Chapter 10 (2/2)

”Do you see it? Doesn't it seem strange to you?”

With a solemn look on his face, Zhou Quan carefully examined the site of disconnection again and again.

The ground itself seemed to have been stretched in a horizontal direction. The increased length that the railway track had to cover subsequently led to these various points of disconnection.

The two stared at each other in disbelief. How did the land spread and expand on itself, becoming an area larger than before?

”Maybe due to earthquakes?” Zhou Quan said.

However, they had not experienced any tremors earlier on that day, so the possibility of an earthquake was quickly eliminated. But then, there seemed no other explanations left to them.

The two's skin p.r.i.c.kled with apprehension.

As they continued forward, they heard a sequence of splintering sounds as they watched sections of the track being pulled in opposite direction as the ground underneath exponentially expanded.

As they were seeing this scene happening in action, they were amazed, shocked, dumbfounded, and shaking their heads in disbelief. Zhou Quan was gaping at it, lost for words. Zhou Quan looked at it with open-mouthed incredulity.

”Un-fxcking-believable!” Zhou Quan screamed out as he finally regained his ability to talk.

”Hurry up! Let's go! This is quite an unstable region. We've got to run now!” Zhou Quan exclaimed as he hastened his pace.

Despite his chubbiness, Zhou Quan's exceptional stamina had been proven as he climbed the train. Although he was panting and puffing during this rapid sprinting session led by Chu Feng, he did not call for a single break throughout the few li they ran for.

”Uh? The road stops here?”

There was a mountain lying across the track, barring their way.

What they thought was the strangest was that after the railway track had led its way here, it seemed as if the mountain had crashed on top of it. And in truth, this really was the case. As they dug away the earth, the section that had been buried underneath the mountain became visible.

This was profoundly strange even for Chu Feng, let alone for Zhou Quan. They were astounded: how did this happen? How come, out of nowhere, a mountain appeared to repress the progression of this railway track.

”Are you certain that there is a town ahead of us?” Chu Feng asked.

”I'm more than certain!” Zhou Quan answered. He swore that he had never seen this mountain before. To him, the mountain seemed to have cropped up out of the void and decided to lie right on top of the railway track,

”There're no other way for us to do this beside clambering over it,” Zhou Quan said, ”I want to know that as we exit from the other side, are we going to be put into another unknown world or what.”

”No, let's just go around it. It's not far at all.” Chu Feng held him back.

Zhou Quan was a bit unwilling to reconcile to this idea. He genuinely wanted to explore the root of this mountain. He wanted to know where it had come from and how it could appear out of thin air.

”Roar!”

A deafening roar, which sounded from this imposing mountain, shocked and quivered the entire mountain forest. Clearly, there was a dreadful beast residing on this mountain.

”How is this possible? This beast's roar is a bit too terrifying, don't you think? But according to what I'm informed, there shouldn't be any large beasts in this district. Where does this one come from?” Zhou Quan smacked his lips but did not utter a word of his thought.

His intention of clambering over the mountain was quenched by the latent horror that resided in this mountain. He surrendered to Chu Feng's proposal.

During their detour around the mountain, they still heard the startling roar of that beast frequently. Then, he heard someone screeching in shrill cries.

”Someone was trying to climb over the mountain!” Zhou Quan's face was as pale as a sheet. He was grateful that he heeded Chu Feng's advice.

At long last, the two managed to reach the other side of the mountain. They continued to walk alongside the train track in order to get to the town.

At the same time, they became more and more shuddered with fear. The distance between each fragmented railway track started increasing, suggesting that the earth's surface was getting vaster and vaster.

What had supposed to be a ten mile journey now felt like twenty.

Fortunately, they arrived at the town safely and soundly.

Meanwhile, the fog finally started dissipating, but the sun was yet to s.h.i.+ne. It stayed hidden behind something.

”There it is.” the looks on Chu Feng's face s.h.i.+fted as he saw those whips and whips of vines drooping from a main stem. The stem was covered behind a luxuriant layer of lush leaves. Its immensity was unparalleled by any plants growing in nature.

The vegetation blotted out the sky and covered the sun. The entire town was being overlooked by its leafy expanse.

After the fog had all dispersed, the citizens of this small town also sighted this grotesque of a scene. Panic and fear suddenly spread across the town.

”Run! We must run now!” Zhou Quan roared.

In fact, many people had already started running. A car after another, loaded with people, fled from the town.

”No, we must hitchhike someone's car to get us out of here,” Chu Feng said.

”Hitchhike? It's time to hijack!” Zhou Quan vented out an a.s.sertive shout.

Nonetheless, someone did give them a life in the end. A middle-aged man drove them out of the town into the distance.

Surprisingly, communication finally restored after the fog had all dissipated.

Chu Feng turned on his communicator at once, anxious to know about anything that would strike him as odd.

”Oh G.o.d! Mount Song, w.a.n.gwu Mountain, Luofushan Mountain and many other famous mountains all had encounters with many kinds of strange occurrences. Even the rocks had streams of purple light drifting on them.”

Zhou Quan gave off a queer sounded yelp of cry as he found this exact piece of news. He could not believe that so many major events could have happened overnight!

”Wait, what? Here look! 'Someone... developed a pair of silver wings?' After eating a silver fruit growing on an ordinary-looking tree on the road?” Having read this piece of news, Zhou Quan said nothing but sat there as if in a trance.

The world was in the process of a sequence of rapid seismic s.h.i.+fts! This was the most immediate feeling that struck Chu Feng after reading many of the news reports.

<script>