Chapter 129
Chapter 129: Rotten Corpses in the Deep Pit
“Wall-E, I’m counting on you.”
Without needing to consume any more Train Coins, Wall-E waved its machine arm, nodded at Ye Qiyan with a more emotional gesture, and then passed through the hole of the recycling device leaving the carriage to enter the outside Ancient Battlefield ruins, gradually disappearing from view.
“That direction…”
Ye Qiyan memorized the direction where Wall-E had disappeared.
After all, Wall-E couldn’t bring the Devil Card back on its own; that kind of thing should also have an altar and a Light Screen wrapping around the altar just like before.
Without a key, he would need to use the ability of the blasphemy card to teleport directly inside.
Having finished these, Ye Qiyan prepared to go out and take a look.
The ground was orange-red.
The high temperature caused the air outside to distort.
To be honest, at this temperature, if it weren’t for that Ice Pulse Bead, exploring outside would really be quite difficult.
“Mm… Anyway, I’d better go out first.”
He treated the Ice Pulse Bead as a necklace, tied it tightly with a rope, and wore it around his neck.
Having done his psychological preparation, he came to the door of the Train, took a deep breath, and pressed the open button.
Rolling waves of heat rushed toward his face.
The heat outside was not calm and tranquil.
Instead, it was a heat accompanied by strong winds!
Just imagine it.
A 50℃ strong wind blowing against a person’s body wouldn’t bring the slightest bit of coolness, only making one feel even more painful.
Clang~
A slight humming sound rang in his ear.
The Wandering Star Holy Mark unfolded a defense in front of him.
Those scorching winds were blocked three meters away.
The temperature dropped a lot because of this, and coupled with the effect of the Ice Pulse Bead, he could walk safely here.
“Phew… Fortunately, so where is the Mission?”
According to past experience, the tasks of the Mission Platform wouldn’t be too far from the Train.
He searched around and only saw a white skeleton nearby.
Is it this?
Ye Qiyan walked over to the skeleton, took out the Moonveil from the Armament Space, and poked it with the tip of the blade.
Creak——
The skeleton instantly turned into powder.
Those powders wanted to pounce towards Ye Qiyan’s face as if they had their own consciousness, but they were still blocked by the Wandering Star Holy Mark.
“What is this?”
The skeleton disappeared, and beneath it lay a broken blade.
That broken blade had some similarities with the broken short blade that Zhu Xingtu had given him when he entered this station.
He took the short blade out of his backpack, summoned the Raven Demon, and let it touch the broken blade.
Nothing strange happened. After picking up the broken blade, the Raven Demon returned to Ye Qiyan.
“So hot…”
Cooling it down with the Ice Pulse Bead, Ye Qiyan aligned it with the other half in his hand.
Sure enough, it fit together seamlessly.
“Hum——”
The moment after being combined, the short blade made a faint humming sound like a cicada.
In front of its blade, a faint cluster of light suddenly extended forward.
“Is this the guided direction?”
He didn’t act immediately, but first returned to the Train.
Don’t forget, inside the carriages of his Train, there was a very useful feature.
The Sandbox.
Or rather.
Map.
After arriving at this station, the Sandbox hanging on the wall displayed the appearance of a new map.
Among them, a constantly flashing point of light was exactly the same as the direction guided by the short blade.
In other words, this knife was going to lead him next to that dangerous target?
The mission was to kill that target?
Not necessarily. If it were really just like that, this station shouldn’t be a Mission Platform, but a Hunting Platform instead.
Pondering for a moment, he didn’t even need to remember the contents inside the Sandbox.
Instead, he transferred the perspective of the phantom Monitor here; that way, he could see the contents of the Sandbox outside through the system’s Light Screen.
The Raven Demon cleared the way in front, Roadhog was summoned, and Ye Qiyan followed behind.
Moving forward continuously along this point of light, the surrounding environment seemed identical to the endless wilderness.
Not knowing how long they went forward, such a completely identical road made it very easy for people to get lost in it.
It seemed to make one unable to perceive how much time had truly passed.
However, he was fine.
The pocket watch that would never be wrong, a prop he hadn’t cared much about back then, was now playing its effect.
[ 14:10:31 ]
Two-ten in the afternoon.
“Phew… It’s only been advancing for over an hour? Why do I feel like I’ve been walking for so long… And it’s so far.”
This wasn’t simply walking on legs; although Roadhog hadn’t turned on full speed, it was still much faster than walking.
Looking at the light point displayed in the Sandbox through the monitoring Light Screen of the phantom Monitor, that dangerous unit had never moved.
“Right here? It’s so dark.”
Finally, something different from the wilderness appeared ahead.
Amidst the distorted air, a deep pit smashed out by something unknown appeared before his eyes.
Standing at the edge of the deep pit, he looked down.
He couldn’t clearly see what was inside; a layer of faintly drifting mist covered his vision.
“It seems I must go down, but let’s first see what’s actually inside.”
Pondering slightly, Ye Qiyan took out the demon card: pride, and activated the God’s perspective of its second ability.
At the previous station, what this ability displayed was the ability to penetrate the Train and directly see the scenery inside.
Then could this mist also be penetrated in the same way?
Perspective activated, penetrating the mist.
Ye Qiyan truly saw what kind of scenery was below.
Rotten corpses, rotten corpses everywhere.
They piled up in one place, their remaining faces filled with painful expressions.
And even with this mist present, the influence of the yang yan wind still existed.
The scorching wind caused the stone-paved ground beneath the feet of these rotten corpses to accumulate even higher heat.
Stepping on it was like stepping on an iron plate; with every step they took, the remaining skin under their feet was torn to pieces.
The perspective continued to look forward.
A humanoid creature wearing armor, sitting high above the rotten corpses, was… panting heavily?
Hm?
Rotten corpses could breathe?
Was he a human?
But if he was a human, why would he be among a group of rotten corpses?
Should he go down?
The dangerous unit marked by the Sandbox was obviously the guy wearing armor. If it hadn’t been for pride earlier, rushing in rashly would very likely have resulted in being besieged by this group of rotten corpses.
Down below was very dangerous, but if he didn’t go down, the mission of this station would be stuck right here.
Pondering slightly, Ye Qiyan took out the pure purification stone.
Although the pure purification stone was only Level 4, when facing high-level Platforms, it could still play its own role.
Like that Screaming Ancestor back then, who could be immune to low-level holy light, a second one hadn’t been seen yet.
The level of the Platform wouldn’t render low-level props completely useless.
Recalling Roadhog, he drove the Raven Demon to enter this deep pit a step ahead.
