"The necromancer can see everything that happens around the puppet! An Fei, you don't understand, we have been exposed." Riska's expression became nervous, and she stood up and looked forward.
"We haven't been exposed yet."
"How can you be sure?" Riska turned her head and asked in surprise.
"This is going to be a long story. Let's eat something first. I'll talk to you slowly when I have free time."
The hidden meaning in An Fei's words is very clear. It has not been exposed to everyone yet. He doesn't want to say the specific reason yet. Perhaps based on their long-term trust in Anfei, Susanna and Riska did not continue to ask questions, and their expressions became relaxed.
After eating something hastily, An Fei and others practiced separately for a while. The sun finally rose from the east. The night wind had little effect on the rotten odor that filled the forest, but the sunlight could immediately drive away unclean things. As the sun got higher and higher, its light became stronger and stronger, and most of the putrid smell in the forest quickly dissipated.
Riska took a long breath, and her face showed a bit of joy: "It's a miracle that I didn't get smoked to death yesterday!"
"You still lack exercise." An Fei smiled.
"I still lack exercise?" Riska shouted unconvinced. He thought that his experience these days could be described as ups and downs. Compared with his previous life, it was extremely exciting and extremely dangerous. If this If it’s not called exercise, then what can be called exercise
"Ever been in a cell?"
"No!"
"You will know what real hell is after you have entered a cell! The air in the cell is very turbid and full of feces and urine. Every step you take there, you have to step on other people's or your own feces and urine, and you can't find a clean place. You can just walk around If you grab a handful of your own hair, you can catch dozens of lice. Rats are a rare thing there, because for the prisoners, catching a rat is equivalent to getting a delicious meal, and no one is willing to let the rat go. Run, and you can eat the lice you catch on your head and body." What An Fei was talking about was not a modern prison, but a portrayal of a medieval prison from a book.
"Isn't it true?" Riska was horrified to hear this. Although he was a commoner, he was very lucky. He was able to become a disciple of the great magician Thor when he was young. He had never seen such dark scenes before.
"You'll find out once you've been to prison."
"How do you know so clearly? An Fei, have you ever been in prison?"
"No, I also heard what others said."
"It must be nonsense!" Riska shook his head and said, "A normal person would go crazy if he stayed in that kind of environment for just one day. If you say that, no criminal would come out of prison alive."
"Riska, you don't know how strong people's will to survive is!" An Fei said lightly: "Even in an environment much worse than a prison, some people will grit their teeth and survive!"
"I do not believe!"
"If you actually go to jail, you'll understand."
"An Fei, aren't you cursing me?" Riska smiled bitterly: "I don't want to go to that kind of ghost place!"
"An Fei is telling the truth." Susanna suddenly interjected, her face looking very complicated at this moment: "Riska, you have never seen those private death rows set up by nobles. I once saw a person whose body He was put in more than a dozen chains and soaked in water for decades. When his body came out of the water, you could even see that his body was covered with maggots, but he was still alive."
"Suzanne, stop talking!" Riska shouted: "I didn't seem to offend you yesterday, right? Why are you trying to scare me!"
Susanna turned her head and looked at the sunshine falling in the forest, and then changed the subject: "An Fei, should we set off?"
An Fei secretly blamed Riska for answering the conversation indiscriminately. He wanted to know more about Susanna's past, but was forcibly interrupted by Riska. But the matter had already happened, and it would not be easy to get another word from Susanna. , An Fei slowly stood up on the branch: "Okay, let's go!"
An Fei and the others rested all night, but the zombies did not rest. However, the traces left by the zombies were too obvious. The wisps of corpse gas like mucus were still coiling on the rotting land, which had pointed out the direction for An Fei. .
This time, An Fei seemed to have lost his vigilance. He and Susanna were speeding through the forest. Riska almost couldn't keep up with An Fei's speed using the floating technique. However, Riska issued a warning, but An Fei smiled mysteriously. No explanation was given, which made Riska curse in her heart.
After arriving at an unknown mountain peak, An Fei waved to Susanna and Riska to slow down. In fact, without An Fei's gesture, both Susanna and Riska felt something was wrong.
At the other end of the mountain, there was a shuddering aura of the dead. What was inconsistent with the basic principles of magic power fluctuations was that such strong magic power fluctuations should be able to be transmitted hundreds of miles away, but they could only sense the fluctuations when they got closer.
"An Fei, they have a high-level necromancer!" Riska whispered
Although he could not reach the other side of the mountain if he spoke louder, he still tightened his voice: "There must be a necromancer who has released a large magic barrier to block the breath of the dead!"
"It's your turn, Riska." An Fei said slowly: "Won't a high-level necromancer notice the magic fluctuation caused by the Eye of the Sky?"
"No." Riska said as he released the Eye of the Sky. Although Wangshan is said to be a dead horse, it seems that the nameless peak is right in front of you. In fact, it is still more than twenty miles away, but there is Using the nameless peak as the coordinates, Riska only repeated it twice before accurately calibrating the focus of the Eye in the Sky.
An Fei was fully mentally prepared, but when he first saw the scene on the other side of the mountain, he was still extremely shocked! I don't know what kind of barrier it is. An Fei only sees that the sunlight is blocked outside the barrier. There is a very clear boundary between the sunlight and the barrier. It is the white mist that is constantly transpiration, and the entire back of the mountain All were shrouded in mist. Through the sometimes thick and sometimes light fog, An Fei could clearly see the dense crowds of zombies gathering below. At a glance, the number had exceeded a thousand! If all zombies are transformed from mercenaries, then there must be more than one mercenary alliance killed!
In addition to the zombies, there are more than a dozen people wearing black robes with normal walking postures walking around. In the center of the zombie group, it is shrouded in a very thick black fog. It is impossible to see clearly what is inside with the eye of the sky alone. scene.
"An Fei, I need to take a rest." Riska said with difficulty.
"What?" An Fei was stunned.
"God knows what kind of barrier that is, I can't hold on any longer!" Riska relaxed a little as she spoke, and the scene that could be seen through the Eye of the Sky quickly became blurry, and in the end all she could see was that it was thick and then light. of white mist.
"You don't know what the barrier is?"
"I don't have any research on necromancy." Riska smiled bitterly: "And I have never fought a necromancer. Don't ask me. Maybe Susanna can understand."
"I don't know either." Susanna shook her head.
An Fei pondered for a moment: "Riska, tell me, what do those necromancers want to do by gathering so many zombies together?"
"There are many explanations. One is to use the undead energy of zombies to turn this place into a cemetery that even the priests of light cannot cleanse."
"Cemetery? What good would that do for a necromancer?"
"There are many benefits, An Fei. Remember the Behemoth beast that Hagen summoned with Behemoth's bones, right? If Behemoth's bones fall into the hands of the necromancer, they can summon a white-bone Behemoth in the cemetery, haha The Behemoth summoned by the root can only exist for a short time, while the White Bone Behemoth is an immortal dark creature just like the ghost dragon!"
"Is there any other explanation?"
"They have high-level necromancers, maybe they want to create one or even several killing zombies, but this is unlikely. Killing zombies are difficult to control, and high-level necromancers may not necessarily succeed. "
"Any more?"
"Or they want to collect a large amount of necromantic energy to create necromantic magic crystals to reserve for the inheritance of the necromancer."
"inherited?"
"Every necromancer's advancement requires a large amount of necromantic energy. As long as there are enough necromantic crystals, they will even..."
"An Fei, I feel something is wrong!" Susanna suddenly said: "Listen!"
An Fei was stunned, waved hurriedly, and jumped onto the ancient tree first. The three of them hid in the canopy, held their breath, and carefully listened to the movements around them.
There were indeed sounds of branches being broken in the forest, but the sound was very faint and was estimated to be several hundred meters away from them.
An Fei gestured to Riska with his eyes, and Riska quietly released the Eye of the Sky. A team consisting of seven or eight necromancers and more than 20 zombies walked out of the barrier at some point. is walking towards the distance. Zombies always walk in a rampant manner and don't know how to avoid. Anyway, they don't feel pain. They let branches and thorns scratch on their bodies. The sounds Susanna heard were made by them.
"What do these necromancers want to do? Are they going to attack the mercenaries again? Do they think there are not enough zombies?" Riska smiled bitterly.
"Why don't they go out at night? The zombies are much more powerful at night than during the day!" Susanna asked in a low voice.
"The breath of zombies cannot be concealed at night. Sunlight can kill zombies and clear the breath of zombies. On the other hand, sunlight is their biggest enemy and their best cover." An Fei has made up his mind. : "We can no longer let necromancers kill people unscrupulously, let's follow them!" The more necromancers and zombies there are, the greater the threat to them. No matter what the reason, An Fei will not let those necromancers live. gone back.