Chapter 9: Dream Cube
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When the seconds changed again, the darkness of zero o'clock enveloped the vast land.
Some unbelievers sleep with their heads covered before midnight, resisting the arrival of the calamity as usual, thinking that such a method will still be effective after facing the Dream Cube.
There are also those who are nervous about the Dream Cube, and they decide to witness the arrival of the Dream Cube.
But for some, tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
Nearly 100 inviters were twisted into the Dream Cube by a mysterious force at the moment of zero o'clock.
In the next second, the surrounding scene changed drastically.
They were in a hall with no ceiling in sight.
A huge cone-shaped ancient bell hung above everyone's head, as if to welcome the arrival of guests, and when they became aware of the behemoth above their heads, the bell rang completely.
The bone-eating chill instantly hit people's hearts, and the low bell reverberated after repeatedly hitting the wall.
The lingering aftermath seems to be the sorrow and sorrow that this hall has accumulated over the years.
"According to the return of sounds, it is preliminarily judged that the whole of the Dream Cube resembles a honeycomb-shaped building." Nan Jin observed the situation around her again and again, while reporting the current inference to Shen Zhen'an, who was frowning.
He nodded slightly, and He Qiao beside him immediately understood what he meant.
An inaudible snap of fingers soon drowned out the crowd in a state of confusion.
"Revisit." As he spoke, Shen Zhen'an quickly switched to another state, his performance was no different from that of the people around him, helplessness and anxiety were vividly played on his face.
Nan Jin shrugged his shoulders in understanding.
The two blended into the crowd once again.
In the past, Calamity was single-player, but this is the first time that multiple people are in a shared dream at the same time.
What happens next? Whether the rules in the Dream Cube are the same as in Calamity is unknown.
But fortunately, the unknown always gives birth to a trace of awe, and the crowd is relatively peaceful, and no one dares to fire the first shot in this situation.
This is also one of the reasons why Shen Zhenan does not want to reveal his identity early.
After the bells have completely dissipated, people's attention has also diverged around.
The towering walls are lined with rectangular squares of the same size, with rectangular squares recessed insides and enclosed by fences that rise above the rectangular squares.
Inside each square stands a copper-colored sculpture of an indistinguishable shape, but it can be inferred from the rough outline that the sculpture depicts an inhuman being.
The oncoming gloomy aura made them dare not come out.
It seems to be to prevent them from prying eyes.
The rectangular phalanx at the bottom starts at least ten meters and winds upwards.
Ten meters below is an ancient mural with no end in sight.
The colors and figures were clearly mottled, and a daring creature cautiously moved his steps forward until he caught a glimpse of the taboos.
"Ah...... Ahh......hhh Hell! It's hell! ”
He was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, almost crawling backwards, and his posture was a little embarrassed.
But in this environment, no one dared to laugh at him.
When people heard the sound, they rushed to the scene until they saw the so-called hell, and they all let out a surprised breath.
The frescoes on the walls are divided into nine equal parts.
The content of each layer is also very different, the only thing in common is that the victims are all human, and the perpetrators are ones they have never seen before, and even different from the definition of demons in books.
What kind of guys are that......
The bottom and first layer of the mural clearly depicts the home of human beings, the blue sea surrounding the golden land, and there are various houses on the land.
It is as small as the most quaint and primitive rough house in the village, and the cold forest made of cement and steel bars towers into the sky.
Occasionally, a few dots of verdant dotted around the farm, and the rest was replaced by a large gray and white complex.
"This ...... This is our home. ”
"Shh
People find some comfort in their peaceful homes.
But the next scene plunged the onlookers into a deathly silence.
Second floor.
The six-winged, nine-headed red dragon spat out countless bursting balls of flames, which fell from the sky and smashed into the human home on the first floor.
Is this some kind of prophecy?
The gaze then climbed upwards to the third level.
What caught my eye was an endless sea of blood, the red gradually deepened from the surface to the depths, until the color completely turned into a thick black and red, and a few sharp-eyed people saw countless white bones filling the entire seabed at the bottom.
Further up are fallen stumps and dense flesh.
Shadows like water ghosts occupy the entire sea area.
They were ready to attack, and a few even jumped out of the sea of blood directly, with human heads in their mouths.
The flowing blood dripped into the sea of blood.
Humans struggled at the surface of the sea, their expressions painful and twisted, their bodies covered in red and white scabs, and the endless stream of water spirits tore at their tender legs and dragged them deeper into the sea.
The image of people struggling in the sea of blood was deeply engraved into the hearts of everyone present.
There is no foothold on the entire sea of blood, and people will be completely destroyed in this catastrophe.
There are occasionally a few smart guys in the mural, trying to step on the bodies of their kind and escape, but they don't know that this sea of punishment cannot escape.
Under their vicious behavior, their bodies have already mutated in the same way as water spirits, or they have demon-like horns on their heads, or strange flippers as huge as fans......
Some people who have poor tolerance can turn their heads and vomit after seeing this scene.
Some even let out unbearable weeping.
Things have exceeded their expectations.
"! What is this? It's better to let the catastrophe come out, and we'll have a good fight! Don't hide in the shadows anymore! As he spoke, a middle-aged man with a body covered in bone spurs leaned over and smashed into the mural.
"Stop!" There are a few people who are still rational next to them who subconsciously want to stop it.
But the bone spur man moved extremely fast, and he didn't give them time to react at all, and seeing that the mural was about to be destroyed, suddenly, a strange scene happened.
The spur man's eyes, which were originally filled with violence, suddenly became hollow, and the original action of smashing into the mural also suddenly stopped, and then he snorted and fell to the ground as if he had been hit hard.
After only a few convulsions, he passed out completely.
In the chaos, Shen Zhen'an and Nan Jin glanced at each other tacitly, and before the people around them noticed the abnormality, they put on a mask of unknown reason again.
Originally, this chaos should have been completely terminated after the bone spur man fell, but it seems that his unreasonable actions have awakened the catastrophic creatures in the shadows.
The velvet carpet that had been soft and soundproof underfoot suddenly became a little burnt.
Even through your shoes, you can feel the heat as if you were stepping on a soldering iron.
The crowd, trying to calm down, finally noticed the drastic change around them.
The carpet that had been stepped on a moment ago was gone, replaced by a dense squirming blood nematode!
They are woven and intertwined.
If you don't look closely, it's no different from an ordinary velvet rug.
Now they writhed their bodies, glowing red like red-hot iron, and even the huge stone pillars and rock walls that supported the main hall around them shimmered with terrifying blood at the same moment.
The ground shook violently as the nematodes writhed their teeth and claws.
A few people who were unstable and failed to grasp the support point in time fell directly to the ground.
The blood nematode instantly burrowed through the bare part of his body, and his ears, nostrils, and even his mouth became a temple where the blood nematode roamed.
In the blink of an eye, the blood nematodes completely cannibalized his body.
The insect body, which was originally as small as a hair, suddenly grew a bowl-sized waist under his offerings.
Their attacks are also much more violent, and they can even actively strangle inviters who keep fleeing.
These inviters had never seen such an endless stream of images that distorted their spiritual values, and they had even forgotten that they had obtained calamity charms and items.
There was chaos in the hall.
A guy with props built a single-plank bridge in mid-air that could only accommodate one person, and looking at the puddles of blood red under his feet, he gritted his teeth and walked quickly towards the main hall.
"Help me! Help me! ”
"Let me go up!"
"Ah...... Ahh ”
"Bless yourself......" he threw down a cold word and opened the door.
As long as he can get out of this damn area, he'll be able to escape the bloodworms, and it doesn't matter what anomalies are hidden in the next house.
It's not the catastrophic that is scary, it's the pig teammates.
But soon, his plan fell through.
The door of the main hall could not be opened, as if it had been welded to death, and no matter how much he pulled, he could not shake it.
The door was locked.
A terrible thought quietly exploded in his heart.
Rub, maybe the rules of the Dream Cube are as ...... as the catastrophe?
Only by killing the entities of the catastrophic objects in the area can you escape!
Seeing a few undead people below trying to jump on his props, he ruthlessly put away the rest and left only the only place to stay.
"Hey, at least show some real skills, right? I don't want a bunch of pigs to hold back. He looked at the guy who was constantly being entangled by blood nematodes with an expressionless face, tilted his head and said coldly.
The other side.
Snapping fingers rang again.
A hurried voice came from Shen Zhen'an's ears: "Captain, I've found a safe zone!" ”
"Okay, let's start transferring survivors, how many at a time?" The thumping gunfire was mixed with Shen Zhen'an's voice, and the bullet hit the largest blood nematode.
He shifted the danger to himself for the time being, as a way to gain more time for those who had fled in panic.
"It takes thirty seconds to go back and forth, and you can take ten people at a time." He Qiao's figure was hidden in the shadows, and no one could detect his existence.
Shen Zhen'an glanced at the remaining survivors, and there were at least fifty people waiting for rescue.
Time waits for no one.
With the falling figure, the blood nematode that was nourished as thick as a giant python became faster and faster.
A second too late, someone could die at their hands.
The gun in Shen Zhen'an's hand was so fast that he could only see a rough afterimage under his dancing, and then ordered in a tone that could not be refused: "The time is compressed to twenty seconds, Nan Jin, you go to assist He Qiao in transferring, and leave it to me here!" ”
As soon as the words fell.
Nan Jin comprehended and threw the personal pistol at him, and quickly threw down a sentence: "There are still ten bullets." ”
At the same time, the snapping of fingers sounded again, and the number of people in the hall instantly decreased by nine.
After Shen Zhen'an finished firing the bullets in the gun, his eyes were accurately locked on the man who was floating in mid-air and had been watching the fire from the other side: "If you don't want to die, let as many people stand up as possible!" ”
"The rest of those who still have combat power will kill the cataclysm with me!"