Without the need for Earthly Branches to remind him, Su Wen naturally discovered the strangeness of the cracks in the ground.
It seems that the breath in the cracks in the ground can only be sensed when light shines on it. Once it falls into darkness, the entire area is completely blocked from perception.
"Earthly Branches..."
Su Wen said softly.
"Okay..."
The earthly branches released a slight light, illuminating Su Wen's whole body.
"It's not an open flame...it's useless."
Su Wen walked lightly towards the crack in the ground and found that the faint light emitted by the earthly branches had no effect.
"It looks like we need to light a torch..."
Su Wen clarified his thoughts, collected some usable wood around, dipped it in fuel, put some into the bag, and put some in the space of the earthly branches, and then nodded with satisfaction. With the blessing of so many torches, he
I felt that I wouldn't be in trouble in the cracks in the ground because I didn't have a torch.
He lit the torch, asked the Earthly Branches to give him a few more layers of protection, and with the carving knife still in his right hand, he carefully walked down.
"Sure enough... we still need fire to make this place normal..."
Wherever the firelight shone, Su Wen could feel the aura left by Ren Zhengan.
"Lao Ren has been active in this place many times..."
Su Wen identified the footsteps on the ground and discovered the traces left by Ren Zhengan as he walked back and forth in the cracks in the ground.
Judging from his footsteps, Su Wen even discovered that Ren Zhengan was very careful every time he walked. He didn't even step on his own footprints once. Every footprint was orderly and distinct.
There are also a large number of Dagons that appear in the cracks in the ground, but Su Wen also found that Dagon's footprints were only on both sides of the passage, near the stone wall, and they were messy and disorderly.
"Is it because Lao Ren doesn't let the Dagon people walk in the middle of the road...or is it that the Dagon people are instinctively afraid of roads and avoid places where they can walk?"
Su Wen fell into deep thought.
But no matter which one it is, it can only show that there is a real taboo here. If he hadn't seen the traces left by Ren Zhengan, Su Wen would have followed the Dagon tribe and walked close to the wall.
"A very pure dark power..."
Su Wen felt that the cracks in the ground contained rich dark attributes. It was the existence of such power that blocked his perception.
But this dark power is also very pure, and there is no evil atmosphere mixed in it. Therefore, when the torch is lit, the dark attributes are restrained by the firelight, and order is restored wherever the light can shine.
"Nan Gezi... must like this place very much."
Su Wen felt a little worried.
Nan Gezi, who was cut off to a new level by Yan Tao, now seems to be able to get rid of the honorific title "Zi".
However, Su Wen's title to Nan Gezi is a bit vague. It is not known whether she is named after her Ci brand, or whether her last name is "Nan Ge", which is a sign of respect for her power at the sub-sage level.
But Su Wen vaguely remembered that when his senior brother Yan Tan played against Nan Gezi, he called him "Mr. Nan Ge".
"Senior brother is so rigorous, so there should be no problem with his title. Nan Gezi... is not a name tag, but a surname."
At this time, Su Wendu felt a little bored when examining Nan Gezi's title, but he believed that if Nan Gezi knew about this place, he would definitely come here to heal his wounds.
Such a pure and strong dark aura must be a treasure to Nan Gezi.
Su Wen even felt that Ren Zhengan might have been unlucky enough to encounter Nan Gezi who came here, and ended up being killed.
"The possibility of this is still quite small..."
Su Wen thought about it seriously and felt that the time when the two met might not be right.
If there were no accidents, Nan Gezi had just landed ashore at this time, and it was unlikely that she would be able to find Ren Zhengan. Even if she found Ren Zhengan, she was beheaded by Yan Tan and chased for a short distance by Dagon. She was physically and mentally exhausted.
, is unlikely to be Ren Zhengan’s opponent.
Su Wen couldn't tell how strong Ren Zhengan was, but Su Muzhe, who was about to be promoted to Sequence Six, was unwilling to fight with Ren Zhengan when he mentioned it, which could explain something.
"The most likely possibility is that Lao Ren encountered trouble deep in the cracks in the ground..."
Su Wen kept guessing all the way.
He even thought that Ren Zhengan might have gotten lost in the cracks because of his carelessness. For example, he went into the cracks to explore without bringing enough torches. As a result, after the fire burned out, he used the light ignited by secret techniques to resist the misdirection of the dark aura.
, and eventually got lost and wandered deep in the cracks in the ground.
"Crackling..."
The torch, stained with whale oil, made a slight sound.
Wherever Su Wen looked, everything was normal.
It's just that he didn't notice that there seemed to be countless living things squirming on the edge of light and darkness, including his own shadow, which was projected behind by the firelight and was constantly twisting, potentially breaking away from Su Wen's body at any time.
, into a real existence.
"father……"
The dangers that Su Wen could not detect, but Earthly Branches could sense, and reminded Su Wen: "Darkness itself is the greatest danger... You must be careful..."
While making a sound in Su Wen's heart, Earthly Branch increased its brightness by another level, intending to dilute the surrounding shadows.
However, the light it released could not dilute the creeping shadows in the darkness. Instead, it made them more restless and seemed to attack Su Wen at any time.
"This is... a shadow creature?"
After being reminded by the Earthly Branches, Su Wen also saw sneaky shadows on the edge of light and darkness from the corner of his eyes. But even when he saw them from the corner of his eye, the shadows stopped their activities one after another and merged with the darkness, giving no trace to Su Wen at all.
Opportunity to see them.
If Earthly Branch hadn't confirmed that Su Wen was right, Su Wen would have felt dazzled.
The mysterious knowledge left by the recorder came into use at this time.
The shadow creature is a companion creature of pure darkness. The moment before it attacks other creatures, it is just an untouchable shadow. Only at the moment of attack, it will condense into a substantial creature, but it is still in the shadow state.
There are strong and weak shadow creatures. The strong ones can twist and transform into the forms of any creature, while the weak ones can only turn into ordinary monsters. But whether they are ordinary or powerful, they are all very difficult targets for extraordinary people. Active
It is almost impossible to deal with shadow creatures. Living in the darkness, they are cautious and have a natural keen sense of danger. After noticing the appearance of prey, they are very patient and will not attack until the prey completely puts down its guard.
attack.
"I can only wait for them to take the initiative to cause trouble for me... I'm too passive."
Su Wen frowned secretly.
But for now, he is safe.
Shadow creatures cannot break through the fire and harm the fire bearer. Their best chance is to wait until the torch goes out and everything falls into darkness.
At that time, no matter how powerful the extraordinary person is, he will not be able to withstand the tidal wave of attacks from shadow creatures.
"fine……"
Su Wen is not reckless. He has brought enough torches to keep burning for several days and nights. If things go wrong, he will leave here immediately and seek help from Su Muzhe and Tao Gaoguin—
—Counting the time, these two people should also return from Ghost Island.
It's just that Sunken Bay is not the only entry and exit point of Ghost Island. Su Wen is worried that the two of them have gone elsewhere.
But Su Wen finally believed that the two of them would definitely come to him.
"puff……"
Su Wen suddenly saw a small spark flashing on the rock wall on the left.
After being surprised for a moment, he traced the reason from the image he got out of the corner of his eye.
A shadow as big as a palm rushed towards his head from the top of the rock wall, but was directly ignited by the fire and turned into ashes.
"really……"
Seeing this scene, Su Wen felt relieved.
Shadow creatures cannot break through the fire, which is good news for him.
Moreover, Su Wen noticed that the shadow creatures started to burn just when they appeared at the edge of the fire. This was enough to show that the fire had absolute restraint on them.
"Fortunately, I'm smart..."
Su Wen took a long breath. Although he entered the crack in the ground a little hastily, he had brought enough wood.
Su Wen was even more certain that Ren Zhengan was probably careless and suffered a loss in this regard.
"Old Ren...will nothing happen?"
Thinking of the ferocity of the shadow creatures in this place, Su Wen felt that something was wrong.
Once Ren Zhengan falls into darkness, he may have already suffered.
"Will not……"
Su Wen quickly put this idea behind him.
Ren Zheng'an is an extraordinary person of the Historian Sequence Four. Regardless of his low rank, before becoming the Historian Sequence Four, he had become at least seven or even eight other Sequence Fours at the same time.
This means that Ren Zhengan has many secret techniques at his disposal, and can survive even if he encounters danger.
"There are also forbidden objects... Ren Zhengan has many forbidden objects on his body, which are quite powerful and can restrain darkness." Earthly Branch reminded Su Wen.
What Su Wen couldn't observe from Ren Zhengan, Earthly Branches could see clearly.
"That's good……"
With the comfort of Earthly Branches, Su Wen breathed a sigh of relief again. But before he had gone far, Su Wen's heart sank.
"Dagon..."
There were several Dagon corpses lying across the narrow crack in the ground.
When the firelight first illuminated Dagon's corpse, it was pitch black, but when the firelight illuminated it, the shadows escaped, leaving behind a pile of withered and yellow bones. The bones were riddled with holes, and all the marrow inside had been eaten away.
"……No way?"
When Su Wen saw the dead Dagon, he said in a cold voice: "Isn't Dagon also a creature of the dark world... The shadow creatures don't even let them go?"
"Hey...Dad...shadow creatures are not picky eaters."
Earthly Branches reminded Su Wen: "Before anyone came to Guixu, they were already living like this."
"All right……"
Su Wen nodded slightly. It was his idea that went awry. The natives in Guixu were weird. In addition to outsiders like the human race, they were also hostile to each other. It was not strange at all for the shadow creatures to hunt Dagon.
The Dagon tribe even built altars for them... As for what the sacrifices were, Su Wen knew without even thinking.