Chapter 2043 The Incident

Chapter 2043 The Incident

Alex arrived at the next spot, which looked like a junkyard. He looked at the plaque to see what this place was called and was surprised to find that there was no plaque at all.

'A place without a name? That's a first,' Alex thought and looked around. A man walked outside, all alone, and with a weaker cultivation base than most people that had come out from those other places.

The man looked around, trying to see if Alex and Pearl were alone. When he noticed that they were, he judged them. "You two Daoists here to join our group?" he asked.

"I'm afraid not," Alex said, preparing for the eventual battle.

"Then are you two here to fight?" the man asked with a curious look. "I would've assumed you two were running away from whatever is happening over at that garden."

"What is happening in the garden?" Alex asked.

"Did you not feel that aura a while ago?" the man asked. "You should have."

"Oh, I felt the aura. Just didn't know what was happening," Alex said. "And we're also not here to fight."

"Hmm? Then why are you here?" the man asked, now seemingly confused.

"To look inside. See what we can find," Alex said.

The man raised an eyebrow. "You want to search here? This place?" he asked.

"Yes," Alex said. "Is that okay?"

"I mean, I don't see why not," the man said. "But I also don't see why?"

Alex was taken aback. "What do you mean why?" he asked. It should have been obvious what he was trying to search the place for. Did this man not know about the sabers or what?

"Huh... neither of you two know about this place, do you?" he asked.

"It's some sort of junkyard, right?" Pearl said. "This must be where everything is thrown to when it is destroyed."

"Oh, you're not wrong about everything here being destroyed, only that it was thrown in here. No, everything you see here destroyed came from this very location," the man said.

Alex shook his head. "We were wondering what this place was called, but there is nothing at the front to say what it was."

"Oh yeah, that was apparently destroyed during that incident as well," the man said. "But records of this place will tell you about the 7 important locations of this secret realm, this one is the Belly of Treasures."

Alex nodded, quickly counting if there were 7 locations in total. The maze, the two gardens, the plaza, this place, another place that was close to here, and the large building at the very far top of the secret realm.

There were 7 locations.

'I guess no one counts the starting hall?' Alex thought. If that was counted that would make 8.

"Thanks for all the help, brother. We will be leaving now."

"I hoped you would be staying, but I won't stop you," the man said. "If you're visiting every place for clues, be careful on the next one."

"What's wrong with the next place?" Alex asked, curious.

"They're... a little crazy," the man said. "But hey, you might just like them."

Alex nodded. "I'll have to see if I like them," he said and left the place. He didn't leave the same way he came from. In fact, he left from the opposite end.

He noticed a small white path that entered through this place as well and followed it to see that part of it came from outside of the maze, and part of it from the exit of the maze.

"Oh, the maze does have an exit," Alex said in surprise. He had fully expected the whole thing to have a single opening. But it seemed the maze did have a solution to it. "We'll have to try that maze again, see if going through the entire maze properly does anything important."

"We're going there again?" Pearl asked. "I don't mind that."

"Yes," Alex said. "For now, let's go there. See what this craziness is that the man talked about."

The next location Alex talked about was the one with red soil. He had seen it from far away earlier today and had been interested in why it was so red.

Even before he got there though, he could already sense a fluctuating aura from the surrounding as though someone was in the middle of a fight on the inside. Actually, it felt as though there were many people in the middle of a fight. A dozen different ones at least.

That confused Alex a lot.

'Just what sort of craziness is going on here?'