Chapter 695 Back to the Past, on the Eve of the Decisive Battle

The night was as cool as water, and the moonlight sprinkled like fine sand, falling into the desert below.

In a wind-eroded rock forest, Hongxiu tried her best to escape, crossing over wind-eroded rock pillars, while trying to suppress her breathing as much as possible to avoid exposing her position.

Behind her, the sound of breaking through the air continued to sound.

Silver needles with sutures, like the embroidery needles of the god of death, shuttled through the rock forest, easily piercing all obstacles along the way.

And behind a row of silver needles, Lin Xue chased after her with a sickle.

Hongxiu was a little miserable. Since the other party changed his thinking mode just now, she knew that mind reading was useless.

As a top student in the medical department, this woman has deeply understood the digital correspondence between human muscles and bones. She doesn't need reaction time at all. She can easily attack with numbers when she sees them.

But she is different. She is just an ordinary person. It is really unreasonable for the other party to despise her in this way.

Especially since the opponent still holds the power of the God of Seam, these silver needles and sutures are extremely troublesome. Once entangled, even with her ability, it is difficult to get out.

So after fighting with the opponent several times and finding that she was completely defeated, Hongxiu decisively chose to escape.

"Swish!"

A sound of breaking through the air suddenly sounded above her head. In a short period of thought, the opponent had discovered her position again in some way.

Hongxiu hurriedly got up and ran away again.

The silver needles around her seemed to have eyes, emerging from all directions and surrounding her.

"Damn it!"

Hongxiu cursed inwardly, knowing that there was no way to escape, and hurriedly drilled into the sandstone under her feet.

Her barrier transmission ability is very useful for reconnaissance and ambush, but it is not easy to use in escape, because when she assimilates into the obstacle, her movement speed will be greatly slowed down, and she cannot hide too deep, because each barrier can only last for half a minute at most. If she doesn't come out when the time is up, she will suffocate herself.

The combination of these two shortcomings makes it less convenient to escape on the ground.

At this moment, she really had no choice but to hide underground. At least in the process of entering the obstacle, she was invincible.

However, not long after Hongxiu went underground, she suddenly felt a tremor, followed by a sense of floating.

The boulder she was on seemed to be forcibly lifted up from the ground by some force.

This was not over yet. Several silver needles and sutures penetrated the stone and spread outward, connecting to a large amount of sandstone on the surrounding sand.

Then, pieces of boulder began to be "sewn" to the sandstone where she was.

"Boom... Boom..."

Listening to the constant bombardment around her, Hongxiu was startled and quickly realized the other party's purpose: to suffocate her to death in this stone!

Obviously, this woman has seen through the weakness of her ability. If she does not show up after a certain period of time, she will be assimilated into an obstacle forever.

Thinking of this, Hongxiu hurriedly moved outward, trying to leave the boulder. However, every time she left a stone, new stones were stitched in from the outside, causing her to keep moving through the sandstones, and she could never see the end.

The time for passing through the obstacle was still passing by, and Hongxiu became more and more anxious. She mobilized all her energy and tried her best to crawl outward.

Fortunately, as more and more stones were stitched together, the surface area became larger and larger, and the speed at which the other party filled the stones gradually could not keep up with her escape speed.

Finally, just before the time for passing through the obstacle was about to reach the limit, Hongxiu got out of the sandstone and breathed fresh air again.

However, before she could rejoice, a large net woven with sutures came towards her. This time, Hongxiu had no chance to dodge and was caught in the net.

Below, Lin Xue walked out of the smoke and dust. With a slight pull on the sutures extending from the fingers of her right hand, the net around Hongxiu was quickly tightened, and her whole body was entangled like a dumpling by the spider web-like sutures, hanging in the air, completely unable to move.

"Sure enough, your obstacle crossing can only be assimilated into tangible matter, and the seams formed by the energy body cannot be assimilated." Lin Xue looked at Hong Xiu and spoke.

Hong Xiu felt a little bitter when she heard this.

This woman is really too sharp...

She is the one who has the ability to read minds, but the other party is like a piercing eye, easily seeing through her weaknesses one by one, and countering them one by one.

"Well, now, tell me everything you know." Lin Xue stepped forward, confiscated Hong Xiu's death hook, and placed the sharp blade of the sickle in front of the other party's neck.

Hong Xiu couldn't break free at this time, and in the thoughts of Lin Xue that she read, the other party had already thought of dozens of ways to deal with her if she broke free.

This complicated thought made Hongxiu's scalp numb. She suddenly wanted to take back what she said before: This woman is too scary. Compared to that, she would rather fight Mu You with real swords and guns, at least she would die clearly...

"I don't know the details, I only know that this is his "Plan B"..." Hongxiu swallowed her saliva and had to speak obediently.

"What do you mean?" Lin Xue frowned.

"Before the action, he prepared two plans. The first one is what I told you before, to control the authority of the Creation Mountain and then revive the first generation of Fools. And if this plan fails to work, the backup plan will be activated, using a prop to go back to the past directly, but doing so seems to have some unknown risks, so it is set as a backup plan..."

"What is the purpose of going back to the past? Can you come back?" Lin Xue asked.

"I don't know..."

"I don't know?"

"I really do not know!"

Seeing Lin Xue frowning and moving the sickle in front of her, Hong Xiu hurriedly added: "He also revealed the above unintentionally, and he never told me the more specific content."

Lin Xue looked at her with a sneer: "You are a mind-reader. What do you want to know? Do you need him to tell you?"

Hongxiu's face looked a little sad: "I...can't read his mind."

"Why?"

"He doesn't allow it..."

"It's a joke, why don't you read it if he doesn't allow it?"

"He will feel it!" Hong Xiu sighed and said with some sadness: "Before helping me integrate the mind-reading divine bones, he threatened me with his child, saying that he had some top secrets in his heart that could never be known to outsiders. If I dare to try to read his mind, no matter whether I succeed or not, he will let us, mother and son, die without a burial..."

"..."

After hearing this, Lin Xue's face gradually became weird.

"What's that look in your eyes?" Hong Xiu suddenly noticed that there was some 'sympathy' in Lin Xue's eyes when he looked at her, which made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

"I just think you are pitiful."

"What's the meaning?"

"Can't you still see that your child is dead?" Lin Xue said bluntly.

Hong Xiu suddenly became excited when he heard this: "No, my son is not dead! He promised me that he would train my child to become a talented person and then return him to me intact!"

"you……"

Lin Xue was stunned and couldn't tell for a moment whether she really thought so, or whether she simply couldn't accept the facts and was deceiving herself...

"Even if you don't read his mind, as the descendants of the God of Death, our eyes can directly see the good and evil values ​​​​of each person. This represents the core essence of a soul. If your son is still alive, you should be able to I saw two numbers in his body, but actually..." Lin Xue shook her head.

The reason why she was so sure that Hongxiu's child was dead was because there was only one good and evil number in the little boy's body, -129.

This is obviously the value of the old man named Zuoqiu. Although it is a negative number, the value is not too big, which shows that this person is not actually so bad as to be heinous.

"Maybe... it's just because the numbers overlap... Besides, we haven't seen any other examples of this kind of soul possession. How do you know there will be two?" Hongxiu defended instinctively.

Lin Xue didn't answer. She raised her head and took a closer look at Hongxiu, and suddenly her finger popped out.

A silk thread flew out and wrapped around Hong Xiu's face before she could react. As Lin Xue moved her fingers, the mask on Hong Xiu's face fell off along with the silk thread, revealing the true face under the mask.

"What are you doing?" Hongxiu was startled and turned her face quickly, trying to cover it.

"Sure enough, your appearance has recovered..." Lin Xue sighed.

"So what?" Hongxiu was a little flustered.

"At that time, we were fighting for the inheritance of the God of Death in the Tomb of the God of Death. We both lost our most precious things. My grandma died because of this, and you lost your appearance."

"This is not a prank left by the God of Death to future generations, but a price that everyone who controls the power of the God of Death must pay. I once thought that this price was fixed, but now from your example, it seems that in everyone's heart The most precious things may change with the stages of life..."

"So even the God of Death himself in history is always alone without any friends, because anyone he regards as a close relative will die soon..."

Lin Xue looked at Hong Xiu's face that had returned to normal: "Your appearance was once ruined, but now it has recovered, because the most precious thing in your heart has changed, from appearance to your child..."

"No, it's impossible! My son is still alive, he can't be dead! This is just your guess..." Hong Xiu's eyes widened, her voice suddenly raised, and she tried her best to retort, but her trembling body proved that she was shaking. .

Lin Xue breathed out. The more she retorted, the more she proved how much she valued her child.

"Unfortunately, as the descendants of the God of Death, from the day we obtained the power of the God of Death, we were destined to never have a loved one again in this life..."

"Whether your son is alive or not, you just need to wait until they come back and read your own mind to confirm."

"However, the premise is that they can come back..."

…

Mu You's vision gradually recovered from the darkness.

When he opened his eyes again, he was still standing in the cave of the altar, and his position had not changed at all.

The cave was empty, he was the only one, and the little boy and Ava were nowhere to be found.

The surrounding storm had calmed down for some time, but when Mu You turned around to look, he quickly discovered something unusual: he saw a stone suspended in mid-air near the entrance of the cave.

Mu You stepped forward and reached out to take the stone.

This is obviously just an ordinary stone without any strange energy attached, but it floats in the air so naturally, unless...

After thinking about it, Mu You threw the pebbles out of the cave.

The stone was released and just flew three or four meters away before it stopped and hovered in mid-air again.

Mu You raised his eyebrows and finally confirmed: he was in the stop world!

"Is it because of that block?" Mu You recalled the previous scene, and after a moment of pondering, he vaguely understood.

The cube is a container for the fragments of the Heart of Time. Vivian once said that after activating this thing, he can temporarily gain a time sensing ability similar to Vivian. When someone around him activates the time ability, he will also respond passively.

The little boy destroyed the hourglass treasure before, and obviously activated some kind of time ability. Because of the shattering of the cube, he was also involved in this ability with the other party.

"Who?"

Mu You was sorting out the current situation when he suddenly heard a barely detectable sound coming from outside the cave.

Mu You flashed out of the cave and saw a young figure in the mountain corridor in front of him moving outwards stealthily. It was the little boy before.

At this moment, the boy was tiptoeing, taking every step very carefully, trying not to make any sound.

Unfortunately, he still underestimated Mu You's hearing.

The moment he saw Mu You appear, the little boy's face flashed with obvious panic, and he no longer restrained his steps and ran wildly towards the outside of the cave.

But the speed was still too slow. Mu You's figure flashed continuously like a ghost. In a few steps, he had already caught up with the other party and lifted up the little boy.

The little boy was strangled by Mu You's iron hand again. While struggling frantically, his heart was full of bitterness.

He laughed at the other party in the end. Next, he should have left alone and arrived at this absolutely safe place. God knows why the other party followed him...

It felt like driving a car and giving a middle finger to a passerby. After the other party was furious, he should have left, but suddenly found that the car was out of gas.

"Where is this place?"

"What is the prop you used just now?"

Mu You asked two questions in a row, and at the same time, he exerted a little force on his hands.

The little boy suddenly felt suffocated again, his little face flushed, and his neck was on the verge of being twisted off at any time.

"This is the world of cessation, the world of cessation in the past... cough cough, the prop just now is the anchor point of the world of cessation. After activation, you can go to the world of cessation that has been opened in history..." The matter has been settled, and the little boy has nothing to hide. Under the threat of life, he hurriedly told everything.

"The world of cessation in the past..." Mu You frowned: "What era is it exactly?"

"1300 years ago... the eve of the decisive battle between the Fool and the Devouring God Beast... cough cough..." The little boy tried to tell the information, and golden stars began to appear in front of his eyes. Like a drowning man, he kicked his limbs desperately.

"?"

Mu You was stunned. He didn't expect that he would follow the other party and directly cross more than 1300 years...

"How to go back?"

Reacting, Mu You asked subconsciously.

Going back to the past is not a good thing for him, because there are still many things waiting for him to deal with in the future.

Moreover, this time is obviously not a normal time travel, but entering a world of cessation in the past. Doesn't that mean that if he can't go back, he can only be trapped in this world forever?

"I don't know... ahem, my teacher... only told me how to get here... I never thought about going back..." the little boy said with difficulty.

"Teacher? Who is it?" Seeing that the little boy was about to die, Mu You slightly relaxed his grip on him.

"The Lord of Dawn City of this era..." The little boy finally got a breath and took a deep breath, but he didn't dare to ignore Mu You's questions, for fear of being controlled again.

"The agent of the God of Time..." Mu You suddenly understood a little. No wonder this person knew so much about Dawn City and time ability. It turned out that they were teachers and students. (End of this chapter)