Soul Trigger

Chapter 8 Triple Dimension
The other person was wearing a black, highly reflective half-face mask that covered everything from the nose to the top of the head. A pair of leather rabbit ears extended from the top of the mask, which was not sure if it was a headdress or something else. Behind the mask was a head of fluffy, slightly curly gray hair.

Ji Li: "...You are the person behind the mirror."

"To be precise, it's the person 'outside' the mirror." She chuckled, "It's amazing that you've managed to hold on until now. I thought you couldn't understand my hint. But you're safe now that you see me. I'll take you out right away..."

"Your hint is now only one word. You should write smaller next time. I..."

Before he could finish his words, Ji Li fell to the ground abruptly. He didn't know when he had exited the transformed state. His brain was filled with intense pain and heaviness, which made his face distorted.

"Hey! Are you okay?"

The girl's voice was sometimes far away and sometimes near in Ji Li's ears. This time, the body suffered great damage after the transformation, and it seemed that it did not cause equal damage to his flesh.

But it had a severe impact on his spirit, or soul, so the pain this time was far greater than the first transformation.

"use this!"

The sound of bottles colliding came from in front of him. Ji Li raised his blurry vision and saw a spray can that looked like a portable oxygen inhaler:

"No, I..."

"If I were to harm you, you'd have died long ago! Take it!"

The cold touch filled his palms. Ji Li let out a long breath and sniffed the spray can. An unpleasant pungent odor hit him in the face, but it suddenly relieved the severe pain in his brain.

It worked, and even the trigger sensor gave off a throb of optimism...

Ji Li pressed the button and took a deep breath. The discomfort in his body was immediately relieved. "What is this?"

The "Bunny Girl" took the spray can back and stuffed it into her lower back:
"Well of the Soul supplement, hey...are you feeling better?"

"……What it is?"

"From your appearance, you must have been transformed into a dead spirit twice or more, and the Well of Soul should have dried up long ago... Do you know how polluted the other world is in this Soul Prison? I feel like I was almost suffocated to death outside the Soul Prison! As a rookie who just awakened, how did you manage to fight that dead soul until now?"

As she spoke, the girl gave a thumbs up again:

"Anyway, it's awesome, bro!"

But Ji Li was trying to understand the meaning of these nouns:
"The Well of Souls is a container for this energy in the body? The act of transforming into another life form is called 'necromancy', and that... monster is a corpse soul, a mutated corpse of some creature?"

"Your mind works pretty fast."

The girl put Ji Li's arm back on her shoulders.

"You can understand it this way. Necromancy is to use the energy in your soul well, which is the container, to transform. The scientific name of this thing is quite complicated. It's called 'personality entity overlay'. Anyway, it doesn't matter if it's called [evilization]."

"The corpse soul is a kind of evil spirit. It is the master of this hell. Now that it is dead, this hell is no longer a threat. I can take you out."

"As for the Soul Well, your understanding is superficial, but you are right to think of it as a container. The energy stored in this container is called [Ectoplasm]. The more powerful the Soul Well is, the more Ectoplasm it can contain."

"From another perspective, the older the soul, the more powerful and durable it is. The quality of the Well of Souls is also higher. I can slowly teach you these after we get out."

"As for now...we have to get out of here first."

Ji Li coughed lightly to eliminate the discomfort in his body, signaling the other party to let him go, while glancing at the deep darkness at the end of the corridor.

Noticing Ji Li's actions, she took out a can of black spray paint from her waist, walked to the wall while shaking it up and down, and added:

"Don't worry. Although the corpse is a bit difficult to deal with, it can't withstand the power of the high-purity curse fire bomb. It must have been burned to ashes now. Speaking of which, you are not the only survivor in this hell?"

"I have seen a group of crazy people talking nonsense, but they may not fit the description of 'survivors'."

"Where are they now?"

"Do you like ketchup?"

The girl was stunned for a moment, then chuckled: "You are quite good at telling jokes."

"So what exactly is the 'Spiritual Prison' you mentioned? Is it an independent dimension created by humans?"

Ji Li dragged his body to the girl's side and watched her spraying strange patterns on the wall. The red paint reminded Ji Li of the paint he saw in the bathroom, which was obviously also the girl's work.

"It's probably similar to what you understand, but whether it's human or not depends on the situation."

"The Soul Prison we are in now is the lair of that corpse soul. The people of the Red Whip Society controlled that corpse soul, and thus controlled this Soul Prison space as their base. Now it seems that the corpse soul is ownerless, so it has started to go crazy..."

"Speaking of which, the entrance to this place is really hard to find. I went around in the reflection world for a long time before I found you."

"Speak slowly, what does the reflection world mean? Is there no normal civilization in this damn place? Or has our technology developed to the point where we can travel through space at any time?"

"Normal civilization... Why does this sound so weird..."

The "Bunny Girl" glanced at Ji Li strangely, and continued with her actions:

"Of course the real world is still there. The Earth is just spinning on its own. As for space travel... in a sense, that's not wrong."

Earth? You told me this place is Earth? Ji Li's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

His knowledge of Earth history was terrible, but he didn't think he had learned anything about evil spirits during the company's history training.

So this is indeed not the past of Murphy's megastructure, but a completely different world. I hope the historical content in my mind can be of reference value for my integration into this world later...

"As for the reflection world..."

The girl loosened her wrist and shook the spray can, making a rattling sound:
"This is the theory of three dimensions. You must have just awakened. It's normal that you don't know."

She casually used a spray can to spray two lines on the wall a little further away:

"Suppose there are two dimensions. The first is our real world, also called the [present world], or the surface world." "The second is the [inner world], the abyss, the source of all evil, and the ugly projection of the real world."

As she spoke, she added another line between the two. The thick and rough spray mark almost blurred the three lines together:
"And the dimension between these two is the reflection world, which is almost identical to the real world, but without any life. It is the shadow of the real world and the buffer zone between the real world and the other world."

“Almost identical?”

"What this means is that these three dimensions are projections of each other. If we are in the reflection world now, then there is an almost identical corridor in the real world, with almost identical carpets and walls."

"There are countless examples of unlucky people going to the toilet and then finding themselves falling into the reflection world and being killed by evil spirits."

"The criterion for distinguishing the reflected world from the real world is fog. Although the reflected world is exactly the same as the real world, it is always surrounded by fog. The characteristic of the other world is red."

"What about the Lingbo Prison?"

"The Limbo is also a projection based on the real world. Let's take the corridor we are in now as an example—"

"Unlike the reflected world, there must be an almost identical corridor in the real world and the reflected world, but the space and layout of the Lingliu Prison are not based on the layout of its projection source, but are related to the will of its owner."

"So, the space here is abnormal, and the corridor becomes infinitely extended..." Ji Li thought, "You said that the three dimensions are projections of each other, which means that there may be such a corridor in the other world?"

"If this is the other world... then this corridor might not be a corridor. It might be the intestines of a giant monster, or a rotten flesh passage covered with hair and arms."

Ji Li roughly understood it.

In other words, there is a special space folding phenomenon, or dimensional overlapping phenomenon, in this world.

Furthermore, these three dimensions influence and project each other. Based on this situation, there are some independent space bubbles existing in these folding phenomena, namely the Lingliu...

Ji Li tried to use his own scientific concepts to explain these complex situations.

So, what is the "curse of the other world" on my arm?

His arms were exposed at the moment, but the girl next to him turned a blind eye and obviously couldn't see it.

He thought of the huge eyeball that was looking at him. What chemical reaction had occurred between this so-called other world and the Ascension Agreement? Moreover, he did not feel the aura of the other world that the girl was talking about.

"Except for the exception of the Lingli Prison, these three dimensions exist overlapping in this world, and they influence and interfere with each other."

"For example, if you walk in the reflection world, you may see footprints all over the ground in the real world, but you can't see yourself. To enter other dimensions, you need certain abilities and specific media. And these are the spirit hells..."

She sprayed irregular dots on the three parallel bars:
"The Lingbo Prison is the lair of the 'evil spirits'. It can exist anywhere among the three. It is an independent space."

"Different Limbo may have different dimensional rules. For example, the Limbo we are currently in may be a nearly infinite corridor that can only be controlled by its master."

"Depending on the different conditions and types of Limbo, the activities in Limbo may also be observed by other worlds."

"The reason I was able to find you is because I saw your passionate escape in the mirror on the other side of the reflection world, brother."

So that's it. Ji Li nodded.

"Also, the Lingbo Prison may be connected to different worlds, but generally speaking, the Lingbo Prison will not be connected to the inner world."

"What's the reason?"

"Because the inner world has strong radiation, if it is connected to the Lingbo Prison, it will cause strong erosion from the inner world."

"If you breathe it in, you'll end up in a mental hospital. If you swim around in there, you'll turn into an alien. In addition, the evil spirits that have been corrupted by the other world will also become distorted and difficult to kill."

Ji Li was silent for a moment.

"Did you mention earlier that there is a strong atmosphere of the other world here?"

"Don't worry. I conducted a thorough and detailed investigation before coming here. This is just a leakage from the inner world, not an erosion phenomenon..."

"So the 'alien' you're talking about, is it the kind that has a lot of tentacles and expands like a balloon, and eventually turns into a human bomb?"

The girl stopped moving, and her neck turned like a rusty spring:
"…Please tell me which urban legend forum you saw this from…"

"So do you remember the ketchup I just mentioned?"

Ji Li took a deep breath, pulled out the Soul Well supplement from the opponent's waist and took a deep gulp.

The next moment, a huge scarlet crack opened up on the ceiling above the two people's heads -

"You are seriously not kidding!!!"

The girl shook the sprinkler in her hand vigorously and increased the speed of spraying paint on the wall:

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck..."

Before she finished her words, another huge crack suddenly appeared where she had sprayed, and quickly emitted a scarlet light!
“Fuck!!!!!”

She almost jumped away from the crack, and Ji Li also dragged his tired body to move, but what neither of them expected was that the place they were in was instantly torn into pieces. He was almost in a suspended state in an instant, falling towards the ground where a red light spread.

"Be careful!!"

Scarlet light instantly pierced the corridor. Ji Li felt his arm being grabbed forcefully, and a stream of warm blood flowed down to his head:
"...Shit..."

A thick strand of blood-red hair condensed together like a tentacle, and pulled out from the girl's shoulder, and the large blood-red hole pierced through spurted out blood.

　Some people complained that there were too many settings, which was indeed lacking. This is how it is when creating an original world view. It is a test of the rhythm of information given. I personally can't say that I did a good job, but I may not have done it well this time. I can only say that everyone should read it a little slower. It is indeed not very friendly to readers who read ten lines at a glance.

　　I also tried my best to find a comfortable rhythm to write this story.

　　Compared with the previous book, this one may have many differences in content and settings, but I am still continuing the style of the previous book.
　　It actually took me a long time to write the beginning of this book. I held it back for a long time before I finally made up my mind to submit it for publication. Today it’s a little later because I want to adjust the content in time.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)