The sounds came out in layers, like countless people practicing a duet in the shadows.
Pei Mengqing felt a chill, but she couldn't help but complain:
"It seems that your cat clan is not very popular here."
Xiaori actually picked up the joke: "Yes, but this is something that can't be changed. You can't become a dark creature like them."
Pei Mengqing heard the meaning of Xiaori's words:
"That is to say, those people before have all become this kind of virtue for some reason, right? So, are they now individuals, or a whole body?"
Xiaori said: "According to my guess, they are all."
Now Pei Mengqing understands even more.
In a few words, he had roughly outlined the truth of the matter.
For some reason, people who fall into the darkness will be swallowed up and turned into shadows, and then the shadows will be controlled by the darkness, continuing to extinguish the light of others and pulling others into the shadows.
In the end, all the people in the settlement perished - of course it was not certain whether they were dead - leaving only their clothes in place.
This shadow can usually only gather here and be assimilated by the darkness.
But by night, it is estimated that they will be able to temporarily restore their original appearance and become their original individuals. That is why we can find that the utensils in the wooden house have signs of recent use.
Moreover, the shadow will send out individuals with hunting experience to hunt, and the prey will be swallowed into the shadow and turned into dark nourishment.
The darkness is like a shepherd, turning these people in the settlement into its sheep, and controlling them to continuously collect and hunt, making itself stronger.
Thinking of this, Pei Mengqing sent a message to the two big oranges and expressed his guess:
"So the nature of darkness is not yet mature, and it does not have the courage to expose it to us. It may still be advancing. We have to find a way to find the origin and core of darkness and destroy it.
"Otherwise, I guess there are restrictions such as formations or barriers around us that can prevent us from getting out of here." Pei Mengqing said.
This kind of plot often appears in ordinary movies and American TV series. You can't leave a place without solving the problem.
"Then what should we do? We don't know how much darkness covers the surrounding area, and we don't know how to find the core of the darkness." Xiaori asked.
Darkness and shadow, something that sounds invisible at first sight, is hard to find a core point no matter how you think about it, right?
"It's okay, I already have a solution."
It's not that Pei Mengqing knows more about shadows, or that she suddenly has the same wisdom as Sherlock Holmes, but...
[Temporary mission trigger: Touch of Shadow]
[Task description: Touch of Shadows are insidious and cunning little creatures that exist in this world. Rumor has it that they are the fallen limbs of evil gods. They will continue to seduce people's desires until someone takes the bait and becomes their nourishment.
There is basically only one Shadow Touch in each area, because two or more Shadow Touches will look for each other in the same area, and finally merge together and become stronger.
A certain powerful person has made restrictions. According to the county-level divisions of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all Shadow Touch can only move in one area and cannot go to other areas to join other Shadow Touch]
[Mission goal: Kill the Shadow Touch in the forest surrounding Tianhe County. 】
[Task reward: 300 points]
[Penalty for failure: If the mission fails, the host and the two cats will become the nourishment of the shadow touch and become part of the evil god one day in the future. 】
[Distribute temporary props for missions: lamps of hope. 】
It was rare for the practice system to provide such a long list of descriptions of mission objectives, which made Pei Mengqing realize the dangers and terrifying extent of the shadow touch.
This thing was once part of the evil god.
Now, the flesh and blood of these evil gods are still lingering in every unknown place, growing and growing silently, waiting for the call of their true form one day...
Pei Mengqing had an extra lamp in her hand, which looked like the miner's lamp used in the mines a long time ago.
When you hold it in your hand, light is constantly emitted, emitting a warm light.
This hopes that the light of the lamp can cover the five-meter area around Pei Mengqing and the others, which can be said to be very large.
"Xiaori, you can take a rest first." Pei Mengqing said.
"What is this? It seems to be more effective than our protective golden light." Ju Ju asked curiously.
The surrounding shadows, after encountering the light of this hope lamp, melted rapidly like snow under the scorching sun, and I wanted to run as far as I could.
Before Pei Mengqing could answer, the person controlled in the shadow had already made a voice of fear and resentment: "Light of hope, damn it, how could this thing appear here?"
Xiaori and Tachibana were also surprised: "Light of hope? Isn't that something legendary?"
"Legendary thing? What do you mean?" Pei Mengqing asked curiously.
Xiaori explained to him:
"The light of hope is an illusory thing in legend. It needs to collect the hopes of a hundred thousand people who have great enthusiasm and hope for something, plus the blessing of a sincere person, before it can be turned into a lamp. That is the lamp of hope in your hand.
“But hope is always the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. When people are frustrated by failure, hope may become purer or weaker.
"So it is very rare to see people with great enthusiasm and hope. In the past two times, one was Emperor Taizu of the Zhou Dynasty, who held the hope and ambition of the Sima family to sweep across the eight wastelands and dominate the world.
"The other time was the prime minister of Emperor Zhaolie of former Shu, who carried out six Northern Expeditions, revived the dynasty, and returned the old capital's ardent expectations."
It sounds like a replica of Sima Yi and Prime Minister Zhuge Kongming, Pei Mengqing thought to herself, feeling that the history of this world and the earth are indeed very similar, and many histories can be matched on the original earth.
It's just that it seems to have become different since the Zhou Dynasty.
Although the Sima family was in power, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings and the Rebellion of the Five Husbands during the Jin Dynasty did not seem to have happened.
Or... these things haven't started to happen in the Zhou Dynasty?
Thinking of this, Pei Mengqing suddenly felt very frightened, and the hair on his back stood up.
The current Great Zhou Dynasty has buried so many hidden thunders and whirlpools. In such a world where sorcerers are rampant, if the Eight Kings Rebellion and the Five Husbands Rebellion were to be replicated, what kind of horrific hell scene would it be?
Do we have to cross south in full clothes in the end?
Pei Mengqing frowned slightly, but quickly came to her senses and focused her attention on the shadow touches in front of her.
He still doesn't know how many shadow touches here are fused, and what kind of strength they have.
