Chapter 18: Aguston
The three dwarfs had already woken up. In fact, the dwarfs, who have evolved for tens of thousands of years, only need to sleep for ten minutes a day on Earth, but in order not to anger the old octopus, they still waited patiently for eight hours.
After seeing Lu Lie wake up from his sleep, the dwarf, whose patience was about to run out, turned to the octopus old man hanging upside down on the wall: "Now, can you tell us the way to get out of here?"
Old Man Octopus opened his eyes. Lu Lie noticed that his eyes had turned blood-red.
(From the beginning, this guy's eyes were blood-red?...... ๏ผ
Lu Lie struggled to recall the scene when he first saw the old man octopus.
But what is strange is that Lu Lie's memory has never been bad, and he can even clearly remember every detail of the appearance of the cannibal that he has not seen for decades. But no matter how he recalled, he couldn't think of what color the octopus old man's eyes were when he first entered this rebooted universe.
"I ......"
"Do you know how my tentacles hang upside down on the ceiling wall? The old man octopus suddenly replied to the question.
The fifteenth dwarf smiled: "I don't care how you hang upside down on the ceiling wall, you come down and tell us first." โ
"Then let you see. โ
"Bright, stars of this universe!"
The old man octopus slowly pulled his body up to the top of the room, and then, he ripped off the black cloth that covered the entire upper layer of the restart universe, revealing it.
......
A huge light instantly illuminated the entire dark universe, as if 10,000 stars were compressed in a small box and exploded, and it was as if the earth had been thrown into the scorching sun. Lu Lie's eyes were bright, and he couldn't see anything clearly in an instant, and he couldn't hear anything.
(I'm going blind.) ๏ผ
This was Lu Lie's first reaction.
Instinctively, he half-knelt on the ground and covered his eyes and ears with his hands in pain.
But it didn't work, these hateful, murderous rays of light were like pervasive droplets, following the gaps between Lu Lie's fingers and the space between his eyes, drilling into his eyeballs.
He felt like his eyeballs were dripping blood.
"What the hell is this! What the hell!"
"Turn it off...... Turn it off. Turn off! Turn off !!!"
Lu Lie could barely hear the number eight roaring frantically in his ear.
"That's a star, it's the star of this universe!"
He heard the breathless whisper of Number Eight in the distance.
Crazy, it's all going crazy.
Lu Lie forgot that this universe was too small, the size of only one room, but it was still a universe after all. There is still a miniature star running above the universe. Normally, the old octopus would hang it on the roof of the room by some means, and only in this case would the old octopus tear off the black cloth and reveal its hideous face.
The star's terrifying glow dimmed suddenly.
Only in the center of the room, that faint light.
Lu Lie had just escaped from this catastrophe, this terrible "light disaster". He was sweating profusely and was half-lying on the ground, like a badly dehydrated fish. Black dots danced in Lu Lie's world, and it took him a long time to reluctantly suppress them.
But when Lu Lie regained his sight and saw the scene in front of him, the sense of fear and shock in his heart was ten times stronger than when he was blinded by the stellar light of the restarting universe before.
Under this cloud of light, the dark room made Lu Lie and the others expand their line of sight, and also let them see things they shouldn't see.
It was an unknown mass of flesh hanging from the top of the room. Judging from their appearance, it was no longer clear what kind of creatures they were when they were aliveโLu Lie didn't even know if they were alive or not, or if they were originally a race, and they had been like this from the beginning. Fresh blood flowed slowly from the unknown flesh, but whenever they were about to hang down to a height that Lu Lie could feel, the fresh and thick blood would automatically shrink back into the wound.
It's like snot being inhaled into your nose.
Lu Lie felt a burst of instinctive chills.
And the reason why the octopus old man was able to hang upside down on the ceiling was because his tentacles grabbed the flesh hanging upside down on the ceiling.
"This ...... What the hell is this?"
Lu Lie gasped and subconsciously took a step back.
But where could he retreat? The ceiling of the whole room was full of these things, and wherever he went, he could see it when he looked up.
"These are other worldly beings who have inadvertently broken into this universe before. Of course, they've all become Aguston now," the old man slowly drooped from the ceiling, with a hint of a mysterious smile, "Aguston has all the pain and feeling of those creatures, and can still think, but they can't speak, they can't move, they can't do anything. They just hung there year after year, trapped in this room for eternity, enduring endless physical pain and fear, never to be freed...... If there really is hell in this world, then I think it is nothing more than that. โ
"You...... What do you want to do?" the dwarf instinctively sensed that something was not quite right, and took a step back, "Didn't you say you wanted to talk about how to get us out of this hellish place? Why did you suddenly talk about this nonsense? What is Aguston not Aguston's? We are not interested in the slightest. โ
Lu Lie also felt a little strange in his heart, mobilizing his Shishen in the spiritual world, beware of this old monster's shocking actions for a while.
"Hehe, hehe, hehehe......"
"Don't worry, do you think I'm going to do something to you and turn you into these Agustons? You're wrong, all the Agustones here are voluntarily made by creatures from another world. I have never forced them to do anything, for Aguston is the most perfect gift to the god of the universe, and it is a privilege for them to be Aguston. โ
"Do any of you want this privilege?"
Lu Lie scolded: "What kind of bullshit logic, this room-sized broken universe, and the god of the universe? If you like Aguston so much, why don't you turn yourself into Aguston, wouldn't it be an honor for you?"