Chapter 559 Integration

Countless cracks, large and small, opened up from the surface of the surrounding rotting remains. Countless scarlet eyes crowded, moved, and trembled in the cracks. In that instant, Yu Sheng felt a chill run from his heels to the top of his head, and he even decided where he would be buried this time.

Bury it on the spot.

However, the anticipated mental pollution and dark tide of shadows did not appear the next second.

The crimson eyes that moved slowly through the rift just stared intently at this side, without taking any "action" other than watching and slowly turning in sync with Yu Sheng's cautious steps.

Eileen felt a little uneasy under Yu Sheng's gaze. She gripped Yu Sheng's hair tightly, her small hands unconsciously tightening their grip: "Yu, Yu Sheng, I...I'm a little scared. What's with these eyes?"

"Although I don't know what's going on, it doesn't seem like they intend to do anything..." Yu Sheng said, patting Eileen's little hand. "Hey, be gentle, don't pull my hair out."

“If you lose it, you’ll grow a new one in your next life,” Eileen blurted out without thinking, but she still obediently loosened her grip a little. Then, watching Yu Sheng continue to approach the three pillars, she quickly reminded him, “Be careful, this thing looks completely different from the ones around here. Maybe the control mechanism of the ‘Boundary Bridge’ has some kind of defense mechanism of its own…”

Yu Sheng: "Will there be any bloodshed?"

“Well, I didn’t see that,” Eileen said immediately, but then added, “But since I got here, I’ve been feeling dizzy and I keep hearing a buzzing noise, so I might not be able to judge properly.”

Yu Sheng didn't say much, but simply raised his hand and gently patted the back of the little doll, while slowly walking to the pillar closest to him.

The giant floating Rubik's Cube continued to deform and reassemble above his head. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the edges of the Rubik's Cube were also covered with complex and mysterious patterns—clearly different from the "Ominous Runes" on the Ominous Banner. However, for some reason, Yu Sheng felt that the structure of a small part of the runes looked vaguely familiar, as if... it was a variant of some symbol that he had seen somewhere before.

He expressed his feelings, but Eileen just shook her head, indicating that she couldn't remember anything.

A low, indistinct noise echoed around him, sounding like countless urgent, overlapping whispers. Yu Sheng strained his ears to listen, but he couldn't make out what the whispers were saying.

After a slight hesitation, he placed his hand on the pillar in front of him.

The connection of blood is instantly strengthened.

The noise suddenly intensified into a surging wave, like a warning echoing for three thousand years in the gradually decaying and crumbling memory, roaring and crashing—

"...Go towards the ark...there is still a glimmer of hope, do not turn back..."

Yu Sheng was only stunned for a moment, then felt as if his consciousness was suddenly "sucked" in by something, plummeting wildly into darkness. Countless scarlet eyes, like stars in the night sky, circled the darkness, then transformed into a frenzied vortex that surged towards him. From the depths of the vortex, a small, faint voice urgently spoke to him—

"Please, don't destroy it..."

...

The inverted, broken black tower hangs high above the city, the crooked space station seems to be crushing the earth and blotting out the sun, countless eerie fissures have covered the entire shield, the teetering shield is flickering violently, and deformed shadows that invade the city move through the fog, corrupting the world.

Thick fog blanketed most of the border city, with the sounds of artillery fire and billowing smoke filling the air. Troops urgently mobilized from beyond the border were concentrating their efforts on destroying the monsters invading the city and attempting to close the largest rifts. However, the fragile border area could no longer accommodate any more battlefield forces.

The "horn" sound emanating from the Council Tower could barely maintain the stability of the entire city. Pale purple mist appeared time and again on the city's edge. In the most severely eroded neighborhoods, eerie obsidian pillars even pierced through the barriers of reality once more, revealing a mad landscape even "deeper" than the City in the Mist.

However, at a certain moment, the inverted, broken tower suddenly stopped "growing"—amidst a series of creaking and groaning noises, as if a massive mechanism was being obstructed, the "Boundary Bridge," which had already penetrated hundreds of meters into the Great Shield and whose structure had touched the top of the Council Tower, abruptly came to a standstill. Immediately afterward, the sticky shadows that had been dripping down from the edge of the Boundary Bridge began to decrease rapidly.

On the edge of the old city, below the largest rift, the long-haired princess, wielding a giant golden scythe, looked up at the sky in astonishment. A large area of ​​the ground around her was covered by a "throne" formed by her golden hair. Countless golden swords, spears, and halberds stood like a forest around the "throne," while outside the area were countless dark shadows that had just been slain and were rapidly turning into dust.

"What, why did it stop?" The blonde girl frowned slightly, still gripping the giant scythe tightly. "Is it done on my end, bro?"

No one around could answer her. Only the Bone-Eating Immortal, wearing an iron mask, trembled slightly and kept muttering, "I don't know, I want to go home... I don't know... I want to go back to the Demon-Suppressing Tower..."

Wisps of crimson "smoke" floated in the surrounding air. The "diffusion device" with a large blood storage tank was placed on the ground near Rapunzel. The blood mist released from the diffusion device condensed and occupied the block. The "Fairy Tale" members within the blood mist range were becoming more and more courageous in battle. But for those who had not received formal "blood transfusion," every second immersed in such blood mist felt like an erosion and transformation from body to will.

The Bone-Eating Immortal could feel the wisps of mist seeping into her body, even into her mind and memories. Sometimes she would even forget who she was and why she had come here—the annoying physical body was preventing her from embracing the blood. For a moment, she even seriously considered whether she should disintegrate right there so that she could be fully immersed in the crimson mist…

She was suddenly jolted awake from this terrifying, self-destructive impulse, and then she heard another loud, screeching noise coming from the sky.

Mo Ran, who was holding a sword and guarding the nearby intersection, hurriedly looked up when he heard the sound, only to see that the surface of the broken tower hanging upside down in the sky above the city was spreading out in a blood red color.

First, there were countless cracks on the outer shell of the "Boundary Bridge." Those cracks leading to unknown dimensions quickly became stained with a blood-like color. Then, the red color began to spread along the cracks, and countless finer lines branched out from the ends of the cracks. The dense cracks connected together, like... a spider web.

In various parts of the old city, in the several areas where the members of "Fairy Tale" were fighting separately, the blood mist of all sizes created by the blood grenades and diffusion devices seemed to be drawn by an invisible force. Streams of red light began to rise from the city and rushed faster and faster toward the broken tower that was being rapidly covered by the "blood spider web".

The red cracks spread even faster, almost instantly staining the entire tower that had entered the border area red, and even covering the crooked black stone space station!

Above the city, Yun Qingzi's hundred-meter-tall true form watched the tower turn red, then stroked his beard and smiled, nodding slightly: "Hmm... this process seems familiar to me..."

...

Yu Sheng felt as if his senses had been thrown into an extremely huge new "shell"—larger than the original star body, even larger than the entire Shuji. It was a scale that transcended closed spacetime, a "giant structure" that could only be established in mathematical concepts and crossed dimensions.

He felt as if he were both at a point of spacetime distortion deep within the starry sky and simultaneously somewhere above the boundary. He could clearly see Little Red Riding Hood's team fighting off the invading forces in the mist-shrouded city. At the same time, he could clearly see foxfire rising outside the ruins of a collapsed temple in a chaotic space, countless eyes flickering on the surface of a rotting god's corpse, a broken boundary bridge spanning the spacetime rift, and an invisible spiderweb doing its utmost to pull together the fragmented structures, slowing down the process of the boundary bridge's collapse.

He stopped in the darkness and saw countless enormous structures appearing all around him—mysterious talismans moving and changing positions rapidly in the darkness, Rubik's Cubes and stone tablets deforming and recombining in the spacetime heterogeneity, brilliant streams of light flowing and pouring in the energy pipelines, energy glands swelling and contracting, imaginary number calculation units collapsing, and superstring structures connecting these things.

Is this what the "Boundary Bridge" truly looks like? Or is it a projection of the knowledge carried by the Boundary Bridge in his mind?

Yu Sheng then saw massive, seemingly out-of-control "lightning" bolts of energy rapidly sweeping across all those complex and astonishing structures. Each surge of energy further accelerated the collapse of the boundary bridge.

A voice came from the darkness—

"It...it's broken. It was my fault...I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."

The voice was intermittent, gentle yet hesitant.

"It really took a lot of effort for everyone to build it... We didn't have any other materials, we used parts of our own bodies..."

Yu Sheng turned his gaze, trying to find the source of the sound in the darkness.

"I've always wanted to fix it, but I can't. It also wants to heal me, but I don't know why, it just won't get better..."

Yu Sheng saw a small cluster of flickering campfire.

Between the massive energy pipelines that power the boundary bridge, almost transparent flames are burning out of thin air.

Beside the campfire stood a small figure, a blonde doll, part of whose face was covered by irregular shadows. Her arms showed obvious ball joints, while the rest of her torso was covered by a black shell covered with ornate patterns. Moreover, the doll's entire lower body seemed to be fused with some larger structure, swelling and writhing in the flickering light of the transparent campfire.

(End of this chapter)