The steel warships flying with the imperial flag were parked at sea, the dragon cavalry jets flew through the sky with a low buzz, and the fully armed steel rangers patrolled the beach - all of which brought an indescribable sense of security for the bees and night owls.

On the barren coast covered with gravel, the landing team cleared a temporary place to settle down. The high-power mobile communication station and magic network array restored communication between Violet Island and North Port. The shield generator in the wild resisted the biting cold wind on the winter coast. The night owl and the bee sat on a large stone, holding a quick-heated soup in their hands, feeling the chill in their bodies gradually dissipated.

In front of them was a columnar device. The lower half of the device had a hexagonal alloy shell, and the upper half was layered with crystal panels. The magic glow between the crystals slowly floated, and the constant and uniform thermal field radiated from the device as the center, quickly increasing the temperature of the entire campsite to the comfort level.

Several soldiers hung their camping lunch boxes on the hook next to the heating device, and the food in the lunch boxes was gradually emitting an attractive smell under the heat baking.

This device made Bird Feng recall similar items she saw in the tutor's mage tower when she was an apprentice of a mage. The mages of the old era would set up various magical items in their residences that could change the environment, including magic fires that could warm the entire tower as spring, and also an ice mirror that cools the entire castle. The effects of these things are incredible, and they are usually used by mages to demonstrate their superb skills and strong financial resources in making magic props.

They always use extremely sophisticated, complex and extravagant and expensive ways to create even the simplest magic props. A fireplace used to release wide-area thermal field must be built with obsidian bricks and fine gold ingots - a lifestyle that unimaginable to the civilians at that time.

If his mentor had not died on the wall of Saint Sunil, I wonder how he would feel when he saw this era... he would probably point to this unpretentious "portable outdoor heat station" and scold his soullessness - and then secretly go to the market to buy one when there is no one and take a break and study how it works.

For some reason, Quefeng recalled these old things in her mind. She was stunned for a while, then shook her head gently. She heard the black-haired dragon-born lady talking to herself and Ye Xiao: "Your 'shop manager', 'Silver Eye' Corold had already died when the city of Plandel. Unfortunately, we may not be able to recover his body... Did he leave any relics?"

"No, the store manager's personal belongings have been taken away by the thick fog," Quefeng shook her head, her voice low, "Whatever you have to say... Ye Xiao and I are his relics."

"...I understand," Maggie looked at the two military intelligence operators with calm expressions in front of her. She nodded slowly and turned the topic away. "Then, I need to learn something from you-you are witnesses of the Plandel fog incident and have been in Violet for many years. The information you have is crucial to us."

Bird Bee nodded, and her eyes swept over the steel ranger soldiers patrolling nearby and the steel warship floating on the sea in the distance - the "Cold Star" - the appearance of a main warship, obviously exceeding the "boundary" of one country's intelligence collection work on another country. This is a clear signal, indicating that the upper class of the empire has realized the extraordinaryness of Violet's "extraordinary vision" and realized that Violet may have lost its "function" as a sovereign state.

Now, in the eyes of the empire's senior officials, the Violet Kingdom is probably no longer a normal "country", but an "abnormal area" completely shrouded in extraordinary visions.

"Are there any signs of thick fog?" Maggie's voice came from the opposite side, "I mean short-term signs - we already know the abnormalities in the Violet Kingdom over the past month."

"There is no sign," Bird Bee shook her head, "The thick fog suddenly appeared, there was no sign. Ye Xiao and I were indoors at that time. We didn't even notice when the thick fog came. We didn't realize the abnormality until we observed the window."

Maggie took these details carefully and asked again: "The thick fog itself has no lethality, right?"

"Yes, we move as usual in thick fog, the fog is non-toxic, harmless and tasteless, and I can't even feel its existence at all. It gives people the feeling of something... phantom, which only appears in vision, not something that really exists in the real world."

"Mr. Modir mentioned before that there are very faint lights in the doors and windows of buildings in the thick fog, and when people turn their eyes over, there will be blurred outlines and changing shapes in the doors and windows, just like many people with twisted limbs lying on the rough crystal glass and peeking outwards. Is that true?"

"...Yes, and not only those buildings, but also those carriages parked on the side of the road," said Ye Owl next to him, recalling the details of last night. "As long as it is a closed space and has transparent or translucent doors and windows, those strange shadows will appear. We suspect that those "citizens" who originally "live" in Plandel, and in the thick fog, they present a... more essential posture. In addition, as you said just now, these figures will react to our sight. "They" will appear when we look at those doors and windows, and the longer we look at them, the more strange their shapes will appear..."

Maggie nodded and silently recorded the new details. Then she asked several questions, adding a little bit about the information about the "Plandel fog" last night. After she asked, Modir immediately asked: "Did the fog appear again during the period when you were waiting for rescue? Or did any other vision happen?"

"...No more," Bird Feng shook his head while thinking, but then suddenly remembered something and quickly added, "By the way, we did see some fog after the sunrise. It was not long after we left the 'Prandall', and fog suddenly appeared on the rock beach. Ye Xiao and I saw... the figure of the 'store manager' emerged from it and said goodbye to us."

"…Unstable superposition state," Modir whispered, "that should be the last moment when the 'another world' is disconnected from the real world."

As he spoke, the legendary adventurer slowly stood up and looked up in the direction of the island. He saw the gravel beach on the coast extending there. The former city of Plandel was located in the northwest of this gravel beach. It is now an extremely vast wilderness. In the north of the gravel beach, you can see a lush forest.

The shadows in the dense forest seemed to be difficult to cross even the short trees on the edge, but what Modir cares more about was another thing-there seemed to be no "fog" in the dense forest.

What we refer here is not the heavy fog that covered Plandel last night, but the "fog-crack" that has been mentioned in the information that is endlessly filled with dense forests in various parts of the Violet territory.

Before Plandel was swallowed, all the intelligence personnel mentioned this kind of fog when reporting on the situation in the Violet Kingdom. In their report, they mentioned that the Violet Kingdom was full of dense forests, and the dense forest was filled with thick fog that had not dissipated for years. The fog seemed to have extraordinary power, which could interfere with people's perception, block people's path, and even "exiled" those who entered it back to the entrance of the fog, even extraordinary people could not pass through it.

The dense forests covering the entire area, coupled with the fog in the forest that has not dissipated for many years, together form the "inland barrier" of the Violet Kingdom, wrapping many inland cities, including the Thousand Towers City, and blocking outsiders' vision of trying to spy on this mysterious country. Whether it is Cecil's military intelligence agency or the spy spy sent by Tifeng, there is no way out.

However, now, Modir could clearly see that the thick fog in the dense forest had dissipated, and the rest... was the only dark environment that was not normal.

Ye Xiao quickly noticed the old mage's sight. The young military intelligence agency immediately understood what the other party was thinking and took the initiative to speak: "After we escaped, the fog that was always filled with the dense forest disappeared, and never appeared in the middle."

"You haven't gone deep into the island, are you?" Modir immediately turned around and asked seriously.

"No," Ye Xiao shook his head, "Although the fog in the dense forest has dissipated, it is filled with abnormal dark environments. Obviously, there are other strange things. Bifeng and I just observed the edge of the forest for a while and retreated to the beach."

"You did it right. It is dangerous to go deep into the heartland before you understand the current 'law' of the island," Modir nodded slightly. As an experienced adventurer, he knew that recklessness and overconfidence often lead to disasters.

"Prandal disappeared in the thick fog, and the fog that has been flooding the island's dense forests all year round has also disappeared... What is the relationship between the two?" Maggie muttered thoughtfully, "It gives people the feeling that Plandal City and the thick fog in the originally dense forest are supported by the same 'source', and now this source is fading from the real world..."

"Ms. Ye, I can only think of Ms. Ye," Modir said slowly, "No matter the shadow residents that appeared last night or the call I received in my dreams, they seemed to point to the mysterious ancient god, but I really couldn't see what intention He wanted to convey... But there was one thing I understood. Violet, the so-called 'magistrate kingdom'... its true face is probably a shadow country. At least that city of Plandel is obviously dominated by the power of shadow."

Modir shook his head, then outlined several shining runes in the air, and an illusory eyeball condensed from the runes. After a moment of stagnation, the eyeball looked towards the depths of the dense forest.

"The situation in the hinterland of the island is unknown, and it will be dangerous to go deeper rashly. I will put the eye of the mage to take a look. The control distance of this thing is still very good."

As the old mage said, he casually covered more than a dozen layers of elemental resistance and arcane protection around the Eye of the Mage, and finally shot it with seven layers of mage armor and seven layers of force field shield...

When Bifeng saw this scene, she was stunned and her eyes widened: "Can the Eye of the Mage be equipped with so many layers of protection?!"

"A little trick accumulated during the adventure. After all, the wild environment is so dangerous. Who knows what will happen if you are not prepared?" Modir said with a look of course, then he reached out and pushed the mage's eye he summoned. Ye Owl and Bird Bee watched the summoning object of the three layers of the inner and three layers of the inner and outer layers of the inner and outer layers of the inner and outer layers of the ringing object, which had been wrapped in various magical special effects, floated slowly into the air, and slowly flew towards the direction of the dense forest like a flying tank.

Although everyone knows that the "magic effect" itself has no weight, they just see a feeling that it seems to be unable to fly from this eyeball.

Maggie next to her was also stunned. The Black Dragon Miss even suspected that this mage's eye was even more resistant to beating than her...

At the same time, the Duchess of Victoria, who stayed on the Cold Star, was paying attention to the information sent back by all the exploration teams - not only Maggie and Modir who landed on the coast of Plandel, but also the information that the "Cold Wind" and "Ice Cavalry" who went to Rattle and Port Penn to check the situation at any time.

She glanced at the mechanical clock hanging nearby, turned to one of the magic network terminals on the communication station: "Cold Feng, report your location."

The next second, the voice of Commander Hanfeng came from the terminal of the Magic Net: "This is Hanfeng, we are close to the outer port of Ratel... It was originally an area of ​​the outer port. No Ratel City was found, repeated, no Ratel City was found, there was only a primitive and barren coastline here!"

Victoria's surface was as deep as water: "…Confirm the orientation and coastal topographic characteristics."

"The orientation is confirmed and the coastal terrain is consistent. We are near Rattle City and the city has disappeared."

Victoria took a light breath, and almost at the same time, a quick report from the commander of the "Ice Cavalry" came from another communication channel: "Report to the Grand Administrator! This is the Ice Cavalry! Port Penn has disappeared, repeated, Port Penn has disappeared - we are searching along the coastline, and no traces of the city have been found at present!"

"...I know, the Cold Wind and the Ice Cavalry continue to search along the coastline. If there is no danger, send landing troops to the shore to set up temporary bases and monitoring equipment." Victoria's voice was as cold and calm as winter ice. Then she looked up at the sky outside the porthole, "regardless of the progress, everyone must return to the boat before the sun sets, and you must never spend the night on the island today."

"Yes, the Cold Wind understands." "The Ice Cavalry is clear."

The communication between the two warships was temporarily suspended, and Victoria took a light breath. Before she could exhale the breath, the landing team led by Maggie initiated a communication request.

After the communication was connected, she saw the face of her ancestors appearing in the holographic projection at first sight.

"The fog barrier in the dense forest inside the island has disappeared. I just put an Eye of the Mage in the direction of the north forest," Modir said straight to the point. "Now the Eye of the Mage is about to fly to my control limit - if you look down from the air, the Eye of the Mage can observe only the primeval forest that is beyond the limit of sight and the large open space in the forest that is extremely abrupt, without any cities, villages and roads. How is your situation?"
Chapter completed!