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?I didn't find Ley all the way, and the rancid smell ahead became more and more intense.

As we walked forward, the smell of decay became clearer and clearer, and finally the smell was so bad that we had to cover our nose and mouth.

There is a tribe ahead.

It is an extremely desolate village, with stretches of dilapidated houses, scorched land, overgrown with weeds that seem to have been left unattended for a long time, it does not look like inhabited at all, and the most unbelievable thing is that the whole village is full of A disgusting smell.

pungent.

They later discovered that the smell came from the center of this desolate tribe, where there was a small lake, a stagnant lake, the water surface was calm, it looked dark and bottomless, and occasionally some fine animals were found on the shore of the lake bone.Without continuing to explore the river, Cole and Norman walked carefully along the path, walking around the tribe, and the surrounding area was extremely quiet.

There was a strange rustling sound in his ear, and Cole immediately turned his gaze away and condensed it.

The shadowy tree behind, a place I have never seen before, but...

Consciousness froze for a moment, and a strange feeling rose from the bottom of his heart. This uninhabited village made Cole feel very familiar.

"It looks like it's been deserted for a long time." Norman looked around, carefully opening the way.

"Ah." After calming down, Cole put away the weird feeling in his heart, and then looked around, hoping to find some clues.

Finally, he stopped in front of a hut.

It was no different from the usual tribal hut, but Cole wanted to go in and take a look.

"Is there anything in there?" Norman turned around when Cole stopped, and asked back.

Shaking his head slightly, Cole stared at the door in front of him: "I don't know." After speaking honestly, he turned his head, looked up at Norman, and said, "I just want to go in."

He showed a puzzled expression, but Norman didn't stop him. Instead, he nodded and took a few steps forward. After smelling that there was no one inside, he stood in front of Cole, turned around and said, "You follow me."

Always look like a protector.

Cole smiled helplessly, but he probably knew that if he refused, Norman would lose his temper.

It's strange to say that he obviously lacks the memory of Norman, and he doesn't feel nostalgic, but he can't help but accommodate him. No matter what is done, he won't feel angry. No matter what happens, he feels in his heart that he can do nothing. There are reasons to believe that Norman will stand by his side, it is really a strange feeling.

Looking at Norman's back, Cole smiled slightly.

The two entered that room.

It was a very simple place, with almost nothing inside, some weeds on the ground, and some broken bottle fragments on the simple straw next to it.

There are no clues available.

Seeing this, Norman said to Cole: "I'll go to the back and have a look."

Then he entered the inner room, leaving Cole alone in the outer room. He looked carefully at the window sill next to him and stretched out his hand. It was covered with a thick layer of dust. What is worth noting is the deep scratches on the table. Only on the table, the walls are also covered with deep marks, which is inexplicable, but Cole did something even more incomprehensible to himself. He stretched out his hand to touch the scratches, and there was a needle-pricking pain in his fingertips. Feeling, at that time, a picture suddenly appeared in my mind, someone was clutching the wall in collapse, and then someone whispered in my ear──

"You should thank me...for choosing you." The cold, terrifying voice still rings in my ears.

Looking back suddenly, there is only a dusty room.

But his heart suddenly ached, and for an unknown reason, Cole took a deep breath.

Just as Cole was trying to find his memory, Norman's loud voice came from the back room: "Cole!"

Immediately followed, Cole was taken aback as soon as he entered the room.

Inside lay a pile of dead bodies, the living dead.

Looking closer, their necks were all cut open with a huge opening, and some of them were completely broken off. Their bodies were not shriveled, but they had no signs of life and emitted a foul smell.There were masks on their faces, and one of them had been peeled off by Norman. Cole found that although half of his face was rotten, it was still flesh and blood like an ordinary person, and he... had a familiar face.

Take a deep breath.

So he peeled off the mask on the face of the second, third, and fourth person, and when the mask of the last person was peeled off, those red eyes looked at him coldly, reflecting the extremely similar eyebrows and lips Cole froze, and stepped back in disbelief. He stared at the person lying flat on the ground with wide eyes, and almost staggered to the ground, his head blank.

Norman supported him in time: "Are you okay?"

Almost speechless, Cole was in a daze, and even his hairs were on the rise. He trembled slightly and said, "Their faces..."

"Ah." Norman nodded, surprisingly calm, "It's exactly the same as yours."

Looking back, looking down, Norman looked down at those similar faces.

Except for the smell on his body, there is almost no difference from Cole in other places.

What is this...

Still unable to believe it, Cole raised his head, looked at Norman, and asked blankly, "Same as me?"

"Yeah." She lowered her eyes in confirmation and nodded.

Feeling his scalp numb, Cole pursed his lips.

"These are the living dead." Norman turned around, checked everyone carefully, and said lightly.

"Why do they have the same face as mine?" Asked blankly, Cole opened his eyes wide. At this moment, he noticed that there was a red scar on the chests of those people, and he himself also had one.

His fingers touched his chest involuntarily, and then he grasped it tightly.

No, it's impossible.

An ominous thought slowly rose in his chest. Cole lowered his head and looked at his hands. The palm lines on them gradually became blurred for some reason.

He was shaking.

His breathing was a little disturbed, and some pictures began to fly quickly in his mind.

When he first opened his eyes... a long time ago, in this room, what he saw... was a cold and affectionate golden streak.

He stroked his cheek tenderly, and called to himself in the softest tone──

What are you calling for?

Cole couldn't remember.

He only remembered himself who didn't respond after being called, and the person who smiled in disappointment.

And then, blood and fire are my memories.

Those who have no emotion, only know the memory of killing themselves....

The memory gradually became clearer, but Cole felt more and more cold, his back, his scalp, his fingers, and his heart...everywhere, every corner was shivering and chilling .

It turned out that it wasn't that he lost his memory, but that he had no memory at all!

He stared blankly at the corpses.

Hehe, I... am one of them.

He couldn't help laughing while covering his head, but there was a lot of pain in his voice. He didn't stop laughing, but just sat quietly on the ground with his eyes blank.

Noticing Cole's strange behavior, Norman immediately squatted down, trying to help Cole up: "Cole...what's wrong with you?"

Hearing the call, Cole slowly raised his head, glanced at Norman several times, and then asked in a confused and bitter way, "You... calling me?"

"Yes, Cole!" cried again.

Cole lowered his head, shook his head, and said slowly, "Wrong."

"Wrong?" Norman wondered.

"I..." Cole raised his head and said bitterly, "I'm not Cole."

"...?!"

Pursing his lips, Cole looked at Norman quietly, then closed his eyes, and said, "I used to wonder why the self in my memory was emotionless, cold-blooded and terrifying. It turns out that I have no emotion at all. From the day it was created, it was just a substitute..." Glancing at Norman's shocked face, Cole slowly raised his hand, pointing to the corpses in the back room, "I used to be one of them, as Cole's A substitute, created by man, has the power of Cole, and then dies."

Continuing to smile wryly, Cole felt his throat start to hurt and his voice was hoarse.

"I thought I was Cole until I realized it." Cole shook his head.

It was Norman's increasingly puzzled gaze.

"Don't you understand?" A sneer sounded outside the door.

Norman immediately came back to his senses, took out a bone knife to block Cole, and stared at the door through gritted teeth, and when he saw the person slowly entering the room with a light smile, Norman was taken aback: "It's you?"

It's Ley.

"You're still stupid, Norman."

"What do you mean?" Norman instinctively felt Ley's malicious intentions, and did not put down the bone knife.

Seeing this, Ley laughed wantonly. He looked coldly at Norman and Cole behind him, and sneered, "Norman, do you know who you are protecting now? Or... Are you really so stupid that you don't even know Cole?"

Frowning fiercely, Norman growled: "What do you mean?!"

His gaze quietly fell on Cole's face, and Ley said quietly, "He is not Cole. Although he looks similar, he is just a substitute for Cole, a precious substitute."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Norman was furious, and attacked with his claws, but was easily blocked by Ley.

"Don't be so impatient." Ley frowned and smiled slightly.

Once again, he looked at Cole who was sitting on the ground without saying a word.

"Didn't he say that he is one of those living dead?" Ley said lightly, "Without emotion, without understanding, he will never become Cole anyway. Even if they seem to have emotions now, that's all. It’s a fake, how can a fake be the same as the real one.”

My pupils shrank, and my heart ached.

In your eyes, I'm just a fake... huh?

With downcast eyes and a wry smile, the sharp nails pierced into the palm of his hand, bleeding, but he felt no pain at all.

The whole body was numb, so numb that he didn't notice other objects, he just stared blankly at those cold golden pupils... Thinking of the gentle eyes at that time, they were not directed at himself, but at others.

Therefore, it was rejected.

It was not Cole who refused, but himself.

"Understood, Norman." Ley suddenly smiled.

The amber pupils stared fiercely at Ley, and said, "You said he wasn't Cole, so where did the real Cole go?"

"He's dead." Indifferently.

"Dead?" Shocked, Norman opened his mouth wide.

With a slight smile, Ley closed his eyes and said, "Yes, when you fell off the cliff, Cole was devastated when he found out. In order to find you, he came back here again and again, again and again, crazy It seems that he was caught once, and then his heart was dug out, and he died."

With the same tone as talking about the weather, Ley slowly opened his eyes and looked at the shocked Norman.

"When I found him, he was already cold."

Norman shook his head, took a few steps back, clenched his fist suddenly, and shouted, "No, it's impossible! You must have lied to me!"

Ignoring Norman's astonishment, Ley just turned his eyes to Cole who had been silent all this time, and said, "I killed those people and found Cole's heart, but I couldn't bring him back to life..." Speaking of which , his tone became cold, "I searched everywhere, in order to find a way to bring him back to life."

Having said that, he smiled and pointed at Cole: "Finally, I found it."

"What method." Norman also turned around slightly, looking at Ley.

"The secret medicine of the snow wolf clan."

"Snow wolves?"

"It can bring people back to life, but it is very difficult to master, and for such a long time, even if I can keep Cole's body, his heart cannot be preserved. As the most important part of his body, I have to find someone to support him It, that is - transplanting Cole's heart into a living person."

"What?!" Norman was shocked.

"Isn't it great to nourish his heart with living life?" Ley smiled wildly, turning his eyes and staring at Cole, "But I didn't expect that Cole's beast blood would be so powerful. The people who took Cole's heart in the first place just licked the blood on it and went crazy. Every time I transplanted a heart, they would immediately lose themselves. At first I was surprised because without exception, they all became Although Cole's beast blood is very powerful, the side effects are very strong, and ordinary people can't stand Cole's power at all, so they lose their minds, are gradually eroded, and finally die."

It was the living dead that I saw last time.

Because he couldn't bear such a strong force, his whole body was eroded, rotted, and died in the end.

"I searched everywhere, looking for those who could bear Cole's heart, but they failed every time. They couldn't bear Cole's beast blood at all, and among those failed products..." looked at Cole, "Only He endured it, not only that, he also inherited everything from Cole very well, his voice, appearance, and even the sound of his heartbeat are exactly the same, he is completely another Cole."

Writer's words:

I'm so sorry - the latest update has been so unstable! !Everyone forgive me QAQ?