"It seems to be a forest. Strange, how can there be a forest in the desert?!"
At this moment, Leng Qing also discovered the large dark area in the distant sky. Through the sandstorms flying in the air, he could only see that it was a forest of black trees.
"It looks like a dead tree forest. Let's take a closer look."
Wu Xuan, who was nearby, frowned, sighed, and immediately gave orders.
According to the intelligence, the first obstacle they would encounter should be the endless gravity corridor, but what appeared before them was a forest that looked like a dead tree forest.
This can only mean that their intelligence was wrong. The desert moved again not long ago, causing changes in the monsters and some special areas.
However, they were mentally prepared for this kind of change in advance. The desert is like this, and they were even prepared that all the intelligence they collected in advance would be useless.
As the group descended the sand hill, they got closer and closer to the dark territory.
"Brother Bai, Sister Ding, is there any movement?"
The fire man Ace, who was leading the charge, looked up at Bai Mo, who was still sitting on the back of the Divine Dust Tiger.
The hunters were not unhappy with their sightseeing-like attitude along the way. Instead, many of them were envious and sighed.
Some people still remember when they first met Bai Mo two years ago. He was just a mid-level mage with some strength and talent. But now, in just two years, his cultivation is already higher than most of the people in the team.
What's more, regardless of its own strength, just a small commander-level Divine Dust Tiger can match most of their hunter group in this place.
Strength brings respect. Not to mention that Bai Mo just took the three beautiful girls to sit on the back of the contracted beast, even if they were lying down, the hunters would not say anything.
I just feel that a real man should be like this.
Before the team set out, everyone had actually discussed their respective magic systems, so Ace asked about it because he knew that Bai Mo and Ding Yumian had the means of long-distance reconnaissance.
Ace didn't need to tell him, Bai Mo had actually used the sound string detection when he was on the mountain, and the information was already in his mind.
"There are no animals in it, and those trees have no leaves."
"There are mental fluctuations and deep resentment." Ding Yumian also expressed his own perception.
"It looks like the Dead Forest. Legend has it that the Dead Forest was originally a forest in an ancient tribal city-state. Later, the tribal city-state was buried by sandstorms overnight. The desert moved, leaving only the dead tree that was entangled with the resentment of the people in the city."
After hearing the two's answers, Ace nodded slightly and said in a serious tone:
"Legend has it that the Dead Forest was originally called the Weeping Forest. It is filled with ghost chants that disturb the soul. Some trees even transform into ghost-like things that attack people. Few people who enter can come out."
"Captain, let's change someone else to take the lead. I'm restrained."
"Restraint? Aren't you a minor in light? How dare you be afraid of the undead?" Wen said unhappily.
Wu Xuan beside him turned to Bai Mo and made a suggestion.
"This dead forest is vast. We haven't entered it yet, so we don't know how powerful its power to disturb the soul is. Brother Bai will need your assistance then. Leave those dead trees that have turned into undead to us."
"good!"
After answering, everyone arrived at the dark forest while talking.
At this moment, the setting sun is already close to the horizon, and the remaining light shines horizontally, but is blocked by the dark forest in front of it.
The bright blood-red glow outlined the huge contours of this dark forest, as if it were a giant beast crawling on the ground.
But when everyone saw the face of the dead tree, the trunk with a steely luster, like armor. The branches with distinct joints, strangely hanging down to the sides, or the branches raised around. The tree veins with black holes on the top that looked like eyes, and the dark aura emitting from the leaves.
All this suddenly made people feel that this was not a tree, but a person, a person with only spine and arms left, screaming wildly, and dying in various ways!
These trees have grown exactly like the crazy and struggling figures of the people in that tribal city-state when they died thousands of years ago!
“Hiss~~~~~~~~!!”
The sound of gasps was unusually loud. Everyone looked at the dead trees lined up in a row in front of them, as if they were looking at the souls of the dead who were buried alive in the sand thousands of years ago. A chill instantly passed from the coccyx to the top of the head, and goose bumps appeared all over their bodies.
“Why! Why!”
“I don’t want to die!”
"Help! Why!"
"I died such a miserable death!"
"Come and keep us company, come and keep us company, come and keep us company."
Before they even got close, everyone felt themselves surrounded by endless malice. Countless voices were roaring and shouting in their spiritual world. In a trance, it seemed as if countless demonic hands were reaching out from the kingdom of the dead, trying to pull them in.
"My friend, you don't have to be so enthusiastic!"
Bai Mo spoke softly, but his words were like rolling thunder, spreading into a forest filled with black fog. The mighty sound immediately drowned out the barely audible sounds made by a large number of slightly shaking dead trees.
As a sound mage, he can hear the sounds made by these things even though ordinary people cannot.
As he finished speaking, everyone's expressions became better, but some members still looked terrified and their legs were shaking.
Seeing this, Bai Mo frowned, "Not cleaned up yet?"
"No, the voices are only a means, the real power they have to influence is the mind."
Ding Yumian shook his head, "Let me do it."
"Why."
“Bang!”
After glaring at the man fiercely, Ding Yumian flicked his fingers and a circle of ripples spread out.
"appease!"
With the release of mental magic, the hunters felt much better, adjusted their breathing, and returned to normal.
"I didn't expect the mental attack in this forest to be so powerful. It's all thanks to you guys."
Wen Du said in a muffled voice, as a super-class, he had the highest spiritual power among all the hunters. But even so, he was also affected.
"You're welcome, let's help each other." Shaking his head, Bai Mo looked at the dead forest that was motionless.
"How about taking a break?"
"Haha, no need. We are not squeamish."
With a wave of his hand, Wu Xuan glanced at everyone and immediately made a decision, "Light Mage, lead the way, be prepared for defense at all times!"
"Okay!"
Almost at the moment he finished speaking, six rays of light immediately flew into the dark forest.
Suddenly, golden light shone brightly, and the dark and invisible front suddenly became clear, and the dark fog dissipated like clouds and rain.
The road ahead appeared, and Ace, as the pioneer, immediately stepped forward, followed by Wu Xuan, Bai Mo and others.
“Swish, swish, swish!!”
As soon as Ace entered the deadwood forest, he saw the surrounding trees shaking again, and the invisible sound waves produced fell with a disturbing force.
In an instant, Ace's expression twisted and his eyes looked terrifying, like a wronged ghost crawling out of hell.
“Buzz~~~~~~~~!”
Waves like water ripples formed a shield around Ace, and above this shield, a faint spiritual light shone.
In the blink of an eye, the power of the troubled mind was blocked and dissolved.
"All the dead trees in this forest are moving. It seems their strongest spiritual attacks can't hurt us. Let's keep moving forward."
Seeing that the expected attack was resolved, Bai Mo turned his head and signaled Wu Xuan and others to rest assured.
Then the light came on again, illuminating one section of the road ahead after another, and everyone officially stepped into the dead forest that had appeared in advance.
Under the light, those dead trees that had turned into undead spirits were purified under the strong light before they could launch an attack, causing no harm to anyone.
The mind-disturbing power emitted by the entire forest was also blocked by Ding Yumian, and everyone moved forward in an orderly manner.
"Are we going in the wrong direction? Why haven't we gotten out yet?"
Another ray of light was released, lighting up the forest a mile ahead. While everyone was sighing that it was good to have a mind or sound mage accompanying them, Wu Xuan frowned sensitively.
"Probably not. We've only been gone for a short time."
Acedao, who was leading the group, did not realize that he was going in the wrong direction.
"Maybe we are just being overly concerned. Let's keep moving forward."
On the back of the Shenchen Tiger, Bai Mo and others naturally heard the conversation between the two. Leng Qing turned his head to look at the inky black sky, then looked at Bai Mo.
"What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo released a series of detection sound waves, and when the sound strings came back, he immediately frowned.
“Something’s wrong!”
"What's wrong?" Before Leng Qing asked, Wu Xuan behind him spoke immediately. When he asked Ace in that way just now, he was also indirectly asking Bai Mo.
Bai Mo did not use the sound system to detect all the time along the way. After all, there were spies in the team. He usually detected once every quarter of an hour.
"There's something wrong with this forest." Bai Mo said, looking around.
"Something's wrong. There's nothing right with this forest. What's wrong with this?"
Wen Du in front touched his head and felt something mysterious.
"Ace's direction is correct. We have been moving in the same direction. I just expanded the detection range a lot and found that the sand dunes before we entered the deadwood forest have disappeared."
“Is it flowing away again?”
Lingling was the fastest to react, and immediately expressed her guess, "You mean, this dead forest is also moving, and they are moving in the same direction as us! It's just that they may be moving very slowly, or they may be using some other dark tricks, so we didn't notice it anyway!"
"Gurgle!"
As soon as Lingling finished her guess, Ace and the others in front of her couldn't help swallowing their saliva and confirmed with a trembling voice:
"Lingling, no way, this is not the time to joke around."
A forest of ghosts enveloped them and kept following them!
Just thinking about it makes them feel terrified!
Lingling didn't say anything, but looked at Bai Mo, and saw Bai Mo nodded.
"Lingling's guess is correct. This is the truth. I didn't notice how the forest moved, but the fact is, it moved."
After a pause, seeing that everyone looked a little terrified, he continued:
"But what we know is that their horses are not as fast as ours."
Hearing this, everyone's mouth twitched. It was such a late hour and they were still joking.
"We can't stay in the woods forever. We can't afford that."
Hearing this, Wu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said, "Go at full speed, don't be stingy with your magic!"
So the group immediately stopped walking, and the wind tracks and ground waves continued, rushing forward at a speed like a top sports car running at full speed.
They traveled at lightning speed all the way. As the speed increased, they could see the originally stable forest shaking. Each tree seemed to be on a pulley, moving in the same direction as them at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seeing this scene, everyone's eyes widened and their hair stood on end. Even the cold night in the desert was not as chilling as what they saw at this moment.
"Damn it, no wonder many hunters here say that you can't enter the dead forest, and you can't get out. There's no way to get out of this moving forest! You can't get out even if you use up all your magic energy!"
While running, Wen couldn't help cursing when he saw this scene.
"It's really weird. If we hadn't discovered it in advance, we would have been trapped in the forest forever, without any ability to resist." Wu Xuan nodded, rarely objecting to his words.
Although the movement of the forest was not slow, it was still far behind the movement of the people who were running at full speed.
Therefore, as everyone escaped without caring about magic power, it didn't take long for them to run out of the dead forest.
After running out of the forest, the hunter group did not stop, but continued forward for a distance before stopping.
At the same time, a ray of morning light shone from the sky, finally breaking the eerie and dark night.
Bai Mo was sitting on the back of the Shenchen Tiger, and he could not help but feel the weirdness of the dead forest. He turned his head and looked back, only to see a large dark sea standing quietly in the distance.
Perhaps realizing it could no longer catch up, the forest settled down on the spot, no longer moving or chasing.
"That's the Borg Mountains. Bury the demon detector quickly."
As soon as the sky brightened, Wu Xuan immediately saw a towering land near the northern sky and made arrangements immediately.
Everyone also took the opportunity to rest on the spot while detecting the distribution of monsters, relieving the fatigue caused by a night of tension.
The fluctuations of the demon detection equipment will attract demons, but there is not only Ding Yumian but also Leng Qing as a psychic mage in the team.
Let Ding Yumian recover his magic power, and Leng Qing will do the work of appeasing and driving away the demons.
After some rest, Lingling sorted out the data from the demon detector and showed it to everyone.
"There are about seven demon tribes within a ten-kilometer radius. If we want to go to the Flame Mountain, we have to go north. There are two of them, one of which we can bypass."
Lingling's analysis is very professional and contains many details.
"The other demon group has basically not moved during the time the detector was working. We speculate that they are plant demons. In addition, no large-scale demon vacuum zone was found, so there is no endless gravity corridor in the first five kilometers."
"Another plant demon!"
Ace exclaimed, speaking for the majority of the Hunters, they had seen Lingling's abilities two years ago and didn't question them.
It’s just that I was tortured by a group of ghost trees last night, so hearing about plant monsters again makes me a little scared.
"There aren't many plant-based monsters in the desert periphery. The dead forest we encountered last night was just a special case."
Lingling tapped on the computer for a few times and pulled up some information about monsters.
"According to the information we collected on the distribution of demons, the most likely to appear in this area is the Pseudo-Demon, followed by the Branchless Tree."
"Then let's go. We've already passed the dead forest. What else is there to be afraid of?"
Ace adjusted quickly, and as a pioneer, he went forward first. (End of this chapter)
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