The Inner World

Looking at the countless eerie things above this endless corridor, watching their chaotic vibrations.

Xu Qianyan's face turned deathly pale.

This is such a terrifying scene for an 18-year-old girl.

Her hands, holding the dagger, trembled.

The girl unconsciously lowered her head and clenched her teeth.

"Brother-in-law..."

But as soon as she uttered the word, she suddenly paused, as if something had occurred to her.

...It seems that I have been relying on faithlessness since I was a child?

I complain about him every day—he's untrustworthy, doesn't do his job properly, is crazy, and unreliable…

But whenever I go through something or encounter difficulties, I always want Wuxin's help first...

She always says she wants to be independent, always says she's taking care of Wuxin, always says she can do better...

Can……

The girl shook her head, holding back the tears that almost welled up in her eyes from fright, and resolutely looked ahead.

"do not be afraid……"

If things continue like this, when will I ever be able to stand on my own, let alone take care of the family and look after Wuxin...?

Xu Qianyan forced herself to calm down and racked her brains to think of any chips she had that could break the deadlock.

It still comes down to Lu Wuxin's words.

"You're already a D-rank, so why are you still using an E-rank ability? Your D-rank [Weakness Vision] should be able to see the mystical side."

...I always forget this.

The girl recalled how she felt when she was in the Loheng Building.

She once again mobilized the spiritual energy within her body, concentrating it on her eyes, and successfully activated the D-rank [Weakness Perspective].

She saw the weaknesses on the heads of these countless strange creatures.

But this is far from enough.

Her goal was to find the weaknesses in this endless corridor!

She had never tried it before.

She was simply looking at the weaknesses of the "weird" based on habitual thinking.

But shouldn't everything in the world have weaknesses?

Isn't the red line in the Loheng Building, which affects people's minds, not strange at all?

If that's the case, why can't my own eyes see the weaknesses in this wall, this corridor, this long passageway?

She focused her attention on the wall.

next moment.

Under the gaze of those eyes filled with vibrant colors, she truly saw the weakness in this endless corridor.

She initially thought the endless corridor was an effect achieved by stretching the space.

However, upon closer inspection using his special abilities, he discovered that this endless corridor was actually an "inner world"!

The Otherworld is different from other dimensions.

An alternate dimension is a special space that is independent of the world.

The Otherworld is a darker version of the real world.

Because it is based on the real world, the production cost of the inner world is lower than that of the alternate dimension, and the range of influence is also larger. The disadvantage is that it cannot escape the scope of the real world, and even the people who enter the inner world are essentially still in the same position in the real world.

Realizing this, Xu Qianyan immediately plunged the dagger into the weakness of the Endless Corridor.

Even the most perfect alternate world will always have some shortcomings in its compatibility when it is overlaid on the real world. These are the flaws and weaknesses of the alternate world.

click!

As Xu Qianyan used a dagger to slash open the flaws in the inner world...

A single hair can affect the whole body.

The other world then collapsed and changed.

The endless corridor collapsed instantly, and countless eerie tremors were swept into the shattered space amidst screams.

However, Xu Qianyan did not return to reality, but instead found herself in a gloomy corridor filled with red light.

boom!

A loud bang suddenly came from behind.

The girl was so frightened that she immediately turned around.

But then they saw Lu Wuxin heavily trampling the strange woman under his feet.

"Brother-in-law...it was you! You scared me to death!" Xu Qianyan breathed a sigh of relief.

Nothing is more reassuring than seeing Lu Wuxin now.

Lu Wuxin stepped on the strange woman.

He looked at Xu Qianyan with a puzzled expression.

"When did you get here?"

"Don't come any closer, there's something wrong with this thing."

This is the umpteenth time he has defeated this eeriness.

But she always manages to get back up in various ways.

Helpless, Lu Wuxin could only suppress it, too lazy to waste his energy killing it.

"Brother-in-law... what's going on?" the girl asked, keeping her distance.

Stepping on the eerie ground, Lu Wuxin leisurely lit a cigarette.

"She's impossible to kill, I'm too lazy to try again."

This also piqued Xu Qianyan's curiosity.

According to the bizarre knowledge taught in school.

Such a bizarre creature that can keep resurrecting and is invincible is impossible in this world...

No, it's not that there's any low-level weirdness with that ability.

The strange woman in front of me, apart from being able to resurrect herself constantly, has absolutely no combat power.

It's even worse than other D-level eerie stories.

There's only one situation where this can be done in low-level eerie phenomena: the eerie phenomenon is a "vengeful spirit," or a similar phenomenon.

These eerie creatures, born from resentment, are difficult to kill; as long as the resentment persists, they can resurrect indefinitely.

However, just like its name suggests, a vengeful spirit is a spirit, a spiritual entity, and is even difficult to see with the naked eye.

The one that Lu Wuxin was standing on was clearly made of flesh and blood, so it could not be a spirit.

If it's not a spirit, it can regenerate indefinitely... which completely violates the conservation theorem.

"Unless it's a hallucination," Lu Wuxin said casually.

"Brother-in-law, we're not hallucinating, we're in the other world!"

These words caught Lu Wuxin's attention.

"The Other World?"

"I get it! This strange thing must be something from the real world, which is why I can't destroy it no matter what I do in the other world!"

"She is an anomaly formed by anchoring herself to something in the real world. Because people in the inner world cannot destroy things outside, they will be tormented to death by her."

Although I understand the principle.

But there is no solution.

"How are we supposed to engage with things in the real world...?" Xu Qianyan was annoyed.

Just then, her phone rang.

Because she disrupted the stability of the original inner world, Fifth Fish was able to make contact by phone.

……

"Hey! Where are you guys?! What, in the other world? This building actually has an other world?" Fifth Fish was somewhat surprised as he listened to Xu Qianyan's explanation.

"No wonder the detectives couldn't find any clues; it turns out the crime was committed in the underworld!"

The fifth fish also thought of something else.

The fact that the criminal police have found nothing after so many years of investigation proves that no police officers have ever been infected.

Plus, I wasn't infected myself...

This alternate world clearly avoids the police!

What do normal weirdos know about the police...?

This must have been done by someone!

Where are you?

Fifth Fish arrived at the fourth floor and stood at the top of the stairs.

"You mean, Mr. Lu is suppressing a strange entity right here? And you can even see the stairs leading up?"

The fifth fish looked at the ground in confusion.

"But... there's nothing on the ground!"

……

"Oh dear, there's nothing there?"

Xu Qianyan looked at the strange creature struggling on the ground, feeling very confused.

"Brother-in-law, Sister Yu said there's nothing outside. Does that mean we're completely helpless against her?"

Her words left Lu Wuxin speechless.

"Qianyan...didn't you just use the difference between the two worlds to disrupt the stability of the inner world?"

"Since this thing doesn't exist outside, isn't it the weakness of this inner world I'm in?!"

Xu Qianyan was stunned for a moment.

Then she tapped her head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"I've already formed the preconceived notion that the only flaw in the other world is the terrain..."

"I never imagined that something so lively and unpredictable could be a weakness..."

Then, the girl opened her colorful eyes again.

really.

She saw that this strange woman had nothing in common with the real world, and that her weakness was exactly the same weakness of this other world.

Xu Qianyan stabbed the woman of the strange species in the most vulnerable spot.

Although she is immortal, this other world is not.

Rumbling--

The Otherworld collapsed once again.

The disappearing staircase leading down to the bottom reappeared, and the figure of the Fifth Fish could even be faintly seen.

but.

Just when it seemed we were about to return to the real world.

A powerful force suddenly filled the entire apartment building.

wow-

The seemingly shattered inner world was suddenly reconstructed.

Even the Fifth Fish, who wasn't pulled into the Otherworld, has come to this new Otherworld.

This inner world is different from the layered inner world that separated Lu Wuxin and Xu Qianyan before.

This is a huge underground world that encompasses the entire apartment building.

The original old-fashioned hallway scene was transformed into a wooden corridor with a Japanese style.

Numerous bizarre phenomena appeared out of nowhere in this otherworld.

It roared across each floor, emitting a chilling sound.

Suddenly.

Various blood-stained arms emerged from the wall.

These arms ambushed and grabbed the unsuspecting Fifth Fish, intending to tie her to the wall.

"Sister Fish, be careful!" Xu Qianyan wanted to help, but didn't know which arm to cut off.

But Fifth Fish remained completely calm.

She raised her arm and immediately elbowed the wall.

The powerful shockwave shattered the entire wall, and the arms all shrank back into it in fear.

"What the hell?" Fifth Fish straightened his sleeves.

Xu Qianyan was somewhat surprised to see her resolve the strange situation so effortlessly.

Her expression made Fifth Fish feel somewhat aggrieved.

"Little Qianyan... I'm a B-level ability user, for goodness' sake, what's with that expression?"

"Hey, hey, hey, is it because of what happened at the Luoheng Building that you think I'm a pushover?"

"Please, I admit I can't handle mental attacks, but I'm a pro at fighting!"

Xu Qianyan guiltily looked away.

That's exactly what she was thinking...

However, after glancing to the side, she suddenly noticed...

Lu Wuxin is not here!

"Brother-in-law, where's my brother-in-law?"

The fifth fish also realized what was happening.

"Was Mr. Lu placed in another level of the inner world, or... did he not come in at all?"

Xu Qianyan was very anxious. She used her supernatural power again, trying to break through this inner world.

But this other world is clearly more powerful, and there are very few flaws to be found.

She could only glance at the few flaws in the surrounding corridor.

But none of them were able to destroy the inner world.

However, it did have some effect.

At least the phone can connect to the signal!

She immediately called Lu Wuxin.

"Brother-in-law, where are you?!"

……

at this time.

Lu Wuxin stood in the corridor of the real world and answered Xu Qianyan's call.

"I'm outside." Lu Wuxin lit a new cigarette.

"Are you two in the new underworld?"

"Yes! This other world is much more powerful. I can't break through it at all. I can only make sure my phone has a signal!" Xu Qianyan said anxiously.

This situation caused Lu Wuxin to fall into deep thought.

...In the instant Xu Qianyan killed that strange entity that caused the collapse of the inner world.

But suddenly, a newer and stronger underworld was reconstructed...

This doesn't seem like a rule of nature at all...

It's more like... something is watching from behind the scenes.

Moreover, this thing is clearly afraid of Qianyan's special abilities, and therefore intends to kill Qianyan...

Very smart.

They even knew to leave me, the strongest among them, outside.

"Brother-in-law, what should we do now?"

"Qianyan, where in your area are the most eerie places?"

Xu Qianyan immediately looked around at the situation.

The place they were in had been turned into a Japanese-style haunted house.

Wooden floor, dragging paper door, red wooden pillars.

The ceiling was covered with red ribbons, which was extremely eerie.

Besides the countless arms on the wall, there are also many masked monsters dressed in white kimonos wandering behind ribbons.

Because their location is near the actual stairwell, there is also a stairwell next to them.

It's just an open staircase built using those kinds of wooden ladders.

You can see the situation upstairs and downstairs at a glance.

It's clear that the eeriness of the upper level is more oppressive than that of the lower level.

"Brother-in-law, he's from the upper class."

"Since we can't find the flaw in the inner world, then..." Lu Wuxin suddenly revealed a somewhat hot-blooded, maniacal laugh.

"Let's go to the most eerie place and kill that boss!"

Upon hearing Lu Wuxin's words, Xu Qianyan and Wu Yu locked eyes.

...They had no idea what to expect.

But there's no other way now.

The simplest way is indeed to strike at the heart of the enemy's territory.

So they began to climb the wooden ladder, going uphill.

Because of the different spatial dimensions, Lu Wuxin reached the fifth floor in just a few steps.

However, the wooden ladders that Xu Qianyan and Fifth Fish had to climb were both tens of meters long.

They were all a little out of breath after finally climbing to the top.

Before they could even rest, a strange creature dressed in a white kimono, wearing a bull's head on its head, and wielding two scythes appeared before them.

"Is it a Class B anomaly?"

The fifth fish immediately rushed up to fight it.

Just like Lu Wuxin couldn't kill that strange creature, Fifth Fish finally managed to kill this weirdo, and the next second it stood perfectly intact in front of Fifth Fish.

The fifth fish killed it three times in a row, but to no avail.

Instead, she became increasingly exhausted and began to lose ground.

boom!

The fifth fish was sent flying by the strange scythe.

Her trench coat and inner shirt were torn, revealing a patch of snow-white skin, before she fell heavily to the ground.

"Brother-in-law, we've encountered a Class B anomaly—"

Before Xu Qianyan could finish speaking, the bull-headed kimono strangely teleported in front of him.

She was only a D-level, after all, and couldn't possibly deal with this B-level weirdness.

The girl couldn't breathe just from the other person's aura.

but.

next second.

In the real world, Lu Wuxin casually smashed a moss-covered flowerpot on the windowsill.

This B-grade monster was immediately crushed and died violently in front of Xu Qianyan.

The girl was a little confused.

"Hehe..." Lu Wuxin's eerie, manic laughter rang out on the phone.

"You're a B-rank?!"

Immediately afterwards, other people's voices came through the phone.

"Mom, that person said the flowerpot is a Class B eerie thing? They were even smashing it... How scary!"