Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 431 Valkyrie 04
Where am I?
Valkyrie 04 gradually became uneasy.

Just when she was about to unbuckle her seat belt and look around after her strength recovered a little, she faintly heard the sound of flowing water.

River? Lake?
She recalled the terrain around the restricted area. There were mountains everywhere, and they were all bare rocky mountains. There were no streams or springs at all.

On the east side of Chimera No. 17, there are two river valleys, but these two river valleys have dried up many years ago, and now only the pebble-covered riverbed and rocky river banks remain.

The rainfall in the restricted area did form some shallow lakes in some depressions...but the problem is that there is no rain in the area where I am now, which means that I am most likely on the outskirts of the restricted area.

But... why... is the sound of water getting louder and louder?

The area where the red signal light of the ejection seat was shining suddenly shimmered with ripples of light. An unknown liquid was pouring in from all directions and soon covered the instep of Valkyrie 04.

Under the red light, the liquid looks like blood.

Feeling the chill on her feet, Valkyrie 04 immediately retracted her legs, but the water level rose very quickly, and the blood-like liquid had risen to nearly the knees in just a few seconds.

Valkyrie 04 is wearing the most advanced anti-gravity driving suit. In addition to helping the driver resolve the G-force caused by various high-maneuvering actions, the most basic four defense functions are also top-notch.

The so-called four protections naturally refer to protection against cold (wind), water, poison gas and radiation. This thin driving suit can protect the driver's life safety in various extreme environments. There was once a driver wearing the previous generation of this type of driving suit who crashed in the Arctic Circle. The rescue team did not find the driver until thirty-four hours after the accident. In the extremely cold environment of more than 40 degrees Celsius below zero, the driver not only did not suffer from hypothermia, but also "complained" to the rescuers that the clothes had such good cold-proof performance, making him look like a clown after spending a lot of effort hunting down a polar bear and trying to use the bear skin to keep warm.

Valkyrie 04 had also received high-altitude skydiving training. She had never felt cold wearing this cockpit suit at an altitude of several thousand meters with a temperature of more than ten degrees below zero... But the biting cold just now was so real, as if the blood-red liquid had penetrated the fabric of the cockpit suit, and even penetrated her skin and flesh, and deeply penetrated into her bones.

She couldn't help but shudder.

At this point, even if Valkyrie 04's brain was slow, she realized that there was something wrong with the liquid. She quickly untied the safety belt tied to her body and tried to climb onto the back of the chair... But just as she tried to pull her calves out of the water, she felt an extremely strong resistance, as if the liquid had a strong viscosity that stuck to her legs.

She was a little panicked, but the harder she pulled her legs, the stickier it became... and as the coldness eroded, she gradually lost feeling in her legs and feet... She even had an illusion, an illusion that her legs were frozen in ice and she couldn't move.

“Damn it…Damn it!”

Valkyrie 04 cursed twice under her breath, then resolutely pulled out the pistol from her waist and pulled the trigger towards the water!

"Boom! Boom!"

Gunshots rang out and bullets shot into the water, splashing several water drops more than one meter high.

Just when Valkyrie 04 was about to shoot at the water surface closer to her legs, the sticky force from her legs suddenly turned into an extremely strong pulling force!
Valkyrie 04 only had one hand holding the back of the chair, and was caught off guard and dragged under the water!
She didn't even have time to utter a scream before the cold liquid filled the space inside the helmet and forced into her mouth!

Valkyrie 04's eyes widened. She clearly remembered that she did not unscrew the airtight valve between the helmet and the collar of the driving suit... How did the water... get in?

Her vision turned blood red, just like the red vision that happened not long ago, but the feeling from all parts of her body was completely different from the red vision...

After the initial chill, Valkyrie 04 actually felt a strange warmth... She felt as if she had returned to her mother's womb, with the gentle amniotic fluid wrapping her body. This strange feeling of comfort made her want to just close her eyes and fall into a deep sleep...

No...can't sleep...

Valkyrie 04's consciousness was still struggling, but her body had already given up resistance and just floated motionlessly in the water, allowing the blood-red liquid to flow into her body through her throat and nasal cavity.

In a trance, she seemed to hear the voices of many people talking, men and women, young and old, speaking in different languages ​​and dialects from different regions... The voices gradually changed from whispers at the beginning to a lively market, with some people shouting loudly, some singing loudly, and some reciting something with emotional voices...

She could distinguish Chinese and English, and could even hear the syllables of some words unique to Japanese and French...but she just couldn't hear what these people were saying. Whether they were quarreling or singing, when it was transmitted to her auditory center, it all turned into meaningless murmurs.

Valkyrie 04 felt like she was going crazy. These sounds were like countless furry claws gently scratching her cerebral cortex. The itching sensation that came from the level of consciousness made her want to split her head open and smash the organ called the brain inside into pieces... For the first time since she was born, she hated her ability to think so much...

It is precisely because she still has the ability to think that she feels irritated, painful, fearful and uneasy.

But what far outweighs these emotions is the feeling of being at a loss.

She didn't know where she was, nor did she know what she was doing. She suddenly felt that her existence seemed to have no meaning... No, not only her existence was meaningless, but everything in the world seemed to have lost the meaning of existence at this moment.

"I've had enough, I've had enough, I've had enough, I've had enough of this."

Valkyrie 04 shouted hysterically in her mind, and soon, the whispers disappeared, and her world returned to silence again.

She found herself on the surface of the water without knowing when.

The blood-red water spread towards the boundless distance, and everything in sight was red.

She seemed to have broken free from the constraints of gravity as she stepped on the water... She tried to take a step forward, and circles of ripples spread out under her feet, but the water surface held her feet firmly.

"How is this going?"

She turned around, only to find that the ejection seat and parachute were nowhere to be seen. The whole world seemed to have ceased to exist except for herself and the strange red water surface.

A strong feeling of emptiness surged in her heart, and she squatted down and reached out to touch the water at her feet.

The blood-red liquid was no longer as piercing as before, and the touch from the fingertips was so wonderful that it was almost impossible to describe the feeling in words.

The ripples gradually dissipated, and the water surface returned to calm, reflecting the image of Valkyrie 04 like a shadow.

She thought her reflection looked strange.

“Is this me…?”

Valkyrie 04 had forgotten how long it had been since she last looked in the mirror. For some reason, she always felt that the figure reflected on the water was not the familiar self.

The helmet that matched the driving suit was still on her head. There was a one-way coating on the front of the helmet, so she couldn't see the face under the mask clearly.

The liquid that had been poured into the helmet had disappeared with this series of strange changes. Although the view in front of her was still blood-red, it was because the surrounding area was blood-red water, not because her eyes were affected by something. She twisted the airtight valve on the side of her neck with some effort, took off the helmet, and her long light golden hair fell down.

Valkyrie 04 has the blood of the Siberian Federation, but she is a native of Xiazhou - her ancestors were the first group of refugees who settled in Xiazhou after the outbreak of the Weird War. Although they have maintained pure Siberian blood for generations, by her generation, she can no longer even speak Russian fluently.

Looking at the pale face reflected in the water, she was sure it was her own face...but for some reason, the facial features always looked a little...weird.

She couldn't tell what was weird about it... She suddenly remembered a word she had heard on the Internet, called "pseudo-human"... In a trance, Valkyrie 04 had such a feeling - she felt that she looked like a pseudo-human now.

No matter from which angle she looks, she looks very much like a human, but she just doesn't look like a real human.

This sentence is self-contradictory, but Valkyrie 04 feels that it is the most appropriate way to describe herself now.

"Why?" Valkyrie 04 murmured.

"Why?" Her voice echoed in the empty space.

"Why?" another voice suddenly asked.

Valkyrie 04 shuddered and looked around quickly, but couldn't find the source of the other sound.

The next second, she raised her head suddenly and found a female face vaguely condensed in the empty sky. She (it?) was staring at her intently, her lips moving slightly, and asked, "Why?"

"Who are you?" Valkyrie 04 asked warily.

She could barely make out the feminine features on the other person's face, but this face was not only not beautiful, but rather extremely ugly - her facial features looked like they were pieced together from defective parts discarded from the assembly line that manufactured humans. The bloated... or rather, swollen cheeks squeezed together the facial features that were not very good to begin with, and what was even worse was that this face was covered with scars and boils of varying sizes, and there was hardly an inch of skin that could be called intact.

"Who are you?" the other party also asked.

Valkyrie 04 took a deep breath, and she suddenly discovered something - she seemed to be hanging upside down in this space.

The blood-red water surface had switched directions with the sky at some point, and Valkyrie 04's feet were resting on the water surface, with her head facing downward, looking down at the strange face that was drowning in the abyss of nothingness.

She felt as if she had lost her sense of distance - that face seemed to be both very close and very far away.

"I am... I am a pilot of the Xiazhou Federation Special Fighter Squadron, codenamed Valkyrie 04... I..." Valkyrie 04 hesitated for a moment, then said, "My name is Eliza..."

"No," the face said, "those are just code names...code names are given to you by others, not something you are born with."

"Then who are you? What are you...?" Valkyrie 04, or rather, Elizabeth asked "looking up".

"I am the world," the ugly face replied.

"You are... a weirdo?"

……

……

For some reason, Sun Hang suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.

He subconsciously turned around and looked in the direction of Chimera No. 17.

As if sensing Sun Hang's thoughts, the vehicle that had turned into a monster suddenly stopped, and the friction between the tires and the road made a harsh sound.

"Why did it stop?" Fukada Miki asked in surprise, "Is it this car... is this weird thing malfunctioning?"

"No." Sun Hang opened the car door and jumped out. "You guys go back to the institute... I have some things to take care of."

"I'll go with you." Zhong Ling said as she wanted to get out of the car, but the next second she found that the back door was locked.

"Zhong Ling, I have a task for you." Sun Hang turned and looked at her.

"what?"

"Escort Shen... Escort Tang Jing back to the institute safely."

"how about you?"

Sun Hang was silent for a few seconds, then smiled at Zhong Ling: "I don't know what I'm going to do... but there's always an idea in my mind that's urging me to go over and take a look."

Zhong Ling frowned, but she said nothing in the end.

It was not until the car started again that Sun Hang heard a private message from her in his earphones: "Don't die."

"Death... shouldn't be that serious, right?" Sun Hang scratched his head and glanced back at the car that had gone away.

The next second, his figure disappeared from the spot.

……

After Sun Hang mastered the ability to use Kuiniu to accelerate movement, this was the landing he was most satisfied with.

Sun Hang rubbed his hair that was wet by the rain and walked straight into the vehicle hangar of Bunker No. 1.

(End of this chapter)