Chapter 195 Some Kind of Omen

The team moved forward on the rugged mountain road and now finally reached the top of the mountain.

It is said to be the top of the mountain, but because this is an ancient mountain trail built specifically to cross the mountains, this is a "gap" with a lower altitude in the Longji Mountains. There are towering peaks on both sides. It gives people the feeling of being here. It was as if the cliffs on both sides were about to crush him. It was a wonderful sight.

Lily was still running at the front of the team as usual. She didn't seem to know what tiredness meant. Even when the strong horses that followed the team all the way up were panting heavily, she still had the strength to jump up and down in front: " I saw the lake of blood! I saw the lake of blood!"

Hao Ren followed behind, and when he heard Lily's shouting, he immediately took two steps forward. Standing on the open ground on the top of the mountain, he finally saw the destination of his trip - it was actually still some distance away from the Blood Lake, but because of The air quality in this world is excellent, and there are no clouds or fog here. Standing on the mountain, you can see the scenery very far away.

At the foot of the mountain, a large area of ​​plains and forests spread out. Surrounded by forests and plains, Beinz Blood Lake shines with magnificent ruby ​​luster. Just like the legend, the lake water is as red as blood and shines in the sun. Brilliant, weird, but magnificent.

Betsy's voice sounded from behind: "It's much easier when going down the mountain. The mountain road in front is in better condition than at the east foot, and the slope is gentler. After going down the mountain, go southwest a little to Leighton Town, which is the last resort before entering the Blood Lake. A regular town, let’s take a short rest there, and then we can enter the Blood Lake area through the outpost of Layton Town.”

"This thing is really spectacular," Hao Ren said sincerely. He had guessed what a "blood lake" would look like countless times before, but all he could do was change the color of the picture of the earth's lake in his mind. Now Only after witnessing it with his own eyes did he realize that the imagination in his mind had its limits after all. The visual impact of such a vast expanse of blood-colored water spreading out in front of his eyes was extraordinary. Not only was it dyeing the earth red, it also turned a strange red color. The light is projected into the sky, and the sunlight shining on the blood lake stimulates a hazy light effect, giving people the feeling that the Beinz area is wrapped in a barrier from another world, and the entire lake is shrouded in a strange In the atmosphere, Hao Ren stood on the top of the mountain without moving for a long time, until he suddenly discovered that some of the colors around the blood lake seemed to be more than just dyed by the lake light, "Is that a forest?"

Betsy looked in the direction of Hao Ren's finger. It was a large forest between Blood Lake and the mountains. It was also the only way to Blood Lake after coming out of Leyton Town. This forest had a surprisingly neat vegetation distribution rate. , almost everywhere is covered with the same density of "canopy", and the whole has an unsettling purple-red hue. Betsy found that Hao Ren and several others were looking at the forest in surprise, with an unsurprised expression on their faces: "It's incredible when you see it for the first time, right? That's the forest, the Twisted Woodland. It's said that the goddess destroyed the world. The angry thoughts from that time remain in the lake, thus eroding the surrounding plants. I have said before that there are many strange and dangerous creatures around the blood lake. That forest is one of the most dangerous creatures: it is a plant. , unprecedentedly huge, covering half of the plain, but we must pass through the forest."

Hao Ren was stunned: "A plant?! What do you mean?"

"Literally speaking, you don't even know this, do you? At least you must have heard of it," Betsy shrugged. "All the trees in the entire Twisted Woodland are actually the same plant, which is an unusually large and ancient plant. It took a small group of elf scholars more than a hundred years to determine this fact. But you don't have to worry, the Twisted Woodland itself is not offensive. We just need to be careful about the poisonous plants and beasts growing in the forest. can."

Hao Ren got goosebumps all over his body. He looked at the large purple-red forest on the plain at the foot of the mountain, imagining that the thousands of plants there were actually branches of some weird, huge, ancient creature, and then he It was a hair-raising experience to walk through that huge living thing. Lily didn't hide her fright. She jumped back twice with her tail between her legs: "Is there any other way?"

Betsy raised her hand and pointed to the northern part of the forest, where the exposed plain soil glowed with a deeper purple-red luster, shining like a crystal shell in the sun, and the purple-red plains were connected to the clusters on the other side of the blood lake. Shan: "Otherwise, there is only one way to get to the Blood Lake, but that requires going around the poisonous plains to the north of the lake, and ultimately you have to travel through the sacred mountains of the mountain people and werewolf tribes, so the risk factor is even higher. Although mountain people are hospitable, they don’t like people entering their sacred mountains, especially the werewolf tribe countries.”

Lily raised her chest hard to show that she was a werewolf: "Isn't it okay to have someone introduce me?"

To be honest, if she had the same figure as Vivian, then this breast-raising action would still be somewhat convincing...

Betsy glanced at Lily: "Are you sure you are really a werewolf? Why do I feel that you don't know as much about werewolves' rules as I do? Over the years, there have only been a few bishops from the Huiyao Sect and the wise king Bede of the previous generation. Wayne was welcomed into the Holy Mountain by the werewolf tribe and mountain people because of his virtue, how can you be so confident?"

Hao Ren knew that this husky would fall off the chain, so he quickly pulled Lily back: "Haha, she grew up on the plains like Y'zaks, and her bloodline is not pure..."

Of course, the bloodline is not pure, one-sixteenth of Jingba, this is not a lie, Hao Ren's biggest characteristic is that he does not lie.

Betsy walked forward: "Okay, let's go down the mountain and try to reach Leyton Town before night. I don't want to spend the night in the mountain."

The climate of the Dragon's Back Mountains is the same as what Betsy said before. The two sides of the mountain range are completely different. The east side facing the grassland is dry and cold with sparse vegetation, while the west side facing the Beinz Blood Lake has warm and humid air. Although when I think about it, It's possible that the humid air comes from the weird blood-colored lake, so people can't help but murmur in their hearts, but the mountains on the west side are indeed much more comfortable.

The surrounding rocks are no longer as bare as the eastern foothills. Instead, low plants and strange-shaped vines can be seen growing tenaciously in the gaps between the rocks. Of course, there are also moss in some places.

When the team reached the mountainside, Betsy suddenly stopped. She pointed to the cliff in the distance and exclaimed: "Look over there!!"

Following the direction of Betsy's finger, you can see an obvious collapsed mountain wall. The solid mountain wall covered with vines, moss, and bushes collapsed as if it was struck by the gods from above, leaving behind An almost vertical ninety-degree cliff. This landslide dug out a straight high wall directly under one of the peaks of the Longji Mountains. Bare gray-brown rocks can be seen on the broken cliff, and can be vaguely seen at the foot of the mountain. The dust mist has not completely dissipated, and it seems that this terrible collapse accident happened not long ago.

Hao Ren instantly thought of the loud noise that everyone heard not long after they went up the mountain - it turned out that it came from the western foot of the mountain?

Lily looked up at the sky. She vaguely remembered that there were thick clouds floating in the sky when everyone went up the mountain: "It was probably the sound reflected by the clouds, and the landslide at the western foot of the mountain range spread to the eastern foot."

Hao Ren coughed twice and thought to himself: What happened to this silly girl today? She suddenly revealed her nature as a physics emperor. Could it be that her usual two-dimensional character was just a disguise?

But then Lily started to pick up stones from nearby and throw them out as hard as she could to see if they could hit the rocks in the distance. Hao Ren was relieved: it looked like he was still a second-rate person...

"The collapse of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range is not a good sign..." Betsy murmured to herself, her voice revealing the fear of a local aborigine who has been brainwashed by various religious legends, while Weiwei on the other side Anze quickly summoned a small bat and flew to the recently cracked mountain wall because she saw some traces that concerned her.

Soon the little bat found the evidence that Vivian expected, and the vampire girl took a breath: "Those rock giants are indeed split from these cliffs, and... there are definitely more than four!"

A series of indentations with specific shapes can be seen on the edge of the rock cliff, which look like the traces left by a giant buried in the mountain who broke away from his shackles. The huge amount of rocks collapsed below, although Vivian can't help it. She found out at once, but she also saw many similar signs of shedding.

The entire mountain is full of signs of disintegration. How many of the stones have turned into that terrifying giant monster?