Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 149 Special Environment

The sound of damp grass being trampled broke the silence of the forest. In the thick fog where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, a golden light slowly transformed into two figures.

All that could be seen was pitch black. On the surface, this place was not much different from Tang Zijun's previous impression, both being shrouded in thick fog.

Suddenly, she found herself in a primeval forest instead of a warm flower shop. The chilling air invigorated Tan Zhixin, and the sudden obstruction of her vision took her a while to recover.

Tan Zhixin instinctively gripped Tang Zijun's arm armor, using her magic to sense her surroundings and slowly moved closer to Tang Zijun.

"Have you all arrived? Did you leave anyone behind?" Hyacinth folded up the golden leaves, and at the same time, the antennae on its forehead glowed slightly.

With the help of the faint fluorescent light, Tan Zhixin and Xiaoqing relaxed a little. After all, it was their first time here, so it was normal for them to feel uneasy.

Tang Zijun looked around, listening to the heartbeats around her. Seeing that they had all been teleported over, she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

This was his first time personally trying teleportation magic other than the Reverse World, and he had to admit that the feeling was quite magical, giving him a sense of traveling thousands of miles in an instant.

The only difference is that this teleportation magic doesn't give people time to prepare like the channels in the reverse world. The mirror channels in the reverse world usually allow you to see the destination first and then enter, but this teleportation is relatively sudden and doesn't give people any chance to adjust their mindset.

Moreover, for some reason, Tang Zijun felt that this fleeting spatial energy was somewhat familiar, as if she had seen it before.

However, given their current environment, Tang Zijun didn't think much of it and instead asked the little flower fairy above his head.

"Hyacinth, are you sure where we are right now?"

“I only know that this is the area of ​​the Tree Crown Royal City, but I can’t quite tell exactly where it is. This place is completely different from when we left before,” Hyacinth replied.

Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun frowned slightly.

The space has indeed changed again, and the situation is continuing to deteriorate. It is estimated that it will not be long before the boundary between the secret realm and the real world disappears completely.

The space here is completely shattered beyond recognition. If there was still a hint of the real world when Chang Lei and I explored this place before, now the space here is completely distorted.

Fragments of space from the secret world and the real world have been mixed together. Half of them are scattered in the mist, threatening to take people to other areas at any time. The other half have been broken up and then put back together, forming this strange realm.

To describe it in the most intuitive way, it's like the secret realm is black rice and the real world is white rice. Now, not only are the two kinds of rice mixed together, but all sorts of beans have also been added, creating a complete mess.

Tan Zhixin was also startled by this unusual scene. "The magical fluctuations here are rather strange, and even the air in different locations is quite different."

"The air is different, and you even know that?" Tang Zijun raised an eyebrow; he really hadn't noticed that.

"The composition of air is different at different altitudes. I am quite sensitive to the magic in these gases, so I can perceive their differences."

Tan Zhixin gave an explanation and then pointed ahead.

"Look there, the oxygen in that space is extremely thin. Ordinary humans can't stay there for more than three minutes. It should be similar to the altitude of 6000 meters."

"6."

Tang Zijun opened his mouth, then looked up at the sky. He realized that he had overlooked a very important question—just how high was this secret realm?

Originally, in Tang Zijun's mind, after Chang Lei said that the secret realm was a small world, Tang Zijun had a preconceived notion that it was a fragment of space.

However, this understanding seems to be somewhat inconsistent with the current situation.

The theory of the real world is not the same as the theory of the secret realm. This is information that Tang Zijun had already obtained before. The real world refers to the entire universe, not just Earth.

In the real world, the Earth revolves around the sun, and there are all sorts of celestial bodies and a vast expanse of stars around us.

The secret realm is different. There are no planets in the secret realm, let alone concepts such as the universe or celestial bodies.

Perhaps the environment and living space in the secret realm are not much different from those on Earth, but that depends on which creature's perspective it is.

In this situation, Tang Zijun suddenly felt that she was really brave.

Relying on his high health bar, he fought his way through, and luckily the environment of this secret realm was not too risky. If it were in the ocean, he probably would have been finished.

However, Hyacinth didn't seem surprised at all; instead, she nodded emphatically.

"Although I don't know what you mean by oxygen, our capital city is very high."

"Wait a minute." Tang Zijun suddenly raised her head. "You mean, the location where your royal city was built is the same as the air in the space that Master Qingnang pointed out?" Hyacinth was so startled by Tang Zijun's sudden action that she almost fell over. She angrily banged her helmet, then covered her hands and replied with a mournful face.

"...More or less, similar magic power content, ouch ouch ouch."

Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun felt a tingling sensation on half of her face. She turned to look at Tan Zhixin, and in the dim light, she could see that the woman's expression was also quite interesting.

It turns out I was wrong from the start. From a human perspective, looking at a hyacinth that's not even as tall as a can of Coke, I subconsciously assumed that their city wasn't very big, and even if they lived on the tree known as the Tree of Life, that tree probably wouldn't be very tall.

Looking at it now
"May I ask, how tall is the Tree of Life?"

"I don't know, I haven't measured it specifically, but Mr. Qin once told me that the height of the Tree of Life is comparable to that of Meili Snow Mountain!"

Hyacinth answered with some pride, but after speaking, she lowered her head, looking somewhat forlorn.

"Mr. Qin also said that if there's a chance, he could take me there for fun."

Tang Zijun doesn't have a particularly extensive knowledge of geography, but as one of the magical girls from Yunnan, Tan Zhixin knows Meili Snow Mountain very well.

Located at the junction of Yunnan and Tibet, Meili Snow Mountain, also known as Prince Snow Mountain, is one of the ten most beautiful famous mountains and one of the eight sacred mountains.

The average altitude of the peaks of Meili Snow Mountain is over 6000 meters, with the main peak reaching a height of 6740 meters.

If we were to represent the height of this mountain on a single tree...
Tan Zhixin swallowed hard. She finally understood why Tang Zijun took this matter so seriously. If a tree over 6,000 meters tall fell on the real world, the thought of that scene was enough to make her teeth ache.

What she didn't know was that Tang Zijun's expression under the mask wasn't much better than hers.

Although we don't know the exact height of Meili Snow Mountain, it is still a mountain!
So all this time, I've been playing under the tree?

Banishing the jumbled thoughts from her mind, Tang Zijun's expression turned serious. "Since the royal city is located so high, why didn't they just send us there from the beginning?"

"Originally, the Golden Leaf could have teleported us directly to the Royal City, but because the boundary space was severely damaged and the Tree of Life was also eroded, we could only teleport here."

Hearing Hyacinth's reply, Tang Zijun froze. "Then how are we going to get up there? Don't tell me to climb up!"

"I'm afraid this is the only option." Hyacinth shrugged helplessly, but she quickly perked up. "But we don't need to go up there, are we here to check the roots?"

"That's true." Tang Zijun breathed a sigh of relief.

He then turned to look at Mr. Qingnang, who hadn't said much. For some reason, Mr. Qingnang had been behaving strangely since he arrived.

Tang Zijun initially thought that she was still adjusting to the new environment, but seeing her frowning and looking around at the mist, she also frowned slightly.

Can you see your surroundings?

"Visibility is low, and the space in this environment is too strange. I'm sorting out the surroundings." Tan Zhixin's eyes gleamed with a faint, eerie green light, making her look incredibly strange.

This must be the "magical vision" that magical girls often use. Tang Zijun had heard Qin Nan mention it before.

However, unlike ordinary magical girls, Mr. Qingnang has a very high rank, and the strength of his "magic vision" is beyond Qin Nan's reach.

Tang Zijun now realizes that this situation should have been handled by the magical girls.

It's true that I'm very strong, but in this kind of environment, apart from hearing and smell, I have no way to judge the situation around me, let alone observe space with magic like Mr. Qingnang.

Even when he found Chang Lei by running around in this space, it was only because Langya guided him in the Reversed World.

But then was the past, and now is the present.

Touching the card box at her waist, Tang Zijun wondered if she could also possess "magical vision" like Mr. Qingnang if she borrowed the magical energy of that earth-type rainbow crystal flower.

But this is just speculation; Tang Zijun has no intention of revealing all her cards yet.

Furthermore, using a card with magical girl energy in front of a magical girl would probably shatter Mr. Qingnang's worldview once again.

Just as Tang Zijun was pondering, the hyacinth, after carefully collecting the golden leaves, paused for a moment, then suddenly flapped its wings and flew away.

"I think I've found the way. Follow me, I'll take you to the Tree of Life."

(End of this chapter)