"This is a soul stone. It can protect us from the black fog at night."
In the silent forest, Siber took out a transparent stone.
"Crack." With a slight sound, the stone ignited with a transparent flame.
After being illuminated by this light, the strange and cold feeling around them suddenly disappeared. The pervasive black particles and mist gradually bypassed them.
"When traveling in the dome at night, you must light this stone. Its light can dispel the black fog. Otherwise, if you stay in the black fog for too long, you will be cursed." Siber said, "The soul stone is very precious. I only have this small one, which can probably burn for more than ten hours. In other words, it can only protect you for about two nights."
"How do I get the soul stone?" Su Mingan asked.
"The method of obtaining it is very troublesome, you don't need to know it. When this stone is used up, you should rest well in the following nights."
She raised her hand and walked in the silent forest, as if holding a transparent torch.
The place where Su Mingan just woke up was the cabin where Siber lived. Because she was a pagan, she was exiled by the tribe, so she lived near a dangerous forest where wild beasts roamed. If you pass through this remote forest, you can see plains and fields. The view there is very wide, and you may meet other players.
"Are you familiar with this place, Sibel?" he asked.
"Yes." Siber said, "I grew up here. Every one of us guides is a native of the Dome Land."
Su Ming'an did not ask about her family. Judging from her excluded pagan identity, she might have been exiled by her own family.
In this kind of feudal and ignorant world where people believe in gods, killing their own children is possible. That's why she lives alone at the edge of a forest isolated from the world.
Although she is still a child, she is already so alert that she doesn't even dare to hold on to the helping hand that is extended to her.
Su Mingan remembered that there were sweet potatoes and various seeds in her house, but they were probably not planted by her. The environment around the wooden house was extremely bad. So Siber should rely on hunting for a living.
In this way, she actually has some fighting ability, at least she can set traps and subdue small prey.
"Why do you believe in Jiu Shen?" Su Mingan asked.
He discovered that all of Siberia's misfortunes were due to her belief in the "Nine Gods" and her identity as a pagan.
——Because of believing in evil gods,
She will be abandoned and exiled.
Only then will you be rejected, driven away, and looked down upon by others.
They are forced to live in such a harsh environment and have to rely on hunting for a living before they reach adulthood.
That's why I've fallen to the point where... there's not even a single person I can talk to around me, and I'll start to doubt him again and again whenever I meet him.
Siber paused.
"…Because when I was a child," she said, "Jiu Shen saved me."
As she spoke, there was a rustling sound in the grass beside her.
She turned around suddenly and saw that Su Mingan's back had left the range of the light source and was exposed in the black fog.
"Come here!" Fear appeared in her eyes, and she suddenly reached out to pull him.
At this moment, a twisted, black shadow like black mud suddenly jumped out from the grass!
Su Mingan took a step forward and quickly entered the range of the halo.
“Sizzle, sizzle—”
The shadow melted immediately when it encountered the light, making a sound like melting oil. It squirmed and fell to the ground.
"I told you not to leave the range of the light, didn't you hear me?"
Looking at Su Mingan who was still observing, Siber frowned. If this guy who claimed to be the strongest adventurer continued to commit suicide, her little trust would be completely worn out.
...Does he think he is so powerful? Still wants to resist the curse?
"What is that?" Su Mingan asked when he saw the strange black mud melting in the light.
"This is a creature that haunts the forest. If you are bitten by this ghost thing, you will be cursed." Siber said, "At night, a cursed black fog will appear in the dome. If you stay in the black fog for too long without the soul stone to dispel it, you will be cursed."
She didn't know why this traveler liked to get to the bottom of things so much, but his obvious suicidal behavior just now was already wearing out her patience.
If he had just been bitten and cursed, she wouldn't leave a time bomb around.
"Why is there a curse in your world?" Su Mingan pondered.
Indeed, his action of leaving the halo range just now was intentional.
He wanted to test Siberia's trust in him, and to get more information from her.
If she wanted him to survive, she would definitely stop his suicidal behavior and explain to him the dangers of this "curse".
The inexplicable black fog, the twisted black creatures, and the curse that seemed like a living thing outside the sky... Obviously, these were not things that should appear in the normal world.
"Just like why there is air, there is something called curse in the Dome Land." Siber said calmly, "'Curse' is something unique to our Dome Land. We, the people of the Dome Land, have been carrying curses from generation to generation. The environment we live in is also often filled with black fog carrying curse energy.
No one knows its source, and no one can completely remove it. Once the curse takes effect, no one can escape death.
And this kind of biological weapon... once released, the outside world will also suffer disaster.
Therefore, our ancestors..."
Siber paused.
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