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Bayeta couldn't help but recall the wet human figure again, but found that the suffocation and despair had disappeared.
The pain I just felt now seems like an illusion.
"Let's go. Don't think about it. There are many guys like this along the way." Yu Jin nodded Bayeta's head again, then turned around and walked forward again.
"How about it, did that guy just now look good?" While wandering aimlessly, Yu Jin looked at Du Lin who was lost in thought and asked half-jokingly.
Compared to Bayeta, Dulin's performance was obviously much better. Although his mind was still immature, his mental strength was real.
"It doesn't look good at all!" Du Lin shook his head decisively. When he recalled the appearance of the wet human figure just now, he felt suffocated. This was a feeling he had never had before.
"What was that thing just now? Why... why was it so ugly!" Du Lin looked at the ground under his feet. For a long time, he couldn't think of any words to describe the appearance of the wet human figure. He could only use "ugly" to describe it.
Yu Jin laughed when he heard this. He touched the newly sprouted horn on Du Lin's head and said, "You are right. It is indeed ugly. But there will be uglier ones later."
"Is there anything uglier?" Du Lin looked up and ahead. He could see nothing but endless sand.
"Don't think too much, just follow me." Yu Jin held the back of his head with both hands, looking like he was going out to relax.
Then everyone realized that their speed had suddenly increased a lot. Now, with every step they took, countless scenes rewound in front of their eyes.
The barren land and the dark sky were stretched into blurry strips of light, and everything in front of everyone was blurry. The only thing that was clear was the figure of the ember in front.
Alex opened his eyes wide and tried hard to see the surrounding scene clearly, but he could see nothing clearly.
The speed was too fast, so fast that his brain had no time to process any information. He didn't dare to stop, because he felt that if he stopped, he would never be able to find the way back.
This strange state did not last long. As the embers in front of them stopped, Alex and the others' vision became clear again.
It is still as desolate as ever here, and the whole land looks flat and open, as if it had been plowed by something.
But no one was surprised by this, because in front of them, there was something more peculiar that attracted their attention.
It was endless darkness, the darkness hidden beneath the earth.
Chapter 168 Things Not Allowed to Be Born
2023-09-13
From the foot of the embers, the gray of the earth was faintly tinged with a hint of black. The blackness that was interspersed between the earth was still wriggling, as if it did not exist on the earth itself, but was in a deeper place.
"Gurgle~" A series of mud-stirring sounds came from all around. Then, in front of everyone, more wet human figures crawled out from under the ground.
But in addition to the wet human figure, there is another more peculiar "person" here.
Those "people" were different from the wet human figures, as the wet human figures had a huge gap on their faces, which was located exactly in the oval formed by the eyes, nose, mouth and eyes.
This made the wet human-shaped face look from a distance as if someone had dug out its facial features.
But those "people" are different. Their body shapes vary, and some can even be identified by gender.
But all the "people" were, without exception, enveloped in a black mist. Not only was it impossible to see their faces clearly, even the edges of their bodies were blurry, making them look as if they didn't exist in the world.
It would be more accurate to say that the black fog composed them rather than enveloping them.
Whether it was the wet human figures or the collection of evil thoughts, after they drilled out from the ground, their bodies were covered with a thick layer of charred black mud. The mud fell from their bodies and merged back into the earth.
"Tap! Tap!" The sound of dripping mud became louder and louder, gradually replacing the sound of monsters crawling out.
The air became increasingly humid, and every time Alex and Bayeta took a breath, they felt as if their lungs were soaked in a sticky substance.
The flesh and blood seemed to be stuck together by something, and every movement required more than ten times the strength than before.
Sweet and fishy, weak, these were the only feelings Alex and Bayeta had. In this state, they could do nothing at all.
"Xiuyu..." A faint murmur began to echo in everyone's ears. Now even Du Lin began to feel uncomfortable.
As a pure consciousness, its changes were the most obvious. Strands of black began to spread upward from Du Lin's limbs, and it could feel itself regressing, regressing to the state it was in five hundred years ago.
The gloomy sky began to become bright, and the barren land gradually grew green. Only the unchanged wet human figures and evil thoughts in the distance reminded Du Lin that the scene he saw now began to be the opposite of that of ordinary people.
Yu Jin looked at the people lying on the ground, then looked at the monsters that were rushing towards him like a tide, and felt that it seemed too much.
So he stretched out one foot and tapped the ground lightly. Then the ground suddenly began to surge, just like waves on the ocean.
The dark waves rolled up and swallowed up all the monsters that crawled out. The earth returned to normal again, and people couldn't help but wonder if they were dreaming.
"Get up, get up. I won't care if you die here while sleeping." Yu Jin said, and helped up the three guys who had collapsed on the ground.
"Hasn't... arrived yet?" Bayeta looked around in uncertainty, fearing that a hand would suddenly stretch out from the ground.
"No, I just reached the edge." Yu Jin shook his head, then nodded. Going further, the ground began to drop.
Bayeta's face froze when she heard this. She saw two things and was on the verge of death twice. And yet, she had only just reached the edge.
"Hahaha, didn't you say you wanted to see the taboos? Are you scared now? I was counting on you to figure out something." Yu Jin looked at Bayeta's distorted face, patted her shoulder and said soothingly.
"Huh, who said I'm scared? Go on! I want to see how many times I can die!" After hearing Yu Jin's comfort, Bayeta took a few deep breaths and straightened his chest.
She already understood that as long as Yu Jin was here, they would not die. In this case, it would be a pity not to go and see what the so-called taboo was!
"Yes, it's good to have this momentum." Yu Jin nodded, then raised his hand and everyone flew up.
Yu Jin slowly rose from the ground and explained to the surprised crowd: "If I stay on the ground next, I will be exhausted to death."
As for why he was exhausted to death, you can tell from the previous two experiences. They were too fragile and could die if they were not careful. If he really had to walk all the way, Yu Jin would have to keep an eye on their condition. If that happened, he would probably suffer from mental breakdown.
Although they had no experience in flying, Alex and Bayeta quickly adapted to the situation because it was not them flying, but the air currents that carried them up into the sky.
The crowd was looking down at the earth from high in the sky. They didn't know how high they were flying. The distance between them and the dark clouds in the sky seemed to be constant and did not change at all. Only the increasingly wide field of vision told them that they were indeed climbing upwards.
From an unknown height in the air, everyone looked down and discovered that the seemingly flat ground was actually sinking.
The entire earth was like a funnel that had magnified countless things. The center of the funnel was pitch black, and the darkness spread from the center, as if it wanted to devour the entire earth.
"What do you think?" Yu Jin, floating in the air with his arms folded, looked at the darkness below and spoke to everyone.
"Shocking." Alex stared at the ground below that looked like a "funnel" and uttered only two words.
He couldn't imagine how big the land was, or how high up they were now.
"What...what is this?" Bayeta had no idea how many times she had asked this question. Her doubts and fears had never stopped since she came to this world.
"I... why do I feel like it's looking at me?" Du Lin looked at the darkness below. The more he looked, the more he felt that it was an eye, a deep giant eye that was staring at him.
After hearing this, Yu Jin looked at Durin and the darkness below in surprise, but he soon returned to normal.
"In that case, why don't you go down and ask Him?" Yu Jin said as if it was a joke.
But before Du Lin could react, the ground beneath them suddenly began to shake.
"Boom!" The loud noise of the earth's crust shattering and the earth reorganizing was heard by everyone across who knows how far away.
The ground below began to tremble, and countless darkness surged out from the ground, engulfing everything.
The ground where everyone was walking before was like an oil film floating in the sea. As long as the sea shook slightly, the oil film would break into pieces.
The darkness deep underground is the ocean, and that thin layer of crust is just a camouflage used by the ocean to attract birds.
In an instant, everyone saw the gray-white ground shattered into pieces. Then the darkness from the cracks surged out, swallowing up the remaining strange colors.
If Alex and the others had sharper eyesight, they would have seen that the surging darkness was actually countless wailing human faces.
The dark wave contained everything: bones, body parts, evil thoughts, everything that people hated, and all the darkness of being human.
Of course, if Alex and the others really saw this, it would be hard to say whether it would be a blessing or a curse.
The darkness did not stop after it swallowed the earth. It began to roll and gather like clouds in the sky, and eventually became smaller and smaller...
The smaller the darkness is, the smaller the matter in this space is. Everything on that piece of land is darkness itself. And the grayish-white ground may be the matter that floats up in the darkness because of its lightness.
As to whether it is ashes or something else, it is unknown.
When the darkness was compressed to the extreme, the people in the sky could no longer see anything below.
Just because they can't see what's below them doesn't mean the things below can't see them above them.
A cold and deep gaze swept across the crowd, and then the "thing" below appeared in their sight.
The pitch-black helmet, the rusty red plate armor, the blood-stained linen, the appearance of that thing was clearly a gloomy ember.
Chapter 169 I Am You
2023-09-13
"What is this!!!"
"How can it be?!!"
"Brother Yu Jin, don't scare me!"
"Fuck!"
Not to mention Alex and the others were shocked, even Yu Jin himself was taken aback.
He had never carefully looked at what Yousui looked like after he turned into himself, so he never cared much about the fact that Yousui turned into himself.
But now it seems that Youshen is clearly smearing his image! Is he that sloppy?
Yu Jin would clean up all the blood and other things after each battle. It was impossible for Yousui to just leave it alone.
After all, the smell of blood is not that pleasant.
[How did you become like me?] When there were other people around, Yu Jin began to care about his image.
[Have I ever seen anyone other than you?] Youshen answered Yujin's question without moving.
He was still looking up at the sky, but coupled with his words, there was a sense of sadness.
But soon Yu Jin shook his head and threw the outrageous thoughts out of his mind.
Is this guy pitiful? Yu Jin believes in corruption but not You Shen. When he and Dian Huo bullied Corruption, there was no pity in him.
[Forgive me! Don’t talk to me later!] Yu Jin said to Yousui, whose true nature he was not very clear about.
But judging from our interactions over the years, she is most likely as eccentric as he is.
Just as the Supreme Will wondered why the border had become so unruly, Ember also wondered why the Profundity had become so unreliable.
But so far, neither the Embers nor the Supreme Will have found the answers to these two questions.
Everyone held their breath when they saw Yu Jin's exclamation and then silence. A normal person, meeting another opposite self, looked like they were going to have a big fight.
Thinking of the abilities that Yu Jin had demonstrated before, everyone had already started thinking about how to choose a good posture to lie down.