Peculiar phenomenon

"It's only a few hundred yuan a month, so there's really no need to play with your life. "

Colin closed his gaze and looked at one of the five pillars of fire, and suddenly thought of something, and grabbed one casually.

It was about the same thickness as an adult's thigh, just right to hold in the hand, and the top was inlaid with a blood-red spar the size of a human head, and it was this blood-red stone that burned with a strange fire.

"Sure enough... With this thing, you should be able to escape. "

Colin didn't hesitate any longer, sensed the "event one" in his mind, determined the direction and left the place directly.

Although there is only one pillar of fire, the irradiation diameter is quite a lot, more than 30 meters.

"There are 163 hours 24 minutes and 37 seconds left in 'Event Three', and it looks like it's been almost four hours since I woke up..."

"I don't know what the status of that former colleague is now, I hope he doesn't have so much over there..."

"Well, you have to run faster, lest someone catch up later, after all, there should be a lot of powerful people in this world..."

Colin grabbed the "torch" in one hand, quickened his pace, and soon found himself walking into a barren plain...

And, enduring the pressure of the darkness above his head, he didn't get out of this plain after five hours of driving.

Didn't see a former colleague either...

That guy's location was far farther than he thought.

"I'm not going to just run out of fuel and die on the way, right? Oh, this stone seems to be quite resistant to burning, and I don't know how long it will take, if it weren't for the distance being pulled in, I would have suspected that I had encountered a ghost hitting the wall, but, then again... Did I forget to use the 'Book of Numerology'? Forget it, I won't use it yet..."

Colin muttered to himself as he hurried, reconciling his depression of walking alone in the dark.

After another hour of walking, he suddenly stopped, his dark pupils looking around, his face anthropomorphic shocked.

Just after a casual blink, the surroundings suddenly lit up, and the originally dark scene turned into an uneven plain, there were no animals in the plain, but there were a lot of low bushes, and the whole looked a bit like the area with plants on the edge of the desert seen on TV.

It's not the point, the point is...

Is it dawn?

Why is it suddenly dawning?

"Is it a natural phenomenon unique to this world?

Colin was puzzled, and in the end he could only classify it as a peculiarity of this world.

After all, this is a world of magic...

A lot of things that he felt strange might just be common sense here.

But in the daytime, the torch-like stone pillar in his hand doesn't seem to have any sense of existence.

Colin didn't throw it away, after all, it can dawn in an instant, who knows if it will be dark again?

He didn't want to know and didn't want to try what would happen if he went into the darkness without lights...

Looking into the distance, feeling that his colleague was getting closer and closer to him, he buried his head and quickened his pace.

...

At the same time, at the entrance of the dungeon, the warden with a blue nose and swollen eyes cautiously poked his head out of the dungeon.

Well, there was no sound of the monster outside, and a distant footprint seemed to indicate that the other party had already left...

"He snatched a 'vigil lamp'... It shows that even with that appearance, he still kept his senses, and, what kind of form was he? Stage 3? Who was he, and where was he going next?"

The warden's swollen eyes struggled to open a gap, looking in the direction the other party had left, and that direction seemed to be...

No man's land?

"Prison Chief, what to do... Do you want to catch up?", a subordinate asked in a whisper.

The warden fell silent when he heard this, and 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 party." "

In this area, only the knights and priests of the Church who wield the power of "virtue" are capable of hunting the monster.

He knew very well that if the other party had killed yesterday, then now, there would not be a living person in the dungeon.

After speaking, he remembered something, touched his swollen pig-like face, took a painful breath, and asked his subordinates very puzzled:

"Have I ever abused him before, for example, by pressing him and beating him?"

"Never! You are like a true knight, you have never abused others like the executioners of the Inquisition, and we respect you from the bottom of our hearts," said the man.

Rumors have spread in the dungeon, and in order not to let others be harmed, the warden silently resisted everything alone.

Pulling the monster to fight fiercely under the dungeon for more than ten minutes, the whole dungeon crackled constantly, consuming most of the opponent's energy, forcing the other party to flee, thus saving everyone.

If it weren't for the warden's containment, I'm afraid that no one in the entire dungeon would have survived.

The guards were impressed.

"Phew, what do you mean, I'm a knight, a knight blessed by the nobility!"

The prison warden scolded and scolded, and then remembered something, in addition to scolding him yesterday, the other party also had some words that seemed to have a great opinion on the "Holy Healing Church".

Especially the sentence "If you didn't send me over, I wouldn't be like this at all"...

When did he send the other person over?

What else is that?

Could it be that ...

The other party secretly revealed to him that there was a problem with the "Holy Healing Church"?

Although it is possible that this is some kind of discord meter... But before that, he suddenly remembered that some time ago, when he was in contact with the members of the "Knights of Virtue" above, those adults were talking about the "Holy Healing Church"...

Attitude, there are some... Indescribable subtlety.

...

Colin didn't know what he was venting, which made the warden suspicious of the "Holy Healing Church", and he didn't know that a hunting party against him would soon set off.

At this time, after another three hours of travel, he finally walked through the long plain and came to a mountain forest.

At the same time, the rescue signal is getting clearer and clearer...

But not long after walking into this mountain forest.

Colin senses that something is getting wrong...

Over here... It was too quiet, and he didn't seem to see anything alive except himself, not any plants, insects, any living movement...

However, it is not uncommon to see the dried corpses of withered plants and animals, and you can see them from time to time.

The strangest thing is that the corpses are mostly intact, covered with a thin layer of ash, as if they were never touched after death, and there has been no decay.

A keen sense of smell tells Colin that on a microscopic scale, seemingly invisible to the naked eye, the tiny microbes, like the corpses that can be seen everywhere, are given equal death.

"The sterile rooms in the hospital are not as 'clean'... I'm not going to go into the tiger's den just out of the wolf's den, am I..."

Colin's huge body walked flat in the mountains and forests, looking at the corpses of animals and plants, large and small, that occasionally appeared in his advance.

He pondered curiously, but there was no answer.

There are so many strange places in this world.

But fortunately, nothing happened in the mountains and forests except for the traces left by matter and death.

After another half hour, Colin stopped, half-squinting at the town that appeared in front of him.