Chapter 1271: Curtain of Time (1)

"...We walked from north to south, along the foot of the mountain." Allen chanted the text of the Book of Rodo under the firelight, and the firelight illuminated his young face. At this moment, his expression is just like that when he was studying at Dawn Academy, focused and serious, eager to learn more from books.

——We traveled from north to south, walking along the foot of the mountain. The journey is definitely not pleasant. On the dark snowy field, the snow often overflows your knees. I swear that if your legs and feet are not flexible when you get old, it will be the fault of the damn snow. Occasionally we would stop. At that time, everyone was busy resting. Even if they still had strength, they could barely stand and scare the wandering beasts in the distance. I look up at this ridge extending southward on the right side of the team. I don't know if it has an end, or does it just extend to the end of the world?

It has been more than a month since we started, and to be honest, I have no hope for the team's prospects. I bet we're only on the edge of the Lost Realm now, and Lord Sinan, who leads the team, always says maybe we have to look over the ridge. Damn, I hope he doesn't act on this idea, walking on the foot of the mountain is already dangerous. Over the mountains and over the mountains, who knows what will happen?

Maybe in the end only Lord Sinan survived? Yes, that was my thought at the time. At least at that time, I didn't expect that the strongest person in the team would die, but a bedbug like me that could be easily crushed would survive. That's the funny thing about fate, you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. It was a mystery, a mystery that could never be solved. ——

After reading this, Allen couldn't help but browse quickly. This Baal man named Rodo always likes to waste ink on insignificant things. It seems that recording these trivial things is far more interesting to him than the details of the expedition. Of course, if you read it as a travel book, Allen doesn't mind savoring it carefully. It's a pity that now, he wants to know more about the Forgotten Realm and that woman.

He quickly turned a page, the entire page, what Luo Duo recorded was only a quarrel, complaints about food and a long section of psychological self-report. What's terrible is that the content of the next two pages is similar, except for a sudden attack by a wild beast, which records the attack patterns of several alien beasts, which just made Allen look at it a few more times.

Fortunately, after turning another page, the expedition team made new discoveries.

——It took fifteen days, yes, it took fifteen days before we saw the end of the mountains. It starts from the north and stretches all the way to the southwest. When we got here, the mountain has long lost its majesty in the north, the high peaks have become low slopes, and the steep mountains have become flat lands. We finally found the gate to enter the depths of the Lost Realm. At that time, I had already made a very wise decision, that ridge and this gate must be named after me.

In fact, they are what are now the Rhodo Mountains and the Rhodo Pass.

Yes, the team has arrived at the Luodo Pass at this moment. Originally, I thought that the mission would be over when the team explored here. After all, the team has been downsized.

The supplies were not sufficient, and even Lord Sinan, who led the team, was injured. If I had to say, we'd better turn back. I swear, after following the team for so long, what I did should have paid off that bastard Hawke's bet.

But damn it, Lord Sinan actually asked to go deeper. At this time, someone finally couldn't help it, but unfortunately the two guys who disagreed were very weak. He only quarreled with Lord Sinan two times, and then his head was screwed off. This made me realize one thing more clearly. On this land, bedbugs have no right to speak, so I chose to keep my mouth shut.

That's a really smart decision.

After a day of rest, here I have to say a word of justice for Lord Sinan, who is not too eager to explore and lose his head. At least he gave everyone a day off. I know it's not a big deal for anyone reading right now, but if you consider our situation then you know what a luxury a day of precious downtime is.

Praise your lord.

I actually wanted to talk about what happened that day, and believe me, it was fun. But when I think of what happened after I went deep into the oblivion, I can't wait to share it with you. That was the best time in my life, although it was only a few tens of seconds, but this beauty, but I remember it in my heart. It will be etched deep in my soul, if I have that thing.

In short, Master Sinan drove us out of the warm blankets like cattle, whether we wanted to or not. We packed our supplies, packed our gear, and passed the great gate in dim light. Yes, Rodo Pass, it is an important milestone in our exploration of the ruins. No man has gone so far before, and we have crossed the gate at great cost and under the leadership of a stubborn Master.

As I said before, tomorrow is always unknown, a mystery. And now, we are plunged into the unknown world, like a blind man crossing a river by feeling the stones, we have no idea what awaits us in front of us.

Well, now I know. That is the abyss, the abyss that devours everything. But if I was given another chance to choose, I would still plunge into that abyss without hesitation. Because in the abyss, there is her. ——

After reading this, Alan stopped: "She? Is that woman?"

Footsteps sounded, he raised his head, and Tracey came over. There were two soldiers behind her, and they brought food and blankets respectively. After asking people to put their things down, Trisley sent them away, then spread the quilt for Allen, and said, "It seems that you plan to finish reading this book today, and I think you won't be anywhere until you finish reading it." Will go, so I asked them to bring food..."

"Thank you, Trisley." Alan was not polite, although he was not hungry, but out of politeness, he still picked up the food next to him and ate.

"How's it going, did you see anything useful?" Tracey asked.

Allen nodded and said, "Just read the interesting part."

"Really? It seems that I disturbed you."

"Nothing, if you want, you can stay and watch together."

Tracey smiled and narrowed her eyes: "I can't find a reason to refuse."

She spread the quilt, walked to Alan and sat down, held the book of Rodo and said, "Let me read it to you, you eat. Where did you read, oh, Rodo Pass... I'll take a look. Let's start here..."

"...it took us a whole day just to go through the gate..."

Trisley's deep voice sounded in her ears, her voice seemed to come from far away, like the wind telling stories from a long time ago. Allen ate, but listened intently, refusing to let go of any details.

— It took us a whole day just to go through the gate. This is still passing through the ground. It can be imagined that if it was really like what Master Sinan said, it would take several days even if everything went well. Fortunately, no danger was encountered that day, it was almost as if luck was watching us. That guy Hawk was bitten by a strange beast a few days ago, and now he can only lie on a stretcher. Poor guy, Master Sinan said that his leg might not be able to keep, so maybe people will call him Lame Hawk in the future? That's not bad, then the bastard won't be able to catch me again.

Oh, I don't seem to be so unsympathetic. But the truth is, I don't like that guy, and I certainly don't like anyone on the team. Including Lord Sinan, because without him, I might be on the way back in a happy mood by now. But if I go back at this time, I won't see her again. So life is often full of contradictions, sometimes you want to get something, you often have to give up other things first.

After passing through the Rodo pass, I walked for more than half a day, crossing rolling hills. Let me talk about this hill, this is the most depressing and gloomy hilly area I have ever seen. I saw it when we came out of the pass. A gray bag of soil was piled up on the ground, and there was a band of icy light floating in the sky, the oppressive cold light was like the starlight in the dark night before dawn. Even though the sky in the ruins has been dark for many years, no different from night, it has never given me such a depressing feeling like this moment. Especially when the light without temperature falls on these gray soil bags on the ground, I seem to see a cemetery.

An ancient cemetery.

Since those soil bags are graves, are the corpses of gods and demons buried under the tombs?

In short, even Lord Sinan couldn't bear the oppressive atmosphere here, and we crossed this hilly area as fast as we could. This place should now be called Gloomy Hill. It's a fitting name, isn't it?

During the three days I crossed the dark hills, I passed in fear. Even though nothing dangerous happened, the dangerous atmosphere couldn't go away. Even the wind blowing through the hills makes me feel nervous. Behind those dirtbags, there seemed to be a pair or more eyes staring at me. I thought more than once that those souls full of resentment were telling their misfortune all the time, and wanted to drag me into the same misfortune.

For the first time, I was troubled by such a rich imagination.

But looking at other people, it seems that I am not the only one who is troubled. Even Lord Sinan is much quieter than usual, and more than once when he was resting, he looked towards the east, where we came from.

I think he may have regretted it, but the dignity of the strong kept him from going back. Finally, three days later, we crossed the hills, and a piece of flat land spread out under our feet, and the other end was hidden in darkness. Weary and exhausted, everyone wanted to stay as far away from those hills as possible, so the group kept going until we saw something odd.

Those were some stone bars placed in the shape of a gate, and this place is now called the Gate of Sighs. ——