Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 184 Broken Bridge and Shattered Lake
Broken Bridge Lake, that was Yang Ya's final destination.

She went to meet the silver man and then disappeared.

As Li Daosheng was thinking and moving forward, he heard hurried footsteps from behind.

He looked back and saw that the person coming was Lao Yang.

He was carrying a lot of bags on his back, which surprised Li Daosheng. Could it be that he was going to go find Yang Ya together?
But the next moment, Lao Yang stuffed all the things into Li Daosheng's arms, panting.

"Inside these are a breathing mask, a tactical belt, and some other miscellaneous items. Cover yourself up with them. This will at least temporarily conceal your identity as a Uptowner."

After saying this, without waiting for Li Daosheng to answer, the old man turned around and ran away, as if he was afraid of being discovered by something.

Li Daosheng took a look at the pile of things in his hand and remained silent.

……

Half an hour later, a man wearing a breathing mask that covered half of his face appeared in the Broken Bridge Lake area in the southern part of the city.

This place is not difficult to find, but few people come here, even those from the downtown area are reluctant to come.

Li Daosheng walked slowly forward. The neon lights turned into a mottled swamp in the acid rain. He walked forward amidst the trembling sound of sewage pipes all over the ground.

Old Yang's modified breathing mask still couldn't filter out the pungent smell of decay. It was the breath of death wafting from the direction of Broken Bridge Lake.

The reason why no one wants to come to Broken Bridge Lake is because it is the landfill where the World Tree Company dumps its experimental waste.

The gray and gloomy sky was like two completely different worlds from the city. He stopped at the corner of a rusty sewage pipe.

Ahead is Broken Bridge Lake.

Even Li Daosheng, who had seen many worlds, was shocked at this moment.

Broken Bridge Lake is like a pierced electronic eyeball immersed in industrial waste liquid.

In the center of the lake stood a mountain of waste dumped by the World Tree Corporation. Spires formed by stacked abandoned culture chambers pierced the dark sky. The beach on the lakeshore was iridescent with oil, and the scrapped quantum servers were half-buried in the sand like the skeletons of prehistoric monsters.

There was a drizzle in the sky, it was acid rain.

Whenever acid rain hits the rusty computer chassis, blue-purple electric currents occasionally flow through the motherboard, and strange organ tissues sprout in the garbage, growing spider-web-like fluorescent mycelium.

The sewage pipe under Li Daosheng's feet was just one of them. The cracks in eighteen sewage pipes were extending to the center of Broken Bridge Lake, constantly vomiting out fluorescent green sticky substances like vomiting, forming a rotating vortex on the lake surface.

The sky above the lake is the reason why it got its name.

Construction on the collapsed cross-lake bridge has ceased, and no one is maintaining it anymore. The exposed rusted steel bars, like the broken ribs of a giant, point obliquely towards the city center. The surface of the bridge piers is already covered with polluted black vines...

This is Broken Bridge Lake.

A long-abandoned garbage dump polluted by the World Tree Corporation.

"Hey, are you going to the center of the lake?" A hoarse female voice came from below.

Li Daosheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman in a latex suit, resembling a ferryman, squatting beside a hovercraft. Her mechanical arms were old and her skin was loose and sagging, making it impossible to tell her age.

"Ten credits, and I'll take you to the center of the lake."

She said again.

"Why are you so sure that I want to go?" Li Daosheng had already jumped onto the hovercraft while speaking.

The smell here is really bad. Even wearing a breathing mask can't block out the smell of death.

"Hehe, you're not the first." She grinned, revealing her sparse teeth.

Li Daosheng threw her a tactical belt with a flashlight on it, which Li Daosheng had no use for.

"Is it enough?"

The woman took the tactical belt, examined it carefully for several times, and suddenly squinted at Li Daosheng: "Are you from the clinic?"

"Don't ask too many questions, just sail." Li Daosheng looked at her coldly.

"Hey, that's enough."

When the hovercraft started, it stirred up fishy waves, and Li Daosheng saw clumps of silver foam floating on the water.

When the bubbles touched the hull, they suddenly opened their insect-like compound eyes, and strange symbols flashed in their pupils. "What are these?"

"The products of the World Tree are nothing but failures and have no value."

"They say it's modeled after the structure of a jellyfish. Ha, you lunatic..."

The hull suddenly shook violently, and when Li Daosheng held onto the railing on the boat, he suddenly felt a scratch.

In the dim glow of the neon lights, he could make out that there was indeed a simple pattern engraved on the inside of the railing.

This is……

A bird?

"Bad luck," the ferryman suddenly said, "that woman came on the boat a few days ago and also encountered big waves."

"Hey, there's an oil pipeline ahead. I'll put you there and you can go in by yourself. There's a wave in the center of the lake, so I can't get in."

She was just informing him and was not discussing it with Li Daosheng.

However, Li Daosheng didn't care. Yang Ya did come here, and this simple bird was left by her.

Jumping off the hovercraft, Li Daosheng placed his palms against the cold pipe wall.

A subtle tremor ran along the metal, and he jumped in.

Broken Bridge Lake is a garbage station, but a garbage station is never just about garbage.

The mysterious man must have his own purpose for meeting Yang Ya here.

A white mark appeared between his eyebrows. Li Daosheng stood there in concentration, his mind seemingly passing through the Broken Bridge Lake, through the mountains of metal scraps, through the dense industrial debris...

His eyes shot open.

found it.

His body flew forward quickly, with the long sword already in his hand.

After crossing the oil pipeline and jumping out, Li Daosheng arrived at the huge open space in the middle of the lake.

When he placed the tip of his sword against the ground, layers of light spread out like water surface after a stone was dropped into it. The earth trembled, revealing an alloy gate leading to the underground.

The roar of gears turning came from inside the gate. After it opened, a silver figure was looking at him quietly.

"You are... just like her, a betrayer."

This person is exactly the man in silver who appeared in Yang Ya’s memory!

What does he mean?
"Where is Yang Ya?" Li Daosheng pointed his sword at him and asked.

"She is atonement." The man in silver replied.

"What sins are you redeeming?" Li Daosheng's sword gradually began to flow with true energy.

"Like you, you have committed the crime of betraying your own world..."

He said shockingly: "I have already become the pawn of the thieves."

Li Daosheng's heart skipped a beat.

Could it be another person who knows about the existence of [Thirteenth Moon]?
"You are smarter than her. It seems you have guessed some of it."

A man in silver took off his mask, revealing a face covered in scars.

He stared at Li Daosheng silently, pointing his finger downwards: "I won't stop you. Her consciousness has already entered the data torrent of the entire Yunshu City."

"If you want to find her, you can go in yourself."

"However, I want to remind you that it's not that she can't come out, it's that she doesn't want to come out."

There was a hint of contempt on his face: "In this case, do you still dare to go to her?"

(End of this chapter)