The next day, the wind started to blow.
When Huai Shi pushed open the stone door of the temple, he heard that the shrill sound of the wind outside the house was not an illusion.
It was like the roar of a hurricane passing through, but in fact, there was no sense of suffocation from the storm. He could only see wisps of grayish-black wind piercing the air, casually sweeping, inextricably spreading between the heavens and the earth.
It was like ink that dripped into a water tank and refused to spread.
When the wisps of grayish-black wind fell on Huai Shi's carapace, he could feel the coldness that pierced into his bone marrow and the sharp sound of a knife colliding with an axe.
Sparks flew.
Sedimentation tide.
It was exactly the same as what was written in the internal information of the Astronomical Society, alongside the febrile wind, gray rain, and invisible flames in the hellish weather.
There was no doubt that the depth here had been greatly deepened.
It was even faster than originally expected.
Otherwise, this kind of astronomical phenomenon caused by the excessive density of the Abyss's sedimentation would not have formed.
When Huai Shi climbed up the city wall, he could not help but suck in a breath of cold air. In the rift valley below the city wall, scarlet flowers had grown at some point.
Countless crawling-like thorns wriggled and grew out of the mud, entangling the remains of the corpses. They stirred wildly, as if they were already unable to endure the thirst.
And those flowers, known by their scientific name as the Abyss Stone Garlic, had already bloomed to the extreme, and a sickening sweet fragrance spread out.
Huai Shi held his breath and stepped back a little.
He was no longer a body that was not afraid of poison. Without the Mountain Ghost Sacred Mark, he naturally had to stay as far away from this powerful hallucinogen as possible.
After being reminded by Huai Shi, the great spirits of the lizardmen naturally knew the danger, and the other beasts who did not know the severity of the situation had already fallen into the cracks in the ground.
Not long after, they were sucked by the thorns and turned into shriveled corpses.
Countless twisted faces of dark green moss grew along the mud and slowly climbed to the edge of the city wall. Huai Shi spat in front of him and heard a wailing sound from the molten iron.
The moss shrank down like a living thing.
It did not move forward.
"What the hell."
Huai Shi looked around at the tragic scene and couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Overnight, the depth of the Witch's Night had officially fallen to the average level of the Surface Hell, which was [Depth 1].
This place was still not a place where ordinary Reality realm creatures could survive.
Instead, it was an even more bizarre and dangerous place of torture.
From the looks of it, today's battle would be even more tragic than before.
At the very least, Huai Shi couldn't find any giant beasts that could wander around unscathed. It was like a blue circle. How were they supposed to fight if they lost health the moment they entered the arena?
In the silence, Huai Shi heard the sound of sneaky footsteps in the wind.
Behind the tower, two figures slowly walked out from the shadows that couldn't be seen from the outside.
One of them was an old man with a hunched back. There were traces of a beast on his face, and his ears were long and pointy. It was hard to tell whether he should be called an elf or a donkey man.
The other one was the Emperor Penguin, Twin Moons.
"Wait."
Sensing the hostile gazes of the other giant beasts, Twin Moons raised his short hands first. "We're here to negotiate!"
"Sorry, we don't have the habit of negotiating with kidnappers here."
Ignoring the fact that the other side didn't even have a hostage, Huai Shi subconsciously took half a breath and heard Twin Moons spit out words like a cannon.
"Wait a minute, at least wait for me to finish. Did you notice that the speed of the depth increase is a bit fast? Or did Jonathan and Antoine not notice anything wrong? "
Antoine was also a scholar of the Astronomy Association. At least, he and Huai Shi were familiar with a giant bird with a whole tree growing behind it. The whole bird looked green and always made people feel sorry for it.
Hearing him say this, Jonathan and Antoine looked at each other.
Jonathan gestured at Huai Shi with a hand gesture. The gist of it was to wait for him to finish before scolding him …
Even though she was unwilling, Huai Shi still slowly held her breath. Only a strand of hot metal sparks flew out from between her teeth, scorching hot.
"What do you want to say?" The giant bird Antoine asked.
"Our progress is behind."
Twin Moons said bluntly. "I've calculated. According to the current rhythm of the Eternal War and the progress of our transformation, no matter what, it can't be compared to the speed of the depth increase.
If we're slow by one step, we'll be slow by every step. If we don't evolve to the extent that we can survive in hell before this, then when the disaster comes, it will only be more and more difficult to endure …
Don't rush to refute. I've uploaded all the arguments and data to the forum group. Everyone can see it.
You can verify whether my words are wrong or not. "
He took a step back and raised two short wings, indicating that he had no intention of attacking. He waited for the two to reply.
The matters of the scholars were not something that Huai Shi could worry about. Just as they were flipping through Twin Moons' paper, he simply sat down and waited for the results.
Then, he saw that Jonathan and the others' faces were getting uglier and uglier.
Obviously, what Twin Moons said made sense.
The situation had become so serious that it was beyond their control.
What's more, the abyssal transformation here was obvious to all.
It seemed that the deepening of the depth would only get faster and faster. In the end, no one knew what the hell this place would become.
But no matter what, it was not a paradise to raise living creatures. Instead, it was hell for evil spirits.
Seeing that Jonathan and Antoine had finished their calculations and had verified their observation data, Twin Moons opened his mouth to speak again.
"If there are no accidents, according to the original number of great spirits, we can have at least five explorers who can advance to the level of using the God's Remains.
But now, after being attacked by the whale yesterday, at least forty explorers were swallowed at once. The number of explorers dropped from 5.4 to 3.7. "
In other words, there were too many wolves and too little meat.
Even raising venomous insects required raw materials.
Now that the number of people was getting smaller and smaller, the number of people who could get the chicken dinner in the end also decreased.
After a casual attack by the Doomsday Whale, a huge gap had appeared in the originally more than enough numbers, and the environment was deteriorating faster and faster.
The cold winter seemed to be longer than expected.
The great spirits of the lizardmen looked at each other, and Huai Shi took the lead to ask.
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Time is tight, so why don't we be straightforward?" Twin Moons suggested, "Let's join forces, concentrate our firepower, speed up, and destroy the country of the kobolds first … Now, they have the least remaining great spirits, only fourteen. All the heads can be given to you. We only want the God's Remains. "
Huai Shi couldn't help but sneer from his nostrils and roll his eyes. "You're dreaming."
"Both the heads and the God's Remains are fine. The specific distribution plan is up to you, but no matter how it is distributed, our side can't get less than fifty percent."
Twin Moons drew the bottom line very straightforwardly as soon as she opened her mouth. "If it's not a win-win situation, then it's also beneficial to us that both sides suffer. Please think about it carefully."
"You've said so much. When the time comes, it'll all depend on our own abilities."
Huai Shi casually spat a mouthful of molten iron below the city wall and sneered. "It's fine if you want to join forces, but who knows if you'll be a traitor?"
In the end, it was still a matter of trust.
But it was good to have problems. After all, problems could always be solved.
They were afraid that there was no negotiation.
Obviously, they had a certain degree of confidence if they dared to come to the door.
Twin Moons glanced behind her, and the stooped old man behind her took out two things from his sleeve.
A scroll of silk book and a box.
"This is the contract and sincerity issued by the dean of the Ancientspirit Monastery." Twin Moons took a step back and said, "The representative of our monastery wants to see your king."
"In your dreams!"
The high priest finally couldn't help but stare at them with his eyes wide open. "It's already a great blasphemy to tolerate you heretics breathing the sacred air in the capital! How dare you … "
But before he could finish, the floor on the city wall cracked open. From the soil under the bricks, a flower of flesh and blood grew out.
The ferocious flower of flesh and blood suddenly opened, squirmed, and swallowed the box in the old man's hand. It quickly closed and shrank back into the ground.
It was as if nothing had happened.
Soon, a hoarse and familiar voice sounded in everyone's ears.
"I agree."
It was the king's voice.
It was so straightforward that it was completely out of Huai Shi's expectations. According to Huai Shi's impression, this kind of alliance would take at least half a month of discussion before there could be a preliminary result, right?
In the end, the matter was urgent and the power was given so quickly that Huai Shi didn't even have time to react.
"Then, under the witness of the Nameless Lord and your gods, our two sides temporarily cease hostilities and jointly resist the foreign enemy. I hope that this slender lifeline and faith can be continued in the furnace of the end of the world. "
The old man beside Twin Moons took a step forward and said so. He pulled out a necklace from under his neck. It was a strange and strange sacred emblem.
The high priest of the Lizardmen was silent for a moment and slowly raised the flag in his hand.
Both sides reflected each other.
In an instant, an inexplicable understanding emerged from the hearts of the Lizardmen. It was as if they could distinguish between friend and foe. They could distinguish the difference between their allies and other giant beasts, even if they had never met many of them.
However, this understanding didn't have the slightest bit of coercion.
In other words, it was all based on self-awareness.
"I advise everyone not to think about backstabbing. It's not worth it."
Twin Moons glanced at them and focused on Huai Shi. "Among us, only a few can survive alone without a group. But once the alliance is torn up, for most of us, it's tantamount to embarking on a dead end.
Among you are either scholars of the Astronomical Association or explorers who were invited. There's no need to say more about your rich experience. I believe you all know what's right and wrong. "
He paused for a moment, and his expression became strange and helpless.
"You have to know that in this world, we're not the only ones who know how to form alliances …"
Before he finished speaking, the cries of countless giant beasts sounded on the city wall on the other side.
Blood light soared into the sky and descended on dozens of great spirits. The gifts and blessings from the Divine Remains sprinkled down like rain and dew without hesitation.
In an instant, the roars of transformation rose and fell one after another.
The evolution ended in an instant.
And under the care of sparing no expense, the giant beasts, who had undergone another transformation, looked in the direction of Huai Shi and the others.
They were filled with the desire for blood.
The war began again.
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