Ashes felt like he had a dream, a very long dream.

In the dream, Soya's slender body was torn by the black vortex and twisted into pieces. Blood mixed with the minced flesh and the black mist, turning into a strange purple color. Her head was still intact, and her face was covered with a hideous expression like a ghost in hell. She shouted at herself at the top of her lungs.

“Quick—Run—”

Then he turned around like a dream and began to run wildly in the opposite direction, but his legs seemed to be filled with heavy lead, and the soil covered with humus in the rift was as sticky as a swamp. Every step he took would require a lot of his physical strength... He felt that his body no longer belonged to him. He just swung his arms mechanically and moved his legs mechanically, and his thinking and consciousness gradually began to blur...

Even with the sharp serrated leaves of the plant cut him all over his body, he could only feel a burst of unreal pain... As for the thick protective suit, he had long disappeared.

This is a dream, Ash knew that it must be in the dream, but the singularity that had just swallowed Soya had already caught up. For some reason, Ash always had a premonition. If he was caught up by that singularity in this dream, he would never be able to wake up from the dream again.

He ran desperately, his lungs almost compressed to the extreme, and the suffocation gradually surrounded him... But fortunately, the hook rope that Soya left at the edge of the rift finally appeared in his sight!

He finally grabbed the hook rope, and he began to climb up with his hands and feet, and he felt that his body's dominance seemed to gradually return to his hands, and he was crawling faster and faster...

But just as he was about to reach the top of the rift valley, the rock that originally fixed the hook claw suddenly shattered!

That feeling was like a tight string suddenly broke, the ashes that had lost their support widened their eyes and fell straight down - and directly below him was the singularity with a bloody mouth...

Even though he did not look back, he could still see that the singularity was filled with blood and flesh, bright red replaced the deep darkness, and the head of Soya!

"No--!!"

...

The familiar cold came from all directions. Without opening your eyes, the ashes knew... I once again returned to that dream, the dream that had been entangled with him for ten years.

No... this dream is not the dream he is familiar with... those people in white hooded face themselves, they all stare at themselves... And Ashes... finally saw their faces for the first time!

These "ghosts" have no facial features at all, and there are only dark and deep singularities on their faces - the singularities that cannot escape from even light and sound!

Fear gradually swallowed him up, he wanted to struggle, but this body still did not listen to his orders as usual... He was not the master of this body, he was just a bystander from the first person perspective...

The "ghosts" walked towards him and surrounded him in the middle... The ashes suddenly felt a headache, and their thoughts seemed to explode... Then, the dazzling white light completely covered by all their vision...

...

...

"I almost thought you couldn't wake up." A voice came from not far away, and Ashes opened his eyes hard. He found himself lying on a soft and comfortable bed. A tall and thin blond young man in his twenties was sitting on a chair in the corner, playing with the badge that Soya gave him.

There are bright lights in the room, and the quilts and bed sheets are brand new. Not only does it have the moldy smell unique to the isolation area, but it even emits a spice. Even the cabinet at the head of the bed is made of crimson rosewood, with a uniform varnish on the surface, reflecting a soft light.

"Where is this?" Ashes sat up from the bed with his arms, and at this time, he realized that his body was covered with bandages, like a mummy in a legend.

"Valenci, a small town in the middle of the empire, is forty-five kilometers away from the second quarantine zone." said the blonde.

"What happened? Before I lost consciousness..." Ashes wanted to recall what had happened before, but the last part in his memory was the scene where Soya was swallowed by the singularity and shouted in his mouth to let him escape soon. He couldn't remember anything behind him.

"We found you two hundred meters away from the Rift Valley in the Palace District. You are lucky. Although you are covered in bruises, you have at least saved your life - Oh, by the way, the things about Senior Sister Soya and Singularity - I mean, if you still remember, it's better to forget them all, as the above don't want the news to spread."

"What about Soya? Is she dead?"

"I don't know." The blonde man shook his head, "According to the signs at the scene, Senior Sister Soya should have been sucked into the space at the other end by the sudden change of singularity, but when we arrived, the singularity had entered the final stage of dissipation."

The space on the other end...what is there? Is the true body of the Sixth Apostle DiPest?

"That should have been a one-way transmission channel... Sorry, I seem to have said a little too much. Some things, you know at this stage, will not help you, but will cause trouble to you." The blonde man smiled and shook his head, stood up from the chair.

"I'll introduce myself, Yuri, Huangquan fifth stage student, and an active agent of the Empire."

Yuri, this is a name from the northern barbarians, but after the Northern Federation was driven to the Permafrost Islands opposite the Cold Wind Strait by the Empire, all the barbarians left on the mainland became the people of the Empire.

"Although with your physique, even the admission threshold for Huangquan has not been met... But since it is the request of Senior Sister Soya, I have to help you." Although Yuri should be several years older than Soya, when talking about Soya, he would add the title of Senior Sister, and his tone was full of respect.

"What am I going to do?" Ashes asked... He had left that place, that place like hell.

But what he didn't know was that he crawled out of one hell and entered another hell.
Chapter completed!