401: Chapter 400 Reunion

The two of them hurried along the way.

Wu Wanqiu was already a Level 7 Transcendent, and with her four attributes balanced, her speed while running through these fields was no slower than a normal family sedan.

And although Chu Xuan had suffered significant injuries, he was able to keep up with the speed without affecting the continuous recovery of his health points.

Along the way, Chu Xuan asked nonchalantly, "When you found me, did you see a tattered black cloak and a paper effigy?"

"No. When I saw you, you were already covered in bruises and deep scars everywhere, with only tattered clothes left. If we hadn't discovered you were still breathing, we would have thought you were already dead."

Wu Wanqiu shook her head. "Unfortunately, the Transcendent with Healing abilities among us has already died, and our Healing medicine has run out. So, we could only use ordinary hemostatic bandages to give you some simple treatment."

Chu Xuan's eyelids lowered slightly.

That paper effigy was named [i dont want to die].

It was a life-saving item given to him by Yan Guofa to mediate during his conflict with Huo Gui back then; it could grant immunity to a single instance of fatal damage.

Chu Xuan was very certain that while encountering the spatial turbulence was dangerous, it had not yet reached a lethal level.

At this moment, Chu Xuan already had a faint, blurry impression.

He had fainted only after escaping from that spatial turbulence.

Therefore, the paper effigy should not have been used yet.

But now, it had vanished along with the night cloak.

Just as Chu Xuan was growing suspicious, Wu Wanqiu suddenly added, "By the way, you should know some Transcendent Skills related to lightning, right? When we found you, we also discovered the fragments of a Specter that had been charred black by lightning."

"Lightning?"

Chu Xuan's gaze sharpened, and he thought to himself, 'Could it be that while I was unconscious, I encountered a Specter, and then by chance, someone with lightning skills passed by? After killing the Specter, did they take my night cloak and paper effigy?'

Seeing the strange look on Chu Xuan's face, Wu Wanqiu didn't ask any further.

After that, the two of them didn't talk anymore. They quickly traversed the cornfield and arrived at a stretch of the highway.

The curfew had been in effect for some time. Chu Xuan originally thought the highway would be empty, but when they arrived, the result was completely different from what he had expected.

As far as the eye could see, vehicles were scattered about, severed limbs and broken arms were everywhere, blood was congealed on the ground, and a foul stench filled the air. It looked like it had been this way for a while.

The scene was deathly silent.

"The Southwest Region is in chaos; the situation might be even more severe than I imagined..."

Seeing this scene, Wu Wanqiu's face turned slightly pale. She took out her phone to check and said in a heavy voice, "Still no signal. I can't contact the outside world."

Chu Xuan, meanwhile, discovered through a road sign that this was actually a small city in the Southwest.

It was two thousand kilometers away from the Capital.

"To think the deviation was this large..."

Chu Xuan frowned. Before looking around, he used the lights of the scattered cars as a reference and immediately noticed some other clues.

This section of the highway ran north-south.

Looking north, although the long-distance view was still blurry, he could barely see the outlines of some mountain ranges.

However, when he looked toward the south,

His vision could only clearly see about a thousand meters. The further south he looked, the less clear it became, as if the distant darkness was filled with thick fog, blocking his line of sight.

Originally, Chu Xuan thought it was due to his own injuries causing his vision to weaken, making it nowhere near what it used to be.

Looking at it now, perhaps that was part of the reason, but the bigger reason was likely that something had gone wrong with this territory.

"Has a Dark Place formed? But this area is far too large..." Chu Xuan gazed toward the southwest and southeast.

The thick fog in the darkness seemed boundless.

What made Chu Xuan's expression particularly solemn was that the mist in the darkness seemed to be gradually spreading toward them.

"Is that where you escaped from?" Chu Xuan asked, pointing at the black mist.

"Yes." Wu Wanqiu nodded, her expression grave.

"This Dark Place seems capable of distorting space. It was clearly still the mountains, yet the high-speed train we were on arrived at an amusement park. The various game facilities inside were full of death taboos; the mission only ends and allows you to leave after completing all the games."

"The ordinary people on the same train as us all died during the first Mountain-Climbing Game. In the subsequent Park Games, many of our people died. Being able to successfully escape in the end was largely due to luck."

"Spatial transformation..." Chu Xuan murmured thoughtfully.

As Wu Wanqiu gave her brief account, she suddenly raised her hand and pointed to a broken car window in the middle of the road, where there was a Marking of a 'checkmark inside a circle'.

"This is the safety Marking we agreed upon! They arrived here safely. We just need to follow the highway north to catch up with them..."

"Let's go!"

Chu Xuan withdrew his gaze and didn't linger, nor did he have any intention of entering to explore.

The most important thing right now was to recover from his injuries and then find a secure place to raise all four attributes to 200 points.

Then he could proceed with the Rank Advancement.

At that time, no matter what kind of danger he encountered, he would have enough confidence to deal with it.

The two of them continued forward along the highway.

Along the way, they encountered vehicles that had been in accidents from time to time.

Without exception, there were no living people inside any of them.

Not only that, many cracks appeared on the road surface. Some even spanned across the road, five or six meters wide, with depths that were bottomless.

The massive chasms were like profound black holes, seemingly reaching straight to the depths of the earth.

This was clearly not caused by external force, but rather a problem with the geological structure that caused the road cracks to spread.

About five minutes later, they finally saw figures in the darkness ahead.

There were six people in total, five men and one woman, all wearing the standard uniforms of the Night Watchers.

They were sitting by the roadside, panting heavily. Basically all of them were injured and were using bandages to treat themselves.

When Chu Xuan and the other arrived, these six people suddenly stood up.

"Damn it, another wave!"

"Is it an infinite loop? This is never-ending!"

"The key is that there's no spirituality value feedback. The source Specter keeps hiding and won't come out, constantly using Clones to interfere. It probably wants to exhaust us all to death here!"

All six of them looked over with solemn expressions, their long sabers raised, emitting a faint shimmering white light—spirituality was already attached to them.

"Wait! What's wrong with you guys? It's me, Wu Wanqiu!" Seeing these people looking as if they were facing a great enemy, Wu Wanqiu couldn't help but stop and quickly shouted to stop them.

"Damn it, this trick again! What are you still pretending for? We were almost played to death just now, and now you're trying this again..." The leading burly man spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm and cursed fiercely, "Say no more, let's just do this!"