Chapter 403: The Living Forest
The three of them found a clearing in the forest and pitched their tents, and Mossa suggested that he rest for the night and wait until dawn to make plans.
Su Qiubai disagreed with him: "This is not an ordinary forest, except for the giant python during the day, nothing has happened. I've always felt that this qiē is a little unusual, so I'd better be careful. ”
After thinking about it, Mosa instead instructed Muhan to be in charge of the vigil, while he and Su Qiubai slept with peace of mind.
Su Qiubai saw that he insisted on this, so he didn't say anything, but he wouldn't be so careless, although he entered the tent, he still kept an eye on the changes around him.
However, to his surprise, he stared at it for seven or eight hours, and his surroundings were still quiet as if time had frozen, and when it should have been six or seven o'clock in the morning, the forest was still pitch black, and there was no sign of dawn.
Su Qiubai walked out of the tent and saw that Muhan was still keeping vigil with a spirit on his face. Along the way, it seems that this Muhan was very loyal to Mosa, and never said a word about his orders, and let him do whatever he wanted, without the slightest complaint, and this must be the reason why Mosa took him.
Mosa didn't know if he was sleeping or not, anyway, as soon as Su Qiubai moved, he also got out of the tent.
When Su Qiubai saw Mosa, he said, "It's half past six in the morning, but it's not dawn yet. ”
Mossa frowned, glanced at the watch on his wrist, and then looked up at the sky, suddenly even more confused.
"What's going on?" Mossa asked.
It wasn't winter, it was supposed to be dawn at six o'clock, and even if the trees in the forest were very lush, it wasn't impossible to see the sky, and if it did, it wouldn't be so dark all around.
Su Qiubai didn't answer, but looked up through the gap between the trees, and after a while, he said: "Look at this sky, it's pitch black, not to mention the moon, there isn't even a star." ”
Mosa's heart suddenly tightened, because this qiē looked too weird!
"I'm afraid it wasn't a night at all, and I don't know exactly what happened, but I don't think it's a good sign." Su Qiubai said with a frown.
Trying to probe the surroundings with his divine sense, Su Qiubai found that under the detection of his divine sense, there was nothing around at all, or rather...... His mind was like a mud cow in the sea, and he couldn't give him any information at all, and this was something that had never happened before.
"I'll try it with an exorcism charm, but I don't know if it works." As he spoke, Mossa took out a book of simple material from the tent and opened it to read it.
Su Qiubai didn't understand what he was reading, he only felt that this language was very obscure, and it must be an ancient incantation.
When Mosa finished reciting the long incantation and noticed that there was no change at all around him, he said with annoyance: "Sure enough, it didn't work, this qiē was not controlled by some ghost, so the exorcism spell was useless." ”
"We can't sit still here, let's move on." Su Qiubai said.
Mossa nodded, told Muhan to put away the tent, and the three of them searched around the forest again.
In fact, they didn't know what they were looking for, because this forest didn't seem to have any abnormalities anywhere, but there was an abnormality everywhere, and this dead and silent environment made people feel more and more bottomless.
Su Qiubai used a fireball to illuminate the road ahead, looking at any of the plants around him, but those plants did not repeat as he guessed, which showed that they did not make a detour, but really walked in a boundless forest.
"If there are no creatures in this forest, how did that python appear during the day? I think there might be some important clue to this. Mossa said suddenly.
Su Qiubai thought for a moment and said, "Although this forest is a phantom, there must have been a real forest here thousands of years ago, so that this illusion can be created." I think the python may have accidentally broken into this illusion when it was created, so its soul has been trapped in it, and I can't think of any explanation for it. ”
Mossa frowned and said, "What about the funeral procession?" ”
Su Qiubai was stunned when he heard this, their condition was obviously different from that of the python, because those people should have something to do with the person who created the illusion, and it was impossible for them to be accidentally sealed inside. Thinking of the strange eyes of the corpse again, Su Qiubai suddenly had a clueless thought in his heart, as if his mind was about to be opened, but it was blocked by something.
"Maybe it's not a corpse?" Mossa said suddenly.
Su Qiubai was shocked when he heard this, before he saw the blue-gray skin of the corpse, he subconsciously thought that it was a corpse, even if he suddenly "lived", he just felt a little weird, and did not think that it might not be a corpse.
If, as Mossa suggests, the stretcher is not a corpse, then this illusion is highly likely......
"That 'corpse' may be the one who created this illusion!" Su Qiubai blurted out.
Mossa hesitated and said, "So what? ”
Su Qiubai paced back and forth in place, trying to sort out his thoughts, and after a while, he said: "If this is the case, then it is a little unusual for him to appear in this illusion, and this may be the key to cracking the illusion!" ”
Mossa didn't fully understand what he meant, so he asked, "But how?" ”
Su Qiubai didn't answer him immediately, but scanned the dark environment around him with his eyes. There's one place they've been unnoticed.
Su Qiubai looked down at his feet, then squatted down, pinched a handful of soil, put it under his nose and sniffed it.
Mossa felt something strange about his actions and asked, "What's wrong with the dirt?" ”
Su Qiubai didn't answer, just pulled out a dagger from his waist and dug it on the ground. In the middle of the day, he dug a small pit one foot deep, and then shone it with flames, and immediately frowned.
Mosa also saw the scene under the land, and there was a look of surprise on his face, and he said, "It's unbelievable......"
The soil in the pit was like living flesh and blood, showing a blood-red color, and what was even more strange was that there were criss-crossing things like blood vessels in the soil, and the place where Su Qiubai had pierced even flowed out dark brown liquid.
"I see, this forest is alive!" Su Qiubai said.
"How is that possible? There was a dead silence here, not even a shadow of a creature could be seen. Mossa said.
Su Qiubai glanced at him and said, "But it trapped us." ”
Seeing that Mosa didn't speak again, Su Qiubai continued: "It seems that the person who set up this array has built such an illusion on it based on his own body, and judging from the condition in this soil, it is very likely that it is still alive. ”
"So, if we kill him, we'll be able to get out of here?" Mossa asked with a frown.
Su Qiubai nodded and said, "Theoretically speaking, it's even possible not to kill him, just give him some stimulation." ”
As soon as the words fell, Su Qiubai pulled out the Xuanyuan sword behind his back and stabbed it into the ground, and as the sword body sank into the earth, a circle of faint white light spread rapidly like a wave.
After this blow, the three of them heard a scream in their ears at the same time, if it weren't for their own body protection skills, they were afraid that their eardrums would be shattered.
The surrounding images began to shake violently, and the forest looked like it was about to collapse. However, after shaking for a long time, Yiqiē seemed to regain its calm, but the illusion did not disappear.
Su Qiubai wanted to repeat the old trick, but was stopped by Mosa: "If you want to stimulate him, I have a better way than you." ”
After Mossa finished speaking, he took out a dozen black crosses from his backpack and inserted them upside down into the soil, and the pattern of these crosses was indeed an upside-down pentagram.
Once the cross was all planted, Mossa began to recite the incantation in a low voice, his voice a little slow, sounding unhurried, but with each note, the scene around him shook even more, and the previous scream became more harsh.
After Mossa's incantation was finished, the three of them were blinded by a blinding light, and when they regained their sight, they found themselves back in the sun.
"As long as it has a soul, no matter how big a battle he puts on, it is not difficult to deal with." Mossa said proudly.
Su Qiubai glanced at him and asked, "Then why was your previous exorcism spell useless?" ”
Mossa was stunned for a moment before he said, "The exorcism spell only works on the undead and demons, and this thing ...... As you said, it's alive. ”
Su Qiubai nodded and didn't say anything more.
Mossa glanced around, and realized that the three of them had traveled so far in the forest, and at this time they were still in the same position where they were when they were about to enter the forest, and it seemed that they had been in a fantasy since then.
"After fooling me for so long, it's time to find him out and settle the score." As he spoke, Mossa pulled out his crystal ball and prepared to do it.
Su Qiubai stopped him and said, "You don't have to kill them all, your purpose is the Bloody Eye Glass, you don't have to rob the treasure at the same time, but also destroy other people's places." ”
The reason why Su Qiubai said this was because he knew in his heart that what he had done was not righteous, and he wanted to preserve the original appearance of this place as much as possible if he could not prevent Mosa from seizing the treasure.
As he said, all Mosa wanted was the Bloody Glass, and as for the other things in the mountains, as long as they didn't stand in his way, then he didn't care if they lived or died. Therefore, hearing Su Qiubai say this, Mosa put away the crystal ball again.
After overcoming this heavy obstacle, the three of them continued to walk deeper into the mountain range, at this time they had only passed two levels safely, and the waiting behind did not know what moths were, so the three of them did not dare to take it lightly.