Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

Chapter 148 The Lost Rainforest Labyrinth

They hadn't gone far when a fallen tree appeared in front of them.

"This tree must have just fallen." Zhenyi squatted down and rubbed the branches between her thumb and forefinger.

Upon hearing this, the first person in December looked up towards the treetops.

The expected gap did not appear; the trees beside it had already stretched out their branches, and overhead remained a dense, impenetrable green curtain.

He turned around abruptly.

By this time, the direction they came from was blocked by the bush wall.

"Our way of life is gone," he said.

Upon hearing this, Gojo Satoru also stopped in his tracks.

He didn't turn around, but just tilted his head slightly, his blue pupils slowly scanning the woods on both sides.

"It's not just the way we came from, I can feel the whole forest moving."

On the first day of December, I also focused my attention and sensed my surroundings.

The rainforest remained eerily silent.

Just as he felt something under his feet.

He felt the tremor.

It was very light, like a train passing by on the tracks in the distance.

Then comes the sound.

The sound of tree roots tearing through the soil.

On the first day of December, the gaze was turned to the left.

The Rabbit Talisman is activated.

He could clearly see that a giant tree was slowly and completely shifting to the left.

It's not just one tree.

Within the field of vision on the first day of December, at least seven or eight large trees were moving in a similar manner at the same time.

Some went left, some went right, and some turned at an angle.

The bushes were also moving, and the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground flowed away with the shifting soil.

A few seconds later, everything returned to calm.

But the surrounding terrain is completely different now.

The forest path that used to be accessible has disappeared, replaced by a natural barrier composed of three closely packed large trees.

Suddenly, a narrow passage appeared on the left, where there had been no road before, and at the end of the passage, a wide open space could be vaguely seen.

"Is it leading us?" Kugizaki stared at the newly appeared passage, his voice low.

"Or rather, it's trapping us," December 1st corrected.

Gojo Satoru's six eyes carefully circled around.

A faint ripple of light swept across the surface of those blue pupils, like ripples on the water.

He looked at it for about five seconds.

Then he put his hands back into his pockets.

"This should be similar to the law of stagnant water," he said. "It's not a spell, nor is it magic. The entire rainforest's ley lines are shifting; it's deceiving us at its very core."

"What are you lying about?"

Huzhang sat on a fallen log, using a torn sleeve to wrap the blisters on his calves.

"Direction." Gojo Satoru took two steps forward, peered through the gap between two trees at the newly appeared passage, and said, "You think you're heading southwest, but you might actually have already circled around three times."

"Can it be broken?" Zhenyi asked.

Gojo Satoru did not answer immediately.

He glanced around again, his blue pupils contracting slightly.

"If we force our way through, we'll have to blow up all the leyline nodes in this area." He raised a hand and drew a circle on the ground with his index finger. "But the nodes here aren't fixed; they move along with the maze."

He paused.

"I need to find an uncontaminated node to use as an anchor point in order to see the true structure of the earth's veins."

"Uncontaminated nodes?" December frowned.

"Hmm," Gojo Satoru raised his chin slightly, "No matter how strong the laws are, their coverage is not infinite. This rainforest covers millions of square kilometers, so there will always be places that slip through the net."

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"We just need to find it."

After a moment of silence, he looked down at his bare feet on the gray-white clay ground.

The vibrations continued.

"snake."

Gojo Satoru tilted his head slightly.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, he squatted down, spread his five fingers on his right hand, and pressed his palm on the ground.

The perception lines of the [Snake] talisman seep from the fingertips into the soil, spreading in all directions along the cracks.

The sensory line extended outwards by ten meters, twenty meters, and thirty meters.

Everywhere there is the same pulse, the same warmth, the same gray texture.

Forty meters.

Fifty meters.

The sensory ray encountered a different place.

The soil temperature there is not high.

It was a patch of moist, soft, dark brown soil, like a small, forgotten island in a corner, surrounded by a gray assimilation layer.

It's not very big; it's only about the size of one room.

I opened my eyes on the first day of the twelfth month.

"Fifty meters, northeast," he stood up and pointed with his chin, "there's an unassimilated area there."

Gojo Satoru glanced in that direction, a flicker appearing deep within his blue pupils.

"I saw it." The corners of his mouth curved slightly.

"Shall we go?"

"Walk."

Gojo Satoru took the lead and walked out in the northeast direction.

As I took my third step, the bushes on my left rustled loudly.

The ground vibrations suddenly accelerated.

Five meters ahead, two large trees began to move toward each other, their canopies intersecting like a gate closing.

Gojo Satoru did not stop.

He raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread.

The procedure is performed in sequence.

A sphere suddenly appeared between the two large trees, collapsing inwards. The air was compressed rapidly, and leaves and debris swirled and rushed into the center.

"Azure".

The gravitational sphere dissipated in less than a second, but the two trees that were closing in had been pulled off their respective paths, leaving deep, twisted lines on their trunks and scattered branches and leaves on the ground.

A passageway reappeared ahead.

"I'll lead the way, you guys follow," Gojo Satoru said as he walked.

December followed behind him, his right hand on Zhenyi's waist, his sensory lines always extending close to the ground, like an invisible line probing ahead.

The rainforest around them is constantly changing and reorganizing.

Every ten or so steps, a new obstacle appears.

But Gojo Satoru's "Azure" is like a key; every collapse of the gravitational field can tear open a gap in the closed maze.

Three minutes later, December 1st felt a change in the sensation under her feet.

Cool, moist soil replaced the scorching clay.

His toes sank into the soft, decaying leaves, and a cool sensation spread up from the soles of his feet, briefly easing the tension in his skin caused by the heat.

They arrived.

This is a small, forgotten piece of pure land.

Normal ferns grow on the ground, with bright green leaves and water droplets hanging on their stems.

Several bright beams of light shone through the gaps in the tree canopy overhead, and a faint scent of nectar could even be smelled in the air.

It was a world apart from the dark, sweltering, and desolate rainforest they had traveled through.

Gojo Satoru stood in the center of this pure land and closed his eyes.

A blue light shone through his tightly closed eyelids, brighter than ever before.

All six eyes were operating at full capacity.

"To the west, the rainforest maze ends here; further west, the camouflage of the ley lines begins to weaken."

He turned around and looked at the first day of December.

"Mountain!

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