Departure

Four strange characters that became completely clear on the cover came into Raymond's eyes. At the same time, a hoarse and majestic murmur came into his ears, "Please pay attention..."

The thick book on the ground slowly opened automatically in front of Raymond. With the breeze, the first page of this book that Raymond had never opened appeared in Raymond's sight.

There were no words at all, and the page was full of complicated and messy lines, but the colors of these lines were bizarre, and no two lines were the same color.

The alarm from the chip was still echoing, but Raymond felt as if he had lost control of his body. His eyes were imprisoned on this book.

His hands were still in the posture of wanting to turn the pages, but in his feeling, he had lost control of his body.

The scorching breeze that was just felt was gone.

The faint fragrance lingering around the nose was gone.

The grass in sight no longer swayed in the wind.

Time seemed to have completely stopped, and everything had stopped.

In Raymond's vision, only the lines on the page remained.

These lines of various colors slowly floated out of the page, writhing and slowly rising and gathering, eventually becoming a sphere like woven silk threads.

In an instant, the sphere enlarged in Raymond's sight. In Raymond's somewhat stiff vision, the sphere composed of various colors spun, and each colored line became extremely thick.

His thoughts were a little confused, and chaotic and disorganized memories came one after another.

After a long time, a hoarse and oppressive voice came vaguely in his mind, "Mental will test passed, congratulations to you..."

With the appearance of this voice, Raymond's control over his body seemed to have returned.

The faint fragrance, the intoxicating breeze, and the swaying grass in front of him began again.

The sheepskin book placed on the ground was still in its original unopened appearance, and there were no words on the pitch-black cover.

His arms were still in the original posture of wanting to touch, but the sore and swollen feeling all over his body made Raymond cry out in pain.

Slowly withdrawing his cramped arms and rubbing them, the somewhat surprised Raymond commanded the chip, "Number One! Call out all the video footage just now!"

"Task established, starting retrospective..."

"Abnormal mentality of the subject, unable to retrospect..."

"Audio and video data abnormal, no record, re-establish task..."

"Time disorder, re-correct..."

"Time correction completed, interval difference 60 hours."

Listening to the investigation conclusions of the chip, Raymond's eyes widened more and more, and his face turned pale.

After the chip's voice disappeared, Raymond understood that he had been in that strange state for 60 hours.

His thoughts were a little confused. Shaking his somewhat confused head, after Raymond's sore arms recovered, he picked up the book from the ground.

The book was a bit heavy and felt a little warm in his hands.

Tentatively opening the cover, there was no difficulty, and the first page appeared in sight.

Still no words, but as Raymond gazed at them, these complicated lines quickly changed.

These lines of different colors intersected and entwined with each other, slowly turning into a strange symbol and entering Raymond's eyes.

When this symbol appeared, the hoarse and majestic voice also echoed in Raymond's mind, "Please remember..."

The speechless Raymond sat up straight, looking at the big tree in the distance and the leaves around the tree root under the big tree, singing nursery rhymes with their hands held together. Raymond shook his head.

Since even the big tree could speak and the leaves could sing, how many more terrifying things would appear in this magical world? Raymond felt he could accept it.

Of course, understanding these things still seemed to require a process.

Turning his eyes back to the book again, Raymond silently commanded the chip in his heart, "Detect and record everything that happens!"

"Task established, recording started..."

Silently synchronizing his eyesight and memory, Raymond, with full concentration, began to memorize according to the hoarse and majestic murmur in his mind.

There was one symbol on the first page, two on the second page.

There were only nine pages in this seemingly heavy book, but only after memorizing the symbol on the previous page would other symbols appear on the next page. Turning the page directly, there would not even be lines of different colors on the page in sight, just blank.

Moreover, when Raymond finished flipping through this book, it was impossible for the chip to record its contents. Under the chip's scan, the entire book was blank. Even the four strange characters on the cover that Raymond could see could not be recorded and saved by the chip.

However, the chip's detection results on this book showed that the entire book would emit faint radiation when Raymond viewed it, which had a certain effect on his body.

Time passed slowly, and without the chip's help, Raymond began to flip through the symbols on the pages of the memory book.

One, two, three...

The symbols composed of lines were successfully remembered by Raymond and engraved deeply in his mind. After memorizing the first three symbols, the fourth symbol appeared on the third page of the book.

According to the position of the symbols on the page, Raymond could infer that there should be three symbols on the third page, but when he could not remember the fourth symbol, the other symbols on this page did not appear at all.

Remembering these symbols took time, as if time had stopped, and his body also needed to pay a lot of energy. With the chip's prompt, Raymond knew that memorizing just three symbols had taken him nearly 10 hours.

Somewhat regrettably closing the book, Raymond closed his eyes and silently recalled the symbols he had already memorized. After confirming that he had completely memorized these three symbols, Raymond opened his eyes again.

It was already dawn, and Raymond saw that the leaves singing nursery rhymes under the big tree root had gone.

Standing up, Raymond saw the big tree swaying, and the old voice of the big tree echoed again, "Little guy, time's up. I'm leaving, you can stay here for at most two days. "

Frowning at the big tree, the old face on the tree trunk gradually disappeared.

But the ground under his feet trembled quickly. To Raymond's astonishment, all the branches of this talking big tree slowly gathered to the trunk.

In the cracked mud on the ground, countless roots drilled out from underground, and the tiny roots tightly hugging the main roots came out of the mud along with the thick main roots.

As if it were an earthquake, Raymond, standing unsteadily, saw the main roots thicker than his waist come out of the mud and lift the whole big tree half off the ground. Like the big tree growing many feet, it slowly moved on the ground along with the big tree.

"Yi, Yiya...Yiya..."

Accompanied by the sound of the leaves singing nursery rhymes from the treetop, the speed at which the big tree was lifted by the main roots increased.

These thick roots, carrying the treetop above, stepped into the forest step by step and disappeared from Raymond's sight.

Raymond, with a blank look, watched helplessly as the big tree disappeared into the forest. He pursed his lips.

Did that count as it running away?