Chapter 1040: Hitchhiking

In this way, the two successfully passed through the gates of several checkpoints through the hiding of optical illusions. Leo also collected language materials continuously, and with Xiao En's explanation, he initially mastered some languages ​​​​used in this world.

Just as it is impossible for Leo to completely trust other people, it is also impossible for Sean to completely trust Leo. Although he has said a lot of things he knows about this world, he still conceals some things, such as language.

However, it was obvious that he was not able to completely hide his little secret. When Leo collected the conversations of those people, he showed a focused expression, all of which showed that he was listening to the conversations of those people. understand the language of those people.

Just like the knowledge passed down by those big families, this language is also passed down as knowledge representing a special meaning by the direct descendants of the Donald family. Sean naturally learned it, and he learned it very well, although because of some Due to inheritance reasons, some pronunciations and grammatical errors in vocabulary usage have occurred, but generally speaking, reading and writing are fairly standard.

With the language provided by Sean as a reference, Leo's mastery of this language has become much smoother, and while mastering the language, he also learned through the dialogues of these checkpoint guards that the world is not like Sean's. As mentioned, there is only the land where the ocean and the holy mountain are located. In fact, this world is very large, and may not even be smaller than the world of Velen, and the main component of this world is the ocean, and the rest are islands, such as where they are now. This piece of land is an island.

By interpreting the conversation of the checkpoint guard just now, Leo knew that an important festival is being held in the Sea God Temple on Santa Truz Mountain, and all the envoys of the island lords have sent people to participate in this festival, and even the royal family of the Sea Clan, And the movement caused by the body collectors also alarmed the people on the other side of the holy mountain, so the Sea God Church was worried that something unexpected in the mountain of despair would affect the progress of the festival, so they had to send people to check the situation, and those island lords who gathered here The envoys also sent people out of curiosity.

In order to be able to pretend to be a local as much as possible, Leo stole two sets of ordinary people's clothes from one of the checkpoint guards, and replaced the clothes on him and Sean that looked obviously different from the locals.

Although they walked smoothly along the way, they were stopped just as they were about to pass through the natural barrier forest, and what stopped them was the gate and city wall of a checkpoint.

Different from the simple checkpoints they passed through before, the checkpoint they saw now was not built with trees at all, but with that big rock piled up, not only blocking the entire road, but also Spread down the forest on both sides.

In addition, the city gate of the checkpoint is also much narrower. It is no longer two pieces of wood that look very fragile, but a city gate forged from two complete pieces of metal.

In addition to the substantial improvement in the defense of the entire checkpoint due to the construction materials and construction specifications, the checkpoint itself also contains extremely powerful extraordinary power. From the gate to the defensive wall, sea sacred inscriptions containing mysterious power are engraved.

The gate of this checkpoint is tightly closed. Leo can only reach the other side unless he enters the forest, bypasses the city wall, or directly climbs over the city wall. However, Leo did not choose these two options. He led Sean in a distance from the city wall. On the edge of the city wall not far from the gate, I used a rune trap to camouflage, and then sat down on the spot, waiting for the opportunity to pass through the checkpoint.

"Are we just waiting like this?" Sean asked impatiently after waiting for more than half an hour.

"Why are you in such a hurry, we still have plenty of time." Leo looked at Sean and said calmly.

Sean didn't say anything. Judging from his impatient expression and his reaction of standing up and walking around from time to time, it was obvious that he was not at peace.

"Aren't you going to say something?" Seeing Xiao En's situation, Leo asked in a deep voice, "For example, those little secrets that I don't know yet."

Sean was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "I know what happened to Long Soul Day?"

"Long Soul's Day?" Leo was stunned for a moment, and soon thought that this Long Soul's Day was the festival being held in Santa Truc Mountain mentioned by the checkpoint guards just now. It was not hard to hear this from their tone. Festivals are very important here.

Xiao En explained with a serious expression: "The Long Spirit Festival is a festival of the Eldar, to commemorate the sea god raising his dormant temple from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the sea for the Eldar, and it is the most important festival for the Eldar of Mount Santa Trullo. On the day of the festival, they will collect a large number of sea monster snails, and then summon sea monsters to sacrifice to the sea god by hunting sea monsters."

Leo heard Xiao En's words and said, "What will happen if the sea monster is killed?"

"Each sea monster conch corresponds to one or more sea monsters. As long as the corresponding sea monster is killed, the sea monster conch will also be destroyed." Sean smiled wryly and said, "If I don't get one this time sea ​​monster snails, then it will take thirty years for new sea monster snails to fully mature."

"They shouldn't take out all the sea monster shells for sacrifice, right?" Leo said with some doubts.

Sean smiled bitterly, but said nothing.

However, after Leo asked, he knew that he had asked a useless question, because never use ordinary people's thinking to look at a group of religious fanatics. For normal people, there is no necessary loss at all. For fanatics, It is a sacrifice to show their beliefs. They will only think that the sacrifice is not enough to conceal and not valuable enough, and they will definitely not think that the sacrifice should be saved.

Leo comforted Sean and said, "Don't worry, what we have to wait for now is the return of those who went to the Mountain of Despair to check the situation."

Sean asked, "Can't we just turn over like this?"

Leo didn't answer, but turned around and walked to the forest on the edge of the road, carefully searched the bushes in front of him, and then found a creature that looked like a poisonous snake, grabbed it, and walked back.

Before Sean understood what Leo was going to do, he saw Leo throw the creature in his hand towards the city wall, and just as the creature touched the city wall, a force burst out from the city wall , instantly crushing the creature, turning it into a pool of blood mist, which scattered around.

Seeing this scene, Sean also felt a little scared. He didn't know why Leo had set up a rune trap so far away from the city wall, but now he understood.

At the same time, the stress response of the city wall also alarmed the guards on the city wall. A few half-man, half-fish guards quickly came to the part of the city wall that was triggered, and looked down. The reason why the defense force was triggered, but they still couldn't find anyone and suspicious places, and Leo's disguise was not seen through, so they could only turn around and leave without finding anything, and returned to their checkpoint hut on the city wall.

About two hours had passed since this episode, when suddenly there was a slight tremor on the ground, and then a group of people appeared at the end of the road. Xiao En's realization could not help him see the group of people clearly. The specific appearance of them can only be judged as one of the teams they have encountered before, but Leo was able to see the figures of those people emotionally, and after seeing clearly, he also stood up from the ground.

"Who are here?" Sean also stood up and asked.

"Princess Chris." Leo replied in a deep voice, with a slightly serious expression on his face.

Although Leo had deceived these people through the disguise of the rune trap when the two met before, he could feel that the half-mermaid bishop suspected of being Princess Chrissy should be aware of the rune trap.

The environment they are in now is a special energy field formed by the bone road. Although his rune trap has tried to camouflage the surrounding energy fluctuations as much as possible, compared with the camouflage in the Mountain of Despair, the camouflage here is more energy. The volatility is obviously a lot worse.

If the half-mermaid bishop used energy fluctuations as the basis for identifying Leo's location, then they would probably reveal his location.

Thinking of this, Leo looked around, and soon his eyes fell on the edge of the city wall not far away, and he also had a bold idea in his heart.

So, he gestured to Sean, then took away the disguise of the rune trap, and led Sean to the edge of the city wall where the energy of the wall could be triggered to counterattack, and then he used his spiritual power to envelop the two of them, just doing An optical camouflage was created, and as for the energy fluctuations, there was no concealment at all.

However, although Leo's spiritual energy fluctuations were not intentionally hidden, the energy fluctuations emanating from the city wall from time to time wrapped it up, forming a cover.

After doing this, Leo and Sean stood quietly in place, waiting for the team to arrive.

Soon the team of people came not far away from the naked eye, and the guards on the city wall also spotted those people early on. With the sound of orders coming out of the city wall, the metal gate was slowly closed from the inside. Open.

This group of people did not return empty-handed. They assembled a pack cart, pulled by more than a dozen lizard monsters, and placed a huge piece of gravel on the pack cart. The liquid, and Leo could feel the energy fluctuations of the Corpse Collector contained in these liquids, presumably this should be the residue dropped by the Corpse Collector after being dealt with by the trident.

At that time, Leo only wanted to leave there, and he never thought that the body collector would drop the wreckage. If he knew, maybe he would have collected it.

At this time, a group of three-meter-high monsters with human bodies and octopus heads came out of the gate. They saluted the archbishop who was suspected of Princess Chris very respectfully, and then passed the fish. The vibration of the gills spoke the language here in a harsh voice, and said, "Master Chrissy, we need to follow the rules to check what you are carrying."

Hearing what the octopus head said, Leo and Sean looked at each other. If they had 60% doubts about the identity of the half-mermaid bishop Princess Chrissy before, they are almost 90% sure now. The half-mermaid bishop in front of her is Princess Chris.

I saw that Princess Chris, who was sitting on the north of the lizard, did not respond, but just nodded, and signaled the octopus heads to check the items they were carrying.

Those octopus heads seemed very casual when inspecting the accompanying church knights and priests, and some even only asked two questions. A lot of tightness.

I saw a few gorgeous octopus heads wearing armor among them took out a pearl-like object from the armor, placed it around the rock and moved it slowly. After repeated inspections, no problems were found. , the octopus head confessed to Princess Chrissy, and then started to signal the guards in the city wall to let him go.

Just when these people's attention was all inside the city wall and no one was paying attention to other situations around them, Leo led Sean to the end of the line naturally, some people who looked like them in clothes and looked like porters Among them, and then lifted the camouflage on his body.

The sudden appearance of two strangers beside them naturally attracted the attention of this group of people, but when they looked at Leo and were about to ask who Leo and Sean were, they felt that they seemed to know these two people, just a Time couldn't remember the names of these two people, so the doubts in their hearts quickly disappeared, and they didn't ask any more questions.

However, just as the two joined the team and walked through the city gate, Princess Chrissy, who was walking in front, suddenly looked back, and her gaze swept across the crowd where Leo and the others were, although there was a trace of Doubtful, it seemed that something was wrong, but they didn't stay on Leo and the others. Obviously, they didn't find the spiritual camouflage effect created by Leo's spiritual energy.

Later, Leo originally planned to leave the team after passing through this gate, but he found that there was a similar checkpoint behind him, so he changed his mind and stayed in the team. Taking advantage of the special nature of this team, he passed through it smoothly. The remaining checkpoints.

After passing through the last checkpoint, the bone road and the barrier forest ended, and the place where they were now was at the foot of a high mountain, which happened to be one of the two staggered high mountains observed before.

There are also a variety of plants growing in this place, but compared to the plants in the previous barrier forest, the plants growing here are obviously normal. In the eyes of people who grow strangely shaped alien plants, people like Sean, who can't even figure out the types of plants in the Velen world, see these plants as if they saw something magical.

For example, the trees planted on both sides of the road are all fire trees. This kind of fire tree is not an adjective, but a real fire tree. The tops of some branches turned into torches and burned violently. Injures other foliage and trunks that are not burning.