I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 8 Alienation
Lu Gang followed Li Jun through the thick fog, and this time he finally stopped going in circles and truly got close to the "high wall".

But at this moment, he had lost his teammates.

All that's left to rely on is a mysterious Li Jun, whose authenticity is unknown.

"This really is a tree root."

Lu Gang stood under the tree roots and touched them.

A doubt immediately arose in my mind; the texture was somewhat like stone.

Looked up.

It can be estimated that it is about ten meters high, level with a four-story building not far away, and the length that it extends to the left and right is even more difficult to estimate.

"If this is a tree root, how big must that tree be?"

And the other side.

Li Jun was already standing on the tree roots, gazing at the "world" on the other side.

Li Jun's gaze swept across the area and quickly settled on Taoshan Hospital.

"Chirp!"

He heard the bluebird's call again, a warning that danger lay ahead.

And in my mind, all sorts of images appeared.

He saw a face that appeared to be that of a violent and vicious "child".

If Lu Gang could see the images in Li Jun's mind, he would probably recognize the person immediately; it was someone from the documents he had seen before.

Pottery tree.

Lu Gang, panting, climbed up to the very top of the "high wall" along the rope.

He held a specially made mobile phone high in the air, searching for a signal, and finally completed communication with the outside world.

He wanted to transmit more information to the outside world, but for some reason, even the call was filled with static, and the transmitted images were a complete mess.

However, he was eventually given instructions from the outside world, hoping that he could follow Li Jun on further explorations, overcome all difficulties, and achieve final victory.

He put down his phone and watched Li Jun's retreating figure.

I asked him, "Where are we headed next?"

Li Jun pointed to a building in the distance.

Lu Gang immediately recognized the place; it was Taoshan Hospital.

Lu Gang asked, "How do you know there's a problem there? Did you investigate this place before you came here, or did someone give you information?"

This is exactly the question Lu Gang wanted to ask along the way: why was Li Jun here, and why did those woodcutters attack him?

Li Jun said, "It's intuition."

Lu Gang thought to himself, "This is the most outrageous excuse I've ever heard. They're not even bothering to give a perfunctory answer."

Having obtained permission from the outside world through the recent communication, Lu Gang shared the top-secret information he had obtained with Li Jun.

among them.

It also conveniently includes information about Taoshan Hospital and the specific situation of Taoshu.

Li Jun pointed at Tao Shu and said, "He's in trouble, but he shouldn't be too difficult to deal with."

Lu Gang became even more nervous: "How did you know?"

Li Jun added, "Intuition."

Lu Gang was speechless.

Lu Gang followed behind Li Jun and explained the situation to him further, since in this situation, the other party was the only one he could rely on.

He also sensed that his mission and the road ahead would be extremely dangerous.

Lu Gang believes there is another person behind Tao Shu who is problematic, namely Tao Shu's grandfather. However, he also believes that Tao Shu's grandfather is merely a problem, not the root cause as Li Jun claims.

He said.

Everything may be related to the three words "Peach Blossom Spring," which are the words spoken by Tao Shu's grandfather, Tao Yougen, in the materials.

Lu Gang: "Therefore, there may be many dangers and enemies, and we must be careful."

Everything he had just experienced had left Lu Gang in a state of high tension, like a frightened bird.

Li Jun only said one word: "Oh!"

He talked a lot, but Li Jun just kept staring ahead, seemingly lost in thought.

This made Lu Gang, who was a little nervous, feel like he had punched cotton, and he couldn't figure out whether the other party was confident or just showing off.

He had never met anyone more pretentious than Li Jun. Couldn't he see how dangerous this strange island was?
We two have come here all alone and helpless, shouldn't we unite and stick together for warmth?
Lu Gang thought to himself, "Be careful, or you might suffer a big setback."

Li Jun seemed to finally understand something, and with a leap, he flew down from the height.

They pushed through the thick fog and disappeared into it.

However, Lu Gang could only slowly climb down the rope.

Seeing the opponent's incredible strength moving freely, I felt even more infuriated as I slowly climbed down the rope.

Because: "He's not just showing off, he's genuinely awesome."

The bottom was obscured by mist, and as the mist gradually enveloped Lu Gang, he involuntarily felt a chill.

He himself may be the only one who needs to band together for warmth and support, feeling utterly alone and helpless.

At the bottom, Lu Gang saw Li Jun walking towards a side alley.

Lu Gang shouted at Li Jun, "Isn't Taoshan Hospital over there? We should take the main road!"

Li Jun, however, said, "The target has been identified."
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Before the helicopter crashed.

Taoshan Hospital was completely shrouded in thick fog, with only a shadow visible. In reality, the hospital's interior had already begun to degenerate.

The building seemed to come alive; wood grain patterns began to appear on the walls, but those patterns were covered in rotten black.

The houses began to squeeze together, forming a huge, tree-like structure.

And the source of alienation.

That was Tao Shu's hospital room.

"what!"

"what……"

Tao Shu's ward has been transformed into a giant hole that runs through three floors. Inside the hole is a deformed giant baby, over four meters tall with grayish skin, which is currently screaming wildly.

That is the Tao Tree of today.

It's not just hospitals that are being alienated, but more importantly, the people within hospitals.

Along the cave, there are open rooms and doors that, at first glance, resemble niches in the rock wall.

Figures stood in the room and on the high place, looking down in horror at the strange baby that was screaming angrily.

These figures all looked strange and bizarre.

For example, a nurse whose eyes are in the palm of her hand, or a doctor whose face is empty except for a huge ear.

At this moment, the nurses raised their eyes-covered hands, waving their arms as if coaxing a child, or watching the child intently like mothers.

The doctors pressed their ears close to Tao Shu, listening to Tao Shu's commands and manipulations like servants.

There are also many more patients with strange appearances, whose hands and feet are dislocated, lying like crabs or standing like trees.

Everyone's mouths were shouting downwards, or trying to soothe the deformed baby.

"do not Cry!"

"do not Cry."

"Look this way, whatever you want, we'll give it to you."

Tao Shu stood up from his "sick bed" and could then see that it was made up of dozens of alien people connected together, with densely packed, twisted arms acting as supports.

Perhaps because Tao Shu's deformed and enormous body was exceptionally heavy, these numerous twisted arms trembled incessantly.

Tao Shu stood up and screamed, roared, and howled loudly.

"I'm hungry, I'm hungry."

He jumped violently, and the "human hospital bed" collapsed, but the support structure with dozens of arms intertwined immediately rose again.

Tao Shu let out a scream and saw everyone rushing over like a pack of hunting dogs, offering Tao Shu all sorts of snacks.

Tao Shu angrily threw them all out, shouting.

"I don't want this."

"I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat."

Finally, all the "people" rushed out once again to search for the meat that Tao Shu needed, and then presented it to Tao Shu.

The entire Tangshan Hospital and all the surrounding areas seemed to have become Tao Shu's playground. He was everyone's ancestor, and he was the tyrant here.

He wants something, and everyone has to give it to him.

His screams were like the clapperboard of a ghost summoning souls.

His cries were like the gavel of Yama, the King of Hell, who would slay his enemies.

Seeing everyone in such a sorry state after he had made them look so disheveled, Tao Shu let out a loud, rustling laugh; he was overjoyed.

Tao Shu kept devouring these foods, and its body grew larger and larger, becoming increasingly abnormal.

He writhed on the hospital bed, like a mountain.

Tao Shu had just finished eating when he became fascinated with other things.

He noticed the other people's eyes, and his dirty mouth opened to reveal his gleaming white teeth.

That smile.

Naïve, yet wicked to the extreme.

"Eyes, your eyes are beautiful."

"It's fun, hahaha, it's so fun."

"Dig it out and give it to me!"

Give them to me, give them all to me!

He made everyone give him their eyes, and when he saw some people hesitate, he immediately let out a furious shriek.

Give them all to me!

"Why won't you give it to me? Why won't you give it to me?"

"I want it...I want it..."

Everyone immediately contorted in agony, then began to offer their eyes to the deformed giant baby.

Tao Shu happily inlaid all these beautiful "beads" on the wall, covering the entire wall with eyes staring intently at him, but he seemed to enjoy this feeling of being watched all the time.

But soon, these beaded toys could no longer hold his attention.

“I want your hands…give me your feet…”

"Give it to me, give it to me, give it all to me."

"I don't care, I want it!"

“If anyone refuses to give it to me, I’ll talk to my grandpa.”

“My grandfather will kill you all, kill you all.”

Tao Shu did as he pleased, constantly taking things from these people whose bodies had begun to twist and mutate.

These people screamed in agony, but they still dug out everything they owned and offered it to Tao Shu.

And the pottery tree.

He combined all the hands into a huge, enormous backrest, which he installed behind the "hospital bed," the densely packed hands twisted and intertwined like hemp rope.

He assembled their feet into wheels and attached them to the bottom of the "sick bed".

They pieced their heads together into a giant ball, woven all their hair into a rope, and held it in their hands, making the head spin and pull the hospital bed like a horse.

The mutated person, who ultimately lost all of his body organs, was reduced to a core-like substance that merged into the hospital wall, becoming part of this abnormal place.

Also known as.

They completely lost everything and became slaves and puppets here.

As they merged into the wall, individual figures appeared on it.

Its appearance and form were exactly the same as the immortal monster that had appeared in the outside world before.

"Wooden Guest!"

Their bodies, minds, and wills were all enslaved, yet their faces were turned toward the outside of the wall with expressions of pain, as if they were shouting something.

The deformed giant baby Tao Shu, who had taken everything from these people as human beings and turned them into his own toys, didn't even glance at them at this moment, focusing only on his toy car made of other people's flesh and blood.

He drove his own "human hospital bed," rushing back and forth in the "ward."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Fun!"

"Fun!"

At that moment, the sound of a propeller turning came from afar, immediately attracting the attention of the deformed giant baby.

Tao Shu looked up at the sky and his gaze immediately locked onto the silhouette of the helicopter.

"airplane!"

"I want a plane."

However, the helicopter did not obey his commands.

He flew into a rage, letting out a piercing wail that echoed through the hospital and carried further and further down the street.

"I want that...I want it..."

"I want that one."

Then, the plane actually crashed that day.

"Hahahaha!"

Tao Shu was overjoyed, but at that moment he was hungry again.

He had another delicious meal, his mouth full of filth, and his body grew even larger and more grotesque.

then.

He drove his "human toy car," which had been upgraded from a "human hospital bed," and led his vast horde of mutated "slaves" into the streets.

He went to get his "big toy".

The "human toy car" drove through the street, and you could see shadows covering the hospital's exterior walls.

The same was true of the streets shrouded in mist, where wooden figures, their remnants of everything taken away by the giant baby, were everywhere.

One by one, figures squeezed out of the wall, waving at Tao Shu.

"do not go."

"Don't go, I can still give you things, I can give you everything I have."

"I have everything, and I'll give it all to you."

Tao Shu laughed even harder.

His mischievous laughter echoed through the mist, unrestrained yet tinged with an innocent wickedness. Finally.

He rushed to the location where the helicopter crashed.

The helicopter crashed into a sandy patch on the hillside as it descended from the sky, though the impact deformed the helicopter.

However, the basic framework remained intact, allowing Tao Shu to obtain this "big toy".

"Hahaha."

"Fun, fun."

Tao Shu was overjoyed.

He could pluck an airplane from the sky and give it to anyone he wanted.

His happiness ceiling has been raised once again, and soon even airplanes may not be able to satisfy his happiness; he will want more.

then.

His body also swelled up further.

At this moment, Tao Shu's body had swelled to nearly four meters in size.

He climbed down from the "human toy car," and the huge helicopter, which he hugged tightly, looked like a toy because of his unusual body.

really.

Before long, Tao Shu also lost interest in the "toy airplane".

He disgustedly tossed the "toy airplane" aside and began to look around, searching for the next "toy" and anything that would interest him.

suddenly.

A voice came from within the mist.

"No wonder."

"Did you make the helicopter crash?"

The deformed giant baby immediately looked into the distance; this was the first time in so long that someone had spoken to him in such a tone.

"Who?"

"Who is speaking?"

The deformed giant baby was a little angry because the other party hadn't tried to please him.

soon.

His enormous eyes pierced through the mist and locked onto a figure on a tall building.

The fog gradually dissipated, revealing a person in sportswear, crouching on the railing as if they had just landed from a great height.

Li Jun looked down at him from his high position, his gaze full of scrutiny.

Tao Shu had never seen anyone like this before.

The other party made no move, yet he felt a strong pressure that made him instinctively sense danger.

"who are you?"

Then, Tao Shu immediately noticed Li Jun's double pupils.

At this moment, Tao Shu was completely captivated by those double pupils. A desire to possess them at all costs arose in his heart, and he even forgot his instinctive sense of danger.

"your eyes."

"nice."

"Fun!"

"But I don't like the look in your eyes!"

Tao Shu liked those eyes, but hated the look in them, because it was filled with indifference towards him.

He said it fiercely and matter-of-factly.

Gouge your eyes out and give them to me!

Having crossed that "high wall," the "world" on this side of the wall no longer allowed Lu Gang to feel any trace of the normal world.

The people here can hardly be called human anymore.

The people throughout the region are transforming into a non-human state, eventually becoming another kind of life form.

Lu Gang followed Li Jun through the fog.

He saw a woman with eyes so big they took up half her face, a person covered in thick body hair that resembled a ball of hair, and a fleshy ball that had lost most of its limbs and organs and was wriggling like a worm with a head.

Of course, we also saw wooden figures embedded in the walls.

The strange, lost crowds I saw before are nothing compared to this.

However, these are just appetizers.

At last.

He saw a "vehicle" made up of the flesh and blood of countless people driving through the street. Countless limbs rolled on the ground, and a fleshy ball made up of many heads pulled the vehicle in front, with a deformed giant baby taller than a house sitting on it.

For an instant.

Lu Gang's hair stood on end, and he gasped.

"hiss?"

He felt as if his soul was bursting out of his skull, and it took all his strength to press it down.

In that instant, he suddenly remembered what Luo Zhen had said to him for some reason.

I hope he can overcome all difficulties and achieve final victory.

At this moment.

He just wanted Luo Zhen to come and see this terrifying scene, to see just how eerie this place was.

At this moment, Lu Gang no longer thought about victory; he only wanted to gather more information and then pass it on.

He looked at Li Jun, wanting to discuss the retreat with him.

"Know when to stop!"

The situation here has completely exceeded his expectations, and he has already gathered enough information.

However, the moment Lu Gang spotted the deformed giant baby, before he could even speak, the other party had already flown over.

Lu Gang suddenly realized something.

From the very beginning, he was targeting the other party, and there was no way he would back down while he was ahead.

How did he know that thing was coming here?

"Has he developed a third eye?"

Lu Gang followed the tracks left by the deformed giant baby and soon saw the giant baby and heard Li Jun's words.

"No wonder."

"Did you make the helicopter crash?"

Looking at the crashed helicopter behind the giant baby, Lu Gang felt a surge of intense anger.

"What? This thing caused the helicopter to crash?"

At this point, he was unaware that the two pilots had already safely left Taoshan Island.

At that moment, he suddenly didn't want to leave anymore, and a strong sense of anticipation arose within him.

Hopefully, Li Jun can demonstrate even greater power to defeat this harmful monster.

"Aren't you supposed to be so awesome?"

"Then let's go even further and get rid of this thing too."

I admire you!

As if Li Jun had heard the voice deep within his heart, Li Jun spoke at this moment.

You haven't answered my question yet.

"Fine, whether you answer or not, I'm going to get rid of you anyway!"

The deformed giant baby stared in disbelief, as if wondering if Li Jun had said something wrong or if it had misheard.

Someone actually dared to disobey him and even made demands of him.

The other party even dared to threaten him.

They didn't take him seriously at all.

He was instantly enraged, and he collapsed to the ground, crying and screaming wildly.

"Kill him for me!"

"kill him."

“I want his eyes, gouge his eyes out for me, gouge his eyes out for me.”

The giant baby's enormous size and its shouts were like a giant fleshy megaphone amplifying the sound many times louder than an ordinary person's. The piercing sound made Lu Gang feel dizzy, and he involuntarily covered his ears.

A large number of bizarre doctors, nurses, and patients rushed towards Li Jun in all sorts of twisted postures, giving the impression of a mob of demons unleashed.

At this moment, Li Jun jumped up.

Fly to higher places.

Even people outside Taoshan Island saw a shadow fly out, and saw Li Jun rush out of the thick fog and fly into the sea of ​​clouds.

Then, it struck down like a bolt of lightning.

His move immediately sparked a great deal of speculation, with many wondering if something had happened inside Taoshan Island.

Li Jun accelerated to his maximum speed, and when he landed, he created a powerful shockwave and a sonic boom.

He landed at an angle, whistling past the ground and sending all the strange creatures that rushed out flying. As his wings glided by, the monsters were scattered.

Finally, the "thunder" struck the sandy ground on the hillside.

"Boom!"

Lu Gang saw Li Jun use this move again and was still shocked.

What exactly is his body made of?

When the smoke cleared, the enormous, deformed infant had vanished.

in situ.

Only one "baby" remained, which was only a little over two meters tall.

Li Jun lifted him up and asked him questions.

"Did you make the helicopter crash?"

The deformed baby Tao Shu screamed wildly, "Who are you? Who knows you? Let me go! Let me go!"

Li Jun removed his arm, but the baby's hand immediately grew back, only this time his body had shrunk again.

Li Jun then asked him, "Was it you who sent Mu Ke to attack me?"

The deformed baby went mad: "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill your whole family, I'm going to kill you."

Li Jun showed no mercy and severed another leg from the monster. Tao Shu screamed in agony, but continued to curse without answering Li Jun's question.

Li Jun dismantled the pottery tree like a toy, leaving only its original form: a child of about ten years old.

He is no longer a baby.

At this moment, Tao Shu truly sensed that Li Jun wanted to kill him.

He was terrified and started begging for mercy and resorting to cheating.

"I was wrong."

"I was wrong, you can't kill me, you can't hit me."

"Grandpa, grandpa."

"This person hit me, this person hit me."

"Oh no, someone is hitting a child! Someone is hitting a child!"

However, Tao Shu discovered that none of his methods worked on the person in front of him.

No matter how much he yells, cries, or acts unreasonable.

He only said one thing: "Answer my question."

With each question, they would disassemble him like a toy, gradually shrinking his body until he truly became a baby.

However, his head remained the same size, only his body had shrunk to the extreme.

Tao Shu was utterly terrified. He couldn't even utter a complete sentence; he just kept screaming and struggling wildly.

And this time.

A voice came from the very center of Taoshan Island, echoing across the island like a storm.

He said, "It's me!"

Li Jun turned his head to look in another direction and saw that the entire Taoshan Island was beginning to change, revealing another layer hidden behind the real world.

An endless thick fog swept upwards, revealing a giant divine tree within the fog. Beneath the divine tree grew a vast peach orchard, winding its way down to the foot of the tree.

At the very bottom of that sacred tree, where the roots are intertwined, one can vaguely see a cave.

The cave was lit up, as if it led to some mysterious place.

The one speaking at this moment is a human face on the sacred tree.

"Ok?"

Lu Gang blurted out when he saw this scene.

"how is this possible?"

If such a big tree had always stood here, how could it have been missed before?

But looking at the thick fog and distorted light and shadow around the divine tree, Lu Gang seemed to have some explanation.

"It may not actually exist, or it may exist in another space."

Meanwhile, this scene was also observed by the outside world.

Each camera focused on the sacred tree that grows and takes root on the entire island, transmitting its cloud-filling shadows to every corner of the world, and also conveying its extraordinary power and influence everywhere.

Even watching this scene on video is breathtaking enough, let alone seeing it in person.

On each ship, everyone facing the towering, heaven-and-earth-filling divine tree felt as if something was pressing down on their chests, making it hard for them to breathe.

"What exactly is this?"

From the initial double pupil virus to the appearance of the immortal wooden guest, the entire Taoshan Island has been transformed. Behind everything seems to be the demons from the ancient mythological era mentioned in the ancient books of the Longevity Temple.

Now, even things like this have appeared.

The situation is getting bigger and bigger, and increasingly out of control.

On the coast guard vessel.

Before Luo Zhen could react, calls kept pouring in from all sides.

He knew this was a question asking him what exactly was going on.

But at this moment, he also really wanted to ask someone.

"What exactly is going on here?"

(End of this chapter)