Chapter 1710 Between Reality and Reality
A group of strange and unknown soldiers suddenly walked out of the mist.
They wore silver-white light armor decorated with green patterns and the same silver-white flying wing helmets. Their average height was almost two meters. At the same time, they did not hold the common swords and weapons of ordinary armies in their hands. Instead, they had a pair of special weapons. Metal gauntlet—the gauntlet shimmered with a slight brilliance, seeming to hide a mystery.
Evana stared at the soldiers walking out of the mist with wide eyes. The decorations on their armor and the overall equipment style were completely different from the soldiers from various countries she knew, and their average height of two meters was also different. It was an army of ordinary humans, which made her very curious.
But the guards on the other two caravans were not simply curious. After a sudden encounter at this distance, hiding was meaningless. Their previous experience of being attacked by imperial soldiers made them suspicious of these soldiers who suddenly appeared in the black pine forest. Full of vigilance, the moment the two sides met, all the guards put their hands on the weapons at their waists. Even Charlemagne couldn't help but activate several magic equipment he carried to increase his confidence.
However, the strange group of soldiers seemed not to notice the convoy in front of them at all. Facing the tense convoy guards, their choice was to keep their eyes on the front and continue to move along the road expressionlessly.
"Calm down, everyone," Hao Ren said at this time to break the deadlock (strictly speaking, it was a unilateral deadlock between the convoy guards), "I'm afraid these soldiers are not real."
While they were talking, those strange soldiers had already arrived in front of the convoy and walked past between the three caravans like phantoms.
"Illusion?" Evana's eyes widened, "But it looks exactly like the real thing..."
"It's still between fiction and reality..." Leah's slightly immature voice sounded, "These are another layer of scenes in the black pine forest. Just like the thick fog before, they are things that cannot appear in the real world. , but now we have got rid of the influence of the false world, so these things are just phantoms to us and will not have any substantial mutual interference."
"What if we don't get rid of the influence of the false world?" Lily asked curiously.
Leah blinked: "Of course we will start fighting now."
As he spoke, the group of soldiers had already passed through the convoy and continued to move along the forest road. Hao Ren looked back at them and was about to want to follow these "phantoms" to see the situation. Suddenly, all the soldiers in the group stopped.
They seemed to have discovered the enemy. For a moment, they all stared in the direction of the dense forest with high alert. A man who looked like a commander made a gesture, and the other soldiers immediately formed a defensive formation and assumed a posture ready for battle. Hao Ren Seeing them colliding the shimmering gauntlets with each other, a photon shield that was enough to protect most of the body stretched out on each person's left hand, and a ray of light emitted from the bottom of the right gauntlet stretched out. The energy blade of cold light.
Hao Ren was dumbfounded when he saw it: "I'll go... This style of painting doesn't fit in with the local worldview..."
Before he could finish his sigh, a whistling sound suddenly came from the dense forest, and then a huge creature covered in dark smoke knocked down the bushes along the way and swooped out of the forest!
The monster shrouded in smoke was obviously a phantom, and its image reminded Hao Ren of the crazy minions he had faced - rotten and proliferated limbs, a mutated torso with no prototype, countless eyes and countless monsters. The mouthparts are all over the body, the tentacles extend from the ulcerated and cracked skin, crawling crazily in the air, and the blasphemous roar comes directly from the monster's abdomen. This chaotic and crazy monster is almost all sanity and order. The opposite of it, whether seeing it, hearing it, or coming into contact with it, will drag the human spirit into the abyss of madness and darkness.
This monster even made Evana almost scream. She let out a short half-scream, then she covered her mouth tightly and gritted her teeth to barely control herself from making any more noise. The guards' performance was not much better either - - Even warriors who have experienced many battles have never seen such a blasphemous and ugly creature, and they trembled for a while.
The warriors holding lightsabers and photon shields were also startled by the monster that suddenly jumped out, but they were only startled. The commander began to shout loudly to arrange the attack and defense positions, and the soldiers quickly adjusted their formations, and then launched attacks on the monster from all directions.
There are various signs that this is not the first time they have seen this kind of monster.
A melee broke out, and the phantom warriors and phantom monsters fought together on the wide road in the black pine forest. The monster obviously did not only have brute force. It would spit out corrosive energy groups and create some kind of laser beam to attack the opponent, and those monsters The tall warrior used the photon shield in his hand to defend himself, and continued to cut off the monster's limbs with surprisingly skillful martial arts. At the end, the tall warrior who looked like a commander suddenly roared, and the light blade in his hand extended and transformed into a long whip, directly binding the monster and dragging it to the ground, while the other warriors swarmed up and smashed the enemy into pieces with the light blade. Thousands of corpses.
The battle was over. The soldiers gasped and watched as the monster's flesh and blood quickly turned into ashes under the corrosion of the black mist. A soldier broke the silence and used a language that no one in Lahirion knew: "They It shows up here too.”
"Go and tell the chapter leader about the situation here," the team commander said. "The rest of you, come with me to the next checkpoint."
Then he looked up at the sky and said as if talking to himself: "The day has finally come...again..."
All the phantoms stopped at this moment and gradually dissipated in the air.
"What did they say in the end?" Evana looked a little dazed. She and Charlemagne didn't have a translation plug-in, so they were confused at the moment. "It doesn't sound like the dialect of the Dragon Empire..."
"They seemed to have expected this monster, and they sent someone to inform a person named the Chapter Leader that something had happened here," Hao Ren thought for a moment, and decided to translate what he heard to Evana, saying I’m not sure what the other person will think, “Can you think of anything?”
But Evana was still confused after hearing this, and shook her head: "No...I can't think of anything. I don't recognize the emblems on these soldiers, and I haven't heard of any country's military establishment." Chapter Master's position."
"Are these also one of the possibilities of the false world?" Vivian glanced at Leah, "Why do I always feel that something is not right?"
"I don't know either," Leah's expression was also a little confused, "It stands to reason that these unrealized world lines are extremely fragmented and messy, and there is no possibility of logic..."
Hao Ren glanced at Leah, and an idea vaguely emerged in his mind.
"Perhaps...we are seeing not only the future possibilities of this world, but also its past."
Lily scratched her hair: "What do you mean?"
"Don't forget, there is more than one world in this world." Hao Ren shook his head, but this time he used the language of the earth. "If it has experienced destruction and reshaping, then what happened in the past can also be used in the current history. It counts as some kind of 'false world line'."
Speaking of this, he glanced at Leah: "Do you have any impression of this black pine forest? Was there anything similar on this planet before Lahirien was destroyed?"
Leah thought about it seriously and shook her head slightly: "I have no impression. I had been watching Lahirien for many years at that time. I knew every corner of this planet very clearly, and I was sure that there was no black pine forest. Unless... it was in I suddenly appeared on this planet at the last moment before falling into sleep. But how is this possible?"
"Really..." Hao Ren muttered in a low voice, without comment.
Charlemagne and Evanna looked at each other in confusion. Hao Ren and the others suddenly started talking in a language they didn't understand. This was an obvious act of keeping secrets, but they were very embarrassed when they thought about the secrets they carried. What to say, so I was a little embarrassed for a while.
Fortunately, this embarrassment did not last long, and Hao Ren quickly turned to them again: "We have no conclusion - if there are no problems, let's continue on our way."
The brother and sister nodded together: "Okay."
The convoy continued to set off, heading deeper into the black pine forest along the forest road, and finally reached the first fork in the road.
However, this fork in the road does not appear in any records.
Looking at the fork in the road with neither signboards nor imperial emblems hanging in front of him, Charlemagne slowly took a breath: "It seems... we have arrived at a place in the black pine forest that no one has ever reached before."
Evana also frowned: "But theoretically this is impossible..."
The black pine forest is vast and mysterious, but the roads in the forest are limited and fixed. During the long development time, the explorers of the Dragon Empire and the national exploration team have measured and recorded every road in this forest— - At least every road leading to the entrance and exit can be found from the edge of the forest - and signboards and rest points have been set up at all forks. At some larger forks, there are even outposts that are guarded all year round, so Theoretically, as long as you enter from the entrance of Greenway and never leave the forest road in the middle, there must be a guide mark on every fork in the road that a traveler encounters.
Unmarked crossroads meant only one thing: the traveler had entered an undiscovered and unfamiliar territory in the forest, and there were no intersections between this area and the well-established forest roads.
"Theoretically it's impossible, but we have just experienced something beyond theory." Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "When we were in the thick fog before, the convoy walked on an endless road for a long time. Maybe at that time we had already We have entered unfamiliar territory."
"Entering a strange area is not important in itself," Vivian said while looking at Leah sitting next to her. "The important thing is... this process was hidden from Leah's eyes."
Leah blinked, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face: "No, maybe it's the opposite. It should be that those who successfully passed through the black pine forest in the past were all confused, and we... are the first group in history to walk in the black pine forest. On the right route.”
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