They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 194 "Mother"

"A spider?" he thought to himself, feeling the spider crawl a little further down.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ria opened her mouth and then, with a "snap," bit the spider that had been peeking out out of its mouth out of curiosity.

"Pooh!"

He chewed it a few times and found that it didn't taste good. Moreover, its body was covered with thorny hairs, and a rusty, acidic taste mixed with blood plasma rushed into his throat and straight to his brain.

Ria could only spit the spider out after confirming it was completely dead. He found that his mouth was ulcerated, and the rotting flesh was filled with the spider's shed hairs.

Perhaps it was because his behavior was too unconventional, but the threads around him began to slowly recede, gradually acknowledging his presence.

"Blood-red threads and spiders... I don't seem to have encountered anything like this before. Is this some kind of reminder?"

A colossal red shadow appeared in Ria's mind, its crimson appearance blotting out the sky and the sun, and nothing in the darkness could rival its brilliance.

"The Crimson Mother? This seems to be the first time you've appeared in my dreams."

Lia's vision was still completely dark. He tentatively took a few steps forward, when his hand was suddenly grabbed by another hand. Just as he was about to tear that hand off, a familiar voice came.

"Son, what happened to your eyes?!"

The voice was extremely anxious, and although Ria couldn't see anything, she was stunned for a long time.

"Mom?" he called out tentatively.

"Mom, I'm fine. What could possibly happen to me?"

"But your eyes are bleeding."

"I'm really fine, it's all minor, I'm not going to die anyway."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Don't be afraid, Mom will call the hospital right now. You've always been afraid of the dark since you were little. As soon as the lights are turned off, you yell that something is going to eat you and insist on coming to sleep with us. Seeing you like this now really breaks Mom's heart—"

How could you have become like this, my poor child!

The woman's voice was urgent and sorrowful. Ria squeezed her hand, but what she was really thinking was whether or not to kill the person next to her right now.

He only wanted to believe what he saw; when he couldn't see, who knew what was disguised next to him?

Thinking this, he slowly reached his other hand into his pocket, where, sure enough, there was a short knife.

A voice inside him was urging him to stab the fake person beside him with a knife; this person was an imposter.

But Ria still hesitated.

Regardless of who the other person is, this person is indeed his "mother" now.

Whether he wants to believe it or not... everything in the dream was just a lie.

In that case, perhaps he can relax in his dreams and let things take their course.

Yes, relax.

Ria withdrew her hand from the blade, took her mother's hand, and followed her into the unknown.

They got into an ambulance and went to the hospital, where the doctors quickly healed Ria's eyes.

Then when he opened his eyes again, his mother gave him a joyful hug, even though Ria wasn't sure if the person in front of him could still be considered his mother.

Because this person was covered in golden eyes, a mixture of eyeballs, with normal human hands growing from each side, even when Ria's injuries were at their most horrifying, the appearance was not as terrifying as the person before her. Blood vessels stitched up those eyeballs, and all of them stared at Ria. Soon, a doctor came over with the medical examination and test results; his appearance was also that of a cluster of eyes.

Lia stared at them for a long time, and their eyes blinked in response.

At this moment, Ria felt he could no longer numb himself. He had to figure out what the dream was all about. He had originally thought that the radiant sun had created this dream for him, but now it seemed that it was those extraordinary beings who had woven this bizarre dream together.

It's like a series of miniature films without a fixed script or extras. Each time, Ria sees something different here, some related to reality, and some not.

Human dreams are unpredictable, and it's normal for them to be a little strange, but when they're this bizarre, Ria dares not continue to consider herself normal.

"I don't know if there are any boundaries here, or what will happen if I keep walking in one direction."

Thinking this, Ria jumped off the hospital bed and left the hospital. Seeing this, the eyeball monsters hurriedly followed behind him, shouting, "Come back! What are you going to do!"

"I'm going to prove that the Earth is round," Ria said, making up a flimsy excuse. The monsters grew increasingly anxious, especially Ria's "mother."

She ran so fast that several of her eyeballs fell off, and the bottom of the eyeballs rubbed against the ground, leaving blood and pus marks, like the black tracks left by some kind of reptile.

“Son, you can’t go out. Your eyes aren’t fully healed yet, and you’re already this sick. What will your dad and I do if something happens to you!”

"I've had enough! Don't follow me anymore!"

Ria continued rushing down the seemingly endless road. He finally managed to shake off the monsters, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, he came to see a wall.

The wall was blurry and indistinct, a barrier entirely constructed of black mist mixed with unknown dust. Ria stared at it for a long time, and suddenly felt that it was all so ridiculous.

"Isn't this thing just like a cage? Who are you trapping? What are you afraid will escape?"

He finally couldn't help but laugh a few times, then reached out to touch the cloud of mist. As he got closer, his body quickly merged with the black mist until it disappeared completely.

He no longer exists in this world.

In reality, Ria also opened her eyes.

He saw little Swarth put his tentacles into his mouth to play while he was sleeping, and he guessed that his dream of "eating spiders" was because of this.

His mouth was indeed corroded by the strong acid, but thanks to the repairing effects of his eyes and tentacles, the injuries healed quickly until they were all back to normal.

"Goo-"

Little Swarth felt wronged when its antennae were bitten off.

But it was more concerned about how badly Ria was injured, and seeing that he could still throw itself out the door, Little Swarth was finally relieved.

It transformed back into a mass of tentacles, trying to squeeze through the crack in the closed door, only to find that the crack was already filled with a group of equally black tentacles.

It's obvious that Ria doesn't want it inside.

Little Swarth flicked its tentacles twice, approached the black substances with a puzzled look, and then merged into them.

time flies.

Soon the day for the banquet arrived, and because it was a festival celebrating the rising sun, the streets and alleys were filled with people.

Those people were parading along the roadside waving Rising Sun flags, and Ria watched their lively figures from upstairs, with absolutely no intention of joining them.

The festival of the Rising Sun lasts for more than a hundred days a year, and these people celebrate it every day. Ria is already used to their craze for the Rising Sun.

(End of this chapter)