When Ni Ji woke up, he found that he had slept for several hours.

He opened his eyes a little slowly, and for a moment he didn't even know where he was.

It was as if I was still in the past, a carefree young man, living a carefree life, laughing at any time, never experiencing true suffering, and never being hurt by this world.

Ni Ji blinked and saw the guide sitting in front of him, looking out the window with his chin in his hand.

The other party glanced at him and lowered his head to look at the video in the personal terminal on his wrist.

"I feel something is wrong." The man said with his head down.

"What...something's wrong." Ni Ji stammered in confusion.

Only at this point did he calm down and slowly remember what had happened.

He received spiritual guidance, and before the process was completely completed, he fell asleep comfortably.

She said, "It's okay, I will protect you."

So I really calmed down and fell asleep beside her.

Ni Ji hasn't experienced such a sound sleep for a long time.

Those nightmares filled with blood and corpses always filled his nights.

Who would have thought that in such a dangerous place, he would be protected by a guide and sleep peacefully for so long.

Ni Ji stood up and stretched his limbs.

The body becomes more relaxed than ever.

All the pain and heaviness in my mind turned into a ball of light down, which was blown away by the wind.

At this moment, every wave in the spiritual sea is humming happily.

The corals on the seabed are more colorful, the pearls are more dazzling, and the sea fish and crabs are crawling and swimming happily.

The beach is golden and the water is blue and clear.

The killer whale swam freely in the blue sea, becoming larger than before and more lively than ever before.

From time to time it leaps high out of the sea, closes its eyes in the air, and lowers its head to kiss the sea surface when entering the water.

Sometimes he would stand up straight, with his black-topped, white-chinned head floating on the surface of the sea, staring intently at the moon in the sky for a long time.

This is the spiritual counseling she gives herself.

This feeling is simply addictive.

"It's the wrong tree." Lin Yuan said.

After hearing what Lin Yuan said, Ni Ji came to his senses and asked, "What's wrong with the tree?"

Last night, they exchanged the information they had collected. Lin Yuan told him about the people who appeared at night. Ni Ji showed him some videos he had recorded.

The two people put their wrists together and used the short-distance transmission function of their personal terminals to transmit each other's data.

When night fell, the huge golden tree grew out from the cracks in the ground, covering the sky and the earth.

Before daybreak, the huge golden trees began to wither, turn gray, and break, and then dissipate like smoke.

A tree that lives in the evening and dies in the morning.

In Ni Ji's video, violent golden branches kept crawling out of the blood-red pit, screaming and roaring, with powerful mental attack capabilities.

White｜Phosphorus bombs are inextinguishable? Even flames cannot completely burn it.

The battle lasted until the second half of the night, and for some reason, the swaying and screaming golden branches became much quieter.

The violent mental attack suddenly weakened, and the ferocious golden monster seemed to have lost interest in fighting. It began to become absent-minded, twitching its branches perfunctorily, driving away the sentinels that were constantly looking for attacks from various angles.

Ni Ji searched the entire place, trying to cut off countless branches and leaves, and even risked going deep into the cracks in the ground to cut off a root, and once split the entire trunk.

But no one was able to get the key to open the exit.

The chopped trees and fallen branches quickly lost their golden color, turned into powder, and dispersed into ashes, accompanied by thick flames and strong winds, and disappeared into the night.

No entity was left.

"It's just not right." Lin Yuan stared at the virtual screens on his wrist in a daze.

Screaming, chaotic, screaming golden branches, golden trees that kept rising from the blood-red abyss, slowly turning above her wrist.

It was very similar to the tree she had seen before, but also somewhat different.

"There's something wrong with this tree, and something wrong emotionally." Lin Yuan said this and shut up without explaining the reason.

Ni Ji discovered that Lin Yuan was a girl of few words in real life.

But last night, or every time in her own spiritual sea, she was almost a different person.

Although her face was expressionless, she was actually very lively, curious about everything, and playful. She explored everywhere in the palace, went deep, and gently caressed.

Tender and simple, powerful and beautiful.

Last night, she explored her world like that.

Maybe I should have refused it then, Ni Ji thought. Once you experience that feeling once, you will always crave it again.

People are sometimes very greedy creatures. Last time in the contaminated area, I just wanted to have a few words with her.

Now, he knew he was hungry for more.

…

Taking advantage of the relatively safe daytime, the two men packed themselves up and sneaked into the Rose Camp again.

Those "humans" who were exactly like living people, who could speak, laugh, and have emotions, all disappeared into thin air.

The huge camp was empty. The streets, stairs, and rows of houses on both sides were silent and empty, with only the occasional sound of wind blowing through.

There was no more music, laughter, delicious food and wine. There was no more girl who sang to Lin Yuan.

On the way, there were occasionally one or two sentinels who had found this place and sneaked in. When they saw Ni Ji, most of them avoided him from a distance.

Those who come here for the bounty, who are able to avoid those dangerous monsters along the way and finally find this rose garden are basically all intermediate and advanced players.

But last night, Ni Ji, who fought against the big tree all night long, left them with a terrifying impression that they dared not provoke.

They just watched from a distance, most of them couldn't stand the weird screams coming from the golden tree.

That sharp sound was buzzing in my head, but every time I tried to get closer, my head hurt so much that I felt like I was going crazy. Let alone fighting, even the basic standing was difficult to maintain.

This lone wolf from the northern outpost rushed forward again and again in the blazing flames.

The knife is red, the man is covered in blood, and he fights like a madman.

Only such a strong and brave madman would dare to fight such a strange and deformed creature alone.

But even he couldn't find the key to open the door.

Where is the key? Where is the thing that Her Majesty wants? This is the question in the hearts of everyone who has arrived in this area.

Ni Ji took Lin Yuan to see the place where the golden tree appeared at night.

At this moment, there is no golden tree there.

There was only that huge crack on the ground, like a giant beast with its bloody mouth opened wide and baring its teeth, looking up at the sky.

"It's right here." Ni Ji squatted down and touched the ground with his gloved fingers.

The white phosphorus bomb burned all night last night, and at this moment, the floor here is still warm.

The soil and bricks are warm to the touch, recording the fierce and real battle last night.

But the huge tree was gone, and not even much ashes or firewood was left.

It appears at night and disappears before dawn.

Standing on the edge of the deep pit and looking down, the dark red crack is bottomless.

In the soil of the inner wall, there were things like blood vessels wriggling, and deeper there was a scarlet and dark bottomless abyss. The howling sound of the wind blew up from the ground, like the cries of countless people.

Specks of ashes floated up from the depths of the cracks, scattered like foam on the eaves and corners of the alleys, and danced on the deserted streets.