Milky white smoke floated in the air. It was sticky and thick. As if it had a life of its own, it slowly crawled into Lin Sanjiu's nostrils. Lin Sanjiu's eyelashes fluttered a few times. Before the sunlight could penetrate her pupils, her eyelids closed involuntarily again.
Lin Sanjiu woke up.
This time, she realized that she had just had a dream.
When she turned over and sat up, the muscles all over her body groaned faintly, probably because of the long period of unnatural posture. However, this did not hinder the surging power in her body — the familiar, powerful power.
Lin Sanjiu opened and closed her fingers a few times. She felt the energy that she had lost and regained. She slowly stood up.
Everything around her was chaotic. Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether it was because of the thick fog or the night sky. All she could see was a floating grayish-purple color, rolling in and out of her vision.
But it wasn't annoying.
The surging grayish-purple color was like a warm wave that washed over Lin Sanjiu's body. At the same time, it also brought her an intoxicating sense of comfort and warmth. There was no sound here, nor was there any chaos represented by sound. There was only eternal silence. There was no need to think, fight, or worry.
Only the constantly changing colors soothed everything.
[Maybe I'm already dead. Maybe this is heaven after death.]
The fragmented thought did not last for more than half a second before it disappeared. Lin Sanjiu didn't even realize that the thought had appeared in her mind.
Was she standing now? Or was she sitting or lying down? She couldn't tell. It was as if she was walking a moment ago and floating the next moment. The energy was still in her body, but Lin Sanjiu felt that she didn't need it anymore.
While she was immersed in the comfort, she suddenly felt a slight pain somewhere.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell where exactly it was. Her body seemed to have melted. The pain might have come from her legs or her back. Although the pain was slight, it broke the tranquility of her floating state. It was extremely annoying. Lin Sanjiu waited for the pain to subside. She felt the warm grayish-purple color wrapping around her again.
However, the second prickling pain came again.
She wanted to fling it away, but she didn't know where to start. The third, fourth, fifth … The pain rained down on her again and again, and it quickly turned into torture. Lin Sanjiu made a low, irritated sound from her throat. Then, she became aware of the existence of her body. For the third time, she opened her eyes.
The grayish-purple smoke disappeared as if it had never existed.
"You're finally awake!" A familiar voice sounded. "Get up!"
Lin Sanjiu thought that someone was talking beside her ear, but she realized that the voice came from her mind after half a second. She unconsciously spat out a name. "Mrs. … Mrs. Manas?"
When he said this word, there was a sense of unfamiliarity that he hadn't heard for a long time.
"Where … am I?"
The surroundings were dark. It was like the dawn of dawn. The light was thin and feeble; most of the space was still shrouded in chaos. The most eye-catching thing was probably the milk-colored smoke that flowed in the air. It was heavy and sticky. It was as if a "milk" had separated from the smoke the moment it discovered a person had stood up and flowed toward Lin Sanjiu as if it had a substance.
"Don't breathe this thing in!"
Mrs. Manas warned just when the "milk" was about to touch the tip of Lin Sanjiu's nose. Lin Sanjiu quickly covered her mouth and nose with her hand. She didn't dare to touch that thing, so she quickly lowered her head and dodged it. However, the "milk" slowly turned around behind her and extended a milky white tentacle toward her again. This time. Most of the "milk" flowed to Lin Sanjiu as if this was a low-lying area.
Lin Sanjiu quickly took a step to dodge, but she felt a strange sensation under her feet. "Squeak." It was like the wet ground after a rain. It was muddy, soft, and even had a disgusting elasticity to it. It was only then that Lin Sanjiu could see her surroundings clearly.
She felt as if she had been thrown into a giant mouth.
The dark red flesh wall seemed to be breathing as it rose and fell slowly. An unknown liquid flowed down the flesh wall and glowed faintly on the dark red "floor" under her feet. This place wasn't big. Lin Sanjiu could see the head of the "milk" when she waved her clothes away. However, what shocked Lin Sanjiu wasn't the strange flesh cage.
She wasn't alone.
This place was densely packed with people. It was already filled with people. Lying and sitting bodies were piled on top of each other, like dead fish that had fallen out of a fishing net. They formed a small hill. Other than the heaving of their chests, which indicated that they weren't dead, Lin Sanjiu couldn't find any other signs that they were still alive.
There were a few familiar faces closest to her. An old Native American, a man in tree bark, a young man in a Chinese tunic suit, a faun … They were the people who entered the pocket dimension with her. Almost all of them were here. Even the guy with the blue and white porcelain mask was lying motionless on the ground. A milky white smoke slowly drifted out from the edge of the blue and white porcelain mask.
"Ah, this is a pocket dimension, right?" Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered. The memory came back so suddenly that it gave her a headache. "Could it be that the Smiling Mermaid sent so many people after us?"
Mrs. Manas didn't say anything. She didn't seem to have an answer either.
Another gust of "milk" rushed toward her face. Lin Sanjiu waved the clothes in her hand and chased the "milk" away like smoke. Then, she squatted down and tried to wake up the faun closest to her. However, when her gaze fell on him, Lin Sanjiu frowned immediately.
"Something's wrong."
Lin Sanjiu had just woken up from her coma, so her brain was still a little slow. Even so, her outstretched hand froze in midair.
She raised her head to look at the others, and then at her own body.
"How long have I been in here?" Lin Sanjiu mumbled.
"To be honest, I don't know," Mrs. Manas sighed. "I only woke up a few hours earlier than you."
Lin Sanjiu waved away another gust of "milk" that persistently tried to cover her face. Then, she examined her body carefully. Just as she remembered, her smooth skin was sculpted by the elastic muscles underneath. When she pressed her hand on it, her skin immediately bounced up. This meant that she wasn't dehydrated. Judging from the sensation, she didn't lose any muscle or fat. In other words, she hadn't been in a coma for a long time. It couldn't have been more than two days.
However, the people around her were in a completely different state.
The faun's skin was like a withered leaf, covering his facial bones thinly. The shape of his skull was clearly visible. The old Native American's limbs were completely devoid of muscles. They were just dried and yellowed skin that stretched across the bones of his arms and legs. Not only were they dehydrated, even their last strategic reserve of fat had been completely depleted. This meant that they had been in a coma for far longer than a few months.
However, if she remembered correctly, Lin Sanjiu had only been in Red Nautilus for a few days.
"What … What's going on?" Lin Sanjiu shook off the thick and increasing "milk". She stepped on the human bodies and the disgusting flesh wall and took a few steps forward. "We entered the pocket dimension together. I'm still fine. They shouldn't be this skinny!"
She took a few more steps and realized that not all of them were skinny. Some of them were like her. Their skin was glossy and they looked like they were asleep. After a few steps, her gaze stopped at a few human bodies. There was a blue pattern there. It glowed dimly like porcelain.
Lin Sanjiu flipped over the people on top of him. They looked a little familiar. They seemed to be members of the Smiling Mermaid. Lin Sanjiu saw the body of the blue and white porcelain. If the appearance of the few people just now was considered terrible, the body under the blue and white porcelain made Lin Sanjiu feel nauseous. Even if the person under the blue and white porcelain was a skeleton, he would still look better. Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to look at him anymore. She quickly covered herself with the blue and white porcelain. Lin Sanjiu was stunned when she looked at the dusty robe.
The place where the symbol of the Smiling Mermaid should be in her memory was empty.
Not only was the blue and white porcelain missing, but the symbol of the other members, including the faun, had also disappeared. When she looked closely, even the style of their clothes was different from what Lin Sanjiu remembered.
"Hey, wake up!" Lin Sanjiu pushed the young man in the Chinese tunic suit with all her might, but she immediately pulled her hand back. She was worried that if she shook him again, he would fall apart. "What's going on here!"
"Stop shouting. You can't wake him up," Mrs. Manas interrupted. "I can only wake you up because I'm a part of your consciousness. I'm afraid that external forces can't touch them anymore. "
Lin Sanjiu knew that Mrs. Manas was right without trying any further.
She let out a long sigh. "No matter what, I have to get out of here first …"
She raised her head and looked into the distance.
It had been a few minutes, but the "Milk" had not come to harass her. When Lin Sanjiu saw it clearly, she couldn't help sighing. She finally understood the reason.
Almost all the "Milk" in the meat wall had disappeared. No, it wasn't accurate to say that it had disappeared. It was more accurate to say that it had gathered not far away from Lin Sanjiu. It was thick and dense, as if it wouldn't stop until it devoured her.
Lin Sanjiu watched as the overwhelming "Milk" rolled toward her. For a moment, all she could see was a milky white. Lin Sanjiu quickly pushed herself off the ground and stepped on a few bodies to jump to the meat wall not far away.
"It must work," Lin Sanjiu muttered.
She muttered to herself and activated [Mosaic Censorship].
The moment the minced meat and juices exploded under her palm, Lin Sanjiu seemed to hear something howling. Before she could react, the pale white light from the sky shone on her body. (To be continued.)
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