Chapter 27
Seeing that Xia Changjie could burst out with such amazing speed with just his legs, Ji Dongzang's competitive spirit was also aroused.
She decisively jumped off the cow cat's back, trying to mobilize all her strength and imitate running at that extreme speed.
Surprisingly, she actually caught up!
The two of them ran side by side, moving at high speed on the side of the team, and did not forget to bicker with each other while running.
However, the crisis has not been resolved.
When the team rushed to a fork in the road, a fallen giant tree stood in front of them, blocking the way like a roadblock.
Ji Dongzang and Xia Changjie were so engrossed in their argument that they were slow to react.
By the time they realized it, they were separated from the other people and the two cats by a giant tree!
The team was split into two at the fork in the road!
Xia Baiwan, Xia Qianwan, and Zhou You rushed to the left fork in the road with the two giant cats.
Ji Dongzang and Xia Changjie rushed into the deep path on the right that was filled with thick black fog as if by inertia.
Something strange happened.
The mutant beasts that were chasing them closely behind them the moment they stepped into the area shrouded in black fog.
They all stopped in unison!
They wandered and growled anxiously at the fork in the road, but seemed to be afraid of something, and none of them dared to go beyond the limit.
He just blocked the entrance and waited for the two to come out.
The sudden silence and the strange behavior of the beasts made the two men put away their previous quarrel.
Ji Dongzang and Xia Changjie looked at each other, and saw vigilance and a hint of... aroused curiosity in each other's eyes.
"Let's go," Ji Dongzang was the first to break the silence.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, with a hint of provocation, "Aren't you more curious than a cat?"
Xia Changjie was too lazy to argue with her anymore, but the forbidden area before her, where even the ferocious beasts avoided, did arouse her strong desire to explore.
The two of them tacitly lowered their voices and raised their vigilance to the highest level.
Cautiously, he stepped into the depths of the forest shrouded in a strange black fog.
The forest interior was eerily silent.
Thick black fog flowed silently around, blocking out all sounds and light from the outside world.
Only a faint beam of light projected from Xia Changjie's wrist could barely illuminate the rotten leaves and tangled tree roots under his feet.
The absolute silence pressed on his eardrums, and Ji Dongzang even had the illusion that he had lost his hearing.
Suddenly, Xia Changjie stopped, silently touched Ji Dongzang's arm, and gestured forward with his eyes.
In the dim light, a creepy "bridge" appeared at the end of the sight.
It was a suspension bridge built of countless white bones!
Broken ribs, twisted spine, shattered skull...
The skeletons of humans and various animals were roughly entangled and piled together, forming a narrow passage that sloped downward to an unknown abyss.
The bones are piled high and emit a strong smell of death.
Xia Changjie tilted his head slightly and asked with his eyes: Do you want to leave?
Ji Dongzang stared at the bone suspension bridge, and after a few seconds, he nodded vigorously.
"Go." She uttered a word in a low voice.
In this dead, eerie black fog, this simple decision itself seemed extremely crazy.
The two of them frowned at the same time, suppressing the discomfort that welled up in their hearts.
But his steps were extremely firm as he walked towards the bone bridge paved with death.
The two of them took one deep step and one shallow step, struggling to make their way through the almost stagnant black fog, and finally arrived at the disturbing bone bridge.
Woo-woo-woo
The howling sound of the wind suddenly intensified, like countless dead souls wailing!
The entire bone bridge swayed and groaned violently in the strong wind. The wind passed through the hollow gaps between the bones, making a high and low, sharp and piercing whistling sound.
It madly tore at the nerves of the two people, making them uneasy.
Ji Dongzang did not hesitate at all and was the first to step onto the creaking bridge of bones that seemed like it would fall apart at any time.
Her figure was as fast as the wind, and her steps were swift and precise on relatively stable joints. In just a few breaths, she had passed through the death tunnel and reached the other side.
Time seems to have stopped here.
What appeared before our eyes was a huge and broken canyon.
The crimson stepped rock walls stand silently on the absolutely silent earth.
The air was icy cold, filled with a desolate and dead silence that had been completely abandoned by time.
An indescribable coldness came over me, almost freezing me.
Ji Dongzang was stunned in place. The strong visual impact made her dazed for a moment, and she even suspected that she had fallen into the illusion of turbulent consciousness again...
Behind him came the sound of Xia Changjie's footsteps stepping on solid ground.
Ji Dongzang suddenly turned around and looked at the figure who had also stepped into this place.
In this strange place, even the existence of companions seems illusory.
She subconsciously looked back at the road they had come from. The thick black fog behind her seemed to come alive, swirling even thicker and thicker.
Even with her special vision, she had completely lost any trace of the bone bridge.
The vision was completely filled with pure, all-consuming darkness.
The retreat is cut off.
Xia Changjie obviously also discovered this.
She immediately raised her wrist and quickly operated the sophisticated mechanical watch.
However, all that appeared on the screen was a blinding blur of snow.
Attempts to contact Xia Baiwan and Xia Yi fell on deaf ears, and even the basic functions of the watch itself were paralyzed.
She silently lowered her hand, and her icy eyes began to scan this unfamiliar and desperate situation sharply.
"Is your consciousness disturbing again?" Xia Changjie's voice was particularly clear in the dead silence, with a hint of imperceptible tension.
"This place... looks like the remains of an ancient civilization lost on Earth?"
Ji Dongzang didn't answer, she looked at the canyon in front of her.
The red terraced valley walls on both sides are steep and rugged, as if they were carved by a giant axe.
What is surprising is that at the entrances of those natural caves of varying heights, there are countless animal statues of various shapes!
These statues are strange and inexplicable:
Some are vaguely recognizable as lions, tigers, bears and leopards, while others are distorted and grotesque, like non-existent creatures from another world, and some are even impossible to identify their original prototypes.
They vary greatly in size, the smallest is smaller than a palm and less than three centimeters by eye, while the largest is more than three meters, but they are all made in the same way.
Made of flexible willow branches!
Each willow branch is split lengthwise, leaving only one end connected, and then undergoes extremely complex and delicate folding, winding, and interlacing...
The final result is a lifelike animal form.
The cold branches create the illusion of warm flesh and blood, exuding a creepy and strange aura.
Just as the two of them held their breath and carefully observed these strange willow branch creations.
Mutation regeneration!
A strange fragrance came and the wind whistled faster.
Through the thick black fog and biting wind, a creepy figure slowly emerged in the distance.
It was an unusually thin and tall "ghost".
A dark red pointed hat was tilted on his head, and the connected wide cloak of the same color almost completely covered it.
Only two disproportionate, pale and slender "beautiful legs" were vaguely revealed under the cloak.
The whole body is slender and twisted, exuding a sinister aura.
It was reclining in a strange posture, riding on the back of a huge beast.
The giant creature looked like the legendary Cyclops, but it was magnified several times!
He was nearly three meters tall, with a single eye glowing faintly in the shadows, arms hanging past his knees, and feet as huge as millstones.
What's even more terrifying is that its body is roughly pieced together from countless rugged, cold rocks, with faint dark light floating in the cracks.
Details were blurred in the swirling black fog, leaving only a huge, distorted outline.
Behind them, there seemed to be more indescribable shadows following...
However, all perceptions were taken away in an instant!
Ji Dongzang and Xia Changjie didn't even have time to figure out what it was before their vision blurred and dissipated rapidly as if corroded by strong acid.
Under the shadows of the slowly approaching monsters emitting terrifying pressure.
The two men's consciousness instantly sank into endless darkness, their bodies fell straight back, and they completely lost consciousness.
…
This sleep was long and heavy, as if sinking into the glacier of time.
The biting cold was like countless ice needles piercing into his bone marrow, waking Ji Dongzang from his deep coma.
She opened her eyes suddenly.
white!
What I see before me is an overwhelming, suffocating pure white!
The biting cold wind blew across the exposed skin, stirring up fine snow foam.
The sky, the earth, as far as the eye can see, are all endless, dead and cold snowfields.
"Another... world?"
Ji Dongzang propped himself up, his consciousness still a little confused.
This place is not as devastated and fragmented as the Juya world, but only has a pure and extreme desolation that freezes everything.
There was no one on the vast snowfield except her.
Only in the distance, there are some scattered snow piles of various shapes.
Some of them were vaguely recognizable as the outlines of some animals or objects, while others were strangely distorted and beyond her cognition.
She herself was lying next to a huge, crudely built snow lion.
Where is Xia Changjie?
Ji Dongzang stood up vigilantly and looked around.
It was all white, and there was no other sound except the whistling of the wind.
Xia Changjie seemed to be completely swallowed up by the snowfield, leaving no trace.
"cough……"
At this moment, the huge snow lion beside him suddenly moved!
The snow covering the surface fell off.
Ji Dongzang instantly tensed up, thinking that he had been discovered by the creatures of this world, or that he had encountered a "translator" like the rabbit in the Juya world.
"Don't look for it, it's me."
A familiar voice, yet with a hint of dullness and helplessness, actually came directly from the snow lion's "mouth"!
Ji Dongzang: “???”
She suspected that she was hallucinating because of the cold.
"I'm Xia Changjie." The snow lion added in a muffled voice, and the snow trembled slightly with his words.
Under Ji Dongzang's shocked gaze, "Snow Lion" Xia Changjie explained:
She was here not long ago.
The last time she wandered alone in this dead snowfield for nearly half a month, she encountered nothing except wind, snow and snowdrifts.
Until one day, the snow began to melt without any warning...
And during the melting process, her body collapsed and reshaped uncontrollably, and eventually turned into this snow lion!
As the ice and snow melted away, she also disappeared, and her consciousness returned to the human world.
"This time travel mechanism... is too sloppy, right?" Ji Dongzang couldn't help but complain after hearing this.
She subconsciously stretched out her finger and curiously poked the snow lion's cold body.
Phew!
She easily picked up a large piece of loose snow!
The snow lion Xia Changjie cast two cold and resentful glances with his white round eyes, silently accusing her of destructive behavior.
Ji Dongzang withdrew his hand awkwardly, with cold snow flakes remaining on his fingertips.
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