Inside the pitch-black little cabin, Su Xiao sensed his surroundings but did not leave immediately. He still had no understanding of the situation, so investigating the cabin first was the best choice. He could use that to deduce the state of the world within the painting.
Light seeped through the gaps between the planks. After a preliminary scan, Su Xiao determined the general layout. The little cabin he was in was a room, and beyond it lay a corridor.
Overall, he was inside an old castle. The castle had two floors, while outside it was filled with chaos and darkness, as if this castle were all that remained of the entire world.
Su Xiao pressed one hand against the wooden wall inside the room. After crystal layers wrapped around his left hand, he pushed through the wooden wall with a crack.
A cacophony came from inside the hole, like the roar of a surging river. A black-purple fluid rushed past outside the wall. Strangely, it did not flow in through the hole.
Su Xiao tried touching the black-purple fluid rushing past outside. His hand was wetted, and when the black-purple liquid clung to it, it gave off a violet glow. After only a few seconds, the black-purple fluid on his hand was gradually stripped away and pulled back into the torrent outside by an invisible force.
Tip: Your Sanity has decreased by 1 point.
A prompt appeared. Su Xiao's 330 points of sanity dropped to 329. Although his sanity had only decreased by one point, he vaguely sensed that the threat around him had grown stronger. If his sanity fell too low, he would suffer unknown interference. Once it dropped below 1 point, that would be his death.
Su Xiao could clearly sense that once his sanity fell