Outside of time Chapter 22: Temple
Xu Qing is not very unfamiliar with the dark night in the restricted area.
Whether it's the ruins of the city or the jungle.
The former he lived for more than ten days, the latter he also experienced several nights.
At this moment, he was hiding in the crevice of a giant tree, half-squinting his eyes, silently breathing out the rich and heterogeneous psychic energy in the restricted area.
After these psychic powers enter the body, they are separated by the Sea Mountain Art. The pure part nourishes the whole body, and the foreign part merges into the shadow.
Xu Qing is used to this kind of change.
He even had a faint feeling that cultivating in this restricted area may be due to the shadow, or it may be the danger here, and the reason why he is strongly vigilant anytime, anywhere.
With a high concentration of energy, the speed of cultivation has also increased a lot.
Now it is not far from the fourth floor of the Sea Mountain Art.
"It's like sharpening a knife..." Xu Qing murmured.
He didn't understand the big truth, but he remembered that the blacksmith in the slum once told people that a good knife needs a better grindstone to fully reveal its edge.
At this moment, the dangerous restricted area seems to have become Xu Qing's whetstone.
In this honed practice, after a long time, Xu Qing, who had finished a week, silently opened his eyes.
He raised his head and stared at the darkness of the outside world along the cracks of the trees. At night in the restricted area, the roars of alien beasts rose and fell from afar, echoing through the jungle like a groan of gods and demons.
The meaning of gloom and coldness is everywhere, and all living beings that invaded here also penetrated into the cracks in the tree where Xu Qing was hiding, and permeated his body.
It's cold.
This scene made him feel like he had returned to the ruined city, and a sense of loneliness slowly filled him.
But Xu Qing is already familiar with loneliness. After a long while, he closed his eyes again and continued to practice.
And just like that, time flies.
Because the resting place he found was correct, the night was fairly safe. Only in the middle of the night, Xu Qing, who was practicing, heard footsteps from the outside world.
It's very messy, as if many people are walking in a row.
Xu Qing's expression was slightly condensed, her eyes narrowed, and she looked at the outside world, but it was pitch black outside the cracks of the tree, and there was nothing.
Ke Xu Qing's heart sank suddenly, because at the moment when the footsteps came, the roar of the alien beasts in the nearby jungle disappeared instantly, which made Xu Qing's vigilance suddenly increase.
He remembered the singing and footsteps he met last time, but at this moment, he felt a little different.
"It's not like the footsteps when the song was sung that day, and there was no singing."
Xu Qing quickly analyzed, not acting rashly, but forcibly calming herself down, holding her breath, and staring at the night outside.
Gradually, the sound of footsteps became clearer and clearer, as if a group of people were lining up and gradually approaching.
At the same time, bursts of cold beyond the scope of gloomy and cold, as if freezing the body, also attacked violently at this moment.
Xu Qing is no stranger to this kind of cold. Whether it's the singing of the day or the strange beings that haunt the city ruins at night, it all exudes this kind of temperature.
But the degree is different. The singing of that day can freeze his soul, but the cold now only makes him physically uncomfortable, not to the extent of losing his movement.
"It's the kind of existence that is similar to the strange ruins!" After Xu Qing made a judgment, he firmly grasped the iron stick, took a deep breath, restrained the fluctuations in his heart, forcibly closed his eyes and did not open them.
Do not look, do not touch, do not encounter.
After Xu Qing closed his eyes, the footsteps suddenly became faster and closer, as if countless people circled around the tree where he was.
Xu Qing's heart was shaken, trying to restrain herself from the urge to open her eyes to see what the other party was like.
Until a long time... When the sun rises in the sky, the cluttered footsteps finally stopped wandering and slowly faded away.
The sky is bright.
Xu Qing didn't open his eyes immediately. He waited for a while before slowly opening and closing his eyes. He saw the crevice of the tree where he was, where there was a thick layer of ice, and his entire People are frozen inside.
Through the ice layer, the sunlight fell on Xu Qing. He exhaled, pressed his left hand on the ice surface, and pushed hard. The ice layer shattered and fell to the ground.
Xu Qing slowly got out. First, he looked around and saw that in the jungle, the wolf corpses that were there yesterday had all disappeared, and there were... a lot of footprints on the ground.
are human footprints.
It was densely packed, as if hundreds of people passed by.
Xu Qing had never heard of hundreds of people entering the restricted area together.
Especially...these footprints are really footprints, not shoe prints.
Xu Qing was silent and looked back for a long time. He felt a little deeper about the strangeness of the restricted area. At this moment, taking advantage of the dawn, when the danger in the restricted area was less than at night, Xu Qing did not give up exploring and left in a flash.
A few hours later, Xu Qing finally reached the farthest point where the group of them went last time, the small canyon where the Thunder Squad was picking clover.
In the canyon, just like when they left, the sun shines on the ground along the top of the vine canopy above, and the fragrance of flowers fills the air, isolating the dangers of the outside world, like a paradise.
When he got here, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the other side of the canyon, the temple complex that existed farther away.
After staring for a moment, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and briefly rested. He galloped and headed straight for the temple complex.
The jungle outside the canyon is more lush, and the sun is getting less and less here.
I wonder if this ancient temple complex still exudes the splendor and coercion from their era, so there is very little danger when approaching from the canyon.
The lush jungle seems to be much gentler in breath.
Even in the jungle closest to the temple complex, it was not much different from the trees Xu Qing saw from the outside world, no longer hideous, no longer pitch black.
And there are some horse chestnuts here, which were picked by Xu Qing.
Everything here made Xu Qing a little surprised, but his vigilance did not diminish, and he approached cautiously.
Until another hour passed, when dusk was about to come, he walked out of the jungle and came to the front of this temple complex.
There are very few trees here, and the sun is shining in a wide area, making Xu Qing's eyes a little dazed.
What caught his eye was a huge dome building with a height of dozens of feet.
Even if it collapsed, even if it was broken, even if it was covered with moss, the temple filled with neat stones that were much larger than his body was filled with a sense of vastness.
Walking inside, stepping on the broken giant bricks on the ground, it seems that Xu Qing has come to a giant's kingdom.
The ruins that can be seen everywhere, each exudes the meaning of ancient times, as if to tell Xu Qing their experiences.
Further ahead, there is a collapsed statue.
The lower body of this statue is gone, turned into countless pieces that are difficult to piece together. The head is still intact, but the appearance is blurred.
Despite this, its height is also more than 30 feet. It is conceivable that before it collapses, it is at least 200 feet or more.
Standing in front of it, Xu Qing's existence is very inconspicuous.
At this moment, there is wind blowing, like the sound of a flute, the desolate whirling, and the isolation of time and space, leaving only the gaze of future generations to the glory of the past.
Xu Qing looked at the statue quietly and was silent for a long time.
He thought of the ruins of the city outside the slum. I wonder if in a few years, people of that era would enter the restricted area with caution like he is now, and see the city as if they were watching history.
After a while, Xu Qing retracted his gaze and searched the temple complex, but did not find the kind of special stone that the Thunder Team mentioned.
When he came to the residence, he had already inquired that this special stone would emit colorful rays of light.
It seems to grow naturally, and the time of appearance is irregular.
After the search failed, Xu Qing felt a little regretful, and his body jumped up and down a few times to the top of a temple, where he stood looking at all directions.
Behind him is the outer area of the restricted area jungle. Although you can't see the end, you can see part of it. If you count the time, today is the fourth day that the bone knife who bought the insurance here.
Xu Qing was in the jungle yesterday and didn't see the fog, and it still doesn't exist today, so he doesn't need to rescue him.
So he turned his head to look at another direction of the temple complex, where... it was the depths of the jungle in the forbidden area.
After pondering for a while, Xu Qing raised his head and noticed that it was getting late. He was going to explore the depths in a small area and come back before dark. He will rest here tonight and return tomorrow morning.
After making a plan, Xu Qing immediately moved, jumped off the temple and headed for the depths.
The moment he stepped into the depths of the jungle, his nerves were intensely tense, and his vigilance and caution were heavier.
Because he knows that the level of danger here is much greater than the periphery.
In fact, this is indeed the case, but after half an hour, Xu Qing's figure reappeared within the temple.
His face was gloomy, and there was lingering fear in his eyes.
But the leather bag swelled up, as if it was full.
He only walked less than a mile before, and he saw a lot of vintage conkers, which seemed to have not been picked for a long time, which surprised Xu Qing, because this vintage conkers, Very valuable.
But when he was picking, he obviously felt that the richness of the heterogeneity had doubled. If it wasn't for his shadow, it would be impossible for others to move.
And he also saw the strange jellyfish that he saw in the forbidden area last time...
And there are more than ten jellyfish here, but they are much smaller, but the gloomy aura on their bodies is still obvious.
Fortunately, most of these jellyfish were hanging on the trees and sleeping. Xu Qing carefully avoided it after seeing it.
But as he moved forward, he had a very strong feeling. It seemed that in the depths of this jungle, there were countless gazes, just like the essence, with greed and greed, falling on him from unknown directions.
All of this made Xu Qing's needle glow on her back.
And here, it's just the edge of the depths of this forbidden area. The scope is even larger, and it is impossible to imagine how much terror exists.
Xu Qing didn't dare to move forward, and withdrew without any risk.
The feeling of needles on my back didn't dissipate until I retreated to the temple.
As if the temple was a boundary, preventing malicious intent from the depths of the forbidden zone.
Xu Qing took a deep breath, and while the sun was about to set, she found a temple that was barely complete and stepped inside.
I found a rock crevice and drilled into it, preparing to spend the night.
Thunder Team said that this place can temporarily avoid danger.
He has also inspected the temple. It is very empty, with a strong sense of the passage of time. Whether it is a stone statue with a knife enshrined in the main seat, or the many statues carved on the surrounding walls, all are in time. In the quicksand, it becomes blurred.
At the same time, there are not too many animal excrement and traces in the temple.
Xu Qing would not choose if there were none, or if there were too many.
Because this is not normal, it is relatively safe only if there are traces of this but not many in number.
After all, although the temple is in the jungle, there are very few trees here, so it is reasonable that the alien beasts accustomed to living in the jungle do not come often.
Soon night will come.
Xu Qing breathed out silently as the roar from the outside world emerged.
The passage of time is consistent with his judgment. There are very few alien beasts in the temple group at night. Although the roar is there, most of them come from a distance.
But just like yesterday, when Xu Qing breathed into the middle of the night, the strange and messy footsteps reappeared!
The location this time around ~IndoMTL.com~ is outside the temple.
"Again?"
Xu Qing frowned. He didn't know why the footsteps appeared in his place twice, and he was a little uneasy. After thinking about it, he didn't open his eyes as he did yesterday.
It's just that this time the footsteps didn't go away like yesterday, but more and more.
Continuing to gather, bursts of gloom filled the air, as if countless strange people had gathered outside the temple at this moment, and were about to invade the temple.
Xu Qing's heart sank, and he held his iron stick forcefully, and his mind quickly constructed the environment of the temple and how to deal with it in the event of danger.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps outside suddenly disappeared, and it became extremely silent.
This kind of silence not only did not make Xu Qing relieved, on the contrary, it gave him a feeling before the arrival of the storm. The hairs on his whole body were about to explode. He faintly felt that the strangeness gathered outside the temple seemed to be at the moment. Hesitant to enter.
The next moment, in this silence, the strange outside finally chose to step into the temple. Xu Qing heard the sound of footsteps entering the temple and stepping on the stone bricks.
Smack.
This sound was like a boulder that fell into Xu Qing's mind, causing Xu Qing's heart to sink, but at this moment, bursts of murmurs suddenly reverberated in the temple, with an incomparable sacredness.
There were also strands of golden light that suddenly spread out from the walls of the temple, reflecting the entire temple and filling Xu Qing's place, causing the world under his eyelids to close his eyes, shining from the original darkness in an instant.
Under this golden light, Xu Qing's eyes stinged. For the first time, when she encountered this kind of strangeness, she opened her eyes.
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