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Chapter 585 Falling asleep
Before Song Ji walked far, it started to rain. It was an exceptionally heavy rain. Cumulonimbus clouds fell from the sky, carrying heavy particles and dust in the atmosphere with them to the ground.

Song Ji stretched out his hand and a few drops of water fell on his palm. The crystal clear water drops were hazy gray. He would not feel anything unusual at first, but after staying in the heavy rain for a long time, he would feel a slight burning sensation in his body, and then his consciousness would become more and more dizzy.

The substances in the rain will react with the unknown materials mixed in the buildings, causing the creatures living here to gradually become crazy and their spirits to begin to degenerate.

After every heavy rain, someone will get a serious illness. If the purification agent is not injected in time, they will soon become ill, die, and rot. Some people will become mentally confused and become cyber psychopaths with confused thinking.

This is the source of chaos in the cyber world and the beginning of darkness. No one can avoid it. As long as you are alive, you cannot escape the fate of madness. You can only avoid it, prevent it, and postpone it through various means.

Song Ji shook his hands, and spiritual power surged out, transforming into a thin spiritual shield to isolate the pollution of rainwater. He learned the information about rainwater from the game, which was also related to a large expansion pack in the later stage - The Beginning of Chaos.

"But looking at the current situation, it's unclear whether this world can survive until the expansion pack period."

Because of the rain, no one was wandering around the streets. Under the night sky, there was only Song Ji and his shadow. He seemed like a ghost walking in the rainy night, carefully avoiding puddles of all sizes.

Soon, he stopped. His sensitive physical senses made him realize that something was wrong. In the silent night, his lonely footsteps were not the only sound.

There are others!
Although that 'person' had controlled his steps to coincide with Song Ji's, he could still hear a hint of disharmony in the sound of the hard soles of his shoes hitting the ground.

There was only a slight difference in the sound, and the two footsteps almost completely overlapped. If it were an ordinary person, it would be difficult for them to detect the slightest sound difference due to the combined effects of their nerve reaction and hearing system, but Song Ji could.

He changed the pace of his steps calmly, and his spiritual power gathered at his ears. Song Ji soon discovered that the man behind him adjusted his pace quickly as if he had predicted the future. The only sound left in the silent street was Song Ji's not-so-crisp footsteps.

He walked faster and faster, his hands slightly lowered, his fingers holding the slender blade. Compared to firearms, Song Ji trusted the dagger he had specially purchased more, especially after being refined by spiritual power, the material of the dagger became tougher and sharper.

As if sensing Song Ji's changes, the footsteps behind him became less concealed and began to step with a strange rhythm. The footsteps spread far away in the empty street, but also got closer and closer.

Song Ji's eyes grew dim, the air squeezed out of his chest bit by bit, and at the same time he mobilized his muscles and adjusted his body position until the footsteps became more and more unscrupulous, as if they were right behind him.

Use force, turn around, and swing the knife!

Without looking at the results of the battle, Song Ji was well aware of the danger of exposing his back to the enemy. He used the force of swinging his sword to roll, turn around, face the enemy, and half-crouch to reduce the area of ​​attack. It was all done in an instant. At the same time, his other hand had raised the pistol and pointed the muzzle at the enemy.

Without force feedback, Song Ji thought that the sword did not succeed, which was nothing. However, when he half-crouched and retreated while looking around, he found that there was nothing behind him, only a cold breeze blowing through the street.

'No one?'

Song Ji quickly denied this conclusion. Invisible enemies, or those newly emerged ghosts?
He did not hesitate. With his current combat power, he was not enough to deal with emergencies. He could only look for a chance to escape and then go to Maitreya. Song Ji believed that no matter what Maitreya wanted from him, as long as he reached his territory, even if he was close to the iconic bronze door, Maitreya would rescue him. Song Ji was not afraid of being used. Being used meant that he still had value. What he was afraid of was that he would lose even the value of being a chess piece. In this sick world, he might as well die if he fell to that point!
Without any hesitation, Song Ji retreated while walking. His physical fitness, which was stronger than that of ordinary people, broke out at this moment. He did not escape along a specific route, but made an S-shaped maneuver to evacuate. The protruding stones, not-so-smooth walls, roofs, street lights, and trash cans all became fulcrums for him to leverage. He was like a parkour master, jumping in the steel city.

Da da da.

The rhythmic footsteps still sounded, and this time, they echoed in Song Ji's ears. Even though he had already run hundreds of meters, the sound was still chasing him.

He glanced around but still couldn't see anyone. At this moment, he did not hold back and burst out with all his physical strength. However, with the sound of dull footsteps, Song Ji's body trembled and his legs almost couldn't support him and he fell to the ground.

The footsteps seemed to step on his heart, and his breath was instantly disrupted. Song Ji took a deep breath to calm his pounding heart, but he soon discovered that as the footsteps fell, his heart seemed to be affected.

The beating rhythm began to gradually move closer to the sound of footsteps, and the footsteps also changed, becoming hurried and chaotic, just like the drizzle falling at this moment.

As his heart beat irregularly and rapidly, Song Ji soon felt a little breathless, as if a big hand was tightly gripping his heart. His face turned red, his body began to tremble, and sweat broke out.

Song Ji knew that this was his body's warning to him, but he couldn't even find a way out of the impasse. He felt as helpless as if he had drawn his sword and looked around. Up to now, apart from the sound of footsteps, he had not seen any enemy.

He even observed the trajectory of the falling rain. Within a radius of more than ten meters, the trajectory of the raindrops did not deviate at all, which meant that the enemy was not invisible in the heavy rain, or that the enemy did not have a shape in the conventional sense.

Pfft!
Song Ji half-knelt on the ground. The lack of oxygen and blood supply made him feel dizzy and weak. His vision kept going dark. He could only take advantage of the remaining strength to get up and run in the direction he remembered.

He didn't know what he stepped on, and the last remaining breath of Song Ji, who was in a daze, was disrupted and leaked out, followed by an endless feeling of weakness, which was about to drag him into the deepest vortex.

"This way of dying... is a little too ridiculous. I hope I won't be laughed at by other cultivators in the future."

He was still thinking about random things, but his consciousness was gradually becoming blurred, and he fell into a darkness deeper than the current night.

Suddenly, a bright light appeared. Although it was not very bright, it seemed to drive away all the darkness. Even Song Ji's body, which was soaked by the rain and felt cold, felt a hint of warmth.

Footsteps were heard and the person muttered a few words. Song Ji, who was nervous, breathed a sigh of relief and soon fell into coma.

"The young man is in great shape and falls asleep as soon as he lies down."

Maitreya held up the lamp and said this to the unconscious Song Ji.

(End of this chapter)