[Kun Cheng Nong Cheng] The end of the road

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The surrounding area was foggy, the visibility was not high, and the whole field of vision was filled with different shades of gray. Zhu Zhengting threw the stunned lynx aside, bent down, held the twisted ankle and twisted it hard, twisting the dislocated bobcat. The bone was right again, he jumped tentatively, but still couldn't help but curse inwardly.Bad luck, he glared at the squirming culprit and complained sullenly, damn the Sentinel's defense system.

He was alone now, and Huang Minghao, who had entered Fan Chengcheng's spiritual domain together, disappeared out of thin air in the blink of an eye when he landed.If it wasn't clear that the spiritual domain was just a projection of the Sentinel's subconscious mind, he would feel like he had broken into some kind of reality show like haunted house quest.It was so bad, he couldn't help stomping his foot again, and the pain eased a little.

Under the friction of the flint, bright yellow gas flames emerged from the air duct, and quickly surrounded the wriggling lynx at its feet. The guide grabbed the lynx by its tail and threw it to an invisible depth.The fireball traveled smoothly in the mist, and after flying for 40 meters, it suddenly changed direction, as if it was blown away by some force.Zhu Zhengting narrowed his eyes and took a few steps back vigilantly.Not long after he waited, a woman in a white coat slowly emerged from the mist.

"Ah - no, sister -" Zhu Zhengting looked the woman up and down, her exhaustion and surprise were obvious, she seemed to be flustered and at a loss as if some secret had been broken.Before he could speak again, there was another sound of kicking footsteps from the depths of the mist.The woman twisted her body like an electric shock, embraced the oncoming little boy with a stiff smile on her pale face.

"Chengcheng is not good, it's curfew time now."

"Woo—can't sleep," Cheng Cheng firmly grasped the woman's skirt, his face was pale and his eyes were full of tears, "there's a strange voice in my head all the time, I'm afraid—"

The woman trembled when she heard the words, quickly swept around, grabbed the boy and hurried to the factory.Zhu Zhengting could only watch helplessly as the stumbling figures of the two dissipated into the mist again. He swiped and pulled a few times in the air, but he couldn't change the trajectory of the mist, nor could he feel the dampness it should have.

"That's a memory, you came earlier than I thought, that is to say, Huang Minghao also came in." The sudden light fell lightly with Cai Xukun's voice, and Zhu Zhengting picked up the fluorescent stick thrown at his feet, Follow the direction all the way to find an open air.The dense sycamore trees seemed to cut off the whole world like some kind of enchantment, and the fog completely dissipated, revealing the cold buildings behind.He saw the guy sitting on the plane tree at a glance.

Cai Xukun greeted him in a friendly manner, and with the movement of waving his hands, the lights in the building flickered with dignity.The goose-yellow light spilled on the uneven ground through the window, Zhu Zhengting finally saw the body stumps that were crushed under the rubble, and uttered a high-pitched voice that he could never reach in his life: "This is so fucking amazing! It's a copy of the horror plot! If I go out, that little bastard will be finished!" After his voice fell, the whole atmosphere became a little more gloomy, and the noise of children playing in the air fit the occasion.

"You weren't trapped here from the start, were you?"

"When will Huang Minghao find this place?"

"Hey, don't change the subject!" Zhu Zhengting couldn't help shouting, his voice trembling slightly because of suppressed laughter, "I swear I will never laugh at you! Really!"

"Do you think your expression is convincing now?"

"perhaps."

"As a guide, you should be ridiculed if you don't even think of using the spirit cluster to find your sentinel."

"Well, let's skip this topic."

Five minutes after Huang Minghao appeared, the young sentinel was still as energetic as ever, and greeted the two of them carelessly.Cai Xukun beat the sycamore tree beside him vigorously, and the trunk let out a baby-like cry, which was especially terrifying in the silence, which shocked the two people who hadn't prepared themselves.

"Fuck?!"

"It's a ghost. Before you came here, I was trapped in this area, and I tried many methods but couldn't get out. During this time, I had an idea that maybe the place Cheng Cheng subconsciously constructed was a dead place, and I What he encountered was a ghost hitting the wall. You should have noticed that it is obvious that he is escaping from a certain reality, so he labeled everyone as dead, and would rather believe that no one is alive." Cai Xukun explained, "Fortunately, you came in Yes. Is it Ziyi's meaning?"

Huang Minghao nodded.

"He knows me very well." Cai Xukun didn't avoid suspicion. Long-term getting along brings not only familiarity, but also a tacit understanding that is hard for others to get in. Although this feeling has changed under the influence of another person, "This time also It just happened to hit me by accident."

Huang Minghao raised his chin, and raised the corners of his mouth triumphantly, "So it's me who is like a fish in water! Although my level is not high enough, I have the ability to increase my value." He slightly lowered his voice, his eyes moved around flexibly, "With the proper medium, it is possible to converse unhindered with ghosts."

*The setting of being able to see ghosts is not too common in sentinels, and it belongs to the original setting in the enlightenment American drama "Sentinel".

44

Chen Linong leaned against the wall with a box of yogurt and sipped it.The way he licked the yogurt cover was very serious, and so was the way he looked at people, so the way Fan Chengcheng quietly closed the door and left the room was like a slow motion show in his eyes.He tossed the finished plastic case into the air to watch it disintegrate, as it had never existed before.Chen Linong tilted his head and smiled, the long-lost free will is back.He has been here for too long, so long that the boundary between reality and fantasy is almost blurred.

"Chengcheng." He repeated his lover's name into the air.The sentinel who was called turned his head sharply, looking around eagerly.He chuckled again, watching the surprise in the other person's eyes slowly disappear, replaced by annoyance, like an irritated cat, he touched his upper and lower lips twice as he thought about it, "Baby."

Chen Linong felt that the hem of his clothes was being pulled by a slight force, and looked along the pale little hand, a seven or eight year old girl was looking up at him.The girl's skin had an unhealthy transparency, her eyes were dark and bright, small but energetic, she was wearing a black dress with a narrow waist, her hands and feet were slender, and her black nails were sharp and abrupt.

"Nong Zong." She opened her mouth, and struggled to squeeze out two words, vaguely.That's a weird accent.

"Nongnong." Chen Linong corrected himself, hugged the girl to the window sill and sat with his back to him.He pointed to the opposite corridor and leaned over, whispering in the girl's ear, "No one can hurt Cheng Cheng." He repeated, "Anyone."

The girl nodded with half understanding, and then turned into smoke and rushed towards the corridor.Chen Linong stood there looking at it for a while, then took out a crumpled cigarette from his pocket, wiped it and pressed the flint a few times, but it failed to ignite, so he had to hang it in his mouth, and sighed softly: "I want to borrow a fire. "

As the sky gradually darkened, Fan Chengcheng watched the lighter sparkle over and over again, and the sporadic and weak electric light cast a very gloomy look on his face.He is fair and clean, with a high bridge of nose and narrow eyes. When he smiles, he is pure and happy. When he is not smiling, he can forcefully exude an aura that no one should enter, although most of the time he is just in a daze.Perhaps the coldness of the dew wet clothes, he shivered for a while, and when he realized that he was in a fugue again, he suddenly raised his head and saw a woman standing at the end of the dark corridor.

The woman wore a familiar white coat, and slowly walked into the moonlight from the darkness. For a moment, Fan Chengcheng felt that it was her sadness that had condensed into armor.He opened his mouth, and an unfamiliar address came out: "Auntie?"

"Chengcheng." She pulled out an exquisite cake from her arms like a conjuring, "Happy birthday to you in advance."

"There are still three months." The boy's shrill voice came from behind him, "June [-]th is Cheng Cheng's birthday."

"I'll stay with Chengcheng." Nongnong held Chengcheng's round hand, and the black Rottweiler puppy growled silently.He moved his straight gaze from the boy beside him to the pale face of the woman, and smiled slightly, "Auntie."

The sentry suddenly remembered the time after that, lights, electrodes, and scalpels.White coat, blood, syringe.All kinds of messy things filled his dreams.He was struggling between drowsiness and sobriety, and when he regained his initiative again, he was already standing in the corner of the auditorium, facing the peeling wall, his mind was full of sonic-processed shouts.

"Freedom," cried the voice, "freedom."

Fan Chengcheng thought that word was beautiful.He crushed these two words, dug his chest, and stuffed it into his heart.

45

"Where are we going next?" Facing the empty corridor and two rows of closed doors, Huang Minghao turned his head and asked the silent Cai Xukun. Go forward.The sentinel didn't mind either. He had noticed the other party's irritability since he first stepped into the building. It seemed that this environment had some kind of wonderful influence on Cai Xukun.

"This place is too desolate." Zhu Zhengting murmured, and just as he finished speaking, the wall lamps turned on one after another, and the warm yellow color spread from the wick to the depths of the corridor, illuminating the man sitting cross-legged on the ground.Huang Minghao blocked the two guides behind him at the first time, blocking the other party's scrutiny.For some reason, he read pure malice from those innocent eyes.

"Cai Xukun, Huang Minghao, Zhu Zhengting." The man put his chin up and smiled slightly, "Welcome to Fan Chengcheng's spiritual domain - the bunker. Since there are two of us who have not met formally, please allow me to briefly introduce myself , I am Chen Linong, the defender of the bunker."

"You knew we would appear?" Huang Minghao weighed the legendary sentinel vigilantly.

"Huang Minghao, number 0219, has quick thinking and special communication skills; Zhu Zhengting, number 0318, an explosive attack guide, both belong to the second tower, and are actually members of Cai Xukun's private team. If Cai Xukun is in trouble, the first option will be What I think of is my confidant, right? So I guess the real time has passed for a long time."

"What do you mean?" Cai Xukun narrowed his eyes and grabbed Huang Minghao's wrist.

"The appearance of the two of them is not your mental defense mechanism. At 2059:1 on January 17, 3, Fan Chengcheng fell into a state of fugue. After receiving the news from Wang Linkai, Cai Xukun started spiritual counseling for him. At 21:3, Chen Linong and Fan Chengcheng's spirit In the bunker, Cai Xukun was attacked by a third force besides the two." Chen Linong stretched out his right hand, and one of the three clusters of red light that replaced the abnormal point on the watch had gone out, "Let me help you recall For a moment, in the orange room, you killed your past self with your own hands, remember?"

"That little boy is the first anomalous point, or ghost. 0919, oh, sorry, you already know his name. You Changjing perfectly played the role of a storyteller in the following time. He put The buried memory of Cheng Cheng was dug out and let you share an interesting secret. 'Trust can improve the chance of leaving here', he instilled this explanation in you, and because you received too much information at the moment, You didn’t even realize the most obvious fact. The watch didn’t go off completely, and the notification sound for leaving didn’t sound——Cai Xukun, you didn’t come out of the spiritual domain from the beginning to the end.” Chen Linong paused for a moment, and raised the corners of his mouth , the joyful voice floated in the empty corridor, "But who can guarantee that what I'm telling the truth this time?"

"You really linger. I have a way to tell the truth from the truth." Cai Xukun leaned over and quickly approached Chen Linong. Under Zhu Zhengting's care, his speed was twice as fast as usual, leaving him in the air with his elbows bent hard The afterimage of the sentinel's chin ruthlessly.Covering his heart with his left hand, Chen Linong lay down on the back, his right hand propped up on the ground, and his crossed left leg swept clockwise towards Cai Xukun's ankle.The guide waited for an opportunity to hold the sentry's shoulders, turned over with the help of a kite, hooked the military boots on the crank of the chandelier and kicked it downwards. With the rattling of the iron chain, the crystal chandelier smashed towards Chen Linong.

At the same time, Huang Minghao approached Chen Linong from behind, blocked the latter's attack with his cross arm, and pushed him back into the attack range of the chandelier.Unavoidable, the sentry screamed sharply, and the Rottweiler followed the arc of his hand-waving and jumped out of the void, knocking the chandelier away from the original route.Immediately afterwards, Chen Linong took his right foot as the center of the circle, lowered half of his body, grabbed the end of the iron chain that he did not know when he grasped, and swung back towards Cai Xukun who was stopped on the ceiling, while his mental body passed through the gap and rushed towards the person who was far away from the battlefield. Zhu Zhengting.Zhu Zhengting returned a right uppercut to the Rottweiler, and his mental speed was faster. After a few jumps and dodging, he quickly assumed the appearance of a hunter when he landed, and walked slowly around the guide. , making snoring noises from time to time.

"Don't shoot at my partner!" A ginger-yellow leopard cat emerged from the void, and with Huang Minghao's roar, it jumped at the Rottweiler.The two mental bodies quickly wrestled together, and after several rounds, the leopard cat remained firmly in the middle, firmly protecting Zhu Zhengting behind him.On the other hand, Cai Xukun didn't choose to dodge while he was in the air. Instead, he kicked on the ceiling and rushed straight towards the chandelier. Huang Minghao, who had been distracted by Zhu Zhengting before, also quickly withdrew his mind and approached Chen Linong from the side with a murderous punch It stopped abruptly with Zhu Zhengting's sudden exclamation.He quickly stopped his punches, bent his elbows, hooked the iron chain and spun around his body, turned his back and raised his legs to sweep towards Chen Linong.The chandelier, which was forcefully held back, froze for a moment. In the next second, Cai Xukun dodged the attack sideways, grabbed Chen Linong's wrist and folded it forcefully, and left the attack range relentlessly after a click sound, leaving Huang Minghao and the opponent to continue entanglement. fight.

Cai Xukun got a break to breathe, looked up at the opened carved wooden door, a figure broke through the darkness and approached them, the cold light of his right hand quickly slid across Zhu Zhengting's cheek, leaving deep bone wounds.As long as the guide's reaction was a little slower, Cai Xukun didn't doubt that what the scalpel cut would be a bubbling blood vessel.Without time to think, Cai Xukun instantly launched a violent mental attack on the attacker, but the latter just shook his body and raised his hand to grab his neck.

"Cheng Cheng?"

The boy who looked exactly like Fan Chengcheng tilted his head and smiled, the iron chains on his ankles dragging on the ground made harsh noises, and he put the blood-stained scalpel into Cai Xukun's palm.In the boy's dark pupils, Cai Xukun saw his young self pull out the blade that was stuck in the boy's chest, the bright red flowers slowly gathered, and replaced them with pure white full of potion smell, the color slowly moved upwards, and finally stopped Shake gently right under the chandelier.

Cai Xukun took a step back, meeting the eyes of the boy who was hanging upside down.The cold moonlight casts across the sycamore trees and the boy's slender figure, drawing a huge cross on the hard wall.

"Pray when the moonlight hits the cross directly in front of the wall, maybe the devil's wish will be heard by God." Chen Linong's erratic voice rang faintly in his ears.