"The enemy is hidden and we are exposed. These guys have never been easy to deal with." Xia Daxue sighed.
"Isn't there a way to completely eliminate them?" Teacher Wu asked unwillingly.
"In times of peace, there may be ways. Now there are no-man's lands everywhere in the wild. They have plenty of places to hide and develop. We can only passively defend." Xia Daxue shook his head.
"Fortunately, most cultivators are unwilling to abandon the enjoyment of normal people and join them. Only those who are desperate and have twisted minds will join them. This makes their development soil always limited and unable to truly grow." Ouyang said with relief.
"Yes, this is even more powerful than Zi Gong. Zi Gong can also enjoy food and wine. All they can enjoy is power and fear..." Shen Rui shook his head.
"However, there are always perverted people who choose shadow transformation. After all, power itself is the easiest to fascinate people. It is too slow to obtain power through normal practice. Especially ordinary practitioners are more likely to face bottlenecks." Xia Daxue was also at a loss.
The Pillar of Shadow has always been a thorn in the side of the Administration and even other regions.
But they come and go without a trace, appearing in the shadows, and it is too difficult to round them up.
They can easily survive in the wild, absorb some life energy, and meet the needs of shadow particles.
Moreover, they still retain human intelligence, so you can imagine how difficult it is to deal with them.
If someone is sent inside, they will be assimilated by the shadow particles. Even those with extraordinary will will have difficulty resisting the mysterious power.
When Shen Rui saw the three people frowning, he immediately understood that this long-standing enemy was indeed extremely troublesome.
It seems that we still have to start from the crow, at least it has penetrated into the opponent's interior and knows a lot of information.
But Shen Rui understands that it is impossible to obtain these things from the other party for free, and something must be paid, and even a lot of things must be paid.
Thinking of this, he said to the three of them: "Temporarily order Captain Qi to be more vigilant. Once these shadows appear, the originally easy-to-achieve goal will also have variables. In addition, 20 more magic controllers will be sent over to make complete preparations. "
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away." Teacher Wu responded.
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Then Shen Rui came to his cabin and asked Xue Chengguang, the crow, how to communicate. The other party never told him the method.
But Shen Rui understands that he is always under the opponent's eye. In addition to the personal inventory, which the opponent cannot enter, he can even enter the battlefield space with the help of the enemy's identity.
So he said directly: "Senior, please show up and discuss something."
Sure enough, not long after, a crow appeared outside the window, as if it had been staying there forever.
"The thing you want to ask is probably related to the Pillar of Shadows, right?" Crow said lightly.
"It seems that you are really watching my every move." Shen Ruiruo said pointedly.
Of course he didn't want anyone to stare at him, but it was a pity that there was only a small map of the battlefield, but no big map to look at.
Otherwise, the enemy can be found within the field of vision.
He found that he had another task to develop Goldfinger, which was to evolve the game map of the real world.
If this game function were evolved, the effect would be as great as the team halo.
After all, intelligence comes first, and the game map can show the location of the enemy within the field of vision.
His team skill "Trace" can detect the subtle traces left by the enemy on the ground. Unfortunately, this crow seems to have left no traces and cannot be checked, or the shadow itself will not leave traces.
"This is not surveillance, but protection for you. I can't let my investment go to waste halfway." Crow explained.
"Forget it, I want to know more information about the Pillar of Shadows, the more the better."
"You can bear to ask now, why didn't you ask before?"
"The sages have said that the more you know, the more dangerous you are."
"That's really smart. Now you feel you have the strength to bear this risk." Crow praised.
"There should be some. I discovered that those shadows are not that powerful. They also have many limitations. I have never seen them fighting head-on." Shen Rui said seriously.
"You have very good eyesight. Yes, one of the major weaknesses of the shadows is that they cannot be exposed to the sun. They seem to come and go without a trace, but if they are against practitioners of the same level, they will be easily crushed because they Without a body, without a body, it seems that there is no restraint, but in fact, there is no strongest barrier to protect the consciousness. During the battle, once their particle bodies are damaged, the consciousness will directly collapse."
The crow spoke carefully, as if it didn't care about exposing the organization it belonged to.
It's normal. It's not a loyal member of that organization in the first place, it's just trying to get inside the other party to gain power.
Shen Rui nodded, remembering that in Western mythology, the reason why the devil Lucifer fell from the Morning Star Angels was because God gave the newborn Adam a physical body, but allowed them, angels with outstanding military exploits, to still maintain their spiritual state.
The physical body is definitely not a burden, but something that the king of angels longs for. Only the trinity of spirit, flesh, and god can truly become a god.
These shadows abandoned their physical bodies and gained freedom, but at the same time they also completely exposed their consciousness and became extremely fragile.
Normal practitioners would strengthen their bodies and provide layer upon layer of protection, but they could only rely on the defense of the particles themselves.
This is the reason why every time they meet them, they always hide in the dark and plot against themselves, instead of daring to initiate a head-on confrontation like the aberrations do.
"Then what is the purpose of the Pillar of Shadow? Is it to push the earth into a dark world, as they say, and are they going to be the king of darkness?" Shen Rui continued to ask.
"Yes, this is their purpose, and they never cover up their purpose, because they can't hide it. If the world falls into darkness, for them, it will be a complete advantage, and they no longer have to worry about the existence of sunlight. They are a group of legendary fearful people. Foreign objects in the sun, zombies, and vampires are destined to only survive in the darkness..." Crow affirmed.
Shen Rui stared at the crow seriously, thinking in his heart, Xue Chengguang, isn't he a member of the shadows? Why do you still despise them so much?
Could it be said that he has escaped from it and found a way to regain his body?
It is possible that, judging from his current form, he has always been in the state of a crow, probably capable of possessing animals to solve physical problems.
It's just that he can't return to human form yet, after all, the human body is too complex.
Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of a person, Shan Hu.
Xue Chengguang had a conversation with Shan Hu. He discovered this by checking the surveillance on the ship, but he did not make it public because he believed that Shan Hu would not have his mind twisted and that he was a truly kind person.
Just like among snakes, there are venomous snakes, and there are white queens. Among tigers, there are man-eating tigers, and there are tigers like him.
Now it seems that Xue Chengguang's purpose of approaching the other party is to obtain the transformation technology in the other party's hands.