novelraw Chapter 967: Piercing the Earth's Core
Chapter 967: Piercing the Earth's Core
Guatemala City.
Before the Hu Group's private jet took off from Zhengzhou, they had already notified Guatemala of their flight.
After the flight path was leaked, the Midnight Organization arrived here ahead of time.
It would take Qing Chen nearly 13 hours to travel by plane, while they only needed 3 hours, giving them plenty of time to prepare.
The sinkhole in Guatemala that Qing Chen was heading to was almost in the city center. In February 2007, a sinkhole suddenly appeared in Guatemala City, instantly swallowing a factory building and killing 5 people.
The sinkhole was 20 meters in diameter and about 90 meters deep.
Afterward, the sinkhole was not filled in, but remained in the city, surrounded by buildings.
There were even many residents living around the sinkhole! At this time, nearly a thousand members of the Midnight Organization had sealed off a five-kilometer radius, waiting for Qing Chen's arrival.
Zhong Yu was sitting in a breakfast burger shop, and the puppet in front of him said, "I'm certain that, as of now, the Parent-Teacher Association and Kunlun's forces are still on Whale Island."
Zhong Yu felt a little strange: "You were actually able to plant spies in the Parent-Teacher Association's headquarters? Also, you even arranged a mole on the plane Qing Chen was on. How did you manage to evade their checks?" The puppet smiled without speaking, not intending to answer.
Zhong Yu sneered. He didn't intend to fall out with the puppeteer yet, because he wasn't sure if he could control the puppeteer by possessing the puppet.
After killing Qing Chen, he would naturally have time to try slowly.
Hehe. The puppet said, "First, we need to confirm whether Qing Chen has activated the Reverse Breathing Technique. That's the most crucial step."
"What?" Zhong Yu glanced at him. "Are you saying I can't defeat him if he doesn't activate the Reverse Breathing Technique?"
The puppet thought for a moment and smiled, "It's not that I'm worried you can't defeat him, but I'm worried that Zheng Yuandong will come to protect him. I've specifically sent a team to cause disruption in their homeland, intending to keep Zheng Yuandong in the country. But what if he actually comes?"
At this moment, a team of Chen family time travelers controlled by the puppet master had set out. They were heading to the center of Hai City to unleash a massacre, and there were even A-level experts among them. If Zheng Yuandong didn't go, others wouldn't be able to deal with these Chen family gene warriors.
In the past period, time travelers under the control of various forces had all been active, but only the time travelers under Chen Yu had remained silent.
Now, this team of time travelers had become the puppet master's greatest asset in the real world! The puppet master had turned their leader into a puppet and brainwashed the entire team.
These people, dressed in civilian clothes, entered the city center and killed anyone they saw until members of Kunlun arrived, at which point they began to fight and retreat.
They wanted to keep Kunlun and Zheng Yuandong occupied in the country until Qing Chen was dead.
Zhong Yu asked, "When will your people make their move?"
The puppet glanced at the time: "It has begun."
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The wind in the sky was incredibly fierce, making Qing Chen's clothes flap violently, and his slender figure swayed precially, as if he could be blown away at any moment.
He stood by the cabin door, his hands tightly gripping the sides of the door, his eyes fixed on the ground below. The plane had arrived above Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala. Below, the city lights twinkled like countless stars, and even a large villa looked as small as an ant.
Finding a sinkhole from this altitude was like searching for a single grain of sand.
After jumping out, he had to control his body to approach the sinkhole without opening his parachute or wearing a wingsuit.
Only after entering the sinkhole could he open his parachute.
This meant that if he missed, Qing Chen would be splattered on the ground like a pancake.
He stood silently by the cabin door, waiting.
His path of cultivation had been smoother than others. His master, Li Shutong, had to complete seven life-and-death trials to become a demigod, but he had become a demigod after only six.
Now, he didn't know what changes would occur after completing two more challenges.
Qing Chen felt a tremor at the thought of being thousands of meters in the air; it was a sign of adrenaline surging through his body.
Fear is a normal human emotion, and what a knight must do is not to avoid it, but to face it directly, not deny its existence.
At one point, when Qing Chen felt he might fail, he hesitated.
But he wondered, what would Boss He and Li Yunshou have chosen in this situation? "Boss He could have simply flown away; who could do anything to a flying demigod?"
"Li Yunshou knew his fate, that he would endure humiliation and death, yet he still waited for his destiny without changing his expression."
For some reason, Qing Chen was certain that in the last moment before the Blackwater was swallowed by the light, Li Yunshou's face would have a smile.
Fate was already sealed. Everyone's fate had already been seen by the old man on Ginkgo Mountain, like a precarious endgame on a chessboard, where he had considered countless possibilities and then chosen the final one.
A chess game has a key point, a crucial turning point. Before this key point appeared, the black pieces were clearly at a disadvantage, but after the key point appeared... they were reborn from the brink of death.
At a certain moment, when Qing Ji said that he couldn't tell Qing Chen about his fate, Qing Chen looked into his eyes and realized that perhaps he himself was that key point.
In the battle in City No. 18,
The civilian and military airships in the city launched fearless attacks to buy Li Yunshou that one hour of time, shielding him from the God's-eye view of the Fate Weaver.
They all chose to sacrifice themselves to help others.
Qing Zhun and Li Yunshou made the same choice; they didn't want to become heroes themselves, but rather to burn their remaining light to help Qing Chen.
At this time, it was 1 AM in North America.
Qing Chen no longer hesitated, and leaped! He breathed.
The next moment, Qing Chen's breathing frequency changed, and ice-blue patterns bloomed on both sides of his face.
At an altitude of 6000 meters, he stretched his body freely, spreading his arms wide.
The turbulent wind roared in the air.
The expensive private jet flew away behind him; no one knew that he had already left. However, someone on the ground was observing this scene with high-powered night vision binoculars. When Qing Chen appeared in the sky, someone urgently said in the communication channel, "It's confirmed that Joker jumped down. After he jumped out of the plane, ice-blue patterns appeared on his face. It's confirmed that he has activated the Reverse Breathing Technique!"
The puppet glanced at his phone. The Chen family's time travelers had already started their attack in the center of Hai City, and Zheng Yuandong had arrived at the fastest speed and was fighting with the more than 500 genetically enhanced warriors in the city.
Zheng Yuandong, Lu Yuan, Jiu Ran, Yu Cheng, Ni Ergou, Xiao Qi, and Xiao Wu had all arrived. The core members of Kunlun, Kyushu, and the Parents' Association almost simultaneously took action.
On the other side, Shen Dai Yunluo was still at the wingsuit flying training base. The reconnaissance plane had just photographed him in the Alps.
The puppet suddenly frowned.
Zhong Yu coldly asked, "Did something go wrong, or did your plan fail?"
The puppet thought for a moment: "My plan succeeded. I'm certain that the people who can help Qing Chen are basically all in Hai City now. Even if a few members of the Parents' Association are missing, they are not qualified to intervene in a demigod battle... But that's precisely what makes me feel something is wrong. Why doesn't Qing Chen have a single protector during his final life-or-death trial?"
"What, are you going to back down?" Zhong Yu stood up in the hamburger shop.
The puppet shook his head: "Proceed according to the original plan. Even if we can only interrupt his Reverse Breathing Technique, it will still be considered a success."
As long as Qing Chen forcibly activates normal breathing after the Reverse Breathing Technique, it means that Qing Chen's path of cultivation is broken, and thus the path to becoming a god is also broken.
At that time, Qing Chen would still die of cancer, or become a monster that is neither human nor ghost.
At this moment, the observer of the Extreme Night organization noticed that Qing Chen had no intention of opening his parachute during his descent.
It was as if he wanted to commit suicide. 5000 meters.
4000 meters.
3000 meters.
1000 meters.
600 meters! Qing Chen still showed no intention of opening his parachute!
His falling body was like a cannonball, hurtling straight towards the sinkhole in Guatemala! "Attack! Don't let him land!" Zhong Yu gave the order.
He had originally wanted to fight Qing Chen one-on-one, to determine who was the stronger one in a fair fight, but then he thought, Qing Chen had already tricked him several times, and he had already chosen to ambush him, so why bother being secretive anymore?
On the ground, dozens of anti-aircraft machine guns suddenly opened fire. In the faint morning light, orange-red bullets erupted from the ground, dozens of streams of fire weaving into a terrifying net in the sky! Further away, there were also anti-aircraft cannons transported from Mexico by the Extreme Night organization. Even Qing Chen's invincibility wouldn't be able to withstand these.
Zhong Yu and the puppet didn't make a move; they simply waited quietly with their binoculars, wanting to see if Qing Chen had any more trump cards.
Of course, it would be best if this firepower could kill Qing Chen directly.
But the next moment, Qing Chen watched as the barrage of bullets surged towards him…
He took a breath!
The ice-blue patterns on his face suddenly receded, and in an instant, fiery red patterns burst forth, and golden light flowed in his pupils! A series of clicking sounds, like mechanical gears, could be heard.
The genetic locks that were originally closed in Qing Chen's body were opening layer by layer.
In an instant, he returned from an ordinary person to a demigod, standing at the pinnacle of demigods! Qing Chen severed his own path of cultivation without the slightest hesitation! "He broke the reverse breathing technique!" The puppet's pupils narrowed slightly. "Did he really cut off his own path of cultivation so easily?"
He felt as if he had missed some crucial information, but Qing Chen's reversal of his breathing technique at this moment was absolutely undeniable! Zhong Yu said, "His path of cultivation is broken. If he had even the slightest chance, he wouldn't have made such a choice. It's my turn to act. Hehe."
As Qing Chen fell, he looked at the net coming towards him.
The electromagnetic radiation in his body hummed and surged, but this time he didn't use the Limitless technique. Instead, he transformed himself into a floating leaf, generating a repulsive force against the incoming bullets.
The bullets came flying towards him, but just as they were about to reach Qing Chen, the repulsive force pushed him away.
This time, he wasn't deflecting the bullets, but deflecting himself! The seemingly impenetrable barrage of bullets allowed Qing Chen to drift through the gaps! The puppet stood still, watching this scene. He felt that Qing Chen seemed to have prepared exceptionally well for this moment... as if he had been waiting for them to appear.
He watched Zhong Yu step onto the crimson hand and rush towards Qing Chen's landing point with lightning speed, and suddenly shouted, "No, he's not here to complete the life-and-death trial. He's here to help Kunlun and the Parent-Teacher Association eliminate the hidden dangers in the surface world before he embarks on his path to godhood!"
Zhong Yu, this demigod with extreme combat power, was the biggest hidden danger in the surface world right now!
Qing Chen wasn't sure if he could become a god, or even if he could survive, so he had to help the surface world eliminate Zhong Yu before he left! Even at the cost of severing his own path of cultivation! He had once ordered Iodoform to die for a mission, and he had also ordered the Parent-Teacher Association to hold their ground against the rat swarm, even to their deaths. Those people were carrying out his orders with their lives, and now, it was his turn! Zhong Yu didn't listen to the puppet's words and continued to charge forward, while the puppet stood still, muttering to himself, "But if your genetic lock isn't fully unlocked, how can you become a god? Is it worth it!?"
He slowly retreated, but after only two steps, he turned around and saw Shen Dai Yunxiu and Shen Dai Kongyu blocking his path.
This direction... the other party had emerged from the sinkhole!
So the known experts from the Parent-Teacher Association and Kunlun were deliberately staying put to allow the puppeteer and Zhong Yu to act without suspicion, while Yunxiu and Kongyu, two experts who had long disappeared and were easily overlooked, had hidden in the sinkhole to avoid the blockade.
The puppeteer laughed, "This is indeed your trap... but I'm just a puppet, and your boss is going to cut off his path of cultivation. I've profited from this."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Dai Yunxiu cut him down with a single strike.
Zhong Yu saw this scene and said to R in the communication channel, "You take your men and kill them, leave Joker to me."
The next moment, he manifested a crimson hand in the air, fiercely grabbing at Qing Chen amidst the barrage of bullets.
Two crimson hands clasped together in the sky, trying to crush him in their grasp.
But just as the crimson hands were about to close, Divine Slash!
The crimson hands slammed together with a tremendous explosion of air, but there was nothing inside!
In the blink of an eye, Qing Chen had already charged out from the interwoven barrage of bullets, the surging curtain of bullets like a tide, yet it hit nothing!
Another Divine Slash! These two divine slashes tore through the sky, creating incredibly dazzling white light. The experts of the Extreme Night organization witnessed this miraculous ability for the first time, and for a moment, they lost sight of their target! When Qing Chen reappeared, he was already thirty meters in front of Zhong Yu, carrying the immense kinetic energy of his descent and the divine slash, and he brought his blade down!
Zhong Yu was startled, and layers upon layers of crimson hands blocked his path. But Qing Chen simply swung his blade down, and those layers of crimson hands vanished into thin air before the black blade!
The blade of a god! It could even cut through forbidden artifacts!
Standing on the crimson hands, Zhong Yu felt for the first time the terror of a Knight Demigod in a one-on-one battle. Even with countless techniques, the opponent's speed was insurmountable!
Back then, when Chen Chuanzhi faced Li Shutong, even with his myriad of gods and Buddhas, the Knight Demigod easily passed through the gaps between them and appeared before him.
Zhong Yu felt the same way now! Qing Chen reversed his breathing without hesitation for no other reason than that he feared Zhong Yu wouldn't dare to appear! It seemed that as long as his opponent appeared, he was certain to kill them!
The crimson hands beneath Zhong Yu's feet retreated frantically. He looked at Qing Chen, who had passed through the layers of crimson hands and was now before him, his eyes weary but resolute.
At this moment, Zhong Yu felt the disadvantage of his limited techniques. He didn't know how to stop Qing Chen; all the crimson hands were useless against that black blade! Divine Slash!
A trace of black was mixed in with the brilliant white light. Qing Chen's figure brushed past Zhong Yu, and only the black blade in his hand cut him in half at the waist. Zhong Yu seemed to recall the last time Li Shentan had passed through his body; he had been just as powerless then.
He saw Zhong Yu, behind Qing Chen, being cut in half at the waist. Zhong Yu had intended to quickly seal the wound with nanobots; as long as all his internal organs were reconnected by the nanobots, the cut would be as if it had never happened.
But when the black blade cut through his body, it was imbued with lightning—a superconducting world skill, enchanted!
The cut at Zhong Yu's waist was neatly charred by the electrical charge, and the nanobots died in droves.
Nanobots are also electronic components!
Zhong Yu's body gradually separated, at the very moment the black blade cut through him...
Meanwhile, what he thought of was surprisingly the girl from Xiuzhou Village.
"This feeling is so strange, hehe."
His body was damaged, but Zhong Yu was still alive. His foundation was the nanobots in his body, not this physical body!
Countless crimson hands materialized, wrapping around Qing Chen in layers, while he himself controlled the nanobots to quickly escape, fleeing into the sewers of Guatemala City.
Qing Chen wielded his black sword, deflecting the attacks and shattering the crimson hands one by one.
He watched the place where Zhong Yu disappeared but did not pursue him.
In fact, during his third stage of the Divine Slash, if he had simply passed through Zhong Yu's body, those nanobots would have been completely destroyed, and Zhong Yu would have vanished with them.
This demigod, who relied on nanobots, was merely a lamb to the slaughter for Qing Chen, a demigod who controlled lightning. What he truly wanted was the entire Midnight Organization!
At this moment, members of the Parent-Teacher Association, who had been lying in ambush for who knows how long, appeared on the streets from the 12 o'clock, 8 o'clock, and 3 o'clock directions of Guatemala City. They each carried a Key Gate and smashed them all!
The next moment, thousands of Parent-Teacher Association members suddenly appeared, counter-encircling the Midnight Organization!
Every member of the Midnight Organization was a genuine time traveler, some even having reached the rank of Baron in the other world, and others holding important positions in the military.
Qing Chen not only needed to control these potential time travelers one by one, but also to control all the time travelers in North America.
Now, Zhong Yu and the Puppeteer had brought all these people to him. Dayu walked towards Qingchen: "There shouldn't be any stragglers left. None of them will escape. Boss Zheng is still busy hunting down the Chen family's time travelers in China. I'll bring them all back to Whale Island for detention to cooperate with your plan in the inner world."
From the beginning, Dayu had never betrayed Qingchen. He knew very well that saving the Chen family and his mother couldn't be accomplished through compromise and obedience alone.
Instead of being indecisive, it was better to go all out.
Therefore, he played along with the plan, helping Qingchen lure Zhongyu and the entire Extreme Night organization.
Qingchen looked at Dayu: "Now that the Puppeteer knows you haven't betrayed me, your mother is in danger."
Dayu shook his head: "In this world, not everything goes as planned. I'll find a way to fight my way out. As for the outcome, it all depends on fate."
Qingchen sighed: "Making this decision was difficult. Thank you."
Dayu didn't accept the thanks: "You've done what you needed to do, now it's my turn... By the way, your path as a Knight is now blocked, what will you do? The path to becoming a god is also impossible now."
The most crucial part of this plan was that Qingchen had to let Zhongyu and the Puppeteer see him activate the Reverse Breathing technique; otherwise, they would absolutely refuse to act.
But...
Qingchen smiled wearily: "It's alright."
Dayu was startled.
Qingchen explained: "Forcibly opening the genetic lock will prevent me from opening new genetic locks in future life-and-death trials, but my uncle said that as long as I complete all the life-and-death trials, the genetic locks can be opened all at once."
Now, Qingchen only had two life-and-death trials left. He was going to complete them all at once, so whether his path as a Knight was blocked or not didn't matter anymore. After completing those two life-and-death trials, all the genetic locks would inevitably be opened.
It was blocked, but not completely blocked. Qing Chen exploited a bug and deceived everyone.
"Why didn't you kill Zhong Yu just now?" Da Yu asked.
Qing Chen shook his head: "I can't kill him yet."
Zhong Yu couldn't be killed. Li Shentan had said that to separate a person from the world's will, another person must be used as a replacement.
Qing Chen still had a use for Zhong Yu.
The sound of a helicopter's rotor whirred, and the two looked up simultaneously. A helicopter slowly descended. Liu Dezhu, wearing headphones and sunglasses in the cockpit, gave a thumbs-up.
A rope ladder was thrown down, and Qing Chen climbed up: "Da Yu, I'll leave things here to you."
Da Yu waved his hand: "Don't worry, complete the life-and-death trial."
In the night sky, the helicopter slowly flew northwest, its destination: the Cave of Swallows in Mexico!
Guatemala borders Mexico, and from here, it would take approximately 6 hours by helicopter.
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6 hours later.
"Brother Chen! Brother Chen!" Liu Dezhu called out urgently while controlling the helicopter.
Qing Chen slowly opened his eyes and coughed up a mouthful of blood. He casually wiped the corner of his mouth: "Are we there yet?"
"Almost there, 5 kilometers left," Liu Dezhu said, still shaken: "You scared me to death. I couldn't wake you up no matter how much I called you."
Qing Chen smiled: "The fight with Zhong Yu was a bit strenuous. Zhong Yu is also a coward; if he had possessed someone else and come back to kill me, I might have died."
Liu Dezhu felt a little bitter in his heart. He hadn't expected Qing Chen to reach this point. He knew very well that Qing Chen was extremely weak at this point: "Brother Chen, why don't you rest a little longer? You can challenge it again when you return next time."
"No," Qing Chen had a premonition; when a person reaches the end of their life, they become aware of their own limited time: "I won't be able to last until the next return."
Liu Dezhu's heart tightened.
Qing Chen smiled and said, "There's also a battle in the Inner World. Xiao San has found the location of the seven old monsters of the Fate Weaver. I can't let them transfer the old monsters to the Storm, otherwise, with seven more demigods on the Fate Weaver's side, we won't be able to fight them."
The Knight demigods were confident in defeating others, but the Fate Weaver's methods were too strange; even in a one-on-one fight, they might not be inferior to the Knights, and their ability to seize the initiative was incredibly mysterious.
There were only Liu Dezhu and Qing Chen in the helicopter.
Liu Dezhu was silent for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, we've grown too slowly. I'm still only a B-rank... I heard that Xiao Tongyun is about to cross the A-rank threshold, but I have no clue myself. If we were stronger, maybe you wouldn't need to push yourself so hard."
Qing Chen said, "Don't worry, there will always be opportunities."
After a while, Liu Dezhu said, "We're here. I'll increase the altitude and try to fly as slowly as possible."
Qing Chen shook his head: "That won't work. The plane's speed must be maintained at 240 kilometers per hour. This is one of the conditions for the life-or-death trial."
The Knight had to jump out of the high-speed moving plane and accurately find the sinkhole; only then would the conditions be met.
This meant that even a slight deviation in the landing point would leave Qing Chen far from the sinkhole.
Liu Dezhu's palms were sweating with nervousness: "Understood!"
The helicopter's speed did not decrease at all. Qing Chen put on his goggles again and sat on the edge of the cabin, waiting for the best moment. He calculated the speed of the aircraft and his own inertia, wanting to jump at the most opportune moment.
But then, two fighter jets suddenly appeared in the distance, flying rapidly towards them. Liu Dezhu panicked: "Brother Chen, there's an ambush! How can there be an ambush here?!"
Qing Chen said, "There aren't many suitable locations for the Knight's life-or-death trial. Although the enemy's forces have been greatly reduced, they only need to set up ambushes in a few of these places to interfere with me. You retreat, I'll pilot the helicopter."
"I'm not leaving!" Liu Dezhu said.
Qing Chen took out his satellite phone and dialed a number: "Break Liu Dezhu's key gate!"
In an instant, Liu Dezhu disappeared into thin air! Qing Chen had no time to calculate anything anymore. He sat in the pilot's seat, using his simple memory to control the helicopter and continued flying forward, directly confronting the two fighter jets.
The fighter jets fired missiles. Qing Chen sighed, nimbly leaving the pilot's seat and leaping out of the cabin!
Falling!
Falling!
Just as he left the helicopter, two missiles struck it, causing a massive explosion.
The huge blast of fire sent Qing Chen flying, and he drifted towards the ground completely unconscious.
The roar and the flames illuminated the dawn. The Mexicans in the villages near Swallow Cave all came out of their houses, watching the flames in the sky.
Could it be that the drug lords and the anti-drug police were having an air battle?! At this moment, Qing Chen's eyes were closed, and he continued to fall without any consciousness.
The air blast had knocked him unconscious, already weakened as he was!
6000 meters.
5000 meters.
4000 meters. In that brief moment, he heard someone calling his name repeatedly.
Qing Chen felt like he was back in Prison No. 18, in that pitch-black midnight.
He had just broken free from the mental interrogation.
His master, Li Shutong, stood opposite him and said softly, "Starting tomorrow, I will personally teach you. I will lead you down the longest path among all the shortcuts in this world."
That was where Qing Chen's life began.
The beginning of the story.
He hadn't finished walking that longest path among all the shortcuts in this world! Qing Chen suddenly opened his eyes! He saw himself suddenly spread his arms, instantly stabilizing his body, facing downwards, and slowing down!
He saw that he was at least 300 meters away from the Swallow Cave. Normally, 300 meters would be covered in an instant, but now 300 meters seemed like an insurmountable chasm!
Qing Chen's gaze was fixed on the ground; his only target was the Swallow Cave sinkhole.
The last two life-or-death challenges were actually one and the same.
The Descent from Heaven, high-altitude skydiving.
The Awakening of the Earth, penetrating the earth's core.
It required the knight to jump from an airplane flying at a speed of no less than 240 kilometers per hour, and he couldn't open his parachute before entering the sinkhole.
The most difficult part of this challenge was that, during the descent, he had to constantly adjust his direction without a wingsuit to avoid crashing to his death! Moreover, the main parachute was likely to get caught on the walls of the sinkhole, causing the parachute and the person to become entangled, resulting in a fatal fall.
Therefore, even something as dangerous as wingsuit flying could only be considered a prelude to these two life-or-death challenges. Without experience in wingsuit flying, unable to control his body and the airflow in the air, the knight simply didn't have the foundation to challenge these two life-or-death trials!
In Qing Chen's eyes, only the deep abyss on the ground remained.
At this moment, he almost wanted to pull the safety pin of his parachute...
But Qing Chen held back.
He couldn't be sure how much longer he had to live, seven days, or perhaps even less than seven days.
He couldn't be sure if he didn't take this challenge now, whether he would have another chance to come back! It didn't matter anymore.
So many people had sent him off, wanting to see him suddenly draw his black sword and become a god, then kill all those bastards on the Western Continent.
He couldn't back down now.
He completely released his right hand that was gripping the safety pin.
The closer he got to the ground, the less sense of danger Qing Chen felt, and he even smiled.
At this moment, the rising sun shone from afar, and in the nearby village, residents were staring blankly at the sky from their homes. They felt that Qing Chen in the air was overlapping with the sun, radiating light all over his body.
Qing Chen looked at the abyss below him.
At this moment, Qing Chen closed his eyes, feeling as if he were in the deep sea, gradually sinking.
Around him were tides of immense pressure, and in these tides, colorful blue whales let out whimpers, and schools of dolphins circled around him.
That was the airflow.
All the invisible airflow trajectories were visualized by Qing Chen like a miracle. He spread his arms and swam vigorously, swimming towards the center of the world.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, as if the world was helping Qing Chen. The wind, like a blue whale, gently nudged Qing Chen, pushing him forward. The next moment, Qing Chen opened his eyes, and the sinkhole was right in front of him! His body hurtled downwards, plunging into the dark sinkhole! With a click, something seemed to have opened.
Someone from a nearby village ran towards the Swallow Cave: "Did he fall to his death in there?"
"He must be dead! How could he not be?!"
More and more people gathered, all rushing towards the sinkhole.
However, when they got closer, they hesitated, not daring to approach.
A brave man slowly walked forward. When he reached the edge of the sinkhole, he cautiously lay on the ground and peered into the deep abyss.
In an instant, a dazzling golden light burst forth from the sinkhole.
The light, like a long halberd, shot towards the sky! A rumbling sound echoed, and all the electrical transformers within a hundred-kilometer radius exploded due to the terrifying electrical charge, emitting plumes of smoke.
The onlookers looked around in terror; the world seemed to change in an instant, with thunder and lightning everywhere.
"Quick, look at the sky!" someone shouted.
Everyone looked up at the sky, only to see that after the golden "halberd" pierced the sky, a swirling vortex of white clouds appeared where there had previously been large patches of white clouds.
It was as if the sky had been pierced.
The nearby residents gathered around the Swallow Cave, bewildered and uncertain of what had happened.
The next second, a hand grabbed the edge of the sinkhole, and Qing Chen slowly climbed out.
He didn't have time to observe the changes in his body; he only felt incredibly exhausted, utterly exhausted, and just wanted to get a good night's sleep. A Mexican woman quietly approached him and checked his breathing: "He's still alive."
A child said, "What do we do now? He doesn't look like a drug lord."
A young girl said, "He looks... like a good person."
"You can't say he's a good person just because he looks decent," an older man said in Spanish, "You can't judge a book by its cover. Let's leave him here, don't bring trouble to the village. Who knows who he really is?"
The woman hesitated for a moment: "No, he looks pale. What if he dies here? Let's take him back to the village and have the doctor examine him."
The woman seemed to have a high status in the village; after she spoke, everyone fell silent. Someone made a simple stretcher, and they shakily carried Qingchen away.
While he was still unconscious,
The countdown reached zero.
Time travel.