Step by step, I approached the black lake. The windless lake surface was eerily quiet, without a single ripple.
Yang Yu picked up a stone and threw it into the center of the lake. The waves spread across the surface of the lake, and it seemed that no strange things would come out from under the lake anymore.
However, this may just be an appearance.
The corrupted individuals that Kaka counted were only those that participated in sealing the infected and alienated fairies. When the disaster occurred, the number of fairies that were devoured could not be counted.
There are more than 50,000 fairies living in the Fairy Kingdom. It is too difficult to check them one by one to identify the fairies whose whereabouts are unknown.
This also means that Yang Yu and his team do not know how many enemies there are in this land, and how many cores need to be dealt with, but they know that there are definitely more than four.
Taking out the scroll given by Kaka, Yang Yu handed it to Bai Jin for study.
The scroll given by Kaka is similar to a magic scroll. As long as magic is injected into it, the magic circle inside can be activated to seal it. Its only drawback is that the magic circle is too complicated and contains extremely huge energy, which requires a certain amount of time to start up.
Bai Jin estimated that it would take at least three minutes to start up.
The scroll needs to be placed in the center of darkness to be most effective. The question is, where exactly is the center of darkness
Yang Yu couldn't judge, and there was no way to judge.
Even if he went back to ask Kaka now, he didn't know whether he would get an ambiguous answer.
"Iyas, you've read so many books these days. Where do you think the center of darkness is? Is it a huge black bubble suspended in the air, or a lake in the center with tiny bubbles silently bubbling out, or somewhere else?"
Yang Yu's sudden question surprised Iyas, and a flame silently ignited in her heart.
After reading so many books and learning so much knowledge, she finally had the opportunity to put it to good use. Today, she was going to impress Yang Yushi.
Taking a deep breath, and taking another deep breath, Iyas sorted out her thoughts and answered with an extremely affirmative tone:
“I think the black bubbles are the center of darkness.”
"Why do you feel so?" Yang Yu asked.
After some thought, Iyas continued to speak seriously:
“The black shadow was knocked down and turned back into black gas, which merged into the bubble. Even the bubbles that kept floating out from the lake surface merged into the huge bubble one by one.
Everything revolves around that black bubble.
The constant appearance of small black bubbles on the surface of the lake seems suspicious, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that it is not the center, but the source.
What we need to do is find the center of darkness.
If we seal the source instead of the center, what should we do with the free black air flowing outside
I don’t think such a huge amount of black energy will completely disappear in a short period of time. On the contrary, I think the black energy may go out of control because it has lost its source.”
"Yes. What you said makes some sense. The books you read these days have not been in vain. You have more or less formed your own opinions. As for whether they are right or not, that is another matter."
Hearing Yang Yu's lukewarm words, Iyas puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction. She had finally sorted out her thoughts and expressed a point of view that convinced her, but she didn't expect that Yang Yu not only had no reaction at all, but it seemed that he didn't listen seriously at all.
How could Iyas not be angry
Iyas asked unhappily, "What do you think?"
"Generally speaking, it's similar to what you thought. There is one thing I need to add. This kind of thing must have happened more than once in the past. There is no corresponding protection here, which means that the source may not only appear at the bottom of the lake, but also appear somewhere else.
I don’t know whether it is intentional or unintentional, but these darknesses have a certain sense of self-protection, but they don’t look conscious at all, but rather more instinctive.
Perhaps the huge black bubble hanging in the air is an instinct to prevent anyone from approaching the core."
"Then how do you explain the bursting of the black bubble?" Iyas said, "If it was to protect the center, why did it choose to self-destruct?"
"Who knows? Perhaps the priority of self-destruction to spread the darkness is higher than protecting the center, just like migrating salmon that are willing to sacrifice their lives to produce eggs."
Shrugging helplessly, Yang Yu finally asked what he was most concerned about.
"Iyas, tell me now, based on your intuition alone, where do you think the center of the darkness is?"
"Intuition, I still think it is that huge black bubble. I can sense that the black bubble contains a trembling darkness, as if it is going to swallow up the entire world."
Yias said what was in her mind. If Yang Yu and Bai Jin hadn't been by her side, she would have turned around and ran away.
Yang Yu pointed to the black bubble, "Okay, then let's decide to put this scroll in the center of the dark bubble."
After determining the destination, the next thing to think about is how to place the scroll securely into the black bubble.
If it was a magician sent by the Library of All Things, they could easily use flying magic to fly high into the sky and send the scroll to the center of the black bubble.
None of Yang Yu and his group could fly, and there was no guarantee that after they got close to the black bubble, no other corrupted beings would emerge from the bubble and catch them off guard.
You have to stay close while ensuring your own safety.
Thinking of this, Yang Yu looked at the calm lake and checked the materials available in the system. It seemed that making a small boat would not be a problem.
"We build a small boat and try to get close to the black bubbles. If something comes out of the black bubbles, we can react in time on the boat. Even if the boat capsizes, we can swim back as long as there are no Corruptors in this lake."
Before he finished his words, a huge black shadow with its bloody mouth opened rushed towards Yang Yu.
He pushed Bai Jin and Iyas back, picked up the shield, and used [Shield Block] to meet the bloody mouth. With a "click", the bloody mouth instantly bit Yang Yu's shield into pieces, and the sharp teeth left a red mark on Yang Yu's arm.
Shield blocking is invalid? Attacks that ignore shield blocking
The momentary surprise did not stop Yang Yu's actions. He inserted a sword into the black crocodile's mouth, used the gap between the black crocodile's teeth as a fulcrum, pried open the crocodile's mouth, pulled out his bleeding right hand, and rolled backwards.
While rolling, Yang Yu's eyes never left the black crocodile that was as huge as the prehistoric Deinosuchus, and he still watched its every move.
After making sure it was safe enough, Yang Yu used the sword bent into a V shape as support, stopped rolling, stood up and began to confront the huge black crocodile.
(End of this chapter)