What now surrounded the factory buildings was a forest of corpses.
These dead people looked much like the personnel from the observation point and the Information Gathering Unit, except that their problem was far more serious.
The people from the Information Gathering Unit and the observation point had not yet been affected by another will. So even after they died, they were still doing what they wanted to do. But the dead surrounding them now had lost even their own wills.
Then what did that make them?
Batteries that used their own suffering to create Mental Monsters?
Lu Xin was unwilling to imagine how these people would feel if they still possessed their own awareness.
The tears on the girl's face had already given him the answer.
It seemed the Research Institute's previous worries had not been unfounded.
If living people could be turned into batteries, how could the abyss possibly not come into the human world?
"Big Brother, what do you want to do?"
The adorable Sister lay across Lu Xin's shoulder. Her fine black hair brushed lightly against his cheek in the wind.
Below them, the dim lights around them stretched Lu Xin's shadow into a twisted, elongated shape.
Like a ferocious centipede.
Lu Xin could sense the excitement within the shadow. Father was like a horse desperate to break free of its reins at this moment... No, like a chef eager to uphold justice and intervene when he saw something wrong, unable to restrain himself from bringing the ingredients back to the kitchen and letting them meet their fate.
Mom stood quietly to one side, smiling as she sighed softly. "What a wonderful opportunity..."
Lu Xin drew a deep breath, closed his eyes, then opened them again.
His pupils contracted slightly, and his voice sounded gentler