"What is that..."

When the Void people raised their heads because they were confused by the darkening of the sky, they saw some... strange things...

There are no stars in the darkening sky, but they move slowly.

It feels like a giant... cloth.

Yes... It's like a huge, black cloth that suddenly appears and blocks the sky, causing the surrounding area to become like night.

However, as the 'cloth' slowly moved, light appeared at its edge, and the sky began to slowly regain some brightness.

When the darkness in the sky is completely removed, the surroundings will return to the daytime they were before.

"That seems to be some kind of creature..." Looking at the black color moving away from the sky, the scholar asked the blaster: "Do you know its information?"

"That thing is called a 'local shadow.'" Blasters said, "Except for the fact that it occasionally darkens an area, everything is a mystery."

"Okay..." The scholar turned to the virtual people behind him and said, "Let's... keep moving forward!"

Then, the scholar and his team members moved slowly, maintaining full alertness, and walked out of this place where the ground was covered with blue.

What appeared in front of them was...a vast wasteland.

However, it is not a pure wilderness, because there are many pit structures on the ground, and the pits are emitting shining light, as if there is a mirror inside.

"Don't get close to those pits." The Howling Bug said: "That is a very big creature. It is buried under the ground. When it senses something in the pit, it will conduct high temperature into the pit and destroy the things there...

Cooked."

"It seems that there is some danger here..." the scholar said: "Then let's go around it. How far is it...from the target camp?"

"Let's pause here for a moment." Blasting Bug said: "This position is relatively safe, and we are not sure whether we can continue forward."

"Not sure..." the scholar asked, "What does this mean?"

"The behavior of the creatures here has changed." The Howling Bug said: "They have not changed much before, but before I came here, I found that they have changed a lot, so the 'safe place' previously reserved may be

It will become unsafe, so we need to re-determine the safety point. Anyway, stop here first."

"...Then so be it."

According to the opinion of the Blaster, the scholar asked the team members to set up a tent here. This is exactly the interval between the 'Blue Zone' and the 'Mirror Zone'. The ground is just an ordinary rocky ground. There is nothing strange, it feels like

Looks very safe.

After the tent was set up, the research team members carried out various investigations around it, while soldiers guarded the surrounding area.

The scholar has been looking at the plain full of potholes in front of him...

The mirrors in the potholes on the plains continue to reflect dazzling light. Although this light is very dazzling, it has an inexplicable attraction, making scholars want to get close to the potholes and take a look.

The scholar restrained this emotion, but he noticed a small creature flying down from the sky and landing next to a pothole.

This creature has four black wings. Its body is cylindrical, about one meter long and covered with fine black hairs. After flying down, it first crawled around the potholes with its wings several times, and then

Climb into the pit.

'hiss!'

There was a scream. The scholar found traces of black smoke coming out of the potholes.

The scholar couldn't help but stand up, walked closer to the pothole and took a look, and found that the four-winged creature in the pothole was scorched as if it had been struck by lightning, and its fine hairs were emitting scorch smoke.

"This is really powerful..." The scholar wanted to get closer to take a closer look, but the voice of the roaring insect rang out: "Don't come any closer."

"Okay." The scholar stopped and stood next to the pit and observed. Only then did he notice that the light on the pit didn't seem to be that bright anymore, and it didn't feel dazzling even when viewed so close.

At the same time, the scholar also saw... that the burnt corpse in the pit was slowly... sinking into it.

It was like the feeling of sinking into a swamp, the whole body was sinking into the mirror bit by bit...the body, wings, and the last remaining bit of fine hair disappeared without a trace.

The mirror surface returned to its previous smooth, bright and spotless appearance, as if nothing had ever fallen on it.

"What kind of creature is this..." The scholar became more and more fascinated as he looked at it. He asked the blasting insect: "Can... test it?"

"We don't have a complete understanding of this kind of creature." The Blaster said, "Doing so may lead to unpredictable consequences. But you can give it a go. This kind of curiosity may cause a citizen to die tragically, or it may cause the entire people to die tragically.

Civilization has made great achievements, and as the saying goes, how can we start a great adventure story without seeking death?"

"I just told you not to keep talking about things in movies..." The scholar said, "Forget it, let's give it a try anyway."

As he said this, the scholar picked up a stone and threw it on the mirror.

After the stone was thrown up, the same thing as before didn't happen... It would be better to say nothing happened. It just lay there quietly, without sinking or being burned.

"It seems that it can identify food and non-food..." The scholar said puzzledly: "That's strange, why is the mirror surface so clean? There should be a lot of small gravel and dust on it, or it will turn on time.

Clean up..."

"Careful! Roll quickly!"

The sound of howling insects suddenly sounded, and the scholar also noticed a huge black shadow rushing towards him in the sky.

The scholar immediately rolled on the spot, and the black shadow fell in its place. The scholar discovered that the black shadow was a sharp object, somewhat like... a spear.

The scholar subconsciously wondered if there was something throwing spears from a distance, and the guards next to the camp also noticed the situation here, and they rushed over immediately.

"Who is attacking here?" A guard raised his weapon and looked to the sky. However, although the 'spear' flew from the sky, he could not see anything there.

'Click!' Just as they were staring at the sky, the spear on the ground suddenly flew up. In the surprised eyes of the Xu people, the spear moved slowly in the air and flew to the place where the scholar threw it.

On the pothole where the rocks were.

Then the spear stuck to the stone thrown in by the scholar, and then with a whoosh... it flew back into the sky faster than it had flown before, and then disappeared.

"Then what exactly...is it?"

The scholars and soldiers all stared blankly, completely confused as to what was going on.

However, after this time, scholars did not just run around the mirror potholes...

In this way, a period of time passed, which was probably the day and night of several Void people. During this period, the Blasters decided to let the scholars set up a camp here instead of looking for a new place.

The scholar basically agreed, and other researchers also said it had nothing to do with it, and then the scholar contacted the general.

After the general found out, he decided to send more troops here and build a large camp at this location so that he could observe this place through the camp for a long time.

Now scholars and this group of researchers do not go back so quickly, but continue to study here for a while.

Although they said this, they basically did not dare to go far. Instead, they have been conducting research near the camp, and the scholars have been observing the potholes.

After observing it for a while, it basically knew what the spear-thrower was last time.

It seems to be an... invisible creature, at least there is no way to detect or see it directly. It may be hidden in the air at a height of tens of meters, and it will drop something that looks like a spear.

There is a transparent thread connected to the back of this spear, so it can be retracted, and it has three purposes for throwing the spear.

The first was to grab food. Later, the scholar saw several creatures falling on the mirror and being scorched. At this time, spears would occasionally be thrown down, and then the burned creatures would be stuck away.

The second is that it will help the mirror clean up. From the perspective of grabbing food, the spear-throwing creature seems to be hostile to the mirror, but it will help the mirror clean up things that have fallen on it, such as stones. Scholars have also discovered that small

The dust will sink directly into the mirror and disappear, while large rocks require a spear to clean...

The third is that the spear will also attack creatures wandering in the pit mirror area, even if it does not fall into the pit.

After recording the attack patterns and habits of this creature, as well as the power and speed of the attack, the scholar felt that he could pass through this pothole area without being attacked.

However, the howler asked him to stay here for a while and not to run around, so the scholar continued to study here.

In fact, scholars are more interested in mirrors than spear-throwing creatures. How does this creature work? How does it eat?

While the scholars were wondering about this, the general's first troops arrived. These troops included a group of soldiers and some construction workers, as well as remote-controlled machinery for construction.

Here they plan to first build a metal fence about a hundred meters in diameter, and then build buildings inside the fence.

This is also just the right size for this safe area.

However, this army brought not only the things that the Xu people used to build the camp, but also some... other things.

These are some small alloy spiders, which are mainly used for more detailed research.

They can let the scholar understand what the mirror is all about. At the same time, some of the scholar's... companions also came, and these companions expressed their intention to go on adventures in this world with the scholar. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!