A dense fog stood in front of everyone, almost as thick as a wall. Hao Ren stopped in front of the thick fog, looked around, and found that the wall of fog had spread to the end of his field of vision, and gradually closed in a very far place.
Thick fog blocked the entire town, and there was no road ahead.
"This is probably the border of the town," Vivienne also stopped, and she cautiously put her hand into the thick mist, a weird, slippery and warm touch came from the mist, " The scope of the secret realm is limited, and there should be no way to go any further.”
"Why don't you leave? Hurry up, hurry up—" Haimerwin's voice came from the side. He was about to step into the fog, but he found that Hao Ren and the others stopped in place, "Hurry up, hurry up!" time, the devil may run away..."
"You can't see such a thick fog?" Hao Ren pointed to the fog wall in front, "No matter how you look at it, you shouldn't go inside."
Hemerwin was a little stunned. He turned his head to look at the town border surrounded by thick fog: "Fog? What kind of fog? Is there any better weather than this? I can see the shadow of the old mill from here."
Everyone was stunned for a moment: this "ghost" was blocked by the dense fog that could not see the border of the town.
Just as Hao Ren wanted to ask something more, Heimerwen had already stepped into the foggy wall, and then a miraculous scene appeared:
As Hemerwin stepped forward, the dense fog around him receded slowly as if alive, and shadows of roads and vegetation gradually appeared in the originally chaotic fog, as if these things were born from the fog Appeared abruptly, and extended forward following Heimerwin's footsteps.
Hao Ren didn't know what happened, but he still grabbed Vivian's arm: "Everyone follow."
The dense fog seemed to have no end. It covered the sky and completely blocked the entire space outside the town. After entering the dense fog, within a few minutes, everyone could no longer see the direction they came from. They could only see the endless fog in all directions in the distance. The place a few meters away from the team kept rolling, and the road stretched forward within this extremely limited range. In the chaos, Lily grabbed Hao Ren's sleeve with some unease: "Landlord, are we going to get lost?"
"Can't you just lower your head and smell it yourself?" Vivian gave Lily a white look. "As a canine creature, you are afraid of getting lost, and your talent is all about eating spicy sticks?"
Lily blinked. Rubbing his nose: "That's right."
"It's okay," Hao Ren comforted her, "I left a beacon transmitter at the entrance of the dense fog just now, everyone, don't get separated, we can send it back."
Nangong Wuyue looked at Hai Mowen who was walking in front, and tugged at his elder brother's sleeve: "Why can a ghost open a path in the thick fog?"
"Because he 'remembers' these," Nangong Sanba frowned. "Although the principle is not very certain, it seems that this town is composed of two parts: the main body of the town is the real material world, and all the supernatural parts—such as the spirit body, soot, Hemerwin himself, and the dense fog that blocked the town , these parts come from 'memory'. Consider the whole town as a huge consciousness, and the things that happened to us left in its memory have become these phenomena in front of us. Because memory is always unstable, these phenomena It's basically supernatural."
Hao Ren looked at Nangong Sanba suspiciously: "Why do you suddenly know so much?"
"I didn't learn anything else in the past hundred years, but I learned how to deal with the world of ghosts." Nangong Sanba puffed up his chest quite complacently. People catch ghosts or something. But this is the first time I have seen such a large-scale spiritual field, but no matter how large it is, the basic principles are the same, matter, memory, and soul, together constitute a supernatural space, which is what we see Arrived like this."
Hao Ren let out a groan, and said that he didn't know how Nangong Sanba could stand up and say "werewolves can't be beaten, and blood races can't be messed with" so confidently...
The crowd went deep into the thick fog under the leadership of Hai Mowen. After walking for an unknown period of time, Hao Ren noticed that the road under his feet had turned into an uphill slope: the team should be climbing a small gentle highland. Heatherana asked the temporary guide in front impatiently, "Hemerwin, how far is it?"
Hemerwin was startled by the sudden voice behind him. He shrunk his neck and pointed to the front: "Oh, oh. Right in front, right in front, you can already see that black house is—ah, just woke up, and it turned out to be like this."
Others couldn't see where the "house" in Hemerwin's eyes was, so no one said anything, until after walking for a while, the gentle upward slope gradually became straight, and the team came to an open area after walking the slope. On the flat ground, they finally saw the so-called "Wizard's Hideout".
A dilapidated old big house stood alone on the open land in front, surrounded by dense fog, which made it look even more shadowy and eerie. The structure of the big house is very simple, divided into upper and lower floors, and there are no redundant auxiliary buildings around it except for a small Ma Peng, but judging from the scale, it should have been a building for the rich: at least the common people of that era It is impossible to afford such a regulated mansion.
Hemerwin shrank back a little in fear, and pointed to the entrance of the big house: "He lives here, and he almost never lets anyone approach him."
Hao Ren snorted. After approaching, he looked at the exterior of the house curiously. He found that all the windows of this building except the main entrance had been nailed to death by wooden boards. You can also see the thick and old black cloth behind it. The entire building therefore presents a highly enclosed state, and normal people probably would never live in this kind of house.
Vivienne glanced at Hemerwin: "You haven't gone in to see it either?"
"I... went in once," Hemerwin was a little apprehensive, "It's full of filthy and blasphemous things, and all kinds of deviant books are piled up on the table."
"Now it sounds like you have a lot of resistance to that 'scholar'," Hao Ren stared at the change in Hemerwin's expression, "but according to our investigation, you trust the 'scholar' so much that you almost want to hire him as a consultant. And you often discuss issues together."
Hemerwin was taken aback, and a disgusted and uneasy expression quickly appeared on his face: "I was bewitched at the time! It was magic, the power of black magic! That devil used spells to brainwash me, and I can't even remember it clearly." What did I do when I was under control. But I am awake now, and I can recall some things that happened at that time... It seems that what you said is correct, the devil is really dead, and the spell he cast on me has faded .”
"Maybe so." Hao Ren nodded perfunctorily, dragged Hemerwin and walked into the house, "You also come in, I need you to continue to be a guide."
Hemerwin resisted a little, as if he was still full of fear about the house, but after seeing the malicious eyes of Cassandra and Hesianna, he calmed down and lowered his head obediently to express his cooperation.
With a "squeak", Hao Ren pushed open the dusty door, and immediately a lot of dust fell from the door frame. He took two steps back and waited for the dust to disperse, then he was the first to go in.
Lily took out the fire weapon again and was very happy to act as a light. The moment the weapon appeared out of thin air, Hemerwin cried out in surprise, but was stabbed by Duncan with the hilt of the rapier.
The inside of the big room is very messy, with large tables and wooden shelves filled with various equipment everywhere. What is gratifying is that the utensils and books on these tables and shelves are obviously related to black magic: this is indeed what the wizard once said. used place.
"The fog doesn't seem to have penetrated into this room," Lily sniffled while checking the furnishings in the room. Her nose is very sensitive to the dense fog outside. She sneezed several times when she was outside. Now after entering the room Much more comfortable, "And it's strange, there is no ash here."
There was a thick layer of dust everywhere in the house, but there was no such black ash: it seemed that the strange phenomenon of ash was only maintained within the small town.
Everyone in the team began to look through the materials and books left by the wizard on the table. Hemmerwin found that no one was paying attention to him. He sniffled, found a corner and sat down cautiously, stilling like a stone statue.
Hao Ren saw a large open book on the big table in the middle of the room, and a sentence on the top of the book caught his attention:
"Across the gate, the secret knowledge in the distorted kingdom." (to be continued~^~)