"I surveyed the snow in the valley below, and found that the snow five days before the first opening, there were indeed some people's footsteps on the snow shell below, and the footsteps were indeed left by the standard combat boots of the Far North garrison, but the number was far from enough."

"How many people can there be?" Fei Rong sat down in a sheltered corner and asked.

An Xiaoyu estimated: "There are only about 4,000 people, the number of people is about the same as ours, the number of a company." If it was really a march of more than 10,000 people, it was likely that there would not even be any footsteps left on the snow shell below, and all of them would have been trampled firmly. ”

Fei Rong began to ponder: "Four thousand...... 4,000 people...... But the old pole said......"

"Yes, said the old pole, and saw a lot of people, many, many people, from one end of the valley to the other, all of them marching soldiers. But don't forget, it's already night when the old pole comes here, can he see clearly? ”

"You mean to say that the old pole is wrong?" Fei Rong asked.

An Xiaoyu shook her head: "I mean, the old pole is not mistaken, but in the dark night, it is impossible to tell which ones are true and which ones are false, just like we just did." ”

Fei Rong and the soldiers around him couldn't help but shudder, the one just now, if it was really covered up by an illusion, it was inevitably too real. The soldiers of the Far North are highly trained, and even in the dark, it is basically impossible to make mistakes.

But if this fantasy-making thing can really get close to the thing that has been disguised as something else, and it can also change people's perception of speed, and even allow the old pole to see a procession of millions of people passing through the canyon, then what is it?

"I've never heard of anything like this in the Far North!" The platoon commander beside Fei Rong couldn't help but exclaim: "What's wrong with the extreme north this year?" Evil nature is everywhere. ”、

An Xiaoyu said: "No matter what the extreme north or what, which place in the empire is not full of evil nature now?" It's an eventful time, and we don't know exactly what's going on right now, but it's certain that there was a company here that passed by, what do you say? ”

Hearing An Xiaoyu's question, Fei Rong fell into deep thought.

If there really was a company passing by here, and the time was about ten days ago, then these people were definitely their comrades. But 4,000 people is a little too little compared to 2 million, if it is really the Far North garrison, why did they leave the large army and where did they go?

Looking at the surroundings, Fei Rong was sure that this nearby place was an area that everyone in their extreme north was familiar with, and it was impossible for any team of people to get lost here until they entered the polar night. There is only one possibility for such a long time, and the people of that company must have passed through here in a planned way.

As for where they went, it would be difficult to say whether they should follow the only clue that is now the only clue to take a look.

If they can be found, the departure of the Far North garrison may be clarified, and it may be possible to find the location of the Northern Gun and the large army. If they can't find it, or if they simply find some stragglers, then their quest will be wasted.

This choice was placed in front of Fei Rong, and he was undecided.

An Xiaoyu looked at him and asked, "Let me ask you, if you are allowed to take this company of people into the extreme north, can you guarantee that the four thousand people will survive?" I mean, keeping them safe and having access to enough food. ”

Fei Rong thought for a while and said: "The constant output of the heat reactor of the energy furnace can be maintained normally for two hundred days, if it is within these two hundred days, I can guarantee it...... Do you mean that the Northern Guns could reduce the pressure on a million-man march by spreading the companies apart and leaving them to fend for themselves? ”

"It's just a possibility, but we still have to figure out what they're going to do in the far north." An Xiaoyu looked at the darkness around him and said, "There are only two paths in front of us now, one is to follow this clue and continue, and the other is to continue to move deeper into the extreme north. ”

Fei Rong was entangled for a moment and said: "I think it's better to follow up the clues, we don't know what happened in the depths of the extreme north now, we really want to figure it out, at least we have to get some useful information before we can act, I don't know what will happen if I go rashly, and it's ......."

And that thing just now is really weird, who knows if there are other similar things in the Far North now? Recklessly passing all the way is simply looking for death.

An Xiaoyu nodded: "Then that's it, you come to lead the team, and I'll try to observe the surrounding situation." ”

"I felt a lot safer in an instant." Fei Rong smiled and began to arrange the deployment.

Leaving the place, they began to move forward along the valley, keeping an eye on the direction of the valley, and when they found a fork in the valley that might have left out of the valley, they checked the traces left behind, and after making sure that the previous team continued to move forward correctly, they continued to walk along the outside of the valley.

Fei Rong said: "The length of this valley is still very long, and now it seems that the pair of brothers who passed through before should have gone towards the end of the valley, and they did not leave here, indicating that they were deliberately advancing along the valley, and the purpose was obviously to conceal it." ”

"The question is, what are they going to hide?" An Xiaoyu suddenly thought of the thing that created the danger just now, if that thing really made the old pole see the illusion of two million people, then what was its purpose? Why didn't they follow the attack on the old pole?

"There are many possibilities to hide, it could be the rioting criminals of the Far North, it could be the alien race that infiltrated the Far North. Of course, the biggest possibility is that the alien race and the beast are the people who do not know the nearby terrain, and they do not know what kind of existence this valley is. ”

An Xiaoyu nodded.

However, at this moment, one of the soldiers in the team suddenly shouted in the communicator: "Enemy attack! Three platoons and fifteen squads encounter the enemy! Enemy type unknown! It's fast, it's fast! ”

When Fei Rong was stunned, the wind around him was stagnant for a moment, An Xiaoyu had disappeared in place, and the next time he appeared, he was in the middle of the team, and came to the position of the third row and fifteen squads.

The scene in front of them was very similar to what the soldier had described before, black shadows rushed out of the fierce wind of the polar night, and came in their direction, very fast, almost instantaneous, about to reach their face.

With the experience of the previous experience, Fei Rong's soldiers did not shoot without orders, and everyone was on standby. But An Xiaoyu could also feel the nervousness of the soldiers around him, and these soldiers were also a little uncertain about the unknown danger.

An Xiaoyu didn't wait any longer, the moment the feeling spread out, he figured out the situation in front of him, and a wave of energy spread out from his body, slightly with a bright white light, quickly pushing the surrounding wind away, all the way to the black shadow rushing over.

The dark shadow fell to the ground, and it was very clear in the silence of the night.

In just a moment, the silence was gone, and the wind that had just been pushed back poured back, and the whistling returned to the ears of the soldiers, and everyone looked nervously at the few dark shadows that had fallen in front of them, for fear that they would get up again and become something else.

An Xiaoyu walked to the black shadow that fell to the ground, but it was a difference, the previous help away, because it was worthless, they didn't check it themselves. But now seeing these corpses in front of her, An Xiaoyu couldn't help but squat down and turn them over.

"Fei Rong? Come and take a look. ”

It didn't take long for Fei Rong to come to An Xiaoyu's side, and several soldiers had already surrounded this side, and everyone's faces were a little ugly.

Walking into the circle, Fei Rong shone the flashlight in his hand at the face of the corpse on the ground, and also frowned: "Isn't this the military uniform and equipment of the Far North garrison?" ”

After speaking, An Xiaoyu handed two badges and an identity certificate to Fei Rong. In the Far North, a paper version of the ID is still very useful, after all, you can't guarantee that your terminal will have power at all times, and many residents of the Far North don't like to look at the terminal.

Fei Rong took the badge and identification, opened it and looked at it, and found that these people were indeed the brothers of the Far North garrison, and they were soldiers of a regiment with a number not far from them, but now their bodies were found here.

"What's going on?" Fei Rong asked.

A soldier replied: "We saw a few figures touching from the side, very fast, and then according to the instructions to stand by and observe, after Shaozun appeared, he dealt with a few black shadows, and fell to the ground and became the corpses of these brothers." ”

"Didn't you see it when you came?"

"Report! I can't see anything clearly! The soldier felt very aggrieved, and their lights were shining on the dark shadows, but they still couldn't see anything.

"Because that's what it wants you to see, the shadows are like that, the speed is like that, and the corpses are like that." An Xiaoyu opened the energy furnaces of these corpses, and found that the energy furnaces were in good working condition, so there was even a part of the corpses that maintained temperature, but the limbs and heads had been frozen.

The technician also said at this time: "The person should have fallen into the snow and frozen to death, judging from the freezing condition of the limbs and head, the time will not exceed five days, and the heat of the energy furnace can also prove that the surrounding snow melts and freezes." ”

"What is the principle of the person who fell to the ground five days ago and froze to death, and then suddenly turned into a black shadow and attacked us five days later?" Fei Rong couldn't help but wonder, if the other party's ability was really so weird, then I'm afraid they would be in big trouble.

An Xiaoyu shook her head and said, "That's why I said that this is what it wants you to see." This thing hiding in the shadows is supposed to be a creature that manipulates illusions or shadows, in short, it's strange, since it uses the things around it to create illusions, why doesn't it come out and attack? ”

"Maybe it doesn't have the ability to attack?" Fei Rong asked, "So what's going on with these people?" ”

"This is an illusion at the level of the law, whether it is the black shadow we saw before or the black shadow we just saw, it must be fake. The speed of the black shadow was very fast, but there were no wild footprints behind the previous Fuli, and the corpses were confirmed to have been here for many days. ”

An Xiaoyu explained: "The reason why this is the case is because what we see is fake. The established facts do not change, only our perception of the outside world can be changed, and we can do it to such an extent that I can't think of anything other than some special laws. ”

"Just now, even I didn't perceive whether these black shadows were real or fake, I sensed the breath of life on the black shadows, but after the three-element force came into contact with them, these black shadows fell to the ground one after another, and the position was the same as the position of the corpse, don't you think it's a little strange?"

Fei Rong suddenly felt terrified: "You mean, this thing can affect people's brains?" ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten." An Xiaoyu looked at the surrounding environment and said: "There won't be so many coincidences in time, the place where Fuli fell is exactly the direction where the bullet was fired, and the shadow that fell just corresponds to the corpse five days ago, which can only show that the black shadow we saw before is already a product of confusing the brain." ”

"Wait, why is Fuli counted? Fuli was shot and killed, isn't it just where he died? Fei Rong was very puzzled.

An Xiaoyu said: "It would be good if this was really the case, Fuli's action is so slow, and the black shadow is approaching so quickly, is the purpose to confuse the public, or do you want to use Fuli to sneak attack you?" I think it's more of a sneak attack, right? ”

"yes!" Fei Rong replied.

"But Fuli's proximity was discovered, and your warrior fired, if the illusion was for a sneak attack, then the node where the illusion and reality should overlap, that is, the place where the black shadow and Fuli's real location are exactly the same, shouldn't it be the soldier's side? That's the only way to have a sneak attack. ”

"Wait, wait!" Fei Rong was stunned by An Xiaoyu: "The node where illusion and reality overlap...... I get it in general, but aren't reality and illusion separate? You see, illusions are what the other party wants us to see, as long as he can control them, isn't it up to them to decide when they overlap? ? ”

An Xiaoyu shook her head: "If it's just simply manipulating illusions, then it must be like this." But if it were just that, it would be absolutely impossible for the power of its laws to do such a foul thing, that is, even my feelings could be confused, because feelings ignore the illusory. ”

"Then you mean that Fuli was supposed to appear next to the soldier, but after the soldier found out that the shot was fired, it coincided with the black shadow with a speed difference a few meters away, which means that Fuli's death was likely to be after the shot?" Fei Rong suddenly felt incredulous: "But the brothers clearly saw the gunshots fall to the ground, and then the corpses that were helped away......"

"That's the brilliance of this law of things, it affects the human brain, not the illusion. In other words, the illusions we see are not illusions. If there is a third party watching from the sidelines, they will not see these black shadows like we do, these black shadows are what it controls our brains and forms directly in the brains. ”

"And once this illusion is formed, the brain's neural network will begin to work accordingly, so it can only control the movements of the black shadow to a certain extent. For example, to control the speed, for example, to control the fall. And let us see that the location where the black shadow landed happened to be the position of the corpse, not the illusion that produced the black shadow before. ”

"When we find that the first illusion is not capable of confusing our minds, we reflect it and have a coping response. Like shooting, like what I just did. It then manipulates the shadow to land, and creates a second illusion that is used to guide our brains to think that the place where the shadow lands is where the corpse is. ”

"Because both illusions come from within our brains, and all the sense of orientation and distance are all judged by the brain itself, it is very simple to use illusions to connect illusions. So when we see the black shadow falling and the corpse appearing, we actually see the existence of the corpse under the guidance of the brain, and the illusion is just one of the neural reaction processes. ”

The technical soldiers listened with relish on the side, but Fei Rong scratched his head.

"In other words, the corpse was already over there, but that thing led us to see it?" Fei Rong asked.

An Xiaoyu nodded: "If it's here, it's true." If it's Fuli, I'm afraid it's not that simple. Fuli's body was fresh, and it was obviously just killed when it was killed, and we didn't examine it closely, but I'm afraid it wasn't a bullet that killed Fuli. ”

"In other words......" Fei Rong suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"That is to say, the lethality of this thing is still there, and it is still very high, Fuli is just a scapegoat it chooses, in order to be able to leave a false murderer when it is found without being discovered by us, and the corpse here is also the same."

An Xiaoyu looked at the darkness in front of him, the wind howled angrily in the dark, rolling up the snow on the ground, and flying in front of him, making it impossible to see what kind of world was in front of him, and what kind of horror was hidden in this darkness and chaos.

"And it's very smart, every time the location of the attack, it can bring us the most chaos, this time the selected place is just near the center point of the whole team, if the people here are attacked, we will inevitably surround the front and back, and then there will be a ring, and all the periphery of the ring is our defensive blind spot."

Hearing An Xiaoyu's analysis, Fei Rong couldn't help but shudder: "What the hell is this?" ”

An Xiaoyu sneered: "The power of the law is so weird and pure, and the method of dealing with humans is so skillful and ingenious, what are you talking about?" ”

"Interracial!"