Descent of the Abyss
Seeing this scene, Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat!
Didn't he already leave the Theater House according to their wishes to resolve this group of Scarlet Heaven Cultists? Why did they suddenly pop out again at this time?!
Wait...
A thought suddenly flashed through Chen Ling's mind. He looked down at his feet, only to see the blood ring of the suicide ritual originally laid out in advance by the Scarlet Heaven Cultist was slowly lighting up!
Chen Ling felt the thing in his hand getting lighter. That heart was as if it was on fire, directly turning into billowing thick smoke, passing through the ceiling overhead in a state of nothingness, and rising straight into the sky!
"The Scarlet Heaven Cult's ritual??"
Chen Ling seemed to have guessed something, his face incredibly ugly.
The suicide ritual of the Scarlet Heaven Cult seemed to be sacrificing their own organs within a specified preparation range in order to summon the Gray Realm Convergence... Just now, when Chen Ling saw the other party digging out his lungs, he was somewhat puzzled. With so many organs in the human body, why did it specifically have to be taking the effort to cut open the flesh and blood, shatter the ribs, and use the lungs to Sacrifice?
It wasn't that only sacrificing the lungs could summon the Gray World, but rather only sacrificing the lungs could specifically summon the "Sighing Wilderness"?
And Chen Ling's appearance undoubtedly broke the Scarlet Heaven Cultist's original plan. He failed to use his own lungs to summon the "Sighing Wilderness" for convergence, and instead, before death, his heart was dug out by the "Audience"...
If a Scarlet Heaven Cultist sacrificing "lungs" could specifically summon the "Sighing Wilderness", then now that he sacrificed a "heart"... what would be summoned?
A name emerged in Chen Ling's mind. He abruptly looked up at the sky outside the pharmacy, where a touch of gray was gradually spreading!
"...No way, right?"
Chen Ling muttered to himself.
...
"Tsk... How come we can't find our way back after coming out for a stroll?"
Amidst the messy ruins of the buildings, Heart 9 scratched his head and sighed helplessly.
Beside him, the two-meter-tall Jack of Clubs draped in a black robe was especially conspicuous in the ruins. He spoke faintly, "Before coming out, you said you could recognize the way."
"No, bro, I can recognize the way, the premise is that there has to be a way!!"
Heart 9 pointed at the patch of ruins around them, cursing, "Don't talk about recognizing the way, now we can't even see a complete road... Who would know how to get back?"
Jack of Clubs opened his mouth just about to say something, but suddenly turned his head to look at the building ruins beside him.
Boom—!!
A heaven-shaking explosion sounded from beside the two. The small building that had collapsed to the point of only half remaining was smashed to pieces by an extremely fast white shadow. Heart 9 and Jack of Clubs' figures were also instantly swallowed by that white shadow, shattering and dissipating in mid-air.
Amidst the flying dust, that white shadow flew out nearly a hundred meters before slowly stopping its figure... That was a slender skeleton three meters long. From its silhouette, it looked like a cheetah. Compared to a rhinoceros, its skeleton was incredibly light. Traveling through the wind generated almost no resistance, and its speed was bizarrely fast.
It turned its head to look in the direction where the two were smashed into pieces, slightly tilting its head, seemingly puzzled why those two didn't burst out blood plasma, only leaving behind flying Playing Cards fluttering and twirling in place.
"That was close, that was close... I almost split open." Heart 9's voice came from not far away.
"Your vigilance is too poor."
"What do you mean my vigilance is too poor... I was looking for the way just now! Moreover, my Rank isn't as high as yours, it's very reasonable for my reaction to be half a beat slower, right."
"Then did you find the way?"
"...Let's still talk about this big cat. Are you going to kill it or am I?"
"It's a leopard."
"That's not important!"
The cheetah looked in the direction of the voice, only to see the two people standing completely intact in an open space over a hundred meters away, seemingly arguing over its breed.
A low roar came from under the empty skeleton. Its four limbs bent down slightly, sticking to the ground like a hunter, every single bone like an arrow on a bowstring, ready to fire at any moment.
After a brief pause, its figure broke through the air, dragging out afterimages in the nothingness, and charging towards the two again.
Jack of Clubs, who was seriously discussing the skeletal differences of felines with Heart 9, slightly turned his head to glance over here, his hands brushing over his wide black windbreaker.
The next moment, a large flock of white doves actually flew out from under his windbreaker, like a fluttering white cloud, surging towards the speeding cheetah!
The cheetah's figure didn't dodge in the slightest, still heading straight forward, wildly sweeping among the white doves. Its agility allowed it to not touch a single white dove... But as the back of Jack of Clubs' hand, which had the burning skull bonfire tattoo, slowly raised, a crisp snap of fingers echoed in the sky!
Snap—
The next moment, the white doves fluttering around the cheetah actually turned into thick chains out of thin air, directly passing through the gaps of all the bones, binding it in mid-air!
Jack of Clubs' fingertips slowly raised. The last white dove flew out from his hem, fluttering its wings and landing on his fingertip. With a flick of his fingertip, the white dove instantly turned into a black Magic Hat, elegantly worn on his head.
"By the time you kill it, the daylilies will be cold... I'll still do it." Jack of Clubs said faintly.
He raised his fingertips, gently grabbing towards the cheetah struggling madly within the chains.
"[Cutting Trick]."
The moment Jack of Clubs' words fell, the space around the cheetah was suddenly folded into metal iron plates, dividing its body into over a dozen different areas. Then, like five horses tearing a body apart, they slowly moved in all directions...
These areas cut open the cheetah's body, but the latter didn't die immediately. Instead, each piece of the body maintained movement, seemingly without any abnormality. It looked inconceivable, like a perfect magic Performance.
And as Jack of Clubs' five fingers gradually closed together, he casually gave a tug in the void. Those over ten separated areas instantly pulled apart a distance of hundreds of meters. A sharp boom sounded from the separated head of the cheetah. The next moment, all the bones shattered and exploded, scattering all over the ground.
"Dealt with." Jack of Clubs took off that Magic Hat, turning it back into a white dove and putting it back in his cuff.
"Have you found the direction back?"
"..." Heart 9 was instantly somewhat speechless. "What do you think? Is there any difference between our situation now and just now?"
"Then what do we do? Can we only wait for 10 of Diamonds to come pick us up?"
"Right now Calamities are running rampant here. It's hard to say if the Jinghong Theater is still there... Perhaps it has already been flattened by some Calamity."
"Be optimistic, isn't there still an area over there that hasn't been converged by the Gray World?" Jack of Clubs pointed into the distance, at that only patch of sky shrouded under the night.
Just as his words fell, a wisp of thick smoke rose under the night sky. The leaden gray clouds spread around like a tide, covering the entire sky in the blink of an eye!
Jack of Clubs: ...
"Are you born in the year of the crow? If you don't know how to speak, then speak less." Heart 9 couldn't help but roast.
Jack of Clubs was just about to defend himself with a few sentences, but suddenly froze, turning his head suspiciously to look at the area being converged by the Gray World...
"That's not right... this isn't the Aura of the Sighing Wilderness?"
"Not the Sighing Wilderness? Then where else could it be?" Heart 9 shrugged, looking in that direction. The next moment, he suddenly felt the Aura over there was a bit familiar. "Wait..."
"That's..."
"[Ghost Mockery Abyss]???"