Chapter 873: Weird Objects

The firelight inside the fireplace illuminated the carpet-covered room.

As the room of Lianglong, Vice Leader of the Safe Zone, the décor here is fairly luxurious.

Although most of the furnishings are somewhat mismatched, they look like they were scavenged and pieced together from survivors.

Crackle-pop

The smokeless coal burned, bringing waves of warmth.

Watching Lin An sit in his former seat, Lianglong gave a wry smile.

"Yes... sir."

"All events in the Heiyu, including meme contagion."

"As long as one leaves the Heiyu's interior, or beyond their own range of activity, they become ineffective."

"That's why even large numbers of low-rank Awakened Ones dare to enter the Heiyu."

He swallowed:

"You know, Supernatural Incidents and memes rarely kill everyone instantly."

"Although too many people can't enter the Heiyu, if a team goes in and notices people starting to die, the survivors still have time to flee even if they can't find a solution."

"There are always a few lucky ones who can bring something out."

With a look of reminiscence, Lianglong recalled the Supernatural Incident he encountered during his first foray into the Heiyu.

It was a woman in white who suddenly appeared at the end of the mountain path.

Standing in the bushes beside the path, the woman flickered and blurred like a signal-interference image.

And each time she flickered, she instantly reappeared, getting closer and closer to me.

Recalling that deathly pale face that struck deep into his heart, he couldn't help but shiver.

All four of them were frightened to death by that face, only he reacted fastest, closing his eyes and fleeing.

Watching Lianglong lay out a white sheet describing as many as sixty-one different incidents, a hint of solemnity flashed in Lin An's eyes.

The number of Special Events within the Heiyu is terrifying.

Too many...

Far exceeding what I had imagined, the count is an order of magnitude higher.

I had thought the Heiyu itself was a vast meme field, or perhaps a domain of other events.

I never expected it to be nothing more than a mishmash.

Forty-seven types of Supernatural Incidents, their descriptions covering folk legends, modern horror films, and some horrors with untraceable origins.

Fox-faced old lady, bronze coffin, spirit writing, mirror...

Eleven types of Meme Events, among them one unknown meme that drives anyone who hears it mad.

Furthermore, there are three kinds of Special Events that defy description.

This huge amount, each description capable of making one's scalp tingle, is merely the explored periphery of the Heiyu.

It's hard to imagine how many terrifying entities lurk in this not-so-large area.

With a solemn expression, Lin An set down the thick documents in his hands, unable to shake a sense of doubt.

Given the information we now have, the Heiyu is so terrifying that, logically, it should have been widely known in my past life.

Now, in the early Apocalypse, it's normal that nothing has spread, yet for three years in my past life I never heard anyone mention the Heiyu.

It's as if this region had been forgotten by people.

This is unreasonable.

In my past life, what exactly happened to the Heiyu in its later stages?

Did the Heiyu disappear? Or perhaps...

Did the entirety of Yingshan vanish?

Doubts piled up...

"How did you manage to get these high heels inside?"

"This gizmo, is it really as useful as you say?"

He asked the earnestly standing Lianglong.

Zhang Tie held a red high-heeled shoe in his hand, its leather bright red, the style somewhat aged.

In the dead of night, the image of a bald, muscular man holding a high-heeled shoe looks utterly strange.

After picking it up, his hands felt a bit cold.

Upon contacting the shoe with his right hand, a faint surge of spiritual energy erupted—an abnormal reaction as his inner vitality constantly replenished.

What a weird thing.

Hearing Zhang Tie's question, Lianglong glanced awkwardly at the special prop he had handed over, nodding hesitantly.

"Don't underestimate this high-heeled shoe."

"This is something I brought out of the Heiyu... once activated after putting it on, this prop lets one ignore obstacles and speedily move across any surface."

"Without it, I would have died several times already..."

"We call these things weird objects."

In Lin An's embrace, Mo Ling curiously reached out and took the high-heeled shoe, instantly feeling a chill.

The more one looks, the more the gaze is drawn in.

According to Lianglong, this blood-red high-heeled shoe was found by him in a Supernatural Incident apartment.

Indeed, the scenery within the Heiyu changes as one enters different areas.

Sometimes, the surroundings even shift to ancient times, eerily bizarre.

The blood-red high-heeled shoes originally came as a pair, but he failed to grab the other and was pursued by a vengeful ghost.

In the end, he was lucky and escaped thanks to this shoe.

Over a long period, this high-heeled shoe, which could unleash extreme speed when worn, became one of his escape trump cards.

Had he not acted without thinking and rushed straight to Lin An, he might not have realized the comer was Lin An.

Wearing the shoe, he still had a decent chance to escape directly.

"How did you put it on?"

"What's the cost?"

Mo Ling hooked her pinky onto the shoe's heel, her eyes flickering; she clearly felt that the power within her body seemed to have an abnormal reaction to the shoe.

That chill gave her a strange sense of familiarity.

Looking at the petite Mo Ling, Lianglong's eyes flashed with an unusual hue.

He originally thought the little girl in Lin An's arms was some kind of perverse fetish of Lin An's, but she was just an ordinary person.

Many Awakened Ones are fond of this.

But unexpectedly, after the opponent took the red high-heeled shoe, they felt no pain.

You should know, even if he reached the third level, he couldn't hold onto it continuously.

The deathly aura attached to the shoe will quickly corrode vitality; this is also one of the costs of using the shoe.

"As long as you put it on, this high-heeled shoe will automatically adjust to your size."

"Or rather, it will forcibly squeeze your foot into it."

"As for the cost.."

Lianglong, while speaking, hesitantly opened his chest, revealing the heart area.

All that could be seen on his chest was a dense, spiderweb-like black pattern, gradually spreading from the lower abdomen to near the heart.

Wry smile:

"One is that during use it continuously drains vitality; when I was at the second level, I could only last seven or eight seconds before I couldn't bear it."

"Second, if you use it many times, patterns will grow on your body."

"Once the black pattern covers the heart, a person will become... a non-thinking spiritual anomaly."

"Or, be assimilated."

"Different curios have different costs, and I can't explain it clearly..."

His eyes showed fear; obviously he had seen many Awakened Ones die from using the cost.

Interesting.

Lin An raised his eyebrows, becoming more curious about Heiyu.

According to Lianglong, they call the things they bring out from Heiyu curios because these equipment or props are unfathomable.

Like the blood-colored high-heeled shoes he holds, which are relatively fine, the cost is clear and one can calculate the number of uses.

Some curios, while granting the user special abilities, also have equally terrifying costs behind them.

Thinking that he had also resolved a Supernatural Incident before but had obtained no curios, Lin An keenly realized.

These things are likely products unique to Heiyu.

It's getting more and more interesting...

Heiyu, just what kind of existence is it?