Chapter 19
"Why am I here?" Ji Dongzang suppressed the confusion in his heart and asked the most core question to the huge straw rabbit.
“**)?=…::#,—@**”
"Because you're an angel."
It’s “Angel” again!
She gave up dwelling on the title and instead raised a more "realistic" question: "I have never been to the center of the earth."
The straw rabbit's huge head tilted slightly, as if in thought.
A more complex string of garbled characters with jumping syllables flowed out:
“?;!($^;《+”
"You'll eventually reach the center of the Earth."
Ji Dongzang asked, "When?"
"The future or the past."
The rabbit's answer was like a closed time loop, full of mystery but without any specific direction.
Ji Dongzang realized that this question was futile, so she changed the subject and pointed to the huge space: "Are you the owner of this room?"
The Straw Rabbit responded immediately and simply, "No, I'm a Woven Rabbit Lamp."
"Then... is there anyone else here?" Ji Dongzang looked around the huge space filled with strange objects.
"Yes or no."
The rabbit's answer once again slipped into a mist of ambiguity.
Ji Dongzang reacted quickly and corrected the question immediately: "Who lives here? Or rather, what lives here?"
This time, the straw rabbit did not answer immediately.
Its empty eye sockets are embedded with "eyeballs" that look like dull rubies.
Within the woven frame, it turned slowly and silently in a circle.
At the same time, a longer string of garbled characters with a strange rhythm sounded:
"My master, Mowanda. She is a Juya."
"Mo…Wanda?"
Ji Dongzang struggled to imitate the name uttered by the rabbit, which had strange syllables and was pronounced in a way completely different from human language.
She could only clumsily repeat the combination of syllables but was unable to remember them.
She couldn't even understand the meaning of the name. To her, the name was just a string of indecipherable codes.
But she understood the second half of the sentence: "Juya? What is Juya?"
The giant straw rabbit seemed to get excited at the question.
It made a "crunching" sound, and its huge body jumped on the spot!
There was a dull vibration from the ground.
Then it stretched out its straw arms and grabbed a white, translucent disposable plastic cup from the air.
In Ji Dongzang's eyes, the cup looked like a small bucket!
The rabbit handed the cup to Ji Dongzang and said:
"#%|】$, a species of hominids appeared. They are Juya. And you are a human."
Ji Dongzang looked at the plastic cup which was like a small bucket to her.
Hesitated for a moment.
He still stretched out his hands, ready to take it with great effort.
However, just as her fingertips touched the wall of the cup.
The huge cup shrank rapidly in her hands without any warning!
In other words, the moment she sensed and accepted the action of "catching the cup".
The cup naturally turned into an ordinary glass cup that was the size for winter storage, filled with clear water.
This change that went against the laws of physics made Ji Dongzang's heart skip a beat, but she was already in such an absurd situation that she actually felt a sense of numb acceptance.
She smelled the water in the cup; it was cool and tasteless.
The rabbit seemed to have mentioned time just now, but those broken syllables were too abstract and she could not understand their deep meaning.
She put the cup aside and continued to ask the key question: "What do the Juya people look like?"
The giant straw rabbit didn't answer.
Its long ears made of grass stems suddenly stood up alertly and pointed towards the door!
Snap… Snap… Snap…
Heavy footsteps were heard from outside the house.
Every step made the ground tremble slightly!
It was the suffocating sound that Ji Dongzang heard before he fell into a coma!
As the footsteps approached, the entire huge room began to shake slightly and rhythmically.
Ji Dongzang's vision began to blur and distort again, and countless chaotic microscopic information streams impacted her consciousness.
She thought she was going to escape from this bizarre world.
Just then.
A halo of light suddenly appeared at the belly of the huge straw rabbit without any warning!
That's not any color that Ji Dongzang knows!
It exceeds the spectrum that the human retina can capture.
It presents a strange "hue" that cannot be named, classified, or even described in words!
The light was not dazzling, but it carried a cold and pure otherworldly feeling that went straight to the soul.
The moment the light came on, a miracle happened:
Although the vibrations under his feet and the sound of footsteps in his ears still persisted, the devastating blur and distortion in Ji Dongzang's eyes disappeared in an instant!
The world became clear and stable again in her eyes.
She looked up and towards the door.
A huge figure, nearly three and a half meters tall, blocked the entire door frame!
A faint red light emanated from behind her, and a shadow instantly enveloped the room.
This is Juya!
Her appearance is indeed like a giant human in proportion, with the basic structure of limbs, torso and head.
But upon closer inspection, the differences are huge.
The skin has a rough texture similar to bark or rock, the muscle lines are too rigid and knotted, and there is a sense of sluggishness when the joints move.
Although the facial features are humanoid, the proportions are somewhat rough.
His eyes were deep and calm.
This Ju Ya spoke.
Ji Dongzang was completely unable to understand any of the syllables.
The straw rabbit next to it immediately responded with a gibberish sound, as if translating or explaining.
Then, Rabbit turned to Ji Dongzang, and the translation in his mind emerged again:
"Yes, Master, this is the angel."
Ji Dongzang took a deep breath, trying hard to recall the syllables of that strange name, and spoke uncertainly: "Mo...Wanda?"
Ju Ya smiled friendly.
She did not respond directly to Ji Dongzang, but turned to Rabbit and said another string of words.
Rabbit dutifully translated to Ji Dongzang:
"This is the Juya World. We... were once residents of Earth."
"once?"
Ji Dongzang caught the word of time and asked, "So where do you live now?"
Mo Wanda's eyes turned to the void, and her answer was translated by the rabbit:
"It exists... or it doesn't exist."
Ji Dongzang gave up asking for the specific coordinates.
She turned to the haunting question: "Why am I here?"
Mo Wanda's gaze refocused on Ji Dongzang, and it seemed as if he saw some grand trajectory.
Her reply was low, "As the world changes... you will also, like us... perish... and then... live forever."
Ji Dongzang instantly thought of the changes happening in his own world.
Those ferocious beasts!
Her voice was a little hurried. "You mean... the human world will disappear? Replaced by... the orc world?"
Mo Wanda was silent.
Her huge head was tilted slightly to one side, and her eyes were confused.
It was as if what Ji Dongzang said was incomprehensible to her.
The straw rabbit translated the owner's "confusion" in a timely manner:
"We... don't understand... what you mean."
After a brief silence, Mowanda seemed to have made a decision.
She said something to the rabbit.
The rabbit turned to Ji Dongzang, and the straw "face" seemed to carry a hint of invitation:
"Want to... go out for a walk? See... our world?"
Faced with this invitation to explore the unknown world.
Ji Dongzang suppressed the myriad questions in his mind and nodded: "Of course."
"Let me carry you on my back." The huge body of the straw rabbit nimbly jumped in front of Ji Dongzang, and the grass stems made a rustling sound as they rubbed against each other.
Ji Dongzang did not refuse.
Climb up the rabbit using your hands and feet
That broad back woven from tough straw ropes.
Grab the raised grass knot on its shoulder to steady your body.
The rabbit took stiff steps, creaking as it followed its owner, Mo Wanda, out of the huge but relatively closed house.
The scene outside the door made Ji Dongzang hold his breath instantly!
The field of vision was completely occupied by a thick, boundless scarlet!
The entire space presents a suffocating sense of flatness, with the height compressed to the extreme.
It's estimated to be less than two meters!
It felt as if the roof above my head would collapse at any moment and crush everything completely.
This is a squeezed world...
Mo Wanda in front, with a giant body of three and a half meters tall, seemed extremely cramped at the moment.
Her thick legs, the part below her thighs, were completely stuck in the sticky, wriggling flesh!
Every step forward was accompanied by a squeezing sound of "Guji...Puchi..."
Carrying the straw rabbit that had been hibernated for the winter, most of the "legs" were deeply stuck in it, making the journey even more difficult and sluggish.
Ji Dongzang could even clearly see the scarlet land, it was not completely dead.
Occasionally it would rise and fall and wriggle extremely slowly.
She couldn't help but have a creepy association:
Could it be that this sticky scarlet that squeezes and makes up the entire world... is the flesh and blood left after countless giants were squeezed and crushed?
As if to answer her question, Mo Wanda in front of her spoke in a low voice:
"This is what the Megaworld looked like after the first Theia arrived.
"Space was compressed and squeezed... Many giants left behind their flesh, blood, and bones.
"Their flesh and bones merged into the monster that was squeezing us, and the speed of the monster's squeezing became even faster.
"Then, more giants also abandoned their bones and flesh.
“Later, these giants, who had abandoned their own flesh and blood, headed for the new world.
"And the Juya world was emptied and cleared. It became the future or the past."
Mo Wanda's head turned slightly towards Ji Dongzang on the rabbit's back.
"You don't belong here. If you walk alone, you'll sink into the mud. Blend in."
…
The straw rabbit carried Ji Dongzang on its back and walked with difficulty in the meat paste, making a creaking sound.
In this endless red flat space.
Ji Dongzang quietly watched the twisting and wriggling black shadows that were everywhere.
Some of them were hunched over, leaning on a stick for support with one hand and holding a sharp branch with the other.
Over and over again, he cut off pieces of "flesh and blood" from his body.
The moment the "flesh and blood" separated from the body, it silently merged into the flesh mud under the feet.
Some of them had their bodies bent at right angles, with their upper bodies hanging flat in the air and their lower bodies sunk deep into the flesh paste.
Being slowly and relentlessly dragged and swallowed by the scarlet.
Some of them fell completely into the flesh paste, face down, with their entire heads and even upper bodies completely "buried" in the wriggling flesh paste.
The flesh paste that wrapped them was not still, but was sucking and gnawing.
Others are walking forward in vain.
But with every step they took, their bodies began to disintegrate uncontrollably.
Large chunks of "meat" and "bones" crackled and fell into the meat paste.
What made Ji Dongzang even more nervous was that several Juyas who were closer seemed to sense the presence of her as an "outsider".
They struggled, stretched out their dark shadows, and silently and desperately scratched at Ji Dongzang in the air.
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