This is not the first time I have lost consciousness.

But it's the most permissible one.

I felt as if I was swallowed up by a vortex of darkness, and there was a voice in it, like the breathing I had just heard. He ate me and became a whole new me. Or maybe I shouldn't have existed in the first place...... I didn't know if I would ever be awake, so when I woke up, I was relieved.

Silent Night and Yu Xia are by my side.

The moment I opened my eyelids, Jingye shook me in surprise: "Brother! Brother, are you awake?! You're okay! I'll just say you'll be fine! ”

But my gaze turned to Yu Xia, "Thank you." ”

"Huh? Thank you for what I do? ”

"Thank you for not hurting Jingye or eating me while I was unconscious."

Although Yu Xia didn't have much to do with me when I was sober, objectively speaking, she was strong, and no matter how many more silent nights she had, she would not be her opponent.

"Oh, I thought about it. If you had been unconscious before the door was opened, you probably wouldn't have woken up. But the door is open, and maybe, you can really take me out of here. I'm not that stupid, and I still have the idea of killing you at this time. ”

"This door may not allow us to get out." I moved my body a bit, and when I first woke up, I was still a little unwell, but I recovered quickly. I walked up to the entrance, looked back and asked, "How long have I been unconscious?" ”

Jingye snapped her fingers and responded, "About seven or eight hours, it's been a long time." ”

I nodded, seven or eight hours is true, then it seems that this door should not be closed anytime soon, maybe never. But at this moment, the sound of breathing came from the entrance again, and I frowned and continued to ask, "Is there anything in here?" I mean, when I'm unconscious, you should have looked inside curiously, right? What do you see? ”

I focused on asking Yu Xia about this.

"Something? No, there was a dead silence inside, and not even a sound came out. ”

But her response made me wonder, "What did you say?" No sound? ”

She was stunned, then nodded to me, "Yes, no sound." But your reaction really surprised me. ”

Wrong.

I immediately asked Jingye again, "Can't you hear me too?" ”

"What do you hear, brother?" Jingye looked at me suspiciously, and then looked at the entrance, "Brother is saying, is there a sound here?" ”

"Didn't you? Breathe the same sound! ”

She looked at me, and then at Yu Xia, and I thought that she would at least choose one side, or like me, and could hear the voice, or like Yu Xia, she couldn't hear anything.

However, the response of the silent night confused me again.

"I ...... I can hear it, but brother, I don't hear your breathing......"

"And what did you hear?" Yu Xia asked, then walked to the entrance, came to my side, cautiously leaned his ear over, listened for a while, shook his head and said, "Nothing." ”

But Jingye said, "No, gears, I heard the sound of gears like a mechanism running. ”

I heard breathing.

Silent night hears gears.

And Yu Xia couldn't hear anything.

"Hey, if you don't go in, if you do, won't you know if there's a sound?" Yu Xia was a little impatient.

"Wait......" I stopped at the entrance, my ears pricked up, trying not to miss any hint of wind and grass coming from inside.

Breathe.

Again, I confirmed that there was indeed a sound of breathing, which was clearer and more realistic!

And that voice was exactly the same as the voice in my head the moment before I fell unconscious.

That ate my breath!

"Brother, I'm a little scared ......" Jingye came to me at some point and quietly tugged at the corner of my clothes.

"Don't be afraid." I reassured her, "Brother promises you that this time he will protect you no matter what. What you endure, my brother will accompany you. It's sure to take you back to the world you came from. No matter what the cost. ”

"Hmmm......"

The words are beautiful though.

But I have to admit that I also felt an inexplicable fear.

Maybe it's because of the previous coma.

That feeling I've always dreaded the most, losing myself.

"Brother, the sound of the gears seems to be a little unclear." Jingye whispered in my ear, "Still, I didn't hear what you said. ”

"Got it."

"Hey, how long are you going to wait?" Yu Xia began to urge again.

I was more anxious than her, but it was precisely because I desperately wanted to go in that I wanted to figure out what the "breathing sound" was. It's just that what I can do at this entrance is very leisurely, and it really seems like I'm just wasting my time to stay there.

"Get in." So, I made a decision.

Follow the entrance and walk into the strange tunnel.

As soon as I stepped into it, the "breath" became clearer, it seemed to be close to me, but there was no abnormality in the position I could see in front of me. We had to keep walking, there was only a tunnel, and beyond that, there was no black gas that reached our knees.

As time passed, when we looked back, we could no longer see the original entrance.

"Silent Night, can you still hear the sound of gears you said?" It's not that I suddenly thought of this question, but I don't know when Jing Ye was very close to me, and one hand gently tugged at the corner of my clothes.

I know that's what she looks like when she's a little scared.

She nodded, "It's bigger than before, it looks like it's nearby, but ...... But I couldn't see anything. "A sea of clouds

Odd.

What Jing Ye said was very similar to the "breathing sound" I felt.

Is it the same thing? Just Silent Night described it as a "gear sound" and I thought it was breathing? But the breath and the movement of the gears seem to be very different, how can people feel similar?

We stopped and went, but there was no fork in the road.

Yu Xia hadn't spoken much since he entered the tunnel, but then he suddenly stopped, then looked back and looked at it for a long time.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"It's fine." She shook her head and continued on, this time in a hurry.

I quickly caught up with Silent Night, and we followed her speed, and we went faster and faster.

"Hey, stop." I thought this speed was a bit of a problem, so I finally grabbed her by the shoulders and forced her to stop, "How can you go so fast?" There's something wrong with you, compared to before you came in. ”

Yu Xia swallowed his saliva and swept his gaze around, focusing on our backs, "You guys, didn't you notice?" ”

"What?"

"Something is following us."

Here's how she put it.

I think it's the nature of the king worm to be quite sensitive, but the whole time I entered this tunnel, I never felt like I was being followed.

"Nope." I shook my head.

She looked nervous, as if she didn't want to talk to me about it, but kept her head down and walked on, faster than before.

"You go so fast, you don't know what will be in front of you, and you will probably be killed." I remind.

"It's not necessarily good if it's slow! If he's really not dead......"

The second half of the sentence is the point.

"What did you say?" I grabbed her again.

"Someone is following us, I think it's him!"

"Who?"

Her expression was tense to the extreme, "The guy you killed!" ”

"You said that he has been killed by me, why is he still following us?"

"I don't know. But I've felt this feeling too many times over the years...... I tried to run away countless times, but he followed me like this, and then appeared silently and grabbed me...... He's not dead, he must not be dead. I'll just say, he won't be so easy for you to kill. Oh no, he'll get revenge...... We've got to hurry, run away! ”

Her mental state suddenly became abnormal.

"Calm down." I want her to find herself again.

However, she shook off my hand, "You have no idea how terrifying that guy is! ”

"Brother......" At this time, Jingye suddenly spoke, "Do you think, we are a bit alike?" ”

This little girl, although very dependent on me, is occasionally very smart.

She's right, we're alike.

The sound of the silent night fear gear, I am afraid to breathe, and at this moment, what Yu Xia Xin is afraid of, also appeared.

Well, all this is no coincidence.

"Yu Xia, listen to me." I grabbed her by the shoulders, "I'm very responsible to tell you that the thing that scared you has been killed by me." No matter how strong he is, maybe it would be a very unlikely accident for him to be killed by me. But it still happened, and it can't be changed. Everything you are feeling right now is most likely just an illusion. ”

"I ...... Why should I trust you? Why should I believe that what I feel is false and what you say is true? She shook her head, her face very ugly.

"You don't have to doubt yourself. I mean to convince you that if he shows up again, I'll kill him again. ”

With that, I let go of her shoulder, "Let's go." ”

She froze in place for a long time, but eventually caught up with me, and although her face was still a little pale, she was not as flustered as before.

In fact, when I found out what we all had in common, my subconscious told me that the fear of the three of us was most likely just an illusion. If it is true, then the feelings of the three will at least be the same, and the two of us will not hear the voice, but Yu Xia suspects that someone is following.

So I confidently persuaded Yu Xia to rest assured.

However, the truth of the matter does not seem to be as simple as I imagined. The next moment, I suddenly felt the ground shaking under my feet, and the sound of gears suddenly popping around me! Almost at that moment, the surrounding scene suddenly changed, reversed, cracked, drilled out spikes, blades, and attacked us in all directions, almost irregularly!

I dodged quickly, and Silent Night also turned into an insect, in terms of speed, it was still above me, and Yu Xia himself was not slow, so these attacks were easily avoided by us.

It's just that next, the original attack mechanism has been renovated again, and more and denser launches have appeared! This indicates that the next round of attacks will be more violent! So I quickly released the tentacles in my mouth in an attempt to destroy these mechanisms at the source!

However, the moment I attacked the source of the disarming mechanism, I pounced!

There was nothing in that position!

But strangely, my eyes can see it!

Hallucinations?

However, there are wounds in my body, and the pain is real. Not only that, but the wound also decayed quickly, a toxin that I had never seen. Even under the action of insect venom in my body, it was quickly repaired and evolved to resist!

At that moment, I was confused.

Is what I'm seeing hallucinating, or is it real?

Or is it a seamless articulation between the real and the unreal that I can't understand?

……