Hello, is this a letter addressed to Demon Fortress?

After leaving the capital of Carter, a sense of urgency weighed heavily on Lin Gui and Elvia's hearts.

They are now racing against death.

As soon as he was out of sight of the people behind him, Lin Gui took out the flying boat from his storage space.

"Hold on tight."

He pulled Elvia up, poured magic into her, and the airship shot off instantly.

Elvia froze completely.

She had never ridden in one of these before.

The speed far exceeded her expectations; the gale-force winds lashed her face like knives, and the surrounding scenery blurred into indistinct lines as it hurtled backward.

She clung tightly to Lin Gui, her face pressed against his back, not daring to open her eyes.

Therefore, she didn't notice the direction of the airship at all.

But Shadow Blade Lin couldn't hide it.

"You've gone to the wrong place!!!"

Her voice exploded in Lin Gui's mind, filled with obvious shock and anger.

"This is the most crucial direction to reach the Kuroshio!"

Shadow Blade Lin was not familiar with the terrain of this area.

At the extreme speed of the flying boat, it was difficult for her to determine the exact location.

But she can see the sky.

You can see those densely packed sky demons flying in the same direction as them.

That's towards the direction of the withered rift valley.

That was the center of the Kuroshio Current.

"You're insane!"

Shadow Blade Lin's voice was almost a scream.

Lin Gui did not turn around.

His voice was calm.

"If we retreat along the original route, even with my magic, it will take at least two days to escape the radiation range of the Black Tide."

"If the third phase breaks out midway, we will die."

The airship accelerated a bit more.

"But if I could get close to the core of the Kuroshio."

He paused.

"Then we can escape without any risk."

Shadow Blade Lin was stunned.

What on earth is this guy talking about?

Even she dared not approach the core of the Black Tide!

Then she got even angrier.

"Escape without risk? You're kidding me!!"

"You can't possibly travel a thousand kilometers away from the Kuroshio radiation zone in an instant, can you?"

Lin Gui calmly retorted:

"The radiation range is 1,974 kilometers."

"If it were any shorter, I wouldn't have needed to go to the core of the Kuroshio."

This precise radiation distance was confirmed by Lin Gui through [Messenger Luo Tu].

The physical map of Lin Gui could not be measured with such precision.

Lin Gui's method of escape was...

Long-distance random space teleportation scroll.

It can instantly jump itself to a distance of two thousand kilometers.

This is the source of his confidence to venture deep into the Black Tide to pick up Elvia.

It was also a backup plan he had prepared to deal with Shadow Blade Lin.

but.

He confirmed with the system.

The location to which this item is teleported is completely random.

It will instantly teleport the Forest Ghost to a location two thousand kilometers away.

Whether it's the desert to the east, the tundra to the north, or the ocean to the south, that depends on luck.

Two thousand kilometers is a very awkward distance in the current situation.

If Lin Gui runs outside the Kuroshio radiation zone.

He encountered the third stage of the outbreak midway through, and there were two possible outcomes after he started the scroll.

One type is the outward radiation zone.

Another option is to send him deeper into the interior.

In other words, luck determines life and death.

But if he gets close to the radiation core of the Black Tide, then turn on the reel.

Although it sounds extremely dangerous, it guarantees a 100% escape from the Kuroshio's radiation zone.

No matter the random direction, a distance of two thousand kilometers is enough to get him out of this dead zone.

Lin Gui's voice was calm.

"Believe me."

I won't do things I'm not sure I can do.

"My life is tied to yours."

"I won't do anything to commit suicide."

Seeing this, Shadow Blade Lin could only helplessly let Lin Gui fly towards the core of the Black Tide.

The airship sped through the night sky.

The earth below receded rapidly, and those once-familiar landmarks now became blurry shadows.

Lin Gui stared intently ahead, frantically channeling his magic into the flying boat, pushing its speed to the limit.

soon.

We've arrived at Eagle Fortress.

The fortress that once stood on the cliff is now nothing but ruins.

Amidst the broken walls and ruins, one can still vaguely see traces of where those female demons once lived.

But at this moment, there was no one there.

Only rubble and broken stones gleamed pale in the moonlight.

The airship swept past the fortress and continued forward.

Then, the mountain range came to an end.

Lin Gui saw the familiar withered rift valley.

It was a scar on the earth.

Dark, menacing, bottomless scars.

At this moment, the scar is filled with demons, both inside and out.

Densely packed.

Overwhelming.

From the bottom of the rift valley, to the mountain walls on both sides of the rift valley, and then to the sky above the rift valley.

They are all demons.

They surged in from all directions like a tide, flowing into the scar and rushing deeper into its depths.

That's a concept that can't be described by "quantity".

That was a black ocean.

Lin Gui's flying boat was as small as a speck of dust above this ocean.

Their direction is towards the depths of the scars.

And that direction....

It's in the direction of the tomb of the hero Reinhardt.

This is also the place where Lin Gui once ventured deep into.

The speed of the airship suddenly slowed down.

Lin Gui turned off the wind pressure cannon.

The density of demons now far exceeds the demons he faced in Shield City.

Demons from almost the entire border region, spanning thousands of kilometers, have gathered here.

Lin Gui could no longer rely on his superb skills to navigate at that high speed.

Once the collision occurs and the ship crashes, it will be swept up in the tide of the migrating demons, and there will be no way for it to come out alive.

The airship's speed is getting slower and slower.

It was so slow that Elvia could finally catch her breath.

She was about to ask Lin Gui what this small boat-like vehicle was and how it could reach such an astonishing speed.

However, she had just opened her eyes.

I was completely stunned.

All around were demons.

On both sides of the airship were countless flying demons.

Some have wingspans exceeding ten meters, and the wind generated by their flapping wings can almost capsize an airship.

Some were covered in black scales, and their eyes glowed with an eerie green light in the darkness.

Some were slender and ghostly, hanging upside down on the edge of the clouds, brushing past them.

Below, the mountain walls on both sides of the rift valley are crawling with demons.

Like ants.

No, they're even denser than ants.

It was a black waterfall, a black torrent, a black sea.

Through the dim moonlight, Elvia saw the conspicuous crack.

That bottomless crack that stretched across the earth.

Withered Rift Valley.

Her pupils contracted sharply.

He froze on the spot, as if struck by lightning.

Then, she asked instinctively:

"Where is this?"

Lin Gui's voice was calm.

"The withered rift valley".

Elvia: "..."

She opened her mouth.

He opened his mouth again.

He didn't say anything.

She turned her head and stared intently at Lin Gui.

That look was as if he were looking at a madman.

"You son of a bitch..."

Her voice even changed tone.

"Are you fucking kidding me???"

"The Withered Rift Valley???"

"Isn't this the epicenter of the Kuroshio Current???"

"We finally escaped from that damned capital, and you brought me to the heart of the Black Tide???"

Her voice grew increasingly shrill and trembling.

"Are you crazy???"

"Do you want to die???"

"If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!!!"

"I almost fell in love with you because you came to save me!!"

"Is this how you treat me?!"

Lin Gui did not answer.

He just kept staring ahead.

Elvia was still cursing.

But her voice suddenly stopped.

Because a huge black shadow swept over the airship.

That was a sky demon.

It is incredibly large, with a wingspan of at least twenty meters.

It flew past Elvia, so close that she could clearly see its scales.

The scales were dark red, like congealed blood.

It tilted its head slightly and glanced at her.

There was no madness in those eyes.

There is no desire to kill.

It's just empty.

Only controlled obedience.

It glanced at her.

Then, I looked away.

Continue flying forward.

Towards deeper into the rift valley.

Elvia froze completely.

Even breathing stopped.

Elvia recognized the demon.

The sky demon was enormous, with a wingspan of at least twenty meters, and its body was covered in dark red scales that looked like congealed blood.

Its head is triangular, with three curved horns at the top. The middle one is the longest, about half a meter long, and its tip gleams with a cold light.

His eyes were vertical pupils, golden in color, and looked like two lamps in the darkness.

But it wasn't looking at anyone at that moment.

He just stared blankly ahead.

Elvia recognized it.

She had seen its portrait in the Transport Guild's top-secret files.

Its territory lies in the mountains north of Twilight Fortress, east of Giant's Canyon.

It had been entrenched in that mountain for at least thirty years.

The transport association has lost seven teams that tried to bypass the mountains.

Only then was its activity range finally mapped out, and it was listed as a top-level restricted area.

And Selene.

The reason why that epic banshee queen left that mountain, besides wanting to continue her race, was mainly because of this!

Selene was hunted by it in those mountains for three whole years.

In the end, they had no choice but to lead their people to migrate to Eagle Fortress.

That was the defeat of an epic against an epic.

Elvia watched the enormous figure sweep past her, and she felt completely terrified.

Her lips were trembling.

My teeth are chattering.

My legs are weak.

She wanted to run, but she couldn't move at all.

It was a fear that came from the depths of one's soul.

It's an instinctive reaction ingrained in our bones.

Like a mouse that suddenly stumbles upon a sleeping cat.

No.

That's even more terrifying.

They stumbled upon a dragon that was just waking up.

She was so scared she almost peed her pants.

I was so scared I almost peed my pants.

however.

Right under her gaze.

That ghost Lin should have left immediately.

But he controlled the flying boat and flew directly onto the back of the demon.

then.

stopped.

It stopped?

Elvia's pupils contracted sharply.

Fear vanished in an instant.

Her mind went blank.

Not only her, but even Shadow Blade Lin, who was hiding in the Lin Ghost's robe, was dumbfounded.

"??????"

Elvia's mouth was open.

Looking at the dark red scales beneath him, which resembled congealed blood.

Looking at those three curved corners, so close at hand.

Looking at those golden vertical pupils, just a few meters ahead, they still stared blankly ahead.

She couldn't say anything.

Only the words echoing in my mind:

"??????"

Lin Gui, on the other hand, was much calmer than Elvia.

He sat in the driver's seat, and with a wave of his hand, magic surged forth.

Basic Magic - [Grass Planting Technique].

At the bottom of the airship, several thick vines grew wildly.

Like a snake that has come back to life, it tightly coils around the roots of the sharp feathers on the demon's back.

The edges of those feathers were as sharp as knives.

But with the vines entwining it, the airship was firmly fixed to the demon's back.

Lin Gui tried it and confirmed that it was tied securely.

Then, he leaned back in the driver's seat.

Close your eyes.

He calmly began to recover his magic.

He stopped on the devil's back simply to hitch a ride.

The Epic Sky Demon's speed was no slower than his flying boat.

A single flap of its wings can cover a distance of hundreds of meters.

It will allow him to enter the core area more quickly.

He needs to take this opportunity to quickly restore his magic.

Even if they are teleported out, they will most likely still be in the wilderness.

Wherever there is wilderness, there is bound to be danger.

He needs to be in excellent condition to deal with the potential demonic threat that may arise after he jumps over.

He remained calm.

But Elvia couldn't stay calm!

The softness behind me suddenly disappeared.

Before Lin Gui could turn around, he heard Elvia's curses:

"What the hell?!"

Lin Gui asked.

"Where are you going?"

Elvia had already stood up, her face ashen, her lips trembling.

"I'm going back to Carter's capital!"

Her voice was shrill and piercing.

"Compared to those inexplicably appearing lunatics, you're the biggest lunatic!!"

"You came back to save me just to take me to see the leader of the Black Tide?!"

"madman!!"

Lin Gui did not turn around.

He simply replied with a curt statement:

"Then leave."

"Watch your step."

Elvia froze.

She subconsciously looked down at her feet.

You can see below through the edge of the airship.

100 meters in the air.

The countless demons, like locusts, plowed across the land.

A black torrent, a black ocean.

Any one of them that falls will be instantly torn to shreds.

Elvia's legs went weak.

She slowly, very slowly, sat back down.

Then, silently, I reached out my hand.

Hug Lin Gui.

They were holding each other very tightly.

It was so tight that Lin Gui felt like his ribs were about to break.

Her face was buried in his back, her voice muffled:

"……madman."

Lin Gui didn't speak.

He simply kept his eyes closed, allowing his magic to return.

At the same time, he also opened the messenger Rotu.

The semi-transparent virtual map appeared in his mind, marking all the routes they had taken.

A red dot represents them, slowly moving across the map.

That's the speed at which a demon flies.

Lin Gui stared at the map, constantly calculating the extreme position where he would use the scroll by using the scale.

As the Sky Demon accelerated, the red dot got closer and closer to its target location.

At the current speed, it will only take three hours to arrive.

Three hours.

Lin Gui silently calculated the time.

More than three days have passed since the start of the second phase.

The shortest recorded duration for the third phase of the Kuroshio Current was four days.

In other words, he has almost a day left.

There is plenty of time.

Lin Gui breathed a slight sigh of relief.

however.

The moment he let his guard down.

Suddenly, everything went quiet.

That kind of quiet was not ordinary quiet.

All sounds disappeared.

The sound of the wind.

The sound of a demon's wings flapping.

A roar came from afar.

It's all gone.

It's like someone turned the world's volume down to zero.

Lin Gui's pupils suddenly contracted.

A chilling killing intent, like a needle, pierced his soul from behind.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

They met a pair of blood-red eyes.

Those eyes were right above his head.

Huge.

Blood red.

Vertical pupils.

There are no holes inside.

Uncontrolled obedience.

only.

Crazy.

only.

The desire to kill.

Its enormous triangular head, which it turned around, almost completely filled Lin Gui's field of vision.

The three curved horns, the middle one being the longest, are less than two meters above the airship.

The corners gleamed with a cold, eerie light.

It stared at the two tiny lives on the airship.

Stare at the insect that dared to perch on its back.

Then, it opened its mouth.

In that instant, Lin Gui saw the dense array of sharp teeth in its mouth.

I saw a dark red light surging deep in its throat.

I witnessed death.

There is no time.

Lin Gui suddenly pulled out the space scroll.

Magic was poured in frantically.

The runes on the scroll lit up instantly.

A blinding white light burst forth from between the fingers.

At the same instant, a pillar of dark red fire spewed from the demon's throat.

The flames were so hot that even before they touched the surface of the airship, it had already begun to char and crack.

Lin Gui turned around and hugged Elvia tightly.

Then the white light completely engulfed them.