Main Text Volume Chapter 332 Deserted Village
The moment Angel stepped out of the plane passage, he felt something was wrong.
He originally thought that he would be taken to the nightmare world by the seven-colored dragonfly, but it didn't happen. Although the fog here was heavy and filled with the breath of the nightmare world, there was no illusion that time was frozen like in the nightmare world.
Angel turned around and saw a giant nest about ten meters high.
He was familiar with the appearance of the nest, which was exactly the same as the nest in the women's bath house, and even the five-colored dragonfly and seven-colored dragonfly guarding it were not much different.
Angel continued to look around, and within his visual range, everything was blocked by heavy layers of fog. He could only vaguely see the outline of the building, and most of them were short wooden houses, which did not seem to have any sophisticated construction methods.
He felt it carefully. Apart from the breath of nightmare, the other ingredients in the air were not much different from normal breathing: "This should not be the nightmare, so is this the wizard world? Or other planes?"
Angel certainly hoped that this was the wizard world, but even if someone told him that this was not the wizard world, he would not be too depressed.
For people who have experienced despair, even a little dawn is a salvation.
It is his greatest luck to be able to leave the plane alley. What else can he ask for? What's more, this is very likely not the dangerous nightmare world, which is a great blessing for him. What is there to be depressed about?
Angel took Toby and walked forward for a distance.
As he moved, the group of colorful dragonflies and five-color dragonflies behind him all followed him, like a colorful cloak, fluttering in the wind.
With such a cloak, the "boundless silence" of the bracelet would probably not have any effect even if it was fully activated.
It was too dazzling!
Angel sighed helplessly, waved at the group of little tails, and let them return to the nest to play by themselves.
After all, these little guys were his saviors, and he was embarrassed to forcibly drive them away like Sanders did at the beginning.
Maybe they only saved the name of "Shava", but for Angel, it was a great favor. In any case, the life-saving grace cannot be forgotten, even if the other party is just a group of dragonflies.
Angel thought about it and expressed his willingness to let them go back to guard the nest with emotions.
At first, they were reluctant to go back, but Angel said "The queen wants you to stay at the nest, not run around", so that a large number of colorful dragonflies slowly flew back to the nest.
However, there are still hundreds of colorful dragonflies following Angel, including the large dragonfly that delivered the "Void Algae".
This large dragonfly is about two or three times larger than the other dragonflies, and the colorful light it emits is much brighter. Angell estimated that this large dragonfly is the brain of this group of colorful dragonflies.
He did not disperse his emotions, but communicated with this large dragonfly alone, hoping that it would take the dragonflies away.
This large dragonfly has a much higher IQ than other dragonflies. After Angell requested many times, even reaching the level of "command", it slowly brought all the colorful dragonflies back to the vicinity of the nest.
However, not all dragonflies left. There was also a colorful dragonfly dancing the "8" dance next to Angell, which seemed to be dancing to the point of forgetting itself. Wherever Angell went, it would dance.
Angell thought about it and did not drive it away, but opened the extremely luxurious nightmare and let it go in to play with the teacup bands. The teacup band played music and it danced. It was quite a match, wasn't it?
After leaving the nest, Angell walked in the mist for about ten minutes and roughly understood the distribution and structure here.
This seemed to be a village, but he did not find any trace of anyone. The whole village was covered by the mist sprayed out from the nest passage. He could not see the sun when he looked up. It was gray and visibility was very low.
Angel thought that this might be a place similar to the Night Demon City. The whole village was parasitized... Hey, it doesn't seem right. If they were parasitized, they would sing and dance and become crazy, but Angel walked all the way and found that it was very quiet here, and no one sang.
Moreover, he did not find any light parasites near the nest.
So, this might be just a village shrouded by the breath of the nightmare world? Angel pushed open a small wooden house nearby with doubt.
The small wooden house was really small, a bit like a temporary residence built by hunters in the mountains. The appearance was old and shabby, and the walls were also patched.
Angel pushed the door gently, and the wooden door broke into many pieces like a piece of paper. Before he could go in and take a look, the whole wooden house collapsed, and Angel was buried in the broken wood in an instant.
When he was buried, he opened the "magic barrier" on his windbreaker and was not hurt. When he struggled out, he looked at the devastated situation and frowned.
Even the wooden house has rotted and dried up. How long has this village been abandoned?
He wanted to find useful information in this abandoned village to confirm the location, which seems to be a very difficult task at present.
Angel did not look at the decayed wooden house again, but entered another villa courtyard with a wooden and stone structure that looked very stable.
"There is nothing special about the architectural style. From the design of the door to the overall size of the villa, it is in line with the average height of the human body." It is estimated that before the village was abandoned, it should have been inhabited by humans or humanoids.
There are weeds in the courtyard, but they have not been trimmed for a long time and are a mess.
Angel carefully pushed open the door of the villa, and found no collapse or weathering. It seems that the architect has taken this into consideration.
However, the fact that the house did not collapse does not mean that the furniture inside is still intact. Wooden tables, wooden chairs, and dusty countertops will break if Angel exerts a little force.
"It has been abandoned for at least a hundred years, or even longer." With a wave of his hand, thick dust was everywhere.
With the "purification force field" of the high hat fully turned on, Angel did not need to worry about the dust problem, but he was more worried that because it was too long, the information he wanted to find might be covered by dust or weathered into slag.
In the whole villa, Angel did not gain anything. The stairs on the second floor were broken. He used his mental tentacles to observe the room on the second floor, and it was still empty.
After leaving the villa, Angel went to several houses in a row, but returned empty-handed.
It was not until a large bunker building in the center of the village that he found some useful information.
This bunker building might be a place similar to the combat center. Angel found dried pens and broken parchment here. There were traces on some parchments, but they were too old and covered with dust, so he didn't recognize what was written. He wanted to brush off the dust, but the parchment turned into dust with the breeze, so he had to give up.
The only information he got was the map near the village.
It was a map engraved on the wall of the bunker.
A big circle encompassed the entire map. There were tree patterns inside the circle, which might represent the forest; there was a wooden house pattern in the center, which probably represented the village; there were also lakes, tents, and torches... and so on.
This map marked the nearby terrain, but there was one place that Angel was very confused about.
Why were all the patterns drawn inside the circle, and what was outside the circle? Did the circle represent the "safe zone"? Is the area outside the circle dangerous?
He didn't know, and he had to explore the road to understand.
After taking out the holographic tablet and photographing the map, Angel turned around and left the village.
Since there is no information in the village, then go out.
Anyway, we have already escaped from the plane alley, and everything is moving in a good direction. Even if we can't get information here, then go out!
- Half a day later, Angel, who "went out", returned to the village with his tail between his legs.
When he left the village, he was full of energy, thinking that as long as he had feet, he could always measure the future. But he was wrong. If he couldn't even get out of this village, what future would he have?
He walked around the village for a long time and finally understood why a big circle was drawn on the map. This circle is not a safe zone, nor does it represent the boundary of the land. It simply represents a meaning: "restriction".
In the entire map, only within the circle can you move.
And the meaning of the circle is an unreachable stone wall.
Angel walked along the "circle" on the map. It took him most of the day to walk the entire circle. From beginning to end, it was all stone walls, with no place to climb, and because of the thick fog, you couldn't see what was above your head.
Either this was the bottom of the cliff, an environment similar to a valley. Or this was a world in the center of the earth like Night Demon City. No matter which one it was, it was not easy to leave here.
At least, you had to find a way out.
Angel believed there must be a way out, because the nearby forests were dense, there was no fertile land, and no place to graze. The villagers who once lived here could not have relied on eating fruits to make a living, right?
There was no place to make paper and pens, or to forge iron and burn stoves in the village, so these things must have come here from the outside world.
So, there must be a way out here, but where is the way out? This is the problem he urgently needs to solve now.
Angel walked on the main road of the village, thinking about this problem while observing the surrounding rooms with his mental tentacles. If there were any clues, he would go and explore immediately.
In the process, Angel found that this village was actually much more beautiful than he had imagined.
Although the houses have decayed and weathered, it is not difficult to see that many of them have been designed. And almost every household will plant trees, although most of the trees have died because they cannot get sunlight. But looking back to the past, the village was bustling with people, the trees were tall, the fruits were hanging, and the flowers were in full bloom. The scene must have been beautiful.
And without foreign enemies, this place might have been a paradise to avoid war.
But now the paradise is no longer there, only a deserted village.