[Science Fiction] Escape from Paint City

Most of Yixin's trees here are tall and ancient trees, and the branches and leaves will not grow until they are five meters high. The thickest ones need three people to hold hands and surround them, and the thinnest ones can be easily surrounded by one person.The skin of the trunk is very smooth, some are light brown, as smooth as a baby's skin to the touch, and there are still dried cicada shells on it.

Except for the old trees, there are only some low grasses on the ground, and there is only bare/exposed land around each old tree, with white fine sand piled on it.The grass grew one after another, without any path pointing to it. Only two people walked by, leaving traces of being trampled along the way.

At this time a gust of cold wind blew, Shui Chen couldn't help but sneezed.

The previous jacket had been burned clean, and Shuichen was only wearing navy blue trousers, which were barely tied at the waist.His upper body is bare/exposed, revealing a lean body. The muscles are not exaggerated, but each piece is firm and powerful, with a well-defined six-pack abs.

Only then did Sha Qianxing react, took off his coat and handed it to Shui Chen, while he was left with only a tight short sleeve, the hem of which was tied into his trousers and stretched straight.

"Thanks."

Shuichen didn't refuse, she put on the jacket a few times, and pulled the zipper to the top, covering her whole body.

There were no obstacles in the woods, and the two walked very fast, while carefully watching their surroundings to prevent traps or sneak attacks.

The two of them walked in silence for nearly an hour. There was still no change in the surrounding area, and there were still countless ancient trees.According to the pace of the two, the road they have traveled has already exceeded the area of ​​Yixin observed from the outside.

Shuichen and Sha Qianxing stopped at the same time in tacit agreement, and looked around.

"Brother Chen, what do you think?"

"We've passed that tree for the third time."

Shui Chen pointed to the ancient tree in front of the left of the two of them and said.

Sha Qianxing looked over and found that the tree Shuichen pointed to was no different from other trees, even the growth position of the branches and leaves and the texture of the bark were similar.

As if seeing Sha Qianxing's confusion, Shuichen continued to explain: "The trunk of this tree has thinner lines, and the patterns look a bit like flowers from a distance. And its lowest branch is thicker than other trees. Hang low."

Sha Qianxing looked at it again and carefully identified it, but he still couldn't see the difference between this tree and the others.It can only be said that Shuichen is a painter, and his ability to observe the surrounding things is terrifying.

"Can other trees tell the difference?"

Shui Chen nodded.Just as there are no two identical leaves in the world, in his eyes, although this forest is full of ancient trees, each tree has its own characteristics and is completely different from other trees.

"Then let's keep going, and stop when you think there are repeated trees."

Sha Qianxing suggested, and Shui Chen also thought it was appropriate, and the two continued to walk along the original road.

After walking for a while, under Shui Chen's signal, the two of them stopped.

Except for the appearance of repeated trees, there is nothing abnormal around.It was almost noon at this time, the clouds were thicker today, the sun had already hidden behind, the dazzling sunlight in the morning disappeared now, and the light was covered by dense leaves, and it looked dim when it fell in the forest.

"I'll climb up to see if I can find anything strange."

The branches and leaves of the ancient trees are connected, covering the sky and the sun. If you climb high enough, you might be able to find something.

Shui Chen nodded and said, "Be careful."

Sha Qianxing smiled confidently at him, clenched his fist with one hand and tapped his chest lightly, indicating that he was fine.

The trunks of tall ancient trees are straight and smooth, and there are no branches and leaves below five meters to support their strength, but this is not a problem for Sha Qianxing.He picked a relatively slender tree, and using his hands and feet one after another, he kept going upwards. After a while, he touched the lowest branches and leaves, and then he was covered and invisible.

Shuichen didn't look up, but squinted at the tree trunk.He noticed that the moment Sha Qianxing touched the ancient tree, the trunk of the ancient tree trembled slightly, like a conditioned reflex of being touched.When Sha Qianxing kept climbing up, the torso of the ancient tree would sometimes shake when stepped on, as if a person had been scratched to an itchy spot.

Now that Sha Qianxing was still up there, Shui Chen didn't plan to act rashly, he was considering waiting for Sha Qianxing to come down from the tree.

After a while of rustling, Sha Qianxing emerged from the green leaves again, descended to a position two meters above the ground, and jumped off.

"How about it?"

Sha Qianxing shook his head.

"The branches and leaves are too lush, not to mention the distance, you can't even see other things around. I went up to the place where the branches were too thin to bear, and then I came down."

Shuichen was not disappointed either, he pointed to the tree trunk and said to Sha Qianxing, "Can you try it again?"

Sha Qianxing didn't ask why, and raised his hand to attach it.This time the tree trunk didn't move, as if what happened before was Shui Chen's illusion.

Shui Chen didn't speak, and Sha Qianxing didn't stop.

Suddenly, Shuichen pulled out the dagger from his side pocket, and stabbed at the tree trunk with such force that it penetrated three points.

Now that the ancient tree could no longer pretend, it began to twitch crazily. Large pieces of leaves fell, and a thick layer was piled up on the ground, burying their feet.At the same time, there was a burst of baby crying echoing in the forest, first crying loudly, and then starting to sob and choke.

Shui Chen stabbed the dagger deeper, and small streams of phosphor liquid began to flow out from the stabbed place, and the baby's sobbing and crying stopped abruptly.

Shui Chen took back the dagger at this time, and wiped off the liquid stained on the dagger with a leaf, frowning.His hands were also contaminated, and Shuichen rubbed them constantly, feeling that the liquid was the same as the skin of the Blu-ray man in the illusion.

"This is……"

At this time, more and more liquid flowed out from the wound of the ancient tree, dripping in large areas, infecting the leaves and white sand on the ground.The trunk is constantly withering, and the bark shrinks, like a dry old face.

Shuichen and Sha Qianxing kept staring, watching as if the inside of the tree trunk was completely hollowed out, and then became illusory, and then the ancient tree disappeared, slowly turning into a baby.

There was no wound on the baby's body, just a cut between the eyebrows, and there seemed to be something inside.

Sha Qianxing first stepped forward to check the baby's pulse and breath, and after finding that there was no movement, he dug out the thing between the baby's eyebrows.

This is a dead chip bug, its body is extremely withered, and after being dug out by Sha Qianxing for a few seconds, it shattered into powder in the air.

Afterwards, the baby's body also turned into a black crystal block, which quickly shattered and dissipated.

Watching this scene, both of them were silent.If every ancient tree represents the existence of a person, how many corpses are there in this forest.

"Tell me, was the previous sound made by a baby, or by a chip bug?"

Shui Chen looked at Sha Qianxing and asked.In fact, what he wanted to ask more was whether the baby was alive or dead.

The ancient tree should be the incarnation of chip bugs.If the ancient tree is destroyed, the chipworm will die.But if the chipworm dies, the people inside, no matter whether they were dead or alive before, will definitely disappear completely.

"Being imprisoned like this without consciousness, do they still look like they are alive?"

Sha Qianxing knew that by now, apart from continuing to cut open the trees, there was nothing else that could change their current predicament.He continued: "Let's try again."

This time Sha Qianxing took out the dagger, he picked the thickest tree, and stabbed into the trunk bit by bit.After waiting for the phosphor liquid to flow out, he drew out the dagger.

It was still the cry of the baby, faintly resounding in the forest, as if being pulled, the sound of nails scraping on the wooden board, which made people shiver in the daytime.

This time there was less liquid coming out, and the trunk didn't shrink completely.But after a while, there was still a phantom, and the ancient tree turned into a naked adult man.This man Shui Chen had seen before, and he was one of the two corpses in the mist experiment.

Shui Chen's face was cloudy and uncertain, looking at the man in a daze.At that time, he clearly saw that the man's body was thrown into the mist and completely dissipated, but now the corpse is as smooth as a newborn, with no scars except for the same opening on the arm.

Sha Qianxing stepped forward again and shook his head towards Shuichen.

"There is no breath or pulse, but Brother Chen, come and have a look."

Shuichen stepped forward and saw that the chip worm on his arm was still alive, but he was dying, so he moved it from time to time.It seems that the corpse is really just a corpse. After all, the puppet old man was obviously alive even though he was unconscious.

Suddenly, Shuichen remembered that he also saw this man in the illusion, among the group of blue light people.

He thought about it carefully again, and after he came out of the illusion, except for the fake Tan Chen, the appearances of the other Blu-ray people in his memory were blurred and he couldn't remember clearly.He also saw this corpse and remembered seeing him in the Blu-ray man.

"Qianxing, I have seen this person in the illusion, he is among the group of blue light people, and I have also seen him in the mist experiment."

Sha Qianxing nodded and said, "I've seen him too, he should be dead."

Shuichen picked out the chip worm with a dagger, watched the corpse shatter and disappeared, and said, "Prick all the ancient trees around."

The two started to move, and the surrounding ancient trees disappeared, and then corpses of men, women, children, and ages and genders all appeared.And in the back, every time before the dagger pierces, the trees will turn into people in a hurry.Because there was no damage, the transformed corpses were all intact, without any wounds.

Before long, there were more than 100 dead bodies on the grass.Shuichen looked carefully one by one, and sure enough, he found the little girl in the red dress and the rickety old man. They were also the other dead man seen on the day of the mist experiment and the puppet old man who died in the pawnshop pond.

There are many more people who are Blu-ray people who appear in the illusion.

Everyone's body was cold and their limbs were stiff, but their skin was very elastic, and there were no plaques on the body, as if they had just fallen into a deep sleep.

But Shui Chen knew that they were all dead people, even if it was possible to gather their souls to be reborn, would the one who came back be the same person as before?

The author has something to say: There are so many corpses written in this chapter, I hope they will not be eaten by Jinjiang.

In other words, if there are corpses hidden in the ancient tree, what does such lush branches and leaves represent?

The two protagonists in my novel are still very soft-hearted.This may involve a question that I think is very philosophical, that is, what is life? Is the soul dissipated and the dead person resurrected and the same person as before?How to judge whether life is true or not?Could it be said that what is created cannot be life?So I hope that the protagonists in my writing will not judge others arbitrarily and put themselves in a superior position just because they are the center of the world and different.After all, the form of life can be changed. If a person's body is destroyed and he survives in a created form, is he still a life?How can you be sure that what you think is not set by a higher-level living body?

This paragraph is a bit convoluted, but it actually hints at my ending~ My HE is not a traditional HE, but I think it is the best!

In addition, the Science Affairs Office is already ready to move. The two protagonists have entered a letter for several chapters, and they are still wandering in the woods?

Office of Science and Affairs: Overwhelmed!Obviously I'm ready to pose and get ready to play! 【(╯‵ ′)╯︵┴─┴】