Free Web NovelChapter 96: Chapter 96: The Mysterious White Fog
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Bai Wu wasn’t clear about what this situation entailed as the remarks provided were too scant.
As for the travel ticket, he could hazard a guess.
Since it was referred to as a travel ticket, it was very likely that the ability of that fragment allowed the holder to breach regional restrictions.
If such a thing truly existed... did Cain know about it? If Cain was unaware, it implied that its location was probably a region not even Cain dared to venture into.
If Cain knew about it yet didn’t possess the fragment, it also meant that the holder of the travel ticket was extremely formidable.
"Let’s move. There are signs of excavation ahead, so if we keep going, we should reach the place where the miners disappeared," Wu Jiu said.
The dense fog around them made it impossible to make any certain judgments, but since it was a white zone, even if they encountered danger, he was confident he could handle it.
Bai Wu looked at the vast expanse of white in front of him, finding his name quite fitting for the occasion – Bai Wu, white fog.
"Captain, if we don’t find the miners, will there be any consequences?"
"That won’t be an issue, but life is priceless. It would be best to not return empty-handed if we can find them."
"Okay."
Bai Wu had a bit of an idea now, still uncertain about the difficulty of the current mission, he could only take one step at a time and see how things went.
The team was quite convinced of his observational abilities, ready to decisively return to the city if they encountered an undeniable formidable enemy.
...
The group proceeded in the direction of the wind, and Bai Wu tentatively concluded that hidden within the endless mountain range was likely a cave.
Inside the huge boulders, there might be a hidden paradise.
The team moved quickly, and the mountain paths were smoother than expected. Bai Wu observed the rock fragments, broken leaves, and snapped twigs, frowning.
The remarks didn’t provide him with feedback, but the way the branches were broken, it was definitely not due to a natural fall.
As they ventured deeper into the depths of the mountain range, Bai Wu spotted some trees that were completely pulverized. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
"Xiaoyi, do you sense anything?" Bai Wu asked.
"No, there are no Evil Fallen nearby," Shang Xiaoyi was certain of his perception.
Bai Wu shook his head and said,
"You all follow along."
With his head lowered, Bai Wu surveyed the ground and walked in a trajectory that seemed like a curve but wasn’t.
He made quite a large circle.
The group also noticed something unusual about some of the trees in the woods.
The trees on the outer side of Bai Wu were intact, while the trees on the inside... without exception were all shattered.
It was as if they had been trampled by a monstrous force.
Initially, the dense fog obscured their vision, and they saw only parts of it, but they hadn’t pieced together the areas they had previously traversed.
Bai Wu, on the other hand, had been picturing the path they had taken from beginning to end in his mind, and he pieced together an image—
"What’s going on here? What happened to these trees?" Wang Shi asked.
Yin Shuang’s complexion was pale, and her wristwatch readings fluctuated:
"Could it be..."
"Footprints. Giant creature’s footprints."
The group was startled. The area they had walked through was about the size of a basketball court when circled together...
If this was just one footprint, what level of creature would that be?
Bai Wu continued,
"Judging by the traces in the soil, this creature has passed through here not long ago, I estimate no more than an hour. Its terrifying force directly pulverized these tall trees, and there are obvious signs of collapse where I stood."
"Is this monster related to the mine collapse?" Wu Jiu asked.
"Hard to say, now I’m afraid there’s more than one Evil Fallen." Bai Wu looked off into the distance.
"Sorry, such a huge monster, and I couldn’t even sense it..." Shang Xiaoyi was somewhat self-blaming.
Normally, before exploring an area, he was like an accurate detector, able to quickly report the specific number of Evil Fallen within the range.
"The inability of the Innate Force to sense it may be because the Evil Fallen possess some sort of perception-blocking ability?" Lin Wurou patted Shang Xiaoyi’s shoulder, unusually without mockery.
Bai Wu shook his head and said:
"We can rule out that possibility. Judging from the depth of the collapsed soil, I can roughly calculate the weight of the creature, and its height, at least more than fifteen times that of these trees which are over seven meters tall. Additionally, the outline of the monster’s footprints gives me the impression of an ape-like creature, and such creatures are generally noisy, but did any of you sense any fluctuations?"
Everyone was silent. freewebnovel.cσ๓
The Innate Force and the five senses failed to capture anything.
Bai Wu tried to look in every direction, but all he could see in his line of sight was white fog, his eyes giving no feedback.
Only when looking at a specific object would those sarcastic notes pop up.
This reminded him of the time in the sewers, staring at the darkness. Now, he was surrounded by what seemed to be "white darkness."
Aside from the things in the visible range, everything around was completely white. There was only one exception, the silhouette of a distant mountain.
Now, Bai Wu suddenly began to doubt the authenticity of this mountain silhouette, which appeared within everyone’s line of sight, even the white fog couldn’t obstruct it; it looked like a signpost, and also like bait.
Suddenly, Bai Wu seemed to think of something and hastily asked:
"Do we have any rope?"
"No... only bandages." As a medical practitioner, Yin Shuang had some common first-aid supplies on hand.
"Bandages will do, is there fifteen meters’ worth?"
"Not enough. What are you planning to do?"
Bai Wu nodded and said:
"It’s okay without the bandages. Lin, stand five meters in front of me. Xiaoyi, you stand by my side, so do the captain and Yin Shuang, and Wang Shi, you stand ten meters in front of Lin."
Everyone didn’t quite understand what Bai Wu was planning to do, but there was already a growing habit of trusting that "he always knew what he was doing." Even Lin Wurou refrained from commenting on his new nickname.
That’s because everyone felt something peculiar about this place. The white area might possibly harbor the supergiant ape mentioned by Bai Wu?
So Shang Xiaoyi, Wu Jiu, Yin Shuang all stood behind Bai Wu.
Lin Wurou stood about five meters away from Bai Wu, while Wang Shi stood ten meters from Lin Wurou, and more than fifteen meters from Bai Wu and the others.
In everyone’s line of sight, because of the dense white fog, only Lin Wurou was visible, but not Wang Shi.
Shang Xiaoyi’s assessment of a fifteen-meter visibility was very precise. Bai Wu pondered the air currents in this place, how they had been following the wind, but the dense fog hadn’t dissipated.
The visibility staying within fifteen meters was too abnormal.
He needed to conduct an experiment.
"Wang Shi, can you hear me?" Bai Wu shouted loudly.
Lin Wurou really wanted to complain about why he was shouting so loudly.
But to his surprise, Wang Shi, ten meters away, couldn’t hear Bai Wu at all and continued to look befuddledly at Lin Wurou.
As the individual between the two groups, Lin Wurou was visible to Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, and even Wang Shi could see Lin Wurou, but Wang Shi and Wu Jiu couldn’t see each other.
Lin Wurou wasn’t dumb and realized...
At a distance past fifteen meters, it wasn’t just visibility that was lost, but sound as well.
At this moment, Shang Xiaoyi saw that Wang Shi hadn’t spoken for a while and habitually used his sensing ability.
The result frightened him so much that the value on his watch jumped up fifteen points, and his first thought was—
How come Wang Shi has disappeared?
