Chapter 69: Corruption in Dreams
The monster sprouted sharp spikes that pierced through the skin of my hand and pierced it firmly, parting its teeth and biting my thumb. This mouthful made the numbness that only existed in the fingertips before spread all over the body in an instant! In fact, it didn't hurt, and it was even somewhat comfortable.
But the golden heart is beating wildly! That's a sign of extreme danger!
I tried to get out of this danger, but my hands were so numb that I couldn't use any strength at all, my vision began to blur, my feet could no longer support my body, and the moment I collapsed, I just felt like the whole world was spinning.
"What's going on...... I struggled to get up, but the world in front ......of me was getting darker and darker.
It was as if I had fallen into the abyss.
Until the hazy light gradually appeared, my lost strength seemed to be completely restored.
But the world in his eyes has changed.
"It's ...... Where? "I stood up with my body propped up, and in front of me was a plain full of green grass, with no end in sight.
I looked at my hands, and there was no pain, no numbness, not even the wounds left before.
I looked back and forth, there were no roads, no people, I could only go in one direction instinctively. As I advanced, the color of the sky dimmed. The cold and strange wind blew from all directions, and there was a faint buzz in the ears, and the buzzing sound seemed to be mixed with bursts of wailing.
The wailing became clearer.
It was the screams of the flesh and bones before they died......
It was a voice that I will never forget for the rest of my life.
I covered my ears and said, "What's going on...... Belch! Yes! "I couldn't hear the wind, but the screams became clearer! I started running wildly, trying to get rid of the sound as quickly as possible, but I found that the more I ran, the louder it became.
Not far away, approaching!
When I realized this, I immediately controlled my legs and stopped, only to find that the world in front of me had changed. The plain may still be the same plain, but there are large hanging white cloth buckets......
I looked up, and the bucket was so high that there was no end in sight, as if it were being hammered from the highest point in the sky.
For some reason, this thing scared me so much that I instinctively backed away and turned around, only to bump into the white cloth head-on!
It turns out that behind him too, endlessly.
It was so close that I could see very clearly, it was not a bucket at all, but a long skirt, or robe. They hung down from the sky, and the bright red blood dripped from under their robes, gradually dyeing the green of the entire meadow into blood. Curiosity made me want to see what was inside that robe.
I lay down, got in, and when I looked up, I saw a pair of feet!
Blood dripped down the toes, and as the blood dripped down, the originally delicate toes quickly dried up! I looked up and continued to look upward, and as I looked, the shriveled shriveled upwards rapidly.
It was a long pair of legs, so long that there was no end to it.
In a trance, a white feather fell from my robe and landed right on my forehead. At that moment, my gaze seemed to see the highest point of the robe, where there were a pair of white feathered wings......
"Yes, Angel ......"
"The Hanged Angel ......"
I poked out of my robes and walked between the blood-colored earth and the blood-stained robes. The robes widened and twisted in my line of sight, until they became blood-stained sheets that hung horizontally and vertically on endless threads pulled out of nowhere, forming a vast labyrinth.
The wailing and screaming came again.
It's like hiding behind every sheet, maybe the next second I lift it, a bloody face, hung with a skeleton of broken flesh, will appear in front of me!
"Something's wrong, it's not right, how can you see these things...... It's impossible. Could it be ......?"
I didn't keep going.
Maybe it was because I was afraid of what I might see when I lifted the sheets, but it also calmed me down.
I was sure I had been bitten by the worm, and then I collapsed to the ground, my vision blurred. So am I hallucinating at the moment?
"Yes, it must be an illusion. That kind of scene of hanging angels is not logical and impossible at all. ”
"But how do I get out of this illusion?"
"I'm careless, next time, you must not catch insects with your hands, and neither can corpses."
I sat still, closed my eyes, and twisted my fingers violently. But after doing this for a few seconds, I felt stupid, if the world in front of me was an illusion, then there would be no such thing as me being able to twist my fingers.
"It was like a nightmare, and I was in a coma. How can it hurt to pinch yourself in a dream...... It's stupid. ”
When I opened my eyes, I suddenly found that the sheets in front of me were gone, and a church with a black style appeared in front of me. It appeared out of nourishment on the bloodstained plains, and though I had never been to the Covenant of Darkness, my gut told me it was.
I stood up and walked in the direction of the church.
Although I knew that something terrible might happen, I was always curious, even if it was a hallucination, why did the image I see appear, and why did it need a reason?
But when I was about to enter the church, I suddenly felt an indescribable sour tingling sensation from the fingers that had pinched the insect and the position of the tiger's mouth. When I looked up, the place was starting to turn black, like charcoal, and the dust was falling off little by little as I moved my hand.
When I rubbed that position, the moment I touched it, it was like pinching the crushed dregs, and if I was not careful, it shattered.
My hand was half broken and I didn't feel any pain, but I realized very well that I couldn't capture the missing part.
There were many scorched scars like this in other parts of my body, and they didn't just appear, and I vaguely remember that I had noticed something unusual in the process of fleeing out of fear.
And at this moment, there are fewer and fewer parts of the body that can be felt by yourself.
"Oops."
Bang!
Bang bang!!
The beating of the golden heart reappeared, especially strongly. It was a prophet of danger, and it seemed that this gradually deteriorating body would eventually send me to true demise.
In front of me is an illusion, and my body represents consciousness, which is being corrupted by illusions.
The body is still dying out, but the picture in front of me suddenly changes, "What is this place?" ”
At this moment, I felt as if I was in the middle of a church, where the interior was still dark, the floor was full of dust, and figures passed through the corridors to the halls, shuttling between seats, cleaning, and I spoke to them, but they turned a deaf ear and cared only about the dust on the floor.
And the dust, after being cleaned again and again, will soon reappear.
My body was crumbling faster and faster, and I was starting to feel overwhelmed, but I seemed to have been standing here for a long time. So, I decided to take a step, but the moment I landed, all the people who had ignored me before focused on me.
But that's not looking at me.
It's looking at my footprints......
All with mops, brooms, and rushed to me at the same time!
Their mops and brooms ran through my body, frantically cleaning up the footprints I had left behind. As they moved, as the footprints continued to disappear, my body died faster and faster.
"In the spiritual world, the consciousness is destroyed, so even if I have insect poison in my body, I can't repair myself at the moment. What will become of me when I lose consciousness? ”
My body continued to crumble.
The sight began to blur, the church was about to disappear, and with it was going to die.
But at this time, in the picture that was about to collapse, it suddenly gradually reorganized! It starts slowly, but when it reaches a certain point, it suddenly bursts! A shattered world, quickly recover! Reduced to ashes, I have a body again! It's like a rewind of a movie. I felt the beating of the golden heart again, and I felt something, in my body, constantly being cleared.
That thing, it's the scream. It's the wailing that seems to come from hell.
It gets smaller and smaller until it disappears completely.
I sat on the ground, still in the same church, but in a tone that changed from dim black to holy white.
Looking up, the canopy of the church was translucent, and I could faintly see angels spreading their wings in the air.
A feather, fluttering down, just stopped between my eyebrows.
When I grabbed it, it turned into a mass of slime again.
In the liquid, there were dense strips of worms, which scared me, but I immediately realized that this thing was the worm poison in my body.
Has it been fixed?
I'd love to say that it was the self-healing power of this insect poison that saved me.
But I always feel that this time is different from before.
What's the difference, exactly?
Thinking back to the past, every time I was rescued by the insect poison, I instinctively thought that it was the king worm trying to take away my body and devour my consciousness, and in order to protect what it had to have, the insect poison would repair my body for me. But the words of the dry corpse made me redefine the insect poison and the consequences of the king insect ritual.
It's not self-healing, it's not a fix.
These words should not be used for this insect venom. To be precise, insect venom is evolving!
Evolve.
The moment these two words appeared in my mind, the world around me changed, and I felt as if I was in a large area of insect venom slime, and I could see dense strips of worms in all directions, they were slender, small, the weakest thing in the world. However, they intertwined with each other, incarnating as seven king worms, fourteen king worms, twenty-one people, twenty-eight, thirty-five......
The greater the external pressures, the faster they change!
The worm, originally weak, every fatal injury, without destroying it, will make it evolve! It will give birth to the method of restraint, and instead it will devour and destroy the damage!
That's what the dry corpse means by evolution.
I snapped open my eyes, and I was lying between the crops, the real world, and I had wounds on my hands, and the wounds were covered in slime. There was a dead worm on the ground, and its corpse was covered with slime, and the striped worms in the slime were wrying through the body of the strange insect.
The worm died, this time completely dead.
And I, still exist.
I looked at the scars on my hands, and couldn't wait to burrow between the crops, and among the weeds, I found a shriveled insect corpse again, grabbed it in my hands, and waited for a moment for the insect to come back to life! However, this time its hard prickly hairs broke through my skin, but it didn't give me a numb feeling, it frantically gnawed at my fingers, biting through the flesh, and even exposing the white bones, but it only hurt, and my mind was exceptionally clear, without a trace of hallucinatory aggression.
The mucus gushing in the blood enveloped the strange insect and devoured it quickly.
"Hah...... Haha......"
I laughed, "I was right...... Evolution, that's evolution. ”