Naxi returned home alone.

Wine bottles, dirty laundry, and garbage squeeze the already small space.

The man decadently took out a bottle of brandy from the cupboard, leaned directly back on the cotton couch, and poured the wine into his mouth, his eyes so low that he wondered if the world in his eyes was only gray.

He is a brilliant actor, and no one can connect him with the calm man who was in front of Herwin just now.

It is possible that whether it is this decadent man who is full of despair now, or the guy who has been pretending to be an alcoholic and secretly planning to expose the truth of this world, he is the real one.

And now this man with two faces uses himself as bait, just to get a glimpse of the truth beneath the beautiful surface.

He had had more than one chance to get out of the way, and had Naxi never been aware of the danger of the truth? Didn't he know that after Allend's disappearance, his best option was to pretend that he didn't know anything?

Without hesitation, he rushed into the vortex that could tear his body into several pieces, and he also took the initiative to do many acts that amounted to provocation.

There was no way out of Avalon.

Once here, it is impossible to go back to the Land of Mist, of course, no one will yearn for that gray world, where monsters are rampant, souls will always disappear for no reason, and evil and powerful souls torture and enslave weak and good souls.

It's warm, light, and safe, and outside it's dark, wet, and dangerous.

But even though the outside world was gray, Naxi could tell the difference between gray and gray, but in Avalon, he was surrounded by complete darkness, and he couldn't see the difference, this was not an ideal town, but a cell, and the other prisoners in this prison were blindfolded, had their tongues cut out, pierced eardrums, and were completely unable to communicate.

Even if there are normal people, but in the midst of this group of crazy people, they have to carefully hide their true thoughts, and normal people have to avoid them if they want to exchange topics that will scare crazy people, and they don't even dare to communicate directly in words, because this place is full of magical powers like surveillance devices.

Moreover, the person who has the surveillance device is a madman, and if he reveals that he is a normal person in communication with other people, he will be caught by the madmen and tied to a pillar for trial.

He has never been an adventurous person, but in this environment, he is on the verge of collapse, life and death are not so important, anyway, he died once, and the body's instinct for survival gradually failed to affect his soul.

Although he hid a lot of things in his first communication with Hervin, he was not lying, when he entered this place, he had been subjected to unbearable torture, and his mind was almost completely destroyed, but even so, even so......

When he first escaped from the clutches of the devil, although he had a grudge against the fairy in the lake, but the habits of his life were still affecting the shape of his soul, he didn't think about what to do with those guys, as long as he could live, what was the humiliation and scars?

He was a wizard, not a knight, and he didn't have so many things to protect, and everything else was measurable to him except life, and only life was priceless.

But as he stayed in this place longer and longer, fear destroyed and recast him.

If the fear of death is the most primitive instinct of human beings, it is an unshakable truth engraved in our genes.

Then the fear of the unknown is the second fear that human beings continue to grow and grow after their understanding of the world and themselves becomes clearer with the development of civilization.

And when reason has an increasing influence on the decision-making of the human species, even beyond instinct, the fear of the unknown also surpasses the part of the fear determined by the genes of human beings themselves.

How small is death in the face of absolute unknown and incomprehensible?

Fear had already overcome Naxi, and he knew that he had succumbed to absolute darkness, contrary to his desire for life, his love for life, and he could only choose to plunge headlong into the dark alley of ten deaths.

And when people fall into the abyss, they will always reach out in vain to the top, trying to grab something.

Hervin was the straw he clung to.

Although he was very calm in front of Herwen, it was only because he was suppressing his fears and trying not to let himself act hysterical and scare Herwin away.

That's why he didn't dare to ask too much of Herwin, because he was afraid of being alone again in the whole crazy world.

They're all crazy.

And he is the only sober person, only he can have the opportunity to face the truth, if he continues to stay with them, or even pretend that nothing exists to communicate with them, he will unknowingly become one of those mentally abnormal guys.

He had to see the truth, and if the truth could save him, he had to get out of this madman cave, and his own life, the lives of others, including the half-normal man named Herwen, he could sacrifice.

He had to escape.