Yan Jingxing took the lead and walked to the end of the corridor and put his hand on the door.

At that moment, he heard the girl's suppressed whisper of surprise from behind him.

"It's huge......"

"Huh?"

He turned his head and looked at Ji Chunzao covering one of his eyes, muttering softly.

"Very ...... Huge 'radio waves', it's right outside the door. ”

Yan Jingxing took a deep breath, and a shiver came from his spine.

"Where? Isn't it possible that as soon as we push the door open, we'll hit each other directly? ”

He said in as easy a joking tone as he could.

"No, it's in the air...... It's right up there, and it's like it's levitating......"

I don't know if it's Yan Jingxing's illusion, when the girl was talking seriously, her remaining left eye was shining like a jewel in the dark.

"It's a little familiar...... What I can feel now is that the fluctuations it emanates are fairly calm, not hostile. ”

There is no hostility – in other words, if there is hostility, it is by no means something they can fight against.

"So, should we go out?"

Yan Jingxing's gaze fell back on the door in front of him, and his hand on the door.

After he asked the question, the atmosphere between the three of them fell silent for a moment. Finally, someone broke the silence with this sentence:

“…… It's coming. ”

He heard someone behind him say this.

Yan Jingxing was a little surprised, he didn't expect this sentence to be said by Miss Xie.

"It's coming", there is no reason, it is purely emotional, but when he turned his head again and saw the girl's expression, he understood it all at once.

Because, the current Yan Jingxing has the same mood.

"You've come all here, but you're going to stop here, are you really willing?"

Walking all the way, walking here, whether it is Yan Jingxing, Ji Chunzao or Xie Yuzhi, their curiosity has long been difficult to suppress.

Maybe it's a bit childish, but what's wrong with being childish? They're already at this age.

"Of course not."

Ji Chunzao hit the boy's back with a small fist and encouraged him.

"yes, it's coming."

Yan Jingxing smiled, pushed open the door with his palm-

*

The door staggered open.

There was no doubt that a whole new world was coming, and the wind, the light, all rushed to his face in one breath.

Yan Jingxing squinted his eyes a little uncomfortably, raised his feet, and took the first step forward.

Being able to breathe normally and standing firmly on the earth is the same feeling as being on Earth;

But the strange-looking plants around him, as well as the crimson sky dome overhead, seemed to indicate to him that this was a completely strange planet.

"It's huge."

Yan Jingxing nodded unconsciously.

That's right, this was his first thought.

They walked out of the underground palace and the vast world came into view, and beyond that......

"Where we're now, it's a forest, right?"

However, the trees here are simply too tall.

It is true that the uncut primeval forests on Earth will grow towering giant trees that have been produced for thousands of years to form ecosystems of their own, but this is nothing compared to the immediate vision.

Almost every tree in this forest grows so tall that it is impossible to see the head, and the lush canopy of trees covers the sky.

The wrinkles on the skin of each tree have fine and strange lines, like strange faces, condensed on them in an abstract way.

The branches and leaves of the trees trembled in the breeze, and the skin wrinkled like the surface of the water when it was blown by the wind—and the "faces" were still squirming slightly! It looks like he's making all sorts of hideous and terrifying expressions.

The leaves of the roadside plants grew similarly crookedly, and the pitch-black branches were knotted together like densely packed blades.

"By the way, do you remember what the mural says?"

Xie Yuzhi observed the trees in front of him, cautiously did not approach, and said:

"The pillar of flesh that had been dug out by the alien inhabitants was in the middle of a huge forest. If that palace was an important place for aliens to worship and perform inheritance ceremonies for generations, then it is only natural that it was built on the site where the ancestors first received their organs. ”

"Definitely. But it doesn't seem necessary to think about 'where we are' right now, because we don't know anything about the geography of the world. ”

"yes, it's important where we go from here."

Miss Xie confirmed to him.

"Jing Xing, I still remember the dream you told us about, I saw a large crimson plain, and a lighthouse standing on the plain, and the 'future us' is there, right?"

"That's right."

"Well, we'll end up there." She looked around, "This place is neither a plain nor a lighthouse in sight, so the first step should be...... Find a way out of this forest. ”

The sea is undulating, and everywhere you can see is the flowing human faces on the trees, not only terrifying, but also a little dizzy after looking at it for a long time.

Yan Jingxing frowned, he felt as if he had heard some kind of rustling sound, as if someone was whispering.

"What's going on?"

Strangely, the sound was getting louder and louder. But no matter how much he looked left and right, all he saw was trees, trees, trees......

He and Xie Yuzhi's eyes fell on Ji Chunzao at the same time.

This is where the power of "sacrifice" is needed.

The girl had closed her eyes in order to concentrate, and one of her eyebrows was raised, and she said uncertainly.

"Uh, maybe some small creature is gathering ......? The radio waves are weak, but they are numerous......"

At the other end of the dense forest, suddenly there was a loud sound like thunder.

For a moment, it seemed as if the whole forest was shaking, and strange neighing sounds sounded in their ears, and these sounds converged into a trend, like the annoying chirping of cicadas in summer, flowing around them.

"Are they getting closer?!"

Yan Jingxing looked at the swaying shadows of the trees and the trembling ground in front of him, and couldn't help but shout.

"Could it be that the animals in the forest are migrating?"

"Close? …… No, no, not close...... They've always been there for us, and they've been ...... since just now."

Ji Chunzao opened his eyes suddenly.

- "It's the whole forest, and every tree is its eyes!" But ......"

Before she could finish her words, the rustling sound quickly turned into a miserable wail, and the lines on the trees became more and more vivid; There are thousands of faces inlaid on each tree, and the number of "faces" in the entire forest is naturally innumerable, and when all the faces begin to howl, the scene is as tragic as a hell of a nose.

“！”

Faced with such a terrifying scene, whether it was Ji Chunzao or Miss Xie, their faces all turned pale.

The only one who could maintain his composure was Yan Jingxing, who had maintained his inhuman willpower since just now, he grabbed the hands of his two companions hard, one on a side, and turned around and ran towards the door leading to the palace.

Fortunately, they did not rush into the dense forest at this time.

"Let's go back first! Don't be surrounded by trees! ”

"Wait...... Wait, it's not a problem with the tree...... I can feel ......."

Ji Chunzao said breathlessly.

"They...... In fact, I was afraid, afraid of that...... Something from heaven ......"

At the same time, a loud scream, like an indestructible blade, tore through the wails of the forest.

And they all saw—

On the ground, terrible shadows are spreading.

The monster floating in the air blocked the light above, and each tentacle it fell down like a hovering tall building.

"It's the big monster that Haruma once called......

Yan Jingxing was stunned.

When they were on Earth, they could not see the specific appearance of the monster, only a large silhouette floating on the surface of the sea, and it only lasted for a short time.

And when they came to the planet where the "monster in the clouds" really lived, when they unconsciously turned their heads in the scream, it finally revealed the true face of Lushan:

The inky skin, which resembles that of a deep-sea octopus, rises and falls with a screeching sound that seems to be the sound it makes when it breathes;

Its head resembles a living mountain, and below it are dozens of tentacles that occupy most of its body, ranging in length from tens of meters to more than 100 meters;

The dim yellow pillars of light shot straight into the sky, illuminating the clouds and creating a smoky yellow glow from the two eyes on the top of the monster's head.

"The 'Predator King'......"

He heard Ji Chunzao say as if in a dream.

"My 'eyes' saw its name."

As she said, the Predator was not hostile to them, and to be precise, it was a question of whether the monster noticed them or not.

I saw that wherever it passed, a huge attraction was born out of thin air, and there were invisible ripples in the air; Trees were uprooted and sucked into the sky.

The ghost-faced trees let out a terrible wail, twisting their branches desperately, trying to avoid being torn apart, and countless branches and leaves shook off,

But despite this, they were still torn apart and crumbled by the storm in the blink of an eye, countless debris flew in the sky, and the sap bursting from the trees was scarlet and fell like rain.

In this way, the predator king devoured the forest all the way, wandering slowly all the way forward.

“——！”

Yan Jingxing suddenly felt dizzy, he gritted his teeth and slammed open the iron door.

……

They ran down the hallway.

A high-pitched whistling sound like a low-flying airplane was heard from behind, hovering overhead, and then quickly overhead.

They finally stopped in front of the dammed passage.

It's not that I don't want to continue, it's that I can't go any further.

The devastation effect caused by the Lord of Predator as he marched was astonishing, and he only needed to rely on his colossal body to crush it and the sky and the earth shatter in an instant.

The palace shook violently, cobweb-like cracks in the ceiling rapidly expanded, and splinters of various sizes fell like hailstones, blocking parts of the passage.

In some places, even the entire roof has been lifted to reveal the color of the sky.

Fortunately, the terrible tremor lasted only a few minutes.

"Predator King" - just looking at the name given to it by the aliens, it is clearly describing the existence that occupies the top of the food chain on this planet.

It didn't target any earthly beings, dead or alive, it just floated over the palace.

Yan Jing walked in front to lead the way, and his reaction at the moment was faster than ordinary people, so he easily found a relatively strong position and pulled the girls to hide.

Therefore, they were not injured in this accident, but just stared at the ruined ruins of the palace in a daze.

"We ...... When you're sure that the support around you is strong enough, let's find out if there's another way......"

Yan Jingxing, who was covered in cold sweat, said dryly, and then calmly realized that he was on the verge of his limit.

He staggered back, leaned against the wall and sat down, unconscious.