Suddenly, the style of painting changed.

The fantasy background that was said to have become science fiction is forgotten, but now it has become a ghost story?

Isn't it too much?

The horror was like ice water, gradually seeping into the bone marrow, but Huai Shi's brain began to be cranky, trying to divert his attention, although he panicked.

Especially when he flipped back to the Book of Destiny and found that there were ten people when he set off......

Since when did it become seven?

And since when did seven minus one or seven?

It's hard to understand what exactly happened.

The sudden change made him stiffen in place. When he lowered his head and looked at the display screen on the arm part of the spacesuit, he once again felt the impact that was not inferior to that just now.

- [Depth 0]

They remain in the present and have not been devoured by hell. But everything has already been unrecognizable unconsciously.

"What's wrong, Huaishi?"

Sensing his abnormality, Izzy seemed confused, and asked on the public channel, "Are you okay?"

“...... No, I'm fine, just taking a breath. ”

Huai Shi replied calmly, holding the jet, through the gloves of the spacesuit, resonating, counting the number of safety ropes with the echo of the snapped fingers:

“1、3、3、2、4...... 5、5、7。 ”

It's seven people, and that's right!

"You count it again. Tong Ji's voice sounded, as if she was smiling.

“0、1、2、10、11...... 21。 ”

Huai Shi's heart suddenly became more and more terrifying, and sure enough, there were still 21 people!

Wait a minute......

The silence in his mind paused, repeatedly comparing the records in the Book of Destiny, and realized that something was wrong.

Why is the result different every time I count?!

"Because reality has already changed, Huaishi. Tong Ji sighed in his ear: "To be exact, it was alienated under the radiation of Helios's secret instrument."

It's become something you can't understand......"

In the dead silence, Huai Shi was sweating.

Obviously everything was so normal in front of them, and it was clear that they were still slowly approaching Helios, about to reach the 'Kingdom Gate', which was several kilometers high.

But something had changed, and they didn't even notice it......

"This is the 'imagination of a philosopher'. ”

Tong Ji said: "If you want to say it, it is really a rare material, if it is collected and sold in the present world, every gram may be equivalent to the essentia crystals of the three qualitative changes, right?"

Usually only souls full of the essence of skill and rhapsody can produce such precipitation when they are burned, but I didn't expect it to be so vast here.

With such an exaggerated scale, if it is passed back, it will definitely attract a lot of gold diggers, right?"

"Wait, you mean...... Incineration?"

"Yes, essentia incineration. ”

Kirihime replied seriously: "In other words, you can treat those intangible things as the ashes of the dead on Helios, and only so many outstanding alchemists and their obsessions can produce such an exaggerated scale when they are burned, right?"

The souls of those men were annihilated by the sudden upheaval, and the essentia was extracted and incinerated by the engines of Helios, leaving only ashes filled with self-realizations and distorted illusions, radiating in all directions...... In the vast space, find a relief.

Isn't that the unlucky guy who spontaneously combusted just now?

Corrupted and disturbed by them, immersed in comprehension, and on a dead end without knowing it...... The more obsessed you are with alchemy, the more you will be attracted to such temptations, like moths to a fire.

As a result, in vain they were burned to ashes along with the flames...... In the end, I didn't understand that what I had comprehended was a bubble!"

That's just a conjecture that emerges from the essentia of the dead.

A seemingly philosophical lie.

It's like the truth and essence of knowing in a dream, it seems to be extremely precious, and I try everything to write it down, but when I open my eyes, I only find that what I find is nothing more than absurd things like 'bananas are big and banana peels are big'.

Even if it is slightly contaminated, cognitive impairment will occur.

It is precisely for this reason that the 'conjectures of philosophers' are the main material for all kinds of strict prohibitions against drugs.

The biggest effect is brainwashing.

Make people believe in something ridiculous.

"Even what you've just learned, forget about it as soon as possible. Tong Ji reminded: "It's just a temporary obsession, and it has no value at all." ”

After a long silence, Huai Shi asked dryly, "So, am I just affected by them? In fact, nothing happened at all?"

"No, in fact, there have been things that you didn't notice a long time ago, Huaishi, there are many. It's just that some are worth caring about, and some are not. ”

Tong Ji laughed meaningfully: "What if I told you that compared to when I set off, there was not one person missing, but two people less?"

Do you remember who shouted at you to 'don't look' at the beginning?"

“......”

Huai Shi fell into a stupor, unable to even tell whether she was telling the truth or joking.

"This is the essence of alchemy, Huai Shi, through essentia, through secret rituals, through calcining calamities and miracles, to complete the distortion of reality. ”

Tong Ji said mockingly: "If you want to extract miracles, then you will inevitably create the same amount of calamity." But success or failure represents a violation of common sense.

When Helios' engine begins to twist, the destruction begins to spread and spread.

Now you will only feel the cognitive influence, and maybe in the future, even mathematics itself will become ternary, and even people will grow three eyes, four hands, or even become buckets, or even get lost in the structure of non-Euclidean space......"

"Because of this, we are able to create a real 'hell' without changing the depth. ”

At this moment, right next to the jet, Huai Shi looked up and stared at the heavy door that was as large as a square.

They had landed on a huge platform that was so empty that it was panicking, and right at the end of Helios, the only way in front of them was the only way.

This is the real 'Gates of Hell'.

Huai Shi had given up counting the number of her teammates, and that was pointless.

Through Tong Ji's words, he already understood a little.

- That's why you can't give such a thing as 'trust' to others.

No one other than oneself can judge whether the other person's state and spirit are normal, whether they are still their companions. Even I am afraid that I will unconsciously become an unexpected appearance.

Everyone has to be alone.

Even if they are so-called teams, close to each other......

"Got it?Huaishi, here, anything can be changed, and anything can betray you......"

Tong Ji reminded solemnly, paused, and suddenly changed the conversation and became pleasant, "But on the bright side, you can always trust my sister and me!"

As she spoke, she whistled with her eyebrows: "This is a great opportunity to get along alone with your big sister, increase your bonds, and unlock new benefits for the ship, you have to know how to cherish it~"

Finished.

Huai Shi listened to it, and was not moved at all, but felt that his heart was getting colder and more thorough.

The world is so cold.

Only the puppy of friendship in his arms still has some warmth, but the puppy of friendship looks disdainful and looks down on people......

Imagine that when you go down to the nightmare dungeon, the team leader is not doing anything, the teammates are unreliable, and even smoking and paddling, I don't know how many others can catch their breath.

The most terrible thing is that there is still a successful reclamation, and there is no chance of resurrection.

The only companion who can rely on is a bad woman with no conscience, and still a broken dog who wants to eat everything and bite everything......

You can see the crematorium waving warmly to you.

Huai Shi's tears almost rushed out.

If he knew that there was nothing good in heaven, he wouldn't come!

At the front of the line, at the front of the line, Galandion's disciple, an alchemist from the Stone Cauldron Society, had taken out a brass-colored oil lamp from the satchel beside him.

Lift your sleeve and rub the knob of the oil lamp twice.

So, in the vacuum, a soybean-sized lamp lit out of thin air, like a phantom, scanning the surroundings and emitting wisps of wandering light.

Eventually, a projection from the Son of Leviathan emerges.

It was dim and flickering.

It's like a video call when the signal isn't good.

The old man with his cane raised his eyes and appeared in front of them, looking around, searching for everything around him with the light of the border relics.

"As expected, the Kingdom Gate is the furthest from the central engine, and everything is in normal condition here-"

His voice paused for a moment, and the vague projection suddenly turned to look at where they were, a sharp gaze sweeping over them.

It's like trying to tell what doesn't belong to the team.

In the crowd, Rachel's expression stiffened, and he became more and more uneasy: "Great Grandmaster, what's wrong?"

"No, nothing, Rachel. ”

Galandion slowly withdrew his gaze and said, "You can move on, there should be a safe area behind the door, you can take a break." ”

So, the disciple who led the team bowed his head, controlled the jet, took out his beacon from his arms, and slowly floated towards the closed gate.

It's like the special effects in an inferior fantasy TV series, disappearing into the fluctuating water lines.

Soon, all the signals of safety came from the other end of the safety rope.

Everyone held the same safety rope and walked slowly forward.

Brush shoulders with the apparition of Garandion.

One, two, three......

It wasn't until the end of the line that a member with no sense of presence suddenly stiffened as he passed by, and his steps staggered.

Fell to the ground silently.

It's like it's collapsing.

The battered helmet fell off the already shattered spacesuit, the withered bones shattered from the cold vacuum, and only the mutilated skull still rolled persistently.

Continuing the obsession of a long time ago, he longs to set foot in the realm of Helios.

Eventually, it stopped in front of the gate.

The last dim flames extinguished from their eye sockets.

He's dead.

Because I saw too much......

.

And in the space behind the gate, Huai Shi raised her head and stared at the bloody and tragic scene, and the ubiquitous scarlet.

Huai Shi's eyes widened.

He took a long gasp of the oxygen in the spacesuit, which was neither hot nor cold, and the temperature was suitable.

Then, I began to wonder from the bottom of my heart: whether this old thing Garland was old and had a problem with his brain.

What the fuck is this 'safe zone'?