Only I can make them stronger

Xia Ye looked forward and found that the passage ended there.

To be precise, the front was blocked by a metal door covered with strange instruments, handles and valves.

"Door?" Xia Ye frowned and stopped, recalling carefully: "We checked on the way here, and this is a one-way street. There are no other forks, right?"

"Yes." Y's fingers holding the long-handled hammer turned slightly white.

For some reason, her intuition told her that what was behind this door would make her extremely uneasy.

"Y, get ready for battle." Xia Ye walked forward decisively and looked at the door from head to toe.

Luo Qi and the others were still waiting for him on the ground. He didn't know whether that giant female monster would continue to attack them. He didn't have time to dawdle underground.

Since he was sure that the road ahead was the only one, he had to keep looking forward no matter what.

"Well...Xia Ye, you should be careful too..." Y nodded, lowered his body slightly, gripped the long-handled hammer tightly, and was ready to attack forward at any time.

"This should be the door handle..." Xia Ye found a twist valve that looked most like a switch among a bunch of messy items and turned it counterclockwise.

To his surprise, this door, which looked quite old, did not cause any sluggishness when operating it. Instead, it turned quite smoothly.

"Squeak..." As the door lock was turned, a sound similar to gas being expelled was heard, and then Xia Ye and Y subconsciously covered their mouths and noses.

Bloody smell!

The strong, dizzying smell of blood and the odor of rotting flesh hit me in the face.

This smell is several times stronger than that of the giant female monster's body!

But soon, as the door opened automatically, the scene before them made them not even care about the bloody energy rising into the sky for a moment.

Behind the door was a sea of scarlet.

It looked like a room, but the inner walls were made of flesh and blood like human organs, and they were even beating alive.

And with a quick look, Xia Ye could even find that there seemed to be slender arms embedded in the inner wall, and giant breasts similar to those of a giant female body.

Severe physical discomfort continued to impact the two people's visual nerves.

"What on earth is going on..." Xia Ye felt that he had to do something to calm himself down, so he subconsciously wanted to activate [True Insight] to see what was going on in this room.

But just as he turned on the system and activated its power, a voice that could not be distinguished between male and female sounded quietly from his mind without any warning.

It was as if his own intuition was predicting it, or as if some extremely terrifying existence in the dark was warning him.

"No peeping in the hidden place"

55. Cognitive Dissonance

When this voice sounded, Xia Ye felt his heart suddenly skip a beat.

A feeling of dead silence and oppression suddenly descended upon me.

In a trance, he seemed to feel that he was placed in a small, claustrophobic space without knowing when.

The walls on all sides of this claustrophobic space were slowly moving towards him.

A feeling of suffocation, silence, and darkness followed one after another, making him feel as if he was completely isolated from the world and hidden in a dark corner that no one knew about.

It's like being locked in a completely sealed coffin and buried alive deep in the sea.

The despairing darkness madly squeezed his body and will, until an unknown amount of time passed, until he could no longer feel the existence of his own body...

Until he completely lost his own thinking.

Then, the sound of something breaking broke everything.

Xia Ye took a deep breath, like a drowning person regaining new life after coming ashore.

The dim light of the fire lit up again in the darkness.

His body began to tremble uncontrollably, and the feeling of fear lingered uncontrollably in every corner.

"Xia Ye..." Y's voice came trembling.

"Are you okay? The inspiration zone...suddenly disappeared."

Xia Ye looked down blankly, only to see Y gasping for breath and slumped on the ground, his already fair little face filled with a pale look of fear.

The inspiration zone will affect the emotions and senses of others to a certain extent.

Even if it wasn't much, the moment Xia Ye just experienced was enough to destroy anyone's will.

Fortunately, the inspiration zone seemed to be shattered along with the illusion just now, and Y also restored the visual picture that a normal person should have.

However, the closure of the inspiration area only stopped the "vision sharing" with Y. The scene in front of Xia Ye himself still remained in the state of a flesh and blood room for some reason.

This dark underground was already full of weirdness. Starting from the human-faced spider monster, he realized that his excessive inspiration seemed to allow him to naturally see things that others could not see.

But it was obvious that these things that others could not see were full of malice towards him.

This was not the first time something like this had happened. He had encountered a warning when he first peeked into the structure of Shana's body.

Subsequent experiences and speculations made Xia Ye basically certain that the forbidden objects hidden in the bodies of Shana, Leah and others were most likely the prototype of the mutant factor - some extremely powerful mythical creature.

Could it be that there is a similar existence behind this underground space?

With unconscious thinking and recollection, Xia Ye finally slowly recovered from the state of great shock just now.

"I... cough cough... I'm fine..." A slightly awkward and hoarse voice came out of his throat, and then Xia Ye was startled.

How did my voice become like this?

And why did he find it so difficult to speak?

"What's wrong with you? Xia Ye?" Y also noticed that something was wrong with Xia Ye, and quickly stood up and came closer.

At this moment, there were only two of them in this strange underground space. Any abnormality on either side would cause the other side to panic even more.

The towering snow-white peaks trembled and pressed against Xia Ye's chest because of this action. At this time, Y naturally didn't care about any red tape.

But Xia Ye seemed to feel that this originally very shocking scene could not affect his mood at all.

"I... cough cough... I don't know... cough cough!" Xia Ye tried hard to clear his throat, but he always felt that his originally warm and pleasant voice became like a hoarse old man, making a sound of broken bellows in his throat.

"Why are you coughing all the time? Have you suffered any hidden injury?" Y's concerned expression made him look quite uneasy.

"My... Ahem! Sound!"

"Voice...sound? There doesn't seem to be anything wrong?" The expected answer came from the other party's mouth, making Xia Ye feel even more desperate.

Just like before, Y was unaware of the abnormality he had been feeling.

"Maybe... I was just scared... It's okay, don't worry, I'm fine." So he could only force a smile, skip the topic, try to ignore the discomfort brought about by his own speaking state, and act normal.

If we continue talking, it will only make him more tortured.

"Next...shall we go in? I don't think you look well." Without the interference of the inspiration zone, the scenes in Y's vision were no longer so frightening, so her emotions recovered relatively quickly.

Hearing this, Xia Ye raised his eyes to look at the room where flesh and blood were throbbing, then subconsciously looked away.

If possible, he really didn't want to go in.

But if we don’t go in, is there any other way?

He knew the answer well.

So Xia Ye could only take a deep breath, sigh heavily, and asked: "Y, without the influence of the inspiration zone, what does the room look like in your eyes now?"

"It's a very ordinary room. It looks quite empty. I can't see clearly in the inner part. It seems there are some long cabinets. As for the rest, I can only go in and look."

"Then... let's go in and take a look. Maybe we can find... a way to leave." As he spoke, Xia Ye suppressed the strong disgust in his heart and walked in first.

The appearance of the fire brought a ray of light to the originally dark room, and after seeing the furnishings in the room clearly, Y covered his mouth.

Those "long cabinets" she mentioned just now turned out to be a row of things like nutrition warehouses.

Each nutrient tank was filled with red liquid, in which was floating a huge body that looked exactly like the giant female body before.

The glass covers of the two nutrient chambers at the edge were shattered, the nutrient solution inside had long dried up, and the bodies inside were nowhere to be found.

Now that I think about it, they were probably the two monsters that attacked them in the room before.

After telling Xia Ye these things, the latter showed a slightly relieved expression.

Because from his perspective, the location where Y said to place the nutrition warehouse is the area where the giant breast guards are embedded.

This means that only two monsters have left here, and Luo Qi and the other three are at least a little safer.

"Xia Ye! There seems to be a door over there, and there is a button next to the door that looks like an elevator!"

In this crazy environment, Y's surprised voice suddenly brought him a glimmer of hope.

No matter what, at least let's get out of this damn place first.

But just as Y was pulling him towards the "elevator", Xia Ye seemed to see something and suddenly pulled out a crowbar, and at the same time the flame on the match became much brighter.

"What's wrong!?" Xia Ye's sudden preparation for battle made Y very nervous.

"What's that... corner over there!?"

From Xia Ye's perspective, in the corner, there was a large mass of flesh and blood that was obviously independent of the surrounding flesh walls. The flesh and blood was tumbling and twisting like a living thing!

And right in the middle of all that flesh and blood, there was an eyeball that was originally closed, but suddenly opened when he passed by, and was staring straight at him!

"Corner...ah!" Y had just been paying attention to the direction of the elevator. At this moment, he looked in the direction of Xia Ye's finger and was immediately startled by something in the corner.

But soon, when she saw the thing clearly in the light of the fire, she stroked her chest and said in shock:

"There... is just a mirror."

"A mirror with the same weird pattern we saw earlier."

56. The Dawn That Has Not Yet Come

Y's calm but slightly surprised tone made Xia Ye feel even more uncomfortable.

He never thought that one day he would become an outcast in the eyes of others.

Even if you're alone, this feeling is quite uncomfortable.

What's more, what if it's still like this after I leave here?

He even began to worry that if he came to the ground and saw only flesh and blood everywhere, he would go crazy on the spot.

and……

"A mirror?" Xia Ye stared at the eyeball that was as big as a human head for a full five seconds, feeling annoyed.

If the things here are a reflection of some kind of image, then why does he see such an ugly monster when facing the mirror?

He didn't want to think about the reasons behind it, nor did he dare to think about it.

Now he only wants to do one thing -

"Xia Ye? What are you doing?!"

Xia Ye ignored Y's low cry, picked up the crowbar, strode forward, and stabbed it hard into his eyeball.

Black, white and red juice spurted out and splashed all over him.

But he had no intention of dodging. He looked at the ugly mass of flesh and blood with indifference. He pulled out the crowbar and raised it high. Without injecting any mental power into it, he simply swung it down roughly.

Black blood splattered everywhere, and a big hole was opened in the flesh, but it seemed as if it had no consciousness and still maintained its previous tumbling and twisting shape, silently enduring it all.

The crowbar was swung again and again until Xia Ye's entire body was covered in black and red rancid blood, until the ugly thing before his eyes completely turned into a pool of powerless rotten meat, until that big eyeball could no longer gaze at him.

Until the mirror, frame and body were shattered to the ground, and the strange pattern was shattered into pieces and could no longer be recognized.

"Xia Ye...what are you...doing?" At this moment, Xia Ye suddenly made Y feel a little scary.

"It's okay, let's go and check out the elevator." But in Xia Ye's perception, his whole body was covered in blood and smelled extremely fishy.

But after venting like this, he felt that the discomfort that had been oppressing him was relieved a lot, and his tone became lighter.

"Oh...oh, okay..." Y looked at Xia Ye's calm appearance and wanted to say something with a little worry, but in the end he simply responded and walked with Xia Ye to the location of the elevator she mentioned.

"It appears to be working... This should be the button for opening the door..." Soon, with the help of the firelight, Y found the triangular metal button on the side of the double doors and pressed it tentatively.

Afterwards, Xia Ye saw a big hole opened in the wall of flesh and blood in front of him, and there was a void of darkness inside.

"The door should be open, right?" he asked.

"Hmm..." Y looked at the industrial-looking space ahead and let out a long sigh.