out of time

Chapter 22 Temple
Xu Qing is no stranger to the dark night in the restricted area.

Whether it is the ruins of the city, or this jungle.

He lived for more than ten days in the former, and he also experienced several nights in the latter.

At this moment, he was hiding in the crevice of a giant tree, half-closed his eyes, and silently breathed out the rich and heterogeneous spiritual energy mixed in the restricted area while he was asleep.

After these spiritual energy entered the body, they were separated by the Sea Mountain Art, the pure part nourished the whole body, and the heterogeneous part merged into the shadow.

Xu Qing was used to this change.

He even had a faint feeling that practicing in this restricted area might be due to the shadow, or it might be because of the danger here, and he was always on strong vigilance anytime and anywhere.

With a high degree of concentration, the speed of cultivation has also increased a lot.

Now it is not far from the fourth floor of the Sea Mountain Jue.

"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 whetstone to fully reveal its sharpness.

At this moment, the dangerous restricted area seemed to be Xu Qing's sharpening stone.

In this honing practice, after a long time, Xu Qing, who finished a week, silently opened his eyes.

He raised his head and stared at the darkness of the night outside along the gap between the trees. In the night of the restricted area, the roars of alien beasts rose and fell from a distance, echoing in the jungle like the whispers of gods and demons.

The coldness is everywhere, and the creatures and living beings that invaded here also penetrated into the cracks in the trees where Xu Qing was hiding, and permeated his body.

It's cold.

This scene made him feel as if he had returned to the ruined city, and gradually a ray of loneliness pervaded him.

But Xu Qing is already very familiar with loneliness.After a while, he closed his eyes again and continued to practice.

And just like that, time passed.

Because the resting place he found was correct, the night was considered safe, except that in the middle of the night, Xu Qing, who was practicing, heard footsteps from the outside world.

Very messy, as if many people lined up to move forward.

Xu Qing's expression was slightly concentrated, his eyes were narrowed, and he looked outside, but it was pitch black outside the gap between the trees, and there was nothing.

But Xu Qing's heart sank suddenly, because at the moment when the footsteps came, the roar of the strange beasts in the nearby forest disappeared instantly, which made Xu Qing's vigilance suddenly increased.

He remembered the footsteps of the singing voice he met last time, but it felt a little different to him at the moment.

"It's not like the footsteps of the singing that day, and there is no singing."

Xu Qing quickly analyzed, and did not act rashly, but forced himself to calm down, held his breath, and stared at the night outside.

Gradually the sound of footsteps became clearer and clearer, as if a group of people were approaching gradually in a line.

At the same time, bursts of cold that went beyond the scope of the cold, as if it could freeze the body, also attacked violently at this moment.

Xu Qing was no stranger to this kind of coldness, whether it was the singing that day or the strange existences that haunted the ruins of the city at night, they all exuded this kind of temperature.

But the degree is not the same. The singing that day could freeze his soul, but the current cold only made him feel unwell, not to the point of losing his ability to move.

"It's a kind of weird existence similar to ruins!" After Xu Qing made a judgment, he firmly grasped the iron stick, took a deep breath, restrained the fluctuations in his heart, and forcibly closed his eyes, not opening them.

Don't look, don't touch, don't meet.

After Xu Qing closed his eyes, the sound of footsteps suddenly hurried, getting closer and closer, as if countless people were circling around the big tree where he was.

Xu Qing's heart was shaken, and he tried his best to restrain his urge to open his eyes to see what the other person looked like.

Until a long time... When the first sun rises in the sky, the chaotic footsteps finally stop wandering and slowly go away.

Its daybreak.

Xu Qing didn't open his eyes right away, he waited for a while, then slowly opened and closed his eyes, and saw the crack in the tree where he was, there was a thick layer of ice there, and his whole body was just frozen inside.

Through the ice layer, the sunlight fell on Xu Qing's body. He let out a breath, pressed his left hand on the ice surface, and pushed hard, the ice layer shattered with a crackling sound, and fell to the ground.

Xu Qing slowly drilled out, first looked around, and saw that in the jungle, those wolf carcasses that were still there yesterday have all disappeared now, and there are... a lot of footprints on the ground.

It's human footprints.

It was densely packed, as if hundreds of people walked 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 away for a long time. He felt more deeply about the weirdness of the restricted area. Now, taking advantage of the dawn and when the danger in the restricted area was less than that at night, Xu Qing did not give up exploring and left in a flash.

Several hours later, Xu Qing finally arrived at the farthest place the group of them went last time, the small canyon where the Thunder team picked horse chestnuts.

In the canyon, it was the same as when they left. The sunlight fell on the ground along the top of the vine canopy above, and the fragrance of flowers filled the air, isolating the dangers of the outside world, like a paradise.

After arriving here, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up at the other side of the canyon, the group of temples that existed farther away.

After gazing for a moment, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze, took a brief rest, and galloped straight to the temples.

The jungle outside the canyon is more lush, and the sunlight is getting less and less here.

I don't know if this ancient temple group still exudes the glory and coercion from their era, so there is very little danger when approaching the canyon.

The lush jungle seems to be a lot gentler in breath.

Even in the jungle closest to the temple complex, there is not much difference from the trees Xu Qing saw in the outside world, no longer ferocious, no longer dark.

There are also some seven-leaf clover here, which were picked by Xu Qing.

Everything here made Xu Qing a little surprised, but his vigilance did not decrease, 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 the temple complex.

There are few trees here, and the sun is shining in a large area, making Xu Qing's eyes a little dazed.

What caught his eyes were huge domed buildings tens of feet high.

Even if it collapsed, even if it was broken, even if it was covered with moss, the temple piled up with neat stones much larger than his body was full of a sense of vastness.

Walking in it, stepping on the huge broken bricks on the ground, it seems that Xu Qing has come to a kingdom of giants.

Every piece of ruined walls that can be seen everywhere exudes the meaning of ancient times, as if they are telling Xu Qing their experiences.

Further ahead, there is another collapsed statue.

The lower body of the statue is gone, and it has been turned into countless fragments that are difficult to put together. The head is still complete, but its appearance is already blurred.

Even so, it is more than 30 feet high, and it is conceivable that it was at least two hundred feet before it collapsed.

Standing in front of it, Xu Qing's existence is very inconspicuous.

At this moment, there is a wind blowing, like the sound of Qiang flute, and the desolate whirling, and it seems that time and space are separated, so that the glory of the past is only left to the gaze of future generations.

Xu Qing looked at the statue quietly and remained silent for a long time.

He thought of the ruins of the city outside the slums. He wondered if people of that era would, like him now, carefully enter the restricted area and see that city as if they were looking at history in a few years.

After a long while, Xu Qing turned his gaze away and searched the temple complex, but he couldn't find the special stone mentioned by Team Lei.

When he came to the residence, he had already inquired that this special stone would emit colorful light.

It seems to grow naturally, and the time of appearance is irregular.

After the search failed, Xu Qing felt a little regretful. He jumped up nimbly, and after a few ups and downs, he reached the top of a temple. He stood there looking around.

Behind him is the outskirts of the forbidden jungle. Although you can't see the end, you can still see part of it. And counting the time, today is the fourth day that the bone knife who bought insurance from him said.

Xu Qing was in the jungle yesterday and didn't see the fog, and there is still no fog today, so he doesn't need to rescue him.

So he turned his head and looked at another direction of the temple group, where... was the depths of the forbidden forest.

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, rush back before dark, rest here tonight, and return early tomorrow morning.

After making a plan, Xu Qing moved his body immediately, jumped off the temple and walked towards the depths.

The moment he stepped into the depths of the jungle, his nerves tensed up intensely, and he became more vigilant and cautious.

Because he knows that the degree of danger here is much greater than that of the periphery.

In fact, this was indeed the case, but after half an hour, Xu Qing's figure reappeared within the scope of the temple.

His face was gloomy, with lingering fear in his eyes.

But the leather bag bulged, as if it was already full.

He had only walked less than a mile before, and saw a lot of vintage horse chestnuts, which seemed to have not been picked for a long time, which surprised Xu Qing, because this kind of vintage horse chestnuts are very valuable.

But when he was picking it, he clearly felt that the richness of the heterogeneity doubled. If it wasn't for his shadow to absorb it, it would be difficult for others to move.

And he also saw from a distance the weird jellyfish he saw in the restricted area last time...

As for such jellyfish, there are more than a dozen of them here, but they are much smaller, but the cold aura on their bodies is still obvious.

Fortunately, most of these jellyfish were hanging on the trees and sleeping, Xu Qing carefully avoided them after seeing them.

But as he walked forward, he had a very strong feeling that in the depths of the jungle, there were countless eyes, as real as they were, falling on him from unknown directions with greed.

All of this made Xu Qing feel anxious.

And here, it's just the edge of the deep area of ​​the restricted area, and the area within it is even bigger, so it's impossible to imagine how much horror there is.

Xu Qing didn't dare to move on, and retreated without any risk.

It wasn't until they retreated to the temple that the feeling of pins and needles on their backs dissipated.

It seems that this temple is a boundary, preventing the malice from the depths of the restricted area.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, taking advantage of the setting sun, in the last twilight, found a barely complete temple, and stepped inside.

I found a rock crevice to drill in, and prepared to spend the night.

Team Lei said that this place can temporarily avoid danger.

He also checked inside the temple. It was very empty, with a strong sense of the passing of time. Whether it was a stone statue holding a knife enshrined in the main seat, or the many portraits carved on the surrounding walls, they were all in the quicksand of time. , becomes blurred.

At the same time, there are not too many excrement and traces of alien animals in the temple.

If there is none, or if there is a lot, Xu Qing will not choose.

Because this is not normal, only if there are traces but not many, it is relatively safe.

After all, although the temple is in the jungle, there are very few trees here, so it is reasonable that the strange beasts who are used to living in the jungle don't come here often.

Soon the night will come.

As the roar of the outside world surfaced, Xu Qing breathed out silently.

The passage of time was consistent with his judgment. In the temple complex at night, there were very few strange beasts. Although the roars were there, most of them came from afar.

But just like yesterday, when Xu Qing was breathing in the middle of the night, the strange and chaotic footsteps appeared again!
This time, the location where it appeared was outside the temple.

"Again?"

Xu Qing frowned, he didn't know why the sound of footsteps appeared in his place twice, he felt a little uneasy, after thinking about it, he did not open his eyes like yesterday.

It's just that this time the footsteps didn't fade away like yesterday, but more and more.

With the continuous gathering, bursts of coldness filled the air, as if countless strange things had gathered outside the temple at this moment, wanting to attack the temple.

Xu Qing's heart sank, and he firmly held his iron pick, and his mind quickly framed the environment of the temple and how to deal with it in case of danger.

But at this moment, the sound of footsteps gathering outside suddenly disappeared, and it became extremely silent.

This kind of silence, not only did not let Xu Qing breathe a sigh of relief, but it gave him a feeling before the storm, the hairs all over his body were about to explode, he faintly felt the strange gathering outside the temple, and he seemed to be hesitating whether to enter at this moment .

In the next moment, in the silence, the weirdness outside finally chose to step into the temple. Xu Qing heard the sound of footsteps stepping on the stone bricks as they entered the temple.

Snapped.

The sound was like a huge stone, falling into Xu Qing's mind, making Xu Qing's heart sink, but at this moment, bursts of murmurs suddenly echoed in the temple, with incomparable holiness.

There are also wisps of golden light suddenly scattered from the temple wall, reflecting the entire temple, and permeating Xu Qing's place, making the world under his eyelids with closed eyes shine brightly from the original pitch black in an instant.

And under this golden light, Xu Qing's eyes were stinging, and it was the first time that he opened his eyes when he encountered this kind of strangeness.

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