Rorschach asked to wake up, and all the images in front of him froze as if they had become canvases.

As the dream froze, Rorschach also lost the ability to move. But he can still feel the warmth behind him, and feel the tenderness of the creatures behind him.

"Are you ready? Accept the truth of reality? Actually, I can make you forget about this, and as long as you cooperate, I can rearrange a real sweet dream for you......"

The voice behind her benevolently persuaded Rorschach, she could feel the grief in Rorschach's heart, it was definitely not the pain of losing a loved one.

The connection and communication of the world, all of this is acting on Rorschach's body with pressure.

With each additional world, Rorschach's burden increased by a single point.

And Rorschach can only reconcile all contradictions with hegemony and force, and make all issues subordinate to his ruling.

"Escape is not the way, you have to face the cruelty of reality."

"That's right, thank you. It's been a long time since I've rested like this......"

The creature behind stopped persuading Rorschach, she grew taller, wrapped her gentle limbs, and sank into the concocted dream.

Rorschach opened his eyes with difficulty, as if he had been drowsy from a long sleep.

The secretion from the corner of his eye had already covered his eyes, and he reached out to crush it, and Rorschach reached out to support the sticky beside him, and rubbed the crushed dry knot secretion in his hand on the mucus beside him.

Like eyes accustomed to the darkness stabbed by the flickering lights that suddenly turned on in the room, Rorschach struggled to discern his surroundings.

It's like a cave, or rather a connection of all the caves, something wriggling in the dark.

Everything is connected together by connective tissue-like biomass, which is stained with brown fluorescence like blood.

The light shone in from the outside, illuminating only part of the area.

In the light, there were huge spider-like creatures everywhere shuttling back and forth in the cave.

They are like bustling termites, constantly building and filling the nest. There are also arthropods with multiple claws, carving out new passages in mottled textured tunnels.

When Rorschach saw his surroundings, a spotlight came from behind him.

The Admiral Barron was behind him, keeping an eye on Rorschach and waiting.

The shadows of the shadow space beneath Rorschach are supported by shadow soldiers at all times, ready to pull him into the shadow world.

At this time, Rorschach remembered what he had done before......

[Find a secluded place where I can have an external force to help me sleep well. 】

This is the requirement that Rorschach listed on the Universal Wishing Machine, which gave Rorschach a coordinate.

He arrived with the Admiral Barron, and as if he knew something, he entered the strange creature lair alone.

Admiral Barron was a Krieger who was completely obedient to Rorschach's orders, and they could not disobey Rorschach's orders, but simply parked the battleship outside and let the Shadow Soldiers guard Rorschach's side.

As Rorschach sat up, the battleship outside began to move, slowly approaching Rorschach and releasing the landing module.

However, this behavior caused a riot in the cave, and various small arthropods began to run, as if to escape, trying to get away from the warships outside.

Rorschach reached into his shadow, and at Rorschach's request, the battleship outside ceased its activity and returned to its original position.

Rorschach looked into the distance of the cavern, and between the intertwined caves, another huge cavern resembled an insect mother's chamber.

The area lost the fluorescence of the interlaced connective tissue, like someone had turned off the lights in a cave.

Arthropods walked into the darkness and never came out again.

There's something in there that sends messages and commands, and restricts everything in this space.

"Aren't you coming out?"

Rorschach asked in the darkness, like a friend who was calling for a bed.

"...... you won't like"

There was a whisper in the darkness, like a whisper to oneself.

"How do you know?"

"Can you understand?"

The voice in the darkness seemed to exclaim, and Rorschach realized that there was no human understanding sound in the darkness of the cavern, it was more like a vibration used by arthropods to communicate, emitting with the help of the surrounding network of connective tissue.

The Communication Principle of Listening for All Things allows Rorschach to theoretically communicate with any intelligent life.

The creature in the darkness seemed to have made up its mind, and said, "Well, Rorschach, you see, I care for you, I take care of all the souls in pain. ”

The creature turned on the light in the depths of the cavern, and like the breath of a living being, it radiated outwards from the depths of the cavern.

A strange creature two people tall gradually emerged from the darkness.

She has six arthropods to support her body, and at the joints of her arthropods there are eye-like organs. From the arthropod upwards, it looks like a naked human upper body, but this upper body has no head, and four arthropod arms extend from the shoulders, leaning against the walls of the cave to assist her in moving.

The organ that should be called the skull, hung at the very front of the arthropods of the whole foot, like a naked brain, the brain was covered with eyes, and her lamprey-like mouthparts added a touch of horror to the horror.

She was a little timid, as if she was afraid of Rorschach, or she understood how evil her face was in the eyes of humans.

Rorschach stood up with his body propped up, greeting the creature that soothed his soul. It is a creature that awaits eternity here, a compassionate creature that always cares for lost souls.

When she arrived, Rorschach hugged her warmly.

When she let go, Rorschach was covered in her slime.

The creature was a little overwhelmed by Rorschach's enthusiasm, and her arthropods scrambled on the ground, and she said hurriedly, "Sorry, there's no water here." ”

There is no water, not even light......

This is the realm beyond galactic bubbles, where the thrust from supernova explosions creates countless bubble-like substances in the universe that encapsulate different celestial bodies, and the galactic bubbles that envelop the solar system become local bubbles.

Some of the bubbles are connected to each other, and some are separated from each other.

At the junction of bubbles in different galaxies, large clouds of tiny and opaque dust form pitch-black cavities like submarine rifts, called chasms.

It's the unobservable place, and it's the darkest place in the universe.

No light shines in, and no signal can be sent.

It's the Rift, and now, Rorschach is outside the Rift!

The rift has become the boundary between the known and unknown worlds of mankind, and the world beyond the rift cannot be reached or understood by humans.

This is the place of nothingness, the emptiness beyond the map. There are no references here, and there are no resources.

It's like the world on the back of a map, it doesn't exist, but ants have set foot in it.

Rorschach held out his hand, and the creature beside him also put its own limb into Rorschach's hand.

The shriveled body felt like skin and bone, but Rorschach could feel the kindness and comfort of the creatures.

She has the kindness and open-mindedness to encompass everything, soothing all confused souls in the dead silence beyond this chasm.

"What shall I call you?"

The creature pondered the meaning of the name and said, "You can call me Aquila, I was the first creature to come here." ”

"Thank you, Aquila."

"I'm sorry I didn't relieve you of your pain."

Aquila's knuckles embraced Rorschach as if in a dream, warming Rorschach's broken wounds with her soul.

The ring-shaped mouthparts looked a little hideous to outsiders, but in Rorschach's eyes, the smile of Aquila, who soothed his restless soul, was charming.

Rorschach let the slime from Aquila's body stick to his body and asked, "Is there anyone else here?" I can send them back to my own planet. ”

There was a hint of confusion in Aquila's tone, and she said, "There are no more, there have been no lost souls here for a long time." ”

Beyond the rift lies the fate of the lost in interstellar travel, destined to die alone here.

Aquila, the first to get lost here, used the lost spaceship and minerals to create the fate of this lost person, leading all lost souls and making them forget the cruelty of reality in the illusion.

Perhaps humanity in the outside world has come to an end, or perhaps humanity has re-understood the surge point of the space-time tunnel network and avoided all the rifts.

Without the lost man, Aquila could not get supplies from the lost ship, and she waited here alone for eternity.

Rorschach listened to Aquila tell about his experience, it was a lonely life for an unknown amount of time, and Aquila finally had a channel to talk to.

Aquila pointed to where Rorschach had gotten up and said, "During the last observation, you walked in alone and lay there......"

Rorschach was a little puzzled and asked, "When was the last observation?" How long have I slept here? ”

Sensing that something was wrong, Rorschach moved his body, feeling as heavy as lead, and the progenitor virus in his body kept sending out a desire to eat, but was suppressed by Rorschach's will.

For the eternal Aquila, time was never a unit of measurement, and she explained in terms of what Rorschach understood to mean time: "There should be eleven years." ”

"Eleven years? I've slept for eleven years? ”

Rorschach unconsciously raised her voice, the excitement in her tone made Aquila a little overwhelmed, she carefully explained: "Your spirit is too strong, it took me almost half the time to comb your soul, there are too many things in your soul memory, I ......"

Aquila, who seems horrific and terrifying, is actually the embodiment of compassion and kindness, and she carefully explains why it takes so long.

Feeling Aquila's spirit, Rorschach reassured him and said, "It's okay, I just remembered that something was almost time." ”

Rorschach urged the shadows beneath his feet, and the Admiral Barron on the outside gradually leaned closer.

The landing craft smashed through the outer wall formed by the connective tissue, and the stand shield blocked the vacuum outside.

Immediately, small arthropods drove forward and sprayed some biomass around the landing craft, as if repairing to make up for the damage.

Aquila let go of Rorschach as if to say goodbye to a friend, and she watched as Rorschach stepped onto the landing craft.

At the door of the landing craft, Rorschach turned and stretched out his hand towards Aque.

"Come with me, Aquila. It's so lonely here......"

Beyond the Aquila Rift, from Beyond the Aquila Rift and the short story of the same name (Love Dead Season 1, Episode 7).

The creatures here are the most benevolent creatures I've ever seen in all the literature, film, and television. Beneath the hideous exterior is a compassionate heart.

She comforts every lost soul and gives them hope in the midst of despair.

(End of chapter)