"It's only a few hundred yuan a month, so there's really no need to risk your life."
Colin looked away and looked at one of the five fire pillars. Suddenly he thought of something and grabbed one.
It is about the same thickness as an adult's thigh, and fits just right in your hand. The top is inlaid with a blood-red crystal stone the size of a human head. It is this blood-red stone that burns with a strange fire.
"Sure enough... I should be able to escape with this thing."
Colin didn't hesitate anymore. He sensed "Event 1" in his mind, determined the direction and left the place directly.
Although there is only one fire pillar, the diameter of the irradiation is quite large, more than 30 meters.
"There are still 163 hours, 24 minutes and 37 seconds left in 'Event Three'. It seems that almost four hours have passed since I woke up..."
"I don't know how that former colleague is doing now. I hope he doesn't have so much trouble..."
"Well, you have to run fast, lest someone catches up to you later. After all, there should be a lot of powerful people in this world..."
Colin grabbed the "torch" with one hand, quickened his pace, and soon found himself walking into a desolate and inhabited plain...
Moreover, despite the pressure caused by the darkness above our heads, we have not yet left this plain after five hours of driving.
I haven’t seen my former colleagues either...
That guy's location was much farther than he thought.
"I won't just run out of lamp oil and die on the way, right? Oh, this stone seems to be quite resistant to burning. I don't know how long I have to walk. If I hadn't been sure that the distance was closing, I would have suspected that I had been attacked by a ghost. Wall, but, having said that...did I forget to use the 'Book of Numerology'? Forget it, I won't use it yet..."
Colin talked to himself as he hurried on, trying to reconcile his depression of walking alone in the darkness.
After walking for another hour, he suddenly stopped and looked around with dark vertical eyes, a look of anthropomorphic shock on his face.
Just after an inadvertent blink of an eye, the surroundings suddenly lit up, and the originally dark scene turned into a rugged plain. No animals were seen on the plain, but there were quite a few low bushes. Overall, it looked a bit like It is the area with plants on the edge of the desert as seen on TV.
This is not the key, the key is...
Its daybreak?
Why did it suddenly get bright?
"Is it another natural phenomenon unique to this world? Just like turning on a light, it lights up immediately?"
Colin was puzzled and could only attribute it to the peculiarities of this world.
After all, this is a magical world...
Many things that seemed strange to him might just be common sense here.
But during the day, the torch-like stone pillar in my hand seemed to have no sense of existence.
Colin didn't throw it away either. After all, it can get bright in an instant, but who knows if it will get dark again in a while?
He didn't want to know or try what would happen if he went into the dark without light...
Looking into the distance, he felt that his colleagues were getting closer and closer to him, so he buried his head and quickened his pace.
...
At the same time, at the entrance of the dungeon, the warden with a bruised face and eyes cautiously poked his head out of the dungeon.
Very good, there is no sound of the monster outside, and a distant footprint seems to indicate that the other party has already left...
"He snatched a 'night watch'... This shows that even in that appearance, he still maintains his sanity. Also, what form is he in? The third stage? Who is he? What's next? Where are you going?”
The warden's swollen eyes tried to open a crack and looked at the direction the other party left. That direction seemed to be...
No man's land?
"Master Warden, what should we do...do we want to catch up?" a subordinate asked in a low voice.
The warden fell into silence after hearing this. After a dozen breaths, he spoke: "Go back to the city, find the city lord, and ask him to ask the 'Knights of Virtue' to send members to organize a hunting team."
In this area, only those knights and church priests who have mastered the power of "virtue" have the ability to hunt that monster.
He knew very well that if the other party went on a killing spree yesterday, there would not be a single living person in the dungeon now.
After saying that, he remembered something, touched his face that was swollen like a pig, took a breath of pain, and asked his subordinates in confusion:
"Have I ever abused him before? For example, pressed him down and beat him?"
"Never before! Your conduct is like a real knight, and you have never abused others like the executioners of the Tribunal. We all respect you sincerely..." the subordinates said movedly.
Word had spread in the dungeon. In order to prevent others from being harmed, the warden silently resisted everything.
He dragged the monster and fought fiercely for more than ten minutes under the dungeon. The whole dungeon was constantly crackling, which consumed most of the opponent's energy and forced the opponent to escape, thus saving everyone.
If it hadn't been for the warden's restraint, I'm afraid no one in the entire dungeon would have survived.
The guard was moved.
"Bah! What do you mean by likeness! I am a knight! A knight blessed by a noble!"
The warden cursed, and then he remembered something. In addition to scolding him yesterday, the prison warden also said something that sounded like he had strong opinions on the "Holy Healing Church".
Especially the sentence "If you didn't send me there, I wouldn't be like this at all"...
When did he send the other party there?
And what does this look like?
Could it be that...
Did the other party secretly reveal to him that there was a problem with the "Holy Healing Church"?
Although this may be some kind of alienation plan... But before that, he suddenly remembered that when he was in contact with the members of the "Knights of Virtue" above, the adults were talking about the "Holy Healing Church" hour...
The attitude is so...inexplicably subtle.
...
Colin didn't know that what he vented made the warden suspicious of the "Holy Healing Church", and he didn't know that a hunting team targeting him would soon set off.
At this time, after another three hours of walking, he finally walked through the long plain and came to a mountain forest.
At the same time, the rescue signal is getting clearer...
But it was not long after walking into this mountain forest.
Colin felt something was getting more and more wrong...
It was... too quiet here, and except for himself, he didn't seem to see anything alive, whether it was plants or insects, there was no movement at all...
On the other hand, withered plants and animal mummies are not uncommon and can be seen from time to time.
The strangest thing is that these corpses are basically intact and covered with a thin layer of ash, as if they have never been touched or decayed after death.
His keen sense of smell told Colin that it seemed that at a microscopic scale that could not be observed with the naked eye, those tiny microorganisms, like those corpses that could be seen everywhere, were given equal death.
"The sterile rooms in the hospital are not this 'clean'...I won't just walk out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den..."
Colin's huge body was walking on flat ground in the mountain forest, looking at the corpses of animals and plants of various sizes that occasionally appeared as he moved forward.
He thought curiously, but had no answer.
There are so many strange places in this world.
Fortunately, apart from traces of matter and death, there was nothing else encountered in the forest.
Another half hour later, Colin stopped and looked at the town that appeared ahead with half-squinted eyes.
