Chu Ge had crossed over a hundred kilometers, leaving the bustling city for a strange wilderness.
Endless gravel plains, deserts, dunes, and parched, cracked earth. Snakes, scorpions, and lizards crawled everywhere, ravens and vultures cried overhead, and the heat was so intense that ordinary people could not even set foot there.
This was a place in the Mortal World, not the Xianxia world inside the book.
Yet it was unmistakably a land of death. It was almost impossible to imagine that a thriving state lay not far away.
Chu Ge took out his phone and checked the map-Death Valley.
His phone showed that there were parks for sightseeing here too, but the area was enormous. Where he stood now, and in the deeper, harsher reaches beyond, there was not a soul in sight.
Chu Ge remembered news reports back home about someone crossing the uninhabited stretches of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and being eaten by wolves... It was hard to imagine from within a bustling city that, even in this modern, civilized world, barely a hundred kilometers away there were still so many uninhabited places humanity had never conquered.
His gaze fell on the cracked earth. Some of the fissures were wide enough for a person to pass through. Below lay darkness of unknown depth, with a sinister, ghostly aura that made it seem as though Hell itself lay beneath.
The kitten in his arms poked her head out. "I finally sensed my body's presence... It's been hidden so thoroughly."
"It isn't hidden. It already belongs to someone else, so what's coming off it is mostly someone else's presence. You're just so powerful that your own presence is still hard to erase..." Chu Ge sighed. "Can the two of us manage this alone?"
The kitten said scornfully, "Whether we can or