Outside the Golden Tree contaminated area, in the open space near the red warning sign, many people who had not entered were waiting and watching.

Some were waiting for their teammates to enter the dangerous area, and some came purely to investigate the situation.

The number of people entering the contaminated area this time is unprecedentedly large. I wonder if the "door" in this contaminated area, which has not been successfully opened for hundreds of years, can be opened.

"It's been several days. No one has come out. There are so many people this time. They can't all have died in there, right?"

"What good is having more people? For hundreds of years, there has been no one alive in the Golden Tree contaminated area."

"They are all those desperate guys. For money, they dare to break into the hell. It is just like the old saying, people die for money, birds die for food."

Ji Xuan from the Royal Guard sat on the roof of the car, with a coat draped over his shoulders and glasses on his nose, tapping the door lightly with his clean fingers.

A sentry came up to him and said, "Captain, it's been a few days. Those people who went in..."

Ji Xuan waved his hands and said, "Wait a little longer."

The image of the sky floated.

A black, rectangular gap suddenly appeared in the air and slowly expanded in the air.

"door!"

"It's a door!"

"The door is open."

Amid shouts of surprise, the watching sentries stood up one after another.

Sky? A door opened in the sky, a door of escape.

Countless people watched with indifference.

The pitch-black door opened silently in the air, but no one came out immediately.

It seems like someone opened the door from inside the contaminated area, but no one knows where the person who opened the door went.

After a long time, a sentry finally stuck half of his body out of the door, and then the whole person fell out.

The sentry's face was covered in blood, and half of his face had been bitten off by something. But no matter what, he was still alive, conscious, and not crazy.

He looked around blankly, with a look of disbelief on his face. Finally, he realized that he had finally come out, escaped from that nightmare-like place, and returned to the safe real world.

The sentry sat with his face in his hands and trembling.

Many people gathered around him and asked him what was going on inside and how he opened the door.

"I don't know. It wasn't me who opened the door." The sentry sat on the ground and shook his head. He didn't want to talk about his experience at this time. "It was a killer whale. A spirit was the sentry of the killer whale."

After him, sentries escaped from the gate one after another.

Almost all of them were injured and looked dazed. One sentinel was parasitized by spores, and half of his body was almost corroded. After falling, he was caught by his companions and rushed to a nearby treatment cabin.

There is a treatment cabin in the nearest base. The sentinels are physically strong, and as long as they can make it to the door alive and can afford the money to enter the treatment cabin, most of them have a chance of survival.

As more sentinels came out, they brought back a lot of news from the contaminated area.

In this polluted area, a new golden tree grows every night, and when daybreak falls in the morning, all its branches and leaves turn into ashes and disappear in the sunlight.

That tree that lives in the evening and dies in the morning. Even if you desperately chop off its branches, those golden branches will immediately turn into ashes and you can't take them out at all.

The monsters in the contaminated area are extremely ferocious. They capture sentinels everywhere but do not kill them. Instead, they keep humans in a certain area and imprison and torture them for a "long" time.

The one who got the key was a guide, the lone guide who appeared at the Tomena outpost.

At that time, many people on the run saw her hand the key to a sentinel, who sat on a huge killer whale and opened the door for everyone to escape.

Such news spread among the crowd.

"Guide, I was saved by a guide, it's incredible."

"Can there be such amazing guides? I thought they only knew how to dance."

"There really are such guides. I heard that a guide appeared in the East Coast area, and she will go into the contaminated area with the team."

"In the past few months, I have heard that guides have come to several other posts. They are not just passing through, but staying for a long time and participating in the treatment seriously."

"It turns out that there are such guides in this world."

The Royal Guards convoy.

Ji Xuan heard the collected information.

"Has our people not come out yet?"

"So far, no one has come out alive." The sergeant who reported the incident had a serious expression on his face. "But someone inside saw Ni Ji, and I heard that he opened the door."

Ji Xuan pushed his glasses and looked towards the dark door.

Ni Ji opened the door but didn't come out, and no one knew what the situation was like inside.

Can the Queen get what she wants?

The rectangular black doorway twisted slightly, and the clouds in the sky began to shake slightly.

All the sentries stood up and jumped into the cars, and the sound of countless car engines starting was heard.

Could it be that it has spread again? The golden tree pollution area that just spread once?

Everyone was on alert in their hearts.

The spread of the contaminated area is extremely dangerous. Everyone present stared at the sky not far away, ready to escape at any time.

The sky shook once, then shook again, and a piece of it fell off, revealing a gap.

Like a large canvas covered with tiles, pieces of scenery began to fall from the sky.

Finally, with a loud bang, it was like a huge glass barrier shattered.

The world before my eyes began to shatter and collapse...

"Is it disintegration?"

"The Golden Tree Polluted Area... is going to disappear?"

The fleeing vehicle stopped and braked. Everyone inside and outside the vehicle opened their mouths wide, staring in astonishment at the gradually collapsing barrier.

Sky? The false canvas in the sky slowly dissipated from top to bottom, slowly revealing the world that had been shrouded by it for hundreds of years.

The silent wilderness and the deserted streets quietly emerge in the sunlight.

The outermost areas are modern houses, and further inward are buildings from ten or a hundred years ago.

In that very remote central area, the town of four hundred years ago reappears on earth.

The long nightmare finally ended at this moment, and the earth swallowed by darkness returned.

The huge barrier slowly fell away, the sun's light soothed the long-lost earth, and the gentle breeze swept into the time and space that had been closed for hundreds of years.

Countless ashes were picked up by the wind, floating up into the sky, like countless ghosts escaping from a nightmare, riding on the wind in the darkness and returning to the sky.

In that town hundreds of years ago. Deep in the cave.

The blood vessels that were wriggling on the ground died completely. They soon became stiff, decayed, and disintegrated into ash.

The whole world is collapsing and falling apart.

The scarlet blood vessels turned to smoke and dust. Everything connected to it, everything that had been controlled by it for hundreds of years, also turned to ashes.

The masks of pain disappeared one by one, and the strange and sad sounds gradually subsided.

In the center of the cave, Ni Ji held the guide in his arms, not knowing how much time had passed.

It could have been only a minute, but it also seemed like a long time. He felt the body in his arms grow cold, and he saw the man slowly close his eyes.

He seemed to hear her saying that he should find another guide. Ni Ji knew that he would never find another guide in his life. He would never let anyone go into the depths of the sea like that and touch the secrets hidden in it.

Even if he would eventually become a monster without a guide to sort out his thoughts, then he would just become a monster.

Being an ignorant monster might be better than it is now.

He held his arms tighter, hoping that the body in his arms wouldn't get cold so quickly, and would stay a little longer, staying with him a little longer in this world.

The ashes in the sky floated in the air like snow, and the golden tree beside him also decayed and collapsed.

Those golden branches, trunks, and long roots are all gone.

A small human body fell from the tree trunk.

He lost both arms and legs, and wore half a golden mask. A bit of his body fell into the snow-like ashes on the ground, stirring up the "snow-white" flying catkins all over the sky.

Amidst the empty floating clouds, one could vaguely hear the gentle singing voice of a young girl.

Only the body and head of the deformed creature were left lying on the ground. A golden mask covered his brows, revealing half of his pale jaw.

He woke up from a long nightmare, lying on his back, watching the countless white fluff flying into the sky.

Listen? In the dark, there is a farewell song.

"There is a treatment cabin." He said this softly.

Ni Ji was almost unable to react. He froze for a moment, and turned his head with a stiff neck to look at the mutant that had fallen nearby.

"There's a treatment cabin here." Xunhua, who was lying on the ground, said again, "It's very close. I can take you there."

Ni Ji understood all the meaning of this sentence in an instant.

This was once a prosperous town with a large number of troops stationed here, and of course there were medical facilities such as treatment cabins.

Now that the contaminated area has dissipated, everything here has returned to what it was four hundred years ago.

If the treatment cabin is nearby, it can be found.

If anyone here knows where it is and how to use it.

Then she... maybe she'll still make it in time.

Ni Ji quickly turned his head to look at Lin Yuan in his arms. At that moment, he was very panicked and his heart was beating so fast that it almost burst out of his chest.

He bit off his gloves and touched Lin Yuan's face with his fingers.

I was afraid that she had turned cold and become an irreparable corpse.

The girl's skin in his arms was still warm, a little bit hot, and she was breathing, very lightly, her soft breath brushing against his fingertips.

Ni Ji really wanted to thank Lin Yuan. Thank her for being alive?

She had saved him many times and helped him a lot. But Ni Ji felt that she had never been so grateful to her as now.

Thank her for not dying and still being willing to live in this world.

When he was imprisoned by the Scarlet Egg, he experienced a terrifying illusion. The main subject of the illusion was Lin Yuan and her tentacles.

Lin Yuan in that place knew how to torture people better than the devil. After he woke up, he couldn't control his fear when he saw Lin Yuan.

But now he felt that as long as Lin Yuan was alive and willing to live, it didn't matter what she became.

Ni Ji picked up Lin Yuan, lifted the deformed species with only its head and torso left in one hand, and walked up along the collapsing inner wall of the cave.

He didn't understand why this deformed creature would offer to help. Not long ago, they were fighting a life-and-death battle with each other.

But it doesn't matter, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he won't think too much and is willing to try hard.

The race is against time. The race is against death.

Ni Ji summoned his own killer whale.

The spirit body, which had been exhausted and could hardly maintain its physical form, silently revealed its huge body. It cried out, steadily lifted up everyone, and flew out quickly.

With Xunhua's guidance, they quickly found the treatment room.

Everything here is well preserved, as if time has been frozen. The treatment cabin is almost the same as it was four hundred years ago, shiny and new, and able to save dying lives from the hands of death.

Ni Ji carefully put the guide in and put a breathing mask on her.

When he pressed the close button, he found that his fingers were shaking violently. His fingers, stained with Lin Yuan's blood, fumbled twice before he finally pressed the small button successfully.

The lid of the treatment chamber closed, and green treatment fluid slowly flowed out, drowning the slender body sleeping inside.

The instrument panel lit up, and the heartbeat data was still faintly visible.

"Do you have Regeneration Fluid No. 233?"

Ni Ji heard the deformed creature lying on the ground say.

He rummaged through the medicine cabinet and found it.

"have."

"Luck? Yes, that is the most expensive medicine. Give it to her. It can save her life."

Ni Ji remembered this medicine. Last time, the person lying in the treatment cabin was himself. He heard someone outside the treatment cabin say to the doctor.

"Change U55 to U96, use Regeneration Fluid No. 233, and the most expensive medicine to cure him."

The green healing fluid slowly filled the entire treatment chamber. Under the guidance of the golden tree, Ni Ji adjusted all the data bit by bit and injected the necessary medicine.

On the dashboard monitoring the patient's vital signs, all the physical indicators were on the verge of extreme danger.

The heart rate is very low, and the blood pressure and blood oxygen values ​​are terribly low.

But they are getting better little by little. Little by little, they are being pulled back into this world from the brink of death.

The guide in the treatment chamber seemed to be asleep, with her eyes closed, her face calm, and her body floating in the light green solution.

A golden heart-shaped necklace fell out from her chest and floated in the water.

"Now, you can kill me." said the mutant lying on the ground.

He had no arms or legs, only his head and body.

But at the cutoff points of the limbs, there were golden roots wriggling, with some pointed buds sprouting and growing very slowly.

I am not a human, but I have retained the memories of my human life. I don't want to live anymore, but I can't die.

"You saved her." Ni Ji said, "I won't do anything to you."

The aberration wearing a golden mask said calmly, "Your queen, what you are looking for is me."

"Cut off my head, kill me once and for all, and my body will turn to gold. Bring it back to your queen, and you will get the reward you seek."

"Bounty? How do you know? The Queen's bounty?" Ni Ji asked him.

"I am a guide. I have been a guide," said the inhuman creature lying on the ground. "When I wake in the night, I hear the voices of countless longings."

"So many of you came here, and so many lives were lost. Isn't it just for this?"

"Now I give it to you. Take it. Use your knife."

He was lying on the ground, his voice was flat and his tone was cold.

The mind has nothing to rely on and there is no interest in life.

The eyes beneath the mask were always fixed on the treatment cabin, on the golden heart floating in the liquid.