Chapter 481: The Eroded Valley of Death
When he saw the thick fog, Leo frowned slightly, and his expression became a little serious.
The others around them were surprised and puzzled, because many of them had looked at the city wall a moment ago and didn't find anything unusual, but now in the blink of an eye, such a thick fog appeared at the breach of the city wall, making them wonder if these thick fogs had come out of thin air.
In fact, these people guessed correctly, these dense fogs did come out of thin air, because Leo's spiritual network has always shrouded the entire castle, although for various reasons the spiritual network has been disturbed, and the feedback information is incomplete, but no matter how incomplete it is, it is impossible to appear such a thick fog and not be able to sense it, not to mention that these are not fogs at all, because the nightmare power on Leo's body began to have a resonant reaction with these fogs.
"Dream world?" Leo quickly thought of the small world of Lake Town.
This dense fog was obviously much lighter than the dense fog in Lake Town, and there were no monsters like the Dream Spirit, so he didn't feel any danger from it, but because of the resonance of the nightmare power, he couldn't wait to enter the fog.
"Don't worry, there's no danger in these fogs. Leo stared intently at the fog and Willis saw it, thinking that Leo was worried about something, and he also sensed the worry of the others around him, so he explained, but this explanation had no effect, only to calm his men a little on the surface.
Compared to the movement on Leo's side, the noise of the people on the other side of the makeshift campfire was even greater, and almost everyone stood up and took out the mist.
The Special Bureau has been dealing with these strange phenomena for many years, and in their opinion, the sudden appearance of any kind of dense fog is not a good thing, even if the leader named Barkley repeatedly emphasizes that this is a normal phenomenon, it cannot reduce their tension.
The fog spread quickly, expanding into the interior of the castle in less than ten minutes, and the entire square was covered with a faint layer of mist.
While everyone's attention was on the thick fog, Leo covertly applied the power of the nightmare and ingested a thick fog, wanting to analyze the structure of the dense fog through the power of the nightmare.
And since the result made Leo feel that it was reasonable, it also made him discover some surprises, and it is reasonable that this dense fog is indeed an energy substance similar to the dense fog of Lake Town or Yam Island, the only difference is only that the shade is different.
But to his surprise, when he came into contact with the thick fog, the first thing to react was not the power of the nightmare, but the eyes of the abyss serpent.
From the abyssal serpent's eyeballs, there was a strong desire to devour the dense mist, and if it weren't for the suppression of other divine imprints, maybe it would have begun to swallow the mist.
In addition to the Abyss Snake's eyeball, which reacted first, the second reaction was not the power of nightmares, but the Chaos Stomach.
An appetite came from the Chaos stomach pouch and projected into Leo's brain, giving him a desire to eat the fog, but this desire was not too strong, like facing some dessert after a meal, dispensable.
After discovering the internal reactions caused by the dense fog, Leo also determined one thing, that is, these dense fogs contained the power of the abyss, or the breath of human pus.
"When you get to Death Valley, you have to be careful. Leo thought of the scene of the royal city in his mind, so he turned his head and said to Su and the others who were waiting to enter later.
"What?" they didn't understand for a moment what Leo meant.
Leo said bluntly, "I suspect that Death Valley has been eroded by the power of the Abyss. If that's the case, then there's a danger somewhere. ”
"How do you know......" Mira was about to ask Leo when she suddenly thought of the Abyssal Serpent's Eyeball that Leo had just used, so she didn't ask any more.
Willis didn't worry about the people of Death Valley because of Leo's speculation, because in his mind, there were no more people or things in Death Valley to worry about, and he felt happier after hearing the speculation of something happening in Death Valley.
However, he did not reveal what he was thinking, but pretended to be serious, turned to the crowd and asked, "Then do we want to continue going there now?"
"Of course I want to go. Mira and Sue spoke almost in unison, without even thinking about it.
Willis didn't say anything more, and ordered his men to stay by the campfire and not enter the thick fog, and then he took out his knife and cut a small hole in the palm of his hand.
By this time, the surrounding fog had grown to the point where it was as close as outside the city walls, and it was barely noticeable as long as it was some distance away from the campfire.
Willis raised his bloody hand with a wound and drew a pattern on the ground, and then saw the fog in front of him roll up automatically, making way for it.
"Keep up. Willis said a few words, and walked along the foggy road.
Seeing this, the others also followed, but Leo paused slightly, and turned his head to look at the place where the people from the Special Bureau on the other side were, because he felt that a force very similar to human pus had just appeared there, and it disappeared immediately.
After noticing no other anomalies, Leo didn't stop any longer, and walked briskly to catch up with the people in front of him.
"Did something happen?" asked Su, who noticed that Leo hadn't followed.
"We're fine, but I'm afraid there's something wrong with the people at the Special Bureau. Leo replied simply.
Su was stunned, and couldn't help but glance at the location of the Special Bureau, but the thick fog blocked her, so she couldn't see anything. However, this news is a good thing for her, if the news of her coming to the Kingdom of England reaches the headquarters of the Special Bureau, it may take a lot of tricks to leave smoothly, and it may even take some eyes and ears that the Kingdom of American Galica has arranged for many years.
The group walked forward along the road made of dense fog for a while, and one of the three transcendents soon noticed that something was wrong, because according to the distance they had traveled and the direction of this road, they should have touched the city wall or some abandoned houses by now, but now looking forward, it was still a straight road that was not blocked, which was obviously contrary to common sense.
"Shouldn't we have touched the walls?" asked one of them, confused.
However, no one around answered him, because the road ahead, which was unobstructed a moment ago, was blocked again by the dense fog that appeared out of thin air in the blink of an eye, and the dense fog that appeared in front of him was thicker than the dense fog around him, and it felt like a pile of cotton blocking the front.
I saw that Willis's hand full of blood at this time went deep into the thick fog, and then the thick fog instantly dissipated from everyone's eyes, and at the same time, the surrounding fog dissipated.
By this time everyone had found that they were no longer in the square of Old Fort Jose, but in the ruins in the middle of a small valley, and behind them they were shrouded in a thick fog, and in front of the ruins they could see a gravel road that wound its way between the two hills leading to the outside of this small valley.
"This is the architectural style of the Jakara tribe," Mira suddenly became a little excited when she saw the ruins around her, and walked to an arch of ruins with obvious ornamental features, pointed to a pattern on it, and said, "This is the indication of the Emerald Guard, this should be the camp of the Emerald Dream Guardian." The Jekara tribe has always been the guardian of the Emerald Dream, and after the accident in the Emerald Dream, the Jakara tribe was wiped out due to the Abyss invasion, and their buildings were destroyed. ”
"Is the Jakara tribe the one that is said to be the closest to prehistory?" Sue had a special position in the kingdom of America, having access to some classified documents, and quickly learned what Mira was talking about.
"Yes, that's them. Mira nodded, and added: "The closest to the prehistoric civilization is the most recent statement, but as far as I know, the Jekara tribe is the oldest tribe in the wasteland and the source of all tribes, they are said to be the descendants of the Lord of Nature, and every member of the Jakara tribe can enter the Emerald Dream Realm without going through any shaman cultivation, but unfortunately it is precisely because they are too deeply involved in the Emerald Dream Realm that they are finally implicated in the Emerald Dream." ”
"Jakara?" Leo also walked to a relatively complete mural, looked at it, and then pointed to a pattern on the mural that looked like a tree and a person, and said, "What is this?"
Mira glanced at it and replied, "That's the Child of Nature, the true master of the Emerald Dream, and the true descendant of the Lord of Nature. ”
Leo didn't ask any more, he was now sure that the Jade Dream, the Lord of Nature, and the Child of Nature, etc., all of these beings had a deep connection with the spirit of nature of the higher cosmic civilization in his memory, because the child of nature in front of him was clearly the tree man of the spirit of nature, these tree people were specially created by the spirit of nature, and they were extremely powerful, each of which was equivalent to a third-level psionic.
"Don't you think it's weird, uncomfortable?" said a transcendent being.
"It's really uncomfortable. Mira and Sue frowned and nodded in agreement.
Leo didn't react to this, but he knew very well why the transcendent would say that it was uncomfortable, because there was a desperate death in the air, and this kind of death could only be felt by Leo at the end of everything, which also indicated that the world of Death Valley was entering death.
And Leo can also feel more power breath from the air around him, such as the breath of the abyss, such as the breath of human pus, etc., all in all, these discoveries show that the place of Death Valley has become a desperate place similar to the royal city.
"Was that how Death Valley used to be?" asked Mira in a deep voice, turning to Willis.
Willis shook his head and said, "No, it used to be full of trees," and as he spoke, he pointed to the hills on both sides and said, "Now the trees are all gone, something is wrong!"
Under Willis's reminder, Mira and the others sensed that something was wrong with the mountains on both sides, because not only were there no trees on the hills, but there was not even any sign of tree growth, only a thick layer of black grass.
With doubts in his heart, one of the transcendents walked towards the nearest black meadow, and said as he went, "Are you mistaken, doesn't this look like a tree has grown?"
"If I were you, I wouldn't be so reckless as approaching a clearing with no clear details. At this time, Leo, who had always been looking at the relief in front of him, suddenly reminded him.
The man was stunned two or three feet from the meadow, and stopped, although he did not know what Leo had found, but he also felt that Leo's words made sense, so he took a few steps back, saw a stone from the ground, and threw it at the black meadow.
I saw that the stone had just fallen into the grass, and the black grass wrapped the stone like an octopus catching its prey, and it didn't take long for the black grass to loosen up, and the stone had been corroded to the point that it would shatter if it was touched at the slightest touch.
"What's going on?" the transcendent's face became extremely ugly, if it wasn't for Leo's reminder just now, he might have fallen into it, and even if he escaped, his feet would have been ruined.
"I'd like to know what's going on? I didn't have any of that when I left. Willis's face also became a little ugly, and he said in a deep voice.
"Mr. Leo, didn't you say that this place has been eroded by the abyss, could these black grasses be mutant plants after being eroded by the abyss?" Mira had read the records left by the shaman, and knew that the Emerald Dream was the first to mutate, and all the plants had become extremely aggressive, so she immediately linked this scene to the scene recorded in the book.
Leo didn't answer because he didn't need to.
"Shall we go again?" Seeing the sight in front of them, the three transcendents hired by Su began to retreat.
"It takes at least half a day to open the channel again. Willis also showed a rare look of concern on his face, and looked at his palm that had healed the wound and said.
"Then we'll ...... here," the three transcendents proposed.
"No, I can't. Without waiting for the words to finish, Su and Mira interrupted each other's words in unison, and then after looking at each other, Su said: "If there is really danger, then staying here will not make the danger a little less, it is better to go to Death Valley to see what happened, to see if there are still people alive, and then think about how to change next." ”
"I think so too. "The two women, who were originally somewhat hostile, were very consistent in their attitudes at this moment.
Seeing that the employer said this, the three transcendents had no way to refute it, and Su also had some truth in what he said, so they all nodded and agreed to the proposal.
As for Leo, he didn't even think about staying, he had already walked out of the ruins and stood in front of the gravel intersection, waiting for them to pass.
"Let's go, it's still a while to town. Seeing this, Willis did not say much, and led the way out of the ruins, and the others followed.