Chapter 212 "Is this the Hell Bus...?
For these reasons, after struggling through the night, he still followed, although he did not know what he would face in the future. But since he had been tied to Miao from the start, there was no other choice.
Even if he stayed in Fengtian City.
Everyone would still regard him as a man of Miao's.
...
Chen Miao did not say much, only led the crowd onto the Hell Bus to prepare for the deepest part of the Land of Extreme Cold. The only issue was that there were too many people; they had exceeded his maximum capacity. He could carry a maximum of 17 people, and this number had clearly been surpassed.
But it wasn't a big problem.
They would just need to make an extra trip back and forth.
It wasn't a big deal.
"This is the Hell Bus...?"
The old gravekeeper, when seated near the bus and looking at the scenery of the Otherworldly Space, flashed a hint of shock in his eyes before laughing lowly to himself as if he thought of something, whispering, "Quite interesting."
His voice was very soft, and no one on the bus heard it.
Now, Chen Miao encountered the first problem with the move, and it seemed to be quite serious.
The Hell Bus could stop at any corner of the world, as long as there was a road there; the Hell Bus could reach it smoothly. But the problem lay right there, no one had ever set foot in the deepest part of the Land of Extreme Cold—where could there be a road?
If there was no sign of human habitation, how could there be a road?
After flipping through the Hell Bus's routes for a while, he barely found a section of dead-end road. It was built back when the world had not yet undergone Transcendentalization, and the deepest part of the Land of Extreme Cold was not yet a complete forbidden area.
After the world underwent Transcendentalization, this place had become completely inaccessible.
But this segment of road was still a few kilometers away from their target.
If it were an ordinary day, these few kilometers wouldn't pose a big problem, practically a short smoke break away. However, the problem was that it was in the deepest part of the Land of Extreme Cold, where the temperature was nearly at its lowest, making movement extremely difficult. The few kilometers might not be so easily traversed.
...
An hour later.
The Hell Bus successfully stopped on a dead-end road deep in the Land of Extreme Cold, just a few kilometers away from their chosen target location. As long as they could safely reach it, that place would be their new home.
Without any accidents, they would live there for a very long time.
And just getting off the bus, Chen Miao and his companions were stunned by the scene before them, involuntarily gaping in unison.
"Oh my god..."
Staring at the scene in shock, Hungry Monkey said in a trance, "No wonder the Land of Extreme Cold is ranked first among the ten forbidden areas. How can normal people survive here?"
The first feeling was the cold; it was bitterly cold.
It was a dry cold.
The air was extremely dry, devoid of any moisture, and the chill stabbed at one's face like knives. But if it were merely this, the place couldn't claim the title of a forbidden land.
They had prepared well before disembarking.
As Supernatural beings, their physical condition was far superior to ordinary people, and with a large number of cold-protection measures, everyone wrapped themselves up tightly. Despite the cold weather, there was no immediate fatal risk for a short while.
What truly shocked them was the sight of an entire wasteland. There wasn't a single snowflake on the ground, while in the sky spread cloud cover stretching for miles. Those clouds, as if solidifying into reality, floated overhead.
And at a glance, it seemed these clouds were merely a few kilometers above the ground.
They gave off the feeling that they could crash down at any moment.
Perhaps this was what people meant by the oppressive sense of 'dark clouds over the city.'
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The entire wilderness was filled with a large number of secret realm entrances. Secret realm entrances were not uncommon; in the wilderness of Fengtian City, many such entrances could be seen. Those secret realm entrances that had not been perfectly cleared would randomly appear in some corner of the wild.
The entrance to a secret realm was vortex-shaped.
It was dangerous to drive on the highways in the wild suburbs. If a high-level secret realm vortex entrance happened to appear in the middle of the road while you were driving, and you plunged into it before you could brake in time, you were basically unable to come out alive.
Of course.
This situation was rare, after all, it was not easy to encounter such a coincidence, but it was not without precedent.
And here.
Countless secret realm entrances filled the surroundings, many times more numerous than those on the wilderness of Fengtian City. One secret realm entrance was next to another, almost completely blocking the way around.
Not quite.
It would be inaccurate to say "around."
It should be "everywhere." All the places visible to the naked eye were surrounded by secret realm entrances, only the road beneath their feet was clear of them.
At this moment for them, there were only two ways to reach their destination.
The first way.
Was to fly at a low altitude.
The second way.
Was to find a path through the numerous secret realm entrances.
But soon.
They discovered that the first method could be passed on, and the reason was quite simple. Hungry Monkey took out an F-grade weapon from his bosom and tossed it into the air. Soon after, they saw the weapon hang eerily in the air upon reaching a certain height.
After a moment's pause.
Frost suddenly covered the entire weapon, and then they saw it fall straight to the ground and break into more than a dozen pieces.
"Just as I thought."
With a complicated expression, Hungry Monkey spoke, "From the moment I got here until now, when I couldn't see a single sparrow in the air, I had this premonition that the temperature overhead seemed to be much lower than on the ground."
"..."
Yuan Buping remained silent, not speaking; he was considering if he should rebut at this time. Would it not be strange if there were sparrows in the sky with such temperatures?
Chen Miao, after glancing upwards, likewise took a few miscellaneous items from his bosom and tested them out. Without exception, all were instantly frozen mid-air before falling to the ground and shattering.
It was somewhat like being instantly frozen.
The height was probably around three meters.
Chen Miao's eyes narrowed slightly as he gazed upwards. Above the height of three meters, the air would become so cold that under the influence of natural forces or some supernatural power, any object surpassing this height would be instantly and completely frozen.
This also meant that flying low over these densely packed secret realm entrances was an impractical idea.
Most of the secret realm entrances were between two meters seventy and three meters in height. Setting aside whether they could fly or if their means of flight could be so precisely controlled, even if they truly could fly, it would be impossible to successfully reach the destination through such a treacherous route.
This was essentially an impassable route.
"Not bad."
Chen Miao looked around and nodded, a satisfied smile appearing on his face, "The place Hungry Monkey found is good, absolutely hidden. With so many natural barriers here, it would take outsiders a lot of effort to find us."