Chapter 366: Scenery Beyond the Rocks
In the dark and wide underground cave, the long-haired man looked a little depressed.
Yu Sheng was surprised to see this scene, because it was the first time he saw such a depressed expression on the girl's face - Rapunzel was usually a complete optimist, and her mental state was at least maintained by eating mushrooms all year round, if not peripheral necrosis, it was not easy to see her depressed from the bottom of her heart.
Even Hu Li, who usually didn't pay much attention to others, noticed this and asked her curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
"Brother, shouldn't I have urged Zheng Zhi to lead the way for us?" Long-haired girl looked at Yu Sheng helplessly, "otherwise he wouldn't have gotten into trouble..."
"You're just being depressed because of this?" Yu Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard what the other party said. "You are just overthinking it. Before you came, he spent most of the day touring around Yunling Peak. Does he need others to encourage him? And to be honest, with his 'physique', do you really think he would not get lost if you didn't look for him?"
Changfa blinked as she listened. At first, she thought the other party was comforting her, but suddenly she recalled Zheng Zhi's many "achievements" and suddenly felt that Yu Sheng was right...
At this time, the mermaid also shed her fish tail and returned to her human form. Yu Sheng didn't understand how she changed, but in a blink of an eye, the girl stood up. She looked around with wide eyes, and after several pauses, she finally spoke: "Um, did you hear the buzzing sound?"
"Buzzing sound?" Yu Sheng was a little confused. "I didn't hear it. What is it like?"
“Like… a cave humming? There’s a faint echo everywhere,” the mermaid says, observing her surroundings. “Also like something is snoring.”
Yu Sheng frowned and looked up at the others: "Did you hear that?"
Everyone said they had not heard any similar noises. Even Changfa shook her head, but she quickly added, "Xianyu can hear many sounds that ordinary people can't hear. She can even hear low-frequency and high-frequency vibrations that cannot be measured by precision instruments."
Everyone fell silent. Even though no one except the mermaid herself could hear the "buzzing sound" she was talking about, no one ignored the other's information.
The mechanical device inside Qianji Zhenren's body ticked, and after a moment of silence, he broke the silence: "There is vibration, but the source is unknown and it is very weak."
The mermaid suddenly raised her head and hummed strangely in a certain direction.
Those were a few very short syllables, sounding like the shrill call of some bird.
Then she made a few more sounds, which became increasingly sharp and high-pitched, until they could no longer be detected by human ears. Yu Sheng only saw her slightly opening her mouth, but no more sound could be heard.
Yu Sheng looked at this scene in confusion, and then suddenly realized that the other party was scanning the structure of this "cave".
He felt that this was unnecessary - because Master Qianji's mechanical ball, Hu Li's detection tail and the two guardians Baiqie and Salted had already been released, and everyone had no shortage of means of detection, and the mermaid's "sonar" should not be able to obtain more intelligence.
However, just as he was thinking this, a slight "click" sound suddenly came from the depths of darkness in the distance, interrupting his thoughts.
Yu Sheng subconsciously looked up in the direction where the sound came from, and almost at the same time, another more obvious and louder strange sound came from there.
The next second, he suddenly saw a glimmer of light - just opposite the "underground lake", deep in the rock wall shrouded in darkness, a horizontal crack of light suddenly lit up, catching everyone's eyes!
Then, the light began to expand rapidly, and the boundless darkness in the cave began to dissipate as if it was torn apart by someone, and Yu Sheng also heard a low roar that seemed to be able to beat along with a person's heart. The roar came from all directions of the entire cave, like the low chanting of some giant beast echoing in the space.
The ground began to tremble. The surface of the calm "underground lake" began to ripple violently and quickly became boiling. Disturbing creaking sounds came from the surrounding rock walls. The glowing vines and large and small stone pillars hanging from the top of the cave were shaking and trembling. The light in the distance expanded again. It was no longer a faint light, but a bright and rapidly widening crack, and the edges of the crack showed jagged outlines.
Yu Sheng finally realized what it was.
Those were teeth, and a mouth that was slowly opening—all of them were in the mouth of a giant beast! “Oh my god!” Irene finally screamed out in shock. Although the doll’s head was empty most of the time, she realized what was going on. She jumped onto Yu Sheng’s shoulder in an instant, “This, this, this, this thing is alive! How did you do that, fish?!”
As he was speaking, there was another roar of rocks rubbing against each other, and the vibration of the entire cave intensified again. Seeing this, Hu Li fell to the ground without saying a word, and transformed into a huge nine-tailed silver fox on the spot, using his body to block the heads of Yu Sheng and others.
The mermaid had already stopped "chanting" by then, but she was also confused when she turned around. After hearing Irene's exclamation, she immediately replied: "I don't know! I just kept hearing a buzzing sound, and the more I listened, the more it sounded like some living creature humming softly, so I tried to imitate it, wanting to communicate with that thing..."
“Xianyu, you… next time you have a similar idea, can you please tell someone first!” The long-haired girl’s voice was a little frantic, and the shaking of her feet almost made her lose her balance. The next second, the blonde hair behind her began to grow wildly, firmly supporting the surrounding rock walls and the ground, and forming an interwoven protection around her. “That ‘lake’ is boiling, ah ah oh shit!”
Before Changfa finished speaking, she heard a deep and solemn voice coming from the front. She looked up and saw that Master Qianji had floated into the air without her noticing. The surface of his Taoist robe with a metallic texture was shining with layers of brilliance, and countless mysterious runes lit up on the surface of the robe. The master then raised his arm in a certain direction, and the shell on his arm unfolded like fish scales. As the talisman lit up, a command echoed throughout the entire "cave":
"quiet--"
So this incredibly huge "behemoth" really calmed down for a short time, and the violently shaking "cave" also regained stability for a while.
At this time, Yu Sheng had already stretched out one hand into the air, ready to open a door to send some people away first. However, just before the door opened, he suddenly felt the connection established by blood.
After instantly sensing and determining the information carried in that connection, he stared at the opening on the other side of the "lake".
"Zheng Zhi is over there!"
Long-haired girl was stunned: "What?!"
"He's outside that 'gap' - he's fallen out!"
Yu Sheng spoke quickly, and at the same time he reached out and grabbed one of the fox's tails, skillfully and quickly turned over and climbed onto the back of the giant fox. Then he waved to the long-haired girl and the mermaid, "Hurry up and get on!"
The long-haired girl was stunned for a moment. After all, this was the first time in her life that she rode a nine-tailed fox. But she reacted quickly and followed Yu Sheng's instructions to quickly climb onto the back of the fox. Then her magic blonde hair grew wildly and she picked up the mermaid who was still in a daze on the ground and threw her next to her.
Several furry fox tails then gathered around Yu Sheng and his group, and the protective spiritual energy propped up a barrier that emitted a dim glow. The next moment, Hu Li took a step towards the boiling "lake". She ran faster and faster, stepped over the lake in mid-air, and under Yu Sheng's command, rushed towards the open giant mouth in the distance.
Xuan Che and Master Qianji followed closely behind, each riding on a spiritual light.
The light pouring in from the giant mouth had completely dispelled the darkness in the "cave". The light was tinged with a strange dark red. The fox demon and the immortal leaped in the red light, and in a flash they crossed the "lake" that seemed vast and boundless in the darkness.
“…It turns out that this body of water isn’t that big.”
Irene lay on Yu Sheng's shoulder, looked at the water below, and muttered subconsciously.
"Because it was dark before." Luna said slowly.
Yu Sheng's eyes were always on the front.
Hu Li crossed the huge mouth.
Yu Sheng saw a forest of sharp boulders and moss-covered rocks standing like a blade barrier at the end of the "cave" exit. Between these strange "teeth", he could also see a large number of broken vines and dead branches.
He saw rugged rock formations, as steep as a mountain wall, outside the huge mouth.
He could hardly imagine what kind of beast this was—a living mountain? Or a moving island? "Fly upwards, along that sloping ridge, Zheng Zhi is right on top." Yu Sheng instructed Hu Li, and sketched out the possible appearance of this "beast" in his mind. At the same time, his eyes involuntarily looked further away, past the rock wall in front of the beast's sharp teeth, wanting to see what the scenery outside the beast was like.
Then he saw the torn planet and the evaporated atmosphere.
An arc-shaped horizon came into everyone's sight. The land was covered with surging magma seas and blazing fire pillars that could almost erupt into space. There was also a terrifying trench, which seemed to split the entire star in two and was deeply imprinted on the torn land. Molten fire rose under the trench, and above the land, the atmosphere had been evaporated, facing the dark and crazy universe. Billions of stars were shaking, falling, colliding, and burning above the torn horizon. The ominous dark red light spread along the entire cosmic background, scorching everything that remained on the planet.
The giant beast slowly passed over the planet that was gradually falling apart, and its low and desolate wail echoed in the only remaining atmosphere of its homeland beside it.
(End of this chapter)
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