nightmare exec

Chapter 139 The Emerald of the Sad King

The mirrored corridors continue to extend forward, and branch roads spread out, as complicated as branches.Fortunately, with Ayahuasca as the guide, Mithril would not wander in this endless maze.

Before he knew it, he went up the stairs again.

Tsavorite, who appeared on the new floor, gradually faded his greenness over time.But with maturity comes more burdens and even dangers.

The father grew older and eventually married the youngest of several lovers.Not long after, Shaffley had another pair of younger siblings, who became the biggest threat in his mother's eyes.At the same time, the original partner and other lovers are still eyeing each other covetously, even taking risks and making dangerous moves on the edge of crime.

On the other hand, more peripheral forces have also begun to intervene in the game within the family.They are like black silt and quicksand, pervasive, seeping into every corner of Tsavorite's life.

Every person who will show him a friendly and kind expression may hide another face behind it.Everyone who favors him must hope to get more benefits from him.

Unknowingly, the rooms where the memories are stored turned into a flashy and false stage.No matter how far or near I am, people walk around Shaffley wearing exaggerated masks.And the expression on Tsavorite's face changed less and less, and finally only a gorgeous and dark smile remained.

The corridor under Mithril's feet is still extending forward.The hard wooden floor disappeared, and was replaced by a deep and light flesh color—there were human eyes, ears, mouth, and even hands, feet, torso and various reproductive organs.What's even more frightening is that they are not dead objects, but are wriggling non-stop, gathering into a solidified vortex and turbulent flow, affecting everything that passes by them.

In this flesh-colored torrent, Shaffery walked alone.At the beginning, he would be pushed back to his original position over and over again by those squirming hands and feet, and even hurt by those sharp teeth.

But soon, he learned to use the peristalsis of these organs as his own help, skillfully maneuvering between different organs, and even manipulating them, so as to smoothly move towards the end point that he didn't really expect.

Mithril closely followed Shaffrey's phantom, and after a long and suffocating trek, they finally came to the end of the corridor.

This is a circular auditorium, the floor, walls and columns are all plated with bright gold, and the crystal dome reflects a diamond-like colored halo.

Here, his father, who was in a wheelchair due to a stroke, tore off the filthy gold crown on his head along with the scalp, and then pressed it heavily on the top of Tsavorite's head.The golden monster quickly stretched out its thin tentacles, piercing into the top of Shaffley's head.

It must have been an extremely painful process, because Shaffley, who was wearing the golden crown, curled up, his hands clenched his hair tightly, his expression was grim and distorted, as if he was crying out in pain.

However, all the people standing under the steps had their eyes wide open and grinned loudly. They showed their white teeth and clapped their hands non-stop, like little toy men whose desires have been wound up.

And in the dark place farther away, there are countless scarlet blood eyes, staring at it.

Even if there are all kinds of helplessness, there is no way to bring back the past.Mithril followed the flying ayahuasca and walked a few steps along the auditorium, and found a spiral staircase.

The wall next to the stairs is full of large and small photos, describing the life after Shaffery - he shouldered the heavy fate of a family, married the daughter of an official who had another love in his heart, Raising a group of vampire relatives who are useless except flattery, wandering among various masked interest groups.

"Ah, where!"

Song Yin outside the water mirror suddenly cried out in a low voice—Mithril has already reached the top of the crystal dome, but the steps are still spiraling upwards.He looked up towards the top of the hall, and saw that the tall stairs stretched all the way to an invisible dark height.

And at the intersection of light and darkness, there are two almost identical figures, walking towards a high place.

Mithril must have yelled loudly, because the two people stopped at the same time and turned around.

Immediately after, Mithril started running, and he quickly passed by one after another of the photos, obviously impatient to catch up with Shaffley's footsteps.

"what happened?"

Song Yin found an ominous sign—the photos on the wall became more and more blurred and distorted, and the color became darker and darker, until finally, it turned into a mess of black.

And as the photos changed, the walls and even the steps under Mithril's feet also became weird.The plated gold layer was mottled and peeled off, exposing the rough black masonry inside.Another layer of damp moss grew on the stone, and even slimy blood dripped down along the cracks.

The higher you go, the more difficult and dangerous the road becomes.Although the person he was looking for was close at hand, Mithril still had to slow down.

"What's going on here?" Song Yin had a bad feeling, "Where are they going?"

He asked Qi Zhengnan a question, but it was Alexander who answered.

"Your father also walked this road back then."

Alexander actually mentioned that past event in front of Qi Zhengnan: "I have prepared enough doses of ayahuasca for him, as long as he can go up this step to a high place, he can open the most important thing in the safe house. A door, back to the real world."

"Back to reality?!" Song Yin admitted that he had never thought of this before, but after thinking about it carefully, since stowaways can pass through human nightmares and reach reality, then the door that was forcibly opened by ayahuasca can lead to reality. It couldn't be more reasonable.

So, if Shaffley went through the door at the end of the stairs, he would wake up from a long vegetative state.But what about his assistant officer?And why did Shaffley bring the assistant officer with him?

Song Yin took a breath, vaguely feeling that he was about to draw a terrible conclusion.However, at this moment, Qi Zhengnan's sneer came from beside his ear.

"You really had a share in what happened back then." He looked at Alexander with dark eyes.

And Alexander still squatted on the ground, looking up at Qi Zhengnan with a smile: "Hello, Mu Hui."

During the conversation, both sides showed their cards, and the scene was immediately filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Although Song Yin, who was caught in the middle, wanted to ease the atmosphere, he didn't know where to start.He was distressed when the situation in the water mirror suddenly changed dramatically.

After a series of climbing and chasing without danger, Mithril finally reached the top of the steps.

At the bottom of the abyss beneath his feet, under the crystal dome, the temple was still resplendent.However, in front of his eyes at this moment, there were only ruined walls as dark as night, and an unusually tall, pitch-black door.

No, Song Yin quickly corrected herself in her heart—it was not a dark door.In fact, the door is already open, and what is really dark is the world outside the door.

But at this dark and weird doorway, Shaffley and his assistant officers stopped and turned around.Two pairs of identical faces and two pairs of emerald green eyes stared at Mithril who was chasing after him desperately.

The water mirror is silent, so it is impossible to know what they said.But it is not difficult to imagine that it must be a very contradictory and painful conversation.

"You must be wondering why there is darkness behind the door leading to reality."

Alexander read Song Yin's confusion, and took the initiative to reveal the astonishing and regrettable answer——

"That's because Shaffley's eyes were blind before he came to purgatory. No organic disease can be detected, maybe it's psychogenic. But if it drags on for a long time, it may turn into permanent damage."

"……blindness?!"

Song Yin's mind immediately recalled Shaffley's blue-green eyes like jewels.More than once, he felt that they had an astonishing beauty beyond the ordinary, but he never expected that these were actually a pair of prosthetic eyes that belonged only to purgatory.

"what……!"

He suddenly understood again—he understood why the closer the spiral staircase was to reality, the darker, dilapidated and desolate everything around him became.

Because Shaffley lost his vision, he lost his value to the family, and lost the golden crown that he didn't need in the first place.He was thrown from the highest mountain, and fell into the coldest and deadest darkness.But also because of this cold and dead darkness, he completely "seeed" clearly what an absurd, ugly and disgusting environment he once lived in.

"That's why he's stubborn and doesn't want to return to the real world. He doesn't want to untangle his heart, doesn't want to see those people who make him sick again, doesn't want to climb that living mountain made of human flesh again... …unwilling to burn his own life any longer to illuminate the lives of those whom he loathes."

"But he wants to let the assistant officer live instead of him."

Qi Zhengnan's cold voice interrupted Song Yin's emotion: "Forcing the life I don't want on an artificial intelligence, is it possible that I still hope that the assistant officer will take revenge on the garbage in the world instead of him? It's just a coward."

"No, you misunderstood."

Alexander was still smiling, but there was a chill in the corner of his eyes: "Shafele is indeed planning to instill the consciousness of the assistant officer into his own body. But that does not mean that he is trying to copy a second self. He just wants to give The assistant officer has a chance, a journey to leave purgatory and experience the real world. You can treat it as a legacy from Shaffley to the assistant officer."

As soon as I said this, I saw that the three people in the water mirror suddenly clashed.

Mithril grabbed one of them by the collar, while the other pushed the person exactly like himself out of the dark door.The situation was in chaos, and outsiders couldn't tell who was Shaffley and who was the assistant officer.

And the three people outside the water mirror temporarily gave up their dispute because of this, and stared at the development in the water intently.

Song Yin didn't realize how nervous she was until the sweat on her palms was cold and wet.

But he immediately reflected on his nervousness—why, what kind of result was he expecting?

Shaffley wants to give up himself in exchange for the assistant officer a chance to know the world;

Mithril is eager to return to his family as soon as possible;

Shaffley objected to Mithril leaving Purgatory;

Mithril does not want Shaffley to give up on himself;

But Shaffley did commit an unforgivable crime...

Among them, is there a happy result for all?If not, how can the damage be minimized?

He was being distressed by this when he heard a short, excited cry from Alexander.

In the water mirror, a figure was shoved and fell into the darkness outside the door, while the other twisted into a ball with Mithril and fell down from the high steps!

who is it?Was it Shaffley himself or the assistant officer who was pushed out the door? !

Song Yin thought that he didn't have Mithril's ability to distinguish two identical people, and he didn't have the chance to observe carefully—because Qi Zhengnan suddenly grabbed his hand forcefully.

"Get ready to go!"

go out?How to get out?To run?Where is the road? ——Song Yin was just about to take a step forward, when he heard a muffled sound of "bang", the pool filled with ayahuasca suddenly exploded with monstrous waves, and the black flowers were torn into countless petals in mid-air, and then turned into fly ash drift down.

Song Yin's heart skipped a beat, and before he had time to see if the three people in the pool were safe, he was pulled into his arms by Qi Zhengnan and tightly protected.

What happened after that, Song Yin was completely unconscious, he just felt the wind whistling in his ears.Immediately afterwards, the strong ayahuasca fragrance quickly diluted, faded, and became invisible.

Feeling that Qi Zhengnan relaxed a little, he greeted in a low voice, and slowly raised his head after getting permission.

There is no pool or mansion in front of me, but there is only a vast gray fog, so thick that it is so thick that you can't see your fingers.

"here is……?"

He suddenly realized - this is outside the safe house, that piece of absolutely forbidden territory!

The author has something to say: Shaffley’s Assistant Officer: Not to be a man, or to be a blind person, this is a question

Shaffley: I am psychogenic, you will not be blind when you enter my body, don't think about it!

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Finally told the secret of Lao Sha, a man who saw everything clearly after being blind.I feel very satisfied.

By the way, he explained how Alexander got Song Yin's father out.

And by the way, fill the hole in the world outside the thick fog.

All the clues are constantly shrinking, and finally come to a point.