Heaven and earth are smeared with blue and white colors, flowing and blending like paint unintentionally dripping on rice paper, outlining the illusory and ethereal reality. The closer you get to the middle of the lake, the more viscous the air becomes, and every time you open your mouth, it seems that some invisible flocculent material burrows into the lobes of your lungs.

"What the hell is ...... here?"

Although I have touched the boundaries of my imagination from the very beginning of my time in this place, the innate curiosity of human beings is like a ghost, scratching my heart in the strange and mysterious scenes.

In the distance, the skeleton wrapped in branches and leaves stood still, and in the depths of the pair of dark and godless eyes, there seemed to be a few bits of emerald green and bewitching firelight, which were locked on my body from beginning to end, exuding terrifying pressure in the majestic majesty.

As the atmosphere grew heavier, I slowed down my breath and roughly guessed the rest of the trip. Maybe in a dozen minutes, or even less, I'll be able to actually stand on the surface of the jade-like bones.

But in the face of the imminent threat, Yao still showed no signs of waking up, she just closed her eyelids lightly, and her chest kept rising and falling regularly and steadily, as if she had sunk into a psychedelic and magnificent dream. The breeze blew and carried away the thin sweat covering my forehead, and looking at the beautiful girl half-hidden in the green branches, I tasted some untimely tranquility.

It's just that this rare comfort is nothing more than the greed for life of a dying person.

"Alas......"

As usual, I inadvertently breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned my head to look at the slightly yellowed palm hanging on the side.

"So when the time comes, what are we going to do? Any plans? ”

I don't know if it's because I'm asking the right question, or if it's a little hard to answer for a creature that can only communicate by movement. After a moment's pause, it slowly raised its hand and pointed it at the skeletal cavernous right eye.

However, the embarrassing thing is that I can't guess what it wants to convey based on this inexplicable act alone, and it seems that the only thing I can refer to at the moment is my own barren and thin imagination.

"Tsk."

As I gazed at the massive skeleton rapidly approaching in the wind, I pursed the corners of my mouth and muttered muffled words in my heart as if I had lost my mind.

For some reason, I always felt that all this was happening too abruptly, too out of balance, but there seemed to be some incomprehensible logic in it, waiting for me to set my eyes on some cold and lonely corner of the forest.

What kind of power, what kind of clue, can connect the ancient and mysterious skeleton, the endless white lake, the ruined capital hidden in thousands of tendrils, and the equally strange treemen.

"No...... right"

I pinched my jaw and flipped through the dusty memories in trepidation. In the gap between reason and madness, countless tentacles squirmed desperately, shattering the yellowed scenes in the depths of my mind, and then splicing them together, and finally presented them in front of my gradually widening eyes, like the churning stars outside the night sky, the distorted and distorted shadows in the candlelight:

I saw Wei Ming dragging her chest with her guts as she burst out, dancing strangely with Xun's crumpled corpse around a bonfire made of severed limbs. A blinding red glow pierced into the abyssal darkness, reflecting the rotting bones beneath their feet. But in addition to the sound of my flesh melting and crackling, there seemed to be a low, indistinct whisper that cried anxiously and noisily behind the trembling ends of my hair. I couldn't make out any paragraphs of words in the sticky words, not even the tones that conformed to the rules of human pronunciation, but in the next moment, the voices broke into my cranial cavity like ghosts, raging and twisting like a torrential rain, washing all the images into a vortex of entanglement and devouring. Around the campfire, Wei Ming's face quickly blackened and faded, exuding a disgusting color like an old photograph that had been burned, until the space around it turned into simple and dull dust.

"Ahem—"

In a trance, I half-held my head and exhaled a breath of turbid air in pain,

"What was going on just now?!"

I felt like I had hit a brick wall full of spikes, and I almost didn't vomit on one of the charred branches with a headache.

"Wait...... No, it's not! Here, here's—"

Uttering dementia-like words, I opened my eyelids and moved my tense pupils to the empty, clean window lattice before the glamour wore away.

Before I could scream, I was already jumping up like an electric shock! Then the whole body froze in place, allowing the simple molars to collide and rub against each other! Like the rapid and dull beat of a drum on the battlefield, it makes a sound that penetrates the bone marrow!

It was as if the white light of silk had shone through the rotten wooden frame, on the few crumbling pieces of furniture in the cramped house, and behind the curtain of cobwebs and dust, half of a broken shovel.

"Why, Why, Why......"

The corners of my mouth twitched, and I fell to the cold ground, feeling like all my bones were turning into bloated mud in an instant.

For at this moment, whether it is the intertwined ancient trees, or the terrifying skeletons, or the magnificent white lake, they have all disappeared, and what appears before me is only an extremely dirty, familiar old scene—that is the top of the holy mountain, the room that belongs to the Ao.

"What's going on with this TM? What's going on? It's still just now, it's still ...... Yes! No, my head! ”

Suddenly, as I tried to find a convincing explanation for myself, a sharp pain suddenly split from both sides of my temples, enveloping my entire head in unbearable torment.

"Ahem! TMD, no, I can't think about it anymore, half of my life is going to be lost in this way. ”

Talking to myself, I quickly pulled my thoughts away and turned to the more critical moment, after all, it is better to think about how to survive before bothering to find the cause of the change.

Once I had my goal in mind, I didn't hesitate and pushed myself up from the ground with both arms. Then, as I had done when I first stepped into this strange and terrifying world, I slowly approached the old broken window.

In just a few steps, my heart hung in the trembling sternum, and in a matter of seconds, I had imagined a myriad of horrific and strange sights that might arise outside the window.

But unexpectedly, until I held on to the slightly sticky wall, stood in front of the window, and opened my eyes with the courage to open my eyes completely, the sky and earth were still filled with a dense and cold fog, like a meandering stream of water, slowly wriggling and spreading in the dry and cold air.

Beyond the paleness, a bloated and blurred black shadow swayed toward the cage-like house.

"That's, that's ......"

Suddenly, I became incoherent, my whole body muscles trembled in horror, and at the same time, my weak legs and feet were also subconsciously controlled, stumbling backwards.

Because the figure that is getting clearer and clearer is clearly a lot!

No! I should say that when I first woke up, I was wearing that disgusting shell like a monster!

"You! What happened to you, you - stop! Don't, don't come here! ”

I staggered backwards as I shouted at the turquoise floating corpse a few meters away.

Perhaps understanding the meaning of my words, it paused suddenly, then stood in place, slowly raising its head.

"Hiss————"

With the creepy sound came, the high wall-like mist inexplicably fluctuated a few points, completely exposing the face of the thing that had been hidden for a long time in front of my eyes.

"No ......"

Murmuring, my heart fell silent for a moment.

It was at this moment that I suddenly understood why people in despair would be willing to believe in illusory gods because they could not save themselves.

In the measured horizon outside the window, perched on the monster's swollen shoulders, a spherical structure composed of countless blood vessels and minced flesh was swaying wantonly with the sudden breeze. From a distance, it looks like tumbleweeds dyed scarlet, or nematodes twisting and writhing with each other.

"Hiss-hiss-"

As if making some kind of eerie declaration, the monster waved its exposed trachea with its head held high, then hoisted its green torso and staggered towards the hut again.

"Damn! Rely on it, rely on it! ”

It wasn't until the monster had taken a few steps that I recovered from the shock and went crazy looking for a weapon to defend myself from.

"Huh? That's ......"

Finally, I glanced aimlessly at the corner of the wall, on a half-cut shovel.

For some reason, some memories of paranoia and madness rushed to my chest when I saw the almost rotten tool, but it was clear that I had more to worry about than the innocuous discomfort.

Without even hesitating, I immediately turned around, slammed my right foot on the ground, and flew out like an arrow from a string!

Gliding through the air, I was like an ape weaving through the trees, stretching my arms to reach the cracked handle of the shovel in the corner.

But since all my thoughts were about getting the self-defense items as soon as possible, I didn't even think about how to stop this desperate sprint. So when the cold and rough touch of the shovel came, the soles of my feet slipped and swirled and slammed into the hard wooden wall.

"Ahem! Grass! ”

Resisting the sharp pain in my shoulder, I half-leaned against the wall, grabbed the shovel that was crushed under me with my backhand and threw it in front of me, panting heavily, waiting for the moment when the monster climbed over the window lattice.

More than 4,000 milliliters of blood pumped into the brain in the contraction of the heart muscle, casting a strangely distorted filter over the image in my eyes. Stirred up dust swayed like snowflakes in the small houses, outlining pillars of light through the thick fog, and occasionally the wind swept through the cracks in the walls and sent out a mournful whimper.

"Whew-whew-"

As the minutes passed, I gradually adjusted my chaotic breath as I grasped the shovel in my hand and moved it towards the wide open sash.

The world outside the window was transmitting its own indifference and danger through a square gap, and I tensed my nerves, not daring to relax my gaze at the gradually expanding gray.

"How-"

When the boring scene was laid out in front of me, I realized that the so-called monster had long since disappeared.

On the land within a radius of a few meters, there are not even any footprints or traces.

"Is it a hallucination? Am I already at this point? ”

Talking to myself, I couldn't tell which ending was better.

But no matter how much I speculated, I lifted my toes and moved towards the window. After all, it's always a good idea to keep an eye on it, and I can take this opportunity to think carefully about the way forward.

Pinching the sweat-soaked and slippery wooden handle, I tiptoed to the spot where I had just seen the monster, and poked out half of my head vigilantly to look at the sides of the outer side of the house. Fortunately, those corners hidden in the blind spot of vision were only left with a vast white fog at this time.

"Whew-"

I breathed a sigh of relief, and I had the illusion of being rejuvenated,

"It's okay, at least it's loose now-"

Suddenly! At the moment when my dog hugged me and sighed, a cold and permeating murmur pierced my eardrums like wire!

"Hiss——————"

Without looking back, I could already feel something behind me.

The cold breath of the forest rolled with a terrifying rancid stench, gently sweeping the hairs on the back of my neck, and in an instant, the numb feeling seemed to spread all over my body!

I clamped the shaking shovel with the joints of both hands, suppressing the urge to fall to my knees as much as possible, while grazing the ground with my right foot and moving back half a step quietly.

Just for a moment, twist your waist, aim, wave your hand, repeat.

As long as you can see its deformed body turn into a puddle of mud, as long as you can smell the stench of blood gushing out.

I can live, I can get out of this prison!

"Ah!!h

With full hatred and momentum! With all my strength, I picked up half of the shovel in my hand and smashed it behind me!

"Ahh Ahh!!!hhhhh ”

The first few times, under the influence of adrenaline and a huge psychological shock, I could barely see anything. Only the sharp edges of the shovel did not enter the flesh, and the pleasurable touch of the broken bones stimulated the brain over and over again.

In the white sun, torn and broken limbs were scattered everywhere like worn dolls, and the edges of my gaping mouth were stained with warm blood foam, like a strange bouquet of bewitching flowers on a madly woven brocade, pulling the beauty of violence and madness to the extreme.

After the impulse, I quickly regained my senses, and I dropped my somewhat deformed shovel and sat down on the ground, staring at the bloody red at my feet in distraction.

"Wait, Red ......"

Suddenly, I suddenly found something out of harmony, and a thundercloud of terrible thoughts climbed into my mind.

"Red...... Why is it red...... It shouldn't, it can't be...... Her blood is not this color...... Who is it? Who are you? Who are you?!!! ”

Like a madman, I screamed and got up from the blood, clinging to the cold stone wall behind me, and looking at the dead body lying on the ground with exaggerated and obsessive eyes.

The dull purple that covered its tattered and crumpled garment was still alive.

"Yao?"

At the last word, I couldn't hold it anymore and fell to the ground.