Returning from the abyss

It took two well-equipped scouts less than a few minutes to kill these people, but the group of people ran quite fast. After they killed a few people, they dispersed without a single one left.But in a magical world, it's not that simple to hunt down those who have escaped.

Lu Ning didn't take action to control these people, she didn't care.

"Old Newt, do they have more powerful weapons? If not, we have to find someone."

"Looking for someone? Looking for them? This..."

"Why are you looking for them? Look for the people I just mentioned - people who still have a little conscience and are barely living in this city. Don't tell me there are no more." Lu Ning said.

Old Newt trembled, and then said quickly: "Yes, they are hiding now, but you... to be honest, I can't trust you."

Lu Ning nodded, not surprised.Everything she showed was not fundamentally different from the people here. They all solved problems through violence. It was normal for Old Newt not to believe it.

"You don't believe it, but you still say it, which means there are still people who want to escape. Old Newt, you want to seize the opportunity, but you are still timid?"

"I...I can't believe it." Old Newt whispered, "If you can find them in person, please go and convince them! Only in this way can you convince them."

"I will try." Lu Ning smiled slightly, "But, old Newt, I don't have to find them all, nor do I have to save people. Our mission is just to explore the situation, everything else , all decided by me based on the difficulty of the task.”

Old Newt was stunned for a moment, then responded submissively.

Lu Ning didn't plan to say anything else to him and led the team towards the city.

Yujian City has undergone reconstruction. Since food was still abundant at the time, the reconstruction work seemed to be pretty good.Houses have been rebuilt in some habitable areas, and there are even some people in the houses. However, when Lu Ning and others approached, they immediately hid.

"Someone died here." Lu Ning pointed to the door of a house, "Didn't anyone clean up the blood stains on the ground?"

"No one cares," Newt Sr. said.

Lu Ning nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The inner city of Yujian City is also a holy church. There are no inner walls, and the holy church area is also open to ordinary people.After Lu Ning led people into this area, he found that the layout was quite different from that of the ring city. It is estimated that the construction and planning personnel of each city have different styles.

"Huh?" Lu Ning suddenly felt something was wrong. She looked at the church area, then turned back and asked Newt: "Why are there seven buildings?"

Each of the six major divine systems that angels believe in should have a church. In order to prevent religious tendencies from arising, no divine system is allowed to set up more churches in the Holy Parish District. In addition to the six churches in the Holy Parish District surrounding the city, the remaining They are all functional buildings.But there are a total of seven churches here in Yujian City.

"I don't know." Old Newt waved his hands repeatedly, "I have never counted this. Even before, I was only a shallow believer of the Mother Goddess. I don't know what the rules of angels are. Is it strange to have seven churches?"

"It's quite strange." Lu Ning looked around at the emblems on the church and suddenly realized that she didn't see who it was.

There are emblems of the six divine systems, and there are emblems on all seven buildings.Which one is the extra one?Lu Ning was confident that her memory was fine, so what cognitive impact had she suffered?Lu Ning took out the spell pen and began to draw the spells she needed.By the fifth spell, Lu Ning felt resistance.

She closed her eyes, took the spell, and said: "Everyone, follow my footsteps, don't care about your surroundings, and move forward."

Then, she began to take steps, and the resistance of the spell was still showing, and therefore it was directed towards her.Relying on her magic perception, she stepped onto a building where magic still existed.In theory, except for industrial buildings that use systems such as magic storage batteries, magic does not exist in other places.And even in this type of place, there is no magic power distributed on the steps.

Most of the patterns on angels are for good looks, but here——

Lu Ning suddenly opened her eyes and saw an intact hall.

In the center of the hall, there is a black ball floating. In the black ball, there is white sand falling down into a small hole in the center of the hall, but there is no support around it.The walls around the main hall are inlaid with 12-yuan slates. Some of these slates have begun to glow with a slight green sheen, while others are still dull.

"Source." Lu Ning dropped a spell at his feet, causing the surrounding magic to begin to resonate, and the main resonance came from the black sphere in the center.The magic power contained in the sphere was more than Lu Ning had guessed, and she could not even peek into the inner situation.On the contrary, there is no magic power in those white sands.

"Has there been such a place in Yujian City before?" Lu Ning asked the people around him.

"According to the data, there are no relevant records. Shenghui City's records for satellite cities are all normal, including strict regulations on the number of churches. It can be determined that at least before the war years, there was no seventh church here." Abel said.

"Magic rubbing, environmental photography, age test, and non-sensory observation." Lu Ning said, "I will handle the interpretation of the spell. You move faster, this place may not be able to exist for a long time."

Everyone hurriedly started to take action, but old Newt was the only one standing there, not knowing what to do.

"Old Newt, this place is probably not an area you are familiar with." Lu Ning began to swing the spell pen as if holding a baton, guiding the surrounding magic to resonate. A scroll unfolded in front of her, and the spell began to The top of the scroll is completed.

Spell magic has its limitations, which Lu Ning knew when she was studying.The number of basic spells in this world is only about two hundred, and all spell magic is composed of the splicing and concatenation of these more than 200 spells.Under the influence of the mantra repulsion theorem, the actual number of meanings that mantras can express is not very large. It is not an ideogram, and if mantras must be used to record, the meanings that can be expressed are even less.

But Lu Ning must use all means to record this sudden building, which determines how well everyone can restore it in the future.

The recording process went very smoothly. There were no countermeasures or traps in this weird hall. After about 10 minutes, everyone had finished recording the part they were responsible for. Abel ran over and lowered his voice. He said to Lu Ning: "Captain, all parts of the recording procedures have been basically completed. There is only one thing that can't be done..."

It's the black sphere in the middle.

All observations can only reach the surface of the sphere, where there is an ultra-high concentration of magic power, which causes all reactions inside the sphere to be blocked, much like the effect of a Faraday cage.With the experience last time, Lu Ning would definitely not try to use anything related to herself to touch the inside of the black ball.

"What's the response from the magic mapper, Reedy?" she asked another subordinate.

"You can't see inside, it's also a black ball inside the surveyor!"

"Tsk."

Lu Ning squatted down under the black ball, took out a small storage bottle from her waist, and took a little sand.The fine sand did not show any strange properties, and the bottle was quickly filled. "Set an automatic recorder here, we are ready to evacuate." Lu Ning took a few steps back and left the black ball.At such a close distance, she could already tell that the black ball was definitely not a real black ball, but had an all-round shielding effect on the surface, and the optical shielding made it look like a black ball in the human eye.

Leaving is not as troublesome as coming in, just go out through the only door.Lu Ning was the last one to leave. When she left, she walked backwards and left the hall, her eyes always staring at the black sphere. But the moment she stepped out of the hall door, everything in her sight was blurred, and it seemed as if it had become It looks like a normal six-god church.

Fortunately, this hall did not disappear directly, it is still in place.It's like growing out of the space, not obtrusive at all.

Lu Ning summoned the scroll and spell pen back to his hand with a move of his hand.She unfolded the scroll and read the message recorded by the resonance of the spell.

The mantra record cannot form a complete sentence, and can only be guessed through some key words expressed in the mantra.However, Lu Ning could also see some clues, and his brows furrowed more and more as he read.

"Captain, what did you find?" Ruidi asked after packing up her things.

"Keeping, finalizing, recording, repeating." Lu Ning said, "The situation is not right. Please sort out the data quickly. Ruidi, after the data is sorted out, you immediately return to Shenghui City with the original data. Remember, you must give it to Helenzo or Junying, and I will sign the pass for you. This matter may be very important!"

"What? Okay, okay." Ruidi immediately replied, "You can go at any time!"

"Take a few people with you. There is no need to return. Stay in Shenghui City and wait until they ask you to come to me." Lu Ning made a copy of the scroll, handed the original to Ruidi, and then looked at Newt : "Old Newt, those people you mentioned, I allow you to deliver a message to them. I need them to gather in the church by this time tomorrow at the latest. After this time, we will leave, no more waited."

"I...I know." Old Newt nodded vigorously.

"Abel, give him a three-piece set of basic self-defense. We will camp here. Everyone should be alert. People from the city may come to attack, but the holy church area is our territory now, so deploy the magic formation. "

All instructions were being executed in an orderly manner, but Lu Ning still felt uneasy.

She actually read something more on the scroll, but she didn't say it directly.If she guessed correctly, the world might be really in trouble.

The 12-yuan stone slab above the main hall records the catastrophe that this world has suffered.Lu Ning couldn't see all of them, but a few of them could still express their meanings using incantations.

At night, she concentrated on completing each other's information based on the information recorded by everyone, trying to restore what was recorded in this hall.

"Number [-], the phenomenon of retreating from the future."

The main body of the slate is an hourglass. An arrow next to the hourglass indicates that the sand inside flows upward. The remaining blank spaces are filled with some situations represented by stick figures. There are eight pictures in total.Each stone slab basically has such a picture layout.

Two, three, and four Lu Ning can’t tell yet.

"Number five, black celestial body."

A shadow that appears between days.

"Number [-], unknown race."

A pattern that looks very much like a dragon's head.

"Number [-], far-sighted lens."

Two arcs forming a convex lens separate the picture. One eye is on the right side, looking towards the arc surface, while the other side is filled with a large number of chaotic lines, almost blackening the other side.

"Number eleven, hell."

Stalagmites, flames and skeletons form a scene, and in the center of the scene is a whirlpool.

Lu Ning could also see that there were more comments after each number, but with her ability, there was no way she could translate them in a short time.But a question has arisen in her mind - the major disaster mentioned in the distribution center will be two years from now, and theoretically there should be only one.

But there are a total of twelve recorded here. Could it be that these all happened before, and now tourists need to face a brand new problem?

When Lu Ning finally reached the end of the interpretation, after combining the data from each observation, he found that the last part could actually be connected into a sentence.

"...If you can decipher it, I hope what we left behind will be of reference value to you. This world is too strange, let's explore it before the end. - Recorder No. [-]."

Sure enough, this kind of thing is not a unique adventure.

Lu Ning could only hope that Jun Ying could decipher those obscure contents. She knew that she did not have that ability yet, and the most important thing now was to send out all the information she found.The earlier you prepare for a major disaster, the better.

Early the next morning, after Lu Ning got up, she saw old Newt and six or seven people standing outside the camp.

"Captain, we've checked everything." Abel waved to Lu Ning, "What should we do? Take them with us? Others don't seem to be ready to come."

"Old Newt, give me a result." Lu Ning said.

"Only these few are willing... Others don't want to believe it. I hope you can understand..." Old Newt said awkwardly.

"I don't need to understand anything. This is the choice they made. The reason is not important. Come here and have something to eat. Next, we will take you to Pure Land City and then return to Shenghui City. During this period, I will guarantee your lives. It's safe. The premise is that you are obedient." Lu Ning waved her hand and asked Abel to let people in, "If you confirm that no one else is coming, then we will leave immediately after dinner."

Old Newt nodded repeatedly, and looked at the few people following him with a bit of flamboyance: "Look, am I right? If you follow Old Newt, you can never go wrong."

For Lu Ning, there were unexpected discoveries in Feiyi City and Yujian City, and she was even looking forward to what would happen in Pure Land City.