A group of strange and unknown soldiers came out of the mist just like that.
They are wearing silver-white light armor with green patterns and the same silver-white flying wing helmets. Their average height is almost two meters. At the same time, they don't hold swords and weapons that are common in ordinary armies. Instead, they have a pair of special weapons. Metal Gauntlet—The gauntlet shone with a slight brilliance, which seemed to hide a mystery.
Ai Wenna stared wide-eyed at these soldiers who came out of the mist. The decorations on the armor and the overall equipment style of the opponents were completely different from the soldiers from various countries she knew, and the average height of two meters was not like that. It was an army of ordinary humans, which made her very curious.
But the guards on the other two caravans were not as simple as curiosity. When they encountered suddenly at this distance, concealment was meaningless. The previous experience of being attacked by imperial soldiers made them curious about these soldiers who suddenly appeared in the black pine forest. They were full of vigilance, so the moment the two sides met, all the guards put their hands on the weapons at their waists, and even Charlemagne couldn't help activating the magic equipment he carried with him to increase his confidence.
However, that strange group of soldiers seemed to have not noticed the convoy in front of them at all. Facing the tense convoy guards, they chose to keep their eyes on the front and continue along the road expressionlessly.
"Calm down," Hao Ren broke the deadlock (strictly speaking, it was a one-sided deadlock between the convoy guards), "I'm afraid these soldiers are not real."
While speaking, those strange soldiers had already arrived in front of the convoy, and walked between the three caravans like phantoms.
"Illusion?" Evanna's eyes widened, "But it looks like the real thing..."
"It's still between reality and reality..." Liya's slightly immature voice sounded, "These are another scene of the black pine forest, just like the thick fog before, they are things that have not appeared in the real world. But now that we've got rid of the influence of the false world, these things are just phantoms to us and don't interfere with each other in any real way."
"What if we don't get rid of the influence of the false world?" Lily asked curiously.
Liya blinked: "Then of course we're fighting now."
While talking, the group of soldiers had passed through the convoy and continued on along the road in the forest. Hao Ren looked back at them and was about to follow up with these "phantoms" to see the situation. Suddenly, all the soldiers in the group stopped.
They seemed to have spotted the enemy, and they all stared in the direction of the dense forest on high alert for a moment. A man who looked like a commander made a gesture, and the other soldiers immediately formed a defensive formation and assumed a posture ready to fight. Hao Ren Seeing that they collided the shimmering gauntlets with each other, everyone's left hand stretched out a photon shield that could protect most of the body in an instant, and a light-emitting shield extended under the wrist of the right hand. Luminous energy blade.
Hao Ren was dumbfounded: "I'll go... This style of painting doesn't fit the local worldview..."
And before he finished sighing, there was a whistling sound from the dense forest, and then a huge monster covered in black smoke and dust knocked down the bushes along the way, and swooped out from the forest!
The monster shrouded in smoke and dust is obviously a phantom, and its image reminded Hao Ren of the crazy minions he had faced - rotting and proliferating limbs, a mutated torso that couldn't see the original, countless eyes and countless eyes. Mouthparts are all over the body, tentacles extend from the festered and cracked skin, squirming crazily in the air, and the profane roar comes directly from the monster's abdomen. This chaotic and crazy monster is almost the embodiment of all reason and order. On the contrary, no matter seeing it, hearing it, or touching it, people's spirit will be dragged into the abyss of madness and darkness.
This monster even made Aiwenna almost exclaim, she let out a short half-scream, then tightly covered her mouth and gritted her teeth to barely control the sound, and the performance of those guards was not much better— Even experienced warriors had never seen such a profane and ugly creature, and they trembled for a moment.
And those warriors holding lightsabers and photon shields were also taken aback by the monsters that jumped out suddenly, but they were just taken aback. The commander shouted loudly to arrange attack and defense positions, and the soldiers quickly adjusted their formation, and then launched attacks on the monster from all directions.
There are indications that this is not the first time they have seen this monster.
A melee broke out, and the phantom warrior and the phantom monster fought together on the wide road in the black pine forest. The monster obviously didn't just have brute force, it would spit out corrosive energy clusters and create some kind of laser beam to attack the opponent. The tall warrior defended with a photon shield in his hand, and repeatedly cut off the monster's limbs with surprising skill. In the end, the tall warrior like a commander suddenly roared, and the light blade in his hand extended and transformed into a long whip, directly tied up the monster and dragged it to the ground, while the rest of the soldiers rushed forward, smashing the enemy with the light blade There are tens of thousands of corpses.
The battle was over, and the soldiers gasped and watched the monster's flesh and blood quickly turn into ashes under the corrosion of the black mist. A soldier broke the silence, using a language that no one in Laherien knew: "They Appeared here too."
"You go and tell the chapter leader about the situation here," said the squad commander, "the rest of you, go to the next checkpoint with me."
Then he looked up at the sky and said, as if to himself, "The day has finally come... once again..."
All the phantoms stopped at this moment and gradually dissipated into the air.
"What did they say in the end?" Awenna looked a little dazed, she and Charlemagne didn't have a translation plug-in, and they were confused at the moment, "It doesn't sound like the dialect of the Dragon Empire..."
"They seem to have expected this monster, and sent someone to inform a character called the leader of the battle group that something happened here." Hao Ren thought for a while, and decided to translate what he heard to Evanna, saying. Not sure what the other party will think, "Can you think of anything?"
But Awenna was still confused after listening to it, and shook her head: "No... I can't think of anything. I don't know the emblems on these soldiers, and I haven't heard of any country's military establishment that has 'war Commander's position."
"Are these also one of the possibilities of the false world?" Vivian glanced at Leah, "Why do I always feel that something is not right?"
"I don't know either," Leah's expression was also a little confused. "It stands to reason that these unrealized world lines are extremely broken and messy, and there is no logic..."
Hao Ren glanced at Lia, and a thought came to his mind.
"Perhaps... what we see is not only the future possibility of this world, but also its past."
Lily scratched her hair: "What do you mean?"
"Don't forget, this world is more than one week." Hao Ren shook his head, but this time he used the language of the earth. "If there is a destruction and reshaping, then what happened in the past can also be compared to the current history." It counts as some kind of 'false worldline'."
Speaking of this, he glanced at Leah: "Do you have any impression of this black pine forest? Before Laherien was destroyed, was there anything similar on this planet?"
Liya thought about it seriously, then shook her head slightly: "I don't have any impression. At that time, I watched Laherien for many years, and I knew every corner of this planet very well. I can be sure that there is no black pine forest. Unless... it is in my Suddenly appeared on this planet at the last moment before falling into a deep sleep. But how is that possible?"
"Is that so..." Hao Ren muttered in a low voice, noncommittal.
Charlemagne and Ai Wenna looked at each other in confusion, and Hao Ren and the others suddenly spoke in a language they didn't understand. This was an obvious act of secrecy, but they were much more embarrassed when they thought of the secrets they carried. What to say, so I was a little embarrassed for a while.
Fortunately, this embarrassment didn't last long, and Hao Ren quickly turned to them again: "We have no conclusion—if there is no problem, let's continue on our way."
The two brothers and sisters looked at each other: "Okay."
The convoy continued to set off along the forest road towards the depths of the black pine forest, and finally arrived at the first fork.
However, this fork in the road does not appear in any records.
Seeing that there was neither a signboard nor an imperial emblem hanging in front of him, Charlemagne slowly took a breath: "It seems... We have come to a place in the black pine forest that no one has ever been to."
Evanna also frowned: "But theoretically this is impossible..."
The black pine forest is vast and mysterious, but the roads in the forest are limited and fixed. During the long development time, the explorers and national exploration teams of the Dragon Empire have measured and recorded every road in this forest— At least every road with an entrance and exit can be found from the edge of the forest-and signs and rest points are set up at all forks. At some relatively large forks, there are even outposts that are guarded all the year round. Therefore, in theory Generally speaking, as long as one enters from the entrance of Greenway and never leaves the forest road in the middle, there must be a guiding sign for every fork the traveler encounters.
An unmarked fork in the road means only one thing: that the traveler has stepped into undiscovered, strange territory in the forest, and that the area does not meet any of the proven forest roads.
"It's impossible in theory, but we just experienced something super-theoretical." Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "When we were in the thick fog, the convoy walked on an endless road for a long time, maybe at that time we already knew Entering an unfamiliar territory."
"Entering an unfamiliar area is not important," Vivienne said while looking at Liya who was sitting next to her. "The important thing is... this process was hidden from Liya's eyes."
Liya blinked, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face: "No, maybe on the contrary, it should be that those who passed through the black pine forest in the past were all deluded, and we... are the first batch of people who walked in the right direction. on the route."
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