dark moon

Chapter 114 Breaking the Ground
Dark night, no wind.

It's another moonless night. Maybe in this strange world, there is no moon at all.

If you look down from a high altitude, under the dim and sparse starlight, the black desert is vast and deep, with no end in sight. The scene in the desert is motionless, like a realistic landscape painting, quiet and cold.

At the end of the field of vision, a few black spots came from a distance and broke into this silent picture, adding a bit of life to the lonely desert.

The black dots lined up in a row, forming a loose formation. Behind them, a series of deep footprints stretched into the distance.

"Ow~~~~"

Although there is no moon, there are still bursts of howling. Under the night, the tall white giant wolf stands on the black sand dunes, looking up to the sky and howling. The roar penetrates the night sky and spreads in all directions.

This is of course Shuer and his shadow-chasing team, oh, and the lost white wolf.

Yesterday, I spent another night observing at the temporary station. During this period, Shuer tried to find the reason why the sacramental object suddenly played the past images, but in the end he failed. He tried countless methods, but the sacramental object was like a The most common stone ax is as indifferent.

Fortunately, time was not wasted, and at least the rules of the weather were summarized.If nothing else, there will be a smaller sandstorm every day before nightfall, and the duration will be relatively short.Before dawn, there was a violent sandstorm that lasted even more than half an hour.

In the two sandstorms, there were undead flying in the wind. In the one at night, most of them were fast and agile undead. In the later one before dawn, there were all kinds of undead in it. It can be called a group of demons dancing wildly. .

In this case, considering the temperature and sunlight during the day, Shuer finally chose to continue marching at night.

Of course, only two days and nights were observed, and the scope of the observations was different. It is difficult to say that exact results can be obtained. According to the shadow chasing convention, the same position must be observed at least five times to preliminarily determine the correctness of the conclusion.

Unfortunately, there is not enough time, and there is no time to do these things.

Theoretically speaking, there are only 25 days of safe time left. Looking for the exit, searching for the mission target, and then returning to the exit requires spending a lot of time on the road, often traveling hundreds of kilometers back and forth, and it is a headache-like terrain like the desert. , I was very nervous no matter what, and had no time to observe for a few more days.

What's more, although it is certain that a large number of undead will appear in the wind, no one can be sure that there will be no undead on a night without wind. After all, everyone has seen in the illusion that this world has a large number of fish that can swim in the desert. If It is no exception to say that they will turn into undead that can lurk in the sand after death.

Therefore, Shuuer's orders are very cautious, and he is in top alert state, ready to change to combat readiness state at any time, and at the same time, he is also ready to fight at any time.

"Shashasha." Four hooves stepped on the sand. Moria appeared next to the white wolf on the dune. She gestured to Shuer from a distance.

Shuer raised three fingers and responded with a complex set of gestures. The deer on the dune raised his thumb, jumped back lightly, and disappeared behind the dune like the wind.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." From the distance on the right side of the team, a burst of bird song came back. At a glance, they could only see darkness without any sign of the existence of any living thing.

"Gu Gu, Gu Gu Gu." Shuuer replied. Although the scene of hundreds of birds contending in the desert is really inconsistent and too easy to be seen through, the function of the code, and more importantly, is that the information conveyed cannot be detected by the enemy. I heard that as to whether it is concealed enough, it needs to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.

Subtle energy fluctuations appeared in the shadows, and Macajron took off his hat and bowed, retreating into the shadows again.

Moback followed Kelly every step of the way. This was Shuer's death order. Although he spoke very harshly before coming in and did not consider Kelly's life or death at all, his teammates all knew that with Shuer's character, You can't do this for no reason.

Indeed, he does not value the life and death of irrelevant people, and he is not the kind of person who casually protects irrelevant people, but as long as he formally promises, he will do his best to complete it. Mo Buck once asked him when he drank too much Why he did this? I don’t know if it was drunken talk or the truth. Anyway, Xiuer spoke a lot of hometown dialect, probably such as a promise is heavier than many gold coins, which is in line with his preferences.

Therefore, the initial harsh words are one thing, but the actual operation is another. It was easy to say that there might be undead in the desert before, but now that we know it, we must focus on protecting the client. Of course, Shuer He also said that if his life is really in danger, the life of his teammates should come first.

"It's four degrees in the sand and the temperature has stabilized." On the other side of the team, Saff pulled out his finger from the sand. "No sign of a sandstorm was found."

"The concentration of death energy is stable." Militi shook the bone sword in her hand, her eyes half-opened and half-closed. "No abnormalities have been found yet."

The necromancer did not walk on his own, and neither did the elf mage. The two of them sat on a tall skeleton, one on the left and one on the right. Everyone is familiar with this skeleton called Salem. It was in the shadow chasing in the underground city more than a month ago. Also seen.

Although Militi said that she cannot awaken the undead here, it does not mean that she cannot use those bones. Her old friend Seren has long been turned into an undead and is always sleeping next to her. As long as there are enough bones, she can wake her up at any time. Seren in a dream.

Outside the door of the temporary camp, there wasn't much, just sand and bones. Therefore, the summoned Seren was extremely tall, as tall as three people, and two mages could sit on it. When it was first summoned, it was almost Failed to get into the building.

It was precisely because of the existence of Salem that Soul dared to let Macajron and Moria roam around and investigate at the same time. With this undead man in front of him who was difficult to kill, even if a battle broke out, it would be much easier.

Except for raids, raids like this one. "Chirp, chirp~~~~~"

The sudden bird song was shrill and urgent, which was a warning from Macajerun.It had been agreed before departure that this was the most urgent alarm, which meant what Shuer was most worried about - there was an abnormal vibration below, and the direction of the source of the earthquake was on the side of the main force.

"Woo~~~~" Xiu'er's expression changed and he quickly blew the horn on his waist.

The moment they heard the horn sound, Moria and Macajron in the distance gave up all their work and turned around to rush back. However, several teammates around them did the opposite and immediately dispersed as soon as they heard the horn sound. , even Mia jumped down from the skeleton's shoulders, and opened a few meters distance between them.

"Pay attention to your feet at all times." Shuer stood on the spot, as stable as a rock standing in the stormy sea, and issued orders in an orderly manner, "Once you feel something abnormal under your feet, don't hesitate to leave the place immediately."

"Kelly, get closer to Sai Lun, that big skeleton, yes, don't leave this area."

"Meliti, let the skeleton drag Kelly up and don't let her touch the ground."

The skeleton bent down, picked up the female priest with both hands and put it on his shoulders, and Militi jumped down and returned to Kelly's position.

"Mia, it's starting to burn the sand. I want a ground where I can stand safely."

"Fal Mosuo." Within a few seconds, Mia activated the magic that had been prepared, and the incandescent flames began to sweep the ground, and the sand quickly melted under the high temperature.

"Everyone, when Mia is ready, immediately land on the condensed ground. Moria, be ready at any time. If you find someone being attacked from below, provide immediate support."

"Makajaren, are you back?" Xiuer couldn't see the halfling in the shadow, so he could only say based on his feeling, "Report the location of the earthquake source."

"The left front is 31 degrees, the absolute distance is 74 meters, and the focal depth is 150 meters."

"Focus trend?"

"It's rising."

"Damn it." He cursed secretly in his heart, but Xiuer remained extremely calm on the surface, "Confirm the number of earthquake sources again."

"Confirmed, the only quantity."

"Very good, Mia, stop burning, everyone retreats, the direction is 37 degrees to the right and the distance is to be determined." Without hesitation for a second, Xiuer made a decision, "Start now, pay attention to the retreat process Stay alert, especially Morbuck, and be ready to protect others."

"Understood." The dwarf had already raised his shield, slowed down a little, and stayed at the end of the team.

"Macageron, can you confirm the range of the source?"

"Unable to confirm, the range is too large."

"Then what is the data you reported?" Shuer asked.

"Calculated from the edge of the earthquake source."

"Damn, what the hell is coming out?" Xiure couldn't help but cursed secretly again, and then raised his voice and said, "Continue to retreat, stop after 30 meters, and be on alert in a state of combat readiness. If there is no special order, eliminate it. Everything that comes close.”

The vibrations on the ground are getting more and more violent. Even if they are not as sensitive to vibrations as Macajron, everyone can still feel it. Although the intensified vibrations will not make these warriors stand unstable, the shaking ground is enough to make them stand. Everyone's vision was blurry.

In the blurry and shaking field of vision, a huge black shadow emerged from the endless sea of ​​sand, rising higher and higher. The black sand grains were squeezed away by the black shadow, and continued to pour around, washing away the battlefield like a tide. Workers must constantly pull their feet out of the sand to ensure that they are not buried in the black sand.

The shaking lasted for a full 10 minutes before it slowly stopped. Looking at the black shadow emerging from the ground, everyone's expressions were quite strange.

The good news is that the black shadow is not an undead, but a four-sided cone that is over 300 meters long. It is the same as the house we encountered before, but it is countless times larger.At the same time, there were countless smaller conical buildings drilled out, forming a complex of buildings, and even a huge square paved with black stones, which looked like a magnificent city.

However, bad news also exists. In the square, there were originally a large number of lizard-man skeletons, no less than four hundred in number, kneeling on the ground.When the shaking stopped, all the skeletons raised their heads at the same time, and the black holes in hundreds of skulls faced the shadow chasers' team gloomily.

(End of this chapter)