Deep in the Darkness

Photographs.

Countless photographs.

Or rather... countless detailed paintings resembling photographs.

Su Tianqing looked at the images closer to the door, trying to discern their specific details, but saw only a vast and boundless starry sky.

The images of the starry sky extended inward all along the floor, ceiling, and both side walls. The interior space was astonishingly large, looking nothing like a mere pedestal from the outside, and Su Tianqing even felt it was at least as big as a public square.

"Click."

Scarlet Snow stepped forward, turning on the flashlight mounted on her rifle's rail.

The light temporarily chased away the thick darkness, bringing more pictures and the deeper environment into everyone's view.

With the aid of the light, Su Tianqing saw the inner scene clearly and realized the space differed slightly from her imagination: it was not a square inside, but a wide corridor extending straight inward, where as far as the eye could see, countless pictures still filled the walls.

"Are these photographs... or do they feel more like paintings? Why are there so many?"

Hyacinth, who was always charging in the front, now sensed something ominous as well. Not daring to continue forward, she squatted on the spot to inspect the pictures on the floor by the entrance, even trying to pinch one between her fingers.

Yet she stared at the starry sky for a long time without making heads or tails of it, and quietly put it back where it was.

None of the four could quite make up their minds at this moment.

Scarlet Snow and Su Tianqing were well aware of the purpose behind entering the Mindscape operation—to find and rescue Hyacinth and Marigold. Yet after witnessing this bizarre situation, "deep investigation" had instead become the most crucial item on the agenda.

"Should