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"Let's try walking north," Xiang Beifei suddenly said.

"North? Where is north here?"

Long Guocheng looked up at the sky. Although it was already light, the fog was dense, and the sun was nowhere to be seen. Without a reference point, how could they identify the north?

"Look at the growth of the trees."

Xiang Beifei walked over to a withered ginkgo tree that soon regained its green vigor, its lush branches gently swaying by his side.

"The side where the leaves grow more vigorously should, under normal circumstances, be facing south because the sunlight there is more abundant, making the foliage denser."

Xiang Beifei patted the trunk, as though patting the shoulder of an old buddy.

The tree trembled slightly, startling everyone. They thought the tree was about to come alive again, as by now they had developed a deep fear of these trees.

But the tree remained still.

Li Zimu asked, "But this place is the wilds beyond the realm, does the theory of south and north apply to the Wilted Forest?"

"Whether it applies or not, this is the only way we can figure out our direction. At least the leaves of the trees here are generally distributed like this. Even if the light here isn't from the north, it's definitely all oriented in one direction!" Xiang Beifei said.

After carefully analyzing the leaves, everyone found that the closest trees did indeed grow in this way. Suddenly, everything fell into place. None of them had thought of this method before.

Xiang Beifei took the lead and flew north on his sword, with everyone following close behind without further question. The Wilted Forest stretched as far as the eye could see, and from time to time, they could see broad flashes of lightning in the distance. But at this moment, no one had the inclination to search for the Landmine Dragon in that direction; they just wanted to get out of the Wilted Forest as soon as possible.

Xiang Beifei's direction of flight was neither towards the Thunder Sea nor in the direction they had initially thought the Thunder Sea to be. Instead, he flew across the Wilted Forest. According to his judgment, the endless Thunder Sea was on the west side, and the direction from which they had entered was the east, so flying along the north was like traversing the Wilted Forest.

By their original understanding, this direction was obviously wrong.

Strangely enough, initially, like a headless fly, they were unable to find their way out of the forest. However, after flying north for five minutes, they suddenly saw the boundary of the Wilted Forest!

They hadn't been flying very fast this time. With their speed, they had traveled no more than five kilometers. They couldn't understand why they couldn't see the forest boundary from the air, which was only five kilometers away.

After all, the view from the sky is very open, especially since they had just fallen onto a mountain and had taken advantage of the dawn to look out from a high altitude, yet they still hadn't seen the edge of the Wilted Forest.

But nobody dwelt on it too much. Having escaped the Wilted Forest, everyone let out a sigh of relief. Getting away was what mattered most; there was no need to delve into those matters.

The edge of the Wilted Forest rippled, as if they had crossed through some strange place, and when they came out, it no longer seemed to be the same plain they had entered from, but another eerie place, a rocky slope.

And in his heart, Xiang Beifei suddenly perceived another strange aura!

He turned to look and spotted several people appearing on a few trees near the boundary of the Wilted Forest not far away!

These people were dressed in dirty clothes, some of which were stained with blood.

The leader was a man whose throat had been slit and who was still bleeding!

"It's the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage again!" Cheng Xin'an said in a deep voice.

"Retreat."

Xiang Beifei stared at the man with the Broken Throat. The man's aura was extremely peculiar. In Xiang Beifei's perception, this fellow seemed even stronger than Shi Renmei!

This time, knowing how to deal with these ghostly entities, everyone was prepared. Each of them held a rough wooden bottle, most people's water containers having been lost, but Xiang Beifei's was still there.

He and Xiaohei stood in front, a man and his dog, each holding a soil gun as if they were handling a Gatling, fearlessly standing their ground.
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But the Broken Throat did not charge at them directly. Instead, he stared at Xiang Beifei with his pale eyes.

Suddenly, the sharp-eyed Long Guocheng uttered a low cry and said, "The people by their side—aren't they—"

Behind the Broken Throat stood several people, all with drooping heads, their fate unknown, wrapped by tentacles. These were participants from other schools, but Long Guocheng could not recall their names, as he hadn't bothered to remember so many.

Xiang Beifei, however, recognized them. It seemed as if these people were not dead, for he could still see their system interfaces, shockingly all of them SR-ranked students, two of whom were from Yanzhou University!

It was indeed Feng Mao and Liu Ling, who Zhu Xinjue had handed over to the Ghostly Visage.

"They've been captured, we need to call for help."

Cheng Xin'an immediately pressed the SOS Talisman. They were already out of the Wilted Forest, so the SOS Talisman should have been working.

But the SOS Talisman still didn't react!

Xiang Beifei and the others tried the Forfeit Talisman and SOS Talisman, too, and these were still useless.

However, the Broken Throat didn't come over either. He just looked up at the sky and abruptly turned around and left.

As the Broken Throat turned, countless tentacles burst forth, and in an instant, he merged into the Wilted Forest with the group of people!