Su Xiao's entire body felt as if needles were stabbing him. The surrounding walls scraped against the orange radiance, making sizzling sounds, as if some invisible, sharp object within the orange light were scraping across the walls like a bone-scraping knife.
Su Xiao identified the source of the strange noise. He leaped backward, landing on a higher step behind him.
After steadying himself, a wave of dizziness struck his mind. Double images appeared before his eyes, along with a blurry orange halo. The color was murky and glaring, carrying an inexplicable sense of eeriness and distortion.
A few minutes later, Su Xiao's senses settled somewhat. Contrary to what he had expected, the deepest part of the nightmare held no big boss waiting for him. Instead, there was something called the Swollen Eye.
In his hazy state just now, Su Xiao had seen a huge mass of flesh tumors ahead. The growth was roughly spherical, with connective tissue resembling optic nerves growing from its rear. Within the nearly three-meter-wide mass of exposed flesh was a huge eye.
The huge eye had a white sclera and black pupil, as if a normal eyeball had been magnified thousands of times. Being watched by it caused one's sanity value to plummet, most likely dropping by around 34 points per second.
In that brief moment, Su Xiao's sanity value had fallen to 322 points. According to Reincarnation Paradise's notification, as long as one endured the Swollen Eye's gaze for 60 seconds, resistance in this area would increase greatly, and one would also receive the huge eye's gift. Its exact nature was unknown.
Forget 60 seconds—even ten seconds was beyond Su Xiao's endurance. To withstand the Swollen Eye's gaze for 60 seconds, he needed at least 2,040 sanity points.
Sizzle, sizzle~
The orange light emitted by