Chapter 747 - 30: Heart Image
Chen Lusi and the others began to move forward.
Because speaking about it would not reach any conclusion.
Compared to the Yellow Springs Mainstream, the Goryeo Branch here clearly felt more like the Yellow Springs.
Pervasive darkness.
The sky churned with black fog.
Black fog was everywhere around.
Visibility was extremely low.
The ground was dry and pitch-black.
But stepping on it felt like treading on corpses, and a slight rebound could be felt underfoot.
And as they proceeded.
The whispers around them grew more apparent, like a mental amplifier, making everyone’s nerves start to tighten.
Chen Lusi raised his right hand, gently stirred the mist before him, and then asked, "So... who exactly is conversing here?"
He was one of the few people who was almost unaffected.
The specific reason was unclear for now.
"Some kind of defense mechanism?"
Zhuoli, with some agitation on his face, uncertainly replied: "I’m not sure either. The only thing we’re sure of is that in any Yellow Springs, powerful spirits will leave imprints. Under normal circumstances, these imprints are just dead things, as long as you don’t step into the Yellow Springs, they won’t affect people in any way.
But once you step into it, it’s uncertain. How they will act completely depends on the strongest obsessions they held before their death, and what kind of people they were in life.
This place is quite okay; the Ten Halls over at the Yellow Springs Mainstream are truly chaotic... people of all dynasties are there, and many have conflicts; that’s the truly lethal place.
This place... perhaps because it’s a branch, doesn’t have any existence like the Ten Halls. And they’re only whispering, with no intention of attacking."
"Imprints..."
Chen Lusi muttered, repeating his words, and then said: "So... the spirit imprints here are watching us and whispering? And the golden figures we saw just now might be materialized imprints."
"Possible."
Zhuoli nodded: "They’re not attacking us... just ignore it, because we can’t deal with them even if we wanted to. But I have to say, it’s really annoying."
Hearing this, Chen Lusi nodded lightly, then looked around, gently clenching his right fist.
At that moment.
Shanli walked over and asked: "Is there no end here?"
At this moment.
They had been walking for almost half an hour.
But the scenery showed no changes.
"If you’re asking about an actual boundary, there should be, but it’s a journey that would take days by count."
Zhuoli shook his head, "We definitely won’t reach it in a short time."
Shanli slightly frowned and said, "Then following those golden figures..."
"That was just incidental."
Zhuoli shook his head, "If we can’t find them, we’ll head back to the Human World at the next marked point. We crossed into the Yellow Springs just to observe the situation at the Goryeo Branch and see if we could find those missing intelligence personnel along the way.
As for those golden figures, they were completely unexpected.
If we can’t find anything, we’ll have to leave first."
Hearing this, Zhou Jian asked, "Where is the marked point?"
"About ten more minutes away."
Zhuoli looked ahead, "It’s a location set up in collaboration with the intelligence personnel from Goryeo, they also know that place. If they really got swept into Yellow Springs, and if possible, they should also head there. We’re just going to confirm."
"Understood."
Zhou Jian nodded.
Meanwhile, Shanli didn’t ask more questions but instead glanced at Chen Lusi with concern: "Are you okay?"
After she spoke.
She also glanced at his chest.
Chen Lusi shook his head: "No abnormalities so far."
"That’s good."
Shanli breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the golden figures had vanished, after hearing Chen Lusi’s theory, they all let him conduct an experiment.
But whatever Chen Lusi did, there seemed to be no anomalies.
Those figures made of golden light seemed to have simply disappeared.
Shanli looked at Chen Lusi’s profile and asked again, "Do you feel anything unusual here?"
This time, she was on a mission from Ji Xin.
But the results were somewhat unexpected.
The Yellow Springs Branch in Goryeo... wasn’t filled with legendary creatures from the Roman Catholic Church or anything like Fallen Angels as expected.
They had been walking so long, and hadn’t seen any Fallen Angel, not even a ghostly figure.
At first, everyone was cautious seeing the ground full of corpses, but now they were numb to it.
"No."
Chen Lusi shook his head: "If I had to point out an anomaly, it would probably be the corpses."
He looked at the bodies scattered around: "Why are there so many corpses here... it’s quite curious."
"But Zhuoli just said those bodies were already here when they arrived at the Yellow Springs Branch in Goryeo."
Shanli glanced at Zhuoli: "So it probably wasn’t caused by the Roman Catholic Church."
"Mm."
Chen Lusi responded, "Besides that, I haven’t found anything unusual, if you disregard the things Zhuoli takes as a matter of course, like the ever-present whispering."
Shanli and Chen Lusi looked at each other: "So what exactly did the Roman Catholic Church do? The Yellow Springs shows no anomalies, so where did our intelligence personnel go?"
"..."
Hearing this, Chen Lusi opened his mouth to speak.
"Si."
A faint, elusive voice suddenly rose.
Softly calling out Chen Lusi’s name.
Chen Lusi suddenly stopped.
He was holding Lin Ying’s hand, Lin Ying was right beside him, and behind...
Thinking of this.
He quickly turned his head.
Not far away.
A middle-aged woman with a gentle expression was standing quietly, looking lovingly at Chen Lusi. Seeing him look over, she softly called his name again: "Si, you’ve grown up."