Chapter 728 Surprise

Chapter 728 Surprise

The moment Thor jumped onto the tree stump, he found himself forcibly transferred to another dimension.

He looked around and saw tall buildings and people hurrying by.

Everyone looked very tired.

The sun was blazing brightly overhead, blinding me.

The noise around is so chaotic and annoying.

"Hallucination?" This was Thor's first reaction.

"No, this should be the upside-down tree."

There were benches on both sides of the road, but no one was sitting on them to rest. Everyone was busy as if they were wound up.

Thor looked around and walked to the bench and sat down, clasping his hands and resting his chin on them.

"The Inverted Tree can replicate the world within a certain area, but to the normal world, it is upside down."

Thor closed his eyes, his spiritual body vibrated slightly, and he immediately sensed the inharmonious sense of gravity on his body.

However, Thor did not resolve this disharmony immediately, but allowed himself to stay in this inverted city.

"The last time I came here, it was empty, but now it's so lively. It seems that all the people in the inner city have been gathered here."

At this time, people on the street were walking in a hurry, and only Thor was sitting alone. The extreme movement and stillness formed a sharp contrast.

Thor seemed to be just sitting there, but he was actually observing every passerby.

They look no different from normal people, even their expressions are very vivid.

Some are sad, some are anxious, and some are happy.

It seems like a real world.

But after observing for a while, Thor discovered that the scene before his eyes was repeating itself.

For example, a brown-haired man who had hurriedly walked past him ten minutes ago walked past him again with the same movements and expression.

Thor clearly remembered the appearance of everyone who passed by him.

Everyone walks at a different speed, so the frequency of appearing in front of him again is also different.

When thirty-six minutes passed, the last person appeared in front of Thor again.

But this time, Thor didn't let him pass, but stood up and stopped him.

The man who was stopped raised his head in confusion, said nothing, and just stared at Thor.

As this man was stopped, the others seemed to be triggered and stopped one by one slowly.

They stopped right near Thor and looked at him blankly, just like the first man who was stopped.

But no matter how many people gathered around, no one spoke.

Extreme movement turns into extreme stillness in a short period of time.

It creates a scene with a weird atmosphere.

"Let me see what the connection between you is." Thor spoke to break the silence. He looked at the people in front of him with a smile and slowly narrowed his eyes.

A group of translucent silk threads spread out from his body. These threads did not touch the people in front of him, but kept stirring around everyone in the clear air.

"There is no destiny line." The smile on Thor's face slowly disappeared. "Just like the wizard Jonah outside, they are all dead."

Even the dead do not necessarily have no destiny line.

If they can become vengeful spirits with a relatively stable form, or even powerful evil spirits, a destiny line will appear.

But compared to living people, it's intermittent.

Only the four consciousnesses raised by Thor have destiny lines similar to those of living people.

"You are not alive, and you don't have independent consciousness... You are the pollution that appeared in the ancient city of Archaeoster, just like those Ash People."

Thor reclaims his thread of destiny.

"When I was in the ancient city of Archaeoster, I saw many people who seemed to have turned into monsters in a certain moment. There was a translucent thread on their heads."

At that time, Thor didn't know what these thin strings were and thought they were like the strings used to control puppets.

After successfully developing the destiny lines in his own body, he realized that those should be the destiny lines that were forcibly pulled out from the bodies of the polluted people.

Thor has not yet studied what would happen if his destiny was taken away and controlled by others.

But now, these people in front of us may be one of the answers.

The dead without their destiny lines became puppets that were randomly arranged and controlled inside the inverted tree.

Just like the most ordinary NPC in the game, it doesn’t even have a line of dialogue and just acts according to the established settings.

When their planned actions are interrupted, they become confused.

Thor suddenly raised his left hand.

“Bang!”

Snapped his fingers.

A powerful spiritual wave spread out in all directions along with the sound.

It was as if the spring breeze ruffled the lake water, causing waves.

Everyone who stayed by Thor's side was like the lake, their bodies twisting like waves.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

From the inside out, the skin of these distorted people burst like balloons and dissipated into a cloud of gray smoke.

The gray mist seemed to gather and disperse, and a human figure could be barely seen.

But after turning into this horrible appearance, some thin transparent lines gradually appeared above their heads.

Just now, Thor completely broke the power that imprisoned these undead and tore off their disguises.

It was indeed the Ash Man he had seen before.

"It's true. The pollution inside Archaster was actually caused by the Inverted Tree itself. At that time, it only affected ordinary people in the outside world on a small scale. Has it now become so blatant that it has dragged the entire inner city in? What's the purpose of doing this?"

Thor flicked the Ash Man closest to him, and the latter immediately turned into dust and fell to the ground.

"Disintegrated? So fragile? The Inverted Tree can pull in so many souls, but it can't maintain its strength?" Thor suddenly laughed as if he had discovered someone's secret. "It seems that what Wizard Jonah said is not completely wrong."

"There is indeed a problem with the state of the Inverted Tree, and this problem is most likely caused by Beth, the Dean, and... Char."

Char, this persecution-suffering man really did something big!

The light around suddenly dimmed.

Thor was shaken by the alternation of light and darkness and realized that the surroundings had changed from day to night without him noticing. The Ash People who had just surrounded him were gone.

"Hmm? Was it because of something I discovered that I was transferred to this place?"

He looked around again.

There is a bright moon above my head.

There are tall buildings on both sides.

It’s just that these high-rise buildings are too densely packed, with almost no gaps between them.

They formed a circle, surrounding Thor in a small clearing.

It was as if he was being locked in a cage.

There was another street lamp to Thor's left, emitting a dim light.

Unlike the bustling daytime, the night scene is very quiet, with only a few vague footsteps occasionally.

It's like someone is walking barefoot on tiptoe on a cobblestone road.

Amid the footsteps, one could hear the sound of flesh sticking to stone.

A trace of fear spread from the deepest part of my mind to my forehead.

The streetlights overhead crackled and flickered a few times before growing dimmer as if the equipment had aged.

Thor looked up and saw that the full moon had turned into a crescent moon.

In the darkness behind the street lamp, there was a huge shadow that looked like a human but was five or six meters tall swaying.

"So many?" Thor blurted out, "What a surprising discovery!"

He stopped looking around and at the moon above his head which had suddenly turned round again.

Thor pulled the cloak behind him and wrapped himself tightly from head to toe.

Two seconds later, the body wrapped in the cloak suddenly shrank! And from the gap between the cloak and the ground, gray translucent tentacles slowly stretched out.

(End of this chapter)

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