I've never seen an adult so anxious before... Snow Fox swallowed hard, but didn't dare to delay and quickly said, "White Ant said that Ji Yueyao is very safe now and is resting."
Upon hearing this, Mu Yanxuan's tense face relaxed. He gently curled his lips and murmured to himself, "Still sleeping at this hour, what a lazy cat."
Little did Mu Yanxuan know that the "little lazy cat" he was talking about was currently running around in the underground of the Forbidden Forest's outer perimeter—the Forbidden Land of Death.
"Captain...where exactly is this place? How much longer do we have to walk?" Zhu Mu asked, panting, looking at the endless darkness ahead. It seemed there was no other living thing here besides the two of them. Zhu Mu glanced at the dark, messy plants around him and felt a chill run down his spine. This place was like a graveyard, devoid of any life.
He didn't know how long they had been walking, only that they had been running in this perpetually dark place, barely slowing down except for brief pauses when they rested.
“This place is called the Forbidden Land of Death.” Ji Yueyao’s speed did not slow down at all. She glanced at the bamboo and wood, easily leaped over a boulder and said calmly, “There are no living creatures in this place, which is why I chose to take this path… However, at the end of this place, there is an extremely powerful spider-type exotic bird guarding it.”
"An extremely powerful spider-type exotic bird!" Zhu Mu exclaimed in surprise, tripping over a stone and nearly falling over.
"By the way, I haven't asked you what kind of superpower you are yet?" Ji Yueyao looked back at Zhu Mu, who was easily following behind her, and asked expressionlessly.
"I am a speed-type ability user," Zhu Mu said, leaping up and easily catching up with Ji Yueyao.
"Speed type?" Ji Yueyao thought for a moment and nodded. Speed type ability users are more than three times faster than ordinary ability users, and while they are extremely fast, their strength is also enhanced like that of ordinary ability users.
"That's a pretty useful superpower," Ji Yueyao nodded secretly.
"When did you become a superhuman?" Ji Yueyao asked after thinking for a moment.
Takeki thought for a moment, then raised his hand and touched his chin. "Probably when I was eighteen?"
"Eighteen?" Ji Yueyao raised an eyebrow. "Then how old are you now?"
"You're twenty-five, Captain, and you're six." Zhu Mu scratched his head and smiled. Although he didn't know why Ji Yueyao asked him that, he answered truthfully.
But thinking about it, the captain is really young...
"You've had your superpowers for seven years, so why do you still act like a beginner when using them? Is it a problem with your intelligence?" Ji Yueyao glanced at Zhu Mu and said with a hint of sarcasm.
"..." Takeki fell silent. He knew it, he knew it. The captain wouldn't ask him questions for no reason!
Zhu Mu was inwardly heartbroken, but too embarrassed to say anything, so the two remained silent. Zhu Mu stole a glance at Ji Yueyao, feeling a stifling tension in the silence. He cautiously spoke again, "Captain...where does this end lead?"
“The central edge of the Forbidden Forest,” Ji Yueyao said calmly.
"The Forbidden Forest... Huh?!" Takeki's eyes widened as he stared at Ji Yueyao, his mouth agape in disbelief. "You can reach the middle of the Forbidden Forest directly from here?!"
“Otherwise, how could we have walked for so long?” Ji Yueyao glanced around and stopped in a relatively open area. “Let’s rest for a while.”
After saying this, Ji Yueyao sat down cross-legged, placed the backpack behind her in front of her, and took out a compressed biscuit and stuffed it into her mouth.
Zhu Mu also sat down. He had brought enough food with him when he came, so he took out a bottle of water from his backpack and took a few sips. "No wonder there's an extremely powerful exotic spider-type exotic bird guarding it."
Ji Yueyao nodded without speaking, then lay down on the ground and closed her eyes.
"Captain, are you going to sleep?" Zhu Mu wolfed down a few more mouthfuls of dry rations, not caring whether Ji Yueyao was asleep or not, and started chattering again, "Captain, then apart from that spider-like strange bird, there's no danger at all on this road... It's really a good road, how did you find it?"
“It’s not without danger.” Ji Yueyao opened her eyes and blinked a few times as she looked at the pitch-black surroundings. Her eyes had already adapted to the darkness, and seeing things was no longer difficult, but being in the dark all the time was certainly not a pleasant experience. In this pitch-black world… had the sky stayed there for a very long time? “If you get injured here, there’s no way to stop the bleeding. Only by using the ability of a superhuman to quickly repair wounds can you stop the bleeding.”
"I see! No wonder you told me not to get hurt, Captain." Takeki nodded thoughtfully, then felt sleepy and lay down on the ground to rest.
Ji Yueyao was no longer sleepy. She took out the two eyes of the sky from her pocket, looked at the azure light, and silently put them back.
"I'm sorry to have brought you back to this place again... Sky, your eyes are really as blue as the sky."
After a short rest, Ji Yueyao and Zhu Mu resumed their all-out effort and ran for an unknown amount of time before finally reaching the edge of this forbidden land of death.
"We've...we've arrived?" Takeki looked at the muddy ground that had turned from flat land, scratched his head, and looked around.
This place is really gloomy and eerie.
"Be careful," Ji Yueyao said in a low voice. She lifted her foot and lightly touched the mud in front of her. She felt an extremely cold current rush up from her toes as soon as she touched it. The coldness made her shiver. "What an icy mud pit."
"Ice?" Zhu Mu also stuck his foot out to test it, and it was indeed very cold, but he quickly adjusted. "It's not bad, Captain."
"Are our physical constitutions the same?" Ji Yueyao glanced at Zhu Mu speechlessly, then walked directly to a harder spot next to the mud puddle, a place where she could put her feet down. A chill kept creeping up her feet, so Ji Yueyao could only grit her teeth and run at top speed to increase her body temperature.
Zhu Mu watched blankly as Ji Yueyao left him behind. He opened his mouth, then quickly followed, "Captain, don't rush off! What if we get lost?"
Ji Yueyao raised her hand and waved the compass at the bamboo and wood, saying calmly, "You won't get lost."
I know you have a compass... Zhu Mu felt a little heartbroken.
Upon arriving at this place, Ji Yueyao felt a sense of oppression from the surroundings. There were also strange fluctuations above them, and the umbrella-like alien plants seemed to be blocking something, making the energy transmission very chaotic.
Ji Yueyao suddenly slowed her pace. She stopped, glanced around, and reached out to grab the bamboo tree that was trying to overtake her. "Wait a minute." (To be continued.)
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