$1490 Ruined City

The river flowing in front of the Fantasy Butterfly Village is much longer than Raymond expected, because the mountain range before is only its surface source.

In the days after seeing the giant rock painting, the team moved along the river, but when the long mountain range hiding the giant rock painting was interrupted, the landform in front of it was transformed into a huge basin, and the surging river also disappeared underground here, becoming a dark river.

According to Jima, the source of this river is a desert outside the basin, so if you want to continue to move forward along its direction, you need to cross the basin to reach the desert and finally reach its source.

The dangers in this basin all come from a kind of netherworld plant called "Strange Willow" that grows in it. If you don't want to intersect with these strange willows, you can only detour, which will add more than ten days.

Since it is only a threat from the netherworld plant, Raymond will naturally not detour to avoid it, so he follows the direction of the dark river into the basin.

The basin was filled with numerous ponds formed by the occasional rise and even emergence of the dark river. The plants in the underworld that could emit faint light were the first to be seen, followed by the strange willows that were more than ten meters high and looked like dead trees. After entering the basin, Raymond checked the environment and found that the air pressure here was not only very low, but also the temperature dropped suddenly at an altitude of thirty or forty meters from the ground, and the extremely turbulent airflow made it impossible to stabilize, as if it had formed the effect of a no-fly zone, making it impossible for creatures with slightly lower strength to resist.

Raymond, who wanted to try to protect Uru and Jima from the air, found that it was difficult to last with the help of the isolation barrier, and the longer he stayed in the air, the greater the pressure from the air. So after a little trial and confirmation that it was not possible, he gave up the idea of ​​crossing from the air, landed and started walking.

With the light green lenses given by the Siren tribe. With the faint light formed by those underworld plants, Raymond could roughly see the road ahead without releasing the lighting technique. And those strange willows with strange shapes that look like dead trees.

The whole trunk is full of tumor-like scars, and the slender branches have no leaves, and they make dry crackling sounds when swaying in the wind, which really looks like those dead trees that will break in the wind at any time.

But when entering the basin, the Phantom Butterfly Jima explained that the attack range of these strange willows is six meters, and there will be no changes as long as you don't get close to them. So Raymond has no interest in provoking these seemingly dead strange willows, but as the team continues to go deeper, the strange willows with a height of more than ten meters gradually become connected. It is unavoidable.

There is no response to the detection of perception, but as long as it enters the edge of the range controlled by it, those dead branches will silently chop over like a sharp blade.

Each strange willow has hundreds of branches. Although it is silent when it is launched in vain, the power when it comes to the face is also a bit scary.

However, this slightly purely physical attack could not shake Raymond's defense at all, but the entanglement and twisting force formed by the strange willow after it was launched was actually far more hidden and powerful than the in vain chopping.

In an instant, it would be entangled by hundreds of dark and shriveled willow branches, and even Raymond's defense barrier would be strongly squeezed inward, and only the burning of the invisible fire could cause it to be severely damaged and retracted.

The strange willow with a well-developed root system seemed difficult to be completely destroyed. In the initial encounter, it caused Raymond a lot of trouble, but as the number of burned ones increased, these strange willows that seemed to be able to share information no longer caused trouble for the team. Even when Raymond and others entered the area controlled by it, it would actively retract its branches to make the road smooth!

Such a strange change made the phantom butterfly Jima open his mouth in surprise, and although the resentful butterfly Uru did not show any abnormality, the horror in his eyes was noticed by Raymond.

Raymond, who was also somewhat surprised, asked curiously after passing the central area of ​​the basin. "Could it be that these strange willows can transmit information?"

"I haven't heard of it... The strange willows growing here have no collection and use value, so when the team approached before, they always avoided it and bypassed it directly..."

Uruqi, who had been close to here, replied that he could not explain this phenomenon, and after quickly crossing the basin and coming to its edge, the vague city standing in the desert that suddenly became brighter finally appeared in front of Raymond.

Without waiting for Jima to introduce. Uru, who had been here before, pointed to the vaguely visible outline of the city and said. "It is said that there is a city built by a very powerful lich, but after it was destroyed, it became a dead zone where no living creatures can live..."

Raymond stood at the junction of the basin and the desert. He could only see the extremely ethereal shadow of the city, and the surface of the desert in front of him was composed of a kind of coarse quartz sand with fluorescent light. It also made the environment much brighter.

But in Raymond's opinion, this place is almost synonymous with desolation.

Because that was his first impression.

Because of the breeze, the smell that came towards us was extremely dry, but when we got close to here, the river that really disappeared deep underground and became a dark river was difficult to detect at this time because of the slow flow rate and the reduction of water volume.

However, the weak vibration from the underground dark river still allowed Raymond to vaguely grasp its direction, and he felt that the destroyed city in the desert was the source of it.

Since this place is not suitable for the creatures of the underworld to live, Raymond, who promised to try his best to prevent Jima's village from being discovered by the guardian of the soul-sacrificing fruit tree, left Uru and Jima at the edge of the desert and started to move forward alone.

After setting off, Raymond noticed the abnormality in the environment not long after he ran.

It was like a desert with a visual distortion effect, which caused the city that was originally located in a very distant position to form many afterimages. After being overlapped and covered continuously, it would give people the illusion that the city was not far ahead of them.

But in fact, the city is very far away from the basin, and there is still a phenomenon in the sky that seems to be a no-fly zone, which makes it impossible to take off and maintain high speed for a long time.

But because there are no creatures from the underworld here, Raymond also walks fast.

After about two hourglass hours, the shadow of the city that has always been neither far nor close to him can finally be seen because of the actual distance.

It is like a giant city that has been completely destroyed by a fierce attack, and there are still traces of the attack on the outer wall.

The obscure energy breath came from the direction of the city with the wind. Although it is a little difficult to detect, it was noticed by Raymond, and the closer to the city environment, the more obvious the radiation power.

When Raymond really approached the city wall, he found that the touch under his feet became a little soft. After leaning over and grabbing a handful to check, he found that the rough quartz gravel before was extremely fine here, as if it was very fine sand that could slip through the fingers.

The towering city wall was full of gaps. Raymond, who jumped onto the wall, also saw a corner of the city.

It should have been a city of considerable size in the past, but now its interior is almost buried by fine sand. All you can see are ruins covered with gravel.

Broken huge stone pillars, smashed strange stone statues, collapsed houses...

This city with a considerable area must have cost a huge price when it was built.

Raymond came to a gap to observe and saw a stone bar that was two meters square and more than ten meters long. He even found traces of a broken rune array hidden inside the city wall that had already failed.

What kind of existence would build such a large city in such a desolate place at any cost?

Raymond was a little confused...