Chapter 1336: Inescapable

His steps stalled, hearing the voice behind him, Lin An gave a bitter smile.

It seemed Mo Ling also knew.

"Let's go down first; this place isn't suitable for talking."

Turning around, seeing Mo Ling looking somewhat wronged, Lin An couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

He actually only intended to let Zhang Tie know what had happened; as for the others, he still hoped they wouldn't feel pressured.

If it were other pressure, Lin An wouldn't mind revealing it, to let the team members grow faster.

But this time, it's no longer pressure; it's despair.

Even a will as strong as the Second Will cannot bear this 'fear'; they try every possible means to persuade him to flee.

As for the other members, Lin An still hopes they won't be completely overwhelmed by this before entering the trial.

Silently following behind Lin An, taking three steps at a time, Mo Ling, once she caught up, clenched his collar tightly, as if afraid of being left behind.

Inside the dim underground core elevator, the atmosphere was heavy.

Perhaps to lighten the mood, Lin An spoke up first with a hint of curiosity:

"Do you know where I'm going?"

"What, did Chu An tell you?"

"It's no big deal; I'm just going over to level up."

Having said that, Lin An smiled, as if it really weren't a big deal.

However, as soon as his words fell, Mo Ling, who was gripping him, shuddered violently; her already bloodless little face turned even paler.

Lifting her head, hearing Lin An's feigned light tone, for a moment Mo Ling's eye sockets reddened; at this moment she really wanted to pounce and bite that bastard to death.

"No big deal!?"

"This kind of thing is just suicide!"

"Chu An didn't tell me much! I figured it out myself!"

"He told me to prepare to be decapitated, saying he'd send you to the capital!"

"Tell me, are you really going behind the gate! Are you really going to fight to the death with those monsters!"

The rapidly descending elevator swayed slightly.

Her angry, even fearful voice instantly echoed inside the elevator.

Looking at that hated mask that completely hid her face, as if she could no longer bear it, little Mo Ling tiptoed up and yanked off the death god's mask in one motion.

"Look at me!"

"Why are you going to throw your life away! Why are you abandoning me again!"

With reddened eye sockets, Mo Ling's voice trembled with tears as she spoke; she seemed furious to the extreme, like a small beast about to be abandoned.

"Lin An!!"

"Have you ever thought about what I'd do if you died...!"

"I have nothing left! I have nothing!"

"If you die, then in this world there will truly be only me left!!"

"If you're going, then let's go together!"

She bit toward Lin An's arm, and in her resentment and anger, her small hands pounded wildly.

For the first time, she no longer suppressed her emotions, nor feigned indifference with tsundere pretense. Looking at Lin An's silent expression, at this moment she wished she could burrow into those eyes, never to part.

This time, if Lin An leaves, perhaps they will never see each other again.

After a brief silence, Lin An let out a soft sigh.

"If I don't go, we'll all die."

"If I go, maybe we won't."

"What about Mo Yu? Even if something happens to her, she's still your relative."

Before Lin An could finish persuading her, Mo Ling, buried in his embrace, suddenly lifted her head and stared at him fixedly.

"You don't understand, you simply don't understand!"

"Mo Yu fears me, everyone fears me! In this world I no longer have any kindred!"

"I don't want them; I only want you!"

"Lin An!! Why do you always abandon me!"

Staring fixedly into his pupils, the black in Mo Ling's eyes instantly deepened to the extreme, as if her emotions were in such turmoil that she could hardly control herself.

No one can understand her.

She doesn't know whether Lin An knows what she was thinking when she woke up on the hotel rooftop, seeing a world full of zombies and seeing those humans who wanted to harm her.

Loneliness, fear, despair, fear..

She fears everything, even herself.

And it was at that moment that Lin An appeared.

She can't remember exactly when she couldn't help but like following this bastard, nor when she first wanted to be forever with Lin An.

Perhaps it was on that sunny afternoon at the gas station; perhaps it was during a torrential downpour when they were besieged by red spiders.

In short, when she realized there was another monster in this world, that sense of loneliness vanished.

"Lin An, do you know what the world looks like in my eyes after I awakened and became a symbiont?"

"It's gray! It has no color at all!"

"I can clearly feel that every human is my enemy, every zombie is my enemy! They are not my kind!"

"Only you, only you are colorful!"

"Let's flee! Shall we run away... we don't care about anyone else..."

Clutching tightly onto Lin An's chest, Mo Ling seemed to be pleading, tears streaming uncontrollably from her eyes.

"Either we die together, or we escape together."

"We can escape; even if you want to save many people, I can do it too!"

"Just like Colonel Chu used to threaten me, saying he'd send my brain to Mars, I'm willing! If we smash our heads a few more times, we can all get sent there!"

"I'm not afraid of pain, I'm not afraid of death, can we leave this place..."

Wiping away a tear, little Mo Ling looked at him with red eyes, as if she needed Lin An to give her an answer.

A soundless silence.

After a moment, Lin An slowly reached out his hand, wiped the tears from Mo Ling's eye corners, and spoke softly:

"We can't escape."

"Mo Ling, have you ever thought about what to do if the system issues a mission before humanity's extinction? Or what if I have to enter a certain dungeon?"

"We can't escape. The Doomsday Game won't allow cowards to live."

"Believe me, I will definitely come back alive!"

As his words faded, Lin An seemed to catch a glimpse of the Heavenly Eye people hiding in near-Earth orbit.

Although those Heavenly Eye people merely told him they refused to flee to another star system due to resource issues, Lin An actually knew very well that once the Heavenly Eye people failed, from the moment they gave up resistance for their own reasons, the system no longer regarded them as "people".

Those Heavenly Eye people must have attempted to escape many times.

But.

"A dog that attempts to flee will only die in a more gruesome way than a person."