This isn't the first time I've felt this way...
Several times, Chen Qing had the feeling that her memory was playing tricks on her, because several times the things that appeared in this world were things she hadn't even had a chance to log into yet.
Some things, let alone going live, were still just design drawings, or even just concepts in our minds, yet they came into being.
This sometimes makes Chen Qing wonder if everything she has now is just a dream.
Similar to some melodramatic storylines, you get hit by a car, become a vegetable, and then everything you're experiencing now turns out to be just your imagination.
However, Chen Qing subconsciously rejected the idea. Putting aside how unreliable it was for a person in a vegetative state to form their own mental world, even in terms of subjective consciousness, he didn't think that such a melodramatic life, which would be abandoned in a novel, could happen to him.
But if it weren't for that kind of melodramatic life, how would you explain all that's happening to me?
Chen Qing looked around strangely. At the palace entrance, the wind seemed to be flowing into an endless abyss. The air kept sinking, but not a single bubble rose. The wind seemed to reach nowhere.
"Haven't we arrived yet?" Murong Yunji asked, frowning.
She was also a top-notch wind mage, and could clearly sense that the wind force controlled by Chen Qing was actually descending very quickly.
Yet, after nearly half an hour, they still hadn't reached the bottom?
This place is several times deeper than the Extreme Abyss where I'm hiding!
And even more important is perspective.
Perhaps the water element here is too concentrated, because the field of vision is only three meters wide, and even someone with her eyesight can't see anything at all.
This body of mine is that of Above First Rank martial artist who cultivates both martial arts and magic. When I concentrate my spirit, I can see tens of thousands of feet away in the dead of night. But here, not only can my vision not penetrate more than three meters, but even my spiritual perception cannot penetrate more than three meters.
This is very unusual for a master who can sense movement within a ten-mile radius at any time; it's even more unsettling than an ordinary person suddenly going blind.
Especially in such eerie places, where you can't see your surroundings, you always feel like there's something around you...
Ziyue was standing nearby, seemed to sense something. A flash of starlight appeared in her hand. The light was extremely faint, but in this suffocating darkness, it was as warm as a candle in the dead of winter.
Murong and Baiyu subconsciously followed the faint light and looked around, trying to regain that sense of peace.
But almost instantly, Ziyue deliberately extinguished the starlight in her hand. Even someone as powerful as her, with knowledge spanning thousands of years, instinctively extinguished her own starlight out of fear in that instant.
Murong and Baiyu behind them froze on the spot.
They weren't mistaken; there really was something around them, and it was far more terrifying than they had imagined!
What are those?
Baiyu asked, her face pale.
"Experimental subject..." Chen Qing said, lowering his head to calm himself down.
From the moment he entered the abyss depicted in the original design, he had a general idea of what his surroundings were like, but knowing and seeing are very different.
To be honest, the reason he didn't stop Ziyue earlier was partly to see what was going on. Now he realized that the design of this abyss was absolutely censored.
On either side of the darkness were walls as smooth as glass, and countless enormous eyes stared at them, making them feel like species being observed in a fish tank.
Ironically, those things hidden behind the transparent glass were terrifying in both appearance and aura.
For example, the giant floating jellyfish that Chen Qing saw at first glance was milky white all over, and it seemed as if there was fluid moving on its body. But if you looked closely, you would find that inside the jellyfish were countless humanoid monsters, constantly wriggling and crawling inside.
It struggled in agony, yet possessed a chilling aura even more ferocious than that of a living corpse.
Monsters like these, both in appearance and aura, exude an aura of extreme danger. The sheer number of them was truly terrifying. Just a single glance from them had kept the group silent for a quarter of an hour.
After what seemed like an eternity, Chen Qing finally spoke up, saying, "They can't get out of there."
"Are you sure?" The three looked at Chen Qing, because they could clearly sense that Chen Qing was also afraid just now!
Chen Qing: "..."
He really wasn't sure!
In the original version, the area beneath the Dragon Palace was simply a laboratory, and all the bio-weapons were in the form of specimens, embryos sealed with various types of ice jade.
Players entering this place for the first time can even take these embryos with them, but once the ice jade melts and its contents leak out, it can easily lead to a huge crisis.
This was also one of the original design elements of the gameplay.
But that's not the case at all now...
The abyss model in the design was launched ahead of schedule. The biological weapons that were originally in their embryonic stage have mostly evolved into mature forms, staring at the invaders in a terrifying way from within the Abyss Wall barrier.
This visually stunning and terrifying effect was one of the original design concepts. Chen Qing never expected that he would be able to see the complete effect of the original design draft.
"We can't get out!" Chen Qing took a deep breath and said after calming himself down.
Even if it's an unreleased version, as long as it's still designed according to our own specifications, there won't be any problems!
"Can't get out?"
Murong frowned. "Is what's sealing them... glass? Are you sure that thing can trap them?"
"It's the Abyss Wall," Chen Qing explained as they continued walking forward. "A Prism array made of special materials."
"Special object?"
The three frowned. What kind of special object could trap so many terrifying things?
But seeing that Chen Qing didn't want to say anything more, he was displeased and was about to say something when Ziyue spoke first.
"Is Lord Chen's goal truly biological weaponry?"
Chen Qing paused, not turning her head, her tone filled with doubt. "What does Senior Ziyue want to say?"
"I just feel something's not quite right..." Ziyue looked up expressionlessly and said, " Lord Chen clearly possesses the ability to rapidly increase military strength through Divine Path faith, and from my observation, this ability of Lord Chen is not sinister; the system is quite mature, and at least for now, it seems to be performing exceptionally well."
"With such capabilities at our disposal, is it really necessary to research uncontrollable biological weapons like ancient sorcerers?"
Upon hearing this, the other two also realized what was happening and looked at Chen Qing with suspicion. All three of them could be considered biological weapons; they knew best whether they could be controlled. Why would their opponent abandon their greatest advantage and come to the Dragon Palace solely to obtain this thing...
That's definitely not very reasonable.
Chen Qing stopped and smiled gently, "Look at what Senior Ziyue said, who would complain about having too many powerful weapons? Walking multiple paths is the Kingly Dao."
"I don't see it that way." Ziyue glanced at Chen Qing with a hint of melancholy. "Based on my impression of you, Lord Chen, you don't seem like someone who would handle these kinds of things."
"Oh?" Chen Qing turned his head, a half-smile on his face, and said, "Senior seems to know me quite well?"
"I wouldn't say I understand it." Ziyue shook her head, but boldly stepped out of Chen Qing's vacuum wind belt and stood in front of the huge transparent object.
"I just feel that Lord Chen, like me, is a bit of a germaphobe."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ziyue, amidst the astonished gazes of the other two, stretched out her fair, lotus-root-like skin and pressed it directly against the transparent wall that isolated countless terrors!
"Are you crazy?"
This time, it was the straw puppet hidden on Ziyue that couldn't help but roar out.
Chen Qing glanced at the straw man. Chen Qing wasn't surprised at all by its arrival; it would be abnormal not to bring it along.
Chen Qing was more concerned about Ziyue now. This girl was smarter than he had imagined, and she had figured out his purpose so quickly!
The next instant, after Ziyue touched the transparent, ice-like obstacle, a pure purple light spread out like dye across a large area that Ziyue's hand had touched!
"This is?"
All three, including the straw man, were taken aback.
"So that's how it is!" Ziyue coldly looked at Chen Qing: "This is your real purpose for staying in the so-called core palace!"