Chapter 112: The Symbiotic Tree
Reality.
Anthony's mind exploded, like a little light in Hongmeng, and he knelt on the ground in pain, discovering all this, but it took only a second.
The flames of the white bones in front of him became more and more illusory, and the extremely cold aura was retreating.
Immediately afterwards, the white bones were like building blocks, collapsing little by little, and Anthony resisted the sluggish reaction and coughing of his body.
The noise here is not only seen by Vali, but also known by the weirdness......
With a hiss, all the luster in the room faded and everything became dim.
Immediately afterward, the black film gradually shrank and turned into brown balls, and the stagnation in the room was like a quagmire, bringing suffocation and despair.
Even though the ball had no eyes, they both felt the inexplicable gaze.
The orb hesitated, lit up two swirling ring-shaped pupils, and the vortex spread out frame by frame, watching the ice-blue flames that were about to dissipate, gradually receding.
The ground stretched out with a wriggling black oil, which spawned and climbed like a line, about to cover the whole room.
"Let's go. Anthony quickly ran out with a daze Wall-E.
Dividing line .......
A dark corner.
Vali looked at Anthony, who was pale, and both of them were frightened to varying degrees, so much so that their hearts ached.
Mary's daze picked up a gray stone on the ground, and her fingertips unintentionally stretched lines on the ground with the stone.
He hesitated, "Anthony, the white bones...... Why did it break?"
Anthony's pale face was hidden in the shadows, and he didn't speak.
"Forget it, everyone has secrets, and I'll keep them secret for you. ”
Anthony nodded, looking at the symbol on the ground, "What is this?"
"Huh, what symbol?"
Anthony pointed to the ground, and Wali looked down, cold sweat on his back like ants, wet stains spreading from his back.
Fingers tremble.
"This ...... , this is what I painted?"
"This ......"
His hands seemed uncontrollable, drawing those strange branches on the ground, like roots that stretched wildly.
They seem to extend upwards with a point as the center of the circle, and finally converge into a dense junction point......
Anthony also looked at the drawings and Vali with a wary expression.
On the contrary, Vali saw something unusual, and he frowned, "This is the symbiotic tree......
He looked at Anthony, who was pensive and puzzled, and explained.
"The Symbiosis Tree is the family crest of Duke Norma......"
"In Brie mythology, legend and history, Norma represents the honored guest, and it is said that he has extremely powerful abilities and also has extremely powerful weapons. ”
"Legend has it that he left a treasure, but no one could find it. ”
Over time, his treasure and Norma's name became synonymous with ominousness. ”
"Hmmm......"
"The last Duke of Norma died of a heart attack. ”
"Where did the last Duke of Norma die, and what is it called...... It's not clear. ”
"It is rumored that all those who see the message of the Norma family will commit suicide because they spy on the powerful treasure and peep into the unknown power. ”
Over time, the Symbiotic Tree symbol became a curse for the Norma family. ”
Anthony didn't understand, but the madness of these people undoubtedly had something to do with these strange powers, whether it was the Savoyard who had turned into white bones, or the symbiotic tree that was currently strangely drawn.
Vali began to say in a negative tone:
"There is a saying that anyone who sees the Symbiotic Tree is cursed by the soul of Duke Norma, or becomes an agent of the yang world who is in contact with Duke Norma. ”
"But more people became the rations of Duke Norma, or doppelgangers. ”
Then, Vali's whole person became devastated because he was well aware of the power of this curse.
Although he saw Anthony defeat Bone, according to the books, Duke Norma was not as easily defeated as Bone.
Anthony, who has been through so much, is no longer surprised.
In his opinion, there are indeed many strange forces here, so the myths and legends of Cohen's world are true, and if the myths are true, then many mysterious miscellaneous things are also true.
This gave him some mystical cognitive advantage.
For example, curses, curses cannot be broken, only the source can be found, powerful curses can cause plagues in its vast territory, and precise curses can take a person's life without life.
Well, the most important thing now is how they can get rid of this curse .......
He shook Vali, who was in a daze, trying to save Vali's dilated pupils.
"Listen, WALL-E, there's no escaping it, the most important thing now is that we get involved and find the source. ”
His hand swung downwards and made a clicking motion.
Then, Anthony's tone became extremely indifferent.
"Find the source of the curse and kill him. ”
"Vali, do you know of any places that sell weapons?"
WALL-E's eyes shone brightly, and his emotions calmed down......
Dividing line ......
Along the way, Anthony learns the name of the organization he is in, and that the tavern is just a contact office, which is the contact point of the Maca organization, which oversees the Brie district.
There are still many branches, but there are still other forces intervening here.
This is only the eastern area with two basement floors, and there is also a floor and surface above, and there is no restriction on the movement of people in the urban area, because no matter where you are, you will be subject to rent.
Especially for the floating population, although everyone's code can be forged, the money in hand cannot be forged, and the lack of food cannot be forged.
With Wali's own life at stake, he couldn't afford to be vague, so they had to go back to the original mission point again, and pay all the brie coins with a painful face.
Except for a few daggers, which belonged to those devices and **, the two gradually moved away amid Anthony's coughing.
"Vali, you said that those people, if they really saw the symbiotic tree pattern and committed suicide, then why didn't they leave traces at the scene?"
Vali's mind wasn't particularly thorough, and apparently, he couldn't spot the loophole either, "Hmm...... Why are there no traces?"
The two looked at each other, and Anthony spoke:
"Let's assume that the white bone is Savoy, then the dried corpses on the bed are the two from before. ”
The rest went home after reading it, only to die without warning, leaving no trace. ”
"There are two weird ones, formed for unknown reasons, entrenched in the place of the crime. ”
"We said we were trying to find Duke Norma's treasure trove, but we didn't even have the basics. ”
"How do you find it? Has anyone looked for it before? Has it left any clues?"
"Why hasn't anyone else drawn a symbiotic tree pattern?"
After saying that, both of them fell silent, because there was really no way for them to find it.
Dividing line .......
Cohen World, Port Will.
The game here is long over, and soldiers drive military wagons to transport boxes of goods onto military trains.
It's solemn, but it's also a little noisy...... , in an orderly order, the materials are transported.
They began to doubt the future of the Empire, and the past few years have had a rough run on the battlefield and in Port Will.
Although they complained, they still rode in the military column.
The control of the military column is in the hands of a certain dark world family, so the North McCann side did not blow up the railroad tracks.
This time, not only the 20,000 men in the North McCann division are getting closer to the outskirts of the city.
What's more, several semi-steamships were sunk while loitering, and the last information showed that the unknown fleet was preparing to blockade the port, and if it was attacked by land and sea, Port Will would not be able to hold it.
......
In the last battle, the fate of countless people was changed.
For example...... Morality.
Tak has completely metamorphosed into a qualified night watchman.
Despite his role as an inferior transcendent, with his killer instincts, he gets a good rating for each mission and gets some key resources.
At this time, he realized how shallow his understanding of the world was, and he laughed at himself.
He never imagined that there were many monsters entrenched under the peaceful Port Will...... , monsters are either enemies of humans, or ignore humans.
Strange or lurking in the crowd, or in the dark sewers, or even in the spiritual space that overlaps with reality.
He didn't expect that a city with little cultural heritage had many secrets.
Because, the port here was built in the city of the aborigines, the city of Liega, which is said to be a foolish city, and those who have magical powers are called "gods".
It is also a place full of gold, with magnificent megalithic buildings, pyramids, and a long corridor of sacrifices for ten thousand people, and an endless ancient road of corpses.
Tak runs wild in the sewers, and today's task is this fire-breathing monster, which has set dozens of houses on fire......
Although it possesses the ability to fold its body into the spirit realm, it can only ...... after being severely injured by De Running away, screaming from time to time, its limited sanity makes it understand that it must run away.
The dark sewers, the firelight reflected everything, the air was distorted by the heat, De's face was calm, and behind the metal mask there was a crazy pupil, he held a war knife and ran wildly.
He also wears a black glove on his right hand, which depicts the terrain of the North McCann continent, which is different from the Elsie emblem, which is not common to the Black Glove organization emblem in various countries.
In addition to fighting the Weird, the Black Glove (Night Watchman) sometimes takes on quests to track the Dark World and fight the Chaos Evil faction.
As a result, the mortality rate was as high as 90%, but no one complained, and as they killed more and more weird, they also became more and more desperate for the world.
A well-known nobleman in the Dark World proposed that the birth of monsters could only be terminated unless he was expelled from the spirit world, and he devoted his life to this, but he died.
After he had the results of his research, an unexpected experiment spread to the buildings of the wealthy area.
Many wealthy people's psionic abilities were expelled and dried, so the information about the expulsion of psionic abilities was destroyed, and it was also blocked by the high-level and listed as taboo.
He's caught up with the weird.
In the surging sword light, strange blood splattered, and lava-like blood burned everywhere, turning the underground pipes into a sea of fire.
In the sea of fire, De's figure was flickering and moving, each knife made the weird produce more whining, the dense knife light shrouded the weird, and finally, the figure fell.
Tak wiped his blood-stained mask, his blurred face scorched black, broken by the strange spewed flames...... , like a hovering Grim Reaper.
Thankfully, he was able to overcome the weirdness in the end.