The strange story of Huai'an Inn

Holding a lot of luminous tentacles in your arms, and the feeling that these tentacles belong to you, I have to say it is very weird.

What's more, these things are quite heavy... It's hard to imagine how these cool, soft and self-illuminating things suddenly grew out of my body. some substances...

Chong Liu panted and stopped, looking around.

This is a strange and magnificent space. There are many pillars of different sizes scattered far and near, some are upright, some are inclined, and they overlap and cut the huge space into pieces.Walking in the middle, you always feel that every pillar is pressing to the top of your head, and you will have the illusion that all the pillars are moving and rotating subtly.When you walk, you will feel dizzy, and it is difficult to tell which direction you are going.Chong Liu walked around here a few times, and always saw the same broken stone pillar lying on the ground.

he's lost……

He sat dejectedly on a gravel and wiped the sweat from his brow.

The big bug that had been following him back and forth in circles also stopped, lying on the ground and shaking its front end boredly.Obviously it doesn't know the way, and it was just drilling randomly in the rocks before.

Chong Liu put his large group of distorted tentacles on the ground, watching them sticky and scattered in a big puddle.The faint light pushed the darkness away for a while, like a star shining in the dark night.

"Chong'er, do you know why your master came here?" Chong Liu asked nonchalantly, and casually put a few of his whiskers on the tentacles of the insect.

no respond.

"Then do you know where your master is now?"

It was a long while without any movement.But just when Chong Liu was about to give up, a distinct impulse came into his mind, making him want to look behind him, deep in the forest of stone pillars.

This is an intrusive sense of direction, and Chongliu knows it is the answer of the bug.

Insects can sense the position of the inanimate real person.

As long as you can find the Wusheng real person, you may be able to find the shopkeeper!

"Great! Can you take me there!" Chong Liu asked excitedly.

But the huge worm suddenly raised its head, waved its tentacles chaotically in the air, and there were a series of strange creaking sounds from its huge body.Chong Liu looked at it in bewilderment, not knowing whether it agreed or disagreed.

It seemed to understand that Chong Liu couldn't understand it or understand its meaning, so it took the initiative to wrap its tentacles around Chong Liu's tentacles, and a bright emotion and intention struck.

Chongliu understood that it was afraid, because Wusheng Daoist didn't let it get close, and ordered him to watch Chongliu and wait nearby.It also has some doubts about Chong Liu, suspecting that he didn't want to take it to find Yuanchu.

Chong Liu's heart was full of guilt, as if he saw a pair of pitiful dog eyes looking at him accusingly.

He sighed, touched its head with a few tentacles of his own, and passed on his thoughts, "After everything is over, I will find a way to take you to find Yuanchu. I promise."

The worm realized that Chong Liu had lied to him before, and immediately became angry. There was a long rumble in his body cavity, and then he slammed his tentacles away, shaking his huge head in the air.The slime that gave off the smell of corpses was also thrown into the air, like a rainstorm.Chong Liu flinched immediately, almost thinking it was going to eat him.But Chong'er lay back on the ground again, turned its huge head to the opposite direction, and no longer faced the heavy six.

Angry……

Chong Liu breathed a sigh of relief, but he still had a headache.Without the protection of the big bug, wouldn't those weird human-like but not human-like things hiding in the dark immediately swallow him alive?

He stood up, dragged the heavy tentacles to the worm's side, put a few tentacles on the worm's tentacles, and then gently placed his undistorted hand on its gray skin covered with swelling.

"sorry……"

Chonger: ...

"But I really know Yuanchu. I promised you today, and I swear that I will take you to meet him. I know he has been traveling for a year. Do you miss him too?"

Chonger: ...

"I was also impatient before. The person I like very much, just like you like Yuanchu, he is with your master now...I have to find him, otherwise your master may use me to force him to do something else. Something you don't want to do." Chong Liu spoke sincerely, then simply turned around, sat down against the big bug's body, and looked at his tangled tentacles trailing behind him.

"The person I like, his name sounds nice, and his name is Zhu Helan." Chongliu paused, feeling a little silly, and told a big bug what was on his mind, but he continued, "I'm luckier than you. The people I raised were very nice to me. It's just that I always felt like I was always missing something compared to other people. It was like having an empty shell. I knew how to be a human being, but I didn't feel like a living person.

I have been to many places and met many people and things, but I always seem to be standing outside, hanging in the air, unable to find the ground for my feet, and there is no place to stop.

Until I arrived at Tianliang City and entered the inn.

At the beginning, I was still a spectator, but this man named Zhu Helan, he pulled me and dragged me, let me see many things I didn't expect, and led me to go deeper and deeper on a road that ordinary people can't understand.But for the first time, I felt... like a human being.It's like a family and a loving person.I am finally not just a bystander and recorder, I am alive...

Up to now, I am becoming a monster little by little, but I know in my heart that even if I become a monster, he will not abandon me... This strange feeling, you understand? "

Suddenly, the insect's body trembled delicately.

Chongliu realized that he didn't just say these words with his mouth.

His tentacles emit a brighter and more brilliant blue light than before, and that light seems to be alive, rippling along the ground like clear and shallow ripples, spreading to all directions, and rippling all the way to Chong Liu's eyesight In the unreachable darkness.

The worm made a whimper-like sound, and then a strange perception penetrated Chong Liu and the worm's perception.For a split second, all of the worm's senses were connected to the heavy six.Chong Liu can feel all its instincts, all its emotional changes, and all its fragmented consciousness that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.And the worm seemed to feel all his own emotions, all his memories.

The bug had a subtle change in his feelings towards him, with a little more trust and... obedience.

Chong Liu was extremely shocked by this change...

Is this the special ability brought about by his own distortion?Not only can you feel the emotions of other creatures, but you can also use your own spirit to influence them?

Has the shopkeeper already seen this, and that's why he asked himself to help him in Tailong Town?

"You don't need to bring me to appear in front of your master, we just need to follow from a distance and let me make sure he's okay, okay?" Chong Liu carefully explored.

The fear of the bug spread into Chong Liu's brain along the tentacles.Overwhelming pain, variety, just a fragment is jaw-dropping.This lifeless real person... is really a pervert who likes to cruelty to animals...

But in the end, Chonger agreed.

It began to squirm its huge body, and walked towards the direction that Chong Liu had indicated before.It is strong and powerful, and its body is obviously made of flesh and blood, but it has a brutality and ferocity that steel does not have.It was devastated, broke several pillars, and rushed forward indomitably.

Chong Liu hurriedly picked up a large pile of tentacles scattered on the ground, and trotted behind.

The big worm doesn't care where the wall is and where the road is.It just rushed forward, and whenever it encountered an obstacle, it would swallow it with those terrifying tentacles, punching rampant holes in the rock.It opened the way ahead and followed all the way six times. There was only one problem...

The big bug ran too fast, and Chong Liu gradually couldn't keep up.

"Bug! Slow down!"

Is it because the shopkeeper also suddenly speeded up?Isn't this too fast?

Even if Chong Liu didn't have to hold so many heavy tentacles, he would almost lose his legs right now...

Chong Liu staggered, and his tentacles splashed all over the ground.He tried to get up but slipped on his tentacles and struggled for a while before finally finding his balance.Looking up at this moment, the newly dug hole by the big worm spread in front of him alone. The worm had disappeared into the distance, leaving only a long sticky line on the ground, like a road sign.

He had no choice but to follow this sticky trail.After a while, the eyes suddenly opened up.The light emanating from nowhere gave the darkness a vague and undulating outline. Ordinary people might still be confused, but if they stay in a place with dim light for a long time, this bit of light is very valuable. If it is not clear, the brain can also help to fill in the details.

In front of Chong Liu, a huge monster appeared.He tilted his head so far that he realized that there was a building lying horizontally in front of him.

A building taller than any tower he had ever seen.

It has no sloping tile roof, no gable wooden beams, all of them are spliced ​​together with too neat and regular geometric shapes, and the angles formed by some walls are tricky and weird.On those strange walls that criss-cross each other are full of black holes, like holes left by eyes that have been gouged out.

Such a huge building spread in every direction in front of him, and occasionally there were "bridges" flying across the sky, and there were aerial corridors linking several buildings together.The ground is covered with deep ravines, walking along the wide roads in a network, as if an extremely long river once passed through every building.

Standing in front of this magnificent underground city ruins, Chongliu was overwhelmed by an inexplicable sense of awe.

If this city was really built thousands of years ago... then what kind of intelligent and advanced creatures are the Xinglao people?Even today's emperor can't build such a city with the power of the whole country?

He followed the traces left by the insects and walked along the road in front of him that was wide enough to accommodate a giant ship, just like ants moving little by little among the huge trees.He watched everything eagerly, taking in the miraculous sight.

Some buildings had apparently been destroyed, with roads blocked by collapsed debris.Probably the devastation caused by the irregularly shaped monsters revealed in the murals.

So what about the corpses of those dead Star Elders?And that irregularly shaped monster... is it still here?

As he was walking, suddenly, a clear call came to his ears.

"Help!!! Is there anyone!!! Help!!!"

Chong Liu was startled.

The cry for help was clearly pronounced, and the voice sounded like that of a young man, and it was a little familiar.Unlike the nursery rhymes I heard before, it was always distorted, like a poor imitation of human voices.

In the underground where the sun has not been seen for thousands of years, the people who can make such a cry are probably living people who came down with Xu Hanke's group?Could it be that the owner and the others are in danger?

Chongliu hesitated for a moment, but decided to quickly go and see to confirm the situation.He trotted looking for the sound and shouted at the same time, "Where are you?"

"Here! Here!"

Chong Liu yelled as he walked, and followed the other party's response to find the intersection of several ravines.He froze.

In front of him, spreading from the ground to a tall alien building, grew a large mass of densely entangled blue-blue tentacles.Some of them are covered with scales, some are translucent and covered with small thorns, they are as huge as a python, the number is huge, and the number is innumerable, almost like a large piece of blue vines covering the entire opposite bank.In those tentacles, there are many things that seem to be wriggling like corals and constantly opening and closing like sea anemones. The bright red, yellow, and purple are burning ominously and dazzlingly in the darkness.

And next to this weird group of tentacles that seemed to be still alive, there was a familiar wooden box wrapped in several thinner tentacles.The orange color, the familiar carved patterns... Isn't this the strange crabapple box that Master used to take money out of?The one coveted by several outsiders?

How did it come to... so deep underground?Did Master let it in?

Chongliu felt something was wrong and turned around to run.But at this moment, a voice made him unable to move any further.

"Don't go, don't go. I've been waiting for you for a long time."

This was the voice that called him just now.But until now, he suddenly realized why the voice sounded familiar.

It was his own voice.

Chong Liu's whole body was stiff and cold, and he slowly turned around.

However, the bloody tentacles began to move and changed positions inadvertently.A hollow appeared in the center of the tentacles, and a face poked out.

That face seemed to be carved out of ice. It had never seen a ray of sunlight, and the veins under the skin were almost exposed.But other than that, Jun Ting's eyebrows, apricot core shaped like a cat's eyes, straight nose, sharp lips...

Chong Liu saw his face and looked at him with a smile.