Wander through the ancient land, surrounded by phantom-like vines.

In the quiet darkness, the only source of light was the stone held high in his hand.

The bright light is like a white velvet thread, stretching its roots with all its might, but what can be touched is an incomparably deep and gloomy place.

"......"

I raised my hand and muttered to the girl who was burying her head forward, but before my fingertips fell, the tangled state of mind was cut out by the dark green scar on her shoulder. The cold breath came, and I stood in a daze for a long time, until I walked a few meters away, and then I followed in a daze.

Perhaps remembering the scene of Xun's tragic death, I raised my eyes a little lonely, and an indelible voice always echoed in my mind,

She was different from me, never was the same.

So, should I still speak? I begged her to join me to save Yao, who was in danger. Or is it the safest way to go, at least......

As soon as the wrong thought came to me, I immediately pinched my scraped skin, and my mind became much clearer in the sharp pain that rushed up.

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

I guess I heard my forbearant snort, and the person who was walking in front stopped and looked at me who was hurting myself in confusion. Being stared at by her so eagerly, I suddenly withered as if deflated, and replied pretending to be displeased,

"It's nothing, how long will it take, it's almost half a year past-"

"Tsk."

I was impatient, I saw that her delicate face was once again full of familiar disgust, but there seemed to be something else flowing in those pair of jade-like eyes.

"Are you old? It's only a little bit of a road, and I thought coming down from the mountain would make you at least ...... Be stronger. ”

Listening to her lame description, I replied with a light smile,

"Well, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you."

This time, she didn't say anything more, just muttered and turned around, tearing apart the blocking vines while continuing to move forward in silence.

With a few simple words of exchange, the tension was relieved, and I casually pushed the rattan aside while carefully examining the clothes she was wearing.

In the dim light, the colors were almost gone, and all I could make out was vague outlines, but despite this, the changes she had experienced were still very noticeable - she also found time to change her clothes during the time we were apart.

I narrowed my eyes in confusion and carefully observed the sleeveless sweatshirt that wrapped around her upper body, and for a moment I felt like I was out of time. However, as the gaze wandered, in addition to this outfit that was out of the background of the times, there were more unreasonable objects leaking out, and the most confusing of them was the leggings she wore on her legs, and even a strangely shaped logo was sewn near her waist.

Just when I was full of doubts, the curiosity that had diffused in my mind gradually faded, and then, the undulating arc across the whole body suddenly broke into my eyes.

This set of outerwear, which is not very standard, fully shows her body that was once hidden under the shabby long-distance running, whether it is a slender and straight back, or a tight and well-proportioned waist and abdomen, all of which exude full vitality and rich beauty. This eye-catching visual impact is almost the same as the creations in the hands of those sculptors and painters in the Renaissance.

Suddenly, I realized that the part I was staring at at seemed to be quite inappropriate, and I was coughing and turning my face to one side, and at the same time there was an uneasy heat around my ears.

I knew it was turned around again, but I kept my old position and pretended nothing was happening.

"Hey, I said...... How much longer? ”

I couldn't hold back, I asked in a thin tone in a hoarse voice, and this random question was just a cover for my panic.

"Hmm-"

There was a slight snoring sound in her throat, and through the afterglow, I just happened to see her thoughtful eyes.

"Alas, sure enough, ......"

Immersed in the peaceful tranquility, he whispered,

"This dress still doesn't suit me."

"Huh?"

I jerked my head back to find that she was already frowning, her free hand slowly brushing the silk thread that had come out of the edge of her shirt.

Seeing this situation, I was a little confused, I couldn't figure out which sentence or action made her have such a strange idea, but no matter what the cause, the best way at the moment is to prevaricate first, after all, as the only combat force in the team, if she is entangled by miscellaneous thoughts, I'm afraid we will not have good fruit to eat.

As soon as I thought of this, I hurriedly waved my hands, used all the knowledge related to female communication in my mind, and anxiously comforted,

"How so! Look at how good you look right now! How pretty! It's true! Compared to the first time I saw you at that time, it was just like two ...... People, huh. ”

Looking at the sharp turn of the tongue, I stopped talking in embarrassment, and now that I think about it, why do I need to add the second half of the sentence in one more move.

However, just as I was desperately thinking about how to remedy it, a crisp bell suddenly spread through the vast forest.

Ding——

The melodious tone seemed to come from a holy heaven, and the moment it drifted into my ears, the impatience that permeated my heart was gone.

In a trance, my brain was brushed into a simple blank, I just stood in place, blindly chasing the tail note of the bell, those tragic and terrible memories, those unbearable experiences, all of which were briefly forgotten with the disappearance of this strange sound.

I don't know how long it took for me to focus my face in the direction of I, and my eyes were cloudy and blank before I focused.

"What is this?"

"Ang ......"

Before he came back to his senses, he was still staring firmly at the increasingly dim stone in his hand. Seeing her reaction, I asked slowly again,

"Why, what was the sound just now?"

Only now, the girl with a stiff face muttered,

"It's it, it feels us."

"It?"

We suddenly remembered the ancient ancestors mentioned earlier, and the hard-won peace in our hearts turned into worry. What kind of existence is this mysterious creature? What happened between it and 瑗? And there was a hypnotic sound...... Did you really not receive control, or hints?

Thinking back to the monster who once disguised himself as a big man, I only think that this inference is indeed possible.

"Let's go, we're not far from our destination."

Before I could express my doubts, she suddenly stretched out her arm and pulled me towards the vines.

She walked very fast, not taking into account the mortals who escaped death behind her, being pulled at random along the way, the wounds all over my body finally hurt again, every time the branches were brushed, it was like being whipped by a slender wire, and only the cold touch of the skin on the wrist could bring some soothing.

Stumbling and following the pace of the Emperor, the falling vines were also dense at a very fast speed, in this trek of tens of meters, I could not find a single branch, countless black and brown branches were twisted together in a strange way, like the thick stone pillars around the temple across the heavens and the earth.

Suddenly, she stopped, and I could feel her palms trembling slightly.

"It's here!"

Suppressed in the proclamation is an incomprehensible excitement. And I stared at the trees that looked like walls, and my heart beat to the point of exhaustion. At this time, imagination exerts its vigorous vitality, enveloping the darkness in front of you with a layer of eerie colors.

What kind of strange fate awaits us?

In my unwavering gaze, she slowly stretched out her right hand and inserted it obliquely into the dense vines, accompanied by a series of "click, click, click", and the curtain that had spanned many years was slowly lifted.

The first thing that broke into their eyes was a ray of light.

A pure, brilliant pillar of light.

From the top of the heavenly cavern, spears plunge into the center of the basin hundreds of miles in diameter below, and within the hollow that resembles the eye socket of a mythical giant is crammed with rows of houses—a city buried deep underground, spanning ancient dynasties.

Unlike the buildings I had as human beings, the stunning, yellow walls were hard to tell what they were made of, and they were only high enough for one person to commit to. At the same time, at the top of each house, there are vines that bend like umbilical cords, and countless vines are tangled together and extend around the basin, and the thick wall of branches may have been born in this way.

The long wind passed, and there was a rustling sound among the trees, and I turned my ears to the dense houses, but I only heard an eerie silence, no matter how glorious the civilization that had been born here, it was now dead.

"Let's go."

She waved her hand and took the lead in running down the edge of the basin.

Surrounded by the raging cold, I shivered unnaturally, hesitated for a few seconds, and then bent down and carefully kept up with the pace.

Grabbing the raised rocks, I vigilantly picked the foothold for each step. However, as I climbed on thin ice, my mind was full of questions.

It is the first time I have seen such a magnificent picture since I woke up, and the feeling is different from the scenery of the forest and the sea halfway up the holy mountain, it is a scene full of life, but heavy with fog, I can't help but want to peek into the mystery behind it, but I dare not get too close.

Naturally, my brain, which was controlled by thoughts and fantasies, lost its ability to judge time and space, and when I walked around a cracked rock, the low city was already standing in front of my eyes.

Looking at the endless rows of low-rise houses, I felt a sense of fear in my heart, did I really want to walk in? Entering such a dead city, even the creatures that live in it are not necessarily related to "people".

"Drink—"

Standing at the entrance to the city, or simply on the edge of a disc paved with buildings, she sighed deeply, and then she turned her head and looked at me with an incomparably complex look, but the emotion contained in this gaze was completely incomprehensible to me.

"Actually, there's another reason why I brought you here."

He paused, and an obscure dark light flashed under his eyes,

"It's, it said, in this place, you're going to tell me...... A secret. ”

Suddenly, Yu's voice became trembling, and the next second, she almost yelled with a cry,

"Jue, where the hell is he?!"