Chapter 706: Chapter 474 Awakening_2
Dong Tianyu didn’t pay much attention to the situation in the audience area. At the moment, Dong Tianyu and some other survivors only occasionally glanced at the audience seats with the corners of their eyes, then refocused all their attention on the stage.
At this time, the irritable survivor, seeing that the fire on the stage was gradually diminishing, then took out several Molotov cocktails from his body, lit them, and continued throwing them onto the stage.
It was strange to say that although just a moment ago, only one Molotov cocktail was thrown onto the stage, but according to the intensity of the fire at that time, those puppets on the stage should have been damaged if not destroyed.
Yet even after throwing several more firebombs onto the stage, although the flames raged fiercely, the stage, apart from having more fire, showed no other changes from before.
Dong Tianyu and some observant individuals noticed the oddity on the stage; a few didn’t want to stay there any longer and, disregarding everything else, rushed straight towards the gate leading to the back courtyard.
While Dong Tianyu and some other survivors, even after seeing the actions of those people, remained indifferent. Some who had been hiding previously stepped out, not rushing towards the back gate, but instead heading towards Dong Tianyu’s location.
The spot where Dong Tianyu was located was near the gate between the middle courtyard and the front courtyard. Although this place allowed for an easy view of the activities in the middle courtyard, in theory, it was still part of the front courtyard and hadn’t crossed into the middle courtyard.
Because Dong Tianyu had been in an invisibility state and was also curled up sideways in a corner.
Thus, even though those survivors ran from the middle courtyard to Dong Tianyu’s location in the passageway, they did not notice Dong Tianyu.
At this time, most of the survivors in the middle courtyard were rescuing people from the large tank, a small number of survivors were rushing towards the gate to the back courtyard, and the remaining survivors, besides the few who ran towards Dong Tianyu for reasons unknown, were scattered and busy with their tasks.
The irritable guy stood under the stage, closely observing the situation on the stage, and from time to time, he would carelessly throw another Molotov cocktail onto the stage.
The others roamed around in the middle courtyard, seemingly searching for something.
Dong Tianyu, watching the scene unfold before his eyes, always felt an air of unreality, and then he closed his eyes and used Divine Sense, wanting to see if there was any difference between his spiritual vision and what he saw with his eyes.
Even though after entering the manor, his Cultivation Level was suppressed and the range of his Divine Sense was greatly reduced, scanning about thirty feet around was still doable for Dong Tianyu with some effort, although he couldn’t sustain it for long.
But this didn’t matter, as Dong Tianyu didn’t plan to use it for an extended period. It was just a spur-of-the-moment curiosity to know the difference between the perspective of Divine Sense and the vision of the naked eye.
When Dong Tianyu had just begun Spiritual Sense Scanning the situation in the middle courtyard, the scene he saw immediately sent a cold sweat running down his spine.
The guy who appeared to be actively destroying the stage, under the observation of Divine Sense, was actually just a puppet on strings. Although his mouth was still incessantly cursing and now and then took things to throw at the stage, all of these were just smokescreens, not real at all.
The large tanks in the audience area, which should have been shattered by now, remained intact at this point, whether or not there were survivors inside the tanks, they were all without a scratch.
It was just that, under the observation of Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense, aside from the few people visible to the naked eye, there were a few new occupants in the large tanks of the audience area.
Because of the oppression of the manor, the coverage of Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense was greatly reduced and he couldn’t probe the situation in the back courtyard; naturally, he also couldn’t know whether those survivors who had tried to flee to the back courtyard in the chaos had successfully made it there.
While Dong Tianyu was still pondering in his mind about how he could safely cross the middle courtyard to reach the back courtyard, his Divine Sense unintentionally swept over the survivors who had hidden in the middle courtyard, not run towards the back courtyard, but instead ran towards him.
But when his Divine Sense swept over them, a chill instantly shot through Dong Tianyu’s mind.
It turned out that these few survivors were also not real people. Although the expressions on those people’s faces looked incredibly lively, through the observation of Divine Sense, these individuals were all dolls, none of them real.
Upon discovering this situation, Dong Tianyu suddenly developed some doubts in his heart, wondering whether all the people he had encountered in the courtyard were actually puppets, with no real people among them.
With this thought, Dong Tianyu’s body involuntarily shuddered, and after trying to enter the Cave and finding he was not restricted in doing so, he decisively entered the Cave.
Just after entering the Cave, Dong Tianyu suddenly felt his thoughts, like gears that had just been cleaned of debris and smoothly greased, began to turn at an incredible speed.
The sensation of his Cultivation Level being suppressed in the Secret Realm vanished in an instant, and the Spirit Power inside his body resumed its normal circulation.
Recalling all his experiences after entering the Secret Realm, Dong Tianyu immediately noticed various anomalies.
He stroked his arm which had been stiff but was gradually returning to normal as the Spirit Energy continuously circulated within him; this was where the biggest problem lay.
Why, having realized that the singing from the central courtyard’s stage could cause him harm, did he still search for a seemingly safe location to continue listening carefreely?
Why, having noticed something wrong with his arm, did he still ignore it, not thinking of how to treat the arm, but instead so easily forgot about the problem because of other matters?
Moreover, his Cultivation Level was being suppressed, rendering him unable to circulate Spirit Power within his body, but he could still use the Invisibility Technique, and he even managed to convince himself with a satisfying justification.
Despite not being the adventurous type, knowing there could be danger where the singing originated from, why did he still go there?
Most importantly, having had two experiences of violently breaking out of the Mysterious Realm, why didn’t he even attempt to open the Storage space after entering the Mysterious Realm, choosing instead to directly follow the multitude of rules within the Mysterious Realm?
Thinking of his many abnormal behaviors, Dong Tianyu finally realized that he had been influenced by the Mysterious Realm as soon as he entered.
At that moment, Dong Tianyu suddenly remembered that in all the Mysterious Realms he had experienced, it was only on the blood-tinged Mysterious Ship that he encountered a situation involving multiple people; all other Mysterious Realms were single-person mysteries.
Although the Mysterious Ship was quite large, Dong Tianyu had confirmed before entering that the ship was indeed surrounded by a black aura.
Based on past experiences, the mystery on this Mysterious Ship should theoretically be a single-person mystery.
However, after entering the Mysterious Realm, Dong Tianyu found others already present, which is why he subconsciously believed that this time the Mysterious Realm was one of collaborative mystery.
After entering this Mysterious Realm, Dong Tianyu had no sooner rejected Rufus’s invitation than another entity, aligning with Dong Tianyu’s own thoughts, extended an invitation to him.
And through various hints, it led Dong Tianyu to linger at the entrance of the manor, preventing him from attempting to enter.
Reflecting on his past experiences, Dong Tianyu suddenly felt that he had been influenced by the Mysterious Realm desde que había ingresado, and as the time he spent within the Mysterious Realm lengthened, the deception affecting his mind worsened.
Recalling his entire process within the Mysterious Realm, although it seemed to be going smoothly, whether it was waiting outside the courtyard or hiding at the doorway to observe, it was all in order to delay time, extending Dong Tianyu’s stay in the Mysterious Realm.
The reason behind this, as Dong Tianyu realized, was that staying in the Mysterious Realm for a prolonged period would lead to erosion of his body by the Realm.
It seemed that the gradual stiffening of Dong Tianyu’s arm was not, as he had thought, due to the influence of the song, but was instead due to the erosion experienced simply by being in the Mysterious Realm.
Dong Tianyu’s belief that the song was the cause was just a plausible excuse he found for himself after his mind had been clouded.
