Early the next morning, Lindsay and Red set off again.

The next trip returned to the boring rush and the hardships of crossing mountains and mountains.

The topography of the Thousand Mountains Stone Forest is extremely variable.

Some of the pillars even form natural paths between them, but in some places the surface of the earth is lined with dense and sharp stone thorns, which look like the back of a hedgehog.

In this way, Lindsey and Red can also jump over with their agility.

However, the long period of wind erosion and corruption has caused these tiny stone pillars to have a crunchy texture, and sometimes they will even break when they are stepped on, and then trigger a chain reaction, and the whole person will fall down with the gravel.

The only good news is that the surroundings are relatively safe.

The death of the Black Hawk King was a sudden event.

The other demonic beasts that occupied the territory around them didn't know what happened to this incident, so they still maintained their previous hunting habits.

As a bird, the black eagle occupies a wide enough territory.

So it took two weeks.

Lindsay and the two shuttled in a straight line in the Thousand Mountains Stone Forest, and they didn't even encounter any magical beasts above the third stage!

Until the afternoon of the fifteenth day, two weeks later.

After passing through a stone forest area again and coming to the flat ground again, Hong shook off the gravel slag on his body and couldn't help asking:

"Lindsay, we should be almost there, right?"

Lindsey opens the map first.

He glanced at it, thought about it seriously, and then showed a regretful expression to the girl beside him:

"Before the king of the black eagles died, he said that it would take half a month to fly east from their lair. Red, how much do you think our speed is worse than those flying guys? ”

Red rolled his eyes directly:

"Why didn't we leave two Black Hawks at that time?"

"If you use them as mounts and fly, it's almost time to get there."

Lindsay spoke bluntly, breaking the illusion of red:

"You're thinking too much about that."

"Although those guys are good, they don't have a body structure that can be designed to carry people. If you lie on top of them, the end result is probably to fall to the ground and die together. ”

Red asked curiously:

"What if they grow a little bigger, like the King of Black Hawks?"

Lindsay shook her head again:

"Still won't work."

"Unless there's a seven- or eight-meter ...... No, if you hadn't ridden on their backs, but had let yourself be caught in their claws, you might have carried us there. ”

Red was fine at first, but then he realized the problem with this method:

"In this way, what if they fly high and let us go?"

Lindsey clapped her hands and made a gesture to squash the object:

"Then there is a 'snap' and then you don't have to think about anything."

“……”

"Lindsay, think of a way with your weird stuff, and I want to fly too."

"What you can't do is what you can't do, you give up."

After confirming that there was no way to improve the way he walked, his red eyes began to wander around.

When you're in a bad mood.

She will try to transfer her bad expression to her prey.

It's just a pity that this soothing way is nothing.

In order to adapt to the environment here, most of the creatures in the Thousand Mountains Stone Forest are accustomed to living in the complex terrain of cliffs or strange rocks.

Flat land like this, which is easy to walk, is not favored by wild beasts.

Only shrub weeds grow quietly here.

A whole morning passed, and that didn't change until Lindsey and Red had finished their lunch.

The terrain ahead has again become difficult.

Huge stone pillars of various shapes are scattered here, and there are small streams flowing along the low-lying area at the bottom, making it easy to see at a glance that it is not easy to traverse.

But Lindsay didn't care.

His gaze was drawn to a strange sight ahead of him.

Between this huge stone forest, three stone pillars up to 100 meters high have collapsed at a slanted slope, and the result is exactly the right time to meet and resist, maintaining the delicate balance in this collapse.

If this were to happen on Earth, it would definitely be developed into a famous tourist attraction.

Red, who was next to Lindsay, also saw this scene.

But she looks at the landscape from a completely different perspective than Lindsay:

"These stone pillars are really unreasonable."

"It's so hard, it's so brittle, isn't there a relatively stable state?"

Red's complaint only gave Lindsay a wake-up call.

These three hundred-meter-tall stone pillars can indeed be hard, but with this length and the impact when they collapse, they should be shattered on the spot rather than maintaining this delicate balance.

I want to create this kind of wonder.

It must be mixed with a little bit of the world's characteristic - essentia.

"Let's go over and have a look."

"Maybe something will happen!"

Lindsay's heart moved, and he dragged Red in the direction of the three stone pillars.

……

That night, the two of them stepped on their soaked trouser legs and approached the leftmost of the three stone pillars.

Out of an abundance of caution, Lindsay opened the map first.

Around the base of the stone pillar, sure enough, there are some yellow markings that symbolize neutrality, and there are quite a few of them.

Lindsey reminded:

"Red, there are monsters inhabiting here."

Red directly held the [Wood Poison Javelin] in his hand, and his expression became awe-inspiring:

"Do you want to fight?"

"Don't rush to do it." Lindsay shook her head, put on the [Treant Corolla] in the equipment slot, and walked over first, "They're not very threatening, you can try to communicate first." ”

Lindsay and the two touched the moonlight to the foot of the stone pillar.

It was a clear lake, with some wet mounds sporadically exposed, and there were no monsters in sight.

"Squeak, squeak......"

A slight squeak sounded underground.

This sound is almost beyond the scope of human hearing, but fortunately, Lindsay is equipped, and the equipment that enhances perception ability can detect subtle movements.

Lindsay's gaze shifted to the wet mounds.

"We have no ill will." It tried to communicate in the language of the beast, and then threw two pieces of animal meat and potatoes over, "If you can understand, can you come out and communicate?" ”

“……”

The air fell silent for a moment.

Even the creaking of the ground is gone.

It took about a minute to get to the surface of the mound where Lindsey had thrown the food, and then suddenly a claw came out and cut open the moist soil in three or two strokes.

A mole-like head emerges from the mound.

It looked cautiously at Lindsay, its gaze wandering back and forth between the food and the two humans.

Lindsay glanced at the map again, and the markers were still yellow.

He pulled Red back two steps to indicate that he was not a threat, and then continued to speak:

"The food is my kindness."

Looking at Lindsay's movements, with the help of the increased affinity of the equipment, this mole-like monster finally spoke:

"You ...... Is it human? ”

Lindsay nodded hurriedly:

"That's right, we're crossing the Thousand Mountains Stone Forest."

"I just heard that there is a depression in the ground near here, which may be dangerous, so I want to ask you about the specific situation."

(End of chapter)