"This fog..." Bedivere squinted his eyes and looked at the gray fog that filled the Romani territory, expressing confusion: "This thing existed before? Where did it come from?"
"It was indeed there before," replied Academician Zuster, who had inspected Romani: "To be honest, it should have started seven years ago."
Seven years ago, Bediwell recalled that it happened to be the time when the fox tribe was exterminated. Without the human influence of the foxes, this desolate land gradually became what it is today.
He looked carefully at the effects on the holographic screen. In the Romani territory where the gray fog was filled and the surrounding woods could only be vaguely seen, there seemed to be some translucent shadows shaking.
"Warcraft?" Bedivere asked.
"No, it's just a ghost." Zuster replied: "It's probably something like a phantom. Because this strange gray mist will affect the visual nerves of the person who inhales it, leading to hallucinations."
"What are you talking about, Zuster?" Bedivere hummed: "We are on the ship now. We have never inhaled any gray mist."
"Ah this..."
"Eve, check the air tightness." The werewolf young man ordered, just in case.
"The air tightness inspection of the bridge is completed. Conclusion: The air quality inside the ship is good and no harmful substances have invaded from the outside." The ship's artificial intelligence navigation system replied.
"Look." Bedivere rolled his eyes at Zuster: "You also said that it will affect the optic nerve?"
"Then I don't understand..." Zust hummed: "Although we have seen these phantoms before when we inspected the Romani territory, they always avoided us and only moved in the outermost part of our field of vision.
.That thing should be harmless, otherwise our expedition team would not be able to come back alive."
"It's like...a creature from another dimension." Lawrence, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said.
"Maybe it really is." Bedivere replied, "The fog is not normal either. Is this also the influence of the abyss? Fortunately, those shadows do not attack people, otherwise your expedition team would not be able to come back.
Zuster."
"Hahaha." Zuster, who initially thought of those shadowy figures as hallucinations after inhaling the mist, could only smile awkwardly.
The number of translucent shadows wandering in the fog is actually not too many, but because Bediwell and the others looked at the ground from above and had a clear view of the large-scale scenery, they could naturally see at least dozens of them on the screen.
Of course, one would think that there are "a lot" of ghosts. But in fact, those ghosts are scattered over such a large area and are not as dense as they seem.
"Look at this outline, it looks a bit like a human being?" Nat, who has better eyesight, said, "No, it's a giant."
"But it has horns and wings... This one here seems to have tentacles. Each one looks different. What the hell are they?" Logan said.
"What are you talking about? Aren't those shadows all molluscs? They are squirming in groups." Gladiator Bereld's voice came from the other side of the teleportation room, and he naturally also used the holographic screen there.
I saw the scene on the ground.
"Isn't it? It's obviously a complex abstract geometry." Magic Swordsman Solar said.
"In my eyes, they are the shadows of monsters, big and fierce ones, some like wolves and some like bears." Bedivere also frowned and said, "Don't those things have a fixed shape? Everyone observes them.
They all look different? Queeg, what did you see?"
"...Eyeballs." The Leopard Man youth replied: "Floating...well, eyeballs."
"Eyeball? Isn't it a sphere?"
"There are eyes, black, and translucent." Queeg cast a doubtful look at Bedivere: "I can't tell for sure, but they are eyeballs. It seems intuitively."
"What I see here is a fireball. A bunch of swaying fireballs, translucent fire." Lawrence said, "It's really strange. It's obviously translucent, but I can vaguely feel the flames swaying in the fog."
.Am I out of my mind?"
"So it's really an illusion..." Academician Zuster insisted: "It's probably the environment caused by the fog itself. It has nothing to do with whether you inhale the gray fog, as long as you observe the fog, um...
...will you see this kind of hallucination?"
"Sure enough, it's not something from this dimension." Dr. Virgil, who had been silent for a long time, hummed: "I suspect that the incident that happened seven years ago is related to all of this. The fox people seem to have been exterminated due to attacks by some kind of experimental animals, right?
?Their own experiment killed themselves, but left this mess behind. I suspect that the monster that wiped out the foxes seven years ago is still wandering in the Romani territory."
"No, that's impossible." Bedivere knew what happened seven years ago, so he asserted, "That monster has already been eliminated."
"Do you know what happened seven years ago?" Bedivere's testimony aroused the interest of everyone on the ship. Except for Bedivere, no one present knew the [truth] of what happened seven years ago.
"I was there at the time." Bediwell said, "Uncle Palamedes and the others were also there. They had eliminated the dark monster at that time. There was no way there would be any future trouble..."
"But are you sure that the monster that destroyed the fox people will not leave any remnants?"
"No. Their research institutes were all blown up, and the monsters that escaped were completely wiped out. It's impossible to leave [remnants] behind." Bedivere remembered what happened with the dark slime monster, stuck out his tongue, and did
With a disgusted expression: "And if that thing is still there, believe me, Zuster's exploration team would have been completely destroyed when they entered Romani, and there would be no hope of survival."
"...Our exploration team also had guards who tried to fire at those phantoms, but the firepower penetrated through those things, just like hitting the air." Zuster also said: "That's why I said that those things are invisible."
Damn it, they can't interfere with us, and we can't interfere with them. By the way, it was not just the Melson Brotherhood who organized the exploration team, the Knights of Great Britain were also involved. It was because of what happened in Romani's territory
This strange thing made them feel uneasy and sent people into the fog to find out the reason."
"So what exactly did you find?"
"I checked Loneliness. The air quality in the fog is the same as that in ordinary forest areas. Except for the abnormally low concentration of nitrogen, there are no other problems. And the fog does not seem to be a kind of pollution particles, nor is it water vapor.
, there are no particles in the air that cause fog, and the air humidity is normal. That fog... in short, is not a physical phenomenon that can be generated in nature. It is like something from another dimension, just like those
They are like phantoms, they do not belong to this world, and their existence cannot be understood and speculated with common sense."
"Such a weird thing happened, but not much was spread...?"
"After all, what happens in the Romani territory is relatively sensitive. This is still the territory of the Orc Alliance. Even if we send an exploration team to enter, we must first get approval from the alliance. The approval alone will take several years..."
Zuster shrugged: "There have only been three exploration teams that have entered the Romani territory in the past few years, and they all returned safely, and no one was killed. In fact, we didn't find anything to explore in this place, it was just a mist.
It’s just an area."
"The foxes have dug up many relics of ancient people here before, and they made a fortune from this." So Nat disagreed: "The foxes are dead, but those relics cannot all disappear.
It must still be there, right? You actually said there’s nothing to investigate?”
"Well... no one knows the location of the ruins. It seems that even the Orc Alliance does not have detailed information in this regard. Even if they did, they would not be able to share it with us." Academician Zuster added: "And the exploration team
The time allowed to explore in Romani is fixed. If you can't explore anything within a month, you have to go back home. It's too much to try to find specific ruins hidden in such a large area in just one month.
It’s reality."
"...So there are still ruins, but they can't be found." Bedivere touched his chin, "I suspect that the coalition forces don't even know where those ruins are. The foxes regard it as the top secret of their clan."
Maybe this thick fog has nothing to do with the monster that wiped out the fox people in the first place, but it has something to do with those ruins. The ruins have been left for a long time, and there are no people from the fox tribe to manage them, so something... ran out of them.
"
"Actually, I'm also very curious about this matter," Lawrence asked: "Is the fox race really extinct? Are there still remnants left?"
"It is said that they are extinct. I am not surprised that there are a small number of foxes left. But I heard His Majesty King Arthur say that the foxes did not report to the orc coalition for a long time. They seemed to have disappeared from the world.
After the disaster seven years ago, they disappeared completely." Bediwell said: "Their power and influence are far less than before, and they can no longer boss the coalition forces. But there are fox people still here.
It’s not strange at all to hide in a certain area and do bad things.”
"So this fog may be caused by the foxes..." Lawrence also touched his chin and speculated: "Those cunning foxes always don't do good things."
"We are close to the target." At this time, Dawn's artificial intelligence navigation system Eve said: "We are preparing to merge with the friendly mothership."
"Are we here?" Bedivere looked at Skid Plattney's Ark from a distance, "Eve, help me connect to the communication on the Ark."
"Yes, Captain."
A few seconds later, King Arthur's voice came from the communicator: "Are you here, Bedi? I didn't expect you to join us on the road. The Dawn's speed is unexpectedly fast."
"Because only the combat module came over, it is lighter." Bedivere replied, while he looked at the blue beam of light in the distant sky (in fact, he had noticed it just now), and he noticed that the Ark was also along the
Driving in the direction pointed by the light beam: "So the destination is the end pointed by the light beam?"
"Yes, although we have detected the exact coordinates, there is no need to follow the beam." King Arthur replied: "The coordinates have been sent to you, have you received them?"
"Yes." Bediwell looked at the holographic display on one side. On the display was a map, with a red light point flashing in it.
"Bacwu..." The werewolf young man looked at the mark on the map and hummed: "It's almost the center of the Romani territory."
"Yes. It's hidden very deep, especially in this fog." The King of Knights replied: "Be careful with this fog. I'm afraid the things inside are not just phantoms. Once the time is right, these seemingly harmless phantoms may also
Become a threat to us."
"I will pay attention." Bedivere nodded and cut off the communication.
"Hey, look at that!" Lawrence suddenly shouted.
As the two ships continued to advance, a unique scenery ahead came into view.
In that huge piece of fog, an equally huge vortex appeared. The vortex drove the surrounding fog to coil towards the center, turning into a cave of fog that went deep into the ground. And in that huge pit with a radius of three hundred feet
Inside, there was an invisible pitch black.
The end of the blue beam of light that guides the way is this [big hole] that swallows all light.