This is a peculiar place. To quote Khan, "No one who has been to this place has ever come back... It can change your destiny, wash away the traces of the past, and give you the opportunity to start a new life."
This time Khan wanted to take Xie Yuan into the river because in addition to changing his destiny, if he had an obsessive and firm desire for a certain goal.
So... then once he enters this river, he may enter a certain time and space, and then the opportunity will be at his fingertips.
So in order to find the black monster, Khan asked me to think of one thing, and only one thing: "The black monster must be found. This is the only prayer for this river."
Xie Yuan's curious desire to explore was fully aroused. Khan may be deified, but he can also be regarded as a stickman with words. A place that can be regarded by him as a "place where destiny changes" is definitely extraordinary.
Extraordinary.
There are fewer and fewer places in the subway that he doesn't understand, except for a few gloomy places... It's also a pleasure to follow an old guy who has traveled all over the subway to some places he has never been before.
However, the road was not as difficult as Xie Yuan imagined - Khan led the way, but the monsters that suddenly appeared on the road, such as Nosalis, were just a little hindrance.
To be honest, the first half of the journey was not even an appetizer for Xie Yuan, but the boring journey came to an abrupt end when he encountered a mark.
It was an underground sewage pipe welded to a fence. The fence had been completely rusted and corroded, but what was attractive was the fact that there was a human skull embedded in the fence frame, with a cross symbol underneath.
The Khan wanted Xie Yuan to help pull out the fence frame, but Xie Yuan directly motioned to the Khan to get out of the way - such a rusty iron bar still requires two people?
He directly pointed his middle finger at the joints one by one, tapping lightly and briefly, and then ripped off each iron bar as if he wanted to break a biscuit.
"Cool, the iron bars didn't even take any effort on your part." Khan couldn't help but praise.
"But I have never been to a place like this. I am still too narrow-minded, sitting in a well and looking at the sky." Xie Yuanke did not dare to accept this kind of compliment. After all, this place really surprised him today.
In his perception, there was a very chaotic and strange magnetic field in front of him, and he was unable to read this internal environment.
The danger signal made his heart beat faster. This was a desperate situation! But Xie Yuan could also feel the strange energy of this place, and he really wanted to experience it.
After all, he has been wandering on the fifth level for a long time now, and the new direction of his state of mind and body has come to a standstill. Penance is a required course on the one hand, but more importantly, his state of mind has solidified.
He needs a new perspective and a new direction to break through the shackles again. The practice of kung fu is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat; but the practice of mind and realm is always experience and enlightenment.
There is stillness and movement, yin and yang, so it is unhealthy to be a widower all the time. How can we transcend without experiencing the world of mortals?
You still have to live in the present.
After burning a large piece of attached spider web, the two gradually came to a pool with water - seriously suspected to be a sewage pipe - but the depressing feeling began to become more and more serious.
"We're almost close." Khan jumped directly into the pool.
"We have to go into the water again," Xie Yuanman muttered reluctantly, and also jumped into the water. With the filter of clothes, it was probably not too dirty - but the lower body was particularly uncomfortable because of the wetness.
Even Xie Yuan, who has extensive experience in armed swimming, cannot completely avoid this feeling of nausea.
"Crack!" But just as he walked into the pool, the flashlight on the hand of a skeleton next to him suddenly became unstable and exploded! Xie Yuan immediately put out his flashlight - electrical appliances caused by magnetic fields can easily be damaged by the surrounding environment.
The pulse is destroyed.
Moreover, Xie Yuan did not have no light source in his hand - the 14.5mm anti-tank rifle cartridge case lighter directly lit up a large cluster of flames, illuminating the surrounding area.
When I used the flashlight, the cold energy filled my whole body, and it really brought a little warmth at this moment... I don't feel like too many people have died here?
Why is Yin Qi so heavy?! But fortunately, the energy pulse just now was not a singular point - if it were a singular point, it would be doomed. Dirty water is a good conductive medium.
"The darkness is devouring us," Khan, who also turned off the lights, reminded Xie Yuan, although he knew that his follower might have an easier time surviving in this environment than he did.
But he still had to fulfill his duty as a guide. He also took out a bullet case lighter from his pocket, lit the fire, and reminded: "We must not get lost in it.
Don't be impulsive now, and don't be surprised either."
As he spoke, he walked into the waterway by the light of the lighter's candle.
The waterway must have been popular in the past - the wooden supports on the top prove that it has been repaired. However, it is estimated that the surrounding radiation concentration is too high, and some places even have strong magnetic field interference.
And this kind of interference definitely has the effect of affecting people's sanity - right in front, suddenly highlighted!
A public hand-cranked telephone left behind in a wall of debris suddenly emitted a "ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!"
"Gulu" Xie Yuan swallowed directly.
He didn't know how to explain what happened before - there was no shadow, so there was no ghost influence; this was not before the war, and there were no surveillance cameras nearby. Who would call? Who controls the communication switchboard?
"I think this call is for you." Khan reminded him as he was following Xie Yuan.
"I guess, let's see who it is?" Suppressing the distracting thoughts in his heart, Xie Yuan went straight over and grabbed the phone to answer it——
"Artyom?" After hearing this, Xie Yuan suddenly tightened the microphone in his hand - he swore he hadn't heard this voice for twenty years!
"...Son, is that you?...Artyom?" The greeting suddenly began to ask urgently for confirmation.
"..." Xie Yuan no longer knew how to answer. He said that he was alive and well as of today? He said that he was now almost famous in the Moscow subway world and had no worries about food and clothing? He said that he already had a girlfriend, and she would be there soon.
Are you ready to talk about marriage?
There are too many things to say, too many things in my heart...but I can't say anything now.
The light on his head started to turn on and off. Could it be that the energy transmission was not enough? He had to hurry up. He mustered up his last bit of courage, saved up... and then output——
"Mom, I'm fine. You're on the other side. You have to take care of yourself."
Whether this is an enemy and creditor, a haunting spirit or the mischievous trajectory of a ghost, or it is really a message sent to him by his mother in the world of the dead, these are the true words from his heart.
So no matter what her reply was, Xie Yuan still hung up the phone - he had finished what he said in his heart, his eyes were not clean and his heart was no longer bothered.
After seeing Xie Yuan make a move, Khan was very pleased to be able to leave and catch up immediately, but he asked Xie Yuan to hurry up and leave here: "Don't stay here forever."
Soon the two of them came to the end of the tunnel and needed to turn left, but Xie Yuan still noticed with sharp eyes... On the frame facing them, a skeleton lying on the side suddenly straightened up and looked at them!
However, both Khan and Xie Yuan turned a blind eye to it - Khan probably had seen it too much, but Xie Yuan had just made a phone call from the underworld and was thinking about it now.
"That's it...the River of Destiny," Khan pointed to a waterfall at the left exit. "It may not be so impressive on the surface."
Rather than being impressive, it is better to say that it looks unattractive - a group of water from an unknown source flows into the pool like a waterfall from a high place.
The water surface was green, so it was still polluted underground sewage. Xie Yuan speculated that the so-called guidelines may be caused by the psychedelic substances and high doses of radiation contained in it.
But since Khan went into the water... Xie Yuan just went down. It wasn't the first time he went into the water anyway.
Standing under the waterfall, Xie Yuan just listened to Khan's direction... or hypnotism: "Water and imagination, you can't have your cake and eat it too, think about the little black monster... think about the black monster, this river
Will guide you to find him..."
Xie Yuan also closed his eyes, soaked in the waterfall water and recalled the general appearance of the little black monster, but what he found in his consciousness was different from the effect of psychedelic drugs that Xie Yuan thought...
The ground that he had stepped on suddenly disappeared! That is to say, he missed the step and fell into the depths of the water... The last impression he had was still: he saw Khan falling into the water at the same time and kept flopping.
Then his eyes went dark, and he spun straight into the whirlpool... and just like that, a weird and wonderful adventure began.