Two imps staggered to their feet in the camp. They were the two surviving scouts who had run back from the depths of the forest. They were still wrapped in bloodstained bandages, which were brought by the rescued humans.
"Woo … Squeak …" The imps muttered in a strange low voice. They stepped over their sleeping companions and staggered toward the clearing as if they were drunk. In the dim light, the eyes of the two demon subspecies glowed with a striking red light.
The red light was cloudy, which seemed to indicate that its owner was in a muddled state.
They did not stop after leaving the camp. Instead, they walked a few steps in the direction of the big bonfire. The flickering fire elongated the thin imp's shadow. It was dark, as if something darker was hidden in it. The shadow extended against the direction of the fire to the open space between the campsites. At the edge of the light and shadow, clouds of black smoke slowly rose, and tiny tentacles seemed to be spreading out of the black smoke.
The two imps seemed to be quite afraid of the big bonfire. After a few steps forward, they hesitated and stopped. Then they made a series of more vague and incomprehensible sounds and turned to the human tents.
At that moment, the Alpha's voice came from behind them. "Where are you guys going?"
The two imps immediately froze in place, but they neither answered nor looked back. They stood there as if they were suddenly frozen.
Lily blinked, and a faint light flashed in her golden eyes. She reached out and patted the shoulder of one of the imps. "I ask —"
Before her hand could touch the imp's body, a black shadow suddenly rushed toward her!
Lily's eyes could see clearly that the black shadow clearly came from the shadow of the imp. It was as if a three-dimensional figure suddenly emerged from a two-dimensional surface. In the dark shadow, an indescribable strange thing suddenly stood up. This strange thing looked like a large, amorphous mass, trembling, twisting, and making strange hissing sounds. There were also countless translucent dark tentacles around it. At first glance, it was disgusting and gave people goosebumps. However, she only had time to see the shape of the black shadow, and it was too late for her to dodge. In a flash, the black shadow had already rushed in front of her, and then she felt her vision blacked out.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself standing in a familiar place.
It was the living room of her house.
The sense of dissonance hit her in an instant. In that millisecond, Lily realized that she might have fallen into an illusion. However, her subconscious alertness was too late for her to resist. The sense of dissonance disappeared as soon as it appeared. She had forgotten her journey in the Black Forest, the whole herd of beasts with her, and even the whole experience of going to the Plane of Dreams with Hao Ren to look for the crack and ending up on a floating island. The straightforward husky almost instantly felt that the scene in front of her was a matter of course. She lay on the sofa in the living room and shouted at the top of her voice, "Landlord! I'm back! "
No one responded to her call.
"Landlord?" Lily blinked in confusion and got up. She looked at the familiar living room and the familiar furnishings. There were two cracks on the coffee table, which she had smashed herself. There were small teeth marks on the table, which was left by Lil Pea when she changed the food. The water dispenser in the corner had not been put back together, and Y 'zaks's half-read People's Daily was still on the armrest of the sofa. All these things were the same as she remembered, so she did not feel anything unusual. "Battie? May? Y 'zaks? "
She walked around the living room and ran to the other rooms, but there was no one in the house.
"Where is everyone?" Lily muttered as she went back to the living room. She looked up at the window and found that it was foggy outside, and she could not see the situation on the street. "Why is everyone out in this weather?"
The husky maiden curled up on the sofa and waited for a while. She felt that no one would come back for a while, but she did not feel uneasy at all. Instead, she hummed a tuneless tune and studied the fluff on her tail. After a while, she suddenly saw the refrigerator in the corner of the living room from the corner of her eye, and her face immediately showed a happy expression.
She ran to the refrigerator, opened the door, and looked around like a thief. Then, she quickly took out a bowl of something from the innermost compartment of the refrigerator: it was the leftover ribs from last time.
"Landlord, are you home?" The husky maiden asked guiltily in the direction of Hao Ren's room. She then poked her head into the kitchen. "Battie, are you home too?"
When she was sure that no one would disturb her, she immediately ran to the kitchen with the ribs. "This time, no one is going to stop me. Who said I can only eat this at mealtime?"
Lily began her plan of stealing food in this abnormal illusion. She did not show the slightest worry about the situation in front of her. This "ignoring" attitude seemed to have finally angered the mastermind behind the trap. Just when Lily was about to rush to the kitchen with a bowl of ribs, the surrounding illusion suddenly collapsed.
All the lights and shadows disappeared in an instant. Lily's vision blurred, and she stepped into the empty void. She screamed and looked carefully, only to find that the ribs in her hand were gone.
The husky maiden scratched her face. "Where's my food?"
No one answered her question. There was only endless darkness and fog in all directions. After a while, something finally emerged from the fog. Lily's eyes widened. It was a treasure vault shining with golden light.
In a series of illusions, she saw herself walking into the treasure vault and taking out endless treasures. She became the richest dog in the world and even built herself a palace made of gold.
A voice whispered in her ear. "This is a real treasure. My successor, you have won my favor. You are qualified to receive this ancient inheritance. Come with me, I will tell you how to open this."
Lily stared at someone in the void and shouted, "Did you make my meat disappear?"
"In front of the treasure that you are about to open, it is just insignificant."
Lily's eyes widened. "Don't interrupt me. Where's my food?"
"You have to open one first."
Lily continued to stare. "Is my food with you?"
The illusion of the treasure vault suddenly collapsed, and the gold and jewels returned to the swirling fog in an instant. The next moment, something new emerged from the fog. Lily saw a high throne. She was wearing a golden robe, a golden crown, and holding the scepter of the emperor in her hand. Countless heroes, capable ministers, and famous generals were kneeling at her feet.
The voice sounded again. "Supreme power! You will be the supreme ruler of this world, and your throne will be more than — "
"So where's my ribs?"
"I mean, you will be the emperor —"
"Where the hell are my ribs?"
The throne collapsed and was replaced by a glorious battlefield. The voice's tone was a little hysterical. "Power! Boundless power! You will be invincible! The whole world will not be able to compete with — "
"I still want my bowl of ribs," Lily said, arms akimbo. "Do you know how hard it is to make up for the days when Mr. Landlord and Battie are not home and there are leftovers in the fridge?"
"Immortality! I can make you immortal! "
"I still want the ribs."
"Knowledge! All the knowledge in this world. I have knowledge that you can't even imagine! "
"I have graduated from Peking University four times, and you still want me to take the exam again — I want the ribs!"
"Past, future, and present! I will give you the power of prophecy, I will give you the power to change your fate at will, I will give you — "
"Keep bragging. Quantum collapse determines that fate is not repeatable and inoperable. Where the hell did you hide my ribs?"
"The power of God! You can even become a God! "
"I know God. She doesn't even get a bonus during the New Year. Can you let me finish that bowl of ribs first?"
This meaningless conversation lasted for a while, and the void finally became completely silent. The mysterious voice seemed to be accumulating something in the silence, and finally exploded. Lily heard a thunderous voice coming from above. "Enough! You stupid and ignorant mortal! I'm going to tear your soul apart! "
Lily looked up and saw a thing with tentacles all over its body, which looked like a bloated lump of meat, rushing out of the darkness. The lump of meat had countless pairs of eyes open, and each pair of eyes was shining with hatred. It screamed and waved its tentacles, and in a blink of an eye, it was in front of her!
Lily was startled. She instinctively took a step back and reached behind her. In that split second, she had a strong idea of needing a weapon to defend herself.
This strong idea broke through the shackles of the spiritual world, and she felt that she had touched something hard.
Without thinking, she threw the thing at the monster in front of her.
With a loud bang, as if a high-speed train had crashed into a mountain, the nightmarish monster was sent flying by a piece of gray reinforced concrete hollow brick.
The surrounding illusion also disappeared at the same time.
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