The scenery in the Mira Forest is indeed unchanged, all of them are tall trees, overgrown with weeds, and there are many strange flowers, and Zhao Ling is like a flower thief, he pulls one when he sees one, maybe because he hasn't seen it, so he has to take it back to study, this is the researcher's hobby, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it, and what people care about is the backpack that Zhao Ling is carrying, why Zhao Ling stuffed those things into it, and the backpack won't burst?

Chen Fan finally couldn't help it, so he asked, "Girl, in fact, I've been paying attention to you from the beginning......"

"What! big pervert, are you paying attention to me?" Zhao Ling exclaimed, and then pretended to be shy and said: "Then you can't be blamed, who made me look so cute? However, if you want to pursue me, you have to queue up, because there are many boys who propose to me!"

"Hey, I said your grandfather didn't teach you to wait for someone to finish talking before you can interject?" Chen Fan saw Zhao Ling's cute appearance, and suddenly felt sick to his stomach.

"But I like those boys who are more than 1.7 meters tall, and they must be knowledgeable, talented, and Yushu Linfeng, preferably with a lot of money, and have a high title, so they must often accompany me to do research......"

"Did you listen to me?"

Zhao Ling ignored Chen Fan and continued: "I still have to know what I like, I have to take care of me often, love me, don't let others hurt me, I have to stand my grandfather's nagging, and I have to ......."

"It seems that Zhao Ling trapped her sister and fell into a place of selflessness. Rose looked at Zhao Ling, who was self-absorbed, and smiled bitterly.

"She's like that, she's always daydreaming, and she's very narcissistic, and I'm used to it. Chen Fan also said helplessly: "Lin Luoran, you let her sober up, if she doesn't sober up, we won't be able to move forward." ”

"Okay. ”

"Ahh Sister Lin Luoran, what are you pulling my face for?

"I'm finally sober. Lin Luoran let go of his hand and said, "Then let's continue walking." ”

"What. Zhao Ling rubbed her swollen face and complained: "It hurts to death, and if I am torn off like this, it seems that I will be broken sooner or later." ”

"Zhao Ling, can you go?" Lin Luoran said as he stretched out his thumb and index finger and handed them to Zhao Ling.

"Ah...... Ahhh I'll just go. Zhao Ling immediately walked up quickly, and then complained in a low voice: "It's obvious that it's child abuse." ”

"Let's go too. Chen Fan said to Rose with a smile.

Rose let out an "um" and followed. Lin Luoran also walked up behind the palace.

After walking for more than two hours, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and since the forest was sheltered from the sky, even at night, the scenery here had not changed much.

"We're very close to the Giant Wood Crystal. Chen Hong reminded.

"How far is it? My feet hurt a lot. Chen Fan said.

"It's about four kilometers away. ”

"Four kilometers!" Chen Fan shouted, "Is this still called approaching?"

"When we first came out of the virtual world, we were eight kilometers apart, and now it's four kilometers, isn't it already close?" Chen Hong asked confidently.

"So we've come this far, no wonder my feet are ......"

"Shhhh Lin Luoran covered Chen Fan's mouth. He said with a solemn expression: "Everyone hurry up and lie down." Although he didn't know what was going on, seeing the nervous look on Lin Luoran's face, everyone obediently followed Lin Luoran's words and lay down in the grass.

"Lin Luoran. Chen Fan asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

"Something approaches, don't make a sound. ”

"Rustling ......" At that moment, there was a sound of grass from the front, which told everyone that something was approaching and more than one, although it was not known what it was. But just by listening to the voice, you know that this thing is very fast.

The sound of "rustling" gradually grew closer and closer, although he knew that encountering monsters was inevitable. Everyone is actually mentally prepared, but in this dark environment, hearing this "rustling" sound will also make people shudder, so everyone's heart rate keeps increasing.

The sound of "rustling ......" has arrived, but soon. This kind of voice has gone behind him, and then kept moving away, it seems that these things have not stopped because of Chen Fan and them, but seem to be running towards one place.

Hearing the "rustling" sound behind him gradually fade away, Chen Fan asked in a low voice, "Lin Luoran." They're gone, can we get up?"

"So that they won't come back. Lin Luoran said cautiously: "Let's wait a little longer." ”

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the rustling sound had long since faded away, and the surroundings had reverted to their original silence.

Chen Fan asked again, "Lin Luoran, how is it now?

Lin Luoran half-squatted, looked around from the gap in the grass, and said, "I think they have gone far, let's get up." After receiving Lin Luoran's instructions, everyone stood up one after another, and Chen Fan said, "What is that thing? I just heard the sound of the grass, and it seems to be quite fast." ”

"Sister Lin Luoran. Zhao Ling said: "Could it be those dinosaur-like monsters last time?" ”

"Possibly. Lin Luoran said: "I think the only monster that can run in this grass at that degree is the last time." ”

Rose said, "They seem to be in a hurry, where are they going?"

"They're not going to show us to break through their barriers, are they?" Chen Fan said.

"Possibly. Lin Luoran said: "After all, that direction seems to be the place where we just came out of the virtual world." ”

"But that doesn't seem to make sense. Zhao Ling said, "It's been several hours since we came out, why are they only showing up now?"

"You have a point. Chen Fan said: "Besides, they just passed by us and didn't know that there were people here, so they didn't know that we had come in." ”

"I hope so. Lin Luoran said: "Okay, let's move on, it's night, it seems that the monsters are starting to move, we have to be careful in everything." ”

"Understood," the crowd replied in unison.

"So let's move on. ”

The four of them followed Chen Hong's instructions and kept moving forward, originally feeling that the big trees and grass around them had not changed much. And the surroundings are still pitch black at all times, I don't know if it's a psychological relationship, the four of them feel that every time they take a step forward, this darkness is deeper

It feels as if you are surrounded by a dark miasma in a dark environment, so the visual appearance is the same, but the physical sensation is very different. Although everyone didn't say it, the dark depression in their hearts coincidentally existed.

None of the four spoke, not because they had no topic, but because they didn't dare to speak, they had the illusion that there were many ears around them, and that if there was even the slightest sound in their mouths, even the faint sound of breathing, their whereabouts would be revealed.

It could be the darkness. But no matter how much this depression is, they still walked half a kilometer "all the way safely", and now they are about three thousand five hundred miles away from the energy crystal that Chen Hong said.

"Stop!" Chen Hong suddenly whispered.

Although Chen Hong's word "stop" was very soft, because everyone was on high alert, and they were full of thoughts about the danger and didn't know when it would come, they suddenly heard Chen Hong's voice without warning, and everyone couldn't help but be startled.

"It scared the hell out of me. Can you give some hints before you speak next time?" Chen Fan scolded in a low voice.

"Does this scare you, but your guts are not ordinary!" Chen Hong sarcastically said.

"How can this be ......?"

"Okay Chen Fan, don't make any noise. Lin Luoran said: "Chen Hong." What are you doing now, have you encountered enemies again?"

"It seems to be...... There are a lot of enemies. Zhao Ling pointed to the front and said in surprise: "Look at it!"

The three of them immediately walked up and couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the scenery in front of them.

"This is ......" Chen Fan was speechless.

"A castle?" Lin Luoran exclaimed.

"How could there be such a place in the Mira Forest?" Rose also thought incredulous.

I saw a tower building about 20 meters high standing outside the grass, although it was pitch black around, but with the help of "night vision goggles", Chen Fan could see the whole picture of the tower.

The tower is about fifty meters high. It covers an area of at least 5,000 square kilometers, and although it looks like a tower, the size of the building is so large that it is better to call it a castle than a tower.

The castle is architecturally a bit like the Mayan pyramids. Inside the wall, which is about six meters high, is a large building in the shape of a triangular pyramid on four sides, with a long staircase on each of the four sides leading up to the spire.

The tower table is neither carved with any exquisite patterns, nor inlaid with any luxurious gemstones, from a distance, it is just a pyramid made of stone, a little simple, and what shocked Chen Fan the most was that there were actually some strange people patrolling on the wall, of course, Chen Fan was shocked because it was not these strange people who would hinder his actions to save people, but to be precise, Chen Fan had not thought of this at all.

Chen Fan saw the strange people patrolling, and realized in his mind that there are definitely not only one or two strange people, since a few can be sent to patrol the city, there must be many more, and the number of strange people is not the point, what Chen Fan really cares about is that if a strange person needs a human base to be born, then so many strange people, how many human beings do they need to be satisfied? ten, a hundred, or even a thousand?

Chen Fan didn't dare to continue thinking about it when he thought of this, he immediately felt cold, before he came out, he just thought that there were only one or two of these weirdos, this is not to say that Chen Fan felt that it was not a big deal to sacrifice one or two people, but the number of weirdos was small, which could prove that these weirdos had just started to be made, and if they were stopped in time, there would not be so many sacrifices, but when he realized the fact that there were a large number of weirdos, Chen Fan suddenly knew that these weirdos might have been made a long time ago, and the one that was caught was only one of the many victims。

Damn it!

Chen Fan suddenly trembled all over his body when he thought of this, he felt very angry, although he didn't know what the reason was, but using living people to create the murderers of these strange people, no matter what the reason, it was absolutely unforgivable, this kind of crazy thing must be brought to an end.

Chen Fan swore in his heart at this time: We must stop this ridiculous thing, and we must not let anyone die because of this kind of thing, the real conspirator. Be sure to get sanctions.

It seems that there is one more reason to fight.

Everyone took their eyes back from the castle, and Zhao Ling asked, "Sister Lin Luoran, what should we do now?"

"It seems that Noh Jing is inside the castle, and in order not to cause a commotion, we must avoid the eyes of the weirdos. Lin Luoran said.

"What should I do then?" asked Zhao Ling.

Lin Luoran analyzed: "Although they didn't light a torch. However, they can be used for patrol work, which is a good proof of their night vision. ”

"Then if you use flying, you will definitely be revealed. Zhao Ling proposed: "Why don't we make a hole in the fence and get in." ”

Lin Luoran ignored Zhao Ling's suggestion and analyzed carefully: "We don't know the structure of the city, I think it's better not to act rashly, after all, the other party has a lot of people, we must be cautious." ”

"We had to choose a less guarded passage. Chen Fan added.

"Exactly. ”

"But if you want to find a less guarded passage, you must also know the structure inside the castle, but after all, it's the first time we've come here, how can we know the structure of the castle?" Zhao Ling was puzzled.

"Isn't it very simple?" Lin Luoran looked at Rose and said, "That's why I'm bringing Rose." ”

When the people heard this, they immediately came to their senses. Rose hurriedly said, "I—I'll do my best." ”

"Good. Lin Luoran smiled and said, "Then now I'll go catch a strange person first, and you guys are waiting here now." ”

"Boom!" Just as Lin Luoran was about to leave, as if in response to Lin Luoran's words, a thunderous voice came from the direction of the castle.

"What's going on?" the crowd was shocked, and immediately poked out through the crack in the grass.

A terrifying scene immediately presented to the eyes of the four people.

I saw a gap in the huge black city wall, as if someone had bitten off a section, as the gap continued to expand. Hundreds of strange people came out of it, like well-trained soldiers. Lined up in a square formation, marching forward with neat steps, followed by more than a few thousand sea beasts, there are countless types of sea beasts, some like ducks, some like fish. Some are like crocodiles, some are like snakes, some are like spiders, etc., it's like entering a zoo, and all animals are included. However, although there are many types, they are also lined up in a neat queue, moving forward after the weirdos.

"How can there be so many demonic beasts?" Zhao Ling looked at the army of demonic beasts in front of him, and suddenly felt very frightened in his heart.

"No wonder we haven't seen a monster in so long since we've been in. Lin Luoran said: "It turns out that they are all concentrated in this city.

Lin Luoran's words were also a little nervous, not that Lin Luoran was scared when he saw so many demonic beasts, but that these unintelligent low-level creatures would actually line up in a neat square formation, if they were lined up out of their own will, this would not seem to be reasonable, after all, they were creatures without intelligence, and there was no other way in their world except for the jungle, and they were now so united in a square formation, it was as if they had subverted this law of nature, so you could think of it as if they were not lined up out of their own will, but were forced to line up, or if they may have been unconsciously manipulated to line up now, then the power of the person who can manipulate such hundreds or thousands of "armies" is really not to be underestimated.

Thinking of the strong power, Lin Luoran will naturally think of Nengjing, if this person uses the power of Nengjing to manipulate this army, it can indeed be done with the powerful power contained in Nengjing, but the problem is that the power of Nengjing can only act on the manipulator himself, and his power cannot be transferred to others, to give a simple example, we eat every day to supplement the energy and calories we need for the day, but these energy and calories will not be transferred to others with the will of the master, so no one has said it since ancient times"As long as you help me eat, I won't go hungry. "These stupid things come on.

However, this will give rise to a problem, if the energy crystal can not act on foreign objects, why can the kamikaze energy crystal manipulate the wind, the lightning energy crystal can manipulate the thunder, and the giant wood energy crystal can manipulate the wood? Mudu is only a part of the energy crystal itself, and these external elements are the limbs, so the energy crystal is not acting on external objects, and manipulating the external elements is just moving their hands and feet. The energy of the energy crystal can be used by the holder, but this energy cannot be transferred or transmitted, if it is manipulated with the help of energy crystal, it is indeed possible from the perspective of energy, but from the perspective of principle, it is impossible, so Lin Luoran was very surprised by this.

"Lin Luoran, wait a minute. The number of monsters is not the main issue, and we don't want to investigate why they are lined up. Chen Fan said nervously: "The problem in front of us is to list this huge formation, where are they going?"

In fact, before Chen Fan asked this question, he had already roughly guessed the answer to the question when he saw the direction of the Warcraft Legion, and he didn't know if it was because he didn't want to admit it or because he wanted to confirm it again and again, so he asked it, and everyone immediately felt cold when they heard Chen Fan's question.

"Could it be that today is the anniversary of their founding? That's why they put on this posture?" Zhao Ling's naïve statement could not solve the fear in everyone's hearts, but deepened this fear.

Seeing the direction of the Warcraft Legion, you know that they are now heading out of the forest, if you want to go outside the forest, you will definitely see Xingyao City, if you see Xingyao City, you will definitely ...... Thinking of this, the four of them couldn't help but gasp. I believe that the four of them already know the answer to the question at this time, right. The purpose of this Warcraft Legion is to go and attack Xingyao City.

"It seems that this is not a momentary preparation, this should be a long-planned offensive. Lin Luoran said: "And the monster that just passed by us may be the sentinel who went to test Xingyao City." ”

"You mean, they really want to attack Xingyao City?" Chen Fan still didn't believe in this kind of thing, and all the low-level demonic beasts without wisdom united into an army to attack Xingyao City. How can Chen Fan believe this kind of thing?

No, how dare you believe it?

"There are at least four thousand of these monsters, and the number of soldiers of the Mira clan is only two to three thousand, and both my brother and the Mira clan are in danger!" Rose said nervously, "Now they don't know about it, we have to inform them." ”

Chen Fan suddenly realized and said, "Yes." These demonic beasts are going to raid Xingyao City, besides, it is night, everyone is already sleeping, if we don't inform Rhodes of them, then Xingyao City will be caught off guard, and then it will be troublesome. ”

"So are we going to cancel our rescue mission?" Zhao Ling also shouted nervously.

Lin Luoran pondered for a moment and said calmly: "We have to continue the task of saving people. ”

"What!" exclaimed the three of them.

"Lin Luoran, wait a minute, do you mean to ignore the safety of Xingyao City?" Chen Fan asked.

"No, that's not what I meant. Lin Luoran analyzed: "Just imagine, why would these unintelligent demonic beasts break the law of the jungle and unite into an army?"

Everyone thought about it, and Zhao Ling said, "Sister Lin Luoran is saying that they are being manipulated now?"

"That's right. Lin Luoran nodded: "If we want to save Star Yaocheng, we will definitely kill the mastermind who manipulated this group of demonic beasts." ”

Lin Luoran was right. Chen Fan said: "If these demonic beasts lose control, they will definitely be beastly and continue to kill each other, then this army will be self-defeating." ”

"Exactly. Lin Luoran nodded.

"But we also have to remind my brother that they have to guard against Warcraft. Rose said, "After all, we don't know if we can defeat the mastermind before the Demon Beast arrives in Star City." ”

"That's right. Lin Luoran said to Zhao Ling, "So the task of informing Xingyao City will be handed over to Zhao Ling." ”

"I—why?"

Tonight there was no moonlight, no stars, and a vast expanse of darkness covered the earth, as if the world had been closed from the light of day.

Zhao Ling rode on Chen Hong like a witch, flying over the Mira Forest, her current destination was Xingyao City, and her mission was to bring back a message about the life and death of Xingyao City.

The cold wind was cold, like a sharp blade, cutting hard at Zhao Ling's skin, because the pain spread all over her body, Zhao Ling could only lie on Chen Hong's upper body as much as possible, trying to avoid contact with the air, but this could not relieve her much pain, however, even so, Zhao Ling had no reason to stop, if she couldn't bring this message back before the Demon Beast Legion left the forest, then Xingyao City might be destroyed.

"Hmm...... Sister Lin Luoran actually took this kind of drudgery for me to do. And I am the only one of the four who is the most useless, and I can fly, really. Zhao Ling complained.

Although Zhao Ling was full of complaints, she herself knew that the situation was really serious now, and she knew that what Lin Luoran said was indeed reasonable, Chen Fan and Rose would not fly. And Lin Luoran had to lead the rescue team to sneak into the tower, so Lin Luoran chose to do this task of carrying a message by himself in a helpless situation.

"But to say I'm 'useless' is too much to hurt my self-esteem. Zhao Ling was still haunted by what Lin Luoran had just said to herself.

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much. Chen Hong saw that Zhao Ling was depressed from the beginning, so he persuaded him: "Lin Luoran just didn't say anything because he saw that the situation was too critical." ”

"Although I know it, I don't need to say that people are 'useless'. Zhao Ling said: "It's the first time I've been said 'useless' by others when I'm so old, and I always have a feeling of depression in my heart." ”

"That's because you, who are called geniuses, usually live in the ivory tower of engraving, and of course you think it's amazing. Chen Hong said: "The so-called art industry has a specialty, and when you meet people in other fields, it is normal for you to be incomparable." ”

Although Chen Hong is enlightening Zhao Ling. But what Chen Hong said was the truth, although the finished product often failed, but Zhao Ling's engraving technique was indeed very powerful, but it was just because Chen Fan and they had not been exposed to the engraving technique that they couldn't see it.

"Is that so?"

"Of course, even a carver like your grandfather, who has a lot of knowledge of carving, often fails. Chen Hong said lightly: "Now isn't he the leading engraving expert in the Zhuoluo Continent and even the world?"

"Does grandpa often fail?" Zhao Ling was very surprised by Chen Hong's words, because in Zhao Ling's opinion, his grandfather was a genius in the carving world, and it was basically impossible to equate such a thing as failure.

"Of course, if you don't learn from failure. It is impossible for people to progress, I have been with you for so long with your grandfather. At this age, he's probably failed more than you do, so you're pretty good now. ”

"Yes, yes, I'm going to have to fail a lot to catch up with my grandfather. Zhao Ling said excitedly.

"Hey, you seem to have misinterpreted what I meant, right?" Chen Hong said.

"It's okay, it's okay, I understand. I understand. ”

"It's good that you really understand, lest when you go back and say to your grandfather, 'Chen Hong taught me to fail more', I don't know how to explain to him. ”

"No problem, I'll explain the meaning of this sentence to grandpa, don't worry. ”

"It's just that you explain that I won't let ......," Chen Hong suddenly stopped in the middle of his words.

"Chen Hong. What's wrong with you?" Zhao Ling asked curiously.

"Zhao Ling, it seems that we are going to go a little faster. Chen Hong put away his original frivolity and said solemnly.

Zhao Ling couldn't help but get nervous when she saw that Chen Hong's tone changed so suddenly, and she sounded like a schizophrenic patient, and hurriedly asked, "Is something wrong?"

"No, I detected a pursuer behind us, and it looks like we've been spotted. ”

"What!" Zhao Ling immediately looked back, and saw the black shadow like a swarm of flies a few hundred meters behind him, and his heart seemed to be frozen by ice: "How could it be...... When will they ......"

"We don't have time to think about the questions of 'why there are so many' and 'when will they catch up'. Chen Hong said: "What we can do now is to move forward, and we must arrive at Xingyao City as soon as possible." ”

"Okay! Chen Hong, it's up to you. ”

"Zhao Ling, is she okay?" Chen Fan looked at the direction Zhao Ling left and said worriedly: "I always feel that she is the only one, and I don't seem to be at ease." ”

"Isn't there Chen Hong by her side?" Lin Luoran said coldly: "There won't be a problem." ”

Chen Fan looked at Lin Luoran's face and although he was expressionless, he also knew in his heart that Lin Luoran was actually very worried about Zhao Ling's safety, but what was the use of worrying? If you are really worried or have time to worry, it is better to quickly find a way to enter the castle, and defeating the conspirators is what must be done in front of you.

It may be out of trust between companions, or it may be out of the emotion of not wanting to affect his own fighting, so Lin Luoran acted as if it didn't matter, although Chen Fan understood Lin Luoran's thoughts, but if he wanted to be like Lin Luoran, he really couldn't do it. The psychological quality of "putting aside the life and death of your companions and focusing on the overall situation first" may take a lot of things to obtain.

"That's right. Chen Fan deceived himself and said, "Let's think about how to enter this castle first." (To be continued......)