Angel originally thought of choosing a random direction and walking around to see if he could find a way out of the forest.
In other words, in this dark forest, can we find guidance to leave the strange omen?
However, Angel frowned after he had only taken a few steps. Although he could not perceive the thinking space or mobilize energy, his spiritual sense as a wizard had not disappeared.
He vaguely felt that something was wrong around him, but he couldn't find out what was wrong for the moment. However, the pressing feeling between his eyebrows reminded him that this forest seemed not as simple as it seemed on the surface. There was something hidden in it.
Unspeakable danger.
"Where will the danger come from?" Angel stretched out his fingers and rubbed his swollen eyebrows, trying to increase the effectiveness of his spiritual sense. But it had no effect. On the contrary, the surging spiritual sense slowly changed.
It has to be stopped.
Everything returned to silence, as if the danger was just an illusion.
Angel knew very well that the pressure between his eyebrows just now was definitely not an illusion, and there must be something wrong here. Since his spiritual sense was silent, he could only try to capture the things around him through his eyes to analyze the source of the danger.
Are there monsters lurking in the shadows of the forest? Or is it a trap buried by the hunter in the forest?
Or maybe... this forest itself is dangerous? For example, the surrounding trees actually contain hidden intelligence and can turn into evil towering tree men?
When Angel's thoughts were running wild, several screams of crows suddenly reached his ears.
Are there crows in the forest?
Angel raised his head and looked, vaguely seeing several black shadows flying past in the dark forest, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The size of the black shadow is very similar to that of a crow, and when it flies by, you can hear the flapping of wings, so there is a high probability that it is a crow.
Although these crow-like creatures disappeared in the blink of an eye, their shrill cries never stopped. It seemed that this group of crows had been lingering near Angel.
Could the danger come from crows?
In the wizarding world, crows are often used as eyes. Moreover, crows are always small-minded and will retaliate. There are also wizards who keep crows free to use their character metaphors to warn those who are approaching.
Angel didn't know if these crows were freed, or if they were the eyes of some extraordinary person, but after all, this was just a "foreign omen", so there shouldn't be any obscure metaphors, right?
Perhaps these crows are not a source of danger, but enhance the atmosphere?
After all, even Angel would feel inexplicably uneasy when he listened to the crow that sounded like the sound of the dead in his ears and looked at the dark forest in front of him.
The gloomy atmosphere here has obviously been heightened by the group of crows hiding in the shadows.
Suppressing the surging thoughts in his heart, Angel focused his attention on the present again.
Staying where he was was not an option. Angel thought for a while and decided to go in another direction.
Maybe the premonition of danger before was because he was walking in the wrong direction? As long as he finds the right direction, he can get rid of the premonition of danger?
Changing the direction, Angel took a few more steps.
The spiritual sense did not wake up again, which seemed to mean that changing direction could indeed get rid of danger? But Angel felt that it was not that simple. The spiritual sense did not remind him, maybe just because it had warned him before.
Angel ignored it and continued to walk a few steps.
When the total number of steps reached thirty, Angel stopped. Because he finally discovered something was wrong!
The surrounding trees seem to have become thicker and bigger!
Is there really something wrong with the trees? In order to prove that his findings were correct, he chose to move on. But this time, he changed the reference coordinates.
A few seconds later, Angel stopped again.
At this moment, his expression was no longer as calm as before, because he discovered...the truth.
——The trees have not changed, what has changed is himself. His body has become smaller.
This forest is like Gulliver's tunnel. Every time he takes a step forward, his body shrinks.
This kind of shrinkage does not make Angel's body feel strange, as if it has become smaller naturally. Therefore, Angel did not notice it at first. If not for the spiritual reminder, Angel might have to wait until all the surrounding trees are gone.
Only when you turn into a towering tree will you discover your abnormality.
However, there are rules for shrinking. It will only shrink when walking, but will not shrink when stopping.
Does this mean stopping is the "solution"?
Absolutely not.
Angel tried to stop and analyze the situation around him, but the more he stopped, the less he wanted to move and did not dare to move. It seemed that after he noticed the pattern of shrinking, he "stopped and didn't move"
"It became a safe island in his heart, making him even more reluctant to take a step forward.
And this is definitely not a good thing. Unless he wants to be trapped in this weird omen forever, otherwise, he must take action and find the solution to the omen.
"It shrinks every time you take a step. Is this a sign of this abnormality?"
While Angel was thinking to himself, he took the initiative and began to conduct more tests related to the law of shrinkage in the surrounding area.
Angel seemed to be wandering around, but he was actually testing different aspects, different moves, and the effects of various factors on shrinkage. He also climbed a tree and even ran at full strength for a distance.
In the end, he got a not-so-good result:
Shrinking is not affected by any other factors. As long as you walk, no matter what posture you take, even if you are crawling, you will definitely shrink. Running will speed up the shrinking.
In other words, if he wants to find the solution to the anomaly, he will inevitably shrink, and this shrinking will continue. In the end, he may become smaller than dust.
No, he might not even have a chance to turn into dust before he would be threatened by other dangers in the forest, such as crows.
Ever since the first crow sounded in Angel's ears, this group of crows hiding in the dark has never left. They crow from time to time to show their presence.
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Today's Angel, after a series of previous tests, although his body has shrunk a lot and his height is half a head shorter than before. But at least he still maintains the size of an adult, facing the shadows hidden in the forest.
Among the crows, he still has a certain advantage. Comparing a hunter with a prey, he can barely be considered a hunter now.
But when he continues to shrink and becomes similar in size to the Kulakuka people, at that time, the hunter and the prey will change positions.
He becomes the prey, and the crow becomes the hunter.
Angel believed that at that time, crows would fly out of the darkness and attack him.
"The forest that can make people smaller, and the crows that are watching eagerly." Angel murmured in a low voice: Could this be this ominous test?
Angel knew that it was difficult to guess what the real test of the omen would be, but the biggest dilemma at the moment was indeed to solve the problem of shrinking himself and to deal with the crow in the dark.
How to solve the dilemma? Would you stop first and find a way to kill the crow?
No, the crows are not attacking now, which means that they also know the shrinking pattern of the forest, so they will definitely wait until the offensive and defensive positions are changed before attacking.
If it stops, the crow will not attack. Instead, it will receive some psychological suggestion, making it afraid to move the longer it stops.
But what should he do if he doesn't stop? Does the crow want to solve it? Or is the crow and the shrinking just a kind of psychological oppression, forcing him to panic and make him ignore the clues hidden in the dark?
Angel began to force himself to stop thinking about crows and the shrinking of his body, ignore these external factors, and seriously search for clues hidden in the forest.
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Angel didn't pay attention to the changes in his body and started walking in the forest. He initially planned to look for "human traces". If there were human traces, he might be able to find a way out.
But after searching for a while, no human traces were found, but some animal tracks were found.
This footprint was found under a rotten broadleaf forest. The footprint was very small, about the size of a baby's fist, but it went very deep into the ground.
Angel did not recognize the shape of the footprints, because the footprints were filled with water, which had turned the clear footprints into mud.
Could this footprint be a clue? Angel didn't know, but he decided to look for it near the footprint.
Since there is one footprint, there must be a second footprint.
After this search, Angel was three centimeters shorter. However, he still found the second footprint.
It is worth mentioning that the second footprint and the first footprint should be left by the same animal, but they are far apart. Four meters away, it seems that this animal takes very long steps?
Also, the size of the footprints has not changed, which means that there is a second creature in the forest that does not shrink due to movement.
The first type is a crow, and the second type is the owner of this footprint.
Crows are enemies peeping in the dark, so could the owner of this footprint be the one who answered the bell of this strange omen?
Angel thought for a moment and decided to follow the direction of the footprints and look for the owner of the footprints.
In this search, another five centimeters were lost.
However, this time Angel found about ten footprints, and he was basically certain that the owner of this footprint had indeed not shrunk.
Although the owner of the footprints left one footprint on the left and one on the right, the general direction is certain.
To be continued...