Soul echo

Chapter 278 The Altar
The closest point to the city is a river bank, almost against the city wall.

Logically speaking, if there were any conspiracy, it would not be possible to be so blatantly placed in this position.

Therefore, Zhong Ye and the others agreed that this was just a 'sighting spot'.

Walking along the river bank, not far away, there is another forest.

"The woods? Why is it the woods again?" Lily couldn't help complaining, "Don't they have nowhere to hide except the woods?"

"Maybe it's because the woods are relatively hidden. Even if you do something, you won't be easily discovered."

Zhong Ye replied casually, his eyes swept across the river bank, but he did not find any abnormalities on the river bank that appeared around the altar in the woods before.

——Even in winter, "living" things are alive, even if they appear dead, but in spring, everything will be revived.

However, the land around the altar is already 'dead'. Even if spring comes, the withered trees and flowers will not regenerate, and the small animals and insects buried in the ground will no longer be able to break out of the ground, because their lives are destroyed together with the life of the land. The vitality was taken away together.

The perception of up to 21 points allows Zhong Ye to sense the state of the surrounding environment. At least these places passing by now still have vitality.

Because the woods were more suspicious, Zhong Ye and the others walked all the way towards the woods, and stepped into the woods not long after.

Not long after walking into the woods, Zhong Ye noticed that the already ethereal and sparse bird calls disappeared.

Except for the breathing of the three of them, the world fell into a dead silence.

The wind was too loud, even he couldn't hear the movement too far away, and if he let go of his hearing, it would irritate his eardrums.

After walking for a while, Lily Lieber suddenly proposed, "How about we split up?"

"Separate action?"

Lilian blinked her eyes, with a bit of expectation in her eyes, she turned to look at Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Yes, have you brought the compass?"

All three of them took out their compass and confirmed that the pointer of the compass is now in the correct direction.

"When you act, remember to leave your own mark on the road, such as me, I will draw a triangle."

As he spoke, Zhong Ye drew out a throwing knife and carved a triangular mark on the tree beside him.

Then, he distributed the throwing knife in his belt to Lilian and Lily Lieber.

Lily cared a line segment on the tree, Lilian thought for a while and drew a cross.

Zhong Ye glanced at them, wrote down their respective notches, said "be careful", and then took the lead to enter the depths of the woods, and soon disappeared from Lilian and the others' sight.

They turned their eyes away from Zhong Ye's back and looked at each other. Lilian snorted softly, turned her head and walked towards the east.

Seeing her like this, Lily knew what she was thinking without even thinking about it. She couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled lightly, then walked away from Lilian.

Zhong Ye walked very quickly, and in a short while, he walked into the depths of the woods.

This place should have been the habitat of birds and beasts, even in winter, but there should be many traces left by the actions of wild animals.

Ordinary people may find it difficult, but in his eyes, even the slightest trace has nowhere to hide—unless it has been covered by cold wind and snow.

"It's really not right..." Zhong Ye whispered to himself.

There is no such thing as "death spirit" in this world. No matter in the east or west, "undead" are all alien species. If there is no invasion of the abyss, there will be no such thing as undead creatures in this world.

The undead originated from the moon polluted by the abyss, and the energy that provides them with survival and activities comes from the moon.

Even the usual moon instead of the blood moon can provide energy for the undead to move, but during the blood moon, they can get more energy, and they will become stronger because of it.

On the night of the blood moon, as long as there is no 'funeral', even ordinary bones and corpses can be resurrected.

Except for some secret realms, there is no other outer space in the world of Dan, and naturally there is no heaven or hell. The God Realm where the belief gods live is transformed from a secret realm. They do not come to the world because they are too powerful and their souls diverge The radiation of the swarm continuously alters the surrounding environment, distorting the minds of living creatures.

And the original gods are the various natural environments in Dan's world themselves, so there is no need to worry about this kind of problem.

Therefore, this kind of 'dead stillness' is not the original product of the Dan world at first glance, it is either something from the outside world or artificially created, and Zhong Ye is more inclined to the latter.

He remembered the altar he found in the woods next to the Kingdom Avenue, although he hurried back because he noticed the 'painted skin', but he also saw the opposite scene around the altar.

If there is no accident, everything with a radius of at least tens of meters around the altar has lost its vitality.

I just don't know if this force has penetrated deep into the ground, and whether the Mother Earth or the God of Nature has discovered this.

——The original gods are a little different from the gods of faith, that is, generally speaking, their reactions are not as quick as the gods of faith.

After all, their bodies are the natural environment of the Dan world, such as the mother of the earth, whose body is the entire land of the Dan world, whether it is the eastern land, the western land, or the South Asian subcontinent that has been blown to pieces, and Africa that is still plagued by plagues. , and North and South America whose existence is unknown.

If there were only a few incidents, perhaps he would not be able to detect them until his followers reported them.

After a while, Zhong Ye gave up thinking, closed his eyes, and let go of his perception silently.

The strong wind blew past his ears, and the hysterical sound tore his eardrums. He listened to the echo of the strong wind hitting the object, and sensed the deviation of the air flowing around the object.

After standing still for a while, Zhong Ye suddenly stepped forward, walking unswervingly towards the northwest.

He walked through the woods, but he didn't bump into any trees, and he didn't trip over stones or roots. Even with his eyes closed, he seemed to be able to see clearly what the woods looked like.

Zhong Ye watched the woods through the 'other eye'. When he completely let go of his perception, his brain captured a lot of information that he would not care about at all.

Although the three attributes representing the "soul" are not as closely connected as the "three attributes of the body" on the surface, if the perception ability is improved, but the brain is not improved, it cannot process so much information, and wisdom As you improve, you can naturally notice some subtleties that you couldn't notice before.

After walking briskly in the woods for a while, Zhong Ye suddenly stopped and opened his eyes.

——A black stele appeared in front of his eyes.

The stele was only half his height, Zhong Ye squatted down, swept away the snow on the ground, and saw the stone slab hidden under the snow.

Circle after circle of stone slabs are put together to form the shape of the altar, and the stone tablet is the center of the altar.

This time, he had more time, so he found a stone and pried up the outermost stone slab.

The slate looked very thin, not even as thick as Zhong Ye's own palm.

There was nothing on the upward side, but Zhong Ye turned the slate over and swept away the soil stained on the back, and saw some words.

He doesn't know these characters. These characters don't seem to belong to the writing system of Xilu, nor the writing system of Dongtu...

"What is this……"

Zhong Ye frowned slightly, and pried up the other stone slabs beside him.

The characters on the back of the slabs seem to be the same, but the characters that make up the sentences are different. Judging from these slabs, this kind of characters have at least a dozen or more letters.

It is not his job to distinguish what these letters represent. Since it has been confirmed that there is an altar in this forest, it is basically certain that there should be similar altars around the other places where the undead were found.

But in this way, the problem arises again.

——Why are there so many unknown things around Chartres, which look like altars used to create undead?

(End of this chapter)