Higashinohara looked at the diary and frowned slightly.

He woke up after a year. Does it mean that the alienation needs to last for a year?

Or to say,

Something else happened in the meantime.

He pondered in his heart and gently opened the diary to a new page.

"On May 24th, Yin, I remembered it. I killed them! I smashed them with my bloody head! I remember the horrifying expression when my husband looked at me before he died. I remember that woman.

Expressions of fear and remorse. They are afraid of me. They are afraid of me. Hahaha. Wuwuwu. It’s not like that! It’s not like that, husband! I didn’t mean to kill you! I’m not a monster!”

"May 25, Yin, I am a monster, and everyone around me has also become a monster. I killed my husband and that woman. I don't regret it! Well, I don't regret it at all! Isn't this what I did under the bed?

What you long for in despair?"

"June 1st, Yin. These days, there seems to be a voice in my mind calling me where to go. That place is not far from me. I found it. Standing in front of me is Sister Ling Wei. She said it was her

Awakened me, I asked sister Ling Wei what happened. Sister Ling Wei's face was very sad. She told me that we were abandoned. I looked beside her and didn't see the person who walked with her every day and was so kind to her.

My husband, who took good care of me, couldn't help but feel a sense of joy in my heart. I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one who was betrayed."

"On June 10th, it was overcast. All the neighbors in Pujiang Community had changed. Some people had completely lost consciousness, like a soulless body. I was a little scared. Because I have been in a daze these days.

I started doing housework alone in the morning, but when I finished it, I found that the sun had set outside. I was so scared. I was afraid that one day I would become those people. "

"."

"It's cloudy on July 1st. There are fewer and fewer people in the community who can talk. The grandma downstairs who greeted me yesterday has turned into an empty shell today, but some people are becoming more and more awake.

, I am very afraid of them, because I feel a strong aura of hatred from them, but they all seem to be afraid of Sister Ling Wei. Sister Ling Wei seems to be able to briefly awaken the 'dead' people, so powerful. It turns out that powerful people no matter what the world is like

The changes are so drastic. Not like me."

"."

"August 10th, Yin, I want to leave Pujiang Community. I haven't been to the outside world since I got married to my husband. What has the outside world become like?"

"."

"It's overcast on September 2nd. It's already been turned upside down outside. The bustling streets in the past are deserted. It's hard to imagine that Jianghai will become like this one day, but it doesn't matter anymore. I've been in a daze for longer and longer lately. Maybe there are

One day I will become like them."

"On September 4th, Yin, I met Sister Ling Wei's husband in front of Jianghai No. 1 Hospital. His eyes were dull and lifeless, like a body without a soul. He seemed to have lost consciousness like the people wandering in the shadows of the city. It was strange.

What's strange is that he has been kneeling down every time he saw a doctor. All the flesh and blood on his knees have fallen off, leaving only the smooth kneecaps.

I suddenly remembered that Sister Ling Wei said that her husband who had betrayed and abandoned her went to the doctor when her amniotic water broke, and then he never came back. It has been nearly a year and four months since then.

It turned out that he had been kneeling at the door of the hospital for the past year. When he was leaving the hospital, I took another look at the man's back and thought that he would repeat this action for many years to come until there was nothing left on his knee.

My bones were broken and I could no longer stand up, so I climbed up with my hands. It’s a pity that Sister Ling Wei doesn’t know that I’m starting to envy Sister Ling Wei again.”

"On September 11th, Yin, I passed by the Pearl Tower. I don't know why, but I was very afraid of it, more afraid of Sister Ling Wei than I was of Sister Ling Wei. It's so strange. I obviously feel that my consciousness is about to dissipate, but I still feel afraid.

.It looks very dangerous outside, so I decided to return to the community. At least there is Sister Ling Wei there, and there are people I know well, even though they may no longer know me. "

"On September 12th, Yin, I finally returned to Pujiang Community. I met Zhang Tuzi. He also changed a lot. He seemed to have become greener. I told him about his wife and my husband,

But I didn’t say that they had been killed by me. I didn’t want to be seen as a murderer in the eyes of others, but Zhang Tuzi suddenly became angry and scary, and his body suddenly started to become greener and bigger.”

"September 14th was cloudy. I was in a daze for three whole days this time. I had a hunch that this might be my last diary entry. Before writing this diary, I looked in the mirror for the first time in more than a year.

The face in the mirror is bloody and bloody, is this what I look like now?"

"."

It turns out,

Ma Baoli's hunch was not wrong.

When Higashinohara turned to this point, the torn-out second half of the diary reached the last page, followed by a large yellowing blank space.

He put away the diary and fell into deep thought.

Before this, Higashinohara had wondered how the abilities that humans acquired after they were transformed into strange demons during the tidal catastrophe came from?

How to determine it?

How to create level stratification?

Now judging from Ma Baoli's diary and the examples of Ma Baoli and Zhang Tuzi, Higashinohara feels that the ability to transform into a strange demon is mostly related to his own emotions or obsessions when the tide comes.

When the tide came, Ma Baoli discovered her husband's affair with another woman. She was tied behind her back and stuffed under the bed. Out of grief and anger, she hit her head on the floor, causing her head to bleed. The ability she gained was [Iron Head].

hammer】;

Zhang Tuzi, on the other hand, was known to everyone in the neighborhood because of his wife's indiscretion, and was called the "Hulk" behind his back. He suffered a mental breakdown. Coupled with his irritable personality, he obtained the upgradeable character [Green Sorrow].

ability.

This reminded Higashinohara of the scene in the Aragaki apartment half a month ago. The convenience store girl who was incarnated had the ability of scissors. It is estimated that the strange demon who incarnated in her must have had some experience with [scissors] before she was alive.

Hands] related emotions or obsessions in this area.

So from this point of view, the so-called extraterrestrial tide may not have had much impact on the real world, no. It seems to have also had an impact on the buildings and humans in this world, reducing the flow of time that corrodes humans and buildings.

, otherwise it would be difficult to imagine that those people could stay in this hellish world for such a long time.

But there is no doubt that this tide has more of an impact on the spiritual level of all intelligent creatures in the world where Higashinohara once lived.

Here, if the human spiritual world is compared to a castle on the beach, then when this "tide" comes, some people, or most people, do not have strong enough obsession and will to support the fortress.

After the tide passed, their mental sandcastles collapsed and disintegrated, and the weak emotional fluctuations that remained were materialized into "unconscious" first-level gray ordinary monsters.

But there are always a small number of people who, because of their strong personal will, obsession or other personal factors, not only protect their spiritual sand castles in this tidal impact, but also realize their own abilities - perhaps

They have become the second level of strange demons classified by the Adjudication Department, and they have retained varying degrees of self-awareness in their bodies.

And among this small number of people, there is an even smaller number of people who may be elites in various fields before the tide comes. Whether it is will, emotional control or spiritual sand castle, they are stronger and purer than ordinary people.

This tide helped them materialize their purest spiritual sandcastle, and they became more powerful beings among the self-aware demons, and could even temporarily awaken other low-level demons in some way.

This power also caused the surrounding low-level strange demons to start to gather towards them. Perhaps they accepted this "spontaneous gathering" because of some kind of interest relationship, which gave birth to a powerful "different demon leader"

Such existence.

Such a strange monster is probably a third-level blue high-risk strange monster.

The feared Ling Wei mentioned by Ma Baoli may fall into this category.

But Higashinohara vaguely felt that she still lacked something, largely because she was stuck on the edge of the bottleneck between the second and third levels.

Otherwise, according to the records of the Judgment Division that have been explored for thousands of years, the third-level blue high-risk strange demons have the strength of seventh to eighth levels - human seventh-level absolute ability users can expand their fields, and the strange demons are more weird than human ability users.

Unpredictably, the seventh level of the third level must also have some correspondingly powerful characteristics.

Valley radon

Today, downstairs from the residents of Pujiang Community, the other party's attitude was obviously that he would spare no effort to keep them.

If Ling Wei is really a third-level blue high-risk alien demon, then the highest ability level of the investigation team is only a sixth-level superpower, and together they cannot be the opponent of a seventh-level alien demon.

Separated by a huge chasm, how could they possibly break through successfully?

Thinking of this, Higashinohara could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

If that's the case, it's okay. The supplies they grabbed today are only enough for two days at most.

If the opponent is really a third-level blue high-risk alien demon, then they don't have to think about making a comeback to snatch supplies in the remaining five days, they can just lie down and survive.

Higashinohara didn't know whether Gray Mine, the member of the investigation team who obviously came here with some agenda, could accept this kind of result.

Anyway, he couldn't accept it.

As he said to Hela, he came here to become strong enough to protect himself and the people he cares about.

Suddenly, the scene in front of Higashinohara changed.

At this time, his consciousness was once again immersed in the "Guilty Manual", and his eyes fell on the 1.5 source points that he had collected and decomposed after taking the opportunity to "make up for it" in the chaos during today's breakout.

[Are you sure to spend 0.5 points to permanently obtain [Green Sorrow] fragments]

【confirm】

[Congratulations to the host for permanently obtaining [Green Sorrow] (can spend 1 source point to advance)]

Butcher Zhang's own [Green Sorrow] level is not high, it is only the second level green ability among strange demons. Higashinohara gave up on redeeming 50 skill proficiency points and directly spent 0.5 source points, and directly and permanently obtained it in himself.

Among the innate abilities, there is no corresponding serial number in front of the ability.

But what Higashinohara really wants is naturally not [Green Sorrow].

[Are you sure to spend 1 source point to advance to [Green Sorrow]]

【confirm】

Suddenly, the originally green "Green Sorrow" in the skill bar trembled sharply, and the font gradually blurred and separated. When it became clear again, it had turned into a line of dark blue font.

[Advanced successfully]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining advanced abilities]
To be continued...