pjbooks Chapter 345 Abyss
Chapter 345 Abyss
As the car turned and drove away from the valley, he glanced at it out of the corner of his eye.
The once lush and green valley is gone.
Instead, it became a deathly place filled with thick blood and devastation.
"..."
He paused for two seconds, then casually rolled down the car window, and a wave of heat, carrying the smell of scorched earth, rushed in.
After the red liquid dried, he was covered in a bloody mess, looking like a walking, breathing bloody figure.
Lin Fan looked down at himself, frowned, took out a spare towel from the back seat, and casually wiped his face.
It's not very useful.
"Never mind, I'll see if I can find a place to wash up later."
He tossed the towel back into the back seat and focused on driving.
My mind started to wander.
He wasn't stupid. Based on what he had just experienced, he had deduced that the last fleshy ball was very likely the Shoggoth who had escaped earlier.
just,
What he couldn't understand was that when the other party escaped, they took with them hundreds of thousands or even millions of infected humans.
And now...
Why is this guy all alone now?
Of course, he didn't care about the lives of those humans; what truly concerned him was...
"How do I kill this thing?"
Lin Fan tapped his fingers on the steering wheel.
He kept thinking about the other person, trying to find something.
However, after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with any details.
Moreover, according to what the other party just said, as long as its consciousness is still in the dark space, it is not truly dead.
Lin Fan thought for a moment.
"So that means, as long as the Dark World exists, this thing is an indestructible cockroach?"
This conclusion made his brow furrow so deeply it could trap a fly.
So all my hard work was for nothing?
……
The car bumped along the mountain road for almost twenty minutes before finally arriving at the relatively flat main road.
Lin Fan was still thinking about it, but soon he thought of Da Wu again.
Big crow.
This giant octopus, whom he met by chance from the very beginning.
When he mentored the other person, it was just an unintentional act, or rather, he didn't care at all.
But now...
His own number one underling was also becoming increasingly strange.
"……etc."
What's going on with the memories that inexplicably appeared in Da Wu's mind?
It seems he never asked.
And that guy's increasingly strange intelligence.
There was also the way the other person communicated with him, which was unlike that of a typical mutated beast.
Could it be that that guy also comes from that dark world?
"No, no, no."
Lin Fan quickly rejected this approach.
It's understandable if others make such guesses.
However, it is no exaggeration to say that the Great Crow was instrumental in its birth, intelligence, and growth.
Therefore, it's not plausible to say that the Great Crow came from the Dark World.
"But where did those memories come from?"
The problem has come full circle.
Lin Fan scratched his head, feeling that his brain wasn't quite working properly, and immediately decided to put the matter aside for now.
"I'll ask it when I see it."
……
The Great Crow's habitat wasn't far from the valley. It was faster than when he came. After about forty minutes of driving, the Great Crow's enormous, mountain-like figure came into view.
From a distance, its massive body looks like a mountain.
Upon closer inspection, one could see the creature lying prone, its tentacles spread out loosely, covering an area of several hundred meters in radius.
At this moment, the giant crow lay there quietly, like a piece of landform sleeping in place.
As Lin Fan's car approached, the previously still Black Mountain suddenly began to move.
First, the outermost tentacles trembled, and then the enormous body began to slowly roll over.
One pair, two pairs, ten pairs, a hundred pairs... Eyes all over his body opened one after another, densely packed, all aimed at Lin Fan.
Then Lin Fan felt a surge of emotion.
Joy. elation. And... a feeling of relief.
He froze for a moment.
Are you worried about me?
The giant bird's tentacle tip gently touched the car.
With just this one strike, the force was extremely light.
Lin Fan: "...They're quite thoughtful."
He opened the car door and got out, then casually found a rock in front of Dawu to sit down, looked up and met Dawu's dense array of eyes, and started asking questions directly.
"I have something to ask you."
Soon, the voice of the Great Crow rang in his mind:
[Lord Prisoner, what do you want to ask?]
"Have you ever been to a place that's always shrouded in a gloomy fog, and there's a cemetery there? Do you remember it?"
Dawu did not answer immediately, but remained silent, as if he was thinking.
But a few seconds later...
【do not know. 】
"You've never been to that place? You haven't sensed its presence?"
【……have no idea.】
Da Wu's answer remained the same: he knew nothing.
Upon hearing this answer, Lin Fan felt a headache coming on, unsure if the other person had truly understood his meaning.
He stared at the countless eyes of the giant crow for several seconds.
The big crow was also looking back at him.
But in those hundreds of eyes, there was nothing but bewilderment.
Sure enough, communication between different species is troublesome.
But judging from Da Wu's reaction, he realized that the other party didn't seem to be lying.
This thing doesn't lie at all.
"Alright, since you don't know, let's ask another question."
Lin Fan thought for a moment and then changed the subject to another problem.
"What's with all those random memories popping up in your head?"
This time, Da Wu remained silent for an even longer period.
About a minute later, it transmitted a faint fluctuation of consciousness.
The general meaning after translation is...
I still don't know.
It doesn't even know it itself.
However, whenever it becomes stronger or absorbs certain things, a memory inexplicably appears in its mind.
Those memories didn't seem like they were things it experienced itself; they were more like... something etched into its body, which it gradually came to understand as it grew.
Lin Fan listened and then fell silent for a moment.
"Memories etched into the body."
He repeated the statement, "Like information carried in our genes?"
【Gene?】
Helpless, Lin Fan could only patiently explain to the other party what genes were.
The big crow, who understood what he meant, thought for a moment and gave a feeling of "more or less".
"So what were the contents of those memories you read?"
After the question was sent out, Da Wu's mental fluctuations became more complex.
It's not that I don't want to answer, it's that I can't sort it out myself.
Those memories are fragmented, without order or a complete narrative; they are just pieces pieced together, and even the person who reads them only has a vague understanding of them.
Finally, Da Wu transmitted a word.
【abyss.】