Chapter 250: Suddenly Spirited
The earth of the Inner World was shaking, as if gravity had reversed. The vegetation rooted in the earth and the buildings established on the land were being torn apart bit by bit, along with that unidentified liquid continuously emitting vengeful spirits’ wails, surging into the hole above the sky. But this was not the influence brought by the space channel; rather, it was the consequence of the hunger-greedy Inner World ruler Thousand Illusions Moon impatiently squeezing at least over ninety percent of its body occupying the Inner World into the space channel.
The turmoil and chaos brought by human society in the Reality on that side was like the aroma of deliciously roasted food making the parched Thousand Illusions Moon unable to hold back any longer. It now wanted to directly devour that city from another world.
To Thousand Illusions Moon, those tiny flesh worms who willingly became its servant clan and built the interdimensional passage for it were no different from those two-legged beasts who desperately destroyed the servant clan’s plan to guard their own living space. It actually had no feeling about their behavior at all. It did not care whether the space channel unfolded based on the advent ritual would be expanded or destroyed.
For an absolute dimensional ruler like it, with infinite time and infinite life, to invade a world actually only required patient waiting. As for whether to accelerate the invasion, it was entirely up to its own mood, just like how it responded to the request of the blood race flesh worms—simply doing it on a sudden whim.
Now, it was somewhat hungry, so before the interdimensional passage in the sky closed again, it wanted to send part of its body over ahead of time to satisfy its appetite.
Of course, this desire to eat was only one of the motivations for Thousand Illusions Moon to temporarily plan to cross the boundary. This abnormal god filled with countless vengeful souls actually also wanted to absorb the abundant negative emotions from the other end of the world.
That world, even without a being like it ruling over it, was still filled with darkness and madness. The vengeful souls inside its body also wanted to witness the painful souls of theirs…
Ding—
The building shook, and the elevator door was forcibly opened from inside. Misaki Naomi squeezed out from the gap she opened, looked around her surroundings in shock, and discovered that she had actually taken the elevator from a hospital in the Reality and arrived at Kisaragi High School in the Inner World.
Feeling the unease of the ground’s shaking, Misaki Naomi’s heartbeat accelerated. That voice in the hospital that had seduced her mind to come here had now disappeared.
Perhaps that voice wanted to send her here to die, or perhaps it wanted to guide her here to do something.
And soon, Misaki Naomi heard the roar echoing in the campus. That eerie and intense cry was nearby.
She ran to the wall under the corridor to look down, and immediately saw He Jia’an holding a tachi and slashing wildly at the air. That tachi seemed to have eerily grown onto He Jia’an’s hand. No matter how unfavorable He Jia’an’s posture was for swinging the blade, the hilt always stuck firmly in his hand without falling, and the blade was exceptionally sharp, able to easily cut through even a ten-centimeter-thick wall.
Seeing that it was He Jia’an whom she cared about, Misaki Naomi was first delighted in her heart, but noticing He Jia’an’s abnormal state, she immediately became worried for him.
Seeing that Misaki Naomi did not think much, she immediately ran downstairs to find He Jia’an.
Perhaps because the doomsday-like scene around her made her feel that the world was about to end, and humans had no possibility of escaping the ending of death, she decided to go all out and be bold for once.
“Uncle!” Misaki Naomi came downstairs and saw He Jia’an with veins bulging all over his body. She felt a bit scared in her heart but still called out to him.
Hearing the voice, He Jia’an immediately turned his rolled-back eyes toward her. His ferocious face looked at her without vitality, then he twisted his body and charged out in an eerie posture.
Misaki Naomi’s legs trembled, but she did not evade. Believing she could call back He Jia’an’s consciousness, she shouted his name again and again, her voice growing louder.
The mad-looking He Jia’an pounced on Misaki Naomi, raised both hands holding the blade, lifted the blade straight up high, then fiercely thrust it down toward Misaki Naomi’s eyes.
Misaki Naomi’s pupils rapidly contracted, her eyes reflecting He Jia’an’s appearance as he wanted to kill her.
However, the blade stopped just one centimeter from falling. He Jia’an, who looked ruthless and violent, had a face full of pain, as if struggling against the monster controlling his body.
Boom, the ceiling cracked, and a large piece fell straight down toward the two.
Swish!
He Jia’an, who had been rigid, suddenly regained his ability to move, swung the blade backhand to split the falling ceiling debris in half. The two split halves fell beside the two, kicking up a large cloud of dust around them.
“Uncle?” Misaki Naomi’s line of sight had never left He Jia’an for a second. The moment He Jia’an regained his consciousness, she could no longer hold back her impulse and directly hugged him. “I thought I was going to die.”
“…Go.” He Jia’an, who had barely seized back control of his body, also felt pity for the girl, but he had no time for such unnecessary things at the moment. He just opened his mouth that seemed not his own and said in a hoarse, trembling voice, “No time. We need to leave the center of this storm.”
Misaki Naomi was not a pretentious girl either. She immediately supported He Jia’an, and the two quickly fled Kisaragi High School in the Inner World.
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News about Sakura Island’s Taomuki City was urgently cut off because the content of the broadcast image had begun to generate “contamination.” There were already humans worldwide who had become mentally abnormalized through the broadcast image, so the broadcast content changed from image to text.
But of course, after the on-site broadcast personnel lost contact, the text broadcast also disappeared.
People on the internet fell silent. Soundless fear rapidly spread and propagated. People once again felt the despairing death so close. Some even began posting resignation remarks on the internet. Various dark and twisted remarks were being uncontrollably posted, and this loss of control was gradually shifting from online to offline.
“We… what more can we do?” The investigators of the Chosen Alliance looked at the unstoppable spreading dark clouds and falling gray fluff in the sky, their hearts like dead ashes. They stood dazedly, knelt, sat, like the instantly withered flowers and grass around them, lifeless, with indescribable panic like myriad ghosts possessing them, gnawing at their reason.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—
Suddenly, all electronic screens within the Taomuki City area emitted an abnormal current sound. Immediately after, a eerie video suddenly played: a woman in white with a good figure and disheveled hair, her face unclear, combing her hair in front of a dressing table mirror. The silent combing, mirror-gazing with face obscured, and other mismatched and eerie shots brought various psychological discomforts. Yet the residents of Taomuki City, invaded by dimensional power, found their ability to think deeply through such eeriness, and their reason slowly returned.
When they saw the woman in white in the image being tormented by a pervert family afterward, everyone was even more scared into a cold sweat by the twisted humanity recorded behind this video.
People whose emotions were out of control suddenly became spirited instead. The mental contamination was actually resisted.
Took a short holiday for myself on May Day to
