Chapter 45: Section 46: Me, Buried Alive
The raging wind roared in his ears like a pack of beasts bellowing in unison.
The sand, swept up by the fierce wind, pelted Zhenjin’s face as if it were knives.
The enormous force of the wind tugged from all directions, unpredictably left, right, up, and down, making it very difficult for ordinary people to maintain their footing.
Below Zhenjin’s feet was no longer solid grassland but sand.
Sand was everywhere.
The air was full of sand too.
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The lush forest had completely disappeared.
This was a desert!
A desert in the middle of the night.
In the desert, the raging wind howled, and sand filled the sky as the members of the exploration team in the camp emitted cries of panic.
Zhenjin was stunned for a moment, but then he realized what was happening, and his heart shook violently as two words emerged in his mind—”Teleportation!”
“Teleportation has been activated again, this time, we’ve all been teleported to the desert.”
The first time Zhenjin experienced teleportation, he was being chased by a swarm of Fire Poison Bees. After the teleportation was activated, it moved him from the rainforest to a forest, indirectly saving his life.
Now, it was his second teleportation experience, and just like the first, it was silent, giving no signs before the teleportation.
But this time, Zhenjin’s luck was terribly bad.
Not only was he teleported to a desert, but he also coincidentally encountered a sandstorm!
“We must gather everyone together!” Zhenjin barely managed to open his mouth to call out when his mouth was immediately filled with sand.
Zhenjin had to cover his mouth, trying to shout, but his voice was drowned out by the wind.
The wind grew stronger.
The sand hitting Zhenjin’s body brought bursts of a tingling but painful sensation.
The weather turned frightful.
“Sandstorm?” Realizing this, Zhenjin’s heart sank.
“Zi Di, wait for me!” He had no choice but to stop shouting and ran forward based on memory.
With a swoosh, a tent followed the wind and covered Zhenjin, like a giant gray ghost beast pouncing from above in the darkness of the night.
Zhenjin waved his hand reflexively, and with a swish, an extremely sharp blade cut the tent in half, flying by both sides of Zhenjin’s body, before being swept away by the fierce wind in an instant.
The tents in these camps were all pinned to the ground with wooden stakes, but after being teleported, the wooden stakes, originally deeply embedded in the mud, were all scattered on the surface of the desert.
Without anything to anchor them, the tents collapsed and were then carried away by the fierce wind.
“Bad,” Zhenjin muttered to himself, realizing he couldn’t make out the correct direction after walking for a moment.
Firstly, upon teleportation, in the night amidst the wind and sand, there were no landmarks to distinguish north, south, east, and west.
Secondly, the tents were flying everywhere, and the original layout of the camp was completely disarrayed.
Lastly, it was impossible to contact other team members by shouting in the sandstorm.
For a moment, Zhenjin also felt at a loss.
And in just a few breaths, the wind strength had doubled!
“Help me…” Suddenly, Zhenjin heard a faint cry for help coming from above his head.
He looked up sharply and saw a dark figure flash past overhead.
Zhenjin immediately realized that one of the exploration team members had been blown away by the hurricane.
The wind had become terrifyingly strong, capable of easily sweeping away adults.
Zhenjin instinctively reached out his arm, but in the blink of an eye, the team member calling for help disappeared in the swirling wind and sand.
It was too late.
“Zi Di is the lightest. Her situation is too dangerous!” Thinking of this, Zhenjin felt increasingly desperate.
“Zi Di, where are you exactly?”
As if responding to Zhenjin’s intense plea, a white light suddenly lit up in the sandstorm to his front left.
The white light burned like fire, fiercely blazing in his dim vision.
On this island, lower-level magic and fighting energy were prohibited, and based on what Zhenjin knew about the exploration team, this kind of white light flame could only be produced by potions.
And where the white light flame was, that must be Zi Di’s real location.
“Clever!” Zhenjin couldn’t help but praise silently, immediately running towards the position of the white light flame.
He ran very strenuously, the terrifying wind able to carry away adults, but Zhenjin, after all, was a fighter who cultivated fighting energy. Although he couldn’t use fighting energy now, his physique, enhanced by his cultivation, surpassed that of ordinary people.
In this situation, Zhenjin still managed to barely resist the wind.
But just as he was approaching, the white light flame suddenly dissipated. Sёarch* The novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
“Did the potion wear off? Zi Di, wait for me!”
Zhenjin’s heart trembled slightly, growing even more anxious.
He continued forward a few steps, and with a whoosh, a huge object seemed to attack him in his dim vision.
The young man quickly ducked his head to avoid it.
It turned out to be a rather large tree trunk. Indeed, some trunks were stored in the camp, leftovers from making short bows and other items.
The trunk, much heavier than an adult, was now easily whisked away by the fierce wind.
Zhenjin could no longer run.
He had to step forcefully with every step, digging his feet into the sand up to his ankles, in order to resist the wind.
What troubled him even more wasn’t the hurricane, but the sand flying in the wind;
The sand hitting Zhenjin’s body and face, causing noticeable pain. Zhenjin couldn’t fully open his eyes to prevent being blinded, squinting through a narrow slit to observe.
The surroundings had become even darker.
Not a single ray of light, almost as if one couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face.
Zhenjin could only move forward relying on memory, unsure if he was even going in the right direction.
The awe of nature was so vast and powerful, at this moment, the young man deeply felt how insignificant he was.
As time passed, Zhenjin’s heart grew colder.
“I must have moved forward at least a hundred steps, but I still haven’t found Zi Di.”
“Was she swept away by the violent wind, or have I unwittingly gone in the wrong direction?”
“God, Holy Emperor… what should I do?”
Confusion and bewilderment, like a cloud of black smoke, choked the young man’s nostrils and eyes.
And in his chest, it seemed as if there was a burning flame.
It was the fire of anger, unwillingness, and hatred!
“I had finally taken control of the exploration team.”
“We had just successfully hunted and temporarily had ample food.”
“In the blink of an eye, it has come to this!”
“Am I to die on this island?”
“Am I to just watch as those close to me die one by one?”
“Is the fall of the Zhen family imminent?”
“No!”
“How can I, how can I allow such a thing to happen?!”
The young man was filled with righteous indignation, giving his all to struggle.
However, that invisible fate was like a Divine King high above in the heavens, who occasionally glanced at Zhenjin. Like discovering a defiant ant, fate extended a mountainous finger to press down.
Zhenjin wanted to lift his head, but it became lower and lower.
Zhenjin wanted to straighten his body, but he had to bend his back, hunch his body, to slowly keep moving forward.
Zhenjin wanted to glare with his eyes wide, to scream or roar, but he could only grope forward in silence in this roaring darkness.
The wind continued to grow stronger!
Soon, it became so intense that Zhenjin had to resist with all his strength.
In despair, the young man realized: At this moment, he could no longer save anyone. His own life was hanging by a thread!
He tried to activate his fighting energy, but he still failed.
He tried to mutate again, but no matter how frantically he tried, he couldn’t sense the crystal core in his heart and was unsuccessful.
Having no other choice, he prayed to the divine.
“Oh my great Holy Emperor, you are a deity walking on earth, and now, Your Believer is facing a dire situation, the Knight’s radiance is about to be overwhelmed by sand and wind. Please hear me, please have mercy, help me escape this predicament, so that in the future I may continue the path You have decreed and continue to manifest Your majesty.”
But the deity did not respond.
The young man was furious.
The young man resisted.
The young man was sorrowful.
The young man struggled.
The young man exhausted, eventually fell unconscious.
An endless expanse of darkness.
A mysterious beast’s roar brought a sliver of consciousness back to the young man.
“Where am I?”
“What is this place?”
“Who…who am I again?”
Darkness.
No one answered him.
Only endless darkness.
“Wait, did I just hear the roar of a wild beast?”
Gradually, the young man remembered his identity as a Holy Temple Knight and Noble, his name was Zhenjin, his fiancée Zi Di, the dangerous island, the exploration team, and the night-time teleportation, the violent and terrifying sandstorm…
Along with this process, the young man’s consciousness fully revived, and he finally completely woke up.
Then, he felt an immense pressure squeezing him from all directions, making it difficult for him to breathe,
“So, I am probably buried in the sand?”
A chilling horror naturally surged through him.
Nobody would want to be buried alive like this!
Zhenjin became extremely tense.
But he didn’t immediately open his eyes or hurry to get up, instead, he calmly sensed his surroundings.
His training in fighting energy didn’t just greatly enhance his strength beyond others, but his perception as well.
He could see further and clearer than ordinary people, hear more and in greater detail.
Even though he couldn’t see now, and the loudest sound he heard was his heartbeat, he could feel from which direction the pressure was greater.
Then, he rallied all his strength, struggling with his limbs.
He struggled fiercely!
He struggled desperately!
Because the young man knew, this was his last chance to survive.