Chapter 20: Illusions, and the Living Dead

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The abandoned boat star in the snow season is like a refrigerated ice room, even in the town and city, it cannot escape the cold that pierces the bone marrow, without the shelter of the house, without the warmth of the fire, it can freeze people to death, frozen into a corpse that is so stiff that it can be broken. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's been two years, how long will you have to endure such cold?

The boy looked at the alley where there were few pedestrians except for corpses, and felt the desperate cold, and his eyes couldn't help but shrink, and he curled up habitually to hug the young figure who always stayed by his side.

With a bend of his arm, he unexpectedly didn't hold anything.

Turning his head in surprise, he saw that his surroundings were empty, and there was no other person at all, this change made his eyes suddenly glow blood-red, and the whole person fell into madness in an instant.

A hoarse and low roar suddenly came out of his throat, and the coarse heat exhaled from under the boy's nose like a pillar of smoke, and his face was hideous, and he kept turning his head to search around, searching for the figures that were extremely important to him.

"Where...... Where!?"

In the cold alley, except for the extremely frozen corpses, there was no living person, and even the sky was blue and white, and there was no shadow of the sun and moon in the sky at all.

The boy gasped and staggered over to the ice corpses in the alley, trembling and turning over the corpses lying on the ground with his shivering hands, trying to see the faces on the ground.

The corpse flipped over, and it was an unfamiliar face.

It seemed that he had exerted too much force, and just after seeing the unfamiliar face, the corpse shattered into ice slag in his hands like a broken piece of ice, and there was no longer a complete shape.

"It's not...... Where......"

The boy gasped and stood up again, continuing on to the next corpse.

Opened.

"Not ......"

The ice corpse shattered, got up and moved, and flipped over the next one.

"Not ......"

The action was repeated, and the ice corpses in the alley were all turned over one by one and shattered into slag, and the cold alley was filled with countless piles of fragments, with a dry red, showing a dark red.

The fruitless repetition made the boy's despair more and more intense, the bloodshot in a pair of eyes covered the entire whites of the eyes like a dense spider web, and the madness in the depths of the eyes swirled like a whirlwind, and a thin layer of warm air really flashed around him, removing all the biting chills, but he himself didn't realize it at all.

Two hours, the action was repeated for two hours!

The corpses in the alley were all turned over, but none of the faces were in the boy's mind.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked up, he found that he had reached the point beyond the alley that connected to a larger street, and on this street, which was twice as wide as the alley, there was not a single pedestrian, only more ice corpses, and despair.

"No, no......"

The boy clasped his hands to his face, looking at the countless corpses waiting for him to open for verification, and his eyes seemed to bulge out from his fingers.

The infinite despair actually made the boy standing in the cold wind lose his mental normality!

"It's not winter......"

His fingers stood up strangely, and his nails dug directly into the skin of his face, blurring the flesh and blood of his already green face, but he showed the slightest look of pain.

"That's not right...... It's summer...... Herbs...... Small...... Xiaoshun!"

Scattered words pieced together in the boy's mouth, and when the last name was spat out, the madness in those bloody eyes instantly turned into a real red whirlwind, like thousands of sharp knives, rapidly rotating and cutting around his body.

In an instant, the boy's body seemed to be separated from the world into two parts, and began to levitate unconsciously, and the sharp knife whirlwind around him seemed to remove the space at the mouth of the street into an independent entity, and then with a snap, all the wind burst out in all directions.

The atmosphere of the countless Dao centered on the boy, pulling the whole world apart from countless black cracks, as if the streets and alleys paved with ice corpses were nothing more than paper, which were constantly cut and shattered, and the twists collapsed, completely losing their original appearance.

When the entire alley was turned into a black abyss, the world could no longer hold on, and in the last trembling of struggle, the world that had been cut out of countless cracks was silently shattered into slag like a fragile mirror, revealing a colorful mist realm, and a black hole like the color of the abyss.

The blood-colored eyes were gone, replaced by closed eyes, and then suddenly opened, and the blood color flickered, and the boy's figure twisted into a gray figure in a cloak.

It's Ding Yao!

Ding Yao, who had returned to normal, suddenly gasped for a few breaths, reached out and touched it, and his forehead under the shadow of the cloak was covered with cold sweat.

In order to help Xiaoshun, he came to the Void Yin Cave to collect herbs, regardless of the body's warning, stepped into the colorful mist on the periphery of the Void Yin Cave, and the moment he stepped in, the whole world suddenly changed, and he himself became a boy in an instant, losing the memory he should have.

It's no wonder that none of the members of the settlement who came to explore in this direction made it back alive, naturally because this seemingly beautiful colored mist can actually make people fall into a fantasy world!

This kind of illusion is constructed from the memory fragments of the recruiter himself, and the scene formed is extremely real, if it were not for Ding Yao's exercises to be automatically triggered at the end, he would probably collapse in the illusion, trapped in it and unable to extricate himself, until the physical body in reality is exhausted and dies.

Ding Yao's eyes flashed with a complicated light, and the scene in the illusion had already used his memory, even if he got out at this time, he still irrepressibly recalled some things from the past.

Looking at the sky, there was still the last trace of afterglow left in the sky, and Ding Yao couldn't help but look like a flash.

He spent two full hours in the illusion, but in reality, it seems that it is only less than half an hour, and the power of this kind of confusion of time perception should not be underestimated!

Standing in place, waiting for his breathing to gradually calm down, he looked at the blue herb, stepped up, immediately plucked it and put it in his arms, and then prepared to leave this strange place.

But as soon as his footsteps reached the edge of the colorful mist, Ding Yao stopped again.

He looked back at the land in the mist, but several doubts suddenly flashed in his heart.

With the strength of the middle stage of his rank, if it weren't for the exercises, he would almost be unable to resist the attack of the illusion, and the members who had explored from the quicksand spit settlement were just ordinary people, so it was naturally even more impossible to break free from the attack of the illusion, which must be one of the reasons for the disappearance of those members.

However, this is definitely not the whole truth!

The hunting team is divided into groups of more than ten people, and it is impossible for them to step into the colored fog collectively, if they find that their companions have a situation because of the colored fog, there will always be someone who will stand cautiously outside the range of the colored fog, how can it be possible that everyone will disappear?

Moreover, the effect of this illusion is to trap the intruder's spirit, making them incapacitated and unable to perform basic behaviors such as eating, and finally starve to death in the colored mist, becoming a dry corpse.

But if that's all there is to it, on the land outside the Void Yin Cave, except for the blurry colored mist and the swinging flowers and plants, why don't you see any human bones?

His gaze suddenly moved to the mouth of the Xu Yin Cave that looked like a black hole in the abyss, and his heart couldn't help beating twice rapidly.

In addition to the illusion, the reason must exist in the Void Yin Cave, and it is the existence of something in the Void Yin Cave, which not only causes the lack of any bones in the colored mist, but also makes even the quicksand spit members who did not enter the colored mist unable to escape the fate of disappearing.

This unknown thing made Ding Yao unable to take his own steps again.

If only the mystery of those people's disappearance could be solved......

The eyes under the cloak were silent for a long time, and the gray figure finally moved, but instead of leaving the colored mist and returning to the settlement, it went in the completely opposite direction, and walked towards the void hole that seemed to be pure black without a trace of light.

The black hole-like hole, just like that, slowly engulfed the approaching cloak figure, and the surrounding colored mist suddenly flickered, and then all the light disappeared, but it lost the light from the last afterglow, and could only turn into gray ice particles mist, floating around the void yin hole.

Night, coming.

......

Hua Lan's face was extremely difficult to see.

Lao Tie, a member of the settlement who had disappeared for two months on the stone bed, made a new discovery under her bold investigation, that is, this seemingly living patient, in fact, the entire brain tissue had long since died, but the physical body had not completely lost its vitality, so it maintained a kind of coma illusion.

In other words, this old iron is actually a dead man!

This was very different from Hua Lan's initial guess, because even she didn't expect that a dead person would be able to breathe like a living person, with rosy cheeks, and even subtle convulsions on his fingers from time to time.

This is not the state that a dead person should be, so Hua Lan has always been hopeful, hoping to save him, so that the face of Lao Tie's old friend will be surprised.

However, Hua Lan now understands very well that Lao Tie is dead and has no chance to wake up.

But she didn't know how to explain to the people of the settlement why the dead seemed so alive, because even she couldn't figure it out.

If you want to figure out all this, the penetration of the vitality alone is no longer effective, the only way is to dissect, dissect this dead man who seems to be still breathing and "alive"!

Her beautiful eyes flickered.

Hua Lan is not only the only doctor in the quicksand mouth, but also a soldier-level early stage ability, and she is an extremely intelligent person in her own right, she knows that she can't just dissect Lao Tie like this, because if she doesn't find out the cause in time, she will fall into the predicament of not being able to explain her behavior to others, which is not a good choice.

His eyes suddenly swept to Xiao Shun on another stone bed, the little boy had a low fever that had not subsided, and he was still weak and asleep, which made Hua Lan couldn't help but think of the man named Ding Yao who went to the Void Yin Cave to collect herbs for Xiao Shun.

Although in her opinion, Ding Yao has a strange and mysterious appearance in terms of dress and behavior, but she did not hesitate to go to a place where she knew that there was danger because of Xiaoshun, which made Hua Lan's opinion of this man change a lot.

Even though she still couldn't see through it, she had begun to believe that there seemed to be no malice behind this man's strange performance.

Looking at the starlight night outside the cave, the night was already very rich, but Ding Yao still didn't seem to have returned, Hua Lan couldn't help but feel a little worried and a little thoughtful.

"If it's him...... The Void Yin Cave, the secret of Lao Tie's death, can you help uncover it?"

Muttering to herself, Hua Lan sighed.

Whether or not the truth can be discovered, it must be ...... Come back safely!