Chapter 328: 324 Different Dimensional Space

Two teammates had already lost the ability to think or act normally; they just whispered something over and over in a language never heard before, as if they had seen some great existence, intoxicated by a shared hallucination, praying with faces full of piety.

Bu Gaojun's heart sank. He turned his head to look at Huang Zhengdao, who was still fast asleep. After a brief struggle in his mind, he chose to endure the pain and take Huang Zhengdao, who had a higher chance of survival, with him.

But when Bu Gaojun grabbed Huang Zhengdao's arm and leaned the person against his back, that heavy weight suddenly went limp, followed immediately by the sound of flowing sand scattering and dancing about.

Bu Gaojun looked back in disbelief and saw that Huang Zhengdao's arm was still crossed over his shoulder, yet it had become detached from the Huang Zhengdao lying on the ground; both the cross-section of the arm and the wound on the severed limb of the Huang Zhengdao on the floor were pouring out golden sand with a rustling sound.

"This... what is going on?" Bu Gaojun could not comprehend such a bizarre development, but before his shock could subside for even a moment, the Huang Zhengdao on the ground, along with his detached arm, exploded into a pile of yellow sand, collapsing and scattering until it became nothing but a pile of sand on the floor.

Click... click... click-click-click-click—

At this moment, the floor of the room suddenly bulged, and then a hideous, long, white fleshy strip, with a grotesque face on its tip, burst out from the ground, emitting an unpleasant, sharp, baby-like cry.

That thing locked onto the three humans in the room almost instantly. It moved at lightning speed, striking out like a flash of lightning, and in an instant, it pierced through a Mysterious Agent. Its slender body possessed unfathomable toughness, easily hoisting the one-hundred-and-forty-plus-pound man high into the air without even showing a significant degree of bending.

Bu Gaojun's muscles tightened all over. He wanted to save the person, but it was already too late. He wanted to save the other person, but several more straight, shooting white fleshy strips burst from the ground. That other Mysterious Investigator was directly pierced in several parts, and one of the strips even shot in through the back of the victim's head and out through the mouth, leaving absolutely no possibility of survival.

Boom, boom, boom...

The entire building was shaking, and the floor of the room was still bulging upward, the area of the bulge still growing. Bu Gaojun had no choice but to choose to escape alone.

Turning around, he dashed out of the room in a single bound. Bu Gaojun sprinted down the hallway and headed straight for the floor below. While running along the staircase on the outside of the apartment, Bu Gaojun saw a white flesh-worm, nearly as thick as a dump truck and dozens of meters long, climbing the building. Part of its body had burrowed into a certain floor of the apartment building, leaving the other half outside. The white fleshy strips he had seen in Huang Zhengdao's room were perhaps unique organs on another part of that white flesh-worm's body.

Perhaps sensing the life running on the stairs, the Shadow-Devouring Worm, which was immersed in the pleasure and desire of predation, vibrated once more. The entire apartment building began to develop irregular cracks, which spread crazily across the whole structure.

During his escape from the apartment, Bu Gaojun's footsteps nearly went wrong several times; otherwise, one of his feet would surely have plunged into the shattered staircase, causing him to fall on the spot, after which he could only despairingly welcome the fate of death.

Fortunately, he was lucky enough to perfectly avoid every mistake and successfully escaped the apartment.

Running on the street, Bu Gaojun felt that everything around him had become unfamiliar.

The street was still the same street, and the buildings were still the same buildings, but there was no sign of people, and he could not hear any response from anyone. There was only a thick, foul stench permeating the surroundings, and the Shadow-Devouring Worm, wriggling like a mountain, was overturning and destroying this city.

In this deserted city, on this lifeless land, Bu Gaojun could only keep running. He could not think of a way to escape from this lonely, desperate space back to reality.

Perhaps he was going to die here too.

Not knowing how long he had been running, the truly exhausted Bu Gaojun hid inside a residential building, picked a random unlocked room, and ducked inside.

It was an ordinary sixty-square-meter rental apartment, two bedrooms and one living room, also empty. Bu Gaojun sat on one of the seats of a wooden sofa, leaning against the backrest, panting with a dazed look in his eyes.

Sweat poured down like rain, evaporating rapidly on the surface of his skin, taking away the warmth from Bu Gaojun's heart.

Bu Gaojun looked out the window at the apocalyptic scenery again. Countless Shadow-Devouring Worms as huge as mountains were wriggling and shaking the earth. The bloody scene they brought in their wake was devouring this world, as if the entire city were falling into another dimension.

He began to examine this house and felt more and more familiar with it, finally discovering that this was the surveillance point room where he monitored Bu Gaojun's room.

It seemed that although he had emptied his mind and stopped thinking just now, his body's instincts had still driven him to make the right choice, hiding in the place he could trust most nearby, which was this place.

Bu Gaojun walked to the window and, sure enough, saw the surveillance device that had fallen behind the curtain, but the Mysterious Agent teammate responsible for staying behind to monitor and keep watch was nowhere to be seen.

"It seems I really am in another dimension," Bu Gaojun muttered. Immediately, his sensitive nerves acted up again; he faintly heard some subtle shouting.

Following the sound, Bu Gaojun vigilantly lowered his head and searched the room carefully, then found a pair of wireless earphones in the gap between the coffee table and the floor. The sound was coming from these wireless earphones.

Listening closer, Bu Gaojun faintly recognized it as a human voice, the familiar Shenzhou language, and the voice was also one he recognized.

So, he immediately put on the earphones, and Bu Gaojun heard the voice coming from them clearly.

He heard the voice of the person who should have been standing in this room coming from inside. The other party shouted anxiously: "Team Leader Bu, Xiaojiang, Xiaozhou, answer me quickly!"

Bu Gaojun pressed the communication button on the earphones and responded: "Xiaoli, I'm here."

Hearing Bu Gaojun's voice, Xiaoli was on the verge of tears of joy and asked excitedly: "Team Leader Bu, are you alright?"

"I'm fine for now." Bu Gaojun let out a slight sigh of relief, his focus slowly returning. "Tell me about the scene you see on your end now. What do you see?"

Upon hearing this, Xiaoli said in a low, terrified voice: "I just saw you all collapse, your bodies strangely moving to a perspective that only I could see, appearing clearly and completely in my field of vision... I really can't help but be afraid; it's like the things inside the house are intentionally letting me see your state... And then, then I saw Xiaojiang and Xiaozhou's bodies swell and twist, bleeding from their Seven Orifices...

Team Leader, are they all dead?"

Bu Gaojun was silent for a long time. He did not answer the other party but instead asked: "What about Huang Zhengdao?"

"He, he is still fine." Xiaoli's voice became even sadder; he had just guessed the answer behind Bu Gaojun's silence.

"Hoo." Bu Gaojun let out a deep breath and then said, "Xiaoli, listen carefully. You must stop others from entering that room. That room has very likely become a special entrance to a certain dimensional space. Only human consciousness can enter, while the human body can only remain in the room. I am currently in that dimensional space, and it is extremely dangerous here.

Also, everything depends on you and me maintaining contact. Please, the moment the people in the Pig Group decipher the Incantation from the ancient book, tell me the Incantation and the method of casting it. Only then might I have a glimmer of hope of escaping this place."

"Team Leader Bu, are you alright right now?"

"I can still hold on," Bu Gaojun said, "but I am going to go find Huang Zhengdao next."