Chapter 118 Night Moon Town (8)
Bai Ye entered Lijia Village and went to his old home, where he indeed saw the familiar mud house.
Even the wooden door is still covered with familiar vines and huge spider webs.
"Grandpa, are you home?" Bai Ye called out from the doorway.
However, the courtyard was quiet, and no one opened the small paper-covered wooden window to peek out.
He thought he hadn't shouted loudly enough, so he simply pushed open the door and went inside. At that moment, □□ walked out of the room, leaning on his cane and trembling.
"Grandpa!" Bai Ye exclaimed in surprise, stepping forward to help the old man.
The change happened in an instant.
His body passed right through the other person, and the two never crossed paths.
Gou Wenyan, who was standing nearby, could see it clearly. "Old Bai, you and this weirdo seem to be on different dimensions."
"What's the meaning?"
"I saw spatial fluctuations, but how should I put it, we should just be outsiders."
Bai Ye was skeptical, so he took Gou Wenyan around the village. However, without exception, he could clearly hear what everyone they met was saying, but he couldn't tell them what he was saying, let alone make any physical contact with them.
"It seems you were right, we haven't fully entered this instance."
Bai Ye had a deep affection for this instance and was somewhat disappointed that she couldn't enter it a second time.
But what he was more curious about was why the mezzanine on the 13th floor allowed him to see how a small instance world was operating.
“Let’s go back and look for clues in apartment 1304,” Bai Ye suggested.
Gou Wenyan nodded, and the two returned the way they came, quickly following the circle of light back into the room.
Outside, the sun was shining brightly, but the curtains in room 1304 were not drawn, making the room dim and gloomy.
Fearing something might happen, the two moved in sync, groping their way from the living room to the bedroom, and then from the bedroom to the balcony. Just as they were about to turn back to the living room, a loud bang rang in their ears.
"The house is shaking, is it an earthquake?" Gou Wenyan looked up and saw the chandelier on the ceiling swaying precariously.
"I don't know, I'll go hide in the bathroom first." Bai Ye felt a strong pulling sensation.
The two had just retreated from the balcony and hadn't taken more than a few steps when another loud bang exploded in their ears.
This time, they clearly saw the four walls cracking.
Looking down, one can see cracks of varying sizes appearing on the ground.
"It's too late!" Gou Wenyan took out a card and used it to envelop the two of them in a protective shield.
Then, we wait for the building to collapse...
Five minutes later, the walls of the 13-story building completely disappeared.
But strangely, the building remains intact.
In other words, the entire 13th floor simply disappeared, leaving an empty space in the middle. Above the 13th floor, it's as if it's suspended in mid-air.
Gou Wenyan looked up and could still see the furnishings on the 14th floor. The beds and wardrobes were still standing there intact, even without the support of the ground.
"This is weird." Gou Wenyan got goosebumps all over and nudged the person next to him. "Look, there seems to be someone walking around on the 14th floor."
Gou Wenyan pushed twice, but when there was no response, he turned around and found Bai Ye squatting inside the protective shield with a furrowed brow.
What are you looking at?
"Wenyan, come and take a look. Is there something on this suspended level?"
"Is there something?"
Gou Wenyan squatted down and lay down to observe from the same angle. Sure enough, he found something unusual.
"There are threads!"
"It's still gold."
Gou Wenyan looked at it and counted as he went, clicking his tongue and saying, "There are four gold threads in total, forming a square pattern. Could it be that these gold threads are as effective as reinforced concrete, so that the building won't collapse even if the walls all crumble?"
"Xiaobai's gold threads were extracted from the intensive care unit. Take a look, are there any unusual things about these gold threads?"
Gou Wenyan crouched even lower, almost touching the edge of the protective shield, observing the flowing golden lines bit by bit.
The more he looked, the more his expression changed.
"What exactly did you see?" Bai Ye asked anxiously from the side.
Gou Wenyan looked up and couldn't help but swallow hard. "I must be blind."
Speak like a human being!
“I saw the small mountain village you described in the flowing golden light of the silk threads.”
"What?"
Bai Ye was shocked.
How is that possible? The dungeon game exists on the weird forum and is accessed through a special portal in the dungeon lobby.
How could this appear in the mezzanine of Fenyang Community?
etc!
If Fenyang Residential Area is the same as that towering building in Night Moon Town, then everything reflected here should correspond to the situation inside that building.
"If it's that building, then everything seems to make sense," Bai Ye murmured to himself.
Gou Wenyan was completely confused. "What makes sense? What are you muttering about?"
"Wenyan, how long can your protective shield last?" Bai Ye turned to look at the other side.
Hearing that the shield could remain suspended in mid-air for another half hour, Bai Ye nodded and took out an [Unlimited Communication Card], asking the other party to contact Kong Yuehan.
"No! Even though we have a lot of cards, we can't just squander them like this. We only have seven or eight [Unlimited Communication Cards] left."
When players experience screen problems and communication with others becomes inconvenient, the [Unlimited Communication Card] becomes especially important.
Bai Ye still decided to use it, "I need to ask Xiao Bai a question; probably only she can answer my doubts."
"What do you want to ask? You have to ask now."
"I'm wondering if the building in Nightmoon Town might be the dungeon base."
"ah?"
"ah!"
Gou Wenyan was stunned.
After a long while, he looked down at the four gold threads again and tremblingly contacted Kong Yuehan.
At this point, Bai Jin and Kong Yuehan were stuck on the 18th floor and could not go any higher.
However, the discovery of the second hidden layer made their suspicions six or seven parts more certain.
"This building is indeed unusual. It's really a waste to use it as a rest and recuperation room for human players," Kong Yuehan said sarcastically.
Who would have thought that every lounge in this building, while rented to human players, would also be available to all the weirdos?
"Those bizarre creatures that drain human life force don't use any nutrient pools at all; they just lie right next to the treatment pods and suck it in."
Kong Yuehan had already seen the hidden announcement in the forum. Bai Jin had personally caught two eerie creatures sleeping soundly on the pattern of the sanatorium, and they had just finished consuming the substance and had a satisfied expression on their faces.
Everything has already revealed the truth.
Human players believe they are healing themselves, but little do they know they are experiencing even greater harm.
The thought of how frequently she had used the sanatorium and how much of her life force had been drained by those strange creatures made Kong Yuehan grit her teeth in anger.
"hateful!"
"So you all smell terrible, the strange thing sucks away your life force while exhaling foul air, which is then transported into your bodies through that coffin, oh, you call it the healing pod."
Bai Jin couldn't help but shake her head. "Why do you feel so comfortable? Shouldn't you feel nauseous and repulsed when foul air enters your body?"
Kong Yuehan opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
For some reason, I thought of Bai Ye's remarks again, in which he referred to the treatment process as "drug addiction".
"Perhaps. While the body rejects it, it is also becoming addicted." Kong Yuehan looked at her hands and felt a sense of disgust for her body for the first time.
There was a strange, turbid energy in her body.
"By the way, what happens to those turbid energies in our bodies?"
“When the turbid air settles to a certain extent, it will turn into insect eggs.” Bai Jin looked out the window and saw countless insect eggs floating in the air of the small park. “Just like those insects, waiting to suck blood and hatch.”
"What will it become after hatching?" Kong Yuehan's heart sank.
Bai Jin laughed, "Didn't you already guess? Human, do you really think the supernatural is hatched in this way?"
"No, it's impossible!" Kong Yuehan found it hard to accept that the strange creatures in the bizarre world actually originated from humans.
Doesn't this mean that all the strange things here were once human?
Bai Jin: "When you were making dungeon games, didn't you notice that all the strange emotions are something only humans can have?"
Kong Yuehan remained silent. She had long had this feeling in her heart; those strange behavioral patterns were just too human.
Moreover, they are the kind of people whose emotions are amplified by malice.
At this point, Bai Jin dropped another bombshell: "Actually, struggling is useless. As long as you stay in this world long enough and experience enough dungeon games, even if you are not assimilated into insect eggs by the strange turbid energy, you will slowly become the strange thing itself."
"how so?"
"Because this is a bizarre world, a place only suitable for bizarre survival. Every breath you take here is part of the transformation. Isn't it only natural that alien species are devoured and assimilated?"
Kong Yuehan fell completely silent.
Bai Jin's words were reasonable and well-founded, and she couldn't refute them at all.
After a long silence, she finally managed to speak: "So why are you telling me all this? As a supernatural being, shouldn't you be happy to see us assimilated?"
"I don't care what happens to you human players. But I can't watch Dad be assimilated."
Bai Jin thought of Bai Ye, whose father was determined to be resurrected and leave this world.
Their first argument broke down, and she ran away from home.
The second time, they made up, and she decided to leave with her father.
If Dad doesn't want to become a monster, then she'll become a human.
She wanted to see for herself what the human world was really like.
Bai Jin handed over another gold thread, saying, "You have a communication card that surpasses the [Infinite Communication Card], right? Are you still hiding it? If you want to leave, then show some sincerity."
Gou Wenyan failed to use the [Unlimited Communication Card] and could not contact anyone at all.
I tried twice, but both attempts failed.
The two of them were like a small boat, thrown into the vast ocean.
Seeing that the protective shield was about to break, Gou Wenyan hurriedly looked through the other prop cards, preparing to save himself.
Suddenly, a voice appeared out of nowhere in my ear.
"I am Kong Yuehan, Bai Ye, and Gou Wenyan. Can you hear me?"
Gou Wenyan blinked, looked up at the opposite side, and saw that Bai Ye was equally surprised, so he knew that the voice was being played out indiscriminately.
"Kong Yuehan, I am Bai Ye."
Bai Ye gestured for Gou Wenyan to continue flipping through the prop cards, while he spoke to the voice.
After Kong Yuehan confirmed, Bai Jin's voice came quickly, "Dad, have you found the mezzanine on the 13th floor?"
"Xiao Bai, is that you?" Bai Ye asked in surprise.
After Bai Jin confirmed, Bai Ye's tone became warmer, "We discovered the mezzanine. If the residents of 1304 enter, it will lead to a small instance world. Then the entire 13th floor of the building disappeared, but the building did not collapse. We found four golden threads that look very similar to what you described... I suspect that this mezzanine constitutes an instance game."
Bai Jin smiled and said in a cheerful voice, "Daddy is so great, that's how it is."
"Is that really true? Xiaobai, how did you know?"
"Because these gold threads are the foundation of the building. When I pulled out the first gold thread, I felt the building shake, but that wasn't actually the case. It was just an unstable fluctuation in the small world."
As Bai Jin spoke, she added, "Dad, do you still remember the spatial rift? I've traveled through many small worlds, and every time I passed through a spatial rift, I felt a sense of obstruction. And when I removed the golden thread, I felt the same way."
While the father and daughter were talking animatedly, Kong Yuehan had already used the [Time-Space Card] twice to contact Zhang Tao.
One card is fine, two cards are fine too. Since the cards are already exposed, might as well just go all out.
"Kong Yuehan, where are you?" Zhang Tao was thrilled to finally receive information from his companions.
Before the other party could speak, he reminded him, "Kong Yuehan, we found four golden threads on the fourth floor. Inside, a small dungeon world was constructed. It's the dungeon we experienced the earliest. I suspect this building is a dungeon production base."
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