Almost at the same time as Vivian's words fell, a cool wind through the forest suddenly blew through the pine forest, blowing on everyone's faces.
In this cool wind, everyone heard a faint cry of killing, accompanied by a heavy, dark, almost disgusting depression.
Several people in the car looked at each other, and then Hao Ren patted the car: "Go and see the situation."
The magic vehicle hummed slightly, and the modified engine smoothly increased its output. The three vehicles sped along the wide forest road, and the cool wind never stopped during the process. And the shouts of killing coming from the wind are becoming more and more real.
This direction is exactly the same as the direction Leah pointed out with her intuition—Hao Ren quite believed in Leah's intuition as a god, so now he is also very sure that he has finally approached the "core" of the forest.
The car passed two forks, and then passed through a dense pine forest. Finally, the road in the forest reached the end, and the three cars rushed out of the dense forest, and the environment in front of them suddenly opened up.
There is an extremely vast open area hidden in the black pine forest, and a doomsday decisive battle is being staged on this open land.
The dense forest stopped abruptly here, and the large piece of land in front of it was like a forest country, with vast and flat land, and continuous stretches of buildings. Hao Ren didn't know what it looked like when it was intact. Now all he can see is the flames of war and corpses strewn across the field.
Huge pillars of smoke rose everywhere, and towering buildings in the distance crashed down in the thick smoke and flames. Soldiers in silver-white armor bravely resisted the invaders on this land. They held energy shields and Photon blades, or use long-range guns and staffs to fight against the enemy, and their enemies are the kind of corrupt monsters they have seen in the forest before, and more other types of horrible creatures.
The number of monsters is like a tide, and their individual qualities are not weaker than soldiers in silver armor. Hao Ren saw that the soldiers in silver-white armor were retreating under the attack of monsters. They formed a group of dozens of people and united to prop up a large-scale military shield. The group of monsters that had already formed the Kuroshio tide was still unsustainable, and those flickering shields were extinguishing one after another on the battlefield like fireflies submerged in mud.
And in the center of the battlefield, there is a group of extraordinarily tall buildings—it seems to be a city, and it is also a place where the soldiers are desperately defending.
A bright shield shines above the city, and there are countless luminous spiers in the city. Some of those spiers are maintaining the energy nodes of the city shield, while others point straight to the sky, and there are constantly dazzling beams of light from their tips. Shot out, shooting into the boundless sky.
After rushing out of the dense forest, this was the first scene everyone saw.
"Warning... alert!!" A captain of the personal guard finally came to his senses, and he pulled out the sword at his waist in a flash, shouting in an almost out of tune voice.
However, Charlemagne immediately stopped the impulsive soldiers: "Calm down!! These are phantoms!"
His Royal Highness was also tense, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead, but he still realized the true face of the scene in time—because a group of silver-white explosion flames erupted more than ten meters away from the convoy, but he Did not feel the slightest impact and heat.
After Charlemagne stopped shouting, the soldiers realized that the tragic battlefield in front of them was only a part of the "fantasy" of the black pine forest. They finally calmed down a little, but everyone still held their sharp blades and did not dare to relax at all.
After all, such a large-scale illusion is right in front of you, even if they are all fake, but in many cases there will be endless danger in the illusion.
"The 'Phantom' this time is different from what I've seen before." Hao Ren was also taken aback by the sight in front of him, but his level of calm was stronger than that of everyone present. Turning his head to look at Leah, "The scale is very large, and it seems to have lasted for a long time—it's still going on."
"There is no smell..." Liya suddenly said something that seemed irrelevant, "Whether it is the shadow of reality or the phantom, they are all tasteless."
Hao Ren froze for a moment, then turned to Vivian suddenly: "Wait, Vivian, you said you smelled blood?!"
"That's right, and I can vaguely feel it now," Vivienne pointed to her nose, "My sense of smell is not as good as that of a big dog, but my perception of blood doesn't completely depend on my nose, I'm sure I don't feel it wrong."
"There are not only phantoms here," Hao Ren made a judgment in an instant, "Everyone, be vigilant—Vivienne, you can show the way."
Vivienne nodded, and raised her finger to the direction of the city in the distance: "The breath comes from that building complex."
Everyone stepped into this "battlefield".
Walking through such a realistic illusion is definitely an unprecedented experience for Charlemagne and others. Countless monsters and strange soldiers are fighting, bleeding, and dying right under their noses. Everything is so real, except for the smell of gunpowder smoke, everything here is hard to believe that it is caused by hallucinations, but these are indeed hallucinations——
They walked through this tragic battlefield, as if entering no one's land, and all the images, whether they were monsters or soldiers, passed through them.
Hao Ren asked the data terminal to turn on the recording mode, and his own eyes widened, not letting go of every detail of the battlefield.
The army outside the city was on the verge of defeat. Those silver-armored warriors were slaughtered almost one-sidedly at this moment. Mutant monsters tore apart the soldiers' defense lines and flesh and blood, smashing and burning everything along the way. Their willpower is unbelievably strong, even though they have been unilaterally slaughtered, they show no sign of retreating.
They are defending the city, really defending it, as if after the city falls, the whole world will perish.
Except for the army that was about to be wiped out outside the city, the only thing left that could be called combat power was the defensive fort on the outer wall of the magnificent city.
Hao Ren saw that the city had a circle of shiny silver alloy walls, and on the top and outer walls of the wall were countless artillery pieces with long guide rails. The dazzling current jumped between the guide rails, accompanied by continuous roars. The projectiles and plasma clusters accelerated to dozens of times the speed of sound bombarded the monsters outside the city wave after wave, but such fierce firepower could only slightly slow the monsters' footsteps.
A whistling sound that was so sharp that it almost tore the eardrums pierced the air. The sound came from high above. Hao Ren looked up at the sky and saw a mass of dark, spindle-shaped matter falling from high above. , there seemed to be countless huge shadows hidden in the cloudy sky.
The anti-aircraft firepower in the city is constantly strafing the sky. They may have blocked those attacks from the sky for a long time, but now, the anti-aircraft firepower is finally stretched.
The spindle-shaped black matter slammed into the city shield, and immediately exploded into large balls of mud. The mud flowed down along the city shield, and dazzling explosions burst out where they touched the shield. Lightning.
The shrill air defense sirens echoed endlessly in the city.
Hao Ren tapped on the case of the data terminal, and only said two words: "Analysis."
"Suspected orbital bombing, judging from the silhouette of the attacker and the intensity of the impact, the probability of coming from low-Earth orbit is extremely high."
"Why don't the defenders have air power?"
"I'm afraid they have already been wiped out. With the level of technology they have shown, it is impossible to have no air force. The only possibility for the air force to not appear is that the entire army has been wiped out."
"techinque level?"
"At least at the planetary level—a modest upward revision given their exceptionally advanced shield technology."
Hao Ren nodded slightly, did not continue to ask questions, but looked at Leah who was watching around with wide eyes at the front of the carriage: "The Laherien you saw more than 9,000 years ago probably didn't have this level of strength. technology."
"Of course not—and I've never seen this war. The Laherien I've seen is closed and peaceful, and although there are occasional psychopaths who try to destroy the world, they usually can't even destroy a village. He was crushed to death by the brave men who came out of the village—there has never been a war of this scale.”
"What you've seen is only a hundred years. This war obviously happened before then," Hao Ren looked at Leah, "and it's more than a little bit forward. It probably spanned a civilization era... there was an attack from the universe Those with proficient space combat weapons are not something that can be presented by a closed planet that is locked in the chaotic sea of the dark realm and does not even know what is outside the atmosphere."
The convoy arrived under the silver walls of that city.
There were no entrances or exits to be seen on the wall, and it was like a smooth curved mirror blocking everyone's eyes—considering the decisive battle outside, even if the city had gates, those gates were probably closed at this moment.
The battlefield is full of phantoms of the past, and the wall is no exception. The seemingly seamless high wall cannot stop outsiders in theory, but before the convoy enters the city, Liya stops Hao Ren.
"These are not all phantoms, there are entities mixed here-if you are not careful, you will collide."
After finishing speaking, the little goddess looked at the city wall in front of her and sighed softly, "Let's go in the past."
With the sigh of God, a large wall melted away.
Hao Ren saw a collapsed and charred ruined wall. The huge metal and polymer remains could still be seen as part of the city wall, but now they had fallen to the ground in pieces and were buried in the soil.
There are vines growing along the wreckage that seem to have spread over many years, perhaps even epochs.
Hao Ren looked back at the battlefield. The soldiers had been wiped out, and the monsters were rushing towards the city wall. Obviously, those soldiers who rushed out were simply dying. What, did not think about saving the soldiers, the army that was wiped out outside the city, just to delay time.
Now, that battlefield is being gradually swallowed up by the respreading black pine forest, and there is no remnant of the battlefield in the black pine forest.
Perhaps the entire black pine forest was built on a piece of wreckage - Hao Ren couldn't help but think so.
However, there are some ruins left in the city in front of me, just like the "roads in the forest" outside, leaving traces of materialization in this intertwined world of fiction, reality, and falsehood.
"Which part of this place is real and which part is false?" Lily finally couldn't help asking, "Is there really any 'real' in the black pine forest?"
Leah replied indifferently: "It's just between reality and fiction."