Chapter 3 The Bronze Gate

The young director's lips pursed, and blood gradually oozed from the point where his knuckles touched the rough bark.

Jin Shaolan finally understood the real reason that had upset him since last night, and compared to seeing what he was actually doing, the latter discovery especially caught him off guard, powerless and unwilling.

This is not his film.

There was a long silence.

For a long time, until the numb fingers gradually felt the pain, Jin Shaolan, who gradually came back to her senses, began to realize a problem.

He had walked blindly and without paying any attention to everything around him, and he had walked up the stone steps leading down the hill for at least a quarter of an hour, a quarter of an hour long enough to take him down from the top of the hill to the parking lot, which was nothing more than a resort, but still surrounded by lush forests.

Jin Shaolan's gaze followed the large colorful fallen leaves under her feet, and landed blankly on the big tree in front of her.

Nearly a foot thick, the straight, straight beech trees weave their foliage into each other, creating a vast shade that is particularly dark and quiet. He subconsciously looked ahead.

A huge bronze gate that connects the sky and the earth stands impressively at the end of the stone steps!

The huge arch stands quietly, and the first feeling it brings to people is not the visual shock of "majestic", but "majestic" and "grandiose", clearly standing silently in the middle of the heaven and earth, as if the original life matter was born from the thunderstorm flood magma The flood era has been standing to this day, but the moment when the bronze giant gate appeared in Jin Shaolan's sight brought people is not the solemnity and sense of history of "immovable as a mountain"-

It was the 25-metre-high waves of the 1960 Concepción tsunami in Chile that engulfed everything in its path, including ships, docks, embankments, trees, houses, buildings, and more! It is the shock that shakes the soul when the bell of the tomb of Marquis Yi was unearthed after 2,400 years of silence, and it has been broken through the dust of history since the other side of the long river of time to re-issue its majestic and romantic eternal sound (1) to the world!

How magnificent is this! What a great power this is!

Almost instinctively, Jin Shaolan walked in the direction of the bronze giant gate. The fallen leaves were shattered at his feet, and when he stood at the foot of the arch and raised his head, he felt a sense of insignificance and dizziness for a while. The bronze arch is so tall that anyone who tries to look up at its end immediately creates the illusion that the next moment the behemoth will irresistibly fall on them.

The bronze gate is engraved with ancient, mysterious runes and patterns, and the two sides are symmetrically arranged with long and narrow fangs and sharp teeth.

When he touched the door, a peculiar sensation hit him. To give an inappropriate example, it is like entering an air-conditioned room with air conditioning blowing on a sweltering early autumn evening, and the whole person is in high spirits. Jin Shaolan's fingers slowly caressed the quaint gate, its appearance was full of vicissitudes through the ages, it was clearly the texture of bronze, the unique smooth and hard metal, but there was a flesh-and-blood texture on it; Not only the texture, but also the touch is as delicate as human skin, and it is also slightly warm. However, this contradictory experience gave Jin Shaolan an extraordinarily harmonious feeling.

A majestic voice sounded in his ears:

"This is Nightmare Space! A magical and mysterious place! ”*

"This place can fulfill any wish in your heart, as long as you can complete enough tasks in the space and get enough merits!" *

"The son of a man born with an affinity for magic, but trapped in this parched world and doing nothing, the darling of my gaze!"

"I call you! Defend me with your flesh and will, and plunder glory for me with your life! ”

"If you regret being scared, then turn around and leave. If you want it but you have an obsession in your heart, then open the door and come to me! ”**

Looking up at the bronze gate that went straight into the sky and almost couldn't see the end, Jin Shaolan's eyes became brighter and brighter, for some reason, he gradually surged a strong yearning in addition to deep fear and awe, and the blood in his veins seemed to begin to burn, this yearning emerged from the soul rather than from the depths of his heart, and what he longed for was already familiar from an indescribable long ago, he did not want to "get", but to "retrieve".

Jin Shaolan took a deep breath and pushed the door open without hesitation. The moment the door slowly opened to him, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest.

Behind the door is a pitch-black surging black cloud, as far as the eye can see, the layers of layers do not know how to spread out tens of thousands of meters, a flickering blood-red electric light sprang out from time to time in the middle of the black cloud that is churning and rolling like a poisonous python, the thinner ones are like a blood-colored electric snake swimming in the black cloud, the thickest lightning is enough to be the thickness of a bucket, it looks as if the black cloud is some kind of creature, and the electric light is a hideous wound torn open on its body.

Looking at this scene, an abrupt realization spontaneously appeared in Jin Shaolan's consciousness: the bronze arch is so huge because it is the gateway to this endless black cloud. He already felt that just taking a step forward, as the majestic voice said, meant great danger, but he had a strong yearning for the secret behind the black clouds—

Or rather...... He is desperate to escape the fact that "movies don't belong to him".

Jin Shaolan fell to her knees in severe pain, her right hand pressed against her chest, and a blood-red light gradually shone out from under his palm, which could only illuminate the edge of his palm at first, and gradually brightened up to be extremely dazzling through his clothes. He had a hunch that even now, when the door was open, he could still regret it before the pain had taken him completely, but he would lose it forever, and the thought of losing all that was unknown behind this door made him feel intolerable—even more intolerable than the great pain he was suffering at the moment.

The blood-colored glow gradually expanded until it completely enveloped him. Jin Shaolan stubbornly gritted his teeth and did not retreat, and then, he only felt a suction force coming from the pitch-black space in front of him, because he gradually lost consciousness in the severe pain, he didn't even realize that a mechanical indifferent voice sounded in his ears:

"Host's main signs: moderate fatigue, soft tissue contusion of the right finger joints, damage to the dermis and capillaries, about 80% of the normal state, repairing ...... Fixed. ”**

"A total of 6,402 people were sampled this time, and all the contractors have been sampled, and the next sampling time is seventy-two hours later! Nightmare World...... Open! ”**