Gao Wu: After transforming into a soft girl, I became a calamity?

Time seemed to have passed for a very long time.

"Pfft!"

Within a limp, black lump of flesh, several wind blades crisscrossed, tearing open a slit.

Jiang Mian poked his head out of the cave and nimbly crawled out.

"Phew~"

She breathed a sigh of relief, looked down to check her clothes, and found them to be fairly clean.

Fortunately, I put on a wind shield in time to isolate myself from the outside world, so my clothes were not soiled by the unknown slime on the piece of flesh.

Having drifted in the virtual world for so long, even at the fourth level, my perception of time has become somewhat blurred.

Originally, Ye Chenyang could have used some of his spatial abilities to open a door on the spot and send everyone back to the real world.

However, the unknown high-level expert was unaware of this and chose to use "wind" to protect everyone, and then "pushed" them out at an extremely fast speed.

As a result, due to the high-speed movement, neither she nor Ye Chenyang were able to generate a stable "gate".

Even if it is forcibly opened, the duration is only enough for one person to pass through, and the landing point is uncertain.

If it's deep in the fog, for the two relatively weaker members of the team, forcing their way through will inevitably result in them being left alone, and being left alone means uncontrollable danger.

It's a case of good intentions gone wrong.

Ye Chenyang originally intended to wait until the speed slowed down or the "wind" gradually dissipated before making another attempt.

After all, he has the ability to protect everyone, so naturally he wouldn't stand by and watch someone die.

But no one expected that after reaching a certain point, everyone would unexpectedly return to the real world.

At the same time, the "wind" that had sheltered everyone completely dissipated.

Without support, the cut-out cavity could no longer maintain its shape.

The moment it left the illusory realm, it disintegrated, forcing everyone to scatter.

"strangeness……"

Jiang Mian scratched his head.

She clearly remembered that she was holding Ye Chenyang just now, so how could he have disappeared?

Looking around, Jiang Mian found himself on a slope covered with black gravel, surrounded by a fog with visibility of no more than thirty meters.

This level of fog confirms that they are no longer within the inner circle.

Her first reaction was to use her senses to try and find Ye Chenyang's figure.

After all, he ended up with me, so maybe he's not far away?

However, the next second, a strange dizziness suddenly struck, and her vision went black.

"Ugh~"

Jiang Mian instinctively curled up, immediately feeling that she was unclean.

Why does it feel like the elements in this place have been polluted by something?

Sticky, heavy... it has a strange, nauseating feeling.

What kind of place is this?!

Realizing something was wrong, she decisively severed the connection with the local elements and turned to release the "clean" wind element from her own space.

Fortunately, the space was not affected, and new elements could be continuously replenished from the save points; otherwise, even the release of skills would be restricted.

As the surrounding terrain became clearer in his mind, Jiang Mian couldn't help but murmur:

"Where...did this get sent to me?"

She was at the foot of the mountain, and as she walked uphill, she saw snow-covered slopes.

Keep in mind, it's June now!

Mountains that accumulate snow in this season must be at a very high altitude.

In her memory, the many base cities outside the core urban area were all located on large plains, and there was no such terrain.

Is this still in China?

If it were an old map, there would be a mountain range like this in the southwest corner of the old Xia Kingdom.

But that place is now deep in the mist, and it is still unknown whether it has been cut and moved by the void, or where it is located now.

Assuming it was indeed cut apart, where would it be then?

Jiang Mian channeled his mental energy into his glasses, trying to use them to confirm his direction.

In the field of vision, the arrow quickly lit up, but it was not stable.

It wandered around strangely, twitched for a while, and then pointed steadily towards the foot of the mountain.

Strange snow-capped mountains, polluted elements, unusual glasses... all these things indicate the strangeness of this place.

With so little information available, she couldn't figure out what was going on, so she decided to search in the direction the arrow was pointing.

Jiang Mian glanced at the lifeless black mass of flesh beside her, and a dazzling golden light ignited in her eyes.

The next second, orange-gold flames spread silently, completely engulfing it, and burned it to ashes in an instant.

From the feedback of this thing, she seemed to have picked up a trace of the power of [Radiance] with spatial attributes.

It was buried very deep; if she hadn't absorbed it, it probably would have been difficult to detect.

Jiang Mian recalled the spatial slash she had seen before.

Hmm... Could this thing be an anchor point left for official rescue operations?

It shouldn't have much of an impact, right?

Since she has this part, the corresponding parts for the others are probably the same.

Since it's already burned down, we should try to reunite with them as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, I didn't kill that [Shadow of Decay] before leaving.

If I have the chance to encounter it, I definitely won't let it go.

Even its own kind won't survive in her hands!

Jiang Mian turned his head and looked at the foot of the mountain. With a light touch of his toes, his body floated into the air and entered the thick mist.

On the way, she endured her nausea and communicated with the elements here again.

Upon inspection, Jiang Mian discovered that the environment was filled with a strange spiritual force, which was the source of the nausea.

In other words, in order to properly mobilize the elements here, she must first eliminate this spiritual energy.

Both her flames and the radiant crystals Ye Chenyang gave her can achieve this.

That's such a waste; it would be more cost-effective to just borrow space to move it.

After traveling a short distance, Jiang Mian's "vision" revealed a winding, flowing black river, and...

A village?

Through her senses, she even heard voices talking in a strange, unfamiliar language.

How could there possibly be human settlements deep within the fog?

The fog here is indeed much thinner than on the mountain, but there's no sign of using the Glorious Monument to dispel it. Instead, it seems like some special method was used to lure it away.

A sense of curiosity arose in Jiang Mian's heart.

She approached quietly and stepped into a "farmland" on the outskirts of the village.

Neatly planted rows of mist-shrouding plants were inside.

There are "vegetables" with thick, strangely blackish-red leaves, and "mushrooms" with human faces growing on their caps.

Without exception, they all looked very strange, and their shapes were quite distorted.

Jiang Mian looked up towards the village and could vaguely see people walking towards them.

She vanished into the mist in a flash.

A moment later, three dark-skinned, unshaven men appeared on the edge of the field.

They chatted in English for a while, then bent down to start "harvesting the vegetables".

However, these "dishes" are not well-behaved.

After being harvested, they can even grow legs, struggle to run away, and then be skillfully caught again.

Jiang Mian's lips twitched as he stared at the absurd scene before him.

Now she was 100% certain that this was no longer within the territory of the Old Xia Kingdom.

According to the old maps of this world, this kind of terrain and this kind of people are probably on... a peninsula in the south.

No, they've gone this far?

Or is there something unusual about the location of this entire area?

After all, the space within the virtual realm is inherently unstable and the regions are disordered, so this explanation is not unreasonable.

Moreover, Jiang Mian did not sense any trace of the [Radiance] power here, which is very likely to be a frequent occurrence of mist tides.

If that's the case, how did these people survive without the protection of [Radiance]?

She looked at the three men in the field.

The aura emanating from them was strange; they were neither ordinary people nor awakened beings, but rather closer to... calamity.

Jiang Mian watched them quietly until they finished collecting the last basket of vegetables.

The men shouldered their baskets and walked back along the ridge of the field.

She concealed her presence, trailing far behind them, and followed them into the village.