Chapter 256: Unknown Force
As the Explorer progressed, the perspective of the crowd kept moving. Ciri's order to the Explorer was to talk about as much information as possible, so instead of entering the town right away, it conducted a large mobile mapping around the town.
From the information obtained, everything outside the town has shown some degree of mutation. The ground was all that wriggling black structure, the leaves of the trees had completely fallen off, and a murky slime was slowly flowing down from the tops. The sky was always overcast, and the clouds were rolling in the farther you went towards the town. No one was found outside the town, and those who had rushed into it before were likely to be more than lucky.
Scanning outside of town took a long time, and once inside the town, it was impossible to do mobile mapping so casually.
The town is full of those dilapidated and old houses, some of which have been cordoned off because they are uninhabited. But now that the houses had been breached by brute force, it was unknown if someone had gone in to search for something, or if its original occupants had been resurrected and successfully reinhabited. The hedron needs light to record the image, and now the sky is cloudy, and the room is pitch black, and the hedron can't work in it at all, so the [Explorer] didn't go in to search.
Shortly after the Explorer moved forward, he met his first "man", if he could still be considered a human.
The person in the video is clearly a resident of the original town, dressed in local clothing, albeit very shabby. His face was gloomy and expressionless, and the sides of his neck were strangely shaped with deeply sunken folds. The man's head was narrow, out of its normal range, and eerily flattened. A pair of swollen and grayish blue eyes never seemed to blink, and the eyelids seemed to be unable to encompass the lifeless eyes.
His nose was very flat, and the whole nasal area was sunken downward, so that the nose did not protrude from the face at all, as it would normally be. The forehead and jaw are retracted, and the ears are not known to be fully developed or have degenerated, but they are not shaped.
The person has a larger mouth than normal, thick lips, and very large pores around it. His pale gray cheeks were devoid of any beard, except for a few small pieces of sparse yellow hair on his head, which were irregularly scattered and curled, and in some places the faces seemed to be irregular, as if the epidermis had been peeled off by some skin disease.
His hands were large, vein-filled, and took on an unusual blue-gray color. The fingers are somewhat short compared to the rest of the palm, and always seem to curl towards the center of the huge palm. The soles of the feet are also too large, and it is strange to walk and stagger. The whole person reveals a certain greasy feeling, which makes people feel a little disgusted for no reason.
The Explorer followed the mutant towards the town center square, and the further you went to the central area, the more people came, and the more serious the mutation. Fearing detection, the Explorer later had to sneak through the rooftops on both sides of the street.
Soon, everyone saw the final form of the mutation recorded in the video, a strange existence that was half fish and half frog but vaguely humanoid. The final form of this monster is mainly grayish-green, but has a white belly. Most of their skin is slippery and shiny, with a finned dorsal ridge. Their silhouette is vaguely human, but with a fish's head. A pair of eyes are huge, swollen and bulging, never closing. On the side of the neck are quivering gills, without a single strand on the body, and the long claws are covered with webbed membranes. The way forward is mostly semi-beating, sometimes with two legs, sometimes with four limbs.
The thick black clouds in the sky are no longer clouds, but have become a continuous ripple form, spreading outward in a circle, and the center of the ripple is obviously the location of the town center square.
As the [Explorer] gradually approached the central area, these fish-headed half-frog monsters, which were no longer humans, gradually began to kneel on the ground and worship in the direction of the square. The hedron could not record sounds, but judging by the monsters' mouths opening and closing, they were probably performing some kind of ritual.
When the [Explorer] finally slowly penetrated into the town square with the help of various mutant plants, everyone finally saw what was happening in the central area. There was still a group of worshipping monsters on the ground of the square, but the sky had changed.
Huge tentacles hung down from the air, these tentacles of different lengths were still waving, and drops of pale yellow slime were thrown down from the tentacles. There should be a hole in the air, as more tentacles are constantly crowding out, and a small part of the body they connect to is exposed, and it should be a huge one.
At this time, Ciri and the others no longer had to guess what this guy who wanted to enter the Praia plane was, because they were already in an even more serious crisis.
Since seeing those tentacles, a strong spiritual disturbance has entered the spiritual world of several people, and that incomparable force has instantly destroyed everyone's spiritual defense, causing several people to fall into a state of loss of consciousness in an instant.
At the same time, their bodies also changed, and the blood vessels burst out clearly visible, something flowed with the blood in the blood vessels, and swelled as if to break through the blood veins.
At this moment, the entire space-time suddenly froze, and even the thoughts were frozen in the frozen space-time, only those dense fogs were still rolling, unaffected at all. A giant eye that Caroline had seen before appeared above the world, and its eyes turned as if to look at the situation in the town of Innsmouth.
Then the giant eye vanished, and a hole appeared in the sky. It was pitch black inside the cavern, and a large hand reached out from the cavity, grasping the entire misty area in his hand. The roar of a lifetime like a whistle resounded throughout the frozen time and space, conveying an extremely angry emotion. However, the giant hand did not stop at this sound, and at once it cut the space and surroundings of the area where the dense fog was located, grabbed it in its hand, and took it out of the void.
The original position was still frozen due to time and space, leaving an incomparably deep spatial discontinuity.
I don't know why, it turned out that Ciri, who was also distracted because of the spar recording image, came to his senses again the moment the time and space froze. He witnessed the whole process, and a fear of the mysterious unknown and his own insignificance came spontaneously.
He didn't know why he was awake in this apparently frozen plane, and everything that happened around him made Ciri feel that the world was so strange and terrifying. Ciri would rather not have seen such a shocking process herself, but all this is not observed through the external senses, but directly reflected in Ciri's consciousness.
Although her consciousness remains awake, the only thing that Ciri can function now is her mental consciousness, and everything else is also condensed in time and space. After some time, the void in the sky had not disappeared, and a powerful will appeared in Ciri's mind.
This will didn't explain anything to him, only told him that he didn't expect the crisis to spread here. The strong will tells Ciri not to study the matter again, he has sealed some kind of danger in the minds of everyone watching the video, and warns Ciri not to tell anyone the truth about this matter.