Chapter 22

Soon, a huge swing that was sturdy and quite wild was born!

A thick rope wrapped with vines and a thick wooden board that was polished to a relatively smooth surface.

Ji Dongzang and Chujiao were surrounded by the crowd and sat on the swing board with laughter.

The other giants worked together to push, and the swing slowly swung up with them!

The cool evening breeze blew through their sparse, coarse short hair, bringing a moment of weightlessness and freedom.

Below is a bonfire, delicious food, the smiling faces of friends and loud laughter.

…

Just as the unbridled laughter reached its climax...

The changes in the sky have intensified!

The disastrous star named Theia did not sink into the horizon as usual.

It... violates its own laws!

Not only did it not fall, but... it rose higher and higher!

Under the astonished gaze of the giants, it was moving at a breathtaking speed visible to the naked eye...

Rapid expansion!

Deadly and greedily.

Looking down at this piece.

The earth still laughs.

The prelude to destruction began at the streamside.

A giant who was washing fruits let out a shrill howl!

The stream in front of her was like a bird of prey, suddenly "biting" upwards!

It swallowed one of her arms!

The bubble of celebration was completely burst!

The giants were instantly in an uproar!

They gathered around in horror, trying to help stop the bleeding and bandage the wound.

Anxious questions and chaotic shouts drowned out the previous laughter and joy.

Ji Dongzang was sitting on the swing, his body swaying slightly with the swing.

The "Laochun" in my hand became colder the more I drank it, and that strange coolness was no longer refreshing.

But it's cold.

She slowly realized:

I am really drunk.

Drunk on the eve of doomsday.

scarlet.

The plague with life began to devour everything madly!

The earth is no longer a support, but a greedy esophagus, wriggling and devouring!

The sky was no longer calm and stable, but was constantly descending and crushing.

The giants finally saw clearly the catastrophic disaster!

Some screamed and rushed to Yu Er's wooden house to seek shelter.

Some panicked and tried to escape back to their homes.

However.

Their huge bare feet stepped onto the squirming scarlet ground.

Then he fell deeply into it.

Being sucked tightly and dragged forcefully!

Every step became extremely difficult and heavy.

It's like tug-of-war.

Ji Dongzang saw with drunken eyes the originally sturdy and warm wooden house of Yu Er.

At this moment, the walls, roof, doors and windows were covered with a layer of creeping scarlet!

The red color is no longer the covering, but the house itself is melting!

It wakes up, squeezes inward, contracts, and digests!

"Yuer!" Ji Dongzang tried to shout hoarsely, but only a vague sound came out.

She watched helplessly as Yu Er was trapped by the wriggling scarlet walls and the twisted and deformed beams!

Yu Er let out an inhuman roar of pain, his huge body struggling and twisting frantically!

In order to break free from the fatal squeeze, she grabbed her thick arm bones with both hands.

With the sound of bone cracking, break it and pull it out!

The sticky dark red liquid splashed on the scarlet wall and instantly merged into one!

But this desperate self-harm is in vain.

The sky is getting lower!

The earth is swallowing faster!

Everything in sight.

Houses, bonfires, piled items, and giants running or stuck in the mud.

They are all rapidly dissolving, collapsing, and being swallowed up by the boundless!

The swing under Ji Dongzang also began to soften and deform!

She could even clearly feel where she was sitting and her hands holding the rope.

Being eaten and disintegrated by a cold and greedy force!

The granular skin and strong muscles are peeling off and melting away from her body bit by bit!

The severe pain was mostly numbed by the drunkenness and cold, leaving only a strange, stripped-away feeling of "loss".

Even so, Ji Dongzang remained calm and used the hand that had not yet completely melted.

He groped into the woven pocket he had been holding tightly in his arms.

My fingertips touched the hard little wooden sculpture and the sugar bowl.

She took off the cork with difficulty, picked up a crystal candy and put it in her mouth.

A rich, strange, sweet aroma of grass and trees instantly filled my cold and numb mouth.

Drunk... the world is spinning and dissolving.

Cold... chill all over the body.

The candy is fragrant and sweet... This is the last taste of the Juya world.

It's very novel here... Even the destruction has a cruel beauty.

She subconsciously used the fingers that could still move to stroke her arm that was melting.

Violent tremors spread throughout my body, I don’t know if it was caused by the extreme cold or unbearable pain.

It’s still the intoxication of “Old Spring”.

"Drink it through the winter..." she thought vaguely.

"Winter in the Juya World... So... This is what it's like..."

She could no longer see the winter here, only its warmth and beauty.

She knew very well that all this had long since vanished into thin air in the dust of time.

An irrepressible, almost desperate attachment.

He held on tightly to her fading consciousness!

She doesn't want to leave! She wants to stay!

Leave this warmth to be chewed and digested!

Leave behind this rough and vivid life!

pity.

Just like Juya has no choice.

A clear premonition emerged:

As long as you close your eyes and give up resistance, you can immediately escape from this endless sea of ​​suffering.

Get out of here.

But she didn't.

She opened her drunken yet stubborn eyes wide.

She wants to watch!

Watching the huge swing melt and collapse like a candle, dissolving into scarlet flesh.

Watching the idyllic paradise built by the giants with their sweat and laughter being quickly dissolved and flattened.

Looking at the vivid figures who had shared food, games and stories with her.

Yu Er, Li, Chu Jiao, Ke...

Each one is struggling, twisting or dissolving.

at last.

Ji Dongzang took out the woven bag that contained the wooden carving and the sugar jar, which was also dissolving rapidly.

Hold it tightly in your arms!

An irresistible, huge suction force came as if time and space were being torn apart!

…

Ji Dongzang opened his eyes again!

She found herself suspended above the crater left by the impact of Theia!

Under your feet is a deep abyss that swallows everything.

Glancing around...

The huge straw rabbit stood there quietly.

Next to the rabbit, seven figures of different shapes, like solidified sculptures, were also looking at her quietly.

Mo Wanda is among them.

Back.

Ji Dongzang confirmed it instantly and returned to this strange space between reality and illusion.

"Hey! Candy Jar!" A crisp voice, with undisguised curiosity, came from Ju Ya-Wa.

He noticed with his sharp eyes the bag woven by Chujiao that Ji Dongzang was holding tightly in his arms.

The hollow mesh of the pocket vaguely reveals the outline of a small jar containing remaining sugar grains.

Wa pointed at it excitedly: "Are there any more in there? Can you give me one?"

The straw rabbit glided over silently and caught the suspended Ji Dongzang steadily with its broad straw back.

This time, there was no need for Rabbit to translate, Ji Dongzang clearly understood the giant Asian language with strange syllables of Wana.

She didn't say anything, but silently untied the bag and carefully took out the sugar bowl which was the size of her palm.

Unscrewing the lid, she tilted the can and a few sugar grains tinkled out.

It fell precisely into Wana's giant palm, which was bigger than her head.

The candy in Wa's hands turned into the size of a giant world candy.

Wa grinned happily and distributed the candy in his palm to his companions next to him as if sharing treasures.

I couldn't wait to pick up the biggest one, put it in my mouth, and started chewing it with a crunching sound.

"Hmm!" Wa's eyes lit up instantly, and he shouted vaguely but full of surprise:

"This taste... is completely different from the candy we conjured with our 'thoughts'! Hey, fool, try it too!"

"Come and try the candy I made." Wa looked at Ji Dongzang and said as he stretched out his hand and handed a piece of candy to Ji Dongzang.

Ji Dongzang's gaze was fixed on the fool in Wakou.

It was a slightly shorter girl, standing next to the other six Juyas.

Two heads shorter than the other giants.

She reminded Ji Dongzang of the little girl who counted strangely in the cave in the human world.

She is also called a fool!

Ji Dongzang suppressed the doubts in his heart.

He reached out and took the candy that Wa handed to him.

Ji Dongzang put the candy that appeared out of thin air from the tile into his mouth.

The familiar sweet fragrance spreads on the tip of the tongue, with a strange cool feeling.

She savored it carefully.

In fact, this is no different from the candy that Per gave her, and it even looks more beautiful.

What made Ji Dongzang's heart move even more was Wana's ability to easily create candies.

Wa just mentioned it lightly:

As the spiritual energy or energy accumulated in their bodies becomes more and more abundant.

Each messenger naturally mastered various strange and bizarre "tricks".

Creating things out of thin air is just the most basic and common one among them.

As Wa introduced himself to Ji Dongzang in a lively manner, several other silent Juya envoys also spoke briefly one after another.

Their words were fragmented and obscure, but Ji Dongzang pieced together the core:

In every tide of world change, seven "messengers" always emerge.

They are anchors, observers, and optional individuals who will not be completely changed by the torrent.

Their duty is to guide, but the direction and results of guidance seem to contain many variables.

The information they could reveal to Ji Dongzang was extremely limited.

After all, Ji Dongzang has personally experienced and even witnessed their world as "Winter".

For them, the boundaries between the past and the future have long been blurred.

Ji Dongzang only asked the most practical question: "How... do I go back? Back to my world?"

The answer I got: "Soon. Just wait a moment."

So, Ji Dongzang returned to Mo Wanda's house.

She lay quietly on the hardwood bed that was too large for her current human size.

He held the woven bag containing the Ruyi wood carving and the sugar jar tightly in his arms, and held two small cans of "Laochun" that he had picked up in his hands.

It can be regarded as a little "souvenir" of this wonderful journey.

She closed her eyes, cleared her mind, and waited quietly.

The world is spinning.

Following the presence of Dong Zang, silently...

Dissipated.