bookrebus Chapter 698 What a pity, we are not ordinary people
Chapter 698 What a pity, we are not ordinary people
Yi Moxu nodded, then smiled: "It's quite good. It's pitch black, but with lights, light, and shadows, it's perfect..."
Before Yi Moxu could finish speaking, he turned his head and exchanged a glance with Ye Qing'an. Ye Qing'an immediately understood the meaning behind Yi Moxu's words.
With lights, light, and shadows, it's the perfect place for ghosts to gather information.
In the darkness, you cannot see a shadow.
Where there is light, there should be shadows.
Yi Moxu pondered for a moment: "Since we've already alerted them by coming in, we might as well make a bigger commotion so we can see what's going on with those treehouses and lights up ahead."
As Yi Moxu spoke, he raised his hand and condensed countless fireballs.
Then, the fire dragon appeared, and the fireballs followed behind it, rushing swiftly towards the treehouses on the opposite side.
Ye Qing'an and Yi Moxu stared intently at the flames, and then they saw that the fire dragons and fireballs disappeared abruptly before they even touched the treehouses.
Ye Qing'an narrowed her eyes: "Is this... a barrier? Or an illusion?"
"do not know."
Yi Moxu thought for a moment and said, "Come on, let's explore it together. We'll find out whether this is a barrier or an illusion."
Ye Qing'an responded, raised her hand, and touched Yi Moxu's fingers. Immediately, the barrier around them began to grow larger and larger, gradually expanding and approaching the place where the fireballs disappeared.
Before long, the two of them sensed it through the barrier.
"It's a barrier."
Ye Qing'an poured her spiritual power into the barrier she had created. The spiritual power surged forth, and soon a strong wind suddenly arose. Then, a loud cracking sound rang out, and a gust of wind blew towards them. Yi Moxu raised her hand and neutralized the wind.
"broken."
Ye Qing'an opened her eyes: "Let's go."
With the barrier on the other side broken, Ye Qing'an and Yi Moxu began to slowly walk towards the treehouse.
Before we even arrived, the Nine Heavens appeared.
Jiuxiao remained in its original form, a tiny ball, and quickly slipped into Ye Qing'an's sleeve, exchanging information with him using telepathy.
"What are you doing here? I found water, but it's quite far from here."
"Where?"
Jiuxiao replied, "On the other side."
"What about this side? Isn't there any water?"
Jiuxiao shook his head: "Although I haven't explored this area, I did quietly go into the sea next to it and ask the fish. They said there are two streams on this island, both of which flow into the sea, but those two streams are on the side I just explored. There's no water here..."
"And I just came over here, to the side with the water, and I saw some small animals, like rabbits and deer, but here, there isn't a single living creature."
Ye Qing'an stopped and grabbed Yi Moxu: "Not this way, let's turn around."
Yi Moxu turned to look at Ye Qing'an. Ye Qing'an pursed her lips before lowering her voice and whispering in Yi Moxu's ear, "There's no stream or water here."
Yi Moxu quickly understood what Ye Qingan wanted to say.
The Nightshade race is not human, but they share many similarities with humans in their habits, such as needing to eat and drink in order to survive.
Water is the source of all things, and all life depends on water to survive.
If those treehouses were truly the places where the Nightshade Clan people lived and survived, they would certainly not be so far from the water source.
She didn't know what secrets lay within these treehouses.
But they also understood that these treehouses and the lit candlelight were probably just bait.
Ye Qing'an thought about the situation when they first arrived on the island. At that time, they were surrounded by four directions, and only this side had a road and light.
Generally speaking, most normal people would walk towards the lit areas when they see this.
If that's the case, then they've completely fallen into the Nightshade Clan's trap.
Ye Qing'an and Yi Moxu called the cat, then turned around and walked back in the direction they had come from.
On the way back, Ye Qing'an paid special attention, placing his hand on the tree trunk beside him and channeling some spiritual energy into it to explore the roots of the tree.
"This tree has a well-developed root system that goes very deep, reaching down to where there is water."
Ye Qing'an glanced around and pursed her lips slightly: "Although there are countless vines entwined around here, making it look very lush, I have not found where the roots of these vines are, nor have I seen where the main vine is, from where we came from before."
"So, Jiuxiao is right."
Yi Moxu nodded, then suddenly raised his hand, and countless tiny, dandelion-like specks of light flew back from all directions.
Ye Qing'an turned to look at Yi Moxu and saw that all the little things had slipped into Yi Moxu's hand and disappeared in an instant.
"Ok?"
Yi Moxu looked up at Ye Qing'an: "There are indeed no living creatures here."
Ye Qing'an responded, "Let's go. We saw it from up there just now. The island isn't that big; we'll find it eventually."
Before long, they returned to the place where they had just arrived on the island.
There was no road to be found on the other side.
There were still some withered grass on the ground.
Ye Qing'an pursed her lips, staring at the cat's footsteps leading the way, and followed it step by step with almost no mistakes.
Not long after they left, the cat demon suddenly meowed and then disappeared from the spot.
Ye Qing'an narrowed her eyes: "An illusion?"
"should be."
Ye Qing'an raised her eyes and glanced at the illusion, her eyes filled with thought: "I've been thinking that if this Night Demon Clan's territory is there, there should be many illusions set up. But for the Night Demons to weave an illusion, the person who weaves the illusion needs to guard it."
"In that case, if we break through an illusion and kill a Nightshade, wouldn't there be one less Nightshade on this island?"
"Night Specters are elusive and difficult to find. If we could use the illusionary realm to search for them, it would be much simpler and easier."
Yi Moxu turned to look at Ye Qing'an, his eyes seemingly filled with a smile: "How clever you are, Madam? This is indeed... an excellent idea."
"The Night Elves are sneakily setting up illusions everywhere and letting us explore, probably because they think that we only have a few things to bring to the island for exploration. There are at least a hundred Night Elves on this island, and they can just use illusions to swallow us all up."
"Even if they are not swallowed by the illusion, those who come to the island will not be able to find them."
Ye Qing'an laughed: "It's a pity, we are not ordinary people."