"Poof!"

With a bang, regular circular cracks appeared in the ground.

As soon as Helo raised his hand, like cutting a cake, he cut out a cylinder with a diameter of two meters and a depth of about one and a half meters from the soil, and then gently placed the cylinder on the ground next to it, without destroying its structure.

After doing this, Helo pointed to the soil and said, "You see, not only are there no animals around, but there are not even in the soil. The most common earthworms, as well as some reptiles, also do not exist, and have disappeared inexplicably. ”

"So, this is an empty forest?" said Pobobo Vic.

"The empty forest will not kill people one after another. Harrow disagreed, turned his head to look at Richard, who had not spoken, and asked, "Wizard Richard, what do you think?"

Richard touched his chin and muttered for a while, expressing the feeling he had since he entered the forest: "I think the forest is not empty, and the animals are not all fleeing, but deliberately avoiding us." In other words, wherever we appear, the animals leave and move to another place. ”

"Why do you want to do this?" said Helo.

"Because they don't want us to find out, and in turn, they want to figure out everything about us, so that they can attack us where they are weak. Richard said, his expression slightly solemn, "I have a guess, maybe they ...... It's been watching us from the shadows. ”

"Monitor?!" Herro and Popobol Vicky said at the same time, and their expressions sank. Obviously, their perception is more or less perceptive.

At this moment, there was a "brush" sound in the grass in the distance, and a black image felt that it was exposed, and suddenly burst out of the grass, clinging to the ground and sweeping towards the depths of the forest like flying.

Richard, Bobobo Vicky, and Harrow glanced at each other, exchanged a quick look, and figured out what they were thinking.

The next moment, without any hesitation, the three of them jumped up at the same time, bursting out of three colors of gray, blue, and purple respectively, chasing after the black shadow. In the process of pursuit, constantly apply a variety of defensive spells to your body to defend against possible sneak attacks, so as to be prepared.

The black shadow was very fast, and the three of them kept their vigilance to catch up, and they couldn't get closer at all for a while. Even in the complex terrain of the forest, he was pulled away by the other party little by little.

"Don't run!

At this time, Harrow first spoke to the fleeing black shadow, and then made a request to Richard and Bobobo Vicky, and the purple light on his body flashed at high frequency, bursting out at a higher speed, chasing the black shadow.

Sensing the danger, the shadow ran through a dozen trees and ran into a large clearing. Leaping up, he slammed into the soil, as if he was going to use some kind of earth-based spell to transfer.

By the time Herro approached the clearing, the shadow had mostly gone into the soil.

"Stop!"

Helo hurriedly shouted, raising his right hand to cast a spell to stop it.

As a result, the left hand moved faster, and a golden ball of energy was born in the palm of his hand, aiming at the position where the black shadow burrowed into the ground, and threw it directly.

"Boom!"

A huge roar rang out, and after the energy ball touched the ground, its volume expanded dramatically, turning into a huge fireball and exploding. This was followed by a devastating shock wave that swept the ground upside down, snapping off and igniting many nearby trees.

By the time Richard and Popobo Vicch arrived a little later, the whole clearing was covered in flames, the broken trees were swaying around like torches, and the scorching air around them was like the thorny tongue of a demon, and the skin of the licker was painful. Harrow was at the very center of the fire, using a spell to try to dig up the remains of the previous shadow and try to find some clues.

After digging for a while, Harrow looked at Richard and Pobobo Vicich, shook his head in disappointment, and said, "Nothing." I originally thought that after the attack, even if I couldn't catch the living ones, I could catch the dead ones. But now, there is no living or dead, not even blood or fragments. ”

"What the hell is the other party, why is it so weird?" asked Popopovich.

"Actually, that's the question I want to ask. "But I don't know. ”

After speaking, Helo looked at Richard and asked, "Wizard Richard, do you have an answer, have you seen the other party clearly?"

"I didn't. Richard shook his head and replied truthfully.

"Then what should we do?" Poboovich asked with a frown, clearly feeling the pressure of this seventh-level mission.

"My advice is, don't give the other person too much time to prepare. No matter what the other party is, since we have discovered it once, then hurry up and try to enter the core area of the forest before the other party reacts. Richard said, "This may disrupt some of the other side's deployments and allow us to take a certain initiative." ”

"Nice advice. "Although there is a lot of danger, logically speaking, it is indeed a good suggestion, and I agree." ”

"I also agree with Wizard Richard's suggestion. Harrow said.

"Alright, let's move on. Richard said, and the three of them walked towards the depths of the forest.

As soon as he took a few steps, Helo suddenly thought of something, stopped and said, "Wait a minute?"

"What?" asked Richard.

Popobo Vic retreated a few steps before looking at Harrow and asking, "What's wrong?"

"Forgot to put out the fire. He Luo Dao turned his head to look at the many trees that were still burning behind him, and with a wave of his hand, several milky white heavy ice bombs that exuded cold air shot out.

"Bang bang bang!"

Ice bombs exploded one after another on top of the fire, causing the temperature to drop suddenly.

The burning flames, as if slapped by a giant's hand, were extinguished directly, and then the dark red, residual temperature of the trunk quickly formed a crystalline layer of ice, eliminating all possibility of rekindling.

After doing this, Helo explained to Richard and Pobobo Vicich: "In this forest, if the fire method is not handled well after surgery, it is easy to cause a fire. For the most part, the fire had no effect on us, burning for a certain amount of time, burning the surrounding trees, and then extinguishing itself. However, in a small number of cases, it may not be good for us, so we should try to avoid this as much as possible. ”

"Minimize the disadvantages. Richard ended Harrow's words.

"Yes, that's all. Harrow said.

"Okay. Pobovich shrugged.

After that, the three of them didn't talk nonsense, and set off again, heading deep into the forest.

Unbeknownst to the trio, a few minutes after they left, a large amount of blood suddenly oozed from under the bark of the charred trees, which had been frozen on the surface.

The blood was bright red, flowed on the surface of the trunk, and then fell to the ground with a "snap", gathering into a small tan.

It's weird.