Chapter 119: 117 Inner World: Flesh Dimension (Supplementary Chapter)

117 Inner World: Flesh Dimension (Supplementary Chapter)

Wei Jiang seemed to sense something and looked a bit surprised. He waved his hand gently in front of Li Nuowei, "Are you alright?"

Li Nuowei dodged instinctively. In the blink of an eye, when he looked at Wei Jiang again, all the abnormalities seemed to have never appeared. His breathing was slightly rapid, and he hurriedly said, "Goodbye, Brother Wei," before scrambling out of the shop door.

As his footsteps stepped outside the shop, Li Nuowei discovered that the scenery all around had changed completely.

The surrounding environment was dark and oppressive. Unidentified flesh and blood constructed buildings and streets; biological pipes intertwined to form streetlights, with eyes serving as light bulbs. The stench of rot replaced the floral fragrance on both sides of the city streets, and untraceable whispers became the only sound in this dead, silent city.

"This... where is this? Why has the city turned into this state?" Li Nuowei did not know where he was, but judging from the surrounding scenery, he felt this was the city he had once experienced, only everything here had been replaced by flesh and blood, rather than the steel and concrete he was familiar with.

Immediately, Li Nuowei savored the sweet and astringent taste remaining in his mouth after the candy had dissolved, and remembered what Lin Ling had said to him earlier.

"Could this be the real world?" Li Nuowei looked around at the excessively terrifying and grotesque scenery, the fear in his heart climbing.

Li Nuowei panted heavily. He wanted to escape this place and return to the reality he wanted to go back to. He had to find Drake; they still had to save the city of Liuhua Port, which was on the verge of a major crisis, and protect the innocent people in the city.

He walked on the city road composed of pieces of tender, smooth back muscle, constantly looking around and calling out loudly from time to time.

At first, Li Nuowei also shouted Drake's name, but after shouting for too long without receiving a response, he changed to calling others—from people he was familiar with to the names of his own parents—but he still gained nothing.

Li Nuowei paused. He looked at the streetlights hanging high on the lamp posts, and suddenly he also wanted to hang himself high upon them.

Let's try again... Li Nuowei wanted to use his Death Return ability to "initialize" directly, hoping that after he was reborn, the terrifying scenery before his eyes would also disappear.

Just as he pulled a biological intestine from a streetlight, made a noose with the slimy casing, and was about to hang himself on the street corner, a hand appeared without warning and stopped his act of suicide.

"A person?" Li Nuowei turned his head abruptly, only to see an unremarkable young man looking at him curiously and asking him.

Li Nuowei took a step back, looking at the strange young man in front of him with caution, "Who are you?"

"My name is Xin Junmao." The young man ignored Li Nuowei's caution, instead showing a somewhat pleasantly surprised expression and laughing heartily, "I didn't expect that besides me, I could actually see someone else here."

"What do you mean?" Li Nuowei still dared not relax his guard after hearing the other's name, and asked, "Why are you here, and where is this?"

"As for me, I am naturally a person, it's just that my state of existence is a bit strange." Xin Junmao explained with a smile, "This is the Flesh Dimension; that's what I named this place. It exists between the Real World and other dimensional worlds. Everything here is synchronized with the Real World, equivalent to us seeing another form of reality, so it can also be called the Inner World.

As for why I am here, it is because I encountered some tricky matters, so I came here in the form of a dream."

Li Nuowei noticed a trace of imperceptible bitterness in Xin Junmao's eyes, as if the other had experienced some unforgettable painful encounter. The other muttered: "My name is Xin Junmao. I owed some debts of gratitude, paid back a portion, and then I became what I am now."

"What about you? I have been here for a long time, and this is not a place you can just enter casually," Xin Junmao asked in return.

Li Nuowei hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know how I was transported here either. Can you tell me how to get out?"

Hearing Li Nuowei's words, Xin Junmao stared straight at Li Nuowei for a while, then seemed to confirm the other's identity, nodded, and said: "The method to get out of here is also very simple. You just need to run to the boundary of this city and step across it. If you don't want to waste your energy, then I can suggest you do as you just did—find a streetlight and hang yourself on it; once you die, you'll be able to wake up."

Li Nuowei let out a deep breath, "That sounds like a dream."

"Right now is just like a dream," Xin Junmao explained, "The method of waking up is naturally the same."

"Alright, I'll try." Li Nuowei nodded. He took a deep breath, then turned around and was about to head straight for the city's boundary.

He didn't want to commit suicide. First, he was afraid there was a trap, and on the other hand, if there was a way to leave here without dying, then why would he commit suicide?

"Wait a moment." Xin Junmao stopped the departing Li Nuowei and said, "Are you sure you want to go like this? Forget it, it just so happens I don't really want to stay here today either. I'll take you out; there are still some strange taboos here."

Li Nuowei planted his feet firmly on the spot for two seconds, then retreated back to Xin Junmao's side, "Alright, then thank you in advance."

Xin Junmao saw Li Nuowei's caution but didn't mind. While strolling and leading Li Nuowei along the street, he continued to "popularize" for Li Nuowei, saying: "I just said that this is an Inner World. Although it retains the physical laws of the Real World to a certain extent, it also has some special rules.

Here, first of all, you cannot be loud. As you can see, you can hardly see anyone here. Those who can enter here are, without exception, unlucky bastards. Although there is no one, it doesn't mean there is no other life. The life here likes a quiet atmosphere; noise is equivalent to an attack to them, and with an attack, there will naturally be a counterattack. Don't worry, we humans cannot beat them."

As he spoke, he pointed to a designer clothing store covered in unidentified blood vessels. In the shop in the Inner World, the mannequins inside were all rotten and twisted, wearing overly fashionable organ-skin dresses, with fatty-intestine belts around their waists, and shoes emitting swollen, breathing bubbles.

Li Nuowei looked closely, and the mannequin was actually alive!?

"That's right. Dead objects that can be endowed with the meaning of life in reality are all alive here," Xin Junmao said with a smile as he saw Li Nuowei cast a suspicious look, "Like these clothing mannequins, as well as dolls, statues in a Shrine, and so on."

Xin Junmao continued: "Secondly, do not eat the things here or drink the water here. It is best not to go near the water areas of this world; they are also alive."

"Finally, do not vent negative emotions here, absolutely not," Xin Junmao said solemnly to Li Nuowei.