The firelight flickered, and the heat spread around, dispelling the chill of the night.
Black Eyes lay curled up asleep beside the fire, clutching a bag of snacks labeled "Black Eyes' Snacks."
Aoki leaned against a rock, his head resting on his arm.
Since daytime, he had been pondering a question:
where did the complex spatial fluctuations here come from?
Space, or rather spacetime, has a self-repairing function. From severe spatial rifts to minor spatial fluctuations, they would gradually disappear without external interference.
However, since daytime, the spatial fluctuations here hadn't diminished at all.
There must be one, or more, sources!
And it was definitely related to the super dangerous species that had teleported them here.
Find the source, destroy it, and he could leave using spatial teleportation.
Out of caution, he had left two spatial imprints on the way here, which could now come in handy.
Aoki looked up.
If he could fly, he could quickly grasp the terrain, but whenever he looked up, a faint sense of crisis would rise in his heart.
There must be something wrong in the sky!
"Could there be another Super Dangerous Species?"
Aoki grinned.
Adding that Super Dangerous Species that controls spatial power... there are actually three Super Dangerous Species in this small area!
No.
There should be at least three Super Dangerous Species.
Sunlight pierced the darkness, and the sky brightened again.
Kurohime opened her eyes, grabbed Yatsufusa, and sat up warily.
"You're awake?"
A familiar voice came from beside her. Kurohime relaxed, nodded, found her snack bag, took out a candy, and ate it.
"I plan to go up to the sky and take a look," Aoki said. He
couldn't give up the reconnaissance just because of a little danger.
Even if there really was a Super Dangerous Species living in the sky, it wouldn't be able to kill him in one hit. What
he was worried about was that the Super Dangerous Species would chase after him.
"How do we get there?"
"I have a way."
"Then I'll go with you!"
Aoki smiled.
As a partner, Kurome was indeed very reliable.
"No need, it's easier for me to go up by myself, but you need to be prepared for a good fight.
If there really is a Super Dangerous Species in the sky, and it chases after us, we'd better be prepared to repel it, or even kill it."
Kurome had a Super Dangerous Species puppet, which was very powerful.
Wasn't the reason that Kurome had been conserving her power all this time?
"I understand!"
Kurome drew Yatsufusa, but did not rush to summon the puppet.
Whoosh!
Huge black bat wings spread out behind Aoki, and his figure soared into the sky.
Kurome looked at his back, a little doubt appearing in her jewel-like black eyes.
"Is that an Imperial Arm? It feels a little different."
Aoki shot into the sky like a rocket.
As he approached the treetops, he flapped his wings twice forcefully, then quickly folded them back up, crashing into the canopy like a cannonball.
After a brief period of darkness, the view suddenly opened up.
Aoki burst out of the canopy, looking around with a surprised expression.
Contrary to his expectations, they weren't on an island.
Below them lay a lush primeval forest, beyond which stretched a misty, barren, greyish-white landscape littered with bones.
Through the mist, he could vaguely make out a towering mountain peak in the distance.
On the other side, just as he had imagined, lay an endless ocean.
Before Aoki could observe further, a sharp whistling sound suddenly reached his ears.
Before he could react, sharp wind blades struck him.
*Thud thud thud!
* Aoki was instantly torn to pieces, even his head split in two.
A tremendous wind pressure poured down, as if an invisible hand was pressing down on him, and his body began to plummet rapidly.
Aoki forced his eyes to turn, looking in the direction from which the wind blades had come. A huge grayish-white figure appeared in his vision, its shape resembling a legendary pterosaur, with a wingspan of nearly fifty meters.
"As expected, there's another super dangerous species."
Aoki crashed into the canopy.
At the same time, mouths sprouted from various parts of his body, opening and generating a suction force.
His torn body began to reassemble, regenerate, and recover.
This was a technique that Muzan Kibutsuji knew, and of course, he knew it too.
However, the suction force was limited, only useful for gathering limbs.
Just before hitting the ground, Aoki's body completely regenerated, his bat wings unfurling to slow his descent, but he was still badly shaken, eighty percent of his bones shattered, and all his internal organs ruptured.
However, when he stood up, he was completely recovered.
Kurohime stared in astonishment.
This person had too many extraordinary abilities.
Aoki said, "There is indeed a super dangerous species up there, resembling a pterosaur, capable of unleashing wind blade-like attacks with terrifying destructive power."
If they were to compare, this super dangerous species wasn't as threatening as the previous one.
It would be difficult to kill him completely with wind blades. Even if he were cut into pieces, he could regenerate.
"So what do we do now?" Kurohime asked.
"Let's go check to the west!" Aoki said, "There's an ocean to the west."
He had just determined the direction by observing the sun's position.
Kurohime said, "Could there be super dangerous species in the ocean too?"
It was indeed possible.
However,
Aoki said, "We need to see for ourselves to be sure, and only after we've confirmed it can we decide on a strategy."
Kurohime agreed.
The two set off.
The journey was not easy.
There were simply too many dangerous species in this forest, including a large number of top-tier dangerous species.
The two of them fought their way through.
Along the way, Aoki didn't forget to search for the source of the spatial fluctuations.
Unfortunately, he found nothing.
By the time they reached the beach, it was already the next day.
With just one glance, they knew that there were also super dangerous species here.
A huge snail lay across the beach, like a small mountain, emitting extremely strong slime. Aoki tried to step on it, but ultimately had to cut off his leg to escape.
"It's basically confirmed that there are four super dangerous species here. Currently, three are at home, blocking the sky, the ocean, and the land respectively,"
Aoki said. "Next, let's discuss which side to use as a breakthrough point."
Kuroko ate her candy and remained silent for a while: "We can only choose the dangerous species in the east."
Needless to say, she couldn't help with the one in the sky.
This giant snail was covered in slime, and with a thud, it couldn't move at all.
The only possibility was the dangerous species on the gray-white plain in the east that they hadn't seen yet.
Aoki nodded: "However, before that, we need to confirm one thing: whether that dangerous species in the sky will come down to help."
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