Chapter 112: Suspicious
Xue Hua sat by the campfire, calmly telling the two girls about the information he had obtained in the gem, and both girls listened calmly.
It's not because they don't have any sympathy, it's because they've seen it a lot in their literature textbooks when they're in Rog's barracks.
Demons are no kinder than the "horror" that Dopdoc mentions.
This world used to be a world of flowers.
It used to be so prosperous and colorful.
In this world, not only human beings have developed civilizations in all corners of the world, but also many other intelligent beings are also sharing the beauty of this world with human beings.
However, the invasion of Hell has shattered all this, and the debris of Hell with nothing but chaos, killing, terror and pain in their eyes, has trampled all the good things in this world to pieces, leaving only the deep calamities and blood-stained ruins of the earth.
From the massacre of the human Tristram to the extermination of the dwarves of the rainforest and the besieged kingdoms of the West, demons have never stopped ravaging the land.
They already owe too much debt to the creatures of this continent.
The sisters, who grew up in this environment, could not be said to have become numb to these tragedies, but they could no longer empathize with them and shed tears for them.
Therefore, when they heard that there was once a cat-man tribe here that was wiped out by an unknown "horror", although they still felt very uncomfortable, they were more concerned about what kind of attitude this so-called "horror" had towards humans, and where it was now.
However, unfortunately, Xue Hua did not know these questions, and there was never any answer to this in the gem ornament.
The leader of the cat-people seemed to be secretive about the monster that had slaughtered their entire group, and never revealed any information about it in his words.
Even the executioners it sent to destroy them were replaced by "messengers" and "shadows" in their words.
It seems that even mentioning the name of that guy is a very taboo thing for them.
However, there are still many clues in the records of this gemstone ornament.
For example, the question about the "distant oasis".
Xue Hua had never been able to figure out why the map he held in his hand was so different from the actual terrain of this oasis.
But now, he had a deference in his mind.
The message in the gemstone ornament mentions that the cats used an ancient secret method to forge four stone pillars, which were used to hide the "protectors" of the oasis that they regarded as their final home.
These stone pillars have the magical ability to transfer a large area of land into the cracks of a semi-virtual space.
And it turns out that the distant oasis was indeed discovered by professionals who had ventured into the depths of the desert some time after Lugoin had been established.
However, Xue Hua guessed that the oasis discovered by these professionals was likely to be only a part of the real oasis, and this part of the oasis was only revealed from the gap in space because one of the four stone pillars was destroyed by the monsters sent by the "terror", causing the protection circle composed of the four stone pillars to partially fail.
The reason why only some of them are revealed is because the other three stone pillars that are unknown are still functioning.
And why he himself was able to enter this long-lost ancient land by mistake while riding the king worm, it is probably because the protection circle became incomplete, so he accidentally got in.
And because the area of this protection circle is quite large, and the ancient secret methods of the cat people are probably not a joke, the insect swarm did not find out at the first time that they had actually crossed into a spatial crack.
As for the so-called "boundary" displayed by this oasis, I am afraid that it is also the effect of this large-scale illusion magic circle.
Cats are skilled in illusion, something he learned during his desert journeys.
Even a group of cat-man projections that have been reduced to hell's lackeys can create such large-scale and realistic large-scale illusion scenes, so you can imagine how far these cat-man illusionists can go.
Therefore, Xue Hua was not at all surprised that the Iguana tribe was able to create an illusion circle that would cover the entire area and even banish it into a spatial rift.
However, what was revealed in the jewel's ornament also caused him more doubts.
Leaving aside the myths that appear under "pseudonyms", or whether they have any connection to the unknown text on the metal plate.
Let's just say that the Iguana tribe has killed so many people on this battlefield, but why didn't Xue Hua find any bone remains here except for the white bone arm?
Although the female cat man finally said that the "shadows" would use their corpses as nourishment and stay here to grow, and the shadow Xue Hua also vaguely guessed what it should be.
But even if the corpses were eaten, not even the armored weapons were spared, then where were the villages where they used to live?
According to the information in the gemstone ornament, Dopdoc, the leader of the cat people, must have left with the children of the tribe at the behest of the women and the elderly.
Now that they're all gone, there shouldn't be anything left in the village, right?
Is there any value in an empty village with nothing to be attacked?
Or is the so-called "shadow" so taboo that even the house has to be eaten up?
But according to Xue Hua's speculation, the so-called "shadow" is the sandworm queen who has just been captured by the swarm......
It doesn't have that appetite either, does it?
Otherwise, this guy has been here for so long, and this oasis wouldn't have been in trouble for it long ago?
Trees are more nutritious than dirt and rocks, right?
Also, if Doppdoc managed to escape the monsters with the feline puppies in the end, where are they now?
It stands to reason that with such a powerful illusion array, the cover was finally found by that "terror", and there are probably not many truly safe places in this world.
And if Doppdoc finds one of those "safe houses" with the cats in their last hope, then they will have a good chance of escaping the negative energy erosion caused by the invasion of hell that follows.
This means that if they do succeed, then there may still be an uncorrupted cat people in this world.
But hundreds of years have passed since the invasion of hell, and they have never had the heart to come out to see what the outside world has become?
Of course, this is all based on the fact that Dopdoc actually managed to escape with those cat-man cubs.
And if he doesn't succeed in the end, and is wiped out by the killer monsters that chase him along with the cat-people and children......
Then Xue Hua can only say... It's a sad story.
But if that's the case, then why did the "Horror" leave the Sandworm Queen here, and he seems to have been here himself?
The most important question is, why did that highly intelligent being, who may have come from an alien civilization, go after the Iguana tribe?
Could it be that so much effort and energy is really as simple as cleaning up traitors?
You know, Abbather has analyzed the difficulty of transforming the sandworm queen, and even it believes that this creature can be transformed like this, in addition to having superb genetic engineering attainments, it must also add good luck.
In other words, the Sandworm Queen should also be a very rare biological device for "it", and it is impossible to simply abandon it.
And he sent such an important biological device here to hunt down a group of traitors?
The Sandworm Queen is not a biological weapon, and its own combat effectiveness is not strong, right?
Moreover, although there were not as many cat people in the Aranok Desert at that time as there are humans now, there was also a considerable population base.
It's just a group of coolies, shouldn't the normal logic be to catch another group of top numbers?
Is it not like this, it is chasing and killing and exterminating?
Therefore, Xue Hua judged that the leader of the Hultena tribe should be more than just a defector.
Either he had some big secret on him, or he stole something important from that guy......
And so the problem arises again.
What is it or what secret is it that is worth the trouble of a highly intelligent being who had coaxed and enslaved the cat-people and worshipped them as "saints" to chase them here?
There are too many questions, and the era involved is so long ago that no matter what Xue Hua thinks, he can't think of a clue.
He stared at the gemstone ornament in his hand for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly.
Although this thing brought him some answers, it gave far more new questions than answers......