Recap
Chu Shici immediately raised his head, “Ge! Zhe-ge! Go back to the beastmen tribe first. I’m worried that something will happen to that golden retriever!”
Ji Huaizhe paused and said, “What?”
“The formations in this forest are most likely manually operated by humans. There are too many strange things here. Don’t go back to the Sorcerer Academy yet. Go back to the beastmen tribe. The beastmen there may be able to help you.”
Ji Huaizhe reacted quickly and walked back decisively.
Yet, the moment he turned around, the world in front of him suddenly began to spin slowly.
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Now, Chu Shici finally understood what the Husky and the Golden Retriever were talking about.
It’s still daytime now and as the world rotates, they can vaguely see reflections around them.
Chu Shici hesitated for a moment and immediately asked the system to pull his soul out of the doll’s body.
The soul floated out of the voodoo doll’s body. Chu Shici hurriedly alerted Ji Huaizhe about this and floated upward quickly.
He does not belong to this world, hence the voodoo doll vessel does not exert strong restraint on him, and he is able to move freely in a wider range than other evil spirit servants.
After roughly being higher than the surrounding trees, Chu Shici stopped in mid-air and looked down.
As far as he can see, the scene below was constantly turning in different directions in a strange symmetrical pattern.
It’s hard to describe the feeling, it looks a bit like a spinning kaleidoscope.
A kaleidoscope is created by placing a mirror tilted at an angle which uses the reflection of light to produce patterns.
As the world spins, it does seem to look like the reflection of a mirror.
But there is no such big prism in the world that can connect heaven and the earth and fill the entire world.
This is obviously a weird formation that cannot be explained by scientific common sense.
Chu Shici was not at a high enough distance to see the entire forest clearly.
He could only see that the woods next to Zhe-ge were rotating and gradually overlapping with the area where Zhe-ge was.
At the same time, in the originally deserted forest, a figure exactly like Ji Huaizhe appeared.
Chu Shici subconsciously looked in that direction. At the same height as him, a figure similar to his appeared.
He felt goosebumps.
Chu Shici couldn’t understand anything at all, and now he just wanted to find a way to break through this predicament quickly.
The little doll acted without permission, and Ji Huaizhe looked infuriated and worried. He looked around, shouting: ‘Ah Ci!’
He walked a few steps, and the figures in the forest next to him also walked back towards him, shouting “Ah Ci! Ah Ci!” with him, and the entire forest became very noisy.
Ji Huaizhe also noticed this, pursed his lips and became silent.
Chu Shici felt more and more strange the more he looked at it.
Zhe-ge was trapped in the forest the night before yesterday and could not find the beastmen tribe. The world was not spinning at that time, but it was like encountering a predicament of ghosts hitting walls.
Yesterday, Zhe-ge and the husky entered the forest, and what they encountered was the back of figures eerily similar to theirs.
If it was really a mirror, then they should see the front, not the back.
No matter how unscientific it was, this doesn’t make sense.
And what’s the point of this formation spinning around?
If they want to trap Ji Huaizhe, they don’t even need to cast a figure similar to them, all they need to do is just to use the ghost hit the wall strategy like the night before yesterday.
No matter how or where the people in the formation run, they will eventually return to the starting point. It was impossible for them to escape, so there was no need to complicate things.
Chu Shici frowned in thought. As time passed, there were more and more figures resembling Ji Huaizhe around him.
He felt a little uneasy, fearing that he would not be able to find Zhe-ge when he went back later, so he quickly flew down and got back into the voodoo doll.
Ji Huaizhe held him down and stuffed him into his breast pocket.
Chu Shici felt that Zhe-ge’s grip on him was particularly strong.
He looked up and saw Zhe-ge pursed his lips tightly, his eyes had already turned slightly red some time ago.
Sensing his gaze, Ji Huaizhe lowered his head and said coldly: “You are not allowed to leave suddenly again in the future. I don’t like it.”
At the same time, Chu Shici heard the system notification.
[Add 3 points to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 31/100.]
Looking at the vitality value and Ji Huaizhe’s reddish eye, Chu Shici suddenly figured out what he was thinking.
Chu Shici thought that the rotation of the formation would end soon, so he flew up in a hurry and only had time to give a quick explanation to Zhe-ge.
Ji Huaizhe probably didn’t hear clearly and saw that the little doll’s soul suddenly flew away, leaving him all alone, thinking that Chu Shici must have left him and ran away.
Chu Shici has been with Zhe-ge for so long, he knows that Zhe-ge is far from as strong as he seems.
The forest is full of dangers, and such a strange scene appeared.
Ji Huaizhe looked cold and said nothing, but he was actually very scared and needed someone to accompany him.
Chu Shici suspected that if he came back later, Zhe-ge would most likely not be able to hold back his tears.
Ji Huaizhe pressed the doll tightly against his chest. After pressing it for a while, he felt that it was not secure enough, so he simply held him in his hand.
He kneaded the little doll, and the feeling from his fingertips relaxed his tense mood slightly.
The loud noise that had been ringing in his ears seemed to have become less intense.
He picked up the little doll, lowered his head and rubbed against it. Even though the doll was very small, he felt comforted.
Chu Shici touched the tip of the man’s nose soothingly, “I’m here. Although I can’t help much, I will always be with you.”
Ji Huaizhe hummed lightly.
The vitality value silently increased by two points.
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The woods haven’t stopped spinning and they don’t know when it will end.
At this time, more than a dozen figures similar to Ji Huaizhe had appeared all around them.
Chu Shici tilted his head and expressed his confusion to Zhe-ge: “I looked at this place from above. I think it is more like a constantly replicating scene than a kaleidoscope.
I don’t understand the formation nor do I think it’s okay for me to speculate too much.What I don’t understand is why we only see the silhouettes and not the front. It doesn’t seem like a mirror.”
Ji Huaizhe clenched his wand tightly: “I don’t know.”
Looking around at the trees that were still spinning, Chu Shici felt dizzy.
He doesn’t know if it was because he turned around for too long, making him feel dizzy and it gave him an illusion. But he always felt that the movements of certain figures seemed different from others. When he looked over, the figure looked normal again.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the world stopped spinning.
Ji Huaizhe clenched his wand and walked forward, the people around him followed suit.
There were figures exactly like Ji Huaizhe in all directions.
As he moved forward, the distance between the other person and him was getting closer and closer.
The feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and the questions that the little doll asked before continued to echo in Ji Huaizhe’s mind.
Why do they see the silhouettes?
Since it wasn’t to trap him, then what was the purpose of spinning the formation for so long just now?
Relying on his memory, Ji Huaizhe ignored the figures around him and ran towards the direction of the beastmen tribe.
At this moment, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw the figure on his left did not make the same action as him.
Instead, he suddenly raised his wand and hit him hard on the head.
Ji Huaizhe reacted quickly and immediately ducked out of the way.
But the next second, there was a sharp pain in his back.
Ji Huaizhe groaned and turned sideways to avoid it.
The figure behind him held a wand pointed at him. There were a few drops of fresh blood on the sharp tip of the wand.
Ji Huaizhe stuffed the doll into his breast pocket, raised his hand, touched his back, and felt sticky blood on his hand.
The blood on the tip of the wand was his, he had been hit.
Chu Shici struggled to pull himself to the top of Ji Huaizhe’s pocket and looked at the scene in front of him in shock.
Fuck, no wonder he felt that something seemed to be nagging him just now.
It turns out that not only can the figures imitate them, but it can actually move on its own.
They are usually mirror images, but when the caster behind the formation needs them to, they will jump out and attack.
Ji Huaizhe was wandering around in the forest the night before. The people who controlled the formation did not attack him, but trapped him by using the ghosts hit the wall tactic.
The reason Ji Huaizhe was able to come into the beastmen tribe last night led by Lilith was because the caster behind the scenes wanted him to give up the idea of escape.
Deliberately not activating the formations allowed Ji Huaizhe to reach the beastmen tribe smoothly.
At that time, the forest was normal, and the people inside could walk around normally in the forest and go wherever they wanted.
Ji Huaizhe can go to the beastmen tribe by himself, with or without Lilith.
When the Husky took Ji Huaizhe to find the Beast airship, the formation was activated again, and they saw figures resembling themselves in the forest.
After Ji Huaizhe and the Husky boarded the Beast airship. They flew for a long time yet couldn’t escape from the starting point. All of this was part of the caster’s plan.
Having tried everything on the ground and in the air, Ji Huaizhe should have accepted his fate and returned to the Sorcerer Academy honestly so that both parties can continue to live in ignorance.
But Ji Huaizhe not only did not give up, but even pulled the Golden Retriever to rebel.
Seeing how determined he was, the caster behind the scenes simply broke the calm surface and directly attacked Ji Huaizhe with the formation.
The ghost hitting the wall, the silhouettes, and the spinning of the forest are all signs of the activation of the formation, and they are also the three different forms of the formation.
Chu Shici was too small to be of help in the fight.
His mind was thinking rapidly, and he always felt that there was a very important point that he had missed.
Zhe-ge and the Golden Retriever encountered anomalies because they wanted to escape and thus were trapped in the formation.
Then why did the Husky and Senior Tom also encounter ghosts hitting the wall?
The two of them have no intentions of leaving Erya Mountain, and there is nothing special about them.
There is only one way to explain it.
When the caster was dealing with others, the Husky and senior Tom happened to be outside. They happened to see the formation start up and saw something strange.
Chu Shici’s eyes lit up.
This is a good thing. Maybe besides Ji Huaizhe and the Golden Retriever, there are other people here trying to escape from the Erya Mountain.
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The formation just kept rotating, giving birth to a dozen figures similar to Ji Huaizhe’s before, surrounding him from all directions.
Ji Huaizhe was surrounded by figures who seemed just like him.
Fortunately, the figures only look like him, but their strength and speed are not as good as his.
Ji Huaizhe waved his magic wand and hit the figures. Cracks appeared on the surface of the figures, and after being hit several times, they shattered into shards of glass.
When Chu Shici saw this, he couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Zhe-ge is invincible in close combat. If it were another mage, they would have perished by now.
Ji Huaizhe was able to fight more than a dozen at a time.
Within a few minutes, all the figures around him shattered.
Standing on top of the debris on the ground, Ji Huaizhe looked calm and his breathing rate did not change.
Chu Shici stuck his head out to take a look.
Is this the end?
It doesn’t feel like a grand finale.
Before he could open his mouth to celebrate, the world suddenly spun again.
A few minutes later, another group of figures appeared.
Ji Huaizhe’s eyelids twitched slightly and he raised his wand again to meet the enemy.
After this wave, there will be another wave. As long as he takes care of the figures in front of him, the formation will continuously send out reinforcements.
Ji Huaizhe defeated twenty waves in total, with a total of more than 200 figures.
His pale face was flushed, his stamina had begun to run out.
Chu Shici finally understood the terrifying nature of this formation.
People trapped in the forest cannot get out. The formation can continuously generate figures and launch attacks non-stop.
No matter how good Zhe-ge is at fighting, he will be killed sooner or later in a losing battle.
Taking advantage of the opportunity for the formation to rotate and a new wave of soldiers to emerge, Chu Shici quickly said: “Ge! Before the abnormality occurred in the forest, we were not very far from the beastmen tribe. Try blowing the whistle and see if the Golden Retriever and the others can hear it.”
Ji Huaizhe didn’t hesitate, he took out the whistle given by the Golden Retriever. After blowing for a long time, they didn’t get any response.
He took out another whistle and tried to summon the Husky.
Not long after the whistle blew, a long howl suddenly sounded from a certain direction.
The forest was spinning, and Ji Huaizhe couldn’t tell where the sound was coming from.
He blew the whistle repeatedly and the dog kept barking.
The moment the forest stopped turning, he heard the canine beastman’s loud shout coming from the distance.
“I’m coming, I’m coming! Stop whistling! Do you want to play ball?! Why are you more anxious than me!!!”
It was very quiet in the forest, and the Husky’s cry was penetrating. Even though it was a bit far away, it was still very clear.
“I can’t find the Golden Retriever! Is he at your place? His mother wants him back for dinner!”
The shouting seemed to be getting louder, and the Husky should be running frantically into the forest.
After a few seconds, there was a sudden silence, and then there was a loud scream of terror.
“Ahhh! The woods are so scary! I don’t want to go in there! I have something else to do, so I’ll come and play with you next time! Bye!!!”
Then the sounds disappeared.
Ji Huaizhe: ……
Chu Shici: …
The dog came and the dog went.
Wait, what did he just say? The Golden Retriever is missing?!
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