Chapter 386: Return
Bai Xiao felt more and more that he really should read more books.
He wasn't a person who liked to indulge in remorse, but as his journey to the Void deepened, what he heard and saw had forced him to reflect on what he had done in the past year.
Not long ago, he followed the guidance of the bone spear, and after a while, he saw a thick fog.
The fog itself amazed him, and in the shallow theories he knew, everything that was presented in the void had a special meaning—something that had no meaning and could not be presented in human perception in a tangible way.
And fog can be said to be the most common and precious concept in the void: the unknown and knowable.
It may seem like a mouthful, but the translation is actually very simple: it has great value for exploration.
Before the establishment of the demonic civilization, mankind had a historical record of exploring the Void, which was all-encompassing, bizarre, and dangerous. It took hundreds of years and countless sacrifices of explorers for mankind to come up with a handful of rules.
The first of these is the meaning of fog.
There are countless fatal risks in the void, the biggest of which is "unknowable", human cognitive ability has a limit, without the help of many props and only with the five senses, there are too many things and concepts that can never be perceived, and these things occupy the vast majority of the void, human explorers often die unconsciously.
In contrast, fog is a concept that can be perceived by humans, and its appearance is like a straw in the hands of a drowning person to a confused explorer. After the fact, more than half of all the major discoveries in the history of human civilization began with the explorers encountering the fog, so the appearance of the fog can be described as the greatest auspicious for the explorers of the virtual world.
Therefore, when Bai Xiao saw the fog, he regretted that he should have read more books.
Only sufficient knowledge can support the explorer to find something truly valuable in the fog. It was quite luck to be able to see the mist in the confusion, which meant that as long as he didn't die, there was a high probability that he would be able to find a treasure of the Void Realm worth thousands of dollars...... But what he needs now is not treasures, but exports.
As for the knowledge of exports, he only vaguely remembered seeing a sentence in a certain adventure story.
A summary of the explorers who did not have been included in any formal scholarly treatise, but which meant a lot to him: For most potential Void explorers, fog means opportunity, but for true active explorers, fog means survival.
Bai Xiao was very glad that the author also left a note in addition to pretending to be profound: when people lose their way in the void, finding the fog is equivalent to finding a way home to reality.
What Bai Xiao needs most now is this way home!
But there are also prerequisites for the appearance of the way home—at least a Void Explorer who has just taken a peek at the door, and Bai Xiao, a person who has only read the story, is obviously far from the first glimpse of the doorway.
So next, I can only sharpen the gun in battle.
Bai Xiao raised the bone spear in his hand and walked forward in the direction of the mist, cautious all the way, but it was much slower than when he chased Xu Bailian before, after all, he really didn't want to miss the exit in the mist.
The journey lasted more than half an hour, and there was hardly anything to be seen except for the eternal fog around and the rugged stone road beneath your feet. So much so that Bai Xiao, who has always been accustomed to moving in a straight line, also began to try to change direction and turn back the same way.
And the familiar footprints proved that there was indeed a physical entity on the ground, which made Bai Xiao feel a little relieved.
According to the records in the book, some of the virtual realm relics do not have real space, and every step you take will enter a new space, in which action requires extremely strong spatial cognitive ability, rational thinking ability, and virtual cognitive ability...... All in all, it is an ability that Bai Xiao does not have, and the sense of direction and space in the real space that Bai Xiao is best at has become meaningless.
Being able to confirm that there is a definite space in this fog means that you can carry out an orderly search, and then even if you use the stupidest traversal method to step through the entire fog space, you can always find the exit of the void you want.
However, Bai Xiao really didn't want to waste too much time, although he wasn't sure what the ratio of the flow of time in this fog was to reality, but he could also imagine it with his knees, Xu Bailian didn't hesitate to blow up his body to trap him here, there must be more important tasks to be completed in the outside world.
So it's best to get back to reality and stop him before his mission is completed.
And the unexpectedly vast space of the fog makes caution no longer desirable.
Bai Xiao began to speed up his pace.
Although this may lead to a passing with the exit...... But in this world where the rules are completely unfamiliar, it is unknown whether the prudent traversal method is feasible, and since it is all unknown, it is better to follow the method that you are good at.
His body grew faster and faster, and the force of his steps became heavier and heavier, causing circles of ripples to bloom on the gray stone road. And as Bai Xiao's speed increased, he suddenly noticed that the scene around him had also changed.
The fog that shrouded him seemed to dissipate a little.
Originally, it was about him as the center, and the visibility was less than five meters, but as the pace increased, the space around the body ten meters and twenty meters became clearly visible.
The mist retreated at an alarming speed, as if it was swept away by the wind beside him, but Bai Xiao knew very well that the "strong wind" was ineffective against the mist, and when he had just stepped into the mist, he tried to swing the bone spear to roll up the strong wind, but the mist was firmly entangled in him like a gel.
At the same time, as his running accelerated, the ground beneath his feet seemed to become steeper.
Speed seems to have an unusual meaning in this world.
Bai Xiao didn't try to slow down to verify his conjecture, but after seeing the change in the environment, he sped up instead.
There is no reason to put it into words, but there is an inexplicable strong impulse in his heart that drives him to exert his power to the extreme.
And when he reached about eighty percent of the limit speed, the fog around him had already dispersed to a hundred meters away, revealing a vast gray earth. While running, Bai Xiao tried to touch the ground with his fingers, but the cold touch only intensified the heat in his heart.
His instinct told him that what he was looking for was not far ahead.
And when Bai Xiao once again fell and pushed himself to the limit speed with incredible force, the fog that covered the sky and the sun collapsed!
The sight suddenly became clear, or the whole time became clear at this moment.
The stone path under his feet is no longer a flat road, but has become a small and rugged terrain, and the terrain has been undulating, and the high peaks are faintly visible on both sides......
But the most shocking thing is the stone wall that stands up to the sky and the earth directly opposite.
It was literally standing on the ground, with gray rocks rising from the slope-like rocks to the unreachable sky, leaving no gaps. From both sides, the stone wall stretches to the horizon at both ends.
Such a magnificent scene reminded Bai Xiao of a familiar picture.
North of the snow-capped mountains, the edge of the world.
For many people in the tribe, the snow-capped mountains are all there is to the world, whether it is east and west or south, there will only be rolling mountains that will never be broken.
Only the north is different, because hundreds of years ago, maybe thousands of years ago, there were people who went all the way north to witness the borders of the world.
It is rumored to be a mountain that stretches all the way to the sky, like a giant wall, cutting the world north of the limit.
Bai Xiao had seen that rumor with his own eyes.
When he was very young, and even his memory was not very clear, Bai Wuya once took him to climb a mountain, and at the top of the mountain, through the obscuration of clouds and mist, he could see that there was a huge wall in the north that did not end.
The image was blurred in memory for a moment, as if it was not enough to look up to its honor in a mere human form.
But in this void ruins, Bai Xiao suddenly awakened his childhood memories.
Although it was a distant view from the top of the sacred mountain, the majestic posture that greeted the view was the same.
Although there was no endless snow, and there were no strange beasts that were always eyeing him, Bai Xiao was very sure that the huge wall in front of him should be the one he had seen.
Have you come to the outside of the world?
But in the next moment, the countless details presented in the field of vision made Bai Xiao realize that the truth was probably the opposite.
On the ground, on the undulating rocks all around, there are tiny traces everywhere, those traces look a little like the marks of the weathering of the rocks, or the testimony left by the movement of the earth's crust for millions of years, but in Bai Xiao's eyes, there is a simpler explanation: it is the traces of the use of weapons to chop, this was once a battlefield, and it is a battlefield that he is very familiar with.
Every trace on the rock came from the weapons he was familiar with, and when he slashed through those gaps with his fingertips while running, Bai Xiao could even involuntarily present in his mind the image of the snow-white bone blade cutting through it.
Here, it was the battlefield of the tribesmen.
Judging from the traces left on the surrounding rocks, the tribesmen who have fought here are extremely fierce, and almost every nick shows the strength of the top hunters of the tribe, and there are even a few nicks that make Bai Xiao feel faint palpitations - that is the reaction of a keen hunter when he encounters his peers or even superiors.
But before Bai Xiao could take a closer look, there was a sudden sound of rocks cracking in front of him.
With Bai Xiao's rapid approach, the huge wall that covered the sky and the sun suddenly opened a slender crack that could not be detected.
The next moment, in Bai Xiao's shocked gaze, the crack suddenly expanded into a cobweb, and the giant wall blocking the world seemed to have withstood an incredible huge blow, and in the endless trembling, the lines of the cobwebs became denser and denser, and finally penetrated into a gap that pierced through the world.
The moment he saw the gap, Bai Xiao realized that it was the way back to his hometown.
Although it is somewhat difficult to explain in principle, why the gap that opens outward in the inner part of the world leads to the real world. But Bai Xiao was not a person who was good at and liked to study theories.
Now, nothing is more important than getting back to reality.
However, on this way home, a tall and thin figure stood in front of him.