Chapter 2: The Mysterious Forbidden Rift Zone

  The halo around me disappeared, followed by the disappearance of the street, the old man, and the strange creatures.

  At this moment I seem to be in a very large hall inside a building.

  The hall is empty and deserted, with nothing in it.

  It's roughly several hundred square meters, with a very spacious surrounding area. Looking up, it seems to have no end, like a hollowed-out building with nothing inside, only four walls surrounding it. On the north-facing wall, a large screen is hung, almost covering the entire wall surface. I'm standing not far from this wall, and the other three walls are all white ceramic tiles. Although they're quite far away, at a glance, they still make my eyes ache with dizziness.

  Apart from these four walls, there was nothing left in this grand hall, empty and devoid of any vitality. For more chapters, please visit.

  I rubbed my eyes and looked at the big screen in front of me.

  A scene suddenly appeared on the big screen, like playing a video. The screen seemed to be an overhead view, and from this angle, the picture was of a hospital room.

  There was only a single bed in the ward, on which lay a girl with her eyes closed, and beside the bed sat a pair of parents who kept staring at the girl and crying.

  My eyes widened gradually, and a surge of tears flooded into my eye sockets.

  Tears blurred my vision, and before I could react, two figures suddenly appeared in front of me.

  I tried carefully to get a good look at the newcomer.

  They are two men.

  A blond-haired, blue-eyed man, who looked like a mixed-blood, couldn't help but remind me of my mixed-blood doctor. My doctor had black hair, while this guy not only had blond hair, but also a pair of pure blue eyes, except that his features were somewhat similar to those of Chinese people. First time update

  As for another one...

  When I saw another boy, my eyes gradually became clear.

  He drew away my gaze and even made me temporarily forget all the inexplicable things at this moment.

  This appears to be a boy about my age, wearing a black high-necked sweater that covers his neck up to his chin. His lower body is clad in a pair of black jeans. His hands are quietly inserted into the pockets on either side of his black jeans. He has short, dark hair and a fringe that falls across his forehead, but doesn't obscure his eyes. They are a pair of deep, dull, apathetic eyes, like two black holes.

  Facing this boy who was shrouded in darkness all over his body, I couldn't help but say a nonsensical sentence: "You, are you the God of Death?"

  The blond-haired, blue-eyed man burst out laughing when he heard my words, then waved his hand in front of me: "Hey, stop kidding around. He's like you, a newcomer here, one of the living from your world."

  ？？

  What's alive in our world? My mouth corners can't help but twitch again, how should this sentence be understood?

  My thoughts hadn't cleared up yet, but my eyes were once again drawn to the largest screen wall in front of me. On it was still the same scene as before, only the parents of the girl guarding the hospital bed seemed to be crying even harder, their whole body trembling, their eyes filled with sorrow staring at the hospital bed

  A sharp pain flashed through my heart, I pointed at the screen wall and stared at the blond man: "What's going on here? Am I dead or what? Why can I see myself? Who are you people and where is this place?"

  The blond-haired man slowly withdrew the playful smile he had been wearing, and looked at me with a profound and serious gaze. His voice also became deep: "I can explain to you, but I believe you will definitely not understand what I say. However, I'm not here for you to understand me, I just came to inform you how to survive here, so no matter what questions you have, please remember that I won't lie to you."

  "You're so annoying." I glared at him coldly, but my eyes couldn't help sneaking another glance at the large screen where my parents were crying.

  That's right, the girl lying on the screen is me, and the crying couple are my parents.

  The blond-haired man shrugged, seemingly indifferent to my disgust: "Where you are now is a whole city-like entity under this gray sky called Forbidden Area 13. This is an alien space where only consciousness exists."

  He paused, then tried to use his hands to illustrate: "I'll explain it to you in the most straightforward way possible. That is to say, this is a space that has not yet been discovered by humans, and some patients with schizophrenia, due to their schizophrenia producing strong brain waves, when they receive a certain stimulus, these brain waves become dozens of times stronger, and are captured by the god-splitter in this forbidden zone, and their consciousness will be brought to this region, this space. For more and faster chapters, please go to."

  What's with what?

  My eyebrows must have been furrowed into a ball of wrinkled beef balls at that moment, I stared at him with a stupid expression, shook my head to show that I completely didn't understand.

  He had an expression as if he was used to it, and then continued to carefully explain to me: "To put it this way, a person with schizophrenia, due to stimulation, will have their brain waves suddenly strengthened, and then their consciousness, which can be understood as the soul, will be captured by the master of this space, that is, a group of people called God Slitters. They will bring your consciousness here. The person who captures your consciousness, in plain language, is like a bad guy who grabs hold of your soul and brings it to this world. At this time, you standing in this world are not your physical body, but your consciousness, your thoughts. And the girl you see sleeping on the screen is actually your physical body living in a mental hospital and deeply comatose in real life. Do you understand?"

  I still had a stupid goose expression, I tilted my head: "I roughly understood, but what is a godslayer? Why did you bring my consciousness here?"

  "Why the Slit God exists here, or why it brings people here, are questions I cannot answer. All I can tell you is that you have now been brought here by the Slit God, and for those whose consciousness has been brought here, their spirit will survive in this space in the form they desire, while their physical body falls into a deep coma in real space. As long as the consciousness remains here, the physical body will not awaken, so we usually say that people who come here are already dead."

  The mixed-blood man pointed at the screen displaying me in a coma, implying that I was as good as dead and my soul had arrived.

  "In other words, I've become a vegetable in real life?" I stared at myself on the screen in shock.

  "It can be understood this way, but modern medicine definitely interprets it as not a vegetative state, but rather brain death." The mixed-blood man nodded.

  "How can I get back?" I almost screamed out loud.

  The mixed-blood man pointed at my chest with his finger: "Look at this key on your chest." Following his hand, I lowered my head and found that a golden key had suddenly appeared around my neck.

  "This is called a fissure key. Every person who comes to the Fissure Zone, as the cracks on their body slowly grow, this key will also appear around their neck. As for the crack, look at him." The blond man pointed to the black-clad man beside him who had not spoken a word.

  The boy in the black sweater slowly turned around, his back to me. He used one hand to slowly pull down the collar of his high-necked sweater, revealing the nape of his neck.

  On the back of his neck, there was a pattern of a crescent moon emitting a faint glow.

  The mixed-blood man followed the black-haired man's movements, pointing to the curved moon: "This pattern is called a fissure. Every person who comes to the forbidden area will produce this fissure within an hour. Each person's pattern is different, and the location is also randomly generated on the body. Once this fissure appears, the symbol of your vitality as a living being will slowly disappear. When the fissure is fully formed, you become one of the "people" here. According to the time calculation, since your fissure key has been generated, it won't take long before a certain location on your body will grow out the fissure that symbolizes your identity. And when the fissure is fully formed, you will completely belong here."

  I widened my eyes, still not fully reacting to the blonde man's words. The black-haired man had slowly adjusted his collar, covering up that so-called crack again, and then he turned around once more, looking at me with a detached gaze, as if he was staring at me, yet also seeming to be staring at something behind me.

  I couldn't help but turn my head and look back in the direction of his gaze, and saw nothing behind me. The far end of this grand hall was all I could see, with a wall on the other side, and what seemed to be a door on it, though it was quite far away from me.

  When I turned around again, a glimmer of what seemed like sympathy and pity flashed in the blond man's eyes.

  He looked at me, sighed softly: "I know this situation is hard to understand, but you just need to remember that you are already dead, and you have come here. Maybe now you feel like you're dreaming, but the days ahead will make you slowly realize that all of this is real."

  Although all of this is bizarre and unbelievable, his words still made my heart feel as if it had fallen into a deep abyss, sinking down continuously.

  He paused for a moment, then continued: "However, I'm also responsible for telling you that each person brought here has a corresponding godslayer who brings him here. Each person's godslayer is different, and the one who brought you will have the same pattern of cracks on his body as you do in the same place. You need to strive to find him."

  "What did you find him for?" I couldn't help but ask.

  The blond-haired man stared at me: "Find him and you can go back. In other words, find him and you can come back to life."

  I suddenly opened my eyes wide, which means there's still a chance to go back?

  "When you find a Godsplitter here with the same fissure as yours, and insert the Fissure Key in your hand into his fissure, your consciousness can return to your world." The blond man seemed to see through my inner doubts and immediately replied.

  "What if I never find him?" I was starting to tremble slightly.

  The blond-haired man's eyes swept across with an unpredictable gaze: "Then your consciousness will forever stay here, and your parents in real life will forever guard the physically dead body of yours, holding a faint hope that you can survive, a lifetime of painful waiting, until..."

  "That's enough!" I exclaimed, interrupting him in agitation, unable to believe all the terrible things I was hearing.