Apart from the dim light, there is endless darkness.

The part of the fog near the carriage was still gray and bleak, while the part far away from the carriage had already fallen into darkness.

Lu Ban materialized [Last Words] in his hand, which made his hearing stronger, and he tried to capture the sounds around him.

However, Lu Ban heard nothing.

“We can only move forward.”

Trist's face looked a little grim.

If he encounters a monster, he can kill it with a pistol.

If he encounters something he can't defeat, he can just lie down and wait to die.

I am most afraid of this kind of situation where I am neither up nor down, being in a foreign land, unable to die but also having a hard time living.

Fortunately, as a battle-hardened chosen one, he knows how to take things as they come.

The carriage slightly adjusted its direction and continued to move forward, away from the stone statue.

Lu Ban saw that the hazy shadow of the stone statue was swallowed by the fog and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Although there are no lights, at least there are gravel roads.

The carriage moved slowly along the gravel road.

Drizzt remained alert, looking into the fog.

The shapes of the mists are irregular, and sometimes they present some familiar scenes.

If you stare at it for too long, you might experience hallucinations.

Drizzt saw that the fog seemed to form some kind of animal, or a building, thick, thin, and layered.

Just as the fog was approaching the carriage, or rather, the carriage was approaching the thick fog, Trist discovered a figure in the fog!

"!"

He held the reins with one hand and raised the muzzle of the gun with the other.

"Did you see that?"

Trist asked Lu Ban behind him.

“Yes.”

Lu Ban did not seem very nervous and added another sentence.

"Perhaps we could ask him for directions?"

"???"

Several question marks appeared above Trist's head.

Is there really something wrong?

He tightened the rope in his hand and let the horse pull the cart towards the figure standing in the fog, ready to speed up and escape immediately if he encountered any problems.

I don’t know whether to be thankful or unfortunate that it was not a stone statue.

is a person.

The man had sparse hair and deep wrinkles on his face. He only had a pair of eyes, which were very prominent, even to the point of being awkward.

He had thin lips and a hunched back, and he stood on the side of the road, motionless.

He was wearing simple clothes and only a pair of gray cloth shoes, which made him particularly conspicuous in the dark fog.

Behind that person, in the thick fog, there seemed to be some strangely shaped building.

The carriage stopped beside him.

"...Excuse me, how do I get to Kushui Town?"

Drizzt mustered up the courage to ask.

The man didn't react at first, as if he couldn't hear what Drizzt said, and then, after about three or four seconds, his eyes moved.

It was not that he moved his gaze to observe the carriage, but rather that his eyeballs twitched, as if he had awakened from a deep sleep, and he regained consciousness.

But he still didn't answer.

Lu Ban patted Trist's shoulder and walked to the front.

The person in front of me is very strange.

Because Lu Ban was holding [Last Words] in his left hand, it was impossible to hear his heartbeat.

If Lu Ban lost his sight and only relied on his hearing, he would think there was nothing in front of him.

Instead of questioning the man directly, he reached out his crowbar and tried to poke him.

"Hello……"

Trist was so surprised that he didn't have time to stop him, but when the end of Lu Ban's crowbar almost touched the man, the man made a sound.

It was a strange sound that came out with difficulty from deep in the throat, as if it came from some other creature that was forcing itself to imitate humans.

"there."

The man raised his short hand and pointed forward.

His movements were slow and awkward, as if his joints had long been frozen, giving people a strange feeling.

"Thanks."

Lu Ban sat back.

“…”

Drizzt watched the interaction between the two and for a moment he couldn't tell who was the weirder one.

"Let's go."

Lu Ban urged.

Drizzt drove his horse in confusion, gradually moving away from the strange man.

It was not until the other party was swallowed by the fog and could no longer be found that Trist remembered something.

The person just now looked a bit like a fish.

"He has no heartbeat."

Lu Ban's voice came faintly from behind him, making Trist subconsciously feel a chill down his spine.

"That person looks a bit like the monster in the stone statue, but more like a human."

Drizzt said.

"The Kingdom of Night probably doesn't have magic that can bring back the dead. The descriptions of most items mention that only some people in the wasteland can coexist with the dead."

"Can people in the wasteland come back to life after dying?"

Lu Ban became interested.

"Not quite. Have you ever been to the wasteland?"

Drizzt put some tobacco into his pipe again. At this moment, only the pungent smell of smoke could offset the fear spreading in the fog.

"No."

Lu Ban answered truthfully.

"Rather than believing in gods, the people of the wasteland are trying to become gods themselves. Their extraordinary people are saints, and these saints have names that convey power. For example, the name of the ruler of the Land of the Dead in the wasteland seems to be... Hades."

Drizzt recalled.

"Pluto?"

Of course Lu Ban knew that this name was Hades in Greek mythology, and he was also the villain in many works.

"Huh? You've never been to the wasteland, but you know that this name represents Hades?"

Drizzt was a little surprised, but then nodded to himself.

"Maybe some of the item descriptions mention this."

"?"

Lu Ban noticed something wrong.

"Lao Cui, which number of the Chosen One are you?"

"No. 178, what's wrong?"

Drizzt looked ahead and answered casually.

"Do you know the Old Video Network?"

Lu Ban continued to ask.

"What is the Japanese video network?"

Drizzt looked slightly confused.

"What about the Wasted City?"

"Abandoned city?"

The confusion in Drizzt's words deepened.

"I live in the abandoned city."

Lu Ban's heart sank.

Sure enough, Lu Ban felt strange from the beginning.

The language used by Drizzt is not from Lu Ban's world. He does not know Lu Ban, and does not know anything about Lu Ban's world. Greek mythology such as Hades is difficult for Drizzt to know.

Therefore, he is not from Lu Ban's world.

This did not surprise Lu Ban, because if the Land of Silence could teleport Lu Ban to a foreign land, then there would be no problem in teleporting people from other worlds into it.

The only thing that surprised him was that Drizzt came from the Ruined City.

In other words, people from foreign lands will also become the chosen ones of the Land of Silence and enter other worlds to complete missions.

"So that's how it is..."

Lu Ban suddenly made the connection.

Therefore, the first two novice guidance tasks he completed were not caused by the system and created strange things in that world.

But it is because Lu Ban’s world is originally a foreign land in a quiet place.

While he was thinking, the carriage stopped again.

Lu Ban stuck his head out.

He saw that in front of the horse stood a stone statue.

The stone statue was praying in a twisted posture towards a certain direction.

The lower half of the stone statue was a normal human being that looked slightly damaged.

The head of the stone statue is a fish.