Since the exploration of the abyss was initiated by William, he was naturally the first to stand near the curtain and reached out.
"Hmm! Even the touch feels real!"
The touch from the finger surface is like touching some delicate fabric.
At the moment of touch, micron-sized tentacle structures immediately grew out of the surface of the fabric, trying to penetrate William's skin and enter his body.
Abyssal Infection
This was the first time William encountered an "active invasion" from the abyss since he came to this area. All he encountered before were ratmen affected by the abyss.
William, who possesses the body of a perfect born, can easily capture the invasion process.
Even in a moment, the Dian Brain gave multiple plans to block the invasion. Just when William chose the safest way and wanted to use the death plague, which is also a product of the abyss, to annihilate the invading abyss tentacles.
Buzz! A flash of inspiration flashed through my mind.
William recalled the first time he went to Zion and accepted the "Gentleman's Skin" for the first time.
The pitch-black curtain in front of him had a texture that was somewhat similar to the gentleman's leather, and both were trying to invade his body when they first came into contact.
William can make two choices: "accept" or "reject".
If I had rejected the gentleman's skin, I would not have been able to become a gentleman and embark on this unique path.
Thinking of this, William instantly removed all the death plague from his body and allowed the tiny tentacles of the abyss to enter his flesh.
Jin, Price and Zhuou Thirteen, who were in touch with William, also noticed this at the same time.
Jin did not express his opinion, but just smiled silently.
Price seemed to be thinking about something, and swallowed it back in the end.
"Teacher!" Thirteen shouted, and suddenly thought of something, "Sorry, I shouldn't have said more... I will focus on the lighting task."
"Well, let's go!"
William nodded, and then lifted the curtain in front of him. He did not restrict the tiny tentacles that invaded his body at all, allowing them to swim and take root in his body.
When everyone entered and the curtain fell, there was not the absolute darkness as expected, but more of a sense of isolation.
The falling curtain seemed to completely isolate the old world, and now everyone seemed to be in a completely new area, a secret area full of unknowns and dangers.
The black wind howled,
Thirteen's skull candle was suppressed, as if hundreds of black skulls were floating around, blowing out cold breath from their mouths in an attempt to extinguish the skull candle.
The skull candle still continues to burn, but its brightness is suppressed to the level of an ordinary candle.
In addition to illuminating the team, the candlelight also revealed a neatly paved stone path less than ten meters apart.
Price could tell at a glance that the material used for this road was "dark stone", and it was of very high purity, enough to sell for a high price in the past. This quality of dark stone could be used to build noble palaces, but it was really extravagant to use it to pave the road here.
Just as the team was about to set foot on this special stone road and head towards the depths of the dark land,
Clang! The chains connecting everyone began to vibrate; something was approaching.
Thirteen immediately increased the burning efficiency of the skull candle and expanded the lighting range to try to find out the approaching danger.
Not in the air, nor on the horizontal plane.
"underground."
When William got the perception result, Jin had already taken a step forward!
Tap~ When the golden boots stepped on the ground, a thick red lotus root grew out from the heel, inserted into the ground and grew and divided wildly.
When a root touches the target's body, it immediately blooms and bears fruit underground.
Boom!
A huge hole was blown out of the ground, and some kind of monster that could swim underground was blown out. There were multiple injuries, and the sound of blood splattering could be heard.
"mouth?"
In the reflection of candlelight, what appeared before everyone's eyes was a large independent mouth.
The mouth is six meters wide, or even seven meters long, enough to swallow everyone in one gulp.
What's strange is that this independent big mouth has no tooth structure and seems to be only capable of swallowing.
There were densely packed fingers growing at the end of the mouth, which were arranged together to form a fish tail. This structure reminded William of the lower body of the hotel owner, which was obviously influenced by the abyss.
It is this 'fish tail' that allows the mouth to swim underground in the darkest places.
Immediately afterwards, William looked inside the mouth again, and with his stargazer's physique, he felt a sense of space and immediately came to a conclusion.
“This should be the ‘transfer problem’ that Thirteen mentioned before.
Any individual who goes to the darkest place will be randomly teleported to a certain area and lose their sense of direction, increasing the probability of falling into darkness and eventually being assimilated by the abyss.
Once we are swallowed by this mouth, we should be transported to another area."
Jin was helpless after hearing this. "Ah? Is that so... I shouldn't have blown it up if I had known. If we are lucky, it might be able to send us directly to the edge of the abyss, which would save us a lot of time."
William shook his head. "In such an unknown place, we can't rely on luck. It's better to be down-to-earth."
During the conversation between the two,
The mouth that was injured by the red lotus actually repaired the injury through rapid breathing, and it flapped its fish tail frantically, trying to drill back underground.
Lord Price took a step forward and waved his silver-covered claws.
Buzz!
A sound of space being torn apart was heard.
Clearly, the claw was still one or two meters away from the mouth, but as the claw fell, the mouth was directly cut into six pieces, and the cuts were covered with moonlight silver to prevent regeneration.
Hiss~ The flesh is sublimated and completely dead.
Price stared at the gradually disappearing mouth piece, then raised his hand to look at his claws, muttering to himself, "What a strange touch, it clearly looks like just a deformed mouth, but when I cut it, it felt like I killed a poor guy."
"It is right to kill those who feel sick.
This mouth should belong to a foreign patient who was trapped in a dark place for a long time and slowly mutated into this shape under the influence of a 'malignant disease'.
It was even consciously given a function by the abyss, specifically responsible for teleporting outsiders.
Look at my hands..."
William slowly raised his right arm, the same hand that had just touched the black curtain.
Obvious "wire-drawing" has appeared on the fingertips. The skin that should have been tightly arranged has become loose and wire-like, and the internal muscles and bones are also changing.
William didn't care. He had many ways to restore the original state, and continued to speak of his thoughts:
"The hotel owner and the green chancellor I killed in Rat City also showed serious 'lower body mutations'... If they are exposed to the abyss for a long time, they will eventually completely lose their rat nature and turn into a creature of the abyss.
However, the specific malignant process is still unclear.
For example, your situation is very different, your body has not undergone any changes, but an abyss mask has appeared on your face. The reason for this is still unclear, maybe your body is too strong, the abyss cannot cause changes, or some other reason.
If we want to find out what kind of "malignant disease" the tenth abyss corresponds to, we have to go deeper. "
Lord Price stroked his rat chin, "Does malignant disease refer to a disease that goes against the old world? Is the so-called abyss a way of expressing malignant disease?"
At this moment, the sound of rollers rolling came from not far away, interrupting the communication between the teams.
This sound was very familiar to William and Jin, and the source of the sound was the carriage. At the same time, it also brought with it an individual who was much more dangerous than the mouth.
William also dropped one hand on the suitcase, ready to fight with all his strength.
Just as everyone expected, a special carriage drove out from the darkness.
The carriage was pulled by two black horses, both of them headless.
There is a smooth incision on the horse's neck, and a black candle is inserted on the surface of the incision... This candle will emit a "dark light".
It's a very strange light that is both friendly to darkness and can provide "black and white lighting" in the darkness.
The horse's abdomen was completely split open, exposing its exaggerated ribs. It even felt like these ribs could move on their own and pierce any outsider who tried to hurt it.
The black horse's legs and feet began to undergo "filamentous fission" from the middle, transforming into tentacle-like muscle strips, which moved forward by wriggling. This is why everyone only heard the sound of wheels rolling on the ground but not the sound of horse hooves.
The coachman sitting at the front of the carriage was wrapped in a black windbreaker, his entire head was wrapped in dense tentacles, and there was only one eye growing diagonally in the center.
The carriage stopped in front of everyone and the door opened.