Chapter 1 An Omen

Fang Senyan turned back to look at Reef and said seriously,

"I think we need to leave here as soon as possible. I don't know why, but I feel like this place is quite dangerous."

Reef breathed heavily and said,

"Those monsters can't catch up so quickly. Even if they can track our footprints in the snow, how can they find our escape route in this forest? They'll get tired too."

Fang Senyan shook his head and said seriously,

"Those Uruk-hai were sent to hunt us down in the first place. They are numerous and have maintained excellent physical condition. Moreover, although this valley of pine forest is very long, it is only a few miles wide. They can walk side by side, arranging a person every certain distance, just like using a sieve to find fish in a ditch, and easily find us."

Of course, Fang Senyan didn't know that there were only three Uruk-hai left, and they couldn't adopt the screening method he described, which was stupid but extremely effective. But he also didn't know that the Uruk-hai leader had a keen sense of smell like a dog, and could directly locate the direction of his group by scent. So his caution was definitely not wasted.

Reef nodded and pondered for a while, then said,

"Is it possible for us to turn around and kill the pursuers?"

Fang Senyan thought carefully, and then slowly said,

"Although that avalanche was very terrible, the Uruk-hai have a high chance of survival. More importantly, what we have to escape is not just the possible pursuers, but also natural disasters."

"Natural disasters?" Reef was stunned. Fang Senyan said seriously,

"That's right. We haven't encountered a single living creature in this pine forest so far. Look at the trees around us, and think about the pine cones we saw at the beginning! Nothing could eat the pine nuts so thoroughly, not even leaving the shells, and there's no trace of pine nuts growing in the pine cones at all! What does this mean? It means that a force has affected the periphery, causing them to lose their ability to reproduce. This force can also make beasts run away and birds disappear!"

"As we go deeper into this pine forest, the withering of the pine forest becomes more and more serious, which is enough to show that we are getting closer and closer to the core of the pollution. Now we have to leave this damn place as soon as possible before it gets dark, otherwise, the danger will be great!"

Reef nodded, but the next second he jumped up directly, his eyes looking towards the way he came. The black light sword suddenly flashed from his hand and quickly entered a combat state. When Fang Senyan saw Reef's performance at close range, his pupils immediately contracted, and he immediately bent over and pounced forward, doing a somersault on the ground before looking back.

Only to see a hundred meters away behind them, the three Uruk-hai who were chasing after them were impressively there!

Especially the burly Uruk-hai leader at the front. Every time he took a step, it was like a hammer hitting the ground heavily. When running, it seemed that even the earth was vibrating. The Uruk-hai leader grinned with his fangs exposed while sprinting, showing a leisurely look as if he had everything under control, as if catching a mouse, obviously regarding Fang Senyan and the others as objects in his pocket.

"Escape!"

Fang Senyan's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

At this time, facing the three Uruk-hai obviously meant that the three of them would inevitably become prisoners. More importantly, he and Reef could return to the Nightmare Space, but the elf girl, Wuge, would probably not escape the fate of being ravaged! This was definitely not a scene Fang Senyan wanted to see!

Not to mention that this elf girl was originally an extremely strong potential stock, just based on her unpretentious feelings for him, Fang Senyan would never abandon her. What's more, the time spent was also related to the team's ability rewards? Therefore, both publicly and privately, Fang Senyan would definitely fight to the end!

But in this tight pursuit, for some reason, Fang Senyan and Reef's eyes gradually began to turn black, and blood began to overflow from the corners of their mouths. The distance between them and the chasing Uruk-hai was also rapidly shortening. Just as Fang Senyan gritted his teeth and planned to turn out his trump card, he happened to run onto a gently sloping hill, and his heart suddenly became ecstatic!

In front of them, the pine forest had ended, and a vast lake appeared!

After arriving here, the faint mist in the air seemed to have disappeared a lot, and the sunlight suddenly became strong. The distant clouds were burned bright red, and thousands of brilliant rays of light crisscrossed and reflected on the surface of the lake. Every wave was telling a story of intense beauty. No one had thought that there would be such a large lake in this valley, and such a beautiful and tranquil scene was also the first time Fang Senyan had ever seen.

Without a doubt, for Fang Senyan, a guy who had been messing around on ships, it was as if the salty smell of seawater had seeped out from his bones. His swimming skills could be said to be so proficient that he could bring Reef and the elf girl without any problems. If they jumped into the lake before the Uruk-hai caught up, the chances of escaping would definitely increase greatly!

After seeing this sparkling lake, both Fang Senyan and Reef felt relieved, and they couldn't help but speed up their feet. They were 100% sure that they could successfully jump into the water and escape before the enemy caught up!

But at this moment when there was hope, the Uruk-hai leader behind them laughed wildly instead. The laughter was full of sarcasm and triumph. Fang Senyan couldn't help but look back, and saw that the three Uruk-hai who had been chasing hard had stopped running and were walking slowly, looking as if the two of them were turtles in a jar.

"Could there be some great danger in the lake?"

Fang Senyan's mind flashed with such a thought, but he immediately steeled his heart:

"Even if there is some danger ahead, it is worth betting on compared to being caught by the Uruk-hai! Falling into the hands of the Uruk-hai can be said to be a dead end. Even if there are some ferocious monsters in the lake, I or Reef can lure them away, and there will be a glimmer of hope!"

But in the next second, Fang Senyan, who was closely watching the lake surface, suddenly felt a darkness in front of his eyes, followed by severe pain, and fell into endless darkness! And he also heard a roar of shock and anger in his ears, which was Reef's voice.

The two of them had simultaneously gone blind in an instant!

The fear in a normal person's heart when they suddenly lose their sight can be imagined, especially in such a critical situation. The two of them suddenly lost their balance while running and fell to the ground in a very embarrassed manner.

In these short few hours, the two of them had experienced such strange and dangerous encounters that most ordinary people would never experience in their entire lives. They had gone from death to escape, and then from escape to death, cycling back and forth several times, but at this time, the despair in their hearts was the most intense, and they were extremely frustrated.

"How could this be? When did they do it?" Fang Senyan racked his brains, but still couldn't figure it out.

The muscles on his face twisted, but he still refused to give up, and continued to grope forward frantically, until he was stepped on by the Uruk-hai leader with a grin.

"You bunch of fools, you don't wash your eyes with divine water when you go up the snow mountain, so you naturally suffer the punishment of the gods and your dog eyes will go blind."

It turned out that sunlight contains a large amount of ultraviolet rays, and the surface of the snow can strongly reflect ultraviolet rays. The reflectance can even be as high as 80%. Therefore, if people who are new to snow mountains do not take any protective measures, their eyes will easily be burned by a large amount of ultraviolet rays in a short period of time. The symptoms are a large number of shadows appearing in front of their eyes, which seriously affects their vision, so it is mistaken for "blindness", and is therefore also called snow blindness. However, the symptoms can disappear after resting and the congestion in the eyes subsides.

Fang Senyan and the others had never been to snow mountains before. They had been exposed to ultraviolet rays in the snow for a long time along the way, but because the time was not long, the quantitative change had not accumulated to a qualitative change. It was not until they escaped here and encountered the sparkling lake surface that they were once again focused and irradiated by strong ultraviolet rays. Therefore, snow blindness suddenly reached the critical point of triggering and suddenly broke out. The two of them were panicked and at a loss, and it was not surprising that they thought their eyes had gone blind.

The Uruk-hai naturally didn't know what snow blindness and ultraviolet rays were, but they had been entrenched in the snow mountains for a long time and were accustomed to this situation. Moreover, Saruman's clone had also specifically prepared potions. These Orcs and Uruk-hai would have had a certain resistance to staying on the snow mountains for a long time. After washing their eyes with the potion before setting off, they would naturally not be affected by snow blindness.

In the current primitive world, it is reasonable for the Uruk-hai and Orcs to attribute the cause of this strange disease to the punishment of their god "Saruman".

The Uruk-hai leader often captured prisoners and had rich experience in when prisoners' snow blindness would occur. Naturally, he was confident that Fang Senyan and the others would inevitably fall into the embarrassing situation of blindness in a short period of time after seeing the great lake in the current situation. Therefore, he seemed quite unhurried along the way.

In the previous avalanche, this group of Uruk-hai had lost as many as five or six people. Naturally, this veritable blood debt had to be counted on Fang Senyan and the others. Therefore, this group of Uruk-hai would naturally not give them any good looks. However, Fang Senyan and the others were only kicked a few times and slapped a few times by the two Uruk-hai, and then the Uruk-hai leader spoke to stop them:

"Take the people back first. Then you can skin them or eat their meat as you please. The sun is about to set. While there is nothing strange happening yet, we must leave quickly!"

It would have been better if the Uruk-hai leader hadn't mentioned the word "strange." When he mentioned these two words, the other two Uruk-hai shuddered at the same time. They didn't know what they were thinking of, and without saying a word, they grabbed Fang Senyan and the others and left!