The Demon Concubine of God

Chapter 399 Go down to the tiankeng and take a look

The thunderstorm in the sky seemed to have been accumulating for a long time. It rained all night and only stopped in the afternoon of the next day.

Everyone hid in a desolate place, without even a house to shelter from the rain. However, there were crevices in the huge rock peaks in the rocky forest where a few people could hide. Many people hid under the crevices to avoid the rain, while more people were left to get drenched in the rain, covering their heads with tattered clothes, looking worse off than animals.

Shen Wen, Chu Yanqiu, and Ji Ziyin were not like those people who were exposed to the rain. They found a huge rock crevice that was just big enough to hide the three of them. Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyin hid him in the innermost part, and the other two were outside. When the rain poured down like a waterfall, they took off their coats to block the rain from outside, trying to protect Shen Wen from the little rain.

Shen Wen tried hard to hide inside, curling up his body even more, and asked the two people to come closer, but the two people acted as if they didn't hear him and remained motionless like stone statues. Shen Wen pulled Chu Yanqiu, but nothing moved. He then tried to pull Ji Ziyan, but still nothing moved. He could only look up at the sky in silence. He rolled his eyes and cursed God in his heart.

"Damn the weather, damn the place! I'd better not let me know which demon or ghost is playing this prank, otherwise..."

Otherwise he would continue to shoot rockets and set off fireworks.

It was not until the evening that the heavy rain stopped. People shook off the rain on their bodies and ran out from the rocks, each holding their stomachs, looking for food everywhere.

Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyan squeezed the rain out of their raincoats, and when they turned around, they saw the tiny person curled up in the crevice of the rock, dozing off like a nodding chick.

The two people moved silently, came out from the crevice, and only started talking after they walked a little further away.

Ji Ziyan said he was going to find water and food. Chu Yanqiu looked at the dim sunset and said that it would be cold at night, so he went to find wood, hoping to start a fire at night.

The two were about to divide the work when they heard someone say in a panic, "Oh no! The sky wasn't torn apart, but a hole appeared on the ground. Xunli Palace is about to be swallowed by the bottomless pit, and now the Stone Forest is about to be swallowed by the bottomless pit."

The chaotic shouting woke up Shen Wen who was taking a nap. He came out from the crevice to inquire about the situation.

Chu Yanqiu, Ji Ziyin and Shen Wen had no choice but to find the crowd and ask about the situation first.

The people who had left the rocky forest came back in a panic, and they took everyone out of the rocky forest.

Sure enough, as soon as they walked out of the rocky forest, a sinkhole as deep as a natural moat lay beneath people's feet. The boundless wasteland of the past was gone, and everything except the rocky forest was sunken by the sinkhole.

The people at the back were talking about it, all worried that when they woke up, the sinkhole would sink the rocky forest as well. They decided to get ready to run out of the rocky forest, the farther the better.

These are the majority of people who just want safety. There are also some small groups who are bold enough to take risks and decide to go down into the tiankeng to find out what's going on.

The burly man who had fought with Ji Ziyan the day before yesterday came over and asked Ji Ziyan if he wanted to go.

Ji Ziyan looked at his second brother and then at Shen Wen, who was stroking his chin and looking at the sinkhole seriously.

Before Ji Ziyin could answer, Shen Wen patted the sturdy man on the shoulder and said, "What a coincidence! We also have the same idea, but we have to be cautious in making this decision. This huge pit is too deep. We have to take some safety measures and find some handy tools to be absolutely safe. What do you think?"

The sturdy man nodded and said, "Then let's make a deal. We will each go find some tools that suit our needs, and gather here in two days. Then we will all go down to the tiankeng and take a look."

The strong man left, and everyone else dispersed. Shen Wen and the other two returned to Shilin. Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyin went to look for firewood and food and drink according to their previous division of labor. Shen Wen and the eagle on his shoulder were left to wait.

They were not there for long. During this time, Shen Wen called out the drone and asked it to explore the terrain outside the stone forest. He released a lot of drones this time, covering all directions. They had a long endurance and could fly tens of thousands of miles without any problem.

At night, after everyone had eaten and slept in their clothes by the fire for a while, drones began to return one after another.

Shen Wen was afraid of disturbing the sleeping Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyan, so he left the stone forest and went farther away. After receiving the information sent back by the drone, he turned on the night vision screen to check, and the more he looked, the weirder it seemed.

"What is this? Is this area just a rocky forest? Other places are inaccessible. Once it's far away, the drone will fall inexplicably in the area it's flying, or be struck by lightning from high altitude. Is this lightning remotely controlled? Why is it so frequent?"

Chu Yanqiu, who was hiding behind Shen Wen and watching, suddenly moved his ears. He turned around and saw his elder brother Ji Ziyan coming over quietly. He hushed at Ji Ziyan, and Ji Ziyan became even more cautious.

Shen Wen received more drone exploration information one after another. He looked at the screen and fell into deep thought. He couldn't help but ask: "Where on earth is this place? This damn time and space conversion, where have I been transferred to? Is it an alien planet?"

Shen Wen thought about it but couldn't figure it out, so he put away the night vision screen, yawned, turned around and went back.

Returning to the fire, he saw Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyan still asleep, so he fell to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.

Listening to his even breathing, Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyan stood up tacitly, left the fire, and went to a secluded place to talk.

Ji Ziyin said, "In two days, I will follow those people down the tiankeng, and you will take Shen Wen away from the stone forest. I didn't expect that he is still a nosy person. He has been with me in the Ji Mansion for so many years, but I don't know that he has this kind of personality."

Chu Yanqiu felt mixed emotions, and he couldn't explain to Ji Ziyan for a while that this Shen Wen was not that Shen Wen.

Chu Yanqiu had been thinking about it for a long time, and he knew that the arrangement Ji Ziyan mentioned was correct, because he had secretly sworn in his heart that no matter what happened, he would not leave with Shen Wen, but when he raised his eyes and looked straight at his eldest brother, he hesitated.

The bottom of the pit.

He always felt that the bottom of the pit would be very dangerous. Compared with his elder brother, his martial arts was better than his elder brother's. If he didn't want to make any mistakes, the safest thing would be for him to go to the bottom of the pit to explore.

Ji Ziyin did not allow him to refuse. He put his hand on Chu Yanqiu's shoulder, patted him as if he was entrusted with an important task, and said, "It's settled. You don't have to worry about me, big brother. Although I am not as good as you, there are many people with the same martial arts skills as me this time. Don't worry, I will definitely come back alive."

The next day, Ji Ziyan handed the task of finding food and drink to Shen Wen, and he and Chu Yanqiu looked for hemp ropes and other handy tools.

Shen Wen would not tell him that the tools needed to go down the deep pit could be found in his weapon space. Since he had accepted the task assigned to him by Ji Zinyin, he would not take out the tools for the time being. He would take out more before going down the deep pit and distribute a set to everyone.

Although the entire rocky forest is not small in area, there is little food for people to eat, not even a grain of rice. There is also no drinkable water. Even though it rained heavily in the past two days, the rocky forest does not gather water. The rainwater that falls on the rocky forest seeps very quickly. In just two days, there is no clean water to be seen.

Shen Wen asked the heavens speechlessly!

"What on earth is this place? It's even harsher than the moon. I'm just wondering how those people before me managed to survive until now?"

Fortunately, there were strategic materials in the weapons space, such as compressed biscuits, canned goods, and bottled water. Now that he could not survive any longer, he could only transfer out the strategic materials.

Chu Yanqiu and Ji Ziyin, who had been busy all morning and were resting by the fire, were worried about whether Shen Wen would be in danger when he went to find food and drink. Shen Wen came back empty-handed.

Seeing that he looked worried and exhausted, Ji Ziyin smiled at him and comforted him, "It doesn't matter if you can't find anything. We are strong enough to let him go hungry for a meal or two."

Chu Yanqiu smiled at him gently, took out the only remaining sour fruit from his arms and said, "Come and eat."

Shen Wen squatted beside Chu Yanqiu, looking at the plum-sized sour fruit in Chu Yanqiu's hand, and said disdainfully: "That's it? What use is it?"

His casual words made the two people feel ashamed. They thought that they had had everything they wanted in their lives, but now they had ended up in this situation.

Shen Wen sat down next to Chu Yanqiu, facing the fire and said, "Forget about the wild fruits and dirty water. From now on, I will only eat human food."

Just as he finished speaking, a pile of things magically appeared at the feet of the three people.

Ji Ziyan's eyes widened at the strange packaging pattern and the strange material, and he picked it up to study it carefully.

Chu Yanqiu also picked up the can. He knew it was something from that time and space. He seemed to have glimpsed a corner of the mysterious veil. His heart was pounding. He looked around vigilantly and listened to the sounds around him.

Fortunately, many people escaped from the rocky forest today, so there was no one peeping around at this moment.

He held the can in front of Shen Wen and asked, "Is this food? Did you bring it back?"

Shen Wen looked at Chu Yanqiu's two bright eyes and felt that this person was so cute when he asked him questions. He couldn't help but hold his face with both hands and said in a coaxing tone like a child: "Yes, I knew you are the smartest!"

It was the first time since Chu Yanqiu was born that he had seen such an ambiguous act, especially in front of his eldest brother. His cheeks immediately turned red, and he leaned back in embarrassment.

Ji Ziyin, who missed it later and finally found something wrong, retracted his attention, looked at them inquiringly and said, "What's wrong? Do you know what this strange thing is? Look, there are a few pieces of meat painted on this iron shell, and they look delicious. Could this be edible? I don't know if it's bad or not."

Shen Wen brought the can in front of Ji Ziyin and said with a smile: "Look, I'll perform a magic trick for you."

When Shen Wen opened the lid of the can swiftly, he asked Ji Ziyan to take a closer look. The familiar color that he had not seen for a long time immediately filled Ji Ziyan's eyes. He almost wanted to shout out that it was the beef he had been thinking about.

Just as he was about to blurt out the secret, Shen Wen covered his mouth, put the can in his hand, and waved at him, "Don't shout it out. This is all I have. If you call everyone else over, we'll be doomed. Maybe we'll be killed, you know?"

This time it was Ji Ziyan's turn to act like a child. He nodded seriously.