The Haunted

In the end they did come to a huge round altar cast in bronze, and at that time only five of the tomb robbers who hijacked him were still alive.

Logically speaking, as an ordinary student who has no self-protection ability and is often pushed out to find traps, Chi Yan should be the first to die among these people, but he has always been very cautious and in awe, conscious that he should not watch much , No matter what thing is not touched or taken, so it has been safe and sound until the end.

The altar was dug more than ten meters deeper than the underground palace, about the height of four or five floors, and covers a wide area, which is as large as a playground surrounded by eight 800-meter runways.There is a round bronze altar with a diameter of about [-] meters at the back of the center.

Standing on the edge of the underground palace area and looking down, the scene is extremely spectacular. It is hard to imagine how such a magnificent project was realized in thousands of years.

From the underground palace there are no stairs leading directly to the altar, so Chi Yan can only climb down the rope along with the four grave robbers.The tomb robber who was holding him had already untied his upper body, but Chi Yan also gave up the thought of running away - the way back had already been blocked, and he had already seen the dangers in this underground palace, and he himself had no water, Food or any information about this underground palace, followed by the remaining tomb robbers became the safest choice with the greatest chance of survival.

But he forgot that this group of people is not a good person, even if he has no choice, acting with them is tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger.

After climbing up the huge round bronze altar, you can find that there are many unrecognizable carvings on the surface and surrounding of the round bronze altar, some of which look like some kind of ancient characters, and others are similar to those seen in the underground palace. of similar patterns.And there is a small black round altar at a [-]-degree angle on the line from the center of the circle to the top of the circle.It is made of metal of unknown material, with a diameter of about two meters, and the four sides are slightly raised, as if it is a black plate standing there.

Chi Yan felt that the head robber suddenly looked at him.He winked, and the two tomb robbers next to him quickly subdued Chi Yan in place, making him unable to move.

Chi Yan looked at the leader, his eyes darkened, and asked, "What are you doing?"

The leader ignored his questioning at all, took out an ordinary-looking hardcover book from his bag, flipped through it, nodded and said: "It should be this one, that's right."

Under the instructions of the leader, Chi Yan was pushed to the side of the black round altar by the two tomb robbers restraining him.The central part of the round altar is slightly concave, and there are slender metal chains of the same color hanging down from the four corners.Under the instructions of the leader, the two tomb robbers bound Chi Yan to the groove in the round altar with a metal chain. them.

Chi Yan was fixed on the altar and closed his eyes.He couldn't tell what it was like in his heart at this time, but he also knew that he probably really had more luck this time.He could feel that the tomb robbers standing at his left and right hands took out their daggers and cut his two wrists open—the wound was deep and painful, and blood gushed out all at once.

When the first drop of blood fell on the black altar, as if some kind of mechanism was triggered, the inner ring of the bronze altar made a hoarse and dull metal turning sound, and it turned clockwise for a circle—the four standing at the four corners The tomb robber looked at his feet, carefully guarding, not knowing what happened—and at the moment when the sound of the rotation stopped and disappeared, countless bronze thorns emerged from the bronze altar underground, and quickly retracted.In just an instant, the four of them were stabbed to each other, fell to the ground and died.

There were blood holes all over their bodies, and blood was bubbling out. After falling to the ground, they joined each other end to end, forming a strange circle around the black altar.

The dark red blood flowed from their bodies and flowed away in a meandering way, staining the lines on the bronze altar.

From Chi Yan's point of view, one can see the wide-open eyes of the dead tomb robber in the front left, with the corner of his mouth curling up in joy.But he remembered that at the moment when those bronze thorns emerged, the expression of surprise and fear was clearly on his face.

He didn't know who the leader was instructed by, and what his purpose was, but he could feel the rapid loss of his blood, his limbs became weaker, his body was cold, and the whole world was filled with the color of blood... The world in front of him began to shake slowly, and he also lost consciousness the next moment.

*****

When Chi Yan woke up again, he found himself in a boundless darkness.

He moaned and opened his eyes, looked around with some unease, and slowly stood up from the "ground" - he looked at his two hands, which were intact and without any wounds.He suspected he was dead, but if this was what the afterlife was, it would be too tough—all dark and empty, and he didn't know how long he'd be alone here.

He seemed to be in a void, up, down, left, right, front, back... in all directions, all were exactly the same darkness.Standing in place would not feel weightless, but he was still as uneasy as walking in the clouds, always feeling that the darkness under his feet was not solid.

Chi Yan tentatively took two steps forward, and at the same time tentatively asked softly, "...Is there anyone?"

He didn't expect to hear a reply for himself.But the truth is that a deep voice answered him: "No."

The voice seemed to sound from the sky, and seemed to appear directly from his mind.

Chi Yan was startled, stopped in his tracks, and stood cautiously on the spot: "...Who are you? What is this place? Are you...God?"

In fact, in such emptiness and darkness, even if the other party was not human, he would not be too afraid.What's more, he thinks that he is dead now, how can a dead person be afraid of ghosts?He thought of the altar in the underground palace.Their last activities were like sacrifices, and he was the sacrifice.So this sound is made by the thing being sacrificed?He... What exactly is it?

"This is my domain." The voice replied, "It is also difficult for me to explain how you appeared here. In fact, no creature has ever appeared here before you."

"I'm not a god. The gods you imagine don't exist. Or that 'gods' only exist in certain types of worlds, and their essence is just higher-level creatures in those worlds. It's the same for me. "

"Then who are you?" Chi Yan repeated his initial question.

"I am evil. I am the evil that constitutes eternity. All the evil aspects of eternity come from me. If I cease to exist, eternity will also collapse and destroy." The voice said calmly, without any concealment, or maybe he didn't at all Understand the intrigue among human beings, "I am also the only consciousness that exists in eternity. I am higher than eternity, but in other words, I am eternity."

At that time Chi Yan couldn't understand the meaning of that voice's words, nor could he understand his current situation.He asked a few more questions, but the voice did not reappear.

It's so empty here, there's nothing there.In eternity, there is not even the flow of time.

Chi Yan sat silently in the darkness of emptiness for a long time, and finally couldn't help but said again: "...Am I going to stay here like this forever? There isn't even a little light here. Can you give me some light?" , His voice was even full of hopeless pitiful prayers.He needs light, even a little bit.

No phone, no entertainment, and it's worse than being dead if you keep going on like this for an endless amount of time.And as he said, the most unbearable thing is the complete darkness that is as real as it is. To stay alone for a long time in such a borderless darkness, for an ordinary human being, it is really a challenge that is close to the limit.

The voice didn't respond.

Just when Chi Yan thought that the other party was going to completely ignore him, he suddenly heard that voice saying in a very flat tone: "You stand up and move forward."

Chi Yan has nothing to do.Here he loses the measurement of time, he will not be thirsty, hungry, or tired.So he stood up obediently and began to do as the other party told him.

He didn't know how long or how far he'd walked--it might not have been that far.It is all too easy to be mentally exhausted in the endless darkness.

He felt that he couldn't hold on any longer, but the voice never gave any further instructions, so Chi Yan could only ask, "When am I going to go?" In fact, this question is not easy to answer, because there is no "time" here. the concept.

But the other party still understood what he meant: "Until you don't want to go. You can stop at any time."

"Then I'll stop here." Chi Yan couldn't wait, "What's next?"

"I will give you all the areas you have walked through." The voice still said without ups and downs, "In it, you can do whatever you want, turn it into what you want, and get what you want."

Then I want it to become what my original world looks like.

As soon as this thought flashed through Chi Yan's mind, he froze.In an instant, the sun, the breeze, the land, the blue sky... everything appeared in front of him immediately.

I also want to have a house.

Even in eternity, his thinking cannot be changed for a while.In his concept, people still have to live in a house that can shelter from the wind and rain, but they don't realize that now the wind and rain have been controlled by themselves.

In the next second, an exquisitely built white house with a design that suits his wishes appeared out of thin air.

Chi Yan pushed open the door and walked in in a daze.

The interior of the house has been decorated according to his preferences, and all kinds of furniture and electrical appliances are available-these are based on his subconscious needs.

Chi Yan remembered the story of watching "The Magic Brush Ma Liang" when he was a child, and always wished that he could have such a magic brush.And now this dream has finally come true in another way - in the true sense, what one wishes comes true, and whatever one asks for.

Here, he is like a legendary god, completely dominating his own world.

Chi Yan couldn't describe how he felt when he found this out.

Shocked and terrified at the same time.Uneasy, but faintly excited.There are countless things waiting for him to do, and countless possibilities that can be created by him.

And that voice never interferes.

With this area that can be built according to his wishes, Chi Yan can temporarily settle down.Here he can read books and play games—the fruits of civilization created by countless worlds are all at his disposal.

The only drawback is that he can't introduce or create any life in this area.He tried to get a cat and a dog, but failed.He made the next best wish for a cactus, but that too failed.

The voice told him that there would be no living beings in his domain, or even in the entire absolute eternity except the World River.And Chi Yan himself was the only exception, an accident that he could not have expected.

Chi Yan also gradually learned something from the owner of the voice.

He is now in eternity, and in eternity there is still a river of worlds with no source and no end.Compared with the completely static eternity, the world river is flowing, so the concept of "time" will be derived in every world, so every world has birth and death. The number of "worlds" is innumerable, and the time and space where he originally lived was one of the "worlds" in the world river.

Chi Yan also gradually figured out some of the reasons why he came here through continuous learning: the underground palace of the ancient civilization he saw before his death was indeed used for sacrifices, and the ancestors who built the underground palace believed in, revered, and worshiped " "Shen" is not an anthropomorphic god like the Jade Queen Mother Zeus and Pluto that is common in later generations, but a natural god that symbolizes "evil" without a specific carrier and image.In other words, what the altar worships is the nihilistic evil that is the essence of the world.

And the evil in eternity comes from the master of this domain, that voice.The evil in every world naturally comes from him, and his original world is no exception.The "evil" enshrined in that altar is an extremely small and insignificant part of the owner of the voice.

Just because of this extremely small connection, coupled with the extremely coincidental coincidence that even the voice could not explain, he was lucky or unlucky, and stepped into the absolute eternity that no living being had ever stepped on.