One step out, as if all your worries have been left behind, this step is extraordinarily resolute. I quickly descended inward, and the passage was filled with only rocks and black sand except for the somewhat eerie purple glow, and each step made a slight rustling sound on the ground.

I kept walking forward, the pace under my feet was only fast and not slow, and after 1 minute of travel, the road ahead finally stopped being straight and ushered in the first turn.

The reason for choosing the middle path is that the other two are left and right, and depending on the direction I am facing, if the passage is a little longer, they will undoubtedly lead to the outside of the basin, and then leave the dragon's den.

Therefore, I suspect that these two pathways may be another way to connect to the outside, but this is only speculation after all, and if I were to escape, I would definitely choose to go back the way I came.

But this possibility was zero from the beginning, and the moment I ignored Oude's words, I was completely cut off from all my back roads. If the dragons do return, then I will definitely die wherever I run, and even if I can escape, the power I have left will not be enough to support me to return to Tisbor, let alone whether the city still exists.

There was no point in considering this, for me, the ending was destined to be only two from the beginning, either to touch the crystal before the air power could not move, or to stay here forever.

All in all, it is more likely that you can reach the destination by taking the middle road, and guessing is not blindly guessing, but also requires a certain amount of rational analysis, so as to improve the accuracy as much as possible.

As I thought about it, I glanced at the monitor on my wrist, and the remaining power was a little less than before, leaving me only 25 minutes, and the time was already very tight, but I had to stop.

Anyway, at least two minutes have passed since I entered this path, and according to what I just judged, I was about ten meters away from the turn in front of me, and no matter how slow I went, I should have turned in two minutes.

But now I looked ahead, and the bend was still about ten meters away from me, and the purple light around me did not change at all, neither weakening nor strengthening.

What's going on, is it a hallucination?

It is very appropriate to use the current situation to make matters worse, seeing that time is passing little by little, but such a thing has happened, and it is necessary to come out of the illusion as soon as possible.

I turned around, and the path behind me was completely blocked by a pile of stones as if it had never existed, and I approached it, and reached out and touched it, and when my palm touched the stone, it did not penetrate it, but made a soft sound as if it had touched a real stone.

I knocked on one of the stones a little harder, making a "clang" sound that sounded indistinguishable from the sound of hitting the stone.

I can't go back the way I came, I can't go any further, I'm stuck in a loop, what can I do?

I fell into deep thought, irritability, anxiety began to spread in my consciousness, the body of the machine is immune to pain, not afraid of poison gas, disease, but there is nothing to do about hallucinations, the disadvantage of not having sensation and smell, at this time has become the biggest obstacle.

When exactly did you get trapped, when did you first step into this passage? No, it's unlikely, otherwise you should have seen the turn in the first place, and it would have been impossible to walk for a minute before encountering this dead loop.

I guess it started when I saw the turn, which was a mistake, keeping an eye on the remaining battery and maintaining speed, but forgetting to check the way it came.

What to do, what to do, in the world where Tisball is located, I have never heard of the existence of an illusion, this should be unique to the "Black Dead Domain", so there is no precedent to refer to, what should I do......

I'm like an ant on a hot pot now, anxious and anxious, and my thoughts are broken.

No, I can't think of any way, in the end, I can't think of it at all, I will encounter hallucinations at such a critical moment, Cher is sorry, Cher is sorry! I may not be able to fulfill our vows, I may ......

Seeing that my spirit was about to fall into chaos under pressure and excessive tension, a figure suddenly flashed out of my mind.

The long black hair like a waterfall, the eyes rippling in the autumn waves, and the smile that is as touching as the first flower blooming in the early spring sun, if there were angels, this would be what it would look like......

……

"I'm really angry, what attitude did that person have just now, is he sick?"

"Alright, alright, dissipate."

"That brute just now, I really want to slap him."

"Okay, don't be angry, don't ruin the atmosphere because of this kind of thing on a rare date."

"Hey......."

"Don't be angry, come, kiss you, don't be angry, okay?"

"Okay...... It's still Cher who treats me well. ”

"That's natural, but no matter what happens in the future, you must be calm, stay calm!"

"Got it, let's go, let's go ride the Ferris wheel."

"Hmm!"

……

A tear silently swept through my torn soul and fell into the furious sea of consciousness, calming it down.

Cher, my Cher, you saved me again, I'm sorry, I forgot what I promised you, please forgive me again, when I see you, you can beat me as much as you want, wait for me, you must wait for me!

I tried to calm my excitement and turned again, facing the bend ahead. After ten steps, I stopped again, and it was true that no matter how far I went, I did not move a single step.

I turned to face behind me, and the piled up of stones still blocked my retreat in front of me, and I could reach out and touch them.

Wait, why can I touch the pile of rocks directly, I remember when I first found out that I was trapped in the illusion, I took two steps backwards to get to the front of the pile, so if you say that, you can walk backwards, but you can't go forward, so if you walk backwards in the forward direction, will it have the same effect?

I faced forward again, tried to move half a step back, and then turned around again. The answer is no, if you face forward, you can't move backwards. In that case, there is only one possibility.

Without turning around, I stepped back directly into the rocks. Sure enough, every time I took a step back, I was a little farther away from the stone pile, and within a few steps, I hit the stone wall.

Holding on to the stone next to me, I quickly exited the corner before facing forward again. What was in front of me was no longer the passage that had just been circulating, it had become a somewhat tortuous road, and at the end of the road was another turn, this time no longer to the left, but to the right, emitting a strong purple light from the corner position.

I finally escaped from the hallucination! Glancing at the monitor, there was still about 18 minutes of power left at this time, protected by such an illusion, coupled with the purple light around the corner, it seems that I guessed correctly again.

Wait for me, I'll see you soon!

I was a little impatient, so fast that I was almost running.

Five, four, three......

It was a few meters away, as if I had walked for a century, and when I thought back to everything I had experienced before, whether it was the hard work in Tisboor, the rising pain, the thought that my wish was about to come true, that I would soon be able to see the person I loved the most, it didn't matter, it really didn't matter.

Finally, I finally came to the corner, and if I had a heart, my heart would be as loud as the alarm clock in the sleep pod, and I had been waiting for this moment for too long.

When I turned the last corner and fixed my eyes on the front moment, I froze in place.

The light, the moment I looked at it, quickly dissolved into nothingness like a blown out lamp, and the surroundings suddenly became pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

My soul was completely dimmed with the surroundings, it was not a crystal light at all, it was just an illusion, and the path I chose in a desperate attempt was wrong from the beginning!

My soul hurt as if it had been slashed by a thousand knives, my consciousness could no longer think of anything, despair continued to spread in the depths of my heart, and when the last bit of hope was erased, the spirit that had been forcibly supported could no longer be maintained.

No matter who you are, when you get a dark thing after betraying morality, abandoning yourself, and sacrificing everything, I believe he can't continue to be strong......

Time passed like this, but I didn't even have the strength to move, and only despair grew in my heart.

Why...... Why do this to me...... Was everything before just so that I could see this darkness at the end? I came to this world, came here with all the hard work, just to experience the feeling of losing hope! Hahaha!

I laughed wildly in my heart, all kinds of negative emotions spread in my soul, I was really exhausted, I really wanted to give up......

And at this moment, that gentle and sweet smile reappeared in my mind, and those words echoed in my consciousness again.

……

"But no matter what happens in the future, you must be calm, stay calm!"

……

"Hmm...... Well, then I promise you one thing! ”

"Anything?"

"Hmm!"

……

No, no, no, no! I can't give up yet, there's still time, there's still time! Cher is still waiting for me! Our promise has not been fulfilled!

Like a few burnt charcoals meeting a flame, my soul was reawakened and my consciousness burned again, for the last time.

I turned my head and quickly turned back, because I had already walked once, the chip clearly recorded the position of each small stone, I increased my speed to the limit, the illusion in the passage seemed to be one-way, I walked back and did not encounter the pile of rocks blocking the road, and after about 7 minutes, I stood in front of the three forks in the road again.

At this time, the battery is still enough to support the last 10 minutes of my activity.