PFC Chapter 1302: Surprising Answer
Chapter 1302: Surprising Answer
Chapter 1302: Surprising Answer
"My Lord, this house is also neatly arranged, including the wardrobe drawers and the warehouse. There is no mess, but there is no trace of a wood fairy."
In the dead silent village with distorted space, Louise was controlling several bat golem puppets to check the situation while reporting to Lei Xiao.
It was not difficult to see from Louise's somewhat blurred eyes that she had obviously obtained the vision of those bat golem puppets.
"My Lord, I have seen many tables still warm from the wood goblin meals. Some even had just taken a few bites, but the tableware was still scattered on the tables, chairs or on the ground."
Nan Xing appeared in front of Lei Xiao, touching his chest and reporting with some uneasiness.
"My Lord, I even saw rows of magic wands neatly placed in the tree houses of several magic towers, but I couldn't see any human figures."
Nan Yue followed closely behind, with anxiety and confusion on her fair face.
"Indeed, I have also seen magic wands and robes in some wood elves' residences!"
Louise heard the voice and echoed it.
As the situation in the wood goblin village became clearer, the group became more nervous.
The strange and vast unknown space is distorted, the wood elves have disappeared, and things are obviously becoming more and more confusing.
"My Lord, not only have all the wood elves disappeared, but the captive monsters in several small farms around the village have also disappeared. Even the magic bead pond next to the orchard is empty."
A rough voice was heard, and Tiger Stick, who was in charge of investigating the outskirts of the village, hurried back and saluted Lei Xiao with a solemn expression on his face.
"Your Majesty, it seems that the wood elves left all of a sudden, and they left in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to take their gifts with them."
Joniel walked out of a giant tree house that had a hollowed-out trunk, and said solemnly, "Could it be that they noticed the strangeness of the space distortion and hurriedly went to a shelter to hide?"
"But this doesn't make sense. If the wood fairy left in such a hurry, why didn't he take the most important equipment with him, but instead took care of the captive monsters and the magic bead monsters in the pool?"
Shuerte's wood-carved old face was full of confusion, and he frowned at the vines.
"Is it to get food?"
Asagao tilted her head and blurted out.
"Not really. Regardless of the fact that the shelter must have emergency supplies, even if we want to bring food, we should consider the food in our homes first, right?"
Cornette directed the alchemy puppets to stand guard nearby and shook his head, saying, "But the current situation is that none of the food and clothing in the wooden houses have been moved. This is obviously not in line with common sense."
"Besides, since the wood elves left in a hurry, why did they go to the trouble of taking all the captive monsters with them?"
Shuerte carefully recalled the living habits and customs of the wood elves, and said with a puzzled look on his face: "What I can't understand is that they specially emptied the magic bead pool in such an emergency. It is even more incomprehensible. There is no reason for the wood elves to do this."
After hearing what Shulter said, the other strong men on our side all frowned in confusion, trying to find the answer to the matter.
"It seems the situation is even stranger than we thought."
Lei Xiao gently stroked his chin and said thoughtfully: "I wonder if you have noticed one thing. From the moment we left the city, apart from the raging space gale and distorted scenes, there was only dead silence everywhere."
"Your Majesty is right. I didn't even hear the sound of insects or birds chirping."
At this point, Shuerte suddenly understood and said, "Your Majesty, do you mean that not only the wood elves, captive monsters and magic bead monsters have disappeared, but also all the other animals here have disappeared?"
"That's right. This perfectly explains our doubts just now. The captive monsters and the magic bead monsters were not taken away by the wood goblins, but they disappeared together with the wood goblins."
Lei Xiao affirmed Shuerte's words, his face became more solemn, and he spoke.
"Your Majesty the Human, are you saying that they all disappeared suddenly? That makes sense. So the wood elves didn't leave in a hurry, but just disappeared suddenly?"
Cornette reacted immediately, his eyes widened as he said, "In this case, whether it's the food that's still warm, or the weapons and equipment that couldn't be taken away in time, or the neat furnishings in the house, everything makes sense!"
"But this is too unbelievable, right? Could it be the distortion of space?"
There were several bat golem puppets hovering above Louise's head. She asked with a look of amazement on her face, "How on earth did they do that?"
"Although the reason is unknown, this distorted space seems to have the power of passive transmission. At the same time, there are two extremely important questions."
Lei Xiao slowed down his pace and frowned, "The first question is where did the dwarves and other animals go? The second question is whether that sudden disappearance or passive teleportation will happen again."
After hearing Lei Xiao's words, everyone nodded while pondering, their expressions becoming more and more solemn. It must be said that the matter was really too unbelievable.
"Your Majesty, this strange situation seems to be very similar to the "Lost Ruins Effect". Could it be that the ancestors of all races also suddenly disappeared in this way? This is why there is no ancient corpse in the ancient ruins?"
Cornette's face turned pale, and he summoned another sixth-level alchemical puppet from his storage ring.
After Cornette said this, everyone became more nervous.
If this is true, then even our ancestors who were in their heyday and protected by the gods would not be able to resist the distortion of space and would all disappear, let alone our group.
"It's not certain yet, but I think it's unlikely."
Lei Xiao hesitated for a moment, then responded: "There are three reasons. First, most of the ancient ruins are severely damaged, obviously they have suffered disasters or wars, but there are no signs of fighting here."
"The second is that not all the myriad races disappeared back then. Some of them remained, but they lost extremely important memories. And here, there is no one."
"Besides, a large amount of weapons and equipment disappeared along with the Ten Thousand Races, but the weapons and equipment here are intact."
"The third and most important point is that according to the information I have learned, only the powerful people of all races disappeared that year. There was no large-scale disappearance of ordinary magical beasts or even insects."
After hearing Lei Xiao's analysis, the group's nervousness eased a little and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"But even though this incident has no direct connection to the Lost Ruins Effect, we still haven't figured out the root cause of the incident, let alone prevented it from happening."
Lei Xiao held Rolandel tightly and warned everyone, "Don't let your guard down. We can't turn back now. We must solve this matter as soon as possible while this strange distortion has just happened."
Under Lei Xiao's command, our group quickly reorganized the exploration formation and continued to investigate in the deserted wood fairy village.
Soon, Louise's curious voice rang out again, wondering, "My Lord, just as you said, where did the disappeared wood elves go?"
However, before Louise could finish her words, something unexpected happened.
Without any warning, the group only felt a sharp spatial gale coming down from the sky, whistling in their ears. Although Jiang Xi's spatial barrier offset it, Lei Xiao and the rest of our group were not directly affected by the gale.
But as a strong grey light flashed by, the surrounding wood goblin village completely changed its appearance, leaving our group stunned.
The originally intact wood fairy village was almost razed to the ground, leaving only charred tree roots and some house debris. Thick black smoke was emitting and a nauseating stench was everywhere.
For a moment, everyone felt as if they were in another world, as if they had suddenly traveled through time, and the devastated scene before them made everyone clench their weapons tighter.
Suppressing his inner surprise, Lei Xiao looked intently and noticed further.
The source of the thick black smoke was not flames, but a black corrosive liquid that was bubbling on the ruins of the village, turning everything into a black sticky substance flowing all over the ground.
"Your Majesty, judging from the remaining traces of magic, this is an extremely powerful corrosive spell."
Joniel bent down to check for a moment, then frowned and said to Lei Xiao, "According to my analysis, the spell will take about half a day to cast."
After Joniel finished speaking, Shult, who was currently the strongest member of the team, also nodded, obviously agreeing with the former's opinion.
"Look over there."
Lei Xiao held Rolandel across his chest and gave everyone a look.
Following Lei Xiao's gaze, everyone was surprised to find that
Under a broken tree not far away, several short and slender corpses were lying in a mess, with some burn marks and dried blood around them.
When he got closer, Lei Xiao noticed further.
These short corpses were all wearing tattered robes, with several broken wooden staffs scattered on the ground. They were obviously a group of soldiers.
The rather conspicuous pointed ears are longer than those of half-elves but slightly shorter than those of elves. The two teams of transparent wings behind them are mostly broken. They are the wood elves we have been looking for!
"What the hell is going on? They've been dead for at least half a day!"
Louise bent down to check it out, and then said to Lei Xiao in disbelief: "My Lord, have we traveled through time? Is this the past or the future?"
"Yes, why was the village that was intact suddenly destroyed in the blink of an eye?"
Chao Yan's fair face was full of confusion, and her head seemed to be smoking.
"Take a closer look. Is this really the same wood fairy village as before?"
Lei Xiao signaled Yuji and other strong men to spread out and be on guard, and nodded to Louise and Chao Yan.
With Lei Xiao's reminder, the two of them realized belatedly that
Although it is very similar to the wood fairy village just now, the architectural layout here is not exactly the same. It is just difficult to distinguish at first glance because of the ruins everywhere.
"So, we have teleported without realizing it?"
Louise slapped her smooth forehead and suddenly realized, "And the sudden strong space gale just now is a sign of teleportation?"
"Although it doesn't feel as light as normal teleportation, it is indeed the case."
Lei Xiao confirmed Louise's words and nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, those wood elves that suddenly disappeared might have been teleported here."
"Although the main way wood elves move is flying, and their whereabouts cannot be determined by their footprints, I agree with His Majesty the Human."
The wooden staff in Shuerte's hand was surging with rich magic power, and it was obviously in a state of being ready to go. He echoed: "It seems that the two problems just raised by His Majesty the Human Race have been solved. This is where the disappeared wood elves went, and the passive transmission of the distorted space will indeed happen again."
"So what exactly is this place?"
Chao Yan raised his head and asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"It is certain that this is definitely not a barrier area."
After Lei Xiao's permission, Jiang Xi spoke first: "The degree of space distortion here is exactly the same as before. It has reached a level beyond human power. If this happened in the barrier area, it would have collapsed completely long ago."
"This place doesn't seem to be the Peak Forest Secret Realm, and it doesn't even belong to the territory of the Peak Forest Secret Realm wood elves."
Shuerte looked at the emblems on the robes of the dead wood elves and said with certainty, "This is completely different from the emblem of the wood elves in the Peak Forest Secret Realm."
"No wonder these soldiers have been dead for a long time, and the space distortion happened not long ago, so the time doesn't match. So, don't these dead wood elves belong to the Fenglin Secret Realm?"
Gray Elder stroked his gray beard and said thoughtfully, "But as far as I know, apart from the secret area of the peak forest, there seems to be no information about wood goblins appearing in other areas of the Outer Realm."
"That's right, that's exactly what I'm wondering about."
Shuerte's eyebrows were almost twisted into a knot, and his old face was full of confusion. "Where do these wood fairies who don't belong to the secret realm of the peak forest come from? And just like what the human girl just wondered, where exactly have we been teleported to?"
As Shulter was speaking, everyone was looking around. There was thick smoke everywhere and they couldn't see the scenery in the distance at all. What made people even more nervous was that there seemed to be faint shouts of killing in the distance.
"I think I know where this is."
After a while, Lei Xiao's solemn voice sounded, and he gave a shocking answer: "I'm afraid this is not the land we are familiar with. To be more precise, this is a strange area that is completely different from us, that is, another plate that is originally out of reach."