Chapter 408: Everything is an illusion
"Miss Yunying, what's wrong with you?"
In the face of Yunying's sudden temper, Ji Lie seemed a little confused.
"It's okay, I'm in menopause."
"Huh?"
Menopause? There is no such statement on the Kira continent, and Ji Lie, who understands that it is perfunctory, naturally did not ask any more questions.
"Forget it, eat first."
Cloudshadow stopped and sat down in the grass, thinking carefully about whether she wanted to help the druid avoid Rog's detection.
Lunch was again dried meat and flatbread, and after a hurried meal, Yunying closed his eyes and released the "grass eye" againβthe nearby forest was still calm, and even animals were rare...... Rare?
"Huh?"
Yun Ying finally noticed the strangeness of the past few days: "Ji Lie, do you think this forest is too quiet? β
"Too quiet?"
Worthy of being an experienced mercenary, Ji Lie just glanced around and understood what Yunying meant: "God, why is there no bird cry in this forest?!" β
"That's right, there are no ordinary animals at all, even demonic beasts are rare, and the two wolf-like things that stalked us every night are gone."
"Tracking? Wolf? β
Ji Lie's eyes were full of surprise, and Cloud Shadow immediately understood that he didn't realize that he was being followed at all.
"Tsk, as a martial artist, your vigilance is obviously not enough."
Cloud Shadow shook his head and continued to think about his own business, while Ji Lie kept muttering to himself with a puzzled face, "I really don't feel any tracking." β
"In short, we're in a strange environment."
Tracking or something can be said later, but now the most important question is to figure out what happened to this forest.
ββ¦β¦ Miss Cloud Shadow, I have an ominous premonition, generally only high-level demonic beasts will expel other demonic beasts in order to divide and occupy territory. β
"Ji Lie, you mean that there are seven or eighth-order demonic beasts here? It is precisely because of its existence that the rest of the demonic beasts are retreating? β
"I'm not sure, but the level of that magical beast should be at least above the sixth order, maybe the jumping monkey we saw earlier ran to the edge of the forest for this reason."
Demonic beasts above the sixth order? Cloud Shadow flashed over the two wolf-like creatures he had seen at night...... No. No, she must have overlooked something, although Ji Lie's inference seemed to make sense, Yunying always felt a little unrealistic...... Unrealistic? That's right!
"I see!"
Cloud Shadow suddenly screamed, stopped, closed his eyes and meditated.
"Understood? Miss Cloud Shadow, what do you understand? β
Ji Lie really couldn't understand Yun Ying's sudden move this time, but unfortunately Yun Ying, who was silent, didn't give him any explanation.
"Follow me."
A quarter of an hour later, Cloudshadow's footsteps moved, but her eyes were still closed.
"Miss Cloud Shadow?"
Still no response, Jilie had to resign himself to his fate.
"Huhu...... Miss Cloud Shadow, can you go slower? β
An hour later, Ji Lie, who was struggling to chop through the thorns, found that he was about to lose track of the speed of Cloud Shadow, still the same path, still the same stride. But Ji Lie felt that Cloud Shadow was at least twice as fast as before, so didn't the latter have to be distracted to cut down the branches that stood in his way?
"Walk in my footsteps."
"Huh?"
Another order with no beginning or end, and this time Ji Lie immediately carried it out without asking further why. Ten minutes later, he felt himself gradually catching up with Cloud Shadow.
"God, what are you kidding?"
When the figure of Cloud Shadow passed through a thigh-thick tree trunk first, Ji Lie felt that the joke was too big, and when he himself walked by in the same way, he exclaimed, "It's an illusion, it's all an illusion." No wonder they wouldn't hang on to me even if I didn't cut the branches around me now! β
"That's right, amazing visionsβ"
After traveling for two hours, Yun Ying finally stopped and opened his eyes: "The forest density in the place we are really in is only one-third of what we see, and most of them are timid first- and second-order chicken beasts. "That's amazing, Miss Yunying, how did you find out? I didn't even have the idea that these things could be hallucinations. β
Ji Lie plucked a leaf with his hand, his eyes full of incredulity.
"It's not surprising. As a magician, I'm naturally more aware of magically created illusions than a martial artist, and I've seen quite a few of them before - illusions, even if they are realistic, have loopholes, but this time the preconceived notion of the swamp kept us from noticing the anomalies of the woods. β
"I see. So we've all been deceived these days? β
"Yes, we've been circling around the original base camp of the jumping monkeys for the past three days."
"How is it possible, Miss Cloud Shadow, don't you use magic to probe the route every half hour?"
"Indeed, what I detected was only an illusion, as long as I directly used my spiritual power like just now, I could see the true appearance of a radius of about a hundred meters nearby. God knows how desperate I was when I found out that we were not far from the clearing where ten horses were tethered. β
"Mental power, then I can't help it. There is no comparison between the spiritual power of a person who practices martial arts and that of a magician. β
Ji Lie shrugged his shoulders and accepted the reality of his uselessness in frustration, and to be honest, it was quite embarrassing for him to rely on a woman every time he was a big man.
"Well, leave it to me, but I need to rest for a while, this illusion is very powerful, and only two hours of mental power output has overdrawn me a little - this phenomenon has not happened in a long time."
Yun Ying took out a recovery pill from his bracer and swallowed it, and by the way, he greeted the guy who created the illusion to the eighteenth generation of his ancestors.
"Tsk, I didn't expect there to be such a realistic illusion in the world, and I don't know if the other people who entered the forest noticed it."
"It's hard to say, this place is definitely the most clever illusion I've ever seen, but since Rogge's guards can settle the horses well, they must have made a lot of preparations, not to mention that they have a legendary mage behind them...... I'm more worried about Feike than they are. β
ββ¦β¦ Yes, Miss Cloud Shadow still hasn't seen any trace of Feike after seeing through the illusion? β
When Gillie asked this, he suddenly hoped that the fragment of Feiko's clothes was also an illusion - perhaps the others had already rushed to Nolan City to give an account to Lord Flaming.
"Well, we have traveled at least nearly fifty kilometers in two hours, but we haven't seen a single person."
"We've walked fifty kilometers in two hours?"
Ji Lie's eyes widened in disbelief at Cloud Shadow's data, which was almost in time for the day's journey they had traveled.
"yes, if it weren't for some stamina, I would have been going to run faster."
ps: Year-end accounts,I'm going to be cut into eight petals.,Now it's in the hotel to post a post.,I haven't been able to go online for more than ten days, please understand.,The financial staff has no year-end level.