Unusual Fate Records

Chapter 398.090. Heavenly Ice
Ten minutes ago.

The Han Dynasty imperial palace has twenty-six stories.

Jin Ziyue carried the unconscious Chen Xingtong in his arms, passing through room after room, and weaving through the red corridor.

"boom."

A dull, strange noise could be heard from the rooftop from time to time.

He ignored everything, turned and entered the stairwell, and quickly walked downstairs.

The little tail behind it, unaware of what was happening, also wobbled and scurried down the stairs.

Chen Ruolan's altered characteristics have not yet been resolved. The veins on her forehead are faintly visible. Occasionally, she has difficulty controlling her strength and can jump up more than ten steps at a time, but she is forced to stop face down due to close contact with the stairs diagonally above her.

At this moment, Jin Ziyue had no choice but to stop, lift his leg and knee to cushion Chen Xingtong's fall, then grab Chen Ruolan's ankle and pull the human-shaped screw from the slanted wall.

Miss Screw, who had crawled out of the wall, was mostly unharmed except for being covered in dust and dirt. She would soon be full of energy again, except for a line of red blood hanging from her nose.

Although it was inappropriate, Jin Ziyue's gaze towards Chen Ruolan held a strange quality.

"Hmm...where is this?" (in Japanese)

Chen Xingtong, who was in his arms, seemed to be slowly waking up.

Jin Ziyue found an open space nearby, squatted down and put her down: "Xingtong, you're awake?"

Chen Xingtong opened her eyes with difficulty, then closed them slightly, her voice weak: "Who are you?" (in Japanese)

Jin Ziyue frowned.

Chen Ruolan, who had nothing to do, also came over like a curious child.

"Who...who are you?" Seeing that Jin Ziyue did not answer, the other party asked again, his voice weak.

"Do you remember who you are?" This time, Jin Ziyue used Japanese.

“Of course I remember, I’m Qi Tongshan,” the other person said, then slowly closed her eyes, as if even expressing unnecessary emotions was difficult. “Did you kidnap me?”

Upon receiving the answer, Jin Ziyue's face darkened.

"That's it."

His tone became colder as he prepared to take out the three-legged golden toad from his pocket. Only by changing the incantation to "Soul Prayer and Dream Inquiry" could he confirm the other party's words and find Chen Xingtong's soul.

Suddenly, Jin Ziyue's ears twitched slightly.

"Buzzing—"

A sound was approaching, growing closer and closer, and it was quite destructive.

The roar was so loud that even Chen Ruolan noticed it and instinctively looked up.

"Whoosh!" It seemed as if something had reached a critical point and suddenly released.

"Go first!"

Jin Ziyue suddenly stood up, grabbed Qi Tongshan from below with both hands, and swooped down.

Chen Ruolan let out a howl and quickly swooped down to the ground, then tumbled and scrambled down to the floor level.

Jin Ziyue crouched down and kicked the door to stop his momentum, while still holding Qi Tongshan in his arms.

The other person also exclaimed in surprise, but was too weak to put up much resistance. They were so frightened by Jin Ziyue's action of jumping down the stairs that they curled up in fear.

Just as they regained their footing, they could see water seeping out of the rooms from all directions. Some room doors were not even closed, and they were directly dislodged by the rushing seawater, turning into driftboards and floating out along with the room owners.

Seeing this, Jin Ziyue didn't dare to be careless. He hooked Chen Ruolan beside him with his toe and lifted her up.

The girl finally had a moment of inspiration and continued to lunge down the stairs, falling directly to the bottom floor.

After her gaze swept around a few times, Jin Ziyue crouched down and appeared beside her again. Qi Tongshan, who was in his arms, was so frightened that she clenched his sleeve tightly and could not utter any meaningful words except scream.

The 25th floor. The seawater was already following them in the corridor. No matter how fast Jin Ziyue and Chen Ruolan ran, the seawater still surged in from all directions, and the ground floor was already full of water.

Chen Ruolan frowned, spat out a few mouthfuls of salty seawater, and groped her way to her feet on the surface of the water to continue running.

Twenty-four floors.

The two continued running. Jin Ziyue saw that the twenty-third floor was like a waterfall cave. The air conditioning vent in the corridor burst open with a bang due to the water pressure, and a large amount of seawater poured out as the vent collapsed.

Chen Ruolan ran through the water, splashing as she went. Jin Ziyue couldn't jump or leap either; the seawater had already soaked his trousers. It seemed that the seawater was all connected to the floors, and no matter how hard he ran, he couldn't outrun it.

Screams erupted from the surrounding crowd as tenants were gradually driven out by the floodwaters. Jin Ziyue and Chen Ruolan stood out awkwardly in the crowd.

People were fleeing everywhere. Jin Ziyue heard the sound of glass shattering in the distance, a sign that the seawater had broken through the glass of the Hanting Tianque and was splashing down to the ground dozens of meters away.

"Oh no, find them!"

Jin Ziyue told Fu Xun to wait by the window on the 20th floor, as their cleaning speed was probably around the 20th floor by now.

Thinking of this, Jin Ziyue quickly signaled Chen Ruolan to follow, as they couldn't go down the stairs because there were too many people around.

The power supply was forcibly cut off, and all the equipment was rendered blind. Only the temporary power supply lights flickered and crackled as the seawater soaked them.

In the dimly lit stairwell, Chen Ruolan's hair, wet from the seawater, clung to her face. Combined with the dust and dirt from her earlier collision with the wall, she managed to avoid being recognized.

He went to a window and swung his elbow at the glass, but because it was made of tempered glass, the shattered pieces were stuck together in a dense spiderweb pattern and did not break immediately.

Seeing this, Chen Ruolan didn't say a word and punched him. With a bang, the entire window, frame and glass, flew out and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The strong wind pressure even caused the seawater behind them to be swept back.

The seawater was already waist-deep.

Looking out the window, Jin Ziyue felt an even greater chill in his heart.

All the windows were leaking water, and the steel giant standing there was like a showerhead, with giant jets of water seeping out from its broken body, as if the sea god was summoning a waterspout from a hundred meters in the air, with a deafening roar.

He stood by the window, yet felt as if he were at the foot of a waterfall, surrounded by spraying water.

A steel cable appeared from one corner of the field of vision, and the overhead crane working at high altitude swayed outside, slowly rising against the impact of the seawater.

Then, a high-altitude spider-man appeared in front of Jin Ziyue, swinging back and forth.

He wore a blue safety helmet and his gray work clothes were securely fastened with a static rope. As soon as he appeared, the surrounding temperature dropped instantly, and white frost covered his surface. The surging seawater was forced back by the spreading frost before it could even touch him.

In an instant, [Iron Horse and Ice River] was activated. The seawater on the entire building, radiating outwards from this point, surged back in white crystals, piling up one after another, spreading a sharp chill.

The frost climbed faster and faster, with countless icicles and spikes hanging upside down and spreading back to the shattered windowsill.

Viewed from the ground, it looks like ivy clinging to a building riddled with holes. The steel tree is gripped by vines that appear out of nowhere, and the vibrant ice seems relentless, determined to break through every leaky window and drill into the reinforced concrete trunk.

From the tenth floor down to the twenty-ninth floor up, it all looks like it's been swept up by the Ice Age. The glass curtain walls are covered with ice and frost, and white paint covers half of the sky. From bottom to top, layer after layer, it stretches for dozens of meters.

The surging water columns, now transformed into winding, spiraling ice sculptures, resembled angry dragons about to roar at the ground, but in the next second, they froze into eternity with the glass curtain wall.

Viewed from a distance, it resembles an ice chrysanthemum blooming atop a hundred-meter-tall building. Its sprawling petals break through the building's surface, slowly dissipating with the icy mist, like a fairyland appearing out of nowhere in the modern city, both magnificent and perilous.

This stands in stark contrast to the dire situation where the other three sides of the building are still leaking water.

The curtain wall and metal frame creaked and groaned under the force of gravity.

Ice shards shattered and swirled, while white mist and ice crystals fell in a flurry. Under that blanket of white mist, countless people screamed and fled.

The entire Hanting Tianque building is in imminent danger of collapse.

Fu Xun couldn't worry about anything else. The freezing had already delayed the landing, and now it was up to the people below to decide their fate.

He had just unleashed a massive [Iron Horse and Ice River] attack, and his complexion was rather poor. He didn't look directly at Jin Ziyue, but instead gestured with his chin and said:

"I've been waiting for so long, I'm almost asleep."