Abyssal Kingdom

The two headed to the communal laundry room with the clothes basket.

The sign at the door of the laundry room was dim, stained with dirt like rust, and there were voices of colleagues chatting inside.

Wei An walked in with a smile on his face, and greeted the people inside. There are about [-] washing machines standing here, all with round drums and drying functions. It may be that this space considers the effect of simulating the sun. Generally, it is specially arranged, anyway, it is quite advanced for a city that has fallen for thousands of years.

Wei An scanned the room and immediately realized where the most uncomfortable place was.

It was an extremely old and dilapidated machine in the innermost part of the room. It seemed to have been damaged for a long time. It was not used by anyone, but it was not dragged away. It was a broken corpse.

The place felt eerie, as if something bad was hidden.

Wei An walked to an unused machine and began to process the clothes - in this place, they still need to maintain the basic personality, and wait for the colleagues to leave before going in to look.

Guiling stood by the door, obviously not ready to work.

A group of people were talking about the haunted sanatorium, saying that when they went down to the "mine", they saw a ward that didn't exist, and no one who went in came out again.

The hospital issued a gag order, and no one dared to discuss it publicly.

Wei An seemed to be making a fuss and chatted with everyone for a while, and his colleagues started talking about the schedule to go to the "mining area", and asked Wei An if he would go this month. Wei An said skillfully that he had just been there last week, I don't have to go again this month, but I actually don't know what I'm talking about.

This is a nursing home, so why did they go to "mining", but everyone took it for granted, so he couldn't ask too much.

"I'm going to the mining area again next week, and I really don't want to go near it," said a middle-aged colleague. "Many people have gone there and never returned."

"It's sticky to thoughts, don't think about it after you go down..." Another person said.

"I think it's very hungry recently..."

Wei An listened to these conversations, this was a weird undercurrent of a dry life, but it was so natural, like experiencing a nightmare soberly, the rules were gloomy, no questions were allowed, and no one knew what happened.

The people in the laundry room chatted for a while, and soon dispersed, and the surroundings became quiet.

Wei An didn't ask Gui Ling for more details. At this point, there might be someone else coming to do the laundry soon, so he didn't want to chat for another round.

As soon as the last colleague left, he immediately walked towards the old machine in the corner, grabbing and dragging it out.

There are rollers under this thing, so it is not difficult. The mottled wall behind is exposed, and it looks like it has been damp for a long time.

When it was completely dragged open, Wei An saw a dark red door on the wall that was less than a person's height. It was very old, reminding Wei An of the door when he came in from the outside, and it was almost exactly the same.

This design is completely illogical. It seems like a red organ growing out of the building itself. There is a broken sign next to it. The words on it are very clear, saying "Worriless Nursing Home: Inner Courtyard".

Wei An pulled the door and locked it.

Gui Ling walked behind him, grabbed the doorknob, and yanked it again. At the same time, there was the sound of the door bolt cracking, and this time it was pulled open.

Gui Ling walked in, followed by Wei An, pulled the washing machine back a bit, and closed the door.

The door opened into a long corridor, very old, like a bleak reflection of the former ward.

There are densely packed iron gates at about fifteen places on the right, and outside is a lounge in the living area. There are staff walking around, the sound of TV playing, and people laughing lightly. It is a scene of normal life.

Separated by an iron fence, they entered the inner courtyard. The pattern here was similar to the outside, but it fell from the normal rules and light, and entered the dirty gutter.

There are no windows, no skylight, just endless walkways and doorways.

There are the same iron doors on both sides of the corridor, and the sound of scratching, screaming, crying, and some random ravings can be heard faintly from inside.The floor is filthy, like it's been soaked in too many stains and will never be really clean.

Wei An glanced around and felt that this is what the nursing home really looks like.

Gui Ling turned around and walked towards the direction opposite to the lights in the living area, Wei An walked side by side with him.

"What's that 'mining area' they're talking about?" Wei An said.

"It's the foundation of this building. I'm going there to find the host program." Gui Ling said.

"Can you make it clearer?"

"This city has its mutating properties. 'Sanatoriums' can be seen everywhere, but they are all just fragments, controlled below [-] cubic meters." Gui Ling said, "The reason why this sanatorium can grow so large is because it is based on the 'mining area'. grown."

"So, the mining area is a kind of nutrient?"

"Ah."

"What exactly is it?"

Gui Ling was silent for a while, then said, "It's not important anymore."

Wei An didn't ask any further. This must be a major event of ancient civilization. He couldn't talk about it, or he just didn't want to. He refused to talk about all related things, and he seemed to be trying to forget it no matter in action or words.

Wei An originally wanted to ask his colleagues what the haunted ward was when they were chatting, but there was a commotion not far ahead.

He followed the sound and saw that several nurses and doctors grabbed a mad patient, put him in a restraint suit, and dragged him to the rubber ward.

But... what they caught wasn't human at all.

It has the appearance of a human, but it is definitely not. Its skin is pale, its eyes are two small blood-red holes, showing a hollow sense of hunger, it is taller than ordinary humans, and its hands are scaly claws.

Its mouth was wide open, with jagged black teeth inside.

Wayne watched dumbfounded as the orderlies dragged the monster into a small room and forced it into a straitjacket. The thing kept screaming. It sounded like some monster that had never appeared in the human biological map, muttering something completely crazy.

People were yelling "grab it's legs" "just another tranquilizer" and stuff like that.

Wei An didn't know what to say for a while, this was a standard mental hospital scene, but it was completely weird and crazy.

"This..." Wei An said, "What the hell is this?!"

"The concentration of power in this place is not stable, and extreme emotional states sometimes cause the patient's limbs to mutate." Gui Ling said.

"It means that in this place, when you go crazy, your appearance will turn into a monster?"

"You could say the same."

Wei An felt a chill.

"They...the wards that attacked people they said just now grow in this way?" He said, "It grows in the depths of the hospital, killing people at random..."

"I don't know, that's not in the movie," Gui Ling said, "But sometimes there are some inexplicable things in the sinking space."

While talking, the two walked to the door of the chaotic ward.

A few nurses were restraining the monster to the bed, and the doctor stood watching as if he had finally finished his hard work, and took out a pack of cigarettes.

When he saw Wei An and Gui Ling, he nodded and greeted them. Wei An also smiled at him very naturally, holding the gun firmly in his hand.

Wei An didn't ask any more questions. As he continued to walk forward, the screams from the rooms on both sides became louder and louder, reminiscent of pain, madness and despair, the grave of human reason.

Stability and common sense are never taken for granted, and Wayne knows how deep and dark some things in the world can drag one into.

In this atmosphere, it is not surprising that nothing appears out of thin air.

Wei An thought about what happened when Guiling taught him how to shoot before he came in.

He can feel the "deep domain system" now... When his consciousness deviates a little from the scene in front of him, he can feel the image of the gray lump of flesh like a spider, this completely crazy fantasy creature standing on the edge of the void, the dense Thick language is not known to any knowledge of man...

"Don't listen like that." Gui Ling said.

Wei An looked at him in horror, Gui Ling's dark and weird eyes were close at hand, looking into Wei An's eyes.

"...What?" Wei An said.

He always felt that the color of those eyes came from a long-dead empire, a part of its huge cogs, a system with god-like power that could control everything, so of course he could see the deeper things in his mind .But what Guiling said was not the case.

"It looks like an ancient god in the depths of space. In its belief system, you can grab some corner power from it by asking, but it's not like this." Gui Ling said, "Superpowers are not asking for power, It’s about authorized users. The direction of thinking is what do you want, what do you hate, what do you want to kill, and how much do you kill. This is a war system.”

"War." Wei An whispered.

"Don't be disturbed by its language, focus on your part." Gui Ling said.

Wei An nodded, clenched the gun in his hand.

Most of the wards were quiet, and some scratched and screamed.

Wei An focused on this strange implanted organ, feeling its terrifying destructive power.

At this moment, Gui Ling pressed his shoulder, Wei An stopped, and the sound of footsteps came from the corridor in front.

It was two doctors, and one of them said: "Do you feel that the 'mining area' has become more and more hungry recently..."

"Don't think about it, let's finish it quickly and leave before midnight," said another.

They carried two dirty iron buckets with shovels and other tools in them, and walked through the dark corridor in front of them.The voice came from afar, saying things like "It's almost here", "Well, the texture has begun to change", "Did it come over on its own initiative?" and so on.

The voices of the two disappeared, but Gui Ling still did not move.

"Aren't we going to follow?" Wei An said.

Gui Ling shook his head, he turned his head slightly, as if he was looking in a further direction.

Wei An was about to say something, but felt that something was wrong behind him, he looked back, and suddenly moved away from the wall, staring at that thing.

The texture of the walls and floor is very weird, it is definitely not the appearance of a building, it is shiny with oil, some moisture, it seems to be breathing, it is the skin of some kind of creature.

The characters scribbled on the wall, and the knocked off wall skin are its spots.

There was a rustling sound close to that of insects crawling around, but it didn't really exist, it was only in Wei An's mind.

No matter what this mining area is, in the darkness, there is indeed something inexplicable "coming".This is a very gloomy power, with a creepy sense of gloom that seems to have never seen light before. Wei An looked at the corridor in front of him and felt that it was a barren land leading to a human social mind that could not understand at all. path of.

The entire corridor and the door disappeared at some point, leaving only the wall, maybe still there, but it has been covered, grown, and swallowed by this weird skin.

Wei An quickly leaned towards the direction of Guiling, no matter what happened, only here is safe.

In the darkness, there was a room ahead that was still lit, and the light was dim, which looked ominous.

Wei An was sure that he had entered some deeper and darker place, the building changed its position secretly, and surrounded them maliciously.

I don’t know when there was an extra window in the corridor, and there was also a fence, but the scenery outside could be seen.

That seemed to be where they worked during the day, he wasn't too sure, everything was similar here.

Wei An stared at the extra window, from which he could see that there was a strong sense of peeping, as if the building came here by itself, with a monotonous courtyard outside, lights like will-o’-the-wisps in the duty room, and patients asleep.

"I think the outside is the ward we are in charge of," Wei An said. "Is this normal?"

Gui Ling didn't answer, Wei An turned his head, startled.

The light that was on just now was still 50 meters away, but in a blink of an eye, it was right in front of them.

Only one corridor away, less than three meters away, is a lamp in front of an old door.The light board is very old and flickering, with words like dried blood printed on it: Ward T.