My Endless Life.

Chapter 148 Is this called evolution?

Aina wasn't quite sure what had happened.

She just remembered that suddenly one day, everyone went crazy.

First, the guests turned into monsters with black blood, and then the people attacked by these monsters were also turned into monsters.

Aina and her friends hid in the wine cellar of the tavern for a long time, but they never waited for the city guards to arrive.

In search of food, Aina's friend left first and never came back.

Ina couldn't help but come out to seek food, but as soon as she went out, she ran into Li Qi and his group.

That was all Aina knew.

"Monster..."

Li Qi looked at the monsters on the ground with black blood flowing.

He walked in front of a monster and looked at the gap in the monster.

This was a monster that was cut in half by Li Qi. Its internal organs were clearly visible at the broken part of its body, but what caught Li Qi's attention was that he saw gears in a certain part of the monster's internal organs.

Yes, that kind of gear.

The gears are similar to those on the puppets made by Li Qi.

Most of Jinghua's current body is made up of this gear structure.

But these monsters have fewer gears, and if you don't look closely, you can't see them at all.

The gears were mostly distributed in the spine and chest. Li Qi didn't care about anything and dissected a corpse in front of everyone to check the "hearts" of these people.

He originally guessed that these people might be artificial humans in another sense.

But after examination, Li Qi found that except for the gears, other parts, including the heart, were no different from the internal organs of an ordinary person, which made him give up the idea.

Using the cleaning technique to clean his blood-stained palms, Li Qi shook them lightly, and the blood separated and fell to the ground.

He took out a handkerchief and wiped his right hand, then turned to look at Aina:
"Are you sure they suddenly became like this?"

"Sure!"

Aina said with certainty:

"There was no sign or warning. In just a few seconds, the person who changed initially turned into a monster like this."

Then it spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred...just like a mutated zombie virus, infecting everyone in the neighborhood.

This is all Ina knows, and she doesn’t know anything more.

She is just an ordinary person among the survivors. There are tens of thousands of ordinary people like her among the survivors.

The only ones who really know everything are probably the patriarch of the surviving tribe and the guards around him.

If you want to find out, you can only go to them.

"Your clan leader... where do they live?"

Li Qi asked Aina.

Since only the clan leader and related personnel know everything, why not just go and ask them directly? Maybe you can even run into someone from the Light Chasing Society.

However, speaking of the Light Chasing Society, since Li Qi stepped into this disordered city, he has never seen anyone from the Light Chasing Society, and he doesn't know where they have gone.

Logically speaking, the City of Disorder would become like this because of the Light Chasing Society.

But there was no sign of anyone from the Light Chasing Society.

"The chieftain... the place where the chieftain lives is quite far from here. There was originally an elevator that should have taken us directly there, but... now I'm not sure if the elevator can still operate."

Aina explained.

Their current location is still at the edge of the City of Chaos, or more precisely, near the entrance.

If you want to go to other floors of the City of Chaos, the fastest way is to take the elevator. Otherwise, if you want to walk from the outside to the core, it is unknown how long it will take.

More importantly, the roads inside the City of Chaos are very confusing, especially because of the different directions of gravity, making it easier to get lost in this City of Chaos.

When Li Qi entered this city, he already had a certain impression of the "gravity" of the City of Chaos.

The gravity in this city is very strange. As long as you walk on the road with your feet firmly on the ground, you can maintain gravity under your feet no matter how you walk.

Even if you walk on a wall, you can still keep gravity under your feet.

But other methods, whether jumping, flying, or any other way to touch another wall or the ground, gravity will not change.

For example, if you are walking on a corridor, you can walk on the ceiling and on the ground.

But if you jump up from the ground and touch the ceiling, your gravity will not be transferred to the ceiling because of your jump.

You will naturally fall back to your original position due to the force of gravity under your feet.

Even if you touch the ceiling with your feet.

But as long as you 'walk' and your feet never leave the ground, you can 'walk' from the wall to the ceiling, and gravity will be transferred accordingly.

Simply put... this is a place so bizarre that even Newton would be so scared of it.

It was precisely because of this gravity chaos that when Li Qi and his party crossed several streets and arrived at this area, they could no longer tell what the normal gravity outside the city was like.

Maybe there is no change, or maybe the ground outside is actually above Li Qi and the others' heads.

They had already changed direction.

Because of this completely irregular gravity system, it is very easy to get lost if you walk around this city rashly.

Only locals can tell which way to go.

"Anyway, take us to the elevator first."

Li Qi finally decided to let Ina lead the way and let her take everyone to the elevator to see if they could go directly to the clan leader's residence.

The girl Aina, who had been favored by Li Qi through suggestion, nodded and agreed without hesitation when she heard what Li Qi said.

Before leaving, Li Qi looked at Aina and said casually:

"Having said that, black blood does look scary. Even if you don't turn into a monster, you'll probably be scared to death seeing black blood flowing in your body."

Aina nodded with deep feeling:

"Yeah, if I hadn't gotten a little scratch before and the blood that came out was normal green, I would have thought I had turned into a monster too."

"...What did you say just now? The color of blood is...green?" Li Qi paused and looked at Ina.

Aina asked in surprise:
"Of course, what other color could it be? It can't be black."

"..."

Li Qi was silent, and Ronnie stared at Ina with wide eyes.

Just as the atmosphere was getting weirder, Li Qi suddenly laughed:

"Yes, it can't be black anyway."

"Right."

Ina didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Seeing Li Qi laughing, she also smiled with her cheeks slightly red.

She really didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with Li Qi's question just now.

after all……

It is common knowledge in this city that blood is green.

……

Ina led the way in front, while Li Qi walked to the back and walked side by side with the angel.

He used his left hand to separate a small piece of silk thread and wrapped it around the angel, and in this way the two of them were able to communicate secretly.

"How much do you know about this city?"

Reacher asked the angel.

When Ina said that green blood flowed in their bodies, Li Qi knew that this city was different from what he had imagined.

In other words, the survivors were not humans as Li Qi thought.

Thinking of the gears in the bodies of the monsters killed by Li Qi, Li Qi had a bold guess.

perhaps…

The survivors in this city are actually man-made.

Or maybe it is some kind of "fog beast" that is different from humans and looks like humans.

But guesses are just guesses. If we want to be sure, we either have to perform an autopsy on Aina directly or ask the angels.

Even though Li Qi was indifferent to the situation now, he couldn't do something like performing an autopsy on Ina.

After all, when it came to Jinghua's transformation, he could use the fact that Jinghua had done too many evil things and killed too many people to justify himself, but when it came to the anatomical transformation of Ina, Li Qi couldn't find a suitable reason.

No matter what, Li Qi can't really be unrestrained like a human being. Although he doesn't care about feelings, he cares about his bottom line.

If he loses his bottom line, Li Qi will be no different from a monster in human skin.

So after much thought, Li Qi could only choose to ask the angel.

But the angel's answer was the same as before. She calmly responded to Li Qidao:
"I do not know."

"You don't have any impression at all?"

"What I remember most are the scenes and images before the foggy area descended, so I have no impression of this city or the people in it, but..."

The angel paused here, stretched out his finger, scratched the wall, tilted his head and said:
"I always feel that the atmosphere of this city is somewhat familiar."

Seeing the angel in deep thought, Li Qi took a deep breath and didn't ask about the city anymore.

He turned the topic to Aina and asked the angel:

"What do you think of the people in this city? Are they... also relics, or something similar to relics, just like Adam that I created?"

"No."

The angel answered quickly, without even thinking, and said to Li Qi:
"Their lives are still complete. I can elevate their life levels. Living things can elevate their life levels, but dead things without life cannot elevate their life levels."

The angel paused here and added:
"However, the defective ones with black blood will not work. They failed to evolve."

"Wait." Li Qi instantly grasped the key to the angel's words: "Evolution failed... You mean, those monsters with black blood, the essence of their becoming this way is because they failed to evolve? The process of them becoming this way is... evolution!?"

You call this evolution! !?

"They are indeed evolving in a strange way, but someone has accelerated the process."

The angel answered truthfully, not seeing anything wrong with it.

Li Qi looked at Aina who was leading the way in front, pointed at her and asked the angel:

"She's evolving too?"

“It’s a small amount, but it’s true.”

The angel nodded slightly.

Evolution, green blood, survivors...

After the angel finished speaking, Li Qi began to think about the connection between them.

But before he could think it through, Ina, who was leading the way, and Ronnie who was following her, suddenly stopped moving forward.

Li Qi looked ahead and understood why they stopped.

The wide passage leading to the elevator was almost entirely filled with corpses of people who had died tragically.

Most of them were monsters with black blood flowing, and a small number were normal-looking "humans", but judging from the blood flowing, they should be "normal people" like Aina.

Because their blood is green.

At the very front of this passage filled with corpses, there was a huge, spider-like humanoid object blocking the way.

It... or should I say she, has a human-like upper body, dressed in a waiter-like outfit, with hands as sharp as blades, and a lower body supported by six slender legs and a huge belly.

It's like a giant humanoid spider.

But when she saw this giant spider, Aina's expression changed instantly.

Her pupils dilated as she stared at the Spider Woman at the end of the passage in disbelief. She asked in a trembling voice:

"Is... is it Lucy... sister...?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the woman raised her head and her scarlet eyes fell on the people in front of her.

(End of this chapter)