Chapter 82: The Realm of Stone (Part II)

There was no way to see where the people were on the map, and it was imperative to get the compass and at least determine the direction in which they were traveling.

Vicilico squatted on the ground, picked up a dead branch and placed it on top of a stone, which fell downward under the influence of gravity, and was frozen in the air the moment it left the stone.

The general principle has been figured out, regardless of mass or volume, as long as it is suspended in the air, even if it is only for a moment, it will be still in the air.

Vicilly took off her backpack and placed it on the ground, one foot firmly on top of it. All that remained was to lift the other foot, and it was such an effortless movement that was so tense at the moment that Vikli felt a cold sweat drip down her cheeks and onto her shirt.

"Only by taking risks can we know the mysteries."

Vicilly muttered silently, slamming her feet onto her backpack. Time seemed to freeze for a few seconds, and she quickly blinked, and it seemed that it had succeeded! I wasn't frozen in the air!

She reached out and pulled the compass out of Draenor's pocket, and the moment her hand touched the shell, she felt it seem to tremble madly.

"Click"

The lid of the compass popped up, and the hands seemed to be disturbed by something, spinning incessantly within the spherical glass.

Seemingly unable to determine the direction of her travel, Vikily closed the compass and tucked it back to Draenor and stood on tiptoe to the ground cautiously.

"Even so, there's nothing to worry about." The corners of Viklico's mouth rose slightly, and she picked up her backpack and carried it behind her.

She has an eccentric personality, and the more tense the atmosphere, the more exciting she gets, no matter what the scene is. That's right, while everyone else was still in the air, she had solved the mystery from the moment she stood on her backpack with her feet off the ground.

A group of four, three of them were frozen in the air. This situation may seem dangerous, but Vicheri knows that if only one person can grasp the laws of this mysterious phenomenon, everyone else can be rescued from it.

Vikirico crouched down and placed the stone under the camel's floating hooves, and the moment the two touched, the camel seemed to regain its gravity, stepped on the ground on all fours, and continued to run forward with the two on its back.

But the air was still so quiet that Vickily could have seen Draenor dancing and shouting something behind her, but she never heard a sound.

"Strange, it should have returned to normal, huh?"

【Two hours before entering the field】

Draenor suddenly realized what had happened and tugged at the reins to stop the camel. About two hours ago, when he woke up, he suddenly found that his surroundings had become strangely quiet, and he just wanted to turn around and ask Viklico, only to find that the people around him were as unmoved by his reminder as if they were deaf.

Something was not right, and even the hoofs of the camels walking on the sand were completely inaudible. His first instinct was that he was deaf, but when he shouted, there was a vibration in his throat, and he could clearly hear his own shouting, even if it was small, it should be noticed by others.

He turned around to wake the others, only to find that Cooper and Jeanne had already woken up, and only Viklico was still asleep on the back of a camel.

Cooper's vision at night was poor and he could barely see the gestures he made to him, but Delaenor could see him shouting something to himself with his mouth wide open.

Jeanne was unusually calm, and the silence made her blood pressure plummet.

I don't know when the camel caravan has come to the Gobi, and the shining stars in the sky have disappeared.

And there is only one thing that the stars may be covered, and that is the dark clouds. Draenor remembers reading in books that cloudy days are rare in desert areas, and dark clouds are usually a sign of impending heavy rain.

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and a second passed...... Two seconds passed...... Three seconds passed...... Until more than ten seconds passed, the thunderous sound never came.

The likelihood of collective unexplained deafness is so small that there is only one possibility that everyone will not be able to hear – the fluctuating air is gone.

There is a dead silence all around the Gobi Desert, what is it that covers the fluctuations of sound in such an arid and quiet environment?

Confused, a vulture flew slowly from afar, unable to hear it, but with the help of its slightly enhanced night vision, Draenor could see it clearly.

The moment it flew into the rocky beach, its entire body stopped in the air as if it were frozen. It seems that not only the air, but also the birds that fly on the air will be still in this area!

Sensing that something was wrong, Draenor shook the reins and sent the camel to gallop forward, but the moment the four paws lifted off the ground at the same time, he felt his heart suddenly stop beating, and himself, Jeanne, and even the whole camel became stonework and stood still in the air.

【Current】

Draenor quickly pulled the reins to stop the camel, and the camel turned around and walked slowly towards Viklico, he didn't want to make the same mistake a second time!

There was a thud from his waist, and Draenor looked back to see that Jeanne was back to normal. She gestured to herself for something, which Draenor didn't fully understand, but was roughly aware of the situation—they were walking to a field covered in strange rocks.

Vickilic's figure gradually became clear in front of her, and Draenor was about to remind her not to leave the ground, but she had already gestured to herself skillfully, "I woke up before you." ”

Delaenor struggled to understand her sign language, gesturing to her,

"I wanted to warn you, but there was no sound, and I was stopped in the air."

This type of communication is much more complicated than a simple conversation, and it doesn't take long for Draenor to feel like he's sweating profusely.

Vekily can turn around and use the same method to save Cooper from his stillness. The uncle continued to maintain his pre-static movements, and when he saw Viklico standing beside him, he jerked the camel and stopped.

"Don't leave the ground!" Vicky can first use sign language to warn Cooper about threats in this area. But he still seems to be extremely irritable.

"What? Can't you speak? What are you talking about!? Cooper jumped out of the camel's back in a rage, and was frozen in the air the moment his body left the saddle.

Vickyly slapped herself in the face, unable to believe that Cooper was so sluggish. She reached out and touched Cooper's body, and to his surprise, he didn't recover from his stillness.

Draenor was probably aware of the current situation, and as soon as he moved even a little off the ground, he would be frozen in the air by a mysterious force.

But there was a bigger problem in front of Vikli Ke, she had clearly broken the shackles of this power, why didn't Cooper recover?

She thought of the most likely factor first, the reason why she was able to restore the camel to normal just now was because the camel's toes were counted as part of their body, that is, it touched the part of the ground directly, so it could recover from its rest.

Vicky was not in direct contact with the ground, but avoided the danger of being stopped through the soles of her boots, and the stockings were so thin and negligible compared to other clothing. It's like Draeno on the back of a camel and a camel separated by a layer of clothing that covers the skin.

Standing on the ground with her shoes on, Vicherly was the equivalent of a camel with her legs between her legs, and she couldn't make any more contact with Cooper, who was wrapped in clothes, to recover directly from his stillness.

Vickyli was able to press the tip of her spear against the ground and put the end against the back of Cooper's hand, and he instantly returned to normal, falling to the sand.

"What did you do? If you don't play with you, you can't still cast magic on me? Cooper sat up from the floor in a huff, and Vickyly grabbed him by the shoulders to prevent him from being stupid again.

"Don't leave the ground!" Vicilico warned him with a gesture again.

"Don't ...... Fly? ! I can't fly! Cooper slapped Vicilico's arm away, and he seemed to think that someone else was playing a "don't make a sound" game with him.

Vikily loses patience and grabs a rock and throws it at Cooper. He was so surprised that he quickly put his arms in front of him, only to find that the stone was levitating in front of him.

"You're not only dumb, you're crazy!" Cooper pushed the stone away and yelled at Vicilico.

Although sound cannot travel here, it is perfectly audible to a person who has returned to normal when they touch the ground, because sound can not only travel through the air, but can also be transmitted through other substances, such as the person's own skull. That means there is another way of communicating that should work.

Vicheria had an idea, the ground was not still, and she motioned for Cooper to lie on the ground, pressing her ears against the ground.

"What the hell......" Cooper noticed something strange and simply followed her gesture and fell to the ground.

"Cooper! Can you hear me? Vikirico's voice reached Cooper's ears along the ground.

"Can you stop pretending to be dumb? Isn't that a lot of shouting! ”

Vikily was startled by the vibrations coming from the ground, but she didn't expect Cooper's voice to be so loud from such a distance. She gestured to Draenor and Jeanne, motioning for them to come too.

"Looks like there's nothing else to do......" Draenor walked over to Viklico's side with Jeanne, and joined the shameful "exchange meeting".

"Listen, as long as you get off the ground, anything will be still, and even the human consciousness will sleep in the brain. Air, biological...... You look at the watch, what time is it? Vicky said to Draenor with her ears on the ground.

The watch slipped down the corner of Draenor's clothes the moment he leaned down, and stayed in the air. He reached for his pocket watch, and it was four o'clock. It was clear that they had slept for more than an hour, and it seemed that time had been stopped a little before they knew it.

"I don't know, it's four o'clock." Draenor's voice traveled down the surface to Vikly Coke's ears.

"Unsurprisingly, time will also be stopped. Do you see rocks nearby? Turn them over and take a look. ”

Draenor followed Viklico's instructions and turned over a stone the size of a palm, the surface of which was dry and almost cracked, and the bottom was cold and damp.

"Any idea what I'm trying to say? It's rained here. Vicky said, holding on to the ground and slowly standing up.

The fact that rain drips in an area where everything has come to a halt shows that the natural climate cannot be completely stopped. But there's more to Vicilico than he wants to tell himself, and he remembers why Cooper couldn't recover after he came into contact with Vickyly.

"It's not possible to avoid being stationary no matter how far apart, and it seems that this conduction can only last for up to three different mediums." He continued to speculate on Vikilic's thoughts, and everything became clear, and Draenor somewhat admired Vekilic's ability to hypothesize and interconnect those hypotheses with the rain.

"When rain falls on the surface, another layer of media is formed, water, shoe soles, clothing and the human body, so that there are four mediums, and it seems that we have to get out of here before the rain falls."

It dawned on him that what Viklico had envisioned seemed to be exactly what he had in mind, and she nodded, motioning for everyone to immediately mount their camels and leave the realm.

Just as everyone was about to climb into the camel saddle, a few faint points of light suddenly appeared in the shadows in the distance. The closer the points of light go, the more they reveal, revealing several V-shaped outlines.

Jeanne was all too familiar with this kind of thing, it was a pack of wolves, but it was much thinner.

It's the desert jackal, a creature that Vekily recognizes, and despite their small size, they tend to overwhelm each other by numbers, and in many cases even leopards are no match for them.

The jackals were half-crouched on the ground, their tails clinging to the ground. Vekily had heard that jackals were cunning and intelligent creatures, but she didn't expect them to be so smart that they could even figure out the wonderful laws of the realm. If they are forced to jump in the air, all that awaits them is death.

Draenor pulled the bolt from behind and aimed it at a jackal and pulled the trigger, the bright flames shining in front of him but not dissipating for a long time. He carefully observed the bright light in front of him, and did not expect that the power of this field was so strong that even the flying bullets could stop in the air.

But the fire is a kind of light, and this field does not stop the movement of the light, and the strong light is emitted by a bullet, and it burns red hot all over, like a light hanging in the air.

It seems that long-range attacks can't hurt these jackals, but close-range combat can take advantage of the opponent's numbers. Draenor didn't know how to fend off the approaching wolves.

"Idiot, there's no way a bullet can hurt them here." Just as Vicrico was wondering how to withstand the wolves, a wonderful idea came to mind.

I saw that she took off her boots unhurriedly and plunged her petite feet wrapped in stockings deep into the sand.

"What are you doing! Do you still want to enjoy a sand bath at such a time? Draenor watched her slow movements in confusion, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

I saw that Viklico turned her head and threw a wink at him, as if she was confident. She drew the spear behind her back, aimed it at one of the jackals, and threw it violently.

"Idiot! The spear will also be stopped in the air! Draenor was about to stop her, only to find that the spear had actually flown out and stabbed the jackal straight into the jackal's head.

"Could it be that apart from rain and light, even 'relics' can be freed from the shackles of this realm?" Draenor was puzzled, only to find that with the swing of Viklico's arm, the spear had returned to her on its own. The moment she caught the spear, Draenor seemed to see a thin line cut through the air.

Cooper couldn't help but laugh at the sight, it was his new tool for the spear! Vicky smiled knowingly at Cooper.

She knew that rope and spear were two different mediums, and that a spear could be used perfectly just by shortening it one more layer. That's why she takes her boots off!

And this extended function also solves the problem that the spear cannot be recovered in a short period of time, although I don't know why it will automatically return to the hand before, but with this rope, Vickyli is simply a tiger with wings.

She threw her spear again and again, like a fisherman who swings his rod and keeps retracting it. In less than ten seconds, four jackals were impaled through their bodies by spears and fell to the ground.

For the first time, the surviving jackals saw such terrifying hunters, and they turned clumsily and fled into the shadows.

"Hurry up and ride the camel!" Vekiriko gestured to the crowd, and they carefully climbed onto the saddle, shaking the reins with one hand and pressing the other hand against the bare skin of the camel, and continued along the same route.