pertwk Chapter 104 The Cabin in the Woods
Chapter 104 The Cabin in the Woods
Chapter 104 Cabin in the Woods (1600020000)
Tang Zijun froze on the spot, then slowly stood up and looked back, only to find himself sitting on a "bed".
Let's just call that thing a bed.
It felt like something pieced together from several broken wooden planks, incredibly hard, with even some barbs on the surface. There were no blankets or mattresses on the bed, just a dark, stone-like object.
"What kind of place is this?"
Looking at the scene before her, Tang Zijun felt like she was back in a dream, in a rudimentary escape room with very little start-up capital.
The abandoned wooden cabin, the empty surroundings, there was nothing there except a bed.
Is it another dream world? Tang Zijun frowned.
Since being inexplicably thrown out last time, Tang Zijun thought the mark on her body had been removed. She never expected to return to this place.
What's even more absurd is that the location of the dream world has changed again. It's not a phantom of the real world, nor is it the strange surface from before, but an even stranger environment.
After several dream journeys, Tang Zijun is no longer as nervous as before.
After determining the world he was in, he began to observe and think quickly.
In fact, making contact with the dream world as much as possible is a good thing in a sense. At least it's much better to come here yourself than to send in newbies like Qin Nan and Tang Cao.
It is still impossible to determine the exact relationship between the dream world and the real world, but Tang Zijun knows that if these monsters were to invade reality, they would be something that ordinary magical girls could not contend with.
Looking around, all that could be seen was dilapidation and decay.
The wooden house looks like it hasn't been lived in for a long time; it's covered in a layer of dust and has a distinctly aged feel.
It's worth mentioning that the entire house has three walls, no windows, and only a half-open wooden door leaning against the frame, making a slight rustling sound when a breeze blows through it.
Tang Zijun didn't know what the world outside the door was like, and it wouldn't be a good choice to rush out before she could ascertain her safety.
He quietly walked to the door and peered out through the crack.
Although it was dim outside, it wasn't completely dark.
The first thing that catches the eye is the wooden steps surrounded by weeds. There are five steps in total, but two of them are missing, as if they have been removed.
Beyond that, there were towering trees that seemed to reach into the clouds.
Tang Zijun didn't know how to describe these trees; their black, smooth bark stretched straight into the sky, and their thick trunks looked like three or four people couldn't wrap their arms around them.
The tree trunks have no branches; they are all straight up and down until they reach very high places where the canopy is revealed, acting like a canopy to block the sunlight.
Seemingly sensing that there was no danger, Tang Zijun slowly opened the door.
With a piercing creak, Tang Zijun slowly walked out and stood on the steps at the door.
After leaving the cabin, the view became much more open.
Looking into the distance, Tang Zijun was surprised to find that there was more than one wooden house here. Deeper in the forest, there were several more wooden houses standing, scattered in different locations, about a hundred meters apart, like neighbors.
"Is this a reflection of reality, or do people actually live here?"
Tang Zijun frowned; he was starting to get confused.
Just as Tang Zijun was in a daze, he suddenly noticed a person standing in the woods in the distance out of the corner of his eye.
It was a humanoid creature dressed in a long red robe, like a medieval European priest, with a one-piece robe and a pointed hat, making it stand out in the forest full of black tree trunks.
Turning my head sharply, I saw the figure standing quietly in the woods.
The pointed hat and the drooping mask obscured the other person's face, but Tang Zijun could sense that the other person was looking at her.
Seeing people in this unfamiliar environment naturally excited Tang Zijun, but at the same time, he was also a little wary.
After all, this doesn't look like a place where good people live; who knows if this guy is friend or foe.
But since they've met, it's necessary to have some contact. Tang Zijun really wants to understand the differences between the dream world and the real world.
Just as he stepped down the steps and onto the ground, the figure in the red robe suddenly vanished.
Tang Zijun narrowed her eyes slightly and stopped walking.
With her powerful hearing, Tang Zijun began to hear faint sounds in the once deathly silent forest.
A variety of sounds began to emerge, but Tang Zijun couldn't discern their sources. He simply focused his attention on the location where the red-robed figure had appeared earlier.
Tang Zijun's brows furrowed slightly, her expression somewhat gloomy.
There was no sign of action.
There was no breathing sound.
There wasn't even a heartbeat.
Out of the corner of her eye, a figure in red robes reappeared on the left, not far from Tang Zijun, and Tang Zijun immediately turned her head to look at it.
The moment their eyes met, Tang Zijun unconsciously clenched her fist.
A rustling sound emerged; it was the sound of action.
Their eyes met, and their breathing filled the air.
Once Tang Zijun confirmed the existence of that figure, the sound of her heartbeat began to pound.
Do not!
wrong!
The guy didn't make any movement, but the sound of his clothes rubbing against the grass was very clear. His mask was calm and still, but his breathing was unusually heavy.
The heartbeat sound, rather than originating from that thing, was more like an echo that appeared out of nowhere.
Tang Zijun's eyelids twitched involuntarily; this guy was not human at all.
She subconsciously took a step back, but this small movement made Tang Zijun feel a strong sense of crisis coming from behind, as if a sharp edge was piercing her back.
Without any hesitation, Tang Zijun quickly turned her head.
The next moment, he froze on the spot.
Inside the dilapidated wooden house, a figure in a red robe appeared out of nowhere.
The other party's eerie figure was now appearing through the crack in the door, its blood-red eyes staring blankly at Tang Zijun through the gap.
It looked as if they were observing him.
There's more than one of these!?
The thought flashed through Tang Zijun's mind instantly.
But he quickly ruled it out.
The wooden house had no windows, and with walls on three sides, there was no other entrance or exit except for the door behind me.
And this thing was able to enter this place without anyone noticing, without even being detected by itself.
Teleportation?
Tang Zijun licked her lips, her hand already on her belt.
"Although I don't know what you are."
He spoke calmly, as if communicating with the strange man in red robes, yet also as if talking to himself.
"But since you've already chosen to go into the cabin, that's perfect, it saves me the trouble of looking for you."
The deep voice echoed slowly through the forest, but the strange man in red robes did not respond at all, as if he had not heard it at all, and continued to stare at Tang Zijun through the crack in the door.
A flash of silver light appeared at the fingertip, and the card instantly fell into the card slot.
【Masked Drive!】
Tang Zijun gently pushed up her glasses.
"Transform!"
Immediately afterwards, metallic phantoms appeared on Tang Zijun's body and solidified at a visible speed.
Kamen Rider: Wolf Rider!
With a wolf howl, Tang Zijun's figure was instantly enveloped in armor.
Unlike the last time when he was suddenly banished from the dream world during his transformation, this time he actually succeeded in transforming.
Feeling the power surging within him, Tang Zijun's eyes were filled with fighting spirit. His only thought now was to teach this guy who had startled him a lesson.
After stretching her wrists, Tang Zijun sneered and vanished from her spot in the blink of an eye.
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boom!
The already dilapidated wooden door shattered instantly.
The unparalleled force blasted the door panel into countless fragments, even shattering the door frame, and a hideous crack stretched from the door all the way to the roof.
Feeling the emptiness in his fist, as if he were punching cotton, Tang Zijun frowned slightly beneath his mask.
Without any afterimage of energy, or even any warning, the thing vanished completely the instant it was about to strike.
No, saying it disappeared isn't accurate; it's more like it melted into the air.
Slowly, he pulled his hand out of the hole in the floor, and the whole house began to shake and make a jarring sound.
Tang Zijun turned around and saw the red-robed figure reappear not far behind her.
This time, however, the other person had their back to him, as if they didn't want to see him or were about to leave.
"Where do you want to go?"
Tang Zijun vanished in a flash.
A gray afterimage streaked across the sky.
Click!
Another deafening tearing sound rang out as an incredibly thick tree was smashed in half by the sharp arm armor and began to collapse amidst a wail.
However, the canopy seemed to have touched the surrounding trees, and with their support, the giant tree did not collapse, but instead leaned against the other trees, maintaining its tilt.
They missed again.
Tang Zijun frowned even more deeply.
If the first time I missed because I held back, then this time, even with a full-force attack, I still failed to hit it. Clearly, this thing has some kind of mechanism that I don't understand.
Shaking her hand, Tang Zijun turned her head again, and the red-robed figure was standing not far away, about ten meters away, with his back to her.
For Tang Zijun, more than ten meters was just a matter of a moment.
But this time, Tang Zijun did not choose to make a move again.
The two tests had given him a lot of information. This strange thing seemed to be untouchable, and it would disappear the moment he made a move and reappear in another location.
Interestingly, after launching its first attack, this thing changed from facing itself to turning its back to itself.
Although Tang Zijun didn't know what this meant, she could guess that this guy probably didn't want to provoke her, so he chose to leave.
The problem is that the other party possesses such a strange ability that if he wants to leave, it's not something I can stop him from doing so in a short time.
If that's the case, why is the other party still standing still, neither attacking nor disappearing?
After staring at that figure for a long time, Tang Zijun thought it over and over again, and decided to temporarily put aside the idea of testing the waters by shooting him with a spray.
"Hey, can you hear me?"
The figure in the red robe did not react, standing still like a performance artist.
Tang Zijun wasn't sure if he was unwilling to react or unable to react.
"It seems like you can't hurt me, and I can't hurt you either. How about we talk?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the forest fell silent. There were no birdsong or sounds of wild animals moving. If it weren't for the eerie atmosphere of the place, Tang Zijun would have thought that the guy in front of her was just a hallucination.
"I'm not actually a warmonger. You startled me, so I punched you twice. In the end, neither of us got hurt, so we call it even."
Tang Zijun took a step and tentatively walked towards the figure in red robes.
"There are a few wooden houses here. They're quite old, but they look like people used to live in them. Since you can't communicate with me, why don't you give me directions and tell me where people live?"
As Tang Zijun spoke, the distance between them gradually closed.
The figure in red robes did not move at all, even when Tang Zijun walked right up behind him.
As Tang Zijun spoke, she slowly reached out and grabbed the red-robed figure's shoulder.
Nearly.
closer.
Tang Zijun held her breath and concentrated.
Just as his palm was about to touch the red-robed figure, the figure vanished from the spot once again.
This time, because Tang Zijun's movements were relatively slow, the ghostly thing also moved relatively slowly, and Tang Zijun finally saw clearly how it managed to teleport.
The red-robed figure began to shatter, or rather, disintegrate, when his palm was less than a centimeter away from him, starting from the part closest to him.
At that moment, not far from him, another identical figure in red robes appeared out of thin air. Interestingly, the newly appeared figure was not in his direct line of sight, but was still in his peripheral vision.
Tang Zijun also observed that when the newly emerged red-robed figure appeared, the original red-robed figure had not yet completely decomposed.
In other words, the opponent's actions are not based on instantaneous teleportation or spatial folding, but rather on a pattern of breaking down in the original location and being reborn in a new place.
So it seems I really did hurt it.
This guy died three times in one encounter.
Wait, that doesn't make sense either. If this is how this guy moves, how did he move from his field of vision into the wooden house behind him in the first place?
Just then, a strange energy emanated from not far away.
Perhaps it's because her transformation enhanced her perception, but Tang Zijun is now quite sensitive to some strange energies.
Glancing at the motionless figure in red robes, Tang Zijun slowly turned her head and looked in the direction of the energy fluctuations.
Then, a stone resembling amber, half-exposed in the soil, came into Tang Zijun's view.
This thing is
Gazing at the plant roots reflected in the crystal-clear stone, and feeling the strange sensation of a desolate yet vibrant desert.
Tang Zijun couldn't help but feel a jolt in her heart.
Rainbow Crystal Flower!
How did I end up here?!
(End of this chapter)