"Is this really a novice?"
When Jiang Cheng's shattered body along with those twisted tentacles collapsed helplessly on the ground, Yang Jia also mysteriously appeared at the door of the men's restroom.
Looking at Xiao Xiang, who stood in front of Jiang Cheng with a lens in hand, her expression seemed a bit surprised.
Taking this time, she checked outside, to make sure that other people do not have the phenomenon of "fading skin", before quickly rushed to prepare to help this ignorant newcomer to solve the problem, the gun are in the hands, but unexpectedly found Xiao clamor actually has solved the problem by himself, moreover, his face is not at all his own expected nervousness and panic, calm! Even coldly stood in front of Jiang Cheng, holding the blood-dripping pieces of the mirror in his hand.
He didn't even forget to make up ...
This sharpness and dryness made Yang Jia greatly surprised.
She had accidentally discovered this newcomer, and naturally wanted to observe this newcomer's potential, so she left him a bit of time alone with the monster.
Inside, naturally, she also hoped that the higher his potential the better, but now look ...
... a little too high?
...
Xiao clamor in Yang Jia into the field of vision at the first glance, "swish" looked up at her glance, hand lens death grip, body nerves tense.
Only when he was sure that it was Yang Jia did he relax slightly in an unnoticeable amount of time.
He wasn't sure why Yang Jia had a surprised look on her face, and didn't feel like he'd done anything wrong.
It looked like he had only momentarily escaped and counter-killed, but to him, it was a decision to kill this monster for self-preservation after a long period of contemplation and mental construction.
Since this was the case, of course he had to execute it thoroughly.
Until he was sure that the monster in front of him was dead ... At least the broken heart was no longer beating, he slowly stood up, looked down at the mirror shard held in his hand, and violently threw it aside.
The heart was beating as heavily as a drum, and the feeling of fear and tension rose from the bottom of his heart.
"Snap ..."
Also at this time, Yang Jia's applause sounded, she slowly walked into the bathroom, looking at Xiao clamor with some strange eyes, "Your performance is very good."
"I ..."
Xiao clamor voice with a kind of afterthought nervousness, "I killed someone?"
"Didn't kill anyone."
Yang Jia didn't move and walked to Xiao clamor's side, took the pieces of the mirror in his hand and threw them on the ground, then took out a piece of medical sticker and helped Xiao clamor stick the wound, saying softly:
"Things aren't over yet, you've just temporarily postponed the crisis."
"It's just that you just showed your anger, even these monsters will be slightly inhibited ..."
"..."
Xiao clamor only felt the blood vessels in his brain bursting again, the emptiness from the murder he had just committed, the headache from the explosion of his mind running through his head, as well as all these weird terms, all of which made him feel deeply confused.
"Oops, why do you guys have so many whispers to say?"
It was also at this moment that a laughing voice was suddenly heard, Xiao clamor turned his head to look, and his entire being was completely stunned.
Only to see that Jiang Cheng was climbing up from the ground, the torn skin on his body as well as the wounds that he had stabbed himself out of were recovering a little bit, while those writhing tentacles, retracted back into his body, as he stood up, he had actually turned into the same person he was before, and as if nothing had happened, he walked over to the side of the sink, and while washing his hands, he laughed and said, "When we were in school, we felt that you two had a story, and I guessed it. two had a story, and I guessed it?"
Listening to his words, Xiao clamor only felt that this world was unreal to the extreme.
It was as if the fear that he had just experienced, and the ferocious and extreme resistance, were all just hallucinations.
He subconsciously moved away from Jiang Cheng a bit and looked up at Yang Jia, only to see that she was smiling and calmly explaining to Jiang Cheng, "There are too many people in there, and it's hard to hear what's being said."
"Isn't that what a class reunion is like?"
Jiang Cheng smiled, dried his hands and said, "Let's go, go back together, you guys ran out for so long, it's reasonable that you should be punished."
...
...
Xiao clamor and Yang Jia, Jiang Cheng, went back to the box together, and everyone was really up in arms to punish them with a drink.
But Xiao clamor only felt that everything in front of him was light and strange, he saw the attitude of his classmates have become very good, although there is no lack of some occasional glances over the dissatisfied eyes, but when talking to himself, his face is with a smile on it, there are still people far away from him to raise his glass of wine and drink, and even Jiang Cheng, is also a high talk, the attitude is still a little arrogant, but just a lot more friendly, and everything seems to be just false.
The only thing that was left was his own palm, a wound that was still faintly oozing blood, confirming that all of this had really happened.
The students were all having a great time, and although Xiao Xiang didn't seem quite able to fit in with everyone's atmosphere, making it a bit of a bummer, no one said anything, and suggested going to sing later.
It was just that the center of everyone's attention, Yang Jia, didn't seem to be in the mood.
After smiling and chatting with the people present for a while, she excused herself and said, "We won't go for the singing, Xiao clamor has an appointment with me and we still have some things to do later."
"Ya?"
The students present were all a bit surprised and looked at Xiao clam with an unknown number of envious eyes.
Yang Jia hadn't contacted her classmates for four years, how come she was still so familiar with Xiao clamor?
Many people lost interest, so they bought the bill together and left the hotel, when Yang Jia brought Xiao clamor into her black SUV, the classmates looked enviously, and some whistled.
Everything was normal beyond words.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Once away from those classmates and the car drove onto the street between the bright neon signs, Xiao clamor opened the window and let the chilly night wind blow on her face as she asked in a low voice.
"I can't explain it to you, I can only give you the answer."
Yang Jia held the steering wheel with one hand, the other hand drew a cigarette, tilted his head and lit it, and said softly, "Just as you can see, all the people living around us are essentially no longer human."
"Whether your friends or family members, they have long since become another kind of creature ... perhaps should be called a creature, you would like to understand as a demon or a monster, also no problem, they are still wearing the former human skin, in the image of your memories to exist, and even have your familiar those people memories and self-recognition, but in reality, they have all become twisted and loathsome monsters ..."
"Normally, they would still be in disguise, living normally around you."
"But whenever the city begins to grow out of its malice towards you, you will see their true colors ..."
"..."
At this moment, as if an electric current had surged through his brain, Xiao clamor remembered his mother with her grim eyes, and thought of the creepiness that was everywhere in this city.
"Then we ..."
He opened his mouth, as if there were countless words he wanted to say, but it was difficult to form an effective questioning.
"This world, ah, forgot to call on us when it changed ..."
As if Yang Jia knew what he wanted to say, the corner of his mouth hooked up a mysterious smile and whispered, "This is not our homeland, you and I are all foreigners ..."
"..."
Xiao clamor did not know what to say, after a long time, he took the cigarette on Yang Jia's mouth and held it on his own mouth.
Originally he didn't smoke, but now he needed something to help calm his chaotic mood.
It was hard for him to accept what Yang Jia had just said, it was too scary and too crazy, he even preferred to believe that he was actually crazy and that what he saw was an illusion.
Yang Jia looked at Xiao Xiang, who was coughing because of the smoke, and couldn't help but smile, saying, "I know it's hard for you to accept."
"People who have just awakened would be like you, preferring to believe that it's their own madness rather than accepting such an absurd fact, but you can't help but admit that perhaps you also sensed the abnormality of this world a long time ago."
"..."
Xiao clamored as he choked on the menthol-flavored cigarette, but continued to smoke it anyway.
He couldn't help but think about Yang Jia's words, was it true that he had already sensed the abnormality of this world a long time ago?
Earlier, the abnormal one is himself, right?...
Four years ago, mom and dad chose to get divorced, the family broke up, and Xiao Xiang's brain, it seems, also suddenly broke up that summer.
He began to be flooded by a sense of great panic for a long time, intense dizziness plagued him, his mind seemed to be broken inch by inch, always difficult to form effective thinking and normal perception.
He went to the hospital, but nothing was found out, and his mom and dad, even the doctors, thought for a while that he was faking it.
There was no way for him to recount the pain he was enduring to anyone else, so he holed up in his bedroom and spent the next four years learning to focus his attention.
He read books, played games, or even just sat in a chair all day long, learning to adapt to it all, learning to control the sense of perceptual loss of control that that intense feeling of fear brought to him.
Finally, four years had passed, and one decided to reenter the world.
Only to have someone tell him or her at that very moment that the world had been turned into something completely foreign by some unknown force?
"Well, I know you still have a lot of questions on your mind, but for a newcomer, there are so many things I need to help you with that I won't be able to explain for a while."
Letting Xiao noisily fall into his chaotic thoughts, Yang Jia stared ahead for a long time before laughing and said, "Tell you something, I'll send you back first."
"I need to do a little bit of preparation to introduce you to the world and show you how to live in this world."
"..."
"Go back?"
Xiao Huohuo's heart suddenly rose a huge resistance, he remembered his mother's stern eyes, thought of everything he encountered on the road, and only felt cold all over.
"Don't be afraid."
Yang Jia noticed the tension in her eyes, felt that this was what a newcomer should be, smiled, and said, "Like I said, after you solve Jiang Cheng, the world's malice and rejection of you will be eased a little."
"Of course, this is only temporary, two days at most, or even just a few hours, and the malice will strike again, even stronger than before."
"It's not just Jiang Cheng, maybe everyone you meet will want to kill you!"
"..."
Listening to her words, Xiao Xiang's body stiffened slightly, "Then what should I do?"
"Calm yourself."
Yang Jia smiled: "Pretend that nothing has happened, wait quietly, I will find you again."
"Peace of mind?"
Xiao argued for a while, and even felt ridiculous: "In such a world full of monsters, you want me to feel at ease?"
Yang Jia listened to his words, and suddenly replied with a smile: "In such a world full of monsters, what else can you do except peace of mind?"