Eternal Night

Chapter 164 Too Late

(PS: Today is Sunday, so there will only be three updates. I will take my kids to the park to play and rest in the afternoon, and I will continue to update more tomorrow.)
"This weak spot in the curtain is very special."

At the dinner table, Hao Cheng and eleven maintenance personnel, plus the two who had died, there were a total of fourteen maintenance personnel on this island. On average, each person's maintenance area was about the size of a town, which was similar to the maintenance area of ​​Lin Nianzhi's team.

Hao Cheng brought Wu Xianxiao to the capital of this island country, a coastal port city with the best hotel. Naturally, there was a table full of delicacies from land and sea, but everyone's mind was not on this.

Hao Cheng introduced the information about the weak point of this curtain.

"The climate in the middle and outer parts of this island country is humid, so there are mostly grasslands and forests, but the innermost area is quite desolate. This old mountain village is on the edge of the desolate land and belongs to the original indigenous civilization of this island country."

Through Hao Cheng's introduction, Wu Xianxiao roughly understood the situation of this island country and this old mountain village.

It is almost similar to the history of the earth that Wu Xianxiao knew. With the advent of the great development of navigation, powerful civilizations began to colonize and plunder everywhere, and the indigenous people of this island experienced all of this. With the progress of civilization, most of the indigenous people merged with the colonists, but there are still a small number of indigenous people who insist on their own civilization and live in the inland.

This is the old mountain village.

"This indigenous civilization has its own culture, myths, writing, and so on. Nothing else is surprising. After our first attempt to attack the weak point of the curtain failed, we looked up the culture and myths of the indigenous people and found some very interesting parts."

Hao Cheng said in a delicate voice: "This civilization believes that the entire world is just a 'transit station', and they are born into this world just as a passer-by."

Wu Xianxiao frowned and said, "This is nothing surprising. It's probably a civilization that worships death, right?"

"No, the surprising thing is not this, but that they predicted our coming."

Hao Cheng continued, "This civilization believes that their world is derived, a projection derived from the fusion of the real world and the abyss world. It carries information from the real world, but is also interfered with by the abyss world, so it is distorted and incomplete."

"When the distortion and incompleteness of this world reaches a certain critical point, the gods of the real world will descend, and the demons of the abyss will also appear. At that time, it will be the time of the Last Judgment. If the gods win, they will be saved. If the demons win, they will be damned forever."

Wu Xianxiao was thinking silently. At this time, Lin Nianzhi asked, "There's nothing surprising about this kind of myth, right? It's nothing more than the binary of good and evil, the struggle between heaven and hell, and the fate of mankind in the mortal world. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Have."

One of the eleven maintenance personnel spoke up. This was a gentle-looking man. He said, "Before I became a maintenance personnel, I happened to be a researcher in the field of ancient culture. However, as we all know, the ancient culture of our Earth has been discontinued, and there are very few things I can study. So rather than ancient culture, it is better to say that I am an ancient language, and even more so an ancient character researcher."

"When we were looking for information about this indigenous civilization, we found some ancient characters that described the abyss world and the real world. With the help of the existing translations of the indigenous civilization's characters, I conducted an in-depth translation and analysis of these ancient characters. The results were amazing..."

The gentle man paused and continued, "They describe the real world as 'Star Sea Civilization', 'Survivors of the Catastrophe', 'Being Watched by the Root Pupil'... What do you think?"

Wu Xianxiao and Lin Nianzhi were both shocked. They looked at each other and saw horror in each other's eyes.

In the current real world, humans are indeed wandering in the starry universe. They are also the survivors after the Fourth World War, and "weekend" is indeed described in this way, a huge pupil that occupies an unknown amount of the visible universe.

The gentle man continued, "As for the abyss world, there are more descriptions, but to sum it up, it's probably the old civilization that 'specializes in the body', 'specializes in consciousness', 'specializes in the soul', 'the descendants of alchemy', 'human beings who have transformed into pseudo-humans'..."

"Wait a moment."

Wu Xianxiao immediately said, "Fake person? The fake person who pretends to be a human?"

The gentle man was stunned for a moment, but still nodded and said, "Yes, the full meaning is a non-human disguised as a human. The meaning of the word carries an unknown and unsolved description."

Wu Xianxiao was silent for a while before he said, "Please continue."

The gentle man nodded and continued, "At first we thought it was just a coincidence. Then we went deep into the weak spot of the curtain for the second time to try to destroy it. During this process, we found a few living people in the basement of the village chief's house. This surprised us greatly. When we were planning to get important information about the weak spot of the curtain from them, the village chief, who was also the priest of this indigenous civilization, said something meaningful."

"He said... we are too late. The Abyss World has already won."

Too late? Has the Abyss World won?

Wu Xianxiao was even more confused. At this time, Hao Cheng took over and continued, "Then no matter how we asked them, they didn't say a word. But we confirmed again and again that they were still alive, so we planned to take them away from this old mountain village first. As a result, a new situation occurred along the way. Their 'corpses' appeared."

"Wait a minute." Wu Xianxiao said with a headache: "Let me think about it. You said they were all alive, right?" Everyone nodded. Wu Xianxiao asked again: "And their bodies were found on the way back?"

Everyone nodded again, and Wu Xianxiao said helplessly: "What's next?"

Hao Cheng continued: "Then they mutated and turned into terrifying monsters. That's when our numbers were reduced."

Wu Xianxiao pondered for a moment and asked, "So what is the monster in this old mountain village? Ghost? Phantom? Curse?"

"do not know."

Everyone shook their heads. Hao Cheng said with a serious face, "After we entered the weak spot of the curtain for the first time, we searched and checked around the village very carefully. After entering the village, we were also very careful to prevent being attacked by monsters, but we didn't find any monsters. However, as time passed, our mental state began to deteriorate sharply, and we began to hallucinate and had no choice but to leave the weak spot of the curtain."

Someone nearby said at the same time: "After we came back, we started looking up information about this indigenous civilization, hoping to find information about the monsters in this old mountain village, and then everything happened afterwards."

Wu Xianxiao picked up the wine glass and took a big sip, then stood up and said, "Okay, then I'll go in and take a look at the situation first."

Everyone stood up, and Hao Cheng said, "Okay, I'll go with you, and they'll be on guard outside."

Seeing Wu Xianxiao was about to speak, Hao Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "I am now in the title activation state, and my maximum speed can reach 700 meters per second. I think this speed should not be slower than your full state, right? I may not be able to do other things, but I can help you scout the surrounding situation and save your life at a critical moment. "

Wu Xianxiao thought about it and realized that he was unfamiliar with the old mountain village and really needed a guide. Because of his title, Hao Cheng might be the best candidate.

"Okay, let's set off now without further delay." Wu Xianxiao nodded in agreement.

The welcoming banquet ended abruptly, but everyone didn't care about it. Hao Cheng drove the car and everyone watched him leave. They would stay in the capital and wait for the two to return. During this period, they would coordinate with the outside world, such as finding ways to prevent anyone from entering the weak point area of ​​the curtain, or deal with new weak points in the curtain.

There are three maintenance teams on this island, originally with a total of fourteen people, and now with a total of twelve people. They have united together and set up a joint operations base in the capital of this island country. At this time, eleven maintenance personnel brought Lin Nianzhi to the base.

There are more than ten computers and various modified display screens inside the base. At this moment, there are eight screens showing roads, forests, and distant shots of the old mountain village.

Someone introduced to Lin Nianzhi: "After the second failure at the weak point of the curtain, we monitored the surrounding area and set up warning signs. This old mountain village is a sparsely populated place and few tourists would go in, so no outsiders have entered so far. This is why we can urgently call for help."

Lin Nianzhi nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, the curtain's weak point itself does not reduce the degree of damage to the curtain that much. What really makes the curtain's damage degree drop significantly is cognition. As long as it can be completely isolated, the curtain's weak point is not a big problem."

Someone nearby said, "But it is still a hidden danger. We don't know whether the weak point of the curtain will mutate, expand rapidly, or have other possibilities. If Mr. Wu hadn't appeared, we would have been able to seal it off. But now that we have Mr. Wu, it is naturally easy to solve. What's more, Captain Hao Cheng also strongly recommended Mr. Wu, so we are shameless enough to ask for his help."

Lin Nianzhi's face suddenly showed a gossipy expression and asked: "Are they... acquaintances? Or lovers?"

Everyone showed strange expressions. Lin Nianzhi asked strangely: "What? Did I ask a strange question?"

Everyone laughed bitterly and shook their heads. The gentle man said, "It's not strange, but...Captain Hao Cheng is a man."

"What? What? Man!?" Lin Nianzhi was stunned.

At this moment, a sports car drove past on the road on the screen. Everyone looked at the screen and saw Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng getting out of the car together and walking into the depths of the forest.

"Captain General and Mr. Wu are here..."

Someone reported, but soon after the words were spoken, three cars drove up from behind, and then twelve people followed Wu Xianxiao and the other two into the forest. Finally, a white man and a yellow man arrived by car. After waiting for a while, they also followed into the forest.

This sudden change shocked all twelve people present.

"…We can't get in touch with them. Mr. Wu and the captain have entered the weak spot of the curtain!" Someone immediately tried to contact Hao Cheng using the communicator, but there was only a dead sound.

The twelve people present were stunned.

(End of this chapter)