It turned out that the sloppy man discovered the truth of all this after waking up from his accidental death.
When he realized that only death could help him escape the illusion, the slovenly man was at a loss as to how to tell his wife and daughter in the illusion about this solution...
Xiaobai and his companions came to the small thatched cottage where the sloppy man lived. Next to the cottage stood two small stone tablets.
Buried inside are the slovenly man's wife and daughter...
"I tried everything I could think of...but I could only watch helplessly as their bodies gradually withered away...until they turned into nothing but bones..."
At this moment, the slovenly man knelt before the stone tablet, tears streaming down his tangled hair and beard, his body trembling helplessly...
Yang Yu and the other three behind him watched all this silently with complicated expressions.
They had all experienced that feeling of watching their loved ones gradually die before their eyes, unable to do anything about it, once in the illusion...
After a while, the sloppy man sorted out his thoughts and slowly stood up...
He no longer had any attachment to the outside world, so he might as well stay here with his wife and daughter. Maybe... they were still living well in the illusion...
"Since you are all fine, please leave now..."
The sloppy man held the gongs and drums in his hands, and he would continue to stay here.
Even though the sound of his gongs was a nightmare to those in the illusion, as long as it could prevent the same tragedy from happening again, he would still ring the bell to break the dream in this white fog...
"Hello……"
Xiaobai suddenly spoke up, stopping the sloppy man who was about to leave. He looked at him quietly with his purple eyes and spoke slowly.
"Thank you for saving me..."
The slovenly man paused, turned his head to look at the silver-haired girl behind him, remained silent, and then slowly walked into the white mist. His somewhat hoarse voice echoed in the air...
"Girl, when you go out, wear your shoes..."
The man's figure gradually disappeared in the white mist...
At this time, Yang Yu and the others were full of questions about the words left by the man. They looked at each other, not understanding what he meant.
Girl? Wearing shoes? What does that mean?
Yang Yu and Xiao Ming looked at the eight spider claws under Xiaobai. They seemed to be bare, but why were they wearing shoes?
“Ahem…”
Yang Yu and Xiao Ming couldn't help but think of Xiao Bai putting eight shoes on Spider Claw. They quickly covered their mouths with their fists and pretended to cough, fearing that Xiao Bai would see them laughing...
Xiaobai looked at the disappearing figure of the sloppy man, then looked at the strange looks of Yang Yu and Xiao Ming, and his purple eyes narrowed slightly.
What does the other person mean? These two seem to be chuckling? What's so funny? Humans are all weird...
At this time, Beibei also curiously poked her head out and looked at Xiaobai's bare claws. As if she understood, she nodded with an expression of "I see."
"Xiaobai, you need to put on shoes~"
Xiaobai looked at the little guy's funny look, frowned slightly, pinched Beibei's little face, and said.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
She is a spider, why should she wear shoes?
As Xiaobai looked confused, the group left. Of course, Xiaobai didn't forget to take the large snake meat with him...
On the asphalt road, surrounded by white fog, Xiaobai and his three companions groped their way forward when they were suddenly attracted by several figures on the roadside ahead...
The four of them looked at each other curiously, then walked closer and saw that there were several human mummies lying on both sides of the road!
Their faces were withered and their bodies were emaciated, as if they had been lying here for a very long time...
Yang Yu looked around curiously. These mummies must have entered a fantasy world and finally withered away here...
However, one could still vaguely see what it looked like when it was alive. Xiaobai looked at the skinny corpse under him, his purple eyes gradually turned cold, and his face became a little gloomy.
"It's Duan Yi and the others!!"
At this time, Yang Yu also reacted from a male corpse. The mummies lying here were actually Duan Yi and others they saw in the illusion!
Duan Yi, Fan Qiner, Wang Jiaqi and others, as well as Yang Yu and Xiao Ming, who still had some impression of them, fell silent at this moment.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the air became heavy again...
Duan Yi and his companions, along with everyone else in the Lost City, struggled to survive, never giving up the idea of leaving...
But he probably never imagined that the thing he had been pursuing so hard was actually hidden in the crisis that everyone was trying to avoid on the sea of sky...
Who would have thought...
Death is their only salvation...
…………
Xiaobai silently looked at the thin girl lying on the ground, then leaned over and gently stroked her head. The expression on his face seemed to show regret for such an ending...
Led by Yang Yu, the four of them silently dug a few small pits on the roadside and buried the bodies of Duan Yi and the others in them...
Beibei, with a sad expression, placed the flowers she had picked one by one on the small pile of flowers...
As the four of them left, a gentle breeze blew through the place, and the small flowers swayed quietly in the breeze...
Perhaps one day they will be awakened by the bell. Until then, let them live well in this illusion...
…………
In the quiet afternoon, the warm sun quietly shone on the streets. The bleak wind blew the remaining fallen leaves, which floated in the air for a few circles before falling into the ruins...
In this dilapidated city, the former prosperity no longer exists.
All you see are ruins. The once tall skyscrapers are now just broken frames with broken glass scattered all over the ground.
The streets were filled with dust and rubble, with car wreckage piled up in a chaotic manner, buried under a lot of rubble. An atmosphere of dead silence permeated the air...
Among the ruins, one can occasionally see some worn-out clothes and broken furniture, silently bearing witness to the collapse of this city...
Buried in the cracks of the rubble were withered, blackened vines. Small flowers of various colors, nestled among the tender green weeds, stubbornly sprouted from the cracks, swaying in the breeze...
But the next moment, the splattered blood directly dyed the small flower sticking out of the crevice red!
roar!---
The roar of wild beasts came from the ruins, which was particularly abrupt in this dead land.
Following the sound, I saw a figure quickly passing by on the gravel. It was a sheep-like creature with white curly hair all over its body, a pair of yak-like horns on its head, and muscular limbs.
However, the sheep beast was running wildly on the gravel at this time. There were two hideous claw marks on both sides of its body, and blood dyed the area around the wounds red.
Despite being seriously injured, it is still running wildly, as if there is a terrifying thing chasing it!
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