Bronze Tree

"Looks like I've gone too far again!" Lu Li sat up, supporting himself on the ground, or rather, on his flesh. He had been sucked into the belly of the Marine Species creature, and he was fully conscious throughout the entire process.

The reason why people fall into a coma after an injury is that the body's self-protective mechanism, in order to reduce the stimulation of the nerves, causes the person to fall into a coma and stop receiving that information. This is because when a person is awake, they receive a lot of information, not only from the outside world but also from their own body. The various sensory information caused by the injury floods into the nerves, increasing the stimulation of the nerves. The body's self-protective mechanism will then cause the person to fall into a coma and stop receiving that information.

However, Lu Li was able to completely control himself, so he endured both the nauseating sensation of being sucked into the sky and the painful sensation of being hit in the abdomen of the Marine Species creature, forcing Lu Li not to faint.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Li realized that he seemed to have gone too far again. The feeling of entering the Marine Species's belly was the same as when he entered the Morgue, and even somewhat similar to the feeling of entering Dream of Delusion. This feeling made Lu Li realize that he had entered another dimension.

"Compared to other species, the Marine Species is too overpowered. Not only are they huge, but their terrifying suction is also abnormal, and they even have their own space inside their stomachs." Lu Li assessed his injuries. Because of the walls of flesh around him, even after several impacts, his injuries were not serious. With Lu Li's control over his body, he could recover completely in half an hour, although it would consume a lot of energy.

"Let's find a way to get out of the Marine Species' body first." Lu Li thought. He remembered that the three of them had been sucked into the sky before, but they didn't end up in the same Marine Species' body. However, Lu Li's expression suddenly became strange. He actually sensed the Nurse.

Lu Li knew clearly that although he had a close connection with the Shadow Mask, this connection was impossible when separated by space. Just like when he entered the Morgue, he lost contact with the Shadow Assassin.

If the Marine Species had its own internal space, then he had personally witnessed the Nurse entering the stomach of another Marine Species. Logically, the connection between the two should have been severed. However, Lu Li unexpectedly sensed the Nurse's presence, though the sensation was fleeting, and now he could only vaguely perceive her location.

"This is interesting. I was already surprised that the Marine Species creatures had their own space inside their bellies, but I didn't expect that such spaces would also be interconnected." Lu Li opened the booklet he carried with him, but it didn't contain any information about spatial items.

"So what if the ability of their stomachs to form their own space isn't a power of the Marine Species, but rather comes from some strange object that parasitizes several Marine Species, causing them to have interconnected spaces within their bodies?"

"And the hospital still hasn't told us why the Morgue has mutated like this." Lu Li slowly figured out the key to it all. A spatial treasure had caused the Morgue to mutate into a huge space, and it had parasitized these Marine Species, causing them to mutate as well.

Stepping on the chunks of flesh, Lu Li walked towards the Nurse. The Marine Species creature's belly had definitely undergone a mutation. From the outside, the Marine Species creature was only a dozen meters long, but Lu Li had already walked more than a dozen meters.

"And this wall." The shadow tentacles behind Lu Li condensed into blades, slashing towards the wall and floor made of flesh, but it seemed to be out of reach, never able to touch it. If you look closely at Lu Li's feet, you will find that he is actually standing in the air, with a distance always between his feet and the flesh wall.

Later, Lu Li encountered other creatures, mostly Beast Species, in unbelievably large numbers. Lu Li estimated that even if the Morgue was full of corpses and all the Mask Rampage, there still couldn't have been that many Beast Species.

"Also, why are these Beast Species so weak?" The shadow tentacles behind Lu Li twisted, turning a Giant Serpent into a pretzel. The mask on the snake's back also cracked under this action. The Nurse knew very little about the abilities of the Beast Species.

After all, Mask Rampage are usually dealt with quickly by special combat units, and Beast Species are relatively rare. All that is known is that Beast Species appear in the form of various wild beasts, and the danger is relatively small as long as they are dealt with in time.

After the Giant Serpent was strangled, it was thrown to the ground and soon absorbed into the fleshy walls, becoming nourishment for the Marine Species. This happened every moment, with countless Beast Species fighting here, but these Beast Species did not eat, or rather, did not need to eat.

"Wait, these Beast Species..." Lu Li suddenly noticed something: although these Beast Species all looked like beasts, they all had a mask on their bodies. After seeing so many Beast Species, Lu Li discovered that the masks of these beasts were actually very similar.

"There are three types of masks in total." Lu Li carefully examined the masks of the Beast Species. He found that Beast Species with the same type of mask would not attack each other, even if they were natural enemies, while Beast Species with different masks would fight to the death, even if they had a symbiotic relationship.

"I see. The Beast Species I saw weren't really Beast Species, or rather, they were only a part of the Beast Species." Lu Li suddenly realized. "There are only three true Beast Species. The Beast Species representing lust has a terrifying reproductive ability. They can reproduce all kinds of beasts, and it's not just a single kind of beast. My previous impression of the Beast Species was misled by the Nurse's Snake Giant form."

"It seems there's still a lot of untapped potential in the Nurse's abilities," Lu Li thought, and quickly walked towards the source of his senses, where he found a strange object.

It was a Bronze Tree, about three meters tall, with a disc-shaped base. Three arched legs on the disc resembled tree roots, and a bronze pillar on top served as the trunk. Various circular branches branched out from the pillar, and each branch had several hollowed-out Bronze Fruit.

The connection between Lu Li and the Nurse came from one of the Bronze Fruit. These fruits varied in size, from as small as a finger to larger than Lu Li's head, and there were about forty of them. In addition, there were many cloud-like and dragon-like patterns on this Bronze Tree.

The moment Lu Li saw the Bronze Tree, the patterns seemed to come alive, imprinting themselves into his mind like a Lu Li, containing a wealth of inexplicable information.

A Bronze Fruit the size of a bayberry detached from the branch, transforming into a bronze aura that surged into Lu Li's body, flowing continuously as if searching for a place to reside. Finally, it all flowed into the shadow behind Lu Li and disappeared.

Meanwhile, Professor Liao, standing outside the Morgue, received a phone call, "What? Number 27, the alternate dimension located in the hospital locker collapsed and disappeared?"