Chapter 5 Welcome to the Edge

"Dada, dada."

The horses' hooves shattered the silence of the night, and in the misty moonlight, the two men rode out of the town, through the farmland on the outskirts of the town, all the way out of the town.

Beyond the farmland is the ring of stone pillars in Babu's memory, which are stone pillars erected outside the town, one every few hundred meters, erected in a circle around the town, like a boundary monument, clearly marking the boundaries between the town and the outside of the town. Inside the boundary monument, there is a sentry hut at intervals, which is also lined up around the town, and there is a beacon tower on the roof of the hut, but fortunately there is no beacon fire at this time.

Babu remembered that he had never crossed the boundary monument in the past, and that most of the people in the town had never left the town in their lives, just like him, but the borders were not well guarded, and he could find all kinds of ways to get out, and he remembered that someone had done so, and as for the consequences...... It's not for nothing that the town is less populated.

"Captain Monica." The security guard in the sentry hut ran out in a daze, skillfully took the reins of the horse and tied it aside, "Still going out so late?" And it's just two people, okay? ”

"It's okay, besides, your weapon will be borrowed and used, and I will return it to you when I get back." Taking the two daggers offered by the other party, Monica casually stuffed them into Babu's hands, "Here, what you just asked, I remember how many of them used this thing here." ”

Babu's fingers trembled, and the dagger spun a few times between his fingers, and he nodded in satisfaction, tied the dagger to his calf, and nodded to indicate that it was okay.

"Okay, let's go out first, stand up to the post, don't always think about being lazy to sleep, be careful in the near future."

Monica glared at the embarrassed sentry and led Babu into the wilderness, who looked back at the distant town and followed closely, quickly disappearing from the sentry's view and blending into the night.

"Actually, I'm worried that you'll regret it on the way, so thank you." The wilderness under the moonlight seemed extraordinarily empty, and the chirping of insects and the rustle of the weeds made the surroundings more silent, and Monica's low, magnetic voice broke the silence of the night, "Ken accompanied me to go crazy in the middle of the night, this trust I will not forget." ”

"Maybe it's just because I'm crazy too." Babu shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly, "And I noticed just now, you mentioned it, and we will discuss it later." Tsk, you must be looking for me to be more than just protecting the town, this is only part of the purpose, you have other plans, I want to be grateful, and I will thank you when the time comes. ”

"Hahahaha, okay, listen to you." Monica smiled heartily, leaning forward and backwards, and seeing that Babu looked a little ...... Ahem, she gave Babu a fierce look, she tugged at her collar, and said, "Since you don't regret it, then get ready, we're almost there." ”

"Uh-huh......" Babu looked strange and turned his gaze in the direction of his progress, where a curtain of light stretched across the sky, like a curtain of light that seemed to surround the entire town on both sides.

A few steps ago, the vision was normal, and after a few steps, the light curtain appeared out of thin air.

The space seems to be divided into two halves by a light curtain, half of which is cold and calm and peaceful, and the other half on the opposite side is blurry, and can only see a blood-colored mist, and it can barely be seen that the blood mist is a completely different environment from the wilderness of the town, like two puzzles with different sets of puzzles that have been forcibly spliced together.

A similar scene had been seen by Babu not long ago, except that the two spaces were tightly entangled at the time, not as clearly demarcated as they are now.

As if frightened, several rabbits and mice rushed to the light curtain in a panic, and then disappeared into thin air. There was no trace of them in the hazy sight behind the light curtain, and it was not known where they had gone.

"Almost, wait a minute." Monica didn't know if she couldn't see the scene of the animal disappearing, so she looked around as usual and said, "The location of perception is nearby." ”

The light curtain is not fixed, but a very rhythmic contraction, covering a large part of the space in front and back, the two have reached the coverage area, with a contraction of the light curtain, the position where the two are standing has been completely swallowed.

"Knock, knock."

I don't know if the light curtain is shrinking or the heart is beating, but as the light curtain sweeps, Babu's ears seem to hear a rhythmic beating, and then the world changes.

It's foggy.

The sky became gray, and fine dust continued to drift between the heavens and the earth, and the blood-colored mist with a familiar fishy sweet smell filled the air, making everything in the field of vision turn red.

Not only the environment, but also the surrounding scenery has completely changed.

There was no wilderness outside the town in sight, and there was no soft dirt and weeds, and the two of them were standing in a position similar to a small square, surrounded by urban ruins, and everywhere they looked, there were ruins everywhere. The predecessors of these ruins and broken walls are not the medieval buildings that I just saw, but rather similar to the reinforced concrete high-rise buildings in Babu's impression.

These dilapidated buildings collapsed in various ways, making it impossible to imagine what happened to the city at its last moments.

In the shadows of the ruins, there was a faint sound of wriggling, and a black shadow like a tentacle flashed as the slippery and sticky creeping sound could be felt only by hearing.

In the darkness, there seemed to be something whispering, and faintly, there seemed to be countless eyes full of malice, shooting out from unknown angles, focusing on the two of them.

At the moment when the world changed, an endless sense of fear reappeared, and the fear that hit the soul could not find its source, as if it were everywhere, every moment, from all angles, little by little, eating away at the heart of the intruder.

"Welcome to the gap between the present and the illusory." Among the ruins, Monica waited for Babu to get used to it for a moment before she opened her arms to him and shouted, "Welcome to the edge." ”

"Sneer", as if in response to her call, dozens of thick tentacles, stretched out from the shadows of the surrounding building ruins, quickly and forcefully waved, and wrapped around the two, the dark skin, wriggling muscles, sealed the space around the two of them impermeable.

"They're so welcoming." Babu didn't need to move, but carefully wrapped his hands with the cloth tape, and then pulled out the dagger and held both hands together, "Is this going to hold a welcoming ceremony for me?" ”

"That's not going to work, their welcome party, but they never prepare wine."

Seemingly very satisfied with Babu's performance, Monica wiped it around her waist with a smile on her face, and a long whip had appeared in her hand, and the whip shook and the whip sounded, and the long whip that was at least more than five meters long had drawn a circle to protect the two of them in the circle.

The wrist trembled slightly, the circle expanded rapidly outward, and the whip body slammed into all the tentacles. Like a balloon that has been blown up, the tentacles of the whip bounce open and explode into a sky full of minced flesh, pus, blood and mucus mixed in the minced flesh and squirted outward, spreading on the ground around it.

It turns out that it can still be used like this. When he saw Monica's move, Babu understood, and instantly impacted the strange energy, that is, the source energy in Monica's mouth, into the opponent's body, destroying the opponent's body from the inside, and it seemed that after such an attack, the opponent's stump could no longer move again.

While absorbing the fighting skills hungrily, Babu tried his best to understand the surrounding environment through energy perception, this skill is like a third eye and ear, reflecting the environment in his brain in another way, making him grasp his surroundings more clearly, and only when Monica withdrew the whip did he ask, "Now you can tell me, what do you want me to do?" ”

"Actually...... I don't know. ”

"Hey!"

"Hahaha, okay, okay, the first step, don't act covertly, try to show your combat effectiveness first. Well, yes, it's for me because I want to at least understand how far you can do it. ”

"No problem, I can understand."

"The second step is more complicated, and I really can't say." Monica thought for a moment, then pointed in one direction and said, "Let's go deeper this way first, I can sense it, and the general direction is here." ”

"Okay." Babu glanced around, aided by energy perception, and everything around him was already clear.

The surface of the ruins of the building was covered with a large number of wriggling sarcomas, which shrank and shrank as if breathing, and the black mucus was as thick as plasma, flowing slowly on the surface of the sarcoma, and bubbles bubbled from time to time between the granulations on the surface, exuding bursts of foul odor. On the ground in the shadows, there were large patches of tiny black shadows, gathered together, spread like a carpet on the ground, and slowly moved around in the faint sound of rustling.

Occasionally, patches of sarcoma trembled violently, followed by an eyeball-like bump that swung in all directions, eventually landing on Barbu and Monica, and then submerging into the sarcoma again.

In Babu's perception, malice comes from all directions, a sense of crisis comes from every corner, and the premonition of death always stimulates his consciousness, all the time and everywhere.

"This environment is really exciting." Without looking back, Babu reached back, "Light." ”

A round stone was stuffed into Babu's hand, and Babu knew that this was fluorite, a specialty that could be found everywhere, and once activated, it could continue to glow, and the brightness was not high, but it was very stable.

With the stone fixed on his shoulder, everything in the blood-colored mist could finally be seen a little clearly, and Babu carefully avoided a few sarcomas and walked into the complex, finally taking the first step on the edge of the journey. Although sarcoma does not crawl all the surrounding buildings, it can be seen everywhere, for a while, there are wriggling sarcomas everywhere in sight, and the hearing range is full of squirming sounds, which makes people can't help but feel numb in the scalp and almost crazy.

"Bang", a sarcoma on the wall suddenly exploded, and seven or eight lumps of flesh burst out of it, shooting at high speed in the direction where Babu was, and the speed was so fast that people couldn't avoid it. As the sarcoma exploded, several tentacles emerged from the blanket of flesh on the ground around him, and instead of targeting Babu, the tentacles rushed past him and met in the air above his head, blocking all the space he could avoid.

In an instant, there is no way to heaven and no door to the earth.