In the hourglass the size of a thumb, the gray sand descends at a uniform speed little by little, and the fine sand that falls to the lower layer is not much left from the position of scale six.

The lights were bright and neon flickered all night, and in a small hidden tent in a remote corner, Moye sat cross-legged and meditated quietly.

The surrounding elemental energy is not active, and the free elements do not actively pour into the Ink Night Demon Spring as before, and they need to consume spiritual power to guide communication in order to summon some free elements into the body.

Jerky, slow, this meditative process made Mo Ye return to the Logar continent when he first became a magic apprentice, and it took more energy and time to transform every trace of magic than others.

The biggest difference is that Mo Ye has a mental strength and perceptual acuity that far exceeds the average level at the moment, and it is still extremely difficult for her spiritual power to absorb free elements, so it is conceivable that if ordinary people are in this place, they may not be able to perceive and mobilize any elemental energy at all.

It's understandable to say that there is a lack of free elemental energy here, but the free elemental energy in this place is clearly very abundant and active.

But these active free elements don't listen to the call at all, whether it's the Star Alliance or the Logar Continent, the free elemental energy in those places is the difference between captivity and free-range, the former is easy to control, docile and easy to communicate, and the latter is ambitious and difficult to tame.

The amount of magic accumulated by a few hours of meditation transformation is not as large as the amount that is automatically accumulated by a regular fight.

At the end of the meditation, Mo Ye took a deep breath, and the rotation of the spiritual power core gradually returned from active to stable.

When he opened his eyes, Mo Ye was silent for a long time, his left hand was raised, and a ball of water appeared in the palm of his hand, and his right hand held a fireball.

The balloon of water rotated in the same direction to maintain its body, while the flames of the fireball tried to break out of the orb and spread in all directions.

Mo Ye lifted her palms and flipped them on her side, and the fireball and water ball were suspended in mid-air at the same time from her palms.

The magic pulls them to stay in shape.

The invisible threads of spiritual power guide the continuous flow of magic into the balls of water and fire.

Mo Ye looked at the two balls of water and fire in front of him, carefully sensing the changes in magic and spiritual power.

Psychic regeneration no longer supplies mana.

Syllable!

The water balloon's rotational power slows down, and the water balloon form collapses and falls downward, and the scattered water droplets flow again.

The fireball burned hard, and could not find the combustible, and it was extinguished with a few snorts.

The duration of magic is drastically shortened, and the utilization rate of free elements here is ridiculously low.

One by one, they are cold and noble, and they can't move!

This is a paradoxical situation, and it is extremely rare to have an abundance of free elements that are difficult to utilize.

Mo Ye looked down at the hourglass on his chest, and the time was up.

"Xiao Qi, you're ready to go. ”

"Yes, master. ”

Taking advantage of the fog in the early morning, Mo Ye put away his tent and walked towards the city.

The city that was originally brightly lit went out when the night receded and the day returned.

Return to a hazy state of fog.

Mo Ye walked inward along the ring road, the lane was not all the way flat, and after a while, the slope rose, and the more inward, the higher the rise.

In the fog, there were no vehicles, no shuttle aircraft, no pedestrians on the empty lane, only Mo Ye walked alone.

The scenery on both sides of the road ranges from empty to high-rise.

The architectural style is not unique, and the buildings under the cloud and fog cover are scattered, and most of them are boxy matchbox-like buildings.

"Master, this is Tchaikovian architecture, according to ancient records, this architectural style was first prevalent in the 'Badillian Empire', an architect named Tchaikov discovered this type of architecture in the scientific research of ancient ruins and carried it forward, and was once considered the most practical architectural style by the Star Alliance. ”

In this way, it is likely that the source of the so-called ancient ruins is much more ancient.

"Master, this style of architecture looks a bit rigid and lacks beauty, but when it moves, it is spectacular. ”

Mo Ye didn't understand what Xiao Qi meant at the moment, until she saw the simulation diagram.

In the light screen in front of the right eye, the three-dimensional picture begins to rotate, and each floor of the boxy building is movable, which can be freely rotated, extended, contracted, and even spliced.

According to ancient texts, the standard Tchaikovian architecture is also known as the Labyrinth City because it is usually a monolithic building built in a city. ”

Mo Ye nodded, in fact, he didn't understand the cloud mountain fog cover very well, but he also understood that the city's buildings were probably very powerful.

"How do you tell?"

In Mo Ye's opinion, these foggy buildings are clearly independent, how can the so-called complete Xiao Qi know.

"Eh, master, didn't you see that?" Xiao Qi's voice was clearly excited, and the little milk voice raised two tones, "These buildings near the periphery have changed last night and this morning. ”

No, I didn't see it at all, and the shape of these buildings under the cover of the fog mosaic was still not real, let alone the details changed.

"How did you see that?"

"I can see it, but I can't convert it into output, I thought you could see it, master. ”

Mo Ye heard it, Xiao Qi had some little sneering, thinking that the emotional program upgrade was very stable, and Xiao Qi's way of thinking belonging to human beings was becoming more and more flexible.

This may be some kind of restriction, just like Mo Ye can't cast spatial magic, the free elements here are difficult to mobilize, etc., etc., which is the original restriction set by this place.

Bleak, cold, and inky night walked along the driveway into the city.

The city is surrounded by a thick layer of fog, and no detail can be seen in the mosaic fog images, and the mechanical mosquitoes and flies that have gone far have never returned, and no one knows what is in the depths of the fog.

The city is the only visible subject.

The ring lane spiraled upward, and Mo Ye's whole person walked into the fog, stretched out his hand and flicked it, and could feel the wetness of his palm.

"Master, the humidity of the air here is extremely high, more than three times higher than the Covenant average. ”

"Hmm"

A layer of wind shield clinged to Mo Ye's body, and even so, after a while, a layer of water beads stuck to Mo Ye's magic robe.

"Water vapor gathers from all sides," Mo Ye looked in the opposite direction to the city, and the thick fog filled the air, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

The floating parking lot along the lane is neatly parked with vehicles of different styles, well, the style is completely different from the square shape of the building, the shape of the circle is square, the triangle and even the polygonal shape is different, and Mo Ye even sees a stool-like object and I don't know if it can fly, whether it is fast or not.

Everything in the city is very well equipped, perhaps because of the excessive humidity and sparse crowding, the floors, the walls, especially in some nooks and crannies, are extremely full of moss growth.

The carpet of green briss was laid out, and there was no vegetation greening except for these wild bryophytes.

The buildings throughout the street look like stone, cold and smooth, and they complement the fog.

There was no people, no breath of life, Mo Ye seemed to be approaching a dead city, and the inhabitants of the city had long since disappeared.

Maybe he should take a look inside the building, maybe he can find some clues, Mo Ye looked around and decided to take the principle of proximity to the building closest to him first.

The towering rectangular shape is difficult to tell what kind of building it is from the appearance alone, and the road signs on both sides of the road are words that Mo Ye does not recognize.

"Master, this is an ancient language, dated before the emergence of the lingua franca, and has appeared in many books of linguistic archaeology, and is called 'pre-lingua franca' or 'Marianna' by linguists, probably the predecessor of the current Covenant lingua franca, also known as elegant and beautiful writing, which has been gradually replaced because the writing is more complex than the current lingua franca, and the pronunciation is similar. ”

I have seen it for a long time.

"Xiao Qi is really amazing. ”

Xiao Qi smiled shyly and smugly.

Almost all the words here use this kind of text, and as for the other words on the signs or road signs, even Xiao Qi doesn't know.

There is no relevant record of the Star Alliance, and Xiao Qi is helpless, "The meaning of those words should be the same, but it was another language that was common at that time." ”

"Well, the master is right. ”

"No. 18 Street, Nanhu District 3" Xiao Qi translated the street sign.

So at this moment, the block where they are located should be the third district of Nanhu, and there is a very conspicuous sign hanging outside this building, eye-catching writing of dragons flying and phoenix dancing.

Of course, Moye still can't understand it, and this way of writing is much more complex and ornamental than the lingua franca.

"Master, this sign says 18th Street Supermarket, which is a supermarket complex. ”

Mall?

Less than a kilometre away from Supermarket 18, Moye turned left across the driveway and went down the sidewalk.

There is a floating elevator on the side, and Mo Ye doesn't plan to try it for the time being.

After walking to the sidewalk, it is very close to the entrance of the mall.

As he walked, Mo Ye realized that something was wrong.

The orderly flow of traffic, the shuttling crowd, and the sudden increase in pedestrians on the originally empty street when approaching the mall, these people who appeared out of thin air seemed to be there all along, but Mo Ye didn't see it.

Mo Ye rubbed his eyes, making sure he wasn't mistaken by the eyes.

The originally silent environment has also changed, the sound of the wind, the sound of cars, the sound of people, the traffic, the original gray tone of the city seems to have been touched by a certain switch suddenly activated and come to life.

A second ago, it was a black-and-white picture that became a five-dimensional surround ultra-clear mode in the blink of an eye, and such a drastic change was very surprising.

Mo Ye's expression was very calm, and he continued to walk towards the mall leisurely, at this moment, the dead city was full of vitality, and the people finally had the feeling of a shopping mall.

Stereoscopic advertisements are interspersed in mid-air.

"Gilly doll, shave by it"

"Rice Bucket Restaurant, Top Quack"

"Friction and friction, high-end health care pedicure"

All kinds of strange advertising slogans sounded in the ears, and the billboards jumping in the air vied with each other, and the crowds surged.

There are many men, women, and children who suddenly appeared, and judging by the naked eye at a glance, non-ordinary humans still account for the majority.

Among them, there are the most half-beasts, cat ears, rabbit mouths, monkey tails, chicken wings, and donkey hooves.

Mo Ye was knocked out, turned to the side, looked down, and saw a team of children with duck flippers carrying schoolbags galloping past and chattering in their mouths

"It's over, it's over, I won't be able to eat the special free breakfast this morning"

"It's all Rohr's fault, he turned off the alarm clock"

"He must have been trying to steal our ......"

Well, the upturned duck butt is also very eye-catching, and Mo Ye watched the group of duck-footed children run into the distance and cross the street, and then the fog obscured the vision clearly.

At this moment, she was crowded in the center by the crowd, some people walked in, some people passed by, it looked so ordinary and ordinary, if you can ignore the other areas that are still gray and dead in the distance, but how can Mo Ye ignore it.

"Master, don't you think it's a little strange?"

"Hmm" is not only a little, it is very strange, Mo Ye squinted his eyes and swept the surroundings, with the eighteenth supermarket as the center, the area within a radius of five hundred meters is alive and can see the flow of people and vehicles shuttling, and the range of more than five hundred meters is still a world shrouded in fog.

"This ......," Mo Ye thought with a frown, "it's like an area in the game map that has been lit up and activated. ”

"Yes, yes, master, that's what you said. ”

But what does that mean? Are you playing a game or are you being played as a game?

Without any hints, what should she do?

Sean may know something but doesn't say anything about it, and if this is a competition game and both she and Sean are contestants, Sean probably has the advantage of knowing the rules of the game.

Mo Ye is not surprised by this, in Mo Ye's opinion, it is not surprising that the anti-human elements do anything, they just need to find a way to solve it.

Mo Ye walked forward, and since the lights were on, and the people were on the field, let's go and have a look.

Walking through the crowd and entering the door of the supermarket, a fine light poured down from the top of the gate, and the pale silver light looked somewhat similar to the light that appeared in the Imperial Capital Star before.

"Are these people real, real humans?"

Xiao Qi's scan did not have any results, its scan was blocked, except for the garbled characters, no detection results could be obtained, Zhi Brain was very puzzled but had no solution, "Master, what do you think?"

The awe of the ancient advanced civilization made it impossible for Mo Ye to make an immediate judgment, after all, anything is possible.

Mo Ye's spiritual power can sense countless mental power fluctuations, each one is different, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false" Spiritual power fluctuations are real. As for whether the person is real or not, she doesn't know.

When the night is approaching, the light automatically bends to the sides to open the passage when it senses that a person is approaching, which looks very interesting, and these light intelligent sensors will not accidentally touch any customers.

When Mo Ye walked into the door, a few young people walked briskly past her, and although the pronunciation of these people was slightly different from that of the lingua franca, she could still roughly understand the meaning after listening to it a few times.

"How long will the sale last?"

"Today is the last day, I need to buy an accelerator for the car, I heard that there is a new batch of parts, and the first-hand news was that it was just put on the shelves last night, and it is a new product of 'Mason'. ”

"Really?"

"What did I lie to you. ”

These people walked away, a large wave of people poured in, and it took a while for the door to be quieter, and then Mo Ye was able to clearly see the layout of the supermarket, which was unified with the exterior style, and the inside was also a boxy grid, and the whole building was transparent, and when I looked up, I could see the staggered squares on the top of the head moving alternately, sometimes up and down and sometimes overlapping left and right. When Mo Ye saw this scene, the first thing that came to mind was a kind of retro game on Earth, "Tetris".