Solving the Problem

[Deep inside the torture chamber - the preaching room]

Two hooks with neural properties descended from the dome, connecting Hawke and Oculus at the back of their heads.

This connection lasted for a full day, until the hook began to wobble due to instability.

Pull out the hook.

The two people's consciousness returned to their original bodies.

"That's so cool, bro!"

Oculos started speaking in a human language he'd picked up from who-knows-where, and it sounded rather odd. But to Oculos, "old buddy" was a perfect description of Hawk, even better than the words from hell.

Hawke looked surprised, as if the one-eyed being before him was even more powerful than the last time they met.

"Your eyes really can break through the World Anchor Point... but it will also shorten the time it takes for us to project to the past."

Oculus hadn't felt this excited in a long time, not even when he was reaping the fruits of war.

Even as he recalled his past experiences, his body trembled with excitement, and pearl-like eyeballs slipped from his robes, rolling all over the ground. Even a single one of these pearls would be worth a fortune if sold in Hell.

"Interesting, indeed interesting! More interesting than any world we've invaded. The systemic expression is concentrated in the pituitary gland, completely different from what we have here."

Moreover, only the most primitive humans live on the surface of the world, and their pituitary glands are still maintained at the biological level. To see the subsequent development of their pituitary glands, one must go to a remote corner of the world.

Hey bro, how's your research going? When can you project a long-term, stable signal over time, without being confined to Mental Hospital?

"Rest assured, after my personal observation this time, I've decided to keep this a secret between the two of us and will absolutely not let the Spine Cult know."

Hawke also made a decision, "Oculus, while I am skilled in physical manipulation and related modifications, spatial matters are not my forte. If you are truly interested, then stay and help me for an extended period."

Based on this experience at least, your eyes can play a very good coordinating role.

For stable projection over a long period of time,

In addition to needing to achieve 100% synchronization with the temporary bodies over there, my torture chamber also needs to be modified to enhance spatial connectivity and consciousness sensing.

I'll try to borrow something from the Pope. See if you can bring some War Wizards from Chaos Nest. We don't need Archmages, just wizards skilled in battlefield teleportation will do.

"Hiss... War Wizards aren't my people~ I'll give it a try."

Oculus is a man of action; once he gets caught up in his current interest, he acts on it immediately.

As his attention shifted from his main body and he prepared to contact the eyeball residing in the Chaos Nest, a signal came from an eyeball located in another area.

Oculos's expression changed. "Wait!"

There seems to be some problem at Navel Port!

"Could it be that those kids got into trouble? After all, I only felt comfortable coming to this other world experience after seeing them choose the merchant guild's ship."

"You should take a look right away!"

Hawke wasn't worried about Luo Di's experiences in the dark side; his only concern was crossing the sea by boat. The ancestors hidden in the ocean were an absolute unknown, and it would be too much of a waste to die over something like that.

Once Luo Di dies, the connection between the True Hell and the Human World will inevitably weaken.

"Don't rush, I'm watching."

Oculos initially appeared relaxed. Based on his experience with the Lighthouse, he believed it was highly unlikely that the merchant guild's ships would encounter problems. Even if they did, they could most likely resolve the issue internally.

But as he focused all his attention on the lighthouse, observing the sea with 100% visual power,

Judging from the speed of the Chamber of Commerce cruise ship, it should not have crossed the middle boundary yet. We just need to shine a light along the route and we should find it soon.

But as time ticked by...

Oculus saw nothing.

The enormous Golden Skull, representing the Chamber of Commerce, vanished completely from the sea without a trace.

Strangely enough, the guild's cruise ship was built at great expense and even has stabilizing runes personally imprinted on it by the Guild Leader.

Even if it does sink, a large amount of liquid gold will permeate the sinking site and float on the ocean surface for a long time to mark the location of the shipwreck.

But there was nothing there, not even a trace of gold.

"The Chamber of Commerce's cruise ship has disappeared, could it be that..."

After Oculos revealed the complete disappearance, he and Hawke almost simultaneously thought of a being, a special ancestor.

"The Gate Ancestor!?"

[Chamber of Commerce Cruise - Suite]

No one, including Luo Di, could have imagined that the knocking would come from the bathroom on the side.

and,

When the knocking sounded, they were no longer able to think about anything else.

Because the sound was so close and so clear, it had a much deeper impact than the previous knocking while I was asleep.

Even Luo Di couldn't withstand it.

The tongue is completely ineffective here.

Even the most saturated Moon Pituitary Gland paled in comparison, with even the gray hue receding into the pituitary gland itself.

The nerve chains between the spine also showed no response.

All Luo Di could see was the bathroom door; the steady, gentle knocking filled his mind. Even the class monitor's shouts were completely drowned out; everything was submerged.

Step forward,

Grasp the Door handle,

Twist and push open

Luo Di's body also subconsciously stepped into it.

Buzz!

After a faint ringing in his ears, all his teammates disappeared, leaving only Luo Di. And the place he arrived at was not a restroom at all.

There was no rotten smell of the ocean.

There was no smell of sulfur from hell.

There was also no faint, pleasant fragrance of the Chamber of Commerce.

Clinging to Luo Di's nasal cavity was a weathered sandstone carrying an ancient aura, and the scene before him was completely beyond his comprehension.

A dilapidated area of ruins.

The ruins are all made up of doors of different forms, some even standing alone on the ground or growing sideways on the wall.

Upon arriving here, Luo Di gained a brief moment of clarity, quickly realizing that he had already pushed open the door and was well aware that the next knock might come soon.

He had no time to analyze what was happening in front of him; he had to find a way to stay alert.

Pre-tap your tongue

Metal wrapped around the brain

but...

The knocking on the door pushed back all perception, thoughts, and ideas.

Luo Di's bloodshot eyes became blank, and he walked faster than before, arriving at a door in the ruins that had been knocked on, and continued to open the door.

Buzz!

When consciousness returned

He had come to the deeper part of the ruins, where there were large buildings constructed from doors, and even various decorations formed by doors.

"I'm still opening doors, still going deeper... Pain and tongue-twisting have no effect. I seem to have reached a deeper level, where the door structure is more numerous and intricate."

If this continues, I might die completely.

Luo Di unleashed his full power this time.

Wearing a tentacle mask while performing spinal surgery.

It reveals the most extreme form of a serial killer!

Knock knock knock~

A knock came at the door.

When Luo Di came to his senses, he had been moved to a deeper area. Here, the doors were more numerous, denser, and more intricate, corresponding to a more profound and magnificent scene.

Cold sweat dripped down his back, and his spine trembled slightly.

A sense of fear of death washed over me.

Luo Di doesn't want to die right now; he still has many things to do and important reasons to live.

"All my methods and abilities are ineffective! As soon as there is a knock on the door, I will be moved to the next area, and each time I will only have about 10 seconds to think."

"I'm going to die... I'm really going to die here, I have to think! I have to survive!"

Luo Di had never had such a strong will to survive. Even the Built-in Skull began to tremble, and metal nerves were proliferating in his brain, making the overall structure of his brain more complex.

A faster pace of thought corresponds to a slower flow of external time.

Luo Di stopped considering external factors and instead embarked on an immersive mode of thinking.

Buzz! Tinnitus from overuse.

For some reason,

A memory image related to thinking deep in the brain is activated.

Luo Di returned to his most familiar classroom, where a workbook lay before him, containing a logic puzzle about "doors".

He had been thinking about it for a long time, but he still couldn't come up with the right answer.

Just then,

The class monitor walked over from her seat, squeezing some space from Luo Di, and the two of them sat close together, looking at the rather difficult problem together.

"Luo Di, this problem is indeed very difficult. If you can't solve it, why don't you try a different approach? Perhaps your original approach was wrong from the start."

You might even need to reread the question itself.

"Oh, okay."

Following the class monitor's instructions, Luo Di cleared his mind of any lingering thoughts and reread the question.

I was surprised to find that his eyes kept wandering to words related to "door" and to pictures of doors. If you covered up all the door-related things and reread the question, the whole topic seemed to change.

"Wait... Am I being too concerned about the door? I've been worried about the door and focused on it from the very beginning."

I believe that there are ancestors behind the door, that the ancestors are knocking on the door from behind, and that opening the door is extremely dangerous... But what if I don't consider the door and only consider myself?

I see!

So that's how you solve this problem! Thanks, class monitor.

When Luo Di shifted his gaze to the class monitor beside him, the monitor had already disappeared, and the classroom space slowly faded away.

Luo Di returned to reality.

We returned to the depths of ruins associated with a door.

To be precise, it should be "within the ancestral body".

Currently, Luo Di is in the process of being digested.

He was eaten the moment he pushed open the first door.

Each subsequent push through the doors signifies a step-by-step digestive process. Luo Di is currently stuck in a certain digestive tract section; his body is already riddled with holes, his hair is gone, and even his skull has been corroded and perforated.

On the eve of death,

He completed his final thought process using the Built-in Skull.

Luo Di no longer cared whether his ancestors were behind the door, nor was he worried about knocking, and he was not in a hurry to escape.

Just standing here quietly, feeling the present moment...