N-A-A Chapter 62 The Broken Road
Chapter 62 The Broken Road
Sun Rui arrived at the roadside and found that the office worker he killed yesterday was still lingering outside the apartment, as if he would never leave.
"They've indeed come back to life. What a bizarre world."
This time, Sun Rui ignored him and walked straight to the restaurant.
The restaurant's location has disappeared, not because it's empty, but because it's as if the restaurant never existed.
"It seems that people and territories coexist here. If you leave your territory for too long, you will disappear completely, without even leaving a trace. It's like a painting has been redrawn, only some parts have been omitted."
He then went to the roadside, where the familiar taxi from yesterday had disappeared.
All of this confirms that last night's news was accurate.
He followed the same steps as yesterday, stole a car on the street, and drove to the airport.
He wondered if the Ghost Tamers would be any different.
He soon arrived at the location of the airport he remembered, but there was nothing there at all, only pitch blackness.
He walked around the airport area and found that it was exactly a circle.
"Is the area here too large, so the paint's repair capabilities aren't enough to fill it?" Sun Rui guessed.
The circle's area was nowhere near the size of the original airport; some of the surrounding buildings were only half the size, as if they had been split in half.
Even with only half remaining, these buildings still stand tall without any instability.
"Let's see what this darkness is like." Sun Rui took a bullet out of the gun and threw it in.
After waiting for a long time, there was still no sound; it was like a bottomless pit.
Sun Rui continued to wait, but the bullet never landed.
Sun Rui didn't wait any longer; he couldn't waste too much time here.
Sun Rui continued driving, bypassing the airport and heading in a more distant direction.
According to Arya, the world here is finite in size and likely hides some secrets.
Sun Rui drove the car, continuing on his way.
At first, nothing seemed amiss, but gradually, strange things began to happen: the sky outside began to darken.
He tried turning on the light, but nothing changed; it couldn't illuminate the darkness.
"No, this isn't just darkness; this must be the edge of the world," Sun Rui muttered.
As we drove along, the road became narrower and narrower until it was only as wide as a car.
He tried driving forward a little further.
A short while later, a broken road appeared before his eyes.
Why would you say it's broken?
Because Sun Rui could see a section of road on the other side from afar, while the middle of both sides was completely dark, it was clearly broken.
"What would happen if this road were connected?" Sun Rui wondered.
He had just collected the paint last night, which led him to this path, and he had come here based on Arya's information.
"Almost everything is gradually leading me here," Sun Rui said, frowning.
He didn't know if someone was manipulating things behind the scenes, but his intuition told him that something was very wrong.
He didn't try to reconnect the broken road; he simply drove away.
"This has been going on for so long, so even if the impact is limited, it's probably because the road was blocked. If it were any other Ghost Tamer, they would definitely reconnect to this road if they wanted to get out. After all, the road is such a clear symbol, like telling you that freedom is at the other end of the road," Sun Rui thought to himself.
Joking aside, if there's no other way, he'll definitely give it a try, but he's not in a hurry right now.
"The ghost painting itself is a puzzle piece by a ghost tamer, so does mine count too?" Sun Rui thought to himself.
The ghost realm of a ghost painting is extremely strong, and the ghost realm of a general ghost tamer is simply no match for it. However, the ghost realm of a ghost painting covers the real world while also containing the world within the painting. This painting does not cover reality; instead, it only contains the world within the painting, and even then, it has little impact on the outside world.
"You could even say that the paintings here are too good, so good that they don't seem like ghosts. As long as you become a person in the painting, you can be resurrected by killing someone. But is it really that simple?" Sun Rui couldn't help but ask.
This is almost the complete opposite of the ghost paintings he was familiar with.
The "Ghost Painting," known as an S-class paranormal event, is said to trigger a murder pattern if you've ever seen it, even just a picture of it, and you can recall the appearance of the woman in the painting.
"Logically speaking, ghost paintings should have frames, but the ghost paintings I found in the apartment didn't have frames," Sun Rui said.
He suddenly realized this.
With a sudden stop, the taxi came to a halt in the middle of the road.
"When entering the eerie space of the Ghost Painting, is it the canvas or the frame that matters?" Sun Rui suddenly thought of this question.
If it's a picture frame, then everything makes sense.
Are 404 stainless steel door frames really ordinary door frames?
However, Sun Rui did not sense any supernatural power at the entrance of 404.
"This is a tricky problem," Sun Rui thought to himself.
He kept the question to himself, waiting for further exploration, and continued to drive his taxi around the city.
He now cherishes every opportunity to drive.
After all, every taxi that gets robbed means one less driver and one less car.
The city in the painting isn't very big, but if he were to explore it on foot, it would take him an unknown amount of time.
He drove along the dark edge of the city, not necessarily on such a dangerous edge, but because once he got away, he could see the normal cityscape.
Soon, he discovered another path leading into the darkness.
"There's more than one road here. Could it be that it's also cut off?" he wondered.
The taxi made a turn, and he continued driving along the road.
Soon, the same circuit breaker as before appeared.
This time, however, Sun Rui could vaguely see the end of the road, where there seemed to be buildings.
"Could this be a real ghost painting?" Sun Rui wondered.
If his conjecture is true, then no one knows what terrifying things will happen once the connection is established.
He backed out onto a side road and continued driving along the edge of the city, wanting to see if there were any other such road closures.
Sure enough, after driving for almost an hour, another small road appeared.
The road is still blocked here.
Moreover, the road closure is very short, unlike before when you could still drive in; you can see the road is closed even if you stand on the edge.
"It seems we still need more information," he thought.
He drove back to the gray brick apartment.
"There are so many people in the apartment building. If I ask them for information one by one, I should be able to get something out of them, right?" he thought to himself.
However, Marcus, who had just appeared, disappeared again.
Sun Rui remembered that several people lived in the rooms on the first floor.
"Let's start with you."
He found one of the rooms and kicked the door open.
The door was kicked open easily, but Sun Rui felt as if he had bumped into something.
Looking through the door, a man was lying on the ground.
It seems that while Sun Rui was outside, this person was constantly peering through the door, listening for any sounds.
"Don't kill me, and don't come in. My name is Liu Feng. If you want to know something, just ask."
Sun Rui then realized that the man named Liu Feng in front of him was actually of Chinese descent.