Chapter 76: Chapter 76 Children
Seeing Wang Lanxin’s expression, Li Letian chuckled and said, “Since we’ve come all this way, we might as well go in and explore.”
Ye Xin stood on the border of the Dead Land, looking at the pallid thick fog before her, her face showing some worry, “Little Qian, I just have a feeling that something is off ahead. Should we really go in?”
Lin Qian grasped Ye Xin’s delicate, boneless hand and reassured her, “Don’t be afraid, everything will be fine with me here.”
With her hand firmly held in Lin Qian’s palm, Ye Xin inexplicably felt at ease and moved even closer to him.
“Let’s go and see what mysteries this Dead Land holds,” Lin Qian said, and then led Ye Xin forward with determined steps.
Seeing Lin Qian and Ye Xin enter the area shrouded in dense fog, the others clenched their teeth and followed suit.
Having previously agreed to go to the Dead Land, it would be too embarrassing to turn back now.
Once they entered the Dead Land, they were completely enveloped by the pallid thick fog and could only clearly see about ten feet around them.
Looking further away was met with thick white fog that completely obscured their vision.
The visibility in the Dead Land’s fog was surprisingly low, even to Lin Qian.
However, he remained calm and collected because he knew Swift Soldiers had already entered the Dead Land earlier to scout the surroundings.
A faint flow of Soul Power was visible in Lin Qian’s eyes. A tactical map was displayed within a system framework, scattered with various points of light.
On this map, visible only to him, bright yellow dots were surrounded and slowly moving amidst many green dots.
The bright yellow dots represented Lin Qian himself, and those green dots guarding him were the Swift Soldiers patrolling around.
As the Emperor of the Huaxia Empire, Lin Qian naturally could sense the presence of other Swift Soldiers.
Of course, this tactical map could only display himself and the existences of the Huaxia Empire; it could not show others, nor could they see the map.
Unless one used a special means.
“Everyone, come over here for a moment,” Lin Qian called out to the group after entering the Dead Land.
Hearing Lin Qian’s voice, the originally slightly scattered group gathered curiously towards him.
Once everyone had crowded around, Lin Qian suddenly reached out and grasped a handful of red strings.
Strings dipped down, each ending with a metal badge, on which the character “Hua” was etched.
“This Dead Land’s strange fog is too intense. To prevent us from accidentally getting separated, wear this jade token. With this, I’ll be able to pinpoint your location precisely,” Lin Qian explained and then gestured for everyone to take one.
The group was astonished and each took a piece.
Ye Xin hung the metal badge around her neck and after some thought asked, “Since we have such a thing, why didn’t you give it to us before entering the Middle Ages relic? Wouldn’t it have been more convenient to find us?”
“It’s because this gadget wasn’t made yet,” Lin Qian laughingly responded to Ye Xin’s question.
Lin Qian just shook his head smiling at Ye Xin’s puzzled look, saying no more.
In truth, before entering the Middle Ages relic, he had left a trace of Soul Power on everyone. This allowed the Swift Soldiers to quickly locate them and, by using the tokens to earn their trust, lead them here.
At that time, indeed, there was no such token.
It wasn’t until they decided to come to the Dead Land and realized there was a dense fog that impaired vision that Lin Qian asked Zhuge Ming to research this gadget, which would make them appear on the tactical map.
And just a moment ago, Zhuge Ming had successfully created what Lin Qian had requested.
“All right, let’s continue our exploration,” Lin Qian nodded, seeing that everyone was wearing their token.
After putting on Lin Qian’s token, everyone felt considerably more reassured, no longer worried about getting lost.
Following Lin Qian’s instruction, they continued to delve deeper into Dead Land.
Walking in Dead Land, Lin Qian and his companions remained cautious and vigilant, watching their surroundings against any possible mishaps.
After all, caution is the parent of safety.
The soil in Dead Land was dry and cracked, revealing cracks that resembled the pattern of a turtle’s shell.
Moreover, the soil in Dead Land was a strange black color, inducing an inexplicable sense of oppression in the heart.
Like the relics from the Middle Ages, ancient trees that were also scattered around Dead Land were completely bare, without a single leaf, and withered to the extreme.
Within the depths of the pale, thick fog, there emanated heartrending wails and howls, as if there were sounds of women weeping and babies crying.
Yet these sounds seemed like they could be the wind whipping up, mysterious to the extreme, sending shivers down one’s spine.
The others all looked around in uncertain dread, their brows tightly furrowed, their bodies breaking out in goosebumps.
Lin Qian, on the other hand, appeared indifferent and interested as he observed his surroundings, while Ye Xin, calm and composed, let him lead the way, also observing the environment carefully.
“Boss, why does this place feel so creepy?” Lei Qian frowned, cautiously asking Lin Qian.
Hearing Lei Qian’s words, Lin Qian couldn’t help but find it a bit amusing, “You, your strength isn’t what it used to be, what’s there to fear?”
“Huh?” Walking behind, Liu Yueqian suddenly felt a gaze on her back and whirled around.
After turning, Liu Yueqian was shocked to find that standing next to a withered tree was a three-year-old child, a ghastly pale face, with eyes dark as ink, devoid of any whites, staring at her.
The child, barefoot, gripping the tree trunk to stand, looked in their direction.
Seeing Liu Yueqian turn around, the child’s mouth split to its ears, revealing a set of teeth stained with blood.
Liu Yueqian let out a piercing scream, which immediately echoed around them, hastily running after Lin Qian and the others in the distance.
However, to her horror, she discovered that Lin Qian and the others also suddenly accelerated, vanishing ahead in the blink of an eye.
This situation caused Liu Yueqian to panic even more, she hurriedly looked back, wanting to see where the eerie child was.
But as she turned her head, there was the ghastly pale face right before her, nearly arm’s length away, with those pitch-black eyes staring at her, the child still bearing that grotesque smiling face.
Liu Yueqian was scared stiff, screaming again, stumbling toward the direction where Lin Qian had disappeared.
Just then, a ghastly pale little hand suddenly reached out and grabbed her arm.
“Get off me!” Terrified, Liu Yueqian spun around and slammed her palm out.
At that moment, another hand reached out from the side, grabbed her swinging wrist, and a thunderous shout rang out by her ear.
The shout was like a thunderous roar, exploding high above, and Liu Yueqian’s mind cleared, coming to her senses.
Only then did she realize that the one behind her was not the eerie child but Lin Qian and Ye Xin, who had supposedly vanished ahead.
Zhu Xiaojia also rushed over, arriving beside Liu Yueqian, “Yueqian, what on earth are you doing, suddenly going mad like that?”
Liu Yueqian felt a chill down her spine, her legs giving way as she knelt on the ground, “What… what is going on?”
I’ve done the math, and I haven’t hit the promised surge in updates for you all, including the bonus chapters from the recommendation ticket event, I owe a total of thirteen more chapters.
I feel like slapping myself to death…