157 Malfunctioned
Selma Payne’s POV:
The rock wall was moving!
As if realizing that it had been exposed, the ‘cave’ no longer pretended to be harmless.
The space in front of us suddenly twisted. The walls of the cave overlapped with each other, and the ground intersected with each other. Space twisted in a way that defied the laws of physics. Thus, the wrong model appeared first, and the intersection points appeared in unreasonable places.
“Everyone, gather around! Don’t separate!” Frank shouted, “Stay away from the spatial intersection point!”
As he was talking, the cave had changed entirely. It was folded up like Inception, and we were standing upside down or floating in the air. Our vision was no longer reliable, and things that we could see might not exist, and some things that we could not see might not necessarily not exist.
We tried our best to gather together, but it was to no avail. The irregular distortions easily split our team into pieces. Some of the members who were alone were isolated by space. We could only hear their voices but could not find them.
“The space is collapsing!” Master Hayley roared, “If we don’t find a way to leave, we will all be lost in the torrent of time and space!”
Some of the more experienced members were trying to find a way to save themselves, but the results were minimal.
Things seemed to have reached a dead end, and we had no other way.
Were we going to die in this god-forsaken place?
I wondered unwillingly.
A fluctuation of agitation came over, and Dorothy, holding onto my hand tightly, was flung away. Immediately, a void occurred beside her, and she disappeared from my sight.
“Dorothy!”
I subconsciously wanted to pull her back but was pulled back by Aldrich. “It’s dangerous, be careful!”
The space in front of me suddenly tore apart. I would probably have been cut in half if I hadn’t dodged just now.
The same situation was happening more and more often. Not only was the space twisted and deformed, but it was also gradually filled with attack power. Some team members who could not dodge in time were already injured. Many pieces of clothing and backpacks were scattered everywhere, blocking the disaster for their owners.
As the dimension was getting increasingly fragmented, more members were being separated from the main group. Some of them had even lost their will to live. They cried and confessed their sins to the Moon Goddess.
“All of you, stand up, idiots!” Frank tried to rally his team members again, but it was no avail. More and more people chose to give up.
I saw Yuri lying on the ground like a mud pool, holding his collar and muttering something. Linda tried to pull him up, but he pushed her away, and she fell into a distorted space and disappeared.
This vile person! Was this how he treated his companions at such a critical juncture?
But now was not the time to care about this. If we couldn’t think of a solution, we would all be buried in the torrent of time.
However, I was indeed at my wit’s end. Time and space weren’t my areas of expertise, to begin with. It was already all I could do to understand what was happening here.
Master Hayley and Master Kevin were not experts in this area, either. No one in the entire team knew more than them.
Was there no other way?
I could see the same helplessness in Aldrich’s eyes as I did, and my heart sank.
“I’ve already sworn to live and die with you, but I didn’t expect it to be this way,” Aldrich said. “If I had known that we would never return, I would have proposed to you.”
“What?” I was a little touched but also a little resentful of his frivolity. “Don’t say such depressing things. We’ll be fine!”
However, I also knew that this kind of comfort was fragile. How could we be fine? With the current situation, we couldn’t escape death.
As I was at my wit’s end, I suddenly heard Dorothy’s voice, “Don’t believe all of this, Selma. It’s fake. It’s all fake!”
I looked around but did not see Dorothy.
“Where are you?” I shouted.
Dorothy’s voice came from a random direction. “I’m standing where I am. You can’t see me because we’re not in the same space. I understand now. I understand everything!”
“What is it? Are you alright? Are you hurt?”
I was extremely worried about Dorothy’s safety. Her weak body was more vulnerable than the average person’s.
“I’m fine,” Dorothy replied, full of energy. “Don’t worry. What I’m saying now is very important. You must remember this, Saroma!”
“What?”
“Everything is fake. Everything is fake in the space we are in, everything we see and hear, including the time we think we have experienced in the cave. Nothing exists!”
I was stunned by her. “I don’t understand!”
Suddenly, a ‘small piece’ of Dorothy’s skin appeared in front of me. A small piece of skin on the left side of her eye suddenly appeared in front of me but disappeared a second later.
I looked around and realized that this wasn’t the only case. Many of my team members who had been separated by space had a part of their bodies flash and disappear.
It was like a malfunctioning television; a corner of the visual would occasionally flash.
It wasn’t that there was a broadcast accident, but that the television was broken.
