81 Kill That Light

What are you looking at right now?

After taking off most of his clothes, Wang Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief: "I feel much better now."

He asked his teammates beside him, trying to gain their approval: "Why don't you take off two layers of clothing? This is too hot!"

"I..." Ah Hai glanced at Wang Zhuang, then looked at the one-eyed man behind him. Seeing that he was also sweating profusely but still refused to take off his clothes, he immediately shook his head and said, "I'll let it go."

"Hold on a little longer, maybe if you walk a little further you'll be fine." He tried to persuade the other person, "This weather is weird, weird, abnormal. Why don't you put on your coat?"

"What are you wearing?" Wang Zhuang patted his chest through the few pieces of underwear he had left on. "I'm in good health, not like you."

"..." Ah Hai sighed speechlessly, ignored him, and continued on his journey with the main group.

Until they walked further and further away, and got closer and closer to the top of the mountain.

Under the influence of altitude sickness, everyone experienced dizziness and shortness of breath to varying degrees. Compared with Li Yiqing and Liu Ge, Qi Qiuxue had the worst physical condition and the strongest reaction.

"Axue, are you okay?" Li Yiqing looked at her worriedly, his face full of anxiety.

"Do you have any oxygen?!" She turned to look at the group behind her, trying to ask them for help, "Lend it to us!"

"No." The one-eyed man glanced at them indifferently. "If you can't even overcome this little difficulty, then why bother going to the grave? You might as well just die here."

"You!" As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yiqing's face changed immediately.

"I'm fine." Qi Qiuxue was afraid she would do something extreme, so she raised her hand to stop her. "Just get used to it."

Li Yiqing immediately leaned over and motioned for her to get on his back: "How about I carry you, Axue."

"No need." Qi Qiuxue shook her head, "I'm fine."

But Li Yiqing just stared blankly and refused to leave.

"...Or you can give me a hand." Qi Qiuxue finally took a step back and silently stretched out her hand forward.

Although she was obviously in pain and her face was pale and her brows were furrowed, she still had the leisure to tease the person in front of her. Before Li Yiqing had time to stand up, she stretched out her hand and could just touch the top of her head.

So Qi Qiuxue put her slender fingers into her hair and rubbed it gently, as if comforting a puppy.

"Axue." Li Yiqing called her name softly, seeming a little shy.

"Help me." So Qi Qiuxue withdrew her hand and stopped it in mid-air, silently waiting for Li Yiqing to grab it.

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The few of them walked very far away.

It was already night time and it should have been pitch black, but because of that ray of light, the surroundings were as bright as day.

Qi Qiuxue discovered that the light seemed to be located very high up, in the shape of a large sphere, as if it was being held up by something, with the shapes of branches faintly visible around it.

Is that a giant tree? Is it on the tree?

"What's going on?" Even the more experienced Ah Hai didn't understand what was going on. He couldn't see the huge light, and neither could anyone else. Therefore, he was much more shocked by this strange sight than Qi Qiuxue and the others.

Wang Zhuang, who was walking mechanically beside him, did not respond. At this moment, he was the least optimistic among everyone. Even though he had taken off a lot of clothes, he still felt hot. He began to scratch his body unconsciously because of the heat, not knowing what to do.

But the expression on his face was not like the reaction of a person who was extremely hot. Not only was his face not red at all, but he looked pale, confused, and bloodless.

"What's his condition?" Liu Ge lowered his voice and said softly, "It looks like he's not far from death."

"Hmm." Qi Qiuxue had obviously noticed this as well. She nodded in response, lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "I suspect that everything we're seeing now is actually an illusion. In the real world, we're still trapped in a world of ice and snow."

"It's probably that giant ball of light that's causing all this hallucinations and making us see false images. Perhaps Wang Zhuang isn't suffering from fever at all, but severe hypothermia."

"When a person's body temperature drops to a certain level, the thermoregulatory center becomes paralyzed. Even though the body temperature is dropping, the skin receptors give the opposite feedback, causing a feeling of dryness and heat. To escape this feeling, some people resort to extremely abnormal undressing."

"Take Wang Zhuang for example." Qi Qiuxue glanced back at the shaky Wang Zhuang behind her, "He's beyond saving."

After he finished speaking, Wang Zhuang happened to be tripped by something under his feet and fell down uncontrollably.

He fell to the ground with a thud, making a loud noise. Everyone stopped and looked towards where he was. Perhaps because they thought he was useless, the one-eyed man frowned very obviously.

Ahai was afraid that he would be angry, so he quickly squatted down and tried to help Wang Zhuang up: "Hurry up and get up, what's wrong? You are in good health, aren't you? Why are you so weak?"

"Brother Lu will be angry soon. What's wrong with you? Get up quickly!" Wang Zhuang, who was lying on the ground, was as heavy as a stone and his whole body was stiff. Ah Hai couldn't help him up no matter how hard he tried, and he stamped his feet in anxiety.

So other people came up to help, and they lifted Wang Zhuang up together, but found that he was unable to stand on his own.

"How come you..." Ah Hai gradually realized something was wrong and used his trembling hands to test his breath. "Lu, Brother Lu! He's dead, Wang Zhuang is dead!"

"What?" The one-eyed man frowned even deeper. Even though he couldn't see the huge ball of light, after a brief thought, he gradually realized what was going on. "Everyone, put on your clothes!"

"Everything we see now is an illusion. We are actually still in the snow!" He said this, and ordered the team to put the dead Wang Zhuang down to avoid wasting energy. "He's already dead, why are you still holding on to his body? Are you planning to take him home?"

"No, no." The team members let go with grim expressions. Wang Zhuang, who was unable to support himself, fell down again. His body rolled several times on the smooth snow surface and finally hit a huge strange rock on the side.

With a "bang", his arms and legs were broken into several pieces.

Everyone looked at this scene with tingling scalps and silently wrapped their clothes tightly.

"Keep going!" The one-eyed man did not give them a chance to rest and gave orders again. There was only one last hillside left to reach the top of the mountain. Everyone worked together and reached the summit one after another with the help of professional tools and equipment.

——What appeared before my eyes was an extremely huge tree.

The trunk of the tree is extremely thick, and its branches are dense and lush, extending in all directions like a huge green umbrella. People standing in front of it seem as small as ants.

Qi Qiuxue looked around and saw that huge light was growing in the center of the giant tree, like a fruit, emitting a dazzling and glaring light.

"Have you discovered anything?" As early as halfway through the journey, the one-eyed man realized that Qi Qiuxue and the others seemed to have grasped some information that they could not see. Along the way, they often looked up and looked into the empty void, but in the one-eyed man's perspective, there was nothing there.

But he knew that there must be something there, and that thing could only be seen by these three people!

He once again pressed the gun against Qi Qiuxue's temples: "Tell me, what are you staring at right now?"

"I'll kill you if you don't tell me!" he said viciously.

Qi Qiuxue glanced at him silently, not in the least afraid of the weapon in his hand. She said truthfully, "It's a huge ball of light, at the top of this tree."

"Maybe it is the culprit that causes everyone to have hallucinations." Qi Qiuxue said.

"A ball of light?" The one-eyed man pondered for a moment. "Apart from this, can you see anything else?"

"I can't see it." Qi Qiuxue shook her head gently. "That ball of light is simply too bright. It's so bright that even from such a distance, staring at it for even a moment hurts my eyes. Its light swallows up everything around it, making it impossible to see anything and getting close is impossible. With this brightness, anyone who tries to force their way into it will definitely go blind."

"Is there no solution?" the one-eyed man muttered subconsciously.

"Then it depends on you." Qi Qiuxue smiled, silently raised her fingertips, and touched the gun against her temples. Under the man's astonished gaze, she gently twisted the muzzle of the gun and aimed it at the ball of light in the distance.

"Don't you claim to have the most sophisticated weapons and equipment?" she said slowly.

"Then find a way to kill that light."

【Author’s words】

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