Countless questions were crowded in Xia Chong's mind. Before they could be turned into questions that could be asked, she suddenly saw that the single soldier and his "classmates" had already walked forward casually, and soon fell dozens of centimeters away from her.
He hurriedly followed, thinking about how to ask.
But in this world, Lu Xin and No. 2 move very fast, or maybe it's not that they move fast, but that the world changes too fast.
They walked forward from the broken floor, and soon opened a door with only half of it, and saw a black eye growing on the horizon, occupying half the size of the world, and then walked into this eye and came to a lake.
They walked into the bottom of the lake, saw an elevator, and took the elevator down to the sun.
Surrounded by black soil and a halo of gushing flames.
They passed through the halo and came to a forest with huge and sharp blades. They turned sideways and carefully passed between the blades. They could see the smooth surface of the blades, and their faces were being pulled into various twisted and weird shapes.
Especially, after they walked far away, the reflection of themselves was still looking at themselves and smiling.
Xia Chong experienced all this, feeling full of weird and weird touches.
Everything looks so bizarre, yet full of reality.
She even felt as if her brain had been stuffed into a kaleidoscope. She had seen countless weird things in a short period of time, but if she was asked to describe them, she felt a severe lack of language and could not retell these experiences in words.
What's even more strange is that she feels that the two people in front of her seem to be a little accustomed to it.
That's all for the person Shan Bing called "the second child". Shan Bing actually showed little interest in all this.
Why didn't he panic?
The two of them were so calm in this weird place, which made them look panicked...
... Could it be that I am the one who is abnormal?
In endless doubts, they passed through all kinds of strange things and came to the edge of a cliff of unknown depth.
Number 2 jumped in without any hesitation, and after experiencing the endless feeling of weightlessness, they found themselves on a bridge with no end in sight. I walked on the wet bridge for a long time and still could not see where the end was.
Xia Chong feels that his legs are sore from walking. From time to time, he has to run two steps quickly to follow the two people in front, and almost collapses:
"Where exactly?"
"..."
Number 2 stopped and calmly turned to look at Xia Chong: "It's right here."
"Because you asked, here it is."
"..."
Xia Chong couldn't understand what he meant at the moment, but saw No. 2 walking to the edge of the bridge and looking down.
Lu Xin and Xia Chong rubbed their eyes and saw that there was no water in the river that flowed from nowhere. Instead, it was full of bright red people, countless people of all kinds, ages, and expressions. They crowded down from the other end of the river, pushed forward by an invisible force, and rolled past in front of them...
Some of them were shouting, but they couldn't make a sound.
Some people are struggling, but no one can reach the shore.
They just flow forward like a river, never stopping.
"They're right here."
While Lu Xin and Xia Chong stared blankly at the river, No. 2 whispered, "Everyone who comes in will come here."
"I was afraid of the emptiness and hugeness here, so I always wanted to get out of here. The voice told me that I could bring other people in here, but I didn't expect that after they were brought in, they would gradually be assimilated and become part of this world..."
"But I'm still alone and nothing has changed."
"Because I'm the only one who can't enter this river..."
"..."
Lu Xin and Xia Chong stood quietly on the bridge, watching the river flow down from a distant place and roll into the distance.
Watching countless people struggling and crying in the river.
Standing on the shore, it seems that you can feel their pain.
However, they were unable to say anything. Just the madness and despair of the people in the river seemed to have infinite power that could affect them, making them feel as if their hearts were beating out. In their hearts, they just wanted to get away from the river quickly.
"Hell Legion, is this where you left?"
Lu Xin I don't know how people from outside entered the river, but I realized another problem.
The appearance of this river is very different from the Hell Legion I encountered in Kindling City before.
But inexplicably, when he faced the river, he thought of the Hell Legion.
That is the "big river of people" composed of countless people, rolling and swaying, seemingly capable of drowning everything.
It seems that the big river, no matter how terrifying it is, has become the river in front of me.
"It's not just Hell Legion, right?"
While Xia Chong suddenly spoke, she wanted to ask questions countless times along the way, but unexpectedly, when she finally spoke, she answered them, "In Kindling City, every midnight, some desperate things will appear and run around in the streets."
"That kind of thing appears because of a feeling."
"It's very similar to this place..."
"..."
"Maybe..."
Number 2's answer seemed to be in a dream, and he said confusedly, "I only know that the people who were brought here by me before will go through such a process. They will first feel excited because they see such high-level things, and feel the breath of eternity. They will even kneel on the ground, constantly praying, being grateful, and grateful that they can have such an opportunity..."
"But soon, they will see the truth of this world..."
"Then they started to panic."
"..."
Xia Chong couldn't help but raise his head and his eyes fell on No. 2's face. "Did you eat them?"
"No..."
Number 2 shook his head and said, "It's more terrifying than eating them."
"This is God's dream, so these people will feel a power beyond their own life level here. Many people think that this is the feeling they have been pursuing, so they firmly believe that they have arrived at True Hometown..."
"It's a pity that they always ignore that this is indeed a dreamland belonging to God."
"But this is not a dream, it's a nightmare."
"..."
Lu Xin and Xia Chong couldn't help but shudder as they listened.
They have just come here and have not yet experienced the feeling of transcending their own life level that No. 2 said.
However, from No. 2's calm description, they could vaguely guess the experiences of those people.
I also realized that there might be something dangerous hidden in this world that seems just a little weird now.
He looked up and looked around, only to see this broken and weird world, which always gave people a sense of awkwardness and weirdness.
That awkward feeling was like having an unstable sleep when you have a high fever.
... What could be more terrifying than this?
"Since you already knew that bringing these people in was useless, why did you bring them in?"
Lu Xin couldn't help but speak, looked at No. 2, and said, "You want to torture them?"
"No."
After listening to Lu Xin's words, No. 2 calmed down after a while, shook his head, and said, "Except for the people at the beginning, there are other people. Some of them begged me to bring them in, and some of them asked me to bring them in because of the voice."
"Now, many people have entered this world without me even knowing it..."
"Could someone come in without you knowing?"
Lu Xin was slightly startled and looked at No. 2.
Number 2 waited for a while, then nodded slightly and said, "Maybe it's just because I didn't pay attention."
Lu Xin was still distinguishing the differences, and Xia Chong had already spoken in a low voice. "I have heard the name God's Nightmare, but I can't tell where it is. During our investigation, we only said that God's Nightmare is a weird prison. Many investigators who have infiltrated Tinder, or other people, have disappeared inexplicably, leaving no trace at all..."
"If God's Nightmare refers to this place..."
She paused and said, "Perhaps the point is, that voice, why did you send these people in?"
"Maybe..."
After listening to her words, No. 2 was silent for a moment and said, "Is it for the things I brought out?"
Lu Xin and Xia Chong turned their heads to look at him.
Number 2 hesitated for a long time and then said softly, "Every time he asked me to bring other people or souls in, I could feel that some changes had taken place here, or in other words, when I woke up, many changes had taken place in myself."
"I can perceive many things, and I can also use my imagination to change some things."
"At first, I could only bring one or two people in here, but then I felt like I could just bring a city in."
"When I'm awake and seeing the people around me, I feel like they're a machine."
"I can change their mental power at will, make them stronger or weaker, or even erase them directly."
"I can make everyone who feels it change my thoughts."
"To say what I want them to say and do what I want them to do, but they take it for granted."
"I can even make the world around me become what I want..."
"..."
No. 2's voice spoke extremely calmly, "I don't know what this means."
"But that voice once congratulated me and said that while other people in this world are still hiding in the basement and regard the creation of Third Step as a lofty belief, I have easily reached the height of Fifth Step..."
"He said if I wanted to, I would be a god walking in the city."