Just as he was about to pull the girl out, the shop owner seemed to realize something.
He immediately took the tattered cloth out of his pocket and then tore it to shreds with his other hand!
It was with that tug that the surrounding scenery began to distort again!
Click!
The trunk of a poplar tree in the distance immediately snapped, which startled me.
What's going on?
Will there be another thick fog here?
A wave of unease washed over me. Before I could even react, the rough bark began to fall off like pieces of paper.
The slightly blackened wood inside was exposed.
This made me feel physically nauseous.
No way, it was fine just a moment ago, and now it's broken like this.
I was just about to ask Mr. Zhou what exactly happened.
He seemed to completely ignore us, and just kept pulling out scraps of cloth from his pocket.
Not content with just tearing it up, he held it in his hand and continued to tear it into pieces, then tied it up again, and then tore it up again.
Finally, he threw the pile of tattered cloth strips in his hands onto the ground next to him.
The newly turned earthen mounds instantly looked as if they had aged, and cracks spread across them at an extremely rapid pace.
All the soil and debris sank in, as if the gravity had suddenly increased.
The remaining, relatively larger clods of earth also collapsed down in a soft rustling sound.
The translucent silk threads from before are the same; they've been dyed black.
When I looked over, it looked just like a tangled mess of hair stuck in the ground!
Emerging from the cracks in the soil, it immediately entangled itself around the grass roots at the original spot, like a tangled mess.
The waiter in the dirty T-shirt, though not far away, noticed what was happening and slowly backed away.
"Don't run away!"
I shouted.
The waiter seemed not to have heard what we were saying at all.
"Are you deaf? Running that way will lead to a sinkhole!" Seeing that the waiter was unmoved, the boss suddenly shouted again.
It was this shout that nearly scared the waiter out of his wits, and a look of utter terror appeared on his face.
"I understand! I understand!"
He didn't follow his boss's instructions at all; instead, he retreated even faster.
Even more bizarrely, I noticed that the waiter's body was becoming increasingly transparent, as if it were about to melt away.
The ground shook violently, and in less than a minute, only a blurry shadow of the waiter remained before he disappeared into the barren grass.
In the distance, the wind blew again, and the shovel the waiter had just been holding fell to the ground with a thud.
This person...is dead?
Before I could even get a clear look at the situation, I felt a dramatic change in the environment beneath my feet.
Is this place going to collapse?
"Yiyi, watch out!"
I quickly called out to the girl, and Yiyi did too. She nodded at me and then grabbed my clothes.
Looking around, there was no way out at all.
When I looked again at the staircase we had just come down, it was completely sealed off. The hotel's back door was firmly closed, as if it had been there for a long time.
What should we do?
I looked around again, and there was nowhere to run; in the distance, there was only a desolate expanse of weeds.
Only Boss He is still standing in front of me, standing in the same spot, without moving!
A mysterious and cunning smile appeared on his face, giving me a familiar feeling.
That smile was exactly the same as the one I had on the second floor before!
Instead, he muttered to himself.
"Don't worry... If this sea marrow is successfully prepared, I will definitely save some for you!"
"It will be given to you..."
Just then, a blinding light slammed down from above—it was clearly the sky!
I instinctively closed my eyes, and that familiar feeling returned once again.
There was nothing but blank space in front of me, and I couldn't see the end no matter how I looked, but my intuition was unusually clear.
A gentle breeze whispered in my ear, and I caught a faint, sweet scent...
My mind suddenly felt like it was filled with a lot of things.
"Master, cheer up!"
"Lightning Strike Sword?"
"You're not fully conscious right now; even I can't sense your condition!"
"If anyone attacks us, you'll be the one to react!"
"Of course!"
…………
I slowly opened my eyes, my mind a jumble of thoughts.
I rubbed it hard, and Yiyi and Lei Jijian were still beside me.
When I looked around again, I found that we were standing outside the front door of the Riverside Hotel.
It was the scene right when you first went in.
The hotel in front of us wasn't as dilapidated as it had been when we first entered.
However, it also has a sense of decay. You can clearly feel that the wall plaster and the bricks and tiles of this building are not many years old, but the decoration is quite poor.
The exterior wall plaster has peeled off in some places, revealing some red bricks underneath.
There was still a layer of dust on the glass door, just like it was before we first met Fatty Zhou.
The name "Riverside Hotel" is somewhat unclear, and it clearly lacks the solemnity it had when Zhou Pangzi was around.
Even the words "riverbank" have faded to grayish-white.
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