Loxin Amusement Park
After being pushed off a cliff and falling to his death in Dongshan, Xue Xiang realized that he had become a wandering ghost when he regained his consciousness.
Many flashlights flashed in the forest, and many human figures walked in the fog.
Some people were calling his name, and he responded subconsciously, but no one could hear him.
Lying beside him was a body that had already passed away. He was discovered first by rescue workers, and then by Cheng Nuoxin.
Xue Xiang could empathize with the other person's sadness and knew that he couldn't just leave like that.
With the thought of wanting to see Cheng Nuoxin working hard to live, as something he had not accomplished in this life, he just lingered around her for a long, long time.
But he could only accompany her. He saw Nuoxin's sad, lost, and occasionally happy expressions during the process.
Although he knew that there was a demon around her, Xue Xiang was unable to interfere and could only watch.
Many times when he saw Cai Li looking at him with a beast-like gaze from behind his back, he would remind Cheng Nuoxin loudly in his ear, hoping that there would be a moment when the other party could hear his voice.
But it was of no use. Xue Xiang could only watch her being trapped in that cage for many years, and often felt guilty.
Ding Can thought that he must have felt very painful when he saw Cheng Nuoxin being killed.
Knowing everything but being able to do nothing is the most unbearable thing.
"Then have you seen Cheng Nuoxin's ghost?"
Although it is not clear whether she will be reincarnated directly, she should be able to see the moment of her death, so they still have a chance to communicate.
Xue Xiang shook his head: "She is trapped inside the sculpture, along with her body. I can sense it."
His voice trembled a little as he continued, "Before she was sealed in, she was actually still alive."
At that time, Cai Li was extremely nervous and naturally could not detect the other person's very weak breathing. He thought that the person had really been suffocated to death by him.
Or maybe Cheng Nuoxin's brain activated a protective mechanism, and he wanted to find a chance to escape by pretending to be dead.
Unfortunately, Cai Li did not allow this to happen. After his body was wrapped in layers of clothing and coated with certain chemicals, Cheng Nuoxin truly lost the last source of air on which he depended for survival.
She lost her life in the sculpture, and her soul was trapped there, never seeing the light of day for many years.
So Xue Xiang’s only wish now is to rescue Cheng Nuoxin.
He wanted to tell the person he loved that she didn't need to be afraid anymore, because he had always been by her side all these years.
"I will do my best to rescue you. In exchange, you must also help rescue Nuo Xin."
In this situation, Ding Can would certainly not refuse the proposal, but she could not see any way out, and she began to suspect that there was no such thing as an exit here at all.
If this is really a miniature world in a crystal ball, I can't tell the direction.
How can I prove that I am constantly improving?
What if there is an invisible hand outside spinning the crystal ball, with the movement so small that it is not noticeable at all? Wouldn’t the two people be just spinning in circles?
Thinking of this, she pressed Xue Xiang's arm to stop him from moving forward.
"What's wrong?" Xue Xiang's body stopped in place.
"Have you ever been to the exit?"
"Indeed, I haven't," Xue Xiang denied. "Because I knew Xinxin was trapped here, I never thought about leaving. But since we're at the bottom of the sea, I should be able to find the exit by going upwards."
It seems that Xue Xiang doesn't know much about this place, so he still needs to consider it carefully.
The dizziness caused by lack of oxygen in his brain came back. Ding Can frowned and heard Xue Xiang talking again.
"Actually, you're not the first stranger I've seen. There were some people here before you, but they didn't seem to have as strong a desire to survive as you."
Xue Xiang had been wandering here for a long time, and would occasionally see strangers, but he had no idea where they came from.
At first I wanted to have a conversation, but most of them were very panicked because they were drowning, or they simply couldn't take care of themselves.
Ding Can was stunned for a moment, then realized that the other people Xue Xiang was talking about should be students who had experienced the same copy before.
"So where did they go?"
"They just fell in. I swam down with them for a while, but eventually a gap appeared in the space and they disappeared. I tried to get in, but the resistance was so strong that I couldn't get in at all."
A gap? Perhaps it could be considered another way to bring students into the training camp.
Although the destination is not the same, maybe this method can be used to find the way back.
"Let's not go any further up."
This time it was Ding Can who pulled Xue Xiang, because he did not have the ability to sink on his own, and it would be faster if he carried him up.
Gradually, a different picture began to emerge.
The colors began to stratify, from a dark blue to a pitch black that was almost impossible to see the bottom of.
"It's just ahead." Following Xue Xiang's guidance, they indeed saw an imperceptible gap somewhere on the water surface.
It was like a torn crack, but no seawater seeped in, and it didn't look like another channel.
But Ding Can even found that as he got closer, the opening of the crack was getting bigger and bigger, as if it had sensed his approach and wanted to take him in.
The two men were standing half a meter in front of the gap. Xue Xiang raised his hand, but his body still passed through it illusoryly, and he was indeed unable to enter.
"They just get sucked in here."
Ding Can was also a little unsure whether he had the ability to travel through time now that he was conscious, so he imitated Xue Xiang's actions and stretched out his fingers forward.
I couldn't see the scene on the opposite side clearly, and the back of my hand disappeared in it the moment it passed through.
But it can be clearly felt that there is no sea water blocking the other side.
"I'll try to take you over." Ding Can still held Xue Xiang's arm. Although he didn't know what he would encounter, he made up his mind and swam across the gap.
The next second, he stepped on solid ground.
A large amount of air rushed into her nasal cavity. She couldn't help but bend down and breathe deeply. It took her a while to relieve the feeling of suffocation, but she was immediately surprised by what she saw.
"I've never been to this place before. How could it be like this..." Xue Xiang's tone also sounded very shocked.
The land in front of him was almost completely black, and what caught his eye was a pile of corpses in front of him.
Xue Xiang has been wandering around as a ghost for a long time, and his walking posture is different from that of a living person. He looks lighter and walks faster.
Floating in front of a pile of bones, he looked at the remaining pieces of clothing on them, trying to identify which face he had met before.
But there were so many people he glanced at that he had no way of remembering them all. But when he looked further away, he still found some familiar ones.
"They should be the ones who sank before."
Although he still felt a little confused about the appearance of this space, Xue Xiang felt that the scene before him was normal. After all, in his eyes, people who died of drowning would indeed become like this after a period of time.
But Ding Can's reaction was completely different. She felt her scalp tingling when she heard it.
In his previous understanding, the people Xue Xiang had met were the students who had entered the dungeon before.
However, according to the training camp, if the students fail to complete the copy, shouldn't they leave the copy and leave the camp early and return to the real world? Will they just lose these memories?
So why do these bones exist?
Is it the body of a student? But everyone used to think that only the consciousness was brought into the training camp, so what appeared in the copy were only brain waves or consciousness.
The current scene clearly overturned the previous speculation, and it seemed more like the student's body was buried here.
Ding Can couldn't help but start recalling every copy he had experienced before, but he had never seen a similar scene at that time.
She still suppressed the doubts in her heart, and her determination to get out became stronger at this moment.
Restraining the discomfort in their hearts, the two walked silently through the bones. Thinking that there might be people they had met before among them, Ding Can's eyes inadvertently became sharper.
"When was the last time you saw anyone come here?"
Xue Xiang shook his head: "I've been here for a long time and I can't tell the difference between the two times anymore, but it shouldn't be too long."
From his perspective, he had come to this area since Cheng Nuoxin was sealed in the sculpture.
She could feel Cheng Nuoxin's presence, but like her, she was trapped in a place where she couldn't leave.
If he hadn't met Ding Can, he wouldn't even know this place existed.
What Ding Can was thinking about was how he turned into bones so quickly.
Under normal circumstances, flesh and blood would not rot and disappear so quickly. Besides, it is very quiet here and I haven't seen any other living creatures since I came here.
The direction of the bones is also very well preserved, with no signs of being torn.
It is difficult to achieve this state by relying solely on natural biodegradation.
Ding Can then shook his head helplessly. How could he apply common sense to the copy?
"If you hadn't appeared in front of me, it wouldn't be long before I would have become one of them."
Xue Xiang glanced at her and saw that she looked a little sad. "Do you know them?"
The most important thing was how to get out of the predicament at the bottom of the sea, but after coming here, he had time to express the thoughts that had been bothering him for a long time.
Where did these people come from and why did they appear in front of him?
"We don't really know each other, but we do come from the same place." Ding Can tried his best to explain the whole story in a simple way.
Xue Xiang was very talented in painting, and naturally his way of thinking was somewhat unconventional, so although he was surprised, he was probably able to accept it well.
The fact that his identity might be a fictional one did not make him feel confused. Since he was in this time and space, the world he once lived in was completely real.
Ding Can finally saw the exit when the corpses behind him were almost out of sight.
There was a small door standing on the soil. Although there was no sign on it, it was somehow telling her that this was the passage that could lead her out.
This time he was really leaving. Before he touched the door handle, Ding Can turned his head and asked, "Do you want to leave here with me?"
Although he didn't know whether the NPCs in the copy could leave through this door, he still wanted to give Xue Xiang a chance to choose.
But Xue Xiang shook his head as expected: "I can feel Xinxin here. If I leave, she will be very lonely."
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