The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The huge horror in the darkness stared at Chong Liu, nailing his scattered sanity in place.Chong Liu wanted to escape, but found that he could not move, his inextricably linked limbs seemed to be turned into stones and he could not move.

"Master...Master?" He asked in horror.

"I'm not your master. You just changed your own incomprehensible thoughts into a voice you know and rely on."

"Who are you? Where am I?"

"You are in your own memory."

"My memory? I've never been in the sea..."

"Because you closed your eyes, closed your brain. You have been dreaming, and now, you should wake up."

Accompanied by these words, Chong Liu's body seemed to be suddenly swept up by a huge wave, lifting his entire vast and ethereal body, leaving the warm, comfortable, but always hidden murderous sea.The violent wind hit him from every direction, blew the membrane over his eyes.

He saw the sky first, the sky that shocked him and made him incomprehensible.He saw the mysterious color diffused by the hot nebula that has not been extinguished in the universe, and saw countless vast planets spread out in the depths of the universe that human eyes can never see, each indifferently following its own trajectory.

He saw two primordial forces that are sometimes incompatible｜combined and sometimes incompatible are constantly conflicting and balancing.In this collision, countless bright and gorgeous new worlds are constantly reincarnated.He saw the life that lived and multiplied on the stars for millions of years was wiped out in a ripple that slowly pushed through the universe, and he also saw the changing trajectory and temperature that ignited the originally desolate and silent planet, and gave birth to the next cycle endlessly. civilization.

Innumerable lives, innumerable histories, innumerable memories... appear and die, die and rebirth.

And in the conflict of these forces, something bigger than a star, bigger than a nebula, something that any creature in a low civilization can't understand appears.It is also possible that they are already there, they have existed from the beginning of all time, but before the appearance of creatures, only they can know their own existence, dancing alone in the dark depths of the universe.

There are many of them, but they all seem to be under the umbrella of the greatest consciousness.They have the ability to manipulate and change the most basic laws of the universe, and can easily put out the stars.

They are everywhere, but human eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body cannot analyze and sort them out, so they can only occasionally feel the confusion brought about by their huge, embedded tentacles, but they cannot see or touch them.Those who try to see them, or to penetrate secrets they should not, often end in madness or destruction.

People call them gods.

The world they include is far more than just theirs.Countless worlds, countless times, and countless universes that exist in parallel but can never meet each other.On every star, there are traces left by them.Including the balance of morality, operating rules, and ancient rumors with only a few words.They draw strength from the changes in the operation of these countless worlds, just like people plow the land to plant rice, and then use the rice to fill their stomachs.

This is their way of being, and it has been so since time immemorial.To them, human beings are like small grains on an ear of rice, completely meaningless and insignificant.

The unprecedented cold and fear frightened Chong Liu's entire consciousness.It's like an ant standing on the reef for the first time and seeing the raging sea with strong winds.

For a lifetime of mediocrity, I thought that the wealth, glory, trivial matters, and power and status in front of me were everything.But when you open your eyes and realize that you are just an ant in an ant nest, the next moment you may be destroyed by a pot of hot water poured down by a bored child, there is no escape... All beliefs, all The rules and all cognitions collapsed in an instant.

But Chong Liu is somewhat different from ordinary human beings.That part of him has collapsed, but there is another part of him that has known all this for a long time.

He has only been a human being for more than 20 years, but his existence has been determined since the birth of this planet.

It's just that he still doesn't get it.I don't understand why there are two different cognitions in my mind, and I don't understand what I am.

He seems to have been a bystander until he became human.But he couldn't remember how he became human.

The huge, landslide-like vortex of knowledge swallowed him, his head seemed to burst, and his consciousness seemed to be torn apart.However, he didn't die. On the contrary, his existence became more certain, and his free body gradually gathered together.

His body is inextricably linked, exuding all kinds of gorgeous and strange colors that have never been seen before.Those slimy, soft tentacles filled with unknown fluorescent substances were like a huge, fine and flowing cloak, completely covering his fragile core.There seems to be no tentacles on his head, but his field of vision is extremely wide, as if he can not only see up and down in all directions, but also use detached eyes to penetrate into the inside of all living things.

Master's voice sounded in his mind again, "This is the state before you were born. It is your previous life and your present life. Do you remember?"

Chong Liu's consciousness, which was on the verge of collapse, had strangely achieved a balance at this moment.As a human being, he felt that his entire life had been torn apart and reassembled, but as this other, more ancient existence, he watched all this calmly and detachedly.

He vaguely understood that Master's voice was imagined by himself.He is actually dead.Now if he chooses to stay here, he will continue to exist in this bystander, joyless way.

But if he wants to come back to life, he will return to his original human body again.Maybe he will retain a lot of memories, but it is absolutely impossible to see everything as he does now.

Several of his tentacles lifted up, holding a small golden bird.

He thought of Zhu Helan standing under the moon with his cat in his arms, the locust tree that shook its branches with joy when he saw him, Zhu Yi, Xiao Shun, Master Liao...

He just had a home.

"I want to come back to life." When he said it the first time, he was still not sure, but when he said it the second time and the third time, he became more and more sure, "I want to come back to life, I want to come back to life. Time It hasn’t arrived yet, I still have unfinished business.”

With this thought in mind, he settled down in the dark and opened his eyes again.There was a fleeting blue light in the eyeballs.

He completely opened his body, and the tentacles immediately filled the entire box.The explosive force of terror shook the indestructible wonder, and cracks began to appear in the wood.

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Yuanchu searched all the way for the imprint left by Di Chi, and went deep into the earth in disgrace.

After parting with Zhu Helan Guan Chongliu, he originally wanted to go back to see his master, but when he arrived in the city, he heard the news that the real Wusheng was going to the South China Sea, and he went with the officers and soldiers.

Their Da Luo faction has close ties with the imperial court, but the South China Sea is far away and uninhabited, what are they going there for?

Yuanchu, who already had some doubts about Wusheng Zhenren in his heart, took the risk of using Miaokong to escape to the South China Sea. In order not to let the master notice, he could only watch from afar.I saw the master leading many brothers into a secret cave together with the officers and soldiers.He waited until everyone had gone in before he dared to touch it quietly, and saw the hole left by Di Chi on the ground.

There is only one ground Chichi made by Master, why would he use it today?

Feeling uneasy, Yuanchu jumped directly into the hole left by Dichi, and walked forward gropingly.Fortunately, there will be a lot of sour and smelly mucus wherever the chinchilla passes by. As long as you follow the mucus, you won't lose it.

Dichi seems to have stayed in a strange and huge underground cave for a while.Yuanchu was about to follow, but was attacked by many unknown monsters.These monsters are not too difficult to deal with with his cultivation base, but the problem is that there are too many of them, and they are all extremely distorted and deformed. They are neither human nor ghost, which makes him feel cold when he sees them.

Seeing that there were too many of them, he had no choice but to stand up with his sword, and staggered across the monster group, like a silver flying arrow piercing the dark long stretch.

It's just that the Zenith soon became low, no longer suitable for Yu Jian, and his Dao Qi was consumed too quickly.He had no choice but to put away his sword and crawl with hands and feet in the most primitive way.

He also considered using Earth Dungeon or Wonderful Space Dungeon, but when he saw the bone spider in the box crawling like crazy, he knew that the underground filth was very chaotic.If it is not used well, I am afraid that it will be lost in the depths of the earth forever.So he still played it safe and entered this strange and magnificent city after chasing the ground chili slime.

Before he had gone far, he suddenly saw Di Chi crawling out of a ravine not far away and rushing towards him.He was almost hit by a somersault, and then he felt several tentacles of the ground chinch still clung to his body, as if giving him a big hug...

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and stretched out his hand to pat Di Chi's huge head, "Okay, Ah Chi, why don't you stay with Master?"

Di Chi seemed to be in a hurry, pushing Yuanchu's body with his tentacles, leading him in a certain direction.Yuanchu was puzzled in his heart, so he followed the ground chi and moved forward quickly.From far away, I heard the sound of a piece of wood crumbling.

When he came near the crabapple wooden box, he found that the wooden box was trembling in place, and it seemed that there was something extremely fierce inside.He was a little apprehensive, put his hand on the hilt of his sword, and stared at the box vigilantly.Di Chi made a strange whining sound behind him.

Suddenly, dense cracks began to appear on the box.And under the crack, the scorching blue light burst out from the crack as if it could no longer be suppressed.The crumbling wooden box persisted for a while, then suddenly fell apart.

A surging, azure light rushed to the dark zenith, like a giant pillar that opened up the world.The strong impact cyclone knocked him to the ground, and even the chinchilla was pushed back a few feet.

A large mass of terrifying tentacles exploded from the box, almost like a blue sun.Such a large volume, how was it stuffed into the box before?

Yuanchu was dumbfounded, and the strong panic overwhelmed him.He couldn't move at all, he could only open his eyes wide, letting the blue fill his pupils.

When the light dimmed slightly, he could clearly see all the huge tentacles emitting a mysterious blue light.Some have octopus-like features, while others are as light as the tentacles of jellyfish.Some end with petal-shaped mouths, while others are densely covered with barbs and end with poisonous needles.These tentacles closed into a huge sphere in the air, and there was a moment of silence, as if something was brewing.

Then the sphere opened like a flower bud.

Yuanchu's eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets.He rubbed his eyes, but he still saw the same scene.

Guan Zhongliu was suspended in the center of the tentacles, his thin body was integrated with the tentacles, his arms were gone from the shoulders.Under the originally healthy and fair skin, there was a blue light similar to tentacles, and the light was still flowing, meandering on his beautiful face. At this moment, it looked like an inhuman, evil and weird beauty.

"Heavy six!" Yuanchu called out tentatively.

Guan Chongliu's eyes opened. It was a pair of pitch-black, strange eyes with no whites visible, but there was still a faint blue light flowing under the blackness.

But it was only for a moment, and soon, the darkness in his eyeballs began to fade away, turning back to the black and white eyes of normal human beings.The moment his feet landed on the ground, the tentacles all over the sky began to shrink and merge strangely, turning back into two arms.The sleeves of his clothes were completely torn, but the skin on his arms was fair and smooth, without any trace of distortion at all.

Chong Liu looked at him, as if he didn't recognize who he was for a while.

Yuanchu swallowed, raised his hands to show that he was innocent, and took a step forward, "Chongliu, it's me, don't you know me?"

Chong Liu blinked slowly, and the blankness in his eyes gradually faded away.He asked in a dry voice, "Yuanchu?"

"It's me! Chong Liu, why are you here?! Where's your shopkeeper? And why are you..."

Chongliu's expression suddenly changed, panic appeared on his face.

"Oops, it wants to approach the owner instead of me!"