The artifacts of the heavens on the tip of the tongue

Chapter 185 The Dangerous Little Girl
The thread broke, and it seemed that Luke, who was falling, was facing a great crisis, but this was not the case.

With his prudence, how could he risk grabbing those unreliable threads without any preparation?

Just when his body fell more than 1 meter away from the arms of those monsters, what he expected happened.

The fall of his body did not go straight down, but formed a trajectory similar to a parabola as he jumped, just enough to hit the steel cable in the middle as a load-bearing cable before falling.

Supermarkets are crowded places, and it is absolutely impossible to let any dangerous place hang above the heads of customers. Therefore, the load-bearing capacity of this steel cable is far higher than that of ordinary steel cables. any problem.

He held onto the cable with both hands to stop his fall, then scrambled up the cable before the monsters piled on to catch him.

Climbing a rope, moreover a rope climbing more than 20 meters high, is not easy for ordinary people, but it is naturally a breeze for Luke.

It took him less than 5 seconds to climb to the top floor with his strengthened body, and smoothly walked along the steel structure frame of the roof to enter the small house he had aimed for a long time ago.

The space here is extremely small, only enough for one person to turn around inside, not even to sit down and rest.

But very safe.

After mutating, the monsters are similar to zombies. They are much stronger physically and very dangerous, but their intelligence has been greatly reduced. They only know how to kill and devour each other.

Another point is that their balancing skills have become much worse. It is impossible to climb up from the steel cable, let alone walk dozens of meters along the steel structure frame like a single-plank bridge to chase Luke.

Of course, if the monsters can attack from a distance, Luke's position has nothing to cover and defend himself, which would be dangerous.

Fortunately, the mutated monster is somewhat similar to a zombie, and does not have any long-range attack methods, so he is still safe for the time being.

However, Luke still had some doubts in his heart.

Is this so-called survival mission so simple? What is the significance of its existence, and what is the existence significance of this No. 99 test base?
Before Luke could figure it out, many changes took place in the silent battle between the monsters below.

It can be seen through the bright lights that about two-thirds of the monsters in the mall were killed and devoured by their stronger counterparts, and the remaining monsters became stronger and stronger.

Some of them had thick carapaces growing on their bodies, some had sharp bone spurs coming out of their backs, and some even had small bat-like wings growing from both sides of their bodies.

The evolved monsters still haven't stopped fighting, they continue to fight with their evolved counterparts, the victors continue to evolve, and the defeated are reduced to the rations of their own species.

No one paid any attention to Luke who was hiding on the roof of the shopping mall, and they seemed to have forgotten Luke, the culprit who caused them to fight.

Could it be that the meaning of survival is to devour each other and then evolve to become more powerful?

Luke gradually understood something.

If he guessed correctly, this testing ground should have been arranged by the system in order to let him learn something.

What to learn specifically may be related to the following battles.

The monsters devouring each other was very similar to the process in which he killed other monsters and then devoured them.

Regardless of whether it is just or not, this process alone seems too abnormal.

But the question came back again, why did the system arrange it like this, and what exactly did it want him to understand?
The brutal but silent battle continues.

I don't know if it is a deliberate arrangement by the system, but whenever the monsters in the mall are reduced due to fighting, there will always be monsters of comparable strength pouring in from the outside blocks to continue fighting against the evolved monsters in the mall.

Seeing that more and more monsters have evolved the ability to fly among the monsters below, Luke vaguely guessed that the system wanted to arrange for the most powerful monster to fight him in a decisive battle?

Otherwise, how can we explain the following battle?
While he was thinking, a childish and loud cry suddenly sounded, which was especially harsh in the silent battle.

"mom!"

This sound was like another signal, and the battle among the monsters ended immediately after the sound. Like Luke, they widened their eyes and searched for the place where the cry came from.
found it!
Luke found the target before the monsters, but at this moment, there was only horror in his heart, not half joy.

It wasn't because the person who was crying was some weird and terrifying monster, it was a small child.

Short black hair with ears, shiny hairpins, a small fleshy face, a pink dress with cartoon patterns, fat little arms and legs like lotus roots, and a pair of sandals that make a sound when you step on them.

It was a girl, who looked about one year old or less than two years old. She was pink and cute, and one couldn't help but want to pinch her little face.

Where she is now, is on top of a display counter on the third floor directly below Luke, with an opened cardboard box next to her.

Presumably she must have come out of that cardboard box, otherwise it would be impossible to ignore this little person from Luke's perspective.

The little girl was not far from Luke. The straight-line distance was about less than 8 meters. And because of the steel cable, it was not difficult for Luke to save her. He just had to slide down along the steel cable.

However, she is closer to the monsters, the closest one is less than 3 meters, and she can reach them with a single vertical jump.

The most critical thing is that there is no protective measure on the top of the display counter, and the little girl who is wobbling and trying to find her mother may fall from the top of the counter to the back of the display counter at any time.

There was an altitude of nearly 15 meters, and there were many monsters looking for the little girl with their eyes wide open below. As long as she fell, there was absolutely no way she could survive.

Save people!

This was Luke's first thought.

This is normal, any normal person, even with a little bit of humanity, would never let such a little person have any accidents.

Although Luke is no longer a normal person, he hasn't even lost his humanity yet.

So he will first have the idea of ​​saving people.

But what followed was a second thought: Why was she in this position, how could she be in this position?

This is not a normal place. This is the No. 99 experimental base, and it is the test site for Luke's survival mission. It is impossible for the people who appear here to be normal people.

The hundreds of pedestrians Luke had met before had all mutated into monsters, why would she appear here unscathed.

Therefore, it is very likely that she is also a monster, and Luke does not need to save such a monster.

But soon, another thought appeared in Luke's mind.

All other monsters can't make any sound, why can the little girl.

Could it be that she is not a monster, but a human being?

(End of this chapter)