The next day.

The early morning sun shines down, driving out the darkness.

The black fog outside the cave slowly sank and gradually dissipated.

Seeing this in his eyes, Jiang Xun got up.

？

Tang Long, who had also been guarding the entrance of the cave all night and was observing the movement of the black fog, turned his head and looked at it.

"Brother Long, I won't be acting with you for the time being."

？？？

Tang Long.

"My intuition tells me that the origin of the black fog can be traced, and I'll see if I can find something."

“……”

Tang Long.

He wanted to say dude, is it crazy?

But I feel that Jiang Xun is not such a reckless person, most of them have discovered or thought of something.

Hesitating to get up, Tang Long said.

"The black fog outside hasn't cleared yet, and you won't necessarily encounter anything when you go out now."

"Rest assured, I'm sure I'll protect myself."

Jiang Xun said a word.

"You and Weiyang and Xiaoyu and other black fog have dissipated and gone to the ruins area to seek harvest, don't worry about me, we can keep in touch."

Tang Long was silent, then nodded silently.

He is not a mother-in-law's person.

Jiang Xun has a resolution, and he naturally respects it.

I have formed a team twice before and after.

He also truly understood that Jiang Xun was a truly capable person.

You should be able to trust him when you walk with him, otherwise you will only become an obstacle to him.

Taking out a few array flags and arranging a closed formation behind him, Tang Long stepped back.

Raise your eyes.

It was Jiang Xun who took off his mask unhurriedly and took out a psionic oxygen respirator and put it on his mouth.

Then the demons surged around him.

The magic armor and cloak on his body changed, turning into a set of all-round isolation suits with no dead ends, and completely wrapped his whole body.

Seeing such a change in the demon armor, Tang Long couldn't help but be envious.

This craft is really easy to use.

Seeing that Jiang Xun had completed the protection gesture and made an OK gesture, Tang Long nodded, activated the closed formation arranged in front of him, and turned his hand to lift the formation at the entrance of the cave.

The cave entrance closure array no longer exists.

A large area of black mist that had been deposited on the ground and had also thinnerized slowly poured in, and then it was blocked by the closed array in front of him, and Tang Long subconsciously took a half step back when he saw this.

Closed outside the formation.

Jiang Xun lowered his eyes and stared at the black mist deposition on the soles of his feet.

The protection posed by the Demon Qi is very stable.

However, the black mist was eating away at the protection beneath his feet, and the signs were obvious.

The encroachment is not high.

Winning is pervasive.

In addition, the black fog seems to be a predatory instinct.

The foot protection could not be broken, and some black fog tried to climb up.

However, with the suppression of daylight, the thin black fog could not rise.

Standing still and observing the formation, Jiang Xun raised his leg and stepped on it twice.

Part of the black fog was lifted off the ground, and quickly faded and dissipated in the light.

Obvious.

Nikko has a lot of restraint on this thing.

After confirmation, Jiang Xunwang nodded to Tang Long, turned around and walked out of the cave.

Tang Long raised his eyes and watched.

It was just at this time.

Zhu Weiyang and Chen Xiaoyu walked out of the cave.

The timing was right.

The two of them came out just to capture Jiang Xun's last behind.

Seeing that the person went outside in a demonic protective suit, the two women were stunned.

"Brother Long?"

I wish Weiyang to come over quickly.

Tang Long looked back and smiled helplessly.

"Jiang Xun has an idea, I can't stop it."

“……”

I wish Weiyang.

Bing Xue was as smart as she naturally understood that Jiang Xun must have had some idea when she ran out, and ran to pursue the root of the black fog.

But that's not how it should be!

It's too reckless!

The person in question has already gone out, and it is too late for her to say anything.

Chen Xiaoyu followed over and looked outside the cave, and made a strange sound.

"This guy...... Have you always been so bold? ”

As she spoke, she glanced sideways.

"It's really not easy for Weiyangling."

Zhu Weiyang glanced at her sideways when he heard the voice, and sighed lightly.

"Who's to say it isn't?"

“……”

Tang Long.

This sister......

She really.

I just came over and looked like I was going to question myself.

If you don't shirk it enough, you will be blamed.

As a result, when she met Chen Xiaoyu, she immediately entered the "girlfriend state" to defend her sovereignty, and she was quick enough to respond to the situation.

Then again.

Is Chen Maoniang a little misunderstood about the relationship between the two?

……

Outside the Crypt.

At this time, Jiang Xun came outside the ruins area.

After he came out for a short while, the sunshine of the secret realm became a lot stronger.

As the sun increased, the black fog pressed lower and lower, almost completely pressed on the horizon, just as it had been when he had been glared at last night.

The difference is.

The black fog in the sunlight tends to get thinner and thinner.

Look, it won't be long before the black fog will fade away completely under the sun.

Stopping and frowning, Jiang Xun squatted down to check.

It can be determined that it is a strange existence.

It can also be made clear that the dark fog in the night is a strange body.

Needless to say, the black fog that fades away under the sunlight cannot be as simple as dissipating visually, but gradually shrinking in some form.

Paying attention to the thin black mist that was fading on the sedimentary ground, Jiang Xun picked it up in his hand.

It is different from what was observed when it came out.

Because the sunlight was a little stronger, the black fog faded and disappeared into his hands almost the moment it left the ground.

Squinting slightly, Jiang Xun got up and stomped on the ground.

"Boom!"

Patches of black fog were stirred up, and the volley dissipated and disappeared completely in the daylight.

Paying attention to all this, Jiang Xun frowned.

This black fog is okay with the evil sect.

The whole body is gradually fading when the sun presses on the ground, and it can be assumed that it shrinks by blending into the ground.

But that's clearly not the case.

Regardless of the part that was "sunburned" by him just now.

Illuminating the speed at which the black fog dilutes the shrinkage of the turtle, the loss of its exposure to the sun before it finally disappears completely.

The assumption is so.

The black fog should prevent the sun from coming out before it shrinks.

The weirdness itself is also conscious.

The losses that can be avoided will of course be avoided.

Is it possible that the black fog fades in the sunlight and is not actually dissipated at all, but simply weakened to the point where it becomes invisible to the naked eye, and sinking to the ground is just an illusion?

Jiang Xun put forward a hypothesis in his heart.

When you think about it, it's really possible!

And if so.

Tang Long's speculation that the master of the cave did not know that he was "infected" can be regarded as conclusive.

The Lord of the Cave consciously avoided the black fog, but he didn't know that the black fog didn't really dissipate after the dawn came, but gradually shrank in the air because it was weakened.

If it comes out too early.

Just happened to bump into the black mist particles that were fading in the shrinkage, and it made sense that he was unaware.

Looking.

There is no black fog on the ground in the ruins area.

The black fog beneath your feet will soon clear.

Farther ahead, it is also fading at an accelerated rate under the increasing sun.

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Xun raised his eyes and looked at the empty space above, and there was a flash of cash in his eyes.

Eye of Calamity!

This glance went out.

The place around him where the black fog had dispersed suddenly regained a thin layer of mist.

You guessed it!

Jiang Xun's eyes lit up.

!

This thing is so insidious!

Without thinking much about it, he looked back and locked on Tang Long and the other three who were still in the cave, and transmitted the sound to the past.

"Don't rush out of the cave, it's not too late to come out near noon. The black fog did not dissipate, but faded to the point where it was invisible to the naked eye. ”

When the black fog will no longer be a threat, Jiang Xun can't say.

But it was close to noon, and it was the time when the four of them came to the neighborhood yesterday.

This time is certainly safe.

Otherwise, something would have happened to the four of them a long time ago.

Even the powerhouses above the five realms can't withstand the black mist "infection", how long can they withstand these three realms if they are hit?

After sending a message to the three of them, Jiang Xun felt palpitations about this.

Then.

Chen Xiaoyu's words sounded in his ears.

"Got it, we'll wait until the sun shines before we go out."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Weiyang's voice also sounded in his ears.

"Brother Xun, be careful yourself."

！

Jiang Xun.

The distance is so far away, the two women can actually lock him in reverse and transmit the sound?

Isn't there just something about these two divine senses?

It is not enough to say that it exceeds the level boundary of the Three Realms, but the combination of the two women's divine souls and their own strength is probably close to perfect, and the scope of divine consciousness extension is much broader than that of the ordinary Three Realms.

It's not something that can be done by practicing hard.

It is estimated that both of them have eaten treasures that can help increase their souls or divine senses.

It's different if the conditions at home are good......

Gathering his mind, Jiang Xun moved forward.

It has been confirmed that the fading of the black fog is not really dissipating, and there is no point in thinking about it.

The top priority is to keep up with the black fog that is fading with the naked eye, which can be placed on the face, and there is a chance that the true source of the black fog or other discoveries can be found in the past.

The formless and quaint weirdness is extremely special.

But they are also essentially living creatures that have spiritual cultivation and grow gradually.

With cultivation, it is natural to have the source of power represented by Neidan.

Jiang Xun dared to conclude.

The slower the black fog fades, the closer it is to the source of the black mist's power.

……

Not for a while.

Jiang Xun followed the black fog to the horizontal line where he and Zhu Weiyang scattered yesterday to explore and found the stele, and there happened to be a stele nearby, and the location was one of the pieces found by Weiyang's sister.

Glancing at the stele from afar, he had a guess.

I'm afraid the stele is indeed the eye of the array.

However, the existence of this formation is not necessarily for enclosure, but more for the prevention of black fog.

He took out his mobile phone and reported his findings and speculations to the Explorer APP, and Jiang Xun continued to follow the black fog.

It's been a long way again.

He came across several explorer corpses.

With a slight pause at his feet, Jiang Xun approached the past.

There were seven bodies in total.

Three women and four men.

Without exception, all seven had a pool of blood on their heads.

Flipping through the long hair on the top of one of the nuns' heads, there was a shocking bloody hole in the eye.

Look inside.

Nothing.

The inside of the head is empty.

From the brain to the other head organs, everything disappears.

Look at the nun's demeanor again.

It's serene.

When the eyes are closed, it is as if they have fallen into a deep sleep.

Apparently she didn't realize what was happening to her until the moment her brain was emptied.

If you look at the others, it's basically the same.

The corpses were still warm.

In addition, everyone was face down, and there were some traces of falling from a half-height position, not falling on the spot.

Observing this, Jiang Xun shook his head.

A few unlucky people who think they are smart......

They were supposed to be explorers who arrived earlier, and they noticed the black fog but didn't take the black fog deposited by the sun too seriously, thinking that they would be fine if they left the ground.

Taking out his mobile phone, Jiang Xun took pictures of the deaths of the seven people, and reported them to the Explorer APP along with his own observations of the black fog.

Without touching the storage rings of the seven people, Jiang Xun reported the place of their deaths.

Seven people were notified of their deaths, and their identities were confirmed and announced at the outpost, and the explorers of the same group came to retrieve them and handed them over to their families afterwards.

This is the default unspoken rule in the explorer industry.

Greedy explorers will run to touch the corpse when they see the announcement, and naturally it cannot be ruled out.

But this behavior is very cheap.

If it is discovered, it will be condemned by all walks of life, and very few people will be greedy for this kind of cheapness.

It is worth mentioning.

There is no grievance or conflict with each other, and most of the more principled explorers will report if they accidentally find that their peers have died violently.

This is also one of the few more humanized manifestations in the industry.

……

Keep going and walk out for a while.

Jiang Xun saw the "end" of the black mist.

Not far ahead.

The black fog that spread across the ground was cut off there in a straight horizontal line.

There was a pause at his feet, and Jiang Xun frowned.

This discovery was somewhat unexpected.

Look around.

The black fog that has been truncated along the line is endless, and there is no end to the left and right.

It's not so much that the end is here, but that there is an invisible wall that restricts the black fog from spreading to the other side of the line.

And this line didn't stop anything but the black fog.

Slowly stepping forward, Jiang Xun stretched out his hand.

His arm crossed the ground unhindered across the "line" that limited the black mist to the other side.

Some kind of artificial arrangement?

Or did the black fog itself consciously avoid going to the other side?

With doubts in his hand, Jiang Xun lowered his eyes.

Just as he was about to observe the direction of the black fog on the ground, the black fog along the line as a whole faded and disappeared under the sunlight.

！

Jiang Xun.

Raise your eyes.

Before you know it, the sun is already hanging high in the sky.

Look at it from an angle.

It should be around nine o'clock in the morning during the secret realm.

Is the black fog completely cleared?

Jiang Xun didn't dare to try rashly.

The barrier formed by the demonic qi beneath his feet no longer felt like it had been eroded, but the black mist in the air that had become invisible to the naked eye was not necessarily powerless.

Standing still, looking back and estimating the distance between where he was and where he had just discovered the corpse, measured by the speed of the Three Realms of the Imperial Sky, it would take less than a minute to travel in a straight line.

Taking into account the factors that would have been a little cautious after the seven explorers who had died violently "crossed the line", it would take less than five minutes from the time they entered the black fog range to the time their brains were eaten clean.

Feeling out his mobile phone to report the estimate and observed situation, Jiang Xun looked left and right.

By all indications.

The source of the black fog begins on this line that is blocked.

But it doesn't have to be in which direction to the left and right, and where it is specific.

The black fog dissipated so quickly that he didn't have time to look further.

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Xun chose the left way.

Male left, female right.

The daylight was so strong that the black fog could not be presented, so I had to try my luck in any direction.

Keep moving in a straight line.

Jiang Xun walked for more than ten minutes, and suddenly saw a team of six people gathered in front of a pile of rubbles on the outside of the route he was traveling.

He saw a squad of six.

Naturally, the six-member team also saw him.

Seeing Jiang Xun in a demonic isolation suit from a slightly distance, the six of them were stunned for a moment, and then one of them faintly raised his hand.

"Friend!"

Jiang Xun stopped, hesitated and raised his hand.

Receiving a response, the person who spoke came over, and then fell outside the line where the black mist originally existed.

Jiang Xun was not surprised to see this.

The Authority took the situation he reported twice earlier, and sent out a report through the Explorer app less than a minute later.

The man on the other side stood still and smiled friendlyly.

"Friend, you should be from the team that has informed the Authority of the situation in the ruins area and the black fog?"

Jiang Xun nodded.

"Any questions?"

"Don't get me wrong, friend, our team has no ill intentions."

The man spoke, gesturing to where his team had gathered.

"We also have a little discovery here, and we haven't had time to report it yet. I just met you, so I want to share the exchange information with you. ”

As he spoke, he looked back and waved.

Five of his teammates stepped aside.

And with it.

A small square stone tablet is revealed.

White things at home, a little busy, I hope you will forgive me.

(End of chapter)