Otherworldly Skeleton

Just like the annual rings of trees, there are circles of fine lines inside the stone bones, but they are not neat concentric circles like the annual rings, it is like several tree hearts blooming their own annual rings on its surface, and then all The annual rings of the trees are squeezed, collided and even interlaced, forming an intricate maze pattern.

"Stone bones will be buried in the ground for several years. They also have the desire to break out of the ground, and they also have the instinct to absorb rotting souls, so they will be affected by the soul gaps on land. Over the long years, changes in nearby soul gaps will affect it. Changes in bone quality, look here..." Kerwin pointed to a certain line on the inside of the stone bone with a bone claw.

Lu Yan saw a relatively central line, with a wider width at one end, then gradually became smaller, and finally disappeared.

"This soul gap is a day and a half away from us. It is quite a small soul gap, but it was hidden in a valley by some strange coincidence, and it has not been discovered. Later, it gradually shrank and became smaller and disappeared." Ke Erwin sighed and said, "The cypress forest it breeds in is the largest one I've ever found. It's a pity that the soul gap itself has disappeared, otherwise it might become a big town like Shuibei Town."

Lu Yan looked at it for a long time, only to feel that after taking away Ke Erwen's claw bones, his eyes blurred immediately, and he couldn't find the streaked road. From the messy lines, he could see the distribution of the surrounding soul gaps. , is it so magical?

"Look here." Ke Erwen pointed to a gradually enlarged line on the outer periphery: "This is the soul gap of Shuibei Town. It has become bigger and bigger over the years, so it also responds on the inner side of the stone bone."

"But aren't there many wider lines in the middle, are they all big soul gaps?" Lu Yan pointed to the central area of ​​the stone bone, where the lines are scattered in a row, and many of them are wider than the one in Shuibei Town.

"Hehe, it's not that simple." Ke Erwen said with a smile: "Different soul gap distances produce different lines and shapes. You can see those in the middle, most of them are very small soul gaps, and some It might not even have cracked the surface."

Lu Yan looked at the stone bone for a long time, and finally sighed. This thing is really not clear. It is obviously similar in texture. I don’t know why Ke Erwen determined which ones represent soul gaps and which ones represent air, so he asked: "Then, does this bone show signs of a young whitewood forest?"

"The birth of Baimulin is usually accompanied by the cracking of the soul gap. Some skeletons believe that a large number of rotting souls leaked when the soul gap cracked the ground led to the birth of Baimulin. Although this statement is not necessarily accurate, in large soul gaps It is true that there are often white wood forests nearby, so we just need to find a... newborn soul gap..." Ke Erwen slowed down as he spoke, and stopped altogether at the end, taking a closer look Stone bones, gesturing on the rotten soil for a while.

The sky was getting dark, and Ke Erwen hadn't spoken for half an hour. He squatted on the side of the cut stone bone and observed it carefully. Soul tea, putting on a snow umbrella, and entering a state of selfless work.

The action time of the skeletons in the cold winter is opposite to that in summer. On cold nights, they need to hide in the dark tent. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Lu Yan ordered the digging of the dark tent to start, and arranged for the red bones to patrol the periphery in pairs. Here Already approaching Fenrir's territory, Lu Yan had to be more careful.

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The last trace of tyrannical color in the sky also belonged to the silver light circle, and the dark clouds in the sky dissipated in an instant, revealing a large thin cloud dyed red by the setting sun, as if the entire sky was shrouded in faint firelight.

Alpha retracted the silver halo and fell from the sky like a meteor. Five magisters flew close to him and dragged him back.

"The collapse of the elements has been stopped, but we are also trying our best to continue the 'Curse of the Frozen Continent'. The forbidden spell that can only be cast by ten magisters is too reluctant for only six of us." Alpha fell on Ayers's body In his arms, although his face was as pale as paper, his voice was still firm and steady, as if nothing had happened. He chanted continuously for three days and three nights, and after preventing the elements from destroying the continent from collapsing, he could still have such a stable tone. The other five magisters are not as good as they are.

Ayers said respectfully: "My lord, what about our plan...?"

"After all, the temperature has been lowered to below zero. I am afraid that there will be three consecutive months of continuous snow in the Skull Continent. This is enough. The seal of the servant of God in my hand can sense the direction of 'tears', let the children bring it, Let's go." Alpha spread out his old and withered left hand, and the silver halo in the palm rose from the palm, quietly suspended in the void.

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"Hoo-poof!" The sharp barbed feathered arrow flew nearly 600 meters away, piercing the head of a Qianggu, and produced a huge explosive force at high speed. , shattered with a click, and scattered with the heavy arrows.

Several skeletons around Qianggu scattered out like fried ants, making the snow-covered grassland filthy.

Seeing the skeletons running around in the sky, Bokmi sighed secretly. Batar was able to shoot Qianggu to death with one arrow. He already had the strength not inferior to the warriors of the empire, but his experience was still a little bit worse. This group of harassment The half-year skeletons of the Yeba tribe are very cunning, they don't rush at people like ordinary skeletons at all, but just run away at people...

After finally encountering a strong bone who is willing to fight head-on, Bokmi planned to wear down the ashes, red bones and battle bones of the opponent first, and then kill him in one fell swoop, but who would have expected that the impulsive Batar would be able to fight from 600 Although this kind of archery is enough to shock the grassland, it has caused irreversible disasters. The scattered skeletons are the natural enemies of the grassland herdsmen, and I don’t know how many herdsmen will die because of them. under the paws.

The Batar boy's handsome face was full of anger, he put his iron backed ox tendon bow on his back, and was about to pat his horse and chase after the nearest war bone.

"Nephew, don't go." Bokmi stopped Batar: "That cunning knight has never shown his face. Sooner or later, the grassland will be destroyed by him. It is meaningless to kill one or two of his subordinates. We must Take advantage of the cold winter created by the inlanders to enter the Skeleton Continent, find the superior general who rides the bone, and only in this way can the grassland be saved."

"Yes, Uncle Wang!" Batar took one last look at the skeletons that filled the grassland, and slammed his whip on the horse's buttocks. With the sound of angry hooves, he rushed west.

Bokmi waved his hand and followed the direction of Batar with 11 grassland warriors. At the end of the team was a wooden cage with a carriage, inside which was a terrified human-shaped red bone.

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"Puff puff!" There was a dull knocking sound from above his head.

Lu Yan recovered from his contemplation in an instant. His leg bones, which were sitting cross-legged, suddenly jumped, and he rushed towards the exit of the concealed canopy obliquely above. With a little kick, the whole body came out of the hole without hindrance.

The red bone who came to greet Lu Yan was about to open his mouth to shout, but found that Lu Yan had already jumped in front of him, hurriedly took half a step back respectfully, and whispered: "My lord, Mr. Keerwen has a result, please go to discuss it." .”

Lu Yan looked at the sky, it was pitch black, and he couldn't tell the time.

"About 4 o'clock in the morning." Hong Gu added proactively. Lu Yan glanced at Hong Gu in surprise. This subordinate's IQ is not low, and he was able to guess his intentions. Suddenly his eyes fell on Hong Gu's. On the leg bone, there are two rows of jagged protrusions, which turned out to be the first batch of red bones found in Yugusi.

It's a pity that the bone skills on his legs seem to be useless, and it also hinders teamwork. Otherwise, with his IQ, he might be a very good subordinate.Lu Yan nodded to Honggu: "I see, you go back to your post."

When he came to Ke Erwen, the smile on the old fox's face was very strange, a little excited, a little confused, a little excited, and a little hesitant. Lu Yan walked over gently: "How is it, is there any result?"

"Master War Bone...you are here." Seeing Lu Yan, Ke Erwen had a wry smile on his face: "Come and see, the appearance of this stone bone is a bit strange."

Ke Erwen laid out two stone bones in front of Lu Yan. It seems that he found another one nearby. Lu Yan found that the patterns of the two stone bones were similar.

"Here..." Ke Erwen arranged the stone bones in a specific position, then placed two exquisite candlesticks to the side, pointed to the northeast corner of the stone bones and said: "There is a vague imprint, it may be a large one. A newborn soul gap, but judging from this pattern, the growth rate of this soul gap is too fast, so I'm not sure if this is a misjudgment."

"Where is this location?" Lu Yan didn't rush to make a conclusion, but asked the situation first.

Ke Erwen quickly replied: "About 220 kilometers northwest, north of Guzama Mountain."

Bone narrow mountain?Lu Yan wondered: "Could it be because of the great battle half a year ago that..."

"No, according to my judgment, the actual location of the soul gap is at least 50 kilometers away from Guzama Mountain. It is indeed easy to breed soul gaps in the big battlefield, but it will not affect so far." Ke Erwen interrupted Lu Yan's words quickly Explained, because he had thought about this possibility a long time ago.

"Won't it affect so far?" Lu Yan turned his head, and suddenly asked: "Is there a new soul gap near Guzajian Mountain?"

Like a flash of lightning in the darkness, Ke Erwen glanced at Lu Yan in surprise, then suddenly lowered his head, and looked carefully at the cut surfaces of the two stone bones. After a few minutes, he raised his head and said loudly: "It's strange, it's strange, the bones There really wasn't any soul gaps growing near Narrow Mountain, not only large soul gaps, but even small soul gaps that could form villages. This is almost impossible for the kind of war that destroyed the collar bones. There's something odd about it."

Where there is eccentricity, there is hope. Lu Yan carefully considered that it may take about 220 days to walk 5 kilometers in this snowy day. Confirmed by the nearby city, the exploration mission issued by Zexis is to find the Lord's Baimu Forest. It seems that there is only hope in the direction of Guzama Mountain.

"Kerwen, take a look again, is there anything wrong with the newborn soul gap displayed on the stone bone besides the fast growth?" Lu Yan basically made up his mind, and he asked the experienced Baimu dealer Make sure again.

Kerwin nodded, lay down and watched for a long time.Finally, he said affirmatively: "The growth rate is three times that of a normal soul gap, and the current size is almost as large as the soul gap in Shuibei Town. Other than that, there is nothing wrong with it."

"Okay, let's go and find out what's weird about this newborn soul gap!" Lu Yan raised his head and looked to the northwest, where there were endless fine snowflakes in the endless darkness.