dark moon

Chapter 3 Believe it or not

22. At the age of three, he was wearing a gray loose cloth robe, and the underside of the cloth robe was bulging, probably because he was still wearing a soft leather armor inside.Her chestnut-brown hair that just reaches her shoulders is draped smoothly over her shoulders. She wears small gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose. Her slightly furrowed brows hide a bookish air that cannot be concealed. Her delicate makeup is clean and refreshing, full of intellectual beauty.

It is easy to associate such an intellectual woman with things like poetry, literature, and opera, but it would be too inconsistent to appear in the deserted wilderness with a big sword, especially every time I see her When she was in person, the panic and shyness on her face made it impossible for people to imagine what it was like when she was wielding a big sword to kill the enemy.

That's right, Miss Saff Sullivan, the archivist of the Great Library of the Temple and an expert projection pyrometer, is always so shy and shy. She even trembles with fear when she has to talk to outsiders.

Of course, this outsider does not include Xiu Er. She is no longer afraid in front of Xiu Er. As for being shy...

"Perverted, beast, shameless." Safu bit her lip, covered her back and glared, and said in a soft voice, "You hit me again... hit me..."

"Okay, okay, it's just a coincidence." Even though he was laughing in his heart, he still pretended to be serious on the surface, "I'm on a mission now, be obedient and work quickly, otherwise, I will have to do it again Beaten."

"No." Safu subconsciously protected her back again. Strangely, her face turned even redder. She glanced at Shuer strangely and muttered in a low voice, "I know, work, work."

The female swordsman took off the eight-fold space expansion backpack behind her. This maximum-capacity backpack is enough to carry the mercenaries' daily necessities, but the weight will not be compromised at all.Fortunately, as a combat professional, even the weakest mage can bear a load of more than 100 kilograms without being crushed by his own luggage.

As if she was not the one who was laughing and joking with Xiure just now, Saff instantly regained her previous focus, quickly took out several strange-looking instruments from her backpack, lay on the ground, pointed the instruments forward, and crawled along the arc from time to time. Climbing around without caring about the image of a lady.

Instead, Shuer stood still, just one step behind Saff, moving in sync with her. The hammer, engraved with strange words and exuding soul pressure, never left his hand.

After crawling back and forth on the ground for at least a hundred meters, and changing the instruments four or five times, Saff finally stood up with a serious expression and nodded: "Yes, there is indeed an entrance to an alien projection within this range."

The alien projection is one of the three mysterious phenomena in the world of Parvatiga. It was also the most terrifying natural killer of Parvatiga. It will open a space channel in an uncertain location without any warning, and the channel will not have any Abnormally, once unsuspecting passers-by come into contact with the passage, they will be sucked in and will never be able to return.For thousands of years, countless innocent people have mysteriously disappeared because of this, and will never be found.

It was not until 2000 years ago that, with the help of the gods, scholars finally made progress in their research on otherworldly projections.

The so-called alien projection is actually because the space barrier in the world of Parvatiga is not stable enough. Certain areas of any other world in the void invade the space superposition phenomenon caused by Parvatiga. Once an intelligent creature passes through the space channel, It will be sucked into a place similar to the temporary shared zone between two worlds, which is the so-called alien projection. When the two worlds that are constantly moving in the void separate from each other, the body and soul are crushed by the interlaced space barrier. .

But destruction is not an inevitable result.

After research by scholars, as long as the weak point of space can be found before the separation of the two worlds, which is often called the projection exit, one can return to Pavatiga.Although the location of the exit is uncertain, the combat professionals can still vaguely detect it by virtue of energy induction, and unlike the uniqueness of the entrance, there are often many exits, and the hope of survival is great.

Moreover, when leaving, any items carried on the body, as long as they do not violate the basic rules of the world of Parvatiga, can be brought back, including things that did not originally exist in Parvatiga.Of course, there is no need to consider the soul. As the most complex part of the world's rules, the soul of any world is based on different rules. As long as a creature that does not belong to Parvatiga passes through the escape channel, there will be no hope of survival unless it is like Like a certain priest, there is a god who is willing to pay a big price to help him reshape his soul and body.

Based on these, a new profession called Shadow Chaser was born. Powerful combat professionals venture into other world projections to obtain materials or items from other worlds and bring them back to Parvatiga in exchange for high profits. .

Unfortunately, the dangers in the projection world are too high.

Although due to the world barrier's rejection of complex souls, there will be no enemy "people" in the projection of the other world. They are all barbaric places that have not been visited by humans for thousands of years. The unlucky ghosts like Shuuer who were projected here are thousands of years old. It is a rare exception, but even so, facing a randomly appearing and completely unfamiliar space, no matter how powerful the professional is, there is no guarantee that he can come back alive.

Therefore, only those explorers who are confident enough in their own strength and have a spirit of adventure burning in their souls will enter and exit the projection of other worlds more than once.Of course, there are also some fools with fantasies who want to get rich overnight and venture into otherworldly projections, but examples of such people surviving are quite rare.

"Yes, the entrance is within this range."

"Well, actually you can skip this step." Shuer sighed and said helplessly, "You know, my energy induction of projections from other worlds is much stronger than all of you. I can already be sure that the entrance is within range. .”

"No, Shuer, that's not the case." Saff shook his head vigorously. Although he still lowered his head shyly and did not look into Shuer's eyes, there was firmness in his soft voice, "You can't just believe in energy induction. "

"I'm not doubting your judgment, but there are many factors that interfere with energy induction. In comparison, the results measured by the instrument are more accurate, so this verification is necessary."

"A qualified projection energy tester will never make a judgment based only on energy induction. Really, Shuer, if you only rely on energy induction to act in an alien projection, something will happen in the end."

"Yes." After a moment of silence with a serious expression, Xiure nodded heavily and said seriously, "Thank you, I will remember it, Teacher Sullivan."

"You're a nuisance, you're bullying me again." Safu muttered in a low voice, blushed and ran away for a few steps. She mustered up the courage to roll her eyes at him, thought for a moment, and rolled her eyes at him again. Then she lay back on the ground and held her hand. With a bunch of auxiliary tools, I started writing, drawing and calculating.

She was so engrossed in the calculation that she didn't know that behind her, Xiuer's serious expression slowly disappeared, and a soft smile appeared on his face.

"We've figured it out." For another full hour, Shuuer has been standing behind the girl like a javelin. Not only has the vigilant posture of holding the hammer in his hand not changed, but he has even pinched the seal to release the magic with his left hand. In the adventurous state , you can never be too careful.

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw Saff holding the map in front of him. When he was concentrating on looking at the map, he naturally changed to the girl holding the sword hilt and using her hearing to alert the surroundings. The change of identity seemed to have become instinctive.

"Exactly accurate, worthy of being an expert. Let's go, let's go there first." Shuer breathed a sigh of relief. At least at this point, there should be no problem. "Well, I'll lead the way."

The swordsman and the priest walked together, so the swordsman naturally opened the way. However, the girl took a few deep breaths but never took a step forward.The location of the two of them was just at the edge of the range where the entrance might appear. In other words, Safu never stepped into the range.

Xiuer didn't urge her, or even made a sound. He looked at her back silently and waited silently.

"Shur, I'm a little scared." Saff's voice was trembling.

"Ok, I know."

"If my calculation is wrong, with every step I take, there is a possibility of being suddenly pulled closer to the projection from another world, and I may die at any time."

"Ok, I know."

"How about I do the math again? I think I must have made a mistake."

"Okay, let's do the math."

After saying this, Shuer suddenly walked around in front of the girl and stepped into the entrance area first.

"Yeah." Safu let out a short but frightened growl, and pulled Xiuer back. Her eyes were red, and she couldn't even care about being shy. She gritted her teeth and shouted, "What are you doing? "

"Go to the entrance." Xiure tilted his head and stared at the girl, squinting his eyes and saying with a half-smile, "Last time, you counted six times. How many times are you going to count this time? Ten times?"

"I, I..." His teeth bit his lips until they lost all color. Saff said anxiously, "Then you can't go in so casually. What if I miscalculated you? You will be pulled in. Once the entrance is closed, , you can only be in there by yourself, do you think you are a demigod? Do you want to survive alone in the projection of another world? "

"Sasa, have you forgotten one thing?" Shuer pointed to his nose and said leisurely, "I am special. I can come and go freely regardless of the entrance or exit, and it will not be closed."

Yes, maybe because he came from the projection world, maybe because something happened when he passed through the world barrier, Shuer has this special ability, which may not mean anything to normal people, but to the shadow chasers. Said, it is simply a life-saving weapon.

"Uh." The girl's momentum was suppressed for a moment. Indeed, everyone knew about Xiuer's past and knew about this peculiarity, but they just forgot about it in the moment of excitement.However, she immediately gathered her momentum and refused to give in, "You can come out, but you are not immune to death. You know how many of the people who died in the projection did not react as soon as they showed their heads. Were you killed by the ferocious beast that existed in the projection?"

"You know, nine percent, oh, no, it's ten percent now."

"Then you're still breaking in? What if Lisa dies?"

"Don't you understand, Sasa, I dare to do this, but it actually has nothing to do with any of this." Shuer stared at the girl's eyes, suddenly laughed, rubbed her chestnut hair, and said softly, "Although you I never believe in myself, but I believe in you, I believe that Sasa is the most professional, and Sasa’s calculations will not go wrong, so what should I worry about?”

Saf stared blankly at Xiuer's face, as if she had never seen him before.

"So, let's go, don't be in a daze." With a placating smile, Xiure turned around and continued forward, but with a "pop", his wrist was held again, but this time, the girl did not pull him Come back, but follow him forward.

Turning his head in surprise, he found that the girl was still shy, but the grip on her wrist was beyond doubt.

"Hey, if we are connected like this, the two of us will be pulled in together."

"Ok, I know."

"I can quit at any time, but you can't."

"Ok, I know."

"Then you are still crazy like this?" Xiu Er rolled his eyes.

"Don't you believe that my calculations will not go wrong?" The girl returned all the words, "Then what are you worried about?"

"Chi Chi Chi." Xiu Er was stunned for a while, couldn't help a low laugh, held Saf's hand behind his back, shook his head and said, "It's up to you, but if I was really pulled in, I can turn around and come back. Never mind you."

The shy girl didn't speak, but secretly stuck out her tongue, with a complicated expression on her red face.

(End of this chapter)