138: A brand new change appeared
At the same time,
the Human Race gathered together, seemingly secure and camping, but in reality, they knew better than anyone how panicked they were inside.
The two groups that had dispersed earlier, whether conservative or radical, had all returned and joined the shrinking faction.
Liu Ruyan didn't ask what happened; the fact that dozens of people were missing after less than half an hour out already explained something.
Now everyone was obedient,
no one suggested going out to explore, and the biggest troublemaker had disappeared. Liu Ruyan thought he had probably turned into excrement.
She heard that many of the Ten Thousand Races had a habit of eating Human, which was understandable, as the Human Race also ate fierce beasts.
Who wasn't someone else's food?
Liu Ruyan looked up at the sky,
it was still blue sky and white clouds.
She looked down at the ground,
it was still vast expanses of moss.
“When will new changes occur?”
Liu Ruyan understood that the current situation could not remain unchanged. The so-called great unity of the Human Race could only last for a while, and it wasn't necessarily due to external forces destroying it.
Even without external forces,
internal needs would destroy everything.
Liu Ruyan was very clear in her heart that before coming, she had already inquired with Jijiang and collected a lot of information, knowing that after this initial stage, the mysterious veil of the Town Boundary Tower would slowly be pulled back, and countless treasures that could make people stronger would appear. At that time, the Human group would inevitably fall apart.
She was waiting,
many people in the crowd were also waiting.
“What is Han Lie doing?”
Liu Ruyan missed her little lover a bit. “Is he holed up somewhere? Or is he like the Celestial Pride of the Ten Thousand Races, searching for prey everywhere? With his personality, he should be looking for people to kill. Will he encounter danger? With his strength, it should be difficult for him to encounter danger. I'm so envious...!!”
She could probably guess what Han Lie was doing. Worrying was impossible; she wasn't a young girl like Bai He Wan.
She was simply envious.
Envious that Han Lie could act freely. Right now, to put it nicely, they were preserving their strength and using the power of the race to avoid danger.
To put it bluntly, these top Celestial Pride had no ability to face the Ten Thousand Races one-on-one; going out would just make them soft targets.
They could only cower here.
“It must feel great to cut down the Ten Thousand Races with a blade, right?”
“Especially when...”
Liu Ruyan was too envious. She knew that at least five billion people were watching outside. The feeling of bringing glory to her race and planet in front of her hometown folks must be incredibly exhilarating.
“When can I become that strong?”
She was too envious.
Just as she was thinking,
someone in the crowd suddenly exclaimed—
“!!!”
“What is it!!”
“What is draining my blood and Qi? No, it's not just draining my Qi, why do I feel dizzy, as if something is corroding my Essence, Qi, and Spirit!!!”
“Damn, it's true! I suddenly feel weak all over, what is this!!!”
“It seems...”
“It seems to be the ground beneath our feet!!”
..........
“What?”
The crowd stirred. Liu Ruyan frowned. She carefully sensed but found nothing unusual.
She lifted her leg and walked forward,
and when she stepped past a certain threshold, she suddenly discovered an inexplicable suction force pulling away all the energy in her body, and upon careful sensing, this suction force seemed to come from the ground beneath her feet!!
“Changes have appeared!!”
Her eyes immediately lit up.
She quickly went to the other pre-selected contestants. They were stronger and would have more sensations. Even when huddling together, there would be smaller groups within the large one.
“Have you found anything?” she asked.
Xing Xin was a good-natured person. He had been chatting among the crowd just now, so he noticed the anomaly immediately and had more sensations now.
“This world seems to have undergone a brand new change. Look...”
With that, he bent down.
He pointed to the ground beneath their feet. “Have you noticed that from here to there, the red glow in the patterns is stronger, and where the red glow is stronger, there's an inexplicable suction force that absorbs the energy within our bodies!! This attraction is quite astonishing. I just roughly felt it, and it drained dozens of my blood and Qi in just a few minutes!! And if you stay in this area continuously, the suction will be even stronger. This area probably can't be stayed in!!”
“Hmm!”
Ling Zhen, the top Celestial Pride from the military, spoke little. He simply summarized: “Regardless of the changes, the northern area probably can't be stayed in. We need to go south!”
“Go south?”
The representative of the local power Celestial Pride frowned upon hearing this. “Currently, it does seem like we should go south, but let me make a bold guess. The current changes in the situation are likely due to many of the Ten Thousand Races dying, and their blood and Qi filling the patterns on the ground, leading to these changes...”
“Look at the areas where the suction appears; aren't they the areas Xu Kun and his group explored? Everyone probably knows that whether it's Human or the Ten Thousand Races... many must have died there!”
“Then... if I'm not mistaken, the places with suction should be where the most people died, so going south might not be the safest...”
He spoke very clearly.
Everyone understood his meaning.
“So, you're saying that the areas where this suction is generated aren't like the shrinking circle mechanism in games, but rather wherever people died, suction will be generated? The reason is that, as far as we know, people died in this area, and after people died, their blood filled the patterns on the ground, and the patterns on the ground also underwent corresponding changes. The areas where suction is generated are indeed areas where the patterns are reddish...”
“Your judgment is quite reasonable!”
“Then what do you mean by that...”
Liu Ruyan's delicate brows furrowed. “Are you not saying that no matter where we go, it won't be safe, because every place we go could be a land of slaughter!”
“Yes!”
The person who spoke before spread his hands. “There's nothing we can do. We've been holed up here, and information is extremely scarce. We simply can't make accurate judgments; we can only act like headless flies!”
“Then is there a possibility?”
Suddenly someone spoke, “What if we take this area beneath our feet as the center and kill our way outwards, blocking all the Ten Thousand Races outside to form a safe space?”
“Heh heh...”
Everyone laughed upon hearing this.
“.......”
“You're quite imaginative!”
“So what do we do now?”
“There's nothing to do!”
“We can only take it one step at a time!”
...............
“We need to go out!”
Liu Ruyan immediately made a judgment. Everything said just now was their speculation. Perhaps there would be more miraculous changes, perhaps it would affect their subsequent acquisition of treasures.
They needed to go out and scout for information, even if it was dangerous, they had to do it.
Everyone knew in their hearts,
and made a decision immediately.
After telling everyone, some people directly shook their heads, stating that since there was a safe place, why should they go out? They had been holed up before, why not continue to do so? Among them were some of the former radicals, who were clearly scared out of their wits.
.................
As for the other side,
Han Lie also discovered this new change, but his feelings were completely different from the others. Suddenly, he felt that the ground beneath his feet was gushing forth with surges of blood and Qi power, coming fiercely and swiftly. He had only been there for such a short while.
His blood and Qi had surged by dozens, the speed already surpassing the rate at which he was beaten under the Invincible Posture entry.
In the blink of an eye,
his blood and Qi tree grew several meters taller again.
He probably guessed that this beneficial change must be related to killing people!!