Boom!!!
The loud noise of the stone gate collapsing was accompanied by a cold wind, and countless black ice spikes poured into the passage like a rainstorm, nailing the walls and making a teeth-grinding creaking sound.
A few ice thorns almost brushed against the corners of Nansong's clothes, sank deep into the ground, and then continued to grow, twisting like living things.
"Go!" Ma Tuan shouted hoarsely. His voice echoed in the narrow passage, but was quickly drowned out by another sound -
It was the sound of hundreds of melting villagers' footsteps, sticky and slippery, like a large group of mollusks wriggling on the ice.
And deeper in the darkness of the pyramid, the slow and heavy heartbeat continued.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
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The world suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
Bai Di could feel his blood beating in his eardrums, and the roaring aftershocks were gradually fading away.
He blinked, only to find that all that was left in his vision was a void of darkness—not the darkness of the night, not the darkness of closing one's eyes, but a complete and absolute visual deprivation.
His fingertips unconsciously touched his eyelids, confirming that they were indeed open.
"..." He opened his mouth, but found that he could not make any sound.
In this silence deprived of light and sound, only the heartbeat becomes clearer and clearer.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Each sound felt like a direct blow to his spine, causing his teeth to chatter slightly.
The rhythm had some ancient cadence, not like the heartbeat of a living creature, but rather like some sleeping giant awakening.
The rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other came from not far away.
Nan Song used his sleeve to wipe away the blood oozing from the corners of his eyes, and his vision finally became clear again.
She saw—
Countless broken fragments of the giant world are slowly falling.
Those prism-like fragments reflected a distorted starry sky, an upside-down city, and countless blurry human faces.
And in the center of these falling illusions, Bai Di stood quietly at the intersection of shadows.
The moonlight (if that was really moonlight) leaked through the cracks in the world, but strangely avoided her figure.
The spots of light suddenly twisted when they were about to touch the corner of her clothes, as if they were repelled by some invisible force.
This made her entire body seem to be immersed in thick darkness, and even her outline became blurred.
Nansong's throat tightened.
She saw that Bai Di's right hand was twitching at an abnormal angle, and his knuckles were an unnatural bluish-white color.
Even more disturbing was that the shadows were gathering under his feet, forming tiny swirling patterns that slowly moved like living things.
"Bai..." Nan Song just uttered a breath when he saw the other party suddenly look up.
——Although he knew that Bai Di should not be able to see at the moment, Nan Song was still nailed to the spot by that "gaze".
The face that always had a smile on it now had no expression. After the curve of the corners of the mouth disappeared, it revealed an inhuman cold texture.
The strangest thing was that there was a layer of frost-like lines on his irises, which glowed with a very faint blue light in the shadows.
Boom.
My heartbeat suddenly became heavier.
Bai Di's heavy clothes moved without wind, and the shadow vortexes suddenly expanded.
Nan Song immediately discovered that several fragments of the world that had fallen nearby were being swallowed by the darkness - not shattered, but as if being "eaten" by something, silently disappearing into the wriggling shadow.
And in a dimension invisible to everyone, Bai Di was "looking" at another scene:
Countless translucent pale arms were reaching out from the void and wrapping around his limbs.
Those arms were cold, yet carried a certain intimacy, swimming slowly like a group of snakes returning to their nest.
The thinnest little finger was pressing against his temple, injecting a certain cold knowledge into his mind—
[Find... us...]
[■■■...■■...]
In the broken mumbling, Bai Di suddenly understood the reason for his blindness.
It's not visual deprivation.
But his eyes are "seeing" things that should not be seen.
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In the dark passage, only the tumor shrine on the sea otter's back emits a faint light, illuminating the narrow road ahead.
Ma Tuan followed the sea otter and could feel its breathing becoming heavy and the muscles under its fur tensed, as if it had sensed some unspeakable danger.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
The heartbeat became clearer and clearer, and every beat seemed to hit everyone's bones, making their blood tremble.
"This place... is wrong."
Ma Tuan whispered, his voice echoing in the enclosed space, seeming particularly depressing.
His fingertips gently stroked the wall, which felt cold and rough, like some kind of bone eroded by time, rather than ordinary stone.
The sea otter did not answer. His eyes were fixed on the front, and his pupils shrank slightly in the dim light.
Nan Song stared at Bai Di's back, his mind racing uncontrollably.
The heartbeat coming from deep within the inverted pyramid, the architectural structures that defy common sense, and the eerie songs of the half-melted villagers outside—all point to one disturbing truth:
They were standing on the edge of the lair of some older, more dangerous being.
Her intuition was screaming, like a string stretched to its limit, ready to break at any moment.
But fortunately, Bai Di's condition seems to have stabilized.
He shook his head lightly, and the frost lines in his eyes gradually faded away, and his focus returned to normal.
The shadows retreated from under his feet, as if all the strange things just now were just illusions.
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