The prolongation of the shadows signaled the setting of the sunset, and when the last rays of dull yellow light were obscured by the distant mountains, the fire in front of Takakawa seemed to be filled with a large amount of fuel in one breath, and a large number of sparks jumped out of the wood that was about to be slightly ashen. www.biquge.info The night breeze seeped through the cracks in the doors and windows, and the lethargic flames began to wake up, and it was excited, exuding infinite heat, and the flames at the highest point seemed to be licking up the roof.

The night in the ruins of the village was darker and darker than the night in a normal town that Takakawa had ever seen, giving the illusion that the sun had set and had become the darkest hour before dawn without having to go through the time of day. In Takakawa's retina screen, the numbers of the timer beat as usual, but in this stone and wood room, the clock, which stood motionless during the day, quietly sounded the first pendulum. The pendulum of the clock, the sound of the old and decaying, also echoed throughout the room. No, if it was just a feeling, it was as if the whole village had woken up to the sound of this ancient bell—and although no other creatures could still be observed, the feeling of revival was so intense that it was like a sprout that broke through the ground after the silent spring rain had fallen.

Gao Chuan was still sitting cross-legged by the fire, but soon, the sudden growth of the fire made him feel that he could only avoid being burned by avoiding the corner. The light, the smell, the night breeze and the sound of the ancient clock, and the temperature...... These five senses can feel the information and are turning the village into a hideous and eerie environment. During the day it is a puzzled ruin, and at night it reveals a corner behind the veil, giving a sense of its ominousness.

Yes, it's not just mysterious, it's malicious. Gao Chuan subconsciously felt that this malice was not just aimed at outsiders, and perhaps the reason why the village became a no-man's land was that these malice drove away people. Whether it was in the era of world peace, or in the era of Nazi rampant, there seemed to be no other mystery that disturbed this place, so that this malice was so pure, so long, so deep into this land.

From the point of view of the occult, this village is undoubtedly a "place of seclusion" and a "place of relic", a place that is incompatible with reality. And from the judgment of mysterious experts, this is, of course, another "temporary data hedging space", but how long did this "temporary" last? Decades? Hundreds of years? The smell of decay that has emanated over a long period of time is full of unimaginable vitality.

With this feeling alone, Takakawa could imagine that a monster might appear. Of course, the brain hardware does not infer all kinds of data based on this feeling, but in the immediacy generated by the native brain, Takakawa seems to see some hazy visions: the old hunter wears leather and metal armor, wears a wide and tattered trench coat, and holds up a giant weapon like a chainsaw, roaming the streets and alleys, slashing living corpses, strange wolves, strange birds, transparent ghosts, and even monsters with slimy bodies and no fixed shapes. Flowers and trees are also as if suffering from disease, growing dark markings, and vaguely huge souls are entrenched in Gothic high-rises, sucking some kind of free substance in the air. Time flies, the old hunter follows the young hunter, the young hunter dies one by one, and the city crumbles in the never-ending night of monsters, scattering people to build villages on the ruins, but still unable to resist the nightmare. In order to resist the nightmare monsters, the hunters died one by one, and their tombstones were everywhere on the wind-eroded cliffs, by the dark green lake, buried by the wind and sand, and entangled by the huge tree roots.

Eventually, the hunters will all die. Everything that does happen to people will become a mere nightmare, and no one can wake up from it. Thus, death becomes an eternal theme, and those who know this nightmare, those who are in it, call it "the deepest night".

This nightmare of never waking up to death and immortality is condensed on a peninsula jutting out from the land. When people stay on the peninsula at the right time, they arrive in a world full of Honkai and malice, and when people begin to perceive its existence, people begin to fear. People sacrifice because of fear, praise because of fear, and many legends are passed down because of fear.

After a long time, another group of people set foot on the peninsula and began to build all kinds of buildings. In Takakawa's hallucinations, those buildings reveal hideous silhouettes in the dark night, and a terrifying corner emerges in the lightning, as if everywhere is full of unspeakable mystery, and the functional appearance of those buildings is so familiar to Takakawa.

That's the hospital.

A vast amount of land on the peninsula was fenced with barbed wire, and a vast psychiatric hospital was built. People are desperately experimenting in hospitals, as if they are running away from something, as if they are struggling to find something, they will go crazy, they will be depressed, they will be terrified when the night falls, and they will be terrified all day long. Until one day, another group of tourists-like people also arrived on the peninsula.

Takakawa vaguely saw something, his eyes widened, but no matter how hard he tried, it was all just an illusion in his mind, an impression, a sense of immediacy, which could not even be called a "memory".

The last thing he saw was Takakawa, who looked like he was sixteen or seventeen years old, jumping off the deck and stepping on the beach of the peninsula. Although there are more people around this Takakawa, and even though this Takakawa is wearing the most ordinary clothes, no one can have deeper eyes than him, as if he is not looking at the natural scenery of the peninsula, but the darkness hidden deep in the unknown depths.

The nightmare beckoned to him again.

More presences, including the symbols of Shinrikyo doomsday, have emerged in this misguided illusion.

Then a faint voice came to Takakawa, a prostitute who had fallen into a hallucination, telling him that the young Takakawa was the last hunter, and that the bell ringing in the nightmare of the peninsula was the final beginning of that world.

Gao Chuan didn't want to look any further, he vaguely knew what this illusion was, and the appearance of this illusion also meant that if he continued to go deeper, he would encounter something - he would see a terrible monster hidden deep in Gao Chuan's body and soul. Even if he hadn't seen it yet, just feeling this trend, the heavy sense of fear oppressed him breathlessly.

Gao Chuan struggled hard and woke up from his hallucination, as if he was drowning, his trachea seemed to be still blocked, and his back was wet. In the retina screen, the data of the prosthetic state monitoring plummeted, and it was falling into a weakened situation, and even the brain and hardware, which was theoretically not interfered with by mental forces, could not resist and adjust in the first place.

When Takakawa realized it, he was already facing the fire, half-kneeling on the ground. At this time, the fire, when the wood was obviously not enough to support such a violent burn, had really **** to the ceiling, and the exposed beams on the roof had been ignited, and it seemed that it could spread to the entire beam and column at any time. It makes people feel that in the next second, maybe a gust of wind will make the whole building seem to be in flames.

Not only the house that occupied the high ground where Takagawa temporarily lived, but also the other houses in the ruins of the village were lit up from the inside one by one. However, the light that radiated from the inside out did not illuminate the darkness outside. On the contrary, when the room is brighter, the outside is plunged into deeper darkness. It makes people feel that if they go out of the house at this moment, they won't even be able to see their own bodies.

Gao Chuan stood up on the windowsill and looked out, only to see that the darkness was like an ocean, occupying every street and alley in the ruins of the village, and the houses lit up by fire were isolated islands in this dark ocean.

Gao Chuan subconsciously understood that the scene in front of him must be related to his own hallucination, or rather, the nightmare of the deepest night was not a complete hallucination, but through the inexplicable bond between Gao Chuan and Gao Chuan, he let himself see some of the things that the young Gao Chuan had experienced.

Las Vegas Repeater, Solstice Night, Hunter, Teenager Gao Chuan, Dr. Nguyen Lê, Peninsula Psychiatric Hospital, Doomsday Shinrikyo ...... and the New Age Gospel, these key terms, one after another, are connected to form a huge network, making people feel that the so-called truth is hidden in this huge web.

Is the weirdness in the village at the moment related to the deep night? Did the New Age Gospel play a role here, in the deepest night? Think about it, think about it, among the expatriate occultists of the New Age Gospel, whether it's Mary in Red or Father Edward, didn't they go to the Las Vegas repeater?

Takakawa's native brain was a little confused, it wasn't that he wasn't focused enough, his will wasn't strong enough, he could feel that this night was spreading a strange power. Even so, the brain hardware still works as usual, adjusting the prosthesis, interfering with the nerves, and then displaying the final processing results on Takakawa's retinal screen in time.

A longer bell rang, not inside the house, but somewhere in the ruins of the village, and Takakawa was wary, but that didn't change the fact that the place was full of strange things. At this time, even the hands of the clock, which existed only in the projection of the retina screen, began to rotate faster, and in a few blinks of an eye, its numerals corresponded to the rapidly rotating fingers on the clock in the house, which seemed to be plucked by an invisible finger - twelve o'clock in the morning.

It felt like less than half an hour had passed from sunset to midnight.

Figures stood up from the windows of other houses, their backs imprinted on the panes, clearly lit by the light of the fire. And Takakawa had already investigated during the day, and there was not even a single skeleton in those rooms. Another sound from the roof caught Takakawa's attention, like someone hovering on it, his steps sluggish, and with every step, it was as if he was dragging the soles of his feet to the ground.

A sharp blade popped out of the cuff of Gao Chuan's right hand, and just as he was about to open a big hole in the roof to see what it was, multiple figures also appeared in other rooms of the house, and as soon as they appeared, they ran towards Gao Chuan's location very tacitly and secretly.

Unless Gao Chuan jumped out of the window, he would have to meet these people sooner or later, but before that-

Gao Chuan raised his head again, threw out the zipline with his left hand, hooked the roof that was already not very stable, and pulled it hard, tearing off a large piece of wood and bricks. The slow-moving humanoid figure suddenly fell into the fire in front of Gao Chuan, and at this time, Gao Chuan saw clearly that it was not a real person, although it did have humanoid limbs and a body, but its rickety back seemed to have grown a tumor, the dry face that even the wrinkles had been necrotic, and the godless but malicious eyes, which made people feel fear and rejection when they saw it.

Behind Takakawa, the people who were quietly gathering towards the fire in this room gathered one after another. As soon as they opened the door, they saw Takakawa confronting the emaciated humanoid, and at the same time that one of them screamed, the humanoid was already rushing towards Takakawa with a raging flame.

Although the strangeness of the human form is terrifying in appearance and more agile than ordinary people, it is completely a target in front of Gao Chuan. Takakawa spun his footsteps, dodging its embrace, and sliced the blade of his right arm through its body. The two swapped places in front of the fire. At the same time, the strangeness of the human form was broken in two from the waist, and then the body turned into ashes, and as soon as it was blown by some force, it was all swept into the fire, and the ferocious fire eased a little, and the flames that were spreading along the beams of the house also quietly receded, as if there was no need to worry about the possibility of the whole house being burned.

Concentrated at the doorway that had been damaged into a hole, it seemed that ordinary people in a family of four were staring at this scene a little sluggishly. Gao Chuan glanced at them, and the brain and hardware had recorded as much physical information as possible, and deduced more potential information from it.

Four people: a sturdy old man with gray sideburns, a young couple and their children, a girl about ten years old, who was a little afraid of strangers.

Although the clothes are modern people, they are not as fashionable as those in the city, and they make people feel that they are the residents of this village. If you look closely, you can see that there are wonderful marks on a certain part of their clothes, not like trademarks, but it makes Gao Chuan feel that it is a symbol with some kind of religious and mysterious significance, a bit like a token of the Doomsday Shinrikyo religion, but there is still a slight difference in structure.

Is it a sign of the New Age Gospel? Gao Chuan couldn't help but think. (To be continued.) )