Abyssal Kingdom

As they entered the area of ​​City of Ashes, the color outside the car became more like the place Wei An visited last time.

The sky is gray and the fog is rising, but it is a little thinner than what I saw before. It is not an incomprehensible huge square, but like an ordinary city.

Some are like large-scale shopping malls, with luxurious square signs, wide roads, and various familiar elements of Wei An.

It's just that the buildings here are highly decayed, stained with gray that can no longer be cleaned.

Occasionally, I would see some of these different areas, deteriorating even more, with red paint and knife-drawn graffiti, some crazy and extreme graphics, and it was becoming an extremely dangerous location.

Walking in this kind of place is like walking in the scene of the end of the world in your own life.

Monsters with only half of their heads can be seen here from time to time, but those who got close were all cleared by Gui Ling.

Wei An looked out of the window for a while, and felt that what he said sounded ridiculous, but he still said: "This place's...horror movie method seems to be different from the one just now."

Gui Ling was silent all the time, Wei An asked, and it took him a while to find his own language.

"Hmm." Gui Ling said.

"Are these places invaded by something different...?"

"It's just that the direction of metamorphism is different." Gui Ling said.

His words were very simple, but Wei An didn't think it was difficult to understand.He seemed to be saying that although the circumstances were different, the strange power that penetrated deeply from the space was the same.

"I've heard a theory," Safon said, "that ancient civilizations could use powers close to magic, and that the remnants of their battles were differentiated by the powers they used, as if we would create different types of pollution—"

"I've heard the theory," Wayne said.

"There is also a saying that the ancient civilization itself was a huge devil, but for some reason it sank into the depths of the space and tried to be resurrected." Safang continued, "When something happened down there last year, some people thought it was its eyes that saw it. We, I was just crazy—”

Gui Ling stopped talking and drove quietly.

He didn't say anything related to ancient civilization technology because of the confidentiality regulations, but Wei An felt that he just didn't want to speak, he didn't want to say anything, he just wanted to be silent until he died.

The fog is getting thicker and they are approaching the core area.

Several times, Wei An saw vaguely old-fashioned buildings, which were sandwiched between other buildings. They were even older, and seemed to be built according to some uncomfortable rules. They were narrow and dilapidated buildings layer by layer. Doors and windows of different sizes grow together without any aesthetic feeling.

He'd seen something similar the last time he'd been here, but just standing there, one of all the crazy elements.

At this time, these things were closer, and Wei An felt that they were alive, with dim yellow lights on, and they were eyes looking from the chaos.

Guiling didn't care about them, and only cleaned up the monsters crawling around. Those things were big and small, and some of them even had human clothes on them.

Visibility was poor due to fog.

But after walking a certain distance, Wei An felt that there was something huge in front of him. First, the light dimmed, and he felt very uncomfortable. The darkness weighed on his heart, making him uncomfortable.

Then the building appeared.

It stands there, like the core of this space distortion.It is not appropriate to say that it is like a mountain. When you see it, you will feel that it is the end of the world, you can't see the edge, and you have nothing but it in your eyes.

This is a building that has grown wildly, with countless narrow corridors, windows, doors, and walls sealed with iron bars. There are tattered clothes, things like medical waste, and corpses hanging like strips of dried meat everywhere. Dirty and messy, the smell is reminiscent of cramped, twisted and hopeless.

Some monsters with only half heads were crawling on it, and some were wearing clothes. Wei An felt like hospital gowns.

This place is like a super huge ant nest. Human beings are just tiny insects. Facing a huge system, they feel dizzy at a glance.

The car drove towards this behemoth.

After such a long "travel", they have gradually become accustomed to the strange scene of the sinking world, but this place is not at the same level at all. Sa Fang in the back seat poked his head out to see the scene in front of him clearly, and did not speak for a while.

For half a minute, he cursed: "Fuck!"

The wind blowing in exudes a strong atmosphere like a cemetery, and Wei An can feel the shock in his bones. This building exudes a feeling that the entire universe seems to be left with only this distorted world, which is the ultimate form, and nothing else can be seen. .

"I know this thing..." Safang said, "I've encountered this kind of building before when I was down there, but it's not a scale at all compared to this one. How fucking big is this thing? It's like a whole world ..."

Gui Ling slowed down the car and stopped.

"Here it is," he said.

His voice fell, and there was a dead silence in the car.

Guiling looked at the terrifying building like the end of the world, and said, "The original host program is inside."

Wei An's scalp was numb, Gui Ling turned to look at him.The facial features of this monster are tall and straight, too neat and clean for this kind of creature. It is dirty, and its pupil color is as dim as this abandoned world, reminiscent of a broken weapon, lifeless, abandoned long ago, lying in the mud Reflecting the cold and mysterious skylight.

"The material field around here is too distorted, it takes a while to get things, you go with me." Gui Ling said, "It's a bit dangerous inside, but it has expanded to this way and already has intelligence. You are a superpower, it Will want you, I can't keep you out."

Wei An didn't ask who "it" was, there was no choice in this matter.

He smiled at the man and said, "You have the final say."

Gui Ling turned to look at Sa Fang again.

"Drive the car a little farther, about ten kilometers, and pick us up after the end." He said to Wei An, "Give him a gun."

Wei An threw a gun to Safang. All the common sense he had learned would not allow a weapon to be given to such a private soldier leader, but at this moment he was not worried at all.

Safang took it, and he parted his lower lip, probably wanting to be with them, because none of them wanted to stay outside by themselves.But the man looked at the terrifying building in front of him again, and silently closed his mouth.

Wei An didn't agree with him for three chapters or anything. He was a smart man and knew that he couldn't escape anywhere.

"Uh," Safon said, "just a gun, I... I kind of..."

"I'll keep an eye on it for a while." Gui Ling said.

The other party shut his mouth and nodded seriously, not daring to ask him how to stare.

After Gui Ling finished speaking, he opened the door and jumped off the off-road vehicle.

"Let's go," he said.

Wei An took a breath and followed.

The closer he got to the building, the more clearly Wei An could feel its oppression.

Not just physically, it's as if something huge is pressing on the soul, preventing you from thinking freely or even distracting yourself.

A monster noticed them and approached them quietly.

Guiling walked straight ahead, and there was a dark red shabby door in front of it, which was the nearest entrance to the building.

Gui Ling was wearing a dark coat and short boots. Standing in this kind of place, he looked like a lonely person with neither past nor future.

The man asked Wei An casually, "Did you feel anything when you had those nightmares and activated the system?"

"What?" Wayne said.

"System, deep domain system." Gui Ling said, pointing to his left brain, and turned to look at him, "Here, you can see it, right?"

Wei An took a breath.

"... yes," he said.

He never talks about it, but lately he's been seeing that gray spider-like organ in his brain.

Although if it is scanned by a machine, it is only tiny biological cells implanted.It curled up in his brain, like a remnant of a ghost, with vague and suspicious powers that did not belong to the order of the world, with stunted blood vessels connected to somewhere in the abyss...too deep for Wei An to see.

No, maybe he saw it, the incomplete spider-like shape did not exist in itself, it stood in a place that was not inside the brain, on the void.

"You have those nightmares, what do you plan to do when you wake up?" Gui Ling said.

He seemed to be chatting, and the monster was getting closer and closer, but he didn't intend to do anything.

Wei An was a little anxious, he tightened his grip and said, "I want to shoot."

Gui Ling glanced at the gun in his hand, Wei An has been holding it since he got out of the car, even though he knew he wouldn't use it on this occasion, he would still hold it.

Standard, skillful handling, his instinct to attack has been carved into his blood in a dark, repeated and coercive way for so many years, and it is already a part of the soul.

Gui Ling pointed at the monster a few meters away from them, and said, "Shoot."

Wei An was startled, several monsters rushed towards them as if they sensed something.

Gui Ling stood beside him, looking like he wasn't going to do anything.

It was an instant, Wei An instinctively raised his hand and shot.

A part of his mind was still stuck on the gray spider-like thing that Gui Ling asked just now, and at some point in the nightmare, he was desperately looking for a weapon, wanting a gun.

Wei An shot right in the chest of the front monster.

It fell to the ground at an angle, and continued to pounce, Wei An shot at the second one, too many, and it couldn't kill it, the gun couldn't deal with such a thing at all.

But that changed when Wayne fired his third shot.

The sound of the gunshot and the feel of the hand are normal, but the wound on the monster's body did not explode, but a thick gray substance appeared.

The naked eye can't see it, but Wei An can feel it. A higher level of power is affected, and a gap is opened in another completely different world. Everything that comes into contact with has undergone unimaginable mutations.

The monster fell down and unreasonably turned into a ball of burnt plastic, only the size of a fist, emitting a burnt smell.

Wei An will never forget this smell, in that "small-scale world", in his countless nightmares, it is everywhere, the smell of those weird dolls, the smell of his father's hair.

At the same moment, this plastic state seemed to be contagious, and half of another monster next to it also turned into this substance and fell to the ground.

The other ones that rushed over were fine, but Guiling's fish quickly cut off their necks.The surrounding was quiet, only the disgusting smell permeated the air.

Wei An stared blankly at the scene.

Gui Ling said, "Have you learned it yet?"