After Lu Ning made sure everyone had got what they needed to buy, she gave up her seat next to the merchant. Behind her was Sun Bin and his group. They had already seen Lu Ning and others shopping together as a team. Their eyes were a little more probing and cautious, but after all, time was tight and they didn't say anything else.
Teng Zijian and others stood beside the purple smoke at the door, waiting for Lu Ning and his party. They looked a little anxious. They didn't even ask them what they bought. When they saw the person approaching, they immediately turned around and walked into the smoke.
It was still raining heavily outside, which also brought people back to the world where the monster was hiding.
"Let's go back quickly." Teng Zijian deliberately raised his voice and said.
"Any questions?"
"The time given by the merchant is stuck at the time when the world switches. An hour is not long. We have to prepare."
The so-called preparation, of course, is to prepare for the states that may be encountered after switching. Because the location remains the same, but the monsters are almost different in each world, it is not impossible to parachute next to a certain monster. If you are in danger, it may become safe, or safety may become dangerous.
There were no accidents on the way back. I just bumped into a ghoul coming out of the corner of the building. This time it happened to allow Yan Rong to try out the new weapon. It was just a pick and twist, the sharp spear of the Coiling Dragon Spear. The blade picked off the ghoul's head.
The team's march didn't even slow down for half a second, and no one even picked up the two copper coins on the ghoul. Soon everyone ran downstairs to the dormitory. At this moment, Cang Su suddenly asked: "Do you feel that the surroundings are getting darker?"
"It's not an illusion."
Even in the dark night, it was not completely blind before, not to mention that they brought some light sources with them when they went out. But now he couldn't even see the rain a few meters away. The light seemed brighter at this time, and the light beam illuminated by the flashlight looked pale and concentrated in the extremely dark environment.
Uncle Zhen and Lu Bin ran to the door of the dormitory building. Following the flashlight, Lu Ning could see that the people upstairs had gathered at the door. At this moment, they were rushing to open the door for everyone and welcome people in. Teng Zijian put his bag on the ground and started distributing things without even wiping some water on his body.
"The gradual change is about to begin." Liu Shan stood aside with her arms folded to maintain order, while chatting with Zhou Weiyuan and Lu Ning.
"Is it a world switch?" Zhou Weiyuan asked.
"Well, have you ever heard of the saying that the darkest hour is before dawn? Gradient is like that. Darkness will gradually cover everything. Even the light can only shine for about one meter and can no longer be seen. We There is no way of knowing at what point the world will switch, but in order to avoid danger, certain preparations must be made..."
"Then why are you hiding information about other worlds?"
"What we want to sell is information about monsters and world characteristics. It's impossible for you to know what the entire world is like in one switch."
There really wasn't much to tell from what Teng Zijian handed out, including a potion, a bottle of water, a pack of something like compressed biscuits, and a small box as big as a palm. Except for the small box at the end, which has no apparent use, the others are just general supplies.
"I think they should have something that can be used multiple times, like that thermostat." Ning Yeyi whispered in Lu Ning's ear.
"Well, what Teng Zijian replenished this time are all consumables. They should have brought the really useful things with them, but it's better if the next world is something else. If it's an extremely cold world, we really have to find a way to dry ourselves out. It’s one o’clock.”
"Don't worry." Ning Yeyi stuffed something into Lu Ning's hand. It was a little cold and about the size of a button. Lu Ning touched it and found that there were some mechanical lines on it.
"What's this?"
"Micro evaporation buttons can quickly evaporate moisture to achieve rapid drying. However, they will not affect the moisture in living things, so they can be used directly on clothes. The disadvantage is that they can only be used three times."
"You took a silver coin just to buy these things?"
"Some gadgets that don't seem important but are actually very useful." Ning Yeyi chuckled, "But this is considered a pretense of public benefit, so I don't plan to let others know."
Lu Ning nodded slightly.
Just as Cryptomeria said, the light gradually became unable to illuminate the distance, and the surrounding area gradually became darker and darker, and even people were almost invisible.
In the darkness, Cryptozobia sighed softly.
"But the dawn after the darkness never comes."
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You may have seen a solar eclipse.
Surrounding the pitch-black shadow, slightly darker copper-colored flames burned. The clear boundary between light and darkness gave people a different understanding of the universe than usual. This was indeed a spectacular sight.
But what if there are nine such stars?
They appeared together in the sky, and the star itself was not visible. Only the flames on the edges were constantly burning and beating. Some were closer, and even its irregular moving orbit could be clearly seen.
In addition, what if each of them has a flaming tail cone, hanging down straight to the ground, and even maintaining the same thickness in a way that does not comply with the principle of perspective... then what?
A dark red light shone into the dormitory building from the window, making the surrounding area light up again, but no one spoke. Everyone suppressed their emotions and refused to look out the window - they had to do so because of the strangeness in the sky. It is too easy for people to feel collapsed. Perhaps even looking directly at the stars itself is a kind of destruction of one's own cognition.
In comparison, tourists are a little better, but only a little better. Lu Ning has experienced a lot of things where she would feel mentally damaged after just a little contact, but those almost only happen when the scene is about to enter the final scene and face the final enemy. This is the first time she has seen such a normal state. .
"vomit……"
Someone on Teng Zijian's side soon started retching, and the state was extremely painful. The pungent smell soon made more people join the vomiting army. Lu Ning stood a little further away. These people's spirits were very fragile, and there were no tourists yet. That kind of rich experience supports it, and problems begin to occur at the slightest stimulation.
"The world of lights."
Liu Shan's face didn't look too good either. She kept pinching her eyebrows and her breath was a little confused: "It's like a lottery. I have to survive here for nearly twelve hours..."
"What dangers are there in this world?" Zhou Weiyuan asked.
"You can feel the most important danger without us having to tell you." Teng Zijian was in good condition. "Just a word of advice, don't go out casually. We have only been to this world once, and that time our team of thirty people was reduced to Seven.”
What's out there? Even Teng Zijian couldn't explain this clearly. The survival experience they had accumulated before could not provide much help in this world, and the previous transactions were not particularly critical.
Just when everyone fell silent, footsteps came from the corridor.
"Oops, there are monsters in the dormitories in this world that haven't been cleaned up. Let's hurry up -"
Before Teng Zijian could finish his words, a heavily armored knight walked down the stairs at the end of the corridor.
The knight is covered in dark blue armor, and there is a spiral-shaped black hole near the heart. It is even slowly rotating, pulling the surrounding black patterns into the black hole. No matter from the helmet or the joints that are not covered by armor, no human part can be seen, but bottomless black. Only scarlet flames are burning on the dark surface. Matching this is the knight's body. Weapons - a tower shield made entirely of blue light in the left hand and a flaming sword dancing with flames in the right hand.
This knight was two meters tall. He looked quite burly in the corridor, and his perception was extremely strong. As soon as he got off the stairs, his helmet turned towards Lu Ning and others, and his eyes composed of two flames "looked" towards them. side.
"This guy noticed us!" Rong Han whispered, "Everyone, be careful!"
"Hey, Teng Zijian, we won't meet the world's top combat power, right?" Yan Rong raised his gun in front of him and asked while tilting his head.
"It would be great if he really had top-notch combat power." Teng Zijian grinned, cold sweat flowing from his head, and he was also extremely nervous, "This guy is a Knight of Light, a low-level soldier who patrols everywhere in this world of lights. On this campus At least a hundred of them are patrolling!"
"Inferior soldier? Are you kidding?" Qin Yulou pointed his gun at the knight, but he didn't know where to shoot the weak point. The rest of the people also understood what Qin Yulou meant. If only Yan Rong could feel the danger from the weak appearance of the treasure guard, then the sense of oppression on this knight was almost overflowing.
Although this means that this knight is indeed no stronger than the treasure guard, they are not qualified to weigh the strength of monsters in each world now.
"Don't fight forcefully! They have fixed patrol routes! We just need to find a way to leave the dormitory!" Teng Zijian said loudly.
"Who told us not to go out casually just now?"
"Madness is better than death!"
Just as he was talking, the Lantern Knight had already walked to a position about twenty meters away from everyone, then crouched down slightly, put the tower shield in front of him, and raised the flaming sword -
"Back off!"
No one here has a more accurate intuition than Yan Rong. When she shouted these words, everyone crawled to the ground and ran back without any hesitation. At this moment, there was an explosion under the knight's feet, and he directly crossed the twenty-meter distance in one second. At the same time, the flaming sword swept out a cross-sweep with a radius of more than one meter in front of him!
Lu Ning could even feel the scorching heat brushing against his neck and breaking a few hairs. The warmth feels like death breathing on the back of your neck.
Previously, a person who was squatting on the ground and vomiting, who had no time to run, was directly hit by the flames. He was not cut off directly. The pain appeared on his face only when the Lantern Knight returned to an upright stance and approached step by step. expression, and then the moment the knight passed by him, scarlet fire suddenly burst out from the man's body, and before he even had time to scream, the man was burned into a ball of black matter.
Then, amid some frightened and vigilant eyes, this black human figure turned around with burning flames on its body, followed the knight and approached everyone like a follower.
Lu Ning was already thinking about how to run away.
Now people are desperately trying to escape to the other end of the corridor, but the light from the nine stars outside is obviously harmful. Running out like this will probably not end well, and the Lantern Knight in front of them can really beat a group of them. , no one even thought of trying weapons on this guy.
"How to get out?" Yan Rong suddenly said.
"Of course directly -" Teng Zijian was about to speak, but she immediately interrupted him.
"I don't want to die, nor do I want to go crazy. Lu Ning, Ning Yeyi, and Zhou Weiyuan, can you three think of a way?"
Yan Rong stopped retreating, pointed the tip of his spear at the Lantern Knight, stepped back with one foot, and braced himself.
"Give me a satisfactory plan."
"Yan Rong! Come here!" Zhou Weiyuan changed his previous lazy attitude and shouted in the loudest voice.
"It's not okay to run out like this. We can't make too many sacrifices at this time. Zhou Weiyuan, use your brain, and..."
Yan Rong looked at the knight standing about two meters in front of her.
"This guy won't be able to kill me for a while."
Facing Yan Rong, who was taking a fighting stance, the knight stopped and stood the sword on his chest with the tip of the sword pointing upward. Then he swiped his hand sideways, cutting an arc of fire, and leaned forward with this posture. , sprinted towards Yan Rong!
A metal collision rang out among the lightning, and the flaming sword was deflected. Yan Rong did not choose to parry, but directly picked the Lantern Knight's wrist and missed the sword's attack line. After all, her gun is longer and can hit the target before her opponent.
"Now tell me what the light is like outside." Lu Ning also calmed down again at this moment and asked.
"The night in the world of lights is illuminated by those black stars. It is dusk now, with nine stars in the sky, which is the most serious time of pollution. The light illuminated by those stars can cause obvious physiological discomfort in people, and long-term exposure can also cause There will be visions and auditory hallucinations, and even situations such as treating companions as enemies. The final result is to go completely crazy. At this time, the person will start to turn black and the surface of the body will catch fire... just like what you can see." Teng Zijian didn't care much at this time and told everything he knew in one breath.
"How long does it take to hallucinate? How long does it take to go crazy?"
"Looking at people, the hallucination speed is about ten to twenty minutes, and the madness will start to darken in as little as an hour."
"That's really not good." Lu Ning turned to look out the window. The dark light dyed the surrounding scenery, and the drowsy feeling was particularly unbearable.
At this time, there were two loud noises again. The battle between Yan Rong and the Lantern Knight began to speed up. They seemed to be able to hold on now, but no one dared to go up to help. This was a battlefield for top combat tourists. Anyone with less skill would die.
"Is it because of being illuminated or seeing the light?" Zhou Weiyuan suddenly asked.
"This..." Teng Zijian was stunned for a moment, unable to answer.
"It's okay, just verify it a little bit."
He tore off the hem of his clothes and covered his eyes.
"It's much cleaner if you can't see it, but you can still see something, that's it."
