When a person is unable to resist gravity, any feeling of falling will be their fatal nightmare.
Unfortunately for Players, simply falling is not terrifying.
The moment her feet lost contact, Tao Yi swiftly grabbed the driftwood beside her and activated the full power of [prosperity] throughout her body, directly extending this single piece of wood into a giant wooden parachute.
Seeing this, everyone grabbed onto her before they fell.
As a result, while the surrounding objects plummeted directly, the 6 Players, almost like a string of kites, drifted downwards from high altitude extremely slowly.
The sudden drastic change was thus silently smoothed over.
"Amazing!"
Even Cheng Shi had to admit that when Tao Yi was well-fed, her mind was truly sharp.
"Hehe, you flatter me!"
Tao Yi accepted her teammates' praise with a smile, adjusting the direction of the parachute to ensure the descent angle remained perfectly balanced.
The Players trailing below her took advantage of the current lack of other dangers and began to look down.
To be honest, the moment the seawater disappeared, their environment had already been brutally altered.
The Players did not see any former mountains or ground within their visible range; there was only endless darkness.
Above was the clear blue sky and bright sun, but below was an abyss that could not be seen clearly.
This seamless splicing of scenes without transition caused a sense of absurd tearing to rise in everyone's hearts.
And that obvious black and white boundary line was not far below their feet.
The usually cautious Zhao Qian, with a solemn expression, balled up a single hand and flung a rocket downwards.
The instant that arrow, flickering with raging fire, crossed the black and white boundary line, the firelight instantly vanished from everyone's sight.
The speed was so fast that it even made Cheng Shi feel like he was seeing things.
The afterimage in his eyes told him that there was still a faint light there.
"Dis... disappeared?"
"Danger, Tao Yi, slow down!"
"There's something wrong with the boundary line! We can't go down any further!"
"Can't do it, this is already the slowest speed!"
"Then let's go up!"
Su Yida suddenly spoke, pointing to Gao Yu beside him:
"Gao Yu makes a tin stove, Zhao Qian provides the fire, Tao Yi holds the umbrella, let's make a hot air balloon and fly up!"
This colleague's reaction was also quite fast, Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows and looked at him again.
Su Yida was above Cheng Shi; He was holding Tao Yi's ankle, and Cheng Shi was holding His.
Gao Yu was below Cheng Shi; He immediately responded after hearing this:
"Feasible!"
He immediately took out the remaining dregs of the previous medicine stove, hammered and shaped it into a thin-skinned stove with hooks, and He even thoughtfully left a small opening at the bottom of the stove for fuel.
As for what the fuel was...
Naturally, it was Zhao Qian's left hand that could breathe fire.
"..."
Zhao Qian clearly didn't want to use the power of [war] in such a place, but there was indeed danger below his feet; His gaze swept over everyone's faces, and finally, He sighed and reluctantly accepted this reality.
Cheng Shi almost laughed out loud when He saw this scene.
It was too interesting; it was like a Warhorse galloping on the battlefield being blindfolded and turned into a Workhorse pulling a millstone, exuding an aura of "frustration" all over its body.
But frustration is frustration, the horsepower of a Warhorse is stronger than that of a Workhorse.
When the flame of [war] ignited in the stove, the parachute built by the Players with their bodies instantly stopped its descent and flew upwards.
Success!
They actually, at this moment, above the abyss, were putting on a show.
"Tsk, I didn't expect it, my first time in a hot air balloon was actually in a Trial." Cheng Shi said with emotion.
Gao Yu chuckled upon hearing this:
"Is it possible that ever since the [Gods] descended, every one of your firsts has to happen in a Trial?"
Cheng Shi was stunned, and then suddenly felt embarrassed:
"Well, there aren't that many kinds."
"...?"
The others automatically ignored the conversation between the two and focused their attention on the boundary line.
Su Yida frowned, seeming to ponder what exactly was hidden there: was it darkness that swallowed everything, or a rule that meant instant death upon crossing the line.
"Thinking is useless, practice yields true knowledge."
Cui Dingtian peeled off the skin from his hand and peeled it into a rope again, which he looped around everyone's hands.
"Keep the fire small, hold steady, I'll go down and take a look."
Saying that, He let go of Tao Yi's hand and leaped towards the abyss.
This scared several people quite a bit.
"Holy crap, Old Cui, are you crazy!"
"Old Cui, be careful!"
They quickly pulled the rope made of skin, afraid that the Old Cui would go and not return.
Under the combined effect of gravity and pulling, Cui Dingtian's skin peeled off in layers, like ribbons waving in circles, gradually pulling out a long white line behind Him.
The Old Cui fell very quickly, and soon reached the height where the flame had just disappeared.
He tensed all his muscles, no longer letting out the "line", and hovered precisely above the black and white boundary line.
From his perspective, the entire world was perfectly divided into two equal halves, black and white.
The upper half was the reality of Existence, and the lower half was the abyss of Nothingness.
"What did you see?"
"White plus black."
"???"
The Players in the hot air balloon clearly didn't expect Old Cui, at his age, to suddenly say something like that; they collectively froze for a moment, and then were at a loss.
What kind of ancient cold joke was that?
It was too cold.
Cui Dingtian did not let this icy awkwardness last for long; He took out a small handful of wood shavings that He had prepared earlier and gently flicked them towards the black and white boundary that was close at hand.
The moment the wood shavings crossed the line, the scene of the firelight disappearing was repeated.
The wood shavings disappeared.
Even though it was right in front of Him, Cui Dingtian couldn't see what happened there.
His expression instantly became solemn.
"What did you see?" Zhao Qian asked again when he saw the Old Cui's gloomy expression.
Cheng Shi added helpfully:
"Besides white plus black."
"..."
"Disappeared, just disappeared."
"Ah? What disappeared?"
"Wood shavings, a handful of wood shavings, all disappeared."
"Wood shavings?"
Such fine things, is it possible that He saw it wrong?
Everyone in the hot air balloon had this thought, so they began to collect whatever they could still throw on their bodies and threw them downwards.
Zhao Qian again squeezed out a rocket, Su Yida threw away the food in His hand, Gao Yu kicked off a shoe that He had just finished knocking on, as for Cheng Shi...
He spat out a mouthful of saliva.
If He hadn't been glared at by Tao Yi above Him when He was tearing at the rags around His waist, He definitely could have provided more test water.
These miscellaneous items fell from the Old Cui's side towards the boundary line, but without exception, they all disappeared the moment they crossed the boundary line.
Now, the Players couldn't smile.
The things really disappeared.
Thus, it seemed that the Players had no way to cross this boundary.
What was worse was...
Although Tao Yi's wooden umbrella surface, once made, could last for an infinite amount of Time, and although Gao Yu's thin-skinned stove, as long as it wasn't reshaped, could Exist indefinitely, the other element of a hot air balloon, the fire...
It wouldn't work.
"Find a way! My mental energy is not much!"
Zhao Qian's face was ashen, and His body felt as if it had been drained by everyone.
Cheng Shi didn't say a word and sent over a mental technique.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here!"
Originally, these words were quite encouraging, but coupled with His meaningful smile, they clearly sounded like:
"It's okay if the Workhorse is lazy, just whip it twice and it will move."
"..."