Yan Jingxing took the lead to walk to the end of the corridor and put his hand on the door.
At this moment, he heard the girl's suppressed cry of surprise from behind.
"So huge..."
"Um?"
He turned his head and looked at Ji Chunzao covering one of his eyes and murmuring softly.
"A very... huge 'wave', it's right outside the door."
Yan Jingxing took a deep breath, and a shiver ran down his spine.
"Where is it? As soon as we open the door, we will bump into each other directly, right?"
He said it as jokingly as possible.
"No, it's in the air... just above, as if it's suspended..."
I don't know if it was Yan Jingxing's illusion, but when the girl was talking seriously, her remaining left eye was shining brightly like a gem in the darkness.
"This feeling seems a little familiar... What I can feel now is that the fluctuations it emits are quite calm and not hostile."
There was no hostility - in other words, if there was hostility, it was by no means something they could fight.
"So, do we still want to go out?"
Yan Jingxing's eyes fell back to the door in front of him and his hand on the door.
After he asked this question, the atmosphere among the three fell into silence for a moment. Finally, someone broke the silence with this sentence:
"...It's all here."
He heard someone say behind him.
Yan Jingxing was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Miss Xie would say these words.
"I'm here", there was no reason, it was purely emotional, but when he turned his head again and saw the girl's expression, he understood everything at once.
Because Yan Jingxing now has exactly the same mood.
"You have come here, but you have to stop here. Are you really willing?"
Having walked together all the way to this point, whether it was Yan Jingxing, Ji Chunzao or Xie Yuzhi, their curiosity could no longer be suppressed.
Maybe this idea is a bit childish, but what's wrong with being childish? They are already at this age.
"Of course I won't give in."
Ji Chunzao pushed the boy's back with his small fist to encourage him.
"Yeah, it's here."
Yan Jingxing smiled and pushed the door open with his palms——
*
The door swung open.
What came face to face was undoubtedly a whole new world, with wind, light, and everything rushing towards his face in one breath.
Yan Jingxing narrowed his eyes in discomfort, raised his feet, and took the first step forward.
Being able to breathe normally and stand firmly on the earth feels the same as being on earth;
But the strange-looking plants around him and the red sky above seemed to tell him that this was a completely unfamiliar planet.
"so big."
Yan Jingxing nodded unconsciously.
Yes, that was his first thought.
They walked out of the underground palace, and the huge world came into view, and besides...
"The place we are in now is a forest, right?"
However, the trees here are too tall.
The uncut virgin forests on the earth will indeed grow towering trees that have formed their own ecosystems after thousands of years of production, but this pales in comparison to the scene in front of us.
Almost every tree in this forest grows so tall that it can't be seen, and the lush and dense canopy stretches continuously to cover the sky.
The wrinkles on the surface of each tree have fine and weird lines, like weird faces condensed on it in an abstract way.
The branches and leaves of the trees trembled in the breeze, and their skin wrinkled like water when the wind blows - these "faces" were actually still squirming slightly! It looked like he was making various hideous and terrifying expressions.
The leaves of the roadside plants also grow crookedly, and the dark branches are knotted together like densely packed blades.
"By the way, do you still remember what's on the mural?"
Xie Yuzhi observed the trees in front of her, cautiously not approaching, and said:
"The meat pillar whose organs were dug out by the alien residents is in the middle of a huge forest. If that palace is an important place where aliens have been worshiping and performing inheritance ceremonies for generations, then it was built It is perfectly normal for the ancestors to have obtained the organs in the first place.”
"Indeed. But it seems that there is no need to consider the question of 'where' we are now, because we still know nothing about the geographical environment of this world."
"Yeah, what matters is where we go next."
Miss Xie confirmed to him.
"Jing Xing, I still remember that in the dream you told us, you saw a large red plain and a lighthouse standing on the plain. The 'future us' are there, right?"
"That's right."
"Then, we will end there." She looked around, "This place is neither a plain nor a lighthouse, so the first step should be... to find a way out of this forest."
The seaside is undulating, and wherever you can see, there are human faces flowing on the trees. It is not only scary, but also makes you feel dizzy after looking at it for a long time.
Yan Jingxing frowned. He felt like he heard some kind of rustling noise, like someone whispering.
"What's the noise?"
Strangely enough, the sound was getting louder and louder. But no matter how much he looked around, all he saw was trees, trees, trees...
He and Xie Yuzhi looked at Ji Chunzao at the same time.
At this time, the power of "sacrifice" is needed.
The girl had closed her eyes now in order to concentrate. She raised one of her eyebrows and said uncertainly.
"Well, maybe some kind of small creatures are gathering...? The radio wave is very weak, but the number is huge..."
From the other end of the deep forest, a loud sound like thunder suddenly came.
For a moment, thousands of horses were silent, as if the whole forest was shaking, and a strange neighing sound sounded in their ears. These sounds converged into a current, like the annoying chirping of cicadas in summer, flowing around them.
"Are they getting closer?!"
Yan Jingxing looked at the swaying tree shadows and the trembling ground in front of him and couldn't help shouting.
"Are the animals in the forest migrating?"
"Close?... No, no, not close... They have always been by our side, from just now..."
Ji Chunzao opened his eyes suddenly.
——"It's the whole forest, and every tree is its eyes! But..."
Before she finished speaking, the rustling sound quickly turned into a miserable wail, and the lines on the trees became more and more vivid; each tree was inlaid with thousands of faces, and the "faces" in the entire forest The number of people is naturally uncountable. When all the faces started to howl, the scene was as tragic as Abi Hell.
"!"
Faced with such a terrifying scene, both Ji Chunzao and Miss Xie turned pale.
The only one who could remain calm was Yan Jingxing, who had maintained his inhuman willpower from the beginning. He grabbed the hands of his two companions, one on each side, 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 the tree's problem... I can feel it..."
Ji Chunzao said breathlessly.
"They... are actually afraid, afraid of that... thing in the sky..."
At the same time, a huge scream, like an indestructible sharp blade, tore through the wailing sound coming from the forest.
So, they all saw it——
On the ground, a terrifying shadow is spreading.
The monster floating in the air blocked the light in the sky, and every tentacle hanging down from it looked like a hovering high-rise building.
"It's the big monster that Chun Zao once called..."
Yan Jingxing suddenly realized.
When they were on the earth, they could not see the specific appearance of the monster. They could only see a huge outline floating on the sea, and it only lasted for a short period of time.
And when they came to the planet where the "Monster in the Cloud" really lived, and when they turned their heads unconsciously amid the screams, it finally revealed its true face in Lushan:
The ink-colored skin outlines a strange appearance similar to that of a deep-sea octopus, which rises and falls with a screaming sound (which seems to be the sound it makes when breathing);
Its head is like a living mountain, and below it are dozens of tentacles occupying most of the body, ranging in length from tens of meters to more than a hundred meters;
The dim yellow beam of light shines straight into the sky, illuminating the clouds and rendering it a smoky yellow. It is the light released by the two eyes on the top of the monster's head.
"'Predator King'..."
He heard Ji Chunzao talking as if he was dreaming.
"My 'eyes' saw its name."
As she said, the "Predator King" was not hostile to them. To be precise, whether the monster noticed them or not was a question.
Wherever it passed, a huge attraction was created out of thin air, and invisible ripples appeared in the air; trees were uprooted and sucked into the sky.
The ghost-faced trees let out miserable wails and twisted their branches desperately, trying to avoid being torn apart. Countless branches and leaves shook off,
But despite this, they were still broken and smashed by the storm in the blink of an eye, with countless debris flying in the sky, and the sap bursting out from the trees was scarlet and fell like rain.
In this way, the predator king devoured the forest and wandered slowly forward.
"——!"
Yan Jingxing suddenly felt dizzy. He gritted his teeth and knocked open the iron door.
…
They ran down the corridor.
Behind them came a high-pitched roar like a low-flying plane, circling overhead and then quickly passing over their heads.
They finally stopped in front of the passageway of the barrier.
It’s not that I don’t want to continue, it’s that I can’t go any further.
The destructive effect caused by the predator king during its march is astonishing. It only needs to rely on its huge body to crush it, and the sky will collapse in an instant.
The palace shook violently, spiderweb-like cracks on the ceiling expanded rapidly, and fragments of different sizes fell like hail, blocking some passages.
In some places, the entire ceiling has been lifted, revealing the color of the sky.
Fortunately, this terrible shock only lasted 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 did not regard any existence on the ground, whether dead or living, as a target, it just floated over the palace.
Yan Jingxing was leading the way. His reaction at the moment was beyond the speed of ordinary people, so he easily found a relatively solid position and took the girls to hide.
Therefore, they were not injured in this accident, they just stared at the dilapidated ruins of the palace in a daze.
"Let's... wait until we make sure that the surrounding support is strong enough, and then look for another way..."
Yan Jingxing, who was covered in cold sweat, said dryly, and then calmly realized that he was on the verge of reaching his limit.
He staggered back and sat down against the wall, unconscious.
