1TWITF[C Chapter 118

Chapter 118

A giant eye hung high in the night sky, replacing the original moon. There were no stars, and the entire black sky was occupied by an eye that took up almost half the space.

The eye was alive.

Miraculously, Lu Yanli’s headache gradually subsided. He raised his head and stared at the eye.

In an instant, time seemed to stand still.

Lu Yanli only felt that the eye was incomparably familiar.

Lin Chu’s scalp was tingling. The scene was too eerie, especially Lu Yanli’s sudden stillness, which gave her bad premonitions.

A dense, almost overwhelming swarm of insects was crackling against the windows, constantly falling to the ground. The wheels ran over them, and the sound of beetle shells cracking and bursting with thick liquid could be heard.

“Strange, so many insects, but why can we still see this thing?” Lin Chu wondered. She looked at the sky through a gap in the window. The eye was still there, seemingly staring at them.

As soon as Lin Chu saw it, she couldn’t help but feel fear welling up from the bottom of her heart. She couldn’t control this feeling and could only force herself to look away.

“Where to next?” she asked.

Lu Yanli: “Let’s leave first. This city probably can’t be saved.”

He stared at the tunnel in the rearview mirror, which was getting further and further away, and suddenly asked, “Don’t you think this tunnel looks familiar?”

He had passed through a tunnel when he entered Spirit Medium Town. Had these people also?

Lin Chu was reminded by him and suddenly realized, “When we entered Spirit Medium Town, we passed through an almost identical tunnel!”

Thinking about it carefully, it was as if… passing through the tunnel brought them to a new area.

What if they turned back now? Would they go to another world?

Compared with the eye in the sky, the ubiquitous green light spots on the other side didn’t seem so scary. He didn’t know where his headache came from, but he wanted to try.

“I’m going to turn back. What about you?” Lu Yanli asked. His hand was already turning the steering wheel.

“Go back? Why?” Lin Chu was taken aback.

“Let’s try.”

Lin Chu didn’t have a particularly strong reason to stay in this city, plus the steering wheel was in the other’s hands. She thought for a while and decided to continue observing Lu Yanli’s actions, so she acquiesced.

No one noticed that the eye had grown larger.

It was as if… it was constantly approaching.

It was indeed constantly approaching…

*

“A new batch of investigators has been sent in and their movements are being tracked at all times.”

“Good. Pay attention to staying in contact. As long as you successfully recover one item, it’s a success!”

“No, as long as one of them returns safely, that’s enough.”

“It’s difficult, but there’s no other way. At least seven A-level personnel have been sent out, and so far, only two have survived.”

On the display screen, two moving red dots appeared in a chaotic geometric image, representing signs of life.

“They have entered.”

“The investigators who went to the first layer of space can return, but they lost their vital signs upon returning and did not bring back any clues. None of the investigators who entered the second layer of space have returned, nor have they contacted us. It is reasonable to suspect that there are new anomalies in the second layer. Therefore, I am applying for the use of…” Before he could finish speaking, another person who opened his mouth excitedly grabbed his collar.

“Even if we don’t take risks, the collapse of the inner world will eventually affect us. We might as well try it.” The person who was grabbed by the collar was very calm and looked directly at his partner. “She is inert and not easily out of control. Even if she does lose control, the impact won’t be too great. What’s more, ten A-level personnel have been dispatched at once. I believe in them.”

“We will.” The other person smiled faintly.

*

“Where… to… go?” A girl slowly uttered a sentence.

From the back, she looked very ordinary, an ordinary figure, oh no, if you ignored the fact that she was three people tall… She was wearing a very inconspicuous dress of an indistinguishable color. The dress was very long and covered the ground.

But from the front, she had no facial features. Her face was a blank canvas of flesh, and she had no ears either, like a human model that had just begun to be sculpted. It was unknown which part of her body she used to make sounds.

Her speech was so slow, it took her a full minute to say just three words, but the staff around her were used to it and answered in a normal tone, “We need your help.”

“…Okay.” Another slow response. The girl lowered her head very, very slowly and obediently followed behind them.

Anyway, she just had to follow, and she didn’t have to worry about anything else.

Slowness and stability were her greatest characteristics. Sometimes she would also be taken to appease anomalies that had not been contained in time and had gone berserk.

A private plane carrying a dozen people flew into the distance. The sky was azure blue and the weather was exceptionally good today, without a single cloud. Soon, they saw the sea.

Now this sea looks clear and clean, but every drop of seawater is filled with hundreds of mutated germs and nuclear radiation that are enough to kill humans.

The plane circled a few times in the air and slowly descended. Gradually, the creatures in the sea began to appear, watching the metal flying object in the air with covetous eyes.

“Damn it, where did that island run off to again?” The pilot couldn’t help complaining after searching for a long time without seeing a landing spot.

The next second, the plane suddenly raised its head and flew into the sky. The passengers leaned back and looked down together.

A creature leaped high from the sea. If the plane hadn’t dodged quickly, it might have been hit by it.

It looked like a fish, with a pointed snout, wide cheeks, and was about fifty meters long. But it was very agile, its skin was uneven, and its entire body was covered with wart-like growths. It didn’t pounce on its prey, and its long, dark brown haired tail angrily slapped the water before diving back into the sea.

As it entered the water, the pilot saw a familiar mark on its tail.

“It’s mutating too fast. It was only thirty meters long half a month ago.”

“Keep looking, it should be awake. Try to communicate with it.”

“Trying, but temporarily unable to communicate.”

The plane continued to circle over the ocean. They widened their eyes and tried to find the only island that could be used as a landing point from the windows and screens. The pilot needed to wait on the island to send them back. But now, the island had disappeared!

When flying to the center of the ocean, the pilot once again increased the altitude.

In the very center of the sea, there was a small whirlpool.

The whirlpool was only about ten meters wide. When flying to a certain height, it was barely visible. But no one dared to approach it, the whirlpool that had appeared since the beginning of the world’s mutation.

It was said that it would lead to another world.

The pilot went far around it and continued flying.

“Wait! What is that?!” he exclaimed.

An island appeared in front of them. It was the landing point they were looking for. The pilot was overjoyed and proceeded towards the island. Then, a huge phantom suddenly appeared on the island.

The plane was hovering at an altitude of eight hundred meters, but it was only barely in the middle of that phantom. But… they hadn’t noticed this phantom at all just now!

“It’s it!” One of the A-level personnel recognized its shape.

He didn’t say the item’s code and name, because as soon as he said it, it would be sensed.

Being noticed by it was not a good thing.

One of them immediately contacted headquarters and sent the information back.

Whether it was good or bad was hard to say. The good thing was that they had finally found a clue to one of the contained objects. The bad thing was that, clearly, these things that had escaped to the inner world were already using their influence to interfere with the real world.

“Zhuang Ci! You are most familiar with it. You will lead this exploration.”

“Yes!”

After the woman named Zhuang Ci answered, she immediately issued instructions: “Retreat immediately and go around behind it!”

She was wearing the most sophisticated protective suit, only revealing a pair of eyes. And on her body, which was covered by the protective suit, there were dense, familiar red marks from her face to the back of her feet.

It was a huge, scarlet phantom of a distorted image. It was hard to imagine how tall it was. They could only see a illusory red. The plane circled for a long, long time before barely getting behind it. Then, they carefully prepared to land.

This contained object was different from others. The phantom was its main body, and its favorite thing to do was to create entities for itself, distort people’s minds, confuse people’s memories, and make people make wishes to it.

And the wishes made to it were all fulfilled in some distorted form.

*

Lu Yanli was about to turn back to the tunnel when a sudden change occurred.

What was not a long road suddenly felt endless after he turned around. The tunnel entrance, which was close at hand, could not be reached no matter what, like an experience of being trapped in a ghost wall.

And that eye was getting lower and lower, closer to them. Gradually, it moved to the position behind them. They were working hard to get back through the tunnel and did not realize that the eye was gradually enlarging.