31. Chapter 31 “Predator King”

Author: A Clockwork Orange Dream

Chapter 31 "Predator King"

Yan Jingxing took the lead and walked to the end of the corridor and put his hand on the door.

At this moment, he heard the girl's muffled cry of surprise coming 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 'radio 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 tried to speak in a joking and light tone.

"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 is no hostility - in other words, if there is hostility, it is definitely not something they can fight against.

"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 in the room between the three fell into silence for a moment. Finally, someone broke the silence with this sentence:

"...It's all here."

He heard someone behind him say this.

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 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 bumped the boy's back with his small fist to encourage him.

"Yeah, I'm here now."

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

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The door swings open.

What came face to face was undoubtedly a whole new world, with wind, light, and all 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 the earth;

But the strange-looking plants around him and the red sky above seemed to indicate to 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 really 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 you can't even see the end of it, and their lush and dense crowns 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 surface wrinkled like when the water was blown by the wind - these "faces" were actually still squirming slightly! It looked like they were 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 that aliens have been worshiping for generations and used to perform inheritance ceremonies, then it was built

It is perfectly normal for the ancestors to have obtained their 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."

"Yes, 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?"

It's strange that the sound is getting louder and louder. But no matter how he looks around, he always sees only 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 had closed her eyes. She raised one eyebrow 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.
To be continued...