"After that, no one dared to go, and if they did, they got sick, and the hospital didn't seem to be able to do anything. The officials came again and emphasized the incident, saying that it was very dangerous and that we should not be allowed to go in, and that if we were found out, there would be a very serious punishment. "In fact, even if they didn't say it, looking at the way those people looked, we didn't have the courage at that time." It's not a good disease, it's painful. ”

"Didn't the officials give a specific reason?" asked Kasia, "and there must have been some explanation for such a thing in their management and handling?"

"I don't remember this 、、、 very well. There was no explanation, and then it seemed that they really didn't say anything, and they came twice, and said nothing more than to increase the scope of those dangerous cordons. ”

"Young man, you don't want to go inside, do you? It's better not to go in, you look strong, but decades ago they were all like you, very strong. But when I came back, everything was the same. The old man persuaded, but looking at their appearance, he only spoke. Whether it can play a role depends on the decision of the young man in front of him.

It was completely darkened during the conversation, and the temperature quickly dropped a little, but more elderly people gathered around, and it seemed that this was the only place in their lives where they could have fun. Most of them are about the same age, and there are some younger ones with black hair.

The people here come from the nearest city and plan to spend the rest of their lives here. Kasia asked a few more people, and the answers were almost the same. The Imperial Authority hadn't done much to deal with it, and based on the old people's words, he guessed that the reason for this might be because it was a no-man's land in the first place, and it had been a long time ago. Nothing else will be involved, so the follow-up will be forgotten in the procrastination.

Back at the limousine, Kasia prepared to leave early tomorrow morning. There were no lights ahead, and although the surgeon's eyes could catch the general view in the twilight of the night, for more clues, Kasia wanted to ask more about the others.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, Cassia was the only one left in the small square. Adding a few sticks of wood to the fire in front of her, Kasia sorted through the information she had gathered. It was natural to associate that strange symptom with the second-generation holy sword, he had never seen the holy sword himself, and he only knew a little bit about the basic information of the holy sword, and he didn't come up with anything in the end.

After spending the night in the limousine, and the next day it was dark, Kasia bought some food from the nearest old men, and continued along the dirt road that was almost out of sight towards the mountains in front of him.

"If you don't feel well, remember to turn back immediately. The hospital should be able to cure that disease now. The old man finally reminded him kindly, and Kasia nodded in agreement.

On both sides of the road, several other towns in the old people's mouths came into view, surrounded by lush grass, and in a few years, they might be completely weed-covered in ruins.

Soon after, the dirt road was gone, and all that was left was grass and trees that were getting denser and denser. Some concave mounds of dirt began to appear on the flat ground, and when the weeds and dirt were peeled off on them, black rocks appeared.

"Are you already in the area covered by the eruption?" "Kasia stopped the limousine and looked at the mountains in front of him, the bare rocks that looked like hideous scars could already be seen clearly, and the same clumps of weeds were gradually replaced by dense trees, and the limousine could not drive in.

Camouflage the limousine, grab the musket and the forged steel sword, and Kasia planned to hike to the lake at the foot of the mountain to talk about the rest of the plan.

In a few decades, the surrounding environment has completely changed. In the mouths of the old people, in front of the lake, there has always been a flat land, on which the town's crops are planted. But now there is no longer the farmland that it should be, and the trees are becoming denser and denser as they move forward, becoming forests. The trees grew thicker and thicker, but Kasia noticed something strange, as if they were suffering from a strange illness, and could barely find a straight tree. All twisted, all kinds of coiled and twisted appearances, twisted together.

Kasia climbed into the middle of a tall tree, and through a bewitching green leaf, a calm lake appeared in the distance.

It was probably less than five kilometers or so, and as Kasia muttered to herself, her head tilted slightly, and her right hand leaned forward, and when she stopped, something was already caught between her fingers.

It was a turquoise snake, and its soft body changed color at this time, from the tan of the trunk to a uniform turquoise. Still struggling, his torso wrapped around Kasia's arm, about a meter and a half in length. The color also changed again, becoming the same mottled camouflage as Kasia's clothes. Between the two sharp fangs, a crimson tongue swayed up and down, and Kasia's fingers were strong enough to crush its skull, and the pain and danger of the past made the snake want to escape.

"Nature?" Kasia cared not about its fangs, but about the danger signs that had not appeared in his perception before the snake attacked him. It wouldn't be that the danger was too low to be noticed, and Kasia was more inclined to the snake's own abilities. After all, a snake with scales like a chameleon lizard, he really hadn't seen it in a book, and it wouldn't be surprising that it had excellent stealth ability.

"Kind of second-class creatures?" Kasia shook his head in thought, he sliced open the snake's belly, his fingers touching the blood, and even if he used the devouring method, he still didn't feel any dragon-like blood in its blood.

"Probably a species that migrated from the edge of the southern forest. Kasia finally judged. Without much thought, I got off the tree and moved on. After a few minutes, he stopped, his face more cautious.

I don't know when it started, and there was a slight burning sensation in my fingers. The skin was slightly corroded, and upon closer inspection, a small shallow pit could be seen dissolved on it. Up to the fingers, there is a faint red. It's just that there is no feeling of poisoning in his body, and the toxicity of the blood that corrodes his skin cannot pass through his skin and enter his body.

Kasia then remembered the words of the old men—his skin was also much redder, as if he had been exposed to the sun for a long time、、、

The animals here are suffering from the same strange symptoms? Or is it the same with the plants here? Looking at the twisted trees around him, Kasia exhaled: "Is this the influence of the Holy Sword? It seems that the first generation of knight kings Grote and Sucarius are both the same character, always hiding things, and did not tell me everything. ”