High Above

  Chapter 546 Siou's Projection (33)

For the first time, Ian thought he saw the Sister Reflecting Light—but soon, as the phantom of the Dragon Lady gradually stared at her, and the picture in the drone gradually became clear, he realized that the other party was not the one he knew. Sister Huaiguang.

   But it did give him a familiar feeling.

  Under the dim moonlight, Ian saw a 'phantom'. In an academic term, it is a 'virtual projection'.

Yes, in the silver chip, this kind of phantom is called virtual reality projection, and it is essentially a silhouette of a creature's soul projected in the virtual reality, and reflected back into the real world... although it sounds absurd twice , but in fact, it has real power, and even because of the changes in the virtual world itself, the power of the virtual world projection may even be stronger than the original body.

  But what really surprised Ian and Tres was the appearance of the virtual projection.

In the light of the moonlight, a dragon girl wearing scale armor is walking slowly forward in the grassland. She has long fiery red hair like flowing flames, hanging down like a waterfall, over her fair neck, slender waist and The snow-white feet reached the ground, igniting layers of translucent spiritual flames.

This dragon girl looks extremely beautiful, with a pair of pure golden pupils. She looked around with a hint of bewilderment and curiosity as she looked around the world. She looked quite weak and cute—but her eyebrows revealed an instinctive arrogance. , and although the close-fitting scale armor set off the girl's slender waist, the dense dragon scale spikes on it meant that she was not easy to get close to.

  As for the dangling blade tail behind him, like the twisted blade tail made of many deformed joints, it proves this point even more.

  —This is an extremely dangerous creature.

  Whether it was Ian or Tres, the first thing that flashed in their minds was this kind of thought.

  Especially the dragon horns above the opponent's head. Deformed, weird, burning a mass of translucent scarlet psychic fire, like a molten antenna that has been struck by lightning, or a blood coral that has been bitten, with a sense of incomplete distortion, which makes people feel While uneasy, it also gives people a different kind of dangerous beauty.

   "This phantom has a third peak of power...basically the strongest of the phantoms that roam the wild."

When Tres saw the description below the dragon girl, she couldn't help but whispered to herself: "Her psychic flame is not fire, but a kind of 'poison' created by pure spiritual power, which can paralyze, paralyze, and lose Sanity, even memory loss—several victims are still being rescued.”

   "The good thing is that she basically doesn't kill people, unless she is actively attacked, otherwise, at most she will be burnt into a coma."

   But the astonishment in Ian's heart was not due to other reasons.

   It's because of the appearance of this dragon girl.

   "Isn't this Anfa? Of course, it's a feminized Anfa... Wait, doesn't this mean that this is Xiou?!"

Speaking of looks, the beautiful dragon girl looks very much like Anfa's twin sister, especially the golden eyes of the elves, which are innocent and childish, but her hair and figure have some characteristics of dragon people and mountain people , in general, the most professional ethnologists can detect several characteristics at a glance.

But Ian was surprised by his appearance, and his heart sank: "I know that Xiou's dragon soul was restrained by Feiyan. In other words, Xiou was actually experimenting in the Avak area. in the room."

   "And now, Xiou also appears in the phantoms in this area—can I speculate that all the phantoms in this area are essentially the projections of souls imprisoned in the laboratory in the virtual world?"

   This is not impossible, it can even be said that it is the truth!

   "We need to bypass these phantom monsters."

   Tres said this, not because he was cowardly, but because of ordinary considerations: "First capture an ordinary phantom outside, and after completing your mission, we will slowly go deeper..."

  Complete the mission of His Majesty Mikael. This is what he didn't say, and Ian nodded slightly: "Phantoms of the peak of the third energy level have appeared. There must be a fourth energy level in the core of this laboratory. We can't be too eye-catching... In this way, put With drones, we detect an area and take a step forward, which is the safest way."

  Although the exploration speed is the slowest and it is easy to be dropped by other teams, neither Tres nor Ian intends to take credit for the simple exploration—the completion of their own tasks is the most important thing.

The crawler off-road vehicles are speeding in the wilderness of the Avak area, kicking up dust. The fields that were once vibrant in summer have now become barren and desolate. To kill, to turn into a corpse.

Now, Ian and his vehicle pass by a former village, which is empty and dilapidated, full of signs of being attacked by ferocious beasts, maroon blood on the ground, mutilated corpses and charred houses all prove that something happened here A tragedy, the desolate atmosphere made the goblins all rare to be serious.

The speed of the off-road vehicle is not fast, and they are using drones to detect the crisis ahead at any time. According to this speed, they can probably reach the core area of ​​the Avak area before dawn, which is the Viscount's mansion, the hilly area where the laboratory is suspected .

  Ian is also constantly collecting information about the abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations here.

   Judging from the feedback from the silver chip, the psychic anomaly that is happening in the Avak area today is essentially a huge void ritual.

   This ceremony was once recorded in the book "Abyss Sacrifice", and it was called "Abyss of Silence".

At that time, the Kingdom of Yanjiang had not yet been unified, and in a region close to the exiled land—it was not called the exiled land at that time, but the extremely cold forest—a child born with supernatural powers was born. But it was sacrificed to the severe winter by the local tribe as a sacrifice.

  His death, the resentment and pain of extreme hatred before his death, connected all the creatures in the extremely cold forest to the fear of the cold winter, forming a big avalanche in the void.

  A fragment of the virtual world collapsed, or it was connected to the real world.

In an instant, the entire extremely cold group of forests was shrouded in a void, filled with extreme psionic coldness, and their tongues would be frozen off when they opened their mouths. Everyone could only keep silent, and wandering in it, many creatures The unquenchable resentment and pain are still distorting that piece of time and space so far, so that there is an extra piece of exile in the forest that will suddenly appear from time to time and devour everyone.

  Below the third energy level, as long as you enter it, even the sublimated person will hardly survive and cannot return.

But this time, although it was not as good as the collapse of the void on the other side of the exiled land, Ian felt a bad taste: "If we say, those lunatics are planning to rely on the pain caused by the death of millions of people And despair, artificially carry out a virtual collapse...then what is their real purpose?"

  Ian doesn't believe it. What's the point of simply re-enacting the "Abyss of Silence"? The other party definitely wants to use this to grasp some more profound information...

  Besides, he also understands why Xio has long been regarded as a target and captured by making a trap.

  Because Siou is a Terosaurus.

  He, or she, or even him, is unable to move on his own body, and is trapped in the dragon's nest, unable to leave.

  The fear and confusion hidden in the heart for a long time, the resentment and unwillingness to one's own body are the best sacrifices to activate the "Abyss of Silence".

and…

"Once the Abyss of Silence unfolds, it proves that the core area has been shrouded in fragments of the Void Realm. It just depends on how big it can eventually expand... In other words, our target, the laboratory in the Avak area, is likely to have been destroyed by now." The void is enveloped!"

  Ian told this conjecture to Hua An and Mo Feng who were also manipulating the instrument and collecting data from the Void Realm.

  The eyes of the two goblins widened immediately, and they looked at each other, obviously very surprised: "They want to create a virtual overlapping area? And they have succeeded?"

"Oh my god, I thought they created a giant Void psionic entity, they made such a big battle, they wanted to summon some Void Mechanic - I didn't expect that the Void fragments collapsed into the real world !"

  The goblins did have some data and saw some clues.

  But just as Ian thought before, as long as he guesses wrong at the beginning, the subsequent answer cannot be correct—there are too many possibilities in the virtual world, and the symptoms are too complicated to fully predict.

  If Ian is not cheating, it is difficult to see this.

   "Yes, it is precisely because this area has gradually begun to overlap with the virtual world that those 'phantoms', that is, virtual world projections, appear so frequently!"

Ian guessed that he was not only discussing with the goblin, but also telling the news to Mikhail who must be listening: "But it can't be Mechanics of the Void-Grand Duke Thorin has been moving out of himself for so many years. The population in the territory, the refugee wave has been going on for almost six or seven years, he must want to use this to reduce the population density in his territory and reduce the possibility of the Void Mechanism's interference!"

   "Since this is the case, then we must capture a virtual projection as soon as possible."

  Hearing this, Mo Feng nodded earnestly, with such force that even the purple ink that formed the hair floated out: "Moreover, this will cause irreversible damage to the Void Realm."

   "The void space corresponding to the current exiled land is still fragmented, and it may take more than a hundred years to return to normal. We must not let the void space in the Avak region collapse, that would be another millennium trauma!"

  This is indeed the correct way of thinking. Through the virtual projection, in turn, to determine the progress of the silent abyss ceremony, many things can be understood.

  For example, Grand Duke Thorin came up with the ultimate goal of all this.

   After hearing the discussion between Ian and the goblin, although Tress couldn't understand it at all, he could at least understand that they had to go deeper.

  So, he ordered the two off-road vehicles to go deeper, instead of just trying their luck on the outer layer.

   Soon, they found a batch of virtual projections.

   But the problem is, there are a bit too many phantoms coming.

  In front of the cross-country transport vehicle, seventy to eighty riders suddenly appeared, and a whole knight group galloped at a speed as fast as a gust of wind, rolling up soaring smoke and dust, and galloped towards Ian and his party.

   "The Knights of Viscount Avak?!"

   Tres, who had done his homework, looked at the scenery transmitted by the drone, and couldn't help opening his eyes. He wondered: "Why are they here!"

   "Can't they also become virtual projections?"

  (end of this chapter)