Book 4: Chapter 35: Saved

Book 4: Chapter 35: Saved

His body was starting to dry out and became lighter and lighter.

Fatty didnt ask me what was going on since we barely spoke to each other at this point. I did, however, have a hunch that bacteria couldnt multiply on a large scale in this dragon vein, so living creatures probably always became mummified corpses when they died here.

Two weeks later, we finally came to a place full of rubbish.

Among the piles of stones in this area were all kinds of bones, rubbish, sky iron(1), and ribbons that had all been piled into a mound. We had been moving along mindlessly for a long time now, but it wasnt like I ever understood why this was happening anyways.

After resting for a few hours, a light suddenly appeared above our heads.

It was sunlight.

When we looked up, we saw that there was a hole to the outside world set at an extremely high place. The sunlight was shining down from that hole, creating a Tyndall effect.

As a beam of light enveloped the three of us, I realized that I hadnt seen the sun for a long time now. We all remained silent, but Fatty held up his hands and knelt deeply.

Since this was an iconic area and I was familiar with Xiao Hua's usual thought process, I knew he'd definitely leave us a message here.

I told Fatty and Poker-Face to look for any hints Xiao Hua might have left for us. After searching carefully in the crevices of the surrounding rocks, Fatty soon found something and pulled me towards him.

The three of us had been staying very close to each otherit had become habit by nowso he easily pulled me over. As soon as he did, a mass of things fell directly from above, hitting the place where I had been standing just seconds before.

I turned my head and saw that it was a fresh corpse. We looked up and immediately began to dodge as more body parts fell from the sky.

As these corpses tumbled all around us, I quickly noticed that the ones stuck to the rocks quickly dried out. I immediately used my peripheral vision to see what was going on.

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TN Notes:

(1) Sky iron was mentioned back in Part 3: Looking for the Dead in the Sea of Lights chapter 18. Old Bing and the gang dug some up and followed a sky iron road to that lotus tomb.