"What should we do now?" The termites looked anxiously at the ground beneath their feet. They had clearly fallen to the ground together, but as soon as they landed, they felt the ground harden rapidly, becoming as hard as stone and impenetrable.
The termite crouched down and carefully examined a clump of soil, then searched around for something. "There should be another space underground, although I don't know why we can't get down... Black Cat, use your superpower to search around again, there must be a place where we can get down!"
“Okay.” The black cat nodded and then began to search extensively using its supernatural abilities. The snow eagle stood guard to the side. Although it felt that finding Mu Yanxuan was more important at the moment, its instincts told it that it should find Ji Yueyao first. Once it found Ji Yueyao, it could find Mu Yanxuan.
Black Cat and his companions searched for a way to enter the underground in the dark Forbidden Forest, while Ji Yueyao, underground, was shining a flashlight around as he walked forward.
"It's eerily quiet here." Ji Yueyao felt that she could hear her own heartbeat clearly in this place.
"This place is known as the Forbidden Land of Death, where nothing but the dead exist." The two eyes in the sky rolled around twice, and the voice kept entering Ji Yueyao's mind, "Except for the exotic plants, all other animals are dead."
Sky only has a skull left, so he can't speak at all and can only communicate through Ji Yueyao's ability to sense vibrations.
"Forbidden Zone of Death? What the hell? I've never even heard of it." Ji Yueyao shook her head helplessly as she looked at the twisted and swirling strange plants around her. She really had never heard of this place.
Sky snorted twice in disdain, "All the humans who arrived here are dead, so of course no one took the data out of here."
"..." How is she supposed to get out then? Ji Yueyao rolled her eyes. "Didn't you say you could find Mu Yanxuan here? Where is he now?"
"Didn't I tell you, just go straight?" Sky Blue glanced up, giving a look that said, "Listen to me, you can't go wrong." Unfortunately, Ji Yueyao had him on his back and couldn't see it at all.
“I feel like I’ve been walking for a long time.” Ji Yueyao leaned on her backpack as she stepped over a patch of sharp thorns on the ground, rubbing her short hair. “And it feels very dangerous around here. These strange plants seem like they could attack at any moment.”
The sky began to roll its eyes up, down, left, and right again, and only after it had rolled enough did it slowly say, "The strange plants in this area are not aggressive. They will only try to prevent people above from falling down, so you don't need to be afraid at all and just keep walking forward."
"It only prevents the people upstairs from falling?" Ji Yueyao was taken aback. "Then how did I fall?"
“These alien plants are called umbrella-type alien plants. Their branches grow in a spiral and are exceptionally strong. Look up there.” The sky gestured for Ji Yueyao to look up. The sky was covered with clusters of dark, tightly intertwined branches. “These umbrella-type alien plants can completely seal off and isolate the land above, but there are still some places that slip through. The place where you fell happened to be a patch of umbrella-type alien plants that had not been isolated.”
“Umbrella-type alien plants, I’ve never even heard of them before… Then why haven’t my companions, the termites, come down yet?” Ji Yueyao frowned. She didn’t see the termites when she came down. Could they have fallen somewhere else?
"They didn't have time to come down. Once the air above rushes into the forbidden death zone below, the umbrella-type alien plants will repair the damaged parts at the fastest speed." The voice in the sky had a hint of schadenfreude. "They were a step too slow, and they crashed directly into the branches of the umbrella-type alien plants as soon as they came down."
Ji Yueyao was speechless. She felt that if the sky had skin, it would definitely be grinning lewdly right now.
What a nasty guy.
"But how do you know all this so clearly? It's as if you saw it with your own eyes." Ji Yueyao suddenly realized that this guy couldn't move, so how did he know all this?
"As long as I am in the darkness, my consciousness is infinite." Sky was a little smug, and the blue light in his two eyes became even more dazzling. "As long as there is no light blocking my way, this entire Forbidden Forest is within the scope of my consciousness."
"That's amazing?" Ji Yueyao was surprised. She had just found someone with superhuman vision. "Then you should be able to see your parents, right?"
"Yes, that's fine." Sky's voice was a little softer.
"Then why don't you try to contact them?" Ji Yueyao asked, oblivious to the change in Tiankong's tone.
“They already have new children. For them, losing me, their naughty son who annoys them all day long, doesn’t seem to be a big deal,” Sky said calmly. “Besides, I can only see them. I have no way to tell them that my consciousness is still alive, and I don’t want them to see me like this.”
Although the sky's voice was calm, Ji Yueyao could still hear the loneliness in his tone.
"What a hypocrite," Ji Yueyao scoffed. "You clearly want to see your family, but you're trying to act all cool here."
"You!" Sky was somewhat annoyed. "So what if I want to see you? I can't see you right now!"
Ji Yueyao chuckled, took Tiankong out of her backpack, and shook his head, saying, "Can I take you to see your parents? Didn't you say you could focus your consciousness throughout the Forbidden Forest? So you can avoid some of the dangers in the forest and find your parents, right?"
"No, you're underestimating the Forbidden Forest." Sky, dizzy from the shaking, said speechlessly, "What you're in right now is just the outer edge of the Forbidden Forest. If you reach the middle area, there will be powerful alien species nesting and breeding everywhere. If you encounter one or two, it'll be okay, but if you encounter a whole group, I doubt you'll make it back. Moreover, even if you manage to get past the central region, there are extremely powerful alien species guarding the edge between the central and central regions. Only if you make it past that you might be able to see my parents."
"Well... then you can just keep waiting. I promise I'll take you home someday." Ji Yueyao said helplessly. Actually, she also felt that she had been too naive.
"Didn't I already say that?" Sky rolled his eyes, but his eye sockets were so big that when he rolled his eyes upwards, it didn't look scary at all; instead, it looked like he was trying to be cute.
"Tsk, what's with that skull trying to be cute?" Ji Yueyao said with a look of disgust, then stuffed the sky, who had been caught in the crossfire, back into her bag.
The sky was furious, but after a few seconds of silence, its anger subsided. "Your companions are still some distance from the nearest gap. If you get up there soon, you won't have to wait for them to come down before you can go up. By the way, hurry up and move forward. The person you're looking for... well, the situation is dangerous now too."
"What's wrong with him?" Ji Yueyao frowned, her heart skipping a beat. "Didn't you say there wasn't any major danger here?" (To be continued.)
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