"Sis, how much longer can you hold on?"
Ji Shanqing's trembling voice drifted up from beneath their feet. He sounded like he was about to cry, "I can't hold on any longer. I'm afraid of heights …"
He did not dare to look down. He just hugged Lin Sanjiu's leg tightly. After a few minutes, his neck was the first to turn stiff.
Both of them were hanging on a cliff that was almost a thousand meters above the ground. The mountain wind howled and swayed them from side to side. Every time their feet swayed in the air, Lin Sanjiu could hear a short whine coming from beneath her feet. It sounded like a hamster being strangled by its neck.
Lin Sanjiu's hands were supporting the weight of both of them. Even though the grand prize wasn't heavy, the muscles in her arms were so sore that they were twitching uncontrollably for a long time. Her face and arms were also covered with bloody gashes caused by the gravel. Sand was embedded in her skin, and she felt a stinging pain.
"Can I kick you down?" Lin Sanjiu raised her voice. "You won't die if you don't take off your clothes, right?"
"No!" Ji Shanqing immediately shouted, "I will die. I will definitely die!"
"Why?"
"Even a rock would shatter if you throw it from such a high place, let alone me!" he cried as he tightened his grip on Lin Sanjiu's leg.
"This is bad …" Lin Sanjiu bit her lip. She could feel her arteries throbbing, and the sound of her blood pumping was getting clearer.
There was a limit to how much she could move her neck. She could barely turn her head to take a look. Her heart felt weak.
Hanging at an altitude of almost a thousand meters, she could finally get a general idea of the situation.
There was no sky here.
No matter how high she looked or how far she could see, she could only see a thick, white fog that blanketed the entire world. On the boundless maroon land, outside the huge "bowl" and the human city that looked like an ant nest, there were scattered forests and countless deep ravines. It was as if the mountains had been flattened. The terrain was completely out of place. It was as if a child had randomly slapped the ground.
In the center of the land — Lin Sanjiu guessed that it might be the center of the land — a mountain made of rocks and soil suddenly rose from the ground. Without any warning, it became a thousand-meter-tall mountain pillar that was almost right next to the white mist. About three to four meters below the white mist was the large patch of yellow sand that Lin Sanjiu had almost fallen from. She clung onto it tightly.
The sandy soil was very loose, so there wasn't much she could grab on to. Mrs. Manas' quick reflexes were the only reason she didn't slide down after such a long time. She quickly used her Higher Consciousness to hold onto Lin Sanjiu. However, it was also because of this constant consumption of Higher Consciousness that Lin Sanjiu couldn't gather enough Higher Consciousness to push herself up.
Of course, Lin Sanjiu did not dare to go up.
Compared to being crushed to death by God's finger, she would rather take the risk of falling to her death and find a way to get to the human city. Since so many people had survived, it meant that they must have a way to fight against God!
"If I use the [Tornado Whip], do you think it can counteract the impact of falling?" Lin Sanjiu panted. With every word that came out of her mouth, her body seemed to sink a little more.
The grand prize squeezed a snort out of his throat. It was obvious that he did not like the idea from the bottom of his heart, "If I fall from the sky, I will die even more miserably." After a pause, he asked hesitantly, "Can the [Battle Item] only imitate a Special Item? Can it imitate a parachute? "
"No!"
"Then, a parachute-shaped Special Item —"
"I don't know what kind of Special Item is like that," Lin Sanjiu's veins were throbbing on her forehead, "If I don't have a prototype, I can't activate the [Battle Item]."
The grand prize didn't say anything. He seemed to be in a dilemma.
"Or, I can use the bone hooks from my limbs," Lin Sanjiu said hesitantly, "Then, I can climb down like rock climbing."
The last time she used the bone whip, it took her half a month to retract it completely. If there was another change this time, she might not be able to retract it at all, just like her height.
However, she couldn't afford to hesitate. Her Higher Consciousness was being depleted every second. This was the only way, and it was barely safe.
However, if she did that, Ji Shanqing would have to climb from her leg to her back at an altitude of a thousand meters.
The grand prize's limbs were already weak. His joints were bruised from clenching his fists so tightly that he couldn't stretch them. He didn't even dare to fully open his eyes, let alone perform such an acrobatic feat. After Lin Sanjiu intimidated and encouraged him for a long time, the grand prize finally agreed to let her bend the leg that he was clenching.
"Get ready. I will bend my leg now. When you can reach it, you must let go of your hand and hug my waist," Lin Sanjiu emphasized again, "Don't hesitate because you're afraid!"
Ji Shanqing's voice was muffled and trembling. Lin Sanjiu couldn't make out what he was saying.
Lin Sanjiu exhaled heavily, "Okay, I'm going to raise my leg now!"
The grand prize grunted.
As soon as the voice floated out, it was suddenly broken. A series of indistinct but loud shouts suddenly surged up from the city of ants below like a tsunami. The sound waves hit the cliff and stirred up countless echoes. It sounded like there were at least tens of thousands of people shouting at the same time.
"What's going on?" Lin Sanjiu was startled by the sudden roar. She quickly steadied herself and asked, "What are they shouting about?"
The grand prize didn't dare to lower his head. He squinted his eyes and listened attentively.
At first, the loud shouts rose and fell one after another, and the words were indistinguishable. However, they quickly became orderly and synchronized, as if they had received an invisible command. Soon, the loud shouts of tens of thousands of people turned into two clear words and entered the ears of the two of them. "Mother Goddess! Deva! "
Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She raised her head reflexively, but the sky above her was still shrouded in thick white mist. The finger and the bloodshot eyeball were nowhere to be seen.
Lin Sanjiu saw something from the corner of her eye, and her body froze.
"Deva! Deva! "The shouts grew louder. It was as if they wouldn't stop until they tore the sky apart." Deva! Deva! "
"Sis … Sis," Ji Shanqing's soft voice pierced through the waves of shouts, "Left, left."
Lin Sanjiu turned her head slowly.
A pointy, snow-white human face had appeared a few hundred meters away from them. She was leaning her forehead against the cliff, and her eyebrows were hidden in the white fog. Her eyes, which were as wide as a pedestrian bridge, were staring at them. Slowly, silently, they curved into an arc.
When "Deva" smiled, the corners of her blood-red lips curled upward, even beyond the tip of her nose. Her face was as tall as a five-story building, and there was a thick layer of white powder on it. No one could tell whether her skin was similar to a human's or not.
As Deva waved her hand, her arm, which was as tall as the World Trade Center, whipped up a strong gust of wind. Lin Sanjiu swayed from the force and almost fell off the cliff. In the blink of an eye, the crowd that had gathered like ants stopped their shouts.
"Oh," the mouth pulled open half of her face like a zipper. A loud voice that sounded like a man pinching his throat came out from her mouth. It was so loud that it hurt their eardrums. "Wanderers who have finally found their way home after receiving my summons … I, as the only true God in the world, promise you that you will find peace in my arms forever."
As soon as she said that, the crowd that was like a swarm of ants let out another wave of muffled shouts. However, this time, it was hard to tell what they were shouting.
Lin Sanjiu stared at the snow-white face in the sky. For a moment, she was a little dumbfounded. "There are two" true Gods "in this world?"
"Sis!"
Lin Sanjiu snapped out of her daze when she heard the grand prize's shout. She looked around and saw that the huge white hand that had swung down earlier was coming for them again. Before the hand reached them, the wind had already hit them.
Lin Sanjiu's heart tightened. She immediately yelled, "Hold on tight!" Then, she let go of her hand. As the grand prize screamed in fear, both of them fell straight down. Lin Sanjiu twisted her right hand and summoned her [Tornado Whip]. She lashed it at the direction where the huge hand was coming from.
Her heart was about to explode. She mustered all her strength and summoned a tornado from the tip of the whip. The tornado was unprecedentedly powerful. As soon as the tornado was unleashed, it covered the sky and the earth. Even the image of the Mother Goddess was blocked.
However, in the next second, a few snow-white fingers stretched out from the tornado.
With a gentle clench of her fingers, the tornado was crushed in her hand.
"Wastrels who have been deceived by the Fallen Demon," the voice that was so gentle that it was almost sickening and sounded like a man's high-pitched voice rumbled in the air, "As the one and only True God, I forgive you."
"Forgive my ass!"
Lin Sanjiu's body was still falling at a rapid speed. The roaring of the wind brushed past her ears. She cursed angrily and turned her body with great difficulty. Then, she whipped out another tornado and struck the ground.
Then her body froze.
Together with the grand prize, both of them were suspended in the air, unable to move. Lin Sanjiu could only watch as the hand retracted and destroyed the tornado she had thrown out.
The snow-white, pointy face bent down and stopped beside the two of them. Compared to Deva, both of them were only as big as the tip of her nose.
Deva's smile grew wider and wider. As if she couldn't control herself any longer, she gently squeezed the two of them in the air.
It was only at this moment that Lin Sanjiu could hear what the crowd below was shouting.
"Baptism! Baptism! Baptism! "
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