Chapter 1581: Calculation and the Coming Wind

Calculation and the Coming Wind

Gray World.

When Chen Ling's stream of thought returned, there were already three more figures beside him.

Wu Tongyuan looked at the barren alternate world around him, a trace of doubt flashing in his eyes...

"This place... doesn't look like anything special? There's sky, earth, and air. I thought an alternate world would be the kind of place full of strange plants, or where you need specific equipment to breathe and walk."

"Looking at it now, it seems not much different from Earth, just a bit more desolate..."

Qi Muyun at the side seemed to realize something and gave him a subtle look: "Why don't you look down at yourself?"

Wu Tongyuan looked down, and his entire person instantly froze:

"No way... How did we turn black and white?!"

"Director Chen, why is there still red on your body?"

"I'm a bit special."

Chen Ling didn't have time to explain in detail to the three of them right now. His gaze looked towards the messy earth around them.

"Now is not the time to talk about this. We should go save Ji Xuan."

"But where is he now?" Wu Tongyuan asked.

"After we put on the hat, we all came here, which means the hat teleports to a fixed point." Wen Ruoshui looked thoughtful. "So, he should be nearby..."

"That's right." Chen Ling pointed to the messy Calamity footprints on the ground. "But these Calamity footprints are all new. If nothing unexpected happens, he should have encountered a batch of Calamity attacks right after landing..."

The crowd instantly grew tense. One must know that the current Ji Xuan had just gained his power. If he encountered an attack, the chances of survival were quite slim.

"However, what we can be certain of right now is that he is still alive."

The very first instant Chen Ling entered the Gray World, he had used a Thought Storm to sense Ji Xuan. His stream of thought was still there, meaning at least his brain functions were still operating... Chen Ling had also entered his thoughts.

Chen Ling saw that Ji Xuan was covered in injuries and was currently running awkwardly across the barren earth. The earth beneath his feet was violently trembling, and billowing dust and smoke trailed behind him, as if a large number of massive creatures were chasing him. But at that time, Ji Xuan's mental state seemed to have reached the verge of unconsciousness, with only the thought of running madly forward remaining in his bloodshot eyes.

Chen Ling could intervene in other people's thoughts, but when someone had already given up thinking and only had primal instincts left, his influence on their thoughts would rapidly weaken... to the extent that despite his strenuous attempts to call out to Ji Xuan, the other party didn't hear him at all.

Moreover, looking at Ji Xuan's panic-stricken state of fleeing blindly, it was estimated that even he himself didn't know where he had run to.

"The footprints here are too messy. How are we supposed to find him?"

Qi Muyun looked at the uneven earth beneath his feet. Aside from an occasional one or two of Ji Xuan's footprints, everywhere was full of potholes that looked like they had been trampled by dinosaurs. Moreover, it looked like more than one type of Calamity had come back and forth, eventually scattering in different directions... If they tried one direction after another, it was estimated that by the time they found him, Ji Xuan's seventh-day memorial would have almost passed.

Right at this moment, Wu Tongyuan suddenly spoke:

"Give me a little time."

Only to see Wu Tongyuan close his eyes. After opening them again, a mysterious faint light began to ripple in his pupils... In his field of vision, every footprint on the ground was quantified into data. Based on their size, point of force, and the direction they faced, he continuously began to calculate.

Even if the effective footprints left by Ji Xuan were only a few, as long as he could perform movement line analysis on the footprints of the Calamities chasing him, and combine it with Ji Xuan's movement line for modeling, he could roughly deduce which batch of Calamities was chasing Ji Xuan.

The originally quite unreliable Wu Tongyuan seemed to turn into a humanoid computer at this moment. With his messy hair flying in the wind, his gaze seemed to be able to encompass all phenomena.

This was the first time everyone had seen Wu Tongyuan look so serious.

Chen Ling just watched him quietly like this. At this moment, Wu Tongyuan seemed to already have some shadow of the future Lord of Spirit Void...

While Wu Tongyuan was busy, Wen Ruoshui at the side wasn't idle either.

He slowly crouched down and pressed his palm against the earth. An invisible aura spread outward with him as the center, extending extremely far in the blink of an eye... No one knew what he was doing, only that roughly several tens of seconds later, he slowly stood up, a trace of exhaustion flashing across his face.

"I understand!" Wu Tongyuan suddenly spoke.

"There were a total of three batches of creatures that came here consecutively. The first batch was a group of relatively lightweight creatures, but their footprints were extremely dense; the second batch was a group of massive, heavy-footed large creatures; the third batch seemed to be the same type of creatures as the second batch..."

"From Ji Xuan's movement line, he descended after the first batch of creatures had passed, and then attracted the pursuit of the second batch of creatures... Only after the second batch of creatures chased him away did the third batch of creatures pass by. Because the second and third batches of creatures were too similar, the footprints looked completely chaotic and incomparably messy..."

"In short, the direction Ji Xuan fled while being chased should be there!"

Wu Tongyuan firmly stretched out his hand and pointed in a direction.

Chen Ling didn't expect that Wu Tongyuan could actually calculate the movement trajectories of three successive batches of Calamities in such a short time... This guy was simply a humanoid supercomputer!

However, Chen Ling didn't have time to marvel at Wu Tongyuan's ability either. After Wu Tongyuan pointed out the direction, they immediately set off running in that direction!

However, neither Wu Tongyuan nor Wen Ruoshui possessed the ability to move quickly. They could only run on their two legs huffing and puffing like Ordinary Persons, and after running for a few minutes, they were already somewhat unable to run anymore.

Qi Muyun at the side truly couldn't watch any longer. He raised his hand and pointed to the sky:

"Wind, come!"

A hurricane from nowhere directly surrounded the bodies of the three people, increasing their speed by a large margin... With every step they took, they could be lifted up and travel more than ten meters, saving effort and being fast.

Wu Tongyuan seemed extremely pleasantly surprised by this ability. Feeling the hurricane supporting his body, he curiously waved his limbs, like a child who had never seen the world.

Of course, even with the hurricane buff, the speed of these three people was still far slower than Chen Ling. But Chen Ling couldn't just ignore them either. After all, this was the Gray World in its most initial state, and Calamities were everywhere. To play it safe, he still slowed down his speed and advanced together with the three of them.

Just as Chen Ling expected, they had only moved for seven or eight minutes before they had already encountered two batches of Calamities.

But with Chen Ling's current strength, he simply didn't need to make a move. Just by glaring at them fiercely and releasing a trace of World-Ending Aura, those Calamities were scared shitless and fled in panic.