Volume 3: The King of Waste Chapter 413: Mapping
This time, Xu Shen stayed in the first level of the earthquake space in the mental prison for a long time.
Although it was quiet and lonely here, I didn't feel lonely because Maeve was by my side.
Instead, there is a feeling of comfort and tranquility.
The darkness under the earthquake seems like a solitary paradise.
The smell of decay was coming from more than one place, and Xu Shen guessed that there might be bodies buried by other residents in the building.
He was already used to the taste.
A few faint beams of light in the cracks of the rocks became Xu Shen's only hope of escaping. However, after a long time, no rescue came. Xu Shen estimated that this area should have been checked.
But I was ignored.
He wasn't in a hurry. As long as he had Maeve by his side, it didn't matter where he was.
But the environment here is indeed relatively bad.
When Xu Shen felt his body, he could clearly feel the ribs on his chest. His arms and shoulders were also quite rough and stiff. Although there was no mirror, Xu Shen could imagine a skinny appearance due to hunger.
Even though Maeve fed him, the food was limited and he couldn't eat enough every meal.
Xu Shen knew that he couldn't hold out here for much longer.
Xu Shen was quite curious, what would happen if he died here? Would the Mind Prison reset the scene?
He wanted to try it out and test it out.
When Maeve saw Xu Shen stop eating the food she fed him, she immediately understood Xu Shen's thoughts and shook her head and said, "Do you want to be like me? If it really comes to that, you will be disappointed."
“Once you cross the line, there’s no going back.”
Xu Shen smiled and said, "With you by my side, how can I be disappointed?"
Maeve stared at Xu Shen. These words made her eyes brighter, but a more serious look flashed in her eyes. She advised, "Don't be impulsive. Think about it again."
Seeing that she was so serious and even frowned, Xu Shen felt a little angry, so he had to agree.
He didn't understand why Maeve, who had often deliberately seduced him and wanted to bring him into her world before, was trying to stop him now.
Xu Shen ate the food Maeve fed him as usual. He estimated that it would take at least a year and a half before he would collapse. It was meaningless to continue wasting time here, so Xu Shen chose to leave the first level of the cage and wanted to go somewhere else.
Soon, Xu Shen arrived at the second level of the mental prison.
The speed of time here is 1:10 compared to the outside world.
In the second level of the Mind Prison, Xu Shen is still trapped, but this time the scene is an oceanarium.
Xu Shen felt strange. It was clearly his first time seeing an aquarium, but he recognized it at first sight.
There are all kinds of strange animals in it.
Xu Shen thought carefully and found that these animals were recorded in the ancient books he had read.
Penguins, sea lions, sharks... These creatures are said to only exist at the edge of the world, in the vast ocean.
At this moment, they are all stored in this aquarium, and the aquarium seems to have been blocked due to some accident.
In addition to Xu Shen, there are some familiar people here.
"Mother".
Yue Nuo, Xing Jun, Chen Han and others also saw the original owner.
The original owner was one of the managers of this aquarium.
Jono is a breeder here.
Chen Han, Xing Jun and others were all tourists. Xu Shen also learned from them that he and his mother were also such tourists. There was , which trapped them inside and they had to wait for rescue.
Many tourists were here, and some tried to climb outside using ropes.
Ropes are very important escape tools here.
However, the collapse blocked all escape routes and everyone had to stay inside. As time went by, feelings of panic and dejection spread among everyone. Occasionally, there would be a few quarrels, and some people would get into arguments or even fights.
Here, Xu Shen was just an ordinary, weak teenager, huddled in a corner with his mother, not involved in any of the right and wrong.
But food soon became a problem.
So, at the suggestion of a woman who looked like Xia Jingxiang, everyone voted.
In the end, everyone chose to use the animals in the aquarium as food first.
Relying on the tools in the oceanarium, they first ate the starving penguins and other small and medium-sized animals one by one.
Then came sharks, turtles, and so on.
The amount of food each person can eat is limited. Some rich people say they have money and want to buy more food, but no one pays attention to them at this time. Here, money has lost its influence.
Barely make it through the next month.
But there was still no sign of rescue, and everyone became more and more desperate.
In this desperate situation, food shortage makes survival even more difficult.
Coupled with the fact that people were crowded together, excrement, and unavoidable physical collisions, more and more outrageous things happened.
When the first death in a fight occurred, some kind of disguise seemed to be completely torn apart.
Then the adult males will form a group to rule, and when the animals have finished eating, they will start to eye the remaining meat.
Although Xu Shen is a teenager, he is a monarch after all. Even though he has the body of an ordinary person here, his heart is extremely cruel. After killing the adults who wanted to bully him, he established a deterrent and became a feared existence.
After all, he had secretly kept a sharp harpoon in his hand.
But as food became less and less, even the remaining meat became less and less, and this unethical survival finally came to an end.
Xu Shen survived to the end.
His harpoon was found by Maeve.
Among the pile of bones, only he and Maeve were left.
All the edible things around were eaten up, including some people's belts and leather boots, which were cut and eaten by Xu Shen.
In the following days, Xu Shen could only rely on Maeve for help and find food from outside, but the food he could find was not much each time, just enough for Xu Shen to barely survive.
As for why Maeve didn't help find food outside before, it was naturally because in this environment, if there were other people, Maeve would not be able to supply it, and there was no way to explain where the food came from.
This was an illusion, and Xu Shen did not regard these people as his own kind, so he had no sympathy for their deaths.
The days that followed were just like the first level of the cage, all that was left was waiting.
Xu Shen left the second cage and then passed by the third cage.
We are still trapped in a hospital, but it is very quiet and there are no doctors or nurses.
Xu Shen had no interest in exploring and continued to enter a deeper mental prison.
All the way to the seventh cage.
Xu Shen discovered that in each level of the cage, the scene was that he was trapped somewhere, blocked, or imprisoned.
He had no control over the situation.
By the time he reached the eighth level of the cage, Xu Shen felt that he was almost reaching his limit.
In reality, only a few seconds passed, but it felt like an extremely long time in the eighth level of the mental prison.
Xu Shen experimented with ways to become a god in there, losing himself, and changing his body into any shape, but failed.
Xu Shen realized that this kind of self is not the form of "I".
When one realizes that one is about to lose the form of a “human”, it means that one still regards this form as one’s “self”. Intentional violation of this form is meaningless.
Moreover, it changes into other forms according to one's thoughts. The strange shapes created are still "self".
Xu Shen felt that his understanding of "self" was not enough, but after a long experiment on the eighth level, he gradually understood something.
Before losing yourself, perhaps you need to break down your own defenses first.
In a small dark room.
Xu Shen stood at the door.
Many faces in the room stood behind the half-open door, staring at Xu Shen, reluctant to leave.
Xu Shen smiled and said goodbye to his "mother" at the door and everyone in the house. He planned to go out and try his luck and really leave the house.
Time flies.
A year has passed since Xu Shen defeated Lord Ling and took control of the inner city.
One day.
Xingjun came back from his adventure outside and told Xu Shen that he had found the last suitable Xu soldier.
These soldiers were found from the extreme edge of the wasteland, and a king who was accompanying them died for them on the way.
Xu Shen took the Xu Bing. The weight of this Xu Bing itself was only 2, which was not worth mentioning alone, but it was an important part of the Guidao Military Book.
