Escape the Infinite Chambers-Chapter 136 - Crimson Asura Realm (V)
Chapter 136 - Crimson Asura Realm (V)
Editor: Kitty
Previously, the two words “secret chamber” had once caused Luo Jian to experience a headache whenever they flashed through his mind.
Luo Jian was convinced that someone was waiting for him, but his memories were so muddled that he could hardly remember anything. However, he also knew clearly in his heart that—I must leave here as soon as possible!
Leave this strange secret chamber, this place called Crimson Asura Realm.
“Hiss, hiss…… I’ve never known of anyone who could leave this darn place except stalkers.” The snake-bodied monster interrupted Luo Jian’s delusional thinking. He twisted his slender body and slowly slithered in front of Luo Jian. He scanned Luo Jian up and down and saw Luo Jian’s dark and bright eyes.
Then, the snake-bodied monster regretfully said, “Obviously, you are not a stalker. You can’t leave here.”
“Why was it that only stalkers can leave here…… What is a stalker?” Luo Jian could not understand this monster very well. He only felt his head aching badly. The word ‘stalker’ seemed to remind him of something, but when he tried to recall, his brain became very uncooperative.
“Heavens, hiss, hiss…!” The snake-headed monster marveled. He turned back to look at the man wearing armour behind him. The skeleton began to gesticulate with his hands and feet again. After the snake-bodied monster understood what the skeleton said, he turned back to continue his conversation with Luo Jian again:
“You really make me feel that it’s incredulous. You know, if you’re just a newbie who doesn’t know anything and just entered the secret chamber, you will never have the opportunity to enter this secret chamber, the Crimson Asura Realm.”
“I don’t think I’m a newbie.” Luo Jian shook his head: “My head is aching badly now, and my memories are very muddled. I am probably suffering from amnesia.”
“That would fit your current predicament now.” The snake-bodied monster nodded and said, “Come, newcomer, come with us. We will tell you what this place is. To be honest, this secret chamber is very, very boring.”
Luo Jian didn’t know where he should be heading and what he should do now, so…… although the two fellows in front of him didn’t resemble human beings, he would still follow them because he didn’t think that they would hurt him. Of course, even if they did something unpleasant to him, Luo Jian would not be afraid as well.
His fear had been banished by that hateful wolf.
Luo Jian followed the two monsters to their old abode, and along the way, the snake-bodied man did not remain idle. He had been telling Luo Jian some basic information about the place, and although this fellow had the appearance of a monster, he had a rather high IQ. He tried to use some words to stimulate Luo Jian’s memory. For example, he would say:
“Do you remember your name, hiss?” The snake-bodied monster swung the tip of his tail as he slithered forward. The tip of his snake tail was very cute and would always unconsciously attract Luo Jian’s attention.
Luo Jian could only stare at his wagging tail and reply, “My name is Luo Jian.”
“Hiss…… Luo Jian. Well, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Ya’an. Before having such a scary appearance, I was also a player in the secret chamber…… and I was a living human being.” The snake-bodied monster—no, he should be called Ya’an now—turned back to look at Luo Jian as he continued.
“With a mere glance, I know you’re someone from Z country,” Ya’an said.
“Aren’t you from Z country?”
“No, I’m from Y country, but I’ve lived in Z country for a long time, and afterwards, somehow, I came in here,” Ya’an answered Luo Jian.
Luo Jian sized up the snake. His snake body was big, black, very long, and slender, and he slithered in an S-curve as he moved. However, because there was a face on the snake’s head, he also looked terrifying. His eyes were long and thin, much like the eyes of snakes, and his pupils appeared the same as the cold-looking irises of snakes.
Other than his eyes, his mouth was also very wide. The corners of his mouth almost split to the top of his ears. When he spoke, he unconsciously spit out a long-forked tongue, and that would cause Ya’an to hiss.
Luo Jian looked at the frightening monster and frowned unconsciously: “Were you really human back then?”
“Of course I’m human! Do you think I really want to look like this?” Ya’an seemed to not be upset as he shook his tail. However, when this fella wagged his tail, his tail appeared really cute. Luo Jian had unconsciously been attracted to his tail constantly.
Ya’an seemed to have noticed where Luo Jian was focusing his attention on and continued to wag his tail triumphantly, saying: “Almost everyone who comes to this secret chamber are losers.”
“Wait, you said this place is called Crimson Asura Realm…… It’s a secret chamber, isn’t it?” Luo Jian suddenly questioned.
“Yes, this is of course a secret chamber…… hm? Hiss, hiss~ Did you recall something?” Ya’an expectantly glanced at Luo Jian.
“No, I did not recall anything…… Oh, but it’s not exactly that I recalled nothing.” Luo Jian rubbed his temple uncomfortably.
Luo Jian said, “Before I woke up in this damned place, I thought I should have been in a…… erm, the secret chamber you described. It was an enclosed space, and I think I should have had companions. They were also there. There is a voice in my heart that tells me to find them quickly.”
“So you want to get out of this place?” Ya’an hissed.
Luo Jian nodded: “Yes, I really want to leave here.”
Luo Jian almost went mad thinking about it. The red sun in the sky served as a kind of warning. When he looked at the dazzling sun, his body felt…… a sense of urgency that was blooming somewhere in the depths of his soul, forcing Luo Jian to leave quickly and get out of this place! He needed to escape from this place!
So Luo Jian wanted to escape, to get out, to leave very, very much!
Ya’an hissed and regretfully shook his head: “We also want to leave here. Like you, I had always wanted to leave from the moment I woke up here. I want to see my friends, relatives, companions, and lover. But we’ve been holed up here for more than ten years, and we haven’t found a way out.”
Ya’an’s words made Luo Jian feel perplexed. He looked at Ya’an in disbelief: “So all of you have always been unable to get out of here?”
“No, no one can get out of here hiss, hiss~” Ya’an gazed at the skeleton who was walking quietly, then pointed to the skeleton with his tail, and continued to his conversation with Luo Jian:
“See this guy? He came earlier than me. He arrived here 20 years earlier than me. Because this fella was just a bunch of bones, he couldn’t speak until someone taught him sign language, and it just so happened that I could understand sign language.”
“Wait! How many people are there in this Crimson Asura Realm?” Ya’an’s words made Luo Jian suddenly realize that there may be many people like Ya’an in this secret chamber. Of course, it was unclear whether they were all human beings.
“As far as I know, there are about 2,000 people in—hiss, hiss—Crimson Asura Realm. Most of them are losers like me or players who want to get out of the supervisory control of the secret chamber and escape the secret chamber’s punishment. Occasionally, players who use wrong props or take the wrong path break in accidentally. Anyway, for however long these people have been here, they couldn’t find a way out.”
About 2,000 people. Luo Jian could not help but raise his head and look at the huge valley. The surrounding cliffs surrounded the valley into a huge circle, and in this encirclement, there were 2000 frogs gazing upon the sky.
“No one can get out of here?” Luo Jian did not give up as he questioned: “Didn’t you say that stalkers could get out of here…. What is a stalker?”
“Stalkers? It’s a bunch of pathetic people that have it even worse than people like us who have been turned into monsters due to our failure.” Ya’an shook his tail in disinterest.
“Why do you say that? Are stalkers also a bunch of monsters?” Luo Jian asked curiously.
“No, the stalkers are in human form. They are perfect, powerful, and invincible,” Ya’an hissed and sighed.
“But they don’t have their own wills. They’re like machines,” Ya’an said, “The monsters in the secret chamber…… hiss, like me, when I turned into this, I lost all my memories, and it was as if I had turned into a monster. But with the passing of time, my memories and reason slowly returned. When I fled to the Crimson Asura Realm in order to get rid of the supervisory control of the secret chamber, I had already recovered my senses completely.
“But stalkers are not the same. They are the opposite. Their souls have been torn apart. When they first became stalkers, their wills were already barely present, but as time went on, their wills would gradually disperse and disappear forever. At this time…… the stalkers would become perfect tools for the secret chamber because it can control them to accomplish anything.”
“So are stalkers free to shuttle in and out of this secret chamber?” Luo Jian understood what Ya’an roughly meant. He understood that the stalkers were a group of powerful people, and they were the tools used by the secret chamber to interfere directly with players.
“Stalkers will be given some sort of BUFF by the secret chamber, much like a status aura in games. Moreover, they will be permanently buffed. As long as a stalker remains a stalker, they will be in a state of ‘inviolability.’ If they die in a secret chamber, they will be revived after the next secret chamber opens up. Of course, if the stalker is going to stay in a secret chamber for a long time, the stalker will be revived once every two hours after he dies.”
Ya’an scratched his chin with his tail, adding: “In addition to the revival skill, they also have the ability to freely travel to all kinds of secret chambers. They can freely traverse any space, but this ability is limited to the stalkers.”
“Finally, there’s another point worth mentioning. Stalkers are red-eyed creatures who are mute. They do not know how to talk. They cannot communicate and can’t even gesticulate to people no matter where they are. The same rules apply for them even if they are in Crimson Asura Realm.”
“So is that why you said that only stalkers can leave?” After hearing this, Luo Jian understood that he was not a stalker, so he did not have the power to travel through space at will. Therefore, he was unable to leave this secret chamber.
“I don’t understand why you know so much about stalkers.” Luo Jian frowned and said, “Didn’t you say that stalkers can’t communicate with anyone? In that case, how would you be able to know them so well?”
Ya’an froze momentarily, hissed as he spit out his tongue, and turned back to look at Luo Jian: “You are quite sharp…… Well, in fact, I learned about the matters of stalkers from an old man. He knew almost everything about the secret chamber. I also think he was the only one who knew how to leave the Crimson Asura Realm secret chamber. And we will take you to meet him now.”
The only one who knew how to escape.
Hearing Ya’an say so, Luo Jian suddenly felt his heart slightly jump in excitement.
However, neither monster paid him any heed as they moved forward. They did not seem to notice that there was a pursuer quietly following right behind them. The pursuer was obviously targeting Luo Jian. It remained hidden in the thick grass as it stepped on the grass and green leaves gently, staring at Luo Jian with irises that appeared much like a wild beast’s as it silently gazed at Luo Jian.
If Luo Jian had noticed it, he would surely realize that it was the wolf who had been involved in a deadly fight with him.
T/N: Ya’an is so cute. Again, this is unedited. I’ll upload the edited chapter when Kitty is done editing ~ The edited chapter is up.
