Chapter 705: Strange Place
The rocks beneath his feet were cold and bitter, and Ai Hui felt like he was walking on a polar ice field.
How long? He didn't know.
The passage of time seems to have become strange, like a meandering stream in a valley, elusive. Ai Hui's precise judgment of time becomes blurred here.
After a few fruitless attempts, Ai Hui no longer wasted his strength in vain.
Not only the time, but also the direction is also impossible to judge, there are no stars and moons overhead, and there are no features on the terrain that can be used as references. The icy rocks are barren and desolate, with no trace of life.
Ai Hui can be regarded as having traveled south and north to see the world, but he has never heard of similar places.
There was no vegetation, no insects and ants, no fluctuations in the elemental force, not even wind. There was nothing but black rocks as cold as ice, desolate to the point of nothingness.
It's weird.
He could only move forward aimlessly.
I don't know how long it was, but a glimmer of light appeared in front of me.
Ai Hui, who was moving forward in a daze, suddenly came to his senses.
It's as if after a long night of trekking through the darkness, an exhausted traveler sees the first rays of morning light on the distant horizon, and nothing is more morale-boosting and exciting.
The sudden excitement was like a force injected into his body, and all the exhaustion was swept away.
Ai Hui sped up and ran desperately towards the light. He felt that he was faster than a cheetah, like a gust of wind,
The surroundings grew brighter and brighter, and the darkness and nothingness were gradually left behind him. At this moment, Ai Hui had an illusion, as if he was crossing the boundary between yin and yang.
Suddenly, he stopped, looked down at his feet, and a delicate emerald green came into view.
It was a very ordinary little grass, and it grew on black rocks.
Ai Hui looked carefully, this grass seedling was nothing special, just like weeds everywhere. The only thing that is slightly unusual is that it is not rooted in the crevices of the rocks, but breaks through the rocks and grows directly on the rocks. But in fact, this is not a special feature, there are many plants that use rocks as nutrients, Ai Hui has seen many of them, and some plants can also turn hard iron stone into soft silt.
Ai Hui tried to accurately call out the name of the grass seedlings, thanks to the experience of the wilderness, he was half an expert in identifying plants.
Several names flashed in his mind one by one, but he denied them one by one. At first glance, it seems familiar, but on closer inspection, the characteristics are not clear.
Ai Hui shook his head, probably a new grass species, he wasn't sure.
He quickly put this trivial doubt behind him. In this endless dark and barren wasteland, it is undoubtedly a great inspiration for him to see the existence of life.
Ai Hui quickened his pace.
There is more and more green around us, and it is getting brighter and brighter. Ai Hui couldn't figure out where the light came from, and there was still an endless dark void without sun, moon and stars above his head.
What a strange place.
Ai Hui didn't know how many times he muttered in his heart.
As we walked on, the sparse grass grew thicker and thicker, and it was hard to see large black rocks exposed. The terrain began to undulate, and it was no longer an endless plain.
The variety of plants also began to increase, and he even found a bush.
It was a fluffy, brightly colored bush, like a blood-stained red dog's tail, about the height of Ai Hui's waist. Within half a foot of its growth, no weeds are visible, and the black rocks are exposed, which makes it stand out against the rolling alpine meadows.
Ai Hui noticed it from far away.
Another plant he had never seen before.
The hollow heart-shaped blades are slightly larger than the nail caps, and the bulging sacs resemble red balloons. The stems are very slender like silk. Ai Hui wondered if the red heart-shaped leaves would fly into the sky like balloons if the branches were broken.
He tried to break a filament, but unfortunately the leaf did not fly into the sky, but disappeared without a trace like a punctured foam.
A shrub like a balloon?
What a strange shrub.
Ai Hui shook his head, he didn't bother to think about it.
It's full of quirkiness.
Just as he was about to move on, he suddenly felt something fall on him. He looked up, and countless points of light poured down from the endless void above him, and they came with a glimmer of light to step through the end of the night.
The field of vision suddenly turned white, like a sudden heavy snowfall.
Ai Hui subconsciously stretched out his palm, and a little light fell into his palm.
The light is the size of a grain of rice, emitting a soft light, and there is no coldness in the palm of the hand, but it feels slightly warm and indescribably comfortable.
Ai Hui seemed to have an inexplicable attraction to the light clusters, and the light clusters within a few zhang of the surrounding area floated towards him, forming a faint vortex. A faint light fell on him and disappeared in an instant, as a faint warm current flowed into his body.
Bang bang bang.
A dense popping sound sounded not far away.
Ai Hui was alarmed and hurriedly followed the prestige. I saw that the balloon-like leaves of the red bushes burst one after another, turning into delicate and bright red mouths. Silky slender branches dance wildly, and these little red mouths deftly catch the glimmer of falling light. They are like a swarm of snakes, swift and precise, and what is even more surprising is that there is no interference between the filaments.
They are so greedy and hungry that it seems that they have been waiting for a long time.
The red bushes, which were fluffy and lovely just a moment ago, suddenly became strange and terrifying.
Not only the shrubs, but also the grass on the ground, which was as dense as a blanket, also seemed to change its appearance at this time, and became hideous. The blades of grass fluttered wildly, like fanatical arms, desperately grasping at the falling glimmer.
The quiet and peaceful alpine meadows suddenly became violent and eerie, like a herd of beasts that smelled blood.
The "heavy snowfall" lasted for about twenty breaths before disappearing. It came without warning, and it ended just as simply.
Suddenly, Ai Hui's vision returned to clarity, and the grassland that was crazy and bloodthirsty just now had returned to the same quiet and peaceful as before, and the bewitching shrubs became fluffy and lovely again. Everything changed so fast that Ai Hui wondered if it was his own delusion, as fast as a dream that woke up before it could begin.
Ai Hui felt inexplicably chilled in his heart.
The scene just now was not an illusion or a dream.
The shrubs not far away are a little taller, and the grass under their feet is a little thicker.
Just twenty breaths.
What a strange place.
Ai Hui's gaze swept around, and he secretly raised his vigilance in his heart.
Although the crazy appearance of the grass and shrubs made him a little hairy, he also benefited a lot. He could feel his steps lighter, warm currents flowing through him. When he digests and absorbs these warm currents, his strength can be taken to the next level.
He did not stop and decided to move on.
Along the way, more and more new plants were encountered, wildflowers of various colors, and grasslands began to appear. The originally monotonous grassland began to become colorful and colorful. Ai Hui couldn't name those wildflowers, but he didn't pay much attention to them.
As you go deeper, the shrub has become ubiquitous. Their strange shapes and variety made Ai Hui an eye-opener. He barely saw two identical bushes, each one seemed unique.
During this period, Ai Hui suffered three more "heavy snowfalls".
The three "snowfalls" were also very different, some were crystal blue, some were jewel-like green, and one was a faint red. The interval between the three "heavy snowfalls" is completely irregular, and the duration of the three snowfalls varies. The longest is over forty breaths, and the shortest is the green one, which ends with only seven breaths.
Ai Hui didn't know what these light clusters were, but obviously, these strange "heavy snows" were the root of nourishing this strange land.
Anyway, it's weird all around.
The surrounding area is no longer a monotonous grassland, full of towering trees, brightly colored vines and scattered shrubs. But Ai Hui, who is well-informed, doesn't know any of them. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Some of the trees were as straight as swords, and their trunks shone with silver light, like giant swords pointing straight into the sky. The leaves are like white clouds, and the mist is ethereal.
Some trees have branches as soft as snakes, curled up in trays, and only when the "heavy snow" comes, they will stretch out and form a large net.
Ai Hui had now determined that except for the grass at the very edge, there would never be two plants that were identical.
The bizarre world in front of him gave Ai Hui a strong sense of unreality.
He had never heard of such a place, and perhaps the world in front of him should be more in a fairy tale.
It's a pity that he is obviously not in a fairy tale, because the world is not only strange, but also full of dangers.
More dangerous than the wilderness.
Ai Hui walked carefully on the rocks, the black rocks he had hated before had now become his favorite thing. Even the biting coldness now made him feel grounded.
The grass that used to be endless is almost extinct here.
Ai Hui had understood that the evolution of plants here seemed to have only one purpose, which was to capture the "snowflakes" sprinkled by the sky, which were their food. In this area, grass cannot survive, and the stranger shapes and larger plants are the winners.
Ai Hui soon realized that they could be the winners, not just because they were larger, but because their "predatory" skills were more amazing.
Ai Hui witnessed how a vine with blood rings strangled a dwarf brown tree with feather-like leaves and a gurgling sound. The vines with its blood-colored markings resemble a snake, and it is nimbly wrapped around the brown dwarf tree. The leaves of the dwarf trees are like knives, stuck in the blood-colored markings of the vines. Red as blood sap gurgled out of the vines, devoured by the leaves of the dwarf trees. But the bloodring vine still wrapped slowly and firmly around the trunk, tightening until it was digging deep into the trunk.
The dwarf trees quivered, making a strange and rapid cry, and more and more leaves pierced into the blood-ring vines, devouring the vine sap.
The blood-ring vines became tighter and tighter, deeply embedded in the trunk. At this moment, the blood ring collapsed inch by inch. Each blood ring turns into a seed and begins to sprout wildly.
In this wrestling, the superior Blood Ring Vine finally won. The dwarf tree fell with a bang and became a pile of delicious meals.
The Blood Ring Vine also turned into a Golden Ring Vine.
It had its eye on Ai Hui.