Main Text Volume Chapter 333 Dead Water and Living Water

Angel returned to the vicinity of the dragonfly nest and cleaned up a temporary residence, intending to make do for the night.

That night, Angel did not fall asleep. He lit the fire in the stove in the middle of the house, letting the flames burn a little spark, accompanied by the dim firelight, quietly thinking about the way forward.

Toby could settle down anywhere. He took out the small wooden bed quilt from the snow-containing feathers, changed into pajamas embroidered with plush edges, gave Angel a goodnight kiss, and then lay down on the wooden bed obediently, sleeping as before.

Toby's usual living habits dispelled Angel's uneasiness when he first arrived in a strange place.

At least, he was not alone.

With a smile on his lips, Angel put down the endless thoughts in his mind, stretched and came to the window. Not surprisingly, there were large groups of colorful dragonflies outside the window, shining with neon light, dreamy and intoxicating.

As a newcomer, he didn't feel sleepy, so he took out the holographic tablet and read "Mystery of Nightmare".

Life has to go on. As a wizard with a great future, how can he give up the pursuit of knowledge because of a little setback?

Time slowly passed in learning.

When dawn came, Angel closed the tablet and began to think about today's itinerary.

He didn't rest all night yesterday. Although it was mostly because of the excitement of surviving the disaster, there was actually another reason, which was also the main reason for his staying up late-

It is said that the only difference between day and night in this dead and deserted village blocked by fog is probably the color of the fog. During the day, the fog is grayish white, and at night, the fog is blue-black.

Through the color of the fog, he compared the time difference between day and night. It is roughly estimated that the day lasts about 14 hours, and the night lasts about 9 hours. This ratio of day and night is actually in line with the average annual level of the harvest month.

Moreover, the time of the holographic tablet is basically the same at the dividing point of day and night.

According to this speculation, he is currently in the wizard world, and it is very likely that he is still in the southern region.

Although this information was speculated by him and has not been tested, it is also good news. Therefore, in the whole day that followed, Angel's joy never faded.

Another day ended.

Although Angel has not found the way to leave, he is not so impatient. Even if he can't find the way to leave, it doesn't matter if he stays in the deserted village for a while.

Moreover, according to his understanding of Sanders, his accident this time should be within the scope of Sanders protecting his calf, right? When Graya disappeared, Felicia went to the Guanxing Church to seek help from the prophecy wizard. Angel felt that he was "in an accident on duty" after all, and he saved so many people. Sanders should go to the prophecy wizard to locate his position and come to him, right?

Angel didn't know where he got the mysterious confidence from.

However, Angel's confidence was not wrong, at least half right. Just as he left the plane alley, Sanders, who was far away in the mirror world, got the news.

Sanders did go to find the prophecy wizard, but he did not go to the Guangyao Realm to find the Guanxing Church. This does not mean that Sanders does not value Angell, but Angell's level is too low and does not need such a high-end prophecy wizard.

Moreover, Sanders did not go to find Angell, he only asked the prophecy wizard one question: "Is Angell still alive?"

The prophecy wizard has not noticed Angell's trace, and Sanders has been in a bad mood for more than half a month. It was not until Angell left the plane that the prophecy wizard sensed the trajectory of fate and said to Sanders: "He is still alive, and it may be a blessing in disguise. There is no need for danger now."

Because of Sanders's bad face, the prophecy wizard did not play a sharp game as before, and directly said the final conclusion.

Sanders' face eased when he heard that Angell was still alive.

When the prophecy wizard asked "whether to locate Angell", Sanders refused: "As long as he knows that he is not dead, then the rest is his own way."

Leaving this sentence, Sanders left. He firmly believed that Angell needed this training and did not want him to become a canary in an ivory tower.

So, Angell's mysterious confidence was only half right. Sanders did find the prophecy wizard, but in fact he only checked his life and death status. If he wanted to leave, he had to rely on himself.

Of course, Angell did not put all his hopes on Sanders. The reason why he was not in a hurry to leave the deserted village was that he really needed time to settle down now.

Because of chance, he was promoted to a second-level apprentice, but he had no foundation that a second-level apprentice should have. At least, he had to learn all the first-level tricks he should learn. Moreover, he also needed to start studying "The Mystery of Nightmare".

These plans all needed time to accumulate, so Angell did not reject staying in the deserted village.

In the following days, Angell began to study alone.

He put "The Mystery of Nightmare" on the list of things to study, and studied it almost day and night. Now he has a better understanding of Nightmare.

There is a passage about Nightmare that makes him feel more at ease to stay in the deserted village:

"Nightmare can also be improved and integrated, but the premise is that there is enough nightmare aura."

The so-called nightmare aura is actually the aura contained in the "nightmare stone" mentioned by Sanders, or in other words, the aura of the nightmare world. Angel only has a few pieces of nightmare stone, and he intends to use them on the edge of the knife, such as when dealing with strong enemies.

Therefore, if he wants to increase the concentration of nightmare aura in the nightmare, staying in the deserted village is the best choice. Because the thick fog here contains the aura of the nightmare world.

The more nightmare aura there is in the nightmare realm, the more powerful the nightmare aura released will be, and the nightmare realm monsters can be raised with the nightmare aura. According to the records of "The Mystery of the Nightmare Realm", as long as the nightmare aura is strong, the nightmare realm monsters can even be tamed and used for their own purposes.

Angel skipped this step directly. The colorful dragonflies, parasites, musical teacups and building block soldiers that remain in his nightmare realm are actually very obedient. Angel tells them to go east, and they will never go west.

The only regret is that their combat power is very low.

He also wanted to collect the seven-color dragonflies into the nightmare realm to increase his personal combat power, but his extremely luxurious nightmare realm was still in its infancy, and the nightmare aura was not enough to feed this group of "half-step wizard" level monsters. If he forcibly collected them, the seven-color dragonflies would slowly starve to death, so he had to give up this idea.

Two months later, on the first day of the early cold month, Angel stopped studying. He has now mastered the nightmare illusion technique that he can use, and the nightmare illusion in the extreme nightmare realm has reached saturation.

Although the deserted village is like a paradise, there are not many dangers. But there is a shortage of food here, and there are no wild animals to hunt in the wild. Recently, he has been eating magic bread, which makes his mouth full of the taste of stinky socks.

So, under such circumstances, he is ready to leave the deserted village.

...

In the past two months, he has explored every household in the deserted village, but has gained nothing. The places with a little written records are basically vague. He once spent some time to divide the ages, and finally concluded that this deserted village has been abandoned for at least a thousand years.

A thousand years have passed quickly, and even if the predecessors wanted to leave any useful written information, it has basically turned into dust.

In this case, Angel was worried: "How should he leave?"

Angel left the village again and began to look for a way out in the nearby forest, trying to find an entrance like a cave. Most of the trees in the forest have withered, and the ground is full of broken branches. Angel opened his mental tentacles and conducted a sweeping search.

But after two full circles, there was still no harvest.

Returning to the village, Angel decided to change his mindset and look at it from the perspective of the locals. How would they leave here?

From some of the exquisite villas in the deserted village, it can be seen that the people who once lived here should have no worries about food and clothing, so there must be a way to obtain supplies from the outside world.

Angel simulated himself as a villager, did nothing else, and just lived as an ordinary person.

After three consecutive days of experience, Angel came to a place-

This is the lake behind the deserted village.

In these three days, as an "ordinary villager", he needed water to get up early in the morning to wash, eat, and take a bath at night. If he did not use the "water delivery technique", the place he came most frequently in a day would be this lake.

The lake water was black and had a large smell of decay and deterioration. Angel wanted to fish from the lake to fill his stomach. But the black and greasy smell floating on the lake alone made him retreat.

Generally speaking, if there is a water source, you can find a way to leave through the underground river.

But because the water in this lake is greasy and smelly, and does not have the characteristics of a living lake, Angel initially determined that this is a dead lake, either artificially created or rainwater accumulation.

Rainwater accumulation is definitely impossible, because Angel had Toby fly in the air some time ago, and there was a hard stone wall above his head with light-absorbing plants, so it was impossible for it to rain.

This is actually a miniature version of the inner world of the earth similar to the Dark Kingdom.

Angel did not think much at the time, but now he thinks back, he always feels that something is wrong.

Since this is impossible to be a lake formed by rainwater accumulation, then it should be an artificial lake? ... Since it is an artificial lake, where does the water in the lake come from?

Angel walked all over the land and found no other water sources, and no one dug a well. Therefore, this lake must be the only place for the villagers to get water.

Then the paradox comes.

How can a lake that can be used for daily life be dead water? If the water is not alive, it will also deteriorate. Villagers cannot live with deteriorated water.

If there is really no other water source, then there is only one possibility, this lake was once alive!

Angel looked at this lake that was estimated to be dead for nearly a thousand years. If he wanted to know the real reason, he would go down and explore it.

He lowered his hat slightly, and the purification force field was fully activated. A pale white light shield surrounded Angel, and he jumped into the dark and rotten lake...