Chapter 571 – Corruption and Unwelcome Guests
Chapter 571 – Decay and Unexpected Guests
I don’t know whether it’s an illusion, since entering this twisted and weird “forest”, Dog has been acting a bit sentimental – it’s lamented a lot of things, and also recalled some long unmentioned memories, some of which even Shirley herself doesn’t remember, but it still remembers them clearly. Some things even Shirley herself doesn’t remember, but it still remembers them clearly.
After hesitating for a moment, Shirley decided to voice her feelings.
“Sentimental? Me?” Upon hearing Shirley’s words, Dog himself was stunned at first, then puzzled, “Really? I’ve been sentimental and reminiscing?”
“Well,” Shirley nodded her head back and forth, “You usually bring up old memories like an old mom once in a while, or recite a long list of truths to me, but you’ve never been so …… sentimental, and I sounded Oddly uncomfortable.”
Dog gradually stopped his steps, it finally vaguely aware of his own by those weak influence, after a moment of thought, it tilted its head, empty horrifying eye sockets scanning this gloomy dense forest, blood colored shimmering light in the eye sockets slowly bright and bright.
“The forest is affecting us …… with some kind of emotion,” it said in a hushed voice, “There is a low, depressing ‘atmosphere’ that lingers throughout the forest, and it makes I can’t help rambling, it’s like …… it’s like being submerged in a vast mind, constantly perturbed by it ……”
Sherry’s eyes widened nervously at once, “Ah …… huh? Are you saying that this forest is …… having a mind? You’ve been affected by it? Is it serious?”
Dog shook his head from side to side, “No, I shouldn’t say it’s this forest, I should say it’s this dreamland …… Don’t forget its name, the Dream of the Nameless One, the dreamland itself is something made by the mind …… But don’t worry, the It’s not serious, the effect doesn’t seem to be targeted, it’s just a passive disturbance caused by the environment. Sherry, are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” Shirley pointed to herself, and the expression on her face was a bit puzzled, “Yeah, even you are affected, how come I’m not at all okay …… Maybe it’s because I’m more heartless? ”
“If only it were that simple,” Dog mumbled in a low voice, “Don’t let your guard down, subtle influences are the most dangerous, the more you think you’re fine the more likely you are to get into trouble, and if there’s a sudden depression or a feeling of nervousness and panic, be sure to let me know the first time.”
“Well,” Shirley hurriedly nodded, then she frowned again, somewhat uneasily looking at this forest that seems to never come to an end, and whispered, “When do you think …… Captain will find us? We shouldn’t be so unlucky as to be trapped here all the time, right?”
“No, don’t think,” Dog immediately said, “Just now, didn’t you already feel a vague call in your heart? That means the captain already knows about this, he should be thinking of a way out, let’s just protect ourselves in the meantime.”
“Oh.”
Sherry honestly agreed, but just then, a strange, sticky sound as if something was gradually melting and flowing down suddenly came from not far away, interrupting the exchange between her and Dog.
This chilling sound caused Sherry to instantly sweat, and she violently tugged on the black chains beside her, “Dog! You heard me this time ……”
“I hear it, it’s nearby, there’s something-“
Dog said quickly, already turning his head to look in the direction from which the strange sound came, and almost at the same time, an incomprehensible scene appeared in its and Shirley’s vision-
A shrub suddenly began to grow wildly, a large piece of black material like a gush from the dense leaves between the drill out, in the blink of an eye formed countless in the air open writhing limbs, and in the countless limbs at the end of the open thin, like an eye-like fissure, that next to the sky-spanning trees in a series of strange sounds like “melting” like Dumping, thick trunks like silt flow down, the canopy lost support, but instead gradually grow towards the sky, and in the illusory flame-like distortion of light and shadow was stretched, deformed into countless billowing down the pale flotsam, the earth in the surge, as if suddenly turned into a layer of soft and sticky skin, but also as if there is something horrible is drilling in the soil, is about to break out of the ground! ……
The next second, a chilling variety of strange sounds suddenly erupted, illusory burning sounds, sticky writhing sounds and hissing noises filled with noise in the blink of an eye filled in all directions, the mutated forest almost in the blink of an eye spread to every place as far as the eye can see, everything in front of you seems to suddenly come to life and in the wildly distorted growth of the nightmare’s deepest appearance!
Everything was mutating, everything was distorting, everything was hitting the boundaries of perception and reason – right before Sherry and Dog’s eyes, the dream surged up and something dark and malevolent finally burrowed out of the earth, a stream of shadows, shadows shrouded in shapes and things that were impossible to describe, as if there were uncountable numbers of eyes and sharp teeth Sharp teeth piled up in those writhing, upwelling mucks, and Shirley only took one look at them before realizing the only thing she should do.
“Run wow!”
That was all she had time to yell, and before the words were out of her mouth she had turned and scurried away, running in a direction that seemed to be “stable” for the moment, the rugged forest floor rolling and undulating under her feet, each step felt like she was stepping on cotton, or the skin of some soft-bodied creature, and the sensation of it was sickening and horrifying.
The body strengthened by the symbiosis of the Profound Demon inspired its greatest potential at this moment, and she felt that she had never run so fast in her life!
The black and hideous chains were tensed up in an instant, and Dog was yanked by Shirley directly into mid-air, rising and falling in mid-air as the latter ran.
Shirley just tugged Dog all the way out in the forest, however, after running for a while she took the time to look back, but saw that the surging nightmare was still chasing behind her, so she pulled out her voice and let out another shout, “Change!”
Before the words fell, she threw the chain in her hand forward with such force that Dog was thrown directly forward by her-
A Dog had already adjusted its posture before landing, landing firmly on all four paws, and then without any delay, it continued to run all the way forward with the momentum that had just been thrown at it!
Now it was Shirley’s turn to fly through the air.
And in such a number of relay, that piece of constantly mutating and twisting, nightmarish “forest” but always chasing after them, as if they can never get rid of the nightmare phantom.
Even gave Shirley a horrible illusion, as if the whole forest had come to life, and with furious malice, like determined to eat her and Dog alive, chasing and hunting themselves from all sides! But fortunately, just when she felt that she would not be able to escape, the “nightmare” that was chasing and spreading behind her slowed down abruptly.
As suddenly as it happened, the forest’s twisting and decaying stopped without warning…
Shirley dragged Dog along for several dozen meters before realizing this, and in a sorry state, she came to a sudden stop beside a fallen tree, turned her head to look at the darkness that had stopped spreading in the distance, and stared in dismay, gasping for breath as she said, “Dog… . phew…… stop over there……”
Ah Gou’s huge body whistled past her under the effect of inertia, crashing headfirst into a nearby pile of boulders.
After the loud roar, A Dog climbed out of the boulder pile with difficulty, shaking his head while speaking loudly, “What?!”
“Ah ……” Shirley awkwardly just looked at Dog and pointed at the dark twisted area that stopped spreading in the distance, “It suddenly stopped over there.”
“Just you wait ……” Dog grunted, running over to the pile of rocks and opening his mouth, “Vom-“
With the movement of an unpleasant corrosive substance burning through the earth and stone, the dazed Profound Hound finally finished vomiting before it shook its head and slowly made its way back to Shirley’s side, peering up at the area where the ghastly decay had stopped.
A distinct “border” rests in the forest, one side of the border is still lush and vibrant vegetation, while the other side has been transformed into a chilling, …… unnameable place filled with grotesque twisted shadows and writhing matter.
Countless revitalized vines and flowing shadows drilled out of the soil were still slowly writhing in that dark area, and even though they were no longer spreading towards this side, looking at them made people feel a kind of heartfelt shock.
Shirley didn’t even dare to look over there for more than a few moments, she managed to control her breath, and her voice was still a little shaky, “What the …… hell is that?”
“I don’t know …… I’m not an expert in dreams,” Dog came to Shirley’s side, staring at the distance with extreme vigilance, “but this is probably what this ‘Dream of the Nameless One ‘ What it really looks like …… Some kind of deadly contraption is spreading deep within this dream, it’s just that it’s so big that the Captain and the others missed it last time – we gave it a miss.”
“How the unlucky ones are all me ……” Shirley muttered with a frown at once, but soon she closed her mouth, while looking in a certain direction with a face full of vigilance.
Dog also instantly withdrew his gaze from looking at that corrupted area, letting out a low growl in his throat as he stared dead on at an empty space a few meters away.
An unfamiliar aura was approaching.
Although I don’t know how that unfamiliar aura appeared, it is clear that …… there are “people” who are entering this dream world.
Is it a friend? Or is it an enemy?
Shirley and Dog sensed something …… familiar yet wary and annoying in the unfamiliar aura.
In the next second, under their gaze, a hazy phantom suddenly surfaced on that empty clearing – just like a dream bubble gradually becoming clearer, the phantom gradually coalesced into a human form.
A young man wearing a dark blue jacket, with a tall, thin figure and a shadowy face appeared in the clearing.
The moment the young man’s figure appeared, both Sherry and Dog noticed the flash of a dark chain near the other man’s shoulder blades, and at the end of the chain, an unearthly phantom that looked like a bird appeared.
Shirley’s eyes instantly changed slightly, and subconsciously tugged on the chain linked to Dog.
And not far away from the “uninvited guest” also instantly reacted, after detecting the scene of strange atmosphere, he suddenly turned his eyes.
The girl in the black dress standing with the Profound Hound appeared in his field of vision.
He was surprised for a split second, followed by a frown:
“…… This area is already occupied?”
(End of chapter)