"Road Watchers."
The sound of Kelān was broken from Magic Formation, like a string being pinched from the middle.
Zhao Gongming's hand was still pressed against the mouth of the box, and Sea of Bitterness's black substance surged between his fingers, and the joints of his ten fingers cracked one after another due to the force.
"What is Road Watchers?"
Kelān took two breaths before answering. Magic Formation could hear her adjusting her breathing once, twice, as if she was swallowing something that was pressed into her throat.
"Boundary Sea is not dead. It has its own will, but this will will not actively interfere with anyone Transmigration. It only watches."
"What are you looking at?"
Nezha leaned half of his body from the right wing.
"See if you are worthy of passing through its territory."
The Heavenly Eye light of Yang Jian was pushed forward one level, the speed of Runes in the center of his eyebrows reached its peak in the past three years, and the outlines of the three signal sources emerged in his field of vision little by little.
Not an entity.
In other words, they are not entirely entities. The shapes of the three signal sources are constantly Transformation, from the human form in this breath to the animal shape in the next breath, and then to some geometric structure in the next breath. There is no transition between each Transformation, like a broken revolving door jumping frame by frame.
"Their energy waves are in resonance."
Yang Jian's voice came from the left wing, speaking two minutes faster than usual.
"There is an invisible connection between the three signal sources, and the frequencies are exactly the same. It's like the same thing is divided into three parts."
Zhao Gongming's Sea of Bitterness channel is still pushing forward, its speed has dropped by 20%, and the black substance on the wall of the tube has become thicker, as if it is wrapping itself in a layer of armor.
"Can Tongtian, Formation Ship be bypassed?"
Tongtian called up the channel projection given by Kelān at the position of Main Battle Core, and gestured back and forth between the positions of the three signal sources and the marked route.
"There is no way around it. They are stuck right at the throat of the channel. There is a permanent space fault on the left and a high-density Origin vortex area on the right. Only the middle path can be taken."
Zhao Gongming was holding something in his mouth but did not spit it out.
The voice of Gu Changqing on the podium overwhelmed everyone.
"Will Kelān, Road Watchers attack?"
Magic Formation was quiet for a moment.
"Not necessarily."
"What do you mean by uncertainty?"
"Thief Race's channel log records thirty-seven encounters with Road Watchers. Twenty-two of them, Road Watchers did nothing and the fleet passed directly. The remaining fifteen times..."
Kelān's voice paused.
"The remaining fifteen times, the fleet is gone, not even the wreckage is left. The log is calculated based on the energy residue when the subsequent fleet passes the same location."
Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear was lowered from the shoulder, and the tail of the gun clicked on the right wing deck.
"The annihilation rate is more than 40%. Isn't this certain?"
"Thief Race's fleet is the strongest and has the combat power of Immortal Emperor Level, which is not on the same level as yours."
Kelān's speaking speed has not changed,
"But the criterion for judging Road Watchers is not the strength of the battle. There is a record in the log that a small fleet with only Golden Immortal level passed safely, while a large fleet with three Quasi-Immortal Emperors was stopped and completely destroyed."
"Then what is it looking at?"
Kelān did not answer.
Heavenly Eye of Yang Jian captured the new Transformation.
"Three signal sources stopped with form Transformation, fixed."
"Fixed to what?"
Zhao Gongming asked.
The light between Yang Jian's eyebrows cast an enlarged image in the void, and the image was transmitted to the Magic Formation screens at various locations of Formation Ship.
The three signal sources turned into three humanoid figures.
There are no facial features, no clothes, only outlines, like three transparent sculptures made of the Boundary Sea Origin, standing in the void 120,000 miles in front of the Sea of Bitterness passage.
The three sculptures face the direction of Formation Ship.
Facing the direction of Gu Changqing.
The Sea of Bitterness channel of Zhao Gongming was pushed to a position 80,000 miles away from the three human figures. The black material on the tube wall began to vibrate on its own. It was not the collision, but Sea of Bitterness itself that was shaking.
Twenty-Four Universe Sea of Bitterness has been with an old monster for nine thousand years, Zhao Gongming has never seen his own Sea of Bitterness tremble.
"Something's wrong."
His teeth grinded.
"All troops stop."
The command of Gu Changqing came down from the command podium.
Formation Ship's propulsion Runes was half extinguished, and the ship's hull slid for several thousand miles under inertia before it came to a complete stop.
One hundred and eight Battle Formation also stopped, and 50 million Heavenly Soldier lined up and waited in the Sea of Bitterness channel.
Gu Changqing stood up from the podium.
Xiaotian Dog then stood up and sniffed several times in the direction of the three human figures in front of him. There was no growl in his throat, but a low whimper.
Nezha turned around and glanced at Xiaotian Dog, his heart skipping a beat.
Xiaotian Dog is not afraid of Abyssal Beast. Just now when more than seventy Abyssal Beast were bumping into each other around the passage, this dog was lying on the command platform and taking a nap.
Now it's whimpering.
"Master."
Nezha's voice lowered by half.
Gu Changqing didn't look at him. His eyes passed through the wall of the Sea of Bitterness passage, passed through the 80,000-mile Chaos space, and landed on the three transparent human figures without facial features.
His right hand reached into his cuff.
Met the black sphere.
The sphere vibrated at his fingertips.
It's not the activated vibration that was triggered before, it's resonance, like a certain frequency is just right.
"They know this thing."
Gu Changqing took his hand out of his cuff, but the sphere was not taken out.
Communication Array lights up, and the sound of Kelān is lower than before.
"Mr. Gu, if Road Watchers fixes the humanoid to face you, it means they are already making a decision."
"What to judge?"
"Determine where you came from and where you are going."
Zhao Gongming turned his head, and the black pupils in the whites of his yellow eyes were fixed on Magic Formation.
"You have told me everything. What do these guys want to do?"
Kelān took two breaths.
"They're waiting for something."
"What are you waiting for?"
"Wait for the strongest one among you to stand up and let them take a look."
The sights of Zhao Gongming and Tongtian turned to the command podium at the same time.
Nezha also turned his eyes, Fire-Tipped Spear held it in his hand, and the tail of the gun knocked on the deck again.
Gu Changqing stood on the edge of the podium, his white clothes rolling in the undercurrent of the Boundary Sea. In front of him was Chaos and the three unknown beings from eight thousand miles away.
He didn't move.
Xiaotian Dog lay at his feet, his whimpers gradually became quieter, and his tail rested on Gu Changqing's boot, very tightly.
Three transparent humanoid figures stood in the void, their faces without facial features facing this way, waiting.
The entire Sea of Bitterness channel was as quiet as a pipe filled with water, and the breathing of fifty million people was the shallowest.
Gu Changqing spoke.
"Tongtian, Formation Ship don't move, the entire army maintains its array."
"Zhao Gongming, Sea of Bitterness increase the thickness of the channel wall."
"Yang Jian, Heavenly Eye lock on three targets, shout if they move."
"Nezha."
"Here."
"Watch the dog."
Xiaotian Dog's ears perked up.
Gu Changqing took a step from the edge of the podium and stepped into the wall of the Sea of Bitterness channel.
The black material split and closed around him, like water avoiding a stone.
He passed through the wall of the pipe.
Standing among Chaos of the Boundary Sea.
The white clothes no longer floated inside Chaos, as if they were pressed down by some force and stuck to the body without a single wrinkle.
Three transparent human figures eighty thousand miles away moved at the same time.
It's not that we're coming over, it's that we're shortening the distance.
Eighty thousand miles turned into 40,000 miles.
It became twenty thousand miles.
It became ten thousand miles.
The wall of the Sea of Bitterness tube of Zhao Gongming was shaken by the aftermath of this space distortion, and the entire passage swayed. The Heavenly Soldier in the Battle Formation behind it also tilted a lot.
The three human figures stopped at a location ten thousand miles away from Gu Changqing.
They don't have mouths, but their voices appear.
It didn't come from a certain direction, it sounded directly in Gu Changqing's consciousness, like someone using a fingernail to write on the inner wall of his skull.
Three words.
"Passer-by."
Gu Changqing stood in Chaos, with nothing under his feet, nothing above his head, and nothing in all directions.
His right hand rested on the cuff of his sleeve, not reaching in.
"Yes, passerby."
The three human figures tilted their heads at the same time, with exactly the same movements, like reflections in a mirror.
Three more words rang out in my consciousness.
"Where to go."
"Great Thousand Origin Realm."
Ripples appeared in the transparent bodies of the three human figures, spreading from the chest to the limbs, like a stone thrown into the calm water.
Next set of words.
"What's on the other side of the door is waiting for you."
No one in the Sea of Bitterness channel could hear this conversation. Only Gu Changqing stood alone in Chaos, confronting three faceless beings ten thousand miles apart.
The corners of his mouth moved, but the amplitude was so small that even Nezha couldn't be seen in the passage.
"I know."
The ripples of the three human figures stopped.
The silence lasted for a long time.
It took so long that Zhao Gongming began to grind his rear molars on the bow of the ship, and it took so long that Tongtian's fingers pressed a circle of sweat marks on Main Battle Core's Runes.
Then the three human figures moved to both sides at the same time.
A road appeared in the middle.
The end of the road is hidden deep in Chaos, with no end in sight.
The last word rang in my consciousness, softer than the previous ones, as soft as the wind blowing through an empty room.
"Go well."
Gu Changqing turned around, passed through the Sea of Bitterness pipe wall, and fell back to the podium.
Xiaotian Dog rushed up to him and pushed his nose into his palm, swinging his tail like a propeller.
Nezha's voice is half hoarse.
"Master, passed?"
"Passed."
"What did they say?"
Gu Changqing sat back on the podium and touched Xiaotian Dog's head with his fingers.
"Say good to go."
Nezha's mouth was open, and the words were stuck in the middle and could not come out.
Zhao Gongming Without waiting for the order, Sea of Bitterness the channel had already accelerated and pushed forward again, the tube wall had become 20% thinner, and the flow of black matter returned to its normal rhythm.
Three transparent human figures stood on both sides of the passage. When 50 million Heavenly Soldier passed through them, no one dared to turn their heads and look at them.
Only Kelān saw the last picture on the Magic Formation screen in the cubicle.
The three human figures turned around at the same time before disappearing from the tail of Formation Ship.
Facing the direction Formation Ship left.
Facing the direction of Gu Changqing.
Like watching off.
Kelān's fingers grasped the dark red Chip, and the scales on the knuckles stood up one by one in the dark light.
"They were released."
Her voice was as dry as paper.
Communication Array No one answered her.
The Sea of Bitterness channel continued to push forward for 60,000 miles, and the Heavenly Eye report from Yang Jian reported that all signals ahead were cleared.
Zhao Gongming breathed out from the bow of the ship. The breath had a salty smell and turned into a white mist in the dim light of Chaos.
"Tongtian, how far is it to the outside of Savage Star Domain?"
Tongtian compared the channel coordinates with the position of Main Battle Core.
"According to the route Kelān, there are still 470,000 miles."
"Forty-seven thousand miles, at the current speed, how long will it take to go?"
"Two days."
Zhao Gongming took his hand away from the mouth of the box and shook it twice. Black substance flew out from his fingertips and splashed on the deck, and smoke emitted twice.
"Just two days, it's better than getting into the bellies of those Road Watcherss."
Nezha slid from the right wing to the edge of the command podium, squatted down and looked at Xiaotian Dog, the dog's tail was still wagging.
"Master, those three things really let us pass? No conditions?"
Gu Changqing removed his fingers from Xiaotian Dog's head and put them back on the armrest.
"With conditions."
"What conditions?"
"They said something was waiting for me on the other side of the door."
Fire-Tipped Spear of Nezha poked the deck.
"Waiting for you? Isn't that just a game?"
Gu Changqing picked up the tea bowl on the podium and took a sip. The tea in the bowl had already become completely cold.
"There is only one way to go if there is no game. Let's talk about it when we get there."
The Sea of Bitterness channel advances steadily in the Chaos of the Boundary Sea. The tube walls of the black substance spread evenly on both sides, with Formation Ship in the center., one hundred and eight Battle Formation followed, and the luster of fifty million Heavenly Soldier's armor flashed against the black of the tube wall, like a long luminous snake burrowing into the belly of the world.
When we sailed to the 19th Shichen, Heavenly Eye of Yang Jian caught something again.
"Eighty thousand miles ahead, large-scale biological signal."
Zhao Gongming grinded his teeth.
"Abyssal Beast again?"
Yang Jian's eyebrows are full of light, and Heavenly Eye's magnification is pushed to the limit.
"Not Abyssal Beast."
"Road Watchers?"
"No."
Yang Jian's voice sank to a tune that Nezha had never heard before.
"The number is extremely high, the density is extremely high, and the signal characteristics are all consistent, as if they are the same species."
"How much?"
Yang Jian closed his mouth for a moment, and when he opened it again, every word was squeezed out from between his teeth.
"Heavenly Eye The upper limit of the count is 100,000, and it has already exploded."