Chapter 550: The Great Taste of Fear
The Eye of Thinking provided the first step of guidance.
The Scarlet Witch revealed a part of what follows that cannot be seen through.
The final conclusion is that the missing Emma is now in an abyss.
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Milo was puzzled: "This is unreasonable. Isn't it possible to fall into that place only from the spiritual level?"
The first few times he entered the abyss, his body stayed in the waking world.
For myself on the spiritual level, if I fail to escape from the abyss, then the waking world will no longer exist, and the body that can never go back means that there is no such body. This is the abyss that Milo understands.
But the Scarlet Witch retorted lightly: "Don't try to explain the abyss in terms of 'laws' from any angle. The law of chaos is that there are no laws. You enter the abyss with a spiritual body, just because the abyss evolved. This is just a possibility, and it does not mean that the real body cannot enter the abyss. "
"Like a dream? You can escape as a soul like a dreamer, or you can escape from it in the form of a body. Climb into the ghoul's lair," Milo mused.
What Milo couldn't understand was that the cracks in the abyss had been transferred to the dreamland by him. Why did Emma suddenly fall into the abyss?
Is it another conspiracy of the gods?
Or, as Rebecca said, is there anyone who doesn't want the Noscia equation to be fully solved?
While Milo was deep in thought, the Scarlet Witch suddenly said something intriguing. She said:
“If you were a traditional Shadow, maybe this matter would be easy to handle. A lot.”
Is there any difference between Milo and the traditional Shadow?
But he never wastes time trying to figure out the riddles from the Scarlet Witch's mouth. He has never been used to this bad habit.
"Tell me, how can I get Emma back."
"It can't be done." The Scarlet Witch slowly shook her head, and with each slight twist of her neck, Her newly healed skin and flesh will make a strange and tingling noise, but it is not as strange as her voice:
"No one has ever entered the abyss and come out alive, you Have you forgotten? Even the old days like Windrunner needed the rebirth of original humanity to get out of trouble, and for mere humans..."
Maybe the Scarlet Witch never thought about how to get Emma back.
The reason why I said the words "If you are a traditional shadow" is because the traditional shadow has cut off the "low-level emotions" in the soul and does not care about the life and death of ordinary people. There would be no thought of rescuing Emma, which would save a lot of trouble.
From the perspective of the Scarlet Witch, Milo’s top priority is still to develop his own religious order, preach in the waking world and dreamland, and prepare for the upcoming war and apocalypse. In short, this is Get ready to plunder faith.
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But because she was familiar with Milo’s temperament, the Scarlet Witch did not try to convince him on this point, otherwise she might never see the next Holy Communion.
All she can do is to explain the unchangeable facts clearly:
“The abyss is an unknowable, constantly evolving realm of chaos. There may be tens of millions of worlds there. You have no way of knowing what she has fallen into. In any world, even if you know it, you have no way to enter..."
When the Scarlet Witch was still in Barabara, a name suddenly popped into Milo's mind: "Tutis· Crow."
"Wait a minute..." This was a mistake. The witch's original intention was not to guide Milo on this path.
But before she finished speaking, she was interrupted again by Milo.
"Wait a moment..."
Milo suddenly withdrew from his previous state of thinking. His expression became gloomy, and his attention spread to the street where he was.
Because at a certain moment just now, he seemed to "see" something.
No, it was not something he saw, he was pretty sure he touched it.
Those were familiar things that had a special flavor to him.
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Milo slowly squatted down and carefully observed the dirty traces on the street again.
He raised a finger to silence the Scarlet Witch.
As a result, the passers-by around the street also shut their mouths. People who were walking together and chatting happily ended their conversations very abruptly and hurried on with expressionless faces. For a while, the entire street The streets were quiet.
And Milo squatted on the spot for a long time.
Until he accurately captured the "thing" that just "touched" him.
That was a hint of fear.
And it’s not the fear of strangers, it’s the fear of Emma.
"In a certain abyss world, Emma appeared in this position. She met something...so she was very scared..."
Milo spread the palm of his left hand.
A thin black thread of substance floated to the palm of his hand. That was substantial fear, but it collapsed and disappeared the moment the thin line touched Milo's palm. After all, it did not belong to the waking world.
Just through his familiarity with Emma, Milo roughly grasped the trajectory and outline of her fear.
On the side, watching Milo's series of abnormal actions, the Scarlet Witch remained silent, but her corrupt face under the hood was slightly moved.
Milo quietly looked at his empty palms and said to himself:
"Something is chasing her."
The next second, he suddenly pulled out his revolver and turned around, pointing in the direction behind him.
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At this moment.
The two sides facing each other with guns stand in their own worlds.
They have the same physique, outfit and action poses.
Even the directions of the muzzle rifling of the two revolvers are completely coincident.
Even so, they did not see each other's outline clearly.
The one in the abyss didn’t know that the other side was a Shadow-level Old One.
And Milo, who was in the waking world, had no idea that the person standing opposite him at this moment was the living corpse version of himself.
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What caused Milo from the two worlds to reach this moment of confrontation was the trace of fear that came from Emma's fear, or to be more precise, it was Milo's fear of Emma. The familiarity of fear contributes to this situation.
But it all happens in an instant.
After a moment, the extreme pressure and tightness disappeared.
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The two Milos lowered their muzzles at the same time.
In the waking world, the passerby who happened to be pointed at the gun turned his head and walked away with a puzzled expression, muttering some abusive words that only he could hear.
In the abyss, this moment of delay caused the living corpse to completely lose the direction of Emma's escape.
It stood dazedly in the heavy rain for a moment, and then started walking in a certain direction.
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The strong feeling at that moment has completely dissipated.
Milo no longer felt the cold hostility.
He turned to the witch:
“How do you explain this?”
The Scarlet Witch seemed to be somewhat enlightened at this moment, and then began to enter a state of murmuring:
"It turns out that it started a long time ago, the fearful devourer, maybe even you didn't know it. From the moment you become a visionary, you have already begun to eat and devour the fear in the hearts of all those around you... Do you even need to control it with your subjective thoughts? Wonderful... wonderful..."
"What do you mean? But there is no fear that has swallowed Emma..." Milo frowned.
"Then how did you come into contact with her fear in another world far below the abyss?" The Scarlet Witch's tone suddenly became sharp: "The source of that sense of familiarity is because of you. I have already savored its taste."
"Okay, okay..." She began to laugh harshly, and half of the laughter was the sound of hard exhalation in her throat.
"In this way, you will be invincible in the turmoil and the apocalypse... OK, OK!"
"Everything makes sense."
"Swallowing fear It's your instinct, just like breathing..."
"No wonder Nanwei City is getting more and more chaotic..."
"No wonder you were promoted to Shadow so quickly..."
"No wonder there are more and more visionaries around you!"
"This is an era of great fear!!"
(End of this chapter)