The Old World, also known as Focus of Infection.

Yi Chen had read a brief introduction to the Old World in the basic library of the Great Library, and this matter was not kept as a secret, but was fully disclosed to the organization.

The organization has been built for so many years, and countless excellent gentlemen have been sacrificed, and this has been determined through a large number of investigations.

All diseases do not arise from the world itself, but are directly or indirectly infected from the old world, which is the source of diseases, the place where the root of all diseases meets.

On the title page of the book, there is a sentence left by the founder of the organization, along with a picture.

"Were we not ill, it'd come to us"

The drawings are divided into three parts:

1. Sketching a planet that represents human life, the Middle Regions and the five continents are clearly marked on it, which is completely normal and without problems.

2. In addition to our planet, there is also a living planet on the right, pus, festering and even growing tentacles that can float in space, but the whole planet is pierced by a giant sword.

3. This sick planet has successfully approached through the floating of its tentacles, sticking to the back of the human planet like a tumor. Later, small holes were formed in this world through the drill holes of the tentacles, and the diseases carried by them spread through these small holes, and gradually assimilated.

This sick planet represents the old world, and the holes represent the passages.

Of course

This is just a great simplification of the legend that is easy for most people to understand, and the real situation needs to be correctly expressed through high-dimensional drawing.

According to the book, the old world, which is a lesion, is locked in all directions for some reason, including the continuity of time and the expansion of space.

There is no normal air to breathe,

The simple exothermic chemical reaction corresponding to a kerosene lamp also does not take place.

The world, which is completely locked up, is like a human being nailed to the bed, removing all organs, tying up all blood vessels, breaking all muscles, and even inserting a scalpel into his brain.

should have died directly,

However, the Old World is like a zombie, not only is it not dead, it is still growing germs in its body, and the source of the disease hidden in the depths is still alive in some way.

Or by the movement of the tentacles,

or eject a large number of metabolites,

Such a world of lesions can still wander between dimensions even when it is locked, randomly attached to a normal world, absorbing the nutrients from it and passing on the disease.

The above is the basic information that Yi Chen read in the books,

However, there is no mention of the structure of the old world, the state of life in the old world, the distribution of power, etc., and you need to explore it yourself.

"Lorian, when will you separate from me?"

Facing Yi Chen's question, he waited for a minute before the voice came back:

"What a disappointment...... It's extremely disappointing~ I didn't expect that the origin of the disease would be a place of death, and I couldn't see any hope at all.

That giant sword that came out of nowhere may have killed this world countless epochs ago, so it's no wonder that it is attached to the back of the human world and connected by a [passage].

I'm not in a hurry to go out and feel this dead silence right now, stay inside you for a while, and when you have a chance to be separated from your teammates or forced to be separated, I'll be stripped out of your body.

This is also for your consideration~ After all, once I peel off, it means that your right half of your body will be missing in an instant.

It's very dangerous to lose half of your body in such a dead world, and as a small reward for bringing me here, I will give a small operation when I am separated."

"Okay."

Beyond the temple is the endless gray desert, which belongs to the surface of the Old World.

Many newcomers who come to the Old World for the first time are like a headless fly, afraid of losing the place of the Passage, and leave for time without much exploration.

According to Zion's internal statistics, only 8.1% of newcomers who arrive in the Old World for the first time to explore relics can bring back relics.

Not to mention that some are just ordinary relics, which are not as good as the black umbilical cord in Yi Chen's hand,

Some of them also have some luck mixed in, such as wandering in the desert for a while and then kicking a hard object, and picking it up to see a relatively complete relic.

In other words, if there is no clear goal to explore, the time of day will pass quickly, and the individual's consciousness will become hesitant or subjectively lost, and may even accelerate the flow of time, and it will feel like a few hours will pass in a blink of an eye.

Just when Yi Chen communicated with Lorian in his body,

"This way!"

"There's an induction here~"

"This way...... Cluck! ”

At the same time, three voices sounded in the team,

A voice came from Reagan, who tried to release electricity by touching the sand with his hand, and the current that should have been dissipated disorderly spread in a certain direction.

A voice from Kim,

As soon as she came up, she directly began to dig in the sand, stretching her arms as deep into the sand as she could, and then poking out the red lotus roots even deeper.

The red lotus, which is a "pathogenic characteristic", actually senses and grows a red lotus on the surface of the sandy land not far away, as a special signpost for the way forward.

The third voice came from Kim's little pendant, who, as an animal patient, jumped to the ground as soon as he arrived in the Old World, making a gesture of hatching eggs.

Who knew that Xiao Pei really hatched an egg, but it was a gray egg.

Because everything in the Old World is blocked, including 'fertility'...... Therefore, the newly hatched egg is certain to die.

Hard, gray, like a cobblestone.

The dead egg did not sink into the sand when it landed, but rolled between the undulating sand dunes and rolled in a definite direction.

Even if you pick up the dead egg and put it down again, it will still roll in a fixed direction.

But

The direction in which the electric current flows, the direction in which the red lotus grows, and the route in which the dead egg rolls are completely different, so that there is a multiple-choice question.

Time is limited, and decisions must be made immediately.

Just as Yi Chen was thinking quickly, Reagan pinched the fat on his face with two fingers and gave his thoughts:

"William, the fact that you alone can overcome the risk of [Eye Gathering] is enough to show that you have the ability to explore the relics alone.

And, as the watchers say, we're coming across a new, superficial, least dangerous passage this time.

It seems to me that we all have the skills to search for relics on our own.

Since you can find three meaningful routes at the beginning, it is better to go your separate ways.

I'll take the current sensing side, and you and Miss Jin will each choose one more path...... Calculate the time, and we'll meet at the temple in a day's time.

Strive to get a matching relic that belongs to us at once. ”

Jin immediately raised his right hand and agreed: "That's it~ Since it is the lowest difficulty to explore the old world, it is necessary to strive for the maximum gain." ”

Yi Chen set his eyes on the two teammates and affirmed the proposal.

"A day later, the temple meets! Remember, be sure to watch the time ......"

When Yi Chen told him this, he immediately approached Jin's side, took the initiative to give a hug and put it in her ear and said:

"Kim, remember, time of day!"

Jin reached out and gently lifted the corner of the mask, revealing his thin pink lips and twisting his head against Yi Chen's earlobe.

"As I said, I'll be able to restrain myself in this completely unknown and hidden area, and I'll try my best to survive, and it's not fun to die...... But William, don't play too hard and lose track of time. ”

Between the words,

Jin Yi quickly reached into Yi Chen's shirt and pressed it to his right chest.

"I felt it from the start...... The physical rhythm of the right half of your body is different from usual. I don't know why you're hiding it from us, but I still believe you.

Don't mess around, remember to meet on time in the next day. ”

(End of chapter)