0366 Chapter Seven: The Wisdom of Mortals (Section 72)
In an instant, the seal opened by the white-robed mage seemed to turn into an invisible curse that swept through everyone present.
Of course, they had no way of noticing it at this time, but simply because the trap expert died, they slowed down their advance and advanced in a more cautious formation.
But ten minutes later, a terrifying anomaly occurred.
At first, some team members saw ghosts that were not known to be hallucinations or real existence. Then more and more people said that they felt that the entire passage was shaking more and more violently.
Until the end, Leckie himself felt something strange in front of him. When the team members reported it, he thought it was a slight earthquake, but what he saw with his own eyes now made him wonder if he was walking inside some living object disguised as a rock.
The "creep" of the tunnel is too natural and gentle. This is a characteristic unique to living things, not earth and stone.
After persisting for another ten minutes, the team had to stop because severe dizziness caused even the most elite soldiers to start vomiting.
After resting on the spot for five minutes, the situation did not get better. On the contrary, it got worse. The world in the eyes of the expedition team members became more and more distorted and exaggerated.
Some of them felt that the road ahead had become an infinitesimal point, and they had to squeeze themselves into an iron worm to pass; others found that their companions in front of them had been severely distorted, and the arms of their friends around them were spiraling.
Curl into the shape of a treble clef.
If it was just like this, the hallucination was not enough to shake this group of elite soldiers. But then, the soldier who was pointed out that his arm was twisted tried to touch his own shape, and then he was horrified to find that his arm was really twisted.
, and I didn’t even know it!
The next second, he went crazy and rushed into a random corridor without any risk, never to be seen again.
Seeing one's own body twisted and deformed is undoubtedly one of the greatest horrors a human being can face, but it is not enough to drive a resolute soldier with special training crazy.
Leckie immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. Their minds and spirits were definitely affected by some unknown influence. There was a big problem in this pothole! But, it was already too late.
Madness was like an infectious disease, and the soldier with twisted arms was followed by the second and third. It was not until the naturalist went crazy and dug out his own eyes that the problem was solved.
This frenzied attempt brought him sudden clarity and he immediately pointed out the problem.
Regardless of whether it is a curse or something, whether it is the real world or their minds that is distorted, all the problems lie in vision. As long as you give up vision, you can return to normal.
And the so-called giving up vision doesn't just mean closing your eyes. As long as you still have visual organs, the chaos and disorder surrounding you will continue to distort endlessly, even if you don't open your eyes.
After two or three simple attempts, the exploration team confirmed these assumptions. Immediately afterwards, the second disaster occurred that caught Leckie off guard.
Through the performance of the eight "players" who came from different church forces and were called candidates for the Lamarck game by the Earl, Leckie judged that they all had considerable distrust in each other and even had murderous intentions.
However, after the mutation occurred, the seven surviving people all took the same action immediately as if commanded by someone.
They seemed to completely ignore the pain and the possible misery in the second half of their lives after going blind, and destroyed their eyes without any hesitation or hesitation.
Then, they launched an attack on their own men.
At first, because of their abnormal and uniform behavior, Leckie wondered whether these people were affected by some kind of curse at the same time and lost control of themselves.
But then their clear and intelligent communication and tacit cooperation made Leckie realize the problem.
The unexpected attack of the candidates in the valley/span and the various methods they used to show their magical powers caused the expedition team to suffer heavy losses immediately. But no matter how distorted the scene in the field of vision becomes, people with eyes are still better than people who suddenly become blind.
Have a certain advantage in battle.
Expanding the realm of [Climb], Leckie powerfully crushed it under the cover of his soldiers, and finally turned the tide and ended this unexpected and disastrous internal fight.
There were only four people left on our side, namely himself and three superior private soldier captains. Among the candidates, two of them managed to escape deep into the ruins even though they were blind.
All the others died in the brief but fatal battle.
At this point, Leckie actually wanted to evacuate. But he didn't know how much the two escaped players knew and what else they might do in the ruins.
If there really is a powerful weapon hidden deep in the ruins, as in the intelligence obtained by the count, then things will be quite difficult.
It would be okay if you just suffered serious losses and chose to quit and regroup, but now there are two unknown enemies staying deep in the ruins. Who knows if you mess up at this time, you will see a sudden divine power coming from the sky as soon as you go out.
Uptown wiped out?
As a last resort, Leckie bit the bullet and led the remaining three people in an in-depth pursuit.
What happened next was once again beyond Leckie's expectation. They moved forward blindly, but they touched the bodies of the two candidates one after another.
There were no traps or traps along the way. The only serious crisis that caused a private soldier captain to be seriously injured was a life-threatening attack by one of his own men who had gone crazy and fled deep into the ruins.
Inexplicably, the work was completed, but now I wanted to retreat but...
My thoughts return to the present.
"Hey... It's not that I want to die, but we have no way out," the old butler said desperately, realizing the loyalty of the three captains:
"Half an hour ago, I didn't touch any walls anymore. Have any of you touched them?"
There was a moment of silence. Leckie could feel the arm on his shoulder shaking.
At this time, as the commander of the troops, Leckie needs to play a more important role in stabilizing the morale of the troops. He explained: "Now we have completely lost our direction. Only by going to the place where the sound comes can we break the situation."
Thinking about the complexity of the corridor just now, even if we turn around and walk in the opposite direction of the sound, it is 100% impossible to find the correct path back outside...
Wait, have you seen it?! That thing is where the sound came from, right in front of you!" The old butler suddenly shouted hysterically, startling the three blind captains behind him.
"What?!"
"No! Sir... Sir, he is crazy! We are all blind! Blind... How can we see things when we are blind?!"
"Wait a minute! I saw it too! It's a crystal, I don't know what material it is made of, it's the sound it makes, it's spinning right in front of us, it's... it's a regular octahedron.
Look, it’s as big as the palm of your hand, right in front of you!”