Taking a deep breath, Chen Xiao whispered, "Stay with me, don't fall too far behind!"
Then, he tightly grasped Phoenix's hand, stepped to the door, and gently pushed it open to go inside!
...
The door opened silently!
However, behind the door, there was a dazzling display of lights!
After crossing the line at the gate, it felt like we had entered a breathtaking place!
The surrounding walls were over twenty meters high. Looking up, the ceiling was an arched shape like the sky, with stars dotting the black ceiling like the night sky! It was even arranged according to the positions of the stars, and Chen Xiao even saw a pattern of the Big Dipper.
The floor beneath their feet... none of them knew what kind of material it was. It felt hard when they stepped on it, but with each step, it was as if liquid crystal was creating ripples under their feet! It felt like walking on water!
Judging from the shape of the surrounding walls, this place, this enormous "room," appears to be hexagonal. And at each corner, a massive stone pillar, so large that it would take seven or eight people to encircle it, stands tall!
This enormous room is as big as a football field. And in the very center is a huge sculpture.
The sculpture wasn't made of gold, but rather as transparent as crystal, and its shape resembled...
"What do you think this thing looks like?" Phoenix asked Chen Xiao softly, her eyes wide.
Chen Xiao withdrew his gaze, sighed, and gave his answer...
"cross."
There was indeed a cross in front of me! A huge cross, two or three meters tall! Completely transparent, crystal clear, radiating a soft glow!
Everyone's eyes were immediately drawn to the huge cross, because it seemed to be radiating light, and under the effect of optics, it refracted the surrounding light, making it seem to turn into seven colors!
There were no lights on the surrounding walls, but the light seemed to seep out naturally from within them... Chen Xiao realized that this place, the surrounding walls, and the ground beneath his feet seemed to be constructed from the same material, something like a liquid crystal.
Just then, the door behind me closed silently.
Prince whistled, patted the fat man beside him who was staring wide-eyed, and laughed, "No matter what, Chen Xiao is right, this is indeed not our warehouse anymore."
...
"Of course not."
A soft and pleasant voice rang out.
The sound seemed to come from all directions. Apart from Chen Xiao, the others immediately turned around and looked in different directions.
Only Chen Xiao kept his eyes fixed on the huge cross in the very center in front of him!
Soon, in front of the cross, a figure seemed to effortlessly step out of thin air!
The process was like teleportation, making a person suddenly appear before you. But it seemed to be slowed down extremely. This person seemed to walk out of the space with just a light, casual step.
Long silver hair, a black robe, an aura of mystery and awe, a golden mask…
Without a doubt, this person is JOKER.
“Welcome to this place.” JOKER’s voice was tinged with laughter. “This is my place, not your warehouse, of course. In fact, it’s more than nine thousand kilometers away from that warehouse in New Jersey. This is underground on an island in the South Atlantic.”
His gaze swept over everyone, but finally settled on Chen Xiao: "It's clear you're quite interested in the cross behind me?"
Chen Xiao looked at JOKER in front of him and listened carefully to his voice. The voice, which sounded like it was synthesized from metal, lost all its disguise when it reached Chen Xiao's ears!
With Chen Xiao's current powerful sensory abilities, he can easily strip away the metallic composite parts of these sounds and restore the original sound wave frequencies to their most primitive fluctuations!
In Chen Xiao's ears, the metallic electronic synthesized voice was transformed into a pleasant male voice with just a thought.
That's precisely why Chen Xiao's expression became increasingly strange!
He nodded reluctantly, seemingly absentmindedly: "Your cross... doesn't seem to be made of crystal."
JOKER nodded.
"Yes, it is a diamond."
thump!
Upon hearing the word "diamond," the fat man standing behind rolled his eyes and then collapsed to the ground! He even dropped Zhu Rong and Gong Gong, whom he was holding, onto the ground.
When the fat man struggled to his feet again, his expression looked as if he wanted to rush up and dig out a few pieces.
Chen Xiao touched his nose, his eyes fixed on JOKER: "Why is it a 'cross'?"
JOKER smiled.
Although he was wearing a mask, Chen Xiao could almost feel his smile.
Originally, he could use his mind to reach out, and even if the other person was wearing a mask, his mental perception could still sense the outline of the other person's face, allowing him to "see" the other person's face directly!
However, he didn't do that, because he seemed to know that the other party didn't want him to see his face! Moreover, the way this guy in front of him acted, that mysterious and dignified demeanor, gave Chen Xiao a feeling that his abilities might not be able to detect his face!
"The cross...because it is a symbol belonging to God."
JOKER stood beside the cross, his voice tinged with laughter: "Oh, usually I change its shape quite often. It just so happens that today it's shaped like a cross. If you come tomorrow, you'll see it as the shape of a Buddha's lotus throne."
As he spoke, amidst his laughter, the cross behind him seemed to suddenly melt away! It was as if it weren't made of hard diamond, but rather a giant ice cream cone! It slowly melted, softened, and then wriggled, quickly transforming into a lotus throne, the seat of Buddha in Buddhist legend!
As the cross deformed on its own, everyone's expression changed!
Chen Xiao, however, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. His gaze calmed, and he smiled gently: "Matter?"