Chapter 8: The Vanishing Shepherd

On this day, the sun was shining, the sea breeze was gentle, the breeze was full of earth, the plants reflected each other, and when the sunlight passed through the tall trees and cast a little spot of light in the forest, everything was as beautiful as a dream.

However, this is only hypothetical.

The entire Breeze Forest has long lost the beauty and tranquility of the past, and the Breeze Forest that the group saw outside and the feeling after entering it were completely two worlds.

Outside, the breeze forest is still the same, calm and peaceful. But when Tang Dou and his entourage stepped on that invisible line, gray and low, forming a strange picture scroll in front of them.

It was an invisible, untouchable boundary, just a hundred meters after entering the breeze forest, on the forest path, between two tall paulownia trees, through this invisible boundary, all the good came to an abrupt end, Tang Dou was surprised to find that above the margin, a dwarf shrub half outside the boundary, half inside, outside the boundary is lush and grows normally, and within the boundary, it is gray and dilapidated.

It's not a wilt, it's not a lesion, it's more like after crossing this boundary, a layer of filter has been added, and this layer of filter has a more vivid name in addition to making the color gray, - the color of doom.

It's like any scene that only appears in a post-apocalyptic flow story, obviously just a difference in color, but it quickly casts a shadow on people.

The group got closer and closer, and from the quiet action at the beginning to the whispered conversation from time to time.

Even the elven warriors began to feel afraid, not because they were timid, but because they were unconsciously lured out of their instincts in such an atmosphere.

Then, a broken gong broke everything.

"When the sun shines in the sky, the flowers smile at me. The bird said early, why are you carrying a bag of explosives! I went to blow up the bunker, I was never late, one shot on the left, one shot on the right, and the bunker was quickly flattened! ”

Tang Dou's voice frightened at least six elf warriors, two elf warriors almost exclaimed, eleven eleven eleven elbow warriors held weapons in their hands, and their whole bodies stood on end.

But after everyone figured out who made the broken gong voice, everyone unexpectedly relaxed, with a look of "oh, it turned out to be him".

In other words, the crazy attribute of Tang Da Slut is already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Nicholas, what are you doing?" Sarandor Vera looked at Tang Dou with a smile and a smile.

"I'm cheering you on. Boost morale, do you understand? Tang Dou's eyes widened, and he was ready to sing again.

Sarandor Vera almost flipped the table - if there was one in front of her: "You also call it morale-boosting?" I almost thought I had been attacked! ”

Facing the extremely corrupt elven leader, Tang Dou spread his hands with a hippie smile: "Look, this is the problem. The commander of the dignified elf clan, the golden ninth-level golden elf, three gold-level masters, fifty-five silver masters, all fully armed and well-equipped. But you haven't even noticed the shadow of the enemy, and you have already begun to understand, do you still need to fight for a while with such morale? ”

Sarandor Vera was stunned for a moment, and somewhat understood what Tang Dou meant.

"The environment here is a pretty delicate thing. It will constantly break our morale, our will, and everything will be done in silence. You can't do this, elven warriors, you should maintain high morale at all times and at all times, sue for the glory and true name of the elven goddess, and charge forward with indomitable morale, where the sword is pointed and where the blade goes, that is, the elven frontier! ”

Looking at Tang Dou, who suddenly became enthusiastic, the elves were dumbfounded.

This guy's condition has worsened again!

The elven warriors turned their faces away and tried not to look at this slut, because they were afraid that they would not be able to resist the fact that they would not be able to pull this guy down. But I have to admit that after being messed up by Tang Dou for a while, the inexplicable tension in everyone's hearts has dissipated a lot, and with Tang Dou's reminder, they have all discovered that the previous state is not right. With the active adjustment of their mentality, it is conceivable that they will no longer be so easily affected by the surrounding environment.

Sarandor Vera shook his head helplessly, and said to Sha Yunyue beside him: "He, has he always been like this?" ”

"You say that? That's a lot better! Sha Yunyue covered her mouth and chuckled.

"How did you fall in love with such a guy? And it's still with ......" Sarado Vera's eyes turned to the side of the soft girl who was sleeping darkly with little Lori.

Sha Yunyue shook her head: "I don't know, maybe it's fate?" ”

"Because there's no choice?"

"No, on the contrary, this is the freest choice I have made so far, and it is also the happiest choice!" Sha Yunyue smiled happily.

Sarandor Vera couldn't understand Sha Yunyue's state of mind at all, so she could only sigh: "Okay, if it's your choice!" She still had a sentence in her heart that did not come out: "Because I was labeled as an outlier and a heretic, should I be a real outlier and heretic?" Let those old-fashioned people know that the princess of the elven race, who advocates monogamy, actually married a human to a human husband. I can't imagine what will happen to those old stubborns! ”

She looked at Tang Dou, who took the lead again: "With him, everything will develop in the most chaotic direction!" ”

The Breeze Forest is the closest primeval forest to Al Samudo, which stretches from thirty miles northwest of Al Samudor to the Tanggula Mountains a thousand miles away, enveloping the entire northwest region of Isamdor.

The Breeze Forest has always been the back flower yard of Isamudo, which produces one-third of Isamudo's elven secret products (special products that will only grow in the elven forests of the Tianfeng Continent), and every year to a specific day, the shepherds in the forest (a kind of elven occupation, most of them are night elves, they take the forest as their home, trees as livestock, and the forest as pasture, and the elf secret is their main source of life) will transport the elf products of the breeze forest to the city for various trades, It was a time of great festivity among the elves.

Lothar Salon's because none of the shepherds saw anything wrong when the shepherds came out this year - although even if the other party appeared, he would persuade the other party to make this year's transaction because of mania, but the other party didn't show up directly, which made him feel strange.

As a result, the city lord's investigation did not gain anything, but was infected by evil spirits.

And after the evil spirit vaccine was distributed, the direction in which the last few soldiers who disappeared from Lothar Salon's disappearance has been confirmed to be the Breeze Forest.

Lothar Salons was going to send a large force directly to the Wrangler headquarters in the Breeze Forest to check on the situation, but was stopped by Sarandor Vera. In the face of evil spirits, sometimes the more people there are, the more dangerous they are. So in the end, the elven commander persuaded Tang Dou, and the group traveled lightly to the Shepherd's headquarters in the Breeze Forest.

But obviously, the Forest of the Breeze has changed dramatically once again from the last time Lothar Salons came.

"Here, it's completely lifeless! I don't feel any breath of life, I can't feel the breath of the shepherds who are supposed to be everywhere! One of the night elves in the team said with a sad face.

Of the 100 tree shepherds, ninety-five had to be night elves, and the rest were non-mainstream wood elves and blood elves. Obviously, if all of the Breeze Forest's tree herders were to become infected, it would be a heavy blow to the Night Elves. Because the night elves were originally the second most sparsely populated tribe among the four elven races.

The Breeze Forest is a fairly large forest, so there are more than 3,000 shepherds here, and there are only 100,000 night elves in total.

"Nicholas Owner, is it really impossible to convert back?" The night elf looked at Tang Dou with a rare weakness in his tone. In fact, she knew the answer in her heart, she just wanted to use this way to escape, or, she also wanted to get some possible comfort from Tang Dou.

"There is no say without investigation, and until now we have not studied any infected people other than those infected with mania. So I can't answer that question to you. And, I think you should be aware that if the worst answer appears, there is only one choice. The sooner everything is dealt with here, the fewer casualties there will be! Tang Dou put away his hippie smile, but he looked too ruthless.

The Night Elf smiled bitterly and stopped talking.

Yes, there was only one choice from the beginning. Everybody knows!

The village of the shepherd in the Breeze Forest is more than seven hundred miles away from the elves in a straight line, and it is already close to the Tanggula Mountains, which is not a short distance, even if the elves are in the forest, it will take half a day, not to mention that the whole forest is now resisting the elves, this road seems even longer.

It wasn't until the evening that everyone finally came to the village of the shepherd, but as Tang Dou had said before, the house had long been empty, and nothing was left.

"There are no clues, they were very careful when they left, and they couldn't find anything useful!" The Wood Elves in the team searched carefully, but the Trackers found nothing.

In fact, it is almost impossible to find a group of herders in the forest environment who are deliberately hiding themselves.

"Fifty miles further northwest is the Cave of Falling Water, where there is a spring, the most important source of water in the village. Let's go investigate tomorrow and maybe find out! "Sarandor Vera had carefully researched the village of the Shepherd before she set out, and Carres gave her a lot of information.

Now it's about to get dark, after a day's trek, the elf warriors are already a little tired, the most important of which is caused by the resistance to the strange environment around them, under normal circumstances, the elves will not get tired after running in the normal elves for three days and three nights.

Tang Dou: "To form a defensive line, we have to guard against possible attacks!" ”

Sarandor Vera: "I know! ”

But the night passed, and nothing happened.

By the next morning, the crowd had begun to feel some discomfort. Mainly elven warriors. Tang Dou's family had Tang Dou's life energy infusion every day, as well as an unlimited amount of evil spirit vaccines, and the plausible evil qi that permeated the forest had no effect on them at all. But not with the elven warriors, they don't have such good conditions, although they are still far from being infected, but the excessive exhaustion is obvious.

Tang Dou had to give away his life energy once to help the elven warriors recover their energy, and for this he extorted ten red crystals from the leading sister.

Then the team headed towards the cave of falling water, the fifty-mile road seemed quite difficult at this moment, it took everyone three hours to get there, there was no attack on the way, but it was getting thicker and thicker, and it was already certain that it was the evil aura that made the elven warriors very stressed.

However, the moment he walked into the cave of falling water, the suppression of the evil spirit disappeared in an instant.

"Looks like that thing is really still here!" Sarandor Vera muttered to herself.

"Oh? That thing? Tang Dou smiled playfully.

"You should know that." Sarandor Vera was not surprised at all that Tang Dou knew what she was talking about, with Sha Yunyue here, what secrets did Tang Dou not know about the elven clan?

"Maybe what I think is different from what you think?" Tang Dou smiled, and then the group entered the depths of the cave in the falling water, and in the spring in the cave, they found something like a jewel.

"Seed of the Tree of Life! It's really still here. But why is that? Sarandor Vera stepped forward cautiously, but did not dare to touch the seed of the Tree of Life directly.

"Ora, you're coming!" She called the Night Elf Squad Leader in the team.

The seeds of the Tree of Life can only be touched by the Night Elves with their clan's unique secret arts, otherwise they will quickly wither. And for any shepherd village, the seed of the tree of life is the most sacred and important treasure, although this thing is not so important to the entire elven race, but in the world view of the shepherd, this thing is as sacred as the elven goddess.

The leader of the night elf team named Aura scooped up the seeds of the Tree of Life from the spring and carefully held them in his hands: "Sir, what should we do now?" ”

"I don't know why the seeds of the Tree of Life are here, but since the shepherds here are gone, we will keep this thing and return it to them when the shepherds reappear and are still our people. Ora, you take care of it, don't make a mistake. If there's a fight in a moment, you'll need to get involved and protect the Tree of Life seed! "Sarandor Vera commanded discreetly.

"Understood!" (To be continued.) )