The people present could not know all of Meng Huai's physical feelings. However, except for Zhong Cheng, everyone else knew the feeling of jumping naked into the other side.
It was a torment that was enough to confuse people and make them unbearable for even a second.
Meng Huai was lucky. As a veteran employee of Shian, she had the means to calm down quickly. Perhaps it was a coincidence that she imagined the office area in the afternoon - to her, that was perhaps the safest place in the world.
Her imagination was in a rush, and what she imagined was blurry. The entire office was far from being as real as what they had seen before, but was full of distortions, blurs, and incompleteness, like a crudely rendered model.
In the center of this ridiculous model, Meng Huai hugged Zhong Chengfeng tightly. She was like a person climbing on a broken wooden board in a flood. She didn't know how long she could maintain the current situation. She didn't know where to go.
If it were someone else, they would probably be overwhelmed by this helplessness. However, Meng Huai seemed to be grasping at a lifeline. With an almost terrifying intuition, she frantically imagined perfecting this office area. Everyone watched as the floor became flat and the walls became clear, but there were still countless remnants in the corners, and they could see the chaos squirming outside the damage.
This time the chaos was different from the previous one. A group of predatory elements swam by and engulfed this unfortunate little room. Following this group of otherworldly elements, the surrounding space changed again and again, and the world turned upside down more than a hundred times.
Meng Huai stuck tightly to the bathroom door frame to avoid losing consciousness due to the turbulence. After an unknown amount of time, this small space finally stabilized again, like a grain of sand that was caught by a school of fish and slowly fell to the ground from the water.
At this moment, Zhong Chengfeng opened his eyes.
"If it weren't for the two of us taking care of each other, I would have gone crazy long ago." Meng Huai's voice came from behind the crowd.
There are a lot of "stuff" mixed on them.
Meng Huai smiled.
Zhong Chengfeng's nose was still red, but her emotions had almost calmed down. She cleared her throat and took over Meng Huai's words: "It took us four years just to find a way to move safely. During this time, we also collapsed."
Behind Zhong Chengfeng, Zhong's father and mother were also standing there.
"No... No." Meng Huai clenched his fingers with difficulty, "If I give up like this, everything will really be over..."
"Maple." They called softly.
Two inhuman-looking people sat in the middle of the room, while their most precious person stood behind them, calling out mechanically, as if calling for a soul.
The scenery inside the house is particularly terrifying because it is real.
Just like he was "dead", Yin Ren pretended to make meat figurines.
At that time, Zhi'an knew almost nothing about the other side. These two people were probably wandering in the other side in their flesh. They touched things they shouldn't have touched, ate things they shouldn't have eaten, and violated dozens of taboos.
Zhong Cheng said silently - he might not understand the subtle emotions involved, but he knew that under a huge blow, people would always involuntarily imagine "the one they cherish".
Zhong Chengfeng stretched out his deformed arm and said, "What if things don't go smoothly?"
Zhong Chengfeng's body was embedded with various odds and ends. Photo frames, notebooks, pens, medals, they all got under her skin. Zhong Chengfeng herself was like a lifelike rag doll, bulging and ready to burst at any time. She huddled in place in pain, her body trembling slightly.
Meng Huai's skin was embedded with various stone amulets, which were like growths on the skin, and the edges of dead objects merged into the skin without a trace. Meng Huai barely maintained his sitting posture, his spine deeply bent.
Meng Huai raised his eyes. Half of his face was swallowed by the stone statue. The only remaining eye was full of bloodshot. "I can't imagine it anymore, Cheng Feng. My head hurts."
"But you—"
Behind Meng Huai stood Li Nian, who looked like a college student. He looked young and handsome, with relatively plump cheeks, and not yet thin and mean with the years. He put one hand on Meng Huai's shoulder and repeated a sentence in his mouth.
"Sister Meng." He called reluctantly.
This time, the scene was still this real office area, but what was outside the window was not the setting sun, but heavy rain.
The blade pierced the boundary between stone and skin, and Meng Huai let out a scream. She tried her best to force herself not to struggle and resist. Meng Huai changed her posture, turned her head, and looked at "Li Nian" who was standing upright behind her.
Meng Huai stretched out her hand, and a sharp scalpel gradually appeared in her hand.
She lay quietly, and it seemed that there were more and more debris under her skin. They piled up on her body and were about to bend her spine.
Meng Huai closed his eyes.
"Sister Meng." He was like an extremely precise humanoid telephonist. "Sister Meng."
The office area at that time gradually peeled off, revealing the perfect and real office area at this moment. The imagination faded away, and everyone found themselves still in the same place, without moving a step.
"Come on, Cheng Feng." She pointed to her legs and feet that were covered with amulets and stones, "Cut them all off."
The "Li Nian" she imagined half squatted down and grabbed her hand.
The surveillance cameras on one side of the wall were all black, and the white wall was covered with all kinds of incomprehensible words written in black and red pens. Meng Huai and Zhong Chengfeng sat opposite each other, watching as they watched him go mad.
Zhong Chengfeng laughed bitterly: "I told you that we are already dead and this place is hell... but you still don't believe me."
That might be the last clue that holds the two people's consciousness together.
"Xiao Li." She struggled and stretched out her hand. "I know this is not like you, but... but..."
She didn't say anything, but her thoughts were written in her eyes - at this point, they were finished. An unknown amount of time had passed, but her body hadn't aged, and the outside world was just an endless nightmare. The two of them stumbled and explored outside, and before they knew it, they had become like this.
Meng Huai gritted his teeth, the scalpel in his hand flashed a cold light: "I don't know what's going on here, but I know that this is a spiritual space... These things in you and me may be the manifestation of mental disorder. People... If people reach a spiritual dead end, they need external help..."
"Let's die together," she said. "There are two of us, so we won't be alone on the road to the underworld."
Her tone was extremely harsh.
Zhong Chengfeng also laughed, with a hint of tears in her voice, and she held the knife tightly.
Being locked up in such a room for four years, not knowing the outside world, not understanding one's own situation. Even if there is no problem with drinking water, it is probably more mentally taxing than being stranded on a deserted island. The changes in these two people are a bit like Jiao Lian and Fu Wuya, who were once Charon. They are probably suffering from some kind of pollution.
Zhong Chengfeng walked to the whiteboard, picked up a red pen, and made the same point.
"If my guess is right... you cut these things off, I won't die from blood loss or anything. If I'm doing well on my end, I'll help you..."
Zhong Chengfeng stopped the video immediately - no one wants to see their colleagues or relatives being bullied.
Zhong Chengfeng blinked his eyes which were almost squeezed by the debris under his skin, and a trace of sadness appeared in his eyes.
"Anyway, in the tenth year, we will be able to walk freely outside. Meng Huai will tell you how to move and perform the surgery later."
She coughed twice.
"In the following time, we kept looking for that white space. According to Meng Huai, there seemed to be many people inside. Then, saving people became the pillar that kept us going..."
“And then they saved me.”
The rear commander named "Xiao Zheng" said.
"I accidentally stepped into this place two years ago, not inside the white space. If they hadn't found me in time, I would have died of madness."
"What's wrong with you?" Huang Jin asked vigilantly.
Xiao Zheng's expression turned bitter: "I was in a hurry to go home to celebrate my child's birthday that day... I didn't pay attention to my surroundings and walked through a door that shouldn't have existed."
Xiao Zheng's words seemed familiar. He said that the door was a looping, empty Shi'an Building. He couldn't find the way in, and didn't know how to get out. After a week, Xiao Zheng couldn't stand it anymore. He pried open the elevator door and wanted to jump into the elevator shaft to commit suicide.
Zhong Cheng said: "Transitional space."
There are similar structures in the Sunken Base.
Xiao Zheng smiled bitterly: "Why do you call it that? It's almost the middle zone. Anyway, after I jumped down from the elevator shaft, I fell for several days and finally landed in this place... Haha, I was almost half crazy at that time. They were able to pick me up, it was just my good luck."
"Later, we also saw unlucky people like me. Most of them were drained of their essence after going crazy, leaving only a faint impression."
Xiao Zheng gestured vaguely.
"It's like a human figure after an atomic bomb explodes, stuck to the tunnel wall. You can't see it unless you look carefully."
After listening to this person's narration, Huang Jin became more alert: "Wait, are you really an acquaintance? You disappeared two years ago. Then you must know that Li Nian is the minister, why does Meng Huai seem to be unaware of it?"
Xiao Zheng looked at Huang Jin in shock: "Brother, I had just joined the Shian not long ago, and was still in the Class C investigation team. I only knew that the senior leader above me was named Li... It's not like you haven't been involved in Class C missions before. You all act like you're in "Go Science", how can you possibly see the Emergency Management Department?"
Huang Jin, Ge Tingting, Lu Xiaohe: "… "
Wow, a genuine Class C mission. It seems like they have never encountered one before.
What should the Class C mission be like? Why don't they remember it? They only remember that Fu Xingchuan will meet every day, Li Nian will meet tomorrow, and all nine groups will reserve seats for the two leaders.
Whose fault is it
As the Grand Master was not there, they all looked at Zhong Chengshuo, who looked back at them with a pure face.
"That is to say, you have been investigating the whereabouts of the remaining missing persons." Zhong changed the subject smoothly.
Meng Huai curiously glanced at the people in Shian who were showing subtle expressions. Fortunately, she didn't seem to want to continue the topic of "Li Nian became the minister". "Yes, and just last year, we found the white space. But it's different from when I just escaped. There are many powerful monsters guarding outside. If you go there now, it's no different from delivering food."
Having said this, she shook her head and her expression became solemn.
"That brings us to the key question - why we are attacking the 'Lonely'. All of you, follow me."
Dr. Cat quickly climbed onto Fu Tianyi's head and patted the back of his head with his claws. Zhong Cheng said he ran faster and quickly caught up with Meng Huai.
Meng Huai walked straight to the bathroom door and pushed it open.
In an instant, the moist air turned into cold air. Zhong Cheng said that when he took a look, the expression on his face froze for a few seconds.
Behind the bathroom, there was a huge cold storage, and I don't know whose imagination it was. In this huge cold storage, the bodies of small creatures were hung up. One side was dirty and black, and the other side was dirty and white, and they were clearly arranged, just like the cold storage of a slaughterhouse.
Fortunately, the dog thing is still with Yin Ren and didn't come here, otherwise its battery power might have been shocked to a negative number on the spot. Zhong Cheng thought silently.
"Welcome to the 'Shi'an Arsenal Temporary Branch'." Meng Huai said.
All the corpses exuded evil powers of varying strengths. Fu Tianyi silently pulled down Dr. Cat's flesh pad to cover his eyes. In his entire life, he had never seen such a large number of pollution sources at the level of an agricultural market.
"Just now I saw you mixing the flesh and blood of two kinds of things together."
Only Zhong Chengshuo remained fully interested.
Meng Huai nodded: "Yes, you should know that these things are divided into two categories - fear and satisfaction represent the first two, which can be roughly classified as black negative emotions, and white positive emotions."
Meng Huai casually took out two small bags, which contained two small bags of Yuanwu meat sauce.
"For example, the black one is 'contempt' and the white one is 'attachment'. When the two are mixed together, there will be a very obvious rejection reaction."
She took a little on each side and rubbed them together vigorously, murmuring something. The next moment, the mixture emitted a hazy red light.
"Using the power of this repulsion, I can construct some simple spells... You don't even need to think about the ones from the previous life, because they are useless."
Zhong Cheng said he didn't understand and asked, "Why?"
"In the human world, the magic system is based on the flow of evil spirits, just like burning firewood." Meng Huai explained succinctly, "It is impossible to use the props designed for burning firewood to burn gasoline."
After saying this, Meng Huai showed a hint of relief.
"My method can be used, but it is just the most basic stuff, very simple and primitive. Now that so many practitioners have come, I can finally discuss ways to optimize it."
Speaking of his expertise, Huang Jin became excited: "These are all small Yuan objects, right? If I get the flesh and blood of big Yuan objects, wouldn't the effect be stronger?"
Meng Huai showed his teeth to him: "Little brother, are nuclear weapons powerful?"
"Uh, Qiang?"
"Then let's give each police officer a nuclear warhead, okay?"
Huang Jin: “…”
"I am just lucky... That white room was undoubtedly created by the big guy. But the bell with a bit of evil power alone can produce such a strong effect. If the body was really broken into pieces, Cheng Feng and I would have been reduced to ashes long ago."
Meng Huai clapped his hands.
"By the way, if there are two big guys with equal strength, even if they are of the same race, they will have this kind of rejection reaction. But this situation is difficult to judge, and we can't beat the big guys, so it is safest to use the black and white combination." Huang Jin moved his steps instantly and moved a little away from Zhong Cheng.
Zhong Cheng secretly played with the finger bones in his hand and said, "Whether it's the repulsion between positive and negative sides, or the incompatibility between strong people of the same kind. In order to make the reaction strong, is there also a requirement for the state of the flesh and blood itself?"
Zhong Chengfeng was surprised by his younger brother: "How did you know?"
Zhong Cheng was silent for a while, which was unusual for him, before he spoke: "I'm just guessing. If there was a random reaction, there would be constant fighting inside the Yuanwu, and the other side would have been blown to pieces long ago."
It's not actually a guess.
He and Yin Ren had been fooling around a lot, biting and kissing each other. If their flesh and blood were to explode, Haigu City would be razed to the ground.
Unfortunately, Meng Huai didn't know the secret and just thought that the boy was quick-witted. She nodded approvingly: "It's a pity. If you weren't in a scientific position, you would have a lot of potential."
Those in the nine groups who look at the sky look at the sky, and those who look at the earth look at the earth.
Meng Huai snapped his fingers and said, "Next, I will teach you how to use the Yuanwu, blood and flesh."
"Can I sit in on the class?" Zhong Cheng said, clenching his finger bones.
"Of course."
"Next, I will teach you how to survive on the other side." Qi Xin said.
Yin Ren leaned against the soft pile of cats and nodded seriously.
Qi Xin tried not to look at the "loneliness" lying all over the yard: "Your weaknesses are ridiculous to me - you are emotionally unstable and have too much human nature."
"'Inhuman' is an insult." With no companions around, Yin Ren couldn't help but sneer.
"You are not a human." Qi Xin choked back coldly, "The staple food of 'hatred' and 'love' is human emotions. They are the ones who are most deeply influenced by humans, but they have not become as helpless as you."
"According to your own account... The first time, you were in the Fu family's corpse cage, and you almost lost control because of the influence of 'Attachment'; the second time, you took the 'Innocent Thought' that was crudely made by humans, and your behavior was officially out of control; the third time, you fought against 'Happiness', and in order to avoid the influence of his emotions, you handed the lead of the battle to old fear."
That’s true, Yin Ren shrank his neck.
Qi Xin's tone became colder and colder. "You should be afraid of all your emotions. Even now, any cat or dog can make you lose control. Isolating yourself from a certain degree of emotional influence is a natural skill of all beings. If we use a human analogy, your situation is similar to 'immune deficiency'."
Maybe it was because she was not created to "satisfy" this heroic mother, but was induced to give birth by cutting off half of her body as Zhong Cheng said. She might even be a premature baby. However, looking at the imposing Qi Xin, Yin Ren suppressed his thoughts: "What should I do?"
Qi Xin said that her training would be painful and dangerous.
According to the melodramatic dramas that Yin Ren had seen, at this moment he should either take the realistic route of "leukemia bone marrow transplantation" or the fantasy route of "ruthless farewell to the mortal world". Yin Ren straightened his back nervously and stopped using the cat cushion.
Qi Xin smiled, that creepy smile again.
"It's easy," she said. "You just wait here."
The fewer words, the bigger the matter. Yin Ren became more nervous: "Who are you waiting for?"
"Waiting for 'satisfaction'."
Qi Xin crossed his arms, with a hint of schadenfreude on his face.
It’s over. It looks like this isn’t some melodrama, it’s an animal world.
The expressions of the adult birds who kicked their young out of the nest and forced them to learn to fly on their own might be similar to Qi Xin's right now.
"You just need to break free from satisfaction, and you will pass." Qi Xin's smile grew bigger and bigger. "'Fear' and 'satisfaction' are evenly matched and naturally contradictory. There is no better training ground than this."
[I'll go with you!] Gao Mengyu's cat came over with the tablecloth draped over it, [I have to get past it and continue to warn Gao Mengyu.]
Yin Ren was no longer picky. He held the cat's soft tentacles and asked, "Will I die?"
Qi Xin shook his head: "No, I will go crazy at most. Then I can only try my best to eat you up and fight with love one-on-one."
Yin Ren: “…”
"You'd better be more aggressive and don't let me do the kind of work that only treats the symptoms but not the root cause." Qi Xin narrowed his eyes, his whole face like a white mask with narrow eyes.
If I want to escape from these troubles, now is probably the best opportunity, Yin Ren thought instinctively.
"I understand. When does it start?" Yin Ren asked.
All you need to do is recall the feeling of powerlessness you had before. In an instant, the thought of escaping is like a dewdrop on a lotus, rolling away.
[Coming soon.]
This time it was the cat who answered Yin Ren.
As native Yuanwu, for Qi Xin and cats, the existence of "satisfaction" is probably not much different from the morning breeze. Since the Buddha of "satisfaction" will come to the door by itself, Yin Ren can only try to keep his emotions calm and stand still.
Disgust, Happiness, Love, Sorrow. He had the good fortune to see the true nature of all four.
Then again, he seemed to have never seen Zhong Chengshuo's original appearance. In his impression, there was only the endless, ocean-like black lake in the cliff, and the chaotic rabbits jumping and crawling beside the black lake. But at that time, Zhong Chengshuo's body had been torn into pieces, and he was in a state of lingering survival.
He has never seen the true appearance of his lover.
So what does the "satisfaction" that corresponds to Zhong Cheng's statement look like
Suddenly, the cats in the yard stopped lying down. They stood up, folded their tablecloths in a hurry, and tucked their soft limbs into their arms. In the originally quiet space, a soft rustling sound suddenly came out, like the sound of waves. The sound was not loud, but it was like thunder in contrast to the original silence.
What
Yin Ren turned around and looked towards the source of the sound.
He lost his language.
In Yin Ren's imagination, satisfaction might be something like a wave. It might be much larger than ordinary objects, and it would flood every corridor and the entire other side. But the facts proved that his imagination was still conservative.
It's like the terminator.
There was no slow engulfment, but in an instant, it irresistibly covered everything, regardless of the inside or the outside. The texture of "satisfaction" looked like countless brains and nerves melted together, with a pure white color, blowing towards me like a cloud.
Like the light of sunrise, white instantly engulfed Yin Ren's vision.
It cannot be stopped, delayed or escaped, just like no one can escape the rising sun and cover the first rays of the morning glow.
Yin Ren understood a lot in an instant, such as why billions of years ago, they had such a boundless fear of "fear", and why thousands of years ago, the creatures on the other side did not think that "fear" had consciousness.
Just the "satisfaction" of being in charge of a new life made him, a man who had seen many storms, feel instinctive awe. How could something of this size, something so close to a natural phenomenon, have thoughts
If... If the fear I once had was like this, then I am now just a cub.
Now comes the pain.
According to Qi Xin, "fear" and "satisfaction" are naturally incompatible, and the king does not see the king in daily life. As a cub who does not know what is good for him, he will naturally be rejected by "satisfaction". Yin Ren carefully blocked most of his perceptions, waiting for the impending disaster.
It was like looking away and waiting for the nurse to give me the injection. It was a very difficult feeling.
A second passed and nothing happened, so Yin Ren relaxed a little.
Five seconds passed and nothing happened. Yin Ren once again released some of his perception - his current state was a bit like looking at something through the gaps between his fingers.
The surroundings were completely white, with extremely low visibility. Gao Mengyu's cat was still at his feet, pulling his wrist with its soft limbs. Qi Xin was not far away, and she must have used some magic, so there was no "satisfaction" coverage around him.
And a little further away, the mist swirled in the air, forming a milky white vortex.
The vortex spun faster and faster, and the white part in the middle gradually darkened and turned black, becoming a solid object. A few seconds later, several "solitary" creatures the size of fists trembled and appeared. They stayed in place in confusion, with their sticky tentacles stretching out. A few larger cats crawled over with the tablecloth, wrapped them up with the tablecloth, and dragged them back to the group.
Newborn.
Gao Mengyu's cat desperately flapped its soft limbs, creating a huge white vortex in space. It hooked onto Yin Ren, who was still in a daze, and rushed towards the vortex like a jellyfish.
Before Yin Ren could express his opinion, a pile of messy bones suddenly appeared behind him. The pile of corpses pushed him hard and almost stuffed him into the vortex. The force was so great that if it were a human world, Yin Ren suspected that he would be pushed out of the atmosphere.
That is definitely Qi Xin's true self.
Yin Ren: “…” What if he successfully turns into an adult Fear? Isn’t she afraid that she will hold a grudge against him
Before he could finish his thoughts, countless "bubbles" suddenly squeezed in. They flashed like soap bubbles in the white brain, extremely beautiful, but just a light brush, the pain almost made Yin Ren want to dig his brain out.
That was information, chaotic information that was extremely concentrated. If the other side was the orderly Internet, then these bubbles were compressed packages containing countless chaotic consciousness. They expanded and crackled in his brain, pouring out countless emotions like a blind box.
In just one second, Yin Ren almost fainted.
The cat seemed to be unaware of anything. It used its soft limbs to hold onto Yin Ren, anxiously moving between these squeezed bubbles. Now, the frequency of his brain exploding increased. Amidst the storm of emotions, his consciousness was like a candle that could go out at any time.
No wonder... the fear I once had... and no emotions...
Only a hollow space like a plant can contain so much and so many complex things...
"dream."
Qi Xin's voice sounded from behind Yin Ren.
"Humans cannot process the information on the other side and say it is chaos. But in fact, there is just too much information on the other side and humans don't know how to deal with it. The other side has always operated in order. Only here is there real chaos."
The sleep of countless creatures is the only way for the spirit to repair itself.
There is no reason, no logic, only a boundless, kaleidoscopic projection of emotions.
[is her!]
The cat discovered something, and with a cry of joy, it let go of Yin Ren's wrist and swam towards an ordinary bubble. When it arrived, it held the bubble tightly in its arms and began to squeeze its eyeballs into it.
[Come on, I need to concentrate.] It said solemnly.
"etc… "
Amid the collision of countless dreams, Yin Ren forced himself to retain consciousness.
"Is this... Gao Mengyu's dream... Please help me... pass on a message..."
In conclusion, he forced himself to put a string of words into the cat's mind.
Just as he finished doing this, a dream hit him in the face. The endless emotions in the dream exploded in his mind, and Yin Ren completely lost consciousness.
"That's good."
Qi Xin floated indifferently in the distance.
The most primitive and chaotic emotions do not give people the opportunity to understand and digest them logically. All they can do is to provide intense stimulation over and over again.
Just like a grindstone, they can grind away the least important parts at the fastest speed. Qi Xin lighted a bubble and it suddenly exploded at her fingertips, bursting into tears.
"Humanity is your greatest weakness, little cub."
she said.
"To survive as a top meta-object, you have to throw it away. Choose between 'maturity' and 'humanity'... If you want both, then all that awaits you is madness."
at the same time.
Gao Mengyu suddenly woke up from her dream, with sweat all over her forehead. She didn't even wear slippers, ran to the phone barefoot, and dialed the emergency department directly.
"The dream changed, and I received messages from nine groups."
She said eagerly.
"I need to see Li Nian, it's urgent!"
(End of this chapter)