Chapter 187: A Strange Encounter in the Sea of ​​Blood

"Where exactly is this place?"

Gu Xia roamed freely in the sea of ​​blood.

He went upstream.

Different from last time.

Soon, I heard a pop.

Gu Xia swam out of the sea of ​​blood.

What appeared in front of him was a foggy space, with red mist filling the air.

This "lucid dream" does not mean you can wake up if you want to.

And even though it was the third time, Gu Xia didn't believe that this was just a dream. He vaguely felt that this sea of ​​blood should be related to the "immortal" sea of ​​blood mentioned by the followers of the Origin Sect.

Gu Xia simply planned to explore here, so he randomly chose a direction and swam to see if there was any land.

"That is?"

After swimming for a long time, Gu Xia actually saw a huge shadow in the red mist on the sea.

"So lucky?"

He speeded up and swam over.

An island slowly appeared before Gu Xia's eyes.

Soon he landed on the island and looked around.

The dark earth beneath my feet seemed to be a huge rock, without even a single fragment.

Gu Xia walked towards the center of the island.

After about a cup of tea, his eyes narrowed.

Several square outlines appeared in front of him. When he got closer, he saw that they were actually several houses.

"Is there anyone living here?"

But when he checked, he found that these houses were made of black rocks like the ground, or that these houses were part of the entire island.

Although each house has doors and windows, they cannot be opened no matter what, as if they are ultra-realistic 3D paintings.

As we continue to move forward, there are more and more similar houses, getting taller and more complex.

When Gu Xia finally came to the middle of the island, he was already in the "city".

There are high-rise buildings made of black rock everywhere around, and the roads in the middle are also in order, with main roads and branch lines regularly distributed in this rock city.

Even because these black rock buildings were square and square, Gu Xia was temporarily confused, as if he had returned to his previous life.

Of course, all the "doors and windows" of the Black Rock Building cannot be opened, and you cannot see how much is inside.

Coupled with the dense fog, Gu Xia couldn't help but think of Silent Hill, a dark place that also existed in the dense fog in his previous life.

He roamed this weird rock city.

Click, click...

Suddenly, a series of strange sounds came.

"Um?"

Gu Xia heard the sound and walked over.

After turning a corner, he saw the source of the sound.

It was a strange insect, shaped like a fleshy black-red worm, with four pairs of sharp knife-like claws on its slender body, and two spikes at the end of its tail.

It was as long as Gu Xia's forearm and looked ugly and scary.

The strange clicking sound was the sound of insects crawling on the ground.

Click, click, click...

Suddenly, Gu Xia found strange noises everywhere around him. He took a closer look and found that at some point, the same strange insects were crawling out of every corner.

He was surrounded by swarms of insects.

"not good!"

Gu Xia was shocked.

Fortunately, he soon discovered that this was just a false alarm, because the insects did not hurt him, but continued to crawl forward as if they did not see him.

Maybe it wasn't that Gu Xia was surrounded by strange insects, but that he happened to be blocking the way of the insect swarm.

The direction in which the insect swarm is crawling is towards the center of the island.

"Why don't you follow me and take a look."

Perhaps it was because of the dream that Gu Xia's thinking was not as clear as when he was awake, or perhaps it was a meaningless behavior that men often do.

In short, some strange ideas were born from the collision of distracting thoughts in his mind.

Gu Xia followed the insect swarm forward.

As he moved forward, he found that the density of insects around him was getting higher and higher. It seemed that strange insects were gathering from all over the stone city towards the center.

Gu Xia also saw some new types of bugs, which were larger than ordinary monster bugs. The largest ones were as tall as a person.

It was also more deformed and ugly, with pustules all over its body, and its body was covered with white maggots as thick as a finger, densely packed, twisting and sucking the liquid flowing out of the giant worms' pustules.

Gu Xia couldn't help but frown.

And these bugs will behave strangely every once in a while.

They will retract their sharp claws on both sides of their bodies and press their bodies as close to the ground as possible, as if they were human beings.

Not individually, but all bugs together.

The scene looked grotesque and eerie.

Gu Xia couldn't help but be reminded of a religious act - worship.

Of course, if you insist on explaining, you can explain.

In reality, many animals gather together in groups when they reproduce, and their courtship behavior is very similar to some religious rituals.

Maybe these bugs are just courting a mate.

Gu Xia continued to move forward with the insect swarm, and soon they arrived at the center of Stone City.

In front of him is a huge circular altar with a diameter of more than a hundred feet. There are nine levels in total, each level is nine feet high.

There are nine long radiating steps on all sides, like the rays of the sun.

Intuition told Gu Xia that this altar was a reflection of the sun on the ground.

And those bugs are crawling along the stairs of the sun towards the top of the altar.

"What's on the altar? Is it a spawning platform?"

Driven by curiosity, Gu Xia also stepped on the Sun Staircase and walked up.

After a while, Gu Xia climbed to the highest point of the Sun Altar and found that this place was not a high platform, nor was it a spawning platform for insects.

It is a structure similar to a volcano, with a cavity in the middle that is more than dozens of feet in diameter.

And those strange bugs were surrounding the hole, lying on the ground, swaying back and forth.

Gu Xia saw two words flashing in his mind.

"Kneel down."

He was even more curious. What was in the hole that made the bugs worship like fanatics? Could it be the queen of the Zerg?

Gu Xia walked around the strange bugs that were kneeling, walked a few steps to the side of the hole, and leaned down to look down.

I saw that there was a bottomless black hole in the center of the sun altar, which was extremely deep.

It seemed to lead to an unknown time and space, to an abyss that could not be escaped, and to the outside of the universe.

Gu Xia was like an astronaut standing outside the Saturn space station without any protective measures. If he missed, he would be pulled by gravity and fall into the halo of Saturn.

(ps: The author really had this dream, floating in the rings of Saturn, and could only look at the huge earth-yellow gaseous star. The giant fear woke the author up in a flash.)

Instantly, his brows frowned, and an inexplicable sense of uneasiness arose in his heart.

Gu Xia instinctively wanted to stay away from the edge of the hole to ensure that he would never fall into the hole.

But the next second, a more bizarre scene happened.

At the bottom of the hole, in the darkness that seemed to belong to the outside world, a huge eye opened, and then one eye after another opened.

Countless eyes stared at Gu Xia at the same time, and an indescribable sense of oppression filled his heart.

Gu Xia, whose san value fluctuated, remembered a sentence.

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you.