In the dim candlelight, during countless cycles, blood-red tears slowly flowed down the faces of the Decavo family.
Crunch——
The door to the next room opened on its own.
"Woooooooo..."
A girl's cry could be heard from inside the door, vaguely visible and vague. Logically speaking, Jiang Chenchuan should be afraid.
Fear is an instinct. When facing unknown events or dangers, it is a defense mechanism of the human body that makes people take corresponding actions, such as running away or seeking help.
But the Cleaners are not good enough. All the previous trainings were to erase people's fearful nature. When faced with crazy mental torture or unimaginable weirdness, they can only keep moving forward.
The way back is blocked. If they don't rush forward, no one can protect the people living in the light.
In order for them to live a peaceful and stable life, the liquidators walked alone in the darkness, and they did not stand in the light to be considered heroes.
He tightened his grip on the baseball bat in his hand, which was the only weapon he had, and gently pushed the door open, but inside the door was a scene he could not imagine at all.
The whole room was red, and the corpses of the Decapo family were stacked together like garbage. Each corpse had transformed into a monster, with flesh and bones mixed together.
The cry came from the ears. A girl who looked like Yulia knelt in front of the pile of corpses, covering her face and crying.
It was difficult to convince himself that Yulia would appear here. No matter how he reasoned, it was more likely that he was an hallucination than that she was a real person, but Jiang Chenchuan did not dare to take risks. The price of alerting a supernatural being was too high. If you are not careful, you will die in this infinite cycle.
Gotta leave as soon as possible!
Jiang Chenchuan chose not to make a sound and retreated silently. As soon as he left the room, there were some strange sounds behind him. It seemed like the sound of the door being opened. It was neither loud nor small, but it resounded throughout this narrow and dark passage. in the corridor.
The crying stopped at the same time.
At this time,
The silence is the scariest.
He clearly felt something happening behind him, and his intuition told Jiang Chenchuan not to look back.
【come over……】
I don't know who whispered softly.
【come here……】
At some point, another door appeared next to the door that originally entered the cycle, and the whisper seemed to come from there.
Yulia, who was in front of the corpse, suddenly turned her head 180 degrees, her eyes were dark and empty. She seemed to see Jiang Chenchuan, and she opened her big, torn mouth full of blood.
No time for hesitation!
Jiang Chenchuan ran away. He needed to escape from here as soon as possible.
【Come quickly...】
The whispers started again.
Jiang Chenchuan, who was about to open the door to the original room, hesitated for a second. If he took this path, there would still be this circular corridor behind the door. In this long and unchanging world, only this new door would lead to a different passage. .
anyway,
He only has one chance.
【bring it on……】
The whispers sounded again, and the footsteps behind him gradually approached. He knew that he didn't have much time to choose. After only a second of hesitation, he still chose the original path.
What was completely different from what was expected was that when the door was opened, it was not the corridor of Decapo's house.
As if due to a specific trigger, the loop automatically disappeared, and what came into view was a dark world.
There is endless blackness under your feet, like sea water, with water ripples undulating. From time to time, unknown corpses emerge from underneath, revealing vague facial features, and slowly sink again.
A beam of light struck, and it was a wooden bench that could be seen everywhere, like the kind placed in the corner of a park, carelessly discarded here.
A lonely figure sat on it.
"What you need to know is that you can escape reality, but you can never escape reality."
Jiang Chenchuan approached with gentle steps and heard the man say calmly.
"Who are you?"
Jiang Chenchuan asked warily.
The man didn't answer, he just patted the bench and gestured:
"sit down."
The man's face couldn't be seen clearly. It was covered with a layer of fog just like in the painting. Jiang Chenchuan thought for a while and sat down next to him. There was a distance between the two of them, which was different from the tense and terrifying atmosphere in the loop. Yes, there is a strange calm here.
"Do you remember how you died?"
During a long period of silence, the man spoke first. He raised his head slightly and seemed to be looking into the distance. There was nothing in the distance. Perhaps, he was not looking at anything, but looking at memories.
"In order to save the child, the child's mother screamed when she saw my appearance, which attracted the attention of the patrol police. However, I can't blame them, after all, I am a notorious murderer."
Jiang Chenchuan said indifferently.
"Hahahaha, it's obviously to save people, hahaha, it happens every time, you are so miserable."
The man completely ignored Jiang Chenchuan's feelings and suddenly laughed, but it could be heard that there was no joy in the laughter, it was a kind of helplessness and ridicule.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
The laughter sounded like crying.
"Tell me, who are you? Why am I here?"
Jiang Chenchuan turned his head and asked.
"Having experienced the Dawn Church incident, what do you understand by the word 'extraordinary'... You don't need to answer me, just think about it yourself. I don't need your answer. They divided the relics into nine sequences. Simply use one Explain...well...words to describe, but the essence of things is not like that."
The man also turned his head and did not answer Jiang Chenchuan's question, but said in a different tone.
"I'll give you a hint, to think about the higher level...spiritual aspects...such as...souls behind the appearance of things."
"soul……"
"Yes, it is the innate and greatest value of human beings... To be honest, Atlas Alchemy Academy has done a good job in this regard. After all, they have the best alchemists in Polnia."
The man said with a smile, his tone sounded relaxed and happy.
Jiang Chenchuan seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked:
"Where are we?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
The man laughed happily.
"You are smarter than I thought. It seems you have discovered..."
The man's compliments would not make Jiang Chenchuan happy. In other words, this answer also confirmed his suspicion.
This is no simple nightmare.
"Okay, it's time, I should go."
The man stood up from the bench, and his movement moved his clothes. Under the lifted coat was a broken body, with bloody bones exposed and traces of stitches everywhere on the muscles.
He walked forward slowly...
"Wait! I have something else to ask you!"
Jiang Chenchuan wanted to stand up and catch up with him, but he felt an invisible force pressing him down on the bench. He couldn't move and could only watch his back gradually go away.
Finally, it disappeared into the endless darkness ahead.
The only beam of light hit Jiang Chenchuan, like the last lone brave man left in a stage play.
