"In other words, we were actually 'misidentified'?"
After taking a step back, she jumped off the metal ruins platform. Xue Ling Huan Bing, who came to Duan Qing's side, carefully put away the bloody sword she raised. She looked back at the iron chain swinging in the air as if it was lost.
He moved around like a target, and his eyes were also full of thoughtfulness: "Both times, you shot away the ghost monster floating in the air, and then the chains that tracked the enemy began to appear...
…”
"I guess this is a manifestation of the 'monster' fixed here in an overly distorted space." Still looking embarrassed, Duan Qing gasped and straightened his robes: "Will
The act of flying them out of the 'summoning place' is equivalent to letting them escape the control of those chains, so they will appear here and treat me as a bound target that has lost control."
"But when those ghosts appeared, they didn't have chains or anything like that on them." Xue Ling Huan Bing pressed her forehead and whispered, "Why did they bring out these things?"
"As long as they are living entities and units in the free world, they will have this kind of chain - you who have entered the other world must also understand this matter." Duan Qing replied in a low voice with his chin resting on his head.
: "As for why they brought this up, and why they regarded me as a substitute..."
"It must be because of the experiment."
Duan Qing raised his head and looked around the still boundless dark world. Duan Qing, who no longer knew where he was, sighed with his mouth curled up. Xue Ling Huan Bing, who understood the meaning of the other party's words, then raised his head seriously.
Looking into the depths of the void, his cold eyes were intertwined with the blood-colored light wrapped around his right arm: "...Is this also a side effect of the Intention Sword—obtaining that kind of power?"
"It's not just a side effect? This is the price." Duan Qing's pacing voice also sounded in her ears: "I have always stressed that you should not continue to use these things. You only need to know how it works.
Okay, if you overuse this method that requires breaking through the constraints of the system and gaining strength that is not your own, you will eventually pay the corresponding price."
"Have those monsters - or spirits that appeared here, also paid a corresponding price?" Xue Ling Huan Bing asked in a low voice with a strange face: "In exchange for such a tragic ending,
The method of breaking through the constraints of the system should be harmful to them and not beneficial at all."
"This is the fate of the experimental subject - if our guess about the purpose of this furnace is not wrong." Duan Qing shook his head and replied in a matter-of-fact manner: "If the 'Chain of Destiny' itself can really be regarded as
It is a project that can be studied, so no matter what kind of research methods and means are likely to appear in the process."
"Including all kinds of unheard-of cruelty and inhumane behavior."
It seemed that after comparing his location with the adventurer's map in his hand, the gray-robed magician stopped continuing the topic and once again cast his gaze to the depths of the dark abyss below, where a black floating object vaguely appeared in that direction.
When the magician stopped speaking, he appeared in the endless darkness like the deep sea, but it looked slightly different from the old platforms made of metal garbage that the two of them had been walking on before: "Then
yes--"
"It does not belong to an area outside the route left to us by Fur I."
The corners of his raised mouth slowly fell again, and Duan Qing's eyes turned to look at Xue Ling Huan Bing, who subconsciously asked: "This kind of thing has appeared several times in previous route selections, but I have never had it.
Choose to walk up."
"It looks like the foothold is very small." After visually observing the size of the target point from a distance, Xueling Huanbing seemed to automatically ignore the proposal to reject this choice: "Isn't there any danger?"
"The danger... definitely exists. After all, it will exceed the series of guidance and support provided by Ful I and the others." Duan Qing, who was still staring over there, replied in a low voice: "But after two battles, I
I have a different understanding of those existences that should have been part of the background."
"I think we need to go there and check it out."
Light began to flicker in his hands. The gray-robed magician worked hard to use the magic in his hands to illuminate all nearby scenes. Then, after a period of comparison and calculation, he placed a tacit understanding on the edge of the platform closest to that direction.
Curling up, she subconsciously moved the black hair flying in front of her to one side. She sighed and then cut the blood sword in her hand to her side. She rushed towards the two people who had already sheathed it.
Duan Qing, who has three layers of magic shield, nodded his head, then hugged the opponent's body and jumped high into the dark mid-air: "——Can you really jump over it? This is already my limit!
"
"Believe me, even if there is space distortion, it shouldn't have any impact on the two of us becoming one... Oops, it's wind pressure!"
"The inertia has been neutralized! Don't tell me you didn't leave any other means behind!"
"Don't panic, I still have the reaction force generated by the 'Gust Wind Technique'..."
The body that seemed to be about to fall suddenly appeared to be suspended in the air for a moment. The two bodies that were moving forward and hugging each other also moved to the small platform in a burst of inexplicable changes, whistling.
The wind pressure then brought up a horrifying howl that made the eardrums hurt, and flew straight above the space where the two were about to fall: "Hoo, ho, ho, ho... it's so dangerous."
"Was that...an illusion just now? It felt like shrinking to the ground." The arms holding the other party's body finally relaxed slightly, and a few drops of cold sweat appeared on Xue Ling Huan Bing's frightened face:
"It seems that space is compressed at a long distance... Heh, I didn't expect you to be able to achieve such an effect."
"This is the distance I estimated using the adventurer's map and the information I gathered earlier." Duan Qing, who also stood up in a proud pose for a moment, then looked at his feet: "But the next step is
The highlight.”
"Look what we found."
The creaking sound has not stopped since they jumped into this narrow space area, and the familiar sound of metal collision and shaking feeling gradually became stronger as Duan Qing and Xueling Huanbing stabilized their bodies.
It calmed down, but the place that should have been a platform in their eyes was now occupied by huge horizontal and vertical metal bars: "Is this - an iron cage?"
"There seems to be something locked inside."
Pointing at the dark object appearing in the gaps between these metal bars, Duan Qing unconsciously lowered his voice: "Is this a living thing?"
"It shouldn't count." The feet in leather boots carefully moved on the metal bars outside the iron cage. Xueling Huanbing also began to carefully observe the unknown "object" locked in it: "So
The lump clinging to the top of the iron cage doesn't look like a normal living thing at all."
"That's why I want to come here - there may be modified experimental subjects here." Duan Qing nodded with determination: "But after such a long time, no matter what kind of creature it is, probably
They have all turned into dust in these iron cages, unless their modifications include mechanical elements."
"Even mechanical components cannot help them live for a thousand years." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was vigilantly holding the blood sword, still denied in disbelief: "I prefer that they are dead objects, otherwise we would be dead now.
But there is real danger... Wait, there seems to be something engraved on it."
"It's the writing of the ancient Roderic Dynasty - although I can be considered a person who has experienced that period, I don't have the energy to learn all the writing and knowledge of that period... Well, let me take a look."
"Didn't you learn it? Do you recognize it?"
"It can be simpler - this is nine, this is six, this should be five, I can't recognize the middle part... Is this a date? Or is it a number?"
"How do I know? I have never heard of any prison master who would like to engrave this kind of thing on the cage, and it is also engraved on the top of the cage... eh."
The conversation suddenly stopped somewhere. Xueling Huanbing, who walked to the edge of this area, seemed to have just discovered some shocking fact. With her mouth wide open, she hurriedly leaned over and looked outside the edge.
The bloody sword with the words engraved on it also hurriedly pointed in that direction: "Look!"
"This is--"
Duan Qing hurriedly walked to the same edge, trying hard to protect himself from falling. Then he opened his eyes wide and recognized the strange silhouette on the side of the cage under his feet: "It's really a creature. Although the shape is a bit unique, but
You can still see things like the head, face, and limbs, but——"
"Why is it upside down?"
Looking at the motionless black behemoth hanging upside down from the top of the iron cage in front of the two people, the two people looked at each other and asked at the same time: "What we have been seeing is its butt?"
"It, it is indeed sitting at this end of this iron cage, facing us in the opposite direction." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who took the lead in retracting his visit, looked back at the metal square under his feet: "Could it be this thing?
A special ability? Or does this place have some special space rules?"
"No, it's very possible that we were mistaken all along."
After thinking for a while with his chin in his hand, Duan Qing's gaze across the iron cage fell back into the dark depths below: "The gravity here - or the perception of space - has always been contrary to what we think exists. This
This iron cage, as well as the places we walked through before, may not be floating in the sky because of the so-called levitation."
"But being hung here?" Seemingly understanding what the other party meant, Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes lit up and then he also shouted: "The gravity here is upward? Are we the aliens in this world?"
"If I could 'fall' upside down in the sky in the real world, I would consider myself an alien." Duan Qing gave a helpless smile, but then he straightened his face: "Also
——”
"You seemed to have sounded too loud just now."
Boom!
A heavy collision then appeared on one side of the upside-down iron cage, accompanied by a piercing howl from a creature that did not belong to the surface. This huge black thing appeared on the other side of the metal iron cage.
At this time, the creature also discovered the uninvited guest on the other side, and "sat" up from the ceiling with violent shaking and struggle: "——Oh no! What should I do? Do you want to kill it?"
"It can be used as an experiment - destroy the iron cage! From us!"
"Then you should step aside first! I don't want to chop you down as well!"
"Blood blooms!"
The huge blood-red sword suddenly appeared in the chaotic scene, and a bright blood-red flower appeared in front of Xueling Huanbing. Then it fully bloomed under the swing of the huge blood-red sword. It looked like an extremely solid iron flower.
The surface of the cage subsequently lost its original dark color in the baptism of this pungent sword energy, and then suddenly broke apart along the straight sword marks under the shaking of the black monster. He reached out and tried to grab and avoid the iron cage.
One of the two players on both sides, this unknown monster without any sense at all, subsequently lost the restraint of the ceiling in Duan Qingyan's eyes. The huge body without any sense of self-protection also launched a completely fruitless attack.
"Falling" toward the depths of the dark space where the two people came from.
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"what happened?"
Surrounded by endless layers of clouds at the top of the sacred mountain, a low cry suddenly appeared in a ruins room that didn't look completely abandoned. A player who had been staying here for an unknown period of time also broke his drowsiness.
He looked up at the source of the sound that woke him up from the stone platform pressed by his legs in front of him - the abandoned stone platform that also seemed to have been eroded by time, with countless round protrusions lined up side by side.
It appeared like small lights on the left and right sides of the room full of scratches and nicks, and one of them looked like a bulge like a small light. At this time, it was flashing continuously with a strange sound: "
Why did it suddenly move?"
"We can't understand the words above, so even if there is movement, what's the use?" Another player who walked into the room after hearing the abnormal sound then helplessly pointed to the tiny engravings around the protrusions: "
I don’t know why the superiors want us to keep looking at this place. In my opinion, this place has no value at all... Let’s go, don’t sleep.”
"Where to go?"
"Of course I'm going outside to provide support."
After waving his hand to greet the opponent, the player who came later pointed to the dim sky in this direction and said: "Those guys are fighting again, but this time they are bringing a few different 'thorns'.
"
"According to the information we received earlier, it should be the two people from the Lou family and the Lin family."
His expression gradually became serious, and the player whispered a warning to his companion who had climbed up. Then he ignored the other's stunned expression, raised his sword, and rushed towards the direction where battle shouts were vaguely heard from the periphery of the ruins.
This chapter has been completed!