Chapter 3: The Inverted Horizon
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The boy opened his eyes with some difficulty, lay flat on the ground overgrown with weeds, and raised his right hand unconsciously to the position of his brow in the too sunny weather, covering out the somewhat dazzling sunlight.
His dark eyes were full of confusion, and the boy slowly sat up, moving his gaze from the blue sky to the plane, and instinctively looked around, hoping to see something that would allow him to recognize the current situation.
But everywhere you look, there are weeds, shrubs, and a lush forest that seems to have no end in sight.
Although the green in the eyes can make people feel happy, for the teenager at this time, he can only feel irritable.
"What ・・・・・・ is this?"
Holding his forehead in some pain, the young man was slightly fascinated by his eyes.
'Midnight・・・・・・ coffin ・・・・・・ door・・・・・・
Familiar memories came to mind, and the boy began to recall what had happened to him up to this point.
"Wait, this won't be heaven, will it?"
After thinking about everything, the boy said to himself in an uncanny voice.
"No, no, it's not right, the ghost presses the bed・・・・・・ that kind of thing, no matter how you think about it, you will go to hell."
The boy didn't know if what he had experienced before was a hallucination or something else, he didn't know how he came to this place, and he didn't know if he was still in a normal world.
However, there is one thing that the teenager is very sure of.
I saw him look down at his hands, holding them a few times at random, feeling the real touch from the palms.
It seems that I am still alive, at least not like a dream. ’
Because he has experienced too many nightmares, the boy has quite a lot of experience in whether he is in a dream, and he can clearly feel that he is dreaming many times in the past, but what follows is often waking up from the dream, so that until now, the boy has no way to control himself, and create a dream or something by himself.
After all, you can only feel if you are dreaming, not control your dreams.
If the boy really had that ability, he wouldn't be tortured by the 'ghost press' every night.
Standing up from the ground, the young man patted the dust on his body with his hands, as if he was fine, not at all like a person who had just experienced many strange things, and had been in a nervous and depressed psychological state for a long time.
It's not that the teenager has a good mentality, he just thinks that since he has even experienced that kind of thing, no matter what happens, there is no need to make a fuss.
Anyway, he thought he was going to die, but now he has picked up a life.
Without thinking about any mess, the boy just stood in place, turning his head back and forth a few times, observing the things around him more closely, and analyzing the current situation in his mind.
'Whether it's a hallucination or something, am I crossing over now?' It's really casual.,I can travel through a dream・・・・・・ anyway, I shouldn't have dreamed before.,That's a supernatural event.。 Well・・・・・・ the coffin, the black figure, and the room of my parents don't look like hallucinations, they should be the reality of real events. ’
In this world, which I don't know if it's still the earth, the weather is unexpectedly clear, and the sun shines down without covering, which soon makes the top of the boy's head feel a little hot.
Walking under a large tree next to him, the boy realized that most of the trees here he knew, and it was not an alien species that he had never seen.
"Is it Earth・・・・・・
Sighing with some relief and some disappointment, the boy didn't think much about it, and sat down leaning on the thigh-thick trunk, taking advantage of the shade under the tree to calm his heart.
Looking blankly at the sky in the distance, the boy exhaled deeply, picked up a small pebble and threw it on the grass in front of him.
'If this is Earth, what country am I in now?' Judging by the weather and vegetation・・・・・・ it should be the junction of temperate and tropical. It's the height of summer, and the sun is so high, how can it be like this・・・・・・
With the advantage of still knowing some geographical knowledge, the boy was a little interested in thinking about such a thing. The feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe may be thankful for others, but when it comes to the boy, there is no more joy.
"Hey・・・・・・ Mom and Dad, it's not like I want to commit suicide this time, that kind of thing is not a hallucination, most likely some supernatural event, did you die for similar reasons? In the wilderness, if I starve to death, I will be able to see you. ”
Muttering to himself in a voice that only he could hear, the young man couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face.
If he could, he would have liked to have been killed by something incredible in his previous experience, and he would have died painfully, but at least he wouldn't have to live again.
Being alive is not a good thing for a teenager, but suicide is a violation of parenting feelings.
wants to die but can't die, which is probably a portrayal of the teenager's current mood.
"Forget it, let's take a look around. Mom and Dad, I'll try to stay alive, but I can't guarantee that there will be an accident and I will be reunited with you・・・・・・"
The young man, who had not rested long, stood up, looked around, and walked towards the dense forest in the distance.
According to the geographical knowledge that the boy knew, the sun appeared in the north in the middle of summer, indicating that he was still in the northern hemisphere, and the latitude was not too high; If you are facing the sun, you will be west on your left, east on your right, and south on your right.
And now the direction of the boy is the forest to the east.
The meadow where the boy woke up looked like a clearing in the forest, but in fact, no matter which direction he went, the boy would eventually enter the forest, but if he walked to the east, the distance was the shortest, and it would take him less than a few minutes to enter the forest.
As for what he would encounter in the forest, the boy didn't think much about it. Anyway, this is the earth, and the vegetation looks like modern vegetation, and the timeline that I travel through will not be too long, and there should be no fierce ancient carnivores in the forest, at most black bears, leopards, and the like.
Of course, even so, the boy can't just pass the black bear and black leopard head-on, he has already thought about it, and when he encounters danger, he will climb the tree, and the big deal is to learn the ape Tarzan to jump and walk on the tree, those trees are very close to each other, and from the perspective of the boy's perennial exercise, it is not impossible to do that.
Despite his somewhat flat and lazy gaze, the boy paid as much attention to his surroundings as he could, and it would be humiliating if he was killed by a wild animal just after escaping death.
Even if no one knows about it, the boy himself will dislike him.
Walking forward step by step, the young man's dark eyes turned from time to time, carefully observing the surrounding situation.
It doesn't look out of the ordinary, and the sunny weather combined with plenty of daylight can even give people a sense of well-being.
But for some reason, the boy always felt that something was wrong.
As for what was wrong, he couldn't describe it at once. Obviously, everything looks normal and can't be normal anymore, but there is an indescribable weirdness.
If you have to say it, the teenager can probably only describe it as 'plausible'.
'Strange・・・・・・ what's wrong, I'm not dreaming, it's not a hallucination, why do I always feel that something is wrong?'
The strange feeling made the boy's mood a little agitated, and he couldn't help but raise his head to look at the sky in the distance.
"Damn, am I still alive・・・・・・ huh?"
Suddenly, the young man, who was still complaining just now, noticed something different, and couldn't help but let out a puzzled snort in his throat.
"Is that ・・・・・・ mirage?"
In order to see more clearly the scenery above the distant sky, the young man narrowed his eyes, covered his eyebrows with his right hand, and craned his neck to look at the strange sky in the distance.
It was a mirage-like view, many kilometers away, and it was a little blurry because of the blue background of the sky, like a painting with a faint layer of sky blue paint, but even so, it was very conspicuous in the sky.
Before, because the boy didn't care much, he didn't notice that there was a mirage on the edge of the sky, but now after paying attention, at a glance, the boy realized that it was not just the sky directly opposite him, no matter which side in all directions, there was such a vague and existing mirage.
It was like a dream-like scene, and the boy's body was stunned and didn't move for a long time.
I don't know how long it took, his eyes staring into the distance were a little sore, and the young man withdrew his gaze and muttered with his head down.
"It's impossible, a mirage isn't like that・・・・・・"
According to the common sense in the minds of teenagers, mirages are often just a piece of sky when they appear, and the scene is usually wobbly, even a little blurry, and it will not take long to disappear.
But now, the mirages that surround the sky are like real scenes, although there is a sense of ambiguity caused by too far away, but the feeling of real existence cannot be ignored by the teenager as an illusion in any case.
Moreover, those distant scenes seem to have an inexplicable feeling of leaning towards the teenager.
"Wait, I seem to be missing something・・・・・・"
Muttering to himself, the boy looked into the distance once more, only this time he was looking at the horizon in the distance.
The horizon is normal, with a slightly curved arc, after all, the earth is round.
It's just that in the young man's eyes, the horizon that is slightly upturned on both sides is diametrically opposed to the arc he usually sees.
In other words, if you think about it, the position where the boy is now should be the interior of the earth! And those mirages in the sky are not fantasies at all, they are just like the boys guessed, they are real scenes in the world!
At this moment, there was only one sentence on the corner of the young man's mouth.
"Damn, what the hell is going on・・・・・・"
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