burn me

A giant claw of a nightmare beast hit the rear of the car.Fortunately, the car was still solid, and the claws didn't penetrate the surface, just a few sparks from the friction.

"……What's wrong?"

Hearing the sound, Cecilia and Mu Ran turned their heads one after another, and Qiqi looked at Yi'er who might have woken up because of the violent shaking of the car.

"Fortunately, Mu Ran came to rescue us in time... We are now on our way into the desert," Cecilia straightened up and moved closer, "But we haven't got rid of the group of things yet."

"The Nightmare Beast's physical strength is very good. I'm afraid we won't be able to get rid of it before we reach the abyss." Mu Ran added an explanation, and immediately turned around and continued to increase the speed of the car.

Yi'er sat up on the chair, glanced at the two of them one by one, and spoke after a while, "Then can anyone explain to me why we are going to the abyss?" There was no wave in his tone.

"...I'm also curious about this. How do you know..." Cecilia turned her head to Mu Ran in the front row, and paused meaningfully.

"How did I know that the abyss is connected to Abyss?" Mu Ran smiled lowly, "Maybe I should let my dear teacher Yier recall that you forced me to open an old manuscript in my study a long time ago. Does it look broken?"

"You saw..." Yier stared at her with a complicated expression, and kept rubbing the concentric stone on his wrist.

"A little bit." Mu Ran tapped his temple, "I only saw the relationship between Abyss and Abyss. Isn't this useful?"

Cecilia glanced at Yier who seemed to be slightly relieved after hearing the words, and twitched the corners of her mouth slightly.

All assholes.

Cecilia closed her eyes and threw herself into the uncomfortable seat back.

never mind.It doesn't matter if you think about it or not.

Chapter 17

The abyss is near.

Mu Ran anxiously knocked on the compass that had been turned on to the maximum power, forcing herself not to look back at the "winding and magnificent" tide of nightmare beasts behind her.

——Whether it was because of the mighty army of nightmare beasts behind him or the bad weather around the abyss, anyway, during the day and night of the raid, Mu Ran and his team had never encountered any race in the human enemy's line.

This is also a blessing in misfortune.Cecilia glanced back at the smashed rear of the car and the rear door that was almost broken off, and felt a sense of relief the moment she saw the abyss.

It's finally coming to an end.

Cecilia stood up from the back seat, intending to replace Mu Ran who had insisted on losing energy to the scooter that had run out of energy for three hours, and tried to rush directly into the abyss in one breath.

But she was stopped by Mu Ran.

"I remember that there is a record in the book that the abyss was sealed several times by the elders of the elves 2000 years ago. If I remember correctly, I am afraid that Teacher Yier will come here."

"I can't break the seal." Yi'er, who heard Mu Ran's words, didn't answer the question of whether Mu Ran remembered wrongly. She just leaned over from the back row and pointed to a point not far from the coordinates of the vehicle on the map. Then he tapped it with his fingers, "I can only wrap this car with holy light, so that the seal will not repel us very strongly."

"That's enough." Mu Ran got up to make way for her seat, and extended her hand politely.Yi'er was not polite to her either, and sat down directly after pulling up her skirt.

Er held out his hand.The golden light surged up on the compass, spread out bit by bit, and soon covered the strangely shaped vehicle like a thin film.

The scooter controlled by Mu Ran accelerated forward.On the semi-transparent map that was tapped by Yier before, a layer of golden light that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye suddenly appeared, which complemented the vehicle coated with a layer of gold film. The moment the vehicle touched it, the vehicle absorbed it.

The black army of nightmare beasts violently crushed across the empty sandy ground, and continued to gallop forward.

……

Cecilia's eyes suddenly darkened.

She tried to tap the place where the glass was originally with her index finger knuckles, but found that she seemed to have rubbed against a slippery stone wall.

stone wall. ...is really an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.Cecilia raised her eyebrows uncontrollably, and turned around to look for the shadows of the other two.

But things don't always go smoothly.

Cecilia stumbled forward in the dark in the abyss that could not be illuminated. The foot she threw away a shoe directly stepped on the gravel and rocky ground, and was cut and dripping with blood as she walked.

It feels like I haven't exerted much effort since I got in the car.Cecilia rubbed her brain, which was stunned by the pain, and her bare toes couldn't help shrinking inward because of the cold and tingling pain.

The time in the dark always seems much longer than walking in the sun.Cecilia didn't know how long she walked until she felt that her feet were completely numb and didn't choose to stop.

Then she saw the light.

A mirage of hope.Cecilia strenuously moved forward a few steps, secretly praying in her heart that this must be her companion or an exit.

But the scene in front of her was not what she expected.

A holy elf with platinum short hair held up the holy sword and stabbed down heavily.But the girl lying under her and on the stone slab seemed to be very happy. She happily raised her upper body to hug the neck of the person above her, but was pierced through the heart by the sword that was stabbed suddenly.

The force with which the sword fell was so great that it even penetrated the stone slab under the girl's body.

The golden light spots spread from the holy elf's body, then gathered up suddenly, and transmitted to the girl's body bit by bit through the blade.The girl's originally crimson eyes gradually faded and turned into a dull light brown.

"Thank you..." Thank you, Mu Ran.

"Thank you..." Thank you for turning me back into a human.

A huge golden magic circle rose from below them, covering the two of them completely.

……

"Sisi! Sisi!—Cecilia!"

Cecilia woke up suddenly, and looked in shock at Xier who looked a little anxious in front of her.

"...What's the matter?" Cecilia fixedly glanced at Yier who was a little at a loss, and then turned her head without hesitation.

"We've arrived at Abyss." Seeing Cecilia awake, Mu Ran came over, bent down, and touched Cecilia's forehead, "We just need to make a little repair and go directly to investigate the seal That's it."

Chapter 18

Abyss is different from the dark abyss all year round. Its climate is connected with the great Welster desert outside, and it is always dry and hot, like a never-ending fire.

Cecilia felt as if she had returned to the small town on the edge of the desert that she arrived not long ago.No, it might be worse than that time.

Mu Ran took out a pot of water from the car space core, and handed it to Cecilia, who was sitting in the back row chanting 'calm and naturally cool' but was still sweating, and explained apologetically, "The magic circle that controls the temperature seems to be It was destroyed by the nightmare beast, so I can only trouble you to bear it for the time being."

"...Okay." Cecilia leaned forward to take the water bottle that was extremely cold under the high temperature, hesitated for a while, and chose to stick the water bottle to her face.

"That's great—" Cecilia, who had successfully lowered the quality of life in such extreme weather, sighed submissively, and looked out the window while covering her face with a water bottle.

The endless yellow sand.

A scorching heat with no wind.

Even if the car is moving fast at this time, it will give people an illusion of 'the car is still'.

"I thought for a long time that the sand is soft." Yi'er, who was looking out the window silently, suddenly opened her mouth. She put her head against the glass that was not shaking at all because the vehicle was running smoothly, and her eyes diverged slightly. , "It was only later that I realized that a pile of sand that has been deposited for a long time will also harden into a stubborn rock."

"The power of time." Mu Ran summed it up obediently, as if to ease the embarrassment that no one in the carriage spoke to.

Cecilia, who didn't want to move at all, turned her head back silently, then put the heated kettle on her lap, and muttered, "The power of this damn time has made the kettle lose its cooling function. .”

"Perhaps you can choose to use a freezing spell." El heard her resentment with sharp ears, and simply changed the subject, "Or you can use a constant temperature spell on yourself."

"...I want to save some energy to face the nightmare beast that will show off its dancing skills at some point." Cecilia answered weakly and closed her eyes.

"You're wasting your strength even more." Mu Ran looked up at Cecilia, who was limp from dehydration, stretched out her hand and threw a constant temperature spell on her.

Cecilia, who felt the temperature change around her, didn't even bother to open her eyes, just paralyzed herself more relaxed.

"Thank you very much."

—Although I don't want to say thank you at all.Cecilia opened her eyes slightly to look at Mu Ran who was concentrating on driving, and gritted her molars secretly.

It has to be said that the alien dimension of Abyss is indeed astonishingly large.Although the scooter did not start to the maximum power, it was not a slow thing, which has always been amazing for its speed.

The abyss is almost located in the center of the desert, but it took them a day and a night to reach it.

But after arriving at Abyss, the car had been driving for almost an hour, but there was still no sign of the seal.

"...Are you really not going in the wrong direction?" Cecilia, who is much more comfortable, talked more, and broke her mouth at Mu Ran in the front row, "Do you really know?"