latent syndrome

Chapter 75. Swamp Culture
Eugene cupped his hands to his lips and exhaled hot air to keep warm. The temperature in this hellish place was extremely low, and she didn't dare to walk around casually, for fear of stepping on some weird white bugs that burst out disgusting juice and splashed on her clothes.

She is very fond of this dress.

"Hmm...that's incredible."

Liszt used the dagger he carried with him to cut open a worm that was longer than a mineral water bottle expressionlessly. The blade cut through the wrinkled and black-spotted skin, exposing the full tissue inside.

"what are you doing……"

Eugene's pretty face looked like he had eaten a lemon, his eyes were squinted and his facial muscles twitched upwards, which really disgusted her.

"It's just that this creature is so amazing."

"You see, it just has a primitive digestive cycle cavity, which can vomit out food residues, satisfying the characteristics of coelenterates."

"At the same time, its movement is not only based on the contraction of the folded skin, but also has many body segments, flagella and warty feet to assist in movement, and it also meets the characteristics of annelids."

"Hmm...Look here, this is the rudiment of the wing, it's an amazing structure, can it still fly, they are the larvae of even weirder animals."

Liszt made such a judgment.

"Please, stop talking."

Eugene retched, his face was full of discomfort, Liszt's abnormality was far beyond her imagination.

When Liszt stood up with the knife, the filthy knife brushed past Eugene and almost touched it, and she quickly stepped back several steps.

"It's actually clean."

Liszt wiped the liquid on the blade with a paper towel and threw it off. After burning the blade with a lighter, he put it back into the knife sheath attached to his waist without any visible signs.

"Can you stay away from me?"

Eugene was extremely disgusted. When he first saw Liszt, he thought he was a handsome and decent man. This buddy is too perverted, whether it is his mathematical logic or behavior.

"It has been wiped dry and sterilized at high temperature. Even if some germs remain, they have lost their activity and are harmless."

He said very seriously.

Eugene didn't bother to talk to him, because what he understood was fundamentally different from what he understood.

The two explored deeply, and an hour or two passed quickly.

Because the surrounding trees are relatively tall, the dark green lush leaves cover the sky, and the sky cannot be seen at all, because the visibility is even worse due to the thick fog.

This lingering thick fog is not white, because there is no light shining, it is just the darkness that erodes, the invisible darkness.

As it continued to go deeper, the visibility became worse and worse, and the lingering disgusting stench lingered in the air. The plants and trees here were instinctively disgusting, and Liszt had to take off the small spare flashlight.

click.

Eugene accidentally stepped on something, and the atmosphere was already a little depressing, which caused her to run away in shock.

Liszt looked with a flashlight, and saw that it was a long-corroded iron road sign. After wiping off the dirt and mucus on it, although the white characters on the red background had become mottled and blurred, the information could still be read.

It has a cute logo of a cartoon animal, but it's impossible to tell if it's a groundhog or some kind of rodent because it's incomplete, and the letters spell out Welcome to White Rock.

"This is Baishi Town?"

Eugene was extremely shocked. It was hard to imagine what kind of fierce people would live here. He must be a predator not inferior to the infected.

"Well... I probably understand."

"There is a difference between the speed of light here and the outside world. I can capture that this is an independent world isolated from the real world."

Even Liszt's expression changed a bit.

"What the hell? Does that mean we're not on Earth now?"

Eugene understood this in this way.

"That's not the case. This is indeed Baishi Town, but it's not a town in the real world, but a town polluted by the abyss."

Liszt carefully chose the words to explain to Eugene.

"Wait... You mean, the abyss can infect not only people, but also... This is outrageous, and it can infect a certain place?"

Although this kind of statement is a bit perverted, Eugene changed his dislike of this place before, because patients with abyssalism feel kind to the abyss.

"I didn't say that, and you misunderstood me."

"I remember telling you that Richard Dawkins proposed the concept of a meme, which is a basic unit of culture that is transmitted not through inheritance but through imitation."

"Society and civilization are formed through communication, historical process, knowledge symbols, and finally a silent spiral to form a symbolic concept with a huge meme unit, which is the symbolic world."

"When multiple meme units of the same concept are superimposed..."

Liszt hadn't finished speaking.

"speak English."

The situation was already bad, and it was even worse for Eugene to listen to this strange man's nonsense.

"This is Baishi Town, but not exactly. Do you know the so-called inner world?"

"A concept created by film and television culture, but also different."

Liszt continued using the most common words: "Do you know the difference between S-level infected people and other infected people?"

He believes that at this moment, the information conveyed must be accurate in order to increase the survival rate.

Eugene shook his head.

Liszt added: "Because they dive too deep and deviate too much from the symbolic world, they have a strong individual will, and they are already a symbol, and they do not belong to the material world and the spiritual world at the same time, because this will Too strong, in addition to the real world wounds opened by the abyss on them, they themselves can also open wounds to the real world, forming a thing called the symbolic field, so they are so powerful."

"Plainly speaking, it is the evolution of vision and ability, but sometimes it is also a kind of degeneration. Many quasi-S infected people will be torn apart by themselves in this process, or lose the ability to fight, and go completely crazy. Only extremely powerful Infected people can become S-rank."

"In other words... this may be the domain of a super-infected person, or something similar."

Liszt finished speaking.

"Is that still an infected person? It's already a god! Hey!"

Eugene felt a little creepy for a moment, what else is he playing like this?Didn't she just wait to die? The two of them walked a few kilometers along the way. She didn't dare to think about it, and the more she thought about it, the more terrifying she became.

"This is the problem. Even if it is an S-level infected area, it won't be too big. A radius of 100 meters is considered very powerful."

"And this place..."

"The high probability is not the domain of a single infected person."

"I think... maybe it's the crazy townspeople here. With the outbreak of submerged disease, alienation has occurred here."

"Of course, this may not be completely true. It's just a guess, but I'm 60% sure."

"Do you know about swamp culture, Eugene?"

"Gothic culture in the south of the North American continent, jungle, voodoo, sacrifice, disembowelment, intertwined soul and karma, Carkosha."

Liszt talked non-stop.

Eugene grew more and more frightened.

"We have to hurry, the mayor's only daughter...it's very dangerous, this area will make everyone who passes by get lost and unable to escape."

"Will be trapped here forever."

"It's up to us now, Eugene."

"The most important thing right now is to find the mayor's daughter. The secondary goal is to find Colin and Heller. We must all be there to ensure that we can fight against the things hidden in the black mist."

"I don't know what that is, but I think...it's pretty scary."

Liszt spoke extremely calmly, as if he was ready to die.

"Find Colin first..."

The man who can always solve everything gives Eugene a sense of security.

(End of this chapter)