Shimmer Forest

"Even if you saw it, you can't just run out like this!" Wu Hao opened the umbrella for him, dragged him back to the room, and muttered softly while wiping the water from his hair with a towel.

Su Jin felt more and more uneasy, not because of being isolated in the forest, nor because of the weird heavy rain, but because even Wu Hao was involved in this dangerous place.

He noticed that those who ran and cheered outside the window were definitely not kind.Their eyes were indifferent and full of killing intent.

As if wanting to join them.

He began to doubt whether it was really the right choice to let Wu Hao come into contact with other worlds

"Wu Hao." Holding his wiping hand, Su Jin stared at him and said word by word: "Let's go out."

"Where are you going?" Wu Hao was startled, and asked instinctively.

"Back to the real forest." Loosing his grip, Su Jin turned to look at the torrential rain outside.

The rain was still raging and intense, and the branches were flying wildly in the wind.The dark clouds were thick and rolling, and the thunder and lightning flickered in them, as if they were going to drown everything in this world.

Su Jin has an intuition that only by returning to the lake where they fell and finding the person who summoned them can they return to the original forest.

If it is necessary to stay, at least let Wu Hao go home safely, and stay away from this world that has nothing to do with him.

Wu Hao wanted to ask some more questions, but seeing his serious and firm gaze, he swallowed the questioning words back.

He knew Su Jin well. Once that person showed such an expression, it meant that he was aware of some kind of danger.

All he can do now is to silently stay by this person's side, and try his best to protect him.

He opened the umbrella, held the icy cold hand, and said softly: "Let's go."

Two people broke into the rainstorm, and the umbrella didn't help.The wind and rain became more intense, tearing the originally slender umbrella to pieces.They supported each other, like fragile leaves clinging to the branches, crumbling in the torrential rain.

"Stupid!" The sound of the rain was too noisy, and the rain was oppressive and kept coming, making it difficult to even speak.Wu Hao yelled with great effort, the mud under his feet blocked the steps of the two, and seemed to want them to sink into the mud: "I'm a little out of breath!"

But Su Jin couldn't make a sound, couldn't say comforting words, and could only hold the man's trembling hand tighter and tighter.Through the blurred rain curtain, I try to identify this repeated scene, and use all my strength to fight against the torrential rain.

He followed that person's breath for an unknown how long.Finally at the end of the forest, I found the lake.

Even such intense rain could not cause any ripples in this lake.It is like a smooth mirror, reflecting the forest sky, witnessing the rain, which seems to never stop.

The rain is gradually getting smaller, at least you can see the things in front of you clearly.I don't know when a series of semi-circular houses were built by the lake.The gray bricks are neatly laid, and the warm light is reflected from the windows of the house.There are vague figures reflected on the windows, and occasional whispers.

"Great, someone is here!" Wu Hao regained consciousness, happily picked up Su Jin and ran away: "Bookworm, why don't we go to shelter from the rain..."

"Wait!" Su Jin suddenly stopped, preventing him from moving forward.

"What, what's the matter?" Wu Hao didn't dare to act rashly anymore, he quickly retreated and asked a little nervously.

"When we first came here, there were no such houses at all." He held Wu Hao's hand tightly, whether it was sweat or rain in his hands: "And... don't you think the shape of these stone houses is very strange?"

The excitement of discovering the shelter made Wu Hao completely unaware of these strange sights.After being mentioned by Su Jin, he realized that the two sides of the lake are full of stone houses with irregular shapes and sizes. The stone houses are neatly arranged and extend to the distance.

Like a grave.

Vague whispers, extraordinarily slow and viscous, mixed with the sound of rain, extremely weird.

A white light glowed slightly on the surface of the lake, and that light slowly gathered into a human shape, turning into a stranger with strange long blue hair who guided their arrival.

The man looked at them, smiled slightly, but his eyes were indifferent: "Where are you going?"

"Go back to the place that belongs to us." Su Jin almost instinctively blocked Wu Hao behind him, and answered decisively.

"Those who come here, no one can go back." The man raised his head, his flowing gown fluttered with the wind, and the smile on his lips became colder: "You have to stay here. You can't escape for the rest of your life."

The whispers stopped abruptly, and the pouring rain poured down.The door of the stone house opened slowly with a harsh creaking sound.People with the same long blue hair came out of the stone house one after another.His face was pale and his eyes were empty.

"Muscular man." It was obviously a terrifying scene that made the hair stand on end, but Su Jin had no fear: "Go to the center of the lake."

The calm voice clearly reached Wu Hao's ears.He didn't even have time to think, his body had already acted first, and he rushed to the center of the lake.

"Don't waste your efforts." The man watched their actions coldly, with contempt in his eyes: "This is the world I control."

"Really?" Su Jin looked back at him with the same gaze, raised his arm, and the blue blood vessels gradually appeared, emitting a strong light: "In my opinion, you are just a person who locked himself in an illusion Cowards."

"You are from the Dragon Clan..." The man showed surprise in his eyes.Before the words fell, Su Jin hammered hard at the lake surface, a dazzling light lit up, and the lake surface was like a mirror, with huge cracks appearing.Then, it shattered.

Wu Hao was caught off guard and fell into the lake. The lake water was icy cold, and the clothes had absorbed moisture, making them damp and heavy; the lake water covered his eyes, blurred his vision, blocked his mouth and nose, and made people suffocate.

He looked in shock at Su Jin who was standing by the lake with a smile, as if he suddenly understood something, and swam wildly upwards.

However, there is a powerful force pulling him, taking him deeper into the lake.Looking at Su Jin's increasingly tiny and blurred figure, he was gradually overwhelmed by despair.

He let his body sink down, and after an unknown period of time, he felt that he began to slowly float up.A huge force rushed into the water and pulled him up from the freezing lake.

"Stinky boy!" Uncle Wu's face suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and his brows were full of panic after extreme worry: "I told you a long time ago, don't run around on the lake! Fortunately, I came out to find you, otherwise you will be killed." drowned!"

The cold caused his brain to pause for a few seconds, and it was not until a faint warmth came that he regained his sanity and grabbed the opponent's collar: "Father, Su Jin is still at the bottom of the lake, save him quickly!" !"

"What did you say?" The expression that had just eased turned livid in an instant.Uncle Wu looked at him with a look of shock.

"I just wonder why it keeps raining...it's not rain, it's lake water, it's lake water that wants to drown us!" With a splitting headache, Wu Hao covered his head, speaking incoherently in panic, "and that mud...those people . . . corpses . . . drowned . . .

"Wu Hao, calm down!" Uncle Wu grabbed his shoulders. At this moment, even he couldn't be so worried that he lost his mind: "What happened?"

"By the way! Lord Dragon God!" As if he didn't hear the other party's words at all, Wu Hao suddenly thought of something and ran away: "Lord Dragon God can definitely save him!"

"Wait!" Seeing his son so panicked for the first time, Uncle Wu vaguely realized that Su Jin really encountered a very dangerous thing this time.But that kid was so flustered that he couldn't communicate properly at all.He didn't know what happened, so he could only follow him all the way.

Su Jin, who was left at the bottom of the lake, was confronting those blue-haired people at the moment, and the atmosphere was on the verge of breaking out.

"Why did you stay?" After a long silence, the man spoke softly, but his hostility was gone: "You could have gone with that person."

"You summoned me to come here." Su Jin looked directly at him and replied word by word: "I can't leave like this."

"Interesting." A cold smile crept onto the corner of his lips again, white light gathered in the man's palm, and the killing intent gradually permeated: "Then you will stay here forever like us!"

The rays of light gradually converged into a huge ball of light, reflecting the man's face with a gloomy look.He smiled evilly, his eyes were crazy, with bloodthirsty pleasure.

Push the ball of light out forcefully, and the ball of light sweeps through the rain and fallen leaves, and goes straight to Su Jin.

It is the light of another world, and it will be wiped out the moment it is touched.Su Jin stretched out a hand indifferently, and galloped towards the ball of light.

On the palm with blue blood veins, the scales of the dragon appeared faintly, and the originally flat nails gradually turned into spikes.He easily tore through the light and grabbed the man's neck.

Without the expected resistance, the man closed his eyes comfortably, calmly waiting for the moment of death.

"Why play the bad guy?" Su Jin withdrew her hand, and the lines on her arm gradually disappeared: "If you really want us to stay, you won't provide us with a comfortable refuge, and you won't deliberately show your flaws."

"You..." There was a completely unexpected development, the man opened his eyes wide in surprise, his face full of disbelief: "Testing me?"

"Just to confirm my speculation." The blue lines had disappeared, he smiled, looked straight into the eyes of the man, and said seriously: "Since I'm involved, please tell me the reason."

"These children... were submerged under the flood together with me." Perhaps his smile was too soft, with a calming power.The man let out a long sigh, and finally explained the reason, with a lonely and helpless expression: "I... don't want to believe that they are all dead, so here, a village was recreated so that everyone can still live here. Still ……by my side."

"But, after all, it's different. Here is the bottom of the lake, wet and cold, without sunlight and air. All I can do is turn the water into a rainstorm."

"I...that's not what I want...I didn't want to say that they were imprisoned here..." The man's voice trembled slightly, he closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were extremely clear and firm: "Maybe, they can leave here only if I disappear."

"So, please, use the power of the dragon to make me disappear."