Chapter 739 A fly in the ointment
“Yeah——”
After a moment of spinning, Soshiyang found that his feet touched the earth again, and at the same time, a painful hum came from around him.
So he reached out his hand and supported Veronica's shaky body.
“Is it okay.”
"How can it be okay!"
The Elf girl glared at him.
"Didn't I tell you not to use that power indiscriminately? It will harm others and yourself."
"I was in a hurry to obtain the memory chip."
At this time, Soshiyang He noticed that the golden rune in Veronica's palm was fine before, but now it was cracked in the middle.
"This is-"
Veronica glanced at the rune, looking a little lonely and regretful.
“The great prophet said that this is the inheritance left by my parents who I have never met. It has saved me twice and this is the last time.”
“I’m sorry. , my promise is still valid, you helped me obtain those things, you can make a request to me personally in the future."
"Hmph, then you can go to hell if I ask you to."
Soshyan nodded solemnly.
"If you really ask for it, then I will kill myself immediately after I complete my mission."
The Elf girl wrinkled her nose and made a face.
"Only the greenskins believe it! You are so cunning, who knows how long your mission will take, but your life will be long."
As she said that, she walked around behind Soshyan.
"You'd better take a look at your baby."
Hearing what she said, Sosh was horrified, and then immediately took out the memory chips.
The result made him heartbroken.
Of the ten storage pieces, four were torn together with the backpack. They were all relatively serious injuries. I don’t know if they can still be used.
“Oh, damn it, it’s all my fault for being too careless, careless, careless.”
"Okay, okay, don't sigh. It means you are destined to only take six pieces, which is already good. Now we have to think about something more realistic."
In fact, Veronica is not needed. After talking a lot, Soshyan quickly calmed down his mood. It is not his character to be more self-pitying.
“Where is this place?”
Soshiyang looked around and found that this place was different from before. There were still a small amount of natural landscapes left, including decaying trees. With dead branches and shrubs, he could only carefully choose his path through the mud pits scattered everywhere.
This place seems to have been a forest a long time ago, which sounds incredible considering the current state of this place.
"This is very close to the core area."
Veronica took out the map again.
"Huh? Why did that light spot become two?"
She noticed that there were only two bright spots representing the green skins, and they were still flickering.
“Forget it, no matter how many there are, we have to pass from the front.”
The two of them walked forward and came to a high slope. Then they looked down along the high slope, but could not find any trace of the exit.
What is even weirder is that there is actually a river here. The gloomy and turbid river water roars downstream with an unstoppable momentum. It is reflected like mottled amber by the dim and unknown halo from the sky. The air beside the water It is filled with floating and sinking like fine gray clouds.
“Where does this river come from?”
Soshiyang asked in confusion, but the Elf girl shook her head.
“I can’t tell, either. The space and time here cannot be calculated using common sense.”
After speaking, she waved her hand and pointed to a clearing among the trees.
"Let's go there and have a look." Then the two of them filed out of the forest. Their agile and vigorous skills seemed to ignore the muddy and rugged ground under their feet, while the bright flashlight on Soshiyang's shoulder emitted The beam of light tore the surrounding shadows into pieces.
While passing by the river bank, Soshiyang reached out and picked up a broken dead branch and soaked leaves. The ceramic steel armor weighing more than a thousand kilograms gradually sank into the mud at his feet. But it didn't affect his movements at all.
“There is still a certain freshness, this is definitely not something from ten thousand years ago.”
At this time, Veronica also stopped, poked the ground with the tip of the stick in her hand, and called out to Soshiyang:
"Big guy, look."
Soshiyang Walking forward quickly, a clearly visible footprint caught his eye, its huge size dwarfing the boots of a mortal.
“The greenskins also walked here.”
Soshiyang came to the conclusion softly, carefully tracing the outline of the footprints with his fingers.
"Why?"
He couldn't help but murmured to himself:
"After so many years, what else do they want to get from here? How did they keep this secret? Passed down from generation to generation?”
“It’s hatred”
Veronica also stared at the huge footprints:
"The Great Prophet said that the war of the past would determine the ownership of the galaxy in the next ten thousand years. If the greenskins win, they will have the opportunity to get rid of the barbaric curse that has been imprisoned on them, and allow their civilization to ascend to a higher level. level, but they failed, and they are still wild beasts from then on. No matter whether they can gather strong power in the future, this opportunity will never come again, so their hatred for this failure is deep. It’s incorporated into the genes.”
Soshiyang sighed and looked around.
“But I didn’t see any exit. Is there anything special about this place?”
“We have to cross the river first.”
Veronica reached out and pulled out the gold-edged hardcover booklet from her waist, and glanced at Soshyan beside her:
"Don't use your ability again, I can't bear it."
Soshiyang waved his hand in response, and then took a few steps back to reassure the other party.
Veronica began to recite the incantation. At first, there was only her clear voice, and then a deep voice like an old woman was added. The tones of their words were oddly coordinated, and each incantation was louder than The previous section was an octave lower, and finally turned into bursts of strange, indistinguishable white noise - a strange phonetic pattern that was completely different from any human language pattern.
Then, Veronica raised her treasured staff high, the gem on the tip of the staff sparkling, and then swung her magic sword, pointing the sword's edge directly at the roaring waves in the middle of the river.
A few seconds passed, and Veronica's chant was suppressed lower and lower by the violent expansion of spiritual energy. The unparalleled power shook the earth, causing a small-scale earthquake in the sand.
Bang--!
Two blasts of cloud-piercing stone exploded at the same time. Veronica drank the spell at the same time, and fiery red light pillars rose from the river bank under her feet, as if spewing from an underground cave. Thousands of rays of light.
Then, the wandering light pillars twisted into dozens of main axes at their roots, resembling a crimson forest rising from the center of the angry waves.
At first, the water flow could easily penetrate the red light pillars inserted in the center of the river, but as Veronica repeated the previous order, the echoing low mantra pressed the fiery red light pillars into shape. A wall of light rose up instantly.
With the dull humid roar, the river water was divided into two by the light wall blocking the front, and one left and one right continued to flow forward.
Seeing the raging waves right in front of him, Suoshiyang didn't rush or panic, letting the turbulent waves crash into his body and blocking Veronica behind him.
After a while, the roaring waves stopped, and the two of them stepped onto the exposed river bed - the wild water waves boiled and transpired around them, turning into filthy white smoke with a dull color.
"I'm exhausted, let me lend you my shoulder."
Gently wiped the sweat from her forehead, Veronica stepped on her feet, rose into the air, and then gently Sit on Soshyan's left shoulder.
Resisting the urge to scold the other party, Soshyan could only lead Veronica through the knee-deep mud and slowly move towards the middle of the river bed - fortunately, Veronica didn't do it either. Sitting, he kept waving his magic sword and used his spiritual energy to dig out the annoying mud blocking him.
When she finally reached the middle of the river, Veronica chanted the mantra to summon the scorching blazing spirit flames, causing the mud to instantly boil and splash, creating a surge of stinking steam.
In just a few minutes, a silvery light flashed in the mud, making Soshiyang's face shine.
Feeling the power of the subspace surging around him, Soshyan suddenly realized that this alien girl who looked very fragile was actually a very terrifying psyker. All kinds of spells could be mastered with just one hand. A simple thought - this power seems to have become an extension of self-will to the world.
If he hadn't faced him, he felt that no one in the battle group could deal with this female alien, so he always reminded himself not to be deceived by appearance - this is definitely an extremely dangerous alien!
Also aside from the alien status, psionic power alone is always a dangerous double-edged sword in his eyes.
For a long time, Talos often laughed at him for not being able to distinguish between 'spiritual power' and 'witchcraft and evil methods', but every time he asked questions, Talos himself had trouble distinguishing the subtle differences between the two.
For thousands of years, various psychic organizations, including think tank sanctuaries, have used obscure languages and mysterious symbols to whitewash their own disciplines and rules, believing that by performing a series of cumbersome and complex rituals, It can maintain the purity of the caster's soul - Soshiyan disagrees with this kind of humble opinion.
So far, Soshyan has always believed that there is no effective way to separate purity and dirt. It is always difficult to distinguish black and white in everything in the world, and there will be shadows under the blazing sun.
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