Chapter Seventy-Two: Illusion and the Demon Lake
Looking at the mottled picture in front of me, I felt bad and wanted to quit, but it was too late.
The shattered picture quickly turned into a dappled light and shadow, and I only felt a flower in front of me, and by the time the picture was clear again, the scene in front of me had completely changed.
As far as the eye can see, it is all white, nothing can be seen, it is all a fog that is so thick that it cannot be dissolved, and even the air has added a little warmth and humidity, take a deep breath, and you can clearly feel the moist water vapor infiltrating the entire chest, making people feel fresh and comfortable.
It was clear that this was no longer the square of Tulou, and I had a very strong familiarity with this ethereal environment, as if I had experienced it before, but no matter how I recalled, I could never remember where I had experienced it.
After thinking for a while, I didn't have a clue, then I remembered that I should have fallen into the illusion of Tulou Square, and I couldn't help but curse secretly, this place is really too evil, and I accidentally caught the road, maybe the doctor I saw just now was not a real doctor, maybe it was just an illusion created by Tulou in order to lead me into the square.
Now that I knew it was an illusion, it would be much easier to do, so I shook my head vigorously, reminding myself in my mind all the time, and at the same time moved my feet and began to grope for the situation around me.
It seems to me that as long as there is no spatial shift, any illusion itself is not so threatening when you know that it is an illusion. Just like people go to a haunted house, because the subconscious already knows that everything in the haunted house is fake, so no matter what you see in the haunted house, the subconscious will classify it as an illusion, so the fear generated when you are frightened is not so strong.
Therefore, as long as I know that everything in front of me is an illusion created by the mysterious power of the square, and I am still in the square at this time, then my mental consciousness can subjectively classify everything in front of me as an illusion, and this illusion cannot deceive me.
Besides, weren't the people who also entered the square and fell into the illusion all the time later? This shows that there is no danger in the illusion of the square, at most people have been trapped in the illusion.
However, to my great surprise, I had just taken a few steps out when I immediately noticed that something was wrong under my feet, and when I looked down, I suddenly found myself on a bamboo raft, and the water seeping through the gap in the raft had soaked the soles of my shoes.
For a moment, I had a sense of foreboding, and hurriedly squatted down and moved to the edge of the raft, and when I saw it, my heart suddenly cooled half, and I even forgot that it was just an illusion.
What I am on now is indeed a bamboo raft floating on the water, and the raft is still moving in one direction at a very fast speed, as if someone is working the oars in the foggy other places. I swallowed hard, and finally knew why I had that sense of familiarity just now, shit, this is like, it seems to be the ghost lake in my dream!
I wasn't sure of my guess, or I didn't want to believe it, because for so many years this scene had only existed in my nightmares, and I never thought that I would one day experience it in my waking state, and although it was only a vision, it was still too unreal.
The bamboo raft is still speeding in one direction, if the scene in front of you is really the same as a nightmare, then the direction of this bamboo raft should be the center of the demon lake, but I don't know if the current time point is before the bamboo raft accident, or after the accident?
If you want to know this, it's very simple, I just need to shout or look at both ends of the raft, if those people are still there, then the current point in time is before the accident, if the people are not there, then this time should be after the accident. But if I had shouted it before the incident, wouldn't it have been different from what happened in the nightmare? Because I'm not one of those eight people, and if there is one more person, will it affect what happens next?
Thinking of this, I suddenly hesitated, but when I thought about it, it was an illusion anyway, even if there was one more person, what could I do?
So I had no scruples anymore and shouted, "Is there anyone?" ”
As soon as the voice shouted, I was startled, the demon lake in the nightmare was surrounded by huge mountains, so that the space on the lake formed a natural phonograph container, the loud shout has been circulating on the lake surface more than a dozen times before stopping, in this silent space that is almost audible to the needle, my echo sounds extremely gloomy and weird, I can't help but shudder, I don't dare to continue shouting.
Just now I shouted so loudly, if I was on the same bamboo raft, it would be impossible not to hear it, but I waited for a long time and no one appeared, according to the temper of the second master and Da Biao in the nightmare, they should have already found it, which means that there should be no one else on the bamboo raft, then the current point in time, should be after the accident of those eight people.
I took a deep breath and slowly walked in the direction of the bamboo raft, until I reached the end of the bamboo raft and did not see half a figure, and then retreated to the end of the bamboo raft, still empty, it seems that I am indeed the only one on this bamboo raft.
After finding out the situation, I was just about to go back to the bow of the ship, when a thought flashed through my mind: this is not right! If I'm the only one on the raft, who is pushing the raft forward?
As soon as the thought came to mind, before I could understand it, the bamboo raft suddenly shook violently, and it seemed that something had pushed the bamboo raft under the water, and the size of the thing was not small, and the huge force almost lifted me down. I was amazed and finally understood why the raft was moving forward on its own, it turned out that something was carrying the raft underwater!
I didn't have time to be shocked, the behemoth under the bamboo raft pushed up the bamboo raft again, and the violent bumps made me unsteady on my feet, so I hurriedly lay down, and my two hands clasped the gap between the bamboo rafts, so that I was not thrown out. Before I could catch my breath, I was horrified to find that the raft had been lifted up, and it was already a foot or two out of the water, still heading in one direction at a very fast speed.
At this time, the bamboo raft can no longer be described as driving, because it is completely 'flying' on the water.
I was covered in a cold sweat, I had long forgotten that this was just an illusion, and I was terrified of the behemoth that could not see its true face under the bamboo raft. I knew that if I let go of my hand and fell into the water, I would be doomed, a monster that could carry a heavy bamboo raft at a speed of thirty yards per hour in the water, no matter how much it was the size of a house, if I fell, I am afraid it would not be enough for it to plug between its teeth, even if it was a vegetarian, if he accidentally bumped into me during the swimming, I would definitely break my bones and tendons!
The situation is not optimistic, but fortunately, the things under the raft do not seem to notice my existence, and keep moving at a fast pace, seeing what the situation seems to be chasing.
I was surprised, and tried to look ahead, trying to see if there was anything ahead, but the fog on the lake was so thick that I looked at it for a long time, but I still didn't see anything. Just as I was about to try to see what was under the raft, the speeding raft suddenly slowed down and fell violently, slamming into the water. The violent impact shook my chest and almost rolled off the raft, but the raft only shook slightly twice after it hit the surface of the water, and then it was stable.
The raft was still moving forward, but at a much slower pace, and it seemed that the behemoth under the water was still carrying the raft forward. As soon as I breathed a sigh of relief, I found that the fog here had lightened a lot, and my vision could already extend to five or six meters away, and what was even more strange was that I heard the sound of talking not far in front of the bamboo raft.
I was taken aback, how could anyone talk here?
Attracted by the voice, I was curious to see who was speaking, but I didn't know if the things under the raft would suddenly carry the raft like I had just done, so I still didn't dare to stand up, so I had to try to move my body, poke my head out of the front of the raft, and try to look ahead.
At first, the vision was blurry, but as the raft continued to move forward, a few black spots gradually appeared on the misty water, which looked like several human heads.
Sure enough, there are people!
I was overjoyed in my heart, and at this time the voice gradually became clearer, although I still couldn't hear the specific content, but I heard the voice, very familiar, it seemed to be the voice of the second master.
Damn, second master, could it be that the people in front of me are those eight people?
In an instant, I thought of a lot of things, after the bamboo raft accident, everyone jumped into the water, and then the bamboo raft appeared strangely, and there were two more monsters on it, and the most bizarre thing was that the bamboo raft was also moving forward on its own, and so on...... Move on your own...... Not good......
It was too late for me to think about that. Just listen to a few bangs. A bullet grazed my face, and then I felt a puddle of sticky liquid on the back of my head, and it was so disgusting that I knew what it was, and I quickly turned my head to see it, and it almost scared me to death.
I saw two monsters drenched in slime, as if they were made of countless fragments of corpses, standing behind me, with a pair of huge mouths wide open, from which a lot of black disgusting liquid overflowed, and one of the monsters stretched its neck and was opening its mouth to bite a big man in the water at the front of the raft.
I recognized the big man, he was the big man among the eight. What a familiar scene, I just feel a buzz in my head, these fucking pictures seem to be what I experienced in my nightmare!
The monster that was about to bite Da Biao was smashed in the head by the second master in the distance with a gun, and the slime on my head was the black blood that flowed out of the monster.
At this time, I can't care about nausea, because I know what will happen next, according to the experience of nightmares, the second master's shot will not be able to kill this monster at all, and the monster that is shot next will stretch its neck to bite Da Biao.
Sure enough, the second master's shot only knocked the monster backwards. His mouth was smashed though. But it didn't seem to affect him at all, and the next moment, the monster suddenly stretched its neck like a giraffe. opened his disgusting mouth wide and bit Da Biao's head.
Seeing that Da Biao was finished, at this moment, two swishing winds swept over my head and shot accurately into the mouth of the monster that bit Da Biao.
Two more packets of fishy mucus dripped down and drenched my head, disgusting to death, and the big biao took this opportunity to swim forward desperately, and actually threw off the bamboo raft.
I was shocked to see everything that happened in front of me, although this scene had been experienced countless times in my nightmares, but it was the first time that it had happened so closely, so really, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart that this illusion was terrible, it was exactly the same as the real thing, and even my senses and perceptions were blinded.
But after thinking about it, I was relieved again, weren't the people in the tour group completely immersed in the illusion of the square? If it weren't for the terrifying reality of the illusion, it would be impossible for them to reveal their truest emotions.
I sighed in my heart, although I knew that this was an illusion, but I still couldn't completely treat what was happening in front of me as illusory, and I didn't know how I would react in the outside world at this time. Is it the same reaction as I am now?
Just as my mind was thinking, the situation changed again, but it was not the kind of change I knew, in the nightmare I knew, after Da Biao escaped the attack of the monster, there would be a very strange and piercing sound in the mountains around the demon lake, and a terrible howl that penetrated into the bone marrow.
The sound pierced the soul, as if from hell, and then these people would dive to the bottom of the water and reach a very strange dark abyss, but the changes I am witnessing now are not like this, those people just quickly moved away from the raft and disappeared into the mist, and the two monsters on the raft moved their eyes to me, cracking their disgusting mouths and smiling strangely, and making a piercing and ugly sound.
My eyes widened as I watched the doctor slowly walk into the square, I was very nervous, but I waited for a long time, until the doctor stopped more than twenty meters away from me, I still didn't see anything unusual about him, his eyes were still clear, there was no change at all, slowly, his face also showed doubts.
This situation is something I didn't expect, Wang Xi can't lie to me, could it be that the mysterious power of this square has disappeared?
I waited patiently for a while, but there was no change at all, and the doctor shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands helplessly at me, and I was depressed, so I also walked in.
As soon as I stepped into the bluestone floor of the square, a strange feeling suddenly came to me, but I couldn't say that there was anything wrong, so I couldn't help but stop, looked around, and found nothing.
Is it a delusion?
I was a little suspicious, and I looked at the doctor, but he still didn't change, and I was relieved and wanted to go to him, but the further I went, the stranger feeling became stronger, and then the feeling immediately became a very familiar vertigo. The feeling of heaven and earth surging up, I only felt a flower in front of me, and the picture in front of me turned into countless fragments like a mirror shattered, and dissipated.