Chapter 19: The Misty Wonderland

"Damn it!

"There are enemies!"

"Hide, hide!"

The moment the man named Pierre fell to the ground, everyone let out an exclamation, and quickly hid behind the huge tree roots, clutching the weapons in their hands, and vigilantly watching the source of the weapons.

Some people were worried that the light of the lantern would reveal their position, so they hurriedly extinguished the lantern's fire, because some people did it, and the others did not feel that there was anything wrong with doing so, so they did so and extinguished the lamp.

It's just that they didn't know that what they were doing was not only not able to save their lives, but rather hastened their deaths.

Just when the surrounding environment was completely plunged into darkness, an extremely low muffled sound sounded around from time to time, and if someone listened carefully, they would be able to find that these sounds came from the location of the person who had just been hiding.

And when this sound sounded a dozen times, the surroundings fell completely silent, followed by a small firelight, which lit a lantern, and after adjusting the oil valve slightly with one hand, the fire became larger, illuminating the surrounding environment.

Leo, who had not changed his body, was standing next to a corpse with his throat cut, and where the surrounding lights could shine, there were several corpses hiding behind tree roots, clutching weapons, lying on the ground, and the same corpses lying on the ground in other places outside the lights.

Under Leo's attack, the pursuit team of more than thirty people did not even survive ten minutes before the entire army was wiped out, and for Leo, who had countless experiences, this was just an extremely ordinary thing, as ordinary as drinking water and eating.

Leo did not leave immediately, but carefully cleaned the battlefield and collected the loot according to his past habits.

The bows and crossbows carried by these hunters were very well-made, and they were considered excellent handmade weapons, but it was a pity that Leo was not familiar with such weapons, so he simply discarded them. On the contrary, most of these people had symbolic Panir battle axes around their waists, and he asked him to choose the best ten of them and hang them on special belts around his waists in turn.

Unlike the crossbow, Leo has experience with the Panir Tomahawk, which allows him to get started quickly without having to get through the familiarization period.

The Panier Tomahawk is somewhat similar to the old Earth era military Indian Tomahawk, although the Earth Federation army has been dominated by magnetic energy and laser weapons, but Leo and other special exhibition troops that mainly infiltrate and decapitate will still be equipped with some melee cold weapons, and Leo chose this kind of weapon that can be thrown from a distance and can also be melee combat.

After selecting the weapons, Leo packed and took away all the medicines on these people, whether they knew or didn't know, and naturally packed all the money on their bodies.

After sorting out a large package, Leo turned his gaze to the muskets in the hands of the three men.

Unlike the repeating breech rifle with a large magazine that was standard for the British kingdom to the army, the musket Leo is now holding is a single-shot breech gun, which is very similar in shape and structure to the M1903 Springfield rifle from the Old Earth era.

This rifle can be preloaded with five rounds, but it can only be fired in a single shot, and each shot requires the bolt to be reloaded before it can continue firing.

The reason why this inconvenient reload design is still used while having a more advanced high-capacity automatic magazine is to slow down the rate of fire of the firearm user.

After all, compared to the ordinary bullets in the large magazine, the special bullets equipped with these guns can not only be activated by each shot, but also expensive, if you also use that kind of large magazine and repeating guns, even the finances of a rich country like the French Empire cannot withstand such attrition.

Although Leo had not used this type of gunpowder firearm, he had used a similar Gauss rifle, and there may have been some minor obstacles in using it due to the shape of the gun and the principle of shooting, but like the Panier Tomahawk, he should be able to quickly become familiar with the use of this weapon.

Leo carried one of the well-maintained rifles behind his back, removed the pack of five ammunition from each of the three men's waists, hung it on his body, and then withdrew five pre-loaded special ammunition from each of the other two guns.

"High-energy substances were found to have too low energy levels to be absorbed. ”

As soon as Leo's hand touched the munition, the subbrain system immediately sent out a hint, indicating that the special munition was a high-energy object.

Leo looked at the ten special ammunition in his hand, and thought that the difference between this ammunition and ordinary ammunition before was only the addition of a special stabilizer, and it was obvious that one or more high-energy substances must have been added to this stabilizer.

It's just that he also remembers that the formula of this stabilizer and the source of that rare raw material are top secrets in all countries, and it is not something that a low-level person like him can know.

Thinking of this, Leo also extinguished the idea of tracing high-energy matter from this special bullet.

Placing the ammo in the bag, Leo walked back with his lantern. Although when he left before, he had already checked through the spiritual net that there was no danger around the resting place, but a place like the Black Forest could not be judged by common sense, one moment it was safe and calm, and the next moment it was dangerous, and it was not impossible.

Soon, Leo made his way through a bush to the root arch bridge he had walked on, and he could already faintly see the faint light ahead.

But just as he was about to climb the arch bridge and walk to the other side, his steps stopped, because he found that the opposite bank was empty just a moment ago, but in a blink of an eye it was covered by a thick fog that had appeared inexplicably, as if this striking fog had appeared out of thin air.

Thinking of the information related to the foggy moon and dense fog, Leo's originally relaxed mood couldn't help but tighten, and his expression became serious.

Leo, who was on guard, walked slowly to the wall of fog formed by the dense fog on the other side of the arch bridge, and reached out to try to reach into the thick fog.

"Found a high energy force field, the energy level is too low to be absorbed, and it can be used for psionic replenishment. ”

At this time, the prompt of the auxiliary brain system appeared in Leo's eyes again, but it was different from the previous prompt of the special ammunition, and there was an extra sentence that could be used to replenish psionic energy.

Seeing this hint, Leo's previous question about where the high-energy force fields that appeared in the Black Forest were answered, and it was clear that these strange fogs were the cause of this high-energy force field.

Judging by the absolute sanity of the biological weapons in the past, the dense fog in front of him belongs to an unknown danger zone, and he must be detoured, even if his comrades fall into it, they will not enter.

But now Leo has a lot of emotions because of the fusion of the remnants of this body, friendship and a sense of responsibility are also in it, and when reason tells Leo to turn away and take a detour, the emotions in his heart drive him to step into the fog without hesitation.

When most of Leo's body entered the dense fog, a strong suction force appeared in the dense fog, pulling the part of his body that had not yet entered into the fog.

When his whole body was plunged into the thick fog, he immediately felt as if he was sinking into water, and an invisible force around him was squeezing his body, and he felt slightly suffocated and suffocated.

Because the secondary brain system is collecting and sorting out all kinds of data in real time, Leo quickly figured out that this situation is still caused by the high-energy force field, because the high-energy force field in and outside the dense fog has obvious strength and weakness, so it causes the force similar to dragging just now, as well as the inappropriate feeling of suffocation.

Although he felt a little unwell, Leo saw that in the spiritual energy item in the personal data interface in front of him, the spiritual energy consumed by the use of spiritual vision, spiritual network and other skills was rapidly recovering, and because he was in an unknown environment, his slightly nervous mood was also relaxed a lot.

At this moment, the dense fog has greatly affected his vision, and even though Leo's eyesight is much better than that of ordinary people, he cannot see anything from a meter away.

Fortunately, he had collected the surrounding terrain data through the spirit network before, and formed a topographic map of it, which was projected into his eyeballs to form a three-dimensional illusion, so that even if his eyes could not see through the dense fog, he could still know the exact location of any object, as if the dense fog did not exist.

Leo followed the projection instructions in his eyes and walked forward quickly, soon arriving at the place where they had rested, and also saw the faint light of the lantern flickering in the thick fog.

When he got closer, he found Nelson and Jason both lying on the ground, as if they had been attacked in the fog.

He immediately stepped forward to check, and found that it was only a false alarm, and the two were not attacked in any way, and after some inspection, it was confirmed that they had just fallen asleep.

"It seems that they should not be able to withstand the high-energy force field in the dense fog, and their bodies have a protective reaction?" Leo quickly made a judgment on the reason for their coma based on the physical condition of the two of them.

It's just that this state of coma may not cause harm to the two of them now, but if they continue to be unconscious like this, or continue to bear the influence of this unknown high-energy force field around them, it is unknown whether they will eventually have permanent damage.

Thinking of this, Leo planned to carry the two of them out of the dense fog first, and then think about how to get through this dense fog.

Just as Leo leaned down and grabbed the waistband of their trousers, ready to lift them up and take them away, a sense of danger suddenly appeared, making his body instinctively follow the direction of perception, and then he felt as if a sharp weapon had grazed his right arm.

He turned his head to look and saw that the clothes on his right arm had been cut with a tear, and the lines where the cut were made were neat, indicating that the sharp weapon used to cut the clothes was very sharp.

Although the clothes were not completely cut, he felt that there was already an additional wound on the arm where the tear was, and it was obvious that in addition to the sharpness of the weapon itself, there might be a layer of unknown power on the blade that could hurt the body but not destroy the clothes.

Soon, that sense of crisis reappeared, and this time Leo could clearly feel that the location of the mysterious being's attack was on his neck, and the speed was much faster than just now.

The current situation was so urgent that Leo could not think about it, and he instinctively made the decision that best suited his current situation, and instantly activated the Perfect Control Skill, and his body and mind entered a perfect state.

I saw that Leo's figure flashed, and the whole person moved horizontally about thirty centimeters in an instant, and the Panier battle axe on his waist also appeared in his hand at the same time, and one of the battle axes seemed to be casually waved out of the air on his side.

A muffled sound of "porphyry" appeared out of thin air, and then a sense of blocking the real thing came from the blade of the axe.

Immediately after, Leo turned around, and another battle axe was thrown into the air with the movement of his body.

I saw the flying tomahawk stop in the air for a moment as if it had hit something, and then the powerful throwing force pushed it forward and fell not far away.

At this time, a rather magical scene appeared, only to see the thrown axe suspended in mid-air, and shaking up and down regularly.

"Undo the perfect control and activate the vision. Seeing this, Leo immediately switched to psionic skills.

With the activation of the Psionic Skill, the fog in front of Leo's eyes disappeared in an instant, and the black forest covered in the fog reappeared in front of his eyes.

It's just that the Black Forest at this time is completely different from the dark Black Forest just now, and the Black Forest in front of you is like a dream forest in a fairy tale, full of incredible magical scenes.

At this moment, the Black Forest was as bright as day, not because of the dense foliage through which the sunlight penetrated, but because every tree here became a glowing tree, and the faint light emanated from the trunks, branches, and roots of the trees, gathering together to dispel the darkness of the Black Forest.

The scene on the top of the tree is even more amazing, only to see that the top of the tree, which was originally just a few branches and leaves, is now full of colorful flowers, and so are the vines that are entwined on it.

If it was just overgrown with all kinds of flowers, it wouldn't have made Leo feel magical, and what really made Leo feel like a fairyland was because of the balls of light that were constantly flying around the flowers.

Through the ability of spiritual vision, he could easily see that inside the fast-flying ball of light was a small person with transparent wings and clothes in leaves. Each of these little men carried a small basket made of flower bones, and in their hands they held sticks smaller than matchsticks, and gently patted the flowers on the top of the tree, and used the baskets to catch the pollen that had been shaken off.

"Little goblins, little fairies!" Although Leo has not read those fairy tales in the old earth era, he is also very familiar with some magical species in fairy tales, and it is obvious that those little people flying above his head are very similar to the two magical species in fairy tales.

Leo took a few deep breaths, calmed down some strange emotions, and after retracting his gaze from the top of his head, he checked the situation around his body.

The first thing that comes into the eye is the ground, which was originally covered with black humus and has now turned all of it into a golden yellow, which is not simply a change in the color of the soil, but a layer of golden vegetation that looks like moss and is soft like fluff.

Later, he found that Nelson and Jason, who were still beside him just now, had disappeared at the moment.

Leo calmly remembered the scene of being attacked by an unknown creature that he couldn't see, so he crouched down and groped around where Jason and Nelson were lying, and found that the two were just transparent, and in fact they were still lying in place, not gone.