Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

The source of the "Vortex" curse lies in the underground ruins deep beneath the Dragonfly Pond, a city filled with spirals.

The remaining idealistic power coalesced into transcendental intuition, revealing the essence of the city to Xia Jie in a flash of insight:

"Luoyan City?"

The City of R'lyeh is the name given to the city in Type-Moon, and R'lyeh is the sleeping place of the "Great Old Ones," or, to put it more bluntly, the "great old veterans"—"Cthulhu."

"Wow, awesome, how come it's related to the Cthulhu Mythos?"

"Speaking of which, Hellstar is actually quite similar to the Judgment Star, the Great Alarm Clock, and the Outer God Gherros from the Cthulhu Mythos."

The moment Xia Jie thought of the name "Luoyan City," she immediately associated it with many more things.

In the special episode "Galaxy" of "Uzumaki", Shuichi discovers the existence of a "spiral galaxy" with a special shape using a telescope.

Moreover, this galaxy cannot be observed with a telescope outside the town.

Moreover, the location of the spiral galaxy is extremely obvious, but before Shuichi discovered it, no astronomy enthusiast in the town had observed it.

This means it appeared suddenly and was of a magnitude greater than Hellstar.

Furthermore, the series of stories belonging to "Uzumaki" only began to unfold after the Galaxy Saga.

Furthermore, the spiral ruins beneath Dragonfly Pond have a clear cycle of awakening, peak, and dormancy. Every time it "comes to its appointed time," the people living on this land suffer once.

The case is solved! The case is solved!

To put it in more succinct terms, it would be: "Whenever the stars reach the right position, the ruins of the vortex will gradually awaken, swallowing up the entire town on the ground, and then fall into a long slumber again, so long that people forget the legend of the vortex, and then the vortex will awaken again."

The seaside, the city of Luoyan, and the starry sky—while not a complete set of elements, it certainly has clear elements of the "King" element.

Just as R'lyeh is the place where Cthulhu dreams, the compatibility between the City of the Dead and the Long Dream should be quite good.

After turning several streets, Xia Jie sat cross-legged by the Dragonfly Pond, took out a long dream crystal the size of her little finger from her pocket, and then—

"Awoo."

Swallow it straight into your stomach!

Next, we'll see some ingenious and clever little operations made up of combinations of instructions.

"Command: Affinity Amplification, Targets: Luoyan City and Changmeng."

"Command: Entanglement of Affinity, Targets: Luoyan City and Changmeng."

"Command: Rapid Absorption, Target: Long Dream Crystal."

"Command: Momentary Sleep, Target... Myself."

Xia Jie, who suffers from prolonged dreaming, enters a brief period of deep sleep, which is only a fleeting moment in the outside world but lasts for half a month in her dreams.

If nothing unexpected happens, the length of a dream will increase with the number of times you dream.

Half a month, a month, two months, half a year, a year, two years, decades, hundreds of years, thousands of years, the body will also become alienated along with the spirit, becoming more and more inhuman, until the day when the conditions are ripe, he will enter the "Eternal Dream".

Reality is fleeting, but dreams are eternal.

If one doesn't have an inability to control the content of their dreams, and if every dream is a nightmare, then the anomaly of having long dreams is an absolute blessing.

However, it doesn't matter. Xia Jie only needs to dream once. With the command "Matching Entanglement", Chang Meng can accept the will of the vortex under the Dragonfly Pond and project it into Xia Jie's mind. Therefore, the content of this nightmare will definitely be the dream of "Snail Annihilation City".

In his dream, Xia Jie opened his eyes; his dream was bright, even dazzling.

Whirlpools, whirlpools! Everywhere you look, there are whirlpools that make you feel dizzy!

Beneath their feet, people curled up like twisted ropes formed a thick cushion of flesh.

The people, long since devoid of reason, stared blankly and obsessively in the same direction—

At the heart of the ruins lies the place where the light shines brightest and the vortex is most perfect.

Spiral stone pillars extend from the ground to the cave's dome, showcasing their form and surrounding the massive, magnificent shell-like structure at the heart of the ruins.

The spiral center of the shell does not face directly upwards, but rather points diagonally towards the dome, echoing the spiral galaxies in the universe.

Despite the absence of a light source in the ruins, a dizzying light filled the underground space. The distorted white light surged into Xia Jie's pupils from all directions, swirling the patterns of her iris into a vortex. The inexplicable suction generated by the vortex pattern drew even more white light into Xia Jie's eyes.

Xia Jie knew that these were not visual lights, but spiritual thoughts that reached his consciousness directly. It was the vortex's flamboyant will actively conveying its proud form to Xia Jie's consciousness, making him mistakenly believe that he was "seeing".

Perhaps it's not just a dream; considering its portrayal in the original work, the Will of the Vortex, which can even distort space and time, could probably do the same thing in reality.

Some of the "white light" drilled into Xia Jie's ears and entered the vortex-shaped cochlea, allowing Xia Jie's consciousness to hear the dizzying sensation that swept over everything more clearly.

The next day, Xia Jie's fingerprints transformed into a perfect vortex shape. Her fingers unconsciously curled into a fist, with her thumb on the outside and tucked over the other three fingers. Looking at her fist from the side, a vortex originating from the structure of the human body was born.

His hair, starting from the crown of his head, slowly grew longer and curled, forming a huge black vortex.

This is the vortex actively imparting its principles, like a meme. This is not because people diligently seek knowledge, but because knowledge emerges and chases after people.

On the third day, within Summer Mustard's body, blood vessels and nerves began to bend, transforming into tiny vortexes.

On the fourth day, Xia Jie's brain sulci also began to bend into vortexes, helping him to better understand everything about the vortex.

From the fifth to the tenth day, all sorts of knowledge related to the vortex, such as the double helix structure of DNA, how DNA coils into chromosomes, and how various groups such as carboxyl and amino groups coil into protein macromolecules, flooded into Xia Jie's vortex-like brain.

At the same time, his physical body also began to undergo deep vortexification at the genetic level due to the taint and distortion of the vortex will.

In fact, Xia Jie's body has an unusually high resistance to the assimilation of the vortex.

A normal person would be rolled into a human-sized marijuana the moment they enter this place.

But Xia Jie was different. No matter how he was distorted in the dream, his consciousness remained normal and clear until the dream ended.

However, after this experience, he gained a deeper understanding of why this major chapter is called "The Vortex" instead of "The Spiral".

Although when people look at a spiral pattern, their eyes will involuntarily follow the lines to the center of the spiral, the vortex that draws all the floating objects around it into the spiral is far more powerful in its symbolic sense of "attraction" than the spiral itself.

Fingerprints, cochleas, DNA, conch shells, typhoons, screws, butterfly mouthparts, vine tendrils, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and even galaxies in the universe...

Whirlpools are everywhere, distortions are everywhere, rotations are everywhere.

The vortex in Black Vortex Town is more like a concept; it can distort not only the physical body but also spacetime and destiny.

As the story nears its end, time flows more slowly in the outer reaches of Black Whirlpool Town. Not long after Shuichi and his companions set off from the town, the town itself was turned upside down.

The love for Kirie is dragging Shuichi down, making it impossible for him to escape the vortex of the town; the distortion of the townspeople's minds is also a vortex; and the convergence and reincarnation of cause and effect and fate are the invisible vortex that envelops the entire town of Kurozuchi.

If the vortex is so powerful, could it be combined with Xia Jie's idealistic power and Miao Miao's little commands to merge with the pseudo-spiral force, pseudo-magnetic field rotation, and pseudo-golden vortex born in the inner universe, becoming something even more powerful, domineering, and strong?

Xia Jie should give it a try. If she succeeds, she'll be awesome; if she doesn't, she'll just say "qu" in reverse.