"Is it because of fear?"

Chen Mo carefully recalled the experience just now.

In my own heart, I did have an instinctive fear of it.

This fear stems from the caution of the unknown, from the rich imagination of the depths of the heart, from the instinctive resistance of the body, which he cannot control.

And this so-called evil shadow seems to have the ability to absorb fear and improve its strength!

Judging by how it just performed.

This doll Evil Shadow itself is nothing more than a first-class ordinary rated creature.

But after fully absorbing Chen Mo's fear, its own strength began to expand for Chen Mo until it approached or even reached the level of a big boss, and the increase in strength could be described as quite exaggerated.

This should be its limit.

And more importantly, Chen Mo did not feel the evil aura from its body.

Although it tends to be dark, absurd, and weird, it is not evil, that is to say, it is not a polluted monster, it is just a natural creature derived from this world, so it is not restrained by his inviolability and lion's roar.

Otherwise.

He wouldn't have been so cautious about the unknown creature in front of him.

"Fear is probably one of the most difficult emotions to control."

After Chen Mo had a preliminary understanding of the evil shadow here, his face became solemn.

The evil shadow here, I don't know how many years it has been naturally reproduced and evolved.

Although he knew that the evil shadow here had the ability to absorb fear, it was objectively almost impossible to completely control this emotion.

At least in the course of his professionalization, there was no similar ability.

But.

Although he could not fully control this emotion, a large part of his fear itself was due to the unknown.

If you can fully understand these evil shadows, you will undoubtedly be able to greatly improve your own situation, at least you will not have the extreme fear of insanity and imminent collapse.

Just like a lot of characters in horror movies.

When people are on the verge of collapse, they are basically equivalent to dementia.

That's the case.

Even if he encounters the evil shadow again, it is impossible for the other party to collect some of their own fears in one go, and it is impossible to rise from an ordinary creature to the exaggerated level of a big boss in one go.

"It seems that the ancient Scourge, after discovering the power of the Evil Shadow to absorb fear, has found the unique way of dealing with the Scourge, the Evil Shadow here has been the source of fear in many worlds, and the methods they have mastered to create fear must have evolved thousands, so what is the way the Scourge people deal with it?"

Chen Mo looked thoughtful.

Cuckoo.

In the depths of the black mist, a strange birdsong sounded that disturbed his thoughts.

Shaking his head and sighing, he continued forward, looking for the path to the surface.

This super tree, as Chen Mo judged, was at least three or four hundred meters high, full of unreal distortion.

Fortunately, when he left the tree, he never encountered any more accidents.

Put your feet on the eerie ground.

The reason why it is weird is because Chen Mo feels like he is stepping on a puddle of sewage.

The black fog that can be seen everywhere here actually sticks to the ground, forming a thick layer of "black water area", which is past Chen Mo's ankles, and occasionally some vegetation, stones, and dead trees will emerge from the black fog.

Such a strange environment naturally makes people instinctively vigilant.

God knows if there will be something strange hidden in the black fog beneath your feet.

Whatever you are afraid of, you will come.

As soon as he took two steps forward, Chen Mo felt something squirming under his feet.

He snorted, keeping himself in a cold state, minimizing the fear of being frightened, and reached out to grab what was under his feet.

It's a green-skinned bug, I don't know how long it is, and its tail hides the depths of the black mist.

After being grabbed by Chen Mo from the black mist under his feet, it unexpectedly opened its mouth like a six-pointed star petal, revealing the tender red tissue inside.

Chen Mo, who was alert, suddenly shouted.

"Die!"

The purple-black sword light in Chen Mo's sleeve flashed, and the insect was split in two, and turned into two shadows in front of Chen Mo's eyes, flowing through his fingers and blending into the black mist on the ground.

Chen Mo took a deep breath and calmed his mood.

"No shard points?"

He searched carefully again, and confirmed that the creature he had just killed did not have the so-called shard points.

Isn't this thing an evil shadow?

He continued to walk forward, and only after a few steps, he noticed that there were many more wriggling things under his feet that had submerged into the black mist of the ground.

He paused, deep in thought.

"Sharpening knives is not a woodcutter, maybe I should be here first, and have a good understanding of the basic ecological laws of this world."

Thinking of this, Chen Mo stopped.

After adjusting his mentality, he groped for his feet again.

This time, from the black mist under his feet, he took out something soft, something similar to a pigskin, which made him stunned.

Followed by.

The thing that looked like a pig's skin suddenly opened, as if a cobra had opened its neck, revealing a very ugly old face.

Its dead fish-like eyes were particularly prominent, with a garlic nose and a black mouth, smiling strangely at Chen Mo.

Immediately after that, it popped out a red tongue.

Because Chen Mo regarded it as a map, holding two corners in both hands and watching it in front of him, he was shot into his eyes by it suddenly popping out his tongue, Rao is Chen Mo was already mentally prepared, but he still couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

"I'll you!"

The purple-black sword light flashed, and Chen Mo slashed this ghost thing with a sword again.

Goo-dong, goo-dong, goo-dong!

As its corpse turned into a shadow and disappeared, Chen Mo's heart was still beating violently.

While he was annoyed that he shouldn't have done this, and that he wanted to overcome his fear, he calmed his violent heartbeat and made his eyes resolute again.

Then he snorted coldly and groped under his feet again.

……

About half an hour later.

Chen Mo had to admit that after an unknown number of years of evolution, the creatures of this world had already mastered countless intimidation methods to penetrate psychological defenses.

It is almost impossible for oneself to rely on the so-called tough rationality to defeat the other party's hundreds of millions of years of evolution in a short period of time.

But he wasn't without results.

As he had speculated, as he became familiar with the creatures, he was unable to control his fears, but at least he knew that their powers were not illogical, but had their own unique laws, which would ease his fear of the unknown.

At least it won't be easy to see when you encounter a doll's shadow.

At that time, Chen Mo's psychological pressure was quite huge.

It's a bit like a child hiding in a box with a weapon in hand, trying not to make a sound, watching the murderer slowly walk by outside, sweating coldly and shivering.

Meantime.

Chen Mo speculated that in addition to the friendly camp and the hostile camp, the creatures in this world should also have a neutral camp, such as these things in the black fog under their feet.

The reason why they are neutral is not that they choose to do so voluntarily.

It's that they're too weak, equivalent to starving ghosts in the catastrophic world, and minors in other worlds.

They have not yet given birth to self-consciousness, and to this world they are just flowers and plants on the side of the road, and Chen Mo named them shadows.

After the Shadow evolves to adulthood, it will split into factions and evolve into Evil Shadow or White Shadow.

The White Shadow is Chen Mo's name for the creatures of the friendly faction in this world.

Now.

Chen Mo has made another new discovery!

This is the first time that Chen Mo has no fear at all for the "shadow" in front of him!

This mud-like thing slowly transformed into a snake, which was being pinched by Chen Mo's head, and it was indifferent even if it kept making a "hissing" sound.

Although many people are afraid of snakes, Chen Mo is naturally insensitive to snakes.

After the snake struggled in Chen Mo's hands for a while, then it seemed to suffocate to death under Chen Mo's gaze, turning into a pool of shadows and dying.

The strength of each person's psychological defense against each fear will also vary.

From this point of view.

It is not excluded that some special situations are not ruled out, and some areas that the evil shadow is good at creating fear happen to be restrained by the other party, similar to Chen Mo's indifference to snakes.

"After these little guys get out of the black fog, if they can't absorb the fear in time, it will end up like this."

He shook his head, shaking off the remnants of the shadow in his hand.

This is just an isolated phenomenon.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Mo always felt that the only way to completely restrain the evil shadow was the intelligent life of the technological world, similar to the apocalypse and the mechanical minions summoned by Kuun.

But the terrible thing is that the creators of these intelligent beings will also feel fear.

Chen Mo divides fear into four levels: mild, moderate, severe, and extreme.

After more than half an hour of training, he has been able to control his fear to the extreme, and he will no longer encounter the situation when he encounters the evil shadow of the doll.

At the same time, after experiencing these things, he also summarized the rules of this competition a little.

"Overall, there are three ways to collect shard points to help White Shadow, kill Evil Shadow, and defeat competing Scourges."

Although the emphasis is different, a little analysis will show that collecting Shard Points by defeating other Scourge Victims will be the most likely way to claim the final championship.

Of course.

Collecting shard points in the other two ways is also full of randomness, and it's not completely impossible to win the championship, but be careful not to be defeated by other scourges.

Followed by.

He looked at his quest prompt again.

Hint: You're about to arrive at the Shadow Fragment, which is moderately dangerous, with a total area of 32 square kilometers, a small area, and a large number of 2,747 Scourge people teleported here.

The area he's in now is called Shadow Fragment, and the Shadow here is moderately dangerous.

"In other words, the number and strength of the evil shadows here are moderate, and it is quite feasible to collect fragment points here by helping the white shadow and hunting the evil shadow."

Then there is a total of 32 square kilometers here, which is a small area, and the number of natural disasters transported here is 2,747, which is a very large number.

"In other words, compared to the Scourge on other fragments, the density of Scourge on the fragment of the screen is extremely high, and it is also suitable for developing a competition route to hunt other Scourges!"

He touched his chin.

"I'm lucky, it's really a pretty rich fragment, and when it comes to the middle and late stages, those Scourge Victims who randomly teleport to the barren fragment are likely to try to travel here and collect fragment points."

Thinking of this, Chen Mo couldn't help but smile.

Now that he has a preliminary understanding of the basic ecological laws of this world and an understanding of his own situation, it is time to explore deeply.

(End of chapter)