Chapter 10: Return to Darkness

I looked up at the white mist above, and in the mist there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching my every move.

I looked down at the iron box in front of me, could it be that there was something in it that scared the white mist? Why every time I want to open the iron box, the speed of this white mist accelerates.

In order to test my inner conjecture, I crouched down, put my hands on the iron box, and lifted it up with all my might, and just as I opened a gap, an invisible force held me down.

"It seems that I am right, there must be something in this iron box that makes Bai Mist fearful, otherwise why would you keep preventing me from opening it!"

In an instant, the whole glass box was filled with fog again, and I was once again in my original state.

Unlike in the past, this time I didn't experience the cold and heat again, I held my breath and felt a group of monkeys running by, they were in groups, shuttling through the woods, "Woo... Woohoo" roared.

After a while, my eyes became bright and dark, the ground under my feet became nothing, and gradually turned into a pool of deep water, my body sank instantly, and in the process of falling, I felt that there were more and more things in the water, I don't know how long it fell, and finally fell steadily on the ground.

Before I could react, the ground beneath my feet gradually bulged, the wind whistled in my ears, and I looked up, only to feel that it was closer to the sky, and the higher I went, the colder it became.

I looked down and saw the abyss below, the white clouds were floating under my feet, everything seemed very small in my eyes, and just as I was looking into the distance, a mysterious force pushed me violently, and my body involuntarily fell downward.

The white mist had all flowed out of the glass box at this time, and I gasped and looked at the iron box under my feet in horror, my curiosity had completely dissipated at this time, and I thought I should stay away from it, no matter what was in it, it had nothing to do with me.

I looked around, and was surprised to find that the glass box had become unusually large at some point, and I couldn't see the edge at a glance, and then I looked up, and the top, which was only a dozen meters high from me, was no longer visible to where it was, and there was light all around.

I looked down at my feet, I didn't know if I was in mid-air, or at the bottom of the glass box, and I couldn't see the darkness that filled the entire box.

It was as if I was in a void of chaos, I stomped my feet hard, there was no sound, no other reaction, I didn't know what was supporting my body, like a substance and like nothingness.

The white mist blindfolded me again, and everything around me changed, and I felt a half-hunched person walking beside me, like a monkey that had just walked on two legs, only to see it look left and right, and slowly walked towards the iron box.

"Wait!" I shouted anxiously, trying to stop it from opening the iron box, but the voice was stuck in my throat and couldn't make a sound.

The figure did not notice my presence, but looked around the box, and after a long time, it put its paws on the lid of the iron box and forcefully opened it.

I tried to lean forward to see what was inside, but my body was suppressed by the mysterious force.

The figure reached into the iron box, groped for a long time, and suddenly, as if electrocuted, hurriedly withdrew the claw.

Its action instantly aroused my curiosity, but my body could not move, so I had to continue to watch its next move.

I saw that it was not reconciled, and put its claws in again, this time it did not have its hand, but took the thing inside in its hand, and the light red light was also reflected in my eyes, yes, it was fire.

The sight passed in an instant, and when I looked around again, the flames were already shining brightly all over the earth. I turned my head to look at the iron box, the lid of which had been closed at some point.

This time, the white fog did not dissipate so quickly, and the scene around me did not change so quickly, and I stood here motionless, for I don't know how long it had passed, and I did not know how many people had walked past me and walked in front of the iron box.

I can't remember what they took from the boxes when they opened them, I just remember the ecstatic way everyone looked when they got them, and they all stopped for a moment and hurried past me with great excitement.

At this time, the white fog dissipated, and the surrounding scene also disappeared, I looked at the box in front of me, its volume was getting smaller and smaller, and the black fog around it was getting thicker and thicker.

"Maybe you're a treasure, maybe you're a disaster," I said to myself.

I sat on the ground, and it probably wasn't the ground, because I touched it with my hand, and it was like water and fog, and it had the texture of water, but when I picked it up, it spread out like fog.

But this time the white fog came too slowly, I was tired of sitting down, I only felt that someone passed by me in a daze, I immediately sat up, only to see the man open the box, from the inside felt a handful of black powder, he shook his head in disappointment, but still took it away.

"It's... Gunpowder? I said in surprise.

Before I could take a closer look at the man's face, the white mist had spread again, and I looked around, this time it was unusually quiet, there was no figure, no sight.

Just when I was wondering, I only felt that the white mist gradually became dim, like snow-white cotton being splashed with ink.

"What's going on?" Looking at the rapidly changing white fog around me, I was at a loss for a moment.

I only heard a "boom", and the surroundings had become full of fire, countless corpses fell in front of me, and countless blood gathered at my feet and drowned my waist.

I looked up, the blue sky and white clouds had become pitch black, the whole world was covered in black smoke, the pungent smell penetrated from my nose into my lungs, I couldn't stop coughing, I didn't know what was happening.

Before I could recover my senses, I felt a beam of light and arrows rise from the ground, whistling past me, flying towards the top of the white expanse.

Later, as more and more people passed me, and when they came to the iron box, they were no longer ecstatic, nor were they limited to taking what they needed, but greedily took everything they could from it, and their eyes were full of ferocity.

I looked up and felt a myriad of things hovering above me, flying higher and higher, getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster, I looked around me, and I only felt that the black smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and each explosion became more and more dazzling, and I could not hear the wails or see the corpses, because their bodies were dissipated in the light.

I don't know how long it took for the white fog to be completely replaced by black smoke, and I was fed up with the situation, and I was suffocated by the black smoke, and then I heard only a faint cracking sound coming from under my feet, and then the sound became louder and louder.

I knew that this glass box was shattering, and when the white fog gradually turned black, the glass box had cracked, and this time, the white fog did not disperse again, and the box under my feet had completely melted into the darkness.

I could clearly feel that the glass box was shrinking rapidly, and the speed of breaking was also accelerating, and with a "bang", countless fragments scattered in all directions, and the contents of the glass box were all shattered into darkness with the shattering of the box...