Chapter 52: Nightmarish Prayer

From a certain point of view, Tong Guan is indeed trapped in some kind of illusion, but what he sees and hears is not necessarily illusory...... Whether it's true or not, no one can tell.

After touching Chen Xian's forehead, Tong Guan's consciousness seemed to be instantly teleported to another place by some unknown force.

That place is far away from human society, and even far from reality, because in Tong Guan's opinion, it is impossible for the real world to have such a terrifying and terrifying zone, even if it is a strange and strange nightmare, it is difficult to give birth to such a grotesque picture.

Beneath the dark and boundless depths of the sea.

A vast and seemingly boundless land lies peacefully at the bottom of the sea in the darkness, like a sleeping beast, it is not lifeless like a dead thing, and everywhere it exudes a terrifying vitality...... In the center of the continent there is a huge and ancient square, where there are traces of "artificial" repairs, which have existed for an unknown number of years.

The boy officer is in a high position in the Secret Bureau, and his internal authority is extremely high, so he knows many things that are unimaginable to outsiders, especially those related to ancient secrets...... He had seen many ancient ruins in his database, and had even visited them himself.

Those ancient ruins are much older than the average person thinks, and even far beyond the known history in books, but ...... The continent that caught his eye at this moment was more ancient than he understood, as if it had come from the end of time, and everywhere silently revealed the vastness of its secrets.

On top of this ancient square, a giant tree made of flesh and blood was slowly swaying its branches and leaves, and this terrifying plant boy had never seen before, and could not even imagine it, because human imagination was no longer enough to support such a grotesque picture...... Beneath the huge trees, almost as high as the sea, there are countless beings of various shapes praying devoutly.

That's right, they're all praying.

These are full of resentment. A four-legged animal with filthy breath. Bear...... And even pray!

Those who kneel under the tree have thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of life, each of which has a different state, and most of them maintain their basic human form, of course, this is only that the proportions of their limbs are close to that of humans, but they still maintain the animal instinct of four-legged landing, and their appearance is ...... It's so distorted that they look like faces that only appear in a nightmare, and they all seem to have lost their skin, the most basic body tissue, but the violent. What was exposed was not bloody flesh, but white...... Miserable white meat!

Some creatures resemble skinless skeletons, while others have the characteristics of certain animals in the real world, such as the nose of a pig or the gills of a fish.

The most terrifying of them were the creatures closest to the Blood Tree, their massive humanoids striking in size, but their bloated limbs covered in abscesses had a strange sense of evil, as if the pus that filled their limbs was an ominous liquid.

Their bodies are covered with "mouths", and the structure of those mouths can be seen to be almost identical to that of humans...... When they kneel on the ground and fold their hands in prayer, hundreds of mouths will murmur strangely.

In the vast water.

Beneath the deep sea.

The boy officer could clearly hear the eerie prayers, which were absolutely not of any known language, not even of this world......

A continent sunk in the sea.

An ancient and mysterious square.

Like nightmare creatures, four-legged animals with strange postures and hateful faces. Bear.

Tong Guan felt like he was going crazy.

Everything as far as the eye can see is a terrifying picture that is difficult to describe in words, the whispered prayers of those creatures are like the secret whispers of demons, the boy officer didn't want to pay attention to the strange sounds made by those creatures, but those voices can't help him, like a virus that can be transmitted through sound waves, they drill down the ears of the boy officer, as if they are going to take root in his brain.

Under this terrifying scene, the Tong Guan had no other emotions in his heart except for fear, and the "fanatical believers" who were kneeling on the ground and praying sincerely seemed to have discovered the Tong Guan as an outsider at this time, and they all raised their heads to look at the Tong Guan floating in the air.

In an instant, it was like a nightmare...... No, that's a million times scarier than a nightmare!

Those four-legged animals. The gaze of the living is very similar to that of human beings, with extremely complex emotions and an indescribable "power", as if they can see through time and space at a glance, even if this is just an illusion for the Tong Officer, but they can also use some means to keep the Tong Officer here forever.

When their eyes were fixed on Tong Guan, they only broke down Tong Guan's psychological defense and basic cognition as a human in an instant, and he was considered an alien...... And it's an extremely powerful Inhuman, and it's hard to imagine that there can be such a group of terrifying creatures in this world.

It is no exaggeration to say that the boy officer at this moment does not even have the courage to scream, he does not dare to make the slightest sound, for fear of provoking those four-legged animals. Raw hostility.

At the same time, the blood tree seemed to be reaching the heavens and the earth......

Suddenly there was blood!

Countless crimson liquids poured out of its roots, but they were not dissolved and dispersed by the sea, nor did they drift around in the water, but clung to the ground of the square and spread...... The liquid must have been the blood of some creature, and the smell it emitted as it spread through the sea was extremely strong, and the smell was pungent like heavy decay. Defeated blood, but the smell that is unbearable for the child officers is the four-legged animals. The students' favorite.

They are filthy in these stenchs. Cheering, screaming, and dancing in the filth, and some were even very excited. Rolling in the filth...... They all shouted the same sentence in their mouths.

Although the child officers could not understand their language, they could clearly perceive that they were chanting a name, a name......

With their chanting, more and more blood flowed out of the blood tree, and in the end, it poured out like a floodgate......

In just half a minute, Tong Guan's eyes turned into a world of blood.

I don't know when it began, at the closest place to the root under the blood tree...... From the ground rises an altar made of unknown metal, with strange totems and patterns engraved on it.

The totems and patterns are drawn by countless curved lines, and the art forms they present are also incomprehensible to non-humans, not portraits of any creatures or images of anything known, just some very strange ...... Spiral pattern.

The more the boy stared at the altar, the more fascinated he became, as if the altar had some kind of demagogic magic, and under those "wonderful" patterns, the boy could not even look away......

The "beauty" of this ingenious altar was incomprehensible to him, and through those strange totemic patterns, he saw a kind of geometric symmetry that was difficult to find on the earth and even in the universe, a kind of "symmetry" that surpassed human cognition, and just a little glance, he almost heard the loud sound of the collapse of the temple of truth in his heart.

As a normal human, a human with special functions...... Tong Guan thinks that he has nothing to fear in this world, and even if he is buried in the mouth of some abnormal life one day, he can accept this outcome, because the alien is born even so...... But now he was afraid, trembling with fear from his consciousness to his soul.

The scientific truth in his heart, his self-belief, and even his worldview and outlook on life...... All were destroyed in front of this ancient and noble altar.

That's right.

The collapse of his consciousness only came from a glance at the altar.

On that altar, he saw a truth far beyond human comprehension, and although he could not understand the structure and meaning of the altar, he could be as ...... as the four-legged fanatics at this moment You can also sense that the altar hides secrets that transcend the past and the present.

It existed before everything was born and is the truth of everything, and it still exists after everything is destroyed because it is the truth of everything.

It is one, and it is all thousand.

It is both instantaneous and eternal.

It is the cause of all things and the effect of all things.

Suddenly, the boy officer felt as if he had gone mad, because he had somehow landed on this ancient square, and those disgusting four-legged animals. Sheng, with the overwhelming smell of blood pouring towards him......

The boy had lost the ability to think, and the whole person was almost mad and roared, even forgetting the escape he should have chosen, and he only dared to tremble and scream like a besieged prey.

"Are you demons?! Or anomalous life?! Get away from me!! Get out of here!! ”