From the end of the world

Chapter 283: Winter Car Unpredictable 1
Although the appearance of the corpse was intriguing, there was not much to say about the corpse itself. Ma and I spent some time studying it, then put it aside for the time being and continued to move forward into the depths of the white mist.

While I was concentrating on observing the changes around me, I couldn't help but think about important matters in the outside world.

Before tomorrow night - no, considering that it might be daytime now, it could also be "before tonight" - I must return to Yueyin Mountain City and meet with the water master Xuanwu there. If I miss this trip, I may not be able to help Ma Zao get the panacea to recover from soul trauma in a short time.

Since the time inside the white mist is distorted, it is difficult to expect to return to the outside world on time. Maybe the daytime now is not the daytime of the second day, but the daytime of the third day, the fourth day, or even later, or the daytime of the past history.

After thinking for a moment, I decided to continue to believe in Ma Zao's power.

If the Water Master Xuanwu really came to Yueyin Mountain City under the arrangement of his unlucky physique, then no matter how long I stay in the white mist, I will definitely run into him at some point in the near future.

Considering that the Water Master Xuanwu seemed to have something to do in Yueyin Mountain City, maybe it was a waste for me to exchange the fragments of the Divine Seal with the Lord of the Divine Seal for an answer. Because we would definitely come to Yueyin Mountain City after the reply from the Water Master Xuanwu, and we would eventually be involved in the events in Yueyin Mountain, and then meet Yinyue and find Chang'an's soul. However, I thought that if I hadn't come to Yueyin Mountain City with Ma Zao in advance, the Water Master Xuanwu would not have come here.

It sounds like the time sequence and cause and effect are reversed. How could the motivation that the Navy Xuanwu had from the beginning be cancelled because of our later actions? My thoughts can only be described as confusion. From the perspective of an outsider, I may have developed an inexplicable superstition about Ma Zao's jinx physique.

However, I now believe in the power of Ma Zao, and in my experience, this level of absurdity can only be said to be ordinary. I will no longer deny the possibility of something just because it is absurd and illogical. At the same time, I am also very clear that this way of thinking may be close to the realm of madness.

After walking a long distance, the corpse behind us was completely submerged in the fog. Maybe even if we go back to the place we just came from, we won't be able to find the corpse again, just like the mysterious corpse that grows legs and runs away in some mountain ghost stories.

Then we encountered new changes again.

Another figure emerged from the fog in the distance.

This time the figure was clearly alive, he was standing and moving slowly towards us. When we saw him, he must have seen us as well. He immediately stood still, vaguely taking a defensive posture, and then threw a sentence at us from a distance.

"Who?"

This was a clear and neutral voice of a young man, which contained a blatant sense of vigilance and uneasiness. This voice sounded familiar to me, and Ma Zao had a similar reaction. We looked at each other, and then I responded.

"Winter car?" I asked.

"Hmm?" The figure on the other side hesitated, "...Senior Zhuang Cheng?"

The other party approached us again, and soon revealed himself from the mist. A childish face, snow-white hair, and an antique white robe. It was Dongche.

He looked at me in surprise.

It's a good thing that he was able to recognize me by my voice just now. I still look like a 12-13 year old now, and the voice I make is not yet completely through the voice change period. Although I also showed this form and made a voice in front of him when I interrogated the senior researcher at Fufeng Base last time, it was only that one time after all. His memory and reaction ability are very impressive.

"Senior Zhuang Cheng, why are you here?" he asked doubtfully, "And...how did you become similar to me?"

About the same age as you? I'm not as pretty as you, I thought. But he must be talking about age.

Ma Zao moved closer to me as if he wanted to get closer to me, and at the same time, he looked at Dong Che with extreme vigilance.

"I became like this for personal reasons that are inconvenient to explain to you." I said, "But you, before asking why we are here, shouldn't you explain it to me first?"

"Explain...what do you mean?" He seemed to be pretending to be confused even though he knew the truth.

"I told you during the day not to get close to Yueyin Mountain in the past two days, but you didn't seem to listen to me," I said. "Yueyin Mountain..." He seemed to be talking to himself, "Sure enough... Is this place called Yueyin Mountain?"

"You don't even know where this place is?" I asked.

"No, I know. But...how should I explain it..."

He looked at my face cautiously, as if he was afraid that I would get angry before he could explain clearly.

"It's okay, we're not in a hurry now, you can explain slowly."

Although I spoke in a calm tone, I had something in my heart. If Dongche's answer was not up to standard, then depending on the situation, I would not rule out the possibility of killing him on the spot.
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Dongche gave us an explanation, but its content was as confusing as the white mist.

First of all, he didn't break the agreement with me on purpose. On the contrary, according to him, he took this agreement very seriously. At the beginning, the content of our agreement was not "don't go near Yueyin Mountain", but "don't go near the west". So in order to prevent himself from accidentally breaking this agreement, he even took a train and deliberately moved a distance to the town in the east.

After getting off the train, he walked out of the train station. However, as he walked, white mist inexplicably appeared in the passageway of the station. He immediately realized that he was involved in a strange incident and tried to get out of the mist, but failed.

Even I can't easily escape from the white mist, let alone a demon hunter like him. No matter how skilled or observant one is, sometimes one will inevitably encounter difficulties that cannot be overcome by talent alone. He kept running in the white mist, but not only did he not get out, but the scene around him changed even more strangely.

Without anyone noticing, the ground beneath his feet changed from a hard stone floor to a weed-covered mountain. The walls of the train station were no longer visible around him, but instead turned into an endless mixed woodland.

He wandered in the fog for no less than ten hours. As a demon hunter of a certain level, he could maintain his health even if he didn't eat or drink for several months. However, if he was trapped in the fog forever, even he would be exhausted. Just when he was worried, he met a young man dressed as a hiker in the fog.

This young man had nothing to do with the occurrence of strange phenomena, he was just an ordinary person involved in the incident. Dong Che could see it at a glance.

Dongche originally thought that this young man was lost in the train station just like himself. However, this young man claimed that he was a mountaineering traveler who was climbing an unopened area of ​​a mountain called "Moon Hidden Mountain" when he accidentally fell into this white mist and completely lost his way.

Although Dong Che was in a difficult situation where he could not even save himself, he was still a witcher who considered himself a ruler and it was impossible for him to just watch an ordinary person die. Therefore, he took the young traveler with him and protected him carefully, and then continued to explore the fog.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, they finally encountered new changes.

They found Hujia Village.

Just as the shopkeeper and regular customers of Yueyin Mountain City at the foot of the mountain said, Hujia Village is now a small mountain village with only a few families. They usually live a self-sufficient life in the mountains, occasionally collecting some mountain delicacies to sell in Yueyin Mountain City, and at the same time buying some materials needed for life, such as salt and sugar, or other production tools, etc.

Villages like this that appeared in strange phenomena were often suspicious. God didn't know who these villagers were, or whether they were human at all. Therefore, Dongche was particularly wary of these villagers. However, the villagers did not show any malice, and warmly entertained Dongche and the young traveler, and offered to take them away from Yueyin Mountain.

But something went wrong. The young traveler had done his homework before entering Yueyin Mountain. He knew about the existence of Hujia Village and even asked the old man in Yueyin Mountain City about the specific location of Hujia Village in Yueyin Mountain and marked it on the map.

He also had a compass in his hand. Although he was in an area that was almost like another dimension, the compass was still able to function and was not "interfered by the strange magnetic field and unable to operate normally."

Of course, once you are trapped in this kind of fog, even if you have a hundred functioning compasses, it will be useless. However, he didn't know this, and just thought that since he knew his position on the map and the directions of east, south, north and south, he would definitely be able to get out of trouble later. Perhaps he didn't trust the villagers in this poor and remote area, so he hid it from everyone, including Dong Che, and left without saying goodbye, and rushed into the fog in one go.

After learning about this, Dong Che immediately realized that the other party might be in trouble - this was a mountain covered by strange phenomena, and any rash action would only lead to destruction. Therefore, he hurriedly returned to the fog, wanting to salvage the other party before he died.

(End of this chapter)