The winter sun shines peacefully and gently into this small room.

Filter everything in the room with a warm tone, even if the temperature doesn't rise too much.

It's still quite a heartwarming picture.

But at this moment.

What appeared in front of Aono's eyes was a completely absurd and chaotic scene.

A distorted, three-dimensional thing, close at hand.

The black hair is like seaweed floating in the ocean, spreading irregularly and swimming as if it has its own life.

A pair of white and black mixed together, like two whirlpools leading to another world.

Patches of pale skin, joined together, were not at all complete, and seemed to be all divided by something extremely sharp.

Five sharp, slender stick-like objects were approaching Aono, about to pierce his skin and penetrate his flesh.

And the surrounding rooms are completely strange and bizarre.

The original wooden rectangular container looked like a low and ugly dwarf, with a short body and an ugly face.

Some of the aliens resemble those in science fiction works, with no hair, no eyes, no noses, and only a cracked, toothy mouth on their entire face.

"Hee-hee!"

Aono could faintly hear it let out a shrill shrill laugh, as if mocking the stupidity of this human.

The whole body is full of graffiti like a mental patient, exuding a grotesque atmosphere.

It turned its head, as if intending to leave, but its steps were silent, its movements were incomparably slow, and it made its way through the air of absurdity and away into the distance.

Where are the "gnomes" going?

An unseemly curiosity surfaced in Qing Ye's heart, but when he wanted to look in that direction, an unprecedented shudder rose up.

'Stop! Stop it! ’

What was left of his sanity stopped him.

"Huh?"

“....... Aono-kun? ”

A familiar voice sounded crisply in Qingye's ears.

It took five or six minutes for everything Aono saw to finally return to normal.

In front of him, there are some grotesque monsters.

Only the delicate and lovely Kanda Yukie, whose little face was very close to each other, no more than thirty centimeters, full of concern and worry, she stretched out her little hand and wanted to touch Aono's forehead to confirm whether he was sick or not.

And in the room, there was never an ugly gnome, it was just a bedside table next to the bed.

"Are you alright?"

Kanda Yukie bit her lower lip, worried about those big beautiful and lovely eyes.

"Well, it's fine."

Aono nodded slightly, trying to hold up a smile.

"It's just, a little bit of sequelae."

"Just rest for two more days."

Kanda Yukie asked a few more words with concern, but in front of Aono's just right disguise, he still couldn't see too much abnormality, so he had no choice but to leave the room temporarily.

As the girl closed the door, Aono's gaze was rarely a little dignified.

It was three days after Aono returned to the watch world.

After finally destroying the sacrificial crickets with the help of their hands, Aono temporarily took refuge in the Lost Land, where he spent a period of rather agony - eating all the beings he came across.

It is worth mentioning that they unexpectedly met their old friend "Bone Eater Demon Worm", they saw that Qingye was in an extremely weak state, so they flocked to it and took the initiative to deliver food to the door - the kind that does not charge delivery fees! - It's really Aono's intimate good friend, a best friend who can be entrusted to the flesh!

With the help of many "friends", Aono's flesh gradually repaired.

In the process of ascending into the sky, even if Aono did not turn into ashes like the Vacuum Dao people, he was still extremely seriously injured.

Don't forget, Aono's left hand hadn't even grown back then!

It can be said that it is an injury on top of a wound.

But more serious than the physical injuries were actually the damage to Aono's soul.

After all, if you eat a few indescribable, your body can be repaired, but the soul, as the most mysterious part of living beings, cannot be repaired if you want to.

State:

Sequela.

The pictures that Aono saw were indeed a kind of sequelae.

The reason is probably that at the last moment of exterminating the sacrificial crickets, their eyes came.

Even if it's just a "gaze", and it's a very long distance, but imagine that even the sacrificial crickets that tossed Qingye to death are just food waiting to be eaten in front of them, you can imagine how powerful they are.

What's more, this time, their gaze is no longer isolated from the surface world, Qingye has no protective measures, and he is in the weakest state.

Nature has been severely affected.

It can even be said that they have left some kind of irreversible imprint on Aono's soul.

As for the manifestation of sequelae, it is the so-called "gestalt collapse".

Aono's perception of real things will be biased to varying degrees.

The symptoms are sometimes good and bad.

When it is more serious, it will be like Fang Cai, and everything he sees will become indescribably weird.

When it is less serious, it is impossible to "recognize" things at once.

This statement is somewhat abstract, for example, when learning a language, if you are proficient, you can associate the meaning of a word when you see it, there is no intermediate link, and people who are not so proficient need to think about it for a while before they remember.

For example, when people see a floor, they recognize it as a "floor".

Now, Aono can only remember that it is wooden, flat, and used to support the weight, and he needs to think hard about it, and then he will say, "Oh, this is the floor!" ”

That's why, in his opinion-

The room next to me is a boxy space.

Kanda Yukie is a weak and short primate female.

To some extent, this is quite similar to several patients who have suffered from cognitive impairment.

Fortunately, most of the time, Aono's symptoms were mild and did not affect his ability to make correct judgments and actions.

This allowed him to live peacefully in the lost world for a while—if he were to be replaced by another mental illness, maybe it wouldn't be so comfortable.

And over time, the symptoms begin to wane.

- Today is Aono's dream of the special situation of those contents, which cannot be put in the general situation.

It has been proved that this sequelae can be cured or even completely eliminated.

But then again.

Why is this called "healing" and why is it called "sequelae"?

Aono suddenly thought so.

It's nothing more than looking at the world from another perspective.

In other words, to be able to see more existences that ordinary people can't see.

Is normal people's perception of the world necessarily correct?

No, it's not.

Human senses are full of various deficiencies, unable to hear ultrasound and infrasound waves, unable to capture ultraviolet and infrared rays, and the perception of the world is just the so-called "real world" composed of various pheromones in tandem under the action of the brain.

Isn't that what I am getting closer to the truth than ordinary people? ’

"Nope! Wrong! ”

Aono shook his head violently.

Under the effect of flashing words on the front panel of his pupils, Aono finally came back to his senses in a trance and found that his back was full of cold sweat.

If he continued to think along the lines of thought he had just had, he would have really fallen into complete madness.

The soul is sucked into the inner world.

"Really...... Quite a terrible after-effect! ”

Aono gathered his thoughts, and he needed to do something to keep his mind focused.

Avoid being affected again by divergent thinking like just now.

So Aono began to examine his own panel.

Name: Aono

Race: Human

Occupation:......

Level: Level 9

Strength: 55

Constitution: 52

Dexterity: 50

Intelligence: 57

Glamour: 58

Reason:

State:

Skill:

Extraordinary Ability: 、、、、

Free points: 0

Trait Skill Upgrades: 0

Transcendent Skill Points: 0

Idiosyncrasy:.......

Equip:

Appraise:

To be honest, it's been a long time since Aono has taken a hard look at the data on his panel.

The reason is also very simple.

When facing weak enemies, Aono can already achieve an effect similar to "crushing".

And when fighting against powerful weirdness, the values of various attributes usually become a rather unreliable thing.

For example, the two six-winged sacrificial rays, their strength and speed are breathtaking.

However, physical fitness alone is not their most powerful weapon.

Efficient means of regeneration, and pillars of light falling from the sky are.

The value of the attribute is not enough to determine the success or failure of the battle in many cases.

It was Aono who ignored it for quite a long time.

It's just that just two days ago, Aono used the upgraded free attribute point - Aono, who has experienced a series of events in the ancient country, from LV8 to LV9 - to increase the weakest agility to the 50s.

has acquired a quality that looks very bluffing-

——

With so many explanations, in fact, there are still two sentences that are valuable.

Aono did simple experiments and learned about the skills, and gained far more proficiency than before.

Be able to master some skills more quickly.

To put it simply, this is the addition of a hidden attribute of Aono that is not displayed in the panel - Understanding!

Perception is not the same as intelligence, at least not the same as the "intelligence" in this panel.

And the last sentence "evolve in the best direction" is a very pleasant surprise for Aono.

For example, if Aono cuts a wound on his body with a knife, then after the wound heals, all of Aono's skin will be subconsciously enhanced, at least increasing the ability to "resist scratches".

It is similar to the principle that a person can increase the duration of breath holding by diving continuously.

It is through the adaptability of the human body itself to achieve the effect of enhancing a certain function.

It's just that Aono's magnifies this even more obviously.

Aono fixed his gaze on the race section of the panel.

mankind

The original "mythical bloodline" disappeared, and it changed from one to three, and it was still something that Aono couldn't understand anyway.

reason

This line is marked with a dull black and gray color to highlight its harmfulness.

This can be regarded as falling to the lowest point of Aono, which is close to one-third, and it is no wonder that Aono's thinking is not normal now.

As his gaze moved down, Aono naturally saw a very eye-catching "", and he suddenly fell silent.

Aono immediately thought of the last few words of the black mist, and a different taste appeared in his heart.

In fact, that's not all.

It's "Black Mist LV3"

The extraordinary skill points obtained by upgrading, Aono did not hesitate to cast on it, so the last four words disappeared.

But it's still not normal.

After reaching 100 proficiency, it should be upgraded directly without this situation.

Fortunately, after clicking on the annotation, the panel gives an explanation.

This means that the black fog will also reach LV4 again.

And a new spirit of black mist will be born.

It's just a matter of time.

But the question is, will the spirit that was born again be the same as before? Is it still the same being who sacrificed for the sake of Aono?

Aono is well aware of the answer to this question.

Sighed silently.

Finally, Aono looked down, a rather striking place-

Aono knew that this was the biggest change that had happened to him.