The Dark Forest is a truly lightless place, where there is no sun or moon all day long, not even the stars in the sky, the sky is forever darkened, and there is nothing to see on the earth.

I saw darkness, not the forest.

Monsters entrenched in the dark are highly aggressive, and any player who rushes in will be targeted. There are no passive attack monsters here, all active types, and there is no strong enough team to dare to go deep into it.

Two faint red dots shimmer in the lacquered darkness, and if you look closely, you can see that they are moving forward at a constant speed. It's not fast, but it's not slack. This is very abrupt in the dark forest full of dangers.

Those two dots of red are the infrared rays in Renault's pupils.

Twenty minutes ago, Huo Sen made a final struggle for concealment: "I accept your order, vice president, but Li Weilun's subordinates must be planted near the base, be wary of 'intruders' like us, your lighting technique will definitely expose our target, if this problem is not solved, Huo Mou will really be difficult to follow." ”

Medilia took out three enchanted scrolls from her inventory, with a level 3 support spell attached to them, infrared vision.

Chicken rib skills often play a greater role in special situations, than some high-level abilities. Infrared vision is simply a king skill specially designed for the dark forest.

After blessing infrared vision, the three of them split up to find the location of the base. At the beginning, Horsen insisted on going with Medelia, but Medelia insisted on going her separate ways in order to find the base as soon as possible. Huo Sen couldn't help but agree.

With the help of infrared vision, the outline of the dark forest is roughly outlined: this is a vast forest, full of gray-brown towering ancient trees, in the absence of light, it still maintains a strong breath of life.

However, Renault found that the branches and leaves of the old trees had long since degenerated, and some of the branches of the trees were not very old. Touching the rough trunk with his hand, Renault could feel the vitality of the tree change. Energy perception easily observed that these trees began to have a weak energy source, like faint fireflies, floating in the vast darkness.

Renault didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, the whole forest was changing. Perhaps in the near future, the Dark Forest will become an untamable territory for humans.

Renault shook his head, feeling that he was a little worried, who knows what will happen in the future, and solving the current problems is what should be faced.

With the help of infrared vision, Renault sees the monsters hidden in the darkness - the dark monsters covered in pitch black are the rulers of this place. They are strange, ugly and hateful, and like to hide in the dark, waiting for adventurers to fall into their traps of their own accord.

If it weren't for the two major abilities of infrared vision and energy perception, Renault would have almost entered their encirclement. However, these monsters seemed to be very afraid of Renault, and even in groups of three or five, they still trembled and hovered outside of Renault's attack range.

As long as Renault condensed his infrared gaze on them for more than 3 seconds, these abominable dark monsters seemed to have a premonition of a crisis, and rushed into the depths of the dark forest.

After about half an hour of travel, Renault found nothing. In the end, he had to deliberately walk into an encirclement set up by three level 42 dark monsters to lure them into "sneaking up" on him.

But the result was still frustrating, just as the other dark monsters were about to attack, an elite monster with a body length of more than two meters and a look like a zombie leopard suddenly stood up, showing a terrifying appearance disproportionate to the horror, and after raising his head to the sky and letting out a silent roar, he immediately turned around and fled.

The other two dark monsters were a little confused, and after a few moments of hesitation, they still followed in the footsteps of the leader - and fled.

For the first time, Renault felt the cunning and intelligence of monsters, and with only instinctive intuition, these dark monsters were afraid of their own power.

Cowardice before fighting, and don't give yourself a chance to fight monsters and kill time at all. With Renault's strength, it would be easy to kill them in seconds, especially without the drag of Hawson and Medilia, he was confident that he would clear all the obstacles within 1 second of opening the Riot Demon Heart, without causing much movement, at least not letting the base find out.

Wise monsters are the most difficult to deal with, and it's no wonder that high-level powerhouses are reluctant to enter the dark forest.

It's not just the environment, I'm afraid it's more because the monsters here are too "intelligent". The weaker ones basically fell into the trap and died, and the strong ones had no chance to meet the monster at all, and naturally there was no monster upgrade at all.

Chicken ribs, chicken ribs through and through.

No wonder Li Weilun placed the base here, if he was really the high-level of Alchemy City as Medilia guessed, then there must be countless masters stationed in the base, so all the monsters in the dark forest did not dare to invade the base.

Renault looked up at the sky, and his infrared vision could not disappear in less than a hundred meters, and was swallowed up by the darkness of the eternal night.

It doesn't seem to be natural, it seems that there is an invisible force behind the darkness that controls everything here.

I'm thinking too much! Renault told himself that since there was no threat from monsters, there was no need to push the camp forward step by step, and Renault unleashed his dexterous movement technique, doubling his speed at once. The scope of the search is shrinking, and it is estimated that it will not take much time before the entire area he is responsible for will be surveyed.

Just five minutes after Renault picked up speed, a strange wave appeared in the darkness.

Just where Renault was standing, a guy wrapped in a black cloak appeared, he raised his nose and sniffed something in the air, as if he had found a clue, and after wandering for a while, he finally returned to the position where he was standing before (that is, where Renault was before), half-squatted down, twisted a little dust with his two fingers with black gloves, put it to the end of his nose and sniffed, the confusion in his eyes suddenly disappeared without a trace, replaced by two cold lights with a thick murderous intention.

He slowly raised his head, facing the same direction Renault had left, stared for a moment, and straightened up. There was no movement, and the whole figure actually merged with the darkness, and there was not even a trace of breath.

……

The Demon Swordsman who was moving quickly suddenly felt a palpitation, and he stopped abruptly and looked back. In infrared vision, there is nothing abnormal, not even the shadow of a dark monster.

"Am I being too careful?" Renault trusts his instincts, and since entering the Creation Domain, his instincts have worked every time. In a virtual world full of dangers, intuition is Renault's best way to avoid or foresee a crisis, although it is ethereal, unpredictable, and more often leads people astray.

As a result, Renault activated the magic precision control and expanded the energy perception to the limit. However, in the dark forest, there is a power that blocks perception, compressing the original perception range of 200 meters to less than 100 meters at once.

Even if Renault's full perception was carried out, the range recovered to the level of two hundred meters in a short period of time, but there was still no gain, and even the shadow of the monster could not be perceived.

Am I really too careful? Renault thought as he turned around, ready to continue his search.

Suddenly, a warning of extreme danger appeared in Renault's consciousness, and he felt a tingling sensation like a pinprick in his back. Renault didn't think about it, and instinctively leaned forward. Before he could fall, there was a chill in his back, and without looking back, Renault knew that he had been stabbed by a short sharp weapon.

Renault slammed his legs, which had lost his center of gravity, backwards, hitting the attacker's ankle joint, and Renault even heard a slight bone crack. The attacker's defense doesn't seem to be high enough, and he can't even withstand a kick of his legs that he doesn't have enough strength.

As a result, the sharp weapon was also deflected a few points, and the blow that should have hit the heart only hurt the lungs.

The sneak attacker didn't seem to expect Renault's reaction to be so fast as lightning, and after the fatal blow missed, he hurriedly changed his move, flipped his wrist, changed the original stabbing dagger to a reverse grip, and slashed at Renault's back from top to bottom.

The move was too fast, too fast for Renault to deal with, especially when losing his center of gravity, and even more difficult to dodge. With the previous lesson, the sneak attacker has completely put away the heart of the enemy, and once he gets serious, that blow will be a sure hit.

Renault immediately summoned the Bright Flame Sword, slammed the tip of the sword against the ground, and with the help of a single support, finally found a fulcrum for his body that was about to lose its balance. But he didn't try to dodge, but with the help of support, the whole person bounced up like a spring, and then turned 180 degrees to meet the sneak attacker's slash.

Before the other party could react, the sharp dagger went straight to the handle, and blood sprayed out from Renault's wound, staining the two of them into bloody people.

The sneak attacker didn't have time to congratulate himself on his good fortune, and the surprise on his face froze instantly. Because of the face-to-face relationship between the two, the sneak attacker clearly saw a smug smile on Renault's blood-stained half-faced face.

Something is wrong! The sneak attacker tried to withdraw the dagger and distance himself from Renault, but it was too late. The bloodied Demon Swordsman gripped his arms with his iron pincer-like hands, making it difficult for him to get out.

Fear caused the sneak attacker to erupt with a pale green fighting spirit—a natural fighting spirit. This energy is enough to sweep away all obstacles, but it can't shake Renault in the slightest.

After a series of rapid incantations, red flames quickly spread from Renault's palm to the attacker's body. The black cloak that covered the attacker quickly vanished in the flames, revealing his true face—it was Thorne.

Renault did not show the slightest surprise and looked at Thorne calmly, as if this had been expected by him. At this time, Thorne had no time to care about Renault's thoughts, because the flames were devouring his flesh. And a trace of black matter in the orange-red flames suddenly swooped into the burns of Thorne's body, and followed the boiling blood in his body into the depths of his brain—that was the real fatal injury.

That trace of black qi was the essence of the soul burning, and the flame attached to it was enough to make people almost crazy. But under the effect of magic control, it was restored to the most fundamental state, directly infiltrating his body and carrying out the most thorough attack on the soul.

Thorne's mouth opened exaggeratedly, but no sound came out of his throat, and the wail became a silent cry of sorrow, and the extreme pain distorted Thorne's face to become more and more hideous.

Compared to this pain, the damage of the flame burn has become insignificant, and the constant feedback from the depths of the soul is nothing but despair, or despair! He didn't even know that the flames were spewing out of his seven orifices.

Ten seconds of torment was like three autumns for Thorne. It is not until the soul is completely burned that it is freed from unspeakable pain.

It turns out that being able to die completely is also a kind of happiness! This was Thorne's last thought before he died, tormented by the black fire.