"Lord Black Earl's inspiration is indeed correct. He actually didn't encounter a single monster."
After everyone walked some distance, they still didn't encounter any monsters. Kael, who was originally a little worried, couldn't help but sigh.
However, as soon as Kael finished sighing, Angel suddenly stopped.
Everyone who had not revealed their spiritual power looked at Angel in confusion.
"What's wrong?" Doakes asked confused.
"Elmi felt a large number of living bodies hiding nearby. If nothing unexpected happens, we should have encountered a monster..." Angel said softly.
As Angel finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Kael.
One second Kael was lamenting that he didn't encounter a monster, and the next second the monster appeared. Although everyone knew it was a coincidence, it was too "coincident".
"Before you called me a crow's mouth, but now you have seen, who is the crow's mouth." At this moment, Doakes spoke up: "Kael, didn't I tell you before I came here not to talk nonsense? , you have the attribute of a crow's mouth, you are not unaware of it. Alas, I have been taking the blame for you for so long, it's true."
Kael said a little aggrievedly: "You didn't tell me before I came here. No, I don't have the attribute of crow's mouth. This time, this time..."
Doakes said with some pride: "What happened this time? You want to say it was an accidental coincidence, but there is no such thing as a coincidence!"
Kael pursed his lips, a suffocation lingering in his chest, but he couldn't find any other words to refute, so he could only keep explaining to everyone: Doakes didn't say those words before he came, he made them up.
Compared to Doakes's proud face, everyone was more willing to believe in the low-key but sincere Kael.
However, it doesn't matter who you believe now.
The important thing is that the originally calm atmosphere was directly broken by Doakes' interruption. But Kael, who had been in the spotlight before, slowly moved out of the focus of attention.
"I didn't expect you to be quite defensive." Suddenly, Angel's voice sounded in the psychic belt, and the direction he was looking at was Doakes.
Doakes was stunned for a moment and pretended not to understand: "Huh?"
Angel did not criticize Doakes' performance, but said: "Kael does not have a crow's mouth this time, because the monster we encountered this time is a little special."
After Angel finished speaking, he waved his hand gently, and the so-called "monster" screen appeared on the phantom light screen.
I saw that the side of the wall not far away was covered with vines as thick as an adult's thigh. These vines are intertwined and moving slowly, like squirming pythons.
The branches of the vine are extremely dark in color, but they are covered with red spikes. A quick glance shows that they are extremely sharp and may contain toxins.
Vine-type monsters are actually not uncommon. Before they entered the underground maze, they had encountered many vine-type monsters in the ruins on the ground. However, Angel said that this vine was a bit "special", which was not unreasonable.
Because, among these squirming and dense vines, there is a blank space without any vines.
And this blank space is a dark hole.
In other words, this was the second fork in the road they encountered after choosing this direction.
"This... this should be the same dog hole as before, right?" Vai looked at the size of the hole and said hesitantly.
"Judging from the exposed size, it is indeed similar to the dog holes we encountered before. However, the vines are very dense, so it is not necessarily that the hole is really as big as we see. Maybe other parts are covered by the vines." Ange I replied.
After a pause, Angel continued: "Now we have two options, bypass them and continue moving forward. Or, try to take the road hidden behind the vines."
Angel's idea is to vote first. As for the final choice, we should first look at the voting results before deciding.
Both Kael and Vai simply abstained from voting, while Doakes frowned: "I have some inspirations, but these inspirations may be fictional inspirations similar to fantasy, and I dare not believe them. It's Angel again. Let’s decide with Lord Black Earl.”
What Doakes calls fictional inspiration sounds mysterious, but it has the same meaning as "fictional pain."
Fictional pain is what wizard civilization calls it. In Jon's words, this is the so-called phantom limb pain, or phantom pain, which generally refers to the fact that even if the patient has an amputation, occasionally the patient will still feel that his or her amputated limb is still there, and the "phantom limb" will cause intense pain. feel.
Specifically why this kind of weird and mysterious phantom pain occurs, the explanation in the wizarding world is the wailing of the soul: because even if your limb is amputated, as long as you are not dead, your soul is still intact. Although the soul does not participate in physical behavior, when it senses that a certain part is missing, it will emit a so-called "wailing".
Angel doesn't know whether this answer is correct. He has not done any similar research. But bring in the pain of fiction, and you can understand Doakes’s fictional inspiration.
At present, Doakes' inspiration has temporarily disappeared, but Doakes' inspiration was very active before, so much so that Doakes even regarded inspiration as an "organ" that he could control like an arm. Now that the "organ" is gone, fictional inspiration comes naturally, just like "fictional pain".
Just because Doakes felt that his inspiration might be fictitious inspiration, he did not even say the direction that "inspiration" gave him, but completely gave the right of choice to Angel and the Black Earl.
Angel didn't say anything. His so-called voting was just a formality. In fact, he already had a preference in his heart about what to choose.
"Lord Black Earl, do you have any suggestions?" Angel asked.
Black Earl: "You shouldn't ask me this question. You are the one who is most familiar with the prison ladder."
Angel shrugged: "I am only familiar with the road from the Prison Stairway to the destination. I am not familiar with the road to the Prison Stairway now. However, I do have some inclinations. I personally prefer to take the vine path. "
Black Earl: "What's the reason?"
Angel: "A combination of multiple factors. First, I feel that this path may be the right one."
The first factor made Doakes on the side couldn't help complaining: "I don't even mention inspiration, but you still mention it."
Angel: "It's not an inspiration, but a feeling derived from the summary of some comprehensive information."
To put it simply, it is the "server" in the thinking space, collecting information along the way. When all kinds of information are mixed together, Angel himself has not yet clarified it, but the "server" has already passed the information first. The induction gives the most likely answer.
This is what Angel calls "feeling", which is very different from inspiration.
"If you don't agree with my first factor, then I will continue. Secondly, I let Ermi spread the shadow to another road, and found that the further forward, the more traces of the monster. In other words, if you don't go Along the vine road, we may enter an area where monsters are active. And I don’t think that the prison ladder will be built in a place where monsters are active.”
"Third, these vines have no intention of extending to other places, and are just wandering in that short distance. They seem more like guards guarding this road, rather than predatory occupying monsters."
"If you think about it carefully, there are three narrow openings in the outside work area, which are used to warn, guard, and expel outsiders respectively. The prison ladder is the top priority of the entire organization, and it should also be guarded, just like the day one. It works the same.”
"There is a fourth factor, but it may be a bit far-fetched. Just give it a try. I personally think that vine monsters are actually more friendly to wood spirits. Therefore, when the wood spirits come here, the vines should not be too Too much trouble for it.”
After Angel stated these four points, he stopped and looked at everyone, waiting for their feedback.
Doakes did not play devil's advocate this time, and nodded directly: "I just said, you two can decide. As long as Lord Black Earl agrees, then we will fight those vines... But to be honest, the three people in front of you This reason didn’t impress me, but the fourth reason you said was far-fetched has a high possibility.”
Angel raised his eyebrows and did not respond to Doakes's comment.
It can be heard from Doakes's words that even if he temporarily loses his inspiration, he is still an intuitive wizard. Compared with the "evidence" listed by Angel, he believed in an inference that he didn't know whether it was false or not.
On the other side, the Black Count pondered for a moment and then said: "I thought about it and found no valid reason to refute you. In that case, let's do what you said."
The Black Earl also made a decision, and everyone no longer hesitated at this time, then take the road sealed by the vines!
Doakes had already begun to roll up his sleeves, the red sword on his waist was vibrating, and his fighting spirit was rising.
Angel glanced at him and said calmly: "Don't be impatient. You may not be able to fight."
Under Doakes' doubtful eyes, Angel's figure suddenly changed and turned into a young and energetic young man wearing a green coat, with a bow and quiver woven from rattan on his back, and a green head. Slanted hat.
The most distinctive point is that in the middle of Angel's hat, there is a crystal clear leaf that shines with a natural atmosphere.
The others didn't know what the image was, but the Black Earl recognized it.
"You are holding the leaves of the tree spirit and want to imitate the tree spirit? Although I think it is unlikely that the vine will be deceived, but since you want to impersonate the tree spirit, then don't wear any clothes, let alone a cuckold."
Yes, Angel's current image is that of a tree spirit. However, the tree spirit always liked to wear nothing and only wear a leaf on key parts, but Angel's shame prevented him from being as open as the tree spirit, so he still changed into a set of clothes.
Angel turned a deaf ear to Earl Black's "suggestion". Even if he had to face off against the vines, he would not wander around naked like the tree spirit.
After dressing up as a tree spirit, Angel gestured to everyone to stay in the moving illusion and follow him so as not to stay too far away.
Then, Angel took a deep breath and walked out of the illusion.
Although he had made full preparations and had the leaves of the tree spirit to purify the surrounding air, the sudden strong stench still rushed into his nasal cavity.
Angel himself was fine, but Dangros, who was resting on Angel's shoulder, rolled his eyes.
"Ah, I forgot you were still here..." After Angel said this, he wanted to put Dangros into the bracelet, but at the last moment, he hesitated.
Dangros seemed to have been "contaminated" by the stench. Otherwise, if he threw it into the bracelet, it would make the inside also smoky. Forget it, just hold on and purify it later.
Thinking of this, Angel stretched out a cane from behind and carefully wrapped around Dangros who was stunned by the stink.
After doing all this, Angel moved on.
Because Angel appeared, and the extremely rich aura of the tree spirit was constantly exuding the power of nature to the surroundings. Therefore, as soon as Angel appeared, the vines in the distance noticed Angel.
The vines were originally moving slowly, but Angel's appearance made them move faster.
Angel didn't know whether the vines were preparing for a fight or a sign of goodwill. Anyway, you'll find out if you continue on. If it's really a battle, then wake up Dangros and breathe fire to solve the battle.
However, Angel almost walked within 20 meters of the vine, but the vine still showed no desire to attack.
You know, each of these python-thick vines is at least a hundred meters long, covering this wall tightly. If they really want to fight, they can attack from a long distance.
But they didn't do this, which seemed to confirm Angel's guess: plant monsters are actually closer to the wood spirit.
It wasn't until Angel walked ten meters away from them that the vines began to react violently.
Most of the vines began to move. They bared their teeth and claws in mid-air, seeming to be threatening and not allowed to take another step forward.
But even so, Vine still didn't make a move.
This made Angel even more convinced that these vines might indeed be "guards" similar to daylight as he expected. Rather than murderous bloodthirsty vines.
Moreover, these vines seemed to be showing their teeth and claws, but they were not actually pointed at Angel, but behind him.
Although Angel is very confident in his illusion, there are countless vines intertwined here, and their spiritual gathering is as huge as the sea and the abyss. Just standing in front of them, you can feel the oppressive spiritual power.
Although mental power does not mean strength, such a huge mental power suppression is enough to make Angel's illusion show some flaws.
In other words, Earl fans are a little bit biased.
Earl's fans are the main body of the moving illusion. Once Earl's fans deviate slightly, the moving illusion will naturally show flaws.
"They really don't seem to be very wary of you. On the contrary, they are full of hostility towards us." Doakes said softly in the psychic belt.
"However, even if you stood in front, they didn't take action immediately... It seems that pretending to be a wood spirit is really useful."
When Doakes said this, his eyes began to roll.
The Black Earl saw through Doakes's mind at a glance and sneered: "If you have tens of thousands of years of tree spirit leaves to help you cover your breath, then you can indeed pretend to be a wood spirit. If there is nothing similar, don't have a bee in one's bonnet."
Spirit is not so easy to fake. Their aura is completely different from that of ordinary creatures. Even top-level transformation techniques can only be imitated superficially and can be easily exposed.
Behind Angel stood the three ancestral spirits of the Savage Cave. They were also rare super old monster-level spirits in the entire wizarding world. What they had on them, even just a leaf, was enough to make Angel's imitation look real. situation.
Doakes wants to imitate the wood spirit, but there is basically no chance. Even when the Black Earl himself came, he couldn't imitate the spirit like Angel.
That leaf is so important.
"Don't move for now. I seem to feel a wave of fluctuation. It seems to be the vine, ready to communicate with me."
After Angel finished speaking, everyone saw a thin vine protruding from the huge vine wall, swimming in front of Angel like a snake dancing in the air.
The vine was less than half a meter away from Angel's eyebrows.
As they approached, the fluctuations Angel felt became more intense.
It was like someone was whispering in my ear.
