Chapter 13 Meeting
Ah, the familiar darkness, the familiar feeling of pressure, and the familiar feeling of sinking consciousness.
Yu Sheng's thoughts floated in the depths of chaos and darkness. Along with the sense of pressure coming from all directions, there also came a feeling of extreme helplessness and fatigue.
He thought that there might be many twists and turns before he left that "foreign land", and even thought that he might have to "die" more than once. However, he guessed the beginning and the ending, but not the process. As he drifted and sunk in the darkness, he couldn't help but recall the last scene he saw before he lost consciousness. He recalled the golden-red pupils that caught his eyes in that blurry moment, and the gorgeous fox tails that bloomed in the night...
And that subsonic headbutt.
So, who is that girl who hit herself to death? Where did she come from? And why did she appear in this foreign land?
Also…what happened to me when I was fighting that monster? My strength and agility suddenly increased, and…
That hunger urge.
What on earth happened to him? Yu Sheng felt that his chaotic thoughts were swirling in his mind like a vortex, and without the restraint of the flesh, these out-of-control "thoughts" even constantly transformed into various bizarre illusions in front of his "eyes", and the illusions were mixed with many memories that emerged from the depths - he saw the monster made up of countless limbs, and the "headbutt" girl with a fox tail and ears that suddenly appeared, but the next second, he saw an oil painting, in which Irene in the painting fell to pieces around the seat, with spider-web-like silk threads connecting the limbs of the puppet, and a strange shadow standing faintly in the depths of the picture...
Suddenly, Irene disappeared again, and a new picture emerged from the depths of Yu Sheng's memory - crimson clouds and sky, sunlight flowing like water, soaking the familiar old streets and alleys.
Oh, that was the place where Yu Sheng was born and raised, the familiar "Jiecheng", an inconspicuous coastal city. He had been away from there for two months... But for some reason, when the picture from the depths of his memory emerged, he felt that it seemed to be a picture from a long, long time ago, so long ago that it seemed like the memory of another person, coldly presented before his eyes.
All the images disappeared, and finally only gentle darkness enveloped the surroundings.
Yu Sheng felt his mind regain some clarity. After a moment's hesitation, he tried to call out in his heart, "Eileen."
There was no response in the darkness.
It seems that when I am "dead", the connection between me and Irene will be cut off.
Then, Yu Sheng tried to turn his "vision" to look for other objects in the darkness and to confirm whether his limbs existed.
He saw nothing. There was nothing here. He seemed to be just a floating "thought" without any body.
Yu Sheng silently tried more things.
In the previous two "deaths", he had no experience and returned to the "human world" almost in a daze, but this time, he began to consciously perceive the process and test various conjectures.
He knew that he had been in a daze for a while. The strange world, the weird phenomena, his own mysteries, the resurrection... too many things that he couldn't understand were piled together, leaving him clueless.
But ever since Irene told him about the concept of "foreign land", he knew that he had a new goal - he wanted to go back, back to the "normal" side.
When the holes in the foreign land occasionally open to people, the moment ordinary people see the light leaking out of the holes, they cross the edge of rationality and reach the other side beyond normality. This process may be because they got off the wrong station when riding a bus, or because they took an extra step when going downstairs, or even because they turned one more page of a book, read a wrong word, and... opened the wrong door.
But no matter what the reason, the most important thing is that this process is not irreversible.
According to the information revealed by Irene, there are people in this world who are studying alien lands, some have summarized the laws of alien lands, and there are even experts who specialize in solving problems in alien lands. Even ordinary people have the opportunity to return after falling into alien lands.
This valley shrouded in the night is a foreign land. No. 66 Wutong Road where he currently lives is also a foreign land. However, Yu Sheng believes that his first contact with a foreign land was before that.
When he opened the door of his home two months ago, he might have fallen into a foreign land called "Jiecheng" with himself as the center.
Now, he wanted to explore as much as possible, figure out these strange things as much as possible, understand the knowledge related to the foreign land, and then... leave this wrong world.
So he opened his eyes.
The cold night wind blew through the big hole in the wall, and outside the half-collapsed roof was a cloudy sky.
He sat in a corner of the ruined temple, but did not get up immediately. Instead, he remained motionless in the posture he had just woken up in, carefully sensing everything around him, while trying to grasp the memories and "impressions" that were rapidly flowing away in his mind.
He was trying to recall the feeling when he woke up, and to determine the boundary when he returned from darkness to the "real world".
He felt that this might be the key to understanding the process of his "resurrection".
At least, this could bring him a little closer to the truth of these mysteries.
Vaguely, he began to recall some of the scenes he had "seen" just before he woke up. He recalled that he had risen from the darkness, crossed a hazy boundary, and then sank into reality... But what happened after that? What happened between "sinking into reality" and "opening his eyes"? What happened in this brief moment?
He seemed to see several images flashing by, quickly and blurrily, but there were a few clearer images among them... including the path near his home, the gate of No. 66 Wutong Road, and... this corner deep in the ruined temple.
Yu Sheng's eyelids drooped slightly, and his thoughts gradually calmed down. Some guesses came to his mind, but he put them aside temporarily. Then he exhaled lightly and began to move his hands and feet slightly.
This body was pure and strong. He could even feel the majestic power flowing in his veins. He could hear clearly, see far, and his hands and feet were full of strength. Even though he had been amputated below the neck due to a subsonic headbutt not long ago, he was now completely full of life.
He stood up from the corner and prepared to call Irene.
But in the next second, he stopped his action abruptly.
Because there was a rustling sound coming from outside the wall.
Upon hearing this sound, Yu Sheng's first reaction was - that delicious monster actually came to the ruined temple?! But he soon felt something was wrong, because the monster's movements were always earth-shattering, not as cautious as this one.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Sheng cautiously moved slowly to the hole in the wall and looked out through the hole.
The night was dark, but his eyes could see clearly.
He saw a girl walking cautiously among the ruins of the dilapidated temple.
The girl was wearing a tattered robe. It seemed to have been a gorgeous dress in the past, but now it was just dirty and ragged pieces of cloth. Her long white hair, which had not been taken care of for a long time, was scattered in a mess, covering most of her face. And on the top of the girl's head... was a pair of pointed fox ears.
The latest novel is published first on Liu9shuba!
But compared to the pair of furry ears, Yu Sheng's attention was more focused on what was behind the girl - the tails.
There were more than one fox tail, but it was difficult for Yu Sheng to count how many tails there were from his perspective - and because the girl looked really disheveled, he even suspected that it was just one big tail, but it was tangled because it hadn't been combed for too long...
Of course Yu Sheng has recognized it by now.
It's that subsonic headbutt.
But Touchui didn't seem to notice Yu Sheng who was nearby. She just patrolled cautiously in the ruins of the dilapidated temple, twitching her nose from time to time as if she was distinguishing and searching. After a while, she seemed to have found something, her eyes lit up, and she ran somewhere quickly.
The sound of rummaging plastic bags could be heard in the night.
Yu Sheng opened his eyes wide.
That was the bag of kitchen waste he brought with him when he was "thrown" into the valley, and he threw it into the ruins.
It was filled with vegetable leaves and eggshells thrown away from cooking in the evening, as well as leftovers that had been cleaned out of the refrigerator.
He leaned against the wall and saw the girl with the fox tail tearing the plastic bag in surprise but clumsily, and accidentally spilled everything inside. He also saw her grab a bunch of leftovers without hesitation and stuffed it into her mouth without caring about anything -
It felt like I had been hungry for many, many years.
Yu Sheng suddenly felt suffocated.
He didn't know why, but he felt very uncomfortable. He felt that... people shouldn't be starved like this.
Even though she doesn't look like a "human".
Even though she once hit me with a headbutt - she was trying to save me at that time.
And at this moment, the girl seemed to finally sense the breath of a "living person" in the ruined temple.
She squatted on the ground, holding a rotten vegetable leaf in her mouth, and turned her head away in shock and nervousness.
Yu Sheng stood in the collapsed corner of the dilapidated temple, looking into her eyes across the ruins.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com