1TWITF[C Chapter 121

Chapter 121

“What?!”

“Its invasion speed is too fast. If this continues, it will enter this world one day.”

“Wasn’t she already sent out?”

“If it’s completely out of control, I’m afraid the effect won’t be significant.”

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A very ordinary world.

Just like the one he used to be in, the streets were full of people hurrying and bustling for life, and no one gave them a second glance.

But…

They looked up at the sky.

They always felt… that something was wrong, as if something was watching them. Looking back, there was nothing.

“Why are there so many layers of worlds?” The two walked on the side of the road, talking in low voices.

“Perhaps… have you heard of a concept called the surface and the hidden world?” Lin Chu stopped.

The sky seemed to lower a little, gradually gathering dark clouds.

“Surface and hidden world?”

“Yes. I saw this concept in a movie from our world.” Lin Chu roughly explained the movie, and Lu Yanli quickly understood the meaning.

“So, perhaps there is something that exists in the real world and then creates a seemingly peaceful surface world and a crazy, weird hidden world?”

Real world, surface world, hidden world… There should have been three layers, but he himself had experienced more than three layers.

“No, no, no, it’s not just these…” Lu Yanli drew one overlapping circle after another on the ground and marked the overlapping parts.

The first big circle and the second big circle overlapped a part. He wrote “Arrival” at the overlap.

“Does that refer to our arrival?” Lin Chu pointed to the two words.

The wind was colder, the sky was lower, the number of pedestrians gradually decreased, and the sunlight also weakened.

Lu Yanli didn’t care, or rather, he was waiting for the weirdness to appear.

“According to your concept, the monsters in the hidden world are all monsters conceived by the world’s creator, then…” He heavily marked a point on the circle representing his world.

“If my world is the hidden world, then… who will be the core of that world?”

“Although I’ve only entered it twice, I can figure out some rules. These ghosts and monsters are based on idealism, so they may really be because of some creature… perhaps, they are all conceived by someone.” Lin Chu vaguely mentioned some keywords to avoid being punished by the mission.

Lu Yanli shook his head: “Not me.”

The dark clouds had completely gathered.

Lu Yanli stared straight at the strange sky, as if he had returned to the day of the great world change…

At that time, a vortex appeared in the sky. Everyone thought it was a tornado and wanted to run away, but the vortex did not suck people away. Instead… it released those things!

If he really wanted to hate, he wouldn’t even know who to hate. On the contrary, there are more people who should hate him.

“If it’s not you, think about whether there’s anything else.”

“There is one.”

A strong wind blew!

The neatly arranged clouds were getting lower and lower… Finally, they couldn’t get any lower. The sky was so white that it reflected light, and the clouds were so black that there was not a trace of light. The ultimate black and white contrast and strange picture quietly stayed.

The streets were empty at some point.

“Let’s go. It seems… I guessed right.” Lu Yanli turned around and ran.

When he started to move, the clouds in the sky… actually fell straight down like real objects! The speed was no different from a stone falling.

No one doubted that the end of being hit by it would be any good.

“Damn, damn, what is that!” Lin Chu followed, rolling and crawling. The cloud hit not far behind her. With a bang, a big pit was smashed into the ground.

Then, the second, the third…

The sound of thumping and smashing the ground continued. The two ran with great difficulty, often narrowly avoiding the pile of “clouds.”

“Can we… find a place to rest for a while?” Lin Chu said weakly, “Like find a room…”

“Forget it, I can still hold on!”

Another dark cloud smashed down heavily, landing in front of Lu Yanli. He hurriedly stopped and turned to the side, continuing to run.

He was also very tired, but in the past few years, almost no day had not been spent in fatigue. As he got tired, he became used to it.

Hold on a little longer… wait a little longer…

“Go this way!”

Running out along the avenue, they ran across the national highway, and a road sign appeared ahead, showing that it was only 3 kilometers to the next city.

Seeing the numbers on the sign, Lin Chu gained strength, gritted her teeth, and rushed forward with her head buried.

At one kilometer, they saw the toll station and the tunnel.

There was no one in the toll station. Lu Yanli directly climbed over the railing and ran inside. Standing in front of the dark tunnel, he hesitated for a while.

Lin Chu followed behind, almost exhausted. Just as she was about to walk over, she suddenly noticed that Lu Yanli’s expression had changed.

All along, except for pretense, Lu Yanli rarely showed other expressions on his face that were unrelated to indifference and calmness, but when he turned his head and accidentally saw something, Lin Chu noticed his genuine shock.

“What did you see?” Lin Chu looked over in the direction of his gaze.

The toll station was dilapidated, with a lot of paint falling off the outer layer. It seemed that it had existed for a long time. Lu Yanli’s gaze stopped on the window. He walked over in disbelief—

To be precise, it was inside the window.

The small room where the staff should have been sitting was empty, and there was nothing on the table.

Except for a statue.

That damn… blood-red, weird, twisted statue, small, placed on the table.

The room was covered with dust, only it was clean and spotless, like an object that had just been placed there.

Lu Yanli wanted to open the window, but he couldn’t open it. The door was also locked. He pulled out a metal knife and cut a circle, then punched the window heavily.

Glass shattered and splashed.

Lu Yanli stretched out his hand and grabbed the small statue.

“Is it because of it?” Lu Yanli wanted to laugh, but he couldn’t laugh.

Why, after he perceives its existence, does it follow him to every world?

Is it because of his prayers? Because of this mark?

He threw the statue away forcefully, lowering his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

“Let’s go, we can’t stay in this city either.”

In the distance, a group of twisted figures appeared. Looking closely, they looked like people, but not quite. Their faces were ferocious, their claws were bared, and they were roaring like beasts.

“There must be something wrong with this tunnel too. If we pass through it, we might reach the next one!” Lin Chu looked into the tunnel. It was pitch black and bone-chillingly cold. She couldn’t see anything.

“Okay, let’s go.” Lu Yanli turned around and returned to the entrance of the tunnel.

Lu Yanli ignored her. In the next second, the tip of the knife cut through the skin around the mark.

Scarlet blood immediately poured out, gurgling out.

Even though he was using a knife on himself, his hand was still very steady. Enduring the pain, he slowly cut off the surface skin.

“Fortunately, I didn’t die.” Lu Yanli closed his collar, letting the area quickly smear a large patch of blood. He said, “Let’s go.”

Lu Yanli stood in place, a small piece of human skin lying in his palm. The mark slowly absorbed the surrounding blood, and soon the blood in his palm disappeared.

After a rough wrapping, the two entered the long tunnel.

Darkness, coldness, dampness…

But Lin Chu still felt that Lu Yanli’s body temperature was a bit low.

They walked for a long time, vaguely hearing something.

It was the sound of the sea surging.