pjbooks Chapter 151 Opens a Path, Leading to the Collapsing Secret Realm
Chapter 151 Opens a Path, Leading to the Collapsing Secret Realm
The two passed through that invisible layer of air refraction, as if stepping from the height of summer into the depths of winter.
Lu Yan's breath condensed into ice crystals in front of his eyes and fell down in a soft rustling sound.
The combat boots stepped on the withered yellow grass on the ground, without making a soft friction sound, but with a "crack" as the grass blades shattered into cold powder.
Wen Yue got out of the passenger seat, and cold air rushed into the car, but she didn't care. With one hand, she pulled out a heavy weapon case that was wider than herself from the back seat. With a "click," the mechanism engaged, and the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow was assembled in her hand.
She pulled back the bolt and checked the feed belt of the scatter grenade, the whole movement as smooth as breathing.
The moment her feet touched the ground, she was already in combat readiness. She lowered her gun and aimed straight ahead.
Lu Yan zipped up his coat and led the way into the depths of the pass.
The SUV was left far behind.
There was a wall in front of me.
A towering wall of black primeval forest made up of countless giant trees.
The trees here have a sickly purplish-black color, and their gnarled roots are frighteningly thick.
There was not a trace of life in the air.
Lu Yan deployed his sensory network, his mental energy flowing like mercury across the entire forest.
The feedback was completely silent, showing no signs of life whatsoever that a plant should have.
But this forest gave him the feeling that countless eyes were secretly watching him.
He took a waterproof, sealed bag from his tactical pocket, inside which was a yellowed old photograph.
The photo shows the scene here taken by a hiker ten years ago. The outline of the mountain peaks and the direction of the pass are exactly the same as what we see now.
The place in the photo is picturesque, with clear waters and lush mountains, a scene of peace and tranquility.
"The terrain is correct." Lu Yan put away the photos, "but the ecosystem here has been completely replaced."
The only explanation is that the energy from the secret realm leaked and contaminated this area.
Where is the entrance?
Lu Yan walked around the edge of the forest, scanning the sensory network repeatedly, even exploring up to ten meters underground.
Got nothing.
This place is like a completely sealed can, airtight, with no abnormal energy nodes to be found.
An hour passed, the sky grew darker, and the temperature in the mountains dropped even faster.
Lu Yan stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowed. He was used to finding and utilizing rules, but right now, he couldn't even find a trace of them.
He kicked a tombstone that had been deformed by tree roots, sending stone chips flying.
A sense of irritation rose from the bottom of my heart.
This is abnormal. Since that hermit named "Shudao Shannan" was able to enter, it proves that the entrance definitely exists, and the threshold for entry is not too high.
Why can't I find it?
Could it be that the secret was hidden even deeper after the other party's death?
Lu Yan's breathing became slightly rapid.
He didn't like this feeling of being out of control.
A hand reached out and handed him a steaming cup of instant coffee.
It is warm moon.
She had put away her weapons at some point and was now boiling water in a portable military stove.
"Take a break, have some water, and then we'll continue searching." Wen Yue's gentle words greatly comforted Lu Yan.
Lu Yan took the paper cup, and the heat from his fingertips calmed his anger considerably.
"It's alright, there's still plenty of time."
Looking at the dark forest, Wen Yue suddenly smiled and tapped her spare magazine twice with her fingers. "Besides... since we can't find the door, we'll just make one ourselves."
Lu Yan hadn't yet grasped the meaning behind her words.
Wen Yue finished her coffee in one gulp, then turned around and took out a new set of ammunition belts from her weapon case.
The magazine was not filled with heavy crossbow bolts.
Instead, it was a high-explosive grenade, entirely fiery red in color and extremely lethal.
"Step back a bit."
After Wen Yue finished speaking, she rested the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow on her shoulder again.
She didn't aim at any specific target, but instead raised the muzzle of her gun slightly, aiming it at the dense, black forest in front of her.
The next second, she pulled the trigger.
Instead of the crisp sound of a single sniper shot, there was a series of muffled, rolling sounds of firing.
A whole chain of twenty-four high-explosive grenades was unleashed in three seconds.
The fiery red grenades drew twenty-four deadly arcs in the air, covering an area of nearly a thousand square meters in a fan shape.
Boom boom boom boom—!
A series of violent explosions erupted, flames shooting skyward and turning the entire sky orange-red. The raging shockwave, carrying debris of earth, rocks, and trees, surged back into the pass. Lu Yan shielded himself with his arm, but the blast wave forced him back two steps.
The eerie, deathly, and indestructible purplish-black forest before our eyes had been forcibly erased from the map, leaving a large section of it.
At the epicenter of the explosion, a massive breach with a diameter exceeding fifty meters appeared, the ground charred black and still emitting wisps of smoke.
Wen Yue changed to the second bullet chain without changing her expression, preparing for another round.
Just then, Lu Yan pressed down on her shoulder.
"Wait...wait a minute!"
The smoke and dust slowly dissipated.
"Look there."
Above the cleared scorched earth, three fist-sized objects emitting a soft white light floated in mid-air.
They look like little sprites made of pure light, with short trails of light behind them.
At this moment, the three little sprites remained in a daze, clearly still reeling from the sudden and violent demolition. They stared blankly at the large expanse of white land before them, then glanced at Wen Yue in the distance, who was wielding a terrifying weapon, their bodies flashing uncontrollably.
"grumble!"
One of them realized what was happening, let out a sharp cry, and turned to run away. The other two also snapped out of their daze and frantically scrambled into a half-collapsed rubble behind them.
It was a destroyed mountain god temple, with only half a stone platform remaining, and the three little elves plunged headfirst into the base of the platform.
"Hurry up and keep up!"
Lu Yan and Wen Yue exchanged a glance and immediately gave chase.
The two rushed to the stone platform and could clearly feel a faint but pure energy fluctuation coming from below the platform.
The entrance is right here.
Lu Yan reached out to push the stone base, which weighed several tons, but it didn't budge.
"Get out of the way."
Wen Yue's words were concise and to the point.
She stepped forward, put away the crossbow, and kicked the side of the stone platform with her military boots, which were covered by her exoskeleton.
Click!
The hard rock surface was instantly covered with cracks, and then it shattered with a crash.
A narrow rift, barely wide enough for one person to pass through, flickering with an unstable light, appeared before the two.
This is the entrance to the secret realm.
However, the entrance was in extremely poor condition, with its edges covered in spiderweb-like spatial cracks, like a piece of glass that could shatter at any moment.
It seems to be collapsing.
"Never mind, let's go in!"