Outside the Golden Tree contaminated area.
In the open space near the red warning sign, many people who had not entered were waiting and watching.
Some were waiting for their teammates to enter the dangerous area, and some came simply to investigate the situation.
The number of people entering the contaminated area this time is unprecedentedly large. It is unknown whether the "door" can be opened in this contaminated area that has not been successfully opened for hundreds of years.
"It's been several days. No one has come out. There are so many people this time, could they all have died in there?"
"What's the point of having more people? For hundreds of years, there has been no one alive in the Golden Tree contaminated area."
"They are all desperate guys. For money, they dare to go to hell. It's just like the old saying, people die for money, birds die for food."
Ji Xuan from the Royal Guard sat on the roof of the car, with a coat draped over his shoulders and glasses on his nose, and his clean fingers tapped slowly and slowly.
A sentry came up to him and said, "Captain, it's been several days since those people went in..."
Ji Xuan waved his hand, "Wait a little longer."
The image of the sky floated.
A black, rectangular gap suddenly appeared in the air and slowly expanded in the air.
"Door!"
“It’s the door!”
"The door is open."
Amidst the exclamations, the watching sentries stood up one after another.
A door opened in the sky, a door of escape.
Countless people watched.
The dark door opened silently in the air, but no one came out immediately.
It seemed as if someone opened the door from inside the contaminated area, but no one knew where the person who opened the door had disappeared.
After a long time, a sentry finally stuck half of his body out of the door, and then the whole person fell out.
The sentry's face was covered in blood, and half of his face had been bitten off by something. But no matter what, he was still alive and conscious, not crazy.
He looked around blankly, with a look of disbelief on his face. Finally, he realized that he had finally come out, away from that nightmare-like place, back to the safe real world.
The sentry sat with his face in his hands and trembling.
Many people gathered around him and asked him what was going on inside and how he opened the door.
"I don't know. It wasn't me who opened the door." The sentinel sat on the ground and shook his head. He didn't want to talk about his experience at this time. "It was a killer whale. A spirit body was a sentinel of the killer whale."
After him, sentries escaped from the gate one after another.
Almost all of them were injured and looked dazed. One sentinel was covered in spores, and half of his body was almost corroded. After falling, he was caught by his companions and rushed to a nearby treatment cabin.
There was a treatment cabin in the nearby base. The sentinels were strong and as long as they could make it to the door alive and could afford the money to enter the treatment cabin, most of them had a chance of survival.
As more sentinels came out, they brought back a lot of news from the contaminated area.
In this polluted area, a new golden tree will grow every night, and when daylight falls in the morning, all the branches and leaves will turn into ashes and disappear in the sky.
That tree that lives in the evening and dies in the morning. Even if you try your best to chop off its branches, those golden branches will immediately turn into ashes and cannot be taken out at all.
The monsters in the contaminated area are extremely ferocious. They capture sentinels everywhere but do not kill them. Instead, they keep humans in a certain area and imprison and torture them for a long time.
The one who got the key was a guide, the same lone guide who appeared at Tomena's outpost.
Many people on the run saw her hand the key to a sentinel, who, sitting on a giant killer whale, opened the door allowing everyone to escape.
Such news spread among the crowd.
"The guide, it's incredible that he was saved because of a guide."
"Are there such amazing guides? I thought they could only dance."
"There really are such guides. I heard that a guide appeared in the Dongbin area, and she will go into the contaminated area with the team."
"In the past few months, I have heard of guides coming to several other outposts. They did not just go through the motions, but stayed for a long time and participated seriously in the treatment."
"It turns out that there are such guides in this world."
Next to the Royal Guard's convoy.
Ji Xuan heard the collected information.
"Has our people not come out yet?"
"So far, no one has come out alive." The sergeant who reported the incident had a serious expression on his face, "But someone inside saw Ni Ji, and I heard that he was the one who opened the door."
Ji Xuan pushed his glasses and looked towards the dark door.
Ni Ji opened the door but did not come out, and no one knew what the situation was inside.
Can we get the thing that the Queen wants
The rectangular black doorway twisted slightly, and the clouds in the sky began to shake slightly.
All the sentries stood up and jumped into the cars, and the sound of countless car engines starting was heard.
Could it be that it has spread again? The Golden Tree contaminated area that just spread once
Everyone was on alert in their hearts.
The spread of the contaminated area was extremely dangerous. Everyone present stared at the sky not far away, ready to escape at any time.
The sky shook a little, then shook a little again, and a piece of it fell down, revealing a gap.
Like a large canvas covered with tiles, pieces of scenery began to fall from the sky in patches.
Finally, with a loud crash, it shattered like a huge glass barrier.
The world before my eyes began to shatter and collapse...
"Is it a rout?"
"The Golden Tree Contaminated Area... is going to disappear?"
The fleeing vehicle stopped and braked. Everyone inside and outside the vehicle opened their mouths wide, staring at the gradually collapsing barrier in astonishment.
The false canvas in the sky slowly disintegrated from top to bottom, slowly revealing the world that had been shrouded in it for hundreds of years.
The silent wilderness and the deserted streets quietly appear in the sunshine.
The most marginal areas are modern houses, and further inward are buildings from ten or a hundred years ago.
In that very remote central area, the small town from four hundred years ago reappeared in the world.
The long nightmare finally ended at this moment, and the earth swallowed by the darkness returned.
The huge barrier slowly peeled off, the sun's rays soothed the long-lost earth, and the gentle breeze swept into the time and space that had been closed for hundreds of years.
Countless ashes were picked up by the wind and floated into the sky, like thousands of ghosts escaping from a nightmare, riding on the wind in the darkness and returning to the sky.
In that town hundreds of years ago. Deep in the cave.
The blood vessels that were wriggling on the ground died completely. They soon became stiff, decayed, and disintegrated into ash.
The whole world is collapsing and falling apart.
The scarlet blood vessels turned into smoke and dust. Everything connected to it by blood and controlled by it for hundreds of years was also turned into ashes.
The masks of pain disappeared one by one, and the strange cries gradually subsided.
In the center of the cave, Ni Ji held the guide in his arms, not knowing how much time had passed.
It might have been only a minute, but it also seemed like a long time. He felt the body in his arms had become cold, and he saw the person slowly close his eyes.
Even if he would eventually become a monster without the guidance of a guide, then he would become a monster.
Being an unconscious monster might be better than it is now.
He held his arms tighter, hoping that the body in his arms would not grow cold so quickly, and would stay a little longer, and stay with him a moment longer in this world.
The ashes in the sky floated like snow, and the golden tree beside him also decayed and collapsed.
The golden branches, leaves, trunk, and long roots were all gone.
A small piece of human body fell from the tree trunk.
He lost both hands and legs, and wore half a golden mask. A bit of his body fell into the snow-like ashes on the ground, stirring up white flying catkins all over the sky.
In those empty floating clouds, the gentle singing voice of a young girl can be vaguely heard.
Only the body and head of the deformed creature were left lying on the ground. The golden mask covered his brows and eyes, revealing half of his pale jaw.
He woke up from a long nightmare, lying on his back, watching the countless white fluff flying into the sky.
Listening to the farewell song in the dark.
"There is a treatment cabin." He said this softly.
Ni Ji was almost unable to react. He was stunned for a moment, then turned his head with a stiff neck to look at the mutant that had fallen nearby.
"There is a treatment cabin here." Xunhua, who was lying on the ground, said again, "It's very close. I can take you there."
Ni Ji understood all the meanings of this sentence in an instant.
This used to be a prosperous town with a large garrison and of course medical equipment such as treatment cabins.
Now that the contaminated area has collapsed, everything here has returned to what it was four hundred years ago.
If the treatment cabin is nearby, it can be found.
If anyone here knows the location and how to use it.
Then she... maybe she can still make it in time.
Ni Ji quickly turned his head to look at Lin Yuan in his arms. At that moment, he was very panicked and his heart was beating so fast that it almost burst out of his chest.
He bit off his gloves and touched Lin Yuan's face with his fingers.
I was afraid that she had turned cold and become an irreparable corpse.
The girl's skin in his arms was still warm, a little bit hot, and she was breathing, very lightly, and her soft breath brushed against his fingertips.
Ni Ji really wanted to thank Lin Yuan. Thank her for being alive.
She had saved him many times and helped him a lot, but Ni Ji felt that he had never been so grateful to her as he was now.
Thank goodness she didn't die and is still willing to live in this world.
When he was imprisoned by the Scarlet Egg, he experienced a terrifying illusion. The main subject of the illusion was Lin Yuan and her tentacles.
Lin Yuan in that place knew how to torture people better than the devil. After he woke up, he couldn't control his fear when he saw Lin Yuan.
But now he felt that as long as Lin Yuan was alive and willing to live, it didn't matter what she became.
Ni Ji picked up Lin Yuan, lifted the deformed species with only its head and torso left in one hand, and walked up along the collapsing inner wall of the cave.
He didn't understand why this deformed creature would offer to help. Not long ago, they were fighting a life-and-death battle.
But it doesn’t matter, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he won’t think too much and is willing to try hard.
The race against time and death.
Ni Ji summoned his own killer whale.
The spirit body, which was exhausted and could hardly maintain its physical form, silently revealed its huge body. It chirped, steadily carried everyone on its back, and flew outward at a high speed.
With Xunhua's guidance, they quickly found the treatment room.
Everything here is well preserved, time seems to have frozen for a time, and the treatment cabin is almost the same as it was four hundred years ago, brand new and shiny, able to save dying lives from the hands of death.
Ni Ji carefully put the guide in and put a breathing mask on her.
When he pressed the close button, he found that his fingers were shaking violently. His fingers, stained with Lin Yuan's blood, fumbled twice before he finally succeeded in pressing the small button.
The lid of the treatment chamber closed, and green treatment fluid slowly flowed out, drowning the slender body sleeping inside.
The dashboard lit up. The heartbeat data was still faintly there.
"Do you have Regeneration Fluid No. 233?"
Ni Ji heard the deformed creature lying on the ground say.
He dug around in the medicine cabinet and found it.
"have."
"You're lucky. That's the most expensive medicine. Give it to her. It can save her life."
Ni Ji remembered this medicine. Last time, he was the one lying in the treatment cabin. He heard someone outside the treatment cabin say to the doctor.
"Change U55 to U96, use Regeneration Fluid No. 233, and the most expensive medicine to cure him."
The green healing fluid slowly filled the entire treatment chamber. Under the guidance of the golden tree, Ni Ji adjusted all the data bit by bit and injected the necessary medicine.
On the dashboard monitoring the patient's vital signs, all physical indicators were on the verge of extreme danger.
The heart rate was very low, and the blood pressure and blood oxygen levels were terribly low.
But they are getting better little by little, and are being pulled back into this world from the brink of death little by little.
The guide in the treatment cabin seemed to be asleep, with her eyes closed, her face calm, and her body floating in the light green solution.
A golden heart-shaped necklace fell out from her chest and floated in the water.
"Now, you can kill me." said the mutant lying on the ground.
He had no hands or legs, only his head and torso.
But at the cutoff points of the limbs, there were golden roots, wriggling and sprouting some pointed buds, growing very slowly.
I am not a human, but I still have the memories of my human days. I don't want to live anymore, but I can't die.
"You saved her." Ni Ji said, "I won't do anything to you."
The mutant wearing a golden mask said calmly, "Your queen, what you are looking for is me."
"Cut off my head, kill me once and for all, and my body will turn to gold. Bring it back and present it to your queen. Then you will get the reward you seek."
"Reward? How do you know the Queen's reward?" Ni Ji asked him.
"I am the guide. I have been the guide," said the inhuman creature lying on the ground. "In the night I woke and heard the voices of many longings."
"So many of you came here, and so many lives were lost. Isn't it all for this?"
"Now I give it to you. Take it. Use your knife."
He was lying on the ground, his voice was flat and his tone was cold.
The mind has nothing to rely on and there is no interest in life.
The gaze beneath the mask was always fixed on the treatment cabin, on the golden heart floating in the liquid.
(End of this chapter)