Let me live [Quick Transmigration]

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There was the sound of gurgling water in the darkness, like a deep and swift underground river flowing in an underground cave.The air is damp, the mist is bitterly cold, and the water has a strange fishy smell, reminiscent of the slimy scales of fish, metal and blood.

Whoa- whoa-

Something is moving in the water.Going upstream, the huge body splashed a lot of water.It is difficult to see clearly in the lack of light, and only think that there is a large group of black shadows swimming like a group of entangled snakes under the water.It quickly approached, and the fishy smell became more and more intense, breathing became difficult, dizziness surged up, as if being pressed tightly against the chest and abdomen by a heavy object - and the skin felt the chill without any barriers, all the time A threatening cold as if approached by a sharp metal blade...

Something in the water is climbing up.

The wet, slippery and flexible touch like algae slowly wraps around the body——

Lu You's hand waved wildly while struggling, and hit something hard, causing him to let out an "ah" in pain.

The nightmare came to an abrupt end under the influence of pain.Lu You opened his eyes, still in shock. In his dream, he broke out in a cold sweat, and the soaked thin soft cloth clings to his skin—the wet and cold sense of restraint is somewhat similar to the feeling of being entangled by a water monster in a nightmare , very uncomfortable.

There is no light in the room, and in the darkness, there are only hallucinatory light spots on the retina, like glowing jellyfish in the deep sea, slowly looming and swimming in the field of vision.He didn't know how long he had slept—judging from the stiffness and limpness of his body, it must have been a long time, right?

Stuck in an overly soft bed, his movements became sluggish as if submerged in mud.Although he couldn't use his strength and had a severe headache, Lu You sat up with all his strength and pushed away the thin quilt covering his body, only then did he feel that his breathing became smoother.He tugged on his clothes to separate the sweat-soaked cloth from his skin, and the air flowed into the newly created gap, and the chilly feeling became more obvious for a while.

Lu You sniffed, wondering if he had caught a cold—it should be midsummer now, and he didn’t find any facilities such as air-conditioning vents in the room, but the temperature was cool—in other words It's spooky.The air he breathed was moist and cool, which made his tight lungs feel comfortable, but because of the shadow of the previous nightmare, the nasal mucosa seemed to be able to catch the faint smell of water.

No... Maybe it's not an illusion——

Lu You shook his heavy head, leaned over on the edge of the bed, and reached out to feel the floor.The coolness touched by his fingertips made him flinch a little. After confirming that it was only the wooden floor and not something weird, he carefully touched it according to the location he remembered, and within a short distance, he came across the floor he had placed before going to bed. That thing on the ground.

There is no bedside table in the room, no movable tables and chairs, and the thing is too small. If it is placed next to the pillow and turned over a few times during sleep, it may be wrapped in the folds of the fabric and disappear, so it can only be placed on the ground.Lu You twisted it with his fingertips. It was a thin sheet with a hard texture. The sharp edge was against his skin. If it wasn't because it was too small, it should be easy to cause cuts.

It was something he had shaken out of his clean change of clothes when he was getting dressed after the last bath.After a bath in the cramped bathroom, the suit he was wearing was taken away, and he has been wearing what looks like a bathrobe ever since - soft and loose, cuffs to the wrists, hem To the knee, there are no zippers or buttons, and there are no straps, and everything that can be used as a means of escape or a means of self-harm is excluded as much as possible.

That's it from head to toe.That's right, even the underwear was saved - in the first few hours after changing this outfit, Lu You's mood was almost broken, no matter sitting or standing up, it felt extremely weird; but, after all, human beings are very adaptable A strong creature, and he was exceptionally good at it, and he got used to it after a while.It's a pity that he seemed to have a premonition at the time, and spent a lot of effort to get the button hidden in the pillow in advance-although he didn't think that this little thing would be useful at all-when he looked for it later, he couldn't find it. I don't know when it was taken away.

The piece fell as he unrolled his clothes and landed on the wet bathroom floor as a small black crumb.Lu You picked it up and looked at it for a long time. At first, he thought it was metal fragments. Later, from the lines on it and the slight fishy smell like aquatic creatures, he guessed that it should be scales falling from the monster's tentacles.

The scale is only half, and the fracture is smooth, and the reason for the fracture cannot be guessed.Is it because of some reason involved in the battle, it will fall after being injured, or is it due to normal physiological renewal?Being extremely bored with nothing to do, Lu You pinched the half scale and thought wildly for a long time, thinking about the scene of the huge monster with dozens of tentacles slowly cruising in the deep sea—maybe it was because of this That's why he would have such nightmares after falling asleep.

Before going to bed he put the scales on the floor beside his bed, expecting them to be gone like buttons when he woke up.However, it seems that the monster didn't come when he fell asleep, or it was not very sensitive to the things that fell from its body, but it didn't notice when it came.

Lu You squeezed the small piece, retracted his hands and sat up straight again, leaned back in a burst of dizziness when he got up, and pressed his back against the flat and clean wall at the head of the bed.

He didn't want to turn on the light.Even just thinking about the unchanging room he saw after turning on the light, Lu You already felt suffocated and almost suffocated. It would be better to stay in the darkness where you can't see anything. Strong light and noise make prisoners unable to fall asleep, which is a cruel punishment used to extract confessions. Now he feels that an environment that is always quiet, free of external sounds, and unchanged will probably have a similar effect.

The same thing is going to be insane, only the latter will be done more slowly.

Lu You added some strength to his hands, feeling the slight tingling pain caused by the sharp corners of the scales pressing against the skin.He now has some understanding of those who commit self-harm—when the sense of the world around them becomes more and more dull, and the body is about to be immobile like a machine with rusty gears, pain is indeed the most convenient to obtain , This body is still "alive" proof.

But the half scale is too small, it can hardly be exposed when pinched by the fingertips, and if it is really used as a blade, it can only draw a shallow and imperceptible mark.Although he guessed so, Lu You never actually tried it.He just pinched it between his fingertips and twisted it, then raised his hand again, and gently sniffed the slightly fishy smell on it.

This breath should be disgusting... Lu You felt an urge to knock on the door and seek the monster's response, as if he was completely isolated from the world and had no choice but to invest his feelings on the perpetrator. The Stockholm patient who went to the body.Only after a short moment, this impulse was suppressed by himself again.

Even if you knock on the door, what kind of response can you get?No matter what he says, there will be no voice answering, at most a few tentacles will come in through the crack of the open door, open the bathroom door for him, hand him what he asked, or put the bowl after eating. Dishes, changed clothes removed, things like that.Only the tentacles—not even showing up in the human form they had seen before, since the first day they were imprisoned here...

How many days have passed since you were imprisoned here?

Lu You raised his head, leaned the back of his head against the wall, and closed his eyes slightly, trying to remember.Since the watchman refused to answer his specific time, he could only judge the time from the food delivered three times a day.There is no paper and pen to record, and nails can't make marks on the wall, so he can only memorize it in his mind. When the number gradually increases and his work and rest can no longer maintain the law, it becomes chaotic. Now he also divides I don't know.

It must have been more than a month...?

The so-called "behave well and you can change to a room with a window" has never been realized - but also, the man may have just given an example at the time, and he did not promise that it would really be realized.Lu You didn't look forward to it very seriously, although he inevitably felt a little discouraged when he was sure that it failed.

After thinking about it, Lu You was always concerned about the change in the man's expression before he left that day.He felt that it was a crucial turning point, but he couldn't figure out why.I have thought about it countless times, wondering what exactly his actions at that time caused that guy to be irritated, and even asked directly like a broken can, and even begged and cursed when I felt that I was about to collapse, but so far I have not been able to get an answer—— —

Only by virtue of a natural keen intuition, after many times of recall, I have a guess.

Lu You felt... that monster was not just "repressing" something like he felt before.To use a more precise description, it should be "fearing" something.

At that time, the man's smile may not be for ridicule, but some kind of unconscious expression of emotion... And this violated a certain taboo that should never be touched, so that in order not to make mistakes again, he would rather never be in front of him again show up.

The monster smiles like a human, with a softened expression that looks just a little bit happier.

But he seemed to think that was something he didn't deserve.

Isn't that weird?The guard of the cage is actually afraid of the prisoner in the cage-the strong fears the weak, the one who controls everything fears the powerless.Take no pleasure in hurting him, don't demand his surrender and service, just keep him here, and then avoid seeing him-like a self-tortured ascetic who avoids everything that can bring comfort, like a blood-sick man Dodge the wound.

Lu You couldn't even guess what a man wanted.

Is it really for "protection" as he said?

In the dark, Lu You sat on the soft bed, countless thoughts seemed to pass through his mind, but it seemed like he didn't think about anything.He continued to exert force with his fingertips, causing the small fragment to embed into the flesh, and the pain became more vivid, as if confirming the damage caused on behalf of its owner.His thinking was still clear, and it didn't collapse and become chaotic as predicted.These days, he reads less and less, his mental and physical vitality is declining, and he has already given up the expectation that someone will come to rescue him, but he has not given up on thinking, nor has he completely given up on resisting and escaping. Intend.

Many of the methods of resistance and exploration that Lu You thought of were stuck at the step of "thinking" and not implemented.He tried to hold on to the tentacle when it retracted from the door, or hid in the corner of the bathroom and refused to take the initiative to go out, but under the absolute power gap, such a small resistance was easily suppressed.As for the self-injury means of resistance such as hitting the wall, strangling his neck, and going on a hunger strike, as well as turning the monster's one-sided cold war against him into two sides, defecating in the corner of the room with the bathroom door locked... these actions, after all, he still has something to do. Scruples, can't do it.

——Afraid of getting hurt but unwilling to be quiet, wanting to escape but unable to do nothing.It's really a character that even he hates, Lu You smiled wryly in the dark.But... If he hadn't encountered such an indiscriminate disaster and was imprisoned in this small place, how could he have to make a choice between spiritual and physical pain?

Lu You curled up his legs, rolled up his body, leaned his side face on his knees, and cast some empty eyes towards the direction of the door.Out of a psychology that he didn't quite understand, he put his finger close to his lips, and then put the half of the scale that was warmed by his hands into his mouth.A small foreign body sensation was pressed between the tip of the tongue and the palate, and saliva began to secrete as if feeling hungry.Lu You tasted a slight salty taste, but he didn't know if it was his illusion, the sweat from his fingertips, or the bitterness soaked in the scales themselves for a long time.

——The half scale that was rolled up in the clothes for some reason and was not taken away after he discovered it, seemed to be some kind of omen from the heavens, and finally made Lu You firm up a seemingly irrational idea.

If it's really for "protection"...

If he guessed wrong, he would just add unnecessary pain to himself, and it would also hinder the real chance of escape that might arise in the future.But Lu You decided to give it a try.

He waited quietly in the impenetrable darkness until he heard the sound of the door lock turning.

The monster will be his lunch for the day—or is it dinner?Nevermind—here it is.

Lu You stretched out his body, slid out of the bed without a sound, and stepped onto the cold floor with his bare feet.There was nothing under the loose clothes that were wrinkled from sleep, just like his very calm and empty heart at the moment.He walked slowly towards the door, accurately bypassing the chair fixed in the middle of the room in the dark, and then he heard the sound of the tray being gently placed on the ground, and the soft sound of the door being closed again .

There was a gap under the door, and the light came in from the outside.Whenever Lu You turned off the lights in the room, the monster would turn on the lights outside, as if it didn't want him to be in complete darkness, lest he go crazy too quickly.This faint light illuminated the lower part of the trays and dishes on the floor by the door. Lu You felt that his nose must have selectively failed. He could smell the subtle smell of water, but not the food. Steaming aroma.

Every time before eating, even if he had no appetite, Lu You would force the food down.Being hungry was not good for running away, and he didn't want to make himself weak.This time he knelt down as usual, and picked up the small bowl of soup from the tray.The soup is warm, and it won't burn you if you splash it on your body, but is it because his well-behaved behavior made the monster feel at ease before, so he hasn't realized his negligence?The texture of the bowl is ceramic that can easily cut the skin when broken.

Lu You picked up the bowl, and slammed it hard on the door.After a crisp sound, the porcelain bowl shattered, and fragments of various sizes splashed out—up to this point, it was just like a prisoner venting his despair into anger and suddenly lost control.

Then Lu You stretched out his hand and grabbed a piece of sharp-edged debris that fell to the front.He wanted to hold that fragment in his hand, like holding a sharp dagger, but not to use it against the enemy, but to put it on his neck—according to everything he had thought and guessed before, to go Bet on the mind of the monster who is outside the door at the moment.

——It's just that he thought about the possibility of failure in the threat and the possibility of being taken away from the weapon, but he never expected that he still far underestimated the monster's true strength and speed.

There was barely a sound as the door shattered into pieces, as if a thin piece of paper had been cut down the middle.Lu You saw the light—the light penetrating through the crack on the door split from a narrow one into tens of thousands in an instant, and then broke open like a flood destroying a fragile embankment, surging in and drowning him head-on .

It felt like being hit hard by a torrent of light.It seemed like several seconds passed before Lu You realized that the monster's tentacles had grabbed him.His eyes were bright, and the broken palm had not had time to ache—the roar of the barrier being broken by violence finally reached his ears, and Lu You saw a pair of eyes that were mad and out of control due to rage.

Boundless darkness and silence covered him again, and he was lucky to lose consciousness before feeling scared.