nashuaworldcup Chapter 191 [Domain - Tuotuo Mountain] An Unprecedented Way to Enter the Domain
Chapter 191 [Domain - Tuotuo Mountain] An Unprecedented Way to Enter the Domain
Under the blinding light, both of their faces were deathly pale.
"...It really wasn't a large tomb."
Xu Sandao said with a complicated expression.
Upon entering the door, an endless starry river comes into view!
Chen Ji immediately thought of the Domain River, but this river was completely different from the Domain River.
The starlight at the bottom of the Yuhe River is not dazzling; it is like fragments of a mirror, settling on the riverbed.
This galaxy is like ten thousand diamonds set on waves, reflecting dazzling light as the water ripples.
It's almost as if... the entire Yuhe River has been turned upside down!
At the same time, there was nothing around.
There were no towering mountains, no colossal statues, no gloomy sky... only at the end, where the outline of a village could be faintly seen.
All that surrounds the river is pure white.
The sky and earth are one color, without boundaries.
The two stood amidst pure white, and soon the black stone gate behind them melted away into the air.
Chen Ji and Xu Sandao exchanged a glance, both of them showing the same suspicion.
This may be the space at the bottom of the Yuhe River.
However, the stars on the water were so dazzling that no one could see what was on the other side.
"Go forward?"
Xu Sandao said, pointing to the village.
Chen Ji nodded.
“Let’s walk along the river and leave a mark every ten minutes,” Chen Ji said after thinking for a moment.
"Also, absolutely do not touch the river water."
He recalled the terrible state of his pen after it hit the river when he first ventured out of the region.
Like the Yuhe River, time here is the same as outside.
Chen Ji timed it perfectly and got up at 19:20 p.m., leaving behind a red woolen hat.
19: 30.
The two stopped in their tracks. The hat had shrunk to a color block in their sight, and Xu Sandao had left behind the mask.
The river flows quietly...
The village at the end of the road remained blurry, like a distant view in a traditional Chinese ink painting, visible but untouchable.
Chen Ji and Xu Sandao are the only two living beings in this painting.
19: 40.
Use down jackets as markers.
19: 50.
sleeping bag.
20:00
Hiking poles stand upright by the river.
.....
20: 12.
The two were still trekking.
Xu Sandao suddenly broke the silence: "How exactly did you open the door?"
Chen Ji glanced at him: "Bored?"
The two had been walking for nearly an hour without saying a word, maintaining a steady pace throughout.
Xu Sandao chuckled.
“It’s a strand of hair,” Chen Ji said. “I told you, Zeng Guichuan called it a ‘key.’”
He took out the little monkey and pointed to its mouth.
“But Zeng Guichuan said in his letter that his three strands of hair were taken from the grave,” Xu Sandao said thoughtfully.
"He got the hair after entering the tomb, but without the hair, he couldn't open the door."
This is a chicken-or-egg question.
Chen Ji said, "Perhaps the hair ghost exists not only in the tomb."
Zeng Guichuan may have obtained the hair from somewhere else, or it may have been given to him by that Mr. Wang.
"Oh."
Xu Sandao fell silent.
A while later...
Chen Ji suddenly frowned.
"Don't you feel that the distance between that village and us hasn't changed at all?"
It remains the same size.
The situation did not become clearer as Chen Ji and his companion moved forward.
"Are we really making progress?" Chen Ji wondered.
His mind was in turmoil. So much had just happened: first, he was separated from his uncle, then he was chased by the balloon ghost... and now he was in this boundless land.
Moreover, the uncle didn't even know they were no longer at the tin mine.
“We left marks,” Xu Sandao reminded him. “These are the evidence of our progress.”
Chen Ji looked back and could vaguely see the clothes he had left behind last time.
It is 20:18 PM now.
The two continued walking, and Chen Ji gazed at the village: "Is it possible that this village is fake?"
"Like a mirage?"
Xu Sandao was about to say something when he suddenly froze.
"There's something up ahead!"
They could vaguely see a splash of red suddenly appearing on the pure white earth.
"go!"
Chen Ji's heart stirred slightly, and he immediately quickened his pace.
Two minutes later...
Chen Ji and Xu Sandao were both stunned.
Those are their hats.
The red woolen hat left behind at 19:20.
Chen Ji's mind was reeling. With the village and river as reference points, they were traveling in a straight line!
Could it be...
Xu Sandao said softly, "My watch shows that it is 19:20 PM now."
"But if it's a loop or a backtracking... why is the hat still here?"
"If not, but rather like an ouroboros, a closed time loop, what about us at 19:20?"
All around was a vast expanse of white, with only Chen Ji and Xu Sandao present.
"Time and space are all out of order here."
Chen Ji broke out in a cold sweat, vaguely sensing that it would be difficult to escape!
The two walked for another hour, away from the river...
But eventually, I reached the riverbank and saw that red woolen hat.
It's still 19:20.
Chen Ji sat near the woolen hat, eating an energy bar, silently pondering a solution.
Their backpacks were empty, so they could be used as markers.
Is there any other way?
Just then, his ears twitched—
I heard a very faint sound, like someone was talking.
It came from the bottom of the river!
"Finally out of the realm...home..."
"It's an entrant speaking!" Chen Ji suddenly looked at Xu San and said, "The Domain River is right below!"
This time they confirmed their hypothesis.
"How to do?"
Xu Sandao looked at Chen Ji questioningly.
Chen Ji frowned deeply. He still couldn't forget how the pen rusted instantly after being rinsed by the Yu River, with holes appearing as if it had been corroded.
He thought about it...
He took a stone out of his bag and extended the lower half into the Milky Way.
Then, it was taken out again.
"No change?" Xu Sandao looked at Chen Ji with a strange expression. "At most, it has turned a little grayer."
Chen Ji was a little confused.
He tried other things as well, but none of them showed any signs of corrosion.
Was the problem with the pen itself before that?
Chen Ji didn't want to use a pen for experiments anymore. After thinking for a while, he decided to stick his fingertip in himself.
At worst, I'll just lose a finger.
He had no other choice.
Chen Ji gritted his teeth, and very carefully knelt on the riverbank, his fingers gently touching the dazzling starlight on the water—
He was not corrupted.
but.....
"Chen Ji!"
Xu Sandao's eyes widened suddenly as he stared at Chen Ji in disbelief, only to be slowly sucked into the river!
Chen Ji's body seemed to freeze in time.
"..."
Xu Sandao instantly recalled the scene when his body was sucked into the domain.
However, neither he nor Chen Ji had been away from the domain for less than a month!
He gritted his teeth, and without further hesitation, grabbed Chen Ji's clothes and was swallowed up by the Milky Way together!
The space returned to a vast expanse of white...
I don’t know how long it took.
The red woolen hat suddenly disappeared.
......
Boom boom boom——
In the hazy consciousness of the two, a voice devoid of emotion suddenly rang out:
Saving others is saving yourself.
[Find five scrap pieces in the Tuotuoshan Coal Mine and survive to the end]
[Time: 2000]
They forcibly opened a domain.
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