When Ni Ji woke up, he found that he had slept for several hours.
He opened his eyes a little slowly, and for a moment he didn't even understand where he was.
It was as if I was still in the past, a young man with no worries, living freely, laughing at any time, never experiencing real suffering, and never being hurt by this world.
Ni Ji blinked and saw the guide sitting in front of him, looking out the window with his chin in his hand.
The other party glanced at him and lowered his head to watch the video on the personal terminal on his wrist.
"I feel something is wrong." The man said with his head down.
"What...something's wrong." Ni Ji stammered in confusion.
Only then did he calm down and slowly remember what had happened.
He accepted the spiritual guidance, and fell asleep comfortably before the process was completely finished.
She said: "It's okay, I will protect you."
So he really calmed down and fell asleep beside her.
Ni Ji hadn't experienced such a peaceful sleep for a long time.
Those nightmares filled with blood and corpses always filled his every night.
Who would have thought that in such a dangerous place, protected by a guide, he could sleep peacefully for so long.
Ni Ji stood up and stretched his limbs.
The body feels more relaxed than ever.
All the pain and heaviness in my mind turned into a ball of light down and was completely scattered when the wind blew.
At this moment, every wave in the spiritual sea is humming happily.
The corals on the seabed are more colorful, the pearls are more dazzling, and the sea fish and crabs are crawling and swimming happily.
The beach is golden and the sea water is blue and clear.
The killer whales swam freely in the blue sea, becoming larger than before and more lively than ever.
From time to time, it jumps high out of the sea, closes its eyes in the air, and lowers its head to kiss the sea surface when entering the water.
Sometimes it would stand up straight, with its black-topped and white-jawed head peeked out from the sea, staring intently at the moon in the sky for a long time.
This was the spiritual counsel she gave herself.
This feeling is simply addictive.
"It's the wrong tree." said Lin Yuan.
When Ni Ji heard Lin Yuan's words, he came to his senses and asked, "What's wrong with the tree?"
Last night, they exchanged the information they had collected. Lin Yuan told him about the people who appeared at night. Ni Ji showed him some videos he had recorded.
The two people put their wrists together and used the short-distance transmission function of their personal terminals to transmit each other's information.
When night fell, the huge golden tree grew out from the crack in the ground, covering the sky and the earth.
Before the day came, the huge golden trees began to wither, turn gray, and break, and then dissipated like ash.
A tree that lives in the evening and dies in the morning.
In Ni Ji's video, violent golden branches kept crawling out of the blood-red pit, screaming and roaring, possessing powerful mental attack capabilities.
The inextinguishable flame of the white phosphorus bomb could not completely burn it.
The battle lasted until the second half of the night, and for some reason, the swaying and screaming golden branches became much quieter.
The violent mental attack suddenly weakened, and the golden monster with bared fangs and claws seemed to have lost interest in fighting. It began to become absent-minded, and casually pulled out branches to drive away the sentinels who were constantly looking for attacks from various angles.
Ni Ji searched the entire place, trying to chop off countless branches and leaves, even venturing deep into the cracks in the ground to cut off a tree root, and once split an entire tree trunk.
But no one was able to get the key to open the exit.
The chopped and fallen branches quickly lost their golden color, turned into powder, and turned into ashes, accompanied by thick flames and strong winds, and disappeared into the night.
No entity was left.
The screaming, chaotic, hoarse golden branches, the golden tree that constantly emerged from the blood-red abyss, slowly turned above her wrist.
It was very similar to the tree she had seen, but also quite different.
"This tree is wrong, emotionally it's wrong." After saying this, Lin Yuan closed his mouth without explaining the reason.
Ni Ji discovered that Lin Yuan was a girl of few words in real life.
But last night, or every time in her own spiritual sea, she was almost a different person.
Although her face was expressionless, she was actually very lively, curious about everything, and playful. She explored everywhere in the palace, went deep, and gently caressed.
Gentle and simple, powerful and beautiful.
She had explored her world like that last night.
Maybe I should have refused at that time, Ni Ji thought. Once you experience that feeling, you will always crave it again.
People are sometimes very greedy creatures. Last time in the contaminated area, I just wanted to have a few words with her.
Now, he knew he was becoming hungry for more.
Taking advantage of the relative safety of the day, the two men packed themselves up and sneaked into the Rose Camp again.
Those "humans" who looked exactly like living people, who could talk and laugh and had emotions, all disappeared out of thin air.
The huge camp was completely empty. The streets, stairs, and rows of houses on both sides were silent and empty, with only the occasional sound of wind.
There was no more music, laughter, delicious food and wine. There was no more girl who sang to Lin Yuan.
On the way, occasionally one or two sentinels would find this place and sneak in. When they saw Ni Ji, most of them avoided him from a distance.
Those who came here for the bounty, avoided the dangerous monsters along the way, and finally found this rose garden are basically all intermediate and advanced experts.
But last night, Ni Ji, who had been fighting against the big tree all night long, left them with a terrifying impression that they dared not provoke.
They just watched from afar, most of them couldn't stand the strange screams coming from the golden tree.
The sharp sound was buzzing in my mind. Whenever I tried to get closer, my head hurt so much that I felt like I was going crazy. Let alone fighting, even standing was difficult.
This lone wolf from the northern outpost rushed forward again and again in the blazing flames.
The knife was red, the man was covered in blood, and he fought like a madman.
Only such a strong and powerful madman would dare to challenge such a strange and deformed creature alone.
But even he couldn't find the key to open the door.
Where is the key? Where is the thing that Her Majesty wants? This is the question in the hearts of everyone who has arrived in this area.
Ni Ji took Lin Yuan to see the place where the golden tree appeared at night.
At this moment, there are no big golden trees there.
There was only that huge crack left on the ground, like a giant beast with its bloody mouth open and baring its teeth, looking up at the sky.
"It's here." Ni Ji squatted down and touched the ground with his gloved fingers.
Last Night's White｜The phosphorus bomb burned all night, and at this moment, the floor here still has residual warmth.
The soil and bricks were warm to the touch, recording the fierce and real battle last night.
But the huge tree was gone, and not even much ashes or firewood was left.
It appears at night and disappears before dawn.
Standing on the edge of the deep pit and looking down, the dark red crack is bottomless.
In the soil of the inner wall, there were things like blood vessels wriggling, and deeper inside was a scarlet and gloomy bottomless abyss. The howling sound of the wind blew up from the ground, like the crying of countless people.
Specks of ashes floated up from the depths of the cracks, scattered like foam on the eaves and alleys, and danced on the deserted streets.
(End of this chapter)