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Cold, shaky......

The moment I woke up, I immediately noticed an anomaly around me.

A terrifying force that I couldn't match, squeezed my whole body, and my vision was completely dark, and I couldn't see any light. Although I was wearing clothes, I could clearly feel that the inexplicable force from the outside world was constantly permeating the surface and even the inside of my body with a strange aura of cold, damp and viscous, as if a viscous tentacle was constantly ravaging my soul.

In the darkness, I seemed to hear some small whispers—but I couldn't really hear them, as if they were the blur of a fanciful trompe l'oeil, or as if they were just plain background white noise. In the distance, I couldn't make out the distance, and there seemed to be a small chirping of an unidentified creature, which seemed to be right next to me, but I couldn't reach it. In a few breaths—which is very inaccurate, because I had a hard time breathing—the voices faded away, as if they were far away from where I was.

I could feel another, stranger sound, one coming directly above me, like a loud voice, which at first was very inconspicuous, but then it was followed by a more and more powerful tremor, and in an instant the sound changed from a humming trill to a rumbling sound that moved the ground all day.

The dizziness caused by not being able to breathe made me almost unable to think, and in my drowsiness, there was only one thought left in my heart-

Source Realm, what exactly happened during this time?

My limbs began to stiffen, the cold began to seep in from the outside of my body, and I seemed to be one step away from the final destination of my life.

At this moment, the sound that seemed to make the sky tremble had come to me, and even its power had shaken the darkness around me, and a little light shone through the cracks of darkness.

I suddenly felt my right arm grabbed by something — or a clamp would be more appropriate — and then I was "uprooted" like a battery planted in the ground, grabbed and dragged upward.

In about a beat of my heart skipping a beat, I was able to shake off the darkness and breathe the air of light again.

It's just that the arm feels like it's dislocated.

I took a big breath of air and sat down on the ground in convulsions, holding my head in one hand and the ground in the other, trying to quickly regain my consciousness.

"Yes, you're the best one of the people who came this time." Vague words came from my ears, but I couldn't understand the meaning of the words.

P03 Peugeot's electronic voice sounded beside him: "Huh? I don't understand. ”

"Play a meme from my previous world, don't care." I can hear it now, it's the voice of the Lighthouse Boy.

I coughed a few times and recovered from my near-death state: "Ahem, ahem...... What happened? ”

"I was in a hurry and forgot about this stubble." The lighthouse boy didn't look fine, just his clothes were covered in mud. "There is a correspondence between the space of the inner and outer worlds, and we came in through oranges at the old Dengyuan site...... Will teleport to a location roughly underground. ”

“......”

Originally...... Was the previous darkness and oppression because I was buried underground?

I was speechless for a moment, indeed, yes. Although the geographical location of the Source Realm and the Wasteland World does not strictly correspond, there is indeed a certain connection, considering that the Dengyuan site is located thousands of kilometers below the surface of the Wasteland World, it is very good that none of them have been buried thousands of kilometers underground since I came to the Source Realm.

As for why I don't think I'm buried in the kilometre underground...... First, I could see the pit I had just come out of with a glance, and it was obvious that P03, who had just grabbed my forearm and pulled me up, had rescued me from a position of about a few meters underground, at most more than ten meters; Secondly...... If it was really a kilometer underground, even if I hadn't died instantly due to the extremely harsh environment the moment I entered the Source Realm, the time that P03 pulled me up would have been enough for me to die hundreds of times.

"It's okay, if you have this injury, Huang Ji will definitely be able to heal you." The lighthouse boy looked at me and commented pertinently.

I didn't reply, quietly feeling my body.

Indeed, there seems to be some strange feelings. He was pulled out of the ground, not to mention the dislocation of his arm, and there were dozens of injuries on his body, large and small. But now that I feel better, it doesn't hurt much. There seems to be a gentle force that soothes the pain, and even the dislocated arm miraculously "recovered at some point".

Could it be ......

I stood up, casually patted the dust off my body, and looked up—

The sky dome is a yellowish orange golden vortex, dotted with countless stars, and the clouds in the sky move slowly with the wind, a peaceful scene.

It looks like it's over.

I don't know how they fought. I don't think I want to think about normal life, you hammer me, I'll hammer you, right?

Whether it's a butterfly, a sheep, stagnant water, or even a big-eyed ball, they all have the ability to win without a head-on confrontation. In the wasteland, only force, fighting life is not the dominant species. A rat that doesn't know anything will make a hole anyway.

"It's the first time I've been here." P03. "Looks like you know a lot more than I do."

"It's not much, is it?" The lighthouse boy picked up the orange I dropped on the ground: "Most of them were told to me by Huang Ji. I don't actually know much about — I don't know much about the world. ”

A strange facial expression appears to be some kind of response on the P03 display. It then began to pull out some strange instruments from its body, seemingly collecting detailed data on its surroundings.

"It stands to reason that this should be able to communicate with Huang Ji, right?" The lighthouse boy asked, holding the orange in one hand, as he looked at me.

"That's right...... However, Huang Ji took the initiative to contact me, and I didn't know how to use the communication function. I replied honestly.

I'm a little upset at the mention of that. After all, "the origin of this feature is that it 'cost' me a radio". The radio, I didn't pick it up from the field a long time ago. And as a machine, it can also be said to be very intelligent, maybe there is a possibility of becoming a Buddha and enlightenment?

I'm still a little sad that I was fused with oranges like this.

"Is that so?" The lighthouse boy thought thoughtfully: "Then since Huang Ji didn't take the initiative to contact us now, it means that he doesn't think it's necessary now." ”

The lighthouse boy really trusts Huang Ji. I don't know what Huang Ji told him that day.

There are still a few orange glows, although there are quite a few, but they are obviously not enough to support the three of us to provide long-distance space teleportation. I don't know why, but the light is a little more dim than I expected, is it because P03 needs to consume more energy as a sapient machine?

The surroundings seem to be not much different from the wasteland world, and it is also a flat land. However, in the distance, you can see the faint mountains in the distance, and even if it is flat, there is a considerable undulating slope, which seems to be the only difference between the two worlds in the terrain.

"Poof!"

A muffled sound came from not far away, as if something had broken through the ground.

The lighthouse boy and I looked over for the first time, and P03 remained motionless - probably a long time ago, but never said.

What broke through the ground was apparently a humanoid creature, tall and taller than the Lighthouse Boy's two heads. A black robe was stained with mud and seemed to have a white mask on his face...... Hey?

"Huh?" The man, apparently noticing us, turned his head—

"Sir?"

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