Transform into Ruan Mei and start from the battlefield of national destiny

"Ms. Alyssa, please come forward and stand right in front of the statue. Then, don't think about anything and just look directly at the statue." said the guild mentor.

Alyssa stood in front of the statue. Following her mentor's instructions, she emptied her mind and stared carefully at the simple statue in front of her. At a certain moment, she suddenly felt that the scene in front of her began to blur, while the statue began to become clearer and larger.

In a trance, Alyssa saw a beam of light falling on her body. A warm current emerged from the bottom of her heart and then moved to her limbs. At this moment, it was as if she was in the winter sun.

Alyssa felt her eyelids getting heavier, but her body felt lighter. A feeling of sleepiness kept flooding into her mind, and she began to feel drowsy, and even began to want to fall asleep right now.

As for everything else, it no longer matters...

Snapped--

A crisp slap sound forcefully broke into Alyssa’s mind, like a tiger, slapping away the sleepiness.

Alyssa suddenly woke up, and suddenly felt that a lot of knowledge was stuffed into her mind.

"Congratulations, Miss Alyssa, you have awakened your ability. Please stand aside and rest for a while," the instructor's voice remained calm. He turned his head and looked at Ruan Mei, "Miss, are you planning to perform the awakening ceremony?"

Ruan Mei shook her head: “Let’s go, Alyssa.”

The instructor didn't react at all, but just led the way for the two of them.

"..." Alyssa followed Ruan Mei in a daze. Her eyes were still hazy. There were too many memories that just appeared in her mind, and her brain was spinning at high speed and couldn't process them all.

The two of them left the guild one after the other.

Ruan Mei gave up the opportunity to awaken her special abilities, which puzzled the people in the live broadcast room.

"Why would you give up such a good opportunity? This is a special ability! Learning it will definitely increase your chances of survival."

"Is there something you can't tell me?"

"I want to know what ability Alyssa has awakened."

It’s a pity that the cries of the barrage couldn’t reach Ruan Mei. Of course, even if they did, she wouldn’t care.

In the National Destiny battlefield, Ruan Mei was still leading the way. According to the guidance of her perception, she led Alyssa to the other seven areas where she felt abnormal.

Forge weapons and even upgrade your weapons and armor at the Blacksmith.

An adventurer's guild that teaches wilderness survival knowledge and provides quests.

A bar where alcohol numbs the nerves.

A brothel where you can relieve stress through carnal desires.

The church of this world.

A wandering trader's cart selling trinkets.

And, cemetery.

After walking around like this, they almost visited the entire town of Hamlet. It was already night. Along the way, Ruan Mei saw many people dressed in Blue Star style. It seemed that most of the contestants had passed the first level.

"I'm hungry." When passing by a restaurant, Alyssa suddenly covered her stomach and said to Ruan Mei.

She had breakfast today, and then accompanied Ruan Mei to wander around the town for the whole day, still on foot. She didn't know why Ruan Mei looked so weak, but her physical strength was better than hers. She walked around for the whole day without feeling tired and didn't even have lunch!

Especially since Ruan Mei was wearing high heels. Although the heels were not sky-high, they were estimated to be about eight centimeters.

Alyssa didn't know how Ruan Mei felt right now, she only knew that she was probably unable to walk anymore.

"I forgot. It must be this restaurant." Ruan Mei stopped.

Hearing this, Alyssa smiled happily and rushed into the restaurant. After sitting down, she drooled at the delicious food on the menu: "This restaurant actually has grilled fish, do you want one? Wait, there are also grilled pork ribs? Steak, seafood feast...all these dishes, I want to eat them all."

She looked up at Ruan Mei who was walking over: "Ruan Mei, what do you like to eat? This restaurant has quite a lot of dishes, do you want to -"

Alyssa’s words were suddenly stuck in her mouth.

Ruan Mei walked straight to Alyssa, then grabbed Alyssa's left hand. Her slender fingers moved up along her arm, over her shoulders, against her chin, and finally touched her chubby cheek.

After doing these actions that only people who are close enough might do, Ruan Mei turned around and sat in the chair opposite Alyssa as if nothing had happened.

"What do you want to say?" Looking at Alyssa whose face suddenly turned red, Ruan Mei's tone remained calm.

"You, you, you..." Alyssa's face was red, her head was a mess. She was a little angry at first. After all, her previous behavior was indeed very offensive, but looking at Ruan Mei's beautiful face, she couldn't get angry at all.

She was about to say something when she saw Ruan Mei suddenly take out a glass test tube with a wooden stopper from somewhere and push it in front of her.

"Drink it before dinner. Don't worry, I made it orange flavored. It's easy to drink and not bitter at all." Ruan Mei said calmly.

Then, without waiting for Alyssa’s reaction, she raised her head again, looked at the live camera, and said something that made Alyssa confused and her hair stand on end: “Tell them, if they don’t want to turn into monsters, go to the city center square to find Alyssa at noon tomorrow.”

Chapter 23 A Corner of the Truth

From the first moment she saw the statue, Ruan Mei realized that something was wrong with it. A large amount of polluted information was gathered inside the statue, ready to move.

It's like a red fire ant nest. It looks like an ordinary pile of earth on the surface, but as long as there is external stimulation, perhaps a poke from a wooden stick, or a step on it, the red fire ants gathered in the nest will quickly swarm out and cover the ground densely.

The so-called awakening ceremony is such external stimulation. The awakener is the unlucky person who doesn't know what happened, and the polluted information is the red fire ants.

Ruan Mei's action just now was to observe the extent to which Alyssa was now polluted, and the result was not unexpected.

If Alyssa was like a blank sheet of paper when she first met Ruan Mei, then Alyssa now is a blank sheet of paper with black spots painted on it one after another.

As for what happened next, there is no need to say much. It can be explained in two words: transformation.

The polluted life will begin to transform towards the source of pollution.

That unspeakable existence whose outline Ruan Mei had once glimpsed, an extremely crazy conjecture derived from the theory of reality.

Of course, these pollutions are not completely without benefits. As the mentor of the guild said, this kind of pollution can develop everyone's special abilities, and this is not a deception.

In Ruan Mei's view, this process is like a life phenomenon. When the signal is sent out, the shackles are liberated.

When Alyssa stood in front of the statue, the pollution that began to pour into her body blocked the signal transmission channel. During that period of time, it was not her own will that controlled Alyssa's body.

After leaving the guild and investigating Hamlet Town, Ruan Mei spent some time making this potion.

Add a little bit of rational dew, a little bit of dream foam, mix in the past, electrify, mix, separate, and you will get the light blue liquid in the test tube in front of you.

Back to the present, after Ruan Mei said these incoherent words, not only Alyssa was stunned in her seat, but the audience was also in an uproar.

"Well, Commander-in-Chief, should we contact other countries now?" Inside the Countermeasures Bureau, the deputy commander was a little undecided.

"Announce it, but remember to make the wording more tactful." The commander-in-chief thought for a moment and nodded.

He still remembered that when the Countermeasures Bureau was able to contact Ruan Mei, the higher-ups sent someone in person. This was enough to show how much importance the country attached to Ruan Mei, which was definitely not comparable to her identity in the information.

The commander-in-chief already suspected that the information given to him before was also fake, and the identity of the executive vice president of the think tank was most likely a cover to conceal his true identity.

Compared to the commander-in-chief who only needs to consider the international impact and orders from superiors, Alyssa has a lot more to consider. She looked at the reagent in front of her and thought about what Ruan Mei had just said, and she felt a chill on her back.

"You mean, I'm going to turn into a monster?"

Ruan Mei looked at the menu in her hand and replied without looking up, "Not yet. This transformation is only the first stage. It will only bring your bodies closer to perfection. As for developing into monsters and completely turning into them, it may take decades, or perhaps just a few days."

Ruan Mei hadn't studied this point yet, so she naturally wouldn't jump to conclusions. But when Alyssa listened, she felt the chill in her heart grow even stronger.

Just when Alyssa was hesitant, Ruan Mei put down the menu in her hand: “You are hesitating, you still don’t quite believe it, right?”

Alyssa nodded hesitantly.

"Don't be afraid, I understand. I can show you a glimpse of the truth, but I don't recommend you do that before dinner." Ruan Mei's tone was gentle, and she was not angry at all because of Alyssa's questioning.

Alyssa took a deep breath: “I still want to see it now.”

"Yes, sure." Ruan Mei nodded. She stretched out her right hand and pointed her slightly glowing index finger at Alyssa's forehead.

Alyssa closed her eyes, a nervous look on her face.

After about two or three seconds, Ruan Mei withdrew her hand.

"All right."

"Is that... all right?" Alyssa took a deep breath and prepared herself mentally. She opened her eyes but didn't find anything unusual.

In front of him was still the faded brown wooden wall, and on both sides were still empty tables. As for the ceiling above his head, the floor under his feet, and the table in front of him, nothing had changed. The surrounding scene was exactly the same as before he closed his eyes.

Alyssa was a little stunned, and even began to doubt whether Ruan Mei's previous words were a bit alarmist.

At this moment, a voice came into Alyssa’s ears: “Hello, Miss, this is the grilled fish and pork ribs you ordered, please enjoy it slowly.”

“Oh, put it here, no need to cut it, thank you—” Alyssa turned her head to look at the waiter who was serving the dishes, but before she finished her words, her pupils dilated instantly, and an expression of fear and disgust climbed onto her pretty face.

What did she see? She saw a monster in waiter's clothes. The left half of his face around his eyes still retained its human appearance, but his right half, his mouth, his neck, had all turned into a pile of flesh.

Blood-red flesh replaced the human body. His right eye was replaced by a mouth, surrounded by strips of bulging, grid-like flesh. In the grooves divided by the intersection of the grids, there were eyes of various sizes, like black gems.

As for the original mouth, the flesh on the lips had all disappeared, the teeth had become sharp and slender, and the pale gums were directly exposed.

His hands could no longer be described as hands, but rather as tentacles growing from a ball of flesh, holding a porcelain white plate. The contents of the plate were not the grilled fish and pork ribs he had mentioned, but pieces of meat of similar shape.

Alyssa could even see the buds of flesh wriggling on the piece of meat.

A feeling of nausea surged into my heart, and even stronger was the pervasive fear.

She wanted to scream, but her throat was grabbed. She wanted to escape, but she found that her hands and feet were out of control.

"Shh - don't be afraid, you are safe now." Ruan Mei held up a finger in front of her lips and exhaled gently, like a mother coaxing her baby to sleep.

Then Ruan Mei took out a silver coin from her bosom and handed it to the somewhat bewildered waiter: "She was just a little hungry, forget what you saw."

After receiving the tip, the waiter left happily.

It was not until then that Alyssa regained control of her body, but she had already collapsed on the seat with a look of exhaustion on her face. After rolling her throat several times, she squeezed out a hoarse voice: "Just now, what on earth did I see just now?"

“The truth, Alyssa, even if it’s only a tiny part, it’s still the truth.”

Chapter 24: The Day of Awakening

"I don't understand the truth at all."

"Then look back at the people behind you."

“I…I…” It was obviously just a simple action, but Alyssa hesitated and hesitated. She didn’t want to see the scene just now again.

"Are you scared? The brain's protective mechanism will make people forget the fear and stay away from the source of the fear. This is normal. Come, eat something." Ruan Mei picked up the knife and fork, cut the grilled fish and pork ribs in front of her, and forked a part of it and put it on the plate in front of Alyssa.

"Ugh—" Looking at the meat on her plate, Alyssa subconsciously covered her mouth. Her face was extremely pale. Fear swallowed up the hungry cramps in her stomach. The instinct of life was rejected. She subconsciously reached out and pushed the plate in front of her away.

"How can I possibly eat something like this!" Alyssa's words sounded a bit self-deprecating.

"So I don't recommend you to see this scene before dinner." In a calm voice, Ruan Mei picked up a piece of cut pork ribs with a fork and put it into her mouth.

The red little mouth opened slightly, biting off a strand of meat from the bone, chewing it carefully, and then swallowing it.

"It's a little overcooked, but it tastes okay, very juicy, and a bit spicy." Ruan Mei picked up a napkin and wiped the meat residue on the corner of her mouth.

Every move was elegant, but in Alyssa's eyes, this was an extremely terrifying scene.

“You—” Alyssa stared at Ruan Mei’s actions in amazement, “Can’t you see? This ball of flesh and blood!”

"Of course I can see it." Ruan Mei nodded.

"Then why, why do you still dare to say that!" Alyssa felt that her mind was a little dazed.

"Because there is no difference. These things are just food in this world. They are made of carbon and can meet the nutritional needs of organisms and fill the energy consumption of activities. Think about it, think carefully, are there any conceptual differences between them and the grilled fish and pork on the blue planet?" Ruan Mei put down the knife and fork in her hand and met Alyssa's eyes.

"In essence, the food on Blue Planet is just a mass of flesh and blood. It's just that their shapes have long become common sense in your mind, so you don't find them strange."

Looking at Ruan Mei's stunning appearance, and looking at the flesh and blood on the plate that was even beginning to beat, Alyssa suddenly felt that the person opposite her was very unfamiliar, and a thought popped up in her mind - could she, Ruan Mei, still be called a human being?

Ruan Mei's expression was still gentle, and her appearance was enough to make all the stars in the world feel ashamed. However, Alyssa had no time to appreciate her. She only felt that she was a monster, a mass of flesh and blood, a being covered with a beautiful appearance, but actually a "non-human" existence inside.

Alyssa didn't continue thinking because her head suddenly hurt violently, as if someone had pierced her skull with a needle, stuck it into her head, and then began to twist violently.

"Ah ...

So many things, seen and not seen, thought and not thought, people, objects, events... all mixed together, all in a mess.

"Eat something." Ruan Mei's voice could no longer reach Alyssa's blank brain, but she smelled a faint fragrance, and even her head, which was swollen with pain, felt a little relieved at this moment.

Almost subconsciously, Alyssa opened her mouth.

Ruan Mei pinched a dice-sized snack and put it into Alyssa's mouth. The latter was like a starving traveler in the desert who tasted the taste of water. She rolled her tongue hard and chewed with her teeth, sending everything down her esophagus into her stomach.

Ruan Mei picked up the test tube on the table again, pulled out the stopper, and poured all the liquid inside into Alyssa's mouth.

"Have a good sleep and you will forget everything that happened tonight." Ruan Mei said softly in Alyssa's ear. She helped Alyssa, who had fallen asleep, up and let her lie on the table.