74: Chapter 74 Deep Within the Ghost Realm

The light dissipated.

Chen Mo opened his eyes.

He was still in the service area, still next to the pickup truck. Lin Wei was standing three meters away, looking at him.

But something was wrong.

In his Time Perception, those familiar fluctuations had vanished. They were replaced by an entirely foreign feeling—as if he had been thrown into another world where all the rules were different.

Chen Mo looked down at his hands.

They were still there.

He looked around again.

The service area buildings were still there, the pickup truck was still there, and Lin Wei was still there.

But the edges of those things were faintly glowing.

Golden light.

It was faint, but it definitely existed.

"Did you feel it?" Lin Wei asked.

Chen Mo nodded.

Depths of the Strange Realm.

He had entered.

That projection had not given him a choice.

Chen Mo walked to the pickup truck and reached out to touch the car body.

His hand passed right through it.

It was like touching the air.

The pickup truck was still there, but it was no longer solid.

【Rule Status: Reality and Ghost Realm overlapping】

【Current Object: Partially materialized, partially ethereal】

【Suggestion: Do not rely on any objects】

Chen Mo pulled his hand back.

He looked at Lin Wei.

"Can you move?"

Lin Wei nodded.

She walked over and reached out to grab Chen Mo's arm.

Her hand was solid.

He could feel the warmth.

Chen Mo let out a sigh of relief.

At least people were still solid.

He turned around and looked outside the service area.

The highway was still there, but it was no longer as it had been. The road surface was translucent, and one could see the liquid flowing underneath—golden liquid, churning like magma.

The fields on both sides of the highway had vanished, replaced by an endless Void Realm. Countless fragments floated in the Void Realm—fragments of buildings, fragments of vehicles, and...

Fragments of people.

Chen Mo stared at those fragments.

In his Time Perception, the fluctuations on those fragments were very familiar.

They were human memories.

Just like what he had seen before in the Depths of the Strange Realm.

But there were more, they were denser, and they were more chaotic.

Those memories flooded into his brain.

A woman giving birth.

A man killing someone.

A child crying.

An old person praying.

Countless images flashed simultaneously, making his head ache as if it would split apart.

Chen Mo gritted his teeth and took a step forward.

What he stepped on was solid.

Although the road surface was translucent, he could stand on it.

He walked forward.

Lin Wei followed behind.

The two walked on the translucent highway, with churning golden liquid below and floating fragments on both sides. Those fragments drifted past them, some close enough to see the details on them—

A face.

A familiar face.

Chen Mo stopped.

That face was his own.

But not the him of now; it was him as a child.

About five or six years old, wearing old clothes from the Orphanage, with a look of terror on his face.

That fragment drifted past him, getting further and further away.

Chen Mo stared at it until it disappeared into the Void Realm.

Lin Wei looked at him.

"That is..."

"Memories," Chen Mo said. "My own."

He continued walking forward.

After walking for about ten minutes, something appeared ahead.

It wasn't a fragment, but a complete humanoid figure.

It stood in the center of the highway, its back to them.

It was very tall, at least three meters. Its body was woven from countless golden lines; those lines flowed slowly, and every time they completed a cycle, the surrounding Void Realm would distort.

【Target: A-Rank Ghost Shadow "Dimension Walker"】

【Status: Standby】

【Ability: Dimension Shuttle—can move freely between reality and the Ghost Realm】

【Weakness: 0.1-second dimension anchoring time after each shuttle】

【Threat Assessment: Lethal】

Chen Mo gripped his cleaver tightly.

Dimension Walker.

A-Rank.

It could shuttle between two worlds.

Prediction was useless against it—because it could appear in any location.

Chen Mo activated Time Perception.

Within a fifty-meter range, that thing's position was changing rapidly—

East, west, south, north.

It stayed for less than a second each time.

It was impossible to catch.

It turned around.

That face—if it could be called a face—was a blank slate. There were only two golden dots of light flickering where the eye sockets should be.

It looked at Chen Mo.

Then it disappeared.

Chen Mo's Prediction activated instantly.

Ten seconds later, it would appear two meters behind him.

He turned around and slashed down with his blade.

But he missed.

The position where it appeared was half a meter further than the Prediction.

Ten-second Prediction was ineffective against A-Rank.

Because it was too fast.

Chen Mo took a step back and simultaneously activated Sequence Manipulation.

【Sequence Manipulation: Deprive Shuttle Ability】

Golden lines surged from his body, wrapping toward that thing.

But it disappeared again.

Those lines wrapped around nothing.

It appeared ten meters away, looking at Chen Mo.

Those two golden dots of light flickered.

It was as if it were laughing.

Chen Mo stared at it.

The ten-second Prediction was useless, and Sequence Manipulation couldn't catch up.

How could he fight it?

He closed his eyes.

Eye of Sinister Sight operated at full power.

Those rule lines appeared in his mind—

The movement pattern of the Dimension Walker was not random.

Every time it shuttled, it followed a fixed trajectory.

That trajectory was controlled by the core inside its body.

The position of the core...

Was in the chest.

Chen Mo opened his eyes.

It disappeared again.

This time it appeared on his left.

Chen Mo did not move.

He just stared at that position.

0.1 seconds of dimension anchoring.

As long as he caught that 0.1 second, he could attack.

It disappeared again.

In Chen Mo's mind, those trajectories became clearer and clearer.

Left, right, front, back, up, down.

Every shuttle was separated by 0.5 seconds.

Within 0.5 seconds, it would appear in the next position.

0.1 seconds of anchoring.

0.4 seconds of movement.

The pattern.

It was coming.

Chen Mo's blade swung out.

It slashed at that position.

It hit.

The blade cut into those golden lines.

The Dimension Walker let out a hiss.

It wanted to run, but the place where it was slashed was stuck.

Chen Mo did not give it a chance.

Second slash.

Third slash.

Fourth slash.

Those golden lines began to break.

The Dimension Walker's body began to disintegrate.

It took one last look at Chen Mo.

Those two golden dots of light extinguished.

【Killed A-Rank Ghost Shadow "Dimension Walker"】

【Obtained: Dimension Core × 1】

【Obtained: sequence fragment × 50】

【Current fragments: 670】

Chen Mo stood in place, panting heavily.

Lin Wei walked over.

"How... did you do that?"

Chen Mo did not answer.

He looked at the cleaver in his hand.

Traces of those golden lines still remained on the blade.

0.1 seconds.

He had caught it.

Because the Eye of Sinister Sight allowed him to see those trajectories.

Because the Pupil of the Sequence allowed him to see those weaknesses clearly.

A-Rank.

Nothing special.

He turned around and continued walking forward.

Ahead, in the depths of the Void Realm, a point was glowing.

That was the exit.

And also the next target.