Zhao Sheng hurriedly caught up, his gaze sweeping over the ground, five or six fresh finger bones scattered on the ground, the flesh and skin on the bones gnawed clean.
However, the surface of the finger bones still had a bright luster, clearly having fallen not long ago.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Sheng’s spirits lifted: "No time to lose! We must quickly catch up."
"No need to rush, let’s conserve our strength first, then we’ll catch up with the people ahead in one go!" Sha Jiutong waved his hand and said unexpectedly.
Tear!
Ah—
Bo Hua Wanderer let out a sudden scream, convulsing uncontrollably.
Sha Jiutong offered an arm to Zhao Sheng with a smile: "Fresh live meat, want a bite?"
"No, Taoist Sha, enjoy it yourself!" Zhao Sheng took two steps back, declining with a posed expression.
Sha Jiutong paid no heed, casually shoved the arm into his mouth, and began to chew vigorously.
Blood oozed from the corners of his mouth, but he even swallowed the bone without spitting it out, devouring the entire arm in a few bites.
At this moment, Gong Sanzhang and the Black Monk caught up, and upon witnessing such a horrifying scene, both of their expressions changed slightly, subconsciously distancing themselves from Sha Jiutong, subtly leaning towards Zhao Sheng.
Sha Jiutong noticed this but laughed it off, suddenly knocking the wailing Bo Hua Wanderer unconscious and then sat down on the ground to rest with his eyes closed.
After about a tea-time, Sha Jiutong suddenly got up and roused the three of Zhao Sheng.
Soon, the four of them rushed forward at high speed.
...
During the pursuit, Zhao Sheng looked around and suddenly found the corridor rapidly "expanding" before his eyes.
At first, the corridor was only a hundred feet wide, and its height didn’t exceed two hundred feet either.
But as time went on, both width and height continued to grow, quickly doubling. And this trend was being more apparent...
Sha Jiutong and the others also noticed the abnormal changes in the corridor, but since they had e this far, they could not stop.
Along the way, they discovered more and more fresh bones, which seemed to serve as a marker, indicating the direction of those who went before them.
Twenty or so hours passed in an instant.
Zhao Sheng and the others ran for over three thousand miles, at this point the corridors on both sides had bee towering like mountains, and beneath them lay an exceptionally vast super plaza.
The corridor had changed so dramatically, but the only constant was the piles of white bones scattered everywhere.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch...
Stepping on the Land of Skeletons, Zhao Sheng followed about a dozen feet behind Sha Jiutong, rushing forward, leaving clouds of bone ash in his wake.
"Huh?"
Zhao Sheng suddenly let out a light exclamation, shaking his sleeve to send out an invisible undercurrent, sweeping away the pile of bones ahead.
As a large quantity of bone fragments and chunks rose into the air, the ground revealed a slightly dull crystalline bone joint.
Rather than calling it a skeleton, it would be more accurate to say it was a vertebra. The surface of the bone had numerous small bone spurs, emitting a faint bluish glow, making it striking against the pale Land of Skeletons.
It’s just a pity, who knows how many years it had lain here, with its internal essence almost pletely depleted, leaving only its tough texture.
"As expected, some existence above Returning to Void must have fallen here."
Thinking this, Zhao Sheng picked up the crystalized bone, seemingly placing it casually in his bosom, but actually inserting it into the Sumeru Space.
In the subsequent pursuit, he remained vigilant, trying to find more Great Power Crystal Bones.
Regrettably, there were very few Great Power Crystal Bones here, and after running hundreds of miles, he did not find a second piece.
Soon after, Sha Jiutong at the forefront suddenly began to laugh maniacally and shouted, "Kekeke...look, there’s someone ahead!"
Zhao Sheng looked up into the distance and saw a small black shadow slowly emerging at the end of the ground, upon closer inspection it was a crouching figure.
At that moment, Sha Jiutong’s speed abruptly doubled, instantly resembling a black light, rushing forward.
Zhao Sheng and the other two saw this and immediately accelerated as well.
But when they arrived at the scene, the battle was already over.
"Kekeke, this trophy is mine, don’t any of you dare try to take it," Sha Jiutong warned Zhao Sheng and the other two with fierce eyes, stepping on the person’s back.
"No need for that, Taoist Sha. This person is yours, but there are some things we need to clarify with him," Zhao Sheng said, then looked at the person.
This person’s skeleton was rough and large, but he was so emaciated he looked like a skeleton himself. If not for the rise and fall of his chest, Zhao Sheng would have thought he had starved to death.
Nearby lay a half-eaten skin-and-bones corpse, discarded like trash on the ground.
After a moment of silence, Zhao Sheng walked over to the scrawny corpse, grabbed its chest bone, lifted it, and then flung it three steps in front of the man.
Seeing the corpse so close, the man’s eyes reddened instantly, letting out a frenzied howl, struggling desperately with his arms, trying to grasp the corpse.
"Mine...mine...hungry...so hungry!"
This man was evidently starved to the point of delerium, his mind seemingly fixated only on food.
Zhao Sheng twisted off half a leg and offered it to the man’s mouth, while tempting him and asking a few simple questions.
For example, who are you? How long have you been here? Why resort to cannibalism? Any strange encounters before? And so forth.
To get a bite to eat, surprisingly, the man miraculously regained a trace of clarity and immediately answered all the questions without hesitation or concealment.
After a quarter of an hour, Zhao Sheng repeatedly asked the same questions, three times over.
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