Chapter 1 The Land

He took a few deep breaths, and after careful consideration, he still felt that although continuing forward was a narrow escape from death, retreating would mean certain death. So, Fang Senyan went back to the pine forest and used the orc's weapon to cut down a pine tree. After some hasty processing, he made a simple leaning ladder that could barely lean against the stone wall as a foothold.

In this snowy mountain valley, the wind and snow were mixed, and the climate was harsh. The visibility was already low. Fang Senyan had spent a considerable amount of time trekking on the boulder beach, and with so many miscellaneous things happening, the sky was already darkening. After doing this, Fang Senyan didn't dare to rashly go to find the reef. He rested against a flat stone, and by the way, stuffed some pine nuts into his mouth to satisfy his hunger.

Although Fang Senyan was lying down, he couldn't help but think of all the strange things he had experienced these days. Even with his ability, he felt that thousands of thoughts were surging up and stirring into a mess. He sighed, and thought of the strange stone he had found earlier, and couldn't help but take it out from his arms to take a closer look. However, when Fang Senyan reached into his arms and took this thing out, he immediately gasped and was completely stunned.

A faint light flowed out from between Fang Senyan's fingers. There was a bit of overbearing and hot feeling in that light. In this deep and cold place, it felt particularly warm. And the thing that released that light was the inside of that ordinary black stone.

Fang Senyan could be regarded as well-informed, but he had never seen such a strange thing. The inside was simply a small world of its own! And this thing could automatically bloom with charcoal-like light, which was even more amazing and sighed at the strangeness of creation and the mystery of heaven and earth.

Under the light, Fang Senyan's sleepiness gradually came. He knew in his heart that this place was full of dangers, and the unknown dangers lurking in the dark should never fall asleep. But the sleepiness was constantly attacking like a tsunami, making it difficult to resist. It was really because the physical strength and energy were both over-consumed.

Fortunately, Fang Senyan also knew some basic survival awareness. He quickly chose a tall pine tree, climbed up and down with the elf girl on his back, and chose a strong branch at a high place to tie himself and her together. The crown of the pine tree was already dense, and Fang Senyan didn't feel cold. He tilted his head and hugged the tree trunk next to him and fell into a deep sleep, only the faint light released by the black fruit in his arms warmly wrapped the two of them. ………………

At the same time, in the snow valley where Fang Senyan and the others fell, a large number of orcs had appeared one after another. Most of these orcs were quite thin, poorly clothed, and skinny. They shivered in the cold wind, carrying a large amount of firewood on their backs. There were also high and low ranks among the orcs.

It seemed that the group of elite strong orcs sent out to hunt down Fang Senyan and the others belonged to the high-level category, and the orcs that appeared now should belong to the cannon fodder ranks. These orcs all had great fear in their eyes, and slowly carried the firewood forward, as if there was a great risk ahead.

When they passed the narrow passage of the snow valley and saw the withered pine forest in front, they stopped. No matter how they were whipped and insulted, they refused to move forward. Even when several people were beaten to death alive and blood splashed on the snow like ink, the other strong orcs refused to take half a step forward. After waiting for a while, hundreds of elite strong orcs slowly walked in the wind and snow.

These strong orcs were very strong. They were all holding wolf fangs clubs, and their strength seemed to be close to that of the group of strong orcs who hunted down Fang Senyan. What they were guarding were five tentacle monsters.

The size of these five tentacle monsters was also quite large. The gray skin on their heads was layered with folds, and only the light in the evil eyes around their heads was scattered but not chaotic, and it was constantly gathering, just like substance. It could be seen that their mental strength was also very deep, and they were obviously prepared.

As soon as the tentacle monsters appeared, the weak strong orcs who were passively slacking off in front of them immediately trembled all over, obviously extremely afraid.

With the five tentacle monsters as the center, layers of ripples of mental waves spread out. The strong orcs carrying firewood immediately walked out blankly and piled a large amount of firewood in the withered pine forest in front. Then they lit it. The pine wood was originally rich in oil. After being led by the firewood, the fire soared into the sky, dyeing the entire night sky red.

At this time, those large numbers of tentacle monsters and strong orcs had retreated into the depths of the snow valley, covering their mouths and noses with animal skins. The five tentacle monsters even walked into a temporary snow cave to hide. All the strong orcs who had walked into the withered pine forest were concentrated together under strict supervision. Obviously, the tentacle monsters also knew something about the abnormalities here.

The fire was raging in the pine forest. Looking from the distant snow peaks, a layer of strange iron blue color appeared in the thick smoke and fire.

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Fang Senyan also woke up when the fire was at its peak.

Although the previous nap was in the tree, it really restored most of the fatigue and pain on his body. Fang Senyan couldn't help but sigh, because he wasn't awakened by the smoke and fire, but because the Nightmare Imprint had once again given a ruthless reminder: "Scanning: Team No. 1018's mission: Survival, has once again reached the time-related critical point!"

"Warning: Team No. 1018's mission: Survival, has once again reached the time-related critical point!"

"Warning: The difficulty of your stay in this world will be increased again. From now on, all your equipment will be taken off! Automatically put into the Nightmare Imprint storage space! If the Nightmare Imprint storage space is insufficient, it will be put into your Nightmare private space."

"Hint: Team mission: Survival has multiple critical points. Every time you reach a critical point, the survival difficulty will be increased accordingly!!" Looking at this series of prompts, what else could Fang Sen say besides sighing?

It was not until this time that Fang Senyan noticed the half of the night sky that was dyed red by the fire, and of course, the abnormality in the fire. At this time, the thoughts in his mind flashed quickly, and he immediately realized that a huge crisis was attacking him: to be able to organize large-scale operations in such a desperate snow valley, apart from the orc tribe led by Saruman's clone entrenched here, there was absolutely no one else. And their large-scale actions of setting fire to the forest probably indicated their determination to get these escaped people!

With this thought in mind, Fang Senyan took a deep breath and immediately slid down from the tree. After hastily packing up the things that might be useful, he took the "wooden ladder" he made, and carried the still unconscious elf girl towards the boulder valley.

During this period, he checked the blessing of the Dawn Elf on his body and found that it would disappear in a few hours, so he had to speed up his progress as soon as possible.

Although the orc tribe had launched a large-scale attack, after setting fire to the forest, at least the orcs were thick-skinned, and they had to wait until the fire stopped and the temperature of the ground cooled down before they could pass. This would give Fang Senyan at least a few hours. Then they had to cross the lake where the strange fish lived before they could really start chasing Fang Senyan.

However, judging from the fact that there was still an orc camp near the lake, Saruman had probably tried to explore this place before, but he had obviously suffered a great loss. There should be no survivors, so this time he simply made up his mind and adopted a step-by-step approach to steadily advance.

But after Fang Senyan thought deeply, he still felt that there was a huge mystery in it. If Saruman simply mobilized all his forces to hunt down these escaped prisoners, it would be too outrageous! Behind it, there must be some great secrets and truths, but he hadn't been able to analyze it for a while.

While Fang Senyan was thinking, he slowly walked towards the boulder valley. Especially now that he had lost the equipment bonus, he had to keep himself in the best condition so that he could still have the ability to deal with all dangers after turning over the huge rock.

Along the way, Fang Senyan successively found several more of those round "black stones", but after crushing them, he found that most of these "black stones" had rotted, and they also emitted a kind of rotten smell. Two of them were not rotted. After opening them, a few drops of liquid flowed out, but there was no blue core.

Before long, Fang Senyan came to the bottom of the rock that was as huge as a dam. He knew that there were dangers ahead, so he was not in a hurry to climb up the wooden ladder. Instead, he closed his eyes and rested for a while, adjusted his breathing to adjust himself to the best state. This was the so-called sharpening the knife does not delay the work of chopping wood. However, just as Fang Senyan was about to climb, he suddenly opened his eyes in surprise, because in the distance on the way he came, there was an extremely dense rustling of footsteps!

"Damn it!!" Fang Senyan's pupils suddenly shrank. Being blocked in such a desperate place was really like a turtle in a jar, and there was nowhere to escape! It was just that he didn't know what method the orc tribes had adopted to be able to cross the fire and cross the lake to come to this place in such a quick way!

The rustling footsteps came extremely fast. In just a short moment, they went from far to near and came to a place more than ten meters away from Fang Senyan, but they were covered by rocks and darkness and could not be seen clearly. Fang Senyan put down Wu Ge and blocked her behind him, slightly arched his body, and shot out wolf-like light in his eyes. He had abandoned all distractions at this desperate moment, and what he was thinking about was to delay as long as possible.