This isn't a souls-like game at all.

Glancing at the knights who were held upside down in the air like dried salted fish, Ye Yiyi opened the light curtain map while thinking.

But unfortunately, as we entered the range of the Netherworld Fog, the light curtain map was limited to a very small area, and the range was a large area of ​​pitch-black war fog, making it impossible to even identify the direction.

"No wonder the Knights of the Golden Cup failed to occupy the depression after two reclamation efforts."

After closing the map, Ye Yiyi let out a long sigh.

"Is it like this here during the day?" He turned to look at Norsley.

"No." Norsley shook her head, "Although the visibility in the depression is poor during the day, it's not so dark that you can't see your hand in front of you.

"The Nether Stone can block out light, but it is powerless against the sun's rays."

"Does that mean it would be better to come in during the day?" Ye Yiyi pinched his metal chin.

"Yes."

Norsley stepped over a strange-shaped rock with her bone staff and suddenly said:

"Or do you want to turn back? Come back in in the morning?"

"That's not necessary. The wind is very strong tonight, and the clouds are very thick. It will probably rain tomorrow, and it will probably be even more difficult to walk then."

"That's true..." Norsley nodded thoughtfully.

"Just keep going."

"Ah."

So Ye Yiyi floated in the air, leading Norsley, who had turned into black mist, and the little fish following closely behind, forward.

The terrain in the deep depression is complex, with a gentle downward slope on the periphery. There are almost no weeds wherever you look, only exposed stone walls of strange shapes, inlaid with the Netherworld Stone that Ye Yiyi had picked up before.

Around these rock walls grow some strange trees with white branches and leaves and extremely tenacious vitality.

These trees grow almost entirely on the rock wall, with their developed root systems extending outward along the surface of the rock wall, almost covering a large area around them.

As Ye Yiyi was flying, he was attracted by the gray mushrooms growing from the roots.

"These mushrooms are quite big. I just don't know if they're edible."

Let the dung beetle help collect the Nether Stone, Ye Yiyi fell from the sky and curiously picked a palm-sized gray mushroom from the roots.

After looking at it carefully and stroking the scaly umbrella cover with his fingers, Ye Yiyi couldn't help feeling a little confused.

"Why does this thing look like it has scales?"

Then he looked at the light curtain.

【Gray Echinops Mushroom】

Item Description: A unique mushroom that contains a lot of vitality and nutrition.

Can be found on ancient battlefields soaked in dragon blood.

One of the materials used to craft props.

It is said that the dragon's blood contains a lot of vitality.

The vigorous vitality will continue to permeate the surface of the earth.

Bringing life back to the desolate deserts and rock walls.

"An ancient battlefield soaked in dragon blood?"

He looked up and around, a little surprised.

"This place used to be an ancient battlefield?"

But it makes sense, this depression is right around the sunken Panyalong City.

After the flying dragons and the skillful slaves withdrew from the city, a great battle might have taken place here.

He stuffed the mushroom into his mouth and chewed it thoughtfully, then rolled his eyes and spat out the mushroom residue with an ugly expression.

“It tastes too salty!”

It was incomparable to the delicious and melt-in-your-mouth poisonous mushrooms he picked up in the poisonous forest.

"Is this place a saline-alkali land? How can this mushroom be so salty?"

He took out the water bottle from behind and took a sip, then reached out to catch the dung beetle that flew over from the side, holding the Nether Stone in its arms.

"Not bad, not bad. Now it's much faster! And there are mushrooms like this. Help me collect some too. Keep up the good work!"

The porter dung beetle raised its paw to salute, then waved its little wings and went to the side to continue collecting the Nether Stone.

After the dung beetle was strengthened, Ye Yiyi no longer had to collect some ordinary materials personally, he just had to let it go.

We moved forward at a moderate speed. After a while, the rock wall in our sight suddenly became steep, almost turning into a cliff.

“The terrain has changed.”

Ye Yiyi turned his head and looked at Norsley who had turned into black mist and was following him. When he saw that she didn't show any reaction, he flapped his wings and descended from the sky with the little fish.

Soon, a dilapidated wooden house at the bottom of the cliff appeared in Ye Yiyi's eyes.

"Wooden house?"

Has anyone ever lived in this place?

He fell from the air to the ground, his eyes swept over the half-collapsed wooden house, and saw a shriveled alien skeleton in front of the door.

The withered skeleton was short and not human-like, and Ye Yiyi couldn't tell what race it was.

"It was a frogman. He must have fallen to his death."

Norsley appeared at the side, glanced at the dry bones, then took out a bone staff and waved it, summoning out a minotaur holding a giant sword.

"What? Are there enemies?"

Seeing this, Ye Yiyi also pulled out the long knife in his arm, and signaled Xiaoyu not to come near for the time being, while looking around vigilantly.

"Wandering ghosts often appear in the deep depression."

Norsley said expressionlessly, "Although these vengeful spirits have no physical form, they can cause terrible damage. If you're not careful, you could die."

"So you've died?"

"Yes, I was ambushed by a ghost of a knight wearing armor and a urinal on his head."

"A urinal on his head?" Ye Yiyi was stunned when he heard this. "Could it be the Knight of the Golden Cup who died in the depression before?"

"There is no other possibility," replied Norsley.

So, these vengeful spirits are the transformed people who died in the depression?

Ye Yiyi glanced around and suddenly noticed a faint white shadow flashing at the edge of the darkness at the end of his vision.

"boom!!"

The atmosphere exploded, and a meteorite armor-piercing cone shot out from the air, leaving behind a long light blue comet tail, and then disappeared into the darkness.

"Cuck!!"

A shrill and strange scream came from the darkness, and then there was no sound.

Ye Yiyi glanced down at the simplified light screen of "+345" and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"That's it?"

"Although vengeful spirits are hard to defend against, they are actually very fragile, and magic is extremely effective against them."

Norsley put down her staff for the moment, told the minotaur to be on guard, then walked to the side of the wooden house, glanced around the dead bones, picked up several dried mushrooms and a peculiarly shaped bone knife.

"It came to the depression to pick mushrooms, but it slipped and fell to its death."

As Norsley spoke, she handed over the bone knife. Ye Yiyi reached out to take it and looked down at the light curtain.

【Skeleton Knife】

Attribute correction: Strength D, Skill C

Item Description: A simple knife made of animal bones.

Made by Asians.

Can be used to throw, inflict damage,

It can also be used as a self-defense weapon.

But it is of little use in extremely dangerous environments.

"You're not even qualified to be a throwing knife..."

He shook his head and put the knife away, then looked at the shriveled mushrooms that could no longer jump out of the light curtain.

Ye Yiyi sighed for the poor frogman, turned around and was about to call Xiaoyu down, but his eyes suddenly fixed.

"Bang!!"

Without thinking, he raised his right hand. Another air explosion sounded, and the meteorite armor-piercing cone shot out like lightning, nailing a floating frogman ghost to the wall.

True Spirit Echo +345

"Cuck!!"

Another scream was heard, the vengeful spirit died, and the translucent illusory body was annihilated.

The little fish was startled, and its tentacles danced wildly, and even the trapped crocodile was pressed so hard that it rolled its eyes.

"This won't do. If I hadn't discovered it, this group of knights would have been reduced in number."

Ye Yiyi thought about it and signaled Xiaoyu to put the young knight down.

"Let's wake them up first. It's too conspicuous to let Xiaoyu take them with him. It's better to let them protect themselves."

"But we are still in a hostile relationship with them." Norsley did not stop them, but just reminded them.

"You're wrong. The relationship between them and me is one of winner and captive."

Ye Yiyi shook his head and walked forward, using the Cleansing Technique to clean the mud off everyone's bodies, and then woke up the young knight who was leading the group.

"Well……"

The knight woke up from his coma, and when he saw Ye Yiyi wearing gray-black scale armor in front of him, his eyes suddenly widened, as if he was about to explode.

But the little fish just put them down without untying them.

The knight struggled for a moment but to no avail. He looked down at the tentacles that tightly wrapped his hands and feet, his gaze sweeping over his unconscious companion beside him, and even the Deinocrocodile, bound and hanging in the air...

The light in the young man's eyes dimmed, and he lowered his head and fell into a state of decadence.

"Lord Hawkwood...you win."

"Yes, I won."

Ye Yiyi folded his arms and said calmly, "The moment you tried to make us 'detain', this outcome was already doomed... So, do you regret it?"

"No regrets." The young man closed his eyes and uttered a hoarse voice, "Some things require risking one's life, and some things are unavoidable no matter how careful one is... like failure, like death."

"You're so kind, yet so open-minded. Should I say you're self-aware?"

Ye Yiyi shook his head and smiled, "Now can you tell me the purpose of your exploration of the depression?"

"No," the knight said, shaking his head resolutely without hesitation. "I'd rather die than tell you."

"why?"

"No reason." The knight answered him with the words that Norsley once said.

"Well, since you won't tell me, I'll tell you."

Ye Yiyi smiled at the knight's stunned expression.

"Actually, we dragon people have a special ability, which is to understand the secrets behind objects by sensing their thoughts."

Ye Yiyi pointed to the wooden carving on his waist, took out the letter and shook it in front of him, then smiled at the silent knight.

"You're delivering a letter to the witch who lives in the hollow on behalf of Dino Campbell? Correct?"

"?"

The knight raised his head slightly, a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"Witch?"

"He is full of confusion. He doesn't know who the witch is." Norsley suddenly spoke.