He had drunk coffee at the top of the Empire State Building in New York and ridden a helicopter over the Grand Canyon.
But just by taking one look at the bottomless mist below, he felt dizzy, and his stomach went into spasms.
It was a kind of vertigo stemming from biological instinct, the brain warning the body: Get away from here, you will die.
Below the cliff, due to the swirling mist, the bottom was completely invisible.
Occasionally, a few birds would fly by, appearing as small as dust in the clouds.
If one accidentally fell… Strange felt that even if his medical skills were a hundred times better, even if he could pull the dead back from hell, it would be useless.
Because falling meant certain death; one might not even be able to find the corpse, and would simply turn into a pile of meat paste.
"Do we have to go this way? Can we take a detour?" Hughes asked with a crying tone, his legs trembling.
Alice said calmly: "If we don't take this path, we must go down to the bottom of the valley and cross that densest primeval forest. There…"
Before she could finish her sentence.
"Roar—"
A deafening roar suddenly erupted from the valley deep below the cliff.
The sound was grand and deep, like thunder from the depths of hell, carrying an unrivaled domineering aura and pressure.
The roar echoed in the valley, hitting the rock walls, causing waves of echoes that lasted for a long time.
Even the rocks under their feet seemed to tremble slightly from this roar.
"My God, what kind of Beast is that? It's terrifying."
Banner and Strange were shocked; they looked at each other and saw the fear in each other's eyes.
By comparison, the screech of the pterodactyl from before could be considered very gentle and pleasant, almost like a lullaby.
Hughes was even more scared, his face drained of color, and he collapsed onto the ground.
"Look over there!" Hughes pointed to a distant part of the valley and yelled tremblingly.
Strange and Banner looked simultaneously.
They saw something huge moving in the dense forest of the valley a few kilometers away.
Accompanied by the movement of that thing, large swaths of towering trees collapsed like dominoes, dust rolled up into the sky, and the startled birds blocked out the Sun.
Although they couldn't see the entity clearly from so far away, that destructive momentum was like a living bulldozer rampaging through the forest.
"That is Kong, a giant gorilla."
Alice added at the right moment, her tone as calm as if she were introducing a neighbor's dog.
"It is the lord of this area; if we don't take this cliff path, we will have to walk across its dining table."
The air froze instantly.
A bottomless cliff in front, and Kong blocking the way behind.
This was practically a death trap.
"Then we'd better choose the cliff path; it's safer."
Strange swallowed hard and immediately made the wisest and most helpless decision.
Banner and Hughes nodded in unison, their heads bobbing like garlic being pounded.
While walking the cliff path had the danger of slipping and falling, it was only a possibility.
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