Chapter Twenty-Three: 'Extraordinary' Changes
For Kenny, Zhang Longchu's understanding is a little complicated.
At first, he thought that this old man was just an old fox who lived in Orange Street, opened a restaurant on the surface, but secretly acted as a broker to make a living, wandering in the gray field.
But more than a month ago, when Zhang Longchu was desperate and threatened the old fox to buy a gun, Kenny magically took out a rune short gun that would only appear on the battlefield of the real plane, and said that the gun used to be his weapon, which completely subverted Zhang Longchu's impression of him.
What's even more unexpected is that tonight, when Zhang Longchu finished inquiring about the news of the 'Bone Brothers' and said goodbye to Kenny, he actually sent a mysterious gift that is said to be able to make people gain extraordinary power, which made Zhang Longchu even more imaginative.
Fortunately, no matter what, the old man has always shown kindness and help to Zhang Longchu, so although he is becoming more and more mysterious in the young man's heart, he has not caused any scruples.
In addition, Zhang Longchu coincidentally obtained the strange object 'world', and any incredible good thing of enlightenment could happen to him, so he really put amber in his heart as Kenny said.
However, after waiting for a while, there was no abnormality, and after Zhang Longchu, who was a little tired in his heart, calmed down, he suddenly felt that what he was doing was very ridiculous, and he couldn't help but think: "Zhang Longchu, you are simply dizzy."
Are you the hero of some legendary story, the whole world revolves around you, and you can have a series of adventures casually, ha, don't be stupid...", yawned, and dreamed.
And at the moment when he fell asleep, the transparent amber on his heart glowed with a faint light, and it was clear that Zhang Longchu's right hand had been released from it, but it was still firmly fixed on the young man's chest like a layer of adhesive glue.
Then, as time passed, the amber core gradually emerged in the image of a giant wolf with a snow-white body.
The fangs of the wolf's upper and lower lips were intertwined and exposed;
The bright red eyes have no pupils, and the whites of the eyes shimmer with a hideous light;
The hair on his body is as thick as a lion's mane, and it doesn't look like a creature that exists in reality, just like a monster in a horror story.
At the same time that the snow-white giant wolf appeared in the amber, Zhang Longchu, who was asleep, suddenly dreamed in a trance, feeling that he had become a giant wolf, living on the endless snow-white ice field as far as the eye could see.
The body structure and life temperament of wolves and humans are completely different, and running on all fours makes him feel indescribably awkward, not to mention attacking prey with his front paws, biting enemies with his mouth, tearing fur raw, and devouring blood and meat.
If it were an ordinary person, he would have a nervous breakdown after a few days of living from a human to a wolf, but Zhang Longchu gradually got used to this kind of bleak future without thinking about how to change after the initial discomfort;
You don't need to think about how you can escape from the suffocating orphanage after you don't even have a single meter of savings;
There is no need to worry about being found out by the police or school teachers as the scum who sells drugs for a living;
You don't need to pretend to be strong in front of your friends;
You don't need to go crazy because of your jealousy of the comfortable lives of other students in middle school, and you can live a simple life with only claws and fangs.
There is no social rule, no warmth and warmth, no communication with the same kind... All the laws of survival are reduced to four words, the law of the jungle.
Slowly, when Zhang Longchu completely stopped rejecting the incarnation of a giant wolf, and even gradually forgot what he had been like as a human, his body lying in the old apartment building on Orange Street began to twist and deform under the influence of some mysterious power transmitted by the amber attached to his chest.
And at this moment, Zhang Longchu's strange backpack at the head of the bed automatically spread out as if sensing something, turned into a chessboard, and gave birth to a suction force in the air, which actually attracted the mysterious power of the amber from Zhang Longchu's writhing body, and devoured it completely.
Just such a transmission, an interception, with Zhang Longchu as the transit point, the mysterious amber and the strange object 'world' started to exchange energy until dawn came.
After the sky turned white, gradually, the power transmitted by the amber became weaker and weaker, and the snow-white giant wolf that appeared inside slowly evolved into the image of a red and yellow bear, and then the bear turned into a black giant leopard with faint electric light, and after a while, the thunder and lightning black panther froze into a western dragon with scales as black as the night.
At this point, the amber shell that Zhang Longchu adhered to in his mouth began to appear one after another, and as the sky outside the window became brighter and brighter, there were more and more fine lines on the amber, slowly covering the entire surface, making it gradually weathered as if it had undergone eroded by hundreds of millions of years in an instant.
Just when the amber was about to shatter and disappear, suddenly, as if a certain condition had been met, the strange object 'world' on the bedside began to transform from solid to void, into countless black and white dotted lines, surging into the pores of Zhang Longchu's body and burrowing into his body.
After that, a distant voice suddenly sounded in Zhang Longchu's mind, "Lucky enough to be able to reach the sky, mortals have become extraordinary since then, stepping through the trap like flat ground, and finally the barrier is gone." ”
At the same time, Zhang Longchu's bones and muscles began to twist and expand uncontrollably, his mouth continued to lengthen, and his neat white teeth gradually turned into the appearance of beast fangs, and more pure white hairs continued to grow from the pores, and after a few seconds, he turned into the appearance of a giant wolf in his dream, but his size seemed to shrink a lot.
Time passed, and another hour passed unconsciously, under the supervision of the biological clock, Zhang Longchu naturally woke up from his sleep, jumped out of bed in a blur, and walked into the bathroom on all fours.
When the man stood up and looked in the mirror, he suddenly noticed that he had changed, looked at the hideous wolf face in the mirror, roared, and fell to the ground in panic.
After a period of dizziness, Zhang Longchu closed his eyes tightly, numbly and completely like a wolf, stretched out his head and rubbed his front paws, stood up again, opened his eyes and saw that the mirror was still reflected in a snow-white wolf head, and he was completely dumbfounded.
After a long pause, he slowly came back to his senses, trying to figure out what was going on, and gradually recalled last night's dream, "I seem to have dreamed that I have become a giant wolf at the top of the food chain, living on the ice field, yes, yes, I have this dream, and it seems that I have been in the dream for many days."
A dream, now that I think about it, it was as if it was real, such a real dream, how could I forget it when I woke up...
No, no, now is not the time to think about such a thing, it is time to think about how I could have had a dream and wake up inexplicably becoming a wolf.
Wolves, people become wolves, well, werewolves in European magic legends are changed by people, and there are beasts in science fiction legends, by the way, the wild druids in magic legends also have the spell to turn into wolves.
Wild druids, wild druids, wild hearts... Hell, could it be that the new generation of the legendary 'Druid' fighting in the plane has become a reality, Kenny, the wild heart that Kenny gave me is the 'inheritance' of this professional wild line, if that's the case, I just want to be able to change back into human form..."
Thinking of this, looking at the wolf face in the mirror, Zhang Longchu took a deep breath to calm himself down completely, and only kept repeating one thought in his mind, "Change back into human form, change back into human form..."
As his mind turned, the hairs around Zhang Longchu's body quickly shrank back into his body, his front paws turned into human hands, and his hind claws turned into legs, and in just a second or two, he reverted into a human form.
Looking at the familiar face in the mirror, the boulder in Zhang Long's heart was put down at once, and he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but as soon as the wave was flattened, he suddenly found that a void with a radius of two or three meters behind him showed an image of an ancient coastal jungle walled city like a movie.
After just looking at the image, Zhang Longchu recognized that what appeared was his own world of strange things, but the area was several times larger.
He opened his mouth for a while, thinking in horror in his heart, "What is this, how could the world of strange things suddenly appear behind me, and it is so much bigger...", as soon as his consciousness turned, the mirror in front of him instantly turned into black and white dotted lines and disappeared, and a beach and woods appeared at his feet.
Condescendingly and carefully looking at the world of strange things, Zhang Longchu found that the edge length of the area where the black fog was dispelled had indeed doubled compared to last night, from 100,000 meters to 200,000 meters.
The four sides doubled, and the area expanded by four times, and in addition to the walled city of the Longchu clan in the jungle, several more indigenous villages and towns appeared.
The place where the dense fog of the strange world dissipated has really expanded a lot, which naturally makes Zhang Longchu happy, but the image of the strange world appearing behind him is something that Zhang Longchu must not accept, because this is simply to announce to everyone that he has a heavy treasure and comes to snatch it.
"How could the world of strange things get bigger inexplicably, and an image appears behind me, what happened last night..."Turning his mind back to reality from the world of strange things, looking at the image behind him from the mirror, Zhang Longchu pondered: "In addition to the dream of becoming a giant wolf, I seem to have heard a poem made in strange slang in a trance, 'Luck, luck is good enough to reach the sky, mortals have changed since then, changed, transcendent, stepping through the trap like flat ground, and finally the barrier disappeared without a trace', yes, this is the poem...
Ah, is that so, because I became a druid, or whatever kind of transcendent being last night, and my body gained supernatural powers, which caused the strange things attached to my soul to change as well!
Yes, yes, it must be so, so there is a sentence in the poem where mortals become transcendent from then on, and finally the barriers disappear without a trace.
Okay, now that we have found the reason that is most likely to cause the change in the world of strange things, how to restore it...", after thinking about it and not finding the answer, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and thought that since the world produced by strange things has changed, then maybe he should go and see if there has been any change in the body of strange things.
Thinking of doing it, he ran a few steps to the bed, and saw that the place where the wooden backpack was originally placed at the head of the bed was now only a strap and a few pieces of cowhide, Zhang Longchu was slightly stunned, and then hurriedly sensed the location of the strange thing now.
Unexpectedly, as soon as his mind turned, countless black and white dotted lines floated out of his body, turning from virtual to real into an old chessboard in front of Zhang Longchu's eyes, and landed on the mattress, and at the same time, the movie-like image of the strange world behind him disappeared without a trace.