Unknown Land (Second Update)

Xia Chujian said, "Did you really come here, or did you see it in a game?"

Huo Yushen was quick-witted and immediately asked back, "...Did you see this thing in a game? Which game?"

Xia Chujian frowned. "You never saw it in a game?"

Huo Yushen understood. "You saw it in that classroom game? Which stage was it? The 'Expanding Territory' stage?"

Xia Chujian fell silent for a while before saying, "Yes. I liked wandering around in the game, and I came here once."

"But in the game, this wasn't some Divine Mountain, and it had never erupted with magma. It wasn't a volcano."

Huo Yushen said, "The world changes. Geological transformations can be very strange."

Xia Chujian shook her head. "No. The sight here looks very much like what I saw in the game."

"But the place in the game was much bigger than it is now."

"At the very least, when I stood on it back then, I couldn't see where the edge of the mountaintop was."

"Now, it's only this big."

"This feels more like a miniature version of the game's scenery."

Deep in thought, Xia Chujian circled the shrunken amoeba-shaped stone atop the mountain.

Huo Yushen said, "None of the game scenarios I experienced ever had this place."

Xia Chujian glanced at him. "Did you ever come to Da Zang Star before it was developed?"

Huo Yushen thought about it, then shook his head. "No. By the time I arrived, this was already territory of the Beichen Empire."

Xia Chujian said, "No wonder. That scene probably only appeared in its most primordial state."

She pointed at the stone. "There's a faint green mist inside the hollow at its center."

"The mist gathers and disperses, and a green human face flickers in and out among those holes."