0040 Chapter 1: Confessions of the Dead (Section 34)
As the jester laughed, Zhen Cheng could clearly see through the strong light that the trees in the forest were curling up at indescribable angles like images in surreal oil paintings. The folds of the tree trunks seemed to come to life and twist.
Into faces that resemble human screams.
The flowers, plants and shrubs on the ground seemed to have withered, and were covered with a layer of withered yellow and gray color, but at the same time they were spreading and growing crazily in all directions. There was no trace of the Zhishi covered by this spreading.
Finally, she saw with her own eyes a squirrel planted from the tree. The little guy's fur was cracked and bleeding, and it was convulsing in great pain. After a while, it shook its tail and climbed up from the ground, with a slanted hole on its back.
But at this moment, three human eyes suddenly stared blankly.
What is going on? The extraordinary ability obtained by the jester? The power of the golden mask itself goes berserk? No! Zhen Cheng has never heard of an extraordinary path that affects the entire world around him in such a disorderly manner. Rather than saying extraordinary ability, she feels that this is more
Like...a paradox effect?
Zhen Cheng actually doesn't know much about the phenomenon of shadows. In fact, all humankind's understanding of this supernatural chaotic distortion is extremely limited.
Those top forces in the world who have the ability to study the supernatural only know that this is an extremely rare supernatural phenomenon, which takes on a different form every time it is observed. In addition to all the paradoxes, the observer will feel a sense of difficulty.
The well-known dizziness has no regular characteristics.
Paradox phenomena are not limited by any scientific principles or religious world views. When they appear in reality, they are sometimes completely harmless. For example, a section of a stream flows upwards against the flow. It makes irregular musical sounds while flowing and forms a perfect closed loop with the surrounding environment.
of streams;
Sometimes it is accompanied by serious catastrophic accidents and casualties, such as a land of several hundred square meters with a gravity comparable to that of a white dwarf.
The most troublesome thing for mankind is that these strange occurrences have no purpose. The damage they cause does not contain any subjective malice, and no objective rules can be found, making it difficult to prevent.
The only good news for human beings is that these weirdnesses rarely occur in the real world. Therefore, for most ordinary people, ghosts are just various urban ghost stories. They mostly occur in places that are connected to reality, and they are also
In another world where elusive information is scarce - [Hidden Space].
A few days ago, it seemed that she was accidentally involved in this unknown secret world, which was the opportunity that forced Zhen Cheng to start searching for extraordinary power. After escaping from the secret space after a narrow escape, she began to collect relevant knowledge from family intelligence.
, and decided to accept the invitation for today’s game.
Yes, the situation in front of us looks like a paradox effect in every sense. The disorder, distortion, scope and method of action are beyond the scope of the abilities of extraordinary beings...
The only problem is that observing the shadow phenomenon should be accompanied by a strong sense of dizziness, but Zhen Cheng did not feel any discomfort at all.
Aiming at the gradually distorted and blurred figure behind the mask with a beam and a pistol, Zhen Cheng frowned slightly and realized something was wrong. The strange state of the person in front of him did not seem to be controlling the distortion and mutation around him at all, but seemed to be very painfully affected by it.
Abnormal control of surroundings.
Of course, if the shadow phenomenon happened to happen here due to some inexplicable reason, this situation would appear to be relatively normal.
Faced with the sudden change, Zhen Cheng had already given up on trying to seize the golden mask. At this moment, seeing that the opponent was not in a good condition and had no intention of attacking her, she did not shoot and attack like Zhi Shi, but was the first to attack.
Time to think of escaping.
Slowly stepping back, trying not to attract the attention of the Golden Mask or its wearer, Zhen Cheng silently touched the driver's seat of the car. Fortunately, in order to deal with various emergencies, Zhi Shi did not take out the car key before, but left it.
In the keyhole behind the steering wheel.
The situation in front of her is obviously not something she can handle on her own. Only by escaping can she find someone to deal with the changes here. Even if her indifferent father doesn't care about her life or death at all, facing the extraordinary changes happening on the earth
He can never remain indifferent.
Zhen Cheng carefully turned the key, not even daring to close the car door first. However, the expected engine ignition sound did not appear, and she unexpectedly found that she had failed to turn the key.
Zhen Cheng didn't know what had jammed the key, but seeing the gray and withered plants spreading to the edge of the road, she could only twist her wrist with all her strength at the critical moment.
Then, the key broke.
Zhen Cheng was a little confused. This person was unlucky. She couldn't open the door and accidentally broke the key in the door lock. But it was an ordinary door key made of aluminum. Have you ever seen someone with bare hands?
Breaking the car key?
Picking up the keychain that was broken in his hand, Zhen Cheng immediately understood. The keychain and the broken half of the key handle of this newly rented car that had been in use for less than a year were already rusty.
At this time, I looked around again and discovered that the leather seats in the car had aged and cracked at some point, exposing the fillings inside. The patent leather shattered and fell like burnt ashes, and wherever the metal was exposed, it became rusty.
.Finally, the entire car body tilted forward slightly. It was obvious that the front tire rubber had aged, cracked, and leaked air.
Looking outside the car window, the old and broken highway was completely swallowed up by the rotten and withered thorns and vines that broke out from under the asphalt layer. Within a few dozen seconds, Zhen Cheng was completely surrounded by the strange changes.
It seems... you will die if you go out? But if you stay here, you will definitely die!
The headlights on the front of the car went out, and at the last moment Zhen Cheng vaguely saw in the forest a deer-like thing with horns on its head and fur all over its body, about the size of three cars.
The thing rushed here with steps that made the ground tremble, but when it approached the area near the jester, it shivered back as if it had received an electric shock. This observed detail made Zhen Cheng make up his mind, get out of the car and head towards
Walk in the direction of the Fool.
She didn't know how far she would be involved in the shadow phenomenon this time, but as long as there was no change in a very small area, Zhen Cheng knew that her physical strength would never be enough to last her until she ran to a safe area. Even if she stayed in the car, she would not be able to survive.
He will not be affected by external changes, and those weird mutated things will find him sooner or later.
The most important thing is that compared to the vast majority of ordinary people who die from sudden shadow phenomena, Zhen Cheng is very clear about one thing. That is that currently humans do not have the means to break the shadow phenomenon. Therefore, except for self-rescue, there is no rescue at all.
of.
Praying that the gray and withered vegetation would not directly penetrate her shoes and affect her body, Zhen Cheng stepped out of the car door.
As her footsteps landed on the cracked asphalt road, Zhen Cheng was surprised to find that the gray-white decay that had completely spread and occupied everything in her sight seemed to have come to life, avoiding the places where she stepped as if she was afraid of something.
Carefully, she took a few more steps forward and stepped onto the soil next to the original road. The withered thorns that were still twisting and growing like tentacles actually had the wisdom to avoid the ground she stepped on.
Zhen Cheng didn't stop, but she felt suspicious in her heart. She didn't seem to be carrying any special extraordinary items. The only obviously weird identity card she had thrown to the ground...