Chapter 428 Reconstruction
"We are in a huge dream."
The moment he saw the line of words appearing on the window, Yu Sheng felt as if a loud bang came from deep in his mind. This loud bang was like a lightless thunder that shattered the night sky. Then, a kind of "curtain" supporting all the scenes around him began to rapidly disintegrate under this thunder at the cognitive level.
A cold wind suddenly blew into the room, carrying icy rain with it. The doors and windows were closed tightly, but the wind and rain outside the window still swept into the living room unhindered. They penetrated the windows, the walls, and all the furnishings in the room - and then everything collapsed as if melting, accompanied by distortion and violent shaking.
A large hole was corroded first in the wall not far away, and water flowed down the edge of the hole like grease, revealing a winding corridor outside. Half of the roof of the corridor was blown away, and strong winds and heavy rain poured into it. There was also a long bridge that extended from nowhere and hung upside down above the corridor. There were swaying pedestrians on the inverted bridge, as well as many black shadows of cars that seemed to be stained into one piece.
A strange roar came from a nearby direction. The window that had been pierced by countless wind and rain finally shattered in the roar, turning into a pile of crazy colors and disappearing from the sight of Yu Sheng and others. The living room shook violently, and then collapsed crookedly, and then stopped abruptly in mid-air, as if being dragged by an invisible hand. The buildings not far away continued to grow towards the sky in the strong wind, and at the same time, as if cut by an invisible blade, they turned into huge pieces in the process of "growth", floating loosely in mid-air. The metal skeleton that was used to support the building overflowed from between the pieces, hanging down from the air like hair, weaving into a forest-like structure, spreading all over the city, entangled, piled up, and breeding in groups...
The entire Mo City turned into an absurd and bizarre nightmare. Cold winds and heavy rain howled in the dream, sweeping up the entire city and allowing it to grow wildly in the out-of-control cognition and imagination.
"My puppet master!" Irene immediately jumped onto Yu Sheng's shoulder, hugged his head and exclaimed, "What the hell is going on here——"
Layers of dark blue flames had already filled up around Hu Li. She hunched her body slightly and growled threateningly at the wind and rain that were pouring in. Luna instantly equipped herself with her fingertip blades and leaped lightly to Sheng's side. At the same time, the radar system in her body scanned the surrounding environment at the first opportunity.
"No, it's an illusion," Luna whispered while maintaining high alert, "The change is real."
A huge dream? Real existence?
A huge contradiction and confusion arose in Yu Sheng's mind, and then he thought of the situations that Xuan Che mentioned in his last message - the widespread cognitive abnormalities.
Is all this the result of cognitive abnormality? If this absurd scene that goes against common sense is caused by cognitive abnormality, then it is he who is abnormal at this moment? But just now when the wind and rain poured in, he clearly felt a thunder that shattered some kind of curtain, and he felt as if he had instantly broken through some kind of illusion... So what is in front of him is real? The "normal" Mo City before was the result of abnormality? Which layer is abnormal, or... all of them are "abnormal"? A cold touch suddenly seemed to penetrate his flesh and blood, entangled his mind, and Yu Sheng suddenly woke up from this moment of trance. He quickly shook his head and subconsciously looked in the direction where the cold touch came from - Irene was sitting on his shoulder, but the little doll seemed to have noticed nothing, just looking around nervously.
Strands of black "spider silk" spread unconsciously in the air around her.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng quickly poked the doll and reminded her: "Irene, you pulled the string."
"Ah, hey?" Irene just then noticed the spider silks that were scattered around her, and quickly raised her hand to retract them. "I didn't notice it. What happened... Ah, Yusheng, what should we do now? This place has become like this, where can we find my nephew and his family?"
"Perhaps this is the only way to find them," Yu Sheng had calmed down at this time. Although he couldn't understand the principles behind the changes, his reason told him that since those two reminders had appeared on the window just now, Yuan Hao and his men were very likely to have fallen into this level of the "Twisted Ink City". "Hu Li, fire two missiles into the sky. The more conspicuous the better - then we'll find a way down to see if there are any other marks left by Yuan Hao in the vicinity."
"good!"
Hu Li nodded quickly, and then fired two Fox-Carrot missiles directly into the sky. Accompanied by two roars, brilliant fox fire exploded in the rain, and the scattered flames illuminated the sky above the entire city.
Yu Sheng looked up at the flames spreading from the sky, then without hesitation walked past the rain curtain that passed through the room and walked towards the crooked corridor outside the room that seemed to lead to the lower floor of the building.
They left, leaving the room with heavy rain and howling cold wind.
The barrier between reality and illusion has been broken, and a certain cognitive interference that has shrouded Mo City for many years has fallen down like a broken curtain, and the wrinkled "curtain" has piled up in the city into such a bizarre appearance.
After a long while, there was a sudden click of the door lock opening in the empty room.
In a corner of the living room, the door leading to the master bedroom was pushed open from the inside.
A girl with blonde hair walked out carelessly, holding half a pancake in one hand and a water bottle under her arm. Behind her was the scene of the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road.
The howling wind and rain from the door hit the girl head-on. The blonde girl, who walked out without looking, was drenched on the head, and even the pancake in her hand was wet.
Rapunzel raised her head dully, watching the wind and rain howling through the living room outside the door. Beyond the roof and walls that were mostly corroded by the wind and rain was a wildly distorted alien landscape. A shattered black-sailed boat streaked across the sky and crashed into a pavilion less than a hundred meters away from her.
The next second, the blonde girl ran back.
"Oh my! I'm so scared! I'm so scared! ... Red Riding Hood! Snow White! My brother has moved home to a strange place again! Today's picnic is cancelled!"
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Yu Sheng and his group quickly walked through the crooked corridor, and then walked down more than a dozen floors of the staircase that had already been bent and deformed, and even gave people the feeling that it would never end.
Large damaged holes appear on the nearby walls from time to time, and outside the holes is the unrecognizable street scene of Mo City. Wind and rain pass through the holes or simply through the walls at random, swirling and dancing in the stairways and corridors. However, some areas remain abnormally dry despite the invasion of wind and rain. The rain passes over the walls and roofs as if it cannot interact with the surrounding "scene", and even the chill in the wind seems unreal and short-lived.
While walking through those corridors, Yu Sheng couldn't help but think of the rain falling in the wilderness of the soul - the rain that also came from the loneliness, as if it was constantly falling in the illusion.
They came to the lobby on the first floor - in Yu Sheng's memory, their room was originally on the seventh floor, but this time he walked down more than ten floors to reach this lobby - this place was also attacked by wind and rain, and compared with the impression, the area of this lobby was obviously much larger, and some interior spaces that did not seem to belong to this building at all were also "merged" into the lobby, abruptly blending in not far away.
“There’s someone here!”
Hu Li had sharp eyes. As soon as she walked out of the corridor, she pointed at a corner of the rest area and shouted loudly.
Yu Sheng immediately walked over quickly and saw several figures in the direction of Hu Li's finger.
But when he got closer, he found that they were indeed just a few "human figures".
Several hazy human figures, seemingly made up entirely of blurred blocks of color, were lying in the rest area. Two were lying on the sofa, two were lying on the floor, and one was even lying on a bed that shouldn't have appeared in the hall on the first floor. These blurry human figures tossed and turned, as if they were trapped in a nightmare.
Yu Sheng stretched out his hand towards them, but found that his fingers easily passed through the outlines of the color blocks.
Irene blinked, grabbed Yu Sheng's hair with one hand, and stretched out the other hand tentatively. Several thin silk threads extended from her fingertips and connected to the human figures.
"...They are dreaming," the little puppet muttered, "but...it's strange, their dreams are not in dreams. Do you understand what I mean?"
Yu Sheng: "Nonsense, of course I don't understand."
Irene curled her lips, and then she saw several figures suddenly appear in the hall.
There were also a few hazy outlines of color blocks that were not there a second ago, but suddenly appeared at the door at this moment. A few human figures floated a few centimeters above the ground like a projection screen with poor signal, flickering, standing still or about to take a step forward, stagnant in mid-air.
The black threads immediately spread to the newly emerged figures.
"They are also dreaming, and it's a 'lucid dream'," Irene said quickly, "I can't quite understand their minds, but they seem to be walking into this hotel, ready to check in... There is no fear, no confusion, and in their eyes, the world seems to be normal."
Yu Sheng frowned, and had a vague understanding in his heart. At this moment, a slight vibration suddenly came from his pocket.
He immediately took out his cell phone and saw a line of notification flashing on the screen of the cell phone that had no signal before -
"Abnormal fluctuations... The signal is recovering."
Immediately afterwards, several messages came in one after another, and the phone kept vibrating.
The source of the information is the Secret Service, Baili Qing.
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't know why the communication was suddenly restored, he still subconsciously clicked on one of the messages.
"There is a record in the database that what you encountered is most likely the Dark Angel's 'Evolutionary Body'...
"Beware of the Class IV cognitive remodeling he is creating - this will result in a planet-wide restructuring of reality."
(End of this chapter)
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