sjar Chapter 1088 Life and Death on the Tortoise's Back
Chapter 1088 Life and Death on the Tortoise's Back
In some unknown sea area thousands of miles away from Paris, a white cloud is speeding across the surface of the ocean.
"Hey Lao Wu, is your coordinate system reliable? We've been flying for ages and haven't seen a single bird."
Lin Qiye sat cross-legged on the somersault cloud, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth, utterly bored.
Wu Hen, who was next to him, was looking down at a compass in his hand. The compass needle was spinning wildly and couldn't settle down at all.
"The life magnetic field is too strong; it's interfering with the instruments," Wu Hen said calmly.
"According to the star map left by Gilgamesh, it is in this sea area."
"Can't be wrong."
"A strong life magnetic field?" Lin Qiye became interested.
"How strong?"
"It's off the charts." Wu Hen looked up and pointed ahead.
"look."
A black dot appeared at the horizon.
As the somersault cloud drew closer, the black dot rapidly enlarged, revealing itself to be a giant island covered in dense vegetation.
"Damn, we're finally here." Lin Qiye spat out the grass in his mouth.
"This is the divine tortoise that contains the King's Treasury? It's huge!"
"This isn't big." Wu Hen's expression was more solemn than ever before.
"It's alive. The whole island is alive."
The somersault cloud descended slowly and hovered above the island.
Lin Qiye looked down; the plants on the island were growing far too wildly.
Each tree was like a skyscraper, and the vines were as thick as giant pythons.
"Let's go down and take a look," Lin Qiye said, about to jump down.
"and many more."
Wu Hen grabbed him.
"Something's wrong."
"The vitality of these plants is so uniform, it's like... they all grew from the same body."
"Isn't it just growing from a tortoise shell?"
"You do not understand."
"What I mean is, they don't have an independent will to live; they're all just extensions of the turtles."
“Stepping onto this island is like stepping directly onto its back.” Wu Hen’s eyes were full of vigilance.
"A single sneeze could be enough to kill us hundreds of times over."
"You're just too cautious," Lin Qiye said, pursing his lips, but still heeding the advice.
"Then what can we do? Just stand there and watch from the sky?"
"Let's test the waters first." Wu Hen pulled out a throwing knife from his pocket and hurled it at the roots of a plant below.
"puff!"
The throwing knife landed precisely on the tree root, but then, something strange happened the next second.
The tree root wriggled as if it were alive, swallowing the throwing knife whole without leaving a trace.
Lin Qiye and Wu Hen looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes.
"Damn it, he's a monster," Lin Qiye cursed.
"It seems we have no choice but to force our way in."
"Find the entrance to the treasure vault, grab the loot, and run."
"The entrance is most likely at the joint of the shell, or near the breathing hole. We have to go down and look for it."
Wu Hen put away his compass and prepared for battle.
The two landed on a black reef at the edge of the island, the ground beneath their feet feeling hard yet smooth.
"This is a tortoise shell?" Lin Qiye stomped his foot, making a dull sound.
"Hmm." Wu Hen squatted down and picked up a bit of soil from the ground.
"The soil is full of life energy... This old bastard, he treats his back like paradise."
The moment he finished speaking.
"Om-!"
The entire island—no, the entire giant tortoise—seemed to tremble slightly.
Immediately afterwards, the quiet plants around them came to life.
"Watch out!" Wu Hen shouted.
Before they finished speaking, dozens of things that had been disguised as ordinary vines at their feet suddenly sprang up!
These vines shot out like arrows, whistling through the air.
They stabbed at the two from all directions, moving so fast that only afterimages could be seen!
The tip of each vine is sharp as a spear, covered with spiraling barbs.
If you were to get even a slight graze on it, it would be turned into mincemeat.
The overwhelming sense of oppression made Lin Qiye's breath catch in his throat for a moment.
That was too fast! There wasn't even time to react!
"【Slay the White】!"
At the critical moment, Lin Qiye's eyes instantly turned black and white.
The world around us has lost all color, leaving only the extreme monotony of black and white.
The speed of the vines shooting towards him slowed down, but it was still astonishingly fast.
He grabbed Wu Hen and disappeared into the void between black and white.
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!"
Countless vines instantly pierced through the spot where they had just been standing.
They collided violently, producing a loud, metallic clang.
Several vines that missed their target still managed to lash out and struck a nearby thousand-meter-high mountain peak.
That mountain peak, made of hard rock, was like a block of tofu.
It was instantly split open, collapsed with a roar, and stirred up clouds of dust.
The other vines that lashed the tortoise shell only sparked a few flecks, leaving not even a white mark.
Lin Qiye and Wu Hen, who were hiding in the void, clearly saw this scene.
"Damn..." Cold sweat beaded on Lin Qiye's forehead.
"What kind of defense is this? It can't even be broken by itself?"
"I told you, this thing is a monster." Wu Hen's expression was also very grim.
"We may... have targeted the wrong target."
An entity whose power cannot be harmed even in the slightest by their own attacks is beyond their comprehension.
This is simply not an opponent they can challenge at this stage.
"What should we do? Run away?" Lin Qiye asked.
"We have no choice but to retreat."
Wu Hen said decisively,
"We know too little about it, and to act rashly would be suicide."
"This is no longer a treasure vault guardian, this is a natural disaster."
Just as the two were preparing to retreat...
“Woooo ...!!!”
A deep, resonant sound, seemingly capable of shattering the soul, came from the deep sea beneath their feet.
Immediately afterwards, the sea ahead churned violently, and a gigantic head, comparable to a mountain, slowly emerged from the water.
It was a ferocious turtle head, its skin like a wrinkled, ancient rock.
His two eyes were like two pale green moons, devoid of any emotion, only a deathly stillness.
What terrified Lin Qiye the most were those eerie green eyes.
It actually broke through the boundary between reality and nothingness, accurately locking onto them hidden in the world of [Zhanbai]!
It was discovered!
"Oh no!" Lin Qi
The alarm bells rang loudly in my heart at night.
The next moment, all the vines that had sprung up on the island instantly changed direction.
Like a giant cage, it was rapidly shrinking towards their spatial coordinates!
All around, in the sky and on the ground, were the shadows of death.
This time, it was a decisive blow!
"Hold on tight!" Lin Qiye roared, using all his divine power.
"【Night's Glitter】!"
His figure disappeared instantly.
The next moment, it appeared a hundred meters away, but the encirclement of vines was even faster, following it like a shadow!
Flash again!
Lin Qiye's figure flickered nine times in succession within the dense, impenetrable net of vines.
Each time, it narrowly escaped at the last second before being pierced.
When his ninth flash ended, he was already 10,000 meters in the air, panting heavily.
Looking down, the giant net of death, woven from countless vines, had completely closed, emitting a teeth-grinding friction sound.
If it had been a fraction of a second later, he and Wu Hen would have been crushed into nothingness by now.
On the sea, the giant turtle head gave them a deep look, and a hint of... doubt seemed to flash in its eerie green pupils.
Then it ignored it and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, creating a huge wave.
The vines on the island ceased their attack and returned to their previous quiet state.
It was as if the devastating attack had never happened.
On the somersault cloud, Lin Qiye and Wu Hen both fell silent.
The relief of surviving the ordeal was quickly replaced by a deeper chill.
“It… seems to be able to see us.” Wu Hen broke the silence first.
"Yes, that last glance it gave us was definitely aimed at us." Lin Qiye said, still shaken.
"Damn it, I almost died here."
"Seven Nights." Wu Hen's expression turned extremely serious.
"Don't you think its attack just now didn't seem like it was protecting something?"
Lin Qiye was taken aback. "What do you mean?"
"Its attacks are indiscriminate, even targeting its own shell and island."
"This isn't called guarding, it's called cleaning," Wu Hen analyzed.
“Any living thing that steps on its back will be indiscriminately eliminated.”
"This doesn't seem like the behavior of a treasure vault guardian."
Lin Qiye frowned, recalling the scenes from just now.
Indeed, the turtle's reaction was more like a triggered instinct, an absolutely exclusive instinct.
A guardian should at least be able to distinguish between friend and foe, or have a clearly defined area of protection.
But this divine tortoise gives the impression that its very existence is a forbidden zone.
"If it weren't guarding the King's Treasury..." Lin Qiye muttered to himself, a more terrifying thought surfacing in his mind.
"What is it doing?"
Wu Hen looked down at the island below, which had returned to calm but was still eerily strange, and slowly uttered a few words.
"Perhaps it's not 'guarding' anything..."
"It is 'suppressing' something."