Yet every so often, he was forced to open his eyes to determine their direction.
Just as Feng Gui had finally gotten used to the altitude and was gathering his courage to look around, a pair of hands suddenly pressed down on the crown of his head.
Jiang You abruptly removed the hook from his back and quickly shoved him toward the ground.
Their feet had only just touched down when the black umbrella, still overhead and yet to descend, was silently sliced into fragments by something invisible.
"Bang!"
Feng Gui slammed face-first into the ground. He immediately rolled over and looked up, only to see the black umbrella reduced to fluttering strips of fabric drifting down around them.
If Jiang You hadn't reacted in time, they would have been the ones chopped into pieces.
Feng Gui asked shakily, "What... what was that?"
Jiang You's eyes darkened slightly. "I don't know either. Perhaps... wind..."
There were too many things she didn't know...
Feng Gui cautiously glanced at Jiang You, then at the strips of fabric drifting downward, and inexplicably felt that the situation was absurd.
It was like an ordinary person from the lowest rungs of society suddenly being brought by someone onto a battlefield set to hellish difficulty.
He took several deep breaths, then propped himself up and sat on the ground.
"Ptooey!"
He gurgled a couple of times, then spat out something yellow.
Jiang You said, "Did you lose a tooth?"
"This tooth had been hurting for over half a year. It had been loose and refusing to fall out, so this solved the problem nicely." Feng Gui gave an embarrassed chuckle.
For the rest of the journey, the two returned to traveling on foot.
Because they were wearing gas masks, eating was extremely inconvenient.
All the way