Chapter 193 Stone Forest
Zhang Nan was about to step into the stone forest when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head. It was a warning from his companion spirit, the golden rat.
Chen Nan was the first to notice that Zhang Nan’s face was pale. He reached out to help him and asked him what was wrong.
Zhang Nan looked at Min Wu who was about to enter the stone forest with him. He didn't want people to think that he was timid and cowardly, so he didn't dare to enter the stone forest to gather information.
Zhang Nan endured the needle-like pain in his head and waved his hand to Chen Nan: "Maybe I didn't get enough rest last night, it's okay." He pressed his chest pocket calmly, and his companion spirit, the golden chinchilla, was twisting restlessly there, conveying a stronger sense of crisis than ever before.
"Let's go." Zhang Nan took a deep breath and took the lead to walk towards the stone forest. Chen Nan looked worried behind him, but he did not look back.
As soon as he entered the stone forest, the temperature around him dropped suddenly. It was noon, but the sunlight was cut into pieces by the towering black stone pillars, casting strange shadows on the ground. Zhang Nan noticed that the shadows seemed to be moving, but when he looked closely, they returned to normal.
"Min Wu, do you feel cold?" Zhang Nan asked Min Wu who was walking beside him.
Min Wu rubbed his arms and said, "It's a bit cold." Then he lowered his voice and said, "And do you think it's too quiet here? It seems that there is no sound at all."
Zhang Nan nodded. The chinchilla was restless in his pocket. He carefully looked at the arrangement of the stone pillars and the terrain features around him. He injected a trace of energy into his eyes and activated the innate skill of his companion spirit, the Eye of Truth.
Min Wu saw that Zhang Nan's eyes turned into a dark gray and knew that he had activated his innate skills. Min Wu knew that his mission was to ensure Zhang Nan's safety and use his skills to get him away from here when in danger.
Zhang Nan activated the Eye of Truth. As soon as he did so, he discovered that using this skill had consumed a great deal of his energy. He scanned the area from all directions, near and far, front and back. The scene in front of him made him hold his breath - the bottom of the low stone pillar not far from them actually had a huge and dense root system growing on it like a big tree. The root system was covered with blood-colored lines, and it was pulsating slightly like blood vessels.
And in the mottled shadows on the ground, wisps of black air were entangled and slowly spreading towards where they were.
"Min Wu, let's go quickly." Zhang Nan endured the strong feeling of dizziness and tried hard to see, memorizing the locations of the special stone pillars one by one.
At this moment, the ground suddenly shook violently, and three stone pillars near them burst open, and countless black tentacles shot out from the rubble, with sticky suction cups all over the surface of the tentacles, grabbing the two. Zhang Nan instinctively jumped to Min Wu's position behind him, and Min Wu grabbed him and activated the positioning flash skill. Just as the black tentacles were about to touch them, the two figures disappeared.
Min Wu and Zhang Nan were pale when they appeared in front of Ning Xuan and the others. Zhang Nan held his head and cried, "My head hurts so much."
Min Wu also felt his chest was suffocated. He pounded his chest with his hand. Tang Xue nervously grabbed his hand, "What's wrong with you, Xiao Wu?"
"Xiaoxue, I feel uncomfortable in my chest." Min Wu gasped.
Ning Xuan had already given Zhang Nan three injections on his head, and Zhang Nan's headache symptoms gradually subsided.
"Xuanxuan, go check on Xiaowu." Tang Xue called Ning Xuan anxiously.
Ning Xuan came over and felt Min Wu's pulse and found that it was strong and rapid. She also noticed that his breathing was shallow and rapid and his lips were purple. She immediately inserted needles into his Neiguan, Tanzhong, Baihui and other acupoints. After a while, Min Wu's breathing gradually stabilized.
After Zhang Nan's headache symptoms eased, he immediately took out a pen and paper, marked the abnormal stone pillars he had noted down, handed them to Ning Xuan, and told everyone what he had just seen in the stone forest.
"The flow of energy can be restricted in this stone forest. The same skill is activated slowly and consumes two or even three times more energy than outside." Zhang Nan expressed his feelings and Min Wu immediately confirmed it.
"Yes, I can use the flash skill at least three times a day, but just now, the energy has been used up." Min Wu said weakly.
"I just had a headache because I was swept by that shadow. There was not even direct contact, but I could feel a cold breath invading my mind." Zhang Nan added.
Ning Xuan nodded and gave each of them a bottle of energy replenishment potion and a bottle of mental strength recovery potion, allowing them to have a good rest.
Ning Xuan took the drawing drawn by Zhang Nan and looked at it for a while, then passed the drawing to other people. Yun Han looked at it for a while with a serious expression.
"What's wrong? Did you see anything?" Ning Xuan asked.
"Master, I'm not sure, but judging from the arrangement in this corner, this one looks a bit like a formation I saw in a formation book." Yun Han said hesitantly.
"Zhang Nan, when you were drawing the map just now, you said that these problematic stone pillars are all relatively short, is that right?" Ning Xuan turned around and asked Zhang Nan.
Zhang Nan nodded affirmatively, "Yes, the other stone pillars have various shapes, and these stone pillars with roots at the bottom are all short and round."
"Yunhan, if you draw a larger arrangement pattern, can you be sure whether this is the formation you guessed?" Ning Xuan asked Yunhan.
"As long as there is 2/3 more area, I can be sure." Yun Han said.
"Then we just need to get above the stone forest, look down at the stone pillars below, and draw the positions of all the low stone pillars." Ning Xuan said.
Di Youlin immediately stood up and said, "Master, I can fly over the stone forest."
"I'm afraid that's not right. Have you seen the dried blood on those particularly tall stone pillars? The blood is flowing down from the top of the stone pillars." Yun Han reminded.
"Judging from the location of the bloodstains, they should be from when the body fell from the air and hit the stone pillar, and was pierced by the pillar and left behind the bloodstains," Yun Han added.
"That's true." Lin Mo nodded.
"Things that could fall down are probably just ordinary flying birds. I'll be fine if I fly higher." Di Youlin said disapprovingly.
When everyone heard this, their expressions varied.
Ning Xuan frowned, "Don't be careless, Yun Han, what kind of formation do you suspect this is and what its purpose is?"
"A formation like the Dragon Trapping Formation is usually used to suppress some powerful monsters. It can extract the blood energy of the monsters to maintain the operation of the formation. At the same time, it can also absorb the energy of any person or creature that enters or approaches the formation." Yun Han said.
"Didn't this place just get invaded by alien beasts? And no highly intelligent races were found. Even if there were extremely powerful alien beasts, how could they be suppressed?" Di Youlin asked doubtfully.
Yun Han couldn't be sure based on that little pattern alone, and when he heard someone questioning him, he shut up.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
