"This is..."

Locke turned around to ask Giri, only to find that Giri behind him was nowhere to be seen.

"Giri, are you, Giri?" Locke shouted around to see if the strange magician was playing hide and seek with him, but there was no reply.

Giri, just disappeared out of thin air?

Locke looked closely at the gold coin in his hand, the front and back were exactly the same, engraved with a sword, a straight sword.

He had never seen anything like it, but he felt the supreme glory in his hands.

Dad once told him that the bow and arrow are the soul of a hunter, just as the sword is the soul of a knight.

The knight is the pride of the "North of the World" - the Ace Empire. Every cavalryman and war horse is dressed in armor and holds a holy sword, and they are what make the Ace Empire revered by the world.

This gold coin engraved with a sword must have something to do with the Knights' Legion!

Locke decides to trust the crazy Giri, and he sets off north to find a man named "Kyle".

Now, the dense forest where Locke is located, a hunting ground that he and his father are familiar with, is located at the foot of the mountain in the southeastern part of the Lefu Fire Mountain. This dense forest is so big that if you are not familiar with the road, you may never be able to get here, let alone find the right direction.

Locke couldn't tell where the north was, as long as he could see Mount Lefu to his right. Because he believed that if he ran around the foot of the mountain, he would sooner or later get around to the north side of the mountain, and then see a meadow, then a camp, and finally find Kyle.

However, the forest was so big that Locke began to gasp for breath, and still did not run out of his and his father's hunting area. Because he found that some of the trees still had the marks of their hunting time.

"I'm going to find Kyle... Kyle..."Locke kept repeating Kyle's name for fear of forgetting, walking through the waist-length grass,

Startling a crowd of grasshoppers, scaring little sparrows to flee through the overhead woods...

Gradually, he discovers that the places he has visited are unfamiliar, and he has never even seen them.

The Love volcano has always been in the direction of his right, so he must have been heading north around the volcano. The direction is correct, but the environment is completely different from what the jungle used to be.

There are no paths here, and there is no sign of human activity at all. The weeds were clustered together, like human heads with long hair, and in the middle of each weed, there was a beautiful and lonely flower, the flower stem was very long, and the height of the grass was only waist-high, but the flower was slim and tall, and it was already higher than Locke's head. Colourful flowers decorate this quiet place beautifully.

But Locke had no intention of observing these things now, and his father had told him that beautiful things often came with the shadow of danger. He had to run while paying attention to his surroundings and his feet.

I don't know if I'm too cautious and suspicious, Locke always feels that something is chasing him in the invisible grass around him.

Whenever he runs, he can feel that in addition to the sound of his feet, there is also a sound. But as soon as I stopped, it was quiet.

"Who!" Locke took the "Tony" and very cautiously drew a short arrow, ready to go head-to-head with the enemy.

However, as soon as he stopped, there was calm around him.

After confirming it several times, Locke could only move on. Because, time waits for no one, and there are more important things waiting for him to do.

"Locke, why are you here?"

Just as Locke was about to leave the strange grass and enter a dead forest, he was suddenly stopped by a voice from above.

Locke quickly reflexively mounted the arrow and aimed upward.

"Oh, don't do that, kid!" said a large, snow-white bird, standing tall on a dead branch, "you know me, don't you?"

"Fredden?" Locke lowered his arrow.

He clearly remembered that Fredden was the big bird that landed on the banner of Fud's Grilled Fish Shop, and at that time, it was still holding two fat fish from the East Ocean to Uncle Fud.

"Why are you here?" Locke shouted to Fredon above.

"Alas, I'm tired of flying. Fredden sighed, "Just came back from the Eastern Ocean, and I didn't catch anything. It's weird. ”

Uncle Forde once said that Fredden would always bring something back, and this time, it didn't get anything.

"Are you going back to Kailin?" Locke continued.

"Yes," replied Freden, weakly, "I'm tired of so much effort, so I'll take a rest here... It's really embarrassing that I didn't bring anything back..."

"No, Freden. Locke felt that all this was really like a predestined thing, "You have to go back with a very important message!"

"What?"

"The barbarians will come to attack Kailin, you hurry back and tell everyone that they can hide!"

"Why?" said Fredden, his mouth wide in surprise, "are they going to break the Four-Power Agreement?"

"I don't know, but they're going to bring disaster!" Locke became more and more anxious, eager to tell it all at once, but the story was too long, he could only focus on the main points, after all, time was running out, "You go back quickly and tell everyone!"

"What about you?" Fredden seemed to be a big bird full of questions, asking all the time, "Where are you going?"

"I'll find a way to protect the town!" Locke clenched the gold coin in his left hand, he knew that it would be time-consuming and laborious to explain so much to a big fishing bird, "Leave me alone, you can go quickly!

"Okay, then I'll go," Fredden flapped his wings, and it could also see Locke's urgency, "Be careful yourself!"

Watching Fredden fly in the direction of the sun, Locke understood that it was already past noon, and that it was gradually turning into nighttime.

Locke could only continue on, through the dead forest. He didn't know how much he had to do next, but with Mount Lef still on his right, he had to run as fast as he could until he saw a meadow.

It was as if the dead forest had been cursed, all the trees had no leaves or bark, and the trunks were dead gray, some even with large cracks, and a strange red liquid in between.

Locke tried not to look at these things, this space, for a twelve-year-old child, was like a cemetery, and every dead tree in it was like a ghost.

He clutched the gold coins and "Tony" tightly as he navigated the graveyard, but felt like he was in a labyrinth, not knowing where the end was.

"Kyle!"

Locke shouted, without warning, as if instinctively, calling out the name of the man who would give him strength and hope.

Although it was broad daylight, this sudden shout still startled many "lurkers".

The blue-eyed crow and the strange purple bat, hidden in the dead wood, kept flapping their wings and fleeing out of the cave, as if they were about to be eaten if they were slow for a second.

"I'm going to die!" they complained to Locke as they fled, "I don't know what this place is!"

Locke didn't have the energy to take care of them, and let the black pressure on his head fly away, he wanted to go to the meadows north of the volcano as soon as possible while it was still light, find a camp, and find a man named Kyle.

"Where are you going, young man?" Suddenly, a cold voice came from above, like an old woman choked by the throat, hoarse and vicious.

Where do you seem to have heard this voice?

Locke stopped, looked up, and sat down on the ground with his feet limp, throwing aside the gold coin and "Tony" in his hand.

Directly above this child was a huge black python.

The python's whole body was like ink, its body was coiled around several trees, its head hung in the air, and its two eyes were like black pearls, staring at Locke. Its bloody jaws are wide open, revealing its sharp fangs, ready to attack at any moment.

Locke quickly picked up the gold coins and "Tony", mounted the arrow, and retreated tremblingly.

"You... Don't come here, I don't want to hurt you..."He began to stutter even when he spoke, because he knew that the monster in front of him could swallow him in just one bite.

"One hand is dark, the other is light..."The black python stared at Locke's hands, withdrew his fangs, and said to himself.

"What are you talking about?" Locke didn't understand what the monster meant.

"What are you doing here, young man?" the black python's tone was much softer than at first, "this forest of corpses is not a place for the living. ”

"I'm going north to find someone named Kyle, please let me go. Locke lowered his bow and pleaded at the black python, knowing that even if he fought hard, he was definitely no match for it.

"Didn't your family tell you that the Borderlands are dangerous?" the black python slowly circled and came down from the dead wood.

Locke unconsciously stepped back, and he felt the python in front of him approaching him.

"I know... It's dangerous outside the town... But... Kailin is about to have a disaster, I must save them!"

Locke plucked up the courage to say such a long passage in fits and starts. He felt like he couldn't speak.

"Hmph... Kailin..."The black python climbed down from the tree, deliberately keeping a distance from Locke, as if he was afraid of something, "It doesn't matter if the people there are dead, just add a few small things here to relieve my loneliness." ”

The corpse forest is a dead forest that all living things dare not approach at will. It is inhabited by thousands of wandering ghosts, who have taken the form of bats and crows and settled here, which is both their home and their grave.

Locke was not disturbed by animals or monsters, but by a group of spirits.

The tone of the black python seemed to be a little resentful of Kailin Town.

Locke was stimulated by its words, and re-set up the arrow, facing the black python,

"Let me pass! I won't let Kailin be destroyed by anyone!"

"You shoot," the black python's hoarse tone revealed disdain, "Who can this little toy hurt?"

Locke couldn't bear it, and he didn't have time to play tricks on it here, so he directly drew the bow,

With a "bang", the arrow flew out, bounced on the black python's skin, and fell to the side weakly.

"Tickle," the black python sneered, "There is only one thing in this world that can pierce my black scales!"

The black python stood up triumphantly, already more than two meters high, and let out a hoarse roar towards Locke.

Locke instinctively put his hands in front of his head, as if he had a premonition that the monster in front of him was about to attack.

Seeing Locke's hands, the black python immediately retracted a lot, twisted backwards, and retreated a few meters.

Locke glimpsed through his hand, there was a scar on its neck, the scar was very thin and long, as if it had been scratched by some sharp weapon, it could be a knife, it could be a dagger, it could be... It's a sword.

Sword!

Locke held the gold coin in his left hand and kept touching the sword engraved on it, as if he had thought of something.

"If I had a sword, you would have turned into a little bat today. Locke boldly tested once to see if his judgment was correct, and he thought that the one that could pierce the black scales was the knight's sword!

"Strange young man," the black python said to himself, looking at the human in front of him uneasily, "both evil and good... What the hell is it?"

This trick seems to have worked, and the black python is really afraid to mention the sword!

This gave Locke great confidence, he slightly raised his left hand holding the gold coin, and walked slowly towards the black python,

"If you don't let me go today, the owner of this sword will take your life in the coming day!"

"Don't try to threaten me!" the black python suddenly roared, climbed back up the tree, and kept a distance from Locke, "I'm a soul locker, only I threaten others, no one can threaten me!"

After speaking, everything around him collapsed in an instant like black sand. This dead wood forest is gone.

Is this a hallucination?

Locke looked around, a turquoise,

Here it is...

Grassland!