Chapter 31

"week……"

Before Dongzang could even shout, Zhou You's figure had disappeared into the thick fog again.

The next second, the sound of fierce fighting and the explosion of collisions were heard above the head!

Ji Dongzang's gaze turned to Xia Changjie who was struggling with his watch.

Xia Changjie punched the watch face hard, causing the case to buzz.

"Still can't connect! Trash!" she growled, her voice full of frustration, and the black ash that fell from her hands covered the mechanical watch in her hand.

Ji Dongzang silently looked away.

Xia Changjie's movements were so large that the burnt ashes on her body were falling down. It seemed that she was really on the verge of collapse.

In comparison, Ji Dongzang's condition is much better.

She looked down at the medical team on her body - they were emitting a soft and warm light, covering her skin.

Apart from a slight tingling sensation, the pain is almost negligible.

She just leaned lazily against the cold rock wall, with no intention of going up to help.

Going up would mean fighting, and she just wanted to rest at the moment.

My ears were filled with Xia Changjie's endless curses, and the same two words kept repeating over and over again were "waste".

That resentful look would be fixed on her from time to time.

Sure enough, when Ji Dongzang raised his eyes, he met Xia Changjie's gaze that was fixed on him.

"Waste." Xia Changjie gritted his teeth and squeezed out the word again.

Ji Dongzang didn't bother to pay attention to her nervousness and laughed.

Changing the subject: "How long have we been roasted?"

Xia Changjie seemed to be brought back to his senses by this question. He paused in his cursing and muttered, "Not even a few hours."

"Is it because we've been to the snowfields before? Even a few hours of roasting wouldn't kill you."

"That should be it." Xia Changjie twitched the corner of his mouth, revealing a hint of sarcasm. "That robed monster was furious when he saw that we couldn't die."

The two chatted casually in the dim crevice, and the battle above their heads seemed to have entered a new stage.

A new sound of footsteps and shouts joined the battle, sounding well-trained.

Occasionally, one could glimpse a few fast-moving, uniform white figures, a stark contrast to the eerie presence of the canyon's native inhabitants.

They appear remarkably neat and even beautiful.

Xia Changjie caught a clear name below: "Xia Yi!"

Her tense shoulders relaxed a little instantly, her robot had found it.

…

Soon, the situation turned around.

The natives of the canyon who knew the terrain well—the robed monster and its minions.

They were defeated in the face of absolute firepower and organization, and took advantage of their understanding of the complex terrain to escape and hide in shadows or crevices.

Gao Jie, Xia Yi and the others quickly cleared the battlefield, but after searching around, they found no valuable clues except traces of battle and fleeing monsters.

The team regrouped and retreated back to the entrance where they first entered the black fog area.

At this moment, An Yu and Zhou You had worked together to pull up Ji Dongzang and the dusty Xia Changjie who were trapped in the crack below.

In the chaos, Sui Chunsheng disappeared.

No one here knows her.

Bai Jing dragged his injured body around and searched around, but found nothing.

She returned to the group silently and said nothing in the end.

Everyone was exhausted.

Several strong lights were set up, and the pale beams of light barely illuminated a small area.

They each found a relatively flat stone, sat or leaned against it, breathing silently.

The air was filled with gun smoke, burning smell and heaviness.

Xia Changjie leaned against a sharp rock. His charred combat uniform was badly damaged, and the exposed skin was covered with black ash.

She tapped the stubborn communicator on her wrist again in frustration, but the screen remained dead silent.

"Waste!" She cursed, her voice hoarse, filled with fatigue and anger that had nowhere to vent.

This time, she didn't even have the energy to glare at Ji Dongzang.

Ji Dongzang was sitting not far across from her, leaning against the relatively smooth stone wall.

Compared with the dishevel of the people around her, she seemed overly neat, which invisibly stimulated Xia Changjie's tense nerves.

"Hello," Xia Changjie's voice broke the oppressive silence. She didn't look at Ji Dongzang.

"That 'light' of yours...where did it come from? Did you pick it up in the snowfield?" His tone was filled with undisguised inquiry and a barely perceptible hint of sourness.

Ji Dongzang raised his eyelids and glanced at her: "I don't know, it appeared as soon as I woke up. Then how were you able to become invisible before?"

"Haha, you're so lucky." Xia Changjie sneered and finally turned his head, but did not answer Ji Dongzang's question.

"Unlike me, who almost became a roast suckling pig. That robed monster..." She gritted her teeth.

"Next time I see it, I'll burn all those rags to ashes!"

Gao Jie was polishing her weapon not far away. Hearing this, she looked up and said in a deep voice, "Those creatures are too familiar with the terrain here and appear and disappear with great swiftness. A head-on fight isn't the solution. We need to find their weaknesses, or... find what they're afraid of."

Her eyes swept over the crowd, finally landing on the two-tailed blue wolf.

Bai Jing was lying next to An Yu, and Xia Yi had given preliminary treatment to his injured eyes and tail using the first aid gel and bandages he carried with him.

He still looked weak, but his eyes were alert.

Xia Yi, the young woman in a white uniform with a cold and neat temperament.

He was wiping the dust and unknown sticky liquid off his hands with a clean cloth.

Her movements were meticulous, as if she were in a laboratory rather than a battlefield.

After hearing Gao Jie's words, she spoke in a cool and steady voice: "Preliminary scans show that the energy fields of those 'indigenous people' are highly homologous to the black fog here.

"They are likely dependent on the Black Mist environment, or are part of the Black Mist themselves.

"Once out of the black fog's range, their mobility and recovery capabilities will be significantly reduced. In addition,"

She paused and looked at Xia Changjie. "Sister Xia, your body's external damage is 37%, and your internal energy core is slightly vibrating. The self-repair process has been activated and is expected to take 12 hours. Please avoid high-intensity combat."

Xia Changjie snorted in response to his robot's report.

An Yu's elephant body moved restlessly, and his rough trunk scratched the ground.

Bai Jing gently touched her with his intact tail, as if to comfort her.

An Yu let out a low elephant cry, with obvious anxiety.

From time to time, her eyes glanced towards the bone bridge that was faintly visible at the edge of the strong light, and then she looked at the humans around her vigilantly.

Zhou You had strolled back at some point, playing with her strange "camera" device in her hand, with her usual smile on her face.

She moved closer to Ji Dongzang and sat down.

"Hey, Miss Xiaoqiang, you've recovered quite well. That artistic photo of coke just now was very soulful. Do you want to keep it as a souvenir?"

She smiled and shook the device in her hand.

Ji Dongzang didn't even bother to raise his eyelids. "Delete it. Or you can try to see if it can help you block my knife."

Zhou You shrank her neck exaggeratedly: "It was just a joke, why are you so fierce? By the way," she lowered her voice and glanced at An Yu and Bai Jing.

"Those two animal friends seem to know something. The big guy's eyes kept drifting towards the bone bridge, as if he had lost his soul."

At this moment, the White Mirror Blue Wolf, who had been silent all this time, suddenly struggled to stand up, letting out a low, warning whimper from his throat.

Its only remaining eye was fixed on the direction of the bone bridge, and the hair on its body stood up slightly.

Almost at the same time, An Yu also suddenly raised his nose and made a long and fearful elephant cry.

"What's wrong?" Gao Jie immediately became alert and gripped his weapon tightly.

"Something is coming!" Xia Yi's eyeballs were replaced with electronic eyes.

It lit up instantly, and the scanning beam was cast into the depths of the black fog.

Everyone instantly went on alert, and strong light poles swept towards the bone bridge.

I saw that the deep rolling black fog was stirring violently.

It wasn't that the robed monsters from before had returned, but rather... something larger and more invisible was surging.

"Ugh..." Xia Changjie's face turned pale, he covered his mouth and nose, and his stomach was churning.

Following the medical team on Dongzang's body, the light spots suddenly became brighter and faster, as if they had been strongly stimulated.

"Be careful!" Gao Jie shouted sternly.

The fog began to condense and twist, gradually outlining a huge, blurry outline above the bone bridge.

The outline had no specific shape, like a constantly wriggling dark aggregate.

Countless tiny "eyes" flashing with faint green light appear and disappear in the outline.

A spiritual pressure filled with malice and greed swept over!

An Yu retreated in horror, his huge body hitting the rock wall with a dull sound.

Bai Jing stood in front of her, baring his teeth and growling threateningly, but his body was trembling slightly.

"What...what is that thing?!" The smile on Zhou You's face completely disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented solemnity.

But she still took the time to raise her camera and take a picture...

Xia Changjie suppressed his dizziness, raised his usable weapon, and energy light gathered in his palm.

"Whatever it is... prepare to fight!"

The huge dark silhouette "looked down" at the people below, and countless green eyes locked onto them.

It did not attack immediately, but just "watched" quietly.

…

Everyone was facing a formidable enemy, their nerves tense to the extreme, just waiting for the huge black shadow to launch a fatal attack.

However.

The outline of the black fog ignored the people who were on high alert.

It is like a focused observer, moving slowly while carefully scanning the surrounding environment with some invisible "tentacles" or "gaze".

Twisted rock walls, scattered charred bones, and even lingering energy fluctuations in the air.

What’s even more strange is the black fog.

It was as if countless invisible brushstrokes were writing and outlining something in the void, leaving behind fleeting, meaningless light traces.

An indescribable feeling of oppression still enveloped everyone, but the expected attack did not come.

Just like that, with an icy spiritual pressure, it slowly "flowed" past them as if passing by.

This abnormal calmness actually caused the pressure to increase sharply.

No one dares to act rashly...