Chapter 7: Full Moon Night and the Magic Fern of the Moon
Chapter 739 Full Moon Night and the Moon Demon Fern
At dawn.
After the strange monster called the Bipolar Demonic Insect ravaged the tribe, everyone escaped death, but they were still in a state of shock.
What frightened them was not only the demonic insect, but also the fact that they saw with their own eyes a black-haired man summoning an unknown power on the hillside, and then ate the monster and turned it into a mask.
Having done such a terrible thing, he just stretched out his hand to grab the mask that fell from the air, and turned his head to smile at them in an understatement.
"you……"
In front of the stone house, the old woman looked at the figure on the hillside absentmindedly and said as if she had discovered some secret for the first time.
"He is not a dragon. This is not the power a human should have."
As she spoke, the old woman became very sure and repeated.
"He is definitely not human."
"How can a person fight against weirdness? How can a person do such a thing?"
The other women wearing masks next to the old woman also thought so. They didn't even have the courage to look directly at the figure on the hillside. Just like what the other party said, how could a person do such a thing.
The black-haired young man looked at this scene, and what he originally wanted to say stopped abruptly. The hand holding the mask dropped, and his expression became a little concerned.
He didn't say anything, he just put away the mask and stuffed it into his arms, then went to help clean up the messy ground without saying a word.
Wherever he walked, everyone gave way.
And his actions also made everyone move, and began to rescue the wounded, clearing out the buildings destroyed by the Biphasic Demonic Insects, collecting useful things, and planning how to repair them.
After dinner in the evening, he went to a deserted place on the back of the mountain alone.
After he looked around and found that there was no one around, he took out the black iron mask from his arms and pressed it on his face.
For a moment, he felt that his throat seemed to be itchy, and he opened his mouth and spit out flames.
Terrifying flames swept through a tree in front of him, devouring it.
He stepped forward to look at the tree and tried to water it down, but to no avail.
At the same time, he also discovered that although the tree was lit, the fire did not rely on the tree as a medium to burn, but its own power.
Soon, the trees were reduced to nothing but black ash, and the flames gradually extinguished.
He tried adding wood to maintain the strange flame, but it didn't work.
This also explained another question he had before, why the two-faced demon insect was walking in the forest like that, but there was no fire beyond the range of the forest.
"Demon fire."
He remembered the name of the flame.
According to his understanding, the meaning is probably a flame that does not belong to the mortal world.
But he had just released the magic fire a few times, and when he was about to leave, he discovered something was wrong, and he couldn't move.
"What's wrong?"
He checked himself and found that the problem came from the mask on his face.
Dense threads of flesh and blood extended from the mask, spreading along his face and neck, and finally completely covering him.
A tree of flesh and blood appeared and took root in the ground.
Then the dense threads of flesh and blood extended deep into the ground.
Those flesh and blood threads gathered together to form something that seemed indestructible, and when it wrapped Helfas, it was like a stone wall.
Wisps of light come from the ground and continue upward along the veins, making the "tree" emit a bright light.
that's all.
It lasted a long time.
It didn't end until the strength was replenished; all the threads of flesh and blood were retracted little by little, shrinking into the iron mask.
It was almost dawn before Helfas took off the mask from his face.
Only then did he fully realize that this was not a real mask. The strange insect-shaped mask was still alive inside and could come back to life at any time, but he still didn't know what the conditions were for it to come back to life.
Although he had successfully used that strange sealing ritual once, he still had no idea what the power of this ritual was and what problems it had.
It's like humans are using fire for the first time, but they don't know what the nature of fire is.
But he was still glad that he decided in advance to come and familiarize himself with the power of this mask. If he had done it at a dangerous moment, it might have really cost him his life.
"Such a problem will occur after a while after releasing the flame. This is a weakness."
"But from another aspect, if it can be used well, it may also become another special method."
In addition to becoming familiar with the power of the mask, he was also practicing the steps of the sealing ceremony.
In the deserted forest, he tried to draw with branches and build with stones.
He tried to paint it on different things with the blood of wild beasts, gradually becoming familiar with and trying out the power derived from the pillars.
About the seal.
He found that the use of different materials to arrange the magic array and the size of the ritual magic array had different effects.
But these are secondary. The two most important points are to know the characteristics of weirdness and to control the weirdness.
In other words, you have to understand it, trap it, or even defeat it before you can seal it.
Otherwise it's all just talk.
Even so, this power is too powerful for people in this world.
Under the tree.
Helfas was fascinated by the ritual formation he had just painted with animal blood, fascinated by its power and mystery, and fascinated by its unknown.
"ceremony!"
"Deploy the spell formation, then read the correct names and perform the correct steps."
"Even if you don't have any power yourself, you can borrow power from another place to fight against the weirdness."
In Helfas's view, this power seemed to have no limit, because he himself had no power at all, and this power was completely borrowed from a pillar called Jibashira.
If it is done by someone else, it should also work.
"As long as the steps are correct, everyone should be able to use the sealing ritual to seal weirdness!"
Helfas thought so.
But he wasn't sure, it was a completely unknown force, and he couldn't be sure.
Just like the mask he knows, he can take it off after putting it on his face, but what will it look like when others put it on, and can it be used in the same way as him?
He instinctively felt that the mask in his arms might not be so obedient, and he did not dare to rashly try to let others wear it.
He thought again of the pillar he had only seen in his dreams.
"What exactly is that pillar?"
"Who made it?"
"Did those who made it give mortals the power to fight against the weird?"
He disappears every night, which makes him even more mysterious in the eyes of the tribesmen.
And Helfas really fell into this mysterious world.
For Helfas, the reason he keeps doing all this repeatedly is partly due to his desire for the extraordinary and mysterious, and partly because he feels a little confused recently.
He doesn't know who he is, where he comes from, or why he's here.
Now, he seems to have borrowed and discovered some kind of power beyond reality.
But he had no idea what to do next.
Is it time to explore who you are?
Or do something else?
Or should you not think about all this and just be an ordinary person and live a quiet life?——
this day.
The entire tribe started cooking early and called everyone outside to prepare to enter the cave and seal it up.
"Today is the full moon, please pay attention."
"Have the people from the hunting team returned?"
"is back."
“Where are the collectors?”
"Is the animal pen closed?"
Helfas also noticed this scene. He found a person and asked what he was doing.
The people in the tribe told him respectfully: "The full moon night is coming."
Helfas: "Full moon night?"
He suddenly remembered the name of this place that Big Beard had told him before. The vast area around this forest was called the Land of the Full Moon. He wondered if the two were connected.
He asked: "What happens on a full moon night?"
The other party said: "When the full moon appears, all the weird things will become commotion. That's when it's the most dangerous time outside."
He asked again: "Then what dangers will there be here? Will weird things break into the tribe?"
The other party shook his head: "That's not true, but everyone who sees the full moon will fall asleep. Of course, there are also rumors that people who see the full moon will disappear, but I haven't seen it yet."
Hearing what the other party said, Helfas nodded, and it didn't sound too dangerous.
However, the other party said it might be dangerous, so Helfas did not choose to go back to the mountain tonight, but chose to stay in the tribe.
But instead of hiding in a cave, he lived in a warehouse.
He closed the door and climbed up the wooden ladder to the roof, ready to take a look at the scene on a full moon night.
Night gradually falls.
But there was no moon in the sky, only the stars were shining.
This feels a little strange.
Helfas lay on the roof with his hands under his head and looked at the stars. He just looked at the stars in the sky and almost fell asleep in this peaceful atmosphere.
Suddenly, a ray of light came from far away.
Helfas slowly stood up and looked up at the sky.
Some stars in the sky did not move, but some "stars" moved out of the way. A moon came from the world of stars, driving away the stars and getting closer to the earth little by little.
That's right, He not only traveled around the world, but also directly descended from the sky.
Helfas had never observed the moon carefully before, but at this moment he clearly felt something was wrong.
seem.
The moon in his memory was not like this.
"The moon seems to be shining on its own."
He widened his eyes and said this.
It seems that in his understanding, the moon cannot shine on its own.
On weekdays, the moon in this world does not shine, but today is different. The moon on that day bloomed with dazzling brilliance, patrolling the sky of the entire world.
The full moon is coming, and the clear light spreads all over the earth.
And the whole world.
It suddenly became noisy.
There are countless grotesque beings born in response to the laws and orders of the birth of the world. Those terrifying monsters all released their own power and responded to each other the moment they saw the moon.
"Roar!" The demonic dragon with multiple heads prostrated towards the moon and let out a roar, turning miles and miles into a dead zone in an instant.
"Woo!" The god-like shadow of clouds walked across the sky, and layers of snowflakes and cold currents fell on the earth, turning the world into a world of ice and snow.
"Hoo!" A monster fell from the sky, bringing a hurricane across the ocean, setting off huge waves. The hurricane faced the moon in the sky, as if the monster opened its huge mouth to pray to the moon, shouting crazily for its faith and worship.
.
The stars in the sky made way for it, countless tentacles on the sea stretched out to touch the moonlight, and all kinds of strange shapes on the earth shouted towards the sky.
Sky, earth, ocean.
Everything, all the weirdness is worshiping the full moon.
This scene is so insane and terrifying that it can be described as a picture of despair beyond purgatory.
On the roof.
Helfas couldn't see further away, but as far as his eyes could see, he could see thousands of strange shadows rising into the sky in a radius of hundreds of miles, chasing the person.
The brightness of the moon.
He stood on the roof and turned around, staring at the scenes in all directions. His face changed from indifferent to pale, and he felt dizzy.
The change came so fast that even he found it difficult to accept it.
At this moment, Big Beard's words suddenly echoed in his ears. The other person said it matter-of-factly, but he didn't take it seriously at that time.
"This is a weird world where talent is superfluous and talent is food."
He had never imagined that the world looked like this.
"this……"
Every one of the weird things that can be seen exceeds the size of the Biphasic Demonic Insect, even though the Biphasic Demonic Insect is already a giant in the eyes of Helfas.
And these beings are not the most conspicuous among them, let alone the most powerful.
As far as the eye can see, there is a mountain-like shadow tearing open the earth and coming out with an earthquake.
"Buzz buzz!"
The ground shook and a strong earthquake was felt, reaching directly to his feet from a distance.
In addition, there are huge plants spreading from the forest and touching the clouds, twisting and entangled like a ladder to the sky.
There were dense hair-like silk threads rolled into a ball in the sky, and there were countless large and small shadows hanging under the hair.
They control various strange laws, and their movements can affect the celestial phenomena of a region. Their single movement can determine the life or death of the people living on this land.
Helfas swallowed and couldn't help but think.
"That should be the most powerful weird thing!"
However, he saw an incredible scene next.
He saw the powerful monster tearing apart the earth and easily creating earthquakes, flying up towards the moon in the sky. The monster wanted to get close to the moon, and wanted to see the true appearance of the moon.
At this time, the moon on that day was also patrolling the earth little by little, getting closer and closer to the earth, and becoming bigger and bigger.
Its light blocks the sky, and its shadow blocks the sea of stars.
However, the moment the powerful monster really got close to it, it disappeared and disintegrated into its light.
Quietly, like a drop of water dissolving in the ocean.
Herfas couldn't believe it.
"melted?"
"died?"
"Isn't he immortal?"
Or it can be said to be a return to law and order.
At this time, Helfas, who saw this scene, suddenly understood something.
"moon?"
"The land of the full moon."
When he raised his head and stared at the moon in the sky, he felt something completely different.
He saw the surprisingly big moon pressing over and grazing the sky above the land of full moons.
Others cannot see clearly, they can only see the endless light source.
But at this moment.
He saw it.
Just like the weird man in the distance who tried to spy on the true form of the moon, he also saw the true appearance of the moon.
That thing was a huge sphere with fluorescent hair, a sphere as big as a star.
The moment Helfas saw that thing, his mind went blank. He stood blankly on the roof, unable to move, but there was a noisy sound in his mind.
"what?"
"moon?"
"No, that can't be the moon. What is that?"
"living?"
"Life? God?"
"Still, that's also..."
"weird?"
That was not the moon at all, at least not the moon that Herfas had originally thought of before.
This was the first time that he had glimpsed the truth of this world. The moment he saw the truth, he was so frightened that he could not breathe. He thought that the bipolar insect he saw was all, and that was not even the tip of the iceberg.
.
But it's not over yet.
Under Helfas' dull gaze, the huge furry "moon" turned over little by little.
Then, he finally saw what it was.
He saw the moon transforming into an eye of some being, slowly opening a slit, looking at the world from the stars and the sky.
now.
He is the only one in the sky.
And Helfas is just one of the hundreds of figures in a tribe named Jin among the tribes of all sizes in the boundless forest in this vast corner of the planet.
In an instant, Helfas felt that tens of thousands of pores all over his body were exploding. However, his whole body seemed to be exploded and torn into countless parts. He was completely swallowed by illusions and madness.
He seemed to see his face being stretched and distorted from another angle, and saw another shadow in his body struggling crazily. He saw himself crying and laughing, wailing and roaring at the sky.
"ah!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
"Moon...moon...moon..."
He looked up to the sky and screamed.
Various emotions such as madness, collapse, filth, and depravity were forcefully forced in. He felt that his body was distorting and his soul was collapsing.
He saw that he was crazy, but could do nothing.
He was so weak under the light of that being called "the moon".
Just when his body was about to collapse completely and the illusory shadow was about to break away from the world, a powerful force came.
He saw the pillar again.
The shadow of the ancient pillar stood up behind him, and he saw many names on it.
Anissa, purple, the face of the bipolar insect.
However, at the top, he also saw a name.
"Huang Yi!"
All the names were listed together, converging into anchor points. He stared at the one that belonged to him, and pulled himself back from the edge of madness and collapse.
Returning to reality, he felt his consciousness sinking a little bit, slowly falling into sleep, and his body falling down from standing little by little.
But he could feel that the terrifying "moon" was still above his head.
"What the hell is that?"
At this moment, he couldn't imagine what kind of world this was, and how ordinary people could live with these weird things.
Why did this world create these mortals after giving birth to these terrible weirdness? It feels like it doesn't give mortals a way to survive at all.
In other words, mortals are the food given to them by birth.
But he felt it shouldn't be, because in his mind and memory he felt...
People should be the protagonists of this world.
It was also at this time.
He seemed to have a vague sense of the meaning of the birth and existence of that pillar.
Perhaps, it is to find a way for ordinary people to survive in a world surrounded by these terrible weirdness.
Fighting against this kind of thing is really too wishful thinking. Being able to survive under such terrifying power is already like a dream.
However, Helfas didn't know that there was more than one such existence.
But ten.
At the last moment when his consciousness went blank, he heard another voice.
"Squeak...squeak..."
"Hiss~"
That was the sound coming from the mask he put in his clothes.
The double-faced devil insect sealed in the mask also felt the light of the moon and couldn't wait to rush out.
When Helfas fell to the ground, he stretched his hand towards the mask, and he clearly felt that the insect was still alive.
He said with his eyes closed.
"You have eaten so many people. As long as the name I gave you still exists, you will never come out."
——
Outside the furnace, Helfas began to carve out a wooden board for the sealing ritual formation.
"Keng! Keng! Keng! Keng!"
His expression no longer looked so confused, and he seemed to have made up his mind.
After the full moon night, Herfas already had plans for the future and began to collect some food that could be preserved for a long time.
Anyone who noticed him knew that he was getting ready to leave.
"Keng!"
He put down the stone chisel in his hand and blew away the wood chips.
"call!"
He took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
He put the wooden board up and looked at the spell array on the wooden board to confirm the details. Now it can be activated at any time as long as it is paired with a spell, so there is no need to draw and arrange it temporarily.
At this time, footsteps were heard in the distance. Helfas looked over and found that it was a bearded person.
He smiled and asked, "Aren't you afraid of me anymore?"
The bearded man was a little embarrassed: "It's not that I'm afraid."
"I just suddenly felt that you were different from what I imagined, so I suddenly didn't dare to talk to you."
The bearded man hesitated for a moment, then finally said.
"I thought you were just like me, a wanderer who left the tribe, but in fact you are not an ordinary person."
"I should have thought of it earlier. After all, there are so many special things about you."
Helfas sat silently, and the bearded man continued.
"I decided to stay. The old clan leader has discussed with others and asked me to join their tribe."
The bearded man looked at Helfas with a very serious expression.
"But when the tribe is repaired and enough supplies are prepared, I will take some people and set off to other tribes to be a merchant and bring back things from other tribes."
"I am very familiar with this forest and have been to many tribes. I should be able to do this well."
The black-haired young man waited until the bearded man finished speaking, then nodded and said something.
"I have also decided to leave today."
Big Beard: "I guessed it."
The bearded man looked at the black-haired young man and told him.
"Actually, the old patriarch hopes that you can stay. After all, you have such a powerful power, but they don't dare to say it. They want me to say it."
"But I understand that you won't stay."
"Such a small tribe cannot retain a being like you."
The black-haired young man raised his head, staring at the bearded man and told him.
"Actually, I don't know if I am the extraordinary person you say. I don't even know who I am."
"However, recently I have really figured out what I want to do."
"Since I can possess some special powers, is this the meaning of my coming to this world?"
The black-haired young man stood up, put the wooden boards into the basket and put them away.
"So I decided to follow those weird footprints to find the secret of this power and my own origin."
He carried a basket on his back, which was already filled with his things and food. He was originally going to go to the bearded man to say goodbye, but it was just right now.
Before setting off, he took out something and handed it to the bearded man.
"I've given it to you. If you encounter something weird while doing business on the road, you'll definitely be able to use it."
He said with a somewhat complicated mood.
"Live well and live in this weird world."
The bearded man took a look and saw that it was the dragon incense he had asked Helfas to keep.
"Aren't you going to use it?"
Helfas took out a black mask: "I have this."
The bearded man was not being pretentious. He knew that Helfas had no need for this anymore.
He put away the dragon incense and asked the other party: "Will we meet again?"
Helfas laughed and patted the bearded man on the shoulder.
"Of course, I will come to your caravan to buy things in the future!"
"Although I may be different from you in some ways, I still need to eat and drink, and I also want to wear nice clothes and use beautiful pottery bowls."
Helfas raised his feet, revealing the shoes given to him by the bearded man.
"For example, wear sturdy shoes."
The bearded man was extremely happy. Helfas's words and actions gave him a sense of familiarity, making him feel that Helfas did not look down upon him and that the other person was a living person.
"Then I will definitely leave the best for you when the time comes."
Helfas nodded and was about to leave, but when he was about to enter the forest at the last moment, the bearded man suddenly called him.
"Herfas!"
Helfas turned back and looked at the bearded man.
Big Beard said.
"Actually, I am not a businessman at all. I am just a useless person who was driven out by the tribe. It was you who told me the meaning of a businessman and made me do something that I am proud of."
"Thank you, thank you for giving me a reason to move forward in life."
"I will continue to do it seriously, just like you said, bring what you need to those who need it."
Helfas didn't say anything, just waved towards the bearded man.
Although it was the first time for the bearded man to see this gesture, he knew that it meant farewell. He immediately raised his hand and waved vigorously towards Helfas.
Herfas turned around.
Putting on the black mask, he strode into the jungle.
He seemed to have become a strange person and merged into the strange world in the wilderness.
There is one more businessman in this world, and there is one more existence that can seal the weirdness, just like a gust of wind blowing into the distance.
No matter which one, it will change the world to a greater or lesser extent.