Later, the two of them exited the cave and came to the slightly taller hut in the square. That hut was only relatively tall. These huts had very sloping thatched roofs. The end wall of the hut in front of them was facing the small building.
The bonfire in the middle of the square, the door on the end wall can only be entered by leaning over and lowering your head. In front of the door is a log platform, about 30 cm high, extending more than 3 meters from the end wall, with a 4-meter wooden platform on the outside.
A meter-high wooden pillar decorated with some feathers, some carved patterns, and painted with red and white paint.
There is a thin neck at the top of the wooden pillar. The logs above the thin neck are carved into a square shape. A round eye-like carving is carved on each side and is painted with red and white colors. This carving
Just looking at it can give people a very strange feeling, as if these eyes are peering into everyone who sees it.
Steven looked at the wooden pillar and said: "Kate, I think this wooden pillar is very much like a totem, what do you think?" Kate said: "Well, this should be a totem pole, but the eye pattern on the top represents
What?" Steven said: "Maybe it's some god worshiped by these ogres, who knows."
The two then leaned into the thatched house. It was very dark inside, mixed with all kinds of strange smells, including medicinal smells, rotten smells and musty smells. In short, they only stayed for a while before they had to exit.
, nothing worthy of study was found inside. There were some grass, shrubs and bark piled in the corners of the house. It was hard to tell what the dark things in the large and small clay pots on the shelves were.
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Because it was a bit late, the two of them withdrew and prepared to leave. Steven said to Kate: "Kate, during the battle just now, the dwarfs who were sentrying in other directions outside the camp did not rush over to fight. They probably ran away. Maybe they
Will bring other ogres here, which direction should we go now?"
Kate said: "After we get the backpack first, let's go back to the way we came. I estimate that these ogres will not only have such a small number of people. They will definitely try to find us, and these things have very poor tracking ability in the jungle."
No worse than a Zemen hunter."
So the two of them retreated in the direction where their backpacks were hidden. Not long after, they carried their backpacks on their backs. After correcting their direction, they quickly traveled a few kilometers. By this time, it was getting dark and they had to stop to prepare for camping.
After the two simply ate something, they got into the tent to rest. Steven was still on duty for the rest of the night. In order not to be discovered, they put out the campfire after the meal. Steven sat in the tent as usual and practiced the soul flame visualization method.
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Later he entered a state of silence, and the flame appeared in the head of Steven's soul body. After this period of practice, Steven's current soul body can freely approach or leave Steven within a certain distance.
Wen's body can be retracted into his body at a certain distance, but if he goes out beyond a certain range, he will automatically exit silence.
When practicing in a tent, the soul body can only be inside the tent. If you move the soul body outside the tent, you will immediately exit the silence. Of course, this soul body can penetrate the canvas of the tent, but now Steven cannot
As usual, sometimes I try to do those penetration experiments. At this time, I just put my soul body against my back and visualize the flames.
But things have changed tonight! Steven can gradually see the outer particles clearly when observing the flame! The outer edge of the flame is orange-red. In the past, Steven could clearly observe the flames when he visualized the flame.
It is composed of extremely fine particles, but the specific shape of these particles cannot be distinguished, but today he can tell that the particles in the orange-red flames are actually some runes!
Slowly, these runes became clearer. They seemed to be runes of different shapes. Steven carefully distinguished them for a while and determined that these runes were divided into 4 shapes. They were rising and burning on the periphery of the flame. Some runes would
Rising away from the flame, this appears as tiny sparks leaving the flame itself. This phenomenon makes the flame look very vivid.
And those orange parts in the middle can only be distinguished as some tiny particles, and the core yellow part cannot be distinguished yet. The orange-red runes on the periphery gradually become smaller as they transition to orange particles. Steven can now be sure.
These particles that are still unclear must also be runes, but they are smaller and more subtle and cannot be distinguished yet.
Steven had never seen these four types of runes before. He could only confirm that they were not of the same type as the runes on the hexagram array and portal frame in the ruins. Steven suppressed his rising curiosity and calmed down.
The fire burns in the mind of the soul body.
It seemed that a long time passed, and it seemed that it was only a short moment. Steven exited the silent state. Before he opened his eyes, he felt that the world around him was different from usual. Those animals in the distance bumped into each other when walking.
The subtle sounds of branches and leaves opening, the sound of the night breeze blowing the treetops, and the sound of mosquitoes flapping their wings in the bushes near the tent are all reflected in my mind in detail.
The vague light groups that appeared in his mind like shimmers corresponded to the positions of those sounds. When he concentrated, he could even enlarge those light groups and feel the fuzzy shapes in the shimmer. They were not actually shimmers.
, it’s just a certain impression generated in his mind. Steven doesn’t know how to describe it, so he can only use the word gleam instead.
There is a beetle crawling on the branches and leaves in the bushes outside the tent. Steven can hear the crawling sound and at the same time perceive the dim image in his mind, and feel the insect when he concentrates.
With a vague image, I observed that it was crawling slowly along the branches and leaves. The young leaves were pushed down by it, and its body fell slightly. After a while, it stopped again. At this time, it did not make any sound, but Steve
Wen could still feel it, and it wasn't until he shifted his attention that its vague image of light in his mind disappeared.
Steven was shocked by what happened to him. He thought and felt that the light group that appeared in his mind was not just an intuitive perception, but more like a simulation. This was similar to the impression of a light group. He felt
They are the souls of animals that he perceives. They show different intensities according to the distance and body size. Those that are closer and larger are brighter, and those that are further away and smaller are darker.
This feeling is different from the previous perception. The creatures heard and seen before could only be vaguely located, and their shapes could not be simulated in the mind. Now the creatures heard and seen by Steven can be simultaneously
Appearing in the spiritual world, their souls are simulated in the form of shimmering light groups. The strength of the light group reflects the distance and the size of the object being sensed. You can roughly distinguish the creature by focusing on a certain light group.
The fuzzy shape, and the strength of this light group also represents the strength of the souls of those creatures that are perceived. The soul light groups simulated in the spirit are generated based on these perceptions as clues.
Steven kept sensing the impressions made by the sounds of distant and nearby creatures on his mind. He also found that his range of perception had increased. In the past, he could hear relatively subtle sounds within about 50 meters.
Now he can hear sounds farther away if he concentrates, but there is no test, so he can't be sure how much the range has expanded.