Chapter 200 Trust (Part 2) Falling to Death
“…Ahem.”
Chu Xiuyan felt an itch in his throat, coughed hard a few times, and suddenly opened his eyes. The next second, a large area of scarlet came into view.
He sat alone on the top of the ruins of a tall building, with no one around him. Strong winds blew in, carrying a choking, pungent smell of dust.
"……ah?"
He looked left and right, his face blank.
A large scarlet cloud was rolling in the distant sky. A crow was circling in the sky. Suddenly, it quickly flew towards Chu Xiuyan. However, just before it got close, it was pierced by a sharp blood-colored crystal. It let out two hoarse cries and hung its head helplessly.
At this time, Chu Xiuyan discovered that the crow that attacked him was missing half of its head, and its wings were bare, with white bones, flesh and blood rotting - it was a crow that had died a long time ago.
"Here? Where is it?? Am I not in Barbary??"
Chu Xiuyan talked to himself unconsciously. For some reason, his thoughts were extremely slow at this moment. This was a scene that he had no impression of and was unexpected, but it did not cause any emotional changes.
He sat on the edge of the rooftop of a high-rise building. Below him were endless ruins. Broken bricks and stones, twisted steel bars stood in a mess, looming in the swirling blood-red fog. The whole scene was filled with endless silence and desolation.
"I should have seen this place before." Chu Xiuyan observed the surroundings carefully and slowly, gradually recalling when he first stepped into this ruined world. Because he was unfamiliar with everything, he often stayed in high places to enjoy the scenery.
He stared at the sunset quietly for a while, and suddenly realized something.
The sun that was far away in the sky was stagnant in the sky, it did not fall.
It's breathing.
It was staring at Chu Xiuyan in silence.
The flickering light on the surface dimmed little by little.
Like crying blood silently.
…
【Host! Host! 】
Chu Xiuyan suddenly came back to his senses, breathing hard, feeling as if he was drowned.
The system worriedly said: [Host, you just crashed for nearly a minute. What happened? ]
Chu Xiuyan felt his brain freeze for a moment, [… Frozen means, I didn’t? Did I respond to you? ]
He wanted to raise his head and cover his head, but then he found himself hugging a blonde girl with her eyes closed. The surroundings were shrouded in gray fog and darkness.
A blonde girl... someone named "Elaine"? A girl of some kind.
Chu Xiuyan quickly recalled what happened before. Three sea beasts hit the Barbary barrier, Barbary was on the verge of collapse and destruction, the Ocean God was watching and hoping that he would make a choice, but he was stubborn and refused to agree, and launched the gray fog to take all the survivors away from Barbary, and even the ocean.
The last memory was of the gray fog sweeping in all directions, wrapping up countless people into a ball and rising rapidly.
But for some reason, the memory in between seemed to be disconnected, and what appeared in my mind was the scene of the land ruins with the setting sun as red as blood.
...Is it an illusion?
The system sighed: [I told you not to do unnecessary things. Barbari has already fallen to his death, and all the people inside are dead. What you are doing now has no meaning.]
Chu Xiuyan tilted his head back, sitting quietly in the ball wrapped in gray fog?, with a big? fish under his butt, swimming quickly towards the sea surface with them and the gray fog ball.
In the system's detection range, with the black-haired boy's location as the center, all around were densely packed black fog balls that could not be seen to the bottom, and schools of fish swimming upstream against the fog balls.
Just when the system was about to sigh again, it suddenly heard the host say: [Although Barbary fell to his death, not all of them died. Perhaps most of them survived.]
System: [Huh?!]
Chu Xiuyan scratched his hair, organized his words, and said: [If I guess correctly, the Ocean God should have the ability to interfere with reality through dreams. In other words, it is possible to bring the survivors of Barbary into the dream world to avoid the destruction of sea beasts and the death threat caused by Barbary's fall, right?]
The system's surprised voice became louder, [Then, that Ocean God? He obviously saved many survivors, why? Why does He still want you to make a choice? ]
[Because he lost control.] Chu Xiuyan heard a little about Zhang Chun's guess from Xuan Wu, and combined with his own intuition and experience, he felt that it should be roughly right. He said while sorting out his thoughts: [Controlling the power of the ocean and the power of dreams at the same time should be a big pressure for Him, so he thought of giving me half... In His mind, I can have new power, and He can completely control the ocean or dreams again, which is probably a win-win situation.]
His voice suddenly became softer and he seemed a little hesitant.
The system didn't notice the host's abnormality, and took a deep breath, saying: [Why split it in half, do you think it's a cake? Damn it!]
Chu Xiuyan quickly came to his senses and complained: [That's right, I don't even dare to eat real cakes, let alone poison in cake skin. I don't want to be a god... But in this case, I can only wait for my uncle to come and save me. After all, my previous resistance was a bit too much. The Ocean God should be staring at me now and won't let me out of the projection again - I feel like this place should be some kind of special dream world, right? ]
Anyway? He had tried it when Barbary was still normal. He couldn't enter the dream world, so he naturally couldn't get out of it on his own.
As he thought about it, Chu Xiuyan couldn't help but hold his head and howl, "Ah, I regret it. If I had known earlier, I should have pretended to trick the Ocean God into lowering his guard, and then went out to find Uncle Da and the others. Damn it!"
He fell into the fog ball? He stretched his legs straight out, and walked directly through the gray fog. The cloth was soaked by the sea water, which made him shudder with coldness, and he silently retracted his legs.
The system is still observing the four? Zhou: [Speaking of which, including the one next to you, Elaine, all the humans wrapped in the gray fog have fallen into a coma, but they are still alive... Is it because you chose to use the gray fog to take them away from this development and the real reality? Completely? Different, so they don’t know how to react and are all kicked offline? ]
Chu Xiuyan said slowly: "Maybe."
He lay down in the gray fog, following the fish swimming upstream to the sea, counting the time that passed bit by bit. He was stunned for a long time, and slowly said: "I don't know what's going on with Brother Chu Li and Uncle..."
The system comforts: [It’s much better than your place anyway, anyway? Let’s find a better place to rest first…]
The fog ball suddenly shook, as if it had reached the sea surface. The system probed outward and indeed could see the sparkling sea surface.
Chu Xiuyan poked a hole in the top of the mist ball and said to the system: "After I go back, I must go back to my uncle and give this ocean god a good scolding..."
The voice stopped abruptly.
Bright light shone through the hole in the fog ball. Outside the narrow hole, a familiar figure appeared in Chu Xiuyan's gradually shrinking pupils.
Messy blond hair, blue eyes, and a black fluffy dress.
She was floating on the sea, and her eyes met with Chu Xiuyan, who had just poked half of his face out of the fog ball.
——【Sky】, Elena.
Yes, this guy...
This guy has been hiding in the dark and has never appeared from beginning to end!!
The system screamed silently.
Chu Xiuyan acted decisively, and shot the scarlet blade toward the sky outside the cave, intending to use the moment when the opponent dodged to drive the gray fog to fill the hole again, but the next second a white, delicate arm reached in from above without hesitation, and was cut by the blade, and golden blood slowly flowed out of the wound.
Chu Xiuyan prepared to attack again and evade to another place, but his vision suddenly turned red. When he came to his senses, the arm that came out of the hole had already pressed directly on his forehead.
The part of Sky's arm that was touched by the gray fog had scarlet spots that looked like they were burned.
Chu Xiuyan was slightly stunned. The gray fog could now harm gods? Did he understand?
Or is this [Sky] very weak...?
"In fact, you can go and curse the Ocean God right now. I don't mind. I can even help you curse Him."
[Sky]——Elena's voice came from outside the fog ball. Different from the joy and cheerfulness she had felt during their previous meetings, this time it was even a little cold and gloomy.
Chu Xiuyan faintly heard the system's voice begin to become blurred and stuck, and the hand pressing on his forehead exuded a scorching hot breath.
He dodged back suddenly.
The next second, he fell backwards and fell directly onto the cold, hard concrete floor.
The intense pain made his eyes widen. He stared in disbelief at the scarlet sky, the stagnant sunset, and the rotting crow pierced by the blood crystal in mid-air.
He even felt that he could see his own figure falling to the ground in the crow's eyes.
The next second, the scene in front of him changed again. The familiar gray fog, the familiar hole, and the fog ball floating on the sea.
Chu Xiuyan blinked blankly, and felt his thinking become slow and dull again, as if he had just woken up and had the illusion of being drowsy.
Elena outside the gray fog was surprised again, "Strange, what is this... restraint? Elena, I can't do it alone, his memory is protected by several forces."
As soon as the voice fell, the blond girl who had been unconscious in the mist ball suddenly opened her eyes, raised her hand and grabbed Chu Xiuyan's wrist. In her azure eyes, there was the depth and indifference of the [Ocean]. As if she noticed the boy's gaze, she said, "This has never been a choice - didn't that guy never give you a choice? Elena chose [Sky], and I can give you the opportunity to choose. This is a win-win situation. Yunyan... Be quiet and sleep."
Chu Xiuyan felt dizzy and closed his eyes and opened them again. The rotten crow that was pierced through the air was staring at him with its dead and empty eyes.
Just when he thought he could return to Barbary in the blink of an eye, a very familiar voice with a hint of indifference suddenly sounded behind him.
"Your hair is a little long, do you want me to cut it for you?"
Chu Xiuyan felt goosebumps all over his body, and the moment he turned around——
…
"Yunyan!! Is this the direction?! Chu Li, hurry!"
Chu Xiuyan slowly opened his eyes, and Elena, who was outside the hole in the gray fog, looked surprised.
[Ocean] on the side seemed to glance in a certain direction, and his voice gradually became lowered, saying: "So that's how it is? The time-space psychic locked the direction, and another... alien? , used the ability of swallowing? to open a passage in the dream world. Yunyan, you have a group of very good partners, but, this is far from enough... This is not enough!"
Chu Xiuyan heard the system's voice, the sound of the electricity was endless, [Host! Host! Return to the real world, quickly! Your divine pollution——]
【No. 】
Chu Xiuyan closed his eyes again, [Wait a moment longer, system, wait a moment longer... please. ]
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