Chapter 061 The Bottom of Fear
Su Ming stood on the steps, motionless, with fear following him like a shadow.
The darkness around him was like the deep sea in the dark night, destroying his will. He felt as if he was a small boat in the raging sea.
Fear is like a silent spider, weaving its web in secret and crawling to every corner of my heart unknowingly. The desire to escape has never been so strong as it is at this moment, so much so that there is a substantial physiological reaction... It feels like there are millions of ants crawling on the surface of my skin, my scalp feels tight, and every hair stands up.
His mind was blank and he was unable to think at all. Every cell in his body was urging him to escape, but his spirit made the exact opposite choice.
Everything is fake, it's scaring you.
At this time, overcome the fear in your heart and you can defeat it!
There was a voice shouting inside Su Ming's heart.
Beat it?
I felt like I would be killed if I took a step forward. There was no doubt that the monster in front of me had the power to kill me in an instant.
But why should I go there even if I'm going to be killed ?
No! That's not the problem! The problem is why I must trust my super intuition. My super intuition is not 100% correct. It's clearly stated on the system. Maybe it's wrong this time.
Su Ming stared at the darkness in front of him. In the darkness ahead, an abstract human figure stood there. Its body was made up of irregular black lines. Those black lines kept twisting, showing its abstract and powerful power, which symbolized terror and death.
His mind seemed to be separated from his body, and in a trance, Su Ming saw an illusion.
In front of him was a surging dark tide, and the sea water that covered the sky and the sun was sweeping towards him.
Su Ming's first reaction was to run away, but his hand was suddenly pulled up by a silk thread tied to his middle finger.
It was an almost transparent, invisible thread that extended forward until it sank into the sea.
Those huge waves that seemed to be able to destroy everything came over, and the surging water wrapped around Su Ming's body, trying to wash him away, but the silk thread was indestructible and held him firmly in place.
In the almost suffocating deep sea, Su Ming took a step towards the direction where the silk thread extended. In an instant, the tsunami in front of him broke in the middle, and the sea water was divided into two. With the invisible thread as the center, an extremely narrow passage appeared in front of Su Ming.
The silk thread opened up a unique path, and at the end of the path, Su Ming saw a person.
The man looked exactly like him, and the end of the silk thread in Su Ming's hand was tied to the other person's middle finger.
The other party raised his hand and pulled gently. Su Ming's fingers also felt the pulling force. He looked up and looked at the other party curiously. The other party gave him a smug smile.
He said—"Come here."
In a daze, Su Ming took a step forward, and the illusion in front of him instantly fell apart, the sea water evaporated, the silk thread dissipated, and the spiral staircase was still under his feet, but the feeling of fear had disappeared without a trace.
The light from the flashlight in his hand illuminated a large area in front of him. He raised the flashlight and shone it towards the railing. The floors below were clearly visible.
"I'm back to normal. I know why I came here... It seems that the abnormal phenomena here have also disappeared." Su Ming reported calmly.
At this moment, everyone in the observation room was stunned.
They all saw it just now. Su Ming's depth stopped at 450 meters and then stayed there for a long time.
Everyone saw Su Ming standing there, in a stalemate with the "monster" in his heart.
About ten minutes later, they saw Su Ming walking down again. At the same time, the depth of the stairs increased rapidly, from 450 meters to 500 meters!
The number stopped at 500 meters, and then changed rapidly again the next moment, and this time it dropped sharply!
Now, the depth of the stairs is 20 meters, and this depth is slowly increasing as Su Ming goes down the steps, but its growth is completely in line with the laws of physics.
Obviously, this is the normal depth in reality. Now this number can no longer represent the depth of fear.
"The weirdness of this house has disappeared?" Yang Dong said in a hoarse voice.
No one else dared to respond. Everyone stared at Su Ming on the screen. The same thought popped up in everyone's mind: Since the weirdness has disappeared, then... does this spiral staircase have a bottom?
Su Ming kept walking down, about ten meters further, and finally reached the bottom.
At the bottom of the stairs was an empty circular area. The ground was covered with green plants and unknown flowers emitting a faint blue light. The dim blue light shone all around. Su Ming slowly turned in place and scanned the surroundings with a flashlight.
"dad."
The flashlight shone on a girl who was wearing a Lolita dress and a lovely silk hat, like someone from a fairy tale.
She looked at Su Ming with a bright smile on her face: "Dad!"
"Su Ming, approach it slowly! If anything goes wrong, stay away. You are allowed to attack at any time!" Yang Dong's order came through the headset.
Su Ming slowly approached the other person. He was not wary because his intuition told him that the other person was very friendly.
"Are you Alice?"
Su Ming tried to recall his previous false memories. He still remembered the memories of those eight years. In his memories, his daughter was Alice, the child in front of him.
But the heroine in his memory has changed. The hero is still himself, but the heroine is no longer Xia Xiaoyu who lived with him, but a woman whose appearance cannot be seen at all .
"Dad, you're finally here!"
Alice opened her arms, ran to Su Ming and hugged his waist.
Su Ming touched the other person's head out of habit. He heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Xia Xiaoyu running down the stairs.
When Xia Xiaoyu saw Alice, tears suddenly welled up in her eyes: "Alice!"
Xia Xiaoyu tried to hug Alice, but she dodged quickly. Alice moved behind Su Ming and looked at Xia Xiaoyu warily. She raised her head and asked Su Ming, "Dad, who is she?"
"Um... well..."
For a moment, Su Ming didn't know how to answer.
"I'm your mother!" Xia Xiaoyu said in shock.
Alice shook her head vigorously: "You are not my mother. Mom will never forget Alice."
"I haven't forgotten you! Alice, we are..."
Xia Xiaoyu was eager to argue, but stopped talking halfway.
Su Ming watched Xia Xiaoyu's expression change from shock, to confusion, and then to self-doubt. Her expression changes were very interesting.
After five minutes, Xia Xiaoyu raised her head and looked at Su Ming for help.
"Honey, I...can't seem to remember anything."
"You're mistaken. I'm not your husband. We haven't even known each other for a month." Su Ming said with a sullen face.
Xia Xiaoyu was stunned for a long time, stroking her chin and fell into deep thought: "Yes, is that so?"
"It seems that you have recovered from the strange influence and will be back to normal in two days." Su Ming said, patting Alice's head, "Let's go upstairs."
