Abyss Notes [Unlimited]

The people are like mummy, with chapped and wrinkled faces, no expression at all, only a pair of cloudy eyes showing a bit of human color.

His voice was even more hoarse and ugly: "Adventurer?"

A child of a few years old shrank behind Yu Zhou.A strange fish bone lay stiffly on Yu Zhou's shoulder.No matter how you look at it, this is not a combination that people can trust with confidence.People surrounded Yu Zhou silently, looking him up and down, doubtful, but faintly excited.

"It's been three years here, and no adventurer has come here." The leading man said, "Are you here to save us?"

Yu Zhou remembered that on the first day when he first came here, the girl who led the way pointed to this mountain and said that this was their place too.

At that time, I just thought that the cage owner of this "birdcage" had a strong mind and could imagine the "birdcage" to be spacious enough.No one has ever asked why there are people living on such a distant mountain, and why no one communicates with this side.

This "birdcage" is divided into two parts by this high mountain peak.The place where Yu Zhou and others settled was only one side, while the other side was this hellish world.

The ground was cracked, magma was flowing everywhere on the ground, the air was filled with the stench of burning things, and gray embers were blown around by the hot wind.People are scantily clad, covering themselves with the bare minimum and thinnest clothing, and it's too hot, too hot, and they can't even produce a sweat.

It is impossible to grow any plants on the land. People searched hard, and finally found a piece of soil that was not too hot near the mountain wall.The things grown in the soil are unpalatable, but they still insist on farming, as if there is hope as long as they are cultivated.

The population is large, almost as large as the other side.Everyone is like Chen Gui, with no emotions, no desires, and the only goal is to survive.

People lead adventurers to go deep.The further you go, the fiery red sky gradually turns black.Climbing up the scorching hot hill, Yu Zhou gasped.

At the foot of the hill, there are dense black animals, with strange looks and stench.

"This is our food," said the leader.

Several people were pushed out, screaming and falling to the foot of the mountain.Holding weapons made of stone in their hands, they began to fight strange animals.

Someone died, someone survived.The animals were frightened, retreated temporarily, and wandered far away.More people jumped down the hill to retrieve the dead animals and companions.

No one bothered to distinguish them, and threw them whole into the cauldron.The smell of burnt meat came out one after another, Yu Zhou's stomach tightened, he bent over and vomited.

He was afraid that Fan Xing would burn his feet, so he kept holding Fan Xing in his arms, apologizing in a low voice while vomiting: "I'm sorry."

"Are you eating?" Someone asked.

The two of them shook their heads at the same time.The person who asked the question had no expression on his face, and started to eat on his own.No one could tell what they were eating. With their hunched and emaciated limbs, they struggled to bite the old and tough flesh with their loose teeth.

The dried fish huddled in Fan Xing's hair like a little girl, showing his fish eyes and whispering, "Is this the same 'birdcage' as the place we lived before?"

"What happened here?" Yu Zhou asked.

The people who were eating laughed. "Nothing happened, it's just like this here." The leading man pointed to the high-walled mountain, "there is heaven on the other side of the mountain, and purgatory on the other side. People who Arka doesn't like, people who don't like it , Those who cannot satisfy him and are willing to submit to his tricks will be thrown into purgatory."

"Alga..." Yu Zhou thought of the young man called "Wang", "'Wang'?"

"Looks like you've already met him." The man laughed hoarsely. "Everyone in Purgatory hates him. But as long as he is willing to let us go back to the other side of the world, let us live a normal life again." In days to come, everyone will willingly regard him as king and obey his words forever."

People living in purgatory have changes in their respiratory system. They can't hold their breath for a long time, and their wrinkled skin can't bear the sting of soaking in water.Even though it was known that there was a hole in the lake, no one could swim through it.

This is a sleepy room.

Yu Zhou couldn't say a word.The young man's young and handsome face is so impressive.

"Have you seen it? Women and men, delicious food and wine, eternal spring, endless happiness, as long as you obey the rules of this 'bird cage', obey Alga, you can satisfy your desires anytime and anywhere. What a happy life."

Pleasant desire and endless fear, Arga made them taste the two, and divided the people in the "birdcage" into two parts.

What he approves, what he doesn't like.

People are divided into two places, so those who are afraid become more frightened, and those who are happy become more joyful.

Yu Zhou asked: "You want the adventurers to kill the 'cage master'?"

People looked at each other, no one nodded.

"What's the point of killing the 'cage master'?" The man laughed. "If you kill him, you will become the cage master. Could it be that the world you created will be better than the current one? Can you guarantee it? Will we believe it?"

The man pointed at the lake where Yu Zhou and the others appeared: "Go back there, adventurers. If you can't get out of this 'birdcage', you might as well just jump off the Flying Star Cliff. Is there a woman approaching you? She will lead you Been to Flying Star Cliff at night, right? Don't you like that kind of life?"

Yu Zhou couldn't help but took a step back and stepped into the water.

"As long as an adventurer dies on Flying Star Cliff, we will get a chance to be pardoned. Arga will choose people from purgatory to return there and live a normal life." People approached Yu Zhou, "Go back, go back there. Go to hell and save us. Don't you like life over there? Don't you like happiness?"

The skinny and shriveled people looked at him from far and near, with not only eagerness in their eyes, but also undisguised jealousy.

Yu Zhou suddenly remembered Chen Yi.

The dead souls trapped in the "birdcage" will be jealous of adventurers.Even if the adventurers are down and out and full of pain, at least they have one thing that the dead souls don't have-they can leave, and they still have a future.

Yu Zhou took another step back.

When he was about to jump into the lake, a voice suddenly came from a distant mountain.

"King! King!"

Broken and hoarse voices came intermittently like waves.In an instant, the eyes of everyone by the lake changed.They stopped talking to Yu Zhou, turned around and ran towards the place where the sound came from.

Surrounded by his attendants, Alga stood on a field where crops were planted, leading his beautiful and clean white horse.

His horses kicked the roots out of the soil, and the people prostrated themselves before him, raising their hands, chanting wildly.

The scorching wind blew his black hair, jewels gleaming in its braids.He narrowed his eyes slightly, with a smile on his handsome face, and said softly, "It stinks."

Yu Zhou stood far away holding Fan Xing.Algar didn't look far away, there was nothing worthy of his attention in this riddled land, so he didn't notice that the adventurer appeared here.

Arga came to announce the list of pardons.He is engaged to pardon ten men from purgatory in order to please his good bride.

Like boulders falling into a calm lake, people stirred up, shouting their names with saw-like voices.

The man who was talking to Yu Zhou just now suddenly rushed out from the crowd, the attendant didn't care to stop him, he knelt down in front of Arka, almost touching the ground.

He passionately kissed Arka's feet with his lips and tongue, his voice trembling: "My king, my king... treat me like a clod, use me, trample me..."

Alga frowned, and the attendant finally pushed the man back into the crowd.

The man clasped his hands together, and Alga bent down and asked him, "Are you willing to die for me?"

The man nodded frantically.

Alga straightened up, smiled and said, "I've changed my mind. I'll choose only one person to go there. It's you." He nodded at the man.

The dried fish was next to Fan Xing's ear, and there was a loud vomiting sound that Yu Zhou could hear. "I don't want to kiss anyone's feet." It muttered, "Is this king so casual..."

Fan Xing, who was in Yu Zhou's arms, had excited eyes and said in a low voice, "No, he's very powerful."

The man who was pardoned by Algar kowtowed in ecstasy, but just as Algar turned around, the countless charred corpses behind the man started to move.

They grabbed the man by the neck, hands and feet and tore him apart.

It was an overwhelming destruction and killing. The man didn't even utter a cry. They broke his neck bone and shattered the man's body with actions full of anger, hatred and pain.

Arga mounted the white horse.He frowned and covered his nose lightly: "I changed my mind again. Who killed him?"

The tide of people who did not do anything generally receded.More than 20 people who remained in front of Algar knelt down, weeping in horror, begging Algar to forgive their irrationality and jealousy.They all claimed that they were kind and loyal, but they were just confused and did something wrong.The bright and heroic king must be able to understand how much they trusted and admired him. It was the man who defiled the king's body.They clean him up for Alga.

"Is that so?" Alga raised her head and laughed, "Then you guys."

He pointed to the mummy who killed the man: "I decided to pardon you, go back there."

Cries and cheers sounded at the same time, in a mess.The red sky flitted across the huge strange bird, whose chirping sounded like a broken bell.

Yu Zhou hugged Fan Xing and jumped into the lake.

Going back to the other side through the cave, I just poked my head out of the lake, and the refreshing spring breeze came oncoming.Yu Zhou seemed to be in a dream.

He climbed onto the bank, knelt down and panted.Fan Xing jumped down from his arms, tilted his head and looked him up and down.After watching for a while, he reached out to touch Yu Zhou's face, brushing away his wet hair.

Yu Zhou has a harmless and innocent face, he can easily gain the trust of others, as long as he looks at others with his eyes and smiles sincerely and gently.

"why are you crying?"

"Not crying, eyes hurt." Yu Zhou brushed Fan Xing's hand away.Fan Xing clung to him reluctantly, hugging the drenched Yu Zhou.Through the clothes, the temperature on Yu Zhou's body was comfortable, and the color of his skin could be faintly revealed under the thin sweater.

Fan Xing looked and looked, and Yu Zhou suddenly said: "I didn't understand why Jiang Xiao said that 42 'birdcages' were the limit. Now I understand. Just think of the 'birdcages' we will experience next. This is even more terrifying, I... I just..."

He lay on his back on the bank, covering his eyes.

In the wide pocket, the Abyss Diary that he had been keeping next to him suddenly felt faintly hot.

Fan Xing took the opportunity to eat tofu and lay on Yu Zhou's chest. Unexpectedly, just after laying down, Yu Zhou sat up suddenly, and he rolled down with a grunt.

"I'm afraid of pain!" Fan Xing pretended to speak like a child again.

Yu Zhou ignored him and quickly took out his notes.

Unlike before, the second page of the notes slowly appeared like ink dripping, new text and patterns.

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The author has something to say:

Although dried fish has no brain, it has a good memory.

It flicked its tail at Fan Xing: Hey, do you want to kiss my tail?

Fan Xing: ... What?

Dried fish: Just like those people who kiss Alja's jio.

Fan Xing: I have Yu Zhou's jio, why should I kiss your stinky tail.

Yugan cursed and became depressed again.