Chapter 3 Soul Echo
All the pictures in front of me began to fragment, the gnawing brain was constantly being repaired, and finally everything returned to reality.
The consciousness was in a trance.
Xiao En felt his own existence again.
“Calm down!”
"The sparks of your thinking are so sparkling!" A familiar voice sounded, as if he had just heard this sentence.
A cold finger.
Before it touched him, Xiao En suddenly trembled, and then he took a big step back, avoiding the cold fingers that touched him.
"Huh?" The woman's voice was a little surprised.
She didn’t expect Xiao En to be able to avoid her immortal touch, especially at such a close distance. It was impossible for an ordinary person to do it. Even other extraordinary beings cannot avoid her immortal touch within three steps unless the other party predicts her actions in advance.
Xiao En felt like his head was buzzing now.
I died just now.
But now that I am still alive, my brain has not been eaten by the 'living knowledge' and built into a weird hive.
"What the hell is this place? Will you die if you think too much?" Xiao En's heart felt a twinge of pain.
The heart is still beating.
He was still alive and breathing rapidly, but a little strangely, he didn't seem that scared, and he was even a little excited.
Xiao En felt that he needed to calm down. He felt his body and made sure that his mind was not frozen and his brain was not lazy. He involuntarily took a step back again, stared at the dark corridor in front of him, and then turned sideways He looked at the woman next to him, his voice was hoarse, and he said slowly: "Wait a minute."
What just happened was too real.
It was so real that he could no longer tell whether he was hallucinating or whether he had resurrected from the dead again.
No.
His thinking was still a little confused, and his lazy brain had not fully recovered. He was not resurrected from the dead, but returned to the time before death.
He was a little confused.
There was a hint of surprise in the woman's eyes. Her eyes were very smart and bright, like stars twinkling slightly in the darkness. She stared at Xiao En in front of her with a serious expression, as if she was aware of something, and whispered softly Said: "What did you just see?"
Xiao En opened his mouth, but stopped talking. After a moment of silence, he said: "Can't you read my thoughts?"
The woman also He then took half a step back, keeping an appropriate distance from Xiao En, with a very cautious expression, and said thoughtfully: "Detecting thoughts is not a very powerful ability. It can only read the target's shallow thought fluctuations."
"I don't know what you are thinking deep in your heart."
"The moment you just had."
"I was very scared."
"It was as if death was coming. "
Xiao En exited this dark corridor. He hesitated and said softly: "I'm dead."
"I'm not sure if it's a hallucination."
"But just now I saw my own death. My brain was eaten away by countless subtle living knowledge, and finally I turned into a parasitic body of a fictional novel character."
He needs help and needs to know more, because Xiao En has a very strong intuition that if he really steps into this dark corridor again, what just happened may happen again.
The brain is eaten by knowledge.
It’s painful!
He had no ability to resist at all and could only watch himself being eaten away in the depths of his consciousness.
"Mortyline?!" The woman's expression was shocked.
She really knows something.
She stared at Xiao En in front of her and said slowly: "Tell me everything you just saw."
Xiao En gradually calmed down.
He looked at the strange reliefs around him, and there were tree-like shadows spreading. He felt that his consciousness had become completely clear after his 'death'.
“I saw the curtain of shadow, countless knowledge, living knowledge, squirming knowledge, they were like a huge swarm, and a terrifying bloody angel with eyes.”
Shawn told what had just happened as calmly as possible.
"Death Retrospection!" The woman's expression became more and more shocked. She stared at Xiao En in front of her, her voice was hoarse, and she said slowly: "The most powerful special ability of the death sequence."
"You can glimpse the future scene when you die in an instant."
"An ability that is close to predicting the future."
"What you just saw was not an illusion, but one of the possible futures."
The woman was silent.
After a moment, she whispered: "Only a very few people in history have had this ability. It allows you to peek in advance at any future scene that will lead to your own death."
Xiao En At this moment, I can feel the memory fusion gradually stabilizing.
Because he has been able to understand some characters around him, this knowledge does not belong to him, but comes from his own body, the knowledge of another soul, that young man named Sean.
He stared at the dark corridor in front of him and said solemnly: "Is there no other way out of here?"
If you go in, you will die.
The bloody angel with countless pairs of eyes watched him behind the shadow curtain.
“Yes.”
"But you must first walk through this corridor." The woman paused for a moment and said slowly: "This is the [Soul Echo] corridor."
"Any soul from another world who comes to this world must Finish it."
"Because you don't belong to this world."
"Only when you finish [Soul Echo] can you truly become a part of this world. "
Xiao En raised his head slightly and said softly: "Nothing?"
The woman paused and said in a deep voice: "You won't suddenly explode into an indescribable flesh and blood monster at a certain moment after leaving here."
"You don't belong here."
"Your souls are like torches in the darkness, always attracting some unknown and weird ancient existences."
Xiao En smiled.
"Exploded into an indescribable mass of flesh and blood monster?" He confirmed again.
"Yes." The woman nodded calmly, leaving no room for doubt.
Okay.
It looks like it’s true.
I seem to have traveled through time and been reborn in the body of a young man who just died. The memories of the two souls are slowly merging, and some fused knowledge is emerging in my mind.
It seems that I have traveled to a very absurd and outrageous world.
This is the beginning of hell.
Xiao En's brain is no longer lazy, it is functioning, memories are merging, thinking is becoming clearer, and reason is returning.
"Soul Echoes." Sean tried to understand the strange characters on the wall.
He is looking for clues.
——"If you keep thinking about it, there will be echoes."
The woman's voice sounded, and she whispered: "A branch of the ancient Elvish language. It was left behind by a master of the Third Era. She is also a descended soul from another world, coming from a very distant country, Avandor. "
"Avando?" Xiao En muttered.
It seems that there are quite a few travelers who have come to this world.
But it seems that he is not a fellow villager.
"I think I may not be able to pass through this corridor alive." Xiao En sat down, looked at the deep corridor in front of him, smiled, looked up at the woman beside him, so beautiful, with a Like a flawless white doll, he took a deep breath, groped around on his body, and then sighed: "He is watching me."
"I can feel it."
The bloody angel, the Lord of Darkness, was attracted to him.
In the corridor where the soul echoes.
Under the curtain of shadow.
He seems to have no ability to resist now. According to the other party, if he does not pass through the soul echo corridor, he may explode into an indescribable flesh and blood monster at any time. If he passes through the soul echo corridor, there is a high probability that he will still be killed. That 'living knowledge' gnaws at the parasite.
The knowledge that gnaws at the brain!
Just once, it left a psychological shadow on Xiao En.
“It’s rare that a soul from another world that has just arrived can attract an existence as ancient as the Lord of Darkness.”
The woman was silent for a moment and whispered: “Detective Morty Lane It is an illusion that does not exist in the real world. He, or the mysterious words and living knowledge that make up him, will only appear under certain circumstances."
Xiao En raised his head and said in a solemn voice. : "What specific situation?"
"You were a writer in your previous life. Morty Lane likes to gnaw at the writer's brain. Those living brains that create fictional characters allow him to have inspiration. The crazier and more absurd the thoughts in the brain are, the hungrier he becomes. He I will use the body of the writer, their shell, to enter the real world from illusion." The woman's voice was a little erratic.
Xiao En shook his head and said: "I'm not."
"It probably doesn't count."
He just read too many novels in college and wrote some weird things casually Of supernatural stories, he is not really a writer.
Also. Are everything in this world so hellish?
Can fictional characters in novels turn into such weird and terrifying things?
The memory of his past life is being awakened. Although he is still in a dazed state, Xiao En has recalled many things and can be sure that the world he traveled through is probably very, very bad.
The woman pondered for a moment and said softly: "Then there is only one last possibility left. Your inspiration is too high."
"It's so high. to be able to see them.”
"When you see them, they see you."
"It's a gift."
"It's also a disaster."
Xiao En chewed on the other party's words and murmured: "When you see them, they also see you."
"Then I...can I close my eyes?..."
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The woman's expression was slightly stunned, and her beautiful doll-like profile was a little dull. She quickly shook her head and said, "No."
"You didn't see them with your eyes."
Xiao En sighed after hearing this, stared into the other person's eyes, and said with a wry smile: "So, I'm almost dead?"
The woman nodded calmly: "You can say that."
"It is difficult for ordinary people to resist the pollution of Mortilene. He is a creation of the Lord of Darkness, an evil creature close to the status of an angel."
"A head-on confrontation is almost certain to result in death."
Xiao En raised his head and said, "Evil thing? What is that?"
The woman said softly: "Evil thing is an indescribable illusion, the rot of the earth. The abscesses are the deformation of flesh and blood pollution, the hatred and pain of the world..."
"All contaminated upgraders will eventually degenerate into evil things."
Very good.
Another good news.
"Is there anything to eat?" Xiao En pondered for a while and then asked.
He is hungry.
Being alive, eating brain knowledge, very good, this is very interesting, he also wants to eat something to fill his stomach now.
"Yes." The woman was still observing him.
This is the second alien soul she has come into contact with, and she must hand over everything she evaluates to her mentor.
The instructor should be watching here too.
A piece of bread.
"Thank you." Xiao En reached out to take it and took a bite. It was very fragrant. When a hungry person is anxious, anything he eats tastes delicious. He is very hungry now and his body has fully recovered. The hunger makes him feel a little weak. . He raised his head and stared at the other person's face, that beautiful and unreal face that looked a bit like a doll, and asked: "Have you ever died?"
"No." The woman's expression was calm, and it was impossible to guess her. inner thoughts.
Xiao En seemed to be interested in chatting, and tried to break the deadlock with chatting, and said: "After death, consciousness is hazy. I don't remember much."
"I only remember that I am in nothingness. "Is there anything left to eat?"
The woman took out another piece of bread out of thin air. This small detail is not important, because Xiao En has already seen it. Taking things out of thin air is even weirder.
This piece of bread is sweeter, as if it has the taste of honey.
After his hunger subsided, Sean's mind became clearer.
"Can I only pass through this corridor on my own?" Xiao En stared into the other person's eyes and said solemnly: "Your mentor should be the one who really decides my life or death."
< br>"I want to talk to him."
Now that he has lived his life again, he will definitely not give up easily.
Xiao En is certain.
He, in himself, is valuable, otherwise in the scene of death retrospective, the woman would not try her best to save herself. She clearly rejects him and hopes that he will take the initiative to rest, but she drags him out of the squirming shadow regardless of her own safety. .
With value comes the possibility of negotiation, and Xiao En’s bargaining chip is himself!
The woman was silent for a long time and said softly: "Do you want to see my mentor?"
The man in front of her regained consciousness very quickly. The chaos after death often affects it for a long time. It's [weak soul], and the other party's thinking has returned to normal, even beyond the level of ordinary people.
This is a good thing and a bad thing.
Because once an accident occurs, the man in front of him will be very, very dangerous.
She knew that the man in front of her was different, but she was still very, very wary.
She will not make the same mistake a second time.
"Teacher." The woman suddenly leaned down and lowered her head with a respectful expression.
A shimmering ripple opened, and in front of Xiao En, a snow-white skull appeared. The ruby inlaid between the eyebrows was extremely eye-catching. He looked at Xiao En in front of him with interest, and slowly Said: "Of course not."
"You can ask me for help."
The moment Xiao En thought of meeting him, this creature suspected of being a lich was already interested in him.
The rationality of this alien soul recovered very quickly.
Bewilderment, bewilderment, panic, despair, etc., these negative emotions are what the newly resurrected souls from another world should have. After all, they have just crossed over from illusion to reality, but in Xiao En's case, he is a None were seen.
This alien soul is a bit too calm.
"What do I need to pay?" Xiao En took a deep breath and asked.
The other party said he was asking for help.
There should be no free lunch in this damn place.
"No need." The skull suspended in mid-air shook his head and said: "At least not for the time being."
"The most important thing for you now is to survive."
"Living is valuable!"
The shadows of nothingness gathered into a pair of arms, like ferocious ghost hands. This skull took out a monocle, appeared out of thin air, and handed it to Xiao En. before.
“What is this?” Xiao En reached out and took it.
The skull in front of him smiled, with a richer expression than the woman beside him. He opened his mandible and said slowly: "Confusion."
"It's called confusion."
"A gadget I got when I was still alive. It can obscure your inspiration."
If Sean were the great detective Morty Lane who was attracted by his nature as a writer, then he would still be dead. But if he was Morty Lane who was attracted by too much inspiration, then he might survive.
Writers are excluded here.
Of course, painters may not be much better.
If the fictional characters created by writers can turn into brain-gnawing knowledge, then it is probably normal for the paintings created by painters to come to life.
The artist's crazy inspiration can turn into the scariest thing here.
The former dies, the latter lives.
Surviving proves its worth.
Xiao En hesitated slightly, then put on the monocle with firm eyes.
Next second.
He felt a little dizzy, and then everything in front of him began to change, just like a mottled and faded black and white photo. In the deep and empty corridor, the lingering shadows gradually dissipated, and some tangible and intangible things were dissipating. Floating The knowledge was dissolving, and he saw a corridor without any relief murals or text patterns. It was a very ordinary dark corridor.
When he came to his senses again, only the beautiful woman with an expressionless face was left beside him.
——When you see them, they see you.
Sean can't see them now!
"Let's go." The woman said softly.
This time, Xiao En saw nothing. He passed through this dark corridor safely, and the moment he finished walking, countless memories began to be recalled crazily in his mind.
The soul echoes!
If you never forget it, there will be a response.
Those unforgettable memories flooded into my mind crazily, from the past life, from this life, from myself, from others. For a moment, Xiao En couldn’t distinguish himself. He didn’t know whether he was Xiao En from the earth or Xiao En from the earth. The young man named Sean.
He is integrating into the world.
It was like a cluster of dazzling torches, obscured by the traces of this world, blending with the light and disappearing into the deep darkness.
The unknown people who peered into his soul gradually lost their target.
In the corridor.
The vague echo seemed to reveal a hint of madness and unwillingness.
"I will definitely catch you next time! Cunning criminal!"
There is no carrier more suitable than the soul of another world to allow indescribable illusions to enter the real world. Those living knowledge, the crawling knowledge, they have not given up.
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(End of this chapter)