From the end of the world

Chapter 73 Breakthrough 1
Zhu Shi's tone was extremely confident, as if he was not speaking of speculation but of facts that he had witnessed with his own eyes.

As a listener, I was also infected by her attitude and could not help but believe it. Even the weirdo who was the opponent and whose whereabouts were unknown seemed to be shocked and fell silent for a while.

After a moment of silence, the weirdo said calmly, "So according to what you said, what is my real ability?"

"It's 'damage transfer'." Zhu Shi answered frankly.

“……”The weirdo did not refute.

"Your real ability is the ability to transfer the damage you suffer to your clone." Zhu Shi continued, "You should have set up many shadow clones in other places. I can't tell exactly how many shadow clones there are, but there should be a lot of them, right? Whenever you are hurt, you can transfer the damage to your clone.

"This is a power that distorts cause and effect and reality. Not only can it be activated by you when you are hurt, but even if you die, the power will be triggered passively, transferring the fact of death to your clone, while you recover to an intact state.

"The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the number of your clones is limited after all. As an immortal body, this ability that is easily consumed can only be said to be mediocre. Even if you can repeatedly summon clones to take damage for you, if you are placed in an environment with continuous high damage, such as magma, your 'number of lives' will drop drastically.

"And if your opponent restrains you, you won't be able to use this ability to escape. As a monster, once you are captured alive, the source of your power will leave you and trigger your self-destruction. You won't be able to revive again with your disappeared ability. Am I right?"

These words of hers were probably not spoken to the weirdo, but to me, so that I could increase my understanding of the enemy.

"...How did you know?" The weirdo asked after a moment of silence. "If you guessed my ability by random guesses, I can still understand, but how can you see through it to this extent without any clues? Is 'seeing through the opponent's ability' your ability?"

"That's up to your imagination." Zhu Shihui said.

"Hmph... Whatever, you're all going to die here anyway." The weirdo showed a calmness as if he was invincible. "Since you can see through my ability, can you see through the nature of this different dimension?"

This time it was Zhu Shi's turn to be silent, and she slowly closed her eyes.

"Anyway, you will soon realize what kind of place this is. In order to make you despair sooner, I will tell you the answer directly." The weirdo laughed, "This is a maze, a maze of infinite size."

"Infinity?"

I had an instinctive distrust of the appearance of this word in reality, and at the same time released a dozen "fireflies" to explore deep into the corridor at a very fast speed.

"Before you die, this space will never be released; no matter how many centuries you walk in this space, you will never reach the border." The weirdo used two "absolutes", "You two should be Luoshan's Wuchang, this barrier is specially used to deal with you Wuchang. How does it feel to treat me as prey, but be locked in the cage by the prey?
"I will sit in the best audience seat and witness your final ugliness. You will die of thirst and hunger here, and your souls will become my food."

"——The best audience seats?" Zhu Shi finally opened her eyes.

She once again showed that look that seemed to be able to see through everything. Not only that, the color of her irises also changed. A cold lake blue light resided in her eyes, exuding a mysterious atmosphere.

What was this change? Although I was very curious, I couldn't ask her in front of the enemy.

"You are not sitting there voluntarily, but you cannot leave." She said slowly, "As this space unfolds, you become one with it.

"Besides, what you just said about this space being specially used to deal with Wu Chang is also a lie. If it really existed for this purpose and it was your own ability, you would have used it from the beginning, instead of using it after you found that you couldn't escape.

"You must have summoned this space through some consumables, and you didn't intend to use it on us... That consumable may not even be your own. Such special consumables are not something you can just take out casually. Most likely, it was given to you by someone else. Who is that person?"

As she spoke, her personality seemed to have changed strangely. Although the original "Demon Hunter Zhu Shi" also vaguely revealed the temperament of a cold knight, she now gave people the feeling of being an emotionless warrior.

"You're really good at talking..." The weirdo seemed to be irritated by her aggressive temperament, "It seems that you do have the ability of insight... so what? The more you know, the more desperate you will be.

"Yes, before this space is released, I cannot leave just like you. But there is one difference. I have merged with the space and do not need to eat or drink, but you cannot do that.

"As the price for forcing me to break the agreement between me and the monster maker, let me enjoy watching you collapse."

"Who is the Monster Maker?" I asked.

However, the weirdo seemed to have made up his mind not to speak anymore, and his voice completely disappeared from the surroundings. The weirdo maker... as the name suggests, it should mean "the person who makes weirdos". Could it be that all of these weirdos were turned into weirdos by the so-called weirdo maker in some way? Was it the same for Agent Kong?

This is a very important clue, and I haven't heard about it from Lu Youxun and Zhu Shi before. Originally, the weirdo shouldn't have said this kind of information in front of us. This shows that he really believes from the bottom of his heart that we will definitely die here.

The cold blue light in Zhu Shi's eyes gradually faded, returning to its usual dark brown color.

"I'm sorry, Brother Zhuang, I got you involved in this mission." She sighed, and then her eyes became firm, "But don't worry, I will definitely get you out."

"You don't have to worry about me..."

In fact, I can now teleport out of this space through the flames left in the real world.

It's a pity that I'm the only one who can perform the flame teleportation, and I can't take Zhu Shi out with me. If I tell this, Zhu Shi might have wild thoughts, so maybe it's better not to tell it. But in the worst case, Zhu Shi won't die of thirst or starvation as the weirdo said. Because I can leave the flame here and carry food and water from the real world back and forth between the two places.

The dead end described by the weirdo was not true from the beginning.

In addition, the "fireflies" I released also roughly detected the surrounding terrain. It is indeed as the weirdo said, this is a maze. The corner of this gray corridor is another corridor. No matter how far you move, you can't see the exit, and there are often forks. As for whether it is really infinite, it is still up for discussion.

Zhu Shi once again showed a look that seemed to be able to see through everything, and carefully observed the space around her. Perhaps she really had the ability to "see through her opponent", and now she seemed to have used this ability again, and used it on this space.

But she seemed to encounter difficulties soon and her brows furrowed deeply.

And I don’t plan to sit idle.

I condensed a fireball in the palm of my palm and aimed it forward, then fired it out at a speed far exceeding the speed of sound.

For this fireball, I input the command "move along one of the walls". I seem to have seen on the Internet before that in most mazes, as long as you walk along one of the walls, you will find the exit sooner or later. Although this place may not have an exit, it's worth a try.

At the same time, I controlled the flames to blow up the wall around me, wanting to see what was on the other side of the wall.

The result was not unexpected. The corridor on the other side of the wall remained unchanged.

I fired a large fireball upwards and downwards, piercing through the ceiling and floor. I didn't need to look through the melted hole, I could already sense from the information sent back by the fireball that went straight in that the corridors above and below were monotonous and repetitive, and even the corridors above and below were still corridors.

I feel my heart is gradually getting hot.

Although it may be inappropriate to say this, I do have an irresistible urge to explore this maze full of unknowns.

I really like the concept of "space that does not belong to reality". Whether it is the basement of the room on the 15th floor or the shadow world shown to me by Agent Kong, I am yearning for it. And this maze space also makes me want to challenge it. That weirdo actually said that this is a place where there is absolutely no escape and absolutely no boundaries?

Then I won’t use the rude “outside trick” like “fire teleportation” for now, and try to see if I can conquer this “level” from the inside!
To be honest, if I hadn't been burdened with the "search for Ma Zao" and had no friends beside me, I would have wanted to enjoy the battle with the monster with this challenger's mentality and slowly crack the mystery of his supernatural powers, instead of the previous mentality of "taking off his head first and then talking about other things" with a sense of purpose.

I sensed the scene where the fireball I had fired was. According to a test long ago, the fireball I fired carefully in normal form could easily exceed Mach 4, which is a speed of more than 1,300 meters per second. As for how fast it was now, I didn't know, but it was very fast.

In just a short while, the fireball had already flown away to who knows how far, but the surrounding area was still the monotonous and repetitive corridor.

Is this place really infinite? Speaking of which, judging from the tone of the weirdo's conversation with Zhu Shi, this space should have had some "purpose". Even if it wasn't used to trap Luo Shan Wu Chang to death, it might have been used to trap other people to death... In that case, isn't the theme of "maze" a bit strange?

If the space is truly infinite, there is no need to use a winding corridor-style maze from the beginning. The infinite space itself is a maze from which there is no escape.

I felt like I had found the direction to break through this space with Zhu Shi.

(End of this chapter)