Chapter One Hundred and Eight: There Is Only One Road
The barrier that had collapsed before was rebuilt after the sky returned to its original state.
In front of him were two large barriers, and between them there was an unaffected path, as if left for him alone.
If D-13714 had grown up in China, he would have known the idiom "Please enter the urn".
And he grew up in the West since he was a child, except for simply thinking that it was a trap, he couldn't find a literary description to satirize this low-end strategy.
In response to this brilliant trick, he planned to go around the side and go around to the other side of the park to find the statue.
It's a pity that although his idea is good, he has encountered a lot of resistance in action.
The person or thing that dominates this game is never him.
Therefore, the other party does not disdain to use conspiracy at all, but adopts an upright conspiracy.
It manipulates an invisible wall to seal off any direction that doesn't follow the script.
After feeling the wall of air for a while, D-13714 returned to his original position.
He finally understood the brutal truth that he had no way out but that trail.
The completely invisible barrier blocked his view of the other side of the trail, making the path mysterious and unfathomable.
There was a glimmer of light at the end of the path, but it was too narrow and too inaccessible.
Even if the other roads were blocked, he didn't plan to go straight in, but chose a temptation in another direction:
Picking up a branch from the ground, he stretched it towards the barrier - the branch was completely accepted, and when he pulled it out, the surface of the branch was intact.
The clothes were spread out on the ground of the barrier, and when they were retrieved, no damage was found, and the clothes did not smell bad.
Throw a stone from the outside, and the sound of a stone falling to the ground can be heard inside the barrier.
If it weren't for the fact that there were no creatures here, he would have wanted to tie up a rabbit in and see how it went.
But with limited materials, there was only so much he could test.
At least these tests were certain that his life would not be in danger the moment he entered.
But longer or a different location is not necessarily the case.
Compared to the path to the unknown, these known enchantments may be relatively "safe" for him.
After all, there were people inside, and according to the moment when the barrier collapsed before, he could clearly see that there were no traces of trauma on the surface of those human bodies.
So far, although I don't know how to break these barriers, the barriers I have encountered before don't seem to be dangerous.
The hesitation had passed, and D-13714 decisively reached for one of the enchantments with his left hand.
However, unexpectedly, when his hand touched the barrier, it was as if he had touched a layer of entities.
It has the touch of glass, but it has an elasticity that glass does not have.
No matter how hard he pressed, the final force point was only a small slap print, which instantly returned to its original state within seconds of his hand being removed.
This specificity is puzzling.
D-13714 then attempts to touch the barrier with his left hand, while his right hand pulls out his gun and fires a bullet at the barrier.
As a result, his hand remained blocked, and the bullet shot into the barrier without any hindrance, as if it were only passing through a thin layer of air.
But the touch coming from the left hand is so clear.
After a long silence, D-13714 finally realized that yes, there was only one way left for him.
Let's take a look at the current situation.
First of all, there is only one path to walk, which is sandwiched between two barriers, and your body is repelled by the barrier wall, so the accidents that can occur while walking on the road include but are not limited to being crushed by the barrier wall and dying.
Secondly, about the rejection of that film.
It is known that both the fibrous structure of non-living organisms such as clothing and the plant cell life forms such as tree branches can passively and do not deny whether they can actively enter the enchantment.
Those who can't get in may be their "unique" selves, or humans, sapient beings, capable interveners, and more tagged creatures can't enter.
And then there was a vision in the sky before - he didn't want to recall that horrible sight anymore.
The anomaly will take negative action when confronted with individuals it cannot control or fight against...... For example, self-decomposition.
If he can petrify or deform and disguise his consciousness, he may be able to test it one step closer, but unfortunately, first, he has no ability, and second, he does not have time.
All in all, the difference between taking that road and not taking that road is nine deaths or ten deaths.
Ten dead means staying put, motionless and waiting for help - that would only lead to the Order's execution, if the Order is willing to continue to send reinforcements.
Suffice it to say, mentally prepared to face death, D-13714 took the path he didn't expect with his active adrenaline.
There was no danger along the way, but a reassuring sense of security constantly came from this small space.
It's weird.
D-13714 is always unwary, as if you know they won't hurt you......
After his father's death, he never felt this way.
He wanted to overturn this inexplicable trust, but found that he couldn't, and was not willing to do so.
And when he fully accepted this feeling, the darkness that the barrier presented, which could not be seen by the naked eye, became transparent, revealing everyone in the barrier.
Including even after death, the soul is still repeating the killing, death, resurrection of the Arena of Seven, and the absurd war between zombies and orcs.
It was as if they had lost themselves and were completely immersed in their role-playing...... When they are all dead, everything will be reset again, back to the beginning.
Quietly in the aisle, D-13714 witnesses a reincarnation.
In the Arena of Seven, a man who had prick himself with a needle beforehand killed everyone fearlessly and cautiously.
It was a way of killing that was worth learning - extremely skillful, precise and orderly.
In the midst of the chaotic firefight, he has always been the one who is at least threatened - he does not show the posture of trying to "fight with the clam and the fisherman wins", nor does he show too toughness.
Make others think he's just an inconsequential rookie.
Even if someone has the idea of solving this rookie first, they will always be led by this rookie to a-for-tat situation with others.
And the rookie's bullet fired the deadliest shot in a flick in the melee.
He assisted others in killing the Heavy, and did not forget to murder the first person to be heckled in the first place.
Even when the hecklers were being judged, he stood in the opposite direction and slew exactly the one whom the hecklers were attacking.
He knows how to cause chaos, and he knows what the psychology of the crowd is.
When everyone was red-eyed, he became the last one to die.
Then the game resets.
D-13714 learns how to deal with gamblers who gamble with their lives during the course of bitter combat.
Wait for the opportunity to kill with one hit.
The people in the other barrier have become unrecognizable, but based on their weapons, D-13714 can easily guess that these are official people.
After a brief pause, he continued on his way, and finally made it all the way to the bottom of the statue without incident.