Chapter 549: First Entering Darkness

Since the exploration of the abyss was initiated by William, he naturally stood first and reached out when he approached the curtain.

"Um! Even the touch is real! 』

The touch on the surface of your fingers is like touching some kind of delicate fabric.

 At the moment of contact, micron-sized tentacle structures immediately grew on the surface of the cloth, trying to penetrate William's skin and enter the body.

  【Abyss Infection】

 This is the first time that William has been "actively invaded" by the abyss when he came to this area. The only ones he encountered before were rat men affected by the abyss.

William, who possesses the body of a perfect birther, can easily capture this invasion process.

Even in a flash, his brain came up with multiple plans to block the invasion. Just when William chose the safest way, he wanted to annihilate the invading abyss tentacles through the [Death Plague], which was also a product of the abyss.

Buzz! A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

William recalled the first time he went to Zion and received the "Gentleman's Skin" for the first time,

The physical touch given by the dark curtain in front of you is partially similar to that of Gentleman's Skin, and both of them are trying to invade their bodies when they first come into contact.

 There are two choices William can make: "accept" or "reject."

　　If you had refused to be a gentleman, you would not have been able to become a gentleman and embark on this unique path.

Thinking of this, William instantly removed all the death plague from his body and allowed the tiny tentacles of the abyss to enter his body.

ˆKing, Price, and Candle Thirteen also noticed this at the same time as they maintained a connection with William.

 Jin did not express his position, just smiled silently,

Price was thoughtful and wanted to say something but finally swallowed it.

"Teacher!" The moment Thirteen shouted, something suddenly occurred to him, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't say anything more... I will focus on the lighting task."

 “Well, let’s go!”

William nodded, and then opened the curtain in front of him. There are no restrictions on the tiny tentacles that invade the body, allowing them to swim and take root in the body.

 When everyone entered, the curtain fell and there was no absolute darkness as expected, but more of a "sense of isolation".

 The falling curtain seems to have completely isolated the old world, and now everyone seems to be in a brand new area, a secret area full of unknowns and dangers.

The black wind howls,

Thirteen's skull candle was suppressed, as if there were hundreds of black skulls floating around, and he kept blowing cold breath from his mouth in an attempt to extinguish the skull candle.

 The skull candle still keeps burning, but it is suppressed to the brightness of an ordinary candle.

In addition to illuminating the team, the candlelight also illuminated a neatly paved stone path less than ten meters apart.

 Price could tell at a glance that the material used for this road was "dark stone", and its purity was very high, which could have been sold at a high price in the past. Dark stone of this quality can be used to build noble palaces, but it is really luxurious to use it to pave roads here.

Just as the team was about to set foot on this special stone road and head into the depths of the darkest place,

　　哐婷~The iron chains connecting everyone began to tremble, and something was approaching.

 Thirteen Immediately increase the burning efficiency of the skull candle and expand the lighting range to try to find the approaching danger.

 Not in the air, nor on the horizontal plane.

 “Underground.”

At the same time that William got the result of perception, Jin had already stepped out!

When the golden boots stepped on the ground, a thick red lotus root grew out of the heel, inserted into the ground, and grew and split crazily.

 When a root touches the target's body, it will immediately bloom and bear fruit underground.

  Boom!

 A large crater was directly blasted into the ground, and some kind of monster that could swim underground was blasted out. There were multiple injuries, and the obvious sound of blood splattering could be heard.

"mouth?"

Under the illumination of the candlelight, what appeared in front of everyone was an independent big mouth.

 The width of the mouth reaches a full six meters, or even seven meters in length, which is fully capable of swallowing everyone in one bite.

 What is very strange is that this independent large mouth has no tooth structure and seems to be only capable of swallowing.

There are densely packed fingers growing at the end of the mouth, and these fingers are arranged together to form a fish tail. This structure reminds William of the lower body of a hotel owner, which is obviously the influence of the abyss.

It is this ‘fish tail’ that allows the mouth to swim underground in extremely dark places.

Immediately afterwards, William looked inside the mouth again, feeling a sense of space through his stargazer physique, and immediately came to a conclusion.

“This should be the “transfer problem” that Thirteen mentioned before.

Any individual who goes to the extremely dark place will be randomly teleported to a certain area and lose their sense of direction, increasing the probability of falling into the darkness and eventually being assimilated into the abyss.

 Once we are swallowed by this mouth, we should be transported to other areas. "

Jin looked helpless after hearing this, "Huh? That's it...if I had known better, I wouldn't have blown it up. If we were lucky, maybe we could be sent directly to the edge of the abyss, which would save a lot of time."

 William shook his head, "In such an unknown place, we still can't rely on luck. It's better to be down-to-earth."

 While the two were chatting,

The mouth that was injured by Honglian actually repaired the injury by breathing quickly, flapping its fish tail frantically, trying to get back underground.

Lord Price stepped forward and waved his silver-covered claws.

Buzz!

 A sound of space being torn apart spread.

Obviously there is still a meter or two between the claws and the mouth, but as the claws fell, the mouth was directly cut into six sections, and the incisions were covered with moonlight silver to prevent regeneration.

 Hissing~The flesh is sublimated, completely dead.

Price stared at the gradually disappearing piece of mouth flesh, then raised his hand to look at his paws, muttering to himself: "What a strange feeling. It looks like it's just a deformed mouth, but when it's cut, it feels like it's been killed." A poor guy."

“It is right to kill those who feel sick to the touch.

This mouth should be that of a certain foreign patient who was trapped in a dark place for a long time and slowly mutated into this appearance under the influence of a 'malignant disease'.

 Even been given a conscious function by the Abyss, specifically responsible for teleporting outsiders.

 Look at my hands..."

William slowly raised his right arm, which was the hand that had just touched the black curtain.

 There has been obvious "drawing" at the ends of the fingers. The skin that should have been tightly arranged has become loose and arranged in a thread-like manner. The internal muscles and bones are also changing.

William didn’t care. There were many ways to restore the status quo, and he continued to talk about his thoughts:

“The hotel owner and the green prime minister that I killed in Rat City also had serious ‘lower body mutations’… If they were exposed to the abyss for a long time, they would eventually completely lose their mouse essence and turn into a creature of the abyss.

 However, the specific malignant pathogenesis process is still unclear.

For example, Price, your situation is very different. Your body has not undergone any changes, but an abyss mask has appeared on your face. The reason for this is still unclear. It may be that your body is too strong and the abyss cannot cause mutations, or it may be some other reason.

To find out clearly what "malignant disease" the [Tenth Abyss] corresponds to, we have to continue to delve deeper. "

Lord Price touched his mouse chin, "Does malignant disease refer to diseases that are contrary to the old world? Is the so-called [Abyss] an expression of malignant disease?"

At this moment, there was a sound of rolling wheels not far away, interrupting the communication between the teams.

This sound is very familiar to William and King, and the source of the sound is the carriage. At the same time, it also carries a group of individuals that are far more dangerous than the mouth.

 William also placed one of his hands on the suitcase, ready to fight with all his strength.

 As everyone expected, a special carriage drove out in the darkness.

Two black horses are pulling the carriage, both of them have no heads.

There is a smooth cut on the horse's neck, and a black candle is inserted into the surface of the cut... This candle will emit a "dark light".

 It is a very strange light that can be both intimate with darkness and provide ‘black and white illumination’ in the darkness.

The horse's abdomen was completely split open, and its exaggerated ribs were exposed. It even felt like these ribs could move on their own and pierce any outsiders who tried to harm it.

The black horse's legs and feet began to undergo "filamentous fission" from the middle, turning into muscle strips like tentacles, which moved forward through peristalsis. This is why everyone only heard the sound of wheels grinding on the ground but no sound of horse hooves. reason.

The driver sitting at the front of the carriage was wrapped in a black windbreaker. His entire head was wrapped by dense tentacles, with only one eye growing diagonally in the center.

 The carriage stopped in front of everyone and the door opened.

 (End of this chapter)