Indescribable cyberpunk

Where is this?

Unfounded thoughts appeared in my mind.

A cool breeze blows in your face, the warm sunshine shines on your body, and the fragrance of nature swirls in your nose.

Opening his eyes, the sight that appeared in front of him filled his eyes with joy and wonder.

Are there such places in lower-class communities?

Pure white houses are neatly arranged on both sides of the street. Although the heights are different, the overall structure is exactly the same simple and simple.

It's a little less refined, but it's more sophisticated and elegant.

Emerald green ivy rises from the lawn next to the house, clinging to the wall and covering almost all the houses, making the place look like a lost ancient relic.

The palm-sized round leaves sway gently in the wind, facing the sunlight but also casting dark shadows.

And he happened to walk into the mottled leaf shadows at this time.

The few rays of sunlight dance playfully on the shoulders, and the bright yellow light makes people feel warm from the bottom of their hearts just by looking at it.

In front of you is a wide street paved with marble. Perhaps because it has been left unattended for a long time, there are fine green grass growing between the stones. Taking two steps forward feels like stepping on cotton, giving you a vague feeling of sinking.

Maybe this is a ruins?

But where are the relics of the lower-class communities?

Where did this sunshine and breeze come from?

A dirty and messy picture vaguely emerged in the memory. The impression of decades was not so easy to forget.

However, in the next second, a strange feeling of discomfort started to come from all parts of his body while having such thoughts in his mind, making him feel confused.

While he subconsciously stopped thinking, the sense of crisis behind him diverted his attention.

Turning sideways, he felt a malicious gaze from the shadow of the corridor on the street side of the three-story building behind him. His gaze only stayed for a few seconds, and he could vaguely see someone looking out from the darkness. A corner of a spreading mass of dark red carrion.

There are extremely scary monsters there!

You have to get out of here quickly!

Urgent and panic thoughts urged him to move forward involuntarily, but the frightening sight behind him never disappeared.

In a panic, a large jungle appeared in the field of vision ahead, and his eyes were almost immediately attracted to one of the huge ancient trees that exuded light cyan fluorescence.

There you can protect yourself from the monsters following you!

A sudden thought took root in his mind, and because he didn't know where to go, he subconsciously ran towards the ancient tree according to this thought.

Not long after, when he entered the jungle, he unexpectedly found that there were many people here.

However, there was no panic on their faces. They were all wearing pure white robes similar to his own, as if they were here for an outing. They were in small groups, talking and laughing as they slowly walked towards the ancient tree not far away.

Subconsciously joining the team of these people, stepping on the soft grass and passing through the dense forest, the ancient tree that attracted him finally showed its full appearance.

Full of vicissitudes of time, it takes several people to hug the tree trunk that can barely surround it. It is a huge green and lush crown. Countless dark green slender vines hang down from the crown, swaying in all directions with the breeze blowing from the forest. .

The inexplicable attraction made him step forward together with those around him, surrounding the ancient tree, holding his head high. The eyes that had frightened him before had completely disappeared at this time, because his attention was completely focused on the tree crown in front of him. After a while, the vines around him gradually covered his body.

This was contact with nature. Not only did he not feel any discomfort, it even made his body feel extremely peaceful and peaceful in an instant!

perhaps.

Is this the rumored paradise?

"If there is hell in this world, it is nothing more than this."

On a rooftop near the steelmaking plant, Zhu Jue stood in the safe area cleared by the sweepers, looking at the scene in the steelmaking plant dozens of meters away, and murmured in a low voice.

Inside the steelmaking plant at this time.

Among the black-purple amorphous colloid layer and the strange phosphorescent follicles, a rugged tree that looked very familiar to Zhu Jue was standing in the middle!

It's not appropriate to describe it simply as horrific.

It was an image of indescribable desolation and despair.

Even for a being like Zhu Jue, he still had to drink moonshine wine to ensure his mental stability. If an ordinary person were here, he would have fallen into boundless madness.

Bare and gray-white branches criss-crossed on the dry and cracked trunk. The tree knots that should have grown leaves were completely entangled by dark tentacles, as if they were the claws of an innocent soul emerging from the depths of the abyss, trying to Crush anything associated with life.

The infected person that Zhu Jue was tracking was now near the bone tree. After it was completely "fed", it moved closer to this place almost all the time.

Not only it, Zhu Jue also saw a considerable number of infected people appearing from various places within the three blocks along the way and converging under the bone tree.

Although he didn't want to tarnish the word, Zhu Jue still felt that the behavior of these infected people was somewhat "pilgrimage".

Strange infected people gathered under the bone tree, heads held high, as if waiting for something from the bone tree.

This scene looked like a gathering of cultists, especially the disgusting surrounding environment which only intensified this suspicion.

In fact, Zhu Jue believed that even cultists with slightly normal spirits would not be able to accept praying in such a scene.

Of course, most of the time, the cultists who have anything to do with this kind of stuff don’t have much of a normal mind.

Not long after, those tentacles hung from the branches to the bodies of these infected people, and immediately they were in the same state as the infected people Zhu Jue had seen in the room when they were absorbing follicles.

These tentacles either pierce the infected person's head, pierce the chest, or more directly enter the body from their mouth.

Zhu Jue held the camera in his hand, ready to record the scene completely, but he thought about it and did not press the record button.

The reason is very simple. Such a scene is purely disgusting. It has no meaning except to make people feel uncomfortable when put into the video, not to mention that it is also troublesome for Suzi who processes the video.

Continuing to pay attention to Gushu's behavior, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry to stop him.

On the one hand, the current environment is obviously the opponent's home court. Before you understand what is happening here, you may not be sure what will happen if you rush to take action.

On the other hand, from the time Zhu Jue started tracking the infected until now, even though he had arrived near the steel mill, he still did not find even a single member of the Ouroboros organization. There was no other person except the infected in his perception. Life form.

He even asked the scavenger to swallow a large amount of these black and purple colloids. He thought that members of the Ouroboros organization would notice it, so he could use it as bait to catch a "tongue" and ask. Who would have thought that after waiting for more than ten minutes, nothing happened? Anyone shows up.

At this moment, the bone tree in the steel plant underwent new changes.

Among the rugged branches, a dark red light suddenly flashed, located near the tree's tentacles!

Because of the long distance and the cover of fog, the line of sight was inevitably affected. Zhu Jue could only adjust the focus of the camera as much as possible to continuously enlarge the picture.

When the zoom reaches a certain level, the finger pauses.

His brows frowned subconsciously.

"How can such a ghost thing still bear fruit?"

Looking at the scene in the camera, Zhu Jue muttered to himself.

Those red lights are clearly dark red irregular fruits.

The terrifying bone tree in the mist, lowering its tentacles to pierce the bodies of infected people, now seems to mean absorbing the "nutrients" stored in their bodies, and then bearing special fruits in this way.

Zhu Jue's mind suddenly flashed back to the bone tree case mentioned by Gu Gingxing and the echinoskin flesh ball condensed in his body after he killed the Ouroboros organization cadre in the arena.

What the man called livestock last night seemed to be fully verified in this state.

Gu Gingxing once said that she gained the ability to rob other people's energy after eating the Fruit of God, and the scene caused by those black mycelium entering the human body is quite similar to the scene before her, isn't it?

It's just that the former plundered from the bodies of ordinary people, but this bone tree plundered from the bodies of infected people. The bone tree also became an independent existence, and the fruits it produced were naturally completely different from those produced by Gu Ginkgo.

Perhaps the Ouroboros organization is using this method to cultivate beings like the cadre in the arena or the guy last night?

There may be a clear gap between their combat power and Zhu Jue's, but if they really faced off against the soldiers of the Security Department, it would probably be a one-sided massacre.

But since there will be fruits, then according to common sense, there will definitely be people coming to collect the fruits.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Jue immediately readjusted the focus of the camera and waited for the "fruit farmer" to appear.

Things developed just as Zhu Jue thought.

After the number of fruits among the branches of the bone tree reached two, several black shadows gradually emerged in the thick fog at the entrance of the steel plant.

Unfortunately, Zhu Jue guessed the beginning correctly.

But I didn't guess the ending.

There will be another chapter later