Chapter 4 Brain Death
He will die.
This idea becomes clearer and clearer.
Sensing the disappearance of his mental power, the man wanted to shake off the small hands on his wrists. However, those particularly slender hands seemed to be branded on his wrists and he couldn't get rid of them.
So much so that when he thought back to the other person's appearance that had stunned him just now, he now turned into a banshee sucking people's essence and blood. Many thoughts were swirling in his mind. It seemed that a long time had passed, but in reality it only lasted a few seconds.
Pass.
The scary thing is that in just these few seconds, his mental core shrank from the size of a fist to the size of a nuclear head. If this continues, once his mental power collapses to a certain extent, his body will suffer an unprecedented blow.
The most serious fear is direct brain death.
It can't go on like this.
The man who showed a crazy side before has now calmed down as never before. A cold and cruel light can be seen in those bloodshot and scarlet eyes.
Sang Jiaojiao's eyes were half-closed as she was distracted. She could only hold her enemy's wrist tightly with her hands like iron pliers, absorbing energy from it instinctively, so that she did not see the even more terrifying scene in front of her.
The man's neck was half broken, and all his limbs were broken at the base.
The focus of Sang Jiaojiao's hands also disappeared, and her body suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Dots of starlight floated out from the man's head, converging into a blurry figure in mid-air that was so transparent that it was almost invisible. Although the expression could not be seen clearly, everyone could feel the overwhelming hatred conveyed from it.
Unfortunately, the only spectator present, Sang Jiaojiao, was in a coma.
It took a deep look at Sang Jiaojiao and was about to turn around and leave when something unexpected happened: a branch as thin as a hair poked out from Sang Jiaojiao's chest.
Even if you don't look carefully, you won't be able to see its existence. You can only see it spinning around in the air, suddenly stiffening, pointing in the direction of the transparent figure, and suddenly sticking to it.
"Ah..." The silent and shrill sound wave completely dissipated before it traveled very far.
The blurry figure was twisted into a twisted shape, and even looking at its expression, one could tell how scared and desperate it was. Unfortunately, even if it struggled again, it was still to no avail.
"Hiccup" The thin sound of hiccups appeared in the dark and quiet alley, and it seemed particularly clear.
Looking carefully, the branches with hair as thin as hair are actually a little more solid than before. Although they are still too thin to be seen, it seems that a faint green light flickered in front of my eyes in a trance. It chased away and dissipated.
Sang Jiaojiao's chest.
The light at the entrance of the alley was swallowed up little by little, and the entire alley was completely shrouded in darkness. The smell of blood in the alley made pedestrians outside stay away, but it attracted those sewer creatures hiding in the dark that were ready to move.
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Before those things with green light pounced on her, Sang Jiaojiao, who was lying on the ground, woke up leisurely.
She endured the splitting headache and stood up, looking at the pile of stumps on the ground, her breath suddenly became extremely cold.
Unfortunately, her momentum only lasted for a few seconds before she almost fell down due to weak legs. She staggered a few steps before she stopped her embarrassment.
Sang Jiaojiao muttered in annoyance: "After so many years of repairs, this broken body is getting more and more broken. Damn it..." Turning her head again, Sang Jiaojiao wanted to remove the dead and completely broken limbs on the ground.
The rotten meat was stepped on a few more times.
The wasteland world was more dangerous at night than during the day. Sang Jiaojiao put her scarf back on, kicked the hard black bread into her arms, made a judgment, found another trailhead, and climbed in crookedly.
After the last breath of life in the alley dissipated, a large group of creatures attracted by the smell of blood surrounded the corpse on the ground. The crunching sound of chewing echoed in the air, intertwining with a terrifying musical score.
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"Report, emergency report, there is a major malfunction in the nutrition cabin No. 1001."
"Emergency rescue mode has been activated. The player's mental body will be forcibly recalled in three seconds. Countdown: three, two..."
"Recall failed, recall failed... The player's mental body disappears, no trace of the player's mental remains can be found, and the player is brain dead."
…
Several continuous mechanical notification sounds sounded in a wide hall.
Everyone who heard the voice put down their work in unison, and the expressions on their faces were exactly the same in disbelief.
In another small, elegantly decorated room, two middle-aged men wearing glasses were also discussing the matter.
"Have you found out what caused the malfunction? Such a low-level error can actually occur. What are the people under your command doing?"
"No, his mental body is not damaged or missing, but completely collapsed."
"Is it because his mental trauma has been too severe to be undone?"
"It's not clear...whose family did the dead gamer belong to?"
"He is the youngest son of the head of the Mu family. I heard that he is the most talented in recent generations. However, due to some problems, his ability level has been unable to rise. In recent years, his condition has become even worse and he has also suffered from mental problems.
….But if such a precious baby dies inside, I’m afraid their family will be in trouble.”
"That would be difficult..."
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Sang Jiao huddled in a half-meter-high abandoned building. It was a very small space formed by two collapsed walls intersecting each other. It was very hidden. From the outside, it would not be possible to find that there was a person hiding here.
The whole night, Sang Jiaojiao did not dare to close her eyes. Even though her whole body ached and her spirit was clamoring to close her eyes and rest, the reapers had already entered, and there were also those predators. The dark night was their best cover.
Just last night, Sang Jiaojiao heard many screams begging for mercy, and the nearest voice was only a few dozen meters away from her.
She didn't even dare to breathe hard, and her fragile body couldn't bear it if someone discovered it again.
After a night of mental stress, Sang Jiaojiao's mouth was pale and chapped, and she was extremely hungry. She only tore off a small piece of the black bread in her arms and put it in her mouth.
It was finally dawn, and the noise that had been making all night had subsided. Sang Jiaojiao carefully opened the cover in front of her, poked her head out and quickly scanned around, then bent down and crawled out.
She twisted the scarf on her body again, ignored a puddle of reddish-brown marks on the ground not far away, and walked around the streets and various paths for several times, confirming again and again that there was no follower behind her. Only then did Sang Jiaojiao return to her
Place of residence.
Entering an iron door hidden behind a garbage dump, there is a room of more than fifty square meters.
The layout inside is simple. In addition to simple daily necessities, the most piled up in the room is a pile of parts with missing arms and legs. They were all pulled out by Sang Jiaojiao from various garbage piles. The valuable ones have been pulled out and exchanged.
After getting the things, I just want to see if I can tinker with the rest and make something useful.
The resources here are so barren that no one is willing to throw away anything, as long as it is not rotten and rotten to the point where it can no longer be seen.
Chapter completed!