Zhang Shan and Qiao Jiajin studied the bare door frame for a while. After discovering there was no passage through it whatsoever, Zhang Shan went off on his own to investigate other items in the room.
However, Qiao Jiajin was still staring intently at the door frame at this moment. He reached out his hand and slowly closed the door frame, then suddenly pulled it open again.
The same action continued repeatedly five or six times, making even Zhang Shan in the distance somewhat puzzled.
“Tattoo boy, what are you busy with?”
Qiao Jiajin closed the door once more. “Big guy, I’m feeling like maybe it has something to do with the posture of opening the door?”
“What do you think?” Zhang Shan shook his head and asked.
“I’ve tried several different postures already,” Qiao Jiajin said. “But the other side of the door is still a wall.”
“Aren’t you talking nonsense?” Zhang Shan looked at Qiao Jiajin. “When Qinglong opened the door just now, we didn’t see him make any special movements either.”
“You’re right.” Qiao Jiajin nodded, then closed the door again. “If it’s not related to the posture of opening the door, then it must be related to the timing of opening the door. I’ll keep the door closed a bit longer.”
“I really can’t do anything with you, kid…”
Before Zhang Shan could finish his words, he suddenly felt a human figure flash before him, immediately followed by the enormous sound of rushing wind.
“Big guy!! Watch out!!”
Zhang Shan instinctively raised his hands to block, but felt his limbs were not responding to him, as if they had been filled with cement and were moving stiffly.
In the next second, an extremely forceful palm strike landed on the side of his neck. Zhang Shan spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and was sent flying by the momentum. Although Qiao Jiajin in the distance didn’t fly away, his mouth was also filled with a large mouthful of blood.
Qiao Jiajin forcefully raised his head to maintain consciousness and suddenly saw Qinglong’s smiling face before his eyes.
Qiao Jiajin wanted to try to twist his waist forcefully in midair, but the movements he imagined and the movements he actually made were completely different. He actually threw a punch in midair, striking at the empty air in front of him.
“‘Soul Seizing’…”
Qiao Jiajin had no way out and could only forcefully endure this strike from Qinglong. Zhang Shan in the distance also let out a wail of pain on the ground.
The two of them were knocked to the ground by Qinglong in just a few seconds. They both scrambled up from the ground and looked at Qinglong, only to discover that Qinglong’s current state was even stranger than before.
His hair was disheveled, his entire body covered in blood, and the wounds on his forehead and arms had never healed. His pair of eyes were bloodshot to the extreme, and the expression on his face was even more crazed than before.
“Now there are no more obstacles…” Qinglong laughed loudly. “You really don’t take me seriously at all…”
The two of them stood up shakily, just about to prepare their fighting stances again, when Qinglong flashed and appeared before Zhang Shan once more.
Zhang Shan thought Qinglong was about to launch a surprise attack again and hurriedly raised his hands to protect his chest, but Qinglong merely raised his hand toward his forehead. In the next second, a ball of golden radiance floated up from between Zhang Shan’s eyebrows and drifted into Qinglong’s hand. At this moment, Zhang Shan slowly lowered his head, his eyes gradually becoming vacant and lifeless.
“Your rationality… I’ll keep it safe for you,” Qinglong said with a smile. “Mere mortals…”
Seeing this, Qiao Jiajin hurriedly rushed forward trying to rescue Zhang Shan, only to discover that Qinglong had appeared before him once again.
“And your rationality too.”
Qiao Jiajin stared with wide eyes, watching a ball of golden light fly out from his own brow.
…
More and more people began to have their foreheads touched by invisible threads in the corridor, then slowly stopped their movements.
After all, only a very small number of people could sense the existence of the threads, but in this inescapable “train” car, even knowing the positions of the threads, there was no way to avoid them one hundred percent.
Even in the extremely vast “Land of the End,” a single “Heavenly Horse Moment” could cause countless deaths, naturally not to mention this narrow “train” space.
Earth-Monkey and Earth-Rooster were trying hard to observe the situation outside through the door crack, because they were really quite curious.
It seemed that from a certain moment, the outside had gradually become extremely quiet, as if this “rebellion” had already ended.
“Shit… did you see that?” Earth-Monkey pointed at Tong Yi and several others standing motionless in the distance. “They look like they’ve been possessed…”
“What’s going on?” Earth-Rooster asked in confusion. “Were they controlled by some ‘Immortal Technique’?”
Earth-Monkey paused when he heard this question, then narrowed his eyes, a gleam flashing in them.
Originally wanting to use “Spirit Vision” to see what “Immortal Technique” these “Participants” had been hit with, he didn’t expect this single glance would nearly scare his soul away.
Glowing and shining transparent strands of hair were waving throughout the entire car. They were darting about wildly in midair like venomous snakes.
“What the hell…” Earth-Monkey said with a trembling voice. “A ‘Heavenly-Level Moment’?!”
“What ‘Heavenly-Level Moment’?” Earth-Rooster asked.
Before Earth-Monkey could determine whose “Heavenly-Level Moment” this actually was, he saw those strands of hair suddenly change direction and rush toward an “Earth-Level” in the corridor.
A strand of hair rushed toward his brow without him knowing anything about it, and then that “Earth-Level” was like a toy doll with its power source unplugged, standing in place and lowering his head.
“Shit!!” Earth-Monkey shouted loudly. “This isn’t just a ‘Heavenly-Level Moment’… this damn thing is even killing ‘Zodiacs’…”
“What’s really going on?” Earth-Rooster asked.
“Earth-Rooster! Outside is completely full of…”
Before he could finish speaking, several strands of hair seemed to notice the room where Earth-Monkey and Earth-Rooster were located. Like eagles in the sky spotting prey, they twisted their heads toward them, then burst forth explosively.
Earth-Monkey didn’t have time to speak and hurriedly tackled Earth-Rooster to the side. At this moment, the door was also forcefully knocked open by something.
The two of them rolled in opposite directions on the ground, and quite a few strands of hair that had been wrapped around Heavenly-Monkey and Heavenly-Rooster’s bodies earlier became tangled on them as well.
Earth-Monkey didn’t have time to worry about these disgusting things. He hurriedly raised his head to look at the sky. Those transparent things had indeed chased after them. Whose “Heavenly-Level Moment” was this exactly… When he released “Tracking,” didn’t he know that the “Zodiacs” were his own people?
Those strands of hair turned toward the direction where Earth-Rooster was located, then adjusted their attack position.
“Earth-Rooster!! Dodge quickly!!” Earth-Monkey knew he didn’t have time to go rescue her and could only shout loudly.
But Earth-Rooster lying on the ground was truly at a complete loss.
Dodge… dodge what? Dodge in which direction?
She couldn’t see even a single strand of hair at all. She only symbolically tilted her head to dodge, but instantly felt something strike her brow. Her brain immediately became completely chaotic, and her eyes also became vacant at this moment.
“Shit!!!” Earth-Monkey cursed loudly, his expression extremely furious, but he had no idea how to deal with these things at all. He could only take advantage of the time they were dealing with Earth-Rooster to try to circle around the threads and run out of the room, arriving at the corridor outside.
The scene in the corridor made him feel a chill down his spine. Countless threads were brandishing their fangs and claws in the air, and whether they were “Zodiacs” or “Participants,” all of them had been locked on as targets.