Chapter 783: Chapter 783
Old Mo looked at his own hands.
Under the Source Armor, his clothes were soaked with sweat and stuck to his skin!
Yet his hands were free of blood...
He only had a vague feeling that he had experienced something, but the "memory" had been erased.
There was silence in the command channel.
Big Snake had wiped the memory of every Transcendent in the team, but their deep-seated Extraordinary Sensing remained fixated on the emotion of "fear"... This was an indelible physiological reaction.
If this Dream had not been erased.
Then they would now be immersed in a nightmare... likely believing they had already died.
"Did we just step into some sort of Dream?"
Li Chen was the first to come to his senses.
His voice was hoarse, and his brow burned painfully hot. His normally functioning Source Eyes were now, no matter how hard he tried, impossible to open... was this not extremely bizarre?
The only explanation was the cleansing of a nightmare.
But what didn’t make sense was...
How was it that a nightmare that cast a shadow over the whole team left no one injured?
He turned to look behind him.
Not a single person in the team was hurt, but every face was pale and anxious, with memories as if a chunk had been deleted...
"I remember the Source Material Instrument... underwent some anomaly..."
Li Chen suddenly stared at the instrument and murmured as if seeing a ghost, "The Source Material Instrument indicates everything is normal!"
The source of the Dream was found.
There was never any anomaly with the Source Material Instrument; had they entered the Dream at that moment?
Team leader Yuan Yuan’s expression was grim. He held onto the hilt of his long sword in one hand, while his other hand pressed firmly against his chest. His heart throbbed violently upon waking, and it was difficult to calm down... Though he was a Fourth-order Transcendent, his memory was as blank as the other team members.
But judging from the physical reaction, Yuan Yuan was certain that he had definitely gone through some kind of Dream before!
But the content of the Dream seemed to have been deleted by someone.
No matter how hard he tried, he could not remember it clearly.
The only remaining image...
Seemed to be... himself being torn apart by a beam of light?
Blown to bits to the extent that not a single trace of flesh remained!
There was no time to think further.
A dull boom sounded above Yuan Yuan’s head. He drew his long sword, leapt up, and deployed the Sword Domain... The feelings of powerlessness and pain from the nightmare were completely absent in the moment he struck!
A massive boulder rolled down from above the ravine!
With one strike, Yuan Yuan shattered it into pieces!
But... the entire ravine trembled, and rocks from all sides began to crack!
Yuan Yuan expanded the Sword Domain, suppressing the palpitations and confusion from before... It was unclear what had happened to this maze, but it was shaking and breaking apart internally, seemingly impossible to proceed!
Since the Source Material Instrument’s alarm was false...
The top priority was to return to base!
"All members, evacuate the maze!"
At this moment, the formation quickly readjusted. Su He, who was responsible for covering the rear, became the vanguard. The whole team maintained excellent order and quickly retreated toward the outside of the snowy mountain.
Owing to prior exploration, everyone was familiar with the route back to base.
And with the pressure of a "life and death crisis,"
The speed of the team’s progress greatly increased!
The greatest ability of the Investigation Corps... was actually "evacuation"! Every Transcendent who joined the Corps remembered the first iron rule of the Corps.
"No matter what, you must survive."
Gu Shen looked back from within the team.
Under the gaze empowered by "Chi Huo,"
He saw dark golden light intermixed among the tumbling snow and rocks.
These were actually pieces of "snake scales," fluttering and sailing through the snow like golden spike flowers.
This was a spectacle only he could see.
In the real world... such a colossal creature really existed.
With a lash of its long tail, it could split mountains and rocks.
The snow mountain collapsed, tumbling down like a tide.
As the critical moment descended, the Transcendents of the second team had no time to evacuate with the bodies of their comrades; they had to increase their speed to the limit to have a chance of escaping this sudden avalanche.
Chased by the tide of snow, the group successfully escaped the maze.
The gigantic ridge that seemed to have been chiseled by a Heavenly God, which had previously opened a sliver of sky, shook out tons of snow. At this moment, it seemed to close back again...
The exhausted team rested not far from the maze.
Li Chen, with hands pressed against his knees, watched the shocking scene of the "maze" being submerged by snow and shattered rocks.
Large beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead, hitting the transparent visor of his Source Armor.
Still shaken, he said, "If we had been even a little slower..."
Not until this moment did Su He’s calm voice say, "Then we would have been buried there with Old Yao and Yuan Zi."
This statement, however, was deeply terrifying.
It was a race with the "Grim Reaper."
"I have never encountered such a situation before..."
Mo Hongyi, having escaped from the brink of death, recalled everything that had happened and felt it was all very dreamlike.
The moment the alarm of the Source Material Instrument went off.
The "Dream" must have enveloped the maze...
What exactly happened in the Dream?
He murmured, "I have this illusion that... maybe we’ve already died once?"
Zhu Xiao felt that these words struck a chord within him. Subconsciously, he wanted to agree, but seeing the captain’s gloomy face, he quickly lowered his voice and cursed, "Damn, that’s some serious bad luck... Shut your crow mouth right now."