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Tentacles from [flower] are intertwined in the ground of the palace.

Zheng Xiu merged with the "mayfly", turning into an illusion, walking through the gaps in the roots.

The deeper he went, an indescribable palpitation surged into his heart. In his field of vision, a distortion like a black hole filled his "vision", wriggling silently and slowly, making Zheng Xiu shudder.

After a while, Zheng Xiu finally arrived there and came to what Orange Cat called the "source of distortion".

In the huge hollow, you can't see your fingers, it's pitch black.

But in Zheng Xiu's field of vision, when he arrived here, there seemed to be a bright lamp lit deep in the cave—at least at the moment, in his field of vision, "that thing" entrenched in the center of the cave, "bright" Be like a lamp.

Yes, bright.

"That thing" was pure black, smooth as a mirror, without any support, just suspended there out of thin air in such a weird way, like a black mirror standing in mid-air.In the orange cat's field of vision, the thing was shining like a guiding light, quietly suspended in mid-air.

bass.

Lady Anne's "eye opening" lost its effect just in time, and Zheng Xiu's vision returned to normal.The sudden darkness made Zheng Xiu reach out and swing his hand in front of his eyes almost instinctively. Unexpectedly, the action of "stretching his hand" gave Zheng Xiu the illusion of flicking the waves in the "water", and the trajectory of the swing brought out an ink-colored light and shadow.

This familiar style of painting made Zheng Xiu's breath stagnate, and he almost gritted his teeth and said two words: "Ever dark!"

Lady Anne nodded her head with a tigerish face, and seemed to agree with Zheng Xiu's words: "It's very close."

The two stood there for a while.

Did not step forward.

Five mayflies emerged from Zheng Xiu's chest and swam around, Zheng Xiu kept his feet firmly on the ground.

Zheng Xiu stared straight at the "mirror" that was as black as ink.

After a while of silence, Lady Anne covered her nose with her paws and shook her head vigorously: "I really still hate this smell." Then, Lady Anne patted Zheng Xiu's head: "Come closer."

"you sure?"

"I'm sure!"

Zheng Xiu took a few steps closer.

At this moment, Zheng Xiu felt several grooves of varying depths under his feet.

"Snapped."

He snapped his fingers and stretched out his index finger in the void. Zheng Xiu's fingertips shimmered and drew a lamp.Snapping his fingers again, the lamp actually turned into reality, floating quietly in front of the person and the cat, illuminating the surrounding area.

"what is this?"

With the dim light, Zheng Xiu looked at the grooves on the ground.

The ravines criss-cross in the hollow, hiding some kind of regularity.The edges of the shallow grooves are regular, which seems artificial.Zheng Xiu squatted down and stretched out his fingers to touch it a few times, he was slightly taken aback, and after a few steps forward, the distribution of the grooves formed a neat circle, and the center of the circle was the mirror.

In front of the "mirror surface", there is a flat round platform on the ground, which is empty and slightly protrudes from the ground.

Circles of grooves spread out around the center of the "mirror surface" and "round table".

Zheng Xiu carefully turned around the "mirror surface" and suddenly realized: "This is... a formation?"

When the word "formation" was said, even Zheng Xiu himself felt a little inconceivable.After Zheng Xiu came to this world, all the systems he saw revolved around "doorways" and "thaumaturgy". Now he suddenly saw "things" that had never appeared in this world, but seemed to appear as if they should have appeared, which made Zheng Xiu endure He couldn't help showing a strange look on his face.

"Meow." Annie turned the cat's head and looked around. The emerald-like eyes of the cat vividly showed a look of disdain. She shook her head in disdain and sneered: "Inferior magic."

Zheng Xiu frowned when he heard the words: "Do you understand?"

The orange cat clasped its arms around its chest, and said arrogantly: "Stupid container, this is obvious."

"Annie, what about the frank meeting and the united front?"

"Master Annie."

"Master Anne, please speak."

"Humph." Annie, who was still depressed not long ago, now felt better because Zheng Xiu called out "Master Annie", she said leisurely: "Silly container, for your sincerity..."

"Don't be shameless."

"...This is a 'sacrifice' ceremony."

"Sacrifice?"

There was a hint of dissatisfaction in Annie's voice: "Don't you even know the 'sacrifice' of the fish-lip container?"

"I know, I know." Zheng Xiu didn't know how to express his weird feeling. After thinking for a moment, Zheng Xiu asked: "The 'sacrifice' you mentioned is a kind of ritual, right? In ancient times, praying for blessings, praying to heaven and earth, and slaughtering pigs and sheep , praying for a good harvest or good weather.”

"Hehe, stupid human beings." The orange cat did not hesitate to sneer: "If you were a god, would you covet those pigs and sheep that are not even as good as humans?"

"Hehe, I can't say that." Zheng Xiu twitched the corner of his mouth and returned a "smiling" expression.

I don't know about other gods. For a mere god like you, I feel that offering a basketful of fried fish cakes can coax you into submission.

After thinking about it, Zheng Xiu decided to save some face for the good-looking Mrs. Anne. Under the orange cat's increasingly ugly expression, Zheng Xiu Yuanhua added: "I think it depends on the person... No, look Cat, ah bah!...I mean, it depends on the gods. For example, hobbies or something, I have heard some fairy tales before, some people like incense, some gods like virgins, some gods are lustful , some gods like fried fish cakes..."

"Fried fish cakes are not so delicious!" The orange cat heard the words, as if his tail was stepped on, and the words hit his mind, the hair all over his body exploded, and he was angry.But not long after she got angry, she seemed to think that this was not very convincing, so she put her hair back weakly: "I am not a god."

"So, what is he sacrificing?"

Anne stared into the darkness.

She pointed to the edge of the cave: "Containers...."

Zheng Xiu's expression changed slightly, and he flicked his wrist to increase the output power.Suddenly, the floating "light" rose into the sky and exploded above the heads of a person and a cat, shining brightly like a small scorching sun.

Under the shining light, Zheng Xiu finally got the whole picture of the underground cave in the palace.I saw that the stone wall of the cave was covered with withered vines. The vines were entangled and coiled, like human blood vessels, faintly pulsating with blood.

There were undulating silhouettes twisted in the entangled vines. Zheng Xiu opened his mouth wide and couldn't help but stepped forward to check, but the next second there was a burst of sourness in his stomach.Those are clearly human babies.

They merged with the vines, as if they had been dead for a long time, but under the influence of some kind of force, their skin still maintained a fresh color and never rotted.

The baby's corpse, the stone wall, and the vines all merged into one.

A terrifying chill surged up Zheng Xiu's back silently. It was hard for him to imagine that everything in front of him was done by the gentle and considerate Zheng Erniang.

In this world, without Zheng Erniang, there is only the current eldest princess Wei Ruyi.

Zheng Xiu inadvertently searched for Zheng Erniang's past in the "Eternal Night" world line, and finally only found a token with the word "Mei" engraved on it.Zheng Xiu can't deduce Zheng Erniang's life experience just by using the word "beautiful".But if it was "Wei Ruyi"... Zheng Xiu suddenly realized that it was Concubine Mei, a poor woman who had only appeared in the roster of the cold palace.

Zheng Xiu roughly made up the outline of "true history". Twenty years ago, there must have been a palace fighting drama in the old Wei's harem, which caused Wei Chen and Wei Ruyi to fall into the ranks of the people.

Among them, Wei Chen, a natural "usurper" alien, fled under the escort of Wang Cangyun, but accidentally encountered the "convergence of tides" and died in Baili Village.

Wei Ruyi was adopted by Zheng Haoran and became Zheng Xiu's god-sister, Zheng Erniang.

When Zheng Xiu was immersed in the shocking scene of the stone wall in front of him.

The orange cat was in the middle of the cave, walking gracefully, one step, two steps, three steps, to the dark mirror.

As the orange cat approached, circles of thin ripples appeared on the extremely smooth mirror surface.A red floral pattern flickers faintly in the ripples.

"Elegance never goes out of style."

"Annie, never say never."

The brilliance of the sun disc made by Zheng Xiu was like a flash in the pan, and the brilliance gradually faded.

The figure of the orange cat rose little by little, and she stood up with her feet forward. Her whole body was pitch black, except for a plump and enchanting black shadow.

Her slender five-finger nails were sharp, flickering pale light, lightly tapping on the mirror surface.

A moment later, Annie's fingertips were bounced off like an electric shock, and she looked at Zheng Xiu's back in surprise.

……

Zheng Xiu remained motionless.

Vines, babies, containers, rocks, darkness...

As a [painter], I am extremely sensitive to art.He watched quietly, and he didn't know when the scene in front of him, the baby's peaceful facial features, the texture of the vines, the mottled stone walls, every thread, every strand, was like a stroke in a painting , One ink and one stain, permeated Zheng Xiu with something called "maliciousness".

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Zheng Xiu felt his temples on both sides vibrate like drumsticks, causing pain.

The "understanding" called "maliciousness" is like invisible tentacles, penetrating through vision, infiltrating perception, invading sense of smell, brutally infecting his five sense organs, inserting into his brain, stirring crazily.

bass.

bass.

bass.

Suddenly, the baby corpses integrated with the vines on the stone wall opened their eyes one after another.The eyes were dark and lively, as if they were alive. All the eyes were black and white, staring unblinkingly at Zheng Xiu in front of the stone wall.

boned...

boned...

Zheng Xiu even heard the rubbing sound of the eyeballs turning vigorously in the dry eye sockets!

The five mayflies floating beside Zheng Xiu were originally extremely weak creatures.The moment "Baby" opened his eyes, five mayflies trembled and crawled into Zheng Xiu's arms.

puff.

Zheng Xiu felt as if he fell into the water.

A dark sea.

Boundless and deep.

There seemed to be a hand in the dark sea water, pulling Zheng Xiu to sink, sink.

Zheng Xiu looked down.

In the infinitely distant depths, in a place called the "Abyss", there is a twisted mass of tentacles, with a bright red bud wrapped in the center of the tentacles.

As Zheng Xiu sank, the "shy" buds opened little by little.

In the bud, like a soft hotbed, there is a beautiful woman lying on it.

The woman smiled sweetly and waved to him, as if to say, come here.

The woman is in the middle of the flower buds, in the wet hotbed, posing in eighteen postures.

Zheng Xiu continued to sink, and he could vaguely see that the woman's face was clearly Erniang.

"Meow~"

In the infinitely dark deep sea, a big, big, big big jade foot that is as vast as a planet, pure and innocent, tore open the deep sea, and stepped on it.

boom!
The raging waves of the abyss crushed all filth.

boo~
"Meow~"

When Zheng Xiu came back to his senses, Lady Anne pressed the pink meat ball between Zheng Xiu's eyebrows with a face full of contempt.

"A useless container, is it polluted?"

"I..." Zheng Xiu opened his mouth.The next second, Annie patted Zheng Xiu's head caringly, sighed like an old man, and sighed like "There's no way anyone made you like this": "I don't blame you, your physique is really easy to provoke them .”

Annie's cute pink fleshy ball reminded Zheng Xiu once again of the fear of being dominated by Yuzu.

"Why do I easily provoke...them?"

The orange cat was dumb, and pointed to himself.

Zheng Xiu shivered suddenly.Think back to the woman you saw in the bud just now.

He was almost polluted just now.

Thanks Yuzu.

"What kind of authority do you have!"

Zheng Xiu couldn't help complaining.

Why is Yuzu so domineering?

"Meow, you have no right to know."

Annie didn't seem to intend to answer Zheng Xiu's question.

"Can't you just ask out of curiosity?"

While arguing with Annie, Zheng Xiu looked around calmly, and found that the eyes of the babies who had opened their eyes were tightly closed, as if they had never been opened.Was the scene of eyes staring at him just now a hallucination, or was it really the remnants of those innocent babies who were causing trouble?
Zheng Xiu is not sure.

Anne raised a paw and smiled: "I have already told you that our existence is supreme, even if it is the real name, the tip of the iceberg of our power, even if you understand a little more, see a little more, and get closer A little bit, to your fragile human soul, is also a devastating, fatal, and indelible impact."

Afraid that Zheng Xiu would not believe it, Annie slapped her two claws, squeezed the fleshy balls of both palms, and made a "boombobo" sound: "Once I tell you, you will be like a humble and insignificant scum gnat. It was trampled to pieces, leaving nothing behind."

Zheng Xiu believed it.

These "evil spirits" from Ever Darkness have their own "pollution" attribute, and if you look at them too much, you will lose your sanity.

Zheng Xiu was silent.

"Are you guilty?" The orange cat squatted in front of Zheng Xiu, tilting its head: "I can't understand."

"You don't understand." Zheng Xiu thought that the deaths of these babies were all because he entered the ancient battlefield regardless of the consequences, and even went his own way to save his father.Therefore, he came to Chidian, with both parents, happy wife, as if everything is beautiful.But everything in the world has its own will, so Fengbei cut off the "reason" and disappeared from the world. Except for him, Zheng Xiu, everything he was familiar with seemed to be cast with a layer of tragedy.

Isn't there a happy ending in the world?
Why?Why do they have to die, Dad?
Zheng Xiu didn't understand, so he felt guilty.

Lady Anne couldn't understand Zheng Xiu's thoughts, let alone sympathize, and said with a sneer, "Heh meow~ stupid human beings, heh meow~ stupid guilt, heh meow~ weak expression."

She first sneered three times in a row, looked up and noticed that Zheng Xiu's face was ugly, she thought for a while, then lightly jumped on Zheng Xiu's shoulder, and the meat ball lightly patted Zheng Xiu's head.

Maybe even Lady Anne didn't realize that there was some comfort in her hesitant behavior.She patted and looked up through the cave, then sighed softly: "I found out what the root of the distortion is."

Zheng Xiu was taken aback.

"This is also the reason why your 'ghost'... let's call it a ghost, it is infinitely enlarged and twisted to the extreme, and is permanently anchored."

Lady Anne raised a paw meaningfully: "You fulfilled a wish, so, because of this wish, all the artifacts in 'inside' twisted a 'knot', a 'knot' that is almost impossible to untangle. '. In order to resolve the contradictions caused by this 'knot', and because of your appearance, here..."

"Hee hee hee!"

suddenly.

A burst of deep laughter came from above.

Shhhhhhh, several cold lights passed through Zheng Xiu's chest almost silently.

Ripples floated up on Zheng Xiu's chest, Zheng Xiu didn't need to turn his head, he knew that what passed through his body were throwing knives.

The monk stroked his bald head, hung his head upside down, his feet were attracted to the stone wall above his head like magnets, and laughed: "Sure enough, the mouse got in."

A slender palm appeared from behind Zheng Xiu, pierced into Zheng Xiu's back, and grabbed Zheng Xiu's chest.

At the same time, the gentle music sounded, and the leaves held the reed leaves in their mouths, and walked out. The melodious music came to Zheng Xiu's ears, and Zheng Xiu saw the singing of birds and flowers, the high mountains and the distant waters; Standing on the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, there was a piece of purgatory in front of my eyes.

On the top of the head, vines grew out one by one, and the vines grew rapidly, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. A huge flower bone grew out, and the petals opened. Inside sat Zheng Xiu's familiar face, the eldest princess, Wei Ruyi.

"Zheng Haoran's son?"

When Wei Ruyi saw Zheng Xiu's face clearly, she was a little surprised and showed a thoughtful expression.

In just an instant, Zheng Xiu was surrounded.

Zheng Xiu was only surprised for a while, then looked at the orange cat in disbelief.

The orange cat seemed to have completely ignored the changes in front of him and the appearance of the "enemies", and was still chattering: "...Okay, Red Dot, the damn Red Dot was born. This is the 'answer' derived from the calculation. In the end, Yu's 'solution'. Everything is to make the existence of this 'knot' reasonable."

The orange cat finished speaking in one breath, and looked at Zheng Xiu calmly: "Don't understand? It doesn't matter."

"You...you will understand once you die."

The orange cat slapped Zheng Xiu.

boo~
The ball-shaped light group pushed Zheng Xiu behind.

Behind him is the mirror, the existence that is considered to be the entrance or the exit at the same time.

"Outsiders! Damn it!"

Wei Ruyi's bright eyes on the flower buds instantly turned black.

rumbling...

The ground collapsed and boulders fell.

The last scene that Zheng Xiu was inhaled by Chang An was the orange cat with its back to him, waving at him, and the next second it was overwhelmed by countless twisted roots.