Chapter 1273: Sunset Boulevard
Once he stepped through the screen, Gao Yang felt himself dipping slightly before his feet touched ground, as if he had merely gone down a step on a staircase. One thing Sunset Boulevard shared with the previous two worlds was its vastness. Its boundaries stretched beyond his sight, giving off an unshakable sense of loneliness.
One aspect in which it differed from the previous grand, fantastical rooms was how real it was.
Under the intoxicating warm light of the setting sun, Gao Yang and his companions found themselves walking along a mundane-looking road like a group of tourists. Some of them adapted quickly, while others became even more wary, thinking it incredibly abnormal for things to seem so normal.
They looked around. The billboards lining the streets were plastered with movie posters. Although they should be still images, those portrayed in the posters came to life when one looked at them for longer than a moment.
The beautiful men and women winked. The thuggish fugitives pulled their triggers. The dinosaurs and monsters breathed fire. The cartoon characters let out cute laughs.
Those were all illusions, of course. Once they looked away, the posters went back to still images once more.
With their experience in the previous worlds, they started by analyzing and interpreting the name of the room, “Sunset Boulevard”. Gao Yang led the group, pondering the same thing while listening to the discussion between his companions.
He came to a halt when sounds suddenly dropped off around him, as if the world had been muted. Moreover, he couldn’t sense anyone with his six senses.
He whirled around. His companions were gone.
The environment around him had transformed without him noticing, too. The sky became rippling waves, and the desert seemed filled to the brim with red seawater. At the end of the path, the half-sunk sun hung at the horizon, its red light sharp like needles, resembling a burning sea urchin.
Hong Xiaoxiao appeared without warning.