Chapter 1,420 The So-Called Dark Moon "Devil"?

An armored beast that looked like a small tank was facing off against a small group of humans (theoretically). The tense atmosphere between the two sides seemed to be on the verge of breaking out. The eyes of the black beast were gleaming with killing and hunger - especially the latter. It was dangerous, and the three fully armed Kingdom knights who were directly confronting them were as if they were facing a formidable enemy. They held the swords in their hands tightly and constantly fine-tuned their positions to ensure that they could dodge and attack as quickly as possible when the enemy rushed over. Launching a counterattack, the thick armor on the body does not seem to bring much sense of security to the knights. Although it is strong and fine in the eyes of many people, no one dares to say that they are facing a dark moon monster with claws about the same size as a human. How much protection can the half centimeter steel plate covering the body have? all in

While we were surprised to analyze the special energy carried by the monster, Joseph was also planning the battle plan of his three-person team as the captain. His eyes did not dare to leave the monster at all, and his tone was low: "Keep calm. , hold your weapon tightly, stare into the enemy's eyes, and never run away, humans cannot outrun this monster."

Qiao took a deep breath and held the long sword diagonally in front of him, ensuring that whether he was stabbing or blocking, he could launch it immediately: "It would have been better if we were riding on a horse before, but fighting on foot is very detrimental to us now."

Joseph's voice was still calm: "It doesn't work if you ride on a horse. Didn't you see that the horses of the three of us have already peed? Stop talking nonsense, keep your body leaning forward, tighten your lower body muscles, and use all your previous experience in engaging the enemy." Use it."

Anna nodded: "What to do next, what's your plan of attack?"

"There is no plan," Joseph shook his head in disbelief, "It's just that it's more dignified to die this way."

Everyone: "..."

Bingtis and I were discussing next to each other. After hearing this, we finally couldn't hold it in any longer. There was never a time when this trio of iron knights didn't let go of their chains! The female gangster strode over. Under the dumbfounded gaze of Joseph's trio, they walked straight to the beast. The latter was grinning in a ferocious manner. When Bingtis stepped forward, it instinctively raised its paws, but it just faced him. When Sister Bing showed her hostility, her whole body trembled as if she had been attacked by some fatal attack. Then she let out a whimpering sound, and her whole body trembled and kept retreating. Bingtis stood less than one meter away from the monster, looking up at the hill-like black figure: "Are you honest now?"

There was a weird gurgling sound in the throat of the giant beast, and it slowly lowered its body. I noticed that the muscles of this beast were rapidly drying up. The fur and horny nails on its body also lost their luster at a speed visible to the naked eye: it was losing its vitality under Bingtis's gaze.

"It's still a life after all," Bingtis stretched out his hand to press on the twisted claws of the giant beast, his voice was a bit soft, "It's not comfortable for your body to mutate like this... Sleep peacefully, I will take your soul away temporarily Exile to a safe place. Leave this world to us, and everything will be fine when you wake up. Well, go to sleep."

The previously ferocious beast became completely silent. It seemed to understand Bingtis's words, its eyes slowly lowered, and a purring murmur came from its throat, like the last whisper in sleep.

The last breath of life left this huge and twisted mutated body. It shriveled down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into black dust mist scattered in the air before it completely rotted. Bingtis reached out to catch the last bit of black dust that was lingering around her, and crushed it slightly with her fingers. There was a thoughtful look on his face.

"It should have died hundreds of years ago. The power of the abyss has allowed it to linger in a state between a corpse and a wraith until today." Bingtis read something from the black ashes, "The domesticated abyss... It’s completely harmless to us, but it’s still beyond the endurance limit of these creatures. There should be many such monsters wandering in this Gobi Desert. If we don’t want to ruin our mood, we’d better avoid them.”

Lin Xue waved vigorously at Joseph: "Wake up. Wake up, you are still alive, don't be in a daze like you were scared to death. Pack up your equipment and keep going - do you still want these three horses?"

The trio of Iron Knights walked around the gate of hell in a daze, and now they put away their weapons in a daze. Joe's eyes flickered around the rest of us, but after opening his mouth for a long time, he still didn't know what to say, so he could only spread his hands to check the condition of his horse. The three poor animals may have been rigorously trained, but they obviously had no experience in confronting a monster the size of a tank. At this time, they were frightened and lost their minds. After inspection, the three iron knights came to the conclusion: these three The horse may be able to recover, but for the next half month it will basically be used for carrying things.

I came to Bingtis and watched the last bit of black ashes slowly dissipate on her fingers: "Confirmed it is the abyss? We haven't felt it on the neighboring planet?!"

"You also know that the abyss is divided into many energy levels, and there is also a weird state of complete inertia," Bingtis smiled, "Can you usually sense the abyss reaction on Sandora? It's the same here - They are in a completely harmless and stable state. Although some of the nature of the abyss still remains, they are not infected, do not spread, do not produce significant radiation, and do not even have much destructive power left. The one just now was originally an ordinary animal. , even though it mutated into that shape after being polluted by the abyss for hundreds of years, it still remains awake, which is enough to explain the problem. If we hadn't come to such a close distance for face-to-face contact, who would have known that there was such a thing on Dark Moon."

I thought of the abyss powers in Shandora that she forcibly conquered with her willpower. It was indeed very similar to the situation before us: the tamed inert abyss could not be detected at all. Even if Shandora completely let go of her power, You have to be very close to her to feel that dangerous aura, and unless Sandora actively catalyzes it, the abyss power in her body will not contaminate anything - it is exactly the same as the abyss in that beast.

The difference is that the powerful Queen of the Empire controls the abyss, and the poor animal just turned into a half-dead monster after being tortured for hundreds of years.

The question now is: Where does the inert abyss on this planet come from?

The first thing I thought of was the artifact.

Many clues suddenly fit together at this moment, like fine gears clicking together, the origin of the Dark Moon Demon, the earth-shaking changes on this planet, and the demonic power released from the artifact mentioned by the old Pope and the Dragon Girl. Shadow, these are all organized. I even had vague guesses about the nature of the several Dark Moon Wars. Although Bingtis still hasn't sensed the star field artifact on this planet, I can basically guess what impact that thing has brought to this world.

"There is a village near here," Dingdang was lying on my head to act as a biometric radar. At this moment, he suddenly stretched out his hand to pluck my ears and shouted, "And there are a few people coming in our direction. They will be there in about ten minutes." Can be touched."

I shook my head and put aside those complicated associations for the time being. Dingdang grabbed my hair and shouted: "Don't shake your head! Don't shake your head! Dingdang is motion sick, Dingdang is motion sick!"

The Joseph trio heard someone approaching. He immediately tightened his grip on the weapon in his hand, his expression even more nervous than when he encountered the giant beast just now. In their common sense, there are only demons and monsters on Dark Moon. This is a place where everyone is an enemy except themselves. I glanced at Qiao slightly, and I didn't know if this elf had thought of so many complicated variables when he followed him.

"Don't be nervous." Bingtis waved his hands lazily, and then the air in a large area nearby suddenly distorted for a moment, "Don't go too far or you won't be seen. Let's stay hidden first and take a look at the local area. It doesn’t matter what the person looks like.”

Thinking of the "invisibility technique" that could deceive even the ancient dragon, Qiao immediately put away his weapons with confidence and looked at the three of them. Suddenly an idea came up: "Can you please change out of these clothes first? You are still wearing the uniforms of the coalition forces on the ground when you are deep behind enemy lines. With your clothes, the enemy can catch them and roast them on a pile of firewood for three days without doing anything." of."

Joseph looked down at the suit outside the armor, scratching his hair and feeling a little embarrassed: "But we are knights..."

Anna pulled off the uniform with the coalition logo on the ground and stuffed it into the rucksack on the horse's back. While glaring at Joseph: "Okay, okay, it's not like you were childish when you just came out of the village. I know you are a knight, okay."

The trio packed up. Then they took off the armor on their upper bodies, leaving only the mail armor underneath (after the scene just now, they already felt that the equipment they were wearing was of little use). This completely erased the coalition logo on the ground. At this moment, the local people that Dingdang sensed were also in everyone's sight.

Several vague figures emerged from the thick fog, getting closer and closer. Bingtis concentrated on sensing whether there was an abyss reaction on the other party, and then slowly shook his head: These are a group of normal people who have not been contaminated.

This suddenly became a bit interesting: not all Dark Moon creatures have been affected by that secondary abyss. What does this mean?

It means that there are actually two opposing groups on Dark Moon. Think about the Gobi Desert under our feet that was left behind by the battle two thousand years ago!

"They don't look much different from the people on the ground, and they are civilians, right?" At this time, the small group was getting closer and closer, and we could already see each other's appearance clearly, and Qian Qian curiously observed the people walking in front of us. These people suddenly pointed at three of the children who looked like children and shouted, "Ajun, look, they have animal ears, animal ears, and tails~~~"

I also saw it. They were three very short locals, two women and one man. The clothes they wear are no different from the civilians on the ground. Anyway, they are just gray coarse cloth sewn to cover their bodies. Their appearance is no different from ordinary humans, but their biggest feature is that they have ears and ears like animals. Tail. One of the women looks a bit like a cat, with a pair of black cat ears and a swinging cat tail. The other woman and a man have some characteristics of a dog. Of course, they may also be wolves - I based on the tails. Judging, these three people were all wearing loose clothes, and their tails poked out from the hem of their coats, swaying in the air, which looked very funny.

But I didn’t have any other thoughts when I saw the animal ears: I have a bad fox at home, and her ears almost make me pinch out my cocoons, and every now and then I get tied up like a rice dumpling with nine tails, so how can I still do it? I have a special feeling for animal ears and tails, so in winter when I can’t find a warm baby, I will think of that big fur ball...

When Qiao saw the three beast-eared creatures, he felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. The muscles in his body tensed up. Even though he was completely hidden, he still lowered his voice: "Those are monsters... Don't be deceived by their size. Their The magic talent is higher than that of elves, and after transforming into beast form, the combat power is no less than that of dwarves, when An Yue attacks. These monsters are often officer-level figures... But the ones in front of me look like An Yue in my impression. Why are demons different?"

After a brief moment of astonishment, Joseph and Anna also recognized the races of several other Dark Moon people. Joseph pointed to a tall and thin man walking at the front of the team: "That's the Night Demon Elf. He looks like Joe." Don't they look alike? But his eyes are red and his skin is darker, which are the characteristics of the Night Demon Elf. Although I have never seen him in person before, I have seen it in the picture album distributed by the Knights."

Anna pointed at the other two men and women who looked almost the same as the people on the ground: "Those are the dark blood people, right? Their eyes are golden, they are exactly the same as what the Knights said."

"What are dark blood people?" I had never seen this race in the pile of information collected by Bingtis, so I immediately asked curiously.

"They are corrupted humans. Vampires," Anna bit her lip. "During a war, didn't the mountain barbarians use black magic to corrupt the coalition forces? Corrupted elves are called night demon elves, and corrupted humans are called vampires, but they are still There is a name for people with dark blood: it is said that their blood is black because they have been completely corrupted."

"Oh..." I nodded perfunctorily and looked thoughtfully at the few travelers not far away.

There are no traces of pollution on their bodies by the abyss, which means that the so-called legends of night demon elves and vampires are mostly false. There are no elves and humans that have been corrupted into new races. Night demon elves and vampires should be ancient An existing ethnic group. And other than that, I didn't see any characteristics related to demons in the Dark Moon people who walked past me. Although they looked different from the people on the ground, other than these differences in appearance. They were just ordinary people: a small group of travelers on their way.

There was also a strange look on Joseph's face. He scratched his messy hair that looked like a lion's mane and couldn't help but mutter: "I thought the Dark Moon people were all vicious and covered in blood. These few looked at But it’s different than expected.”

"The Dark Moon people in your impression must not eat, drink or talk. They have no family, no job, no parents. They have spent hundreds of years doing nothing but being crazy on the moon and staring at the sky. Moreover, the child is only 1.8 meters tall when he is born. You're still wearing the Demon King's armor, right?" Bingtis curled his lips disdainfully. "The church and the army have taught you stupid things. The people of Dark Moon are also living people who want to eat, drink, and have sex. They also have scholars, peasants, industrialists, and businessmen, all good. Back then, I saw a group of demons. They also have composers and national-level singers. …”

The trio of iron knights made the female hooligan stunned for a while. Qiao stayed there for a long time before nodding stupidly: "Hey, I really didn't expect so much at first..."

At this time, the small group was already more than ten meters away from us, and was about to walk into the thick fog. Lin Xue quickly poked my arm to signal to follow, and the group followed this group to see them. Plan to go somewhere. The other party didn't look like they were traveling a long way. Judging from their clothes and the small luggage that only two of them carried, these people should only be preparing to travel for half a day: otherwise it would be impossible to carry such a small amount of luggage. But the direction they were heading was exactly opposite to the direction of the village and town that Dingdang sensed, and it was unclear what this group of people were going for. We followed for a while, and finally someone from the small group in front spoke. It was the Night Demon Elf who was leading the team. As soon as the other person spoke, his content was beyond our expectations: "The fog here in the Great Wilderness is really unbearable. Breathing this air all day long will even affect your lifespan. My second uncle lived in the wilderness for too long and died just after he reached two hundred years old."

The monster girl with wolf ears behind him immediately started chattering like beans: "How many times can you keep talking about this topic? Your second uncle obviously fell to death while going hunting in the valley. What does the fog have to do with it?" There is fog everywhere on the Moon, and it’s not just here. Why do you suddenly think of going to Dadi City? Every time you teleport, you feel dizzy. Don’t you know? You are talking. If you don’t talk, I don’t know how to go there. I’ll take it next…”

The tall and thin night devil elf walked slowly and waited for a long time before speaking: "I have to punctuate your words in my mind, otherwise I don't know what you said. Isn't the Tiandi Bridge about to open again? Well, there are many people in the upper city who still want to cross the Heaven and Earth Bridge and return to Hessenwood. The situation there may be a bit chaotic now. I'll go see if your uncle and the others want to help. If it doesn't work, take them back to stay. "

The bean monster girl immediately grunted dissatisfiedly, and swung her tail back and forth, which she didn't know whether it was a dog's tail or a wolf's tail: "It's been hundreds of years, why do they still want to go home? It's already been..." Several generations have passed. By the way, you should be talking about those elves. I can imagine that this is really a troublesome thing. Once they go back, there will definitely be trouble. The Blood Princess and the Barbarian King will definitely not agree. I haven’t seen the Barbarian King in a long time. He's going to get stabbed on the ground again. It feels so bad. By the way, are we going in the wrong direction?"

The tall and lanky elf thought for a moment, then continued unhurriedly: "It's definitely true, I'm very good at finding paths."

A few of us followed not far behind and listened to their conversation clearly. The mention of Dadi City and the people in Dadi City who wanted to return to Hessenwood almost instantly reminded us of hundreds of years ago. Those soldiers who went on the expedition to Dark Moon!

"Oh, my energy is high this time," Bingtis whistled, "I didn't expect it to go so smoothly on the first day!"