Chapter 728: Surprise
Chapter 728 Surprise
The moment Saul jumped onto the stump, he realized that he was forcefully transferred to another dimension.
As he looked around, he was surrounded by a forest of tall buildings and pedestrians with hurried steps.
Everyone looked very tired on their faces.
The sun was blazing overhead, shaking people’s eyes.
The sounds around them were disorganized and distracting.
“Illusion?” This was Saul’s first reaction.
“No, this should be the Inverted Tree.”
Benches were placed on both sides of the road, but at this moment, not a single person was sitting on them to rest. Everyone was busy as if they were wound up behind their backs.
Saul looked around as he walked over to the benches and sat down. Hands were interlocked against his chin.
“The Tree of Inversion, which replicates the world in a certain area, except for the normal world, it’s upside down.”
Saul closed his eyes and his mental body shook slightly, immediately sensing the incongruous feeling of gravity on his body.
However, Saul did not immediately undo this incongruity, but let himself stay in this upside-down city.
“The last time I came here, it was still empty, but now it has become this lively. It seems like all the people from the inner city have been gathered here.”
At this moment, the people on the streets were all walking hurriedly, and Saul was the only one sitting alone, extremely moving and static, creating a stark contrast.
Saul appeared to be just sitting in place, but in actuality, he had been observing every passing pedestrian.
They looked no different from normal people, and even their expressions were very vivid.
Some were sad, some were anxious, and some were happy.
It was as if a real world.
But after observing for a while, Saul realized that the scene in front of him was actually repeating itself.
For example, a brown-haired man who had walked briskly in front of him ten minutes ago, was once again, walking past him with the same movements and expression.
Saul clearly remembered the look of every person who walked past him
Each person walked at a different speed and therefore appeared in front of him again with different frequency.
When thirty-six minutes passed, the last person also appeared in front of Saul again.
And this time, instead of letting him pass, Saul just stood up and stopped him.
The man who was stopped raised his head in confusion and didn’t say anything, but just stared at Saul with wide eyes.
As the man was stopped, it was as if the others were touched by a clockwork, and one by one they slowly stopped.
They stopped right near Saul and looked at him as blankly as the first man who was stopped.
But no matter how many people had gathered around them, none of them spoke up.
Extreme motion turned completely into extreme stillness in a short period of time.
A scene with an eerie atmosphere was formed.
“Let me see what the connection between you all really is.” Saul opened his mouth to break the silence as he smiled and looked at the crowd in front of him, slowly narrowing his eyes.
A mass of translucent threads spread out from his body, which did not touch the people in front of him, but instead churned around the crowd in the lucid air.
“There are no threads of fate.” The smile at the corner of Saul’s mouth slowly disappeared, “Just like the Yonah wizards out there, they are all dead.”
Dead people, not necessarily without a fate line.
If they could become a more stable form of grievance spirit, or even a powerful evil spirit, a fate line would appear.
It’s just intermittent compared to the living.
It was also only the four consciousnesses raised by Saul that had fate lines similar to those of living people.
“You’re not living people, and you don’t have an autonomous consciousness …… You’re the same pollution that appeared in Archaeust City in the first place, and you’re the same as those gray people.”
Saul withdrew his own fate line.
“Back when I was in Archester City I saw many people who seemed to turn into monsters at a certain moment. And they would all have a translucent thread above their heads.”
At that time, Saul didn’t know what these thin threads were, and thought that they were similar to the marionette strings that mannequins were manipulated with.
After successfully developing the threads of destiny within his own body, he understood that those should be the threads of destiny that had been forcibly pulled out of the contaminated person’s body.
Saul had yet to study what would become of the destiny strings when they were drawn out and controlled by others.
But now, these people in front of him might be one of the answers.
Dead people without their fate lines, turned into randomly programmed and manipulated mannequins within the Inverted Tree. Just like the most ordinary NPCs in the game, without even a single line, they acted according to the established settings.
When their set actions were interrupted, they would fall into a daze.
Saul suddenly raised his left hand high.
“Snap!”
Snapped his fingers.
A powerful mental fluctuation swept out in all directions along with the sound.
It was as if a spring breeze had wrinkled a lake and caused waves to rise.
Everyone who stayed by Saul’s side was like the lake, their bodies twisting like waves.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
From the inside out, the epidermis of these twisted people burst like a balloon, dispersing into a cloud of gray smoke.
These gray mists seemed to gather, seemed to escape, and could barely make out a mass of human form.
But after turning into this ghostly appearance, a little transparent thin line gradually emerged from the top of their heads.
Just now, Saul completely broke the power that imprisoned these undead, and also tore off the camouflage on their bodies.
Sure enough, they were the gray people he had once seen.
“It’s true, those contaminations inside the Archaeust in the beginning were actually created by the Inverted Tree itself. At that time, it was still only affecting ordinary people in the outside world on a small scale, but now it’s so blatant that it’s dragging the entire inner city into it? And for what purpose is this being done?”
Saul flicked at the nearest Gray Man, who immediately turned into a dusty mess and rustled to the ground.
“Scattered? So fragile? The Inverted Tree was able to pull in the souls of so many people, but it couldn’t maintain its strength?” Sol suddenly laughed as if he had discovered someone else’s hidden secret, “It seems that what Sorcerer Yona said wasn’t completely wrong.”
“There is indeed a problem with the state of the Inverted Tree, and that problem is most likely caused by Beth, Dean, and …… Shia.”
Shia, this victimized paranoia has really done a great job yet!
The light around them suddenly dimmed.
Thor was shaken back to his senses by the alternation of light and darkness, only to realize that the surroundings had somehow turned from day to night. And those gray people that had just surrounded him were gone.
“Hmm? Was it because I found something that moved me to this place?”
He looked around again.
Overhead was a bright moon.
On both sides were forests of tall buildings.
It was just that these tall buildings were a bit too dense, with almost no spacing between one building and another.
They formed a circle, enclosing Saul in a small open space.
It was as if they were trying to keep him in a cage.
There was another streetlight to Saul’s left, giving off a dim glow.
Unlike the bustling daytime, this night scene was very quiet, with only the occasional muffled sound of footsteps.
It was as if someone was walking barefoot, still on tiptoe, on the stone path.
In the sound of footsteps, the sound of skin and flesh sticking to the stone floor could also be heard.
A twinge of fear spread from the deepest part of his mind to his forehead.
The streetlight overhead crackled and the light flickered for a few moments before becoming dimmer like aging equipment.
Saul looked up and was surprised to see that the just-full moon had turned into a crescent moon.
And in the darkness that could not be illuminated behind the streetlight, there were huge shadows that looked like people but were five or six meters tall vaguely swaying.
“That many?” Saul blurted out, “What a …… surprising discovery!”
He stopped observing his surroundings, as well as the moon above his head that suddenly became round again.
Saul pulled his cloak up behind him, wrapping himself tightly from head to toe.
Two seconds later, the cloak-wrapped body suddenly shrunk in size!
And at the gap where the cloak connected to the ground, a gray translucent tentacle slowly stretched out.
(End of chapter)