Chapter 178: I’m scared and I want to speak out (please subscribe!)
“Puff!!!!”
Li Ran fired an underwater lighting device towards the area.
The underwater flares drew a red trail in the turbid water, falling in the distance and slowly lighting up the area.
When the light penetrated the turbidity and returned to the eyes of several people, their faces were ashen.
There are countless corpses floating in the murky waters. Each corpse is entangled in seaweed. The corpses are swaying with the seaweed. There are countless such corpses in this murky sea area. There are still similar strange things in the turbid area further away. film.
Each corpse is floating on its head and feet. The corpse is like a balloon, and the seaweed is like the rope holding the balloon. Once the rope is released or the balloon is cut off, it will float away.
Li Ran saw that these corpses looked like balloons, which was quite strange.
Although corpses drowned in the sea would swell and float due to soaking, the corpses in front of them did not look swollen at all. Almost all of them looked like skeletons, with distorted faces and open mouths. It was as if they had seen something that terrified them before they died.
Do skeletons float?
Bones are like stones. When they enter the sea, they sink to the bottom and how can they float?
What's even weirder is that these corpses are all wrapped with a fat and thick piece of seaweed.
And below there are still large areas of dense seaweed, even if it covers the entire seabed.
"It's so scary here." Lan Defei said with a pale face.
Who can remain calm at this moment, who can say that they are not afraid?
"Illusions, all illusions, don't look at it!" Xue Jin shouted.
"Yes, yes, just treat all of this as an illusion, just treat it as if you are in a hotel, treat these scenes as the third rule of the hotel." Zhao Yingzhi said, she quickly adjusted her state, her face immediately With blood.
Lan Defi also began to adjust her breathing to prevent herself from looking at those horrific scenes.
Seeing that everyone had adjusted their breathing, Li Ran took the lead and swam forward.
"The seaweed has become denser." Li Ran looked down at the bottom of the sea and thought: "Will these seaweeds grow rapidly due to people's inner fear?" Entering this sea area, there were only sparse seaweeds and small clusters at the beginning
. There is seaweed, and now there is a large area of water like a seaweed forest. If we don’t leave this area as soon as possible, I really can’t imagine what will happen next.
Xue Jin swam at the end, looking at the three people swimming in front, and looked around.
Suddenly, a rotten face floated in front of him. It was a face that could no longer rot. The corpse seemed to have experienced collapse and despair before death. Even after death, the rotten face was distorted and had a wide mouth. of.
Xue Jin slowly pushed the rotten face in front of him with his hands, and his expression became as normal as before.
But he found that his heartbeat was slightly chaotic.
Damn it, were you scared by that rotting corpse just now?
No, how could he be frightened by the corpse.
But why does the heart beat out of rhythm?
There are countless corpses floating in this sea area, entangled in seaweed.
The seaweed below was so dense that it had grown to the height of his swimming. Even when he swam over the seaweed several times, the seaweed brushing against his body would bring a strange feeling, as if someone had brushed him with his hand. body of.
He knew very well that he could safely pass through this sea of rules as long as he eliminated his inner fear, but it would only take longer than he imagined.
From childhood to adulthood, he has been a leader in any field.
In the world he lives in, he has been called a genius since he was a child.
So much so that he can do many things that are difficult in the eyes of others with ease.
Even in the real world, there was almost nothing that could arouse his interest.
Many people say that he is a calm genius. He is extremely calm in everything he does and rarely sees other emotions on his face.
Even though he was selected into the strange world and passed two dungeons, he calmly passed the final test and survived until the end.
But after arriving at Cangming Airport, everything began to change.
Everything has become illogical, and even the most basic guidance tasks have become extremely difficult. It is almost impossible to find any clues and useful information. Even if you find the information, you will eventually find that the information is very important to you. The mission was unhelpful.
The difficulty of the entire copy was almost beyond his imagination.
He even thought that no one could complete this copy, let alone that anyone could easily pass the test.
But Li Ran's appearance broke his cognition again.
This feeling is like finally becoming the king of kindergarten, and suddenly a college student comes to the class and attacks everyone with dimensionality reduction.
When he met Li Ran, he realized that the ability he was proud of was simply ridiculous.
Li Ran was more powerful than he imagined, and he led everyone all the way to the sea of ghosts through all obstacles.
Just when he thought Li Ran was almost omnipotent, when it came to the second rule of the sea of ghosts, he finally saw Li Ran's ordinary side.
Here, he is just like ordinary people. His powerful fighting power has no effect here. Even he has to eliminate his inner fear like ordinary people before he can pass the level.
This level was the only one where he could defeat Li Ran.
Maybe he can't do it in terms of combat effectiveness, but in terms of psychological restraint and endurance, he has no problem.
He doesn't want to be a waste, nor does he want to be a laggard.
At least at this level, he wanted to prove that he was still somewhat useful.
Many people know that the way to overcome their inner fears is to face them head on.
This is actually quite difficult.
Especially when he went to drill the seaweed himself and pretended to come back as if nothing had happened and encouraged his teammates. His face seemed calm and normal, but in fact he was already panicking inside.
When drilling for water, he was really afraid that something would escape from it.
And in this turbid sea, the visibility was less than two meters, and there were countless corpses floating around. When he turned around, there was probably a rotting face in front of him.
Li Ran turned around several times and asked if anyone was scared, he must tell him.
He actually wanted to say it, but he didn't think it was fear, but his inner uneasiness.
Uneasiness about the unknown is not fear.
"Attention, the seaweed in front is too high. We have to float up a little."
At this time, Li Ran's voice reached his ears.
Zhao Yingzhi and Lan Defei also received the message.
Extremely dense seaweed appeared in front, and an unknown number of corpses were floating above the seaweed.
Xue Jin followed Zhao Yingzhi. While Zhao Yingzhi was treading water and swimming upstream, Xue Jin saw a pale female face in the thick seaweed, staring at him lifelessly.
The pale woman's face floated in the thick seaweed. Even under the turbid water, the woman's face was unusually conspicuous. Her lips were deep purple, and her pupils were like peeled lychees. She seemed to have no body, and her long hair was Her hair fluttered with the seaweed, but no matter how it fluttered, her white eyes would always be fixed on Xue Jin.
A chill rose from his tailbone and ran to his scalp.
His heart seemed to have stopped suddenly at this moment, and the world behind his head collapsed into deathly darkness.
Wait, didn't they see that face?
Xue Jin raised his head and looked at the three people floating up. After a moment of hesitation, Zhao Yingzhi's figure disappeared from Xue Jin's visibility.
He floated up quickly, treading water with his legs like crazy, trying to catch up with Li Ran and the others.
"I...I seem to be falling behind. You guys are swimming too fast." A trace of panic appeared on Xue Jin's face, and he paddled with both hands and continued to swim forward.
"Hey, can't you hear me?"
"Hello, Li Ran?"
"Lan Daifei?"
"Hey! Zhao Yingzhi, can you hear me?"
After losing the trace of his teammates, Xue Jin looked around, but there were no traces of his teammates in the turbidity in front of him, and the visibility was almost only in front of his own eyes.
At this moment, his usually calm and collected face could no longer hold its posture. Fear and anxiety shrouded his face, and even tears welled up in his eyes due to the abnormal panic.
"You...where are you?" Xue Jin's voice was mixed with tears and hoarseness.
After swimming forward for a while, he was horrified to find that he had lost his way!
At this moment, he was completely panicked.
They had been swimming forward with Li Ran. Li Ran seemed to have a turtle shell in his hand that could guide him and guide him forward.
But the turtle shell was neither a compass nor a locator, and he couldn't find anyone.
In other words, even if Li Ran came back to look for him, it would be impossible to find him in this turbid sea.
Besides, he thought it was impossible for Li Ran to come back to save him for an unrelated person.
The turbid, cold and dark seawater enveloped his whole body, and he could hear the heavy pounding of his heart like the beating of a drumstick, with each interval getting faster and faster.
In this cold and dead environment, it was difficult for him to remain calm, his heart was beating wildly, and the calm thinking he was proud of was as shattered as a broken mirror.
He tried to calm down.
Don't panic, don't panic, eliminate the fear in your heart.
Xue Jin slowly closed his eyes and forced himself to calm down.
"The way to defeat fear is to face it bravely." He slowly adjusted his breathing and calmed down. "
The heartbeat gradually slowed down, the breathing became even, and the expression of collapse and despair was relieved at this moment.
Yes, there are no murderous monsters here.
The surroundings are dead silent.
There is no need to scare yourself.
Calm down and find a way out to join Li Ran and the others.
Xue Jin took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.
But the next second, his body was like a lumber and his heart was as gray as ashes!
In the seawater where he could barely see his own hand, fearful and rotten faces floated in front of him. Those fearful and twisted faces looked at him strangely and surrounded him.
"Fake, all fake!"
Xue Jin pushed away the rotten faces in front of him in horror, and swam forward with a look of panic on his face.
His heart was beating wildly, and the fear that had just finally calmed down rose again in his heart.
Another corpse floated over in front of him. This corpse was not entangled in the seaweed and floated directly in front of him.
He stretched out his hand to push the body away, but suddenly, the body moved and pounced on him.
When he saw the face of the corpse, Xue Jin went crazy.
The person who jumped towards him in front of him was actually Li Wangu.
Li Wangu was framed by him and eventually became his substitute.
"No...impossible, Li Wangu can't appear here."
He kicked his feet wildly and floated upward.
"I understand, this is all an illusion."
"They want to use the things that I fear most to defeat me."
"I will not be defeated by you again."
Xue Jin looked up at the top of the sea. He was going to take the risk and surface.
Perhaps from the water, he could quickly join Li Ran and the others.
Thinking of this, I glanced down at the water below my feet.
The corpses were floating in the sea, but they all raised their heads silently and watched him go.
Xue Jin kept swimming towards the sea.
He didn't know how long he had been swimming, but he vaguely seemed to see a giant cruise ship.
A smile just appeared on his face.
Suddenly, a huge fishing net appeared in the water around him.
Before he could see what was going on, the world was spinning and dark, and he instantly lost consciousness.
"Clang, clang, clang!"
"Huh, huh, huh!"
Xue Jin heard the sound of pots being stirred and vegetables being stir-fried over a high fire.
He slowly opened his eyes and frowned slightly.
"Where is this place?"
Xue Jin was extremely shocked that one moment he was tossing around in a sea of ghosts and the next moment he appeared in a place similar to a kitchen.
He turned over violently and found that he and a pile of minced meat were placed on an extremely huge chopping board, with a bloody bone-chopping knife next to it.
The indescribable minced meat and the shocking blood stains on the chopping board made him sick.
He was tied with a rope and could only jump under the chopping board.
Only then did he realize that he was in an extremely huge kitchen.
This kitchen felt familiar to him. He had been to such a huge kitchen before in the kitchen behind a bowl of Bone Fairy Soup at the airport.
He turned around suddenly and saw three huge trolls in white chef uniforms busy in the kitchen.
Only then did he realize that he had been fished out of the sea onto the ship by trolls and taken to the kitchen.
If he hadn't woken up just now, he might have been cooked into a dish by these trolls.
Xue Jin jumped to the edge of the stage with fear.
He didn't understand what was happening with his legs today. He could usually use them for walking, but today he could only use them for jumping.
But he didn't have time to care about this. He had to leave the kitchen as quickly as possible, otherwise he would really be made into food by the giant.
There was a giant walking towards him, holding an extremely huge wok and a large iron spoon in his hand, and walked to the side of the pool to wash it. Xue Jin hid in a pile of side dishes and was in danger Hide away.
When the giant was washing away, he quickly reached the edge of the platform.
Looking down, this platform is more than three meters high.
"I can't control that much anymore."
His hands and feet were tied up with ropes, but with his physique of more than 2,000 sleight of hand, he wouldn't die even if he jumped from a height of three meters.
Xue Jin jumped down from a three-meter high platform. After landing, Xue Jin fell to the ground with a "snap".
That crisp sound troubled him very much.
Logically speaking, if you fall from a height, how can the sound of fractures be "crack"?
He fell to the ground and looked down below him.
At this sight, his whole face trembled.
"I...why did my legs become like this?" Xue Jin raised his fish tail in great horror.
Only at this moment did he understand why he could only jump and walk.
He turned his head and looked behind him.
Xue Jin's frightened fish face was reflected on the stainless steel wall under the high platform!
A tuna!
"No...no no no!!!"
This must be an illusion, it must still be an illusion.
"I must still be in the seaweed area. These are all hallucinations!!"
Xue Jin wanted to wake himself up, but he didn't even have any hands, and his movable fins were trapped by ropes.
At this moment, Xue Jin was desperate.
He turned into a tuna and was carried to the dinner table by troll men?
How could the second rule of the Ghostly Sea be so outrageous?
At this time, the troll man in the kitchen seemed to notice him and ran away.
A troll man screamed, summoning other chefs in the kitchen to look for him everywhere.
"No matter what I become, I am still alive right now. As long as I am alive, I still have hope of living." He looked at the exit of the kitchen and ran out in one go to get out of this hellish place.
"I have to go find Li Ran. Li Ran must have a way to save me."
Before the trolls arrived in the area, Xue Jin quickly jumped and ran out of the kitchen.
Fear, fear, collapse, despair!
This was the first time he encountered such a strange thing.
For the first time, he hoped that someone could save him.
And this person is Li Ran.
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in the turbid sea water.
Li Ran, Zhao Yingzhi, and Lan Defei swam back to a person entangled in seaweed.
This man's mouth opened wide in fear, his eyes turned white, his whole body was entangled in seaweed, and he seemed to be struggling to swim to the surface.
Upon seeing this, Lan Defi turned her head and started crying.
Zhao Yingzhi didn't know what to say.
"I have said many times that if you are afraid, you have to speak out," Li Ran said.
He didn't know what Xue Jin went through before he died. His face was extremely frightened and distorted, as if he had experienced something extremely terrible.
After death, his body was entangled in seaweed, and like other corpses, it drifted with the seaweed.
"His lack of fear is all pretending." Zhao Yingzhi didn't understand until now.
She thought of how Xue Jin had performed a seaweed drill in front of them in order to prove that he had the courage to face his fear.
They returned immediately after discovering that Xue Jin had left the team, but it was still a step too late.
Li Ran could probably guess that there was fear hidden under Xue Jin's calm appearance before, so he stressed several times that he was afraid to speak out, so that everyone could find ways to help him resolve his inner fear.
In this area, Li Ran even emphasized it more than once.
However, Xue Jin remained silent and pretended to be calm.
No one can help him.
He will also be afraid and frightened.
It's just that before something scary happens, Li Ran can see the prompts and prepare himself mentally in advance, so he won't be so scared inside.
There is a strong sense of oppression and suffocation under the turbid sea water itself.
The fear of the deep sea, floating seaweed and corpses are all an environment where horror elements are intertwined. How can one not be afraid?
Zhao Yingzhi and Lan Defei will also be scared, but they are both more obedient and will speak out if they feel scared.
Then we use actions or words to distract their attention to resolve their fears.
In this sea area, the more afraid you are, the more frightening things you will see, and those frightening things even exceed the limits of cognition.
The corpses entangled in seaweed all died in this way.
(End of chapter)