List of strange talismans

Chapter 129 The Way 4K
After half an hour.

Gu Xiuya followed Shang Siyue into the affiliated hospital behind the investigation bureau, and took the elevator to the underground radiation disposal area.

Compared with the ordinary medical area on the ground, there are almost no normal people in this area.

In the pale-painted corridors, there are densely packed wards without windows. The doors of each ward are made of poured molten steel, with locks on them.

Under the illumination of the incandescent lamps, the iron and steel glowed coldly. The sound of impact and knocking on the iron door echoed in the corridor. Occasionally, inarticulate scolding could be heard in the ward, like a dog whose tongue had been cut off.

Doctors who were supposed to be wearing white coats put on airtight protective clothing, and there were constantly heavily armed investigators running past pushing stretcher carts with airtight covers. Screams and roars were the theme song here, and there were disturbing fluctuations of consciousness everywhere.

"Doctor! Where is the doctor?!! I have a fish growing in my head and it's eating my brain!"

"The patient in bed 18 has split!"

"My arms and legs are gone! Did you see my arms?"

"What are you doing, let me go! There is a monster in my eye, I want to dig him out!"

The medical staff were running around in the corridor. Gu Xiuya watched one after another grotesque human beings being escorted and pushed into the ward. Some had a bunch of wriggling worms growing on their faces, some had their heads protruding into their chests, and most of them were clay-like things that looked like people, but they had lost their facial features and limbs.

"These are all polluters. Most of them are ordinary people affected by embers, and a small number of them are caused by over-activation of resident fetishes. Investigator Yan Ying, who was polluted by the consciousness of gods, is the latter."

Shang Siyue led Gu Xiuya to the depths of the corridor, talking while walking.

"You'd better be mentally prepared. You may see a situation that you can't accept later. This is why Yan Ying doesn't want me to tell you about it."

Gu Xiuya remained silent, but his pace became faster and faster.

Shang Siyue sighed slightly in her heart, but was speechless.

The two soon came to a ward at the end of the corridor. Shang Siyue stepped forward to operate the electronic panel at the door for a while, and soon, the steel door opened with a click.

".come in."

Gu Xiuya took a deep breath and stepped into the ward.

There is not much space in the ward, only a nursing bed is placed.Beside the bed were various monitors, defibrillators, infusion pumps and other equipment. Yan Ying was lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed and she had fallen into a coma.

Gu Xiuya had never seen Mr. Yan like this before. Her originally delicate face was covered with cobweb-like black cracks. These cracks spread all the way down and covered her entire body, making her look like a porcelain doll on the verge of breaking.

Black liquid is wriggling in every crack, and they spread the skin, dyeing the flesh and blood a terrifying black.

Occasionally, part of the liquid would separate from the body and crawl out, trying to spread to the outside world, but the moment it left the range of the hospital bed, a hazy light would fall from the ceiling, killing it quickly, and scorching it into dry ashes and scattering it.

Gu Xiuya noticed that Mr. Yan looked extremely weak. She didn't even have obvious chest rise and fall when she breathed. The oxygen intake was all supplied by the oxygen inhalation device next to her.

"Why is that?"

He looked at Shang Siyue with gloomy eyes.

"There is no reason. This is the price of driving the sacred object, and it is the ultimate destination of people like us."

Shang Siyue's tone is faint: "Every year, 1/10 of the investigators are polluted by the fetishes due to excessive stimulation. What awaits them is either assimilated by the fetishes and become a part of it. Or, they die silently in the pain caused by the pollution."

"It's an irreversible process for which there is no cure."

"If there is no cure, can't we prevent it in advance? The Investigation Bureau has existed for so long, and I don't believe that you don't have the means to deal with this problem!"

"Of course there are precautions, but she gave them to you."

".What did you say?"

A trace of astonishment flashed in Gu Xiuya's eyes.

Shang Siyue took out an amulet engraved with a strange pattern: "The [Will Amulet] is drawn with special characters created by the God of Knowledge, which can restrain the pollution of creatures caused by the power of consciousness to a certain extent. Because of the scarcity of raw materials, it is only assembled for some high-risk personnel including cleaners for the time being."

"Yan Ying originally had one too. If she had carried this amulet with her, the pollution would not have developed to this level so quickly."

"But she told me that she gave you this amulet."

When Shang Siyue said this, she glanced at Gu Xiuya: "So, you shouldn't come to question me, you should ask yourself why you took it away."

Gu Xiuya froze in place.

At this moment, he suddenly understood why Mr. Yan was so angry because he lost the amulet.

This is not just an ordinary birthday gift, she gave herself the hope of life and the only salvation.

Mr. Yan never told him about this matter, nor did he ask him to do anything for her. She was like a big tree, silently protecting him in her own way, sheltering him from wind and rain, without asking for anything in return.

In order to make him safer, she even put herself in danger.

Gu Xiuya didn't know what kind of emotion Mr. Yan was in to make such a decision, he only knew that if the two of them were in different places, he would definitely not be able to do this.

He lowered his head slowly, looking at the once intellectual and gentle face in front of him, at her closed eyes, at the wriggling liquid and fragmented skin, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

It was as if he had been hit hard by something, and he was extremely stuffy, making him a little out of breath.

".why?"

Gu Xiuya murmured, he stretched out his hand, and gently stroked Yan Ying's hair, the deprived hair was a little dry and lost its former luster, like Mr. Yan's life that was about to come to an end.

"Why, do you want to do this?"

His fingers slid across Yan Ying's face, the fingertips exuded a pure white gleam, which was smudged by the power from Tai Hao, but it couldn't bring about a slight change in the cracked face.

"Don't you understand?"

Shang Siyue said from the side: "Women are emotional animals, they will only be nice to the people they believe, and there is always only one reason for them to be desperate, and that is feelings."

"I think, in her heart, you should be very important, very important person."

"This is even more important than her life. That's why she would rather be in danger than protect you."

Shang Siyue's tone was faint, as if she remembered something from the past while speaking, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes.

Gu Xiuya grasped Yan Ying's hand tightly.

The cracked palm no longer had the warm and soft touch it used to have, as if holding a stone, stiff and cut.

But he still held it tightly, he didn't dare to let go, he was afraid that once he let go, there would be no chance to hold it again.

".what should I do?"

Gu Xiuya spoke in a shy voice. At this moment, he suddenly lost his former composure. His heart was like a mess, and it was difficult to stabilize his mind and think rationally.

He looked at Shang Siyue, his eyes trembling: "Tell me how to cure her! You can do whatever you want!"

"I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do to cure her. Neither can your miraculous cure."

Shang Siyue turned her head away, unwilling to look into Gu Xiuya's eyes.

She whispered: "The essence of pollution is not a kind of harm, but the power of consciousness is changing the structure of human life, making people's flesh and blood change in a direction suitable for the power of gods. Therefore, there is no way to heal it."

"This is an irreversible process, and no one in history has survived this situation."

"history?"

A light suddenly flashed in Gu Xiuya's eyes.

He thought of Davis.

The earl's son who was polluted by embers and transformed into a monster in the first history not only survived, but also founded the secret religion, and lived safely for decades before passing away.

Embers and residing fetishes are two different manifestations of the power of the gods. If Davis can survive the pollution of embers, so can Yan Ying.

Hope ignited in Gu Xiuya's heart.

But then, that hope was extinguished.

Because he remembered—every time he returned from history, the real time would advance to varying degrees, it might be a few days, it might be a month, or even longer.

Even if he really finds Davis and obtains a cure for the pollution, with Yan Ying's current state, he can't wait for that day.

"Is there any way to keep her in this state?"

Gu Xiuya didn't want to give up just like that, he asked Shang Siyue: "It doesn't need to be cured, as long as the condition doesn't get worse, is that enough?"

"No."

Shang Siyue slowly shook her head: "If there was such a method, I wouldn't be what I am now."

As she spoke, she lifted her sleeves, exposing her right shoulder.

There is an obvious black ring-shaped line on the smooth arm, and a lot of squirming flesh and blood can be vaguely seen in the gap of the line. These flesh and blood are intertwined with each other, meshing the shoulder and arm together with their own connections, like a combined toy.

She then unbuttoned the collar, and the skin on the slender neck trembled like waves, slowly revealing a black line that was the same as her shoulders.

The line started from the left shoulder and ended on the right shoulder, completely separating her neck and chest.

Gu Xiuya was slightly taken aback.

"Twelve years ago, the ancient sun god I believed in tried to use my body to come to reality. The strong pollution brought by the power of the god's consciousness instantly destroyed my subjective consciousness, and my body was also shattered."

"At the age of 20, I only persisted for half a day before I died."

"Later, my father used a DNA cultivation technology to artificially cultivate my brain, internal organs, and limbs by relying on the strong plasticity of divine blood."

"He used these new limbs to replace the contaminated parts of my body, like a jigsaw puzzle, and bit by bit, I pieced together what I am now."

"That's why I'm called a combination."

Shang Siyue stroked the black lines on her body, her eyebrows drooped, and her tone was faint: "The original me died 12 years ago. The current me is just a substitute made by my father based on the appearance of his daughter in his memory."

"To be honest, I don't even know what I am now."

Gu Xiuya was speechless for a moment.

Shang Siyue didn't indulge in self-pity for too long, she quickly packed up her clothes and covered herself tightly.

She turned around, looked at Gu Xiuya and said, "Before I came, I called my father. If you don't mind your Mr. Yan turning into a sewing monster, if you don't mind her losing all her memory and degrading her intelligence to a child's level, I can ask my father to help me and reproduce what he did on me."

"This is a thank you for helping me out of control, and the only way I can think of that isn't a solution."

Gu Xiuya remained silent.

Shang Siyue's so-called method is a little hard for him to accept.He couldn't accept that intellectual and courageous woman in his memory, the person who silently protected and cared for him, lost all his memories, forgot all his past, and turned into a muddle-headed monster.

But apart from this method, there seems to be no other better way now.

Gu Xiuya's heart fell into a struggle.

For a moment, he felt that as long as he was alive, even if he lost his memory, he was still alive. He could accompany Yan Ying, take care of her, protect her, and let her know him again, just like she did to him.

For a while, he felt that if a person lost his memory, even if his body survived, his soul would not be the same person as before.If Mr. Yan had to choose, she would definitely not accept such an arrangement.

There seemed to be two people arguing in his mind, and the thought of tit for tat made Gu Xiuya frown, his face constantly changing.

The surroundings became quiet for a moment, only Yan Ying's weak breathing and the ticking of electronic testing equipment remained in the ward.

Shang Siyue stood aside, patiently waiting for Gu Xiuya to make a decision.She didn't urge Gu Xiuya, she knew how difficult it was to make such a decision.

Time passed quietly.

After almost 10 minutes.

Gu Xiuya suddenly seemed to remember something, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes again.

Immediately afterwards, he said, "Can the method you mentioned be used even after death?"

"Okay. Just collect her DNA in advance and store it. But why do you have to wait until she's dead?"

Shang Siyue frowned slightly, and said: "She is in pain now, waiting even a minute longer will be a torment like a year for her. If you think about it, we'd better start as soon as possible and give her a new life."

"I know I know she's in pain, it's hard."

Gu Xiuya said in a low voice, and squeezed Yan Ying's hand tightly, as if wanting to share the pain for her.

He looked at Yan Ying's distorted face, and the incandescent lamp cast a semi-dark shadow on his face: "But I don't want to just give up, I can't do nothing, I still have one chance, I want to try to save her, try my best to save her just like she did to me."

Shang Siyue was stunned: "What opportunity?"

She couldn't think of any other way to change Yan Ying's ending.

Gu Xiuya didn't answer, just said: "Group Leader Shang, please collect her DNA as soon as possible. I'm not sure if my method will work, and I'm not sure if she can persist until I come back. So, I want to prepare for the worst first."

".it is good."

(End of this chapter)