Campfire Shelter.

Chapter 7 Strange Phenomena
"It's only a few hundred yuan a month, so there's really no need to risk your life."

Ke Lin closed his eyes, looked at one of the five fire pillars, suddenly thought of something, and grabbed one casually.

It is about the same thickness as an adult's thigh, and it fits perfectly in the hand. There is a blood-red spar the size of a human head inlaid on the top, and it is this blood-red stone that burns and emits a strange flame.

"Sure enough. With this thing, you should be able to escape."

Ke Lin didn't hesitate any longer. He sensed "Event [-]" in his mind, determined the direction, and left here directly.

Although there is only one pillar of fire, the diameter of the radiation is quite large, more than 30 meters.

"The remaining time of 'Event 163' is 24 hours, 37 minutes and [-] seconds. It seems that almost four hours have passed since I woke up."

"I don't know what the status of that former colleague is now, I hope he doesn't have so much trouble over there."

"Well, you have to run fast, so that no one will catch up to you. After all, there should be quite a few powerful people in this world."

Holding the "torch" in one hand, Colin quickened his pace, and soon found himself walking into a deserted plain.
Moreover, enduring the pressure brought by the darkness above his head, he still hadn't left the plain after driving for five hours.

I didn't see my ex-colleagues either.
That guy's location was much farther than he thought.

"I wouldn't just run out of lamp oil and die on the way, right? Oh, this stone seems to be quite resistant to burning, and I don't know how long it will take. If it wasn't for the certain distance that was pulling in, I would suspect that I was hit by a ghost." Wall, but, having said that, did I forget to use the 'Book of Fortune'? Forget it, let's not use it for now"

Colin talked to himself while driving, mediating his depression of walking alone in the dark.

After walking for another hour, he stopped suddenly, looked around with dark vertical eyes, and anthropomorphic shock appeared on his face.

Just after an inadvertent blink of an eye, the surroundings suddenly lit up. The originally dark scene turned into a rough plain. There were no animals on the plain, but there were many low bushes. Overall, it looked a bit like It is the area with plants on the edge of the desert seen on TV.

It's not the key, the key is.
Its daybreak?
Why did it suddenly dawn?

"Is it another natural phenomenon unique to this world? With a snap, it's like turning on a light, and it turns on immediately?"

Colin was puzzled, and finally could only attribute it to the particularity of this world.

After all, this is a magical world.
Many things that he feels strange may just be common sense here.

But in the daytime, the torch-like stone pillar in his hand seems to have no sense of existence.

Colin didn't throw it away either. After all, it can be dawn for a moment now, who knows if it will be dark again for a while?
He didn't want to know or try what would happen if he went into the dark without a light.
Looking into the distance, he felt that his colleagues were getting closer and closer to him, so he buried his head and quickened his pace.

At the same time, at the entrance of the dungeon, the warden with a blue nose and swollen eyes cautiously poked his head out of the dungeon.

Very good, there is no sound of the monster outside, and a distant footprint seems to indicate that the other party has already left
"He snatched a 'Night Watch Light'. This shows that even in that appearance, he still maintains his sanity. Also, what form is he in? The third stage? Who is he? The next step is to go to where?"

The warden's swollen eyes tried to open a slit, looking at the direction the other party left, which seemed to be
No man's land?
"Master Prison, what should I do... Do you want to catch up?" A subordinate asked in a low voice.

The warden fell silent when he heard the words, and after a dozen or so breaths, he opened his mouth and said, "Go back to the city, find the city lord, and ask him to ask the 'Knights of Virtue' to send members to form a hunting team."

In this area, only those knights who possess the power of "virtue" and the priests of the church are capable of hunting that monster.

He knew very well that if the other party had started killing yesterday, there would not be a single living person in the dungeon now.

After finishing speaking, he thought of something, touched his swollen pig-like face, took a breath in pain, and asked his subordinates very puzzled:
"Have I abused him before? For example, pressing him to beat him?"

"Never before! Your conduct is like a real knight, and you have never abused others like those executioners of the trial court. We all respect you from the bottom of our hearts," the subordinate said emotionally.

The news has already spread in the dungeon. In order not to let other people get hurt, the warden resisted everything silently.

He dragged the monster into the dungeon and fought fiercely for more than ten minutes. The entire dungeon was full of crackling noises, which consumed most of the opponent's energy, forcing the opponent to flee, thus saving everyone.

If it weren't for the warden's restraint, I'm afraid that no one in the entire dungeon would have survived.

The guard was moved.

"Bah! What is image! I am a knight! A knight who has been blessed by nobles!"

The warden was swearing, and then he remembered something. In addition to scolding him yesterday, the other party also said some things that seemed to have a big opinion on the "Holy Healing Church".

Especially the line "I wouldn't be like this if you didn't send me there".
When did he send the other party there?

And what is this?
Could it be that.
The other party secretly revealed to him that there is a problem with the "Holy Healing Church"?

Although this may be some kind of estrangement, before that, he suddenly remembered that some time ago, when he was in contact with the members of the "Knights of Virtue" above, when those adults were talking about the "Holy Healing Church"
Attitude, there are some indescribable subtleties.

Ke Lin didn't know that his venting made the warden suspicious of the "Holy Healing Church", and he didn't know that a hunting party targeting him would set off soon.

At this time, after another three hours on the road, he finally finished walking the long plain and came to a mountain forest.

At the same time, the rescue signal is getting clearer and clearer.
But it was not long after walking into this mountain forest.

Colin felt more and more wrong.
It's too quiet here, and apart from himself, he doesn't seem to see any living things, whether it's plants or insects, there is no living movement at all.
On the contrary, withered plants and animal corpses are not uncommon, and they can be seen from time to time.

The strangest thing is that these corpses are basically intact, covered with a thin layer of ash, as if they have never been touched after death, and no signs of corruption have occurred.

Ke Lin's keen sense of smell told Colin that it seemed that on a microscopic scale that could not be observed by the naked eye, those tiny microorganisms were given equal death just like those corpses that can be seen everywhere.

"The sterile room in the hospital is not so 'clean'. I will not go into the tiger's den as soon as I get out of the wolf's den."

Colin's huge body walked on the ground in the mountains and forests, looking at the large or small animal and plant carcasses that occasionally appeared during the advance.

He wondered curiously, but had no answer.

There are so many strange places in this world.

Fortunately, apart from the traces left by matter and death, nothing else happened in the mountain forest.

Another half an hour later, Colin stopped, half-closed his eyes and looked at the small town that appeared in front of him.

(End of this chapter)