Everyone moved quickly along the street, and the surrounding scene quickly receded.
It was midnight in Dolifen, and the scenery on both sides of the street was completely different from what it was during the day. The ruined city had disappeared, and there was a layer of fireflies among the surrounding trees. The fog was hazy, replaced by the shadow of its past.
That was thirty years ago
There are neat buildings with closed doors. There seem to be pale faces standing behind the windows, and the sounds of laughter and daily conversations can be heard from behind.
In a hurry, he passed by an empty factory. Inside, there was a working magic furnace, rows of tall shelves, and orange firelight. And it was clearly late at night, but there were still sounds coming from the empty factory.
A tinkling sound.
This scene is really weird.
But what was even more nerve-wracking was the pursuit of soldiers behind them. There was a dim light at the end of the street, and the countless ghost army.
Forcing everyone not to stop.
Jieta ran a few steps, pressed her chest and slowed down, her face turned pale. Fang Pulver looked back, Sylvide was supporting Jista, Attila was holding Tianlan, and Papalar was wearing a pair of shorts.
His legs were busy, and Dickert was also carrying one of Hansen's wounded men.
He turned back and walked over. "I, I'm fine, Brother Ed." Jita adjusted her glasses, knowing that she was in the wrong, and her voice was like a mosquito.
"I'm not here to blame you, but it's too slow and you can't run?" Fang Pulver asked.
Jita nodded slightly. The wound on her chest had healed on the surface, but the wound left by the blade piercing the lungs still affected her physical fitness and she was not a warrior in the first place.
She frowned and felt a severe pain in her chest.
Without saying a word, Fang Plover put his hand on Jita's shoulder. The little girl was startled and subconsciously wanted to shrink back. "Don't move," Fang Plover said to her, "I'll carry you away."
"Team...Captain." A red cloud appeared on Jita's face, she looked at him in surprise, her words were incoherent.
"Don't think too much, just think of me as Miss Attila."
"But," Jita was a little ashamed, crouching her head and murmuring: "It's all my fault for following you out..."
"This is none of your business. The captain must understand the value of the decision he makes. In fact, you have helped all of us a lot during the day. This is your value, Jita. You will definitely become the best naturalist in the future.
Scholar's." Fang Yu looked at her and replied seriously: "And now, it's my turn as the captain to take responsibility."
Jita blushed and nodded, then put her hand on Fang Plover's arm.
Fang Yu then bent down, put his hands through her knees and picked her up. For a non-combatant selector, this was a bit difficult at first. But after picking her up, it became much easier.
Jita was light and airy, like a ghost on a trumpet.
The little girl huddled in his arms with her head buried, her face dripping with blood, her long eyelashes reflecting the bright moonlight, soft and moving.
But for such a little girl, Fang Yu had no other thoughts in his mind. Just like he used to protect his sister, he led her to catch up with others. When passing Miss Elf, the former glanced at him, with some relief in his eyes:
"Well done, Ed."
This guy was a little embarrassed. He subconsciously wanted to touch his head but couldn't pull his hand away, so he had to giggle.
Not far away, Sylvester couldn't help but look a little funny when she looked at him.
Seeing this scene, Siesta shook her head slightly. "Why are you shaking your head, Siesta?" Sylvester turned back and looked at her maid with interest.
"It's nothing, miss."
"to be honest."
"I just don't understand. He's obviously just a big boy."
"It's really hard for Shesta to understand this." The noble girl replied with a smile: "Old boys are more reliable, and men are just cunning and selfish creatures. In fact, he will become like that when he grows up.
, greedy."
"So what does the eldest lady see in him?"
Sylvester smiled slightly in the moonlight and didn't answer.
Opposite the factory, there is a hillside covered with lush vegetation, reflecting the bright river bend that passes through the inner city, and a trestle stretches into the sparkling light.
There is a low wooden house next to the trestle with white walls and brown eaves. According to Hansen, it was the guard's duty station. In the past, when escorting the mission target here, there would be a small battle that needed to be defeated.
Guard blocking the road.
But today, there are neither guards nor mission objectives here.
Ahead is already Fisherman Street
Fang Plover still remembered what the older knight had introduced about the situation in Doliphon City. They passed through Fisherman Street and connected to the Ruins Avenue, which was not far from the outer city gate when they came.
As long as they get there, they will be safe. These ghosts, including the Dawn Knight behind them, are no match for the lion-man Red.
But Fang Plover suddenly stopped.
They had also been to Fisherman Street during the day, but Fang Plover remembered that the street was definitely not what it is now. Even though the buildings on both sides of the street were intact, the terrain had never changed so much. He raised his head and looked at this street.
The abyss that lies before you.
The depth is bottomless, and it is so wide that you cannot see the other side of the abyss. There is a cliff in front of you, and half of the street has been swallowed up. To be precise, the entire Nancheng District and the ruined avenue in front have long been gone.
Fang Plover couldn't help but look to the left and right, and could only see a few remaining buildings. Stones were even peeling off the edge of the cliff and rolling down the abyss.
Hansen stopped far in front, frowning and watching this scene. When Fang Plover approached, he turned around and saw Fang Plover and Jita in his arms. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "
Brother Ed, we're in big trouble."
"What's wrong? What's going on?" Fang Yu put down Jita, looked at the abyss in front of him and the half-disappeared Fisherman's Street in front of him, and couldn't help but ask.
"Remember what I told you, this is the boundary of this illusion."
"Boundary?" Fang Yu was stunned: "Wouldn't it appear only after the mission is triggered? Could it be that we are already in the mission illusion now?"
"I don't know about this," Hansen was also confused. "There is no mark of martyrdom for the faithful, and there is no mission goal. In theory, we should have missed the mission, but... this boundary..."
Fang Plover couldn't help but look at the scholar behind him. He had been very calm from the beginning of the Traveler's Rest, as if all the dangers had nothing to do with him.
He felt weird from the beginning, but now he couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Scholar, do you know anything?"
"Is this a question?" the scholar looked at him through the shadow under the hood and asked.
"We have a cooperative relationship, Mr. Scholar." Fang Plover frowned and said in a bad tone: "This is not something I am asking for from you. You know, I am the chosen one."
"But she is a trainee," replied the scholar, "don't try to fool me."
Then he saw what Fang Plover wanted to say and quickly stopped him: "Okay, I don't want to waste time on boring arguments. It's not that I don't want to answer this question. After all, it is closely related to my safety. But the fact is, I am too
I came to investigate this place, if I knew everything, would I still come here?"
Fang Yu glanced at this guy suspiciously and nodded. Then he turned back and continued to ask Hansen: "So Mr. Hansen, what will happen if we enter this boundary? I mean if we give up the mission, we can cross it and leave.
This place?”
"This is the troublesome part," Hansen said with a wry smile. "There is no way out of this boundary. Some selectors say that it is the Starlight Dead Zone. I don't quite understand what that thing is, but I heard
The Dead Zone has no effect on us indigenous people, but it’s different here.”
At this time, Tian Lan, who had caught up behind, stood on tiptoes and looked down into the abyss. She was so frightened that she almost fell. If Aitila hadn't sprinted up and grabbed the lawless little girl, Miss Elf said a little harshly.
: "Don't cause trouble, Fuli."
But Tianlan still asked with some fear: "Then what should we do now? Wait until dawn?"
"I'm afraid it won't work until daybreak. We don't know whether Dolifen's vision is actually in Dorifen. Before the mission is over, there is no precedent for outsiders to encounter other adventurers in the mission." Jita Yi
He whispered to her in Fang Yu's arms.
Hansen also nodded and sighed: "Maybe we will be trapped forever until we die."
Forget it, just wait for death, Fang Yu thought, not to mention that ordinary chosen people and aboriginals can be resurrected five times for a total of six lives. But he, a stowaway, can only be resurrected twice, with only half of the star brilliance, and Ji
The two trainees Ta and Tian Lan cannot be resurrected.
According to Chris, the oldest knight in the team, Dickert, is also the same.
He turned back. "What should we do to complete this task?"
Hansen heard the implication of Fang Plover's words, but shook his head. "Usually the normal process is like this. After getting the Mark of Martyrdom of the Faithful, go to the Gray Oak Square to activate the Shadow of the Past. After defeating it, lead to
The road to the city hall will be opened, and you should have heard the story after that."
"That's good, let's go over there." Fang Plover still remembered the fork in Fisherman's Street. He turned back to look at the other end of the street and asked at the same time: "If I remember correctly, this direction leads to Gray Oak.
It’s in the square, right? Is there a border over there?”
Hansen was stunned and replied: "Of course not, there is also a mission area over there. But wait, our problem now is that we do not have the martyrdom mark of the faithful."
"Got to give it a try."
Fang Yu said, as if to satisfy his curiosity, he took another look at the bottomless abyss, then put his arm on Jita's shoulders, who nodded to him, then he picked up the little girl and continued to the other side.
Walk in one direction.
There was no need to give orders at this time, Hansen's men followed him in that direction. After all, the ghosts behind him were getting closer and closer.
Hansen naturally followed him. He sighed and said to Fang Plover: "Although I always think it is unnecessary, you are right. No one wants to close their eyes and wait for death. You have to give it a try."
"I didn't think too much about it, Mr. Hansen, it's just a matter of habit. I didn't want to give up until the end." Fang Yu replied seriously.
Hansen glanced at him in surprise. "Twenty years earlier, I would have been as motivated as you, brother Ed."
Fang Plover chuckled and didn't answer.
But Jita whispered unconvincedly: "Brother Ed is different."
Hansen was stunned for a moment, then looked at the little girl and laughed: "I'm not convinced. Even an uncle like me had his time when he was young. Why is it different?"
Jita moved her lips. Of course she knew about Fang Plover's courage in the battle with the Spear of the Silver Forest and the Redcoat Team of Jeffrite in the Long Roar Mountains. After Fang Plover confessed that day, she found him privately in the community.
I watched that video over and over again many times.
How can such selectors and battle craftsmen be the same as everyone else?
But when the words came to her lips, she realized that these things could not be spoken out, and she was also very embarrassed. She blushed and curled up and stopped talking.
Hansen looked at her look and couldn't help but joked: "Of course, even when I was young, I was not as popular with girls as Brother Ed."
Fortunately, this guy was able to tease Fang Plover and Ji Ta with all his nerve even though there were soldiers chasing him behind him and blocking him in front.
"It's not like that!" Fang Yu quickly explained. Are you kidding? Doesn't this make him go straight to the starting point in three years? "Mr. Hansen, you may not quite understand."
"I understand, I understand," Hansen said with a smile: "Young people are thin-skinned, so it's understandable."
"No, that's not the case."
But such a feeble excuse could only be exchanged for a burst of laughter. Fang Yu turned around and wanted Tianlan to explain to him, but the little French girl was happy to see him embarrassed and just pretended to be stupid.
In the end, Fang Plover could only leave the team alone and walked to the front, determined to stay away from these boring guys.
According to Dickert, the section of road leading from Fisherman's Fork to Gray Oak Square is actually still part of the Ruin Avenue, and this avenue does not have many intersections and leads almost straight to the square.
Therefore, it didn't take long for Fang Plover to vaguely see the spear and flag in the hands of the statue on the square.
The moonlight on this night was undoubtedly very bright. A lone moon hung in the sky, and the moonlight was extremely full.
Fang Yu recalled the moon phase a few days ago, and he still had some doubts in his heart. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have seen such a bright moonlight today. But Jita, who had been shrinking in his arms and quietly observing his expression,
At this moment, it seemed as if I could see what he was thinking.
She grabbed the hem of his clothes with her little hands and whispered to him: "Brother Ed, when Dolifen was abandoned thirty years ago, it was almost in April and May, and there happened to be a full moon in that period."
"Did time even freeze on that day?" Fang Plover looked at the ghosts coming from all directions, thinking that it would be great if he could figure out what exactly happened on that day.
Because they were at the front, the two entered the square first.
Unlike Traveler's Rest, which is full of ghosts, this square is very quiet. Although the surrounding buildings are well preserved in the illusion, they still appear as they were decades ago, without any trace of burning.
But the doors of each building were closed, and there was silence. There were only a few lights around, and it was pitch black.
On the uneven stone floor of the square, there was only the clear brilliance of the moonlight.
Fang Plover put Tata down again and looked at this place with some confusion. In his opinion, there didn't seem to be anything noteworthy here.
There is neither the legendary Blade of False Victory nor any sign of the enemy's existence. Not to mention the shadow of the past, there is not even a single ghost citizen.
But if there was anything strange about it, there was one detail that caught his attention.
He turned around and said to Jita:
"Jita, how do you feel?"
"Well, it's strange, Brother Ed."
The little girl also whispered and answered word by word.