Chapter 502: The Cliff With Black Fire
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Hearing Lin Qiao’s question, Viney responded uncertainly, ‘I’m not sure either… Mama, you have to try and find out. But Mama, this place is not dangerous for you.’
Lin Qiao nodded and kept walking forward. The fire didn’t make her feel dangerous at all. On the contrary, she actually felt familiar with it.
She walked closer and saw a piece of dark land. Not a blade of gra.s.s was growing there; even the rocks were half molten. The earth was purely black. The sand, dirt, and rocks in that area all contained a kind of faint, black energy.
About thirty meters away from the barren land, black fire flakes were sparkling on the earth. The flame was filled with the energy which Lin Qiao had inside her body.
She set a foot on that land and inhaled. A stream of energy from the air flowed into her nose, then spread in her entire body and gathered in her brain.
That energy was lethal for other people, but for her, it was nourishment.
Since she walked onto this piece of land, all of her pores automatically opened wide to absorb the energy in the air. As she got close to those small fire flakes, she had a strange feeling as if she wasn’t walking on the flat ground, and wasn’t surrounded by the black fire.
She felt like she was walking on clouds. What her feet had been feeling didn’t seem to be real.
Step by step, she walked into the fire. Her clothes vanished within a moment, and her pretty back, slim waist, round hips, and long legs were all exposed in the air.
Fortunately, no one dared to come here. The energy in the air could invade human bodies, poison people, and melt them from the inside within a short time. The people who entered the area a mile around the black fire would all die. Even their bones would eventually turn to dust.
Therefore, no one would come to this place.
Otherwise, someone might see Lin Qiao’s attractive body, and she wouldn’t know about it.
After walking into the flaming zone, Lin Qiao started releasing black mist from her palms. The mist flowed out of her palms endlessly and mixed together with the mist in this area.
She kept moving forward. After walking for about nine-hundred meters, she finally saw the edge of the cliff.
She stood by the cliff, searching. She felt that she had lost something that belonged to her in this place.
Finally, she saw a transparent, glistening black energy nucleus lying on the edge of the cliff.
She couldn’t turn her eyes away from the nucleus once she spotted it. She slowly walked there, then squatted and picked it up.
Was that… her nucleus? Did she leave it here before detonating herself?
She held the nucleus in her hand, which sparkled suddenly. She instantly felt dizzy and fell to the ground. At that moment, the energy in her body started flooding out in huge streams.
Her energy kept flowing out. She stayed in that state for five or six hours, until all the energy inside her body and brain was gone. Only a cool type of energy was left protecting her body.
After the energy left Lin Qiao’s body, something strange happened with the nucleus in her hand. It suddenly merged into her palm and disappeared without a trace.
After that, the surrounding air slowly began spinning around her. The flames on the ground were stretched, turning into a dark stream and spiraling around her.
The first wave of flames spiraled up to Lin Qiao’s head and drilled into her forehead, and the following flames all gathered toward that area as well. Before long, Lin Qiao became the center of a swirl, as she was absorbing the black fire and the dark mist around her.
Lin Qiao couldn’t see all this, because her consciousness was messy at the moment. Countless memory pieces flashed across her mind, and more had been emerging.
She felt as if her head was going to explode. She endured that uncomfortable feeling, trying to see those memories clearly. But, those memories flashed like naughty kids, and never settled down.
She spent a great effort to finally grasp some of those memory pieces. The pictures from those memories reminded her of what happened earlier like a trigger.
She kept trying to grasp more memory pieces, looking into them and thinking. That was five years of memories. She forgot about the pa.s.sage of time, as she only wanted to remember everything.
When her body fell into that strange state, the swirl around her grew bigger and bigger. All the dark fire in that area was drawn toward her, spiraling up and slowly forming a black tornado.
“Look over there!” Two miles away, Duan Juan and her people suddenly found a weird change happening in the cliff area after waiting for a whole morning.
“What… What’s happening there?” Duan Juan looked at that area. She was slightly surprised as well.
In the eyes of her and her people, the dark mist in that area had become a tremendous tornado, and the wind in that area had grown strong. The leaves went blown up into the sky, and branches were broken; some small trees were even uprooted.
“What happened over there!”
Those people were shocked and confused. They didn’t understand why that suddenly happened.
“That… That Miss. Lu is still there. Is she in danger?” someone asked.
“I don’t know! Even if she is in danger, we can’t go there,” Duan Juan was getting worried and anxious as well. They couldn’t go there indeed, because they couldn’t even inhale the air in that area. They didn’t have gas masks, so they would die for sure if they went there.
Even if they did have gas masks, they couldn’t stay in that area for long, because the energy in that area would melt them.
“What should we do? Are we going to just watch her… die?” Qian Xiaoai asked with confusion.
Duan Juan stayed silent for a short while, then said, “I’ll try! I’m going alone. You guys stay here. If I don’t come back tonight, you should go back to the base without me!”
“Duan Juan!” Qian Xiaoai called her name with disagreement, “No! If some people are going there, it should be us! You can’t go!”
“Juan! You can’t go!”
“No!”
“We’ll go!” The others all disagreed.
“Quiet!” said Duan Juan, “You’re not even strong enough to approach the edge of the fire! I’ll go and check the situation. Don’t worry, I won’t let myself die in there. I’ll come back if anything goes wrong.”
“How do you plan to get in?” Qian Xiaoai asked.
“Let me think… Let me think…” Duan Juan stared at the dark swirl and said with a frown.
She couldn’t think of a way to get close to that area, because nothing could survive the energy contained in that fire. Everything would be melted by that black fire eventually.