Chapter 420 (1/2)

The small amount of that thing seemed to make his consciousness become ‘clearer’. Despite that, he still couldn’t tell where he was.

‘What is this place?’ Chu Yunsheng could not feel the existence of his own body. This feeling was very strange. It was like he was being located in the middle of this mysterious dream-like world, but at the same time, he was also like being everywhere in this world. He had a strange feeling that he was this world, and this world was him.

However, he could not see this world clearly. Everything around him was blurry as if he was in a dream.

After a long time, as more and more of that ‘thing’ was sucked in by the black vortex, the world around him finally began to change, and colors began to appear.

Before the color appeared in this mysterious world, Chu Yunsheng’s line of thought was continuous and linear, but the content in his thoughts seemed to be random and meaningless. However, after the color appeared, something magical happened.

The color seemed to change when the content of his thoughts changed. When he thought of his aunt’s family, the color would form blurry shadows of his aunt’s family. When he thought of Shu Du city, the shadow became a ruined city.

All kinds of scenes were reconstructed whenever he thought about it. This mysterious world seemed to be stimulating whatever existed in his mind.

Gradually, his thought was no longer random. He began to focus only on one question: ‘What exactly is this place?’ And when he thought of this, the world around him slowly became dim until everything became blurry again.

A few moments later, the blurry world was suddenly cracked open as if it had been struck by an extremely bright lightning bolt. Then some strange shadows continuously appeared one by one. As he ‘looked’ carefully, he realized that they were the black monolith, the black gas, the veiled woman, the insects…

‘Zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce?’

‘If it is indeed the zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce, how did I get in? Is it something to do with the black vortex?’

‘What is that black vortex? Where does it come from?’

Chu Yunsheng’s memory was moving backward fast like a flood, trying to figure out where it might come from. However, it stopped twice, and both times stopped at the time when the black gas appeared.

The first time the black gas appeared was back in Hong Kong. It was during the time when he was transforming into a Min’s final form. The second time the black gas appeared was in Shu Du city. It was at the time when he merged with Dark.

Suddenly, he seemed to have noticed something.

Both times were closely tied with life force.

The world around him also began to change at this moment as if Chu Yunsheng’s thought seemed to startle something.

Then Chu Yunsheng suddenly remembered the words said by the veiled woman.

“All the consciousness of our lives is in another s.p.a.ce – the zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce! ”

“You don’t need to be surprised, this conclusion has cost our entire civilization. When we finally understood it, it also brought destruction.”

“In the zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce, there is no spatial concept such as size or distance. You can think of it as a point, or you can think of it as infinity. It exists in your mind and it also does not exist in your mind. It is your consciousness, your ‘self’.”

“When the time axis exists in your zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce, your life has meaning, in other words, you are alive. When the time axis disappears from your zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce, your life is meaningless, so you are ‘dead’.”

“When a person dies, the zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce will also disappear with it.”

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“….when you close your eyes, and turn off the functions of all the sensory nerves, can you still feel the existence of this world?…”

“When you close your eyes,…. can you still feel the existence of this world?”

“…. Can you still feel the existence of this world?…”

Chu Yunsheng’s consciousness became more and more clear as he repeatedly thought of the words said by the veiled woman.

Suddenly, the blurry world began to shake violently. A moment later, countless nerve-like lines appeared at a place not far from him. However, there were only a few lines glowing in dim red light. All the rest of the lines were dark and quiet.

As Chu Yunsheng gathered his focus on one of the lines that glowed in dim red light, a cold feeling instantly filled his entire consciousness layer.

Then he s.h.i.+fted his focus to another one, the cold feeling was instantly replaced with blood smell.

He then s.h.i.+fted to another line again, but this time, it was pitch black around him….