Doomsday Wonderland - Chapter 303

Chapter 303: Lin Sanjiu Finds Herself In A Fleshy Cavity

There was a milk-like vapor in the air . It was thick and sticky . It moved slowly, almost as if it was alive . Little by little, it entered Lin Sanjiu's nostrils . Her eyelashes were just fluttering moments ago . Before any light could even enter her amber eyes, her eyes fell shut again, uncontrollably .

Lin Sanjiu woke up .

This time, she was fully aware that she had woken up from a dream . When she sat up, she felt all her muscles screaming at once, probably because she was in an unnatural position for a long time . However, that did not affect Lin Sanjiu sensations . She could feel strength coursing through her body once more—a familiar, formidable strength .

Lin Sanjiu flexed her fingers a few times . After recovering her strength, she slowly stood up . Everything about her surroundings was confusing . She didn't know if it was very foggy or if it was night time . She could only see constantly morphing deep dark purple color around her . That was the only thing she could see but it wasn't unpleasant .

As the constantly changing purple washed over her whole body like gentle waves, it brought a mesmerizing sense of comfort and warmth . She couldn't hear a single sound and any sort of disturbances which came with it . She only felt an everlasting peace . She did not need her thoughts, her battles, and her worries . She only needed the changing colors that would soothe everything .

"Maybe, I'm dead . Maybe, this is heaven?"

Before she could hold that fragmented thought for half a second . It disappeared . Lin Sanjiu wasn't even aware that such a thought had crossed her mind .

Was she standing now? Or was she sitting? Was she lying down? She just wasn't sure . One moment she was walking and the other moment she was floating . She could still feel the strength in her body but Lin Sanjiu felt that she no longer needed it .

As she sunk in this gentle comfort, she suddenly felt a slight pain . She couldn't tell which part of her body was hurting . It was as if her body had already melted . The pain could be from her leg or her back . Though the pain was trivial, it interrupted her peacefully floating sensation . It was extremely irritating . Lin Sanjiu wanted to wait for the pain to go away and return to the gentle embrace of her purple surroundings .

However, she felt a second painful prick . It just continued . Lin Sanjiu wanted to swat that sensation away but she didn't know where it was coming from . Third, fourth, fifth… The pain rained down on her and soon it became a torture . Lin Sanjiu let out a soft disgruntled noise and felt her body once more . She opened her eyes after the third prick .

The purple fog had disappeared as if it had never even existed .

"You're finally awake!" a familiar voice rang out . "Quick, get up!"

Lin Sanjiu thought she heard someone speaking into her ears . After half a second, she realized that it was from her own mind . "Mrs . , Mrs . Manas?" she blurted out unconsciously .

When she said that name, she felt a strange sense of long-lost unfamiliarity . "Where… am I?" There was dusky darkness around her as if it was just dawn . There was barely any light around her . There was just a sort of formless chaos around her . The wisps of milky vapors that were floating around made the most striking impression on Lin Sanjiu . They had a heavy and sticky consistency . They flowed toward Lin Sanjiu like a tangible substance once it detected her presence .

"Don't breath that in!" Mrs . Manas warned just when that 'milk' was about to touch the tip of Lin Sanjiu's nose . Lin Sanjiu quickly covered her nose and mouth . She didn't dare to touch that thing so she lowered her head and dodged it . However, the 'milk', which was now behind her, turned around and reached out for her like a white tentacle . This time, more 'milk' flowed toward Lin Sanjiu as if she was standing on low-lying grounds .

Lin Sanjiu immediately took a step outward, dodging . When her feet landed on the ground, she heard a squelch . The ground felt strange . It was as if she had stepped into a puddle of soft mud on the ground after a heavy rain . It was soft, squishy and even had a disgusting bounciness . It was then that she snapped out of her dull confusion and finally was somewhat aware of her true surroundings .

It felt as though she had been thrown into a large mouth .

The pink fleshy walls rose and fell like rhythmic breathing . Some unknown substance was oozing out from the fleshy walls . The dark red "floor" beneath her feet reflected some light . This place wasn't that large . Lin Sanjiu tore part of her clothes and used it to wave away the wisps of "milk" and could see the entire area of the place she was in . The thing that shocked her the most wasn't that she was in a weird fleshy prison . It was the fact that she wasn't alone .

This place was filled to the brim with people . There were lying and sitting down . Stacking up on each other, like dead fishes falling from a fisherman's net . There were multiple small hills of humans . Apart from their rising and falling chests which proved that they were still alive, Lin Sanjiu almost couldn't find any other vital signs which differentiated them from the dead .

She knew the faces of the people who were lying the closest to her . They were the Paleoindian, the tree-bark man, the Zhongshan suit youth, Faun… Almost everyone that entered the pocket dimension was here with her . She even spotted the Porcelain Vase who was lying on the ground, motionlessly . A wisp of white vapor hovered near Porcelain Vase .

"Ah, I'm in a pocket dimension, right?" Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered everything . Her head hurt a little as her memories returned all at once . "Don't tell me Smiling Mermaid sent so many people into this pocket dimension after us?"

Mrs . Manas did not answer . She did not seem to know the answer .

Another wisp of "milk" headed toward her face . Lin Sanjiu quickly swatted at the vapor violently with the cloth in her hands . After she chased away that vapor, she crouched down and tried to wake Faun as he was lying closest to her . However, when Lin Sanjiu saw his body, she frowned .

"Something isn't right . "

As Lin Sanjiu had just woken up from a comatose state, unavoidably, her mind worked a little slower . Despite that, she stopped her outstretched hand . She looked around at the other people and then at her own body .

"How long have I been here?" Lin Sanjiu mumbled .

"Frankly, I'm not sure," Mrs . Manas sighed, "I only woke up a few hours earlier than you . "

Lin Sanjiu swatted away the unrelenting wisps of "milk" near her face once again . She checked the condition of her body carefully . Just as in her memory, her sculpted flexible muscles were visible under her moist skin . She pressed her skin and it bounced right back—proving that she wasn't dehydrated . Checking herself, she found out that she didn't lose any muscle or fat mass . In other words, she didn't remain unconscious for long . At most, it shouldn't have been more than two days .

However, the body condition of the people around her was very different . Faun's skin was as shriveled as a dry leaf . The skin on his face was so thin and gaunt that she could see the shape of his skull . The old Paleoindian had lost all his muscle mass . He was just skin and bones . His dry, yellow skin was taut around his shoulder bones and leg bones . It had lost all signs of moisture . Even the last bit of fat had already disappeared from his body . This meant that they had been unconscious for more than a few months .

But, if she remembered correctly, she had only been in Red Nautilus for a few days .

"What's… going on here?" She vigorously broke apart the thick white vapor of "milk" which had gathered around her . She took a few steps forward, treading on a few people and the disgusting fleshy floor . "We entered the pocket dimension at the same time . If I'm alright, they shouldn't have become just skin and bones!"

She took a few more steps and found out that not everyone was as skinny as them . Some of the people were like herself . Their skins were still moist and they looked as though they were just sleeping . She took another few more steps and her gaze fell upon a group of bodies . She saw the glaze from a blue-white decorated porcelain vase . Lin Sanjiu pushed aside the person who was lying on that man . A few of these people looked familiar; they seemed to be members of Smiling Mermaid . After pushing the person aside, she saw Porcelain Vase's body in full view . If the other people looked bad, Lin Sanjiu felt like vomiting when she saw the state of Porcelain Vase's body under his clothes . He would have looked better if it was just his skeleton under those clothes . It was so gross that she refused to look at him and pulled down his clothes over his body once more . Staring at his grey tunic, she froze for a second .

The symbol representing the Smiling Mermaid was missing from his shirt . Porcelain Vase wasn't the only one with a missing symbol . The symbol was missing from the shirts of the rest of the members, including Faun . When she looked closely, their clothes were different from what she remembered .

"Hey! Wake up!" she nudged the young man in the Zhongshan suit quite violently . Then, she stopped immediately . Her hand felt something scary . She was worried that if she shook him again, his bones would all break . "What's going on?!"

"Don't even try to wake them up . It's impossible," Mrs . Manas interrupted her . "I managed to wake you up only because I am part of our consciousness . I don't think anything from their outside world can reach them . "

Lin Sanjiu knew that Mrs . Manas was right without even trying . She let out a long sigh, "In any case, I have to get out of here first…"

She looked up at the spot not far from her .

The wisps of "milk" had stopped pestering her for quite a few minutes . When Lin Sanjiu noticed that, she looked up and finally understood why . She couldn't help taking a deep breath .

All the "milk" floating within these flesh walls had disappeared . No, the term "disappeared" wasn't right . They had merged into a thick substance not far from Lin Sanjiu as if they had all the intention to swallow her .

She saw the mass of "milk" rushing toward her . For a moment, the white substance filled her entire vision . Lin Sanjiu quickly propped herself and stepped on a few people's bodies to jump in front of a wall not far from her .

"This must work," she mumbled and activated her [Mosaic censorship] . Flesh and biological fluids exploded under her palm . Lin Sanjiu thought she heard something screeching . Before she could react, she found herself basking in white daylight .