When collecting information, most of the content about the Silent Mountains was mysterious and terrifying, so the Silent Mountains in Lu Yu's mind was inevitably associated with darkness, gloom, and depression.
However, the facts surprised Lu Yu and his party.
It was midsummer, and Lu Yu, who came to the Silent Mountains in the early morning, greeted the first ray of sunlight shining on the earth and could clearly see the lush trees on the rolling mountains.
The roars of beasts and the chirping of birds in the mountains and forests come and go, no different from the woods that Lu Yu passed through on his way.
Because of an abnormal phenomenon that occurred in the Silent Mountains, no one has set foot in the Silent Mountains for many years. The trees here grow wildly, and the huge canopy is like a giant umbrella.
These huge tree crowns were inhabited by a large number of flying beasts and monsters. From time to time, Lu Yu could see these monsters fighting in the air. The end of the battle often meant the death of the other party.
After walking for a while, Lu Yu saw the signboard left by the Thoresen guards who had evacuated the people around the Silent Mountains. This meant that after the signboard was the real Silent Mountains area.
Lu Yu ordered all members to confirm their equipment and status and be prepared to engage the enemy.
According to known information, monsters within the Silent Mountains are extremely active.
Sigrid put on the finger tiger and adjusted the dagger on her waist to a position where she could pull it out at any time.
Lulutis stretched out two tentacles and raised two small bottles containing medicinal powder. It looked like two black ponytails growing out of the black mist.
The mist demon stopped transforming randomly and changed his form into a grimace, ready to scare those crazy monsters at any time.
Lu Yu glanced hard at the four paintings that Lulutis had drawn for himself, imprinted their figures in his mind, and then went through the content that had been set.
"Set off!"
As Lu Yu raised his foot and stepped over the sign, this place, which was regarded as a forbidden area by countless Thoresen people, once again welcomed a new guest after many years.
The weather today is excellent, cloudless and sunny, and there is no sign of the weather changing even if we enter the Silent Mountains area.
There was no gloomy or weird atmosphere at all. Lu Yu and his group, carrying their luggage, looked more like travelers looking for a place to go on an outing.
However, the magic meter in the hands of the mist demon and Lu Yu soon gave them a real sense of entering the Silent Mountains.
The Mist Demon was born from magic power. Her whole body is made of magic power, so she is very sensitive to changes in magic power.
As Lu Yu and his party moved forward, the mist demon could still move around with funny faces at first, but gradually, her body began to become heavier.
The surrounding magic became thinner, making the mist demon instinctively feel panicked, and its ability to perceive its surroundings was also declining.
For this reason, she had to shrink to Lu Yu's side and act together with Lu Yu.
The counter can more intuitively display the anomalies in the Silent Mountains.
If we use the analogy of one to ten, the average magic power is around six.
Outside the Silent Mountains, the magic level displayed by the thermometer-shaped magic meter was within the standard range.
Today, the value given by the magic counter is close to four, which is nearly reduced by half.
Lu Yu only walked for half a day and did not go deep into the Silent Mountains.
Lu Yu did not choose to march in a hurry. The exploration plan he set focused on stability.
First confirm the conditions in the outer areas of the Silent Mountains and explore some basic conditions before continuing in depth.
At noon, Lulutis glanced at the sun, and asked Sigrid to take out pills that were immune to hallucinations, and each of them took one.
During the activities in the Silent Mountains, Lu Yu and others would take immune hallucination pills throughout the entire process, and they would remember the time when the medicine was about to expire and take the medicine in advance.
They really don't know what is here that may cause hallucinations, so they can only avoid hallucinations in this way.
While Lu Yu was taking the medicine, he saw several sika deer standing in the shade of a tree not far away, looking at the group of them curiously.
The little sika deer had probably never seen anyone before, so they were not afraid of Lu Yu and the others at all. They actually came close to them while chewing grass. The mother of the sika deer stood up anxiously.
Afraid of being misunderstood by the mother of the sika deer who was protecting her calf, Lu Yu retracted his hand from touching the deer's head.
The little sika deer, which tilted its head and chewed young leaves, looked at Lu Yu's hand, then looked back at its mother, seeming to be thinking about something.
Just when Lu Yu was thinking about coaxing him back to his mother, Sigrid, who was about to eat some solid food, quickly put the food back into her backpack and put on her finger tiger again.
"There was something creeping closer in the woods behind the herd of deer."
Lu Yu followed Sigrid's instructions and took a look. The tall weeds were swaying gently. If he hadn't observed it specifically, he would have thought it was caused by the breeze.
"It's not just one, it's a group of monsters."
Before he finished speaking, several wild wolves jumped out of the swaying weeds.
These strong wild wolves bit off the throat of a deer as soon as they appeared. After scattering the deer herd, they were not greedy and returned to their original place.
Five or six wild wolves protected the fallen deer carcass behind them, facing Lu Yu with a fierce look in their eyes.
Judging from the operation of wild wolves when hunting, these wolves can be mixed with black iron at most, or fine steel, if they are thrown into the Adventurer's Guild rating. Sigrid can kill a beast of this level alone.
Lu Yu didn't want to disturb the wolves while they were eating, but he wanted to figure out a problem.
Are these wolves also carrying the power to distort human language?
"Catch one and bring it here." Lu Yu ordered.
Sigrid took a step forward, and the threatening sounds from the wolves became louder.
"Death or life?"
"It's best if you're alive, and you should be able to find the answer even if you're dead."
After Lu Yu conveyed Lulutis's words, Sigrid quickly shot out, and at the moment when a grinning wolf was about to jump back, she accurately grabbed his throat, and then swept away the other wolf with one kick.
A wolf planning to pounce on itself.
After completing this set of operations, Sigrid quickly returned to Lu Yu.
Lulutis put her tentacles on the trembling wild wolf, explored everywhere, and finally came to a conclusion.
"They don't have that kind of power, they are just slightly stronger wolves."
When the wolves who originally planned to howl to call their companions saw their captured companions being released, they lowered their heads and quickly bit the deer's carcass, dragged it and hid it in the weeds.
Disappeared.
It seems that not all the creatures in the Silent Mountains have that kind of strange power. It just happened that at a certain stage, the creatures with these powers went out and attacked people, causing Thoreson to mistakenly believe that the curse spreading here was contaminated.
everything.
After a day of exploration, Lu Yu had never encountered a monster that went crazy at the sight of a human, except for one collision with a pack of wolves.
The first reaction of many beasts when seeing people was to confront people. After confirming that Lu Yu would not attack, they quickly disappeared from their sight.
This is quite consistent with what the second team encountered when they entered the Silent Mountains. The wave of monster attacks faced by the first team was more like an unreasonable disaster caused by entering the Silent Mountains at the wrong time.
However, Lu Yu did not take it lightly, and he would only face more troubles after nightfall.
Seeing the sky getting dark, after searching for a long time, Lu Yu and others found a cave.
Since the second team was inexplicably wiped out in the middle of the night, Lu Yu made up his mind to never camp in the open again.
Because of the wild growth of weeds and vines, the entrance to the cave was very inconspicuous. If the mist demon hadn't sensed the direction of the wind, Lu Yu might have needed to find a big tree and live in it tonight.
Pushing aside the green plants intertwined at the entrance of the cave like a door curtain, the mist demon was the first to get in and confirm that the cave was safe.
After everyone entered the cave, Lulutis floated out, rolled some branches into the cave, and spread them on the ground following the method Lu Yu had used before.
After taking basic protective measures, everyone started to eat dinner with confidence.
Whenever other people eat, the bored mist demon can only play with himself.
She dug and poked around inside the cave, and from time to time she flew outside the cave entrance to observe what the creatures in the Silent Mountains were doing after nightfall.
In the end, she simply poked the soil on the ground with a wooden stick and imagined what she would look like after taking the transformation potion.
"First of all, you must have a well-proportioned and beautiful figure like Sigrid."
Thinking like this, the mist demon secretly glanced at Sigrid who was eating and drew the outline of her waist.
"As for the legs...that guy named Aesop seems to have pretty good legs, so I'll just use his type for the time being."
As he spoke, the mist demon attached a pair of Aesop's legs to his body that had already outlined his waist.
"Lu Yu's hands don't look good, and Sigrid's hands don't seem to fit me well... I'm really curious about what Lulu's hands look like."
I couldn't think of anyone to learn from for the moment, so Mist Demon had to leave it blank for now.
The face is the most important, there is no way to learn from this part, the mist demon can only come up with his own ideas.
The mist demon, who had always used the appearance of others, couldn't think of an appearance with its own characteristics, so he had to worry about waving a wooden stick to make changes on the already drawn body.
After going back and forth several times, the tip of the fog demon's wooden stick was rounded, and the place where the face should be painted was messed up.
The troubled Mist Demon planned to regroup and continue painting her face. She gently pushed the soil aside and was about to start writing when she saw a white foreign object appearing on the mud-yellow ground.
The confused mist demon used a wooden stick to sweep away the soil near the foreign object bit by bit.
"Lu Yu!"
The mist demon's sudden cry made Lu Yu, who was eating, almost choke. After his heart was almost frightened, he saw the mist demon turn into a pair of big hands and point his index finger at the ground in front of him.
"Look, look!"
The three of them put down the dry food in their hands and approached the mist demon and looked down at it.
A broken skeleton lay quietly in the dirt.
Lulutis, who realized something, replaced the shovel with her tentacles and quickly dug the hole.
After a while, where the fog demon was painting, four white bones appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Most of the bones were mutilated, some had no hands, and some had missing legs.
Lulutis continued to dig the hole and found three more corpses beneath where they were eating.
Sigrid recalled the ancient books she saw in the library.
"Those disabled elves can only huddle in a few caves and linger."
With the unearthing of several pieces of elf clothing, the identities of these people were completely confirmed.
Lu Yu, who was in a complicated mood, finished his dinner quickly and then observed a moment of silence in front of the corpses in front of him.
The sharp-eyed Lulutis noticed something reflecting a faint light under the lighting crystal. She reached down with her tentacle and turned it out with force.
It was a lead-gray metal box with no lock or mechanism and could be opened as soon as it was opened.
Inside the box were only a charcoal pen that had been polished suitable for writing, and a booklet with a light brown cover.
After confirming that there was no danger, Lu Yu opened the booklet.
What catches the eye is the name on the home page.
Nettie Meyer.
"Silent Mountains Day 47."
"Everyone's mood is very low. We have lost too many partners in the past forty-seven days. Danger is everywhere here, and there are almost no ways to get food without getting hurt."
"Aaron feels that writing a diary is a stupid thing. Even if it is recorded, no one will see it. They have been abandoned and are children who can never return to their hometown. Even so, he still brought me
A piece of wolf meat. I heard that this was the food that Reina bought for everyone with his life... Maybe soon this name and his appearance will become blurry, so that no one can remember who did what and how.
Sacrifice...so, I must write down the diary, as long as I can remember, they will all be alive."
"Day 48 in the Silent Mountains."
"Rebecca is not in good condition. All five fingers on her right hand have been corroded by the toothbrush. In order to prevent the wound from rotting, we burned her wound with a red-hot iron... She kept begging us to kill her.
I could hardly stand her wailing and wanted to loosen my grip on her, but thank God, she fainted from the pain and couldn't scream anymore."
"Silent Mountains Day 49."
"One beautiful day, Aaron and the others found a monster's lair and stole the food they had stored. We all had a good meal. The elves in other caves also brought us some freshly picked fruits.
It’s to replenish nutrition for Rebecca who fainted from pain.”
"Day 52 in the Silent Mountains."
"Vanessa from the cave on the west side finally came back and brought us a tiger and two beehives. She is one of the few people here who can use magic. Although she can't speak and can't see anything, she
There is always something to gain.”
"I haven't eaten meat for a long time. Tiger meat is delicious, but Vanessa fell asleep. I heard it was caused by a double exhaustion of magic power and physical strength... Everyone ate very little, and they all wanted to wait for Vanessa to get up and eat together.
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"Aaron doesn't understand why someone as good as Vanessa has to be abandoned. Is disability the original sin?"
"Maybe, but what can we do? There is no place for us in this world."