From the end of the world

Chapter 485 Entering the Doomsday Era
The memories of the past are like photos soaked in acid, faded, blurred and distorted, making people even doubt that they may have been residents of this darkness from the beginning, and everything they have experienced in the real world was just a beautiful dream in the darkness to relieve loneliness.

Similar things seem to have happened in the past.

When I was trapped in the basement on the 15th floor and completely cut off from the outside world, I also had similar delusions in the embrace of despair. Unable to prove what I had experienced in the real world, I could only quietly wait for my personality to be eroded and dissolved by darkness.

Even this quiet darkness seemed to have been encountered somewhere before, with a sense of déjà vu. In order to maintain my self, I tried hard to dig out my memories and ruminate on my feelings. Yes, that also happened when I was trapped in the basement on the 15th floor. When I first came into contact with the fragments of the divine seal and was pulled into the virtual world, I also entered a dark area where I could not feel myself.

In addition, this place seems to be somewhat similar to the vast dark void where the basement on the fifteenth floor is located.

Was it the same darkness I was facing now? My memory was fuzzy, so I couldn't be sure. After trying for a moment, I could only look through other memories to keep myself together.

I don’t know how the battle between Liu Shuying and the Lord of Taoyuan Village went.

Before being banished to the outside world, I defeated the dog and dealt with Huangquan. Although I was very unwilling to not be able to participate in the battle with Taoyuan Township Lord, the work I undertook in that battle can be regarded as more than fulfilled. Now that I can return to the battlefield, the battle over there may have already ended.

Moreover, at the same time as being exiled, the conflicting magical fluctuations between Liu Shuying and Taoyuan Village Lord seemed to disappear at the same time, which was probably a signal that the battle over there had ended.

Did Liu Shuying win? Or did he perish together with the Taoyuan Village Lord?

On the one hand, the possibility of Taoyuan Village Lord's defeat and death cannot be ignored; on the other hand, it is hard for me to believe that I have not had time to explore Taoyuan Village Lord's details, and he was killed by others in advance. As a way to end the conflict between me and Taoyuan Village Lord, it is too sloppy. In a fantasy story, it is like just after meeting the leader of the villain force, I have just embarked on the journey of challenge, and then I was defeated by a master of the righteous force.

However, no matter how magical Ma Zao's power of the unlucky star is, it is unlikely to completely influence the fate of the Great Impermanence level. The Taoyuan Village Lord was really defeated by the mysterious shadow of the willow tree - this possibility does not exist.

I should first think about how to break through this void of darkness and return to the real world. Huang Quan said that this is the void outside the world and there is no possibility of returning. Although I am still not completely sure whether it is Huang Quan's words or the echo of my heart, since I can enter, there is no reason why I can't get out.

At least, I must firmly believe in this. I have a hunch that once my will is a little lax in this regard, the speed of self-dissolution will be further accelerated. Perhaps the efforts I am making now are as ridiculous as an ordinary person thrown into the center of the Pacific Ocean, trying to swim back to the land with his hands and feet, but at least it is better than not making any effort and drowning in the sea in despair.

The sad thing is that belief alone is not enough, I must have a direction to work towards.

Although I like adventure and life-and-death situations very much, this place is not what I like. There is nothing exciting here, just monotonous nothingness. No story will happen here, it is a graveyard for everything. No matter how strong your passion is, it will be cooled and extinguished by the darkness here.

Direction, direction… To escape from this deep sea of ​​despair, there must be at least a direction.

It is truly the void outside the world. No matter how hard I try to observe, I cannot find any clues that could serve as a hint. Because there is really nothing here. Even the darkness itself, if you stare at it for a long time, you will doubt whether it is really dark. In fact, there is not even the concept of "darkness" here. I just defined it as darkness in my mind for the convenience of description.

I don't know how long I wandered in the darkness of nothingness, maybe a moment, maybe eternity, maybe nothing at all, I felt my consciousness becoming increasingly blurred, and about to burst like a bubble. Perhaps, it is precisely because of the extreme fragility of consciousness that it has a certain strange sensitivity. It was like an illusion, I felt that something seemed to appear in the distance.

I was sluggish for a while as if I hadn't woken up yet, but then I immediately perked up. In this endless darkness, how could there be something outside of myself? However, it was not an illusion. I would have ignored it before I realized it, but now I have realized it. After trying to lock it with my perception again, I seem to have guessed what that thing is.

That thing, seems... how is it possible... seems to be, a "firefly"?
Yes, although the signal is extremely weak, there seems to be a "firefly" in the distance - I don’t know if the word "far away" is appropriate in this void.

Unfortunately, I couldn't see where the "firefly" was, and I couldn't successfully connect to it with my mind. And because the signal was so weak, I couldn't help but wonder again if it was an illusion before my self-dissolution. In the final analysis, why did my "firefly" appear inexplicably in such an empty space?
I don't remember releasing "fireflies" to such a place, and "fireflies" should not exist in such a place. However, this is the only variable I found in this void. Regardless of whether it is a "firefly" or an unknown "scam", I need to find out.

I try to move towards that place, or rather, I try to construct an image of myself moving in my mind.

Originally, the concept of "direction" did not exist in the void outside the world, just like drawing a dot with a pen in the center of a circular paper. No matter how you rotate the circular paper, you cannot tell the difference from the initial angle. However, due to the appearance of the unknown "firefly", a new black dot seemed to appear outside the center of the circular paper, and different angles also made a difference, and "direction" was born.

I tried my best to move, and I didn't know how long it took, but I couldn't get closer to the "firefly". Was it because I wasn't really moving? Or was it because the "firefly" was too far away from me, and my movement distance was not shortened by even one billionth of it?
Or is it because the concept of movement does not exist in such a place, so all my efforts are in vain?

I tried my best to convince myself not to give up easily, while continuing to construct the imagination of movement in my mind.

I don’t know how much time has passed, but the distance still shows no sign of shortening; I don’t know how much time has passed, but I feel like my will has become numb, and sometimes I even lose the perception of the “firefly” that I don’t know if it exists;

I don’t know how much time has passed, but the “firefly” is still far away, and I can’t tell whether the distance between it and the firefly has shortened. I don’t know how much time has passed, but I seem to have become a machine that automatically constructs moving images. I don’t know how much time has passed…

I don't know how much time has passed...

At one point, I felt like I was captured by a strange gravitational force.

The will to repeat mechanical labor was awakened by the fresh changes. I came back to my senses and reflexively felt the distance between me and the "firefly". Due to the lack of a reference system in the void, I still couldn't judge whether I was really close to the "firefly".

So, what is this strange gravitational force? I was in the dark in the void and couldn't tell the truth. I just felt that my body was being pulled - body? I shouldn't feel my body here, but I don't know why I felt this way. The darkness around me seemed to have turned into a strange stream, and my body was sucked into it, moving involuntarily.

I don't know how much time has passed again - no, this time it's different. Although it's a little strange and vague, I seem to have regained my sense of time. About two or three minutes have passed, and I am like a fish, thrown out of the water by a huge force, and flopped to the ground.

I felt the long-lost gravity. It was like floating in the water for too long and suddenly returning to land, and feeling that gravity was stronger than usual. Now, I seemed to have regained the sense of touching the solid ground.

Then, slowly, I felt the flow of air, smelled a strange odor, and heard rustling sounds in my ears. After a long while, I realized that my eyes seemed to be closed, so I opened them.

The sudden light entered my field of vision, causing me to squint my eyes. As a flame user who can manipulate light and heat, it is impossible for the light to really sting my eyes. It's just that I don't know how long I have been in the darkness of nothingness, and the appearance of the concept of "light" itself caught me off guard.

Soon, I saw clearly where I had been transferred to.

I seemed to have come to an extremely dirty and messy bedroom.

The light came from a small table lamp that was casually thrown on the bed not far away. The warm light illuminated the room, but it seemed to be low on power. The light flickered like a haunted one and seemed about to go out.

(End of this chapter)