Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 514 The Real Ogan
More and more details are being discovered; next to the Eugané bell tower is a beautiful little round house with a red roof.

It belonged to a newlywed couple; the husband owned a small shop in the city, while the wife worked in the Church of the Holy Word, doing clerical work such as registration.

The couple had met Li Xia many times; they were very kind and amiable people.

But at this moment, the small round house was extremely dilapidated; the beautiful red roof was now charred black, looking as if it had suffered greatly from the ravages of time.

There was a large hole in the door, and the once-shiny windows were now covered in grime, creaking and rattling in the wind.

"This...this is Ogan?"

Awoo looked at the increasingly familiar surroundings in disbelief and muttered:

"The inner world and the outer world? Or the dark world and the real world?"

"do not know."

Li Xia paused for a moment. No wonder Iris suddenly said something like "Don't be surprised" out of the blue when she was about to leave.

"Boss, what do you say? Should we go in and take a look?"

Li Xia pondered for a moment and was about to speak when he heard a soft sigh and a long inhale coming from the stone coffin not far away.

The three little ones sprang to their senses and rushed to the stone coffin, ready to smash it down.

Then a figure wearing a black hood crawled out of the broken stone coffin.

"Hmm? Iris?"

Aowu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the figure was actually Iris, who had just sent them out.

Didn't you say you were going to stay and take something very important with you?

"Hello—"

Iris rubbed her forehead, seemingly snapping out of the strange feeling, and complained:

"I had just seen you off when I discovered that the entire tavern was surrounded, with more than a dozen Discipline Knights blocking the door."

I had no choice but to come out.

A dozen or so Discipline Knights.
Li Xia recalled those indestructible, high-damage metal cans and realized he definitely needed to run.

He stared at Iris as she took off her hood and fixed her hair, his gaze suddenly freezing.

Iris paused, then said nonchalantly:
"What's wrong? Did I scare you?"

Li Xia shook his head and said calmly:

"No, it was just a bit of a surprise."

Iris pursed her lips. Her once smooth and beautiful face in Ogan City was now covered with large, burn-like scars.

His arms, which were occasionally exposed, were covered with scars from healed wounds, and one eye appeared to be blind, with an unnatural grayish-white color.

She pulled half a mask from inside her robe and put it on, saying casually:

"It's alright, I'm used to it. This is the only way to survive in this world. After all, lost souls like you are extremely rare."

Iris pulled her hood back up and looked at the ruined city before her, saying:

"You've seen the real Ogan now, haven't you?"

"So this really is Ogan? Then what was that before?"

"Awoo asked curiously."

“Come on, I’ll take you to Ogan for a look around. Some things can only be explained clearly with a comparison.”

Iris paused, her gaze falling on Li Xia's body, which showed no abnormalities:
"Consider it a lesson for you, the lost soul."

The moment she saw Li Xia in reality, she was certain that Li Xia was indeed a lost soul, because only a lost soul could maintain the appearance of an 'innocent person' for a certain period of time.

No, you were just cornered at home by a dozen Discipline Knights, and now you're swaggering off to Ogan?
But Iris is a native, and she must have her reasons for doing this. Li Xia nodded and put on a black hooded robe. "This is the cemetery of Ogan City, the boundary between life and death, so generally we enter and leave Ogan from here."

Iris waved to Li Xia, signaling him to follow.

After leaving the cemetery and entering an open area, the surrounding environment became more apparent, and Li Xia noticed more details.

The sky was dark and gloomy, as if that was its inherent color. Even though the sun was overhead, its sunlight seemed to be filtered out by something.

If Li Xia had to put it in words, it reminded him of playing Souls-like games in the past, where the overall color scheme was dark and gloomy, giving off a sense of oppression just by looking at it.

The surrounding vegetation was bare, with branches that were oddly shaped.

The wind never stopped, blowing the corners of their clothes and bringing a peculiar, decaying smell.

Are you wondering why this place is so different from the previous Ogan?

Iris led the way, walking slowly along a dilapidated road full of potholes, heading towards the city of Ogan.

"Ah."

Li Xia is currently a 'lost soul', knowing nothing about the entire Black Descendant Star.

"Because that was the old Ogan, and that's how the world used to be."

Iris said nonchalantly, as if she were already used to it.

As they spoke, they entered the city of Ogan, where the once beautiful city walls had collapsed beyond recognition.

The sturdy city gate had decayed into broken fragments, and strange plants clung to the rocks.

Even most of the buildings in the city are like this, resembling ancient castles that have stood for thousands of years.

"Seventy years ago, even sixty years ago, Ogan was still the same as you saw before."

Iris said calmly:

"After darkness fell, corruption and distortion spread throughout the world. At first, mages and devout believers would hear strange murmurs during their prayers and meditations."

Those delirious murmurs echoed incessantly in my ears, carrying a strange power that turned those with weak wills into deformed monsters.

The whole world was thrown into chaos. The babbling gradually subsided, but the world was like a sick place, and food was rotting very quickly.

Animals, humans, and plants alike are slowly transforming into monsters.

Li Xia listened silently, following behind Iris. He knew that Iris was explaining to him, a 'lost soul,' what was happening in the world.

The city of Ogan looked unusually dilapidated, as if it were dead, but surprisingly, people were still living inside.

Their eyes were unusually dull, they walked at an alarmingly slow pace, and their clothes were tattered, smelling pungent and stained.

Under the horrified gaze of the howling, the Ogans cut roots from the strange plants clinging to the wall and dumped their excrement into the pool dug at the entrance.

Inside, there was a wriggling, twisting, fungus-like unidentified object, greedily devouring the things being poured out, making nauseating gurgling sounds.

"That...that wouldn't be..."

Awoo asked hesitantly, but didn't continue, because it had already seen someone take out a rusty knife and cut a large chunk off the monster's body.

Just stuff it directly into your mouth.

Iris said calmly:

"That's right, that's their food."

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