Collapse: Start as a Mimic Herrscher

It was five o'clock in the morning in London. Lu Ren was walking along the Thames. The sun had not yet shone on the earth, and the solar street lights on the street were still shining.

Of course, Lu Ren is definitely not a literary youth who wants to experience the feeling of taking a morning stroll.

He simply couldn't sleep. In fact, this had never happened before. Lu Ren could fall asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow and sleep until he woke up naturally. As for the reason, it all started from the time he was awakened by a nightmare last night.

After that, no matter how hard he tried to fall asleep, he couldn't fall asleep. Lu Ren forced himself to stay awake until five o'clock, then went out to get some fresh air.

"Tongzi, what are those purple creatures that look neither like humans nor ghosts? Could they be our enemies in the future?" Lu Ren rubbed his head and asked with a somewhat listless look.

Lu Ren’s nightmare was mixed with Baili Yu’s memories, and this purple shadow appeared many times in her memory.

"To be precise, it is a shadow, a phantom of the past time." said the system.

Lu Ren said: "Uh, the shadow of time and space?"

After hearing this, the system complained: "Hey, this is not that, it is an illusion from the past, a phantom that does not exist in this world!"

Then it deliberately paused for a moment to allow Lu Ren to concentrate on listening to the very important words it was going to say next.

"Host, let me tell you, the strange events and inexplicable phenomena you encountered in the laboratory before were all caused by it. Baili Yu was just pushed to the front to cover up the truth."

"The author is dead again, and added new settings?" Lu Ren asked in a nonsensical manner.

"What the hell? This has been foreshadowed a long time ago. It's definitely not something the author came up with on a whim... Well, I've gone off topic. Anyway, we will encounter it again in the future." The system was led off topic by Lu Ren, but fortunately it brought it back in the end.

Lu Ren suddenly looked at the Thames River, and his shadow was reflected on the river. For some reason, Lu Ren suddenly shuddered. This time it was Baili Yu, so who would it be next time...

Lu Ren sat on a bench by the river and closed his eyes. "Tongzi, how many secrets do you have yet to tell me? You always just laugh it off when it comes to my past. What on earth did I do?"

The system was sweating profusely. It was usually quick-witted, but now it was speechless. It could not go against what Lu Ren had said to it before. This was their agreement.

Seeing that the system was as silent as a lamb, Lu Ren did not continue to ask questions, because the final outcome would always be fruitless, and he gradually lost hope.

He simply began to review the previous mission. With Baili Yu's memory, the course of events quickly became clear.

First, half a month ago, the first team of Valkyries went in and never came out. Then two more teams of Valkyries entered, and Baili Yu was from the first team.

It was a gloomy day, and the thick dark clouds heralded the coming of a storm. Baili Yu and two teammates came to the entrance of the cave.

"What on earth could have created such a big hole?" A teammate was surprised at the formation of the hole.

"I think it should be some kind of large machine?" Baili Yu's answer was not satisfactory, and his teammates obviously did not agree with this guess.

"Where did the large machinery come from here?"

"Okay, we are here to investigate the reasons for the unusual movements here. Baili Yu, did you record the situation at the cave entrance just now?" said the team leader.

Baili Yu nodded, and the three of them walked into the cave one after another.

"There's so much dust, this hall is really shabby." The teammate shone the flashlight around the surroundings and couldn't help but sigh, "Who would have thought that this was one of the most important laboratories of Tianming hundreds of years ago."

Lu Ren discovered the difference here. When they came in, it was a hall, but when Lu Ren and his friends came in, it was a small room. It seemed that the "shadow" there had a profound impact, to the point where it could change what they saw and heard.

"Stop sighing. I don't remember there being such a hall in this laboratory." The captain said something chilling.

Baili Yu still faithfully recorded what they saw and heard. Even if it was distorted, it could still serve as a certain reference value.

After hearing this, the teammate stuttered, "Captain... Captain, isn't this right?"

The captain glanced at her teammates, and then sighed, "The situation is still unclear. Our top priority is to find a map or something that can point out our location."

In Baili Yu's memory, she clearly felt that the captain also exuded an aura of uneasiness, which proved that what the captain said was more about soothing emotions.

The teammate then remembered the hole they came in through, and she quickly looked back, only to find that there was nothing there, just a white wall.

The atmosphere in the air suddenly froze, and even Baili Yu could not stand it. She took the initiative to say, "This kind of design map is usually at the emergency exit. We may find something if we look there."

The air was still deathly silent. Baili Yu now realized that something was wrong. She shone her flashlight on her two teammates. The look in their scarlet eyes seemed as if they wanted to tear Baili Yu to pieces.

Baili Yu took a few steps back in fear. She did not dare to fight the two assassins head-on. It was important to maintain sufficient physical strength in an unknown environment.

She moved away slowly step by step. Fortunately, the two assassins just stared at her fiercely and did not rush up to attack her.

Afterwards, Baili Yu moved to the emergency exit and saw a map there, but she did not find the way to the ground. The only way in front of her was to go down.

After Baili Yu went down to the second floor, he found that the structure here was completely different from that of the first floor. What was the difference? There were many assassins wandering in the corridor, holding sickles in their hands.

These dead warriors seemed to attack any living person who approached them. Baili Yu didn't dare to really try whether they would attack her like her two teammates who had turned into dead warriors.

Unfortunately, trouble always comes knocking. A dead man staggered towards the emergency passage where Baili Yu was at the moment.

At that time, Baili Yu's memory and emotions fluctuated greatly, and it seemed that this incident was still fresh in her memory.

After she thought about it carefully, Baili Yu gritted her teeth and made a risky move.