Chapter 1279: Chapter 66: Reality Mutation_3
Following the path tinted with a warm yellow by the streetlights, the two walked slowly towards the apartnt.
The early autumn night breeze carried a hint of just the right coolness, dispelling the lingering heat of late sumr and slightly lifting the gloom off Xiao Jie’s mind.
The trees lining the road swayed gently in the night breeze, making a soft rustling noise. Gu Feiyu was still enthusiastically discussing ga matters, imagining the possibility of finding the Penglai Immortal.
Looking at the serene and tranquil environnt in front of him, Xiao Jie felt inexplicably unable to fully relax.
He had a persistent feeling that beneath this calmness, there seed to be an indescribable sensation, like the sea being unnaturally calm before a storm, with not even the slightest breeze, yet the air is filled with a suffocating low pressure, as if the whole world is holding its breath, waiting for the arrival of sothing unknown and formidable enough to shatter everything.
This feeling was elusive, yet accompanied him like a shadow.
Suddenly, a light leaf fluttered silently to the ground. Xiao Jie, sensing sothing, held out his hand, and the leaf landed perfectly in his palm.
He glanced down to see that it was a slightly curled ginkgo leaf. Jiangbei City has excellent greenery; for aesthetic purposes, many ornantal trees are planted along the roads, especially the ginkgo trees with their beautiful shape and golden autumn leaves.
This golden leaf in his hand, supposed to be a poetic sight, inexplicably made Xiao Jie’s heart skip a beat.
The air around seed to be suffused with a strange, unsettlingly familiar feeling, the kind of eerie sensation as if being in a ga area covered by the Withered Spirit Domain, where the vitality of all things is quietly being drained away.
Although everything around was peaceful and the night gentle, the powerful spiritual sense of an Immortal allowed him to detect a faint unusual sensation, sending a chill through his heart.
At this mont, the unease in Xiao Jie’s heart began to surge wildly!
Another leaf fell, then two, three… and then, a torrent—!
The ginkgo trees lining the street, initially shedding leaves normally, suddenly had their life force seemingly stripped away by an invisible power, accelerating their fall! Initially, it was the usual golden leaves, but soon, those leaves just detached from the branches started fading, withering at a speed visible to the naked eye, landing already in a dark, gray, burnt-edge-like charred black state!
Xiao Jie’s heart sank abruptly. He looked up in shock! The once lush, golden canopy of the nearby ginkgo tree was wilting and fading at an incredibly terrifying speed! From brilliant gold, to lifeless yellow, to a dead, gloomy black… the entire process like pressing a fast-forward button!
So of the falling leaves disintegrated mid-air into black ashes, drifting down in a flurry.
And it wasn’t just this one! Looking around, the sa horrifying transformation was happening to all the ginkgo trees lining the street! Under the astonished gazes of pedestrians, they turned into clawing black skeleton trees in the night within a re few dozen seconds!
Nearby pedestrians voiced their shock, so stopping to point at the trees, discussing animatedly, while others hurriedly pulled out their phones, frantically taking pictures of the bizarre scene, likely about to flood social dia with this strange news.
“Jie! I feel…sothing’s off! The ‘energy’ around us… it seems to be disappearing! Sothing’s… happened, hasn’t it?” Gu Feiyu suddenly halted, face pale, and said.
Being a Xuan Sect True Man himself, Gu Feiyu had a perception of the flow of spiritual energy far beyond ordinary people. Although slower than Xiao Jie, he could also clearly feel the rapid depletion of a certain life-sustaining ‘energy’ in the environnt.
“Indeed, sothing has happened,” Xiao Jie said gravely, his heart sinking uncontrollably.
No matter how bad things got in the ga, there was always a screen between, and always stronger Immortal veterans standing at the forefront, so deep down, Xiao Jie never felt the true, unbearable pressure, subconsciously thinking he could always quit the ga if things went wrong, maintaining a player’s mindset all along.
But right now, in this real world, faced with this sudden, ga-like calamity and its identical phenona, the only person capable and responsible to stand up and face it might just be himself! The responsibility of facing an unknown disaster alone and the pressure of being without support instantly sent a chill down his spine.
Moreover, where could he run in this world? In the ga, one could seek refuge in a Small Thousand World, but in reality… there’s nowhere to escape!
He forced himself to calm down, his mind racing to devise a strategy. The massive abnormal withering of ginkgo trees was by no ans a natural phenonon or coincidence. This was clearly a reality version of the ga’s “calamity root” extracting spiritual energy, creating a “Land of Withered Spirits”! Looking at the speed and scope, sothing more terrifying was likely about to happen!
Just as he was strategizing, his phone rang abruptly with an urgent caller ringtone.
Sensing sothing, Xiao Jie hurriedly pulled out his phone to see the caller displayed on the screen—it was Captain Li!
He took a deep breath, pressed the answer button, and put the phone to his ear.
On the other end, Captain Li’s familiar voice ca through: “Hello, Mr. Xiao, I believe… it’s ti for you to fulfill your ‘player responsibility’.”
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