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Chapter 31 "The Predator"

Yan Jingxing walked to the end of the corridor first, and put his hand on the door.

At this moment, he heard the girl's low cry of suppressed surprise coming from behind.

"It's huge..."

"Ok?"

He turned his head and saw that Ji Chunzao was covering one of his eyes, muttering softly.

"Very... huge 'wave', it's just outside the door."

Yan Jingxing took a deep breath, and a shudder came down his spine.

"Where is it? Shouldn't we bump into the other side as soon as we push the door open?"

He tried to speak in a jokingly light tone.

"No, it's in the air... it's just above it, it seems to be suspended..."

I don't know if it was Yan Jingxing's illusion, but when the girl was speaking seriously, her remaining left eye was shining like a jewel in the darkness.

"This feeling seems a little familiar... What I can feel now is that the fluctuations it emits are quite calm and without hostility."

No hostility—in other words, if there was hostility, it was by no means something they could fight.

"So, shall we go out?"

Yan Jingxing's gaze fell back to the door in front of him, and his hand on the door.

After he asked this question, the atmosphere in the three room fell into a moment of silence.Finally, someone broke the silence with these words:

"...It's all here."

He heard someone say this behind him.

Yan Jingxing was a little surprised, he didn't expect Miss Xie to say this sentence.

"It's all here", there was no reason, it was purely emotional, but when he turned his head again and saw the girl's expression, he understood it all at once.

Because, now Yan Jingxing has exactly the same mood.

"You have come here, but you have to stop here, are you really willing?"

Walking together all the way here, whether it is Yan Jingxing, Ji Chunzao or Xie Yuzhi, their curiosity has long been hard to restrain.

Perhaps such an idea is a bit childish, but what's wrong with being childish?They were already at this age.

"Of course not reconciled."

Ji Chunzao touched the boy's back with his small fist, encouraging him.

"Yeah, they're all here."

Yan Jingxing smiled, pushed the door open with his palms——

*
The door swung open.

What was coming was undoubtedly a whole new world, wind, light, all rushed towards his face in one breath.

Yan Jingxing narrowed his eyes uncomfortably, raised his foot, and took the first step forward.

Being able to breathe normally and standing firmly on the ground, this feeling is no different from being on the earth;
But the strange-looking plants around him, as well as the crimson sky above his head, seemed to tell him that this was a completely strange planet.

"so big."

Yan Jingxing nodded unconsciously.

Yes, that was his first thought.

They walked out of the underground palace, and a huge world came into view, besides...

"Where we are now, is the forest?"

However, the trees here are too tall.

The uncut virgin forests on the earth will indeed grow towering giant trees that have formed their own ecosystems after thousands of years of production, but this is nothing compared to the current scene.

Almost every tree in this forest grows so tall that it can't be seen, and the lush and dense canopy is continuous and shaded, covering the sky.

The skin wrinkles of each tree have fine and strange lines, like weird faces, condensed on them in an abstract way.

The branches and leaves of the trees trembled in the breeze, and the skin was wrinkled like when the water surface was blown by the wind-these "faces" were still slightly wriggling!It looked like he was making all sorts of hideous expressions.

The leaves of the roadside plants also grow distortedly, and the dark branches are knotted together, like densely packed blades.

"By the way, do you still remember the content on the mural?"

Xie Yuzhi observed the trees in front of him, cautiously did not approach them, and said:
"The flesh pillar whose organs were dug up by alien residents is in the middle of a huge forest. If that palace is an important place where aliens have worshiped for generations and used to hold inheritance ceremonies, then it is built In the first place where the ancestors got their organs, it's nothing more than normal."

"Indeed. But now it seems that there is no need to consider the question of 'where we are', because we still don't know anything about the geography of this world."

"Yeah, what matters is where we go next."

Miss Xie confirmed to him.

"Jing Xing, I still remember the dream you told us about seeing a large red plain and a lighthouse standing on it. The 'us in the future' is there, right?"

"Yes."

"Then, we'll end there." She looked around, "This place is neither a plain nor a lighthouse, so the first step should be... Find a way to get out of this forest."

Linhai is undulating, and wherever you can see, there are human faces flowing on the trees, not only scary, but also a little dizzy after looking at it for a long time.

Yan Jingxing frowned, he felt as if he heard some kind of rustling noise, as if someone was whispering.

"What movement?"

Strangely enough, the sound was getting louder.But no matter how he looks left and right, all he sees are trees, trees, trees...

He and Xie Yuzhi looked at Ji Chunzao at the same time.

At this time, the power of "sacrifice" is needed.

In order to concentrate, the girl has closed her eyes at this moment, one of her eyebrows is raised up, and she said uncertainly.

"Uh, maybe some kind of small creatures are gathering...? The radio waves are weak, but the number is huge..."

On the other side of the deep forest, suddenly there was a loud noise like thunder.

For a moment, all horses were silent, as if the whole forest was shaking, and there were strange hissing sounds in their ears. These sounds converged into a current, like the annoying cicadas in summer, flowing around them.

"Are they getting closer?!"

Looking at the swaying tree shadows and the trembling ground in front of him, Yan Jingxing couldn't help shouting.

"Are the animals in the forest migrating?"

"Closer?...No, no, not close...they've always been by our side, since just now..."

Ji Chunzao suddenly opened his eyes.

— "It's the whole forest, every tree is its eyes! But..."

Before her words fell, the rustling sound quickly turned into a miserable howl, and the lines on the trees became more and more vivid; each tree was inlaid with thousands of faces, the "faces" in the entire forest "The number is naturally innumerable. When all the faces started howling, the scene was as tragic as Abi Hell.

"!"

Faced with such a terrifying scene, both Ji Chunzao and Miss Xie all turned pale.

The only one who could maintain his composure was Yan Jingxing, who had maintained his inhuman willpower since just now. He grabbed the hands of his two companions, one on each side, turned around and ran towards the gate leading to the palace.

Fortunately, at this time they did not rush into the dense forest.

"Let's go back first! Don't be surrounded by trees!"

"Wait... wait, it's not about the tree... I can feel it..."

Ji Chunzao said out of breath.

"They...are actually afraid, afraid of that...something in the sky..."

At the same time, a huge scream, like an indestructible sharp blade, tore through the wailing from the forest.

So they all saw—

On the ground, a terrible shadow is spreading.

The monster floating in the air blocked the light in the sky above, and every tentacle it hung down was like a hovering tall building.

"It's the big monster that Chunzao once summoned..."

Yan Jingxing suddenly realized.

When they were on the earth, they couldn't see the specific appearance of the monster, they could only see a huge silhouette floating on the sea surface, 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, when they turned their heads unconsciously amidst the screams, it finally revealed its true face:

The ink-colored skin outlines a strange appearance similar to that of a deep-sea octopus, and it undulates with a scream (that seems to be the sound it makes when it breathes);
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 shot straight into the sky, illuminating the clouds, rendering a smoky yellow, which was the light released by the two eyes on the top of the monster's head.

"'The Predator King'..."

He heard Ji Chunzao talking like he was dreaming.

"My 'eyes', saw its name."

As she said, the Predator was not hostile to them. To be precise, whether the monster noticed them was a problem.

I saw that where it passed, a huge attraction was born out of thin air, and invisible ripples appeared in the air; the trees were uprooted and sucked into the sky.

The ghost-faced trees wailed fiercely, twisting their branches desperately, trying to avoid being torn apart, countless branches and leaves shook off,

But even so, they were still broken and shattered by the storm in the blink of an eye, countless debris flying all over the sky, and the sap bursting from the tree was scarlet, falling like rain.

In this way, the king of predators devoured the forest all the way, wandering slowly all the way forward.

"—!"

Yan Jingxing suddenly felt dizzy, he gritted his teeth and slammed open the iron door.

……

They ran all the way down the corridor.

Behind them came the high-pitched whistling sound of a low-flying plane, circling overhead, then swiftly passing over their heads.

They finally stopped in front of the barrier passage.

It's not that I don't want to continue, but 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 world will collapse in an instant.

The palace shook violently, the cobweb-like cracks on the ceiling expanded rapidly, and fragments of different sizes fell down like hailstones, blocking some of the passages.

In some places, even the entire roof has been lifted, revealing the color of the sky.

Fortunately, this terrible shock only lasted for a few minutes.

"King of Predator" - just looking at the title given to it by aliens, it is clearly describing the existence that occupies the top of the planet's food chain.

It didn't take any existence on the ground—whether it was a dead thing or a living thing—as a target, it just floated over the palace.

Yan Jing walked in the front and led the way. His reaction at this moment was beyond ordinary people's quickness, so he easily found a relatively strong position and pulled the girls to hide.

Therefore, they were not injured in this accident, but just stared at the ruins of the dilapidated palace in a daze.

"We... wait until we are 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 his limit.

He staggered back and sat down against the wall, unconscious.

(End of this chapter)