The psychic town is facing an unprecedented disaster.
When everyone thought that the group of outsiders had been driven away and they were safe, they were shocked to find a woman walking out from a distance... a woman taller than the house.
The woman had long hair that stuck to her face, her features were not clearly visible, and she looked like a blurry mass of flesh with limbs separated, wrapped in an equally blurry skirt as she walked towards the center of the town. As she walked, flesh-colored fragments of unknown substance fell from her clothes.
She didn't seem to notice the humans. These creatures, no higher than her calves, didn't seem worth her attention.
She was still walking forward, her slimy-looking skirt lifted up with her movements, revealing her flesh-colored legs, and she was walking through the streets and alleys, causing houses to collapse and the ground to shake. The survivors didn't dare to make a sound, and they desperately ran away, hoping to stay away from her.
They did escape far away, but they were not out of danger.
The skin flakes on her body fell off. The flakes, which were only the size of a fingernail for her, were very large for a human and melted easily into the ground. The piece of skin became flesh-colored, close to her skin.
Someone who was running away didn't notice and stepped on it, sinking into it. It was no use calling for help. There was only a blurry figure struggling in the flesh-colored swamp. Some debris fell on the person and lightly wrapped around him. The person shouted and tore at it, but was also wrapped into a blurry flesh-colored monster with limbs stuck together.
She had lost control and had not found the person she was looking for, which made her increasingly anxious and restless. She became more and more rude, kicking away the buildings in her way and occasionally pinching a familiar person to take a closer look. Before she realized anything was wrong, the person had already merged into her body.
She continued to walk forward, and the surface of her skin bulged to reveal a struggling human figure. Gradually, the figure became more and more obvious, and as she continued to struggle, the surface of her skin became thinner and thinner, and finally, after the last struggle, the surface of her skin exploded - a person without facial features fell down.
It was pitch black, and Lin Chu heard screams.
The entrance to the tunnel is far from the center of town. If one could hear the screams from here... Lin Chu's heart sank and he quickened his speed to rush out.
It was clearly daytime just now, but now the scene before my eyes was completely dark. The remaining red clouds were torn apart, and the grey sky seemed to be covered by several layers of haze, with no sunlight getting through.
Lin Chu knew at a glance that she had not returned to the psychic town as she wished. In other words, it was not the psychic town of the same time and space.
She saw a small wooden house not far from the tunnel. The wooden house was much older than the others. Lin Chu hesitated for a while, but still walked over.
What time and space is this? How many years into the future have I arrived
Lin Chu stood at the door, and after making sure there was no danger, he gently pushed the door open.
The shabby wooden door creaked and dust fell down. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time.
"It's been a year." A voice suddenly sounded behind her.
Lin Chu drew his gun and pointed it at him in an instant, then relaxed a little when he saw the person coming: "Why are you here?"
"I realized something was wrong, so I walked away."
The person who came was Lu Yanli. He calmly glanced at the furnishings in the house, and without paying attention to Lin Chu's gun pointing at him, he turned around and walked out: "Come with me, no one lives here."
"You said, how many years have passed here?" Lin Chu put away his gun and followed him out. "How did you spend the cultural festival?"
"I don't know. I wasn't involved."
"In that case, how do you know it is that year?"
Lu Yanli didn't say it clearly: "Follow me and you will know."
As they talked, the two walked towards the center of the town one after another. Lin Chu always felt that there was something wrong with Lu Yanli in front of him, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He could only follow him cautiously and observe him carefully along the way.
The entire town seemed to be covered by a gray substance. There was no living creature except them. The grass and trees disappeared, and even the faint sounds of mosquitoes that could be heard before disappeared. Lin Chu even felt that even the air was gray.
They came to a small hill. Lu Yanli said, "Look for yourself."
Lin Chu took the last step forward and was immediately shocked by the scene before him.
As far as the eye can see, there are tombstones all over the mountains, one after another, layer after layer. The gray-white tombstones cover nearly a thousand square meters, and there are humid mounds of earth everywhere.
"What happened in these years?" Lin Chu asked, quickly recovering from shock.
Lu Yanli said: "I want to know too."
His dark eyes were looking at something, maybe the tombstone, or the meaning of death that the tombstone represented. After hesitating for a while, Lu Yanli said, "I heard from the survivors that they saw a huge faceless woman, who brought disaster to the whole town." At this point, Lu Yanli turned his head and looked at Lin Chu, "She is the thing you are looking for, right?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, yes." Lin Chu never expected that she would run out of the tunnel by herself and fall out of control again.
"What happened to her later?" The research institute did not record the data after she lost control, so Lin Chu did not know what the consequences would be.
"I don't know. Anyway, 95% of the town's population died, and the remaining survivors buried them one by one and then died." Lu Yanli said this calmly, as if he was saying that the weather was good today. His answer also solved another doubt of Lin Chu. She was going to find out who buried these people. Now it seems that it might be the survivors
"How long have you been waiting in this world?" Lin Chu asked the last question.
Lu Yanli paused and said, "Three years."
The two came to the center of the town.
The furnishings here were also covered with a layer of gray gauze, and it was foggy and difficult to see clearly. Lin Chu walked and looked, but did not find any other information.
"How should we go? We can't be stuck here forever." Lin Chu began to test. She was a little suspicious of Lu Yanli in front of her.
"I'm also looking for a way out."
"Can't we go through the tunnel again?"
Hearing Lin Chu's doubt, Lu Yanli laughed meaninglessly twice, his eyes slightly mocking: "The tunnel is blocked."
"What? How is that possible?" Lin Chu couldn't believe it. "Why is it blocked?"
She had imagined that the other party might have tried unsuccessfully, but she never expected this to be the reason.
"The faceless woman you were looking for died in the tunnel, blocking the way out."
Lin Chu fell silent, seeming depressed.
But her inner vigilance towards the man in front of her reached its highest point.
Lin Chu heard from the members of the research institute that the faceless woman might die, but after her death, she would most likely turn into a mixture of fat and protein, and then slowly revive and condense into a new body.
With Lu Yanli's intelligence, it is impossible for him to be trapped here and unable to leave for three years.
Besides, it would not be so easy for the Faceless Woman to die. There must be other sealed objects involved.
So, Lu Yanli, what role did you play in it
Lu Yanli continued to move forward.
"Let's find a place, it's going to be dark soon." He came to a store and pushed the door open. "There will be new weird things at night."
Lin Chu followed suit, pried open the door next to his, and climbed in.
Lin Chu's guess was correct, there was indeed something wrong with Lu Yanli in front of him.
In other words, the Lu Yanli in front of her was not the one she had the most dealings with when she grew up. The other party just used the statue to make a wish, and after passing through the time tunnel, he returned to the medium town after the cultural festival.
Even the psychic town of the future that Lin Chu entered after turning back was the result of his wish to the statue.
He needed to do an experiment.
Lu Yanli, who had just entered the tunnel, had now arrived at a new time and space with two other investigators.
"Where is this?"
After stepping out of the tunnel, they found themselves standing at the door of an apartment. It was late at night, the lights were dim, and the elevator door was closed, casting blurry shadows of the three of them.
Zhuang Ci subconsciously turned her head to look at the other two people, frowning: "Why is Lin Chu not here?"
Lu Yanli was also confused.
Logically speaking, if these two people were here, Lin Chu should be there too. She didn't make any noise or light in violation of the rules, so why didn't she come out
Lin Chu was not around, and Zhuang Ci had the responsibility of being the leader. Even though there were only two people now and one of them was not an investigator, she was willing to take them with her.
"After going back along the time tunnel, we will enter a new unknown time and space. Currently, there are two ways to travel through time and space. One is through imaging, and the other is to find a randomly appearing time tunnel." Zhuang Ci seemed to be thinking.
They had no intention of taking the elevator, and it seemed safe downstairs in the apartment building, so they decided to stay there for a while.
Zhuang Ci’s words gave Lu Yanli a hint.
All along, he has been using the statue to make a wish for resurrection.
So... can it make a wish to go to another time and space
"The time tunnel is uncontrollable. If we want to go back, perhaps the only way now is to use the image to make a wish. However... generally, the result of making a wish will be fulfilled in some weird way. So far, we have not figured out how to eliminate the additional weird state." Zhuang Ci continued to analyze.
She was mainly telling Lu Yanli to listen. Lin Chu had warned them privately to be careful of this man. They could cooperate, but they also had to beware of his betrayal. Once he decided to turn against them, he would be an enemy more terrifying than a ghost.
Zhuang Ci always remembered it, so she tried her best to convey her goodwill to the other party, and the other team member did the same. Before they finished their analysis, the number on the elevator's external screen suddenly began to drop.
Someone... or, something is coming down!
The three of them immediately stepped back in tacit understanding and waited quietly.
The number decreased little by little until it finally reached the first floor. The elevator door opened and two people who looked very familiar to Zhuang Ci walked out, a man and a woman, tall and thin, and they were talking and laughing as they walked out.
"Chu Xian, Chu Xiu?" Zhuang Ci held back from speaking, but another team member couldn't help but spoke subconsciously.
The girl looked at them strangely, probably not understanding why strangers knew her name, and moved closer to her brother. Chu Xiu also found it strange, and the two of them walked out quickly.
The three of them watched them leave, all with a look of disbelief on their faces.
"Didn't they already...?" Another investigator asked, and then quickly muttered to himself, "Yes, this is another time and space, perhaps a parallel time and space, or an illusion, and they are still here at this time."
Lu Yanli was more inclined to the parallel universe. He just remembered the floor number that the two people came down from and suggested going up to take a look, perhaps they could find some clues in their residence.
The two investigators agreed.
Entering the elevator and pressing the button for the fifth floor, as the elevator slowly went up, Zhuang Ci couldn't help but think again of the horrific experience he had before entering the Psychic Town, and felt a little confused for a moment.
What if this Chu Xian is not a human either
On the other side, Chu Xian and Chu Xiu were planning to go out for a midnight snack. Along the way, Chu Xian kept complaining about his recent troubles.
"… I've been running out of inspiration lately, and I've been unable to keep up with the manuscript. Luckily, I met an online friend who provided me with a lot of examples. To be honest, he has a very rich imagination, and those examples sound pretty scary. I don't know how he came up with them…"
Chu Xiu teased, "What online friends? Don't fall in love online, okay?"
Chu Xian hit him: "Go to hell, we were just talking about some horror material. He sent me a picture album, which is said to be a horror story. I haven't opened it yet."
At this moment, Lu Yanli and others arrived at the fifth floor.
They easily identified Chu Xian's residence and opened the door after a brief attempt.
The room was dark and the lights were off. On the desk in the room on the left, a collection of atlases was spread out.
Lu Yanli was very familiar with that picture album.