1878 Deep in the Ancient City
Everything before him, around him, above him, and below him was part of the black city that stretched as far as the eye could see.
The enormous ruins of the buildings resembled tombs that were hundreds of ters high. Not only did they extend to the east, west, north, and south, but they also floated in the infinite space thousands of ters above and below. They ford a three-dinsional maze that did not seem to be anchored by gravity.
So of the structures that had been eroded for billions of years were still standing in the middle, like tottering tombstones.
The black “urban graveyard” extended in all directions, as far as his eyes could see. However, his light of sight was soon swallowed by a black fog that rolled and squird as if it was alive.
ng Chao lowered his head and looked at his hands.
From the nerve endings on his fingertips, he could still sense the pressure from the rock wall when he struggled with all his might to push it on both sides of the crevice.
But now, the crevices, walls, boulders, and even the crust that separated him from Dragon City had all disappeared.
It was as if he had been teleported from the bottom of Dragon City to a completely sealed alternate dinsion.
One end of a rope had originally been tied around his waist, and the other end had been tied to Lu Siya’s waist.
However, the rope was now suspended in midair. The end of the rope that was away from ng Chao looked like a fishing line that had plunged into an invisible pond.
ng Chao lifted the rope and went forward to observe it. He noticed that the cut on the rope was incredibly neat, and every strand of man-made fiber in the rope was trembling slightly.
It was as if it had not broken at all but was still connected to ng Chao and Lu Siya. It moved up and down with their heartbeats, as well as breathing, and it swayed gently.
ng Chao pondered for a mont before he carefully tugged on the rope.
At the spot where the rope had disappeared into thin air, circles of hazy ripples imdiately appeared, as though there were vague waves.
ng Chao took a sedative pill from the first aid kit and flicked it gently at the ripples in the air.
The pill passed through the ripples and disappeared without falling to the ground.
Three seconds later, the ripples vanished too, and the second pill that ng Chao threw out fell smoothly in a parabola that followed the laws of physics.
ng Chao nodded. His spirit flas surrounded the rope, and he proceeded to pull it.
He still could not pull the entire rope and Lu Siya over.
Yet, the rope did not seem to be tied to a hard solid object. Instead, it seed to be stuck in a sticky swamp, tar, or gelatinous mass. It gave the illusion that it could be pulled with a little more force.
However, ng Chao was too afraid to keep trying.
Spatial gaps were so strange that they could not be explained by the laws of physics.
In the monster mastermind’s deep mory, even during the Ancient War, the fully-armored Ancients could instantly split into two or teleport to the rock stratum or even outer space when they faced spatial gaps.
ng Chao had no idea what would happen to Lu Siya if he dragged her over from the other end of the rope. He dared not risk it.
“Alright, looks like that crevice isn’t just growing in the underground rock stratum, it’s also embedded in a space tunnel.
ng Chao rubbed his temples gently and quickly cald down.
He had encountered similar abnormal phenona around the Turan Holy Mountain.
It seed that the ancient ruins under Dragon City and the area where the Turan Holy Mountain was located had similar effects.
If an ordinary space was flat and even like a piece of white paper, then the spaces where the ancient ruins and Turan Holy Mountain were located seed to crumple this piece of paper into a ball, unfold it, and roll it around several tis until its fibers were torn. Not only were the layers of its folds visible to the naked eye, but the inside of this paper was also filled with crisscrossing gaps that were enough for fine particles at the molecular level to pass through.
“Lu Siya and I should have been teleported to different coordinates in this ancient city’s graveyard,” ng Chao mumbled to himself.
“Since I’m already here, I’ll just take things as they co. At least I’m still alive.”
This was enough to show that even if there was a living will behind the ancient ruins, it was not completely malicious toward him.
With that thought, ng Chao tied the rope around his waist. In his mind, things could be much worse, so he strode forward with his head held high. He stepped on the burning footprints that Battle God Lei Zongchao left behind and followed the pioneer. He was in the core area of the ancient city, where the city ruins were the densest and the structures that resembled tombstones were the tallest.
The black fog that had been floating in the ruins of the giant city could seemingly absorb all sound waves.
Whether it was ng Chao’s heavy footsteps, the occasional claps he made to attract the attention of his companions, or the crumbled walls that had been eroded by ti, any sound was instantly absorbed by the black fog. ng Chao could not even hear his heartbeat or breathing.
The atmosphere that was even deadlier than the inside of a coffin buried deep underground made the ruins on both sides of the road look even more solemn and towering.
ng Chao had seen the cities of the Ancients in the monster mastermind’s deep mories more than once.
However, during those tis, he mostly followed the perspective of the king of monsters, the indomitable Chaos Behemoth.
It was either that or the ancient beasts that were hundreds of ters tall and created by the Chaos Behemoth.
The ancient city in the monsters’ perspective was crystal clear and magnificent.
However, there was less pressure that could squeeze a person’s soul out.
All of a sudden, ng Chao stopped in his tracks.
The road before him was nearly 100 ters wide, but it was cut off by a high stone mountain.
Narrowing his eyes, he scanned it carefully. He contemplated for a long ti as he mapped it against the pictures of war in his mory. He vaguely guessed that it had to be the debris of the “super enormous crystal” that looked like a battle fortress in the sky. It had floated above the entire city in the past and possessed a diater of more than three hundred ters.
During the apocalyptic Ancient War, countless enormous and brilliant crystal fortresses in the sky had been struck down by the overwhelming ancient beast hordes.
The crash not only destroyed more than ten huge buildings nearby but also raised a circular chunk of earth from the ground. The crater was over a thousand ters in diater and dozens of ters in height, and it was also as hard as iron. It looked extrely exaggerated.
ng Chao could see more than one similar crater.
From this, it was obvious how huge and terrifying the war that determined the owners of the planet was.
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