Long Qi and his party were like tourists in the old days who made a special trip to watch the sunrise, half-conscious and half-awake, sulking up the mountain.
In the early morning, dark ink and dark blue are still the main colors in the mountains. But once you get on the old Tianji Highway, you can see that the morning glow is like a line of fire, burning at the boundary between the thick clouds and the sky. So much so that the mountains fill the sea of clouds.
, just like the wavy lines drawn randomly, it becomes particularly abstract.
Whenever you are on a relatively high or large mountain and can encounter the sea of clouds without affecting the sunrise, it is considered a small blessing.
Especially on this ridge of sky with an altitude of 1,700 meters, when walking on the extremely thin and narrow section of the road, the clouds spread out from the two wings. The old road under your feet is really like a ladder set up between the sea of clouds, leading directly to the divine court.
Half hidden, the end cannot be seen at a glance.
Such a stunning view, among the group of people, only a few were in the mood to appreciate it.
Long Qi felt that the various kinds of vegetation growing wildly around him were more concrete and realistic - but what made Long Qi feel emotional was not their vigorous vitality, but the many traces of flames burning in the middle, as well as the distorted and deformed plants that appeared from time to time.
The remains of ferocious birds and beasts.
"No wonder no freaks came down the mountain last night. They all died here."
Even though Zhao Xi was fully armed, he still had to mutter when he should. While speaking, he also picked up half of the bird's leg from the bushes that were almost two meters high. However, unexpectedly, a huge lump was pulled out from behind.
Semi-carbonized special-shaped structure.
"Ouch!"
Zhao Xi reacted half exaggeratedly and half truthfully.
Just because this "alien" really challenges the normal aesthetics of human beings. It looks like a pile of chopped muscles, bones and blood.
The meat and other ingredients are burned with flames and then kneaded together.
Well, it's "kneading" - roughly speaking, it's like a freshly risen dough that was hastily kneaded by some naughty boy into a god-knows-what rough shape, and then lost interest and left it here.
What helped the half-section of the bird's leg to pull out the "abnormal" shape was a muscle that seemed to be severed but not severed. It even twitched in Zhao Xi's hand.
This twitching feeling has spread to the main body of the "alien" structure - under the cool mountain breeze, this foreign body made of flesh and blood feels like it is still expanding and contracting slightly, and there is a strange breathing rhythm.
Zhao Xi couldn't stand it anymore, so he threw it back into the bushes and turned to ask Lao Yao: "Is this a specialty here?"
Lao Yao shook his head quickly.
"It feels a bit familiar," Frith said.
Long Qi reluctantly pulled himself together, tried hard to get rid of the negative effects of staying up all night and working part-time as the "reset button" and "card match", and went to see this piece of flesh and blood creation, but in addition to reaping the disgusting feeling of biological instinct, there was something in his mind.
Still banging around and getting nothing at all.
In comparison, the two extraordinary beings who had also stayed up all night were too much effort.
Tiger gave an answer: "There is such a thing in the plateau wilderness, but there are still follow-up steps."
"Haha, I didn't come out as Jin Tong or Gong Qi." Mo La added, and also gave an example, "Nick who escaped from Harbin has almost the same virtue."
"Uh, BOSS's handiwork?"
Long Qi immediately thought of the blue electric fire that covered the three peaks more than an hour ago...
"So what exactly is this ability?"
"It is said to be a 'magnetizing' force
"Measure." Mo La seemed to be in a good mood, and he was actually willing to answer such a secret, "It seems that he is using external objects to exert his power, not his own ability. You can ask your BOSS or Li Wei for details."
"Then forget it."
Long Qi couldn't help but yawned again. With a similar answer, he would not delve into the ins and outs of such a terrifying and ugly thing.
He raised his head again and looked at the stopped wind blades on the ridge in the distance, assessing the distance: "I just want to know if the BOSS is really there.
"I just want to know if Tuge was here last night."
The tiger's gaze rested on a relatively obvious trace of the old road. Anyone with some basic common sense would be able to tell that it was a rut, but common sense would never explain it. It had been completely covered by the roots of vigorous vegetation and even more dangerous distorted bacteria.
What kind of vehicle can run over the old road on the covered ridge?
Long Qi naturally thought of what he saw on the shuttle the day before yesterday, the flying off-road vehicle that almost collided with him head-on.
Of course, this also includes the extraordinary person in the car:
3 of hearts, Tuger.
Extraordinary species are already beyond imagination, but this Tu Ge, who can make the tiger, perhaps also Mo La, and even Ronan seriously deal with it... must be more unique.
So Long Qi said with emotion: "As long as he is not here now, it will be fine."
"Well, not here." Mo La gave a very positive answer, and bought one get one free, "Luo Yuan also asked him to drive away."
Long Qi immediately showed his face: "Does that mean it's safe on this mountain peak now?"
"Aren't you Goddess Luo more dangerous than those two?
risk?"
"BOSS is still easy to talk to..."
Zhao Xi was unwilling to give up the opportunity to flatter him, but his words that sounded very smooth to him yesterday now made him feel weak and weak as soon as he spoke them.
The "Collective Nightmare" incident that happened not long ago was really impactful. Moreover, Zhao Xi also had a very scientific spirit of verification and specifically sought out teammates who had returned in advance to make inquiries.
Then I learned that from last night to early this morning, there were more than 20 people in the former Deep Blue Cluster of about 30 people, and they fell into the nightmare of "endless battle".
Of course, the reason for such a high proportion is probably because they were already highly associated with Ronan in the past two days, and most of them watched the relevant live broadcasts, so the stimulation they suffered was more direct.
But when I think about my own character cards and the new ways to die in the game, some ideas are still changing after all.
Fortunately, Mo La did not dwell on this topic. She focused more on the clouds on both sides of the sky ridge, especially the area in the north facing the main peak.
There is the main frame of the U-shaped mountain range. At this time, the central valley is completely covered by gray clouds. Even the morning light in the sky has not stained the color for the time being...or it has already stained, but there are a lot of new gray clouds.
The gas surges up, mixing and diluting it.
After following Mo La for a long time, many people are also murmuring in their hearts.
"This area in the middle seems to be still leaking."
What Zhao Xi was talking about was the last card game before setting off after receiving Ronan's instructions.
At that time, it was already more than half an hour after the blue electric fire covered the three spires. It was affected by the abnormal phenomenon, including of course the "collective nightmare" news.
Due to the impact of the news, the participants in the game were a little distracted, and everyone was playing badly. It was just the "basic environment" itself that hosted the game, and it was still following the established logic. Every time it was restarted, the real-time situation of the area involved would be refreshed.
So, everyone saw at that time that on the side of the Three Spiers, in addition to the diffuse blue electric fire, there was also a rich gray-white light gas, spurting out from the valley surrounded by the U-shaped mountains, but no conclusive evidence could be found.
"spout".
Soon, the card game was suspended after Ronan's updated instructions, and the group was "ordered" to meet under the Tianji wind turbine. The "basic environment" fixed on the desktop could not be taken away, but at that time the three spires
The scene where the sky is dyed blue and gray, and the electric fire and light gas are intertwined is still engraved in everyone's heart.
After all, in today's world, the color "grey" is so unpleasant.
"Isn't it that 'grey matter' pollution?"
Zhao Xi finally couldn't help but ask. It was rare that he could endure it for so long.
It’s no wonder that Zhao Xi would think of this. After all, he was carrying out his mission in Huaicheng and suddenly appeared here. Wasn’t it because he was dealing with “gray matter” pollution under the leadership of Ronan?
Mo La smiled and turned to ask Tiger: "Aren't you someone's operator? Can you provide some professional advice?"
The tiger ignored her and turned to ask Zhao Xi: "I just learned how to apply developer the day before yesterday and have forgotten it today?"
"Ah? Ah!"
Zhao Xi also didn't sleep much last night and was confused for a while. After Tiger reminded him, he quickly remembered:
"The Eye of Knowledge!"
The day before yesterday, at the underground cave engineering camp, before the Deep Blue Group set off, Ronan specially taught them a method called "Eye of Knowledge".
"The unique configuration allows them to project the domain rules of "formatted space" over long distances, throughout the material level, the spiritual ocean and even the abyss, spraying "developer" on "foreign matter" including "grey matter"
, transforming the intangible existence into tangible concreteness.
Zhao Xi shouldn't forget this new skill he just learned.
But along the way, the various operations of the Deep Blue Cluster were too passive, and in the process they were deeply coupled with the "Blood Ring Fortress", so that Zhao Xi completely regarded himself as a tool man, and only regarded himself as a movable device with relevant configurations.
carrier.
But has he really forgotten?
of course not.
In fact, in the card games from last night to early morning, Zhao Xi had seen his character card more than once... Of course, it also included Frith, Liu Fengming and other comrades in the Deep Blue Cluster.
In this chaotic, dangerous and high-end battle situation, either alone or together, they used various application techniques from the Eye of Configuration and even the Blood Ring Fortress to achieve the advanced effect of "integration of detection and attack"
.
At that time, Zhao Xi could be said to be dazzled, but he was just watching! Although he was watching very carefully, he was dizzy and upset.
But if you really want to apply the experience of selling a little bit to the practical level, if there is no one to guide you...
"Holy shit?"
During this period of hesitation in Zhao Xi's mind, another part of his mind naturally continued the memories in his heart, that is, the experience of learning and passive application the day before yesterday, driving the fire of format and drawing lines in the void.
Soon, the most basic arc-shaped basic structures of the Eye of Knowledge were revealed, and Zhao Xi put them together with almost zero difficulty.
Connect it into a simple three-dimensional ball.
If we proceed mechanically according to what we learned the day before yesterday, similar configurations of other people should be superimposed by now, eventually forming a complex collective structure with formatted space as the carrier.
However, at this time, Zhao Xi, through his observations in those few card games, had in his mind dozens or hundreds of times that "I" and other comrades had to resort to simplified methods to make fortunes in high-risk battle situations.
So it was almost a matter of course that his thoughts continued to drive the fire of format, and he completed a cycle transition stiffly but accurately. Without affecting the results of the previous wave of construction, the second round of construction began.
This time, he completed the splicing of the basic configuration at a faster speed and successfully superimposed it on the first wave of configuration.
It's a bit misplaced, but it doesn't matter.
It will be round three soon.
This cycle transition has become quite smooth, as if he has practiced it hundreds of times in private.
"Oh oh oh!"
Zhao Xi even had time to scream, beckoning everyone to come and take a look. That is to say, during the time when he was rude and vocal, the third, fourth, and fifth rounds of configuration, splicing, and superposition were completed in one go!
A "demon eye" that looks vague but is unmistakable appears in the swaying fire of format.
The "demon eyes" in the blazing white flames first reflected back on Zhao Xi himself, fine-tuning each other's Qi and achieving deeper synchronization with him. Then, following Zhao Xi's thoughts, he directed his gloomy gaze to the north of the Sky Ridge, straight to the sky.
View the sea of clouds in the valley in the center of the U-shaped mountain range.
So, three to five seconds later, Zhao Xi captured that unique smoke with a strange sense of ruin in the surging sea of clouds.
Misty mist.
They are mixed in the sea of clouds, and their gray texture seems to be integrated with the morning clouds. But under the observation of the eye of formation, the "developer" has already taken effect, and what the mind points to will not be the same as normal in any case.
Clouds are confused.
"Yes, indeed there is!"
Zhao Xi yelled, slapping his thighs in excitement, but he forgot that he was now fully clothed, and almost knocked his own exoskeleton armor to pieces.
Moreover, soon he suddenly gained something new: "Hey, there seems to be something else... Damn, I saw the spout!"
After shouting here, he suddenly stopped and stopped talking.
After only half a second, Fries and Liu Fengming, two teammates who had also learned the "Eye of Knowledge" and whose poker experience was not as good as his, blurted out almost at the same time: