Chapter 207: Stay
It's a sense of falling again.
This is the third time that Bering has experienced this feeling of falling as if his whole person was being wrapped.
The previous two times were either in the time of foreseeing the future, or they were pulled into the future as she saw it by the oathbreaker, in short, it was inseparable from the prophetic power.
But Bering instinctively felt that this "fall" may be the same as the nature of the previous two times...... It's not quite the same.
At least it doesn't feel the same.
He lowered his head and looked at the bottomless darkness beneath his feet.
It was as if he was in the middle of the universe, so dark that there was no light. This environment alone is very different from the ability to predict, and you must know that in the process of prophecy, even though you are under the sea, you can still see the light to some extent.
A sense of alienation, a sense of detachment, and a sense of disconnection filled his brain, and the original neural modules now seemed to be completely de-energized, and the connection between them was also declared a strike. Even though he knew that his limbs were still there, Bering had a hard time feeling their presence.
Except for the pain, everything else seemed to have nothing to do with Bering.
If it weren't for the clear tearing pain in his chest, Bering would have thought that his body and consciousness had been completely separated, as if a human head balloon had jumped out of his body.
It hurts, but it's a blessing to realize that I'm still alive.
Think so.
Bering subconsciously wanted to raise his wrist.
However, this thing that could have been easily done was so powerless in this darkness.
With a sigh (or at least he thought he was), Bering gave up the attempt and began to look around instead.
The darkness he was in at the moment was monotonous and boring, without the slightest embellishment or decoration, everything seemed to be as empty as if the original chaos had not yet opened up, and the world was still in an incomprehensible singularity.
The only thing that has changed a little is perhaps the attraction "below".
It was under this perception of attraction that Bering realized that he was "falling".
Other than that, there is nothing special about this space.
Being in this space, Bering felt that his consciousness had become much slower.
Anyway, there was nothing to do at the moment, so he rarely let go of his indifferent reserve and style, and began to think about it in his brain.
'What is the future that the oathbreaker sees?' Did it really happen, or did she make it up? Bering pondered in her mind, "But whether it's the former or the latter, at least she can see the scene when I haven't come into this world yet." Although there are some deviations in the details, at least it is generally correct, after all, she has never seen my face before, but she can still describe Bering's appearance in the environment......
But here's the problem, the ability to predict the future requires a carrier. It is impossible for one person to watch another person sleep thousands of kilometers away, and in order to predict, one must choose a perspective. When I watched the news in the original world, I also watched my own mobile phone or TV. But what about the oathbreakers this time? Could it be that she had already arranged the carrier hundreds of years ago? β
'Is that the gray figure?' Or something else? No, it's too hard to judge, the guy showed me only a small room, and nothing else. In fact, it is also possible that the carrier is peeping outside the room. But as a result, the insiders don't seem to notice it at all. This shouldn't have beenβI was already able to see far into the future, and in my own cautious disposition, even the use of prophecy in a similar situation would inevitably rule out certain dangers, let alone something as complicated as suicide......
Suicide is a means used by Bering in the original world to summon his next self.
Not to mention anything else, if Bering himself is allowed to come, he will inevitably use a valuable ability to predict the future to observe the situation around him and see if there is anything wrong.
You must know that the period after the suicide is the most vulnerable time for Bering, because when the new Bering comes up, he doesn't know what the situation is at all, and he can't even use his abilities. In such a situation, once someone has bad intentions......
Bering felt that he was afraid that he would not live for three seconds.
Especially judging from the performance of this guy, she wants to get rid of herself completely. So it didn't make sense that she didn't do anything during the window period when she saw herself wake upβjust another shot, and it didn't bother. Even if Bering is already a corpse, he still has to finish playing with a shot in his head and destroying his brain.
But she didn't.
What is the reason?
And in addition to this, there is one more thing Bering is very concerned about.
Judging by the circumstances provided by the oathbreaker and her attitude, it seems that she did not have any idea that Bering himself was "dead".
In the "future" provided by that guy, even if he shot a gun at his head, Bering who fell on the table quickly regained the vitality unique to a normal person, and his face was not at all as pale as he was now, but ruddy and shiny......
Does this mean that, from the point of view of the oathbreaker, the Bering who was replaced after committing suicide is actually a normal person, not a corpse in front of him?
If this is the case, then it is no wonder that the oathbreakers have been emphasizing the issue of the "cost of prophecy."
Because according to her concept, as long as a living person uses this ability, it will inevitably pay the price!
As a corpse, Bering didn't have much to worry about this, so he used his prophetic powers to squander during this time.
However, in Han Qianqiu's memories before, he really lost his memory......
What exactly does this mean, Bering is hard to say, and he doesn't dare to think.
If that's what you think......
Then it's really a nuisance.
Not only for yourself, but also for your own plans and future situations. Therefore, it is important to deal with this problem properly.
Sighing again, Bai Linggang wanted to continue to think deeply.
And yet the next second.
A more majestic attraction than before, suddenly appeared from below, pulling Bering straight down!
"Huh!?"
Before Bering could react, the whole person was like an apple on a tree, directly grabbed by a pair of invisible big hands, and fell into a more secluded darkness!
Because of the suddenness of the incident, Bering didn't have time to react at the first time, but let his body fall extremely fast!
However, when his consciousness reawakened, he could only smile bitterly and silently feel his rapid fall.
At the moment, there is no way for him to get out of this black space, and it is even difficult to move, how can he stop his fall?
If it weren't for the fact that there was nothing he could do, he wouldn't have needed to think about such an important issue in this dangerous place.
Think so.
In the midst of the fall, Bering's empty, empty black space finally took on something different from before.
Or "below" him, the position that exudes strong appeal.
Right now, like a blind man regaining his vision, he can see from afar that there are tiny things that seem to stand at the end of a black hole "below".
Wait until you get closer and see it more clearly.
Only then did Bering suddenly say to himself: "That's ...... Door? β
Yes.
In this dark and bottomless space, Bering actually saw something like a "door".
The reason why I say "like" is because this thing can only be called a "door" functionally, but in appearance...... But it's very different from the door Bering has seen so far.
It was a distortion that was difficult to describe in words, and Bering even felt that the so-called "door" he saw was nothing more than an illusion. The real "door" does not exist, it is just a building that his brain complements for him, similar to the function of "door".
There are no patterns, no handles, nothing at all, just the thought that comes out of my heart - "that's the door". Other than that, it has nothing to do with doors.
Looking at this thing, Bering felt that his consciousness was a little dazed.
However, because his body does not obey the call, even if he wants to close his eyes, there is no way to do it, he can only keep his eyes and stare at the "door" in his field of vision.
Just watching, looking, there seemed to be some faint hallucinations in Bering's brain.
He felt as if he was in a strange place, everything around him seemed to float, everything was beyond his knowledge. There are things that don't look like "flowers" but let people know that they are "flowers"; There are also strange "plants" that are crawling on the ground chewing dirt, and their whole bodies seem to be swaying in phantoms. In Bering's point of view, these things appear in front of him one moment, and the other moment they are upside down and exposed underground, sometimes even half in the sky and half in the earth.
It is a space beyond the scope of human ideas, and physics is completely unknowable and inaccessible as if it did not exist.
In a trance, Bering was pulled outside the "door".
Soon, he was almost dragged through the "door".
However, just as his body was about to pass through that abstract "door".
In the next second, a pair of hands tore through the black space, directly pulling Bering's "body" and forcibly pulling him out of this pitch-black darkness!
There was almost no moment's hesitation, and after the hands grabbed Bering, they quickly left this black space, without any nostalgia or the slightest hesitation.
After Bering left, the originally torn black space quickly returned to its original state. The "door" still stood like that in the deepest night, silently twisting and changing.
Everything was the same as before, as if it had lasted thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of years.
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And the other side.
Bering felt his body be pulled out of the black space, and then slammed into the solid ground.
Feeling the touch of his back, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it's the real continent." β
He struggled to get up from the ground, but it didn't work - even as he burst out of the black space, he still couldn't feel the control of his body.
Just as he struggled.
An indifferent voice came from beside him: "Huh? Mankind? β
A face suddenly emerged from the blind spot of Bering's perspective: "It's really interesting, how did humans end up in this place?" And with so many chains tied to his body, if he is not careful, he may be pulled directly into the 'Heavenly Abyss'. β
"If I hadn't found out earlier and pulled you back into the abyss, you'd probably be dead by now. You must know that humans are in Tartarus, but they will not survive. β
Hear the words of this person.
Bai Ling's body, which was still trying to struggle, paused slightly.
"Sure enough," he sighed, "there is the abyss. β
As he expected, the magnificent, twisted, and crazy world was the birthplace of xenomorphs that didn't even necessarily applyβthe bottomless abyss.
But what Bering didn't expect was that this place turned out to be "Tartarus".
That is, the "abyss".
This was really unexpected.
After stopping the senseless struggle, Bering looked at the man who suddenly appeared in his field of vision and pulled himself out of the fall.
It was a beautiful-looking woman with a mysterious smell on her. It feels like a veiled and silent astrologer in the court, silently observing the direction of the sun, moon and stars, and has no interest in anything else.
A quirky looking guy.
However, this is such a guy, not long ago, he tore through the black space and pulled Bering out of the attraction of the abyss.
Turning his gaze away from her, Bai Ling moved the corner of his eye downward, looking at his body little by little.
It was only then that he noticed why he couldn't feel the presence of his limbs.
Right now, he was covered in dense white chains, and although the chains didn't look too thick, they were extremely tough, and there were so many of them that people with dense phobias would say "I can't stand it" when they saw them.
And in addition to his own body, Bering estimated that his face was probably tightly wrapped around these chains.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be unable to move his head.
As if noticing Bering's gaze, the woman said in a surging voice, "Don't try to break free, although I don't know what the meaning of this chain is, I can clearly feel that it is wrapped around your soul." Unless there is a special hand for the soul, it will not be solved at all. I can't do it either. β
As she spoke, her voice paused slightly: "But it's not too difficult to loosen it a little." β
As she spoke, she reached out and pressed it lightly on Bering's head.
In the next second, Bai Ling suddenly felt that the tightly wrapped chains on his body seemed to be pulled apart a little by something, and the pain that was originally tight had also weakened a lot.
And I was able to move.
So, it's these chains that hurt so much before?
Bering thought to himself.
"Ha ......"
He finally let out his first substantial sigh: "Thank you very much. β
The woman withdrew her hand and looked at him calmly: "It's useless to thank me, I didn't solve the substantive problem." β
"Still, I'm curious," she said, "how did you become like this, as a human, and how did you get so far into the abyss?" You know, the last human who entered the abyss was a long, long time ago. β
Listen to her voice.
Bering reluctantly raised his head and stared at the woman in front of him.
After a while he spoke, "What do you call it?" β
This question made the woman stunned for a second.
After a while, she shook her head as if she had reacted or something: "Name...... There's nothing to talk about, and it's too dangerous to reveal your name to anyone else. β
"You can call me 'The Ferryman,' if you want," she said calmly, "after all, it's my job to lure certain guys out of the real world into the abyss." β
As soon as this sentence came out.
Looking at the ferryman, Bering's eyes flickered for a moment.
"Thank you very much, Miss Ferryman," he said earnestly, "if it were not for you, I am afraid I would have fallen into the abyss." β
The ferryman said disapprerovingly: "There is no need for a verbal apology." β
After a pause, she continued, "In fact, I didn't want to save you completely. β
This is understandable.
Bering didn't think that a person would take the risk of pulling back completely irrelevant guys for no reason.
Although the ferryman said that her duty was to be responsible for extraditing others to the abyss, she broke through the abyss...... Judging from the tough stance, I'm afraid that pulling Bering back from the black space is not a matter for her.
Therefore, Bering guessed that the other party probably wanted something from him.
After hesitating for a moment, Bering finally did not choose to use his foreknowledge ability to see the results in advance.
On the one hand, it was because he didn't know the details of the ferryman at the moment, the other party was too mysterious, and as a person who could travel back and forth between the abyss and the real world, it was not a good thing for Bering to rashly let her know that he had the power to predict the future.
After all, after experiencing the oath breaker, Bering is now more vigilant about the "origin" that exists among the xenomorphs. Now his ability seems to be related to time, and the "origin" that has broken free from the shackles of time may not be able to discover his specialness.
So out of caution, he didn't make rash observations.
On the other hand, it is because Bering does not make sense to predict the future now.
The "Abyss" is the wreckage of the failed origin of the ascent to the top, and the ability to use it in this place will be greatly suppressed, which is said by the oathbreaker himself, and Bering himself has also tried it.
In that case, it is better to listen honestly to what the other party will say.
Anyway, the other party hasn't done anything to himself so far, which proves that the other party has no malicious intent for the time being.
In this case, Bering is also happy to save a little effort.
So he just looked at her and didn't say anything.
And over there, after a pause, the ferryman finally said his demand: "My request is also very simple. β
Pulling Bering's clothes, she said calmly: "As a human being, after you strayed into the abyss, you probably want to go back. And I don't want you to go back. β
"Stay here, stay with me, that's what I'm asking for."
When she said this, she looked directly into Bering's eyes and was frank.
It's as if that's what she really thinks.
Bering: "? β