'A broken cocoon?'
Looking at the large cocoon, Han Fei was confused. There appeared to be something breaking out from the cocoon at the deepest part of the Ziggurat.
'The Butterfly's power should still be at the stage of Hatred but the presence of the cocoon is already at the Unspeakable level.'
'This is not the Butterfly's cocoon!'
The presence of death enveloped the Ziggurat. It was due to the presence of death that this place was named the Ziggurat.
The fresh petals of the flowers before him had the lingering dew of death on them. Han Fei gripped Reborn Butcher's Blade as he stood at the elevator door. He was very reluctant to enter the sea of flowers but there were two voices inside his body that kept urging him to do so.
One of them was the Great Sin. The Great Sin hiding in Han Fei's arm was completely excited. It seemed to have lost control of the spikes on its body. A large amount of soul poison seeped into Han Fei's blood and merged with the Death Curse.
The other was the mad laughter. The Butterfly's Death Curse had shattered something in Han Fei's mind. The mad laughter echoed in his ears.
'Since I'm already here, I might as well make the best out of it.' Han Fei dragged the unconscious boy out of the elevator.
His shoes stepped on the flowers and it felt like he was stepping on flesh and blood. A thick presence of death permeated the air. Han Fei felt like he was walking at the bottom of the sea.
'The child in the armoire at the 7th floor wants me to destroy a heart. This sea of flowers is so big, how am I supposed to find that heart?'
The manager would return at 4: 44 am. Han Fei planned to ruin the ceremony, he did not have the time to look for the heart.
The mad laughter in his ears disturbed him. He would turn his head to look around after taking a few steps. It felt like someone was leaning on the back of his head.
'Oh well, I'll leave this to the Great Sin. Both it and the Butterfly came out from the human cocoon, they should be able to sense something.'
The scene reminded Han Fei of the zombie pit under the security company. However, the sea of flowers was about 10 times bigger than the one at the Ziggurat. The dim underground was filled with blood flowers.
Lifting the Great Sin's hidden arm, Han Fei used the Great Sin's instinct to move through the sea of flowers.
He climbed up a slope. When he looked down, Han Fei was stunned and his face paled.
The huge cocoon fragment above the sea of flowers was only a tiny part of the entire cocoon! The true broken cocoon was buried under the sea of flowers!
Standing on high ground, one could clearly see that the giant cocoon engraved with countless human faces was torn apart from the middle, and one could vaguely see its original appearance.
It was a human-shaped cocoon. Its broken limbs and head were similar to a human's. Its large body supported the 4 buildings in the residential area.
If that was all, Han Fei might have been shocked, but his expression would not have changed.
Inside the enormous shell of the broken cocoon, there were many children hanging from it. Their bodies were connected to the roots of the flower above their heads, and part of their skin had already become blurry and illusory.
To make matters worse, many of the children's expressions would change like they were having a long nightmare.
"Oh my god …"
The Butterfly collected many children's nightmares. The nightmares contained their emotions and memories, and they became fertilizer for the Blood Flower.
"Each blood flower corresponds to a child?"
The wild laughter in his ears became even more ear-piercing, desolate, and crazy.
Han Fei felt like he was being pushed by someone. He grabbed the unconscious child beside him and jumped down from the high ground.
Pulling on the stem of the blood flower, Han Fei studied the human faces on the cocoons and the children dangling inside the cocoons up close. Now he understood why the cocoons that the butterfly stuffed inside the ghosts were called human cocoons.
It looked like a worm but it was actually a dirty thing inside a human's heart. To break out of the cocoon, it had to absorb all the emotions and memories related to a human.
"How did this cocoon grow to such a size?"
Crawling down, Han Fei grabbed the children's arms and stepped on their nightmares as he crawled to the bottom of the valley.
Lifting his head up, the abyss where the demons lived was nothing special. Blood flowers covered the ground and the walls were filled with children who repeated their nightmares.
Seeing this, Han Fei was reminded of the mission hint that the system gave him when he received the Soul Night mission.
"Falling into the valley of nightmares, the nightmare and demons stared at me silently. They wondered why I didn't struggle for help. I wondered why they would ask such a question.
"Could it be that not every child in this world is like me?
"He was locked in a cocoon from birth until he grew wings?"
Han Fei was really shocked when he connected these words with the current situation.
"The bottom of the nightmares mentioned in the hint is inside this cocoon?"
"The Butterfly probably came here for some reason, just like the other children hanging next to it. But different from the other children, it was modified by the demon and the nightmare into a new monster."
"This broken cocoon is where the Butterfly was born!"
With this in mind, Han Fei was even more confused. The cocoon had nothing to do with the Butterfly, the cocoon was already here before the Butterfly was born.
Then what kind of thing would crawl out from this cocoon? Who would leave so many children's nightmares here?
"The Butterfly has been trying to create its own kind …" A chilling thought suddenly appeared in Han Fei's mind. "Could it be that the Butterfly succeeded a long time ago? Could it be that the active Butterfly is just a scapegoat? "
Staring at the torn cocoon, Han Fei could feel the intense sense of death on it. This was just a torn shell, but the aura it gave off already exceeded hatred.
Han Fei wanted to stop and think but the Great Sin and the laughter did not give him peace of mind. The soul poison dripped down his arm, and the stinging and increasing resistance to the soul poison drilled into his mind.
Continuing down, there seemed to be people fighting at the bottom of the giant cocoon. Hatred stirred the black fog.
Han Fei slowly approached, and when he saw who it was, a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes.
"Zhuang Wen?"
After the Jumper from Building No. 1 merged with all the consciousness, she directly entered Building No. 4. She wanted to kill her father.
Han Fei hadn't seen her in Building No. 4. He didn't expect Zhuang Wen to come here.
The black fog kept gathering around Zhuang Wen. She was at the center of the black fog vortex.
Zhuang Wen seemed to want to destroy this place but the black fog suppressed her.
The stronger one was here, the more likely they would be targeted by the black fog.
But on second thought, the weak Resentment would be crushed by the sense of death before they could reach this place. Han Fei was a complete anomaly. A living person had the Great Sin and received the blessing of a large Resentment.
A lot of black fog escaped and trapped the song. How can the remaining sense of death suppress an existence close to hatred?
If it weren't for the song and Zhuang Wen, Han Fei would have to face death several times more than now.
Approaching Zhuang Wen, Han Fei wanted to see if he could communicate with her, but when he got closer, he found that Zhuang Wen was completely dominated by hatred.
A normal hatred level ghost could completely control the hatred in their heart, but Zhuang Wen's situation was the opposite. Having failed to break through hatred for the first time, the hatred on her was getting stronger and stronger. If Han Fei walked forward, he might also be attacked by her.
"Forget it, let's see what the Great Sin wants first."
Under the guidance of the Great Sin, Han Fei began to walk around the bottom of Nightmare Valley.
Looking at the nightmares of the children on both sides, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable, and the laughter in his ears seemed to weaken a little.
After walking for a long time, Han Fei finally stopped in a very inconspicuous corner.
This place was no different from the entire Nightmare Valley, and no difference could be seen, but Great Sin wanted to come to this place.
Pushing aside the children who were pierced through by the roots, Han Fei saw an old altar hidden in the blood flowers.
"Altar? Another altar? "
Han Fei had some reservations about altars. The reason he entered the Ziggurat earlier was because he had opened the altar at the entrance of the Happiness Neighbourhood. The song had gone berserk and chased him all the way to the Ziggurat.
"At the bottom of Nightmare Valley, deep inside the blood flowers, what kind of god would reside in the altar hidden inside the broken cocoon?"
The altar before him was covered in blood flowers and it was surrounded by children's souls. Han Fei was conflicted. He was really afraid of the altar but at the same time, he wanted to push aside the blood flowers to see what was inside the altar.
It was like there was an unknown red button before him that he wanted to press.
The Great Sin in his arm was completely excited. The blood red pattern spread from his arm to Han Fei's chest. It kept urging Han Fei.
"You've been telling me to do this every day."
Han Fei pushed aside the children's souls and crawled into this inconspicuous corner.
If not for the Great Sin, no one would be able to discover the altar.
As he got closer, the Great Sin's reaction became more intense. The blood red pattern spread to cover Han Fei's body, burning his skin.
The altar inside the cocoon was different from the one at the Happiness Neighbourhood. It appeared to be much older. The black cloth that covered the altar had already rotted.
Taking a deep breath, Han Fei used the Blade of Rebirth to slice away the blood flowers outside the altar. He bent down to look inside the altar.
"Notification for Player 0000! You have failed to light up the altar! Every shrine has a different 'God' hidden behind it. Opening a shrine casually could cost you your life! "
As the system notification rang in his mind, Han Fei saw what was inside the altar.
It was a broken heart. The heart was surrounded by tiny veins. The veins were connected to the roots of the flowers. They kept extracting the nightmares from the children's souls.
The heart reeked like it had been dead for a long time but it did not stop beating.
'This is the source of all the death in the Ziggurat?'
The Great Sin was excited. The more excited it was, the closer Han Fei was to death. This was one of its talents.
'Should I just destroy it?'
Gripping the Blade of Rebirth, Han Fei stared at the broken heart inside the altar. He felt like he had returned to the meat factory.
After the Blade of Rebirth was forged, the sacrifice was the Spider's Heart of Evil. Now Han Fei was going to destroy a heart that was closely related to the Butterfly.
Perhaps it was the Spider's plan to destroy the Spider's Heart of Evil. Perhaps that was the only way for the Blade of Rebirth to appear.
Without hesitation, Han Fei thought back to everything that he had experienced at the Ziggurat. He thought back to the crimes that the Butterfly had committed, he thought back to the pain and despair that the victims had experienced.
Gripping the blade with both hands, he slowly raised it. He was going to maximize the power of the Blade of Rebirth!
Figures appeared behind Han Fei one after another, and they held the hilt of the saber together with Han Fei.
The blade appeared instantly. Beauty, hope, the most dazzling quality of humanity was grasped in Han Fei's hands. Then everyone slashed down!
The blood flowers withered and the veins that looked like roots were torn apart. Han Fei's blade sliced through the altar and landed on the rotten heart!
A blade that had never appeared in the cryptic world pierced through the heart. Almost instantly, Han Fei felt a pair of eyes open inside the altar. Before he could see what it was, his body was already sent flying far away.
His hands that held the Blade of Rebirth were covered in blood. His chest, face and stomach that were facing the altar were a mess of flesh and blood.
The Blade of Rebirth did indeed cut through the heart. It shattered the black scab but the thing inside the altar reacted too quickly.
Han Fei's arms lost all feeling. He turned around and realized the blood traces on his body had disappeared. The Great Sin appeared to have left his body.
Turning back to the altar, the Great Sin, which had shrunk several times in size, was crawling on the broken heart. It started to chew on the heart that was worshipped inside the altar through the fresh wound that Han Fei had created!
The blood vessels that were connected to the roots of the blood flowers started to tremble. The child's soul that was hanging on the wall of the cocoon struggled like a person who was about to wake up from a nightmare.
The tremors continued to spread outwards. The black fog slapped at the pieces of the cocoon like a tsunami.
'That broken heart definitely does not belong to the current manager of the Ziggurat, who does it belong to?'
Han Fei's Health Points were almost empty. The Midnight Butcher's profession talent was activated. Without hesitation, he retreated even faster than before but it was already too late.
The whole Nightmare Valley was shaken, the foundation that had been supporting the Ziggurat was broken!
The small altar and the whole cocoon merged into one. The sea of blood pushed inward. Just as Han Fei was about to be crushed alive, a giant red shadow wrapped around him.
Han Fei turned to the side with lingering fear. Zhuang Wen's eyes burned with hatred, the fire was burning a little girl's soul.
The girl seemed to represent the only rationality left in the Ziggurat. When the girl could no longer withstand the fire of hatred, it would be the time for Zhuang Wen to lose control again.
"Run up! The way is up there! "Han Fei shouted but Zhuang Wen did not show any sign of leaving.
This woman, whose eyes were burning with black flames of hatred, seemed to have finally found something to vent her hatred on. Under such circumstances, she began to attack the shrine.
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