Chapter 016: Psychological Weirdness
Mo Xuanji's body was a little stiff, his mind was blank at this moment, and he couldn't even feel his heart beating.
The sky, the earth, and everything here are exactly the same as the doomsday scene that the system showed him a month ago.
Mo Xuanji never told the system that when he saw the doomsday scene, he felt endless despair and sorrow.
The strong emotions almost drowned him, and in his dreams at midnight, those images always haunted him like a maggot attached to his bones. He woke up from the nightmare countless times, and later he simply threw his consciousness into Yuheng to avoid sleep.
After a while, Mo Xuanji thought that she had forgotten about it. But she didn't expect that when she saw this scene again, she would still feel the uncontrollable despair.
Mo Xuanji took a deep breath and managed to calm down a bit. His brain was working rapidly.
Why am I here, where are my companions? What is this place?
Mo Xuanji looked at the strange detector on his waist. It seemed to have been on strike since he opened his eyes.
"Is it an illusion?"
There must have been a second enemy on the roof at that time. They were probably just caught out.
Mo Xuanji looked at the charred corpse, hesitated for a moment, and decided to turn him over to take a look.
Most of the body was burnt, but the face was still relatively intact, as if someone had deliberately treated it so that he could see it.
The corpse looked exactly like himself, and died in a horrible way. If it were anyone else, they would have been frightened to the point of losing their minds by now.
Fortunately, Mo Xuanji, who had experienced the baptism of love from his seniors, had become immune to things that were exactly the same as himself.
Moreover, seeing the burn marks on the body, Mo Xuanji just felt a little funny. He would die, but he would definitely not die in the flames.
"He can peek into my deepest fears and make them manifest, but he can't learn some of my secrets... It seems he doesn't know everything."
"What I see depends on what I fear the most. All it can do is materialize it."
Mo Xuanji stood up, and suddenly, he heard a rustling sound behind him.
Mo Xuanji turned his head and saw a group of spiders rushing towards him like a flood. The whole land was densely packed with spiders. The enemy in the dark seemed to be afraid that he was not having enough fun, so he thoughtfully upgraded the spider group.
Bigger in size and faster in speed, the max version of spider swarm from Xingfu Community will protect every goose bump of yours.
For the first time, a crack appeared on Mo Xuanji's calm expression. He turned around and ran away.
If it was something else, he could still grit his teeth and fight, but when it came to a group of spiders, he chose to run away.
The spiders were chasing closely behind.
As they ran farther and farther, Mo Xuanji felt something was wrong.
After he ran a certain distance, things in the distance looked like computer graphics. No matter how far he ran, the distance did not seem to change.
He ran and ran, and when he saw the ground ahead clearly, he braked suddenly. The gravel he kicked hit the ground, rolled on the ground for several times, and then fell to the ground, without any echo for a long time.
There is a cliff ahead.
"It's just like a nightmare." Mo Xuanji couldn't help but complain. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and the scene during the day flashed in his mind like a rewind of a movie.
Every resident has dark circles under their eyes. A resident on the third floor complained that her child cried all day and refused to sleep. And...
"…We were so scared that we couldn't sleep well for days and nights. We had nightmares all night long and even during the day…"
Originally, Mo Xuanji thought that the residents' bad mental state was caused by the spider web sucking away their energy. Now it seems... if the second enemy has been there from the beginning, then it is very likely its work.
As expected, this is also Mo Xuanji's own nightmare.
"Is it some kind of mental weirdness?" After figuring this out, Mo Xuanji stopped running away and took out a white feather from his pocket.
This feather was made during the entrance exam. It was originally intended to be used against the man in black robes, but after discovering that the man in black robes was actually Wilde in disguise, the feather was useless.
"You guys got a good deal." Mo Xuanji threw the feather out, adding a special ability. The moment it touched the spiders, the feather turned into a blazing flame, instantly engulfing all the spiders.
Cracks appeared in the dream, and flames stained the edges of the fragments.
Soon, everything here was burned to ashes.
…
Outside, the official personnel looked at the closed entrance and were at a loss. They only had one team in, and the entrance to the strange area was closed and would not be opened again. The follow-up support was stuck outside.
This situation is very common. When the strange domain swallows enough people, it will be closed. It will only open again when the people inside die and the number of people drops to a certain number.
But the previous SS-level strange domain could clearly accommodate a hundred people.
"Why are there so few people allowed to enter this time? There are only twelve people in a team, and they have to face SS-level monsters! There are even four students in there!"
"Calm down! Calm down! Director Liu! The research team is already working hard to crack it!"
"How can I stay calm? Are you going to take the sixteen lives inside?!"
“…”
"Medical team, get ready! Team two, team three, team four... stand by."
"yes!"
…
The nightmare space was shattered. A red desert appeared before my eyes.
Is this what the strange realm really looks like?
"Xuanji?"
Mo Xuanji turned around and saw Shen Liuxue holding a sword in her right hand and covering her lower abdomen with her left hand, walking slowly towards her. She didn't look very well.
"Are you hurt?"
Shen Liuxue nodded: "I was stabbed because I didn't check it. I didn't expect that the injuries I suffered in the nightmare would also be reflected on my body. Where is Chang'an?"
Mo Xuanji shook her head: "I just came out of a nightmare. I haven't met him yet."
"Okay, let's go find Chang'an."
The desert is boundless, with no end in sight. The red sand is boiling hot, and the heat wave distorts the surrounding scenery.
"What did you see in your nightmare?" Shen Liuxue took the initiative to speak, seeming to be bored.
"Spiders. Being chased by spiders in a dream."
Shen Liuxue was a little surprised: "I didn't expect you to be afraid of spiders."
"Do I look like I'm not afraid of anything?" Mo Xuanji was a little helpless. He walked in front with his back to Shen Liuxue.
"Yeah, you look like you're not afraid of anything." Shen Liuxue lowered his head, half of his face hidden in the shadows.
"Liuxue, what did you see in your nightmare?"
"Nothing, nothing important."