Vol 6 Chapter 2952: spooky forest

   Chapter 2952 Weird Forest
  Angol originally thought to choose a random direction to walk around to see if he could find a way out of the forest.
   In other words, in this dark forest, can you find the guidance to leave the strange omens?
   However, Angel only took a few steps, and his brows furrowed. Although he could not perceive the space of thought and mobilize energy, his spiritual sense as a wizard did not disappear.
   He vaguely felt that something was wrong around him, but he couldn't find out what was wrong. However, the oppression of the spiritual sense on the eyebrows reminded him that this forest seems to be not as simple as it looks on the surface, and there is an unspeakable danger lurking in it.
   "Where will the danger come from?" Angel stretched out his fingers and rubbed the swollen between his brows, trying to increase the effect of his spiritual sense. But it didn't have any effect, on the contrary, the surging spiritual sense slowly disappeared.
  Everything returned to silence, as if the danger was just an illusion.
   Angel is very clear that the pressure between the eyebrows just now is definitely not an illusion, there must be something wrong here. Now that his spiritual sense is silent, he can only try to capture the surrounding things through his eyes and analyze the source of danger.
   Is there a monster lurking in the shadow of the forest? Or, a trap that hunters buried in the forest?
   Or...the forest itself is dangerous? For example, the surrounding trees actually have hidden intelligence and can turn into evil towering tree people?
   When Angel's thoughts were running wild, several shrill crows neighing suddenly entered his ears.
   Are there crows in the forest?
  Angol looked up and saw a few shadows flying by in the dark forest, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye. .
   The size of the shadow is very similar to that of a crow, and when flying over, you can hear the sound of flapping wings, and there is a high probability that it is a crow.
   Although these creatures suspected of crows disappeared in a blink of an eye, their shrill cries never stopped. It seemed that these crows had been wandering near Anger.
   Could the danger come from the crow?
   In the wizarding world, crows are mostly used as eyes. Moreover, crows have always been small-minded, and they will retaliate. There are also wizards who stock crows and use the metaphor of their character to warn those who approach.
  Angol didn't know if these crows were stocked, or if they were the eyes of some extraordinary person, but after all, this is only a "strange sign", so there shouldn't be any obscure metaphors, right?
  Perhaps these crows are not the source of danger, but the aura of the atmosphere?
   After all, even Angel, listening to the crows in his ears like the voice of the dead, and looking at the dark forest in front of him, would feel inexplicably uneasy in his heart.
   The gloomy atmosphere here has obviously been brought out by this group of crows hiding in the shadows.
   suppressed the surging thoughts in his heart, and Angel refocused on the present moment.
   There is no way to stop in the same place, Angel thought for a while and decided to go in a different direction.
   Maybe the previous sense of danger was because he was going in the wrong direction? As long as you find the right direction, you can ask for a dangerous hunch?
   changed direction, and Angel took a few more steps.
The    spiritual sense has not awakened again, which seems to mean that changing directions can indeed get rid of danger? But Angel also felt that it was not that simple, and the spiritual sense did not remind it, perhaps just because it had been reminded before.
  Angle continued to walk a few steps regardless.
   When the total number of steps reached thirty, Angel stopped. Because, he finally found something wrong!
The trees around    seem to be thicker and bigger!
   Are there really problems with trees? To prove his discovery was not wrong, he chose to move on. But this time, he changed a reference coordinate.
   After a few seconds, Angel stopped again.
   At this moment, his expression was not as calm as before, because he discovered... the truth.
   - The tree does not change, it is he who changes. His body became smaller.
   This forest is like Gulliver's tunnel, and every time he takes a step forward, his body shrinks in a circle.
   This shrinkage does not make Angel's body feel strange, as if it naturally becomes smaller. Therefore, Angel didn't notice it at first. If it wasn't for the reminder from his spiritual sense, Angel might not find out about his abnormality until all the surrounding trees turned into giant trees.
   However, shrinking is also regular, only shrinking when walking, not shrinking when stopped.
   Does this mean that stopping is the "solution"?
   Absolutely not.
  Angol tried to stop and stay still to analyze the surrounding situation, but the more he stopped, the more he didn't want to move or dared to move. As if, after he noticed the law of getting smaller, "stopping" became an inner safety island, making him more reluctant to take a step.
   And this is definitely not a good thing. Unless he wants to be trapped in this strange omen, he must move and find a solution to the omen.
   "Every time you walk, it shrinks, is that a reminder of this strange omen?"
  Anger took the initiative to attack while secretly thinking in his heart, and began to do more tests related to shrinking laws around him.
  Anger seems to be hanging out, but he is actually testing the effects of different aspects, different moves, and various factors on shrinking. He also climbed a tree and even ran at full strength for a while.
   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, even if you are crawling forward, you will definitely shrink. Running, on the other hand, will speed up the shrinking speed.
   In other words, if he wants to find a solution to the strange sign, he will inevitably shrink, and this shrinkage will continue. In the end, it may become even smaller than dust.
   No, he may not even have a chance to turn into dust, and he will be threatened by other dangers in the forest, such as - crows.
   Ever since the first crow chirped in Angel's ear. This group of crows hidden in the dark never left, and they called out from time to time to show their sense of existence.
   There is no doubt that these crows are secretly peeping at him in the dark.
   Today's Angel, after a series of previous tests, although his body has become a lot smaller, his height is also half a head shorter than before. But at least he still maintains the size of an adult, and he still has a certain advantage in the face of crows hiding in the shadows of the forest. Comparing the hunter with the prey, he is now barely a hunter.
   But when he keeps shrinking and his size changes to be similar to that of the Kura Kuka people, at that time, the hunter and the prey will be translocated.
   He becomes the prey, and the crow becomes the hunter.
  Anger believed that at that time, the crow would definitely fly out of the dark and attack him.
   "The forest that can make people smaller, and the crows watching." Angel whispered: Could it be that this is the test of this strange omen?
  Angol knew that it was difficult to guess what the true test of the omen was, but the biggest dilemma at the moment was indeed to solve the problem of getting smaller and to solve the crow in the dark.
  How to solve the dilemma? Could it be to stop first and find a way to kill the crow?
  No, the crows are not attacking now, which means that they also know the law of forest shrinkage, so they will definitely wait until the offense and defense change position before attacking.
  Stopping, the crow will not attack, but will receive some psychological hints, the more he stops, the less he dares to move.
   But what if it doesn’t stop? Crows to fix? Or is the crow and the shrinking just a form of psychological oppression, forcing him to be flustered and ignoring the clues hidden in the dark?
  Angol 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.
  …
  Angol didn't care about the changes in his body and started to walk in the forest. He initially planned to look for "human trails". If there were human trails, he might be able to find a way out.
   But after searching for a while, there were no human footprints, but some animal footprints were found.
   This footprint was found under a rotten broad-leaved forest. The footprint was small, about the size of a baby's fist, but it went very deep into the ground.
  The shape of the footprints, Angel did not recognize, because the footprints were filled with water, which had turned the clear footprints into mud.
   Could this footprint be a clue? Angel was unknown, but he decided to look around the footprints.
  Since there is one footprint, there must be a second footprint.
   After looking for it, Angel was three centimeters shorter. However, a second footprint was found anyway.
  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 has a big stride?
   Also, the size of the footprints did not change, which means that there is a second kind of creature in the forest that does not shrink with movement.
  The first is the crow, and the second is the owner of this footprint.
  The crow is the enemy of secret peeping, so could the owner of this footprint be the bell-reliever of this strange sign?
   Angel thought for a moment, but decided to follow the direction of the footprint and find the owner of the footprint.
   This search, another five centimeters are gone.
   However, this time Angel found about ten footprints, and it was basically certain that the owner of this footprint did not shrink.
Although the owner of the    footprint leaves a footprint on the left and a footprint on the right, the general direction is determined.
   "Will this direction be the direction of departure?" Angel didn't know, but he was willing to try again.
   continued to follow the footsteps, this time, Angel stopped two centimeters shorter.
   It doesn't mean that he found the owner of the footprints, and Angel didn't plan to give up, but... His spiritual sense, which had been silent before, suddenly woke up.
   The revived spiritual sense this time no longer gave Anger a hint of danger as before, but gave Anger a vague guide: it seemed that his spiritual sense echoed somewhere in the forest.
   At the same time, the spiritual sense gave Angel a general direction - due north.
   But the walking direction of the footprint is the northwest of his current coordinate origin.
   Although it is not the opposite, it is also deviated from a large angle.
   Moreover, Angel can roughly estimate that the position guided by his spiritual sense is at least nearly a kilometer away from his current position.
Not to mention whether he will detour in the middle, even if he walks in a straight line, according to the law of shrinking, and the steps will become smaller after shrinking. Take the form of a dwarf or halfling.
  Although he wasn't ready to become a prey right away, the crow was already qualified to attack him.
   There are not many opportunities for him. Now the biggest problem facing Angel is whether to choose footprints or choose to believe in spiritual perception?
  Angol stopped and fell into contemplation.
   About half a minute later, Angel stepped again. This time, he did not follow the footsteps, but chose to believe in spiritual perception and go to the north!
   The reason for making this choice is because of Angel's trust in the "absolute self".
  Spiritual perception is wonderful, it can be said to be inspiration or spirituality. It comes from itself, it is the guide of deep thinking, it is the generalization of the sea of ​​energy ether, and it is the outlet of the honeycomb consciousness.
   It is also an intuition from the inside out.
   Described in more straightforward language, this is an absolute self.
   The superficial self may also be deceived. But the deeper absolute self is less likely to be deceived.
   At least, Angel has never seen the ability to deceive the absolute self in the wizarding world of the Southern Region.
   Therefore, he chose to believe in spiritual awareness.
   However, there is something strange about the spiritual sense that suddenly appeared this time. For example, spiritual sense can predict danger, and can make decisions when hesitating, but directly rely on spiritual sense to guide the way, and even the coordinates of the end point of the way have already appeared.
   This is weird.
It's not that the spiritual sense can't do this, but that there is generally only one type of situation that can achieve this: that is, there is something in the guiding place that is deeply related to Angel, and it is even said that the coordinate point has something on Angel's body. Items, only then will the spiritual sense of "strong association" appear.
   But Angel was sure that there was nothing missing on his body.
   If you have to say it, you probably only have space for thinking.
  Thinking space is the least likely to be lost. Although Angel can't perceive it now, he can be sure that the thinking space has always followed him in higher dimensions. Otherwise, spiritual awareness will not appear.
  Since it is not a thinking space, and there are no other missing items on Angel, why does such a "strongly related" spiritual sense appear?
  Angel didn't know, but he decided to go see it for himself.
  …
   After walking for another ten minutes, Angel had shrunk by about thirty centimeters.
   However, the distance to the target point is getting closer and closer.
   The crow's cry did not disappear, but it continued to ring in his ears. But apart from the crows that were secretly watching, Angel did not find other dangers in the forest... nor did he find other animals.
   This seems to mean that the footprint of that animal before is perhaps the only animal in the forest?
   If so, could his choice be wrong? Should not believe in spiritual sense, but in footsteps?
   Angel felt a bit of confusion in his heart.
  Do you want to step back? Step back at this time, maybe there is still time?
   There seemed to be a voice in Angel's heart that was constantly beguiling him to step back and try to find the footprints, but Angel didn't stop after thinking about it.
   Step back now, you may be able to find the footprint soon, but where is the end of the footprint? Will his size support him to reach the end of the trail? It's hard to say.
   However, if he chooses to move on, at least Angel has a set goal.
  Compared to searching for footprints aimlessly, moving forward with a purpose can at least give him a... result.
   (end of this chapter)