Eternal Night

Chapter 67 I Die
Wu Xianxiao was the first to walk out of the Peace Hotel room, followed by Yamade and Xu Shilan. The three of them tried their best to keep their movements and expressions as natural as possible, as if they had naturally returned to this "peaceful" hotel.

After leaving the room, the three of them did not rush to move around, but began to "naturally" look around.

Most of the Peace Hotel has been built. For example, the warehouse they came out of has been completed, and the second floor area of ​​the main building is under construction. Villagers and craftsmen are coming in and out of the Peace Hotel. Obviously, they are all normal indigenous humans, not nightmares or something, because they have not been to Gaia.

"…If it's just a building-type shelter, or a force-type shelter, even the natives of the dream world can destroy it. However, an event-type shelter must be on my body to penetrate into Gaia. Unfortunately, this is a special-type shelter." Wu Xianxiao said in a low voice.

Xu Shilan and Yamade were both silent.

As they gradually explored the dream world, they also roughly understood the advantages and disadvantages of several types of shelters.

There is no doubt that special shelters have the best rewards, but special shelters also have their disadvantages, that is, they have the regional restrictions of building shelters, and the disadvantage of not being destroyed by indigenous forces... This is an advantage in many cases, but it is a disadvantage when the nightmare is too powerful to be matched, such as now.

The three of them observed their surroundings in silence, and then Wu Xianxiao took the lead and stepped out, and the other two also walked to the dam outside the Peace Hotel.

This place is still within the Peace Hotel. If anything really happens, they can go to their room at the Peace Hotel in a few seconds and then return to Gaia.

At this time, villagers and craftsmen came to greet the three people, and the three people naturally responded. However, they looked around and did not see Xu Rongyu, so their faces did not look very good.

"...He won't leave the Peace Hotel easily." Wu Xianxiao said in a low voice.

Xu Shilan also said: "Yes, based on his identity and behavior in this world, he will be in great danger if he leaves the Peace Hotel. The bandits outside the pass will not let him go, and he should know that we are the biggest surprise in this world... because we are celestial beings."

Yamade said nothing.

The three of them fell silent again. After a moment, Xu Shilan said, "Didn't you see anything unusual around you?"

Wu Xianxiao looked up at the sky around him. After looking for a while, he shook his head and said, "No, at least I didn't see anything unusual."

Suddenly at this moment, the bird on Wu Xianxiao's shoulder chirped, and the three of them looked towards it at the same time.

This little bird is really psychic. Of course, only Wu Xianxiao knows that she is actually a demon. Xu Shilan and Yamadea looked at Jiujiu, not knowing what she wanted to express. Then they looked at Wu Xianxiao, as if they wanted him to translate.

Wu Xianxiao thought for a moment and said to Jiujiu, "So... do you want to tell a crosstalk or something?"

Jiujiu was stunned for a second, then angrily bumped into Wu Xianxiong's forehead and kept pecking at his eyebrows.

Wu Xianxiao helplessly held up the chirp with his hand and said, "You only made a single sound, how can I know what you want to express? And don't you usually not talk?"

Jiujiu cried out in grievance.

Wu Xianxiao nodded and said, "Indeed, you are too fragile... I don't know if you can eat the designated treasures. If you can, your strength will be improved."

Jiujiu's eyes lit up and he chirped immediately.

Wu Xianxiao said helplessly: "The situation is urgent now. I must improve my strength first. Next time, I will definitely do it next time."

She chirped openly, then looked up at the sky and continued chirping.

"Really? That's probably a deeper 'truth' that I can't see right now."

Wu Xianxiao also looked up at the sky with a worried look on his face and said, "But your senses are more sensitive than mine. If you feel danger, then there must be danger."

Xu Shilan and Yamade complained at the same time: "No, how do you two communicate?"

Wu Xianxiao ignored their complaints. He looked at them and said, "The worst has happened."

Both of them looked gloomy. There was no need for Wu Xianxiao to explain any more. The worst case scenario was that apart from the Peace Hotel, there was no safe place in the world.

Yamade murmured in confusion, "But according to what you said before, this is the baseline reality 0.9 world, and the pollution sources here have an upper limit."

"Yes, so the biggest possibility is that the Mother of No Birth has eroded this world, and is still eroding it continuously."

Something in Wu Xianxiao's mind suddenly flashed, causing him to say these words. He knew that this was something like his sixth sense. Ever since he had trained his martial arts from dark energy to transformation energy, he had gradually developed this strange sixth sense. This might be the precursor of the cicada's early awakening before the autumn wind blows.

Although Wu Xianxiao did not have the same sense of danger as Jiujiu, he also felt that something was wrong with this world. There was always a feeling that it was shrouded by some terrifying thing, and now he had confirmed it from Jiujiu's mouth.

Xu Shilan and Yamade recalled the scene of hundreds of silk threads hanging down when they fought against the half-paper man. At that time, they felt that a great terror was about to befall. According to Wu Xianxiao's current statement, the feeling at that time was probably that the baseline reality of the dream world was lowered?

"So now...what should we do?"

Wu Xianxiao asked this question, and this is exactly the problem that the three of them are currently facing, even a desperate situation.

If the space and time outside had really been eroded and changed by the Mother of No Birth, it meant that as long as they took a step out of the Peace Hotel, they might be eroded by the countless silk threads and turned into paper people, half-paper people, or other horrible monsters.

There is no point in searching for the Huanglian fragments.

Xu Shilan immediately said, "Then we will implement Plan No. 2. We will pretend that nothing has happened. When Xu Rongyu or any other suspicious person arrives, no matter what he says or whether he is real or not, we will drag him into the Peace Hotel by force, penetrate back to Gaia, and destroy this shelter!"

Wu Xianxiao and Yamade both nodded, and then did not leave the Peace Hotel. They just sat down at the edge and waited quietly for any people to arrive.

But the wait was in vain. As the whole day passed, Xu Rongyu did not show up, but the villagers and craftsmen still did not find anything unusual. The villagers and craftsmen who came to change shifts were able to enter and leave the Peace Hotel freely. It was obvious that these villagers and craftsmen had not been turned into paper figures.

However, this did not make the three of them feel better, because not to mention Wu Xianxiao, even Amadei, who had the slowest inspiration, felt something unusual.

A strange chill is spreading between heaven and earth. It is not coldness in the true physical sense, but some special sensation that comes from the supernatural, which seems to only be reflected in consciousness and soul.

"No, this is not an illusion."

In the early hours of that night, Xu Shilan said with an extremely grim expression: "Look."

Xu Shilan stretched out her hand, and her shadow followed her body to her palm, and then condensed into a ball on her palm.

Wu Xianxiao and Yamade didn't understand, so Xu Shilan said, "I've said before that shadow puppetry is a kind of evil magic, and it's one of the three evils in the Zero Point Seven Dreams world. The other two evils, witchcraft, specialize in curses and insect poisons, and cutting and harvesting, specialize in physical torture. And this shadow puppetry specializes in the transformation of living souls. This set of skills can sense the living souls, ghosts, wandering souls, residual souls... and other souls around."

"I just started practicing because of the technique, so my perception range is very small and my perception speed is also very slow. It is only now that I have sensed the villagers and craftsmen of two shifts, and then... the shadow ball in my hand is the reaction of all the souls around it. The more souls there are, the more bulges there will be on the shadow ball. The number of bulges, the shape and height of the bulges are used to distinguish its 'value', and now..."

The three of them focused their eyes on the shadow ball. Its surface was as smooth as a mirror, with only three slightly raised points indicating something.

Wu Xianxiao and Yamade both looked at the villagers and craftsmen who were busy building the buildings. They were smiling with their wrinkled faces, working with their calloused hands, and even imagining the future with their fellow villagers while working.

"They..." Wu Xianxiao said in a hoarse voice.

Xu Shilan nodded and said affirmatively: "They all have no souls, no matter if they are living souls, ghost souls, wandering souls, or residual souls in any sense of the word. They only have their bodies that are real, and then something that is neither a paper figure nor a ghost allows their bodies to continue all their past actions, just like a residual image of their past actions."

Wu Xianxiao watched silently, then he suddenly stood up.

Xu Shilan and Yamade both looked at him, and Xu Shilan asked, "What do you want to do?"

Wu Xianxiao did not look at the villagers and the craftsmen again. He looked outside the Peace Hotel and said, "The situation is very clear now. The Mother of No Birth... let's call it the Mother of No Birth has already corroded this world and is transforming this world to a level lower than the baseline reality. This means that some great terror is brewing outside. No..."

Wu Xianxiao faced the darkness of the night and said, "Perhaps the Mother of No Life wants to directly drag this dream world into the baseline reality 0.2 and merge it with its vacuum home. In this way, its body can openly cross this shelter and go to Gaia. By then, we will have absolutely no chance of survival, not even a little bit."

Xu Shilan and Yamade also stood up and stood side by side with Wu Xianxiao. Yamade just laughed and patted the pocket on her waist. Xu Shilan asked, "Yes, that's right. Not even any paper figures showed up. Obviously, the Mother of No Life is extremely intelligent and is preventing us from dragging any weak and strange creatures into the Peace Hotel to destroy the shelter. But even so, what can you do? What do you want to do?"

"I die."

Wu Xianxiao glanced at the villagers and craftsmen who ignored the three people and continued to work hard and laugh happily. Then he stepped to the boundary between the Peace Hotel and the outside world, and took out a handful of N5 bombs. Then he used his internal energy to stand still and roared like a lion.

"Mother Wusheng, come out and see me! Otherwise..."

"I die!"

(End of this chapter)