Fortunately, I'm a Giant of Light

Zion said.

This time, they quickly reached the end of the tunnel, and suddenly there was light and light.

Outside is an overgrown dense forest.

"Actually...it didn't grow like this before it happened. These are all grown up suddenly in a short period of time when the abnormal phenomenon happened."

Zion was not afraid, he stepped on the soft and wet grass, and then started to walk forward.

As a result, several worms whose carapace was divided into three longitudinally by two back grooves slowly crawled over the toe of Zion's boots.

"This is……"

Overlooking this little thing, I feel a little familiar, as if I have seen it in a textbook.And Mengmei almost crashed until a few seconds later:

"Trilobite."

The two said the same answer at the same time.

A species that entered the stage of history since the Cambrian period and was completely extinct in the Permian period, with a history of hundreds of millions of years.Although it is a trilobite, it is actually the name of a large category. There are more than 1500 genera and more than 1 species of trilobites.

"It came out of the ground."

Mengmei murmured.

Soon, these little insects disappeared among the forest leaves again, without a trace.At this time, Mengmei had the opportunity to compare the plants one by one.

"These should be some ancient plants...or from different periods."

But even TPC did not expect that there would be such a demand for paleontology, and it did not continue to have such a large database.

While thinking about it, Zion heard the sound of grass blades not far away.

So he went there, and after separating the dense bushes with his hands, he saw two adult males eating a huge "snail" raw.

The two grown-ups raised their sticky faces while eating raw flesh, and stared at the tall young man who had suddenly arrived with red eyes.

Zion was in a daze for this kind of civilization and barbarism, and then remembered the anomalous phenomenon called snail people recorded in the archives.One possibility can be inferred from its organ characteristics and remaining clothes——

Sometime in the past, that snail was also a man.

Chapter 21 On the way to explore

It was autumn and winter in the outside world, but it was still like summer in Heivort Town.

Under the sun, the shadows of the leaves accumulate layer upon layer, so that there will be countless light and dark interlacing on the human body, like a large vortex net.

The faces of the people pushing away the bushes are in the distant light, while the eyes of the two lying on the snail shells are shining in the nearby shadows, looking at the visitor.

They don't know Zion, and there are still unclear organizations stuck to their mouths.

The snail's tentacles that are broken off on one side look like dissolving human eyeballs, shining brightly in this weird flowing light.

Zion remembered the parasitic snail he saw shortly after his reincarnation.He felt sick, but still had a straight face, looking as calm as ever.

Mengmei stood behind Zion, not daring to get close, but Zion was calm, and she also felt calm... This is an incredible contagion.

She heard Zion ask those people:

"Hello...is this a snail or a snail-man? I'm from the rescue team outside. I heard that there is a strange disease in Heivortex Town. People who contract this strange disease will eventually turn into snails."

Free eyes meet serious eyes.

They were two tired adults with unshaven beards, torn clothes, matted hair, and hands that were sticky, probably snail mucus.

They seem to be accustomed to being frightened, and they are dubious about the young man in front of them.They didn't know how many days they had spent here, they didn't recognize Zion, they just thought Zion was weird.So Zion forged an identity.

"Hello……"

One of the leaders held out his hand, but Zion didn't answer.

He was not annoyed, and went on to say: "It is true, but this is not a disease, but a curse."

"curse?"

"Yes, it's the curse of this stupid place on people's souls! If you slow down your movements and thoughts... you will lose everything, and everything from the human body to the human soul will be swallowed up by the vortex—eventually. reduced to..."

He paused, turned his eyes around the snail shell, and then continued:

"Snail. Carries a spiral shell on its back and is sucked in by the shell."

This crazy narrative makes both giants and robots feel uneasy.

The man behind him didn't care about this, but hurriedly asked:

"You are a foreigner! Do you have food?"

From the looks of it, it seems to be very familiar.

"Didn't you already have a full meal?"

Zion asked back.

"Not enough... If you want to escape, you must need more supplies, and this thing is still very hungry after eating. It's garbage, like water!"

They saw Zion fell silent, and said:

"Then you just ate him?"

They will understand what the visitor means.As a result, one of them hissed contemptuously and laughed:

"No, no, we eat snails."

But they were obviously still banking on the rescue team's supplies and were still trying to explain patiently.

"Snail man, is it?"

"Yes."

Zion took a deep breath.

This is a shocking thing that he has not been exposed to since the beginning of the 21st century, which is probably the most stable period in human history.

It is said that there is a similar case in law. It is said that a group of people were trapped in a snow-capped mountain. In order to survive, the group voted and ate one of them and survived. How should the case be judged.

"Won't you feel pain for it?"

"Well, people also eat the placenta, don't they? The so-called placenta is the organ for material exchange between the woman and the baby in the body. It is a part of the human body, and it is also a precious medicine called Ziheche." The smiling man returned to calm. , he said, "And the reason why the curse is a curse, and why it is not a disease, is because the disease can be cured, and the curse is incurable! They are not people anymore! They are snails! Snails, snails! They are not of the same kind, Just an ordinary creature on the human diet!"

The more the other eats the snail, the more he gets inside the snail's shell.

But from time to time he pulled his body away from it, as if shivering.There are strange things in that shell, if one gets into it, people may experience terrible mutations.These two people are clear.

"But……"

"It's nothing!" The leader was excited and fierce, "I have seen many rescue teams like you from outside, but they have been starving with us for a long time, and they can't stand it! We also want to I want to get out of this ghost place and return to a good civilized world. But there is no way, really no way, it seems to be spinning in circles for dozens of days, months or even years!"

The person who spoke paused, wiped his mouth, and said:

"You can despise us now. Later, later, if you want to live, you will be the same, the same, or...death! In fact, death, people often say that death is terrible. But death here is the easiest... snail man There is no pain in the curse. Once you want to die, you will also become a snail..."

In the end, it was gloomy.

Then, he laughed again, and then fell to the ground drunk.

A lot of information was revealed from their appearance and intermittent words.

The first is time. The time they have experienced is at least 20 days, and at most it cannot be counted, because they have lost the counting and perception of external time, and they cannot correspond to the objective natural time of Black Vortex Town and the external time. Not to mention—Zion glanced at his feet—corresponds to geological "time".

Trilobites flourished in the middle and late Cambrian period.

The second is space.The space here was obviously bent, so that they could not leave this jungle without walking for dozens of days.

The third is themselves.

Zion couldn't help but let out a deep breath, and looked towards the sun in the sky.

"What happened in Heivortex Town? How many of you escaped from Heivortex Town together?"

"What happened, I don't know, I only know that staying there will turn into freaks with twisted bodies. How many people, I forgot, about ten or twenty. We didn't come out of Black Vortex Town, I It was for my daughter and my wife who have been waiting for me."

"What about the others?...It was you..."

The man looked puzzled again.

"We didn't eat them. They disappeared. We ate snails. You can eat snails too. Don't people eat snails a lot?"

A gust of wind blows, the leaves are uneven, and the light and dark phases change.

"Then who was it before it turned into a snail?"

"My daughter, I remembered the exact date. Tomorrow should be her birthday. Ah, she said last year that she wanted to go to Edo tomorrow. I booked the entire voyage a few months ago... This is her The little skirt, isn’t it beautiful? Her mother wove it by herself. My wife is a very gentle woman...but they all said they were too tired to walk, so they stopped. We also ate bark and grass roots together... ..."

His vision blurred.

"I don't know how Edo is now...it should still be very prosperous, I really envy big cities..."

Zion clenched his hands.

"You mean, you ate your daughter and your former companions...?"

He just finished speaking, the man who fell on the ground suddenly jumped up, trying to grab Zion, but his chest hit Zion's raised fist, and his eyes flickered into Zion, and he didn't dare to move as if he was sober .

"I didn't! I..."

"What excuses are you looking for!"

"This is not an excuse, but a fact. We are not as calm as you! I don't know your origin, and I don't know what happened to the outside world! I don't know what you brought, whether TPC got involved! But you... Will find out soon."

The other man behind him climbed out of the snail shell and supported him behind him, staring at Zion with red eyes.

"Because such reserve is of no use here . . . no use at all."

His companion wanted to say something in his ear, but he waved his hand to make his companion back away.

"What if you get snail disease too?"

"If I became a snail..."

The adult in front of him straightened up, showing his neat but dirty teeth, and smiled heartily:

"Then you can eat me too."

Or starve to death.