Chapter 47: In the Painting

I wonder if this thing can be made to disappear by touching it.

Lin saw...the target object this time.

This object, called the 'core of the painting', looks a lot like a painting.

To be precise, it is the sky view we saw before.

Of course, it was very large when I saw it before, but now it seems to be smaller. The painting now appears to be more than ten meters in size.

However, it is still exactly the same as what you see from the outside, except that it is much smaller and the scenery inside is densely packed together.

This painting is what the wanderer calls the 'core'.

However, it didn't seem that easy to approach, because Lin could see many huge shadows swaying around.

The shapes of these shadows are somewhat similar to Ershimin. They are hundreds of meters in size and flicker around the painting, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

These might be the things guarding the painting. Veronica was about one kilometer away from them, but they didn't react at all.

After watching for a while, Lin shot a strand of hair over.

The flying hair disappeared instantly after approaching the flickering shadows.

This feeling is as if being shattered by some huge force.

Lin fired again many times for testing, but the result was similar every time. Regardless of whether it hit the shadows or not, the hair that was fired would be destroyed.

But after many tests, Lin also discovered why it was destroyed.

This is a system similar to "laser defense". Anything that approaches will be locked and destroyed instantly.

The attack came not from the huge shadows, but from the painting itself.

The painting seemed to have some kind of mysterious power. Lin couldn't approach it casually, but there seemed to be no problem in staying here and observing it.

Next, Lin tested it again many times.

Every time, Lin tried to change the 'state' of her hair, mainly to see what method could achieve the effect of invisibility.

After Lin conducted many tests, she found that there were some ways to sneak in.

Previously, Lin had used almost complete despair as a cover-up, but it was useless when approaching this painting.

But approaching the painting with a wonderful emotion will do.

This emotion is the state of 'with a little hope'.

This is a very interesting state, where you feel that there is despair all around you, but there is a little ray of hope guiding you forward.

In this state, the painting can be approached directly and undetected.

After the test was completed, Lin adjusted Veronica into this state and slowly approached the target.

Flying past those huge shadows, they didn't react at all.

Finally, Veronica also successfully arrived next to the painting.

Nothing happened when Lin touched the painting; it was not something that could be destroyed by touch.

However, Lin could feel a more interesting emotion, which was this painting...it itself was full of hope.

It can be said that there is almost no feeling of despair.

Since this space is filled with despair, this painting feels like the only hope.

It may be because of this that we need to adjust our emotions to be similar to that of the painting in order to get closer to it.

But is this really... the core of this place?

After being in contact with it for a long time, I can feel that the hope here is very wonderful.

It was like a very faint light, and the surroundings were pitch black.

The feeling of touching it is like chasing after the light but never being able to catch up.

If this feeling continues for a long time, it will make creatures more and more desperate.

But Lin felt that she could catch up.

This also requires adjusting your emotions. When hope grows stronger, you will feel that you are closer to the light.

Then... you can touch this light.

“I actually… made it here.”

When Lin felt that she had made contact, she discovered that a signal was coming.

So, Lin also sent some signals to it, mainly asking it who it was.

"I haven't been here for a long time... This is not..."

The signal seemed to be talking to itself for a long time. Finally, it said to Lin: "What is your purpose here? Why can you get here?"

"You ask me who I am? I am their leader. I need to be led to get them here."

After talking to this creature, it said that it was it that brought those boneless dolls to the space of hope.

To be precise, it allowed the boneless dolls to replace the original "detached ones" and grew massively in the space of hope.

It was also the one that gave some instructions to these dolls, asking them to attack the main consciousnesses in the space of hope.

But why, it didn't tell Lin.

It also kept asking some questions, such as why Lin came here and how she got here.

Lin also told it how she got here, which was actually to adjust her emotions and hide.

It was also a little surprised by this. Although it knew that it could sneak in here by controlling its emotions, ordinary creatures could not control it.

And it is easy to be infected by the emotions around you.

"If you can control it... this is impossible... you must kill..."

At this moment, Lin suddenly discovered that the huge shadows around the painting began to move.

They were gathering quickly around Veronica, and their originally blurry figures were becoming clearer and clearer.

However, no matter how clear they are, they all look like a ball of black fog.

The moment they touched Lin, she felt as if she was hit by a huge force and her whole body was falling apart.

There is indeed a feeling of split consciousness.

Moreover, Lin also discovered that the spatial scenery around Veronica was changing rapidly.

After a few seconds, Lin noticed that the surrounding scenery... turned into pure light.

The original place was very dim, but here it felt as if it was very close to a star. Everything around gave Lin a feeling of extreme brightness.

And in this bright space, Lin noticed a special object.

This is the creature that I just communicated with Lin.

It looks like a small star, about ten meters in diameter.

"You are not that creature."

When Lin saw it, it said: "But you are very similar to it, very close."

"Which creature?" Lin asked.

"It left a long time ago," it said, "but now it wants to come back, no...not only that."

"So I must destroy you first...completely."