Deep in the foggy pine forest, in a mysterious area that has always been known to the locals.

A little girl with dark silver hair, dressed in a slightly wide black and white-rimmed robe, bounced alone through the mist, her mouth soft

humming an old ballad.

The thick gray mist could not obscure her vision at all, and whenever she walked to a place, the mist would gently drift away from her, and she would jump here and there from time to time, cheerfully like an elf in the mist.

At the edge of the core of the Grey Mist Forest, countless tall and dense pine trees enclose the area, like the most loyal guardians. In the cracks of the pine forest, countless blue-black vines clinged to the pine branches, and sharp thorns told people that they were not easy to mess with.

Humming a song, Delissa jumped to the edge of the core of the Grey Mist Forest, then looked up at the unlucky man who was hanging from the pine tree with several tough thorns, his face was blue and his eyes were closed, and he rubbed his waist like a little adult and touched his smooth forehead, and sighed in anguish.

"Alas, there are so many warning words in front of you to indicate that there is danger ahead, why do you still drill into it! And you can get into the periphery of the Gray Mist Castle, you are really powerful. If it weren't for Delissa who would have paid attention to the situation in the Grey Mist Castle if she had nothing to do, you don't know how long you would have to be hanged, and you wouldn't be able to save you at that time, and I guess you would have to make friends with the headless. Really, are you so irresponsible for your own lives?"

She jumped over with small steps, gently stroking the pine tree in front of her, her white fingertips flowing with undetectable magic.

"Don't worry, Dressa will save you. ”

The vines wrapped around the pine tree hung down like ropes, and the two unlucky eggs that had been tied up were placed on the ground smoothly, and then quickly retracted and continued to wrap around the pine tree.

Delissa looked at the two unlucky people with dark faces and closed eyes, obviously more out of breath and less in and less in breath, and shook them vigorously.

"Hey, wake up, wake up, wake up......"

It's just that these two guys who have been hanging on the activated vines for most of the day are obviously not so easily shaken awake. Delissa gently touched their foreheads, and the slightly cold little hands were hot, "Oh no, they've been hung for too long, and the gray mist containing negative energy here has begun to erode their bodies." ”

Delisa looked at the two of them who fell to the ground unconscious, her round little face was full of distress, and her new red mouth was unconsciously pursed.

After a long while, she took out a bottle of clear potion from the black-robed and white-rimmed robe, and then leaned down to break their mouths and poured a few drops into it.

The potion glowing with a faint golden-green glow quickly took effect, and the vital signs of the two travelers who somehow broke into the periphery of the Grey Mist Castle quickly stabilized, and the whole person gradually came back to life.

Delissa clapped her palms in satisfaction and put the potion into her robe again. She whispered an unknown incantation, the crisp childlike voice spreading through the mist.

Soon, a large amount of fog drifted from the direction of the castle. They quickly wrapped up the two intruders and sent them to the outskirts of the Grey Mist Forest in a cool gust of wind.

"Well, it's good now. Delissa was really fantastic, saving two more humans. It's a pity that he can't tell Brainless, otherwise he will have to teach Delisa a lesson again. ”

The little witch looked at the two travelers who had disappeared into the fog and muttered happily to herself. Since there weren't many people in the Grey Mist Castle to talk to, talking to herself was already a habit of her.

Delissa, who was in a happy mood, didn't notice that at some point, a tall figure had appeared behind her, although he didn't have a head, but his eyes were always fixed on the little witch in front of him.

She had just turned around and was about to return to the Grey Mist Castle when she suddenly felt a weight on her head, a large hand was pressing her head, and the Headless Horseman Lancelot appeared behind her at some point.

"Ah!! I said don't touch people's heads at will, is it amazing to be tall?"

Delisa immediately shook her little head, shook the big hand above her head, and looked at the Headless Horsemann angrily. However, she didn't last long, and was defeated by the invisible gaze of the Headless Horseman, and then put her head aside and waited for Lancelot's lesson.

However, after waiting for several minutes and not waiting for the imaginary reprimand, Delissa tilted her head slightly and peeked at Lancelot a few times, only to find that he was staring outside the Misty Forest.

Under Lancelot's cold armor, the soul fire composed of negative energy suddenly shook, and a cold breath of negative energy surged out along the fluctuations of the mist, and it silently burrowed into the minds of the travelers who were sent out by Delisa, rudely washing away any information about the misty pine forest.

Of course, this process may cause some slight effects on their bodies, such as memory loss or mental confusion and other minor symptoms, but Lancelot doesn't care about these at all, he just wants to protect Delissa, protect the Gray Mist Castle, any possible threat to all this is his enemy, he can leave their lives behind is already the greatest gift.

For the sake of Delissa and for the sake of the Grey Mist Castle, everything here must not leak out, otherwise what awaits them is endless harassment, and don't underestimate human curiosity.

"No head, are you angry? Why do you ignore Delissa?"

The little witch watched Lancelot ignore her for a long time, and suddenly became a little panicked, thinking that Lancelot was really angry with herself. She raised her little head and looked at the Headless Horseman pitifully with her big round eyes, and her voice was glutinous and coquettish to him, "No head, don't ignore Delissa, I promise to listen to you absolutely in the future, and never contact these outsiders again." ”

After a few moments, Lancelot suddenly picked her up and put her behind his skeletal steed, and quickly disappeared into the pine forest.

There was a faint sound of horses' hooves and the little witch's crisp laughter in the mist, "No head, I knew you wouldn't ignore Delissa." ”

On the other side of the gray mist pine forest, a strange flying machine in the shape of a triangular arrow has quietly entered the pine forest.

It is bright red as a whole, and there are many antenna spring steel wires erected on its body, and from time to time there will be a little current jumping between the protruding wire springs, and occasionally a little black smoke will come out. But this does not affect its flight speed in the slightest, and the aircraft shuttles nimbly between the pine forests.

On the sharp front end, a bloodshot eyeball connected to the aircraft rotated from time to time, as if observing its surroundings, and the thick fog did not affect its vision at all.

After several hours of flying and searching, the strange aircraft suddenly turned its head and flew diagonally to the right, the pupils of the eyes at the very front of the aircraft suddenly contracted, and the dark purple luster continued to radiate from its pupils on the pine trees that formed a defensive circle not far away, and then suspended in the air.

It has found its purpose.

In the next second, as if receiving some command, the aircraft fell directly to the ground and scattered countless parts, and the eyeballs on the front suddenly popped out and rolled down into the broken parts.

The little black silk thread at the end of the eyeball wriggled like an earthworm, it continued to elongate and spread, gathering the parts on the ground and combining them into a unique flesh and blood mechanical eye, and then slowly burrowed into the pine trees on the periphery of the protective ring, observing everything in front of them.

As time slowly passed.

Gradually, the pine tree that had been drilled into by this strange flesh and blood mechanical eye also gradually changed, the original straight and towering trunk slowly twisted, countless sharp and strange metal fragments slowly protruded from its body, folding wire antennas stretched out from the branches, and nodules that looked like eyes appeared on the branches.

The painting style of the whole pine tree looks very discordant with the surroundings.

But as the pine tree in front of me grew larger again, many of the surrounding pine trees also seemed to be affected by this mutated pine tree, and the branches continued to twist, one after another eye-like nodules grew, and from time to time there would be dark purple sap dripping down.

At the same time, in the deserted house some distance from the Grey Mist Forest, Chaos Scholar Norton was already lying on the ground, his expression haggard but his face was constantly full of excitement, and the image of the Grey Mist Forest kept flashing in the eyes of the only one left, and the mouth covered with blue-black tongue kept muttering to himself.

"It's coming, it's coming. Once I've infected this pine forest, I'll be able to invade this protected pine forest, and I'll be able to complete my mission and see the Chaos Obelisk again. ”

Unbeknownst to him, as the pine trees in the Grey Mist Forest continued to mutate, his own body also continued to mutate, his body continued to lose weight, and the other eyeball continued to grow larger, and soon broke through the restraints of the eye socket and protruded, as if the flesh and blood of his whole body were constantly being swallowed by this eyeball.

Eventually, Chaos Scholar Norton disappeared completely, leaving only a football-sized eyeball rolling to the ground, and the images in the gray mist forest flashed in his pupils, and the images in his pupils were extremely clear, as if the dense gray mist did not exist.

"Squeak. ”

I don't know how long it took, but with the sound of the door being opened, two more guests were welcomed into the deserted house.

A middle-aged man with a beard walked in with a red-haired leather-clad woman with a bumpy figure, and he stared at the huge eyeball in front of him without surprise, and a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes.

"Just let me see what is in this castle of gray fog that can make my father, who is not completely dead, so concerned. ”