Chapter 170: Phantom

Li Qingyan realized that in just six days, this area had changed dramatically. After half of the North Mountain was destroyed, the refugees in the city were temporarily resettled on farms on the outskirts. The reconstruction of Kitayama is a huge project, and it remains to be seen whether it will be rebuilt on the original site. The authorities had intended to slowly evacuate and reassign the refugees to other cities in the coming days, but this excesses would have to take at least a few years.

But now Li Qingyan found that with that "tombstone" as the center, almost a small city has been established. He saw a redesigned road network, with former farms all but bulldozed and replaced by new buildings. The style of the buildings is similar to that of the "tombstones", the only difference is that the windows are opened, and it looks like a small child's clumsy handiwork made of gray cardboard. It seems to be the result of a compromise on the progress of the project – with nearly 100 buildings to be built in six days, there is really little energy left to care for the aesthetics.

The size of this ugly urban area was still expanding, and Li Qingyan soon saw that the huge construction machinery was still in operation, and the ant-like construction workers on the ground were running around, and it was expanding towards the former Beishan urban area, and it was already connected to the relatively intact half of the urban area.

There were also sporadic lights in that half of the city, and it was clear that the power supply system had been restored. As for the area that was destroyed, the ruins on the ground have also been cleared, and now it looks like a vast Gobi in the dark.

If what Pei Shouchong said is true...... What was all that was done in six days?

Is it because of that crack?

"It's because of what's in there—what you made. Li Qingyan "heard" Pei Shouchong say.

The first-class boss seemed to read his mind. But Li Qingyan knew that this was only due to the strange state that the two of them were currently in. Pei Shouchong's escape technique turned the two into a breeze, and the true yuan flowed between the two, so that the qi of the two was integrated. In this state, it is easy to perceive the emotions of another person, and combined with the current situation, it is easier to deduce what the other person is thinking.

Li Qingyan didn't hide his emotions, but Pei Shouchong didn't. He was now like a cold stone, not showing half of his emotions. But since the qi between the two of them has fused into one, Li Qingyan can also perceive some other situations under him - this first-level boss is very weak now, and his strength is not one in ten, which is roughly the same as when he was in his heyday a few days ago. If he had been in trouble at that time, Pei Shouchong at the moment might not be his opponent.

But the problem is that the current Li Qingyan is also extremely weak. The rift had sucked too much spiritual power from him in an "instant", and it might take a lot of time and resources to get back to the state he had been a few days ago. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have immediately agreed to a trip with Pei Shouchong just now.

"Oh, you don't know what it is?" Pei Shouchong said again. At the moment, the two have a heart-to-heart connection, Li Qingyan revealed a certain emotion, and Pei Shouchong immediately caught it. Thinking that this sect master's realm was already well versed in this, it was only then that Li Qingyan could not detect the slightest bit of his own emotions.

"Now they call that thing 'Boundary Gate.'" This large area of land was built in these five or six days. Beishan was originally going to be abandoned, but because of this gate, they were going to rebuild Beishan. Because the infrastructure of the whole city is still there, it will be much faster to build it as a base. Looking ahead, this new Beishan will probably become a scientific research city or a military base......"

Li Qingyan finally couldn't help but ask in his consciousness: "What happened in the past six days? I was in a coma for six whole days?"

Pei Shouchong was silent for a moment, and then suddenly swayed upwards and led him to a higher altitude.

The ascent lasted about two minutes, passing through layers of faint clouds. At first, Li Qingyan thought that the clouds and fog were indeed formed at night, but later he felt that the fog would not be so thick and high. But if it's a cloud, it's too short. And when you pass through those clouds, you don't feel wet, you don't actually feel anything, as if those things only have the property of "color".

When the entire Beishan and its surrounding rings of light turned into the size of a plate under them, Li Qingyan finally knew what those "clouds" he had passed through earlier were.

Actually, it's a huge image.

Those "clouds" are actually faint black shadows that make up this image. This is the image of a giant, and the appearance is slightly different from that of a human. It has only a silhouette, slender limbs, arms hanging above the knees, and a small head. It looks as if the individual is stretched by the haha mirror.

This black shadow stood silently above Beishan City, as if he lowered his head slightly, looking at the "tombstone". Li Qingyan estimated that this thing was at least three thousand meters tall.

"It's just an illusion. You went back to your room six days ago, and then the whole building was gone. Pei Shouchong said, "A black hole appeared in the location of Yuan Xiaolu's room, and I tried my best to escape, and I was not sucked into it like you." But the gravitational pull of that thing is only about 20 meters, and the new building you saw earlier is actually a big limiting device, and they now call that black hole a boundary gate. ”

"After this gate appeared, this illusion appeared. It doesn't look out of the ordinary right now, it's just an illusion. The problem is that no one knows what this illusion is made of. The clouds and fog that we had passed through before, the things that made up this illusion, they didn't seem to exist—they weren't any kind of physical phenomenon in our world. In theory, we shouldn't even be able to see. But the problem is, we see them. ”

"I thought it was all you guys these days. But two days ago, I found out that you were also sucked in and couldn't get out. I thought about it, but I still want to save you. After all, I still have something for you to help me with - I guess you don't want to fall into the hands of those guys in that building. ”

"Still, you're not in a coma for six days. Pei Shouchong led him down and fled south, where there was a large primeval forest.

According to them, the flow of time has almost stopped within twenty meters of the gate. So you should just be in there for a moment. But in an instant, six days had passed. ”

Li Qingyan was silent for a while before he said, "You call it the Boundary Gate." If it's a door...... So what's on the other side?"

"That's for you, or for them. Pei Shouchong said, "But I think it should be the secret realm left by your father." ”