yuening frowned, and rushed all the way up.

She survived the desperate situation without any joy.

She was afraid of what happened just now, afraid that she would make a wrong decision again, and afraid that when she returned to the place where she left Chu Ci, she would only see a monster that had completely mutated to protect her.

But this kind of fear turned into a determination in her heart as she gradually approached that floor.

She walked along the glowing vines step by step towards everything she was bound to face.

The moment she returned to the floor with broken walls, Chai Yuening couldn't help but her eyes turned red, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.

She saw countless vines passing through the floor tiles, penetrating the walls, and extending in all directions along the rusted steel bars.

These black vines are connected to the underground of more than ten floors, to the surrounding floors, and to every black vine in Chai Yuening's sight.

Blossoming bright red black vine flowers bloom in this gloomy world.

The sinking mist was dyed with a light halo of black vines, lingering around like clouds, as if they had never left the suspended city.

And at the center of all this is a silhouette surrounded by countless vines.

It was a vague outline similar to a human being, lying quietly on the broken ground like a dead thing.

It is like the trunk of a banyan tree, extending its intertwined rhizomes outward, wishing to take root in this wasteland.

"Do you want to stay here?" Chai Yuening asked softly.

She was no longer sure whether the mutated Hei Teng in front of her could still remember herself.

Before the mutation occurred, it conducted a fusion experiment with the giant beast in the dungeon that was extremely aggressive and could absorb the life force of the black vine.

It evolved, as anthropologists said, and evolved into the final form in the mutant ecology.

It has acquired the powerful aggressiveness that every strange beast has, maybe it also has the infectious ability that every strange beast has, or maybe it is no longer the person in her memory.

It is surrounded by scattered vine branches, and sharp thorns grow on the vine branches like roses, seeming to keep people away thousands of miles away.

But even so, Chai Yuening walked forward slowly after a short hesitation.

The sharp vine branches scratched her skin, and the blood dripped on the vine body, slowly blooming blood-colored flowers.

Suddenly, she seemed to hear a familiar voice.

Right next to her ear, in her heart.

In the most plain tone, humming the verses that have been memorized in my heart.

【I am a man of despair, words without echo. 】

"do you remember me?"

She knelt down beside it and tried softly, but got no response.

"If Dr. Yi didn't lie to me, if the research on human beings didn't yield nothing, maybe you still remember."

As she spoke, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, she leaned forward a little, stretched out her hands, and gently hugged the thing that had long been out of human shape into her arms.

【Losing everything and having everything again. 】

"I've been thinking about one thing lately. You can't save human beings anyway. If I had been a little heartless and just lived on my own, wouldn't you...be selfish and hide all the secrets, always Stay by my side..."

"But there is no if in this world. You are like a fool. Whoever treats you a little bit better thinks that he can't meet someone better..."

[The last cable, my last hope babbles and sings for you. 】

Her voice gradually trembled: "Why should I deserve you to do this, I clearly..."

For a moment, all words were choked here.

From the bottom of her heart, she could no longer speak, and tears had already blurred her vision.

——There are no roses in this world.

——Why not?

——I learned when I was a child that the base biologists announced more than 30 years ago that the cultivation of the last rose seed in human hands, including the floating city, failed.

——The world is so big.Not sure, there really are.

【In my barren land, you are the last rose. 】

Chai Yuening smiled bitterly: "If you want to stay here, I will stay here with you..."

The surrounding vines moved again, she didn't hesitate or back away, just closed her eyes, and waited for the expected death with relief.

The black vine in his arms was cold, as if lifeless.

But it was the first time she tried her best to hug the person who was too late to hug.

"Will you infect people now?" she whispered. "Will I become like you? Will I forget you?"

She thought she would die here.

She died here, at the hands of Chu Ci, and in a distant place that no one knew about.

From then on, the continuation of human beings has nothing to do with her, and the world has nothing to do with her.

At least, she accompanies the girl who has been trapped all her life and walks freely through the last journey of her journey as a human being.

"How about... you should eat me, like those beasts that hunt humans, eat me..." She said very calmly, almost begging, "I will be your nourishment, I will live in your life In your body, even if humans cease to exist, I will always be with you."

In this way, she will never leave that barren land again, and never let that desperate person face the loneliness in this world alone.

The morning wind blows over the dilapidated old building.

The thin vine branches touched Chai Yuening's cheek with traces of coldness.

The vine root embraced by her had a reverse mutation at that moment.

The color of the black vines faded one after another, and they were torn into extremely thin strands inch by inch. Some of them slowly gathered into human skins, and some of them wrapped around the milky white skin and turned into broken human clothes.

The vine branches on his body have not faded.

The cold fingertips have already caressed the tear-stained cheek.

"Chai Yuening..."

The familiar voice finally rang from my ears again, but to Chai Yuening, it seemed like a few years had passed.

She really waited too long.

The moment she opened her eyes, she looked at everything in front of her in amazement.

At that moment, countless vines were shrinking and gathering toward the red-purple shimmering heart of the person in his arms, and the unrecovered limbs were still connected with countless vines, as if they were rooted in the ground and could not extricate themselves.

Her complexion was pale, and even her breathing seemed very weak. The bruises and bloodstains on her body may have been injured by the giant beast just now.

"I can't lie to you, nor can I scare you away..."

She spoke softly like a gossamer, still in the same tone as before, without a trace of blame, only curiosity.

How could there be such a person in this world who would care about her whom no one would care about.

How could there be such a person who would risk his life for her again and again.

Even...she turned into a monster, that person never thought of leaving her behind.

"You still want me to go?" Chai Yuening said, "I won't go..."

She thought that this alien species was the strangest existence in the world. She clearly didn't want to, but she still wanted to push her away time and time again.

But this time, no matter what Chu Ci said, she would never leave again.

A ray of morning light, through the gradually thinning mist, shines on them who are silently staring at each other on the tall building.

The all-swallowing beast is dead, there are no herds, no humans here.

In the ruins of this dusty city, only the two of them were left.

The car couldn't drive, and the communicator was lost.

Even if I looked up into the distance, I couldn't see through the fog and see the city high above.

Everything that belongs to the human world no longer exists for them.

None of them can go back.

The sound of the wind woke up the moment of silence.

Chai Yuening heard suppressed sobbing in her ears.

She heard Chu Ci ask her: "You want to stay on the ground? Are you... not afraid of death?"

She thought, she is not afraid.

"People in the old world live on the ground and die on the ground..."

"Why can't we?"

She choked up and hugged Chu Ci into her arms.

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The author has something to say:

Ha, the second volume "Xuankong" is over, and the third volume "Morning Bell" is a chapter in the foggy area. The length is not as short as the second volume, and it should be about the same as the first volume. Estimates have always been inaccurate.

#morning bell