A technologically powerful nation: The national treasure is actually myself.

After a moment of silence, Lin Yang said, "We still have to keep running. At the very least, we need to find a quiet place to stop for a while."

The current situation suggests that people who have visited the ancient ruins have been infected by their eerie power, and therefore will be affected no matter where they are.

Whether you run far or not really doesn't matter much anymore.

But they can't stay in Baichi City either.

The area around Blazing City is too chaotic right now. Even if you don't lose control, it would be dangerous if you got caught up in the melee.

The team continued their journey.

They avoided crowds and contact with other fleeing people.

Based on the information currently available, even those who were not initially out of control may gradually lose control as well.

Right now, avoiding contact with other people is the safest approach.

The team was down to nine members, including Lin Yang.

Everyone remained silent, moving forward cautiously and attentively.

Suddenly, Li Rui pointed to the side and whispered, "Lin Yang, look, aren't those disciples of the Tiankun Sect?"

Lin Yang followed the gaze and saw more than a dozen figures dressed in the robes of Tiankun Sect disciples.

“They are from the Tiankun Sect. They are also trying to break through.” Lin Yang withdrew his gaze, his expression relatively calm.

He has a grudge against the Tiankun Sect, but now is clearly not the time to settle it.

Taking action could accelerate the loss of control.

The other party also noticed them, but made no attempt to make contact.

"This should be a small team sent by the Tiankun Sect. I wonder what the situation is like in their sect right now," Lin Yang thought to himself.

He guessed that the Tiankun Sect would probably also close down.

Both the Moon Shadow Sect and the Rainbow Micro Sect should do the same.

In the current situation, closing oneself off to protect oneself is the best option.

Of course, Lin Yang also hoped that the Tiankun Sect would be destroyed in this disaster, which would save him a lot of trouble.

However, the probability of this happening is probably not very high.

Lin Yang didn't think too much about it. Right now, the only thing to do was to survive. The feud with Tiankun Sect could be put aside for the time being.

Over time.

The number of people fleeing for their lives that Lin Yang and his group encountered gradually increased.

Clearly, everyone's thoughts are in agreement.

Everyone wanted to escape the crowd and go to the periphery.

And it is precisely for this reason that more and more people are heading to the outer areas.

This, on the contrary, created a new wave of people.

Lin Yang was on high alert and whispered, "Captain, let's change direction, or we can find a place to hide nearby. Everyone is rushing out in a frenzy, and every direction is filled with refugees. I estimate that a chaotic battle will break out soon."

Li Rui agreed almost without hesitation: "Okay, I'll listen to you, but it might be hard to find a good hiding place."

Lin Yang spread his senses, his eyes burning: "Now you either stop here and find a place to hide, or you have to rush to the front of the fleeing crowd with all your might, otherwise you may be cut off by the ensuing melee."

Their team was among the first to escape.

However, since their team was in the most crowded area when the incident occurred, there are now more people in the area that was already near the outer perimeter.

Li Rui's eyes hardened: "It's not easy to hide on the spot, so let's charge to the front!"

As he spoke, he glanced at everyone in the team and instructed them, "Let's charge out together, but remember not to get angry or act rashly. Try to stay rational, charge but don't fight!"

"Understood, Captain!" the team members replied in unison.

Their team now has nine members, all of whom are long-time teammates who have worked together on missions for many years.

There was a tacit understanding between them.

Working together gives them a significant advantage in the current situation where people are fleeing for their lives.

Because the vast majority of people are lone travelers who come to Baichi City to search for treasure, and very few come with friends or family.

After reaching a consensus, the team members acted together.

Li Rui and Lin Yang, being the strongest cultivators, took the lead and cleared a path through the crowd.

Some shouts and curses came from behind.

They were the ones who were forcibly pushed aside by Lin Yang and his group.

Ignoring the noise, Lin Yang had only one thought in his mind: to rush to the front!
Just as Lin Yang had feared, new out-of-control individuals began to emerge among the fleeing crowd, suddenly going berserk and attacking everything around them.

Some people who hadn't lost their minds yet, as they were attacked by those who had gone out of control, seemed to have something within them stirred up, and they gradually lost control as well.

Another chaotic battle erupted.

The fleeing crowd was affected at an extremely rapid pace.

"Don't look back, keep running forward," Li Rui shouted in a deep voice.

At this moment, the area behind their team was in complete chaos.

Fortunately, they rushed out in time, otherwise they would have been swept in as well.

Faintly sensing the power fluctuations, frenzied aura, and mad roars emanating from behind him, Li Rui felt as if something within his body was being gradually ignited.

"I... I might lose control too," Li Rui suddenly said, his eyes already showing fine blood vessels.

Lin Yang was startled, and the rest of the team looked at Li Rui and noticed his unusual behavior.

"Captain! You must hold on! Calm yourself down and don't pay attention to anything around you!" Cheng Fu said urgently.

"I...huff..." Li Rui tried hard to control his emotions and began to breathe heavily.

"Captain, why don't you just block out your five senses and six perceptions and see if that makes you feel any better?" Lin Yang said quickly.

Li Rui nodded and did as instructed, but quickly shook his head: "The effect is not obvious."

After saying that, he looked at everyone in the team and said, "If I completely lose control later, Lin Yang will be the new captain of the team, and you will all follow his orders."

"Captain!" Lin Yang said, as if he wanted to say something.

But Li Rui waved his hand to interrupt him: "Listen to me. We are still the Fujun (prefecture army) now, so we will obey my orders."

After saying that, he fell silent, trying his best to suppress the restlessness within him.

But his eyes turned bloodshot faster and faster.

His aura became increasingly volatile.

"team leader…"

The other team members were extremely distressed to see the changes in Li Rui.

After persisting for a while, Li Rui suddenly stopped, his bloodshot eyes fixed on him, and said in a low voice:
"I can't hold on any longer, you guys should leave now."

"Captain!" Lin Yang felt a pang of pity.

"Go quickly." Li Rui shouted in a low voice, which was already turning into a growl, clearly indicating that he had lost control.

Then, he suddenly turned around and rushed into the chaotic crowd, letting out an uncontrollable roar.

He completely lost control.

"Holy crap, what the hell is this thing?!"

One of the team members roared in a low voice, his eyes red.

Lin Yang was also extremely distressed.

He still vividly remembered the many ways Captain Li Rui had taken care of him after he joined the army and was assigned to a squad.

But now...

The team remained silent, moving forward in silence.

It even revealed a hint of numbness.

Because there is no hope.

No matter how far you run, there's no guarantee you'll survive.

Among the fleeing people around, some would occasionally lose control.

The atmosphere was very oppressive.

Suddenly, one of the team members couldn't take the pressure anymore and yelled, "Fuck it, I've had enough!"

The loud roar seemed to be an outburst of emotion.

With the roar, his body began to spiral out of control.

Lin Yang sighed inwardly, but his expression remained calm.

They were already used to this kind of scene. The team continued forward without stopping.

At this point, only seven people remained in the entire team.

Fortunately, the others are in relatively good or stable condition, and there are no signs of the situation continuing to spiral out of control.

And eventually, there were fewer and fewer people around me.

Most of the escapees had already lost control and fled.

The team members were given a brief respite.

Lin Yang told everyone to stop and rest for a while.

However, they hadn't had much time to rest.

Suddenly, a series of noisy and chaotic sounds came from further ahead.

It was accompanied by some desperate cries.

There's no escaping it.

"No one can escape!"

"The road is gone."

"There's no way to escape!"

"Hahahaha, we're all going to die here, good riddance, hehehe..."

Some people were laughing and crying at the same time, as if they were possessed.

Lin Yang felt a tightness in his chest.

What does it mean that there's no road?
He was inclined to ask someone about it.

But before he could take any action...

Then someone brought more specific and even more despairing news.

All roads leading to the outside world from Baichi City have been blocked!
All roads in all directions have been blocked by an inexplicable force!
There is an invisible barrier that prevents people from crossing or leaving the territory of Blazing City.

The sky is nowhere above, nor the earth below.

It is impossible to pass through, neither in the sky nor on the ground.

They were all trapped and died in the City of Blazing.

Buzz.

At that moment, everyone's mind went blank.

What did they hear?
The City of Blazing is under lockdown?!

"How can this be?"

Some people couldn't believe it.

"What's impossible? Now that White Blaze City and the surrounding area are completely sealed off, there's no escape!"

Some people seem to have completely accepted reality.

"It's that ancient ruin!"

"This must be the work of that ancient ruin!"

"The legendary ancient ruins are said to turn a city or even a prefecture into a dead zone. Now it seems that it was definitely caused by the power of that ancient ruin. It isolated Baichi City and wanted to turn Baichi City into its forbidden zone!"

People quickly realized what was happening.

Then I felt even more desperate.

If people lose control for other reasons, there might still be a way to resolve it.

But now, it can be almost certainly concluded that it was caused by the power of that ancient ruin.

This completely extinguishes any hope.

"Hehehe, we survived the first wave of out-of-control tides and chaos, and finally escaped to this place, but we still ended up dying. How ridiculous."

"What's so funny? You have to blame yourself for being greedy, for coveting that so-called treasure. If it weren't for that so-called treasure, I wouldn't have come here at all!"

People stopped trying to escape and simply waited to die.

In an instant, all sorts of opinions emerged.

Some blamed themselves for being greedy, while others regretted coming to White Blaze City.

……

"Lin Yang, what do we do now?"

On the team's side, Cheng Fu asked in a suppressed tone.

Hearing that the road was blocked and Whitefire City was isolated, the team suddenly lost their target.

I don't know what to do next.

Lin Yang had mixed feelings; he hadn't expected things to turn out this way.

After a moment of silence, Lin Yang said, "Let's go to the edge ourselves and see that invisible barrier."

He looked at everyone and said, "Don't be too discouraged. There are still many people who are not out of control. The Far East Prefecture will definitely try to rescue them. We cannot give up easily."

He now has to be sure that their previous escape was worthwhile.

Otherwise, they would have died in the initial melee long ago.

Then set new goals to encourage the other teammates.

Of course, he did want to see that invisible barrier for himself.

He won't give up easily until the very last moment.

"Go to the other side of the barrier?" Cheng Fu whispered. "It was formed by the power of ancient ruins. There's no way to destroy it, at least not us."

The power of the Great Evil Ancient Ruins is so terrifying because no one can rival it.

The areas isolated by those several great and ominous ancient ruins on the ancient continent of the Primordial Era still exist to this day.

That's why, when they learned that the ancient ruins were the cause of all this, everyone lost all hope.

"Just consider it an opportunity to broaden our horizons. Even if we end up dying anyway, it won't be a loss," Lin Yang said.

Everyone was silent for a while.

The team then set off again.

As Lin Yang said, since they haven't lost control yet, it's worth it to see the eerie power of the ancient ruins before they die.

After all, not everyone can encounter this kind of thing.

The road ahead became much easier.

Firstly, there are fewer people closer to the edge of the area.

Secondly, all the survivors now knew that the White Blaze City area had been isolated by the power of the ancient ruins, so no one tried to escape anymore.

As a result, there were far fewer people fleeing around Lin Yang and his group.

On the way, Lin Yang took out a communication jade slip and tried to contact Li Liping to inquire about the situation outside.

But he soon discovered that he could not contact the outside world through the communication jade slip.

Lin Yang then understood that the power of the ancient ruins had completely isolated the entire Baichi City area, making even communication impossible.

He tried to contact Xin Hao and Shi Jie again.

But this time we were able to get in touch.

"The power of the ancient ruins has isolated Blazing City into an island, but people within Blazing City can still communicate with each other. It's really interesting."

Lin Yang seemed lost in thought, waiting for Shi Jie and Xin Hao's replies.

Soon, the two replied one after the other, indicating that they were relatively safe for the time being.

"What's the situation on your end? Do you know that Baichi City is now isolated by that ancient ruin?" Lin Yang asked directly.

"We know. Everyone is desperate and waiting for death." Shi Jie and Xin Hao's voices were filled with exhaustion and bitterness.

"Don't give up hope until the very last moment," Lin Yang could only offer this consolation.

"Brother Lin Yang, if we can die here together, we'll have company in the underworld, haha." Shi Jie forced a smile.

"I don't want to die yet. I'm heading towards the very edge to check on that invisible barrier. I'll contact you later."

Lin Yang didn't say anything more.

……

After a long and arduous journey.

That day, Lin Yang and his team arrived at the invisible barrier. (End of Chapter)