Chapter 20: Divinity

"Wow! we can't go any further!let's go back!" Suzu finally erupted on the verge of collapse.

"If you go back," Haze told it in a slower voice, with a solemn look, "something worse is likely to happen." ”

"What could be worse than this? Mint Mint Let's go!" the little rabbit was resolute, pulled out a tracer light from the barrel behind him, turned it on, and began to pull Mint back.

Hao nodded to Mint, and the silver rabbit returned with the bell without saying a word, and the figures of the two rabbits disappeared into the deep passage.

Lian, of course, had already guessed what Ha was referring to "something worse", and sat down leisurely by the wall with the hammer in her arms.

"Ah, what kind of expression will that little rabbit have in a moment?" Lian was a little expectant.

Hao suddenly felt that the realm of comprehension between himself and Lian was progressing rapidly, and I don't know when they began to need words more and more, and if they continued like this, sooner or later they would become eye contact.

But it doesn't hate such a thing, after all, it's its dearest lotus.

So Hao also sat down beside Lian, and began to close his eyes and think, occasionally using the tip of his claw to scratch one or two mysterious symbols that appeared in the depths of his memory on the ground.

It didn't take long for Lian to start laughing softly, because in the depths of the passage, a faint light appeared, obviously the color of the tracer light just now.

With Lian's laughter, the stunned Suzu appeared pulling the mint.

"Welcome back. Lian said.

"What's going on?!!! what's going on?Why are you here?!" Suzu cried out with tears, tears rolling in her eyes, crushed by the despair and madness.

"That's what I've said badly. Hazy told it calmly.

"Aren't we supposed to go out?!Why are we coming back again???Where the hell is this?!" The little rabbit was frightened and helpless, "We came back in a circle?"

"It's too much to say if it's going around in circles, after all, your way back is uphill. Hazy denied it.

"Then the question is, are you the same rabbit as you who walked back from here just now?" said Lian's smile with a hint of blackness.

Suzu's eyes gradually lost their brilliance, and she was obviously frightened to the point of losing her mind.

"One hundred and fifty-four steps. Mint said simply.

Hao nodded, "Well, that means this loop is about one hundred and fifty-four steps long, and we may have been around here for a long time before." ”

"It's been a long time...... Woo ......" Suzu squatted on the ground with her rabbit head down, and rubbed her two penny ears with her claws, as if she wanted to wrap herself in two ears.

If this assumption is true, it means that the effect of depriving the senses of this place does not intensify as we go deeper, but takes time, and the longer we stay here, we will be trapped here because of the loss of all senses. ”

"If you lose all your senses, you will see God, this is a famous experiment. Lian still has no sense of crisis.

Suzu wanted to rub her ears into her head, even though her hearing was greatly reduced, but she still heard what Ren had just said, which reminded it of the crazy experiment in the legend.

After listening to Lian's words, Hao closed his eyes again and fell into deep thought.

It is said that more than 200 years after the rabbits settled here, many bipedal research materials began to be deciphered by linguists, including a terrible experimental plan.

The plan was ordered to be destroyed because it was too frightening, and unexpectedly, a theologically obsessed rabbit scholar secretly copied some of the materials of the experimental plan, and finally on a sinful night, it organized its assistants to start the notorious experiment on divinity in the history of rabbit science.

According to the bipedal beast, when a creature is deprived of all the senses that can feel the existence of this world, the divinity within the soul is exalted to the extreme, so that it can gain the right to talk to the gods, and possibly even have the most initial godhead.

After repeated failed attempts to kidnap innocent rabbits, the scholar decided to become a devotee himself, documenting the feasibility of this method of channeling with his life. The assistants used a special nerve poison to block its senses of pain, touch, and smell, blinded its eyes, pricked its ears, and locked it in an observation cell.

It took less than half a day for the scholar to lose his sense of completeness and begin to go berserk for no reason.

According to the records of its assistants discovered during later investigations, it sometimes roared unheard of evil names in its mouth, and at other times rolled on the ground and wailed.

By the end of the night, its tone had become strange and terrifying, claiming that it had heard the word of God, uttering a long message about the desperate future of this world. It scratched its face with its claws, tore off its ears and put it in its mouth to chew, smirking and declaring that it had been born in the land of brimstone and fire. It drew a number of strange symbols on the wall that did not belong to this world, and then survived the second half of the night with its dying breath.

The next day, when the sun was just rising, it cried out again for its men to kill itself, and the last daring assistant approached and ended its pain with a knife.

Later, the assistants were sentenced to heavy prison sentences, and soon after they mysteriously disappeared from prison, and the laboratory where the experiments were conducted was permanently closed. Time has passed, the entrance to that place has long been forgotten, and the pages of experimental records have become horror stories in the streets. Regardless of the version of the story, the rabbits believe that the scholar is definitely not seeing God.

"Lian, why are you mentioning this!Wow~ I don't listen, I don't listen, I don't listen!" Suzu closed her eyes and shook her little head.

"Because that legendary thing is going to happen to us. Hao opened his eyes, "I now think that there is some truth to the statement about perceiving divinity, just like blind rabbits usually have good hearing, right, if one sense is lost, in compensation, another one or more senses of the physical body will be strengthened considerably. But if all senses are lost, will a new sense be created that has never been seen before to compensate?"

"Divinity?" asked Mint.

"Not necessarily, but in any case the energy field of this place is guiding us in that direction. The hazy look was a terrifying calm, "Maybe we can try it." ”

"I can't get out anyway, so I might as well stay a little longer and see what interesting happens. "Lotus's curiosity is often greater than its desire to survive.

Mint nodded: "That's all." ”

"Is this going to sit back and wait for all the senses to disappear!?" Suzu wished she could faint and stop thinking about such unknown horrors, but the truth was that it could only stick to Mint and shiver.

The rabbits sat together and stopped talking.

Lian simply closed her eyes and lay down, breathing evenly, only the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

As time passed, the heartbeat began to weaken, and the sense of that part of the body gradually faded to be exact, as if the soul had left the body. This sense of detachment spreads, spreading to the limbs, rising to the facial features, and even the sensitive rabbit ears seem to be swallowed by the unknown.

Finally, there is the brain, where the breeze and soft water smooth out the fluctuations of every nerve contact. However, this is not death, it seems to merge into some vast and infinite combination of consciousness, and the concept of the self is reduced to nothing, entering a state of immortality.

Only a snap of a finger.

It was pushed out of that great combination of consciousness and regained its existence as a "lotus".

"It turns out that this is divinity. The little white rabbit smiled contentedly and opened his eyes.

A magnificent underground palace comes into view.