Chapter 36 The Castle Intertwined with Reality and Fantasy (End...
The dazzling firelight filled Gordon's vision, and the flames burned his skin. Although it was painful, there was no trace of scars.
Columbus struggled and stirred, and his screams made Gordon's ears swell. Deep in the flames, a gray-black embers continued to expand, shaped like an outward-rotating black hole. Gordon passed straight through and fell into another room.
He tried his best to steady his body, but his shoulder still knocked over the oil lamp in the corner. The carved bronze lamp fell down and rolled next to a pair of bare feet. The flames shook for a moment, seemed to go out, and then lit up again in an instant, tongues of flame licking the bare toes.
The bare feet remained motionless, allowing themselves to be scorched by the fire, as if they had lost all sense of pain. Along the ankles, various burns, brandings, knife wounds, and whiplashes were like vine patterns, crawling all over the body from the calves to the calves.
Columbus trembled and opened his eyes: "Brave master, did you really kill that female giant?"
Gordon let go of Columbus and quickly glanced around, looking at the door. It was a stone door shaped like the sun, simple and round, with carved patterns and mysterious characters.
"Are you two sneaky bugs planning to inform the temple?" the barefoot owner suddenly said, squinting at Gordon and Columbus with a contemptuous look. He knelt on the broken prayer flags, with half a red monk's belt around his waist.
He wears a robe, and the lotus mark on his bald head shines brightly. It is a ring scar that only monks in the temple have.
Columbus's eyes widened and he was about to reply when Gordon covered his mouth. He grabbed Columbus and rushed towards the stone door without saying a word, never talking to the temple monk.
Gordon already understands that the reason why he can leave these rooms now is because he belongs to the present and the rooms belong to the past. The two sides are clearly separated and have nothing to do with each other. Even if they are intertwined by the castle, Gordon is just a bystander.
However, once he talks to the people in the room and takes action, it means that he starts to interfere with the past. The "present" and the "past" will also be further intertwined, penetrate deeply, and produce more changes.
When the time comes, he will never leave these rooms as easily as he does now. Because the new changes are no longer limited to the past, but incorporate the "now" and a part of him.
In the end, each room will wrap around him like dense spider silk, until Gordon is lost in it and unable to escape. And the "now" that belongs to him will become a period of time in the past, swallowed up and digested by the castle.
"The river told me that the gods in the sky are dead, and the temple is deceiving itself!" The monks in the temple stood up and shouted at them, "Without human beings, what is the meaning of the gods' shining? We can
From insects to apes, you can also surpass gods! Come on, fools, let me teach you the meaning of survival and surpass the will of gods!"
"Beyond God? This bald head is even more deceptive than a goblin." Columbus was stunned, "But it doesn't matter if we listen, right? At least the bald head looks powerful."
"The god is dead!" The monk in the temple grabbed a handful of iron nails and embedded them into his bony chest one by one, laughing crazily in the pool of blood.
Columbus couldn't help but shuddered: "Is he a madman?"
Gordon opened the heavy stone door and pushed Columbus out of the room.
"Brave human master, it's very dangerous outside!" Columbus turned to run back, but Gordon held him tightly.
"The longer you stay in the room, the harder it is to escape." Gordon saw the piranha monster rushing towards him from the end of the corridor, and immediately grabbed Columbus and ran towards the spiral staircase.
Columbus said with a sad face: "It is better to die now if you can't escape."
"Where did you and your giant brother get separated?" Gordon suddenly moved sideways, dodged the pounce of a piranha monster, and kicked it away with one kick.
Columbus counted on his fingers: "It seems to be in the corridor on the third or fourth floor below, or maybe the seventh or eighth floor. Anyway, it will be below the tenth floor and not more than the twentieth floor. Oh, don't be so brutal when you grab my neck.
, please be gentle!"
"Find your little brother, and we can escape!" Gordon knocked down a tree monster with his fist, ran down the spiral staircase, and began to search for the blind giant.
"What's the use of looking for him? I've probably been beaten to a pulp by those monsters."
"We must find him, he may be the child of the giantess."
"So what? The giantess has turned into an evil ghost. How can she still recognize her future son? Haha, Master, you are so stupid. Some of you will be deceived by me in the future."
At this time, a Sand Cave Clan warrior ran up from the bottom of the spiral staircase. Gordon could not avoid it and had no choice but to rush in. He flipped, pounced, and lunged, changing directions several times in a row, creating a series of dazzling afterimages.
The Sand Cave Clan warrior paused and stood still, allowing Gordon to dodge left and right and rush into the gap beside him.
The moment Gordon passed by the opponent, the Sand Cave Warrior suddenly turned around and struck Gordon's vest with his palm. The action seemed simple, but in fact it was sophisticated and effective. He struck just when Gordon's back was turned to him and he was completely defenseless. The timing was extremely precise.
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Gordon spurted blood from his mouth, his upper body fell forward, and he and Columbus tumbled down the stairs.
"There are living people here!" the Sand Cave Clan warrior screamed, chasing after him, and echoing roars rang out from all over the castle. Seeing that something was not going well, Gordon grabbed Columbus and rolled into a long corridor without stopping.
Crash into a room and get entangled with the "past" again...
Time and time again, Gordon led Columbus through rooms and corridors. Sometimes he ran up the spiral staircase to look for the blind giant; sometimes he hid in a room to avoid being chased by monsters such as the Sand Cavern Warrior. In each past fragment,
He saw many creatures being changed by the river of time, becoming beyond recognition and becoming insane.
Halfway through, Gordon discovered the blood stain left behind after the blind giant was injured. With the clues for tracking, he no longer had to look for a needle in a haystack.
In his body, the inheritance of the Shizhi lineage has not yet ended. The fangs are shining white and getting bigger and bigger, with silver patterns layer upon layer permeating the fangs, swimming interestingly like tadpoles.
"Brave master, you smell strange." Columbus followed Gordon, stuck his head out of the door, and peered at both ends of the corridor.
"We don't have much time." Gordon said solemnly. He and Columbus entered and exited nearly a hundred rooms, getting more and more smells of the dead, being penetrated bit by bit by the "past", and even their physical bodies became vague.
Fuzzy.
"Brother!" Columbus suddenly screamed.
The blind giant, covered in blood, was turning from the other end of the corridor. When his big feet fell, he trampled a Sand Cave Tribe warrior who was blocking the way into a pulp.
"Goblin, it stinks!" The blind giant smelled the scent of Columbus and strode happily, followed by a large number of monsters shouting to fight and kill.
Columbus changed his color and screamed: "Brother, you can't be so arrogant even if you are a giant!"
"Quick, let him come with us!" Gordon turned around and rushed down the spiral staircase, passed through the corridors, and then rushed to one of the rooms.
Before he could reach the door, he heard a crash and the whole castle shook violently, as if it was bumping up and down with huge waves.
Gordon struggled to steady himself, held the door, turned and shouted at Columbus, "It's almost too late, it's returning to the other world!"
"Relax, human boy, you are less courageous than a goblin." Riding on the shoulders of the blind giant, Columbus showed off his power again and shouted to Gordon in a lecturing tone, "Quickly tell me, what is the other world?"
Gordon ignored him, opened the door and rushed into the room. Columbus was about to curse when he suddenly saw the spiral staircase he came from twisting violently. The layers of stairs were arched, torn and broken, and countless corridors were shaking like water waves.
, the room inside is becoming more and more blurry, as if it will turn into air and disappear at any time.
"Damn it, little brother, hurry up and follow that human!" Columbus was so frightened that he patted the blind giant and quickly followed into the room.
The door slammed shut, and the number above was "365".
The room was dark, jagged with rocks, and looked like a cave. The female giant was holding a male goblin, her eyes full of love. The male goblin was trembling with fear, and his feces and urine were flowing out.
"Damn, is that really my little brother's father or mother?" Columbus lowered his voice subconsciously, and a blank expression appeared on the blind giant's face. He couldn't smell the smell of "the past".
"There's still a little time left, more changes are needed!" Gordon shouted, "Quickly, let your little brother go out and come in again! Otherwise, we will all die together!"
Columbus quickly ran out the door on his blind giant. Outside, the spiral staircase disappeared like a phantom, the entire corridor shook violently, and the rooms on both sides seemed to be filled with hazy smoke, making it impossible to see clearly.
When Columbus entered the room again, he saw the giantess with a big belly lying on the dead vines and leaves. She grasped the rock with her palms and moaned in pain. Streams of blood oozed from her lower body, and the baby's smooth forehead was vaguely exposed.
"Damn, she's giving birth to a baby brother!" Columbus exclaimed.
"Yes, but at least here, she can't give birth to a little brother, because..." Gordon's eyes flashed with a cold light, "We want your little brother to kill the baby, do it!"
Columbus was stunned: "You asked your little brother to kill his past self? How is this possible? If he really killed him, where would the current little brother come from? Without the current little brother, how could he kill his past self?"
"You are right, this is impossible to happen. My little brother will never be able to kill that baby. This is an irreconcilable contradiction between the 'present' and the 'past', and it is the only flaw in this castle!" Gao
Deng said solemnly, "It is also the only exit for us to escape!"
Under the command of Columbus, the blind giant roared and rushed over, raising his feet to step on the baby. The moment the huge soles of his feet were about to touch the baby, the surrounding scene shattered.