It's a pity that it didn't work out to update yesterday.

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An ominous premonition rose in Ace's heart, but instead of putting down Catherine to check, he said, "Just ahead, I've seen it." You sleep for a while, and I'll call you later. ”

Ace walked forward step by step. Now the black spot in front of him can roughly see the outline. It seemed to be a raised black platform, out of harmony with its surroundings.

This high platform is very peculiar, and every time Ace gets closer to it, it suddenly becomes taller and larger. But this is by no means the natural process of change from far to near, where objects gradually zoom in in the line of sight.

On the contrary, it is more appropriate to think of the high platform as a living creature. It's just that this living creature is completely out of common sense, growing up abruptly and frantically, producing a very exaggerated visual impact.

After walking a dozen or so steps, Ace had already come to the bottom of the high platform. In fact, it is not so much that Ace is approaching the high platform, but that the high platform is taking the initiative to move closer to them.

The current high platform has long since grown into a behemoth that cannot be looked at directly. Ace stood under the high platform, and no matter which way he looked, he couldn't see the edge. He looked up, but he couldn't see the sky.

Ace felt so small, and the huge shadow of the high platform hung over him, like a giant beast opening its mouth.

"Catherine, we have no way out. Ace gasped heavily, "Do you see, this is where we end." I don't have the strength anymore. I felt like my blood was boiling and could burn at any moment. Did you sleep well? I think I should sleep too, and I'll go to your sleep to find you. ”

After Ace finished speaking, he couldn't hold it anymore, and he fell forward and fell to the ground. Catherine pressed against his back and seemed to give a soft "um".

"I hate it, very, very much here. At that moment, a thunderous voice rumbled.

Ace opened his fast-closing eyes and struggled to lift his neck. On the raised wall in front of him, powder began to fall "slowly". The black walls cracked with a clatter. The earth trembled, and the stones and sand on the ground jumped up and down violently.

The sound of "clucking and clucking" became more and more frequent, as if the entire high platform was moaning about death.

"Hehe, Catherine, you see, this platform is about to fall. Ace actually laughed happily, "Don't you think it's very magnificent that we will be buried together under this high platform? Even His Majesty the King is not entitled to such a huge mausoleum." ”

As Ass spoke, the unreachable top of the platform was collapsing. Countless rocky boulders were scattered and cracked. They descended, with a deafening roar along the way.

The amount of this black gravel is so large that it is like a dark cloud falling from the sky. It's just that this dark cloud is still cracking and shattering in the process of falling, and before it hits the ground, it has already turned into fine powder.

This makes the volume of the cloud constantly expanding, upward, downward, forward, backward...... In the end, it was invaded on all sides by this dark cloud.

I don't know how long it took, Ace woke up from his coma. He found that instead of dying, he was buried in a thick layer of dust. He sneezed vigorously and blew up a cloud of black smoke.

Ace suddenly remembered something.

"Catherine!" he reached for his back, but the mage wasn't there.

Ace hurriedly touched the ground on both sides again, but couldn't find Catherine. The surroundings were filled with smoke by As, but a stone fell from the heart of the initiator.

Catherine is just gone, which means that there is at least hope of finding her.

Ace got up from the ground, and now he felt like he had some strength again, and it wasn't so hot around him. He looked up and saw that the sky had turned black and gray. The magma that was originally flowing in the air was completely solidified, like an incomparably large stone slab pressing on top of his head.

Ace only looked at it for a few seconds before he felt his heart beat hard. The unbearable heaviness weighed on his heart. He closed his eyes and shook his head vigorously, and it took him a long time to dispel the heaviness. He didn't dare to look at the sky anymore, and half-bowed his head to look around.

The world, which used to be made of red sand and stones, no longer exists. Instead, there are plains covered in black dust. But just as vast, just as boundless.

The temperature here is gradually dropping, and the dust on the ground is condensing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

Ace lifted one foot and stepped on it, and the dust that was raised just now was unresponsive. On the contrary, it sounded

The "click-click" cracking sound was like stepping on thin ice.

He tried to lift his other foot again, but he couldn't. Ace frowned, and only pulled his leg up with more strength. A lot of black fragments were splashed away by his action.

Ace took two steps forward in surprise, only half a shallow footprint on the ground. He crouched down and stroked the ground, then stood up and stomped his feet on the ground. This time there were no footprints left, and the ground was as hard as rock.

The dust condenses faster than you can imagine. Ace couldn't help but be a little afraid, if he hadn't raised his feet in time just now, he wouldn't have buried both feet on the ground.

"Maybe it's luck. Ace comforted himself in his heart, "Catherine, I'm coming to you." But where will you be?"

"It's so much better now, but I still hate it very, very much. Just as Ace was at a loss as to how to find Catherine, a muffled voice came from afar.

Ace looked where the voice had come from, and he saw nothing. But he didn't hesitate and walked in that direction.

"The voice is familiar. Ace thought as he walked, "yes, that's what I heard before that platform collapsed." ”

Ace quickened his pace, wanting to meet the owner of the voice as soon as possible. If the man said so, he must have known where they were. Ace had so many questions in his mind that he couldn't wait to know the answers. And his intuition told him that only then would it be possible to find Catherine.

Compared with the red and hot world before, the black world now seems more monotonous and depressing. The sky and the earth are undulating, and the scenery along the way is not noticeable, and the ground is so flat that you quickly lose your sense of direction. Everywhere you go, it's as if you're walking in the same place.

As he walked, he was unsure in his heart. Because the scenery in front of him had not changed at all, he didn't know if he was going in the right direction. It was even quiet, and this silence made him feel extremely uncomfortable and uneasy.

As's body began to be filled with irritability. He groped around his body aimlessly, searching for something, and finally his hand stopped at his waist.

Ace pulled out two cleavers from behind his waist. "Bang-bang-" He slashed the two knives at each other with a screeching noise. But it seems that only this noise can vent his irritable mood.

"Hey, where are you?" cried As, "don't you hate it? ”

"Bang-bang-" Ace slashed twice.

"Did you hear that? ”

"Bang-bang-"

No one answered him, Ass just macheted and yelled repeatedly, as if not doing so, he could not move on.

"Bang Dang" finally broke off at the same time and fell to the ground under the endless knocking of As.

"Get out!" Ace angrily threw the handle of the knife out.

He yelled and ran forward, and fell to the ground before he could get out a hundred meters.

"Come out! come out!" Ass yelled hysterically on the ground. He knelt down and slammed his fist into the ground.

Soon the fist was smashed into a bloody blur, but Ace had no intention of stopping like crazy.

"Get out!" he suddenly jumped into the air, roared hoarsely, and slammed his fist desperately into the ground.

"Bang" the rock-hard ground actually concave a piece.

But with a "click", A's entire arm was also broken. The bones stuck out of the muscles in the arm, bloody and unusually glaring.

Ace's eyes rolled and he fainted.

The world is finally quiet again.