Chapter 311 Time is Enough
Zhou Jue took a deep breath and decided to temporarily put aside his concern about the truth.
Just as Sun Jiuchou did and said, at least for now, he is not an enemy.
The most important thing right now is to finish the task. She has decided that once she finishes the task, she will go back into seclusion!
It's still a matter of insufficient strength! Rapidly improving strength is the only way forward!
"Where are we headed next?" Zhou Jue opened the energy point map.
Sun Jiuchou walked over, glanced at the scene, and without choosing a location, casually changed the subject.
"By the way, Xiao Jue."
Without looking up, he casually asked, "Is there still more than three hundred days until your next time travel?"
Zhou Jue's words of analysis caught in his throat. Was the topic being changed a little too quickly?
She glanced at the system interface instinctively; there were still 342 days left.
No! What time is being asked? Is there even a need to ask? Isn't this something everyone already knows?
Zhou Jue suddenly looked up at Sun Jiuchou with a wary look in his eyes, and began to circulate his spiritual energy.
Sun Jiuchou didn't seem to need her answer.
He slowly raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the hull of the submersible and through the seawater thousands of meters deep, looking towards an unknown distance.
He seemed to be talking to himself; his voice was very soft, yet it clearly reached Zhou Jue's ears.
"Three hundred and forty-two days..."
"Yes, there's enough time."
That wasn't a question, nor a sigh; it was a confirmation.
Zhou Jue's body reacted faster than her brain could process her thoughts. She suddenly stepped back, her spiritual energy instantly reaching its peak as she warily stared at the man before her.
"you……"
She only had time to utter one word.
Sun Jiuchou moved, but without any earth-shattering momentum or lightning speed.
He simply took a step forward calmly and extended his right hand.
He pressed down on Zhou Jue's shoulder slowly and deliberately.
Danger!
Every cell in Zhou Jue's body was screaming.
The Kunlun Mirror on her wrist did not respond.
The system in my mind did not trigger any energy shield.
How could this be?!
The thought only flashed through her mind for a moment.
Sun Jiuchou's palm was already gently placed on her shoulder.
It has no impact.
There was no pain.
There wasn't even the slightest fluctuation in energy.
However, the moment his palm touched her clothes...
An irresistible force swept over her in an instant.
That's not a physical thrust.
This invisible force forcibly pushed her out of this space and this dimension.
Everything around me began to distort and stretch.
In the cockpit of the deep-sea submersible, Sun Jiuchou's gentle face was blurred into a mass of color.
In the last moment when vision was completely swallowed by darkness.
She thought she saw Sun Jiuchou's lips move.
His face, still gentle, held a complex expression in his eyes.
...
"Bang!"
Zhou Jue felt as if he had been thrown from a great height and crashed heavily to the ground.
The violent impact made her vision go black, and her internal organs felt as if they had shifted.
She suddenly sat up from the ground and began to cough violently.
An unfamiliar scent filled my nostrils.
It smelled of earth, the dampness of rotting leaves, mixed with a wild and primal plant fragrance.
Where is she?
Zhou Jue looked around.
Towering trees blocked out the sun, thick vines coiled like giant pythons, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of moss and ferns.
This is a primeval jungle full of wildness and vitality.
It's not the Mariana Trench.
"Brother Tongzi?"
Her first thought was to call out in her heart.
There was no response.
The system, which used to be the first to jump out and claim credit or complain, was now deathly silent.
Zhou Jue's heart sank suddenly.
She tried again.
"Brother Tong! Answer me!"
It remained deathly silent.
This is the third time the system has cut off contact with her, but the first two times it was either initiated by the system or reported to them. This time, if nothing unexpected happens, it was Sun Jiuchou's doing, forcibly cutting off her contact with the system!
Undeterred, she tried to open the Starry Sky Box, and she could see that it was still inside her consciousness.
But that familiar paradise, which she could escape to at any time, was now like a city with its gates sealed. No matter how she called out, whether she tried to enter with her divine sense or her body, there was no response.
She even called out to the two seniors in the space, but there was no response whatsoever.
In that instant, a chill completely enveloped her.
System, space...
Her greatest reliance, the two golden fingers that have allowed her to survive since she transmigrated to this day.
It was cut off.
The connection was completely severed by Sun Jiuchou's light palm strike!
After a brief moment of panic, a torrent of anger erupted violently from her chest.
betray!
This is a complete and utter betrayal!
She suddenly stood up from the ground, and with all her might, roared at the empty jungle.
"Sun Jiuchou!"
"You old bastard!"
"Didn't you say you weren't the enemy?!"
"You launched a sneak attack!!!"
An angry and humiliating roar echoed through the forest, startling a flock of unidentified birds.
The next instant, a shovel fell from the sky and landed in the ground in front of Zhou Jue.
It was her boundary-breaking shovel, the first tool she acquired. Later, after she learned to use a gun, runes, and spiritual energy, she left the shovel behind in some unknown corner of some dimension.
The sound faded, and the jungle returned to silence.
She stood there, her fists clenched so tightly that her nails dug deep into her palms.
After a long while, she slowly loosened her fist and exhaled a long breath.
Anger solves nothing, so she forced herself to calm down, closed her eyes, and carefully examined her own situation.
The spiritual energy within the dantian is still there.
Various techniques can still be used.
Her cultivation as a cultivator, the power she had cultivated step by step, remained.
This is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.
When Zhou Jue opened his eyes again, all the panic and anger in his beautiful eyes had faded, leaving only a sharp calm.
There is no system, and no space.
So what?
She, Zhou Jue, will go back to being the Zhou Jue who can only rely on herself today. She refuses to believe that without the system and the space, she can't go back.
She took a deep breath, stepped forward, and pulled her shovel out of the soil.
Holding a shovel, I was just about to take a step and explore the surrounding environment.
"roar--!!!"
A deep, yet majestic roar came from the depths of the jungle without warning!
The entire earth trembled violently at the roar.
Zhou Jue's expression changed, and he suddenly looked up.
Not far away, rows of towering trees were falling down in large swaths, as if they had been crushed by bulldozers.
A massive shadow was hurtling toward her at an alarming speed.
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