XXIII. The Land of Confusion
Another nonsense, I really just want to highlight some of the strange characteristics of the protagonist, and it may indeed be a little more deliberate in the play, I'll pay attention to it~
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It's bad? No, it's not bad at all, it's bad that Liye is getting more and more confused about what this situation is!
"Ah, you're kidding me, aren't you?"
Liye hung on the dead fish and watched the snow fly in front of him.
"What did I see along the way?
That's right! After a night's rest, Liye mobilized everyone on the grounds of "I'm going out" and tried to get out of this place. The results speak for themselves. After they walked out of the stone forest, they saw the prairie, yes, they saw the prairie in the valley! At that moment, Liye thought it was a phenomenon of "space folding", but the next moment he was blind, and this vegetation actually grew on the river! As soon as he stepped on it, he fell into the water! No way, detour! Then he came to a relatively normal place, the only abnormal thing was that it was raining, and it rained in this fixed area, and he would naturally not be stupid for a second time after eating a loss, and as expected, a piece of cloth was "ignited" by the rain Finish. Liye roared at that time! What kind of rain is this! It's just hot oil! Doesn't it evaporate? It doesn't evaporate! And now, Liye saw something even more devastating -- an erupting volcano, but it was snowflakes......
"I just haven't seen anything so curious in the Land of Chaos, it's not that the order is broken, it's the order cognition is completely disordered...... Thinking about it, the stone forest didn't seem to have the conditions to blow the wind before......"
There was a commotion in the crowd. It is not incomprehensible that human beings will always be afraid and uneasy in the face of the unknown, which is the common nature of living beings.
Inoli: "Your Excellency, what the hell is going on?"
Liye glanced at Inoli, it was rare for her to be so calm.
"I don't know where it is, but I know what's going on. "The leaf probe glanced into the volcano, and it was sprayed with snowflakes all over his face, which was unexpectedly warm......
"It's, ah, it's simply a place of 'anti-common sense'. β
"Anti-common sense?"
That's right, the phenomenon here can be explained in three words. Specifically, the 'stone' here is equal to the 'wind' in our common sense, so the wind will rise in the stone forest that cannot be geographically hung with the wind, but actually the wind is not the wind, but the 'stone', and those 'stones' are the 'wind'. β
......
Feeling the silence behind him, he turned around with a headache.
"Let's just think of a windy place as a stone forest, and a stone as wind as a normal terrain. It's the same with the river that we came across later, the 'river' here is actually 'land', the 'vegetation' is 'dust' or something, and then the 'rain' is probably 'hot liquid gas' and stuff like that, this 'snowflake' and 'volcano'...... You have the right to treat it as a 'hot spring'...... All in all, it's a messy world, and our perceptions don't work at all. β
"You mean 'it's not right,' right?" said Albert's voice interjected.
"Yes, yes, it's really hard to explain verbally, but you can probably understand. "Liye is also quite annoying in this kind of place, confused "cognition" is not a big deal at best, and if you are bigger, maybe you will be a "mental patient" in the future, using fire as water and melamine as milk or something......
"Huh?" the elf who had seen everyone screamed softly, and said in a rather curious tone, "There seems to be a village down there?"
By the way, the elf's mental state is only barely controllable, and it's not good yet......
"All I know is that digging underneath the 'hot springs' is really hot. β
Li Ye looked down but didn't see anything, and the mockery in his mouth kept coming.
"I wouldn't mind if anyone would like to add some meat to our next meal. β
"Your Excellency, please don't say such disgusting things......"
Looking at the disgust on Inoli's face, Liye shrugged her shoulders.
"Okay, okay, I'll go down, anyway, no matter how hot it is, I can't burn a spirit, and I can't feel anything in my five senses. β
As he spoke, he jumped down from the leaf. Within a moment he was at the bottom.
"Well, sure enough, you should turn off your five senses, although it's not particularly hot, but it's still very uncomfortable, and it can probably cook an ordinary person?
Li Ye looked at the town in front of him, and muttered to himself while moving his body. In order to confirm whether he could let other people come down, of course he couldn't turn off his five senses, and the temperature of the spirit body was not particularly good, so he couldn't use the aura to protect himself, so he "cooked" all the way.
It's a typical town, not big or small, one by one. But the difference is that this town seems to be uninhabited, and it is unusually quiet, not to mention that you can't hear chickens and dogs crowing, and there is not even the sound of volcanoes spewing "snow".
A ghost town! Liye came to this conclusion. He gestured for Rafa to come down, and he was the only one who could come down and make a difference. Seeing the gesture, Rafa jumped down without hesitation, and soon reached the bottom of the volcano.
"It can't be. β
Rafa shouted when he saw that he had not yet stood firm in front of him.
"I know it's impossible for a ghost town to be at the bottom of a snow-spraying volcano, but you don't have to scream so much. Liye rolled his eyes and continued to study the ghost town in front of him.
"No, my lord, I know this place!" Rafa felt that apart from the past few days, he probably did not have more than these few days of horror in his life, "Ten years ago, the 'Ombaric Town' in the south of the Principality suddenly disappeared, I have been there!
"Oh, it looks like they certainly didn't come in a carriage. It seems that he didn't have time to leave in the carriage when he got here, well, maybe the horse didn't have time to leave. β
Leaving the Ye stall, he replied in a mocking tone and looked at the empty stables not far away.
There is no trace of fighting in the whole town, and of course, ten years later, it is still at the bottom of the volcano, and even if there is, it may not be noticeable. There are no human populations. A town that is unusually quiet under heavy snowfall. There are no less than 100 species that can do this kind of thing and correspond to the system of this world, but this weird place is hard to say, if it is really man-made, it is not a sentence "bad" that can be explained.
"Come in. β
In front of a decent cottage. Liye said to Rafa. He then broke down the door and entered the hut.
The room is dimly lit. But Liye didn't care about that. He walked over to the fireplace and reached out and touched itβcold, damp. He frowned, knowing that the continuous snow days seemed to be some form of water, but it was actually very dry, not to mention that the "snow" here was still hot, this cold, damp, it was obviously wrong.
"If you put aside the speculation that foreign objects are not affected from the inside, then this town should not be here for more than a week. Considering that the climate in the south is generally hot and hot in the morning and cool in the evening, maybe it will only be three days, no, there is water, three minutes. β
Liye touched the inner wall of the furnace and found that there were water droplets hanging. After probably figuring out the time, Li Ye closed his eyes and began to think, this is not a case, he needs to think as much as possible, even if it is fantastical.
Ten years ago, in a small town, at night, all the big and small families turned off the lights and put out the fire, and fell asleep peacefully, and then came here in their sleep and traveled through time...... No, maybe something came in through time to summon them, and then, under a force, maybe hypnosis, maybe the threat of a powerful force, maybe something that everyone couldn't react to in a split second took away everything that was alive.
Liye opened his eyes. He waved Rafa over.
"I'm looking for clues here, you go and tell them, pay attention to vigilance! Don't come down!"
Whether it's a mysterious power or a mysterious creature here, Liye doesn't think it's going to be a safe place. Rafa took the order and departed.
Squatting down from the leaves, unlike the snow outside the house, it is impossible to remove any traces in the house in such a short time.
"Your Excellency!"
"Huh?" Li Ye was stunned and then became furious, "Inoli, who let you come down!"
Rafa immediately came out to play a round and said with a wry smile: "My lord, calm down, we have been outside for so much time, in fact, it has been three days outside! β
Li Ye frowned when he heard this. Is there a difference in the speed of time inside and outside the house? No, it should be a difference in the speed of time bounded by the town.
"Come down, come down, but don't get out of the way of the mercenaries, and don't get too far away from me!"
Yes, I ignored it. Liye thought to himself. If the flow rate is the same, how can it be only three minutes in the house.
He reached out and touched the ground for a while, and after feeling something, he focused his attention, and faintly saw deep and shallow or even incomplete footprints on the ground. Just like the fingerprints that can be seen when the dust is blown on the keyboard that is often pressed, it is not a special thing to see footprints on the ground, except for the traces of the new step, as long as you concentrate, ordinary people can also see something, and what you want to see from the leaves is what the new step has not had time to disappear within three minutes.
The depth of the footprints is almost the same, the pace is steady, and the steps are exactly the same size, if you are not a well-trained soldier, you can only be a well-cultivated zombie. It's a pity that according to this room, ordinary people are more likely. So, is it being manipulated?
Liye frowned and thought. Is this the problem?
In the end, no one was found in this town, but there was a lot of food. And until the final result of the exploration, the mystery could not be solved, and I am afraid that it would not be possible to get out at all, because some mercenary replied that this place was so vast that there was no boundary! This did not look like a volcano at all! And the nobles and merchants must be powerless in the face of such a situation, and everyone was tired at the end of the day, even Rafa was tired.
In desperation, Liye had no choice but to let everyone enter what was probably the mayor's house to temporarily escape the wind and snow. After inspecting the entire house up and down, Li Ye still set up a few formations with anxiety, ordered a few people to be responsible for the vigil, and came to the corridor on the third floor to overlook the overall situation.
In this case, the night is getting deeper......
The leaves in the corridor on the third floor were shining, paying attention to every corner of the room without blinking. Maybe it's an active period? The wind and snow outside are getting bigger and bigger, and the sight to the outside has been seriously disturbed, but fortunately, there is a formation in advance, and Li Ye is not too worried about the outside, what he is afraid of now is what moths are happening in the house. In the room on the third floor, Liye could hear rapid breathing and heartbeat, and it was obvious that Inoli and the others did not choose to fall asleep easily.
"Don't get into trouble, don't. β
Li Ye did not have the indifference and confidence that everyone had before, and he could see the obvious seriousness on his face. He naturally understands that as a leader, you must be calm and confident, even if you know that you are going to talk to death in the next second, you must be calm in front of others, otherwise your head will be messed up and the team will be over. And now, no one is looking at him, and Liye has to release the pressure, otherwise I am afraid that he will not be able to hold on to others first.
In order to get out, Liye can't be a "reckless man" fighting on the front line this time, but a "military advisor".
As the minutes ticked by, the town was dark even when there was a reflection of snow. And at this moment, the snowdrift not far away had a strange movement!
"It's coming!"
Liye's eyes stared, and through the array, he "saw" it!
"What would he do if it was a 'military advisor'?"
Liye muttered to himself.
"No, I'm not a 'military advisor', I'm not only a military advisor, the one who can fight here, only me, I not only have to count others, but also myself. β
Li Ye said, softly went downstairs and quietly walked through the wall to that place, in the snow, he took a step.
"Whatever you are. β
Step down, and the wind and snow retreat!
"Whatever you want to do. β
Two steps down, the force is strong!
At this time, behind Liye, a giant shadow slowly took shape! This is the second time he has used his momentum!
"Whatever your purpose is," Liye paused and seemed to ponder for a moment, "these people, now, are my subordinates. β
The third step is out, the wind stops, and the snow stops. A huge humanoid figure reveals its extraordinary oppressive power behind Liye!
"Who gave you the courage to do this?"
Liye's eyes stabbed coldly at the wriggling snowdrift, and he drank it in his mouth.
"Come out!"
After a moment of silence, there was a sudden "poof" sound in the snow, and from the snowdrift - the evil aura spread wildly!