In my mory, candles are items with significant symbolism.
Before becoming a "supernatural power user," I used to delve into various knowledge and objects related to supernatural powers all day long. For a long ti, I also imitated the ancient monks in so classical texts, focusing on the candle’s wick and imagining myself lighting it with my gaze, never expecting that I could actually ignite it at a mont. This was also the beginning of my formal transformation from an ordinary person into a supernatural power user.
As for the decisive turning point in my formal entry into the abnormal world, although I’d like to say it was the day I t Mazao, what cos to mind first is the night I entered the basent on the 15th floor alone.
That was not only the first abnormal event I encountered but also the first ti in my life I faced the experience of vanishing directly. There, I transford from a "horror story enthusiast" into soone with real awareness, becoming an adventurer who could put life and death aside to pursue his ideals.
After that, although I made multiple attempts to open the door to the basent again and touched the illusory basent in Changan’s dream, as ti passed, I gradually accepted the fact that I could not truly access the place that changed my destiny again. I shouldn’t keep thinking about that mysterious location because more, potentially more mysterious realms await my exploration in the future. I must look forward.
However, I never expected that I would see the basent on the 15th floor again here, or even see a white candle quietly burning, connected to my soul consciousness inside it.
It’s not a dream, nor is it an illusion. At this mont, the enclosed space filled with gray shelves presented in my perception undoubtedly appears to be the 15th floor basent. I definitely won’t mistake it.
How could such a thing be possible? Why is it here?
Before that, what’s up with the white candle on the ground? Why is the fla burning on it my fla? When did I light such a thing?
No, hold on, let calm down first...
"Brother Zhuang Cheng?"
Little Bowl’s telepathy echoed in my mind. She probably sensed my disturbance and asked with unexpected emotion in her voice, "What’s wrong? It feels like you’re sowhat shocked. What kind of place is that scene? How co there are no doors or windows..."
She obviously can also sense the scene of the 15th floor basent through Spiritual Synchronization.
"That’s a basent. I went there a long ti ago."
I answered while sorting out my thoughts.
Alright... I rembered.
Even though I was surprised just now, the white candle in the 15th floor basent was indeed lit by .
After all, with my photographic mory, if I really try to recall, I can still rember. When I entered the basent on the 15th floor in the past, I rummaged through boxes on the shelves hoping to find clues to escape from within. Although most boxes were empty, a few contained small items. For instance, cartoon stickers, plastic keychains, and candles.
At that ti, to help myself focus, I stopped using fireballs for lighting and only placed the lit candle in front of . Needless to say, this candle was lit with the fire I released myself. Later, I found a way to exit the basent on the 15th floor and left directly. As for the candle, I forgot it in the basent.
The 15th floor basent has a peculiar nature: the inside and outside of the exit are entirely different space-tis. At that ti, I couldn’t sustain myself by allowing "Firefly" to automatically maintain itself using space and air as fuel; thus, when trying to probe with "Firefly" from outside, they would disappear upon disconnecting from .
Logically, when I left, the fla left in the basent should have extinguished due to losing connection with , but the fla on that candle was a reasonable exception. The candle acted as fuel, allowing it to continue burning for a while, even after I left.
The mysterious origin of "Firefly" is thus unraveled.
Then... a new problem arises.
The last ti I entered the basent was September last year, so why hasn’t the white candle burned out yet?
Is it because of a ti anomaly in the basent on the 15th floor? Thinking back, after escaping the basent and going ho, I regretted forgetting to use my phone to confirm if there were ti differences between inside and outside.
Considering that I couldn’t perceive the white candle’s fla in the modern world but could sense it during the Doomsday Era, it can be concluded that the coordinates of the basent in Different Space are likely situated within the Doomsday Era. Perhaps it’s unnecessary to be particularly ticulous about the "ti" aspect.
To be honest, I’m very concerned why the ritual array set up by Agent Kong inexplicably connected to the basent in Different Space during the Doomsday Era, but currently, there is no clue as a hint, so I have to defer this issue and focus on the basent itself.
While thinking, I roughly explained the whole process of my past contact with the basent to Little Bowl.
Upon hearing this, Little Bowl imdiately grasped the key point.
"Since Brother Zhuang Cheng, you’ve fallen into this basent before and found a way to escape and return to the original world, then can I understand that..." she said, "as long as you move into this basent now, you can summon a door from inside to return to the modern world?"
"..."After careful thought, I replied, "...Yes, since it was possible last ti, there’s no reason it couldn’t be achieved this ti."
"So, Brother Zhuang Cheng, can you transport yourself there now?" Little Bowl followed up, "Fla Transmission... As long as it’s where your fla is, it’s essentially where you are. You can transport yourself there... right?"
Strictly speaking, it’s not like that.
As long as the target location has my fla, I can transport myself—this is just a general circumstance. There have been failures in the past, notably the Independent Realistic Space where the Human Bureau headquarters is located. I could leave my thermal energy marker there, even observe the scene changes through the mark, but could not send myself into it.
Upon sensing the scene of the basent on the 15th floor, I tested whether I could achieve transportation, but encountered the sa failed result. Not only couldn’t I move there, but I couldn’t manipulate the candle fla either.
However, unlike the failure situation with the Independent Realistic Space, when facing that space in the past, I felt as if blocked by an imnse, solid wall, or faced with a challenging math problem I couldn’t solve no matter how intelligent I was; whereas now, there’s no specific feeling to summarize, it’s just simply not doable.
This feeling might be similar to soone asking to solve a math problem without telling what the problem is, randomly giving out a number, and they won’t inform about the deviation from the correct answer, nor whether there’s indeed a correct answer. This no longer has anything to do with intelligence; it’s inexplicable nonsense throughout, utterly aningless.
aningless, a waste of ti, and void... void, yes, it’s void.
I suddenly realized why I couldn’t transport there. Currently, I’m blocked by the void.
I couldn’t even determine where the basent was headed. Despite the connection with the candle fla becoming clearer, I couldn’t do sothing as simple. It might be due to spatial chaos in the Doomsday Era, which brings a sense of direction disorder? If so, there is an imdiate way to resolve it.
After informing Little Bowl, I said: "Little Bowl, I heard from Wandering Souls that even in the Doomsday Era, you could reach your desired destination, possibly using Right Positioning Heavenly Phenona. Now you’re sharing the connection with the candle fla, can you discern the direction of the basent relative to our location?"
After listening to my words, Little Bowl seed to start trying imdiately, then suddenly froze, shook her head with regret, and said: "No, I can’t do it... Normally, I should be able to distinguish the direction of the fla, but... as Brother Zhuang Cheng ntioned, it’s like being blocked by a force of void.
"Possibly, our initial speculation is close to correct. That basent is not really in the Doomsday Era. The notion of ’boundary between void and Doomsday Era’ might have issues. To be precise, although it’s in the void, it’s very close to the ti-space realm of the Doomsday Era... Perhaps, there’s no concept of proximity or distance in the void, just trying to describe it this way.
"That place exists in the ’Virtual Barrier,’ so we can’t easily reach there."
I recalled my past experience exploring outside the basent on the 15th floor.
Beyond the wall, it’s material-less, boundless darkness. Thinking back, it also seed to prove the basent’s existence within the void.
With a thoughtful expression, Little Bowl uttered a seemingly absurd statent: "However... even if ’transportation’ doesn’t work, maybe we could walk directly to that place."
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