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Chapter 20 In front of the gate of the underworld

In the vast universe, things that we humans can perceive and understand only account for a small part.

When the parts we cannot understand are perceived by us, the "myth" is born.

The ancients adapted things or phenomena beyond their perception into religious stories, explained them with a set of more popular words and passed them on.

Among many such stories, there is a concept that can be said to appear frequently. Although it also has many different ways of expressing it, it is called the Underworld in most legends.

People simply interpret this "concept" as the place where the dead go and where the soul returns to.

But in fact, this so-called "underworld" is just an imaginary space that cannot be completely deconstructed and explored with the existing technological capabilities of human beings.

Those matter in the multiverse that does not have a concrete form of existence constitute this space; in other words, this is a conceptual dimension opposite to the tangible world or the "world of existence".

Lilia's supernatural power "nothing" is a power with similar nature to her, which is why... "The Moment of the Underworld" will be ineffective against her.

Although the "underworld" and "reality" are as close as two twins standing back to back, the barrier between these two worlds is very tight; there are only three ways in this world that can break this barrier in a short period of time.

A few minutes ago, on Lilia's way to the bottom restricted area, Zilin told her that the "Moment of the Underworld" had been hidden in the mezzanine in her suitcase, so Lilia also guessed that the pocket watch was related to the black hole in front of her; but... she didn't know that what Zilin asked her to operate was one of the three ways to connect the Underworld - opening the channel between the two worlds through brief synchronization in the "time dimension".

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Zilin didn't take too long to explain, because he used the pages of the Book of Heart to convey the message to Lilia. As long as his mind was fast enough, he could read hundreds of words in front of the other party in seconds. Lilia's reading comprehension speed was also very fast, so it took only less than a minute to complete it.

"According to your words, the 'monsters' who were cast into this space by the Federation should have been swallowed by the 'underworld' long ago... becoming a thing of nothingness." Lilia thought for a few more seconds, and said to Zi Lin, "Then, what did you want me to open this black hole to release it? Is it a ghost?"

"Normal, after the passage is opened, you can't let go of anything, because the things over there cannot invade the 'world of existence'." Zilin replied, "However, the things over here can go to the opposite side... Although they will be transformed into 'non-existent objects' immediately after the passage, but..."

"Slow down! You shouldn't be thinking..." At this moment, a terrible speculation flashed through Lilia's mind.

"That's right, I need you to go to the opposite world and bring someone back." Zilin continued.

"Get out!" Lilia cursed directly through her thoughts, "You are literally asking me to die!"

"No, you won't die." Zilin replied, "Your ability allows you and what you come into contact to freely change between 'existence' and 'nothing', that is...you just need to come back before the passage is closed, there is nothing to do."

When he said this, Lilia remembered something again: "No, right... Didn't you just say, "Just let me 'open the entrance and motivate myself and leave quickly'?"

"That's to lie to you to open the passage first..." Zilin admitted it simply, "Don't forget that there is a 'black hole' in front of you. When the moment you open it, you will be sucked in after you immediately catch something fixed on the ground."

"You..." Lilia was about to continue to be thrilled, but then she thought, something seemed to be wrong...

"Oh no!" A second later, she had a light of inspiration, quickly turned around and shook her arm, and threw out the suitcase in her hand.

However, she was still one step late...

Just as the suitcase flew out of her palm, the whole world seemed to be frozen, and suddenly turned into black, white and gray. The suitcase that flew out stopped in the air, and Lilia's body could not move, and even her eyes could not turn a little, but her thinking was still in a state of motion.

This "pause" lasted for about three seconds, and then a subtle, rhythmic sound of mechanical pocket watches came into Lilia's ears.

Accompanied by the sound of "ticking" Lilia's body gradually recovered her ability to move, but... before she could do anything, the black hole behind her had dragged her entire body away from the ground and sucked it in.

At the same time, a large passage of text appeared on the pages of Lilia's hand—

“When you read this, you should be in the opposite world.

“First of all, I want to apologize to you.

"Since you react very quickly, to plot against you, I have to give you missing and wrong information from the beginning, and then continue to convey new, true or false instructions and information as the action unfolds... and combined with the response you may make, you can finally get to this point.

"At this moment, you have already thought of... all the communication you had with me after you came to the restricted area, including your use of "refusing to perform missions" to threaten me to explain the "black hole" and the "moment of the underworld"... and the few conversations we just said were all in my calculations.

“I have hidden a very critical point from you about the ‘opening of the two worlds’ – as long as the ‘moment of the underworld’ is brought near the ‘entry of the passage’, you don’t need to ‘take it out of a container’ or do anything special, it will automatically start to ‘synchronize’ with another world.

"To sum up, all the things I have just been delaying the time... I will succeed until the 'synchronization is completed'.

"I don't expect you to forgive me, but I believe that with the will to survive and the rage of revenge against me, you will definitely work hard to come back there.

“So, please pay attention to my next words, because it will help you return to our world.

"1. No matter what you see or hear, don't speak, don't reply to any voice, don't forget who you are, what you are doing...and don't get lost in beautiful memories or illusions.

"2. The pages of this book of Heart are extremely powerful super-dimensional technology. They are not affected by that world. The text I left on it in the end will not be changed by the hallucinations around you. So if you feel that you are about to be lost, look at the pages and the words I left behind to stabilize your mind.

"Three, everything in that world is black, white and gray. Even illusions cannot create color. But the person I want you to bring back will wear red clothes... Because a drop of his blood was mixed into the pulp that made this page, so when you enter that world, he will immediately sense you.

“Since there is no concept of ‘distance’ over there, it doesn’t take too long for him to come to you.

"Once you see the 'man in red', grab his arm, use the 'no' ability to both him and yourself, and quickly remove it after use.

"At that time, he will be transformed from the 'nothing' state to another 'nothing' state that is the same as you, and then become a 'existent' state; to put it more easily understood... After experiencing these two processes, he will go from 'dead' to 'living'.

"As long as he is 'resurrected', his supernatural powers will be restored, and with his ability, it is easy to take you back to the world here...

"Finally, good luck."

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After about thirty seconds, the huge gravity generated when the "cross-dimensional channel" is connected has decayed.

The suitcase containing the "Insight of the Underworld" has long been landed on the ground - for some reason, the box was not affected by the gravity of the black hole from beginning to end, and it was as if an insulator would not be sucked away by a magnet.

On the other hand, Hunter, who was locked in a net alloy cage, was pulled onto the iron fence in the past half minute, and his whole body was strangled and painful.

At this moment, the suction power decreased, and he sat back on the ground and let out a long sigh.

"Brother named Zi, I'll do everything you want me to do... I've done it. When are you going to get me out?" Two seconds later, Lieba said this in his heart, while tearing a layer of skin on the inside of his arm and pulling out a piece of paper the size of a page from it.

During this process, Hunter did not bleed, and there was no blood on the paper. It looked as weird as if there was another layer of skin outside Hunter's skin.

"Don't worry, wait a little longer, the inhibitor here will fail. You can go out by yourself." Zilin's reply soon appeared on the paper.

"Hey... I'm not the only one who is in this layer. Using the 'neutral inhibitor' method, wouldn't those guys come out?" Lieba continued, "By the way... can't you let your girl destroy my cage directly?"

The next second, Zilin immediately replied: "First, that's not my girl; second, her current strength cannot break the cage that is in your arms; third, although the people she brings back can break the net alloy cell in a while, it's hard to say about this. What if she fails to complete the task and stays there?"

"Tsk..." Lieba spat with his mouth, then thought to himself, "Okay, I'll just pretend I'm doing good things."

What he cared about was not that his "neighbors" would cause any terrible disaster after they came out. He just felt that... only he did things for Zilin, but he let those guys who were completely unaware of the situation escape from prison together, which was a little unhappy.

"I know you are not convinced." Unexpectedly, after a breath, Zilin sent another sentence, "Even if the people locked around you escape, they won't thank you... They won't even know the role and role you played in this jailbreak."

"What do you want to say?" The Lieba knew that there must be some more words.

But Zilin seemed to suddenly get out of the topic and said, "As a person who has quickly risen to the mad level due to various 'accidental factors', your ability development is obviously not perfect. The biggest blind spot is... You know that you can strengthen yourself by obtaining the DNA of 'animals', but you have never divided the most numerous species on this planet into the category of 'animals'."

This passage made the hunter Ru Ru suddenly realize it, but at the same time... it also made him feel numb and secretly shocked.

"Ha...are you a demon?" A few seconds later, cold sweat had already oozed out of Lieba's forehead, but his face was filled with a grim look mixed with a smile.

"Why do you say that?" Zilin replied, "Because the things I implied have crossed some of your bottom line?

“However, compared to what the Federation has done to you, and what you have done yourself… what do you think is the difference? Or how much is the difference in the cross-border?

"Mr. Levine, everyone in this world can be a demon, and 'sin' has always been with us.

"We have been instilled with a set of universal moral standards from childhood to adulthood. According to the degree of acceptance and life choices at some critical moments, we set different bottom lines in our hearts.

“But in the final analysis, the bottom line is just a subjective shackle…

"It exists to help us better adapt to the society we live in. It will make differences based on the environment we live in, the education we receive, and the things we experience.

"As long as you can completely convince yourself subjectively, you can break free from the shackles, and the person who breaks free from the shackles... can do anything."

Every word that appears on this piece of paper is like a demon's whisper, corroding the mind of the hunter and trying to drag it into the abyss of fall and evil.

And finally... it succeeded.
Chapter completed!
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