According to Gelton and Ophra, this strange aerial mountain road seemed to have a mind of its own. It could sense the approach of outsiders. Even if only one knight climbed the mountain road, it would cause a collapse, and each collapse was very precise: only the stones under the feet of the outsiders would fall. According to the reports of the soldiers who escaped, the collapse process was as strange and unnatural as the appearance of the "Heavenly Road". It was as if the mountain rocks were consciously shaking to shake off the insects and ants on their bodies. The soldiers were terrified because of this. The continuous deformation of the entire "Heavenly Road", the unfathomable tremors and collapses, and the strange miasma that permeated the area caused the knights to be unable to capture this place. Although there were no "enemies" stationed here, it was more impregnable than any pass.
In the face of the power left behind by the ancient Magic Empire, the modern natives of the Plane of Dreams were as helpless as facing the power of nature.
Of course, the knights could also try to blow up the "bridge", but it was obviously a stupid idea: Dragonspine Ridge could rebuild the "Sky Road" countless times, unless the entire mountain range was flattened, otherwise it would not be over.
After hearing this, Hao Ren had another doubt: why did such a "bridge" only appear on the south side of Dragonspine Ridge? If the entire mountain range was really fully active, with the "mobility" it showed on the south side, it could even directly engulf the entire Beinz area, and then the knights would have nothing to do. But now there was only one breach in the entire mountain range, and so far there were only four peaks that could split into stone giants.
Hao Ren guessed that perhaps the "ancient power" sleeping in Dragonspine Ridge had not fully awakened, or this power had been suppressed for tens of thousands of years and now only had this little power left, or maybe some mastermind really did not have the ability to control everything. In any case, Hao Ren smelled something unsettling from the changes in this mountain range in the past two months. He felt that there should be a more terrible power hidden in the depths of this mountain range, just that it had not shown yet.
Now, he wanted to test the strangeness of this place himself, and let the MDT monitor the surrounding energy readings, hoping to find the source of the various changes in Dragonspine Ridge.
First, he threw some stones at the mountain path in front of him. Of course, it did not have any effect. After that, he carefully walked to the "Sky Path". Suddenly, he remembered that he should have teamed up with Vivian. She could fly …
However, at this time, he did not think too much about it. After stepping on the "Heavenly Road", the expected collapse did not come. His surroundings were still quiet. Not to mention a collapse, the ground under his feet did not even shake a bit.
"There's no reaction." Hao Ren took a few steps forward and ran two laps back and forth. "Are these all made up by the soldiers to scare people?"
"Don't joke around. It's impossible." The MDT flew in circles around Hao Ren. "They are elite troops. How could they form a group to play such a nasty joke on their superiors? And the number of soldiers who died in the mountain road collapse is not just one or two. I think some kind of monitoring system in this place is asleep."
Hao Ren glared at the MDT. "You're even more unreliable!"
In any case, there was nothing unusual on the ground. Nangong Wuyue watched nervously from afar. She was so nervous that she coiled herself on a big rock next to her. When she saw that Hao Ren was not moving, she slowly crawled over and asked, "Is it okay?"
"I don't know how it works. It seems like we won't arouse the mountain's' vigilance '." Hao Ren had subconsciously regarded the "Sky Path's" anomaly as a conscious action. So, he subconsciously regarded it as human-like. "According to what Lily heard from the soldiers in the city, if you stand here for more than a few seconds, the place will collapse. The stones under your feet will roll over, and even suddenly bounce up and throw people down the cliff below. There has never been an exception — except now."
Nangong Wuyue used the tip of her tail to circle the ground nearby, as if trying to find a hole in the ground. Of course, she found nothing. "Could it be that this mountain only responds to 'locals'? It may have a detection mechanism, but it's not manually operated. This automatic detection mechanism will only treat the residents of this world as' people '. "
Hao Ren scratched his chin and nodded. "It's possible. Anyway, let's go back and follow the path to the mountain to see what's going on. "
As Hao Ren spoke, he turned and walked back in the direction they came from. Nangong Wuyue twisted and turned to follow behind him. But just after they took a few steps, they heard a loud bang coming from afar!
Nangong Wuyue suddenly screamed in shock. "Ah! It's collapsing, it's collapsing..."
But even after she screamed, the ground under her feet did not move. The loud bang just now came from somewhere else. Hao Ren helplessly turned his head to comfort the useless siren. "Don't be so paranoid, it's somewhere else... Err, do you really have to do this?"
It turned out that Nangong Wuyue had curled her tail up reflexively when the loud bang was heard. It was an unpredictable self-binding speed. When Hao Ren turned his head, he saw a familiar snake ball swaying behind him. Nangong Wuyue's upper body was waving her arms trying to keep her balance.
Hao Ren facepalmed. "... Do you really have to curl yourself up into Orochimaru every time there's a slight movement?"
Nangong Wuyue untied herself as she muttered, "Is that what Orochimaru means..."
The loud bang came from the east, deep in the mountains where Hao Ren was. It sounded like it was quite a distance away from here. Hao Ren suspected that a new rock monster had fallen from the mountain wall. He pulled Nangong Wuyue along to check it out. They ran on the bumpy mountain path and soon they were close to the source of the sound. At this time, Nangong Wuyue suddenly whispered to Hao Ren. "There's the smell of blood."
"How come your noses are more sensitive than mine?" Hao Ren quickly slowed down and muttered.
Nangong Wuyue crawled along the mountain wall and said in a low voice, "Everyone has their own specialties. According to what you've said, we can't even keep our noses if we're a pair of Lily."
As Nangong Wuyue spoke, she approached a tall rock. She hid herself and coiled her tail into a mosquito coil and slowly lifted it up. Hao Ren felt that the maiden was a little more versatile than he had imagined. She was also a jack, although he did not know how much weight she could carry...
The siren maiden peeked out and immediately let out a low cry of surprise. She motioned for Hao Ren to go forward. Hao Ren immediately put up his Steel Membrane Shield and ran in front. Nangong Wuyue did not have much combat power. If there were enemies, he had to run in front.
However, there were no stone giants at the scene. Under the hazy moonlight, there were only a few soldiers lying on a small piece of rocky ground in the mountains. Strictly speaking, they were soldiers who had died in battle. Their deaths were miserable, and it was obvious that they had died at the hands of the stone giants.
"They died not long ago." Nangong Wuyue quickly snaked to the side of one of the soldiers. "Their blood is still warm. How tragic... "
Her voice was a little sad. She had seen a lot of life and death in her hundred years of travel. In fact, she did not hate the dead. But the people who died at the hands of the rock monsters were often very tragic. Even a strange creature like her could not help but feel a little uncomfortable.
Most of the dead soldiers had broken limbs, broken tendons, and broken hands. Some were even flattened on the ground with their armor. There were a few magicians on the scene, but they were killed before they could cast their gravity magic against the rock monsters. They did not even have time to activate their wands.
Thinking back to the sudden explosion just now, it was easy to guess what happened here. These soldiers should be the royal knights patrolling in Dragonspine Ridge. According to the situation at the scene, they should be resting here temporarily. But just when these soldiers let their guard down, the cliff above them suddenly collapsed. The rock monsters fell from the sky, and these people did not have time to react. Some of them were probably crushed to death on the spot.
Hao Ren looked up at the rock wall and found a dent that seemed to be left by the rock monsters.
It was a small probability event, but it was very likely to happen in the current Dragonspine Ridge. Now, the soldiers and mercenaries who walked back and forth on the mountain path were most afraid of the rock monsters falling from the sky and crushing them. But there were not many who met with such an unexpected disaster like the soldiers in front of them.
"The monster should have gone down the mountain path." Nangong Wuyue looked up into the distance. The traces left by the rock monsters were easy to find. "Should we go after it?"
It was just a rock monster, and it was of little value to Hao Ren. There were many such monsters wandering on the west side of the mountain. He shook his head and said, "No, let's go to the main peak. The MDT has detected a suspected energy active point there."
The two of them observed a moment of silence for the soldiers who met with the unexpected disaster. Nangong Wuyue left a layer of enchantment around the bodies to prevent wild beasts from gnawing on the bodies. The next day, other patrol teams would naturally find the missing soldiers and bring them back.
After that, they left the place.
But before they went far, Nangong Wuyue's expression suddenly changed. "Go back! Something's wrong! "
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