novelraw Chapter 108 : An Area That Doesn't Exist on the Map
Chapter 108 : An Area That Doesn't Exist on the Map
108: An Area That Doesn't Exist on the Map
Yuyin stopped the car and rolled down the window. Behind the roadblock, she saw a large, dark armored vehicle, its headlights shining toward them.
Two soldiers walked over. One held his rifle on guard while the other came to Yuyin's window. He gave a perfunctory military salute.
"Please present your special pass," the soldier said sternly.
The soldier's equipment looked extremely advanced. His face was smeared with camouflage paint, and his expression was resolute. He clearly wasn't an ordinary soldier; he was likely from some special forces unit.
"A special pass?" Yuyin asked.
"Without a special pass, entry is forbidden!" the soldier said harshly, his voice booming even in the rain.
"Excuse me, there's no cell phone signal here. We must have taken a wrong turn," Sister Dai said from the side. "But we don't know which way to go."
"Turn around on the spot and return the way you came. Drive forward for twenty kilometers to re-enter the civilian signal coverage area," the soldier said.
"Oh..." Although the Primordial Energy inside was very rich, seeing these soldiers with live ammunition and even an armored vehicle, it was obvious they wouldn't be allowed through. Yuyin planned to turn back.
Just then, from deep within the forest ahead, there was a sudden sound like a mountain blasting, and the entire earth trembled slightly.
A surge of violent Primordial Energy rushed past the car window, causing Yuyin to shudder. She seemed to smell a trace of blood, mixed with a large amount of an aura that made her tremble.
The few soldiers with resolute expressions had a momentary lag in their gaze, but they didn't react otherwise. It seemed such tremors didn't surprise them.
Yuyin couldn't help but ask, "What is this place up ahead?"
The soldier was silent for a moment, then warned in an even stricter tone, "Without a special pass, all personnel and vehicles are forbidden from proceeding ahead. Please turn back immediately!"
The other soldiers around them also stared at Yuyin's car.
Obviously, they weren't going to answer her question.
Yuyin could only obediently reverse, turn the car around, and head back.
What was this place? And what was that terrifying tremor just now? Yuyin couldn't let it go in her heart.
After driving about twenty kilometers, their cell phone signal returned.
Yuyin opened the navigation app to take a look.
"Hmm? Nothing?"
Her car was driving through a blank, light-green area on the map. The area behind them, spanning a radius of over fifty kilometers, was the same blank space, with no roads or place names.
And this blank area was situated between the Lingdu Special Zone and the neighboring province to the west. Yuyin noticed that even the inter-provincial highways and high-speed railways clearly bypassed this area.
"An area that doesn't exist on the map?" Hua Qianyuan and the others were also very confused.
"Where exactly did we wander into just now?"
At this point, Yuyin could only continue driving along this road until she reached a road that appeared on the navigation map, then used the navigation to return to the apartment in the city.
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Back at the apartment, Yuyin's home had three bathrooms. After the girls finished their showers, they weren't quite ready to sleep yet. They sat on the sofa in their beautiful pajamas, chatting.
Outside, the sky was still dark and raining a cold, dreary drizzle.
Suddenly, flashes appeared in the distance, but these flashes contained certain Primordial Energy fluctuations that Yuyin had felt within the God-Devouring Chess; they weren't ordinary lightning.
The girls all walked to the window and watched the intermittent flashes that tore through the night. The flashes were coming from the west of Lingdu. Even the Night Spirits, who roamed the rainy city, ignoring everything in the world and scorning it all, seemed to be drawn to these flashes. Yuyin felt that they seemed to yearn for that cold, green light.
"Perhaps this is the true face of Magic City," Dai Jingni said, her expression a bit dazed.
The large floor-to-ceiling window, which faced the outside world directly, heightened the girls' sense of insecurity. They subconsciously huddled together.
"Yuyin, is something... is something really going to happen..." Hua Qianyuan said, her soft body leaning against Yuyin.
Yuyin didn't know how to answer, because she didn't have an answer either. She gripped Hua Qianyuan's hand a little tighter.
"Now, now... don't be like that. Why worry needlessly? Anyway, we have the day off tomorrow. Why don't we just chat all night?" Dai Jingni broke the somber atmosphere.
"Alright, that sounds good," Yuyin nodded.
The girls sat around the sofa, leaning on each other, their knees touching from time to time under their pajamas.
"What should we talk about?" Hua Qianyuan asked.
Dai Jingni looked at Yuyin's long, loose hair and her smooth, slender neck, and a clever smile appeared on her face. "Why don't we talk about some of those secret girl-talk topics that can only be discussed late at night?"
"Oh? Late-night topics? Are we going to tell profound and interesting stories?" Yingluo's breathing grew a bit hurried.
Yuyin's face also reddened slightly, but she didn't voice an opinion.
"In front of Yuyin, I should try to maintain some ladylike decorum. Let's talk about... first love, shall we?" Dai Jingni said.
"Huh?" The reactions of the three girls clearly indicated they had never experienced a first love, unless you counted secret crushes.
Dai Jingni, being a mature woman, began to tell her story. "It was during my second year of high school. I was attending Lingdu No. 3 High School."
"Lingdu No. 3? Isn't that an all-girls' school?" Yingluo immediately realized.
Dai Jingni also looked a bit embarrassed, as if she had been a bit too unrestrained. "Yes, it was. One morning, on a campus path scattered with ginkgo leaves, I met that first-year girl..."
Listening to Dai Jingni's romantic, naive, tortuous, yet somewhat bitter story of her first love, the girls' faces all turned red.
What would happen to the outside world, Yuyin couldn't predict. Right now, to protect herself and to fight against the Ghost King, she was constantly cultivating the power of battle. But after the New Year, Yuyin was already twenty years old, yet she had never been in a relationship.
Perhaps, in a world like this, a person like her, did she even have the right, or the opportunity, to fall in love?
The girls chatted and chatted, and before they knew it, they had fallen asleep.
Yuyin must have been tired from her cultivation these past few days. She didn't even realize she had fallen asleep while leaning on Dai Jingni's lap.
Perhaps because Dai Jingni was older, she had the warm, feminine aura of companionship that Yuyin needed in her loneliness. With her long hair scattered, feeling the faint, caring fragrance, Yuyin slept peacefully.
Dai Jingni could only smile helplessly, a look of intellectual shyness unique to a mature woman appearing on her face. She gently stroked Yuyin's long hair and her jade-like back, letting her breathe in the warmth of her youthful fragrance...