Volume 7: Frost Chapter 75 It’s Time to Fight
Lin Shunan was about to turn around when a light flashed on the car window.
A thin, grayish-white light meandered in from far away.
It's a road.
The road was littered with black dead branches.
A pair of extremely thin bare feet stepped on the light path, moving forward step by step...
A chill ran up my spine and my scalp went numb.
Lin Shunan opened his mouth to scream... His mouth couldn't open, his fingers couldn't move, his eyes couldn't move, and he couldn't breathe...
He suddenly realized that it was too quiet around him.
There was no sound of conversation or traffic.
Silence.
Gradually suffocating, Lin Shunan could only watch the pair of bare feet stepping on the dead branches and moving forward step by step, slowly revealing the bony ankles, calves, and knees...
A pale, almost transparent hand passed through the car window as if passing through a layer of water curtain, reaching towards his face, getting closer and closer, about to touch...
Bang!
A loud bang exploded in Lin Shunan's ears, and the hot and turbid air rushed into his nasal cavity.
It can move!
He gasped and said, "Window, there's someone outside the car window..."
"Be careful!" Zhong Yan swung his sword to cut off the dead branches that were piercing through the car window, and then pulled Lin Shunan behind him.
Only then did Lin Shunan see the scene inside the carriage clearly - black, twisted, dead branches covered the inner walls, curling and growing.
Su Wangshu and others were fighting with the dead branches respectively.
A thick dead branch suddenly dropped from above and pierced straight down towards the box.
Before he could utter a warning, a flash of sword light appeared, and the dead branches turned into black ashes and fell down wherever it passed. Before it hit the ground, it receded like the tide.
Ren Qingning tapped the ground with the tip of his sword. "We have to leave here."
Lin Shunan exhaled, trying to steady himself in the shaking carriage, and asked, "What's going on outside?"
Wang Jin answered him: "We are lost."
Lin Shunan was shocked. He asked, "What happened?"
"It's not clear yet, maybe..." Wang Jin hesitated, "There may be external interference..."
"We've been targeted," Su Wangshu turned around and glanced at the box, "According to the plan, we should have reached the mountain by now."
Lin Shunan thought for a moment, "Are we at the edge of the world now?"
Su Wangshu confirmed his guess, "Yes, in the 'gap'."
"Where are the other cars?"
"Not sure," Su Wangshu paused, "The driver is dead."
"Dead..." Lin Shunan muttered to himself and looked out the car window. It was pitch black, as if the light path, the woman, and the pale hand he had seen before were just illusions.
He said, “I think those dead branches are very similar to those in Small World.”
"The one who was brought into the research institute?" Su Wangshu asked.
"Yes..." Feeling dizzy, Lin Shunan staggered back and kicked the box.
The carriage shook even more violently.
After barely standing steady, Lin Shunan raised his hand and rubbed his brows, trying to clear his head, but he felt a tightness in his chest. He took several deep breaths, but the dizziness became worse and worse.
At this time, Ren Qingning spoke again: "Let's find a way to leave first. Dr. Lin's body can't hold on for too long."
"But we don't know where we are now? Who are the enemies and where are they hiding?" Zhong Yan said as he walked to Lin Shunan. He took out a tube of medicine from his pocket, unscrewed it and handed it to Lin Shunan.
Lin Shunan recognized that this was the concentrated spiritual energy liquid. He took a sip and drank it. A cool air spread down his throat and spread throughout his body. He thanked Zhong Yan and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome. This is your achievement." Zhong Yan said.
After seeing Lin Shunan recover, Wang Jin said, "I have a solution."
Everyone looked at her.
She hesitated, "I know where the mountain is now ."
"Current location?" Lin Shunan was a little confused.
"Have you been responsible for the transmission work on the mountain?" Ren Qingning asked.
Wang Jin nodded.
"The location of the mountain is constantly changing. We can only teleport there through a specific location," Ren Qingning explained to Lin Shunan, "but it has a fixed point within a certain period of time. The research institute was able to find that small world before, and also knew its location at that time..."
Small world, dead branches, fixed point...
Lin Shunan felt like he had grasped something, and was about to think about it...
He heard Su Wangshu's voice.
Su Wangshu interrupted Ren Qingning abruptly, "Brother Ren, I have some questions about the disaster you mentioned more than 30 years ago."
Ren Qingning asked: "What's the question?"
Su Wangshu's expression was very serious. "Did he appear on the mountain at that time because he knew the fixed point on the mountain at that time, or for some other reason?"
"I'm not sure about that," Ren Qingning did not avoid Su Wangshu's gaze, "I remember it seemed to be calculated by a fortune teller in the Special Operations Department at the time. By the way, it was not called the Special Operations Department at that time."
Crash.
A car window shattered.
The cold wind blew in in gusts.
Blown into the bone gap.
Lin Shunan shuddered.
"Mr. Su, let's talk about this when we get to the mountain." Zhong Yan spoke.
"This is very important," Su Wangshu said with an unusually tough attitude, "and perhaps it is best for us to stay here," he looked at Zhong Yan and Wang Jin and said, "They will definitely come to find us."
Zhong Yan thought for a moment and nodded, without saying anything else.
Su Wangshu looked at Ren Qingning again, "Brother Ren, I don't know the details of that battle because the mountain reached some agreements with the government - these details should be hidden and forgotten."
His voice became lighter. "Once remembered, he cannot die. So we don't even need to call him by any name."
"So, Brother Ren, it's impossible that you didn't know about this agreement. But when you were about to reach the teleportation point, you deliberately described to us in detail what happened that year to attract our attention."
Lin Shunan felt the hairs all over his body stand up.
He heard Su Wangshu question Ren Qingning, "Brother Ren, are you giving directions to something?"
…
On the mountain.
Jiang You made a grass ball out of long-leaf grass and hung it on the fishhook. He held the fishing rod in front of Jiang Mo, shaking it gently while saying, "Hook it, hook it..."
The grass ball touched Jiang Mo's nose.
Jiang Mo took a step back and turned his back to Jiang You. At the same time, a ball of spider silk hit Jiang You in the face.
Jiang You pulled at the spider silk, muttering: "Seven-year-old boy, you can beat him now, you can beat him now..."
A few clear crane calls were heard not far away. A girl wearing a white top and a colorful striped long skirt came riding a crane.
Tang Butian jumped off the crane and walked in front of Jiang You.
Jiang You asked her, "What happened?"
Tang Butian nodded, "Zhong Yan and the others are missing."
"The wind is a bit cold today ." As he said this, Jiang You turned around and looked at the mountains in the distance immersed in misty clouds.
(Volume 7, End)
