The moment his body lost balance, Zhou Yu instinctively grasped the sleeve of Hong Ye next to him.
Immediately afterwards, it lost support and dived downwards.
Even Cai Ji's desperate "Ahh" sound was covered by the roar of wind and fire. In just a blink of an eye, they fell into a circle of fire and smoke.
Zhou Yu instinctively closed his eyes, preparing to deal with the heat and smoke. However, after waiting for a long time, there was no burning pain from the flames. Instead, it felt like he had stepped on some entity.
He opened his eyes, and his eyes were filled with green and red light.
Under the three people, a large transparent and light platform appeared at some point. A dome-like platform appeared, holding the three people on the top, with blazing flames below. The crystal layer as thin as a piece of armor not only isolated the extreme heat, but even used the rising heat to help the three of them descend at an extremely slow speed.
Zhou Yu stared at this scene blankly.
He couldn't identify the material of the platform that appeared out of thin air. The clear, crystal-like thin layer has an indescribable halo flowing on its surface, which looks exactly like some kind of mineral. But at a temperature high enough to soften the glass, it didn't even conduct a trace of heat to the three people standing on it.
If it weren't for the sweaty hot wind surging in the air, the sea of fire beneath our feet would have been a realistic sound and light projection.
After being stunned for a long time, Zhou Yu finally remembered his fellow travelers. He turned around and saw Hongye half-kneeling on the platform, staring down at the ground. From the sword-shaped blue light in contact with the crystal layer, ripple-like thin crystals continued to flow out and spread at the bottom of the crystal layer.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu naturally understood. The entire platform on the sole of the foot "grows" from that sword.
"Red leaves..."
Hearing his call, Hongye raised his head slightly.
There was a gleam in her eyes.
That is not what is commonly called "the divine light of the eyes." But in a completely, completely literal sense, her eyes were glowing with silver light as bright as the stars. What was embedded in her eye sockets at this moment was not a normal human eyeball structure, but two cold and pure silver-white crystals.
The moment Zhou Yu looked at the two pill crystals, he felt a fine, clear rattling sound coming from his body. The pain that stung the muscles and bones was like tiny flesh and blood crystals growing in the body.
Hongye's eyes passed over him and quickly moved to the side. As the sight contact ended, the crystallized feeling in his body also disappeared.
"--ah!"
Just as he recovered from the pain, Cai Ji's ghostly screams came from next to him. It sounded like he had recovered from the state of being unable to speak, and was frightened by Hong Ye's strange eyes.
"Shh, shut your mouth."
Zhou Yu locked his throat. He didn't know how Hongye created the crystal layer on the soles of his feet, but as long as this shield disappeared, neither he nor Cai Ji would be lucky.
At this time, the crystal layer is still spreading. On the one hand, the lower hemisphere is thickening, and on the other hand, it is beginning to extend upward, forming a low wall similar to a guardrail on the upper part of the sphere, protecting the three people above from the side flames and wind.
Zhou Yu restrained Cai Ji while looking around at the scenery.
At this time, they had fallen to the middle section, and through the thin flames covered by the crystal layer, they could see the scenery of the shops outside Crystal Corner. Those weird landscapes are now quietly shrouded in fire.
Due to the high temperature of the flames, the columnar walls that originally surrounded the outside of the stairs have disappeared. As long as you use the edge of the crystal layer to take off, you can jump to the nearby store. However, the interior of the store is also burning at the moment, and such a high-rise position cannot quickly escape outside the store.
You can't evacuate to the shopping mall area immediately, but you can't stay on the crystal layer either. Right now, they are relying on the heat created by the flame to cushion their fall. Once the crystal layer falls inside the flame, it may not be able to support the weight of the three of them.
Just when he was estimating the right chance of escape, Hongye stood up from the ground.
"Yeah, I found it." She said softly.
After hearing her words, Zhou Yu was stunned.
This is not because the content of the words is surprising, but because Hongye's tone at this moment has become exactly like Zhou Yu.
Different from the smooth and solemn low tone of the past, those short four words reveal a cold and delicate lightness. The joyful smile on her lips was so innocent that it aroused love and affection, but also so cruel that it made people tremble.
The silver-white crystals occupying her eye sockets are like sculptures that do not reveal any emotion. As Hongye gently raised his hand, countless sharp thorns protruded from the lower part of the crystal layer and penetrated deeply into the surrounding shopping mall. The entire platform was fixed in mid-air.
After settling on the platform, she ignored the two people beside her and walked slowly in a certain direction.
Zhou Yu let go of Cai Ji's hand. This timid guy seemed to have been frightened by Hongye's strange behavior. As soon as Zhou Yu let go, he immediately collapsed on the ground as if he had no bones, trembling non-stop.
"Quick, get up."
Zhou Yu lightly kicked him twice, urging him to follow Hong Ye.
The entire crystal layer is made of Hongye. Now that Hongye has left, there is no way to tell that the platform will not disappear with it.
Under his pressure, Cai Ji stood up timidly and reluctantly staggered towards the edge of the platform. Zhou Yu was not in the mood to take care of him all the time. Seeing that this guy was not incapacitated, he quickly followed Hong Ye in front.
The closer he got to Hongye's back, the more difficult he felt to breathe. Even though the surrounding flames have gradually extinguished, this place is even more suffocating than the most intensely burning place.
The air in the entire area, based on the distance from the red leaves, seems to be gradually solidifying from gas into a huge solid ice. Although he didn't feel the temperature drop, Zhou Yu had the illusion that he was about to be "frozen".
As the freezing feeling oppresses the body, chaotic pain also arises from the body.
Is that the throbbing pain in the head? Period abdominal pain? Or is it the stabbing pain that spreads throughout the body like blood crystals? In the stupor of difficulty breathing, he couldn't distinguish clearly.
"Red leaves!"
Before losing consciousness, he bit the tip of his tongue hard and made a vague cry.
The figure in front stopped and slowly turned around. The silver light shining in his eyes seemed to solidify his eyes and brain into crystal stones.
"Do you feel uncomfortable?"
Hongye tilted his head slightly. The light in her eyes gradually dimmed, revealing pale white irises.
The pupil in the center of the iris is as chaotic and unclear as the lead-colored sky in the rainy season.
——The pupil shape, which seriously violates common sense, no longer looks like a human body structure that regulates light. Instead, it looks like two poisonous snake holes.
If Cai Ji saw this scene, he would probably faint from fright.
Zhou Yu, who was immobilized by such a pair of eyes, controlled his body to remain still while feeling spontaneously.
The red leaves at this moment are extremely dangerous.
Absolutely, cannot resist.
She is different from the one who delivered food at midnight, and she is also different from the one who killed enemies with a sword when they first met. What stood in front of Zhou Yu at this moment was the "princess" that even the short fat man Ferris was afraid of. It was the symbol of the purple chips with a face value of 1,000.
He stood motionless, not daring to move even if the flames rolled around him.
After a second that lasted as long as a year passed, Hongye suddenly closed his eyes.
"Zhou Yu. Take that person and follow me."
Her voice had not yet returned to normal, but her tone no longer had that shiver-inducing charm. As she turned her head, the frozen air immediately loosened.
Zhou Yu quietly relaxed his body and exhaled the hot turbid air in his lungs. He looked back and found Cai Ji still lingering on the edge of the platform. Although the shrunken turtle-like appearance was very ugly, it was lucky enough to avoid Hongye's sight.
At this moment, forced by the fire, he finally trotted all the way to Zhou Yu's side. Seeing Zhou Yu staring at him, he asked in an extremely nervous manner: "...What are you doing?"
Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "If you don't want to die, then don't make any more noise."
After saying this, he turned around and chased Hongye.
