Under the scorching sun, the huge truck sped forward between the broken roads, stirring up layers of dust.
After the initial discomfort, Huai Shi had barely adapted to the current speed. At least if he didn't run around randomly, this speed was still manageable.
Although it was still too fast, it wasn't to the point where his life was hanging by a thread all the time.
After he relaxed, he finally had the mood to look at the scenery outside the window.
As the module rotated, they left the desert and entered the area of a huge city in the yellow sand. Countless layers of factories had stopped operating, and only clusters of shrubs were growing out of the ruins.
The atmosphere of decadence hit him in the face.
But there was also a shocking sense of beauty.
It was hard to describe, but Huai Shi suddenly understood the ruin lovers of the Present Realm.
It was as if the whole world had abandoned him, but at the same time, there was a reassuring silence that made him gradually relax and feel a sense of tranquility.
Although this silence and tranquility itself was abnormal enough.
Through the helmet, he sighed softly in the radio. "Although it's called hell, it looks similar to an ordinary wilderness."
"Ordinary wilderness?"
Raymond felt that there was something wrong with his ears. "There aren't so many ruins in the ordinary wilderness, right?"
"… There are some places, and there are some."
Huai Shi was silent for a long time. The village gradually covered in yellow sand appeared in front of his eyes again, and countless silent and empty faces.
He shook his head hard and dispelled the memories in the records.
"Is the Present Realm so chaotic now? Or is it just your wild ways? "
Raymond thought for a long time and finally reacted. "I forgot that you were an inspector. You must have seen a lot of messy things.
By the way, I have a question that I haven't asked, but I'm very curious. How are the benefits of an inspector? I heard that in addition to internal benefits and a lot of special discounts, there are paid vacations every year. "
"There are, but most of the paid vacations don't have a chance to use them."
Huai Shi shook his head. Thinking about his life over the past year, he couldn't help but sigh. "It's because I basically have nothing to do at home every day. Other than playing games, I can only draw cards from mobile games. I'm so lazy … Occasionally, when I go out, a bunch of people will think of ways to give me dirty money, wanting to drag me down with them.
To be honest, it was too annoying. He felt that after a long time, he would lose his dreams and become an abominable member of society. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to the Ivory Tower. "
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Raymond almost stepped on the gas pedal and was dumbfounded. "Are you serious?"
"Of course it's fake! What do you think? "
Huai Shi rolled his eyes. "How could there be such a good thing in the world? If it was really that peaceful, how do you think I reached the third stage in half a year?
When you stay at home, there are people who want to persecute you every day. When you go out, there are even heartless superiors who treat you like livestock and make you work for them. Even when you went out to apply for a job, you would accidentally turn into a cult base, and when you went out to travel, you would be robbed halfway by the Fine Night Society. Even so, there are still people who treat you as a homicidal maniac. Who would want to live such a miserable life? "
"Hiss …"
Raymond sucked in a breath of cold air. "How did you survive until now?"
"Probably, it's because I'm lucky?"
Suddenly, Raymond looked at Huai Shi with a complicated gaze. It was as if he was looking at a paralympic athlete, full of admiration and pity, and there was even a faint hint of encouragement.
Don't slack off, young man, keep up the good work!
He had no idea what was going on with this guy's brain.
During the long journey, the two of them chatted here and there, but they didn't feel bored or nervous. Raymond was a professional and experienced driver, and had long been used to this kind of messy situation. Huai Shi, on the other hand, simply felt that it was quite cool here, and his mood was relaxed and happy.
It seemed that the strengthened version of Young Arbiter of Life's adaptability to Hell had also been greatly improved. As Huai Shi's large group gradually took shape, the repulsive feeling and pressure from Hell decreased a lot.
The difference was like an outsider who had just arrived and an outsider who had lived here for two or three years.
It wasn't big, but it wasn't small either.
The curse was still a threat to him.
Even with a full set of protection and a helmet, under the sun outside the window, he could still feel his skin dry and painful. Sometimes, when he moved his mouth, the dry skin on his face would crack.
Although it would recover quickly, it was especially uncomfortable.
Even if Huai Shi switched the biosphere in his body to desert mode, it still didn't have much effect. But at least after drinking a few bottles of beer, the cracking phenomenon slowed down a lot.
"How far is it?"
"After this ring, we'll reach the nearest underground entrance about seventy kilometers ahead. If we go down, it'll take about three to four hours, and we might take a long detour. Because we don't know the situation underground, we can only act according to the situation."
Raymond glanced at the navigation screen under the white cat's butt, and scratched the cat.
Then, the white cat gave him a fierce claw.
His gloves were almost cut open.
At this time, they had already passed through the layers of factories and went deep into the dead silent city that was so monotonous that it seemed to be copied and pasted.
Between the messy viaducts, countless grayish-white skyscrapers stood on the ground like a dense forest.
There were no windows, and they couldn't even see the entrance.
It seemed to be purely made of some kind of solid rock blocks similar to concrete, which made people think of tombstones and other unpleasant things.
And between the countless tall buildings, some of the land had completely collapsed, revealing the slowly operating giant mechanical structures below. Bursts of black smoke would occasionally spurt out from it, bursting out with sharp sounds.
They had gradually gone deep into the Twilight Village.
According to Huai Shi's estimation, the specific area of the entire Twilight Village was about the size of Qiongzhou, maybe even smaller. Because the data was too detailed, it couldn't be calculated.
Among the many types of hell, the Twilight Village belonged to the most hidden submerged type.
At the edge of the sandstorm, the snowfall without warning, the rainstorm, and the storm, the further outside they went, the thinner they saw.
In the end, the whole person would disappear in the superimposed state of hell and the outer layer of the abyss, never to return. Unless they wore some special border relics or had special stigmata, most explorers wouldn't try to get close to the edge.
Huai Shi and the others all relied on the station built in advance by the Iron Crystal Seat to enter this place. But even the station wasn't absolutely safe. There were still miserable colleagues like Condra who had been assimilated wandering there, unable to be free.
Just as Huai Shi thought of this, in the corner of his eyes, under the collapsed building, a figure seemed to appear without warning.
Then, when he took a closer look, it disappeared again.
In his vague memory, the swollen outline seemed to look to this side, then raised a hand and pointed in the direction they were going.
Warm and considerate.
Looking forward, longing, and expecting.
Step by step, it led them to eternal damnation.
Huai Shi's movements stiffened, and he subconsciously pulled out his sword.
"Just now …"
He said bitterly, "I think I saw … the colleague who disappeared on the Iron Crystal Seat …"
He didn't directly mention Condra's name, but chose this nickname that everyone understood. Raymond's expression also became strange.
No, it should be said that the frivolous smile on his face disappeared for a moment, and he fell silent.
He was expressionless.
"What a coincidence, I also saw a former colleague on the radar.
He narrowed his eyes and looked up into the distance outside the window. "It's just that he's not on the Iron Crystal Seat –"
"Hmm?"
Huai Shi frowned. Before he could react, he heard an ear-piercing alarm in the cockpit.
Lock on the alarm!
All of a sudden, Raymond stepped on the gas pedal and leaped down from Duga. He roared in mid-air, "Hey! Hey! Hey!
"The Eye of Nightmare is here. Be careful!"
Boom!
A violent explosion erupted from where they were originally heading.
A landing capsule the size of a freezer fell from the sky and smashed into the place where they were supposed to be. Then, the outer armor exploded, and the flames residing in it spewed out and flew into the sky.
In the sky, as the optical invisibility frame was removed, a ferocious outline slowly appeared.
A huge aircraft engraved with the Eye of Nightmare's emblem appeared in mid-air. Even though it wasn't a huge object like the airship that covered the sky, it still cast a ferocious shadow on the ground.
Under the urging of two huge propellers, the giant helicopter-like aircraft quickly lowered its altitude and followed closely behind Huai Shi and the others.
If the fuselage was equipped with some missiles that could be used in hell, it would have fired all the missiles and burned Huai Shi and the others to ashes.
But now, there was still a threat that wasn't inferior to missiles chasing after them.
In the landing capsule, six flames soared into the sky and chased after them like fireballs.
The truck landed with a loud bang and crashed through a wall without any damage. It sped up in a sorry state.
Huai Shi was almost pressed into the chair, unable to move.
He began to rejoice that he had just discovered a vomit bag under his helmet.
"F * ck, it's Salamander!"
Raymond cursed angrily and turned the steering wheel, trying to turn and shake off the flames that were chasing after them. However, the flames floating in the air were like living creatures, biting onto them tightly.
They refused to let go.
"Is that a large group of hell?" Huai Shi raised his eyes and looked at the rearview mirror.
"Yes, the large group of hell that has a contract with the Eye of Nightmare are all half-elemental, half-biological flame spirits. They're not afraid of the curse in the sunlight at all."
Boom!
Before Raymond could finish his sentence, a loud bang burst out. The truck suddenly shook and was almost overturned by the flame that had crashed into it.
The flame stopped in the air for a moment and was about to crash again.
But immediately after, the sunken carriage was suddenly torn apart, and a large hand covered in metal armor reached out from it. Under the sunlight, the hand grabbed the ball of Flame Spirit Essence out of thin air.
It even rubbed it twice.
Little brother, what's wrong with you?
Salamander's flames twisted, and finally, a burning figure appeared. He struggled to pull out his sword and slashed at the large hand. Then, the hand lifted Salamander's body and pressed him against the wall beside him.
Friction, friction, friction.
Ear-piercing screams burst out from the flames.
Soon, they disappeared without a trace.
There were no more flames.
However, in this gap, the other five flames suddenly changed directions and crashed into the wheels under the carriage. It was as if they wanted to perish together with them.
The carriage shook, and then it split open out of thin air. It fell off, revealing the chairs that were welded to the chassis of the carriage, as well as the nine burly figures on the chairs that looked like giants.
In their thick protective suits, the park guards pulled out the shotguns that were uniformly equipped at their waists. They pulled the bolt and aimed at the flames that were pouncing on them.
"Holy …"
Accompanied by a devout chant, they pulled the trigger.
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