Chapter 12: There is no return
In the chaotic town, Jiang Xia didn't want to stay any longer. He left a few words and turned around to step into the light curtain behind him.
It was like stepping into the water, a feeling of falling into the surface and being covered by liquid. His figure seemed to melt and quickly disappeared into the light curtain.
The Eternal Life girl holding the pistol hesitated.
She didn't know whether she should follow Jiang Xia into the light, and she didn't understand what Jiang Xia said.
But her hesitation did not last much longer.
The pulse beams shooting from behind made the girl hug her head suddenly, rub her stomach, grit her teeth, scream wildly, drop her pistol, and dive into the light curtain in front of her.
She didn't really have a choice.
Having helped Jiang Xia create chaos, the Eternal Life Society and the Black Hand Society have an irreconcilable feud. Needless to say, the consequences of staying here are obvious.
The light before her was the only place she could go.
Seeing both of them disappear in the light, Su, who was lying on the ground with his lungs pierced, gritted his teeth and struggled to grab the pistol that the girl had thrown beside him. He took a last look at Rogge who was not far away.
"Su! No!"
Roger saw Su's actions and knew what the young man was going to do.
He shouted in the brain wave communication, but the next moment, Su, with red eyes, also exploded his prosthetic body, jumped up, and rushed into the light in front of him that was already beginning to shatter.
That is the Black Hand's last hope!
He must...
We must take it back for Rogge!
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Bitterness, Fengming Country, Fengming County, Fengshan Mine, the deepest part of Pit No. 7.
Several boxers from Ruyifang were sitting at the bottom of the mine, gathered around a fire and chatting. More than half an hour had passed since they threw the poor scholar into the star array.
Mr. Bao, who was of high status, certainly would not wait here, so he left early.
The master who is in charge of Mine No. 7 doesn't want to stay in this damn place. It's still late at night. How can staying up late with a bunch of strong men compare to going back to his own house and hugging his newly married concubine?
Anyway, it was an accident that we found this star array in the mine a few days ago.
Lord Bao did not give any order that it must be opened.
In the hundreds of years since the founding of the Immortal Alliance, many star arrays have been explored outward, and many have been dug up around the Eastern Territory. However, there are only a limited number of small spiritual worlds that can be discovered.
Explorers who can get rewards from the Immortal Alliance are even rarer.
Rather than expecting to get rich overnight by doing this, it would be better to place a few bets in a casino.
Besides, with the wealth of Ruyifang, it is also a respectable and well-connected wealthy family in Fengming Country. As the second young master, Master Bao is used to the pleasures of life.
If you insist on using this star array tonight, I guess you just want to see some scenery.
If you really want to take it seriously...
It is not the turn of these lowly boxers who are guarding the mines to guard here.
"It's been more than half an hour, and there is still no news. It's really worrying. How long do we have to wait?"
A boxer in ragged clothes yawned loudly, scratched his body, found a louse, and threw it into his mouth.
He casually threw down the Pai Gow in his hand and glanced at the motionless star array slate behind him.
The spiritual stone left by Master Bao was still embedded in the stone slab, but it no longer glowed.
The spiritual stone that originally emitted flowing light like water now seemed to be hollowed out, leaving only a jade-like shell with a pale light flickering, but no other magic.
"That unfortunate scholar Jiang is probably dead a long time ago. There are also rumors about this star formation."
Another guy with a pointed face and monkey cheeks scratched his skinny ribs while looking at the Pai Gow in his hand, hoping to get a good hand to make up for his losses.
But as soon as he saw the cards, he immediately curled his lips.
Obviously, he had bad luck. After cursing, he boasted:
“When I was playing as a little girl in Fengyang County, I heard people say that before the immortals used the star array, they would perform a sacrifice and use immortal methods to locate the star array before they dared to open it.
Anyone who enters to search must make preparations in advance. They must be fully prepared with immortal talismans, magic weapons, pills, medicines and food before they dare to enter the star array.
Even so, not everyone can come back.
This star array is connected to the outside world. God knows what the situation is like on the other side. I also heard from that person that if someone is unlucky, they will fall into a cold abyss like the moon once they step out.
He couldn't even scream and was instantly frozen into a lump of ice.
Jiang Shusheng brought nothing with him except a broken knife. Although I gave him a pot of water, I thought he must have died long ago, and there would be no trace of his body left.
Hey, it's also a hard life."
The man shook his head and said:
"I heard that Mr. Jiang was originally from a wealthy family, but he got sick and lost all his family wealth. He also got hysteria and told everyone he met that he had a ghost in his body.
They also said that the evil ghost was vicious and killed people in dreams and other nonsense."
"Then why do you still pity him? Old Four, are you looking at his pretty face and tender skin and want to sleep with him?"
Someone nearby immediately made fun of him, which made the skinny guy suddenly dissatisfied. No matter what era or world it was, doubting a man's sexual orientation was a great shame.
But then, the skinny monkey sighed again and said quietly:
"Who doesn't know the character of our Master Bao? He was born into a wealthy family, and it's common for him to take human lives lightly.
If Jiang Suanzi hadn't run into the gun today, we would have been the ones to die.
Alas, this man died without a father or a mother, without a wife or children, and he died outside the country. It was very miserable, but he also protected you and me from disaster.
Tomorrow morning, take some incense, money, and candles and offer him a sacrifice."
Hearing this, the atmosphere in the venue suddenly became a little gloomy, but soon, as the next round of Pai Gow began, Skinny Monkey immediately became excited. It was obvious that he had good luck this time.
He was shouting and about to collect the strings of money that had fallen on the ground when suddenly a light appeared deep in the mine.
It came suddenly, illuminating the mine instantly.
Several boxers were also stunned. They were all lowly people and had never seen the star formation reopened, so they were a little at a loss.
Since Mr. Bao and the manager were not around, they didn't know what to do.
They could only watch as the light gate opened on the star array slab and turned into an elliptical light curtain, like an open eye.
"There's someone in the light!"
The skinny monkey who was still holding the Pai Gow in his hand shouted, and the huge and fat guy next to him immediately grabbed the knife at his waist, took a step forward, and went to check.
But before he could take two steps, there was a loud explosion towards him.
Large-caliber bullets were fired from the gun barrel.
At supersonic speed, with the kinetic energy of killing, it blasted into his forehead flesh. Encountering the resistance of the hard skull, the little cutie with kinetic energy began to deform in the flesh.
With the freedom given to it by gunpowder, it keeps rolling and piercing.
In just a moment, red and white liquid flowed along the exploded skull and spread everywhere behind him.
Death did not come silently, but like a loud bang, exploding in the depths of the pit with a resolutely ungentle attitude. The strong body shook and then fell down with a loud bang.
Behind him, the skinny monkey, who was splattered with blood, stood there in a daze. He only felt a warm and fishy feeling on his face, and his crotch became wet.
With a thud, he fell to his knees, trembling with fear.
The people next to him were not as spineless as him, but they were also frightened. They held their weapons in their hands and didn't know how to advance or retreat.
But with weapons in hand...
This is it, why don't you surrender?
"Bang, bang, bang"
Three more shots.
The sound of thunder was deafening. Jiang Xia, with a bruised face and nose, walked out of the light curtain with an expressionless face, carrying an ammunition bag on his back, a toolbox on his waist, and a pistol that was still emitting green smoke.
The pit in front of him was littered with corpses, with only the last person kneeling there.
He was not interested in scaring the guy who was already frightened silly. He turned around and looked at the light curtain. The next moment, a figure holding his head rushed out from it and bumped into Jiang Xia, causing him to stagger.
The girl wearing goggles was also knocked to the ground by the recoil.
Then.
She saw Jiang Xia raise his left hand.
The black muzzle of the gun was pointed at her, and the man's bruised face was filled with a chilling coldness.
"boom"
The trigger is pulled.
Another gunshot was heard.
The girl was petrified.
But the bullet grazed her messy hair, flew behind her, and hit the almost drained spirit stone in the center of the stone slab.
The star array slab was very solid, obviously tempered by secret methods.
Jiang Xia had tried it in the desert temple. A dagger could not leave any scratches on it, and a bullet should not be able to destroy its integrity. So if he wanted to stop it, he could only cut off its energy source.
At this distance, Jiang Xia will not miss.
"boom"
The spirit stone was shattered by the bullets.
A ball of energy was stirred up, like an air wave from a cannon, blasting in all directions, sweeping away all the dust in the mine, and a crisp sound of "crackling" was heard amid the smell of blood.
Something broke.
It was like a piece of precision machinery that was running and suddenly got hit hard.
The destruction that erupted from within impacted the stone slab all around, causing cracks to form on it and causing the light gate connecting the two worlds to collapse.
No more trouble forever!
Jiang Xia thought so.
Just as he was about to put the pistol back into his waist, he saw a figure tumbling out in the scattered light curtain. He quickly ducked down and just avoided the man's attack.
With a bang.
As the light curtain completely disappeared, the last guy who traveled through the world was pushed by the chaotic energy and crashed into the hard stone wall of the mine.
The head was broken and bleeding.
Fortunately, the prosthesis helped to reduce the impact, so that the young wasteland warrior Su did not have his skull shattered all at once.
He reacts quickly.
The chip in the brain recalibrates consciousness.
The moment he was hit, he was about to raise his hand to fight back, with the pulse pistol in his hand ready to fire. But as soon as he raised it, he was kicked in the wrist.
The pistol spun out and landed right at the feet of the girl who staggered to her feet.
It can be considered as returning the property to its original owner.
On the other side, when Su raised his head, he saw the black muzzle of a gun pointed right in front of him.
Looking up along the muzzle of the gun, he saw Jiang Xia, whose face was bruised and bloody, looking at him with a cold gaze. Su suddenly felt despair.
The wound to his punctured lung had not healed.
The pressure from passing through the star array became more and more painful, and he was almost unable to breathe.
Jiang Xia's first reaction was to pull the trigger and kill the wasteland warrior who was chasing him, but the next moment, he abruptly stopped this thought.
He turned around and glanced behind him. The star array was no longer magical, and the cracks on it were clearly visible even in this dark place.
The star array is integrated and bidirectional.
This side is ruined.
It's impossible to open it over there.
Although I don't understand the principle of traveling through the world.
But I think it should be a complicated thing like a coordinate system. Without the fixed coordinates, no matter how powerful Rogge and his group are, they can't cross the starry sea to find him.
"Well, Mr. Su."
Jiang Xia tilted his head, put away the pistol and put it back on his waist.
He leaned down, grabbed Su's collar, lifted him up, and brought him in front of him. On his bruised face, there was a sincere smile.
In this bloody atmosphere, with several corpses lying around and a frightened guy who was kowtowed and howling.
He said:
"Welcome to my territory."
