Eternal Night

Chapter 820 Ringtone
Hope and disaster.

The most unique sight in the ancient insect world.

The special scenario arising from the phenomenon of mental overload in intelligent life has not yet posed a threat to Wu Pifu, but the existence of such a disaster, which is illogical and violates the basic rules of the extraordinary path, has instilled fear in Wu Pifu's heart.

This combination of hope and disaster made Wu Pifu feel that there were many strange things. As soon as he entered, even the environment changed, and this change was by supernatural forces, almost without a trace.

When the music started playing, Wu Pifu immediately became alert and activated the Pokémon System at the same time.

He didn't know the content of the music, or even if it was music at all. Even with his senses, he couldn't hear where the music came from. It was more like some kind of illusion that burst forth from his own heart. But as the music appeared, other images appeared before his eyes... or rather, they weren't even images.

He saw countless lives swirling together, but it wasn't some kind of mutation, distortion, or corrosion; it was... immortality!?

This is not a piece of music at all!
Rather, it is a massive, countless chorus of groans caused by the painful entanglement of lives bound together by the inability to die…

After reaching the extremes of terror, darkness, and malice, something akin to the reversal of extremes occurs, transforming this chorus of groans into an incredibly beautiful melody—a melody from hell!
"……not good!"

Wu Pifu was jolted awake, snapping out of his semi-real, semi-illusion state. He immediately turned around and shouted that something was wrong.

But when he turned around, he could no longer see anyone on the boats.

As living beings, they cannot bear to hear this music from hell.

The so-called Hell Bell is not a real snake, but a phenomenon that manifests when the original civilization of this area is overloaded with spiritual energy!
As expected, the disaster here is also a product of the overload of Nen. However, compared to the human-beast nurture, the disaster here is more bizarre, and its reaction to life is greater, posing a much greater threat!

Wu Pifu glanced back once, and since he had confirmed that everyone had been corrupted by the Hell Bell, he didn't bother to save anyone anymore.

The agreement was made before we set off: once we enter this place, life or death is no longer a question!

With that in mind, Wu Pifu focused intently on the front, determined to find and kill the enemy!

That's right!

Although he wouldn't go to the rescue, if he could kill the enemy as quickly as possible, there should still be quite a few survivors.

Although the Hell Bell is a phenomenon, not a physical entity like a human-breeding beast, since it can affect the surrounding area, it must have a carrier, an anchor point, or a trace.

If it were someone else, they would be completely helpless in this situation, because you can't kill a concept. But Wu Pifu is different. Relying on his title of "commoner," he really has a way to kill a concept within five steps!

and so……

In the end, he returned to his familiar territory, which was nothing more than finding the enemy and killing the enemy!

"...It's like death, but not death; it's like a violent outburst of negativity, but not simply negativity. The existence of this thing is completely illogical..."

Wu Pifu muttered to himself, then began to concentrate all his attention and carefully observe everything around him. Under his perception, everything within a 50-kilometer radius around him was in his mind, just like a completely calm lake reflecting everything on it. Even a weed on the swamp or a ripple on the water was observed and noticed by his perception.

Only then did he realize that there wasn't a single living creature in this swamp!
There were no insects, no fish, and no birds or beasts; this place seemed to be a forbidden zone for all life except plants.

Then, Wu Pifu suddenly sprang into action, transforming into a shadow. When he reappeared, he was already ten thousand meters away, wielding his death-defying broadsword and slashing at a faint, snake-like phantom...

At the same time, in Peter Young's vision, everyone around him disappeared. Although he was on the hovercraft, he was standing on a concrete ground, and all he could sense around him were tall buildings...

But there were no pedestrians, only emptiness and silence, except for the incomparably beautiful melody he sensed from the depths of his heart.

"...The Hell Bell? So it really isn't something you can hear?"

Peter Young patted his ears to shatter the psychic energy blocking them, maintaining as much of his manifest energy as possible, and then began to walk on the empty street.

He wasn't walking aimlessly, but rather trying to stay away from shadows and places where there might be ambushes. He chose to walk in open spaces, but not in conspicuous locations. At the same time, with each step he took, he spread his mental energy outwards from his feet in a way similar to radar.

This method of perception is naturally inferior to Wu Pifu's, but it can still sense movement within a radius of about two kilometers. This allows him to remain vigilant against enemies even outside his line of sight. "V5 countries all sent personnel to search for the longevity food Nitromi, but only the Ochima Federation had a team return alive. The data I've seen shows that out of 1,100 elite Nen soldiers, only eleven returned. This is unprecedented, and the information about these eleven is shrouded in extremely high secrecy. Using the national power of the 'Recycled Meat Country,' I managed to find two survivors. The answer I received was… both of them had lost their minds, becoming completely mentally challenged. I initially thought it was either due to permanent injuries from the Hell Bell attack, or experiments conducted by the Ochima Federation, or to prevent intelligence leaks, but now it seems…"

Peter Young murmured, trying to suppress the melody that was bursting forth from the depths of his heart by talking to himself.

Although he didn't know the dangers of this piece of music, it was undoubtedly the Hell Bell. He was already being attacked by the Hell Bell, but the music didn't seem to be pure sound. His attempts to suppress it with sound were completely ineffective.

As he spoke, Peter Young suddenly threw a punch backward, unleashing his psychic power. The punch was like a small missile, causing a small block of the city to collapse. However, the human figure standing in the center of the collapsed block was completely unharmed.

Peter Young silently withdrew his fist and assumed a fighting stance.

"So... were you the first victim?"

In that supposedly empty street, stood a woman in a kimono. She looked old and frail, with gray hair and loose skin, but her appearance inexplicably possessed a certain beauty, just like a young woman who had aged rapidly.

The woman looked at Peter Young with a happy smile and said softly, "My lord, I have found what I have been looking for. It's wonderful. This place, where I will never grow old and die, is truly the paradise I have been searching for..."

As she spoke, the woman's body was aging rapidly at a visible rate, but this aging seemed limitless. In the blink of an eye, she looked like a centenarian over 150 years old, her entire body shriveled up. But the aging didn't stop; her flesh was dissolving, her bones seemed to crumble. In the final five seconds or so, she truly became a living patty of flesh, her skin, muscles, bones, internal organs, tendons, and nerves all collapsing into a heap. But…

She is still alive!
Peter Young simply stood still, covering his entire body with his telekinesis, neither attacking nor retreating. His telekinesis was as calm as a still lake, and no matter how terrifying the scene before him was, it could not shake his will in the slightest.

However, he found that as the woman turned into a ball, the hellish bells that rang in his heart became more and more obvious and louder.

After the sound grew louder from its initial hazy quality, Peter Young finally heard the "truth" of the piece very vaguely. It wasn't music, nor was it beautiful; it sounded like...

On the other side, Kurapika's team also disappeared on the yacht, but not all of them disappeared separately.

Kurapika looked at Melody lying beside him and fell into deep thought.

"It's strange. Everyone around me has disappeared, but I can still hear the melody. Is it because she's unconscious? Or did she sense the impending appearance of the Hell Bell beforehand?"

"And the Hell Bell is actually a sound, a melody. What does that have to do with the dark sonata that distorts the melody like this?"

Melody, that is, this bald dwarf, was originally a great beauty, but because she once heard a piece of music called Dark Sonata, her body was deformed and she became a bald dwarf. Of course, this also caused her to awaken Nen ability and possess hearing far beyond the limits of normal human perception.

According to the melody, the Dark Sonata is the sound of hell composed by the Demon King. Her friend died after playing this piece, and her death was extremely gruesome.

Kurapika looked around. He wasn't in a city block, but rather in the outer wall of a huge, sealed building. The building had no windows or doors, only a towering chimney billowing thick smoke.

The place seemed normal except for the lack of doors and windows, but Kurapika got goosebumps all over his body. A chilling intuition surged within him: this place... was so eerie that it filled him with a deep-seated fear.

There was a thick fog outside the building, so he couldn't go inside. He could only pick up Xuanlu and walk around the building's outer wall.

As he walked, he noticed that the hellish bells emanating from within him seemed to vary in pitch, depending on his position and distance from the building as he walked around it.

Could it be... that the hellish bells are coming from inside this building?
Is this disaster some kind of creation?

Kurapika calmly pondered, trying to find the connection and the inside story. Then he finally discovered the building's only entrance, a huge double track, similar to an import and export line for transporting goods or coal.

Then he saw something being transported from the tracks—an airtight metal box—slowly moving along the tracks and heading into the building.

Kurapika immediately swung the chain in his hand, stabbing it straight into the metal box. With a snap, the metal box was unharmed, but his chain was bounced off.

But... when his chains slammed into the iron box, the sound of hellish bells he heard seemed a little louder?
Suddenly, dense clouds gathered, and Kurapika became even more puzzled. He simply stopped attacking the box and instead stepped on it, walking along the railway tracks into the building.

Not long after they started walking, a sudden wave of heat appeared ahead. Kurapika immediately jumped off the box and stared in horror at the scene that looked like a blast furnace or a furnace. Inside the building was a huge furnace with extremely high temperatures.
And right before his eyes, the box trembled slightly, then split open automatically, revealing fluid-like chunks of flesh inside. These flesh had faces and eyes, seemingly liquid-like humans, and were still alive. The box then carried this fluid-like human into the fiery blast furnace, and then, in the next instant…

In Kurapika's ears, the hellish bells rang out loudly!
What he heard was an incredibly terrifying chorus of agonizing groans!
(End of this chapter)