Chapter 487: Night Pillar

The gray fog at the core position became thick, expanding toward every corner of the Te Li Er of the Fourth Era.

Gardner Ma Ding, clad in silver-white full-body armor, was not surprised but happy about this. Since accepting the power erosion in the building at 13 Market Avenue and being able to hear that great voice, his dreams often had such scenes, which made him feel like returning to his hometown, with the door opening for him.

Gardner Ma Ding ran, running toward the core area of the Te Li Er of the Fourth Era, toward the God-Fallen Land.

On the street so narrow that the "citizens" in the houses on both sides could almost shake hands if they opened the windows, Lu Mi and the others ran forward, two in front and two behind.

Running only ten steps, Lu Mi felt invisible things stretching over from the gray fog stained with dark black, like the countless arms of some terrifying existence, gently, slowly, from top to bottom, stroking every living thing in this area, to determine who was its prey.

Lu Mi's scalp felt numb, and where he was stroked, even with clothing blocking it, goosebumps rose uncontrollably.

He instinctively wanted to resist these invisible things, but immediately remembered Te Er Mi Bo Ai Luo Si's words:

"You can't stop on the way, can't look back, can't teleport, can't pull your companions!"

Although this didn't include situations like not being able to resist, not being able to defend, not being able to attack, Lu Mi felt it was better to wait a bit and see.

He endured the impulse to set a fire to burn those invisible things, struggling to continue forward.

Yu Jianna at his side, Fu Lan Ka and Ma Ding behind him, were always staring at him. What he didn't do, they didn't do either; what he did, they followed quickly.

During this process, Fu Lan Ka felt that these kinds of invisible things had a somewhat familiar taste.

Associating it with the Te Li Er of the Fourth Era in the mirror, which was closely related to the "Witch" pathway, she soon had the answer:

This was very similar to the "Spider Silk" of the "Pleasure Witch"!

Could it be the legacy of some high-level witch? Fu Lan Ka imagined a scene in her mind:

A huge, pitch-black spider, half-human, was quietly nesting deep in the gray fog, extending a large amount of spider silk that seemed to have its own life toward the surroundings, trying to find and capture prey.

After running wildly for another ten steps, Lu Mi was pleasantly surprised to find that the invisible things had slowly retreated, no longer actively stroking him, only occasionally brushing or rubbing against him because they were densely distributed in the surroundings.

This seemed to be a change brought about by his active approach to the source of the invisible things.

Those invisible things only grabbed and entangled those who wanted to escape!

Rushing out of the narrow street and going deep into the thick gray fog, Lu Mi suddenly felt his hair stand on end, his back feeling cold.

His intuition told him that there was a great danger ahead, a danger sufficient to destroy him and the others. Once close, the consequences were unimaginable.

Fu Lan Ka and the others couldn't help but slow down their steps. The substantial terror was like a pistol pressed against their foreheads, which could be fired at any time.

Lu Mi gritted his teeth and continued forward.

Since he chose to believe Te Er Mi Bo Ai Luo Si's suggestion, he would persist until a counterexample appeared. Otherwise, it would be better to try something else from the beginning!

He didn't stop, and Yu Jianna, Ma Ding, and the others didn't dare to stop, just like fools who knew the cliff was ahead, knew they were small, knew they would be smashed to pieces, but still stood out and ran toward it.

Just at this time, Lu Mi saw black flames ignite on Yu Jianna's body from the corner of his eye, burning her face with pain and her eyes with fear.

Crack, Yu Jianna shattered like a mirror, her figure re-outlined, but she was still attached with black flames, and even had an extra layer of frost.

She looked at Lu Mi, revealing an imploring expression.

Lu Mi instinctively raised his left hand, trying to help Yu Jianna, but after a brief hesitation, he withdrew his palm and cast his gaze forward again.

Can't pull companions!

Yu Jianna's gaze immediately became desperate, carrying a bit of surprise and resentment.

She began to cough, and she stopped her steps.

She was immediately entangled layer by layer by the invisible things, dragged and flying toward the depths of the gray fog ahead.

Fu Lan Ka's expression changed, and she was about to provide help, but Lu Mi's instructions flashed through her mind.

She hesitated.

At this time, Yu Jianna's expression was filled with venom, blood-like stains seeped from the pores of her face, and her mouth emitted shrill screams as if cursing everyone.

Seeing this scene, Lu Mi and the others felt relieved instead.

Such a Yu Jianna looked more like a "Mirror Person"!

Amidst the shrill screams, Yu Jianna disappeared into the depths of the gray fog, and the sound stopped abruptly.

Almost simultaneously, Lu Mi saw another Yu Jianna appear beside him from the corner of his eye, running at high speed, with anxiety and tension hidden in her expression.

As expected! Lu Mi roughly understood why Te Er Mi Bo Ai Luo Si said not to pull companions.

Here, companions might exchange with the "Mirror Person" at any time. Helping the "Mirror Person" was instead harming the real companion, and causing himself to be completely integrated into this place, becoming the "food" of the existence that was the source of the invisible things.

Damn! Can't you make it clear? These reasons aren't particularly complicated. You have to let us experience it ourselves and overcome it! Lu Mi cursed Te Er Mi Bo Ai Luo Si in his heart, while running more firmly.

Afterward, they encountered similar problems several times, but with experience, they neither stopped to resist, nor turned around to run, and even more so, endured the impulse to help their companions.

Lu Mi and the others, who had no time to look at the surrounding environment, used that black giant pillar as a benchmark, trying their best to run in a straight line, only occasionally bypassing some obstacles.

Finally, that black giant pillar was not far ahead.

And at the same time, Lu Mi, Ma Ding, and the others were surprised to find that the danger that originally existed ahead, the danger they were about to collide with, had magically disappeared.

No, it didn't disappear; it was now behind Lu Mi and the others, located far away!

Running toward danger instead moved away from it? Like the light-black stone brick area on the wilderness, the direction here was also wrong and chaotic? Lu Mi was surprised, but didn't look back, nor did he stop to celebrate, persisting in running toward that black giant pillar.

If it weren't for his demonstration, Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna would have looked back, but now they were quite fortunate and scared, continuing forward.

After running for another tens of meters, the four arrived at the square where the black giant pillar stood.

Here, light-black stone bricks were paved, and many gray-white stone pillars were collapsed, with only a few remaining.

And these "surviving" gray-white stone pillars were as small as ants compared to the black giant pillar.

That black giant pillar was even more huge than the "Ke Li Si Mang Na Night Pillar" Lu Mi saw in the third layer of the underground tomb, extending into the sky that seemed to be burning with invisible flames, its top nowhere to be found.

The situation here reminded Lu Mi of the light-black stone brick area on the wilderness outside and the large number of gray-white stone pillars in that area, but there was no black giant pillar there.

The "Night Pillar" there fell, was destroyed, so there were old bones crawling out, and pollution inside the building at 13 Market Avenue? Afterward, was it repaired by moving countless corpses to build the underground tomb? Lu Mi made some guesses based on this.

Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna's gazes turned toward the square ahead, seeing that the area around the black giant pillar had all collapsed into the underground, where scorching white magma seemed to be flowing, and black tentacle-like things were lurking.

They didn't bring any danger premonitions, but Lu Mi and the others all believed that this might be more dangerous than the existence they sensed before.

And right next to that black giant pillar was a snowman one meter seventy-eight high. Its white, frosty face had a few cracks forming eyes, nose, and mouth, with no ears.

When Lu Mi's gaze swept over this snowman casually, it suddenly solidified there.

He saw a black stain on the snowman's right eye, as if wearing a monocle.

Amon? Lu Mi was startled, instinctively wanting to flee this place.

Just then, he heard the magnificent and layered voice of Te Er Mi Bo Ai Luo Si in his ears:

"Dead."

Dead... Lu Mi quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thinking about it, this was normal. Amon was a great noble of the Tudor Empire in the Fourth Era. It wasn't news that dozens or hundreds of his clones died in that god war, and it was reasonable that some weren't recovered due to the situation here.

For some reason, Lu Mi heard a little joy from Te Er Mi Bo Ai Luo Si's short words just now.

Ma Ding, who was also observing the snowman, suddenly felt his forehead a bit hot, and his breathing became scorching, his spirit body weakening rapidly.

"I'm infected with a disease." He calmly reminded his companions.

Disease... Lu Mi looked at that black giant pillar again.

Was that really the main body of the "Ke Li Si Mang Na Night Pillar"?

Here, even the "Primordial Witch" statue couldn't suppress the erosion of the disease?

Fu Lan Ka's heart moved, and she said to Yu Jianna:

"Take out that statue."

While speaking, she also reached her palm into her pocket and took out the "Primordial Witch" statue carved from white bone.

After Yu Jianna took out the black one, Fu Lan Ka called Ma Ding over, observing his complexion and saying:

"How do you feel now?"

"It seems a bit better, it's, it's improving." Ma Ding seriously examined his physical condition.

Fu Lan Ka smiled:

"I said, how come Yu Jianna and I are fine, while you got sick.

"It seems you need to be within a certain distance of the statue."

She had just finished speaking when one scorching white fire crow after another flew out from behind the black giant pillar, rushing toward them.

A figure turned out from there, looking exactly like Gardner Ma Ding, wearing black formal wear, a yellow vest, and a Gardner Ma Ding whose height was not quite the same as usual.

Looking at the black statue in Yu Jianna's hand and the white bone statue Fu Lan Ka was holding, he revealed a long-awaited look of longing.

ps: Thanks to Tu Shi Cha Wan Zheng for the Silver Alliance reward~

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