Chapter 593: The Forest of Black Stones
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After confirming that there were no signs of demonic activity in the camp, a new reconnaissance team was quickly formed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Maisie set off with Agatha to search the camp, while fifty First Army soldiers escorted Zoroa, Asha, and others, who lacked the ability to escape, to find out why the red mist had dissipated.
"We're almost there," Lightning gestured to Maisie, "lowering the height." ”
"Whew!"
Agatha poked her head out, only to see the rocky beach appear in front of her little by little. As the little girl had said, the thick red mist had vanished without a trace, revealing the black-brown earth. Unlike the dark green forests around it, there was not a single tree in the camp, as if a layer had been torn off the ground.
It was the first time she had approached the devil's abode.
As a member of the original Exploration Society, Agatha couldn't help but feel a little excited.
"Lightning is about to land, repeat, lightning is about to land. ”
"Stay safe and flee immediately in case of any possible danger. Roland's voice came from the other side of the stone.
"Lightning understood. ”
Maisie folded her wings and swooped down towards the earth.
The scenery beneath your feet changes from the turquoise sea to the grayish-white rugged rock walls and finally the moist brown earth. Agatha felt a shock all over her body, and the huge dinosaur landed firmly on the ground.
"The devil lives in such a place?" said Lightning, "I didn't think it was strange when I looked down from the sky before, but now it looks weird." ”
Agatha agrees.
The open land was full of dark stone towers, like a patchwork of black forests, and the black spots seen from the air were basically from these alien buildings—about three or four stories high, and the short ones were just over the top. In terms of intensity, it is much more than those front-line camps.
It seems that in addition to storing red mist, these stone towers have other functions.
"I don't know what happened to them, but it shouldn't be too far from now," she judged.
"Why do you say that?" asked Lightning curiously.
"Because the stone towers are not yet completely withered," Agatha pointed to the nearest black stone tower, "they are only darkened on the surface, and they are far from being crudely brittle, which is completely different from the desolation left behind by the Federation after seizing the frontline camp, which only shows that the devil is not ready to retreat, or rather...... The decision was made very hastily. She paused, "Let's go to the center of the camp first, the tower where the Eye Demon is staying, and maybe we can find something." ”
"I hope Asha can find out why-ah!" The lightning bolt who was walking in front of him suddenly let out a scream and instantly sank into the ground, causing Maisie to immediately turn into a dove and rise into the air, and Agatha also summoned the cold ice to stand in front of her.
"I'm fine," before the two of them could react next, the little girl flew out of the hole in the ground, patted the dirt on her body and complained, "Who is digging a hole here to hurt people!"
What a startled little ghost, Agatha breathed a sigh of relief, and was just about to disperse the ice wall, when the other party's next words made her heart lift again.
"Hey, there's a devil in here!"
"Really," Maisie landed on top of her, "but it looks like she's dead." ”
"I should," said the little girl, patting her chest, "or I'll be unlucky." ”
Agatha held the ice spear in her hand and glanced at it, and sure enough, as Maisie had said, a mad demon stood in the pit with its head drooping, its bare skin curled up like a salted fish in the sun.
"I remember Sylvie saying that these demons are usually hidden underground, right?" she further confirmed her judgment, whether they decided to retreat at the time, or if something else had happened, it must have come very suddenly. Otherwise, these devils would not have been able to run out of red mist little by little in the ground without waiting for a new order until they died.
"Then we'd better fly and look for it," Lightning muttered, "I don't want to fall into the pit again." ”
She picked up Agatha on her back and walked slowly against the ground, and after the three of them bypassed the rows of stone towers, their vision suddenly opened up.
An open space appeared in the camp.
"This is ......" Agatha gasped, judging from the scene at the scene, it was clear that the empty space was not deliberately left by the devil - there was a huge hole in the center of the clearing, about the size of a border town square, and there were many stone tower fragments scattered around it. The three of them stood at the entrance of the cave and looked down, but the cave was bottomless, and it was difficult to see where it led for a while.
"It's like where I found you," Lightning said, "Do you want me to go down and investigate?"
"Don't go!"
"Don't goo!"
Agatha and Maisie stopped at the same time.
"Alright," the little girl sighed, showing a look of regret, since she was punished by His Majesty for the test, her adventurous spirit has been much more restrained, "then let's take a look around." ”
The rest of the camp was much the same, and the three of them didn't have nothing to gain, Maisie found a number of magic stones in a flat-topped stone tower, as well as a withered and dead Chaos Beast - she was just trying to stop on it to rest, but she didn't expect to find a narrow patio entrance, presumably the air channel used by the devil to infuse the red mist.
Two days later, the First Army also arrived at the rocky beach.
Lian found a crack in the mountain and carved a path in the cliff for one person to walk, while heavy machine guns and other equipment were transported by Maisie, and it took a lot of effort to get fifty soldiers and witches inland.
This was also the first time that the indigenous people of mankind had contact with other races.
Even the most determined soldier still felt fear and panic when he saw this incredible scene in front of him. Roland had anticipated this, and ordered the people to camp near the entrance to the cliff, lest their spirits not become too tense. As for Axia's replay work, the First Army was simply not allowed to participate in the bystanders.
According to Agatha's inference, the disappearance of the camp tower should be a week and a half to a month ago, and if the time goes back for more than a week, Asha's mana consumption will increase rapidly, and as for the events of a month ago, it can only be replayed once a day. There is no way to take a trick, so you can only try it slowly.
Among the large pile of magic stones that Maisie brought back, there were many practical varieties, although the quality was far inferior to the seizures from the Fear of Demons, but it was better than nothing. It can be said that the mage tower that is now about to be completed is missing only a living devil.
Figuring out exactly what happened was a long process, and while waiting for the results and developing new gadgets, Roland received a second secret letter from Fjord.
The letter said that Tilly Wimbledon was about to arrive in the Westside Shoal.