Chapter 106: Setting Off! Target: The Starting Point of Memories!

Three days later,

In a small grove in a park near the Hotel.

Verdant plants and trees surrounded Ding Mo.

On this tranquil afternoon, birds chirped in the air; the pleasant sounds of nature mingled with the unique life-breath of the forest, making one feel refreshed and delighted, truly a case of "as if listening to celestial music, one's ears are momentarily cleared!"

Carrying a backpack, Ding Mo took a deep breath and opened his eyes.

When he left, he had already used the help of his "Guardian" to avoid all the cameras in the Hotel; for the next week, even if he did not appear, no one would notice.

It must be said, as of today, Ding Mo felt more and more that Fei Xue and the others were not joking.

Yuan Zi'ang, the Guardian—these people were each more "supernaturally capable" than the last.

When they said they wanted to overthrow the Processing Bureau, Ding Mo found it hard to believe they were kidding.

But the Processing Bureau was such a behemoth; although Ding Mo had cooperated with them, to go against the Processing Bureau...

Shaking his head, Ding Mo cast these distracting thoughts from his mind.

He could not worry about that much; he had to solve the matter right before him first!

Today, he would set off to the place Yuan Zi'ang had revealed in his memory—the starting point of his true memories!

Whether it was luck or misfortune, that place was not in this world, but in one of the "Typewriter" Task worlds he had visited.

So he had spent three days preparing; inside his backpack were some food, water, and tools.

"Alright, it's time to go." A thought stirred in Ding Mo's heart!

The chirping of the birds came to an abrupt halt.

The "Curtain" descended!

A transparent curtain of light enveloped Ding Mo; among the dense leaves of the forest, dappled sunlight fell upon it, forming ripples of varying sizes, like the romantic scene at the bottom of a water basin.

At a certain moment, these ripples began to tremble collectively!

Rumble!

An invisible sound seemed to explode in Ding Mo's heart; he carefully maintained the "Curtain" and extremely quickly increased the frequency of the vibration!

Rumble!

... Chirp, chirp!

The birds began to sing again, but compared to just before, their throats seemed to have developed some strange, discordant sounds.

It seemed... they had been affected by something?

And in the forest, the ground where Ding Mo had been standing was now empty.

Only a mass of distorted void remained, gradually returning to normal...

Outside the world.

"Ugh..." Ding Mo opened his mouth, wanting to scream loudly, wanting to vent the 'nothingness' surging from all directions that seemed intent on swallowing him whole!

There was once an experiment that involved placing a person in a space without any sound or light.

It was to test human tolerance for "nothingness."

The result was that humans failed miserably! No one could hold out for long before becoming manic, their hearts sliding uncontrollably toward madness, just like gravity!

But now, Ding Mo's feeling was even worse than that; never mind sound and light, he could barely feel himself anymore!

"Did I reach out? Where are my hands?" Ding Mo had to talk to himself in his mind to prove his own existence.

But he certainly could not hold out for long.

The good news was, he did not need to hold out for long either!

Adjusting the vibration frequency of the curtain of light that still enveloped him, until the frequency approached the "World Noise" emitted by a certain world,

Ding Mo felt himself gradually drawing closer to that world.

This feeling... was hard to describe, like how water easily dissolves into water, while oil cannot blend in.

As the frequency drew ever closer to the "World Noise," the longer he persisted, the higher his degree of fusion with that world became!

Finally, at a certain moment, Ding Mo finally merged into this world like a drop of "water"...

A thin, small boy of about ten years old was walking on the street.

Wearing a baseball cap, Lu Yue was hunched over, looking around cautiously, appearing somewhat furtive.

This seemed to be a less-developed small town; it was currently dusk, and the streets were already sparsely populated.

At an intersection in the distance, there were even military-green armored vehicles patrolling.

Seeing that armored vehicle, Lu Yue hurriedly ducked into a small alley and only dared to emerge after it had left.

"Phew... that was close..." He patted his chest; the oversized black and red jacket, which was disproportionate to his frame, effectively concealed his figure.

In his arms, he tightly clutched a black paper bag.

Walking out of the alley, he had only taken two steps when a figure suddenly appeared behind him.

"You little thief! So it was you who snuck into my shop while the curfew was on!" A tall, middle-aged man grabbed Lu Yue's arm and roared.

His other hand held a tin pipe, ready to strike down!

"!!" Lu Yue's reaction was lightning-fast, displaying a decisiveness completely different from his timid behavior just moments ago!

With a flick of his hand, a bottle of chili spray slid from his sleeve into his palm.

Sss—

"Ahhhh!!" The man screamed, instinctively letting go and covering his sprayed eyes.

"You bastard! You actually used my own chili spray on me!"

But Lu Yue had already run off.

Behind him, the man's angry roars gradually grew more and more distant.

"Huff, huff, huff!" Lu Yue panted, clutching the paper bag tightly, and didn't stop until he didn't know where he had run to.

Before he could even feel happy, he looked up and saw two soldiers holding guns appear.

"Little kid, didn't your mother tell you that you can't go out right now?" They surrounded him with serious expressions, then their eyes shifted and landed on the thing in his arms.

"What is this?"

! Facing the soldiers' interrogation, Lu Yue took two steps back, just about to turn and run.

Suddenly, he froze in place, because...

Behind those two soldiers, a figure appeared!

It was a strange werewolf wearing a red hat on its head!

A human-like, eerie smile appeared on the werewolf's face, and then with one claw, it tore the two soldiers in half at the waist!

Scalding blood splashed onto Lu Yue's face, and he was completely stunned.

He only knew that the several small towns in this area would be under martial law every few years.

According to the official explanation, there were always terrorists harassing the border here, so it had to be swept every so often.

"Re... report..." The soldier, with only half his body left, desperately took out his walkie-talkie.

And, in order to prevent terrorists from escaping into the town, the town would be under martial law during this period, and one could only come out to move about and purchase supplies at fixed times.

"Q4 District has appeared..."

At other times, no matter what noises one heard, one was not allowed to go out or investigate.

But he never expected that there were no terrorists at all!

It was instead a...

"Appeared... requesting... support..." The soldier stopped breathing before he could finish.

"Woof!" The red-hatted werewolf let out a low howl, then immediately turned its gaze toward the thin, small boy not far away.

A wave of fear surged into his heart, and Lu Yue tremblingly took out pepper spray, or rather, "anti-wolf spray."

But after spraying it wildly, it didn't have any effect at all.

The werewolf just tilted its head, staring at him.

Lu Yue immediately turned to flee, but even though his legs were already trembling with fear, he still did not drop the paper bag in his arms.

It seemed there was something inside that was more important than his life!

"Woof—!" The werewolf chased after him.

The strange thing was, the boy clearly wasn't running fast, at least at the speed it had just shown, it could have easily caught up.

Yet it took it step by step, slow and leisurely, as if it were enjoying some kind of "fun."