350. Xenomorph Journey 1
Nail Head stepped into the entrance to the world on the wall, and abruptly threw the mourning box in his hand backwards to the ground.
Dean, who was leading Christine to the passage, casually summoned the box again.
The High Priest stretched out his hand to stop the two of them, "No, you can't enter another dimension with the box. β
"Why?" Dean stared into his eyes and asked,
"This is an iron law," the High Priest's expression was extremely solemn, "The mystery box can only remain in the real world, distributed by intermediaries, and cannot appear in another dimension, otherwise it will attract unpredictable dangers and disrupt our arrangements." β
Dean's brain is running at a high speed, and the mystery box is equivalent to a tool to open the passage between another dimension and the human world, and it is not allowed to have it in another dimension, is it afraid that the prisoner will escape back to the human world through the box?
However, there is still a mystery box hidden in Dean's fantasy space that can be taken out at any time, and he can't afford to fight with the nail head at this time.
"Without a box, how can we leave another dimension at that time, and another dimension is not a two-way street?"
"Don't worry, I have another way." Nail Head looked at Dean and Christine as sincerely as he could, their two pupils like black-red scales, weighing the weight of their souls.
Dean shrugged, handed over the box, put on the life shield, and ghost armor followed behind the High Priest,
β¦β¦
The channel closes.
Christine follows Dean into another dimension.
The heat rushed to her face, and the intense light almost blinded her eyes, it was an extremely hot, enclosed space with a brutal crimson background, and when you looked up, you could see the dome, and beneath her feet was a vast wilderness, full of bowl-shaped craters and radioactive cracks.
The three of them were walking on a winding path between the craters, like ridges.
The rugged terrain on both sides was so barren that there was not a single green plant, insect or small animal, but there was hot magma flowing everywhere, gurgling and bubbling, releasing terrifying heat, roasting Christine's skin dry and hot, and her cheeks were dry and red.
"Oh my God."
Christine suddenly pointed to her right, and under a turtle-shaped rock, a group of creatures stood and struggled in the magma, flames crawling all over their bodies along their legs immersed in the magma.
As far as the girl could see, there was no end in sight to the scorching wilderness, clusters of crimson creatures trembling in the magma, wailing and surging sounds.
"Be careful," Dean helped the trembling girl who almost didn't fall into the magma, injected a wave of life energy into her to stabilize her emotions, and then looked at the high priest who led the way in front of her with jealousy, "Where are you now?" β
After entering another dimension and breaking away from the inhibition law of the real world, the aura released from the nail head was more than ten times stronger, and the blood-red life light radiating from his shoulder emitted a disgusting stench and distorted the space.
The sense of crisis he brought to Dean was even more than that of the Potala Spider-Man in the Upside-Down World, the Mist Weaver Behemoth in the Mist, so much so that Dean had a strong intuition - a nuclear bomb could not destroy this priest, this is the real level 6.
"This is the Flame Pit," Nail Head felt the gaze behind him, and his footsteps did not stop, "Worthless souls will be tortured here by the cruel temperature, fire, and noise, forever." In fact, most of the souls who have been brought into another dimension will come to this place, well, to the edge of another dimension. β
"Crazy, perverted!" Christine roared at the nail head, her delicate cheeks were deformed with anger, and seeing her kind of people being tortured, an indescribable sadness and compassion rose in her heart, "What do you have to hurt others? β
"Who is the right for humans to kill animals and eat their flesh and blood?" Nail Head calmly asked,
Christine was stunned for a moment and gritted her teeth, "We're here to survive!" β
The head of the nail put his hands behind his waist and raised his chin, "The monk refines the pain, but also to survive, only in this way can he please my lord and live." β
Nail Head looked at the prisoners struggling in the lava again, a satisfied smile on his face, "Besides, how do you know they're reluctant?" Physical pain, spiritual joy, do you want to give it a try? β
Christine suddenly realized that she could never understand a madman, and remained silent.
"If you don't want to, then feel your heart, keep your eyes open and take a good look...", "Your father Larry and grandmother Debra may be in the Flame Pit, sensing their whereabouts with the bonds of your blood. β
Christine nervously followed the word.
And the high priest turned his head to look at Dean again, with a glimmer of scrutiny in his eyes,
"Don't be nervous, though I'm eager to fight you with all my might and bring you the ultimate experience. But as promised, I won't do anything to you this time, so don't worry. β
"Alright, stop preaching to me and get down to business."
Dean noncommittally turned on his skills, spying into the spatial nodes in the other dimension of this pit and looking for a way out in advance.
Then the face was covered with cloudsβendless white nodes spread across the sky and the earth in a grid, shining like the eternal stars in the deep space of the universe.
But each node is stable to the limit, not the fragile constant flickering that Dean is used to, and with the current skills of Dean LV2, it is not even possible to see where these stable nodes are pointing behind them.
This means that it is equally extremely difficult to open them into the Void Roaming.
Dean's retreat was no longer secure.
The high priest seemed to see his worries, and said with a smile,
"The other dimension is different from the real world, and in order to prevent the invasion of enemies, the structure is more stable than anywhere else, and it is difficult for your skills to come in handy."
β¦β¦
"But I still have a backup means to open a passage to another dimension in the human world."
Dean pondered, turning his mind to the mystery box in the space, and then noticing that the progress of "Journey to Another Dimension" had jumped to ten percent.
In addition, there is an amazing change happening at the same time, after entering the other dimension, the space is filled with ocean-like pain, they are like nutrients, most of them are absorbed by the sleeping Leviathan, the lord of the other dimension, to accumulate power.
And the "Master of Suffering" specialty in Dean's panel has also stubbornly taken a slice of the suffering of beings from other dimensions.
Wisps of black, invisible to the naked eye, spontaneously attached to Dean's body, and were continuously transformed into free attribute points at an astonishing speed.
The world of another dimension is a perfect match for the "Master of Suffering"!
"I'm snatching food from the mouth of the god Leviathan, but I'm here, and I can't go back empty-handed."
β¦β¦
"I don't feel my grandmother and my father, they're not in the pit." Christine's anxious voice regained Dean's attention.
"Next area." The High Priest led the two men onward, the terrain narrowing rapidly, and soon they entered a monotonous tunnel, the dim light of decay illuminating the faces embedded in the walls on both sides, all pale and hairless, and the protruding eyes looked into the center of the tunnel, as empty and numb as statues.
The pain they contain is much purer.
The absorption speed of the "Misery Master" is also getting faster and faster, just like riding a rocket, and unconsciously absorbing 1 attribute.
Dean was intoxicated, the corners of his mouth almost grinned, and when he looked up, he suddenly pulled Christine beside him to stop, and a strange and ugly creature like a giant caterpillar appeared in front of the tunnel.
Its chin was pressed to the ground, its fanged mouth was crumbling on a bucket filled with red liquid, its cylindrical body was raised to the ceiling, and at the end of its countless appendages it was clutching a soft-bristled brush to paint its face on the wall, and then squirming to the ground leaving a red trail.
Purring... Whoa...
The giant caterpillar approached the trio.
"Don't be nervous, I've disguised you, you can fool it by being quiet."
The High Priest's voice reached Dean and Christine's ears, and the two stood motionless.
When the caterpillar passed, the eyes as wet as dead fish eyes looked at the two of them curiously for a long time before slowly leaving.
"Whew... Suck... What the hell is this? What kind of place is this? Christine stroked her towering chest and asked the High Priest with a pale face,
"Monastery, the guy just now is an engineer, responsible for the daily maintenance work in another dimension."
"You call that level 3 bug an engineer?" Dean nodded strangely, "Could it be smarter than you monks?" β
"Why should you judge value by appearance?" The High Priest shook his head, "It's suitable for the job, that's all." β
"Who's that face on the wall?" Dean looked back at the river-like promenade.
"Once a monk from another dimension... According to you humans, after the monk retreats from his work called by the desires of the ignorant, he enters the monastery and melts his chaotic body into the wall, becoming a 'part' of the interdimensional order, and continues to comprehend the essence of suffering, "The nailhead's eyes became complicated,
Progress jumped to twenty percent.
No wonder the pain is so pure.
"So, your god is meaner than the best people in the real world," Dean's gaze rolled over the faces of the men on the walls and the faces of the high priests, "and when you are at your strongest, you will be able to capture souls for him day and night, and when you are weak and retired, you will be 'wasted' painted on the walls... What is the significance of a monk's life? β
Kristen pressed her arm to Dean and nodded like a chicken, not so long ago, she had only thought that the Monks of the Dimension were a bunch of hateful and ugly humanoid monsters, and now she had the prefix "pitiful".
"Please maintain the most basic respect for my lord..."The nail head glared at the two of them, and his eyes narrowed with deep dissatisfaction, "Pain is the source of everything, the meaning of existence... In your words, this is a monk's paradise. β
"Heaven?" Dean and Christine next to him exchanged a look, and they both saw the psychotic emotions in each other's eyes.
"Since the people who paint the walls are all monks, the two people we are looking for are definitely not here, so let's move on."
"Go this way." The High Priest quickened his pace.
The two walked past the waterfall, Christine's little face was pale, her whole body trembled, no matter how strong she was, she was only a girl less than nineteen.
"Don't worry," Dean patted her on the shoulder, "we'll manage to get your loved ones back and get out." β
"Uh-huh!" Christine took a deep breath, a trace of gratitude appeared on her pale cheeks, and she wanted to say something of thanks, but she felt ridiculous, and she could only remember the other party's kindness.
β¦β¦
After the Yankeng and the monastery, there were still no other monks.
The three of them entered another peculiar hall, where hundreds of dressing mirrors were placed, and different figures were hidden, most of them twitching at the corners of their mouths and their eyes were red, as if they were enduring great anxiety and pain.
The silhouette of the human figure was surrounded by circles of red light, like blood mixed with water.
"This is the cage of thoughts," Nail Head said, standing in front of a pair of mirrors, gazing at the scene, "part of the anxious soul trapped in the mirror, and at the same time trapped in the most painful memory, repeating itself until it wears out." β
Like "a prisoner for a day", "a marmot day"?
The thought crossed Dean's mind, and he couldn't help but admire the variety of patterns in different dimensions, and looked at the system again.
The progress of the "Journey to Another Dimension" has increased to 40%, and the absorption speed of the "Master of Suffering" has become more and more terrifying, and before he knows it, he has accumulated 2 free attributes, and left a life saver-
Dean can now add free stat points to his physique at any time, allowing his physique to break through the 30-point threshold and awaken a new specialty to deal with deadly threats...
And Christine, who had already begun to look for her family in every mirror, saw a clown in a colorful performance costume with a thick white rouge on the side of her face bowing her head and performing a toss and catch, while her shoulders trembled and she sobbed quietly.
The clown suddenly looked up, his bloody, empty eyes facing the girl outside the mirror, and his eyes were gone.
And the two small balls that were thrown and caught also fell into the palm of his hand, and he was lifted to the side of his eye socket one by one, and with a grunt, the black pupils and white eyeballs turned around... It turns out that the eyes are here,
Christine was startled, her feet slipped, and she slammed into another mirror with a clatter, and she turned to see a man in the mirror with his limbs spread out in a cross shape and suspended in the air - the fine needle and thread like a spider's web passed through the backs of his hands, insteps, and neck, hanging him in mid-air, and his features were glued together.
Leaving only a mouth that opened and closed with a grunt,
"Wow..."
"Ahh
Frightened, Christine yells and slams into a mirror that is empty inside.
The mirror reflected her frightened tear-stained, pitiful face, and immediately emitted a huge suction force like a magnet, sucking one of Christine's white arms into it at once.
It felt like suddenly being immersed in a frozen lake in the twenties of minus, which made Christine's face blue and her mouth hissed.
"Help... Woo, Mr. Kenny, help me..."
Hmmm-
Two figures passed through the countless mirrors, swept like lightning, and pressed the girl's shoulders left and right, and pulled them.
In the next second, Christine felt like she was getting out of the ice lake, and she sat down on the ground, holding her chest with her hands and trembling.
"Are you alright?" Dean pressed her emaciated shoulder with her right hand, and the life energy turned into a burst of vigorous white light that melted the biting cold in her body, causing white smoke to rise above her head, and she snorted softly and moaned in her nose.
"Thanks, me, I feel better."
"I'm sorry, I forgot to warn you," said the High Priest, "and ordinary people must not rush near the vacant mirror, or they will be sucked in and become prisoners." β
"I see, I'm fine," Christine stubbornly got up, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and showed a stubborn expression, "I'm going to hurry up and find Dad and Grandma, they are suffering from misfortune!" β
As she spoke, she searched for it again in the mirror, and soon smiled in surprise at a mirror, but the surprise was only for a moment, and then she became stunned again.
Dean leaned over to the girl and looked,
"Larry?!"
Christine's father cowered and hid outside a wooden door in the hallway, observing the scene in the room.
His brows were tightly knit, his originally bright eyes became dull, his face was helpless and painfully twisted, exuding a deep sense of humiliation and despair, and he even had to cover his mouth with one hand so that he could not help crying bitterly.
Two people were communicating in the crack of the door.
"Isn't this Julia and Frank?"
Dean's expression became weird, and Larry's most painful memory was actually witnessing Frank cheating on his girlfriend?
Doesn't this mean that he already knew that Julia was unfaithful to him?
But he's always pretended not to know about it, like no one else - well, this can't be described as an honest man.
"No, that's not true?" Christine shook her head desperately and took two steps back, although she hated Julia, she couldn't imagine that the other party could do such a shameless thing,
"I don't understand why you humans are so addicted to these chaotic emotional products." Nail Head stared at the scene in the mirror and commented disdainfully, "It's a waste of life." β
"Shut up! How do I get him out? Christine interrupted his grumbling and anxiously asked, "How do I get Larry out?" β
(End of chapter)
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