Since he had already got the Green Hua Fruit, Gu Shi did not stay here any longer. After a simple breakfast, he packed up and prepared to leave.
Gu Shi gently waved his staff and flew in the direction he came from, but just after flying a distance, the scenery around him suddenly became blurred.
The next second, Gu Shi reappeared in the original open space.
"What's going on?"
Gu Shi frowned and looked around carefully, but everything here looked normal, no different from yesterday.
Next, Gu Shi tried several more times. He found that no matter what method he used, as long as he left the open space about a hundred meters away, he would inexplicably return here, even if he took off vertically.
After finding the pattern, Gu Shi stopped making useless attempts. He paced in the open space and began to think.
"Could it be some kind of illusion? No, that's unlikely. I also have the Bright Heart Leaf with me. Even if it can't directly make me immune to illusions, it should still have some reaction.
In this remote mountain forest, it's unlikely that some kind of trap or formation would be triggered. As expected, they are the most suspicious..."
Gu Shi thought carefully for a while, and soon became suspicious of the three people from the mysterious village he met yesterday. After all, no matter how he looked at it, these three were the most suspicious.
"Come to think of it, it was Kyles who brought me here yesterday. Even after I left for a while, Leo was always by my side. So, is it true that I can't get out of this place without someone from them leading the way?"
Gu Shi was a little confused. If that was the case, then wouldn't Kelce have harbored ill intentions towards him from the very beginning? But he had just saved Kelce at that time. Even if he didn't want to make a deal with him, he wouldn't have been so deceiving, right?
Gu Shi had always been somewhat confident in his ability to judge people. He believed that Kels would not be a purely evil person, and Kels's every move at the time did not seem like he had any ill will towards him.
Gu Shi knocked his head and said, "Forget it. It's useless to think so much now. I should concentrate on finding a way to leave here."
Since we can't leave, can we just go straight in and into the village?
With this question in mind, Gu Shi walked 360 degrees around the circular area with the open space as the center, but still couldn't leave.
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A day passed quietly like this, and when night fell, Gu Shi had almost turned the place upside down, but unfortunately he still found nothing.
Gu Shi sat in front of the blazing campfire, and accompanied by the crackling sound of burning wood, he counted his harvest of the day.
"We have tried almost every avenue, and the possibility of leaving normally has been basically ruled out.
I've checked the surroundings and found nothing suspicious. In fact, only when the surrounding space changes can I detect subtle fluctuations of magic power. It's quite interesting. It would be great if I could figure out the principle behind this."
Even though he was trapped here, Gu Shi was not in a hurry. He knew very well that the most important thing in this situation was to stay calm. Falling into anxiety would do nothing except put himself at a disadvantage.
Gu Shi sighed, "All the teleportation tools are unusable. It seems that this space has completely trapped me here. To be able to do this, this village must be hiding a huge secret."
In order to obtain more useful clues, Gu Shi closed his eyes and reviewed every memory from the moment he met Kyles: saving people, talking, following, waiting...
Everything replayed in his mind frame by frame, and many hidden details emerged one after another.
Gu Shi muttered to himself, "Kels's behavior seemed a little off this morning?"
Based on the character Kyles had shown before, he should have been happy to chat with Gu Shi for a few more minutes, but this morning he looked like he was in a hurry to leave.
Gu Shi originally thought that Kels was so anxious because he had something else to do later, but now it seems that this is probably not the reason.
He hadn't noticed it at the time, but now thinking back, there was a hint of panic and stiffness in Kels' every move, especially when he was giving him the thank-you gift.
Wait, is there something wrong with that bag of cookies?
Thinking of this, Gu Shi took out the small cloth bag from the space ring, took out a piece of cake, observed it carefully, and then leaned in to smell it.
It looks like an ordinary piece of bread, and it exudes a faint wheat aroma, making people want to take a bite.
Gu Shi broke all the cakes into pieces, and there was nothing inside them.
But with the mentality of rather killing someone by mistake than letting him go, Gu Shi threw the bag of bread into the fire. Under the bright flames, the bread and the bag turned into a pile of charcoal.
Then, Gu Shi walked out a few hundred meters with the mentality of giving it a try, but he didn't expect that he was actually allowed to go out!
Gu Shi was quite puzzled. "Huh? So it really is because of that bag of cookies? How strange, how did they do that?"
Gu Shi was very curious about the principle behind this, but he had no intention of really exploring it. He quickly packed up his things and walked out of the open space.
He did not choose to leave this place directly. Although this inexplicable experience of being trapped today did not cause any harm to Gu Shi, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, so he decided to take a little revenge.
Gu Shi followed the path in his memory and found the river that had regained its vitality.
Then, he took out several bottles of potions and some miscellaneous items from the space ring and manually made a container that could continuously leak potions.
Gu Shi poured the potion in and then firmly fixed the cylindrical container to the bottom of the river.
Considering the mysterious existence behind the village, and the fact that this matter had little impact on him, Gu Shi did not choose a potion that could kill people. Drinking this water would only cause headaches and nightmares.
The amount of medicine that Gu Shi had just poured in would be gone in five or six days at most. Once the medicinal properties in the river water disappeared, they would be able to return to normal without any sequelae.
Gu Shi had no intention of staging a murder that would likely lead to revenge. Before being provoked, he could be said to be a very gentle person.
After doing all this, Gu Shi shook the water off his hands and left without looking back.
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On the other side, in a house.
After listening to Leo's report, Evan said with some regret, "Really? He's already left. What a shame! I thought we could leave behind a powerful wizard for the village this time."
Kels is indeed too soft-hearted, and he happens to be the most talented of the younger generation. Well, okay, Leo, you can go back now.
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