The next day, Chen Ji woke up in the tent, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the little lady, she was sleeping soundly, her delicate face was showing a healthy flush, and she was very close to Zhou Wan in the blanket.

Zhou Wan, who was very cold during the day, buried her face in the quilt when she slept, like an ostrich, her long black hair was scattered, and her smooth forehead could be vaguely seen.

To be honest, at this moment, Chen Ji wanted to hold them all in his arms.

Come to the most authentic left and right hugs.

Because of these two beauties in the tent, the fragrance in the air is very pleasant.

There was a faint voice outside, it should be those people in the rivers and lakes who got up, they went to the center of the North Pole every day to explore, yesterday Chen Ji knew from their mouths that the Arctic continent has indeed changed a lot recently.

Some of them slept in igloos at night, only to wake up the next day to find themselves halfway up the mountain—and the mountain had grown overnight.

Chen Ji once suspected that it was related to the Northern Snow Mountains of the Divine Grace Continent, but there was no other evidence, so he could only give up and wait for them to continue exploring.

"Hmm."

Zhou Wan woke up quietly, turned her head to look, and saw Chen Ji staring at her.

A sense of warmth followed, making her feel like she was wrapped in happiness all over her body, not wanting to speak, not wanting to get up.

"Awake?" Chen Jichao smiled.

"Hmm...... What time is it? ”

Zhou Wan shrunk in the quilt, Chen Ji deliberately used his immortal power to clean the quilt last night, it was very clean.

"It's past eight o'clock, how did you sleep last night?"

"It's pretty down-to-earth~, and I'm not worried about beasts with you...... Did you have breakfast this morning? ”

Zhou Wan smiled sweetly at him.

Spending the night in such a cold place, she suddenly thought of the basement of her own home, and in the dream that Da Zhou Wan gave her, she spent many times in the cold basement.

Now she has a sense of recollection, but Chen Ji is by her side again, and after the comparison, she cherishes what she is looking at her more and more.

"Yes! Wait, I'll go out and see if there's a cooked breakfast over there in Lu Huai, no, if it doesn't work, I'll go back to Earth to buy it. ”

Xia Shumin is his crossing anchor, allowing him to come back quickly.

"Forget it, don't go back, just eat something."

"I'll go check it out first!"

After getting up and dressing, Chen Ji came out of the tent, and the prince's guards outside were drinking porridge and eating meat with steaming bowls, and the rice was still the supplies he brought yesterday.

When Chen Ji returned to the tent with three bowls of porridge and some pickles, the little lady also woke up, with her scattered hair, red and white face, sitting on the quilt in a daze, and she was not awake for a while.

After the lady Begonia fell asleep in spring, her slightly charming appearance in her youth made Chen Ji take a few more looks.

"Childe ......"

Xia Shumin hugged the quilt, blushed slightly, and put on clothes with his back to Chen Ji.

Zhou Wan suddenly realized that when Xia Shumin grew up and grew taller, her graceful and demure temperament would be more attractive.

"Let's have breakfast first!"

Chen Ji looked away and beckoned to them.

Xia Shumin obediently knelt on the blanket, called Kang in the north, and she lived for the second time.

After breakfast, the three of them went out together.

After Chen Ji and Lu Huai said hello, they flew up with them, and soon came to a fairly stable spatial rift, and the three of them entered it together.

Zhou Wan traveled through the world for the first time through a spatial rift.

She clenched Chen Ji's hand, and after a slight dizziness, she came to a very cold place where she couldn't see her fingers.

"Childe ......"

Xia Shumin made a trembling sound, her petite body leaned tightly on Chen Ji's side, she couldn't see anything, so she was extremely attached to him.

"It's okay, it's normal, don't be afraid."

Chen Ji comforted her, and as soon as her heart moved, a ball of light came from her body, illuminating the surroundings.

Zhou Wan immediately determined the location here:

A doomsday base located thousands of kilometers underground, a research center in the center of the city.

The reason why she was so sure was because she saw the withered World Tree, and she had been with Chen Ji last time.

“…… Yes! ”

It was Xia Shumin who exclaimed.

It was the first time she had seen a withered tree in this world, and the darkness around it gave people a strong sense of fear.

"Don't be afraid!"

Chen Ji comforted her again: "This tree is the World Tree I told you about, do you remember?" ”

"The World Tree? Genie......? ”

Xia Shumin remembered.

She let go of the hand that was holding Childe's arm, and instead pulled the corner of his coat, she walked with him to the World Tree.

"Childe, has it withered?"

Xia Shumin asked curiously.

She'd been here twice, and this tree was the only one she'd ever seen, and it was especially precious.

Before Chen Ji could answer, after Xia Shumin spoke, the branches in front of the three of them suddenly trembled slightly, as if a gust of wind was blowing, and the branches were swishing.

Xia Shumin took a step back in fright, and Zhou Wan also became nervous.

It's underground, so there's little air flow, and the research center has walls on all sides, so there shouldn't be wind!

"Strange ......"

Chen Ji threw a ball of light onto the Withered World Tree, but there was no response, and then threw a little bit of immortal power over, but there was still no movement.

The tree probably did wither.

Chen Ji and Zhou Wan looked at the little lady together.

"Childe, Sister Wan......"

Xia Shumin realized his problem, looked at the tree in front of him, and tried to say a few words to revive it.

Unfortunately, except for the first sentence, there was no movement.

"A dead world."

Zhou Wan said regretfully, "Or, it never lived?" ”

This world is small, only the size of Sea City, a replica version of the Sea Market in the apocalyptic world, in the cracks of space, animals and plants cannot survive, only some monsters from other worlds can survive.

"The world of the dead?"

Xia Shumin blinked, looked at Zhou Wan and said: "Sister Wan, Shumin thinks that this place has just been born, as if before Pangu opened the world, waiting for the day when the son will hold an axe, split the chaos and desolation, and then ...... Ah, no, Childe is not Pangu! ”

Xia Shumin hurriedly covered his mouth.

Pangu incarnated all things after opening the world, so she didn't want her son to be like this.

Chen Ji smiled dumbly.

"Just born?" Zhou Wan said: "Will this place evolve into an independent world? ”

No one can answer her, and when faced with questions that involve the world, she can only rely on guesswork.

The three of them left here, and Chen Ji asked Da Zhou Wan to send another car.

This time he went to the ancient world with Xiao Zhouwan, there was no change in her, she still came to the earth from the apocalyptic world, yesterday Da Zhouwan returned to the villa to live, and Xiao Zhouwan exchanged dreams with her again.

Chen Ji drove out of the Doomsday Base from the train tunnel, still thinking about the two of them's guesses in his mind:

Has this world just been born, or is it already dead? Does it have what a world should be?

Or how should a world be defined?

There are many powerhouses in the Nine Domains who can open up a small space outside the starry sky, but they can't completely break away from the Nine Domains, and they definitely can't be regarded as a world.

Each of his four blind dates has its own characteristics, and it must be counted as a world.

What about this place where the four realms meet?

"Where are we going? Go to the villa first, or to that building? ”

Zhou Wan, who was sitting in the back row with Xia Shumin, asked Chen Jidao.

The car left the doomsday base, and there was not much change in the city, there was still a dim light created by Xia Shumin in the sky, and there was also a starry sky garden that appeared after the arrival of the star goddess Astana, which was also very dim.

This time, Zhou Wan and Xia Shumin came at the same time, and it didn't seem to cause any changes.

"Let's go to the villa first."

drove all the way and soon came to the villa community of Zhou Wan's family.

With the wood that Lu Huai sent from time to time, it was even more lively here, and the fire could be seen from afar.

After Chen Ji and the three appeared, although everyone was happy, they were not too surprised.

Xia Shumin saluted her father-in-law, said hello to her mother-in-law, ate some barbecue, and looked at her son-in-law, as if asking what to do next.

"Alas, Brother Chen, I'm really sorry."

Liu Sangu sighed and said, "We have been monitoring that building these days, but we haven't seen the man in black reappear, and there has been no change in other places......

Everything seems to have reached a dead end.

The Qianyuan Demon Ancestor from the Nine Domains and the Curim from the Divine Grace Continent all looked at Chen Ji.

Only he can take them out of this cage-like place!

"Men in Black?"

Chen Ji pondered.

According to Astana, the person who owns the cloak of Tranquility also happens to be a bishop of the Church of Light, who disappeared while leading a party out of the Primordial City to save survivors from the outside, and has not been heard from since.

But with the character of this bishop, he would not run away when he saw Chen Ji.

Is it the bishop who is contaminated, or is there someone else?

"Your Lord!"

Kirim hesitated and whispered, "Not long ago, I found a person's footprints outside the villa, and I compared them to everyone, and they didn't match that footprint. ”

"Oh?"

Chen Ji looked at her in surprise.

Currim is a centaur with a strong running ability, and she is also very skilled in hunting in the grasslands, and she is also very good at tracking her prey.

"Still." Corim said embarrassedly: "This is not the Divine Grace Continent, it cannot be determined by magic, it can only be inferred from the location of that person's footprints, he was watching here at that time." ”

"Did you tell them?" Chen Ji pointed at Liu San and looked at them.

Currim shook her head, saying that she had difficulty communicating with them, and that the footprints were not known how long ago, but they might have been left by the previous ones, and she planned to track them down herself and tell them when there was news.

Chen Ji snorted and told this group of Jianghu people about it.

"Footprints?!"

"Hey, the man in black is coming to spy on us!?"

"Damn it, you actually touched the outside of our camp!"

Everyone was shocked, the wine in the bowl was no longer fragrant, and it was very unpleasant to be spied on.

Chen Ji said: "It's not sure yet, don't make a noise, I plan to stay here for two days to see if there is any gain!" ”

He looked at Xia Shumin and Zhou Wan.

The two knew what he meant, and together they said that they would stay and not rush back.

Chen Ji did not refuse their company, and it would not be too uncomfortable to stay for two or three days.

After eating something, he took the two of them and drove to the building to have a look.

Some followed, and most stayed in the villa complex to wait.

"Childe, since you're going to arrest someone, won't the headlights be too conspicuous?"

Xia Shumin looked at the headlights of the car, which were bright and could be seen from miles away.

Zhou Wan said with a smile: "He probably wants to come to a Ming Xiu plank road to secretly Chen Cang, first go openly, and then let people drive the car back, and we will stay where we are and wait." ”

“…… How do you understand me so well? Chen Ji can't admit it if he wants to.

"Hmph."

Zhou Wan was very proud.

Xia Shumin blushed a little, why didn't she guess Childe's intentions?

The group came to the block where the building was located, the headlights shone on the building from a distance, and the broken windows on the floor were pitch black, and they could vaguely see—

"Ahh

Xia Shumin, who was sitting in the back row, screamed, startling Chen Ji in the car, and hurriedly asked her, "What's wrong with Shumin?" ”

Zhou Wan looked around, and the time ability was ready at any time.

But no monsters appeared around.

“……”

Xia Shumin looked forward from the window of the car fixedly, for a long time, before rubbing his eyes, and after looking again, "I, I seem to have seen it wrong." ”

"What do you see? Don't be afraid, it's okay to read it wrong. ”

"Hmm...... It's just that when I saw that building, there seemed to be a lot of figures, in, in—"

"Shumin, don't be afraid."

Zhou Wan held her palm and encouraged her to continue.

Xia Shumin calmed down and plucked up his courage to say: "I am surrounding a grave that has been dug up, and a coffin is exposed in the grave, which is very similar to a dream I had before!" ”

Zhou Wan, who originally encouraged her, now felt goosebumps, and was a little frightened, if it wasn't for Chen Ji in the front row, she would definitely be more afraid now.

Figures appeared in the building, and figures surrounded the grave and coffin...... This ghost story is infiltrating just by hearing it!

"Dreams?"

Chen Ji stopped the car and parked 300 meters away from the building.

Xia Shumin's dream is different from Zhou Wan's dream, her dream seems to be unreasonable, before she said that when she continued to write Dream of Red Mansions, she would often dream, and she saw the development of the plot in the dream, and after getting up the next day, her thoughts flowed, and the plot was written quickly.

But now, she suddenly hallucinates in this building?

"Shumin, tell me more about your dream."

Chen Ji said, rolling down the window of the car and asking Liu Sangu, who came with him, to wait for a while.

"Hmm." Xia Shumin didn't ask much, and recalled: "I only had this dream once, but I remember very clearly that a deserted tomb stood on the black ground, the sky was also dark, and it was very desolate...... I was frightened in my dream, but fortunately Childe was here. ”

She blushed, glanced at the building, and continued, "I also used this as a lesson to write about the fairy world and the underworld...... Fortunately, nothing happened~. ”

Under the lights in the car, Chen Ji and Zhou Wan glanced at each other.

"Any other dreams?"

Chen Ji asked the little lady again.

"Well, I don't remember the other dreams...... The only thing I remember vividly is that someone asked me something, and I don't remember answering anything, except that I read a poem I wrote to him, and he sighed deeply and said that he was going to sleep. ”

"Poetry?"

Chen Ji is no stranger to poetry, he likes ancient poems very much, he is deeply impressed by the hymns of the Divine Grace Continent, and according to Astana, the evil god came because of a poem.

It can't be that outrageous.

"Deserted graves, tombstones...... Underworld? ”

Chen Ji got out of the car, Xia Shumin and Zhou Wan followed him, Liu Sangu and others also followed, and the group entered the building.

As soon as he got closer, a cool cold air came to his face, making Xia Shumin tremble, and his petite body subconsciously approached his son.

Chen Ji gave her a small ball of light to warm up.

"Childe."

Xia Shumin shouted quietly, his eyes flashing with shame, but he didn't speak, and followed closely behind him.

The group went up to the floor where the restaurant was located, and soon after went downstairs and drove away.

Less than five minutes.

A figure dressed in black slowly walked out of the sudden fog, and as soon as he appeared, he scolded: "Damn, chase so closely, Chen Ji is really fucking damned!" I actually brought Zhou Wan here!! ”

He walked out of the dining room and suddenly stopped again.

There is something strange in the silence around you.

"Are you scolding me?"

With the light, a man's voice came from outside the window.

The man in black looked up, a large warm light poured in from the window, his face changed suddenly, his body twisted, and he tried to turn around and run back, running to the weakest place in the space to escape back.

However, his movements suddenly became extremely sluggish.

And another girl shouted in a crisp voice: "Sneaky fellow, show up!" ”

"You guys!"

The black-clothed man's expression was extremely exciting, and the three of them attacked together, forcing him to throw out a sword he had obtained from somewhere, and with a bang, it smashed through the blockade of the time ability, shattering the light around him, but a small fragment in his body was pulled by some force and flew out of his body.

"No, come back!"

The man in black turned around and wanted to grab the fragments, but it was too late, Chen Ji and the three of them had already flown in through the window, and the next move would come soon.

He hated it, he got a lot of benefits in that place, but he still couldn't beat them!

"Wait for me!!"

After dropping a sentence, he turned and fled into the mist, leaving the small world, and the mist disappeared with it.

Chen Ji asked Mayien to search for traces of residual space, but unfortunately she found nothing, she didn't have this ability at all, and it was instinct to cross.

Zhou Wan tried to use the time ability to reproduce, but only the afterimage of the man in black left in the air appeared, and he couldn't catch him.

But.

The identity of the man in black has been revealed.

Chen Ji found the sword he had thrown out, as well as a fragment that flew out of his body.

This is a Destiny Fragment.

(End of chapter)