It has also suffered from the demonic claws of human hunters,
It is rebellious,
Flying away from the forest her father built for her.
it sneered,
The incompetent father can only seek comfort in false flattery.
However at a certain moment,
When it passes through the extremely familiar steel railing,
While waiting for the day of release with my familiar companions.
She saw it,
The "great bird" who owns a forest,
Facing the group of ants tripping over me,
Nod and bow.
after,
The white phoenix locked in a cage,
Sing no more songs of reproach.
——The poem "Caged Bird" written by Lin Shuwen, prologue.
It’s two o’clock in the morning on May 28, 2020 in the Blue Star Gregorian calendar.
Feeling uneasy, Lan Ruxin woke up from the hammock. She moved her body and walked alone to the overlooking cliff at the outermost edge of the camp.
This camp used to be Ye Lanxin's main camp. After it was captured by Lan Ruxin using teleportation magic, Ye Lanxin detonated the explosives buried here and destroyed all the equipment and data in order to stop the losses as much as possible.
But although it has been turned into ruins, the location of this camp is still one of the best in the entire Xushan Mountain. It has all the necessary elements for life, and there are mountain roads leading to all directions.
At the same time, the cliff behind it is the best observation point in the entire Xushan Mountain. You can overlook most of the Xushan Mountain from a high position.
This is also Ye Lanxin's favorite place when he was in Xushan.
Now, her sister Lan Ruxin was kicking her legs and sitting on the edge of the cliff, bending her body back at a forty-five degree angle. Lan Ruxin looked up at the sky filled with stars and the bright moon.
Three hours ago, in order to explore the location of Ye Lang's heart, she asked the captains of "Wutong" to lead several teams of scouts into Xushan. At this time, the only person left by her side was "Lin Shuwen" who assisted in the distribution.
During the assignment, Lan Ruxin listened to the arrangements of "Lin Shuwen" and assigned each team the direction and route of exploration. He even gave Jin Ming and Liu Qing each a "Heavy Rain" made of dark element crystals on the grounds of insufficient personal combat effectiveness.
Pear Blossom Needle".
Based on Xu Feng's intelligence not long ago, Lan Ruxin vaguely guessed some inside stories.
But it was Damon who worried her so much. He was suddenly "resurrected" yesterday and forcibly intervened in the arrangement of the exploration route. He implanted a strange spell on the backs of everyone in "Wutong". According to his
Explain, this is a harmless technique used for communication and gathering necessary information.
Although there is a high probability that they will be safe when they come into contact with Ye Lanxin, everything about Damon should not be inferred based on common sense.
Thinking of this, Lan Ruxin sighed. She felt a deep sense of powerlessness. As a nominal commander, she could not even reduce the danger probability of her subordinates.
In the past ten years, in order to achieve their goals, she and everyone in "Wutong" have become accustomed to playing the role of Daimon's remote-controlled marionette, and she is more like a caged bird who is planned to be locked in a cage with Daimon forever.
She once thought that now that she was becoming more mature, she could take away some of the power from that demon, and at least protect the "Wutong" that had been guarding her to some extent. But the reality was that the new one was called "Gravity"
The chains of the plan made her lose the courage to even cry.
The words of praise and ridicule a few days ago are already
It was her happiest moment in the past ten years.
"Aren't you still going to bed so late?"
"This is my business, you don't need to worry about it."
Damon's voice was like the loudest noise. Lan Ruxin kept her posture and said without looking back:
"Don't give me those weird words, stay away from me."
"How could I be so mean to my little princess? I just saw that my little princess was in a bad mood and wanted to come over to express my concern. By the way..."
Damon stopped talking and looked at Lan Ruxin's back with a smile.
"If you fart, hurry up."
"By the way, let me tell my dear little princess that I have made arrangements with our hidden line. When he is captured by Ye Lanxin, the balance of victory will tilt in our favor."
"Aren't you afraid that your technique will be destroyed by Ye Lanxin and the others?"
"That's just a bait to make the other party feel at ease. As long as he is not betrayed by some naughty troublemakers, are you right, my dear little princess?"
The most obvious hint could no longer frighten Lan Ruxin. Over the years, Damon had been testing them in similar ways all the time, as if he had always treated them as traitors.
But to them, it doesn't matter anymore.
"So? As long as he lives and waits until we pick him up, this civil war will be won?"
"Yes, as long as he is alive, even if it is just a fragment of information."
Damon's eyes revealed a terrifying ferocious light, and Lan Ruxin's complexion gradually turned ugly.
According to Damon's intention, it seems that he installed something on the traitor that can carry intelligence, but isn't that technique a bit too simple?
"Oh Du, my little junior brother is here, so I will leave first. Remember to rest early, my little princess~"
New footsteps sounded from behind Lan Ruxin. Damon waved to "Lin Shuwen" who looked murderous, and approached his command vehicle with a kind smile.
"Lin Shuwen" released his hand holding the "Shadow" sword, walked to Lan Ruxin's side, and sat down with a little too much force.
"Is the concealed weapon you made reliable?"
"They have already met."
On a forest path eight kilometers away from the two of them, a silver turtle appeared on the shoulder of "Jin Ming". He raised his right hand from the black cloak he was wearing, and then changed his gestures.
"dispersion!"
Several metal walls rose from where the team was. Immediately afterwards, thick black smoke enveloped the entire forest, and messy footsteps scattered in all directions. When the black smoke dissipated, there was no longer any humanoid creature here.
trace.
"Gu~gu~"
The call of a turtle dove or a cuckoo echoed in the gradually calming mountain forest. The moonlight passed through the gaps in the leaves, illuminating the shadows of the originally upright trees.
Time passed like this for more than ten minutes.
Finally, following the fluctuation of a human figure, the originally normal woods began to show various ripples, as if time and space had disappeared. "Jin Ming" and his group of twenty people turned off the cloak's assimilation device and reappeared in the woods.
The cloaks they wear are the latest optical stealth suits developed by Eagle Nation, which can assimilate the environment by extracting the surrounding environment. However, the drawback is that these mass-produced models cannot yet achieve real-time assimilation.
"Confirm that the crisis is over and move on."
"Jin Ming" looked around again and again, then looked down at his watch.
The time is now 3:30 in the morning, and it is almost dawn. If they return along the original route, it will take about an hour and a half. In other words, they still have 30 minutes to continue exploring.
However, someone who had been watching this group of people did not want them to continue exploring or go back.
The fog in the forest gradually began to thicken. "Jin Ming" noticed something and glanced at the moonlight subconsciously, and then he opened his eyes wide.
Under the bright and boundless moonlight, what is filled with mist is not white water vapor, but black mist!
"All armed..."
"ah!"
The moment he gave the order, a flash of tingling sensation crossed his cheek, and then, the screams from the team members behind him shook the air of the entire forest.
"Jin Ming" summoned his elemental spirit and tried to build a metal wall again to cover himself and the team members. However, in an instant, a cold touch touched his neck.
"do not move."
Behind him, a figure emerged from the shadow of the "fat" tree, restraining "Jin Ming".
Behind her, the flames rising out of thin air formed nineteen flame vortexes, separating the members of "Jin Ming" one after another.
"You just want to stop me...?"
A team member with a water elemental spirit cursed. He condensed the water vapor in the air to form a water flow, which directly extinguished the flame vortex surrounding himself. He covered the scratches all over his body and walked out.
However, the moment he escaped, a black shadow passed over his head, and with the final words of shock, a dark scar appeared on his neck. Then, a black flame rose up and enveloped him.
His body was like a black hole, wiping him away from this time and space.
The elemental spirit that lost its master fell to the ground without any force and was picked up by the companions of the water elemental spirit living in this area.
"Put...put down all disguises!"
After seeing this scene, "Jin Ming" understood the absolute gap between them, but what he said was not to protect the team members.
He is "assisting" the opponent to compare the information of the players behind him. In other words, he is "giving a gift."
"According to the data, except for the third one in the second row..."
"Dagger" scattered the arm sword that had just been decapitated on his right arm. "Mo" listened to the instructions of the "Red Wind" (Red Hyacinth) staff in the earphones and canceled the flame vortex. Then, the burnt bitterness was mixed with
The screams echoed through the woods.
Normally, when there is room for success, Ye Lanxin will let "Red Wind" carefully identify the identity, leaving a way for those who are lucky enough to survive.
Seeing this scene, "Jin Ming" slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He put away the whirring elemental spirit and felt "Zhi"'s knife being removed from his neck.
"Forehead!"
"Dagger" hit "Jin Ming" on the back of the neck with a knife, knocking him unconscious. He motioned to "Zhi" and "Mo" to take the remaining two stunned team members, and he took off the dew on his right hand.
He pointed at his glove and looked at the outside of his palm that had just hit "Jin Ming" on the back of the neck.
On the outside of his palm, a small hole was tightly blocked by a small clot of blood.
"It's so sinister..."
Silently complaining, "Dagger" put on his gloves again and followed the team.
On the back of "Jin Ming"'s neck, a strange spell flashed by, and then moved to his right forearm as if teleporting.