Hao Ren looked out of the car window and found that the off-road vehicle was driving on a wasteland that looked like nothing special. The road outside was rough and uneven. Even an off-road vehicle with good shock absorption performance would experience severe bumps when driving on such a road. , but apart from the desolation, he didn't see any difference from before.
However, Heatherana signaled that everyone had arrived at the station, and she asked Duncan to drive the car to a high ground in front, and then let everyone get off.
"It doesn't look like anything special here." Hao Ren muttered and looked around. Here is a small bare highland, broken stones can be seen everywhere in the wilderness, and traces of unmelted ice and snow can be seen between the rock crevices. The cold wind from the Arctic Circle blows this place day and night, almost erasing all traces of life. Only a few low plants with tenacious vitality grow among the crevices in the leeward rocks.
Heather Anna just looked up at the sky and said one word: "Wait."
The sun is slowly slanting, and as the sun gets closer to the horizon, two huge shadows gradually extend from behind everyone. Hao Ren turned his head and took a look, and found that the shadow came from two huge rocks on a small mound not far away. The oblique shadows cast by the two rocks in the setting sun formed a shape like a tuning fork. The gap between the two shadows Like a straight road of light pointing to the river ahead.
"The rules for entering the 'secret realm' are recorded in another manuscript we found," Cassandra explained on the side, "there are seven days a month when you can enter the secret realm. On the twin stones by the river bank, the extended light and shadow will indicate the way to the secret place. Because the position of the sun is different every time, this 'door' is actually changing its position all the time. After finding the path We can’t go in directly yet, we still need a bell made by the wizard to vibrate the water to open the gate—the hostess has already got the bell.”
"Wizards always like to make this kind of nonsense. In a certain era, they scrambled to make their hermitages very complicated, and the opening methods became more and more weird. Sometimes even the master himself needed to spend It takes half a day to open the door of my house." Vivienne recalled the events of the year, "At first it was to protect myself from the hunt of the demon hunter. But soon it became a twisted fashion, and it became I know a guy who hangs up because the door of his house is too complicated: he couldn’t open the door when he came home, so he was gank by the witcher.”
Nangong Wuyue looked at Vivian: "Why do you know everyone?"
Lily rolled her eyes: "You might as well ask her why everyone she knows dies so badly..."
At this time, the sun had sunk to the predetermined position, and the road of light cast by the two boulders was projected on the river with the clearest path, Hesiana took the lead to lead the people forward: "Let's go, the road has already appeared. "
A group of people came to the river in the direction pointed by the light. After that, Heatherana stepped on the water and walked towards the center of the river without stopping.
Although it is cold here, the surface of the river is not frozen. I don’t know whether it is due to the climate or the influence of supernatural forces. The river here has only a little bit of thin ice near the shore, so when Hesiana stepped on the water and walked up Lily was stunned for a moment: she thought the other party didn't look at the way.
But soon Duncan and Cassandra followed Hessiana up, and the three vampires walked on the water as if walking on the ground. Only then did Lily know that the magical power of the secret realm had taken effect, and followed up boldly. .
Then crashed and fell into the river...
The husky girl screamed in fright. She jumped out of the water as if getting an electric shock, and her knees were already wet. When Hesiana heard the movement, she turned her head and looked curiously: "What are you doing?"
Lily was jumping up and down by the river. The anxious hair stood up: "Can't people leave on the river! Why did I fall into the water when I walked up!"
"Who told you that river water can leave people?" Hesiana looked puzzled, "We know the spell of walking on water."
Everyone: "..."
Lily was stunned for a long time. Hitting Hao Ren's arm hard with his head: "It's my fault for having a rich imagination, it's my fault for having a rich imagination..."
"You guys are waiting by the river." Hesianna waved to the others, went straight to the center of the river, and then took out a simple copper bell from her arms. She confirmed the location of the bell again, and then Shake the brass bell gently.
A loud noise almost thunderous came from the bell unexpectedly!
No one expected that this would be the sound after ringing the bell, and even Vivian was taken aback. And as the bell rang, waves of fluctuations that were almost visible to the naked eye also spread from Hesiana's feet, causing the river to vibrate violently. The water surface was pushed out by the invisible air wall in circles of ripples, and then these ripples overflowed the river surface. It even extends to the mud and even rocks on the shore. Everything in Hao Ren's line of sight seemed to be turned into water, rippling in circles amidst the ringing of bells!
He noticed that something was beginning to emerge in this violently fluctuating landscape. Some buildings and trees that did not exist before appeared out of nowhere from the wasteland in all directions. while a large number of ghost-like figures walked back and forth between these houses. There were bursts of human voices that seemed real and unreal—these voices were talking about the trivial matters of the day in a European dialect hundreds of years ago. Hao Ren subconsciously opened his translation plug-in, and a few sporadic sentences The conversation came to him, fragmented, but it sounded like the Lord was being discussed.
All of a sudden, all the auditory hallucinations disappeared, and the scene before Hao Ren's eyes also stabilized.
Everyone looked around in a daze, and they found that they were still standing by the river. The location seemed to have not changed, but there were many things that did not exist in all directions: a large number of houses, streets, wooden towers, and an entire town built along the river bank.
Hao Ren looked at these houses that suddenly appeared, and found that they were obviously very old in style. Most of the houses were a mixed structure of wood and stone, and those houses distributed along the river could still see wooden trestles stretching out in front of them. Seems to have been used to dock fishermen's boats. The roads between the houses are mostly dirt roads, with flagstones or cobblestones paved in a few places, and dark oil lamps hung on the lampposts on both sides of the road.
The entire building complex seems to have a history of hundreds of years... or even longer, completely like a village and town that came out of a medieval style movie.
Lily looked up at the sky, and found that the sky was also changing. A thick layer of smoke and dust covered the entire town. These smoke and dust seemed to have been a fire for several days and nights. Thanks to them, the surrounding The light became very dim, making these quiet buildings look even more eerie and eerie.
"This is the secret realm?" Hao Ren was a little bit surprised and said, "I thought... there was only a castle or something else."
Heatherana returned to the team from the center of the river. After hearing Hao Ren's muttering, she smiled: "Because it's a wizard's lair, do you think it's a small place?"
"It's a bit too big right now," Hao Ren grumbled at the surrounding buildings. "It looks like a town. As a hermit's home, this scale is a bit out of bounds."
"I don't know what happened back then, but it seems that the wizard dragged the whole town into his enchantment," Hesiana nodded, "We haven't had time to find out the situation of the town. In fact, today is just I came here for the second time, as Cassandra said just now, this secret realm can only be entered and exited seven days a month. When I came last time, I happened to catch up with a little tail, and I was rejected after staying here for half an hour. Out. So you all be careful this time: my experience may not be of any help."
Nangong Sanba silently took out the spell-casting materials from his equipment box, began to paste Leta spell cards on the surrounding houses, and poured some magic grease that gave off a pungent smell on the ground, and the magic oil burned Immediately after that, a constant pale flame was formed. This flame seemed to be completely unaffected by the surrounding wind, but burned straight. In the light and shadow of the flame, some small shadows seemed to recede from everyone.
Heather Anna frowned immediately after smelling the burning magic oil: "Ahem... what is this?"
"Stabilize the spiritual domain here," Nangong Sanba rarely showed a very reliable and serious expression, his eyes actually glowed white in the dark, as if the pupils had disappeared, "I see a large number of spiritual bodies here, Our arrival may have disturbed them."
Lily immediately drew out her ice and fire claws and swiped them: "I'm not afraid of mere ghosts."
Nangong Wuyue also raised her hand: "I'm not afraid - I'm an elemental creature, and I don't have much feeling for spirit bodies."
Hao Ren looked at these two with a little surprise: the famous fish and dog Shuanggui didn't give up at this time.
Nangong Sanba shook his head: "The spirit body itself may not be a big threat, but the structure of this place may be maintained by the spirit body. After they get out of control, this space may change... It's better to stabilize it."
"Then I'll leave it to you," Hao Ren nodded, and then rubbed his arms subconsciously, "Tsk, I didn't feel anything just now, now that you're talking about it, why do I feel so fuzzy..."
Heather Anna glanced at him sideways: "A character like you is afraid of ghosts?"
"It's not that you're afraid of ghosts—think about yourself standing here, surrounded by a hundred or eighty invisible guys watching you from every angle..."
"Stop talking!" Heather Anna immediately rubbed her arms, "I feel hairy too." (To be continued~^~)