Please be my partner.

The water in the river was extremely turbulent. It was not ordinary water flowing, but a dim liquid. From the occasional splashing drops of water, one could see distorted and painful human faces.

It doesn't look like a good place at all.

While Mellen was thinking, Spike began to slowly approach the river. Mellen wanted to stop him, but was interrupted by the dog's claws.

Mellen also understood that if they were to explore unknown areas, Spike would indeed be the best dog choice. [Immortal Fighting Will] could give the dog an almost foresighted ability to sense danger.

Thinking of this, Mellen did not waste Spike's efforts and directly connected to the dog's perspective through the contract.

As Spike approached within a hundred meters of the river, he suddenly felt his body sink, as if an invisible gravity was pressing on him. At the same time, he heard faint wailing and roaring in his ears, causing him to begin to experience a variety of negative emotions such as anger, murderous intent, despair, and fear.

Spike paused for a moment and continued to move forward slowly. As it moved forward, the physical pressure and mental negative emotions were rapidly increasing.

After walking only about twenty meters, Spike had to stop again because the physical and mental burden had exceeded his threshold. Although he could continue to move forward, the danger would increase exponentially, and [Immortal Fighting Will] also sent a danger warning.

Spike looked at the river. At this time, the two were still eighty meters apart. The wailing and roaring coming from the river became clearer, and as Spike watched, the latter seemed to have discovered him. The dim river water was turbulent, and large drops of water fell on the shore, turning into hideous and terrifying evil spirits crawling towards Spike.

But these evil spirits only escaped from the river for a dozen meters before being forcibly dragged back into the river as if they were bound by some force.

After thinking about it, Spike prepared to fly up to see if he could cross the river directly, but the next moment, a terrible premonition of impending death made him give up the action.

Spike withdrew his gaze and observed the river with only the perception granted by [Immortal Fighting Will]. Suddenly, the wailing and roaring sounds became much quieter.

Spike looked towards the Crystal Mountain, and in a trance he seemed to see a towering figure standing tall and upright, roaring towards the sky with a breathtaking roar.

Suddenly, the tall figure looked at Spike, a scarlet light flashing in his eyes, and countless pieces of information seemed to turn into substance and flow into the dog's mind.

'Spike, come back soon! !'

The boy's shout suddenly echoed in his mind, pulling Spike back from his trance. The dog suddenly realized that he had walked forward more than ten meters without realizing it.

Spike staggered a little, but still stretched out his claws to stop the boy from approaching. He no longer had any plans to take risks, and no longer looked at the Crystal Mountain and the river. Instead, he slowly retreated, gradually moving out of the 100-meter range.

Without being careless, the man and two dogs retreated a distance before they breathed a sigh of relief.

Only then did Mellen analyze the information Spike had obtained.

The river is undoubtedly extremely dangerous, and every drop of yellow water in it may be an evil ghost.

Melen felt a chill as he looked at the river that seemed to have no end in sight.

It was impossible to fly over it. Although he didn't know what would happen, Spike's perception told him that he would die if he did so.

As for the majestic figure that Spike saw in his trance, Mellen did not see it. It seemed to be just an image that appeared in the dog's mind.

Mellen's expression became horrified as Spike described it.

Although the image was already blurry to Spike, one key point still left a very deep impression on him. That was the two crystal horns on the head of the tall figure, and those crystal horns were very similar to the crystal mountain they were seeing now!

Judging from the aura revealed by the majestic figure, he is at least a demigod, or even... a myth!

Based on the information currently available, Mellen has two guesses...

First, that tall figure has fallen, and what we see before us is his burial place. The river may have been caused by the leakage of his power.

Second, the tall figure was not dead, but fell into a deep sleep due to injury or other reasons. The river might have been caused by his dissipated power, or it might have been a seal set by his enemy.

Of course, there are some other possibilities besides this, but no matter what, whether the tall figure is alive or dead, the danger it poses is not something Mellen can get involved in now.

Mellen looked at Spike with a worried look on his face. The dog was forcibly instilled with a large amount of information by the tall figure. After barely withdrawing from the influence of the river, he fell into a state of half sleep and half wakefulness.

Spike's eyes occasionally flashed with brilliant golden light, and he used the secret technique of "Observing Delusion" that he had learned in the Mountain and Sea Realm with all his strength to fight against the large amount of chaotic information in his mind.

Mellen couldn't help much in this process, he could only activate the [Soul Synchronization] state for Spike to enhance the dog's strength.

After several hours, Spike's mind, which had been in a turbulent state, gradually stabilized. He shook his head slightly at Mellen, indicating that he was fine, and then explained the information that the tall figure had instilled in him.

Most of them are messy and useless fragmented information, and only a small part is the images of the majestic figure fighting in various stages. The latter also includes a large number of applications of rules. It can be said that as long as Spike can fully digest this information, his strength will be greatly improved.

However, neither Mellen nor Spike thought that the tall figure was doing this simply to give Spike a benefit. There must be some deeper purpose behind this, but they were unable to understand it due to their limited strength and vision.

Of course, Mellen still had some guesses in his mind.

In the high-dimensional world, information itself is a form of pollution. Perhaps the tall figure wants to pollute Spike in this way.

As for the purpose of the tall figure polluting Spike, whether it was to occupy the dog's body to escape the current predicament, or to use it to resurrect, or something else, Melen had no idea.

Perhaps the pollution level was not high enough, or perhaps [Observation of Delusion] had cleared out most of the messy and useless fragmented information. At least for now, Spike didn't seem to be affected at all.

Melen looked at the crystal mountain and the river. At this moment, there was nothing strange about the latter two in his eyes. It seemed that all their images were concentrated within a certain range. Only by entering that range could he perceive the abnormality.

Mellen sighed. It was true that the higher-dimensional world was dangerous, but normally it shouldn't be this dangerous. He could only say that he was "lucky".

At this moment, Melen even wanted to retreat back to the Sacred Tree Forest.

After thinking for a moment, Mellen shook his head slightly and chose to continue exploring. He moved downstream along the edge of the river.

The Jingshan Mountain gradually disappeared from his sight, and gradually, Melen discovered something wrong. The river seemed to be a straight line, but after walking along it for a while, he found that it had a slight arc.

Just like the ground appears to be flat, but the earth is actually round.

If the river is long enough, perhaps it is a huge circle that surrounds a large area.

We didn't encounter any danger along the way, and we didn't even encounter any higher-dimensional life forms. This should be thanks to the river.

After several days of trekking, some lush green traces appeared at the end of Mellen's sight, and he decided to leave the river and go over there to take a look.

In fact, the edge of the river is also a good place to establish a stronghold, but it is similar to the edge of the sacred tree forest, and the danger here is too uncertain. Although the influence range of the river is only about a hundred meters now, if the power in the river suddenly expands outward one day, not only will all of Mellen’s investment be wasted, but he himself may also be in danger.

Line, line, line, line.

After leaving the vicinity of the river, Melen began to encounter various high-dimensional life forms, but the strength of these high-dimensional life forms was generally low, and few even reached the legendary level.

As they moved forward, Melen could clearly feel the air around him becoming sticky, just like being in low-density water.

Three days later, the green traces he had seen before were very close. Only then did Melen see their appearance clearly. They were not the forest he had initially thought, but a row of upright, broad leaves like kelp.

These broad leaves are extremely dense, generally more than ten meters high, and look very light, as if they are swaying in the sea.

Chapter 421: Higher-Dimensional Life and Higher-Dimensional War

Looking at the jungle composed of broad leaves in front of him, Mellen did not feel any danger, but he still looked at Spike, and the dog nodded slightly, indicating that there was no problem.

A man and two dogs moved forward into the jungle, but this time the golden retriever was leading the way.

Speaking of which, the Golden Retriever is also helpless. Since it was promoted to a saint, it has never really used its full strength once. It has always been used as a trump card or a supporting player.

So the golden retriever was somewhat conflicted at this time. He wanted to meet a decent opponent and have a good fight with his master to let his master truly see his strength. But he also wanted to remain calm and successfully complete his master's goal. After all, he had realized the dangers of the high-dimensional world in the past few days.

When he arrived at the edge of the jungle, Melen did not rush in. He first looked at the leaf in front of him. It was only about ten meters long, which was relatively short among all the leaves.

Although it looks like a plant, we cannot make such a hasty conclusion about life in the higher-dimensional world.

Melen thought about it and gave the golden retriever a look. The golden retriever immediately understood, and a pure white light flashed on its claws, and it was about to chop at the leaf.

At this moment, the leaves suddenly shook rapidly, and the golden retriever retreated directly in front of Mellen, becoming cautious and alert.

Soon, a soft "chirp" sound was heard, and fist-sized green balls kept falling from the leaves, and soon there were hundreds of them.

These green spheres look extremely elastic and they keep rotating around the leaves as if they are guarding them.

Mellen's idea moved. In the information related to the higher-dimensional world that he had seen before, there was naturally a way to communicate with higher-dimensional life.

Unfortunately, Mellen also tried to communicate with the higher-dimensional life forms he met along the way, but never succeeded.

Melen speculated that perhaps, those were not real high-dimensional life forms at all, but monsters created by the environment or other factors, just like the evil spirits in the river.

The only things that Mellen truly recognizes as truly high-dimensional life are time worms and information thought bodies.

Unfortunately, the former were too xenophobic, and Spike turned on the hostile mode when he first encountered them, so the time worms did not respond at all to Mellen's attempt to communicate.

Not to mention the information and thought bodies, they are not on the same level at all. Melen even suspects that the timelines between them may be messed up.

Those information and thought bodies may come from the past or the future, and for some unknown reason they are intertwined and connected with the present, which is why they attract the arrival of time worms, high-dimensional life forms that feed on time.

The above speculations are the conclusions Mellen came to after thinking about it for some time. Although they may not be 100% correct, Mellen feels that they are pretty close.

If this speculation is correct, then does the sacred tree forest adjacent to the wasteland also have some special meaning?

Putting these speculations aside for the moment, Melen looked at the green spheres flying around the leaves. Although they only made a single "chirp", there were regular changes in pitch and length within this syllable.

Melen felt that these sounds might contain some meaningful information, or perhaps it was a language!

Group! Language!

Although these green spheres are extremely weak individually, Melen feels that they may be real high-dimensional life forms.

In this way, communication becomes possible.

Thinking of this, Melen no longer hesitated and directly injected what he wanted to express into his spirit and passed it to these green spheres.

"Hello, we are outsiders. Can you communicate?"

Suddenly, one of the darker green spheres stopped floating around the leaves. Driven by it, the other green spheres also quickly stopped and lined up neatly around it.

The chirping sounds coming from my ears were still layered, as if they were made by countless individuals, but they were no longer chaotic. At the same time, the green spheres were constantly flashing with a halo of light that flickered, as if they were expressing something.

Good news: Judging from the performance of the green spheres, the two sides can indeed communicate.

Bad news: Melen still couldn't understand what the green spheres were saying, but he could vaguely sense from the hostility they exuded that they were not friendly words.

Melen sent another message to try to appease the green spheres...

"I don't understand what you are saying. We have no ill intentions. Could you try another way of communicating?"

The green spheres stopped making the chirping sounds and flashing halos, and after seeming to think for a moment, one of the darkest green spheres floated forward for a distance. The next moment, all the remaining green spheres rushed towards it.

Soon, all the other green spheres merged into the dark green sphere, and the latter also grew from the size of a fist to the size of a football. More importantly, its aura suddenly jumped from the first level of transcendence to the fourth level of legend.

Mellen's eyes narrowed slightly. If mutual fusion is the special ability of these green spheres, then given the scale of the jungle, it should not be difficult to fuse together a hundred or eighty saints. Even if there is no upper limit to this fusion, it is not impossible to fuse together a demigod.

Next, the dark green sphere made a chirping sound again, but unlike before, this time the sound was accompanied by some spiritual information.

'Invaders, you, destroy, homes, leave!'

Melen quickly understood what the dark green sphere meant. It must be that the golden retriever's previous tentative actions made the green spheres think they were invaders, which is why they were so hostile. And those leaves should be the home that the dark green spheres mentioned.

Seeing this, Melen was delighted. For him, being able to communicate was a good thing.

Mellen showed an apologetic expression on his face and said, "Sorry, we didn't mean to destroy your home..."

The golden retriever curled his lips and thought to himself, 'It's not intentional, it's deliberate'.

"If this has offended you, we are willing to make amends."

Perhaps it was moved by Mellen's sincerity, or more likely attracted by the compensation Mellen mentioned, and the hostility of the dark green sphere subsided a little.

"What, compensation?"

Mellen naturally didn't have anything he could trade with higher-dimensional beings. He thought for a moment, then pulled out some crystals and debris that had fallen from higher-dimensional monsters he'd killed before. He asked, "These are all I have on me for now. I wonder..."

Before Melen could finish his words, a green light wrapped around the crystals and debris, dragging them in front of the dark green sphere.

The power contained in the green light was nothing to Mellen, but he did not stop.

The dark green sphere seemed very happy as it buried the crystals and debris in the soil next to the leaves. The leaves immediately began to shake, and the roots continued to digest the energy in the crystals and debris.

During this process, the leaves showed noticeable growth and became a little bigger. Soon, more than a dozen new green spheres floated out from the leaves, but they were much smaller in size.

If normal green spheres are the size of an adult's fist, then these newly born green spheres are only the size of a baby's fist.

The newly born green sphere circled around the dark green sphere several times and soon merged into it, and the latter's strength increased slightly.

At this time, the dark green sphere's hostility towards Mellen had completely dissipated, but its chirping sound was still urging Mellen to leave.

Mellen said with a smile: "No hurry, no hurry."

Then he took out twice as many crystals and debris as before, but did not speak immediately. Instead, he observed the reaction of the dark green sphere.

The dark green sphere shook violently, as if extremely surprised, but it showed no intention of snatching it away. Instead, after a moment of silence, it said, "Outsider, do you want to trade?"

Melen discovered that in just a few moments, the dark green sphere had gradually become accustomed to his way of communicating. From the beginning when it could only barely express its meaning, the current word order was normal.

Of course, this is probably also due to the growth of leaves and the increase in strength of the dark green sphere.

Melen said tentatively: "The outside world is too dangerous. I want to seek the protection of your tribe."

The dark green sphere said, "My homeland cannot shelter you, your people, from shelter."

Melen asked, "What price must I pay to gain the protection of your people?"

The dark green sphere was about to say something when suddenly, the entire jungle vibrated in unison.

The next moment, an emerald green halo suddenly spread out from the depths of the jungle and swept across an infinite distance.

This emerald green halo is a scent, a color, and a taste, full of a pure temptation that comes from the instinct of life.