Chapter 611: Soul Burial Forest (5,000)

It must be said that although Patridge is not a very good person, his methods are really very clever.

Seeing those silk threads that look like infrared warning lines being casually pushed aside by Patridge, the whole process did not even trigger the warning magic at all. This method made Ron amazed, and he had no idea how Patridge did it.

But no matter what, the road to the front was finally opened.

Ron and the other two quickly got through.

At this moment, Ron couldn't help but feel a little fortunate in his heart. Fortunately, he had formed such a temporary alliance. If it weren't for the fact that there were all kinds of capable people in this alliance, if he acted alone, he would be discovered as soon as he entered the canyon.

The group of old guys in the Andre family obviously have very strong strength, but each of them can be regarded as a fear of death. The length of the entire canyon is about three kilometers. Within these three kilometers, various warning magics are arranged. Dozens of them are waiting for bad luck if they are not careful.

And every warning magic is broken by Patridge.

Although only Patrich is busy at present, he is not bored at all for this kind of thing. He even looks very excited. As long as it can make the Andre family unhappy, Patrich will be particularly happy.

After breaking the last cordon, the four finally left the canyon.

I thought that after leaving the canyon that can be called a line of sky, the Soul Burial Forest inside the crater should be suddenly bright, but after really stepping into the Soul Burial Forest, one by one, they found that the situation was completely different.

Filth.

Gloomy.

Looming madness.

The oppressive atmosphere is even more intense than in the canyon.

Although the Soul Burial Forest is also located in the Dusk Continent and is in this world, it seems to be a space independent of the Dusk Continent, and everything here is incompatible with the outside world.

It was mid-afternoon outside, and the sun was just setting in the west, but there was no sunlight at all here. It was not because of the surrounding mountains that were blocking the view. After entering the Soul Burial Forest, the first thing I saw was the thick fog that covered every area I could see in front of me.

On the ground and in the air, there was gray-black fog everywhere.

The thick fog blocked everything, and no sunlight could penetrate the blockade of the thick fog.

There was obviously no wind, but the thick fog was rolling and crawling slowly and chaotically.

Through the layers of thick fog, you can see huge and thick tree trunks, dense and low weeds, huge rocks, and hazy and twisted phantoms between the mountains and forests, like ghosts. They were twisting and crawling, and between the looming, you can still hear the teeth-grinding hissing in your ears, and you don’t know if it’s just an illusion.

Gulp.

The sound of swallowing saliva came from my ears.

It's not just Ron, the other three are the same. Perhaps everyone who sees the Soul Burial Forest for the first time will find it difficult to hide the horror and depression in their hearts.

It is worthy of being one of the four forbidden areas of the Dusk Continent. This place is really weird.

Even though the four of them can be called daring, at this moment, they can feel a layer of dense small bumps on their skin, and a creepy sense of fear.

In other words, these four people are skilled and daring. If they were replaced by practitioners with slightly weaker mental endurance, I'm afraid they would have turned around and ran away in embarrassment. After all, it really takes a lot of exaggerated courage to enter this Soul Burial Forest.

Silently watching the Soul Burial Forest in front of them, no one said much for a while.

After a few seconds, one by one came back to their senses. Patrich walked forward, squatted on the ground, pressed the soil in front of him with one hand, and his spiritual consciousness spread rapidly along the ground.

After a few seconds, Patrich retracted his palm and stood up, shaking his head at the other three people: "Within the range of my spiritual sense, there is no warning magic."

"In addition, this place is a bit weird. The perception of the spiritual sense is strongly suppressed and interfered. The range that can be perceived is only one-third of the normal range."

Patrich added.

But even so, this is good news.

Patrich's strength is so strong that the range of his spiritual sense perception, not to mention covering the entire Soul Burial Forest, is always half. Even if it is only one-third, it can probably cover half of the area of ​​the Soul Burial Forest.

The current situation can basically be confirmed that the road ahead is unobstructed.

There are only two reasons for this situation.

The first reason is that the old guys of the Andre family believe that the warning magic in the canyon is enough to make all invaders nowhere to hide, so there is no need to set up additional warnings inside the Soul Burial Forest.

The second reason is that those old guys are convinced that some existences in the Soul Burial Forest are enough to intercept all invaders.

Inexplicably, Ron felt that the second possibility seemed to be more likely.

"Let's go."

I don't know who said it, and the team that had stopped started to move forward again.

But this time, everyone was no longer as frivolous as before. Everyone's chest became heavy, as if a huge rock weighing hundreds of tons was pressing on them. Every step they took was so heavy.

Perhaps because she was wearing a set of thick armor with quite impressive defensive capabilities, Philomena walked at the front, followed by Ron, Partridge, and Hefferson. Behind the scenes, everyone is vigilantly sensing movements in all directions, and can respond immediately if there is any disturbance.

Crunch, crunch, snap, snap...

The soles of his feet stepped on the ground, and the dead branches broke, making a crisp sound.

This place is truly a forest.

Along the way, you can see many thick tree trunks. Looking up, there are layers of tree crowns above your head. It is hard to imagine how the trees can grow so densely in this place, which is shrouded in thick fog and has no sunlight all year round.

Fallen leaves even spread a thick layer on the ground.

Click.

A different voice came from Hefferson's feet next to him.

The strength of the four of them was extraordinary, and they could immediately feel that something was wrong with the voice. They immediately looked in the direction of Hefelson, only to see the high priest of the elves, who was also frowning at this moment. Wrinkling, he knelt down and reached out to push aside the fallen leaves on the ground, and soon something pale came into view.

Hefferson picked up the thing, and it turned out to be half of a skull that had been trampled on.

Then the leaves around the skull were pushed aside, and a complete skull came into everyone's eyes.

Obviously, this is the remains of a cultivator who once broke into the Soul Burial Forest, but ultimately failed to leave the Soul Burial Forest.

The skeleton is small.

It couldn't be a child. A child wouldn't have the strength to break into the Soul Burial Forest, so it could only be... a dwarf.

This should be a master of the dwarf race.

We had just entered the Soul Burial Forest a few steps ago when we encountered such a white skeleton. This was not a good sign. The most surprising thing was that the dwarf was located very close to the entrance of the canyon. Normally, he only had to rush out a few steps. , he could leave this strange forest, but in the end he still failed to escape from the Soul Burial Forest.

Ron even looked back to confirm that although the thick fog obscured it, the entrance to the canyon was looming.

Perhaps, the time they entered the Soul Burying Forest was too short, and they were not seriously eroded, and their consciousness was still clear. But if, like this dwarf, they stayed in the Soul Burying Forest for too long and suffered a mental breakdown, Even if the entrance is right in front of you, I'm afraid you can't see it.

Hefferson also squatted down and examined the body carefully.

He was clearly good at this, and it didn't take Hefelson long to come to his conclusion.

"Except for half of the dwarf's head that I accidentally crushed under my feet, there are no other scars on this dwarf's body. The limbs are not twisted, and there are no traces of toxin penetration on the bones... If my guess is correct, he should have been instantly killed. A powerful spirit took away or destroyed the soul, causing the body to become a living dead, and eventually starved to death here. "

Hefelson's voice was low and depressed: "Be careful, I can feel that there is at least one very powerful spirit in this Soul Burial Forest, which is not an easy existence to deal with."

For Hefelson to issue such a reminder, it can be imagined that the enemy's strength is really not weak.

Although when the alliance was first formed, everyone had their own agenda, but after experiencing countless warnings in the canyon and entering the Soul Burial Forest, everyone subconsciously began to share the information they had and No hiding anything.

That weird atmosphere already shows that the enemy is difficult to deal with. In this case, only by uniting as one can we get a chance to survive.

Just to live, that's all.

As they continued walking, more and more similar white bones were discovered, all of which were identical, with no scratches on their bodies or traces of poisoning. They were all corpses that had been deprived of their souls and starved to death.

At some point, the entrance to the canyon behind was no longer visible.

The gray mist became thicker, so thick that everyone felt that the air around them was damp, as if droplets of water were clinging to their bodies, which was very uncomfortable.

More and more bones were seen on the ground. When they entered the depths of the Soul Burial Forest, the entire forest floor seemed to be covered with bones. The number made everyone tense up subconsciously. For tens of thousands of years, no one knows how many lives have died in the Soul Burial Forest, ten thousand, one hundred thousand? Or even more?

Even the bones of a giant dragon were found among them.

Even the giant dragon is going to die here. The danger level of the Soul Burial Forest has instantly increased to another level. The four of them are no longer as relaxed as before. They act more and more cautiously, and every step forward is extremely cautious.

In the dense forest, various indescribable sounds kept coming into my ears.

It seems to be the cold and resentful cry of a woman, or the painful cry of a baby.

The sound was heard in all directions, and even if the four people temporarily blocked their hearing, they could not completely isolate the sound.

This strange voice seems to have the power to confuse people's hearts. Even with the strength and realm of the four of them, they still feel a little more upset in their chests, as if there is an unknown fire accumulating in their chests, as if it can happen at any time. They might all be burning, but no real flames would come out. Instead, thick black smoke would keep coming out. This feeling only made people feel more and more irritable.

You have to know that these four people are all in the realm of destruction and the realm of half-god. The atmosphere in the Soul Burial Forest can actually affect their minds. This alone is enough to make the four people understand how terrible the Soul Burial Forest is.

Four pairs of eyes can constantly spy on hazy and blurred shadows from the thick fog.

Those strange shadows waved at the four people, as if luring everyone to come forward and get closer. Although it did not cause any substantial harm, just watching this scene made people feel more irritated.

It was like a feather constantly scratching the body, and it was like a bunch of furry insects crawling behind the neck, and it was like a large group of flies buzzing around their heads. Although it did not cause any substantial harm, it was very annoying.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Heferson couldn't stand this feeling anymore. He gritted his teeth and rushed towards a shadow. But when Heferson rushed to the shadow's location, he found that there was nothing here except a thick fog.

And just a few dozen meters in front of Heferson, the shadow appeared again silently, still like before, waving at Heferson in a slow way, as if it had maintained a certain frequency from beginning to end.

"Huh..."

Heferson exhaled heavily.

To have such an achievement today, Heferson is definitely not a stupid and reckless fool. He can naturally see that there is something wrong with the shadow and will not rush forward. Before, it was just because he was really annoyed and couldn't stand it. In addition, he had absolute confidence in his own strength, so he rushed over to find out.

However, after failing to capture the shadow for the first time, Heferson immediately gave up the idea of ​​chasing it, but his face still looked very unhappy: "This place is too wrong."

"The Burial Soul Forest is really worthy of being one of the four forbidden areas."

"How many people have died in this place over the years?"

"How long have we been here?"

Heferson threw out several questions in a row.

"It's not clear how many people died, but looking at the corpses on the ground, even if it was an ancient battlefield, it's probably no more than this. I'm afraid that the number of souls who died here is no less than 100,000." Ron said silently.

"As for the time we came in, in half a quarter of an hour, it will be exactly a whole day."

As the master of the law of time, Ron's perception of time is extremely sharp.

The other three people were not very clear about this, so they were slightly surprised that Ron could accurately tell the passage of time.

After all, this place cannot distinguish between the sun and the moon. It is easy to lose time in this Burial Soul Forest. Even if the three people are quite strong, they can't sense how long they have been.

Of course, this was Ron's secret, and none of the three of them were very tactful and asked.

"Ron, you said you saw the future before, so when did you see the future?" Patridge asked another question.

Ron thought for a while, and then responded: "The future I saw is not a certain exact time point. I can only judge a rough time period. The scene I saw may happen at any time point from the third day to half a month in the future."

"In other words, if we want to be safe, we must enter the Andre family's nest within three days?" Heferson's brows were also tightly furrowed.

Ron nodded: "Yes, that's it."

Three days.

The few people looked at each other and could see the solemnity in each other's eyes.

Three days, this time is really a bit tight.

If it were anywhere else, three days would be more than enough, but this place happened to be the Soul Burial Forest. This place was too weird. The Soul Burial Forest inside the crater was not actually very large, but this place was filled with some mysterious power, which severely suppressed everyone's spiritual consciousness. Otherwise, if the spiritual consciousness was spread out, the situation inside the entire Soul Burial Forest could be perceived clearly in an instant.

But as the time the four people entered the Soul Burial Forest continued to increase, the suppression of spiritual consciousness became stronger and stronger. Now, even with Patrich's realm, the range of spiritual consciousness that can be perceived is only one-tenth of the initial range. In addition, the thick fog blocked the sight. The four people even suspected that they had lost their way here. It is very likely that they have been standing still for such a long time.

This is not a good sign. In this case, it is even more difficult to find the location of the target within three days.

The worst thing is that although they know that the entrance to the Andre family's lair is in the Soul Burial Forest, no one knows what the entrance looks like.

Of course, the four of them were not ordinary people after all. Their strength was there. Even if they lost their way here for a while, they were still confident that they could escape from the Soul Burial Forest. Otherwise, they would not easily set foot in the forbidden area.

"Do you want to act separately?" Philomena said quietly, with the mercury lamp still floating above her head.

The mercury lamp was flashing a hazy luster from beginning to end. It was strange that although the Soul Burial Forest was covered with thick fog, the fog was instantly dispelled within the range of the mercury lamp. No matter how fierce the fog was in other places, it could not enter the range of the mercury lamp from beginning to end.

If it weren't for the mercury lamp, I'm afraid the fog would have separated the four people long ago.

Philomena felt that if there were four people, they would have a much higher chance of finding the Andre family's lair if they acted separately.

But this proposal was unanimously opposed by everyone.

This place was weird in the first place. The four of them could still take care of each other if they gathered together. If they were separated, they would die without knowing how they died.

"Hehe..."

At this moment, a slight laughter like that of a child suddenly came into the ears from the left.

Snap, snap, snap.

Then, a round ball suddenly rolled out from the bushes.

Looking in the direction where the ball rolled, a vague figure instantly came into everyone's eyes. In the mist, a small figure could be seen, crawling slowly on the ground with all four limbs.

Although it was not clear, the feeling was quite obvious. It seemed to be just a toddler who had just been born not long ago.

The four of them had seen many strange things, and they were not surprised. They had seen more gloomy scenes than this one countless times. Philomena, Heferson and Patridge soon lost interest in the child.

To put it bluntly, it was just a ghost baby, nothing serious.

If it weren't for the special aura of this place, it's hard to say whether the ghost baby could survive until now. For the four of them, it was just an ant that could be killed with a flick of a finger, not worth caring about.

However, Ron's eyes were fixed on the ghost baby.

Even through a layer of thick fog, Ron could still clearly see that this ghost baby was different from ordinary baby spirits. His limbs showed a natural and unnatural distortion. Although he was crawling on the ground, his legs were forced to spread out to the sides, like a frog.

This was not a pair of legs that were broken by humans, as if he was born like this.

The arms were obviously shorter than those of a normal baby. If that was all, it wouldn't be too strange. However, an arm suddenly appeared from the chest of the baby, supporting the ground and preventing the baby from falling to the ground completely.

Thinking of some information about the Andre family, Ron frowned more and more. The Andre family has always been practicing close-kin inheritance. In this case, super geniuses may be born, but a large number of deformed children are more likely to be born.

The Patrich branch left these deformed children as food for the monsters in the underground palace.

Then, what about the Andre family?

How did they deal with these deformed children?

Raise them well?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Based on Ron's understanding of the Andre family, although they have been passed down with the purest bloodline, blood ties are extremely weak for the Andre family.

If these deformed children cannot show their own value, the Andre family will never raise them well.

Thinking of the countless corpses in the Soul Burial Forest, there are many remains of various young children, many of which have twisted limbs.

Originally, I thought that those remains might be the remains of the dwarves, but from the perspective of proportion, the number of these dwarf corpses is a bit too much.

A thought appeared in Ron's mind, and his face turned pale in an instant, and even beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Could it be that... those scumbags of the Andre family threw all these children into the Soul Burial Forest and left them to fend for themselves?

Newborn babies with deformities were directly abandoned.

Those without deformities were also abandoned after they grew to a certain age and realized that they had mental problems?

How many children have they abandoned over the years?

Chapter 1 is here