The next day, Wren and Eisen set their backs to the rising sun towards the dense jungle and towering mountains in the distance.

Ahead are the undulating mountains towering into the clouds, the high peaks are hidden in the deepest part of the white clouds, and the mountainside that is covered with snow all the year round looms in the clouds and mist, like a young girl wearing a soft ethereal gauze skirt, the white and clear delicate * body appears and disappears in the morning breeze, and the most desirable face of the city is hidden behind the white veil, giving people a vague and illusory beauty, which leads to infinite reverie......

What is completely different from this kind of beauty that does not eat the fireworks of the world is the cold and hideous smell of death that overflows from the forest at the foot of the mountain......

It was an eerie area shrouded in black under the clouds. The reason why it is called a forest is because the thin branches everywhere rise from the ground and cover the foot of the mountain in a staggered and messy manner, and the dense black branches are like sharp blades growing from the trunk of the tree intricately bite into each other, and the frost and snow hanging between the branches condense into a sharp inverted cone, flashing with a terrifying cold light, which makes people feel creepy. The forest should be full of life, but in reality, there is not even a trace of life, and some are just a desolate and dead silence. Even the bright sunlight could not penetrate the area, and the dense and intertwined branches stretched upwards in cascading upwards to block the last glimmer of light, and the whole forest gave people an extremely oppressive and desperate sense of fear. From a distance, the forest stretching to the foot of the mountain looks like a demon's open mouth, revealing a cold that is stronger than winter, and the sharp and jumble branches are like jagged sharp teeth in the demon's mouth, choosing and devouring people.

The cold aura that came to his face couldn't help but make the young major general of the empire hesitate and stop in front of the vast and strange forest......

"Here...... What the hell is ....." Arya's coquettish face couldn't hide the shock, and she didn't know how to describe the strange scene in front of her. The jungle full of plants in front of it exuded a palpitating breath of death, as if it was a purgatory standing on earth, all light, life, and hope were all cut off, just standing in front of its hideous face, in a trance, it had fallen into the abyss of no return, and the frenzied chill and darkness around it gradually swallowed everything up.

"Forest of Dead Silence!" even the always arrogant Eisen's voice was faintly tense, "The forests that surround the Eldas Mountains are like death fortresses built on the edge of the mountains, preventing all creatures from vainly trying to enter the mountains. ”

The Forest of Silence itself is an unbridgeable chasm in the Eldas Mountains. Even within a few hundred miles of the Forest of Death, there were no animals, plants, or human villages and towns, and the desolate and depressed wilderness was filled with only jagged rocks and scattered bones.

"I feel it, isn't this familiar smell the smell of killing and blood mixed together!" Bergess's eyes narrowed slightly, and there was not the slightest worry or fear in his deep eyes, but an inexplicable fanaticism, "Dead Forest?

"Don't be careless, fool, there are countless strong people buried under this land...... Jenora also turned her head sideways, and her eyes looked at Veges sharply and reminded, "In addition to the magical beasts, there are many unbelievable traps and natural disasters here, and the slightest carelessness may lead to a situation from which they will never recover." ”

"Jenora is right, we have to be careful, this mission is the most dangerous ever, and the information available so far is quite scarce. Aisen tightened his brows and said solemnly, "We must not take the initiative to provoke the Demon Beasts, and try to avoid unnecessary battles. What's more, there are many high-level demonic beasts lurking in the Eldas Mountains, even the legendary abyss-level demonic beasts, which are simply not something we can handle. ”

"Okay, okay, I see, Captain. Bergis deliberately avoided the gazes cast by Genora and Eisen, and said with some smuggling, "I won't take the initiative to provoke those monsters." ”

"Very well, then let's get ready to enter the Forest of Dead Silence. Eisen's voice returned to its previous coldness, and at the same time, he slightly turned his inquiring gaze to Angela, "Angela, can you explore the inside of the Dead Forest?"

"I'm sorry, Captain! I tried...... But my abilities could not cross the forest at all, and it seemed that some kind of power had cut off my abilities......" Angela replied regretfully.

"It doesn't matter, the level of the demonic beasts is gradually increasing in order from low to high towards the depths of the mountain range, and the outermost demonic beasts should not be difficult to deal with, we just need to be careful of the traps that may appear in the forest......"

"Could it be ......," Arya interrupted Eisen in confusion, "that the Empire's collection doesn't mention a report on the Dead Forest?"

"Yes, it is said that the detailed report on the Dead Forest was mysteriously lost a long time ago......" Eisen sighed, his calm eyes flickering slightly, In the past hundred years, the situation in the world has fallen into a stalemate, and the empire has not been able to draw out elite combat power for the exploration of the mountain range, nor has it intended to sacrifice the elite combat power to unknown exploration, so the intelligence that can be obtained in the past three hundred years is almost zero, and there is even a theory that none of the exploration teams sent to the mountain range in the past three hundred years have been able to come back alive from there...... Therefore, it is unknown what kind of threat lurks in the Forest of Silence. ”

"What do you mean by 'bizarre lost'?" Arya's slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and under her lowered eyes was a contemplative face, "Could it be that someone ...... it on purpose"

"You're guessing right, the detailed records of the Eldas Mountains are stored in the library of the Imperial Palace, but they were stolen a hundred years ago, leaving only some essays from the exploration team, and the content is imperfect and messy......" Eisen raised his head, his clear eyes flashed with sharp edges, "Someone deliberately wants to hide some secrets in the mountains, and the Empire also cares about what the secrets this group of people want to hide?

"......I see," Arya looked at Eisen with a sudden realization, her chest heaving violently, her eyes precipitated with growing fear, and an ominous premonition came over her, "That's ...... Could this meteorite event be a decoy...... Are the people who stole the notes deliberately trying to lure us into the mountains?"

"Quite possibly. Eisen nodded, "The conspiracy that has been planned for a hundred years may be about to surface, but I don't know who the mastermind of this conspiracy is, and what exactly do you want to do......

In the corners of Eisen and Arya's eyes, Beges's beast-like and sharp eyes suddenly appeared at the same time, and his hands casually rested on the shoulders of the two captains, squeezing between the two of them, followed by his somewhat disapprehensive, even somewhat disdainful and mocking voice, "It's too lazy, captain and vice-captain!" It's an invincible sword, capable of cutting through all the gloom, but you told me yourself, captain, that you can't get the answer you want when you think about it so much, and it doesn't quite look like your style...... It's almost time to enter the Forest of Dead Silence, right?"

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The first feeling of stepping into the Forest of Dead Silence is like stepping into a whole new world, a world shrouded in death and fear. The wind that had been blowing a moment ago was gone, the warmth of the sun that had been felt a moment ago was gone, and all the senses of sight, hearing, and even touch seemed to be swallowed up by some strange force the moment they stepped into the forest, and with it the fear that gradually amplified and the darkness that had not yet reached the bottom......

Quiet, eeriely quiet, all the sounds, all the air currents, all the temperature and all the light were silently swallowed up by this area, leaving only the darkness thick as ink, ten thousand silent darkness, fear slowly swimming up everyone's heart like a poisonous snake, invisibly as if there was a pair of withered hands tightly grasping everyone's beating heart, slender and sharp nails were rubbing the blood vessels that wrapped around the heart, bright red blood was gurgling inside, as if the sharp nails could pierce the thin tube wall with a little force, oozing hot and scarlet blood。

"Bang!" Beges took out the fire fold from his arms and lit a dead branch that he picked up casually, the bright flame jumped up, the light emitted by the burning of this dead branch was unexpectedly bright, his face was much better than others, and the eyes in his eyes were not fear but more like some kind of expectation and longing, maybe he was not unfamiliar with such a strange environment, maybe he was originally from such a strange environment......

The forest in front of him slowly revealed its true face in the firelight. Ancient trees rose from the ground to fill almost all the space in front of you, some with a withered trunk that was only the thickness of a human arm, while others were so large that they needed at least five or six adults to open their arms to barely hold on. The exposed rhizomes coiled and stretched out like pythons of different sizes. The sky was obscured by the dense branches of the ancient trees, and the branches that grew freely were intertwined and intertwined, like black blades, and like the shriveled bones of human beings, forest but terrifying, and there was no green that belonged to the original plants, and not even a single yellow leaf was seen in the black soil under his feet. It seems that these ancient trees, which cannot be named by scientific names, would not have grown vigorous green leaves, or perhaps these ancient trees that seem to be standing intact in the soil are in fact the remains of decay and death for hundreds of years......