Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 515: Death Journey

What does it feel like to fall into the abyss?
What does it feel like to face the abyss?
What do those worlds that have completely fallen into the abyss look like?
Before this, Xinlailai had looked up a lot of information on this subject, and had also consulted Kagus on a large number of questions related to the abyss, but the results he obtained were always the same:
"Nightmare"

It was a true nightmare, a horrifying nightmare. No one could predict what they would encounter in the abyss. From the moment one stepped into the deep and thick darkness, all common sense would gradually be challenged.

[Tip: Retrieving information for this area... Retrieval failed]

[Warning: It is detected that the free abyss energy index in the pioneer's environment has seriously exceeded the safety environment standard. Pioneers, please evacuate the current area immediately! ]

Tick!
The dark liquid dripped onto the ground like raindrops, and a cold reminder sound exploded in Xin Lailai's mind. In just a moment, an extremely strong and piercing chill rose from Xin Lailai's back and spread to his entire body.

Without any reason, a strong urge to escape arose from Xin Lailai. He looked at the wall in front of him that was constantly oozing out black liquid, feeling the strong malice that was constantly stimulating his perception. It seemed as if every cell in his body was constantly trembling, urging him to leave here quickly.

calm down!

Xin Lailai looked at the scene in front of him, bit his tongue hard, opened up the psychic field, forced his thoughts to calm down, took a deep breath, looked at the slowly wriggling black liquid around him, and kept reminding himself in his mind not to act rashly.

It's true that the abyss is terrifying, but precisely because of this, we must not act rashly.

"My boy, if one day you accidentally fall into the abyss before reaching your ultimate strength, remember one thing—"

'If you want to get out of the abyss alive, don't make any decisions lightly! '

"Keep calm, observe carefully, and when necessary, abandon all distractions except your own intuition. This is the only secret to surviving the abyss!"

The words that Kagus had said in the past echoed in Xin Lailai's mind. He closed his eyes, mobilized the sword energy to cover his body, took out Yuan Mo from the storage space, replaced his scrapped [Legendary Warrior Suit] with [Transcendent Suit], and began to increase the bonus of the psychic field to the nerve reflex speed and observation accuracy little by little.

As early as when he used gold skill points to upgrade the psychic realm to LV.MAX++, the upper limit of the psychic realm's bonus to reaction speed had reached 200%. However, his mental reaction speed in a normal state could not keep up with such a high bonus, and the 200% psychic realm consumed too much physical strength. Therefore, he basically controlled it within the range of 100% under normal circumstances, and the precision of observation was also limited to 5 microns or above.

Tick-t ...

The sound of liquid dripping on the ground came from all around, but this time, the dripping sound that was originally as rapid as raindrops seemed to be dragged out in Xin Lailai's ears as if it was slowed down. With the addition of up to 200% of the nerve reflex speed and dynamic vision, the whole world perceived by Xin Lailai at this moment seemed to have entered "slow motion".

Not only that, as the accuracy of observation in the psychic field was gradually unlocked, massive amounts of information began to flow into Xin Lailai's mind.

The current limit of observation accuracy in the psychic field is 0.1μm, which is 5 times lower than the 50μm level of observation accuracy he usually uses. If he is not now very proficient in controlling the psychic field and can accurately control the area he wants to observe, with his current brain computing power, once he unscrupulously releases the restrictions on the psychic field, he will be turned into a fool by the massive amount of information in minutes.

As for why Xin Lailai suddenly did this:
[Hint: 100 mana points have been consumed, detecting the surrounding environment]

[Detection completed. Based on the Pioneer's current perception strength, this detection can obtain "microscopic level" environmental intelligence]

A cold reminder sounded, and Xin Lailai immediately withdrew the psychic field upon seeing it.

Wow!
As soon as the spiritual field was closed, Xin Lailai couldn't help but stagger. At the same time, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He gave people the feeling that he had just completed a long journey.

Immediately afterwards, Xin Lailai quickly took out a needle containing light red liquid from the storage space, inserted the needle into his arm, and pressed the syringe.

[Hint: "Fatigue Slow-Release Agent 200mL" has been injected, and the evaluation of physical attributes and abnormal resistance has begun...]

[Hint: The judgment is passed, the current body endurance and physical strength recovery speed are temporarily increased by 1000%, lasting for 15 seconds. ]

After the light red liquid was injected, the complexion on Xin Lailai's face recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. After more than ten seconds, as the effect of the potion disappeared, Xin Lailai breathed a sigh of relief, opened his eyes again, and looked at the still pitch-black cave in front of him with a cold and calm look in his eyes.

The injection of fatigue-releasing agent he just took was not something he bought from the market, but an alchemical by-product he obtained by using his own alchemical biology to refine several different biological hormones.

In fact, there are actually quite a few alchemical by-products like this in his storage space. After all, if one wants to understand alchemical organisms, it is impossible to avoid these things produced in the bodies of organisms.

This is also one of the benefits of having a side job. Even if you don't do it for the sake of making money, the more methods you master, the more solutions you can think of and use when you encounter unexpected situations.

"The concentration of abyssal energy is around 50, which means this is really just the 'shallow zone'?"

After almost recovering, Xin Lailai looked at the detection results at the edge of his vision again. Looking at the data displayed on it, he felt inexplicably relieved.

Shallow area.

Although compared to the normal world, even the shallow area eroded by the abyss is already something that makes people shudder, but in this situation where it has been confirmed that they have fallen into the "abyss", the three words "shallow area" are actually the best good news.

——This means that they were just washed by the space storm to the border area between the star realm and the abyss, and just happened to fall on the side that was closer to the abyss.

"And these things... although they have an ominous aura, are they really just harmless polymers affected by the energy of the abyss?"

Xin Lailai lowered his head, looked at the dark puddle under his feet, squinted his eyes slightly, scooped up a small amount with a magic chip, observed for a while, took out a test tube, and put it in.

These black droplets may look scary, but they are not very harmful in themselves. In other words, they do not have the concept of intelligence at all. They are just a kind of polymer that can react according to his emotional fluctuations.

——More importantly, he remembered that Kagus had told him that this kind of polymer could only exist in places where the erosion of abyss energy was not too serious, and the sensitivity of these things to abyss energy was more than a thousand times higher than normal life.

——Therefore, when necessary, using these things to judge the changes in the concentration of abyssal energy in an area will be more effective than relying on one's own perception.

"Sure enough, is it this direction?"

Xin Lailai held the test tube containing the pitch-black liquid in his hand, glanced at the results of the link detected after the perception intensity reached the limit, walked a few steps to his left, and looked at the black liquid whose activity showed an extremely slight decrease, his eyes moved.

Unlike the "middle zone" and "deep zone", the biggest feature of the "shallow zone" of abyss erosion is that the abyss energy inside it is extremely fluid, just like the frequent rise and fall of sea water on the shore. The closer to the boundary between the abyss and the star realm, the more obvious the concentration of abyss energy will be.

In other words, if you can reach the boundary of the "shallow area", you may not even need to leave the shallow area specifically. You only need to wait for a low tide to return to normal conditions for a short time.

As for him who has the Paradise brand on his body, once he enters a normal environment, even if he cannot be teleported back to Paradise immediately, he can at least restore the communication function of the brand and use that moment to send a distress signal to the outside world. Even if it may not change the outcome in the end, in terms of the probability of survival, this is the crucial ray of hope from nothing to something!

[Hint: The "Psychic Field" has been opened]

In the dark cave, the black-haired young man held the test tube, took out the detection equipment from the storage space, and scanned the rock wall in front of him.

This detector was not prepared for him by Xiaobai, but was something he asked for from Quan Momo when he was in the Black Bullet World.

At that time, he realized that his psychic field and magic were not very useful when encountering materials such as dark adamantium that have a strong ability to block extraordinary energy, so he specially asked Quan Momo for several detection instruments for mineral and geological exploration.

However, since he had never encountered an environment that could make the enhanced psychic field fail, these detection instruments were left in his storage space and no one cared about them. He thought that they would eventually be used in an execution world, but he did not expect that the first use would be in the abyss.

Om-! !

Faint sound waves came out of the instrument, and an ultrasonic mapping image composed purely of lines appeared on the detector's screen, showing the situation behind the rock wall.

found it!
Finally, Xin Lailai's eyes locked on an empty area in the picture, and his expression changed.

"Ling Yuzi, prepare to enter Nirvana!"

'Um! ’

A brief exchange of words sounded from the soul space of the two people, and the mana in Xin Lailai's body began to rapidly transform into demonic power, flowing in his body according to the circulation path designed for them by 83203.

Nirvana is their ultimate trump card. Every time it is used, a part of the protective energy in their bodies will fall into a dormant state. In theory, it should not be used frequently.

But in this situation, if they cannot be sure what is behind the rock wall and are not ready to enter the "Nirvana" state at any time, the only means they have to deal with the erosion of the abyss energy is the bottle of "Boundary Thunder Potion" they got from Yamu.

After all, if it weren't for the 5 points of abyss resistance blessed by the Earth World on them, he might not have survived until Ling Yuzi woke him up when he was eroded by the abyss energy before.

The series of warnings when he opened his eyes, as well as the half-grayed health and mana bars and skill lists, all conveyed the following message to Xin Lailai:
——In the abyss, there was no room for him to make mistakes.

Tick!
The sound of dripping water was heard. In the darkness, Xin Lailai walked carefully to the rock wall where there was a hollow area at the back. He raised Yuan Mo, took a deep breath, and slashed with all his strength.

boom!
A pitch-black sword light flashed, and a huge roar exploded from the cave. The rock wall in front of Xin Lailai shattered into pieces with a bang. A gust of evil wind with a pungent fishy smell blew in his face, and a narrow passage that could only accommodate two people walking side by side appeared in front of him.

Not only that……

“LAaaaa——!!”

Sharp and piercing screams came from the end of the corridor, along with a creepy rustling sound like sandpaper rubbing against floor tiles, and a malice that was much greater than what he felt in the cave.

Xin Lailai looked at all this without saying a word.

Although it is unclear where he is exactly now, judging from the surrounding environment, he was most likely blown by the space storm along with part of the underground city to an abyss erosion area.

In other words, in a sense, he is still in the underground city, but...

——This is the version after the abyss has been completely eroded.

Tick, tick!
The sound of dripping like raindrops came rapidly, and the passage in front of him seemed to have sensed the appearance of Xin Lailai, and began to drip "black rain". At first glance, it looked like a bloody mouth drooling, waiting for its prey to fall into the trap.

Click, click, click...!
Steady footsteps were heard, and Xin Lailai calmly glanced at the Transcendence suit on his equipment bar and other equipment that survived the sacrifice of the secondary invincible shield and legendary warrior suit. He said nothing, and just walked forward step by step with the giant sword in his hand.

Buzz, rumble—! !

As if angered by Xin Lailai's silence, as he stepped into the passage, the surrounding rock walls began to shake violently.

Torrential black rain fell from overhead, gathering into a black river in the narrow passage.

Finally, I saw hands coming out from the Black River, fluttering like seaweed, and slowly turning towards the direction where Xin Lailai was...

Peng——! !

[Hint: Entered the "space shuttle" state! ]

Xin Lailai's figure instantly passed through a group of black arms, and at an unimaginable speed, he swept through the passage and rushed straight towards the exit in the distance.

In an instant, the pitch-black arms formed by the life energy polluted by the abyss froze, as if they had not expected that Xin Lailai, who had been planning to force his way in just the previous second, would suddenly use this method to "skip class", and they just stood there in a daze.

then……

boom!
Like a volcanic eruption, thousands of pitch-black palms gathered together and turned into a terrifying giant hand covered with eyes. It forcibly smashed a path in the narrow passage and grabbed Xin Lailai who was maintaining a state of space travel.

“Laaaa——!!”

Not only that, at the exit in the distance, a shrill scream sounded, like a horn blown by a sentry, causing the entire dungeon to riot.

——Only by facing the awareness of inevitable death can you fight for a chance of survival.

The Abyss Death March begins!
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(End of this chapter)