Lin Sanjiu had no idea where she was.
She had been awake for quite some time. She stood in the cold wind, feeling a little lost. She had no idea what was going on. Nothing made sense. She tried to list out all the things that happened before she entered the pocket dimension, but she still couldn't explain why she was here.
After she leaped out, the meat cavity behind her trembled like an injured animal. Milky white smoke seeped out from the hole in the wall and lasted for a few minutes. Lin Sanjiu, who was initially very cautious, soon realized that once the "milk" flowed into the air, it seemed to be diluted. It lost its original characteristics and dissipated involuntarily in the cold wind. She occasionally breathed in a little, but it only made her head spin for a moment. It didn't affect her much.
The coarse, cold, and hard rocks pressed down on both sides of Lin Sanjiu as if they could close in and swallow her at any time. The gaps between the rock walls were narrow and irregular, making the skeletal wings on her back a headache. No matter how hard she tried to adjust the angle of her skeletal wings, she always bumped into them and felt uncomfortable. The only spacious space was where the meat cavity was. It was as if someone had chiseled a pocket out of the rock wall. The meat cavity was right in the center, and there was an empty space around it.
Lin Sanjiu had long since stopped looking up. With her posthuman's eyesight, the stone wall stretched to the end of her line of sight before drawing a white line on top of her head. The first time she raised her head, it took her a few seconds to realize that the white line was actually the faraway sky.
Sighing, she groped the rock wall and took a few more steps forward. There was a thin layer of soil between the cracks of the rock wall. A few clusters of dark green leaves poked out from the thin layer of soil. It looked like a person in a meat cavity, about to die.
She had entered a pocket dimension with the members of the Smiling Mermaid, but why did she wake up in a meat cavity at the bottom of the abyss? Lin Sanjiu had no clue.
The meat cavity was smashed, and a sticky liquid flowed out. With every step she took, the liquid splashed on the soles of her shoes. Under the dim light from the sky, the flesh cavity's original dark red color gradually withered and turned a dying dark brown. Regardless of what it was, Lin Sanjiu's attack had sent it to its death.
It was much more difficult than she had imagined. Even though a few of them looked relatively healthy, most of them had been in a coma for a long time and lacked nutrition. Most of them had been reduced to a pile of bones. When Lin Sanjiu tried to carry a girl, she accidentally brushed against her thigh. Crack! The girl's thigh bone was separated from her pelvis, leaving only a thin layer of yellowish skin connecting her thigh to her body.
Without the "milk", perhaps these people would slowly wake up, but Lin Sanjiu had no intention of waiting for that to happen. There were thirty or forty of them that she had rescued from the cavities, and they were carefully laid down on the corridor. When this was done, she fetched some water from the card bank, and gave it to each of them. Then, she stepped on the pitiful space between the bodies like a ballerina. Lin Sanjiu struggled a little as she walked deeper into the tunnel.
On the other side, where the light was a little brighter and the terrain was a little higher, there was only a dead end made of mud and rocks after two hours of walking. Even though Lin Sanjiu was very reluctant, the only way out was the dark and steep tunnel in front of her. It was getting narrower and narrower.
This was the most uncomfortable "path" that Lin Sanjiu had ever walked on. Lin Sanjiu was a few thousand meters above the ground. Deep in the rock stratum, there was a crevice that she didn't know how. It was a narrow and dark space that could make anyone claustrophobic. Lin Sanjiu had no idea how long she had been struggling.
In the beginning, she was just doubtful and a little worried. However, as time went by, all she felt in her heart was hatred for her skeletal wings. The bumps and scrapes were only a small matter. There were some places where her wings were so narrow that they couldn't even fit through. It was as if her limbs were forced to an impossible angle. Gritting her teeth, Lin Sanjiu stretched her skeletal wings and sometimes even folded them. She didn't even know how she managed to squeeze her way through. Fortunately, she was so deep underground that no one could hear her screams of pain.
Just when she thought she was going to break her skeletal wings and throw them away, the space between the stone walls gradually widened. The light became brighter, the tunnel widened, and the slope increased. After crawling on all fours for a few hours, Lin Sanjiu realized that she had returned to the surface.
She could hear the clamor of people, the occasional engine sound of a spaceship flying across the sky, and the muffled rumbling of an unknown source. For a moment, Lin Sanjiu felt as if she had returned to the human world from hell.
Two large, round moons hung over countless dilapidated buildings that were a few hundred stories high. The buildings were cut into countless sections by layers of electric wires. The bustling crowd and the noisy noise filled every corner that the lights could or could not reach.
It seemed that she was still in the Cyber District.
There was a deep gash in the ground, but to the passersby, the abyss in the middle of the road was a common sight. The spot where Lin Sanjiu crawled out from was only surrounded by a yellow ribbon to warn the passersby not to fall into it. When she crawled out from the gash, her skin was bleeding profusely from the cuts on the hard rocks. Her head, face, and limbs were covered in mud and dust. There was no part of her body that didn't hurt. However, no one gave her a second glance.
Enduring the pain, Lin Sanjiu searched for the map.
"That's weird. Why are we back here?" Mrs. Manas spoke after staring at the map for a while.
Even though she wasn't familiar with Red Nautilus, it didn't stop her from quickly locating her location. It was an abyss that spanned across half of the Cyber District. The people here named it the Grand Canyon and it appeared on the map like a scar. One end of the "Grand Canyon" was a wasteland. Lin Sanjiu was currently at the other end of the "Grand Canyon". She had already seen the "Grand Canyon" once when she looked out of the window of the appraiser's house.
However, there was still a long distance between the Grand Canyon and the territory of the Smiling Mermaid. Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out why she would end up at the bottom of the abyss.
Ever since she had lost "A Maiden's Sorrows", there was nothing that made sense or connected her.
Lin Sanjiu rubbed the map in frustration. Her hand paused as she remembered the red crystals she had spent on the map. "I don't know." Lin Sanjiu was a little annoyed. "But, no matter who or what did this to me, let this be their lucky day. I'm going to buy a ticket now."
Even though she was kind, she wasn't stupid. When she saw a dozen red crystals fall from the body of the person she was moving, Lin Sanjiu knew that getting a ticket was no longer a problem.
Even though Mrs. Manas, who had always had a high moral standard, agreed with her. Perhaps, the unconscious person at the bottom of the abyss needed food and water more than red crystals.
"But … what about the pocket dimension that is devouring Red Nautilus? Don't you care about it? "This time, Mrs. Manas wasn't as easy to talk to.
"I can't ignore it," Lin Sanjiu admitted. "But, where is this pocket dimension?"
"You know it. It's in the territory of the Smiling Mermaid —"
"Logically speaking, I should also be in the territory of the Smiling Mermaid," Lin Sanjiu interrupted Mrs. Manas. "But, when I woke up, I was here."
Mrs. Manas didn't speak for a long time. After a while, she said softly, "Then … maybe it's because the pocket dimension has devoured this place …"
"I don't see any difference from before."
"That's because Sajee said —" When Mrs. Manas said this, she froze for a moment and stopped talking.
Lin Sanjiu smiled faintly, but there wasn't much of a smile in her eyes. "Yeah, Sajee said that. We entered the pocket dimension with her, but she wasn't in that meat cavity. "
That abnormal girl must know something, but she didn't tell Lin Sanjiu and the rest.
"When I meet Reno and the rest, I will come back to investigate Sajee with the help of Progressor Alliance," Lin Sanjiu mumbled to herself as she walked toward the airship's registration point. "Before I find that woman, I can only hope that the forces in Red Nautilus can be smarter and not let things get out of control."
Perhaps, this idea wasn't that unreasonable. Lin Sanjiu walked into the crowded airship registration point and stood in front of the electronic information board for a long time.
She remembered that the Smiling Mermaid had already obtained information about the "Devouring Pocket Dimension", but she couldn't find any clues about it from the "Cyber Current Events". Instead, there were only news like "CLASH has successfully returned from a Class-A world", "12 new apocalyptic worlds have been entered into the system", "Someone is buying plant-type Special Items at a high price" and so on.
"What's going on …" Lin Sanjiu frowned. She couldn't figure out what was going on. Shaking her head, Lin Sanjiu strode toward the ticket counter and blended into the crowd.
After the tall woman with the skeletal wings left, the young woman at the ticket counter looked down at her electronic information board. She browsed through the auction price of the visa four months later. Her price was indeed too low for a Class-D world. Just when she sighed and didn't know what to do, she sensed another figure walking toward the ticket counter.
"Hello," the young woman raised her head and smiled in a semi-professional manner. Then, her voice froze in her throat.
The woman's eyes were like two deep, dry wells. There was no sclera in her eyes. Even though the young woman had to see hundreds of strange people every day, there was something special about this woman. She didn't seem human. The young woman couldn't help but shudder at the sight of her.
The woman with a thick scarf seemed to realize that something was wrong with her. She lowered her head and looked at the reflection on the metal counter. Then, she raised her head again. This time, the sclera of her eyes appeared. It was as if she had pinched her black eyeball hard to show a little sclera. She blinked her eyes and smiled.
"Where did the sister with the skeletal wings go? I also want a ticket to go there. "
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