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

The tiny Ye Mu in front of Xia Jie revealed a pair of big, watery eyes under Aha's whisper, as if she was about to say something.

That expression made it seem like he wanted to form a magnetic field band with Xia Jie for life.

'Eunice, Ishini!'

This scene inevitably reminded Xia Jie of those hilarious chibi-style emoticons she had seen on Tieba before she transmigrated.

A few steps away, Ya Dang and Jiang Mingzi glanced at Xia Jie a few more times before reluctantly heading to other worlds.

"Let's go, brothers, let's go."

Unable to withstand pressure, Xia Jie refused the two athletic students' attempts to lock her up and immediately used a wormhole command to run towards her destination.

"Boss! Take me with you!"

When the Aha masks saw Xia Jie disappear on the spot, they all anxiously spun around in circles.

Xia Jie concealed the fluctuations of her commands and the coordinates of her destination very well, so Aha really couldn't find her for a while.

Ahha is overcome with sadness whenever he thinks about missing out on a great job in prison.

Even the mask shed tears.

Meanwhile, outside the Long Dream Universe, on the land of Japan, a parallel universe to Earth.

Black Vortex Town is a remote seaside town in the western part of Green Mountain City.

The scenery is unremarkable, the people are ordinary, and the life is uneventful; it seems that the days will continue peacefully forever.

If there were no "whirlpool".

On the streets of the small town, a male and a female high school student are walking side by side.

The handsome high school boy with glasses is named Shuichi, and the beautiful high school girl with long hair is named Kirie.

The two were childhood sweethearts, a perfect match in terms of looks and talent, and were considered a match made in heaven in the town. They were also the male and female protagonists who would die in the vortex ruins in the final chapter of the vortex arc.

On the street, the male high school student in the middle of the two stopped and turned to look at the person next to him.

"Want to escape this town with me?"

As the person with the highest spiritual vision in the entire story, Shuichi asked with a gloomy face.

"Huh?"

Kirie was very surprised. She couldn't understand why Shuichi, who was always rational and academically excellent, would say something that sounded like an elopement.

“I feel that many things in Black Vortex Town have been acting strangely lately, and they are becoming increasingly unusual.”

Every time he returned from school in the city, everything in this small town would make him feel intensely dizzy.

Although the townspeople seemed oblivious to the anomaly, he was certain that the dizziness and the various unusual phenomena he had observed recently could not possibly be his own illusion.

"abnormal?"

Kirie was increasingly puzzled. She lived here every day, but she never felt that there was anything wrong with the town, let alone to the extent that Xiu Yi described, where everything seemed off.

"Don't you feel that everything in town is easily spinning, like... a whirlpool in the sea?"

Shuichi didn't intend to keep anyone in suspense. He pointed to the sky and revealed all the anomalies he had observed over the past few days.

"Look at the path the clouds take in the sky, isn't it winding?"

"Hmm, let me see... wait? It really is moving in a curve, but the cloud's trajectory isn't quite like a vortex, is it?"

Kirie suspected that Shuichi was just being overly sensitive and paranoid.

"No, the clouds were drifting straight yesterday, but today their trajectory has become noticeably curved, and I suspect they will likely bend even more tomorrow."

Shuichi paused slightly, pointing to the flowing water in the clear ditch by the roadside.

"Look at them! They appear whenever the water flow is disturbed. Normal water flow outside the town doesn't do this at all!"

Tong Hui looked in the direction Xiu Yi pointed, and numerous small eddies quickly formed as the water flowed downstream.

Unlike normal eddies, they seemed to maintain their shape as if they were alive, reluctant to disappear from the canal.

On the damp wall beside the ditch, numerous snails were slowly dragging their heavy, swirling shells, the glistening mucus behind them reflecting the sunlight and drawing strange, winding trails.

"It seems... no, something is definitely not right! So there have been so many anomalies around me all along?"

After being reminded by Shuichi, Kirie finally realized what was happening. Her lips parted slightly, but she still had no intention of escaping.

"But these anomalies haven't affected life in the town. As long as we don't look at them, nothing will happen!"

Kirie knew that her words had no basis and that she was as foolish as a stubborn supporting character in a movie.

But that's the reality. Neither his own parents nor Shuichi's parents would agree to move for such a nonsensical reason.

If she disregards her parents' opinions and chooses to elope with Shuichi, their studies, their parents' worries, their financial resources, and even their unpredictable and erratic futures will all be heavy realities they cannot avoid.

That unknown heaviness was far more terrifying than the anomaly visible to the naked eye.

"Ah."

Shuichi also fell silent. He knew that escaping was not as simple as it sounded. He didn't have the courage to persuade Kirie to leave with him, nor could he sever his ties with his parents and Kirie and leave alone to face the unknown life.

Just because you have a bad feeling right now, but there are no obvious signs of harm yet, do you really have to leave?

Even though his father’s recent obsession with whirlpools was making him uneasy, Shuichi chose to remain silent.

"Hey kids, isn't this place called Black Vortex Town?"

Just then, a tall young man in casual clothes suddenly walked out from around the corner of the street, waved his arm at Kirie and Shuichi, and asked in a rather impolite manner.

"what!!!"

Just as Kirie frowned in displeasure, Shuichi cried out in alarm.

Heaven knows what kind of thing the young man in front of him was, in Xiu Yi's eyes, which were both highly perceptive and rational!

Chapter 131 What do you mean by "you tagged the author"?

To step into the world of Xiu Yiyan, you must first understand two concepts.

There are two interesting psychological phenomena in humans, one of which is the uncanny valley effect.

This refers to the non-linear emotional response that humans have to human-like things.

When the resemblance between a humanoid object and a human is close to that of a human but with subtle differences, the observer will feel inexplicable disgust and fear. However, once the similarity between the object and the human exceeds a certain threshold, the emotional response will turn positive.

The brain can accept "human", "human-like" and "not human", but it cannot accept "human-like non-human" that lies between "human-like" and "human".

The second is semantic saturation.

When you stare intently at a piece of text for a long time, especially a complex one, you might suddenly find the text in front of you to be quite unfamiliar at some brief moment.

The words are words I could write casually on any day, but the feel of each stroke and line is no longer familiar.

It's like resetting a wooden archive in a corner; you don't recognize it, and it doesn't recognize you.

But as long as you don't check it for a while, and the save file is restored, everything will return to normal, and it will still feel so familiar and comforting.

This phenomenon is also called "Gestalt collapse" and "graph saturation," and is essentially a temporary cognitive unfamiliarity caused by the fatigue of brain neurons.

If you were faced with an ordinary-looking human being, whose every feature and detail exudes the aforementioned two effects, causing your understanding of the concept of humanity to be completely distorted, broken, dissolved, and disintegrated, how would you feel?

The answer is —

Confront the Ancient God! Confront the "Ancient God of Man" who embodies all the terrors and unknowns of the world!

First look at His black hair.

On the boundless expanse of flesh, there exist countless holes in the flesh, enough to drive someone with trypophobia crazy.

Endless, pitch-black tentacles spread wildly toward the sky, like one after another nauseating, maddening giant trees that devour light. That dark and gloomy forest is an unbearable expanse, and also the ultimate dark and mad twisted crown on the chaotic flesh of the indescribable ancient god.

Next, let's look at the skin.

On the flesh-colored earth, one after another, the pupils of flesh opened, and from the deep pores, dark, rough, eternally unchanging, immobile tentacles emerged.

Without a doubt, they are the countless eyes, countless tongues, and countless mouths of the ancient gods that devoured all things in the world.

Its deep eyes never close, its wicked mouth is always open, and its tongue must stand forever.

Next, look at the eyes.

In the center of the pale, round celestial body filled with crimson rivers of blood, there is a circle, a hole, a cave, the unknown, and despair.

It is the abyss itself that cannot be looked at directly, the manifestation of a dark and hopeless fate in the human world, the primordial pore that permeates the mind and reality, overflowing with the chaos of ignorance.

Outside the body, there is still a body; outside the limbs, there are still limbs.

The boundless organic matter constitutes the infinite and limitless god before our eyes.

The god wasn't much taller than Shuichi, but in Shuichi's perception, He was even more majestic than the universe itself.

No, this can't go on! Don't think about Him, stop thinking about Him, forbid thinking about Him!

Shuichi closed his eyes in agony, clutching his head which felt like it was about to explode. His heart was pounding so hard it felt like it could jump out of his chest, his limbs were numb and spasming, and his fragile sanity seemed to have already left him.

He dared not look anymore, could not think anymore.

Shuichi's inspiration was so high that he could glimpse the high concentration of humanity flowing from the God of Humanity, but his rationality was not high enough for him to recognize the God.

There are three levels of cognition: seeing a mountain as a mountain, seeing a mountain as not a mountain, and seeing a mountain as a mountain again. One can communicate normally with Xia Jie in the first and third levels.

Unfortunately, this unlucky kid named Shuichi was stuck in the middle, just like the late-stage Silver rank in the electric baton's words, unable to go up or down, stuck there.

"oi? Friend, are you alright?"

Xia Jie noticed Xiu Yi's distressed state upon seeing her, and 0.00001 seconds after triggering a sanity check, she completed the restraint of her abundant humanity.

This deity, who treated humanity as divinity, truly did not expect that the excessive concentration of humanity would trigger an oversaturation of human concepts and a cognitive collapse.

Judging from the current effect, if the pigment of humanity were several times thicker, it might be able to project the concept of humanity outwards like radiation, coloring everything in the world into the most insane and bizarre form of humankind.

Trees transformed into fractals of hands, the earth into writhing skin, the air into warm breath... It's terrifying to even think about.

At this moment, the greeting from the ancient god Xia Jie reached Shuichi's ears as follows:

"■？:)，&#*∮∮？

Xia Jie's high concentration of humanity has been completely suppressed, so her speech is normal. However, Shuichi is currently in a state of temporary "semantic saturation" with humans and is unable to understand human voices at all.

"Command: Brain Information Buffer, Target: Xiuyi."