After letting Six hold him for a while like that.
Mono patted her slender waist.
"Alright, we should get going."
The smell in the basement was truly indescribable. Mono didn't want to stay there.
This time, Six didn't act willful again and obediently let go.
Mono led Six as they walked around the perimeter of the morgue.
After searching for a bit, they found an elevator leading to the surface in a corner.
A dim yellow light emanated from inside the elevator, which was not broken.
Mono silently pulled open the switch.
Holding hands, the two of them silently stepped into the elevator...
The elevator door slowly closed...
Then, light and shadow flickered, gradually shifting from slow to fast...
"Gulu"
"Gulu~"
"Gulu"
The elevator slowly ascended.
As the dark basement gradually receded, Mono's heart also slowly calmed.
The journey up was the same as the journey down. After waiting silently for a few minutes, the somewhat aged elevator slowly came to a stop.
Passing through a dark corridor and navigating several twists and turns for a few minutes, the Hospital's main entrance appeared before their eyes.
Stepping out of the Hospital's main entrance, Mono looked back one last time.
The Hospital was still the same Hospital, covered in ivy, with black tiles, looking like a savage beast with a gaping maw under the rainy night.
However, after the Fat Doctor died, this place would perhaps be buried forever in endless silence...
"Mono..."
A pair of cold little hands silently took hold of his again.
Mono withdrew his gaze.
Just like when they entered the Hospital, when they came out, the sky was still gloomy.
Rain poured down, a curtain of water between heaven and earth...
Their figures silently moved through the rain-soaked weather.
Mono felt the entire world looked very clear in his eyes.
Not visible to the naked eye, but felt.
"So the effect of [Mind Wave] is this strong?"
He extended his hand. Raindrops that should have fallen onto his palm slid away to the side just before contact.
Not only could it alter the state of ordinary objects, it also made his perception of the surrounding environment more detailed and sensitive.
This was the change brought about after activating the [Mind Wave] Ability.
Seeing Mono walking while extending his palm and staring blankly into the air, Little Liu beside him looked at him in confusion.
"Mono... what's wrong?"
Mono shook his head.
Mono also didn't know how to explain these changes on himself to Little Liu.
Silently withdrawing his hand, he continued walking forward.
Mono now needed to figure out the terrain around the Signal Tower and investigate the situation.
The purpose, naturally, was to avoid other accidents when encountering Mono.
Of course, if possible, Mono also wanted to see if there were any other monsters in this city that could help him or help Six increase their strength.
That would be best if possible.
If not, then after his investigation, he would have no choice but to risk entering the Signal Tower.
The only passage to leave this world was the Gate of Light inside the Signal Tower. One only needed to step through to leave.
Simple... but not that easy...
Just as he was thinking, Mono's ear suddenly twitched slightly.
"What's that?" A fierce gust of wind suddenly came from above.
Mono looked up and saw a huge black shadow falling directly towards them.
Mono was startled and quickly pulled Six to the side.
*Thud?*
A heavy object slammed into the ground, splashing up a spray of water, then fell silent again.
Who's littering? Don't they know throwing things from high up can kill people? Mono cursed inwardly.
But when he lowered his head to look, he found the thing that fell wasn't "trash"
H
O
But... a person?
Someone jumped off a building?
Mono was stunned, but then he noticed something was off.
Logically speaking, falling from such a height should have resulted in brains splattering and blood everywhere.
But the person before him hadn't shed a single drop of blood.
Even their entire body remained intact.
"Little Liu~ help me turn them over."
Mono walked over and grabbed the fallen person's body, finding it somewhat heavy.
Six silently nodded and walked over to his side.
Her demeanor remained calm from beginning to end.
The falling figure did not cause her the slightest bit of surprise.
The two of them used their strength to turn the fallen figure over.
The figure's entire face appeared before Mono's eyes.
The shriveled skin on its body was full of wrinkles, and its featureless face was likewise twisted into a heap.
The whole person seemed to have turned into a piece of wood or stone; the body was so stiff that it could not be called a normal person at all.
"Ding!"
"Composition:..."
"Analysis:... A controlled person; now it has exhausted all its energy, useless material."
Mono suddenly thought of those figures in the game that would go crazy the moment they saw a Television.
It seemed that this one that jumped down was one of them.
But why would it jump off the building?
As Mono thought about this, a black shadow suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Was it Mono who controlled them?"
Mono could influence and change the surrounding environment through the magnetic field spread by the Television, causing the subconscious of those watching to change; he had already personally experienced this once before.
This fallen figure appeared to be one of the victims.
But why would Mono want to control these people?
Mono was puzzled again.
What could these people provide for it?
After continuing to look for a while, Mono could only give up.
He had no way to obtain any information from this guy who had already "died" in front of him.
Just as he was examining it, a gust of wind suddenly came from afar.
He silently raised his head.
"Thump, thump!"
A shadow suddenly fell from a nearby high-rise building again.
It was like trash, falling once more onto the street full of accumulated water.
"Six, let's go."
Mono started walking towards one of the high-rise buildings.
It was necessary for him to figure out the situation.
Six followed closely behind.
Walking to the front of the high-rise, Mono reached out to push the tightly closed door.
"Creak?"
But with just a touch, the door collapsed.
The dust that rose up was choking even in this humid, water-filled weather.
Waving his hand to disperse the dust hanging in the air in front of him, Mono walked into the room.
Just like the door that collapsed at a touch, the interior of the house was full of rotten wood, thick dust accumulated in the corners, and rainwater was constantly dripping down through the gaps in the floorboards; in some places, mushrooms and fungi had even grown.
There was no elevator installed on the first floor, so Mono could only turn his gaze to the winding, serpentine staircase that stretched upwards.
Was she deliberately trying to insult him?
Swatting away the small hand that had landed on his face, Mono sat up silently: "Your stamina is the one that's poor. I was just overwhelmed by the smell. If it weren't for you, Stinky Girl, being so dirty and smelly, and leaning so close to me, would I have been overcome by the stench? You really have no sense at all. Let's go."
As Mono spoke, he slowly climbed to his feet.
Poor stamina?
It would be one thing if others said that, but how dare this girl, Six, say that?
Mono was really unhappy at this moment.
Six was slightly taken aback.
Puzzled for a moment, she looked at Mono's displeased expression, and thinking back to what she had just said, she understood what was going on.
She opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything...
The face-conscious Mono... really annoying...
Clearly he couldn't do it himself, yet he still blamed her...
She was not a Stinky Girl...
Six silently followed his pace.
Seeing Mono climbing step by step while holding onto the railing, she couldn't help but ask again: "Mono, are you really not okay?"
"Haha, stop joking, I'm not tired at all."
Ignoring the sweat dripping down his forehead, he smiled, "Even if there were another ten floors, I wouldn't call it tiring, so stop... stop saying silly things..."
Twenty minutes later... at the twentieth floor...
"Thump!"
Mono fell to the ground again, his legs trembling...
If it weren't for [Cell Division] being able to alleviate muscle soreness, he might have really collapsed right then and there.
This was a twenty-story building, not one or two floors, but twenty.
A full twenty floors without a single elevator installed; can you imagine what that experience is like?
A thousand-meter frog jump?
A ten-thousand-meter marathon?
It's roughly a hundred times that.
Being able to climb up alive, Mono felt it was already quite an achievement.
Just as he was holding the railing, bending over, leaning on his knees, and catching his breath, Six's faint voice suddenly came from the side.
"Mono... are you not okay again..."
Mono's mouth twitched.
Deliberate, it must be deliberate...
Six, you really are an ungrateful Little Person...
Just as he was thinking this, "Mono, does Six need help..."
A pair of small hands reached out in front of his eyes again...
"What... what kind of... joke is that, I'm not tired at all..."
Mono paused, then shook his head again.
Even if she wasn't ungrateful, she was definitely a heartless Little Person; she didn't know how to speak.
No, Six shouldn't speak at all... That would be cuter...
Mono felt indignant in his heart.
Of course, no matter what, he would absolutely never admit that he couldn't do it.
Especially in front of Six, how could he admit it?
Besides, overall physical quality isn't just about stamina...
Thinking of this, Mono suddenly gritted his teeth: "Don't let me catch an opportunity, or I'll let you see whether I can or not..."
Although his stamina was indeed inferior to Six's.
However, in some aspects, Six was far from as capable as him...
For example, Ability, spirit, and... he had simply too many strong points...
Raising his head to look at the winding staircase again, Mono's face turned bitter.
Is dignity really that important?
However, fortunately, the heavens seemed to have heard the resentment in Mono's heart; after climbing three more floors, they reached the top of the building.
Outside, the heavy rain was still pouring down...
Perhaps because they were standing on the roof, the wind and rain here seemed even more intense.
The rainwater was blown onto them at an angle, making people feel cold in their hands and feet.
However, Mono's attention was not on the wind and rain.
In the distance, surrounded by countless buildings, a huge structure stood towering in the center.
It was tall and straight, like a sharp sword, forcibly thrust between the earth and the sky, making the heavens appear even gloomier.
At the top of the building, a bright white light was flashing and rotating, as if it were looking out, or as if it were... peeking, monitoring...
Signal Tower...
Mono was a little dazed...
This towering building, full of oppressive power, pressing down on the entire gloomy city until it couldn't breathe... was the Signal Tower.
Whether standing inside the tower or watching from afar, the might it emitted was always so frightening...
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