What was described as ’galloping’ differed significantly from galloping in the true world.
Rather than galloping, it was more akin to a special movement technique. Under this technique, Angel stayed inside Wang Wang’s belly without even feeling the liquid within Wang Wang’s body moving.
The feeling of ’galloping’ arose because the surrounding strange space began to madly recede.
Although Angel was inside Wang Wang’s belly, it didn’t prevent him from seeing the external scenery.
Everywhere was filled with strange and fanciful sights, like auroras flying across, like layers of clarity and turbidity, along with black and white fragmented butterflies merging into swarms. And all these scenes, because of Wang Wang’s rapid movement, receded and became fleeting shadows, with the surrounding scenery transforming into a kind of blurred, multicolored view.
Almost nothing was clear, only seeing the dazzling colorful mist, the contradiction and monstrosity between vividness and solemnity.
Wang Wang’s speed continued to increase. It seemed very wary of the surrounding colorful scenery, moving forward towards a certain target without a sound.
Meanwhile, Angel fell into introspection.
From the current situation, Wang Wang should have begun to ’shift’ towards the Treasureland.
According to Wang Wang’s previous statement, Angel should now be unable to think and have lost all sensory capabilities. But that was not the case; apart from his emotional module being slightly suppressed, Angel was almost unaffected.
Wang Wang’s knowledge of this place obviously far exceeded Angel’s; it should not be shooting in the dark. Normally, Angel might indeed follow Wang Wang’s script.
But the situation now is evidently abnormal. How did this abnormality arise?
Angel’s intuition, and it’s the only conclusion he could think of at the moment, likely related to the matter with the Eye of the Sky.
Perhaps because he was taken by the Eye of the Sky to a Strange World, and stayed there for a very long time, thus developing a certain immunity to the current situation. This was why the situation Wang Wang described did not occur.
But is this really the Strange World where the Eye of the Sky once took Angel?
It’s somewhat similar, yet not entirely.
What makes it similar is that Angel was also ’rising’ at that time, and during the rising process, his emotional module experienced problems. However, unlike then, when his emotional module was ultimately completely stripped away, this time his emotional module was suppressed but not lost.
Nevertheless, Angel does not believe that the Strange World he was taken to by the Eye of the Sky is different from the Strange World now.
He is more inclined to think it is indeed the same Strange World, except that the place Angel went to last time was deeper, or perhaps the place he went to last time was the complete version of the High Dimensional Space; while the space where Wang Wang is currently taking him is situated in the interstice between the real world and the high-dimensional space.
Only in this situation can explain why his emotional module was merely suppressed, rather than stripped.
——Because it wasn’t deep enough.
On the other side, Wang Wang had no idea that Angel was contemplating the truth of this space; it continued to ’gallop’ with focus.
Its trajectory avoided the surrounding anomalies, including the strange sights and the colorful mist around it. Because it knows how terrifying the seemingly harmless anomalies are inside.
When it first entered this Strange World, an inherent inspiration told it never to touch these anomalies.
In its youthful ignorance, Wang Wang initially followed its instinctive premonitions but later, being too curious, it touched a white butterfly that didn’t seem to pose much threat.
The result... that white butterfly entered Wang Wang’s body and quickly flapped its wings, destroying everything inside Wang Wang.
Like a terrifying destructive virus, touching it meant certain death.
Fortunately, upon realizing the white butterfly had entered its body, Wang Wang immediately severed half of its body. The half containing the white butterfly quickly decayed and perished, while the other half barely survived.
And this was just the weakest anomaly Wang Wang sensed as a threat.
If a white butterfly could cause such horrifying destruction, what about the other anomalies? Wang Wang dared not imagine and wouldn’t attempt again.
Fortunately, when navigating this Strange World, as long as there was a predetermined direction or a set coordinate, a path would naturally diverge for it to traverse. And on this path, anomalies seldom appear.
It is for this reason that Wang Wang could traverse here unimpeded.
Of course, this path isn’t truly safe. Occasionally, small issues would arise, but that’s the consequence of not following the rules. As long as the rules here are followed, there shouldn’t be any problems.
And Wang Wang naturally follows the rules very carefully. However, what it didn’t expect was that even though it was adhering to the rules this time, an accident still occurred—
Just as Wang Wang was ’galloping’ with a clear mind, a small patch of red mist suddenly appeared in the previously empty passage ahead.
Wang Wang was startled by the red mist. Fortunately, having learned from its losses, it was very cautious in this Strange World and responded quickly, swiftly ascending, traversing, and descending, narrowly avoiding the patch of red mist.
Back on track, before Wang Wang could feel frightened or relieved, a new situation emerged.
Spike-shaped thorns jabbed in from both sides of the passage, forming a transverse Thorn Forest.
These spikes exuded a terrifying aura. Wang Wang knew that if it touched these spikes, the result would be undoubtedly more terrifying than when it touched the white butterfly.
And now, retreating was not an option, as the path back had already been sealed by anomalies. They couldn’t return to the outside either, as estimating the distance, the outside was still within the Spatial Tempest, and stepping outside would see both it and Angel shattered into dust by the Spatial Tempest.
Currently, the only way out was to rely on its movement technique and positioning to dodge through the Thorn Forest.
The road behind had already started to collapse; Wang Wang did not dare to hesitate and rushed into the transverse Thorn Forest. Its movement technique was very agile, barely finding a path through the various thorns to accommodate its body.
In Angel’s perspective, Wang Wang at this moment was like a thief attempting to steal the Secret Treasure from a museum, dodging an endless array of red ropes with bells in front of the treasure.
Wang Wang performed excellently without touching any ’red rope’ and certainly did not awaken any bells.
But as per the trope in storybooks where drama must unfold, even if the thief dodges the red rope array to reach the Secret Treasure, it’s very likely to trigger some mechanism, and these mechanisms are often deadly. Even if no mechanism exists, something might descend from the heavens, encountering other gatekeepers.
While Angel was contemplating this, Wang Wang had already passed through the Thorn Forest. As Wang Wang let out a long breath of relief, it suddenly noticed strange occurrences up ahead, even more terrifying this time.
A shadow stretched across the sky above the road, extending an unknown length, and this shadow was slowly descending.
No calculations were needed to ascertain the speed of the shadow’s descent; Wang Wang knew that even at full throttle, it would be near impossible to pass through the passage before the shadow landed.
Additionally, who knew how long the shadow extended, potentially covering the entire passage behind?
Shadow ahead, road collapse behind.