Chapter 120 The Invisible Knocker
“It really is…”
Looking at the thin mist outside, Li Qi felt heavy-hearted.
He thought he was wrong in the house just now. After all, he was in a safe area, so how could he feel like he had entered a foggy area?
But now looking at the mist in front of him, no matter how unwilling Li Qi was, he had to believe that he had entered the fog area.
The question now is, how did he get into the fog area when he was in the safe zone?
Which level of the fog area have we entered now? Li Qi pondered, then returned to the room and closed the door, and took out the box containing Adam.
He had no intention of going deeper into the fog.
Since my room is still in the same place, it proves that the inside of the room is probably safe. It is better to stay in the room and wait for the fog to dissipate than to run around outside.
Before figuring out the cause of the incident, Li Qi thought it would be better not to act rashly.
But at the same time, Li Qi also knew that the sudden appearance of fog was definitely not a simple matter.
Perhaps staying in the room would be just as dangerous.
Just as he thought of this, he saw wisps of mist coming into the room through the gap of the tightly closed door as if they had life.
Seeing this, Li Qi turned around and wanted to slap himself.
I let you think wildly... Now, the good things don't work and the bad things do. It's actually dangerous to stay in the room!
Controlling Adam, Li Qi watched the fog entering the room with a vigilant look on his face.
The fog in the room became thicker and thicker, and when it filled every corner of the room, Li Qi just blinked his eyes, and everything in the room became completely different.
They had faded in color, became dilapidated, and even their style and layout were completely different from the decoration in Li Qi's room.
It was as if I had changed places in an instant.
At the same time, there were several slight noises coming from outside the door.
Boom, boom, boom——
Three slight knocks on the door made Li Qi squint his eyes.
The fading colors and the knock on the door reminded Li Qi of the description of the colorless plain that he had seen before when he was memorizing the book.
The Colorless Plain is a strange plain without any color except for the living things.
The fog was unevenly distributed, with none in some places and presence in others, just like a torn bag.
Therefore, the second layer is also called the 'Residual Mist Area', which is also the origin of the name of the second level of the Mist Tan family.
And on the colorless plain, there is a special phenomenon that can only be encountered when spending the night in the foggy area.
Its name is [Invisible Knocker].
Due to the danger of foggy areas, when spending the night in foggy areas, fog explorers will crawl into specially made tents or move into ruins buildings in safe areas that have been explored in the foggy areas to spend the night.
Often at this time, there would be a knock on the door outside the tent or building.
The knock on the door sounds very consistent. No matter where you live, it's the same 'dong dong dong' sound.
The sound will sound three times, and it will sound three times in succession.
If the fog explorers open the door when the sound is heard, they will see nothing, but those fog explorers who open the door will disappear along with the fog in the early morning of the next day.
No one knew where they went.
If you open the door after all the sounds have been heard, you still won't see anyone, but you won't get lost and you will be able to leave the foggy area safely.
This is a special phenomenon that only occurs in the Colorless Plains. Currently, no one knows who is knocking on the door, a human, a monster, or something else.
No one knows where the missing person went after the knock on the door.
But fog explorers have come up with ways to safely avoid this phenomenon.
That is, don't open the door, or don't open the tent.
As long as you do nothing, you will be safe even if you encounter this phenomenon.
Otherwise, it will disappear the next day and no one will know where it has gone.
The fading colors and the knock on the door made Li Qi realize that he had arrived at the colorless plain on the second level.
But what was the reason? I didn't do anything at home, so why did I run to the fog area on the second floor? Aren't fog areas arranged in layers?
While Li Qi was thinking, there was another knock on the door, the second time.
He didn't care. After all, his predecessors had already given ways to safely get through this phenomenon. He just needed to follow them and there was no need to take risks.
He was still wondering why he ran from the safe zone to the plains.
As he thought about it, Li Qi felt that his thoughts seemed to be a little biased. It seemed that no one had ever said that the fog area was arranged in layers.
Judging from the way of entering the first layer of fog area, it is more like space travel in a sense.
Therefore, it is not impossible to directly enter the second-level fog area from here.
"Is there something wrong with the space in this world?"
Li Qi speculated about the nature of this world.
Boom boom boom——
The third knock on the door failed to interrupt Li Qi's thoughts.
Judging from the information currently known, the fog area is more like a disrupted chaotic space, and only the space in the safe zone is in a normal state.
If you look at it this way, then when the safe zone is no longer safe, it is indeed possible for it to become a fog zone at any level.
Maybe this is the origin of the foggy area? Li Qi thought, holding the box containing Adam and looking towards the door.
There have been three knocks on the door. It seems that this special phenomenon should be over. Li Qi can leave the room and explore outside.
It's just that the development of the matter deviated slightly from Li Qi's guess.
Just as he was about to push open the door and go out——
Boom boom boom.
There was a fourth knock on the door.
Li Qi's footsteps also stopped where they were.
…
"Why is there such a thick fog at night? Am I confused because of my sleep? Why does it seem like there is no color around me?"
Ronnie got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and when he returned he found a thick fog on the road.
Ronnie didn't think much about it. After all, fog sometimes occurs in the safe zone, especially in the morning when there is a lot of moisture, which makes it easy to fog.
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However, the fog in the safe zone is different from the fog in the fog zone.
It is harmless to the human body, will not produce any strange phenomena, and there will be no fog beast that can eat people in one bite.
So Ronnie thought that the fog this time was also a normal phenomenon in the safe zone.
Only when he realized that he couldn't find the way back to the room and saw that there was no color around him did he vaguely realize something and his confused mind instantly became clear.
"Wait... this is... a foggy area!?"
Ronnie stretched out his hand, looked at his arm which was of normal color, and then looked at the buildings around him which had no color at all. He shouted in surprise with his eyes wide open.
It is true that a light fog level fog explorer does not have as much to learn as a heavy fog level fog explorer, but he still needs to have some common sense.
The hierarchical distribution of the fog area and the appearance of each layer are common knowledge for fog explorers.
The first level is the forest of destruction that cannot be cut down no matter what, the Eternal Forest.
On the second layer, everything except living things will turn into a grayish-white colorless area, the colorless plain.
The third layer is a chaotic city with buildings as the core, where up, down, left and right directions are completely reversed, a city of disorder.
The fourth layer is a cold area filled with fog, and it is also the vast snowfield closest to the endless sea of fog, the Misty Snowfield.
And the last level, an unknown place where you can never return once you enter, but occasionally news can be heard from it, an endless sea of fog.
The general appearance of the five-layer fog area is common knowledge that all fog explorers need to remember.
Therefore, Ronnie quickly recognized that he had come to the second-level colorless plain! "I entered the fog area?!"
After the surprise, Ronnie felt delighted.
He completely ignored the horror of the foggy area and started jumping around and observing like an unruly monkey.
The place he most wants to go is the fog area, and his biggest dream is to become a great black fog explorer.
Ronnie was a little disappointed when he knew that he would have to undergo a whole year of special training before he could become a fog explorer.
Now that they have entered the fog area directly, Ronnie is very excited. He feels that he is worthy of being the boss. Even in the safe area, he can enter the fog area directly.
He ignored the dangers in the fog area, as well as the backlash he would experience after leaving the fog area, and began to explore this layer of the colorless plain with all his heart.
"Wow, there's really no color! What about the hair? Ah, the blond hair turned gray..."
Ronnie pulled out a strand of his golden hair, and then saw that the hair that was separated from the body faded from golden to gray at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He blinked, his eyes full of surprise.
It turns out that the description of the colorless plains is true, and nothing other than living things can carry color.
Throwing away the hair in his hand, Ronnie continued to explore forward.
He didn't know where he was now, but it was definitely not the training ground where he had been before. In that case, he might as well walk around and see if he could find the exit to leave the foggy area.
"I remember the instructor said that in a foggy area, you can find the exit by just following the flow of the fog... um..."
Ronnie's eyes widened, trying to find the flow pattern in this thin mist.
But after a minute he gave up and rubbed his eyes: "…Forget it, I can't understand it at all, I might as well just go on."
The blond boy, who seemed to be a little slow in the head, chose to give up considering these complicated issues.
He thought that as long as he searched slowly, he might be able to find a way to leave, so he began his exploration of the foggy area.
But not long after he walked away, Ronnie suddenly heard a loud explosion.
Boom!!! The explosion startled Ronnie. He immediately looked towards the place where the explosion occurred, and then he saw the flames that even the fog could not block.
And heard a familiar angry voice: "You scum who pretends to be a ghost! Get out of here!!!"
“That voice…” Hearing that voice, Ronnie’s green eyes widened: “Li Qi… Oh, that’s not right, teacher?!”
Ronnie would not have heard wrongly. The person who made the angry voice at this moment was Li Qi, the "senior" of the Tanwu family who had trained him and his friends during this period and was one year younger than him.
But Ronnie had never seen Li Qi angry.
Even during training, Li Qi would only use cold words and a whip made from a relic to urge them on, and would never lose control of his emotions and yell.
But what is going on now? What on earth could have made the teacher so angry...
Feeling a little confused and worried, Ronnie turned and ran in the direction of the sound.
(End of this chapter)
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