Chapter 416 How are you?
The sky with a strange lavender glow covered the desolate alien land. The sunlight looked pale and cold because of its distance. The huge impact area was endless. Standing in the crater and looking towards the center point, the visual experience was as if the entire land was slightly concave towards a point in front.
The faint sunlight in the sky shines on the center of this "basin", casting an illusory halo on the molten glass land.
Apart from this, this desolate alien land is almost silent - even if there is an occasional breeze blowing by, it is so weak that one would even doubt whether it has really brushed against one's ears.
"Before I came here, I heard from Xuan Che that 'barren planets' without earth veins are like this," Yu Sheng muttered to Irene in his arms, "There is almost no geological activity, and even if there is an atmosphere, it is often in a stagnant state. All material circulation is very slow. It is precisely because of this that the 'corpse planets' with ecosystems on the barren planets appear more bizarre."
"This area is so huge..." Irene muttered, "I can't believe that this is something that mortals could create... Even if it was those 'immortals', it's a bit outrageous that they could explode such a large geological landscape, right?"
"This just shows from the side how powerful the enemy Yun Qingzi faced back then was," Yu Sheng said slowly, "The scary thing is not that he blew up such a large crater, the scary thing is that after such an amazing self-explosion... he may not have defeated that enemy."
Hu Li still maintained her nine-tailed silver fox state. She carefully lowered her head and sniffed the surroundings, then walked forward along the impact folds on the edge of the crater, sometimes walking slowly, sometimes lightly crossing large pieces of broken rock. As she walked forward, she said to Yu Sheng, "My benefactor, there is still a little bit of 'spiritual power' left here. The breath has permeated the rock layer below. It seems that this is the part that the 'aftermath personnel' cannot completely remove, but they can only sense this little bit of 'spiritual power'... There is no other extraordinary breath."
"No remnants of the Dark Angel were found... That's normal. It certainly wouldn't be so smooth." Yu Sheng nodded gently, then turned to look at Luna beside him, "Did the radar find anything?"
"No," Luna responded slowly, "We are scanning the underground. The structure is complicated and difficult to deal with."
"Is that 'dead air' still there?" Yu Sheng asked again.
"Yes," Luna thought for a moment and spoke slowly, "Everywhere."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but just frowned tightly and looked around thoughtfully.
After roughly exploring a small area on the periphery, Hu Li went directly across the vast and desolate flat area of the crater and came to the special "glassy" area in the center.
This was the energy explosion point in the final stage of Yun Qingzi's battle with a powerful enemy. The horrific explosion directly melted the entire land and refined it into a whole piece of "glass". The molten ground was squeezed and cracked during the rapid cooling process, leaving behind a special landscape of layers of ripples and fractures mixed together. Even though thousands of years have passed, looking at this molten and cooled land, explorers can still imagine how earth-shattering the battle was.
Yu Sheng's attention was soon attracted by certain substances between the ripples and cracks.
There were many strange crystal clusters mixed with pale gray and black - they "grew" out from the folds and cracks of the earth like some kind of living matter, piled up unevenly and layered. They were not obvious from a distance, but when you get closer you can see that they almost cover the entire central area.
Yu Sheng and his companions jumped off Hu Li's back. Ailin looked curiously at the pale crystal clusters that could be seen everywhere around them: "What the hell is this... Eww, it feels a bit disgusting when I look at it."
"Disgusting?" Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows. "I don't feel that way, but this thing does look uncomfortable... It doesn't look like something that would normally come out of the ground."
Luna walked forward in silence, equipped a fingertip blade from the secret compartment in her thigh, carefully reached out and poked and tapped the crystal clusters, then broke off a piece of crystal.
"It's very crisp," she raised her head and said slowly, "and light."
Yu Sheng reached out and took the crystal fragments that Luna handed over, and weighed them gently in his hand.
This thing was incredibly light, even... it gave him the illusion of "missing mass". That light-as-air feeling created a huge contrast with the seemingly solid and dense appearance of the crystal itself.
Yu Sheng frowned, and in the next second, he suddenly felt a slight trance.
He felt the crystal in his hand tremble slightly, and a false heat seemed to spread from his palm;
He seemed to hear some muffled whispering coming from the crystal, from all sides, from beneath his feet, from the depths of the earth;
He felt a kind of "connection", some indescribable...direction, guiding him - look up.
Yu Sheng blinked, and subconsciously raised his head following the feeling of "connection" that came from nowhere, and looked at a corner of the sky.
That was the direction where Shu Ji was.
Yu Sheng was not an expert in identifying stars, nor could he remember what stars there were in this distant and unfamiliar starry sky. What's more, he had now changed to a different planet. The sky he could see on Weishu-3 should be completely different from the sky of Shuji or Taixu Lingshu - but he recognized Shuji in an instant.
The planet had a strong presence in his field of vision, and a bright starlight seemed to be rapidly magnified, even easily covering up the distant and weak sunlight in the sky.
He blinked again, and the already dim sunlight in the sky weakened further. The night in a corner of the sky spread wildly like a rapidly drawn curtain, and his vision became dim. However, Shuji appeared brighter and more obvious in the rapidly darkening sky - countless stars were shaking in a corner of the sky, trembling and circling around Shuji, as if they had turned into countless whirlpools of different sizes, spinning wildly around the entire sky!
And Shuji, the star with the strongest presence, was at the center of this whirlpool-like crazy sky. It began to emit a strong, ominous red light. The edge of the red light was beating like a heart, expanding and contracting violently, as if a creature about to emerge was brewing inside it! In the dead space, Weishu-3 resonated with Shuji from afar, like a dried-up nest cheering for another nest that was about to be dried up. Yusheng felt as if his spirit was being torn away from his flesh and blood, as if being attracted by this closely connected death across the sea of stars, rushing to the star that was about to emerge.
However, at this moment, a voice came from the depths of his trance, and the voice was very familiar.
"...Sheng, Yusheng, Yu-Sheng! Yusheng, don't die suddenly just because you play with an alien stone, okay!"
Then there was a sharp pain in my calf, which was the sour and stimulating kick from the rebar doll on the calf bone.
Yu Sheng was instantly awakened from his trance, and almost kicked the little doll away with a roar.
The next second he hopped back several steps on one foot, grimacing to ease the pain in his leg while glaring at Irene: "I woke up when you yelled those two times! You definitely did that kick at the end on purpose!"
"How would I know what it would take for you to wake up?" Irene said confidently, with her hands on her hips. "You were totally brain dead just now!"
"I just..." Yu Sheng spoke subconsciously, but just after he uttered a few words, he felt a slight tingling sensation in the palm of his hand.
He looked down and saw that the palm of his hand had been pierced by the pale crystal fragments, leaving a small wound. At this moment, blood was dripping uncontrollably along the edges of the crystal.
This scene made Yu Sheng a little dazed.
Because the crystal's structural strength was not high, although it had an extremely sharp edge, it shouldn't have pierced his skin in theory. He knew how strong his body was now. Even a normal kitchen knife might not break his skin. How did such a stone cut his hand? Was it a coincidence? Or was there something strange in the crystal? Or... was he subconsciously and instinctively "giving blood" to this pale crystal? Was the illusion he just "saw" related to the blood that had seeped out unconsciously?
Many questions suddenly popped up in Yu Sheng's mind, but before he could think of anything, a continuous "click" sound suddenly came from all around, interrupting what he wanted to say.
Everyone subconsciously looked in the direction closest to the sound. Irene was the first to notice the source of the sound. The little puppet widened its eyes and pointed at a nearby crystal cluster: "Yu Yu Yu Sheng! This thing is growing! They are fucking alive!!"
The crystal clusters are growing! It was as if some creature in a state of suspended animation suddenly woke up. All the crystal clusters in the entire impact crater plain came alive at once. Large and small pale crystal substances swayed violently in the cracks of the rocks, grew, and made chilling crackling sounds. Then they emerged from the ground in pieces, and reorganized again in the process of growth, forming a more complex and chaotic crystal structure, which began to surge and spread like a tide! The fur on the fox's body instantly exploded, and a bunch of tails suddenly opened up like a screen: "My benefactor! Something is drilling up from the ground!"
Without Hu Li's reminder, Yu Sheng also saw the thing that came out from the ground -
He saw that a piece of ground in the center of the plain was bulging, rising rapidly at a speed far exceeding the growth rate of the surrounding crystal clusters. The glassy surface soon shattered, and a huge crack appeared. Countless pale crystals gushed out from it like madly growing flesh and blood, and formed an amazing aggregate with a teeth-grinding friction sound.
“What the hell!!!”
Yu Sheng screamed subconsciously, and almost at the same time, the crystal aggregate that emerged from the ground turned towards him.
The chaotic crystals tens of meters high formed the outline of a human upper body, with the beard and hair vaguely showing the appearance of an old man. The countless smooth mirrors on the surface of the crystal aggregate reflected the figures of countless Yun Qingzi. Each of the Yun Qingzi cast their eyes towards Yu Sheng, and then, a hoarse and chaotic voice reached Yu Sheng's ears -
"Fellow Daoist...I hope you are well..."
(End of this chapter)
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