Crow's Paradise

His question made the old crab frown.

Is it true that I don’t know or that I don’t know?

but

The other party's vague statement before also made him smile involuntarily:

"Forget it, it doesn't matter what your background is, Brother Crow."

He looked at the shadow-like crow and experienced the strange feeling of being close and disgusting to him. In this contradictory feeling that was quite different from Lao Jia but basically the same, he spat out:

"The fundamental conflict between you and me is not small. There should be no reason for us to devour and assimilate each other, right?"

Yao Yan was just noncommittal about his words and responded vaguely by remaining silent.

The old crab didn't say anything more and immediately answered his question:

"Do you know the approximate origin of Buzhou Mountain?"

"In the understanding of most of the hosts and contaminated bodies, Buzhou Mountain is similar to the trial space. They are the floating spirits of ancient humans, except for the condensed and solidified parts, which are stacked up."

"There is even such a saying."

The old crab lay back on the shabby bed again and waved his finger:

"Buzhou Mountain itself is a trial space, but its essence is close to the condensation of the concept of 'passage', which is a passage connecting to other trial spaces."

"Going to various trial spaces, you can see many strange scenes condensed from the fantasies or fictional things left in ancient human thoughts, but"

"hell."

"In the world of ancient humans, 'death' was a very important topic."

"Hades, Hell, Heaven, Nothingness, Chaos."

"In the world of ancient humans, there was a lot of talk about death."

"But now."

The old crab glanced at Yao Yan:

"What do you think qualifies as death for us?"

"On a real level, the difference between life and death between us and ordinary humans is not that big. However, starting from the level of phenomena, there is already a huge difference between us and ordinary humans."

"Not to mention the level of effect."

"So, what is death to us?"

The old crab turned his sight to the sky:

"For us parasites living in this world who may not be able to die even if we want to, the collapse of personality may be a more acceptable concept of 'death'."

"After our memory, personality, and death have all undergone tremendous changes, we are now equivalent to death."

He glanced at his palm:

"In Mount Buzhou, there is an area of ​​trial space that highly condenses various concepts of death, which we call 'hell'."

"Of course, other places are also called the underworld, the underworld, the underworld, and various other names."

"It doesn't matter what it's called, as long as you know the reason."

When he said this, he glanced at Yao Yan again:

"Personality collapse is death, yes, but in the trial space, along with the 'personality collapse' situation, various hosts and contaminated bodies are often restrained and integrated into the trial space, becoming a trial A part of the space, and then continuously put together to condense other people’s thoughts, memories, and personalities.”

As he spoke, he put his hands behind his head to rest his head and looked at the starless sky:

"It can be said that the trial space of 'hell' often has the concept of a living subject."

"How do you say, in ancient human terms, there is such a thing as a 'world will'?"

"These wills that are integrated with the world are alive. They know many things about the trial space, the pollutants and the recipients. They may also know the cruelty of 'hell'. They will do everything possible to try to escape from hell and escape from the kind of being sealed in Ordinary life in prison.”

Having said this, he turned his head and glanced at the shadowy crow:

"Is there a contaminated object, or is it a container? Anyway, something managed to escape."

"Escaped?" Yao Yan asked.

"Yes, although I didn't see it with my own eyes, many pollutants from ancient times have said that Snake Street is the corpse of a certain containment person or pollutant."

"Corpse?"

When Yao Yan heard this sentence, although he was not shocked, he could not help but think of various scenes because of this description, and his thoughts were paused.

As if feeling Yao Yan's "shock", Lao Xia smiled:

"The 'Scarecrow' appeared at that time. Even those ancient pollutants don't know how and why the Scarecrow appeared there."

"But there are basically two places that are related."

"One, it's 'Hell', and the snake carcass that escaped from 'Hell' but 'died', and that street."

"Two, it is the predecessor of the Land of Chaos."

The old crab was lying on the bed, bouncing his feet up and down:

"I heard from those ancient polluters that the Land of Chaos was the stronghold of another force before the 'Hell Serpent' rushed out."

"This force feels similar to several other forces."

"Same as Yancheng, it has metal-like characteristics."

"Like Shi Cheng, both like all kinds of sculptures."

"Like Haicheng, they both like all kinds of strange and strange things."

"It's just that there are all kinds of weird hosts and contaminated objects here. Is it just a junk warehouse?"

Such a description made an image appear in Yao Yan's mind.

It is a force with the theme of a type of art that characterizes and extremes certain situations in a certain industrial era scene that has been used to the extreme.

Generally speaking, it would be called steampunk.

He finally realized what was wrong with the complicated scene in the Chaos Land that made him feel wrong.

Suddenly, he blurted out the game company's promotional words for that force in the game:

“Magic and science at the same time.”

“Incredible science is like magic.”

"No, magic really exists, in this city."

"You can find potions concocted by witches and witches in the corners of this city, or you can find the witch herself, led by a certain black cat or crow."

"But, my dear, don't get lost in this clockwork city."

"It's very dangerous in the dark. Although the sharp blades of the murderers are as beautiful as their tuxedos, I hope you can leave here before the hands of your pocket watch point to night, get on the airship, and leave this dangerous city at night."

The Land of Chaos is a force in "Nightmare Game".

"Mobile City".

It is different from the mechanical city that stands there, and it is also different from the carved stone city that is held up by giants.

It is different from the floating city that is like the scorching sun, and it is also different from the religious city that stands in the extreme cold.

It is also different from the city of the abyss drowned in the sea.

This city is indeed chaotic, but

no the same.

However, Yao Yan also realized something at this time

The words he spat out caught the attention of the man next to him.