Section 203: Puppets of the Past(1/2)
When the combination of Feo and Lorraine broke open the fourth door, rushed into the bathroom, dragged out the alien that had been hiding in the corner, and killed it, Marin heard a whisper.
Painted in the basement, and I'm waiting for you upstairs... Stop killing my children, aren't you looking for me, come on, find me, and let's end this.
Marin turned his head and glanced at the girls and the young man who claimed to be the most handsome boy in the central province, and found that they seemed not to hear any sound at all.
Raising her head and looking at the ceiling, Marin suddenly began to miss her youthful days. At that time, she also used the same tone to talk about each other's expectations for the future. Sometimes she would also mention that when they were old, they must go back to each other.
The orphanage, where she and he came out of, and where they should have returned.
This is called having a beginning and an end, she said... Unfortunately, it took Marin ten years to understand that in his future, she had no future.
But I never thought that one day I would hear her voice again.
But after thinking about it again, it seemed that one day before, he had heard or even seen her, but the next second the guy who dared to deceive him was brainwashed by him.
After thinking for a moment, Marin gave up breaking the fifth door and took Feo and Lorraine directly to the basement ahead.
"Marin, what's wrong? Where are you going?" Lilim, who had been controlling the exit from the door, asked loudly.
"I heard the mother's whisper. The painting is downstairs, and she is upstairs." Marin stopped here. He walked to the center of the hall, looked at the second floor, and spoke directly after a moment of silence.
: "I can come up to see you, but you must ask your children to leave the first floor and basement. I will ask my friends to go to the basement to collect the scrolls, and then I will come up to see you in person."
The scene was a bit silent, but when several doors were opened and the aliens climbed out carefully, then docilely climbed up the pillars to the second floor, Jiaxi still couldn't help but look at Marin: "You must be crazy.
Yes! You are making a deal with alien species!" He walked up to Marin and looked at Marin condescendingly: "I will tell the Royal Investigation Office Headquarters and the churches everything that happened today!"
"Okay, I look forward to you speaking out in front of everyone about everything that is happening here at this moment. I have made transactions with the aberrations that have infected this city before. This is just a kind of transaction.
Now, you go to the basement to take back that damn magic carpet, and I'm going to meet an old friend."
Jiaxi was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand what Ma Lin meant. He fell silent and looked at Ma Lin with a hint of understanding.
In the end, he walked to the basement alone, rejecting Jessica's kindness to help him cover: "Remember, your husband told me that there are no more aliens in the basement. If I die in the hands of aliens, it will be his problem.
"The young man stood at the top of the stairs and just passed by the alien walking up.
"I never knew your cousin was so bold." Cross looked at Faye, and then noticed the confusion on the elf's face: "What's wrong with you, Faye."
"I was wondering...should I follow him up?" Faye watched Marin turn around and walk towards the steps leading to the second floor, and was a little confused about himself: "I obviously wanted to follow him up, but why couldn't I move forward?
."
"Is it because of an old friend?" Cross looked at her sister. She seemed to want to do the same, but in the end she smiled: "Mr. Marin has a mysterious past after all, and my curiosity originated from the mage.
It told me time and again that it wanted to know all the secrets, but as a woman... I also warned myself more than once that there are some secrets that I shouldn't know."
"Have you ever been curious?" Faye asked.
"Of course, this is the mage's thirst for knowledge, and you should be the same, right?" Cross said while watching Marin reach out and stroke the head of an alien, which squatted like a Thai cat.
over there.
"No, my thirst for knowledge comes from the heart of a jealous woman, not from a stupid mage full of curiosity." After Faye finished speaking, he finally took a step forward: "I want to take a look, that echo in
The owner of the whisper in Marin's mind, whether she is human or alien."
"You are causing trouble for her, Faye." Although Cross said this, she had no intention of stopping her.
"...I won't be stupid enough to follow Marin up." After saying that, Faye took out a metal pipe from his space bag and threw it towards Marin.
And Marin caught it. Looking at the metal pipe, Marin was a little curious: "What is this."
Faye smiled: "This is a gift from my mother. She said that she found it during an adventure to the ruins of the First Age when she was young. If you pour it into the spiritual energy, you will have a spiritual sword.
Produce...Also, don't turn the exit on yourself, this will be the stupidest way to commit suicide in this era."
Moving the tube away from his eyes, Marin looked at the tube in his hand and noticed a circular mark on it that was so worn that it was almost invisible: "I've never heard you say that.
it."
"You have never told me about your old friend and share your vision with me, okay." Faye asked with a smile.
Marin felt the tremor in the smile of the girl in front of him, and finally he agreed to Faye's request to share the spell. When she gained his vision, Marin patted the armrest: "Follow me and go see this old friend.
"
After saying that, Marin continued to move forward and stepped onto the steps.
What happened to the world, Marlin, everything has changed.
As the steps went up, whispers sounded again, and Marin didn't know how to explain it.
She should be told that you are dead, and I have come to another world. You are just an illusion stolen from my mind by a distorted magic carpet scroll, an afterimage destined to have no past, and an image from the past.
The time that doesn’t move around.
It will eventually be blurred by time, and it will eventually be...forgotten.
You have already told me the answer. It turns out that I am just a memory in your heart.
This matrix possesses psychic powers that Marin unexpectedly encountered, and her sighs finally turned into a real voice, just as Marin saw her when he walked up to the second floor.
It has a completely alien appearance, standard appearance, standard limbs, and standard tail. Everything before it was just Marin's imagination.
There was no meeting under the western sun, there was no girl standing in front of the window facing him, and there was no smile in his last memory.
There is just a monster with her memory.
"You're here." The alien's voice was very strange, perhaps because its larynx did not support such a pronunciation at all. After saying a word or two, it gave up. The alien mother squatted down and turned its back to
With sunshine.
I seemed to have had a long dream. When I woke up, I found that I had turned into a monster... It was the painting in the basement that gave me new life, right?
"Yes, if I am not mistaken, it stole the memory of you and the memory of your shell from my memory, and then combined you together... You are just a sad seam monster with no future. In the past, I don’t even want to mention your name, because you are not her at all." Marin looked at the monster in front of him and said in one breath: "Let me purify you, your existence is a blasphemy against life."
Why, I have all her memories! I am her! Don’t you love her? Then try to love me too!
The female screamed and stood up.
Marin shook his head: "Everything you know is just an illusion I created for you. You don't even know that you are dead." At this point, Marin stretched out his hand, and an alien came to him. Beside it, it wanted to rub its head against Marin's hand.
Marin smiled and stroked its head, then his hand slipped from the middle of its head, and finally grabbed its neck... and crushed it.
The aliens screamed and rushed towards Marin.
As soon as the first one jumped up, half of its body was shattered by Feo's shotgun rolled with a branch. The No. 8 single-head bullet penetrated its body and tore the twisted inhuman shell into pieces.
The second one followed Marin around the blind corner of the desk. When it reached the attack position and stuck out its head, a double-barreled shotgun was already pressed against its head. With a gunshot, the entire back of its brain turned into a When it fell to the floor, the murderer used a soft branch to replace bullets while using the shotgun on another branch to fire at the alien that jumped into the air. The latter used its tail to draw One of the bullets missed, but the other one got into its eye socket, avoided its hard forehead, the bullet penetrated its eyes, and then followed the trajectory and penetrated its brain.
Finally, it fell down next to its companion, who was restrained by Lorraine, holding the shotgun upside down and trying hard and firmly to smash the shell of the back of its head.
Marin waved the psychic sword in his hand. The energy sword cut the alien that rushed in front of him in half evenly like cutting butter.
"Your children are no match for me at all, and you are also protecting your eggs. You don't want to go away because they have begun to hatch." He pulled out the psychic sword from the head of the alien in front of him and watched as it fell. With the mouthparts on the ground, Marin turned to look at the last offspring of the alien. It was restrained in mid-air by Lorraine, and Feo was reloading. Its dozens of twigs could pull out the empty bullet shells while holding the single head. The bullet is inserted into the barrel, and since the invention of the shotgun, it has never achieved such an efficient reloading efficiency as it does today.
Marin did not watch the end of the alien offspring, but turned to look at the mother who stood up: "Fake things are always fake, you are not her, haven't you heard the meaning of my words? ."
Yes... you are right.
The female body finally stopped its silence and opened its mouth as if laughing. It took out a skull from the bookshelf on the side and threw it in Marin's footsteps.
She is difficult to deal with, but I won the victory in the end. These bugs are the offspring of her and other prey, and they are powerful enough. It's a pity... Why can't I deceive you? Human beings are so fragile. , I obviously used your most vulnerable part as bait, you shouldn't have discovered anything.
"You see, both you and her are just echoes of the past to me, and they are just existences that must be eradicated by my own hands." Marin raised his foot and crushed the skull into pieces.
"Why do you think so? You even pity that little thing named Mila." The female body was about to pounce.
"I pity it because she was saved by her savior and returned to a normal state from a miserable thing that was bound to become deformed and corrupted. I pity it because I understand that I must live for more innocent people.
And to kill her and her companions, I was moved by the purest friendship between them, I was moved by the most flawless care between them, and I felt that I must kill two poor children to save tens of thousands of people.
I am ashamed of my innocent design, because I said that life is equal, and on that day, I must break my oath, I am ashamed of my words and deeds, even if I still do it, even if I tell me
For myself, it is better to sacrifice two people than to sacrifice tens of thousands of people... But I still can't forgive the choice I made that day, because I broke my vows and my actions brought shame to my words and deeds.
That's why I pity them...because I can't pity myself."
When Marin said this, he looked at the female body in front of him, which had already arched up: "And you are different from them, they are living people, and you are just the memories stolen from my mind by the magic carpet.
Weaved puppets, you are not life, you are just alien species who kill each other in order to survive..."
The continuous words made Marin gasp slightly. He looked at the matrix in front of him and shook his head: "Just like you said, let's end it all."
The mother body rushed towards Marin, so fast that even Feo couldn't lock it. Lorraine dropped the shotgun and turned it into a round shield on Marin's left forearm. The mother body's sharp claws hit the shield.
An unexpected situation occurred. While the wooden shield was not shattered by a single blow, the mother body was also deflected by the counter-shock force from the target. Marin slid to let the mother body's other paw sweep.
, the psychic sword in his hand penetrated into the joint of its arm, dismembering its claws. At the same time, Marin dwarfed, and the mother's tail swept past his head. Then the mother wailed, and her tail was struck by Marin.
Clasping it, with all his strength, Marin could hear the sound of the carapace shattering, feel the toughness of the meat being deformed by the grip, and could even see the spray after being cut by the psychic sword.
The green color comes out sticky.
"You are still not the most powerful hunter in my memory. The magic carpet created you and her, but it did not give you the ability in its heyday because it was too weak, and you... are far better than what you can get.
The power is even more powerful." Once again, he stepped away to let the claws sweep away. Marin held the psychic sword upright and faced its kicking hind legs. Marin held the sword upright in front of him and looked at it.
His foot was smashed in front of the psychic sword and his head was bruised and bloody.
The mother's body felt weak again. It fell to the ground and lost its balance. It could only look at Marin and watch him slowly walk over.
Lorraine fixed it to the floor at this time. It roared and tried to stand up, but without its legs, feet and tail, it could not even maintain the most basic balance.
To be continued...