Purgatory Artist
Chapter 336: "The First Appearance"

Chapter 336 - "The First Appearance"

Bang!

The card disappeared.

In the darkness, everything became quiet.

The Pixies seemed to be startled, and they all looked around.

When they found that there were no accidents around them, they immediately went back to their games.

Liu Ping floated in the air and waited for a few seconds.

"Strange, why is there no reaction?" He said to himself.

"What is the use of this card?" Yana asked.

"It can, let ... time."

Liu Ping was answering, but he found that he was speaking slower and slower.

Everything around him became extremely sluggish, so much so that all sound disappeared. Even the Pixies that were running stopped in the air.

In silence, the void was gradually filled with golden quicksand.

The yellow sand filled all the space, tightly wrapping around Liu Ping and dragging him down.

After an unknown amount of time.

It was suddenly empty below.

Liu Ping floated down and stood on an ancient stone platform.

He looked around.

Outside the stone platform was an endless void, and there was only a black stone tablet on the stone platform.

There were two big words written on the stone tablet:

"No Beginning."

Liu Ping's gaze fell on the stone tablet as he pondered over the meaning of these two words. Suddenly, the void around him began to change.

The boundless flood surged up from below the stone platform, instantly submerging the entire stone platform.

The world turned into an endless ocean abyss.

Liu Ping looked at the stone tablet again, but found that the stone tablet had completely disappeared.

Then, the stone platform disappeared too.

It was as if there was a huge force pulling him, causing him to fall into the abyss at the bottom of the sea.

He kept falling.

Falling.

Liu Ping didn't know how much time had passed, and time seemed to have become meaningless.

Suddenly.

He found that in the deep sea around him, blurry things were gradually appearing.

Doors.

In the abyss, doors after doors appeared in a spiral shape, constantly extending down endlessly.

These doors were all white, and there were numbers written on them:

"Year 1024 of the real world;"

"Year 1023 of the real world;"

"Year 1022 of the real world;"

"..."

The further down he fell, the earlier he saw the year on the white door.

He didn't know when.

The force that was pulling Liu Ping disappeared.

He floated quietly in the deep sea, and there were closed doors all around him.

"Is it asking me to choose a year to enter the real world?"

Liu Ping thought to himself as he swam deeper into the sea.

Since there was such an opportunity, he would go to the first year of the real world to see how humans were born.

He kept diving down.

After an unknown period of time, the numbers on the doors gradually became smaller and finally stopped at "Year 1000 of the real world."

Further down, the sea abyss turned completely black, and nothing could be seen at all.

Liu Ping tried to touch the bottom of the 1000th year of the real world.

He felt an iron door.

Liu Ping dived down and pressed on the iron door for a while. In the end, he had no choice but to give up.

The iron door was completely sealed. Furthermore, the door was entangled with numerous iron chains, making it impossible to open.

It seemed like the real world couldn't be spied on or entered for the first 1000 years.

In that case.

In the long river of time, which door should he enter?

He couldn't possibly enter every single one of them.

There was no way he could finish it that way.

Just as Liu Ping was hesitating, he suddenly remembered that he had seen some unique doors when he was diving.

With a slight movement of his body, he floated upwards.

After swimming for a while, he passed through dozens of doors and stopped in front of a door.

"Year 1023 of the real world."

He saw a circle drawn with a black pen on the door, and a line of small words beside it:

"First appearance."

Who?

What?

What was the first appearance?

Liu Ping's curiosity was piqued, and he gently pressed his hand on the door handle.

Click!

The door handle was movable, which meant that the door could be opened!

Liu Ping gently opened the door.

Lines of small burning words instantly jumped out:

[Attention, you have entered year 1023 of the real world!]

[This matter is extremely confidential, so all your follower cards will be stripped of all memories related to this year after leaving, or they will die]

[Found a usable identity]

[Used this identity, entered year 1023!]

The turbulent sea water wrapped around Liu Ping, and the moment the door opened, he was rushed in.

...

The salty sea breeze blew.

Liu Ping opened his eyes and realized that he was wearing a tattered white shirt and was having a meal with a few people.

"Ah Hong is crazy."

A young man who was as thin as a monkey said.

Liu Ping looked at him, then at the others.

These people looked to be around seventeen or nineteen years old, and their skin was tanned. They sat in an abandoned stone room, stewing fish in an iron pot.

"My family said not to go near Ah Hong's house for the time being, the Sea God will soon come to take the lives of his family" a tall young man said.

"Pfft!"

The young man from before said disdainfully, "Ah Hong fell into the sea when he was fishing, and the back of his head hit the bottom of the boat. I went to see Ah Hong, and the wound on the back of his head is really, tsk tsk!"

"Then why did he keep shouting that there was something in the water?" The tall young man was unconvinced.

"Of course there was something in the water! They went to the South Facing Reef to catch a big fish that day. If he didn't see the big fish in the water, would Ah Hong have hurriedly used his harpoon? "

The skinny young man turned his head and stared at Liu Ping, "Brother Liu, don't you think so?"

"Yes," Liu Ping said.

He looked at the door, and saw a wooden door collapsed outside. The walls in the room had long been smoked gray, and there was no furniture, only a mess on the ground.

This was an abandoned stone house.

By the sea, such houses were more resistant to the dangerous weather than wooden houses.

It was very primitive and very effective.

But what exactly happened in the past year?

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

The young men who were originally a little afraid relaxed.

The skinny young man scooped a piece of fish from the iron pot and placed it in his bowl. As he ate, he said in a muffled voice, "We're all brothers, and we've always said that we have to be loyal."

His gaze landed on the tall young man.

The tall young man's face flushed red, and he said loudly, "Who's not loyal? The fish you're eating was caught by me last night. "

The skinny young man retracted his gaze, lowered his head, and ate with relish. He said, "Anyway, I've already gone to see Ah Hong, and he's not like you bunch of cowards."

A boy who looked to be only seven or eight years old said, "The adults at home didn't allow it, and said that if Ah Hong is fine for three days, the sea ghost will spare his life. Otherwise, whoever goes to see him will be taken away by the sea ghost."

The skinny young man put down his bowl and said disdainfully, "What ghost? If there were ghosts, who would dare to go out to sea to fish? You're all coaxed by the adults every day. "

He looked at Liu Ping. "Brother Liu, don't you agree?"

The young men looked at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping smiled and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a person appear at the door.

He said that it was a person, but it wasn't.

It had the body of a human, but its entire body was covered in sticky fish scales. It was dripping wet, as if it had just come out of the sea.

The monster walked step by step to the back of the skinny young man, stood still, and looked at him silently.

The young men did not notice anything.

The skinny young man twisted his neck uncomfortably.

Of the seven or eight people, none of them saw the monster.

Liu Ping smiled and said, "Let's not talk about these mysterious things. Hurry and eat, it's going to be dark soon, we have to hurry back."

The young men thought that it made sense, and lowered their heads, finishing the fish soup in their bowls.

Liu Ping ate the fish while observing the monster from the corner of his eye.

It looked like a young man in the past, but its face, body and limbs were all covered in fish scales.

While the young men were eating and drinking, the monster took a few steps forward and lay on the back of the skinny young man, before stopping.

Suddenly, there was a cry outside.

The young men quietened down.

The whole village seemed to have come alive, making all kinds of noises.

The people's shouts and discussions were mixed with an indescribable anxiety and fear.

"I'll go take a look."

A short young man threw down his bowl and ran out.

After a while.

He ran back with a pale face, trembling and said, "Ah Hong is dead."

"Go home, take your things, and go home!" Liu Ping said.

The young men immediately panicked.

For a moment, some people carried iron pots, some carried bowls, some extinguished the firewood, and the young men dispersed.

Everyone intentionally or unintentionally avoided the skinny young man, and hurriedly returned home.

Under Liu Ping's gaze, the skinny young man snorted, raised his head, and walked in the direction of his home.

He did not know that he was carrying a monster on his back.

Even the adults who were passing by didn't notice anything strange.

Liu Ping sighed, and suddenly thought of the unknown body with bloody hands he met in the classroom when he first came to the real world.

Perhaps the so-called "first appearance" referred to the first appearance of the unknown body in the real world?

He felt something in his heart, and turned to look at the wall.

Lines of small words quickly appeared on the wall:

[The real world, 1023, a certain day]

[On this day in history, everyone in the fishing village died]

[You have arrived at this day]

Three lines of words.

As soon as they were displayed, they completely disappeared.

Liu Ping quietly thought for a moment.

"That skinny young man said that Ah Hong saw something at Nanwang Reef ..."

"Forget it, I'll go take a look."

He went out, intending to find a fishing boat by the sea.

Who knew that after taking a few steps, Liu Ping slowly stopped his footsteps.

"It's really big."

He sighed.

He saw a transparent giant corpse floating on the sea in the distance.