Shi Yuan frowned slightly.

In his eyes, they were still in a mountain forest, surrounded by countless black trees, each with two blood-red eyes and a huge black mouth on its trunk.

Their branches swayed like arms, as if to stop them.

Overhead, there was a blood-red sky, no sun, and I don't know what was shining.

A red light enveloped them, as well as the mountain forest.

They are like people in the darkroom where they are developing photos in film and television dramas, with red light all over their bodies and strange facial features.

If it weren't for the fact that the touch under their feet was consistent with the memory, Shi Yuan would really wonder if they had fallen into a dream again.

How many times, Shi Yuan was worried that when he woke up, he found that he was still in the middle of the task, so the "mission completion" was actually just a dream within a dream.

He imagined countless times that if he could complete all the tasks alive, solve the anomalies in Dark Raven Ridge, and finally return to his home in Haiyuan City, would he still wake up in nightmares every day.

"That's pretty much it."

Shi Yuan let go of Yang Shuang's wrist.

He looked at the location of the building in his memory of the Royasen family and stretched out his hand.

In his field of vision, there was a tree ahead.

An extremely large, blood-red tree, completely different from other black trees.

It's like a tree watered with blood, and blood is constantly pouring from its bark.

There are two eyes on the trunk of the tree, and there is a large mouth of blood, and out of the mouth is a waterfall of blood.

A waterfall of blood flowed down and smashed on his feet.

The touch, so real, seemed as if liquid had actually landed on his feet.

Shi Yuan desperately discarded this thought and sensed the door of the building.

But what his fingers touched was something soft, warm.

He jerked his hand back, and the perceptual domain opened instantly.

He "saw" that in front of him was an extremely tall human figure.

The figure was not white, nor black, but blood-red.

What is that? What's that, exactly?

But then another question arose.

If I was standing in front of Luo Yasen's house, then not far ahead, there should be the silhouette of the people left in the building, and Mr. Lin and Wang Jingyi should still be inside.

Shi Yuan thought.

But now, he was completely unaware of their presence.

Is it in the wrong place, or is it ......

Shi Yuan closed his eyes.

He adjusted the size of the perceptual domain, trying to find Lin Yaqing and Wang Jingyi.

His perceptual ability could already sense the situation within a kilometer in diameter, which was not small, even if he was not facing the gate of Royasen's house right now, it was enough to cover the building.

The village of Dark Crow Ridge is just a small village, and it is not much of a big village in total.

However, in Shi Yuan's current perception domain, there were only two white humanoids, him and Yang Shuang, and a huge red humanoid in front of him.

Wrong!

Shi Yuan suddenly thought that although they ran separately, Luo Yasen and the others should also be within his kilometer range, why couldn't they notice it?

What went wrong?

He panicked.

I should have escaped, right? I'm not still in that mental hospital, am I?

Shi Yuan couldn't stop thinking.

He remembered that during a mission, his sentient abilities could only perceive situations in the same room.

He snapped his eyes open.

There was still a red light around him, and in front of him was a blood-red giant tree.

Next to it was Yang Shuang's anxious face.

Could it be this tree that you just touched? But why is that touch......

Wait, calm down. Panicking doesn't help anything.

Shi Yuan adjusted his breathing.

He "saw" that the black shape representing Zhao Xitong was gone.

Swish...... Swish......

The sound of the wind blowing the leaves was heard.

Shi Yuan looked up and saw the branches and leaves of the giant red tree shaking.

Then, the leaves fell. One of them happened to fall into his hands.

He caught the leaves and noticed that there were some words on them.

It reads: "Only when you really open your eyes will you discover the truth." ”

Really open your eyes?

Suddenly, he heard Liu Tong's voice.

"Shi Yuan! The mission is not completely completed, we must flee home as soon as possible, otherwise Zhao Xitong will keep chasing and killing us! ”

Shi Yuan only felt his brain thump.

His head stiffened to the side.

He saw Liu Tong, who was anxious and stunned.

To his left was the gate of the mental hospital, and Fang Yisheng was inside.

He turned out to be back again.

Are those just now, illusions or realities?

Is what is in front of you an illusion or a reality?

"When you really open your eyes, you will find the truth."

The words kept flashing in his mind.

What does it mean to truly open your eyes? Break through all the fog and stop relying on perception?

Shi Yuan looked at the door of the mental hospital. Inside the door, the madmen surged like a tide, trapping Fang Yisheng in the middle.

Open your eyes......

Suddenly, he felt himself float upwards.

What's going on?

After a brief panic, there was a complete calm.

Shi Yuan realized that it was not he who floated, but his perspective that was raised.

He saw his figure standing quietly below, saw Liu Tong, Luo Yasen and others next to him, and also saw Zhao Xitong who was crawling out of the gate.

"Run! Down! ”

He saw that he suddenly shouted, and then pulled Yang Shuang and ran down the mountain.

From this unprecedented perspective, Shi Yuan saw that not far behind them, Zhao Xitong was chasing them on all fours, but her abdomen was upward, and her face was upside down.

Truly open your eyes, is this it? Is it this top-down perspective?

Shi Yuan waited, waiting for the moment when the surrounding scene changed in his memory.

He saw himself and Yang Shuang rushing quickly, and saw Zhao Xitong behind him stop after chasing for a while.

He saw Yang Shuang drink a sip of mineral water.

Here it is.

Shi Yuan meditated in his heart.

Just now, it was at this moment that the surrounding environment changed dramatically, the sky dome turned red, and the cornfields disappeared and were replaced by black trees. Now it seems that it should be Zhao Xitong who created an illusion for them at the moment when he gave up chasing them.

From the "high perspective", the surrounding scene has not become an illusion.

On the ground, he and Yang Shuang's movements were telling him that in ordinary vision, the surroundings had become a strange world.

Is this perspective from above to bottom the real vision? Is this what it means to "truly open your eyes"?

Shi Yuan felt that a road in his heart had been opened.

Suddenly, he felt darkness in front of him.

When I opened it again, it was still the same blood red around me, and the leaves in my hands were still there.

He tried to see his surroundings from the high perspective he had just had.

He did it.