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#204 - Chapter 204: Strange Sky

"Hey, why isn't there anything here? The sound clearly came from here?"

More than a dozen prisoners cautiously emerged from the forest.

"Look over there!" Someone pointed to several wide, jagged ravines in the distance.

"What... is that?"

The group quickly gathered around, and when they saw the ravines up close, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

"What… what kind of thing made this?"

"It must be a Fifth Forbidden awakened beast!"

As soon as these words were spoken, a chill ran down everyone's spines.

"Careful!"

The middle-aged man at the head raised his horizontal blade to his chest, watching his surroundings warily.

Called out by the man, the nerves of the others also tightened instantly, and they gripped the weapons in their hands.

Above the heads of the group, Li Chenqiu and Xiang Nanzhi squatted side by side, holding their breath, not daring to make any sound.

Xiang Nanzhi pursed her lips, tugged at Li Chenqiu's arm, and made a throat-slitting gesture in front of him with her hand.

Li Chenqiu shook his head, using his eyes to signal Xiang Nanzhi not to rush, and to watch a little longer.

Just then, a young man raised his head, looking directly in the direction where the two were.

Xiang Nanzhi narrowed her eyes, just as she was about to make a move, the young man quickly moved his gaze away again, as if he hadn't seen them, and looked in other directions.

Xiang Nanzhi, Li Chenqiu: (⊙_⊙)?

The two looked at each other, several large question marks popping out of their heads.

Xiang Nanzhi moved closer, and, sticking close to Li Chenqiu's ear, said, "Li Chenqiu, are we invisible too?"

"It seems so." Li Chenqiu nodded.

"I'll try it out."

Saying that, Xiang Nanzhi stretched half of her body out, waving her hand in the air.

No one paid any attention.

"Ouch!" Xiang Nanzhi rolled her eyes and shouted loudly, "Hey, there's an airplane in the sky!"

The sudden shout startled Li Chenqiu, his heart leaping in his chest.

No one responded.

"Hahaha!" Xiang Nanzhi retracted her body, saying in surprise, "They can't hear our voices!"

"You…" Li Chenqiu bit his lower lip, looking at Xiang Nanzhi with a complicated expression.

"What's wrong?" Xiang Nanzhi chuckled: "You weren't scared by me, were you?!"

"How did you know our voices were blocked?" Li Chenqiu asked.

Xiang Nanzhi pushed up her glasses: "I am a master of erudition, is there anything I don't know?"

Li Chenqiu's face darkened, and he didn't ask any more questions.

There was no master of erudition at all; it was just a blind cat running into a dead rat, a lucky guess.

"Hehehe!" Xiang Nanzhi rubbed her hands together, a wicked smile appearing on her face: "Heaven has a road you don't take, hell has no door, but you barge in."

Saying that, Xiang Nanzhi grabbed a small stone next to her, locked onto her target, and threw it out with a "swoosh."

Thwack!

"Who's there!" The middle-aged man at the head shouted loudly.

"Brother Lin, what's wrong?"

"Is someone lurking in the dark?"

The rest of the group also panicked instantly, moving closer to the middle-aged man.

"Brother Lin, you have a big bump on your forehead, are you okay?"

"It's nothing, someone ambushed me from the shadows just now, everyone be careful." The man waved his hand indifferently, and shouted loudly, "What kind of skill is it to hide and launch sneak attacks? If you have the ability, come out and face us head-on!"

Above their heads, Xiang Nanzhi clapped her knees: "Hahaha, this is fun, Li Chenqiu, do you want to play?"

Li Chenqiu glanced at Xiang Nanzhi speechlessly: "I'm an adult."

Xiang Nanzhi frowned: "I asked you if you wanted to play, and you said you were an adult, are your ears broken?"

Li Chenqiu closed his eyes and stopped speaking.

"There are only so many stones, and I don't want to share them with you, it's good that you don't want to play." Xiang Nanzhi muttered in a low voice, then continued to throw herself into the fight.

Before long, bumps had grown on the foreheads of more than a dozen prisoners, and, left with no other choice, they covered their faces and fled the area.

"I will definitely be back…"

Swoosh—Thwack!

"Ah!"

……

The ghost ship didn't know how long it had been flying before it finally stopped.

"Huh?" Xiang Nanzhi raised her eyebrows: "Why isn't the ship moving?"

"That shouldn't be!" Li Chenqiu stroked his chin: "Since the Hanging Corpse Vine is the key to the ghost ship's manifestation, that means it didn't stay in the mountains and forests, but went somewhere else, but why isn't it moving now?"

Xiang Nanzhi joked, "Maybe the ghost ship thinks it's too unlucky to carry you, so it doesn't want to move, you can kowtow to it twice, apologize, and maybe it will…"

Buzz buzz buzz—

A burst of buzzing came from the front, interrupting Xiang Nanzhi's words.

The two turned their heads to look, only to see ripples rippling in the space in front of the ghost ship, like throwing a stone into a calm lake.

Immediately afterwards, the ghost ship began to move forward again, bit by bit disappearing into the ripples, the spreading ripples reflecting the cross-section of the ship.

The corners of Li Chenqiu's mouth hooked up: "We're going in."

Xiang Nanzhi stood up, grabbed Li Chenqiu's arm and pulled him behind her, watching the front warily.

"What's wrong?" Li Chenqiu asked in a deep voice.

Xiang Nanzhi shook her head: "I'm not sure, but I feel a little uneasy, just stand behind me."

Li Chenqiu looked at Xiang Nanzhi in surprise.

He didn't expect Xiang Nanzhi to have such a serious side.

"Strange." Xiang Nanzhi narrowed her eyes, raised her hand and aimed it at the front, waves of strange fluctuations spreading out from her body.

Time passed slowly, and the two got closer and closer to the ripples.

"If anything goes wrong, turn into mist and run away quickly." Xiang Nanzhi instructed.

Li Chenqiu nodded, his body gradually turning transparent.

The next second, the two figures disappeared into the ripples.

Buzz buzz buzz—

The buzzing sounded again, and the space returned to its original state, the ghost ship completely disappearing.

……

……

Li Chenqiu only felt as if his head had been hit with a hammer, and tinnitus echoed in his mind for a long time, colorful lights flashing before his eyes, stealing his ears and eyes.

Dimly, Li Chenqiu felt his body being shaken constantly, and a familiar voice crossed the tinnitus, appearing in his mind, gradually becoming clearer, gradually magnifying…

"Hey hey hey, wake up quickly, where did this ship bring us, don't sleep…"

Li Chenqiu frowned and slowly lifted his heavy eyelids, what came into view was a face with overlapping shadows.

It was Xiang Nanzhi's face.

"Hey, why are your eyes crossed? Quickly turn your eyeballs back!"

Xiang Nanzhi patted Li Chenqiu's face.

Lying on the ground, Li Chenqiu said weakly, "Let me recover for a bit…"

After a few seconds, Li Chenqiu's eyes gradually focused, and he finally saw Xiang Nanzhi's face clearly.

Xiang Nanzhi's eyes lit up: "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Li Chenqiu rubbed his temples: "I should be okay, but I'm still a little dizzy."

"Don't be dizzy yet, look at where this is." Xiang Nanzhi moved her head away.

"This is…" Li Chenqiu's pupils slowly dilated.

Deep blue clouds filled the entire sky, surging with the wind, and twinkling stars shone within them, like an upside-down sea, deep and mysterious.