mysterious forerunner

Chapter 403 Ogneans

Zhang Qingxiang walked in this secret world, with something like damp moss under his feet.

It's a thick layer, and when you step on it, a purple-blue sticky liquid will seep out.

The things covering the ground are also weird in this world.

They are just the lowest level of monsters. They are really like the "plants" in this world. They are not aggressive at all and can only grow by absorbing mysterious energy from the void.

Then it was eaten by some other slightly stronger monsters.

For example, at this moment, several thousand meters away, there are two flat-shaped monsters that look like cockroaches that have been magnified dozens of times, and they are eating these moss monsters with their heads down.

Zhang Qingxiang witnessed it with his own eyes. They had failed to hunt not long ago and were probably extremely hungry, so they lowered their heads to eat grass.

Who doesn’t want to eat meat if they can?

But this "inconspicuous" thing, Moss Weird, if it follows the mysterious scene and descends into the earth world, it will cause a terrible disaster!

The harm they bring to the Earth is even more terrifying than many of the overlords in this world!
They will quickly spread and grow across the Earth, contaminating the ground they cover and emitting a strong infection.

They will quickly "mature" and grow "branches and stems" that do not exist in the secret world. Each branch will have a node that can release various "abilities".

More than one hundred nodes echo each other and can release dominant-level "abilities"!
This kind of weirdness can even be seen as a special "type of soldier" that the secret world has "evolved" specifically to destroy the ordinary world.

But in the secret world, they are at the bottom of the food chain.

Zhang Qingxiang sighed in his heart and continued walking forward.

Next to it was a big river. The water was turbid purple-black, with waves and whirlpools, rolling and roaring non-stop.

There was a group of strange water birds with a wingspan of four or five meters, skinny bodies, and three chrysanthemum-shaped eyes on their heads. They flew close to the surface of the river, seemingly searching for prey underwater.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang and the water waves exploded. A strange creature with a big mouth like a clam and a body like a python jumped out of the water, opened its mouth wide and swallowed all the water birds.

The monster's head is as big as twenty meters, but its body is slender and only half a meter thick. It looks extremely weird overall.

After devouring the flock of water birds, it fell into the water contentedly, as if preparing to dive to the bottom of the river to digest.

However, unexpectedly, three long tentacles suddenly shot out from a cliff on the river bank, with scimitar-like claws at the front end.

One of them cut off the strange head in the water with a swish, and the other two hooked the clam-like head and quickly retracted.

The cliff opened its mouth and chewed the clam-shell-like head into pieces with a crunching sound!
The cliff, hundreds of meters high, is itself a weird thing.

He just squatted there without moving, and no one noticed him.

Zhang Qingxiang raised his eyebrows: It might indeed be a cliff, but the rocks in this world have also changed.

"This is the secret world."

Zhang Qingxiang continued to move forward, away from the river.

The strange thing is that Zhang Qing was oblivious to all the strange things along the way, and Director Zhang walked smoothly into a "fertile" field.

The fields were full of "weeds".

Fluttering in the wind, it gives a feeling of "the wind blows the grass low and the cattle and sheep are visible".

But Zhang Qingxiang did not relax at all. This wilderness of hundreds of kilometers was actually a huge monster.

These weeds are its "lips and tongue". It can eat anything that sets foot on this field.

And this piece of wilderness is indeed "fertile" because Zhang Qingxiang condensed the rules in his eyes and could see through the weeds. The strange body was dozens of meters thick and extremely fat.

There are many huge monsters like this in the secret world. They look very scary, but their ranks are actually not very high.

For example, the field before us covers an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers and is tens of meters thick, which is very impressive in terms of volume.

Its rank... Zhang Qingxiang estimated that it should be the first level of the Domination Realm.

It would not be difficult for Zhang Qingxiang to kill it, but if he was not careful and walked into this wilderness, it would not be easy to escape.

Therefore, in the secret world, it is not uncommon for things to go wrong.

There are so many weird things here, and they are of various kinds, it is hard to guard against them.

The fields in front of us and the cliffs just now are the opposite of those moss monsters. They are huge in the secret world, but when the mysterious scene descends, their size will be shrunk to a size suitable for the mysterious scene.

On Earth, they wouldn't look as amazing as they do in the secret world.

But their own mysterious energy does not diminish.

For example, this wilderness can only come with a super-large scene, and other scenes cannot accommodate the weirdness of the realm of domination.

Then its size is about the size of a football field.

However, in the first stage of the Domination Realm, it possesses extremely powerful mysterious energy.

If a professional encounters it, he will find that this monster has thick blood, high attack, and seemingly endless endurance, making it very difficult to deal with.

The purpose of Zhang Qingxiang's trip was not to hunt monsters, so he looked outside the scope of the wilderness and then went around it.

This detour led to trouble.

After Zhang Qingxiang bypassed the wilderness, he walked forward for hundreds of kilometers and an abandoned city appeared in front of him.

The city is huge, and all kinds of huge buildings with styles very different from those on Earth are either collapsed or riddled with holes.

There are hundreds of "traffic connection bridges" built in the air. Most of them have collapsed and hit the ground, but a small part of them are still hanging in the air. These things have become the biggest threat to low-altitude flight.

There was a group of strange creatures with alligator snapping turtle shells, five heads sticking out from the shells, and huge tails behind them, which looked like small pine trees. They were slowly passing through the edge of the city.

Zhang Qingxiang was not far away from this group of monsters, but the trouble that Zhang Qingxiang sensed was not from this group of monsters. Instead, at the moment just now, he suddenly sensed some power fluctuations, similar to a formation, with a relatively wide range, which included himself and the group of monsters.

"Ambushed?" Zhang Qingxiang muttered in his heart: "Are they ambushing me, or are they hunting that kind of monster?"

"Or, have you set a trap and it doesn't matter who falls into it?"

Zhang Qingxiang did not move his troops because the power, which was similar to that of a formation, was very weak and only he could sense it. The group of monsters were unaware of it and continued to advance slowly.

These strange bodies are more than 20 meters long and 5 meters high. Five heads stick out from under the alligator turtle shells and rise up like snakes.

From time to time, a ball of dark yellow light would spit out of its big mouth, and from the surrounding ruins, it would stick back strange insect-like creatures.

These "bugs" are more ferocious than each other, and some are as big as human heads.

Finally, this group of monsters walked under several "passage connecting bridges". Five of these passage connecting bridges were crisscrossed here, more than a hundred meters above the ground.

As if some kind of "mechanism" was triggered, layers of energy fluctuations suddenly appeared in the surrounding ground and void, and the connecting bridges broke at the same time and fell on the monsters.

Moreover, these connecting bridges were arranged in advance, with hundreds of spikes as long as ten meters inserted under the bridge!

When it fell down, four or five of the monsters were immediately nailed to the ground by the sharp spikes.

The monsters screamed in pain and struggled continuously, with purple-black blood spurting out of their wounds.

These spikes cannot penetrate the hard shell of the alligator snapping turtle, but they pierce their neck and tail.

They have five heads, and from a probability perspective, the probability of being stabbed is too high.

Zhang Qingxiang looked down at his feet and saw that the energy fluctuations were rolling inward layer by layer, and the same was true for the energy fluctuations in the void.

It is like a large formation net. Once tightened, it will wrap all the "prey" in the center.

However, these energy fluctuations did not affect Director Zhang, and Zhang Qingxiang still stood there steadily.

Energy waves swept inward, tightly binding the monsters that had not been pierced together.

A large number of them were weird and just turned over, just like turtles. Once they turned belly up, they were powerless. Their heads, limbs and tails were all trying in vain to find a foothold to turn themselves back.

Seven or eight humanoid creatures suddenly rushed out from the ruins of the city.

They are dark blue all over, their skin is like that of a lizard, their eyes have vertical pupils and bright yellow eyeballs.

There is a pair of fleshy wings on the back, which can be folded tightly behind the back when moving on the ground.

They all had different mutations. Some had two rows of hook-like bone spurs growing out of the outside of their legs, some were covered in a layer of porcelain-like exoskeleton, some had three strange horns on their heads, and some had two thin arms growing out from under their ribs.

They quickly rushed into the group of monsters, holding various weapons in their hands, and kept stabbing at the monsters outside the formation net.

Behind them, there was an exceptionally old man, holding a golden disc high in his hand, emitting a bright beam of light.

The monsters trapped in the formation net can release certain abilities from one of their heads.

Which head it is is completely random, and each one is weird and different.

And what kind of ability it is...is actually random!

Zhang Qingxiang watched with interest for a while and found that these strange abilities were roughly three types. One was "detonating sound waves", the second was "rigidity and fracture", and the last one was "internal combustion".

If one of the monsters releases its ability, the light beam from the disc will immediately cover it. As long as the head is fixed, the release of the ability can be interrupted.

But the light column from the disk is not big. The disk is about the size of a washbasin, and the light column is about this thick.

And those monsters were huge in size, and each head was thicker than the light column.

Therefore, the beam of light could not cover the entire monster, and it was necessary to accurately fix the head.

So the last old man had to work very hard, and he had to quickly and accurately freeze the monster's head, otherwise his power would be released and his companions might die.

Fortunately, although the old man looked very old and was out of breath every time he turned the disc, he was always able to accurately cover the strange head that was about to release its ability with the beam of light.

And this beam of light became a baton. Wherever the beam of light pointed, his companions would rush forward and kill the monster first.

Zhang Qingxiang has been observing and can't help but feel confused: Aren't these guys weird?!
The weapons in their hands are almost all secret objects, and the most powerful one is the disc in the old man's hand.

They were all professionals, and each of them could release several abilities, but compared to the monsters, they were much weaker.

Zhang Qingxiang couldn't judge the old man's strength, but among the others, there was one who was particularly agile and could release four different abilities. His strength was roughly equivalent to that of an eighth-level professional.

The ambush lasted for half an hour, and finally all the monsters were killed.

The old man was panting from exhaustion, with dark blue sweat flowing all over his body.

The two young men hurriedly helped him to sit aside.

The old man put the disc aside, and the disc looked extremely heavy.

The rest of the members cheered together, and then immediately began to collect various materials from those monsters.

The most important thing to them is obviously the alligator snapping turtle shells.

Suddenly, the strongest young man stood up straight like a vigilant meerkat, turned his head quickly to look around, and then locked his eyes on Zhang Qingxiang.

Zhang Qingxiang did not deliberately hide himself.

From the beginning to the end, I was standing not far away as a spectator.

The strongest young man shouted loudly, and all his companions immediately stopped what they were doing, grabbed their weapons and headed towards Zhang Qingxiang vigilantly.

The old man also trembled as he prepared to lift the disc beside him again.

But his hand caught nothing.

The old man was so shocked that all the sweat on his body evaporated instantly. The "weirdo" was just a few hundred meters away, but now it was standing next to him, holding his disc and looking at him with interest!

The old man's eyes were bloodshot, he shouted, and rushed towards Zhang Qing desperately.

This disc is the lifeblood of the entire clan.

The rest of the young and strong tribesmen shouted hurriedly, as if trying to stop the old man from coming up and fighting.

But they were too far away and had no time to react. There were two young men beside the old man who had already rushed towards Zhang Qingxiang before the old man.

Both of them missed their targets. The old man was slower and bumped into the two young men.

The three of them were confused for a moment, turned around and looked around, and found Zhang Qingxiang about ten meters away.

The three men rushed forward again, shouting, but found that the other party threw the disc directly at the old man's feet.

The old man picked up the disc as quickly as possible and held it tightly in his arms.

The two young men hurriedly protected him behind them.

Then the others also rushed up and surrounded the old man. The strongest young man, holding a short spear-like weapon in his hand, pointed at Zhang Qingxiang and said something loudly.

Zhang Qingxiang didn't say anything either, and slowly pointed behind them.

A few young men were about to turn back, but were stopped by the strongest young man.

It seems that you think Zhang Qingxiang is cheating us, so we turned our heads to follow your finger and you took the opportunity to attack us!
Zhang Qingxiang couldn't help laughing. You are very smart, but it's a pity that you used it in the wrong place. Zhang Qingxiang spread his hands and then floated back dozens of meters.

The strongest young man was doubtful and quickly turned around to take a look.

Then the whole person was frightened and screamed to call his companions. Two young men supported the old man, spread out the flesh wings behind them, and rushed into the air, trying to escape through those "access connecting bridges".

The other tribesmen also fled in different directions.

Among the monsters they had just killed, there was one with countless black filaments extending from its body.

Then the strange corpse expanded rapidly and exploded with a bang. More black objects were ejected and it instantly became a ball of several hundred meters in size!
There was no telling how many black filaments were running around inside, and behind every person who escaped, there were at least a hundred black filaments chasing after him.

Even though these guys can fly, those black filaments are even faster and seem to be able to extend infinitely. No matter where they escape, they will be hunted down!

Zhang Qingxiang was also enlightened. In his previous life, he had only heard of this kind of monster that parasitized other monsters, but had never seen it with his own eyes.

Moreover, this thing is different from the iron wire worms that parasitize the body of mantises on Earth. This monster is even more powerful than those alligator snapping turtles.

Moreover, its parasitic pattern is very special, and it does not seem to be completely hidden in the body of the parasitic creature.

Because their bodies are larger than the host.

The strongest young man was also chased by hundreds of black filaments, more than a dozen of which were only two or three meters behind him. He flapped his wings violently backwards and released his ability.

A gust of light yellow wind instantly corroded the large black filaments behind him, breaking them into black sand and falling down.

The range of the gale is very large, but the best effect is within thirty meters.

The black filaments behind are still chasing closely.

The crisis for the strongest young man was temporarily resolved. While escaping quickly, he glanced at the situation of other groups. This sight made his face change drastically. One of the two young tribesmen who were accompanying the old man had his hands and feet entangled by countless black threads and was pulled down.

The old man and another young man were flapping their wings desperately, but their speed was too slow and large pieces of black filaments had already entangled them.

The strongest young man gritted his teeth, rushed over diagonally, and flapped his wings again to release the pale yellow gust of wind.

call--

Large pieces of black filaments were corroded and shattered. He supported the old man from the other side and accelerated desperately.

In the entire tribe, only the old man can control the disc. If the old man dies, the entire tribe will be completely destroyed in a short time!
But even with him, the speed was not much faster. Soon those black filaments regrouped and caught up, getting closer and closer.

The strongest young man released different abilities several times, but the effects became weaker and weaker.

He even saw that, except for himself, all other members of the tribe had been dragged down by the black threads...

He roared wildly, pushed the old man forward, yelled at the other young man, then turned around and faced the black filaments!
Unfortunately, he was too weak to face the black filaments. Even if he wanted to sacrifice his life to snipe and save his companions, he was quickly entangled by more and more black filaments...

He fell to the ground powerlessly along with the black filaments, and sighed in his heart: After persisting for so many years, my race is finally going to be completely destroyed...

He looked up, feeling even more desperate, because the black filaments had caught up with the old man.

Suddenly, there was a mighty force that seemed to descend from the sky and enveloped everything around.

Those black threads were wild and unruly, but under the suppression of this force, they instantly calmed down and turned into soft black hair, lying quietly in the arms of the lover.

"What's going on?" The strongest young man was surprised. Feeling that the black threads on his body had no strength, he quickly broke free, as easy as pulling a loose rope from his body.

He stood on the ground, even more confused: that power suppressed the weirdness, but did not seem to restrict himself.

He suddenly remembered: No! Where is that guy just now? I have been watching the entire battlefield, and I didn't see him among the people being chased by the black filaments!

The other tribesmen also broke free.

Most of them had been pierced by black threads.

They had encountered this situation before. Once the black filaments pierced into the body, it was almost impossible to pull them out.

Even if they are cut off, the black filaments remaining in the body will grow on their own, so once they enter, it means being parasitized.

In the past, there have been cases where members of the tribe who had been parasitized returned to the settlement and tried to sneak in.

Although everyone was familiar with the face, they knew it was no longer him, so they had no choice but to agree to kill him and burn the body thoroughly.

But this time, those black filaments were really as soft as hair, and they were completely removed from the body with a slight pull.

Everybody was saved.

The strongest young man looked around in confusion and soon saw the man on the ruins of a high platform.

Zhang Qingxiang stood on a high place with his [divine chamber] open.

Under the suppression of the [Divine Chamber], the black filaments became extremely docile.

This thing aroused Director Zhang's interest. After observing it for a while, he opened the magic chamber and caught it in.

Then Zhang Qingxiang closed the shrine and went back to study it carefully.

All the black filaments disappeared, and the strongest young man clearly felt this time that all the power flowed into Zhang Qingxiang's body.

He suddenly became reserved.

I was a little disrespectful just now, but I didn't expect that not only did he not care, he also saved all my people.

In particular, the other party saved the only remaining "lawmaker" in the tribe, allowing the tribe to retain hope of continuing to reproduce and fight.

He took a few steps forward and saluted Zhang Qingxiang with the highest etiquette of his tribe, uttering a series of musical notes.

Zhang Qingxiang didn't understand.

The strongest young man was a little hesitant.

He has a secret item that can ensure that both parties can communicate smoothly, even if they are not of the same race.

But he didn't dare take it out easily.

This secret item can directly communicate the souls of both parties. The person opposite is too powerful, and he doesn't look like a normal person at all.

The opponent is likely to be a high-level monster.

The kind that reaches high into the sky.

When his world was destroyed, he had seen this kind of monster with his own eyes. They were different from other monsters. They had high intelligence and were very rational. They were not like those ordinary monsters who only knew how to destroy.

If the other party is really this kind of weird, I will take out the secret object and communicate with the other party at the soul level. My soul will be directly eroded by the other party, and the other party may borrow my body and return to the settlement...

Suddenly, he grinned and realized that he was overthinking.

If the other party was really that weird, there would be no need to go through so much trouble.

It would be easy for an existence of that level to wipe out a lingering resistance force like mine.

So he took out a ring-shaped object, which was densely engraved with various mysterious characters.

He held the ring and extended it to Zhang Qingxiang, motioning him to hold it as well.

Zhang Qingxiang reached out and shook it.

Then, a voice sounded in Zhang Qingxiang's mind: "Great existence, thank you for saving us. The Ognean people pay you the highest respect!"

"Ogneans?" Zhang Qingxiang asked, "You... were once the masters of this world?"

"Yes." The other party replied: "Respected sir, my name is Gulzasuri, I take the liberty to invite you to our settlement and entertain you with the highest standards of our Ognyan people. I will answer any questions you have."

In fact, when Zhang Qingxiang entered this world, he vaguely felt that the destruction of this world would not take long.

Many ruins, like the one in front of us, look very "new".

"Okay." Zhang Qingxiang agreed. Gulzasuli was very excited and immediately went to explain the situation to other tribesmen. The old man, the last "lawyer" of the Ognians, walked over tremblingly and also showed Zhang Qingxiang the highest courtesy of the Ognians.

The posture of their etiquette is very strange. Their wings are spread out to cover their whole body, and then their upper body is bent with their head on the ground, but their knees are not kneeling.

Zhang Qingxiang didn't want to say this, but it really looked like a big bat...

All the Ognyans surrounded Zhang Qingxiang and the "Lawyer" Akorazwan. Gulzasuri was in charge of vigilance, and the group returned to the settlement.

On the way, Zhang Qingxiang talked with Akolazwan and roughly understood the situation here.

This world was destroyed one hundred and sixty years ago.

It took only thirty years from the mysterious invasion to the complete destruction of civilization.

The average life span of the Ogneans is three hundred years, and they enter middle age after the age of fifty.

A "law-taker" like Akorazwan would have a longer lifespan. He is already 417 years old this year.

And everyone, including Gulzasuri, experienced the entire process of the destruction of their own world.

The Ognean civilization is very brilliant. They have already ventured into deep space and built huge spaceships for interstellar travel.

The technology used by this spacecraft is similar to the "warp drive" in Earth science fiction novels.

In addition, the main weapons of the spacecraft they use for interstellar travel can easily destroy a planet, and their power far exceeds that of various nuclear weapons on Earth.

However, even such a powerful civilization, when the space they were in overlapped with the [Secret World], discovered that their powerful technological weapons were ineffective when facing the mystery!
Because of their high level of civilization and long lifespan, the Ognians are not numerous, and even with a few colonized planets, there are no more than 350 million of them.

They only lasted thirty years...

After the destruction of the world, there are still many "slippery fish", just like Gulzasuri and his companions, hiding in every corner of the world.

Some of them were discouraged and just struggled to survive, but most of them continued to resist with perseverance.

The purpose of Gulzasuri and his companions' hunting this time was to obtain enough resources to prepare for the upcoming "Dharma Descent" ceremony.

The so-called "Law-giving Ceremony" is a ceremony for the birth of a new "Law-maker" within the tribe.

The disc in Akorazvan's hand is called the "Dial of Deep Space" by the Ognians. It is the ultimate crystallization of their technology and mysterious power, and can block various strange abilities.

In the twenty-eighth year of the mysterious invasion, the "Deep Space Dial" was developed.

The entire Ognean tribe was ecstatic, thinking that they had finally found a weapon that could defeat the mystery.

At the beginning, this thing was indeed invincible, and the Ognians advanced triumphantly and counterattacked all the way until they encountered the kind of "rational" weirdness that Gulzasuli feared the most.

The Deep Space Dial is powerless against this strange ability!
Zhang Qingxiang guessed that the weirdness that Gulzasuli described should be a high-level overlord.

It is most likely the third level.

Imagine if a master-level being were to completely descend upon the world today, it would probably be a devastating blow.

Judging from the resistance of the Ogneans, they seem to be even worse than Earth.

The technology of the Ognians is too advanced, and their physical fitness should be excellent, after all, they can live for three hundred years.

Is there any other reason behind this? Zhang Qingxiang currently knows too little information to make any inference.

Akora Zwan was very depressed: "Since the destruction of our world, the ritual of law has never been successful."

The Ognians once forged a large number of deep space dials. After the destruction of the civilization, the group in Akoratzvan rescued more than a hundred deep space dials.

This thing is not effective against the Domination Realm, but as a weapon for underground resistance fighters, it is simply a magic weapon.

If multiple magicians wield the Deep Space Dial together, they will be almost invincible when facing ordinary monsters.

For example, that terrifying black filament. If there were more than ten deep space dials fixing the key positions, this monster would not be able to cause any harm to them.

"Initially we had six magicians, but over the years they died in battle one after another, leaving only an old man like me."

"And I am becoming less and less useful, but no new magician can be born. Our race may be doomed to destruction..."

There is actually no need to discuss this topic. The world is destroyed and is full of weirdness.

At the moment when the world was conquered by mystery, all the creatures in this world should have turned into monsters.

But when the base number is huge, just like virus immunity, there will always be a very small number that resist the infection and do not mutate directly.

But the resistance of these people was destined to be a futile persistence, and the outcome was already determined.

Zhang Qingxiang felt a cold sadness in his heart, and couldn't help thinking that in the previous life on Earth, even if North America had humiliated itself and surrendered to the monsters, betraying China for glory, the final result would probably be the same as that of the Ognians.

How could the weirdness possibly let the Earth go?

too naive!

Zhang Qingxiang looked at the old Akora Zwan, and suddenly frowned, saying, "Can you let me watch your Dharma-surrendering ceremony? I'm very interested in it."

Please help if you can.

(End of this chapter)