Chapter 41: Moving Forward

If possible, let Xiaoqiu drag herself out and beat her up now, or be smashed twice by those undisciplined pit strengths-

Of course, it's not because of the awakening of Shake M, it's just that the current situation in front of us is not optimistic to this extent......

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The moment the footsteps hit the ground.

The difference in essence is felt in the whole body and even in the soul.

Honkai.

It spreads almost at a speed visible to the naked eye in every corner of heaven and earth.

Objects disintegrate on their own, dust, stones, houses, and even the entire land disappear silently.

According to the bald head, the body of an ordinary person can support at most half an hour in this layer of the world, but at this time, in Yu He's personal feelings, this value does not seem to be very accurate.

The limit of how long a 'human' can survive in this world may be even shorter......

There is no time left to think and hesitate.

Well, there is no need to think about the superfluous anymore......

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The ground was littered with the remains of a few buildings, and the buildings that stood above the street had disappeared, leaving the land as empty as no end in sight.

A thin figure stepped through the ruins and walked towards the end of the endless earth.

There is nothing in front of or behind him, and there is nothing meaningful until the end of the borderless horizon, only an endless cycle of collapse and destruction.

By this point, his legs had lost sensation, and then, he had completely lost control.

It was a barrier called the boundary, a barrier that humans could never overcome.

This is no longer a void that can be filled by persistence or will, but a complete, impurity-free, physical limit.

The strength available to us has long been exhausted, and the pressure on the muscles and bones has long since exceeded the load, and it may only be a miracle to be able to move forward until this point.

Of course, even miracles have come to the final frontier.

In any case, it is impossible to take another step forward.

There was a dull sound in my ears.

Finally, the remnants of consciousness understood that it was the sound of a body falling to the ground.

It's probably the last sound I've heard in my life.

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Nothingness, the deep layer of consciousness is the emptiness of nothing in existence.

Exhaustion, more exhaustion than any touch......

Exhausted beyond ordinary people's cognition, both physically and mentally are on the verge of limiting, and are dragged step by step into the bottomless dark abyss.

Even if you sleep for ten days and half a month, it may not ease the exhaustion.

It is like a dry riverbed crisscrossed and cracked, and there is not a single excess of the body lĂŹ left.

All that was left on the ground was an empty shell.

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"It's ......"

On the empty earth, the young man looked faintly at the dark sky.

"Nothing......"

Hitomi's expression didn't change at all from the beginning.

This is a world where nothing exists.

Beings, things, time, boundaries, not even beginnings and endings do not exist.

Meaningful, meaningless.

In this world, nothing meaningful exists, nothing meaningless.

Because this is the void in the deepest layers of consciousness.

Having lost any trace of contact with the outside world, the only remaining place of consciousness that has fallen to the edge of nothingness.

I can't think about anything anymore, and my own existence has been gradually stripped away.

The consciousness of nothingness moves forward in the world of nothingness.

Instinctively, I eliminated any thinking factor and walked forward step by step.

The depths of consciousness are boundless, and even if they spread into the infinite distance, they have no meaning.

Moving forward doesn't mean anywhere.

Because that's the kind of world that's here.

There are no borders, no distinction between past, present, and future, so nothing makes sense.

The boy raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the top of the sea of consciousness in the void.

Even if you are no longer able to think, even if you have lost any connection with the outside world, even if you have fallen into the deepest layers of consciousness, your perception of yourself has begun to blur.

However, there was a voice that seemed to be engraved in the instinct.

Even the abyss of consciousness cannot be erased.

The boundary of the infinite void reflected in the pupil faded.

"It's not ...... now"

"Let's go to bed......"

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In the blurred vision, the surface is covered with cracks.

The empty body did not have a trace of numbness of perception.

In the next second, the endless darkness once again lifted consciousness into the mire.

A shallow arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The palm of the hand that reached out to the ground on the side of him slashed through the air.

Inch by inch, the red blood spread to the ground, soaking through the placket of his clothes.

It was a severe pain that raged in the body and could not be borne by ordinary people.

The hand grasped the sharp shards of glass scattered on the ground, and without the slightest hesitation, slashed through the air and stabbed straight into his thigh.

Pierced through the tunics, sliced through the skin, and pierced deep into the flesh.

The sharp edges swirled in the flesh, waves swept through the painful nerves.

Blood poured out of the cracks, and the coat was already stained a blinding scarlet.

"It hurts so much......"

He gritted his teeth and looked at the miserable situation on his body with a faint wry smile.

Under the impact of the wave of intense pain in the flesh and blood, the heavier consciousness has not yet been dragged into the dark abyss again.

The glass blade was pulled out of the flesh, and blood fell to the ground on the edge of it.

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'Da~'

'Da~'

A little blush fell to the ground.

The torn strip of cloth from the tunic was wrapped around the wound.

The steps were heavier than before.

Limping, or rather, just moving forward a little bit.

It's like you're going to fall to the ground at any moment.

I've actually fallen countless times......

Until-

The boy's back disappeared to the other side of the sky.