Chapter 14: The Inner World and the Table World

When I woke up again, I found myself in a water prison, and the icy water was slowly submerging my knees and rising. The www.biquge.info of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion is surrounded by a wall made of a large pile of stones, on which there are more than a dozen deliberately carved candlesticks, and the faint candle flame shines on the ground to form black shadows with teeth and claws.

I listened carefully, the silence around me was terrible, it seems that I was locked up here after being attacked and knocked unconscious before, and there is some distance from the place where Wang Modao fought, it seems that I have to figure out my own way. So I walked around the water with difficulty, there are about 30 square meters here, although the water level is not rising fast, but it has no intention of stopping.

The door of the water cell was sealed with stone pillars, the widest interval was also narrower than my head, the stone pillars were very sturdy and not easy to push off, the only comfort to me was that the candle flame on the candlestick occasionally swayed slightly, obviously ventilated, not so that it would suffocate to death.

I moved carefully with my feet in the water, and there didn't seem to be anything special, it seemed that there was no mechanism or something, wasn't there a flaw? I looked around anxiously. Suddenly, I looked up, and in the flickering candlelight, I could faintly see the stone wall above me trembling slightly.

Delusion, no. Just when I was puzzled, the stone wall shook again, and this time I could see it clearly, could it be that the water was rising below, and the stone wall above was going to press down. For the first time in my life, I was filled with resentment towards the tricks of the ancients. But after looking at it for a while, the stone wall did not have a tendency to press down, but the frequency and amplitude of the shaking were more and greater.

I tried to stand on tiptoe and reach out to try, and it looked like I was still half an arm's length from the stone wall. The water was already up to my waist, and the cold water seemed to be even colder, and I went to the door of the cell with some anxiety, and tried to beat each stone pillar, not paying attention at first, but then it sounded a little different.

The sound of the three on the left is dull, while the four on the right are crisp, and the remaining two are completely silent. I thought about it and hammered it the rightmost stone pillar first, and the pain made me gasp, and at the same time, I noticed that the stone pillar also seemed to shrink a little. So I gritted my teeth, and quickly hammered it ten times or so, both hands were slightly swollen, and the stone pillar was obviously smaller, but I was still almost able to stick my head out, so I hammered it a few more times, and tried to stick my head out.

I hurriedly turned sideways to drill out, after the upper body went out, I was stuck again, through the touch of the skin of the buttocks, the stone pillar that had shrunk before was slowly expanding and restored, so I opened the bow left and right, regardless of the scratched skin on my hands, gritted my teeth and continued to beat the stone pillars on both sides, and finally I heard a complaint: "Just say that this person can fight and even want his life, you see, I told you to pretend to be on the line, you have to toss, now it's okay, people's blood is sprinkled, recognize the Lord." ”

Immediately afterwards, I felt that the two stone pillars that were originally stuck in the lower half of my body were suddenly gone, and I couldn't control it for a while, and I instantly fell to the ground. When I got up, there were four half-man-tall monsters standing in front of me.

The four monsters were all covered in fluff and each carrying a bag, feeling like four turtles without tails standing there. They all had human faces, but they looked slightly flattened, and they didn't have eyebrows, and one of the vertical pupils at the center of the eyebrows shone with a strange light, and there were two monsters with a red line floating in the vertical pupils.

"Master!" The monster with the red line in the two vertical pupils bowed his head slightly and shouted: "Master, let's help those two people complete the recognition of the Lord first." After saying that, the other two squatted on the ground, and I followed the instructions of the two of them and wiped them all over the two crouching monsters with my bleeding hands.

After completing the confession, the one on the far left said, "Master, we are the four monsters of the prison. The one next to him immediately interjected: "What four monsters, obviously they are four turtles!" "The four turtles are not good-looking, no matter how they sound, they look like dead ghosts, it is better to call them the four immortals, and they will be domineering when they listen to it." "Leak, leak, leak your size, if you leak air, you can imagine what the situation is."

I watched the four of them arguing a little helplessly, and finally had to say: "Hey, you guys say okay one by one, as for the name or something, it's just a symbol, the four monsters and four immortals are just a code name, let's talk about what is going on with you and this place." ”

The four monsters who were originally arguing instantly quieted down, and after a moment of silence, they still opened their mouths on the far left: "Well, what the master said is also reasonable." Originally, it was said that this place was a forbidden place in the heavenly realm, dedicated to imprisoning demons and sins, but somehow, it fell to the mortal dust. Originally, we were the flesh and blood left on the limbs of the Heavenly Replenishment Divine Ao, and then slowly cultivated and absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon and condensed into shape. After that, we always wanted to truly melt into the red dust, until hundreds of years ago, a wandering Taoist priest told us that as long as we find a special spirit of the red dust guest, let him drip blood willingly, and after completing the recognition of the master, we can rely on the master in the way of a talisman spirit, and complete the formation of the spirit through the master's physique. ”

I listened a little dizzy, but I was thinking in my heart: before my two young friends appeared strangely, and then said that it was my talisman spirit, the two of them just left, and these four immortals and turtles came, and they also said that they were talismans, and this time they also dripped blood to recognize the Lord, and they looked more advanced, during which the Xue family also had the intention of protecting me, what was wrong before, why did so many strange things suddenly happen?

Just when I was thinking nonsense, the stone wall above the water prison trembled, and a fist pierced out, and then Wang Modao's voice came: "Wang Hao, how is it, it's not out of breath, hurry up and squeak the sonar." I was thrilled, and then I shouted playfully, "Squeak! The above seemed to be stunned, and after a while, Wang Modao's voice came: "You kid can still play at this time, it seems to be very energetic." ”

"Master, although we are your talismans, but after all, we are also demon spirits, for the sake of safety, let's avoid it first, and you can just call us when no one is around." After speaking, I didn't wait for me to speak, I felt four breezes blowing in my ears, and then my body sank slightly and then returned to normal.

The crack in the stone wall of the water prison made a sound and then completely shattered, Wang Modao poked his head out and looked down, and then a beam of light hit me straight, and then a huge pull pulled me up slowly. In mid-air, I accidentally glanced at the water I was in, and the water had completely receded, revealing its original appearance.

It is a pure white land, and a nine-square grid is drawn on it, each with nine movements, the simplest being Zama Bu, and then more and more complicated. But somehow, I couldn't take my eyes off the first time I saw it, and even though it was getting farther and farther away, I could still see it clearly as if it was right in front of me, and my mind seemed to be more and more impressed.

"What are you looking at, there are peerless beauties or super luxury cars below, look at what you see, your eyes are red and you are short of breath, and then the saliva will flow down and it will be a perfect match." Wang Modao dangled in front of my eyes and said loudly: "Hey, hey, hey, I'm damn, you're really drooling, quick, stay away from me!" I just pretended to drool and leaned over, and he quickly yelled and pushed me away.

At this time, I found that he was covered with scars, some of them were hissing and bubbling black, and the most shocking thing was that there was a palm print on his chest, which completely corroded the skin and flesh outside, and was falling inch by inch with carrion, and those carrion could also corrode the next layer of ground if they fell to the ground, and there was green smoke floating from time to time.

Wang Modao saw that I was observing his injuries and said nonchalantly: "Hey, it looks terrifying, in fact, they are all small injuries, at the beginning they were surrounded by many people, and I couldn't use my fists and feet, so let the woman in the lead touch a few times, she was also more poisonous, although the tongue was many and long, but it was nothing, but the claws were also a little sharp, so I broke her claws first, and then it was much better, her little brothers were all poisoned by her, and I wore this thing." With that, he pointed to his back.

Behind him was a mask with three leaf-like symbols faintly drawn on it. There was a corpse on the ground not far away, it was the thing that had been fused with the three monsters before, and at this moment its limbs were completely broken, several tongue-like objects twitched around it from time to time, and two peachwood swords pierced deeply in its chest and above its head.

"Let's go, this monster is actually a symbol of three kinds of people, snake and scorpion with a long tongue and snobbish eyes, an iron heart with two sides and three knives, sleek and sophisticated." Wang Modao looked at the corpse softly and said, "Originally, these could not be so concrete, but they can be so clearly displayed here, I am afraid that the one we have to deal with is very good at playing with people's hearts." ”

I thought for a moment, then grabbed him and asked, "You like to play games, and you should have heard of a classic single-player game." "That's, I don't have as long a game history as you, but I've played a lot, not to mention the classics, which one are you talking about?" Fairy Sword, Xuanyuan Sword or Shushan Biography? Wang Modao responded disapprenously.

"Neither, it's a horror classic, Silent Hill!" I said word by word, Wang Modao was stunned for a moment, then frowned and thought about it, and after a while, he asked thoughtfully: "Why did you suddenly think of this game?" ”

"Because the most talked-about thing about Silent Hill is the weirdness of the intertwining of the surface world and the inner world, do you think that we are in a certain inner world now, otherwise how could there be this embodied monster?" I explained what I meant.

"The world of the surface, the world of the inside, well, that's exactly what you say. The question is, if this is the same setting as Silent Hill, then when is it safe to watch the world, and how did we get into the inner world? Wang Modao asked softly.

"Actually, I think you should ask who created and whose world we fell into!" I calmly looked at Wang Modao beside me and said.

Wang Modao looked at me in surprise: "What's the difference, isn't it just that you have fallen into a world?" I suddenly laughed, shook my head and said, "Maybe on the surface, it's just an inner world, but what I want to ask now is, who, the maker, who, the inner world!" I looked at Wang Modao's somewhat strange eyes and continued: "If I'm not wrong, now I am trapped in Wang Modao's inner world, and you, his inner demon, are only showing me what you hope I can accept." ”

Wang Modao suddenly panicked, he took two steps back nervously and asked, "How can you tell if I'm not real?" I walked over to the monster's corpse, picked up a tongue that was still wriggling, and raised it casually, and it drifted into the air.

"First of all, you separate me from Wang Modao first, because you want to control me in order to threaten him, but unfortunately he gave me a talisman in advance, and you can't get close to me; So you wanted to pretend to be a guardian spirit to solve the crisis for me and wanted to take the opportunity to get close to me, but you didn't expect that my own physique was special, and as a result, the real spirit body solved the crisis, right, at that time, you wanted to pretend to be Xue Guixian? "I paused when I said that. That Wang Mo Dao was obviously stunned, and then said, "What else?" ”

"I can't think of any surprise, originally you knocked me unconscious and wanted to directly trap me in the water prison, and then threaten Wang Modao, but I didn't expect that I could also attract spirits here, in order to prevent me from getting out of your control, you pretended to work hard to solve the difficulty." I casually looked around as I spoke.

It is the center of a labyrinthine corridor, the surrounding walls are covered with turquoise vines, and the quaint bluestone path on the ground tells the breath of time. At this time, that Wang Modao lowered his head and asked, "Then when did you start doubting me?" ”

"From the beginning of the hospital scene, I felt that you were not the person I knew at that time, and then you suddenly reappeared, which made me more suspicious, and then I deliberately asked you about the game, but you really got hit, the real Wang Modao only plays online games, and doesn't care about stand-alone games, and he doesn't even know about the fairy sword." I replied coldly.

"Sure enough, it's still negligent!" That Wang Modao whispered, and then raised his hand, and the surrounding area was suddenly filled with gray mist, and a few flashes he had disappeared at the end of his vision. "Actually, the real Wang Mo Dao has definitely guessed it, he is also a game veteran, how can he really not know Silent Hill?!" I whispered and slowly reached into my trouser pocket, clutching the Heavenly Thunder Talisman.

There was a flicker of light in the distance from time to time, and I thought about it and walked slowly. The gray fog around me was thick and faint, and occasionally I heard strange sounds, I walked and stopped, the gray fog in front of me was already very thick, and I could feel obvious resistance with a slight wave of my hand.

When I was hesitating, someone behind me seemed to be calling my name, and I was about to say yes when my heart tightened, and then there was a shout, and it sounded much closer, and I suddenly remembered a saying I had heard before: In the open wilderness or mountains, if you hear someone shouting your name behind your back, don't say yes and don't look back, otherwise no one knows what will happen.

Immediately afterward, another cry sounded behind my ears, and at the same time a cold air penetrated into my body, and I couldn't help but shiver. Maybe it was because I didn't respond, but the cry rang out again, and this time I heard it clearly, and it sounded like my grandfather who had died a long time ago!

I couldn't help but remember that I hadn't been able to go back to see my grandfather for the last time, and I heard my grandmother say that grandpa kept saying my name when he left. Perhaps stimulated by a sense of guilt, I turned my head uncontrollably, and sure enough, I saw my grandfather's familiar appearance, but he looked more haggard and old, and tears couldn't help but roll down.

"Grandpa!" I choked up and shouted, grandpa was also very excited to call me again, I was just about to promise suddenly remembered that grandpa every time he saw me is calling my name, why is this shouting a big name, so I took a step back and asked: "Good calculation, use family affection to bind me, and then take the opportunity to do it, don't pretend, let me see your true face." ”

"Tsk, it's really difficult, it's strange how you are more calm when you encounter danger, I really don't know how your brain grows!" The grandfather on the opposite side said and slowly lowered his body, and it didn't take much effort to see a huge centipede creature appear on the ground, each foot was a kitchen knife-shaped, and each body had a festering wound flowing pus, and a scorpion tail extended at the end of the tail, a huge hook flashed with cold light, and a hideous dog head was on the front, with sharp teeth creaking and biting, and large swaths of saliva dripping.

I couldn't help frowning, it seems that this is a monster aimed at me, the only thing that puzzles me is that the surface world that was obviously safe before, how could there suddenly be such a dangerous monster, and what I said just now suddenly flashed in my mind: Who created whose inner world.

If this is the inner world that already exists, and we are just passers-by who enter it, then we can create illusions and hallucinations based on some of our memories, and then we can switch between the inner and outer worlds at will? I thought quickly, and my feet slowly retreated.

The crawling monster in front of me also walked slowly, and I knew very well what was going on with this patchwork, which was when I was in first grade: once on my way home from school, I saw a small broken box in the depths of the alley, and there was a whining sound coming from it, and I walked over to see that it was a puppy, and after that, I would save some money every day to buy some sausage bread or something to feed the dog.

Although I can't take it home to raise, but this kind of life is quite fulfilling, until one day a group of senior students saw the dog that ran out unintentionally, and they ravaged the puppy in boredom, and when I arrived, I only saw the dying puppy and a group of grinning big children, I wanted to rush up and finally retreated.

After that, the group of senior students caught a group of centipede scorpions out of nowhere, and then locked them up with the dog and said that they wanted to raise a Gu King, and I could only lie on my stomach every day to watch the puppy's wound festering day by day, and then it was eaten up little by little, and then I was inexplicably afraid of seeing reptiles, and I inexplicably kept a dog.

I stopped remembering, looking at the monster in front of me, it must not be possible to run here, if you come, you will be safe, you can't be afraid like this for the rest of your life, I took a long breath, and then stopped retreating. The monster stopped when he saw me, then roared and half-stood up, brandishing several kitchen knife-like legs and slashing at me.

I quickly dodged, but even then I was always slashed by a knife, and the wounds on my body gradually increased, and slowly a dozen drops of blood were spilled under my feet. Just when I was tired of dodging, there was a faint impact behind me, and I couldn't help but stumble, and suddenly two knives on top of my head slashed straight down.