Chapter 72 71 Thick Fog

Chapter 72 71. Thick fog

Lulutis was the first to arrive at the cave entrance with the help of optical camouflage. After listening carefully for a while, she signaled Lu Yu to come over.

Lu Yu glanced outside through the crisscrossing dead branches at the cave entrance. It was white all around and nothing could be seen.

"Woo woo woo~~~"

A gust of wind blew, and the woo woo sound rang out again.

Several times in a row, the sound was made only when the wind blew, which made Lu Yu suddenly realize.

"It turned out to be just the sound of the wind."

It was just the narrow tube effect, a normal phenomenon.

Lu Yu, who thought it was nothing, asked them to go back to play cards, but Lulutis stretched out her tentacles and grabbed him.

"Tap, tap..."

"Is this also the sound of the wind?" Lulutis asked.

The obvious sound of horse hooves made Lu Yu approach immediately. When he looked out, he saw a knight in silver armor galloping past at a high speed.

After a while, dense footsteps sounded.

A group of people who looked like adventurers emerged from the fog and appeared in front of Lu Yu and others. After briefly identifying the direction, they squatted down, seemingly to confirm the horseshoe prints, and then followed the direction where the knight left.

After walking along the Luotan River for nearly two months, this was the first time Lu Yu saw people after leaving the Yas area, although the faces of these people could not be seen clearly due to the fog.

After everyone left, Lu Yu silently memorized the direction in which the group of people left. The three of them stopped playing cards and went to bed early to save their energy and get up early tomorrow morning to hurry on their way.

At dawn, the fog dissipated. After Lu Yu left the cave entrance, he found the place where the adventurers and knights passed by yesterday. The dense footprints and deep horseshoe prints were clearly visible.

After walking along the horseshoe prints for a distance, the sky was covered with dark clouds. For some reason, the fog gradually rose in the forest.

Lu Yu hurriedly looked for tree holes and caves around to drill.

At this moment, the ground trembled.

The trees in the distance were knocked down by the extremely fast giant, and several towering trees fell in unison in the direction where Lu Yu was.

Lu Yu saw that Lulutis was in the danger zone and wanted to rush towards him, so he shouted anxiously: "Don't come over, hide!"

After that, he jumped and rolled down the small slope on the side.

The unknown creature roared angrily and went away. Every step he took was powerful and heavy. Lu Yu trembled all over when he stomped on the ground, and countless new branches and leaves of the trees fell in his roar.

Until there was no movement around, Lu Yu climbed up the small slope.

Seeing the huge mark on the ground that went deep into the ground, and seeing the towering trees that fell and lay not far away, Lu Yu was terrified.

What kind of creature is this? It actually has such a strong power. This destructive power is not much less than that of a dragon, right?

Are Lulutis and Sigrid okay?

He tried to shout a few times, but there was no response.

Climbing up the fallen tree and looking around, he saw thick fog everywhere and couldn't see far away at all.

This was bad. The fog was so thick. According to the dragon's suggestion, it was very risky to move in the fog. But if he didn't move at this moment, wouldn't he lose contact with Lulutis and the others?

After thinking for a while, Lu Yu always felt that something was wrong.

After leaving the Dragon Valley for so long, fog at night and even in the early morning was normal, but he had never seen fog suddenly appear at noon.

With a skeptical attitude towards everything around him, Lu Yu took back his foot.

He decided to stay where he was, just like a child who had lost contact, waiting for Lulutis and Sigrid to find him.

He didn't believe that Lulutis and Sigrid couldn't find him with so many fallen trees as reference points.

Lu Yu, who had made up his mind, found a place to rest on the spot. Because he was hungry, he made a fire and ate some roasted wolf meat.

The sky was still gloomy, but one could vaguely see the traces of time passing. The sky was getting darker and the night was coming.

The fog was still thick all around, and Lulutis and Sigrid were still missing.

Lu Yu, who had been waiting for a long time, stood on a high place and observed the surroundings. Except for the sounds of animals in the forest, he could not hear anything else.

Lu Yu threw several flash spells into the fog in succession, and the light balls like flares flashed a hazy white light in the fog.

The wind attribute magic split the fog, but it could only expand the field of vision by less than a few meters, and the fog would soon "heal".

With his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, Lu Yu mobilized his magic power and prepared to start the summoning ceremony.

"Captain, did you see the ball of light in the fog just now? Is it a treasure?"

"What treasure? I think it's just a trap set by the monster to lure prey into the trap. But it's okay. The weather is very strange today. We didn't hunt anything, but a monster is also a harvest."

"Follow closely, the fog is so thick, there may be other big guys hiding in it."

Although the adventurers spoke in low voices, the forest was too quiet at night, and Lu Yu could clearly hear their conversation and the sound of friction and collision of objects on their bodies.

Not traveling lightly proves that this group of adventurers probably dealt with monsters in the form of ambushes.

Today, the fog is so thick that there are indeed fewer active monsters and animals in the forest, so it is reasonable that there is no harvest.

From the conversation, Lu Yu analyzed the situation of this group of people.

Although it is dangerous to rashly contact a whole team of strangers in the wild, Lu Yu will inevitably be discovered if he hides at this moment. If he escapes, it will be even more difficult to explain if he is caught.

According to the method he had explored before, Lu Yu modified the content of the summoning contract and prepared to start the summoning ceremony at any time. Then, he fired another flash spell in the direction of the sound.

"Captain, it's the breath of magic... It's flashing me to death!"

"There's a magician, it's other adventurers, be alert!"

"What the hell are you standing for, do you want to be burned to charcoal by the fireball, get down!"

The reaction was very real. When he encountered the breath of magic in the wild, as a person who lived on the edge of a knife, all his responses were correct.

After confirming so much, Lu Yu just wanted to know if he was dreaming, or hallucinating in the depths, or... the thick fog around could construct an illusory scene.

It's no wonder that Lu Yu was so suspicious, because the sudden monster was really strange.

He suddenly appeared, but his appearance could not be seen, and he separated himself from Lulutis in an instant. After that, he lost contact with Lulutis and Sigrid.

"Adventurers?" Lu Yu shouted to the team in the fog.

"Magicians, right? We are just hunting monsters. We don't want to conflict with you. Let's go now."

"This is a misunderstanding. I was trapped in the fog and couldn't find a way out, so I used the flash magic to explore everywhere."

"Are you alone?"

"Yes."

After getting Lu Yu's answer, a middle-aged archer jumped down from the tree and carefully groped his way to Lu Yu's vicinity.

After seeing Lu Yu, he looked around again, and after confirming that everything was correct, he returned.

After a while, a team of six adventurers appeared in front of Lu Yu.

The team leader was a young woman with a ponytail. Just looking at her white and tender fingers, you can tell that she is a magician in the team. After all, the hands of other people in the team, including a female team member, are covered with calluses.

"I am the captain Daphne. Do you mind introducing yourself?"

"Lu Yu, a magician, is currently traveling around."

After the other members of Daphne's team checked the surroundings and thoroughly confirmed that Lu Yu was not a bait for a certain team, Daphne also breathed a sigh of relief.

"There are always some scary guys in this area when it's foggy. If you're not familiar with the environment here, people who get lost in the fog will most likely be devoured by those monsters after nightfall. It was only when we made our last attempt that we mistook your flash spell for a fishing monster."

"Scary guy?"

A sturdy man next to Daphne reminded, "Captain, it's almost night, let's go."

Daphne nodded and said to Lu Yu, "There's a human city-state not far away, with many adventurers active. Do you want to go with us?"

"Two of my companions are lost, and I hope to hire you to help me find them." Lu Yu said.

"You're a traveler, and you may not know the rules here. It's foggy at sunset, and few people will accept the commission, unless you can offer a price that people can't refuse."

Daphne turned and left, obviously not wanting to stay in the wild after sunset.

Seeing Lu Yu still staying where he was, another girl in the team advised him, "Since you don't plan to go with us, don't walk around at night and don't make a fire. Making a fire will attract all those guys."

"In fact, it's better for you to follow Captain Daphne. Your companions will also look for you if they get lost. There are adventurers around here when there is no fog. If you meet those adventurers, your companions will also reach 'Suna'. Even if there are no adventurers, if you want to hire adventurers, you have to go to a place with many adventurers to issue commissions, right?"

Lu Yu hesitated again and again, looking at the big tree under his feet that separated him from Lulutis, and sighed.

He picked up his luggage and caught up with Daphne's team.

"It's a wise choice. Spending the night alone in the fog is courageous, but it's also incredibly stupid." The archer in the team said to Lu Yu.

"Can you tell me what the monsters in the fog you are talking about are?"

Daphne retreated from the front of the team to Lu Yu's side and explained: "Fog monsters."

"They are good at using magic and are extremely active in foggy weather. Adventurers are often killed by the strange creatures they construct with magic."

"What kind of strange creatures?"

"There is no exact shape, but I have seen two types. One is a human with half a skeleton and half flesh and blood. The other is a behemoth wrapped in white fog, with a cow-like outline and a body size infinitely close to a dragon."

"According to the descriptions of other adventurers, the objects constructed by fog monsters in the fog are varied and difficult to guard against. This is also the reason why adventurers here are reluctant to accept commissions in foggy weather."