This isn't a souls-like game at all.

Is that a false, unrealistic illusion?

It seems not, because Alice's emotions are real and rich, she can make corresponding judgments based on the situations she encounters, and her every move is no different from a real person.

Ye Yiyi could touch her, feel her body temperature, hear her words, and see her appearance.

When all the senses prove that she exists, then she is truly here, and she is not a false illusion.

But whenever Ye Yiyi wanted to talk about the current situation of the border in front of her, and talked about the current fate of the kings, Alice would flicker like a light bulb.

That seemed to be some kind of warning to Ye Yiyi.

Don't disrupt Alice's understanding of the current era, and don't tell her things she shouldn't know, otherwise she will disappear like a phantom.

But in this way, Ye Yiyi has nothing else to do in front of Alice except lying, talking nonsense, and pretending to be a curious baby.

Because she would not allow Ye Yiyi to kill those animals that she considered to be endangered.

"Can't kill this one?"

He was holding the tail of a large rat that was as big as a basketball and covered with black and white striped fur, and looked at Alice with a difficult expression.

"Of course not!!"

Alice rushed forward angrily and snatched the black and white mouse from his hands.

"This is a precious Mimosaurus scrofa. Now, except for Siheim, there are no wild Mimosaurus anywhere else.

"Besides, it's so cute and docile, and it has no offensive power. Why do you have to kill it?!"

"No, I'm just curious about what animals you think are safe to kill."

Ye Yiyi shook her head and looked at the big black and white rat nestled in Alice's arms.

This little thing is really cute though.

"Why did you insist on killing them?" Alice was quite puzzled. "Did they do anything to offend you?"

"Because it's dangerous." Ye Yiyi sighed deeply, "What if we run into another Deinosuchus later? What should we do?"

Alice shook her head in confusion. "Of course, avoid them."

"What if it catches up with us?"

"How could that be? Humans aren't on the Deinosuchus's diet. It's one of the largest cold-blooded animals in Siheim. It needs six hours of sunlight a day to maintain its body temperature. Otherwise, its large size will cause it to suffer from hypothermia.

"As long as you don't provoke it, Deinosuchus won't attack a relatively low-calorie creature like humans, because the energy it has to expend is disproportionate to the energy it gains."

"Uh...really?" Ye Yiyi's mouth twitched.

"It's the only remaining species of crocodile in the Alligatoridae family, and it's also the largest crocodile in the entire border region. Why would I lie to you?"

"..."

So, when I met it yesterday afternoon, it was actually basking in the sun?

Ye Yiyi recalled the scene at that time and felt speechless.

It was he who first thought of eating crocodile meat, so he provoked it, causing the Deinosuchus to fight back.

Am I really a poacher now?

He looked a little embarrassed, so he just waved his hand and stopped talking.

Alice glared at him angrily, then put the big black and white rat on the ground and let it run away.

But just as it ran a distance, it let out a scream and was immediately grabbed by a giant green python hanging from a tree trunk and swallowed.

"Look at this..." He spread his hands towards Alice.

"That's a emerald tree python. What do you think? Aren't those long stripes of patterns on its body beautiful?"

Glancing at this bloody scene, Alice didn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable or touched, as if it wasn't her who had just saved the big rat from Ye Yiyi.

She even squatted down with great interest and explained the habits of this python to the stunned Ye one by one.

"Did you know that the Emerald Tree Python spends two-thirds of its life in trees, where it hunts, defecates, and even mates.

“They only come down from the trees briefly when they ovulate.

"They choose cool and damp cracks in rocks and under rocks beside the river to lay their eggs. They can lay about 8 to 10 eggs at a time..."

"Wait, wait!" Ye Yiyi quickly waved her hand to stop Alice from getting excited.

"What's the point of just talking about that python? The mouse is dead!"

"Isn't death a normal thing?" Alice looked at Ye Yiyi strangely.

"Ah? Is this normal?" He was confused. "Is there any difference between a python's attack and mine?"

"Of course there are. Although the purpose of killing is to eat, there are still differences."

Alice said as a matter of course: "Our excrement contains the poison of the king's magic, which cannot participate in the cycle and will pollute the land.

"When snakes eat mice, they only excrete non-toxic feces, which does not cause pollution."

"What?" Ye Yiyi was even more confused. "Are you saying my shit is poisonous?"

"The feces of intelligent creatures are all poisonous." Alice corrected Ye Yiyi.

As she spoke, she looked around, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she trotted to the side.

"Come and see!" Alice lowered her voice and waved to him cheerfully.

"Who is Yi Yi?" he muttered, but still walked lightly and squatted down beside Alice.

"Shh." She placed her index finger in front of her body as if to silence the sound, then pointed to a green leaf not far away.

Ye Yiyi looked nervously in the direction she pointed, and then saw a purple frog about 3 cm long in the vast green.

"Clam?"

"Shh! That's not a clam, it's a purple poison dart glass frog."

Alice leaned over to Ye Yiyi's ear and whispered an explanation.

"If you look closely, you'll see that although its skin appears purple, it's actually transparent, allowing you to see its heart and digestive tract through it."

Ye Yiyi couldn't help but shrink his ears. Alice was too close, and her warm breath rubbed his neck, making him feel a little itchy.

But what Alice said was indeed right. The frog's skin was indeed transparent. When Ye Yi looked closely, he saw the pale red heart and white digestive tract inside its body.

"Is this thing rare?" he couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"Glass frogs are rare now."

Alice whispered sadly:

"Four years ago, our statistics team estimated there were 42 species of glass frogs. Six months ago, only five remained. The remaining 37 species have all become extinct."

"In three and a half years, a total of 37 species have been wiped out?" Ye Yiyi was shocked. "Isn't this number a bit alarming?"

"Not at all."

Alice whispered, pulling Ye Yiyi's arm to pull him up, carefully avoiding the glass frog, and continued to walk northwest with him.

"In fact, ever since the birth of His Majesty the First King, the speed of the biological extinction has accelerated.

"Today, with the 12 kings still alive, 74.8% of species along the border have become completely extinct, and four species become extinct every hour."

"What percentage?" Ye Yiyi's eyes widened. "Isn't this number really an exaggeration?"

"I don't have to lie to you, Yi Yi."

Alice said seriously:

"So unless necessary, we should not interfere with the normal natural cycle. If you want to experience the feeling of fighting with wild beasts,

"Then I suggest you go to Roanmoya. It's said there are many naturally occurring giant beasts there. His Royal Highness the King of Philanthropy is currently renovating the base there and is in need of explorers... Oh, and if you want to go, you'll have to wait at least two years."

"Why two years from now?" Ye Yiyi couldn't help scratching his head. "Do I have to queue up for the teleportation array as well?"

"Hmph! You still have two years of hard labor to do at most!"

Alice pouted and said, "Even if I plead for you, you still can't escape the punishment you deserve!"

I almost forgot about this...

Ye Yiqun's expression froze.

However, from Alice's remarks, we can learn that the current time seems to be just when King Fraternity, one of the ancient kings, is participating in the development of the magicians' hometown - Rhonmoya.

When did the outbreak of the stagnation curse come?

He stared at Alice's back, wanting to ask something, but was afraid that it would make Alice disappear.

In this tangled mood, Alice explained to him the various creatures she saw along the way, including the steel-gold parrot he had encountered before.

"The Steel Gold Parrot is the most annoying."

Alice's face was full of dissatisfaction when she talked about this, "My former mentor's family raised one, and every time I visited my mentor's home, I would quarrel with the Steel Gold Parrot.

"This kind of parrot can't do anything else but say 'what', 'that', 'I don't think it'. Ahhhhh!! I'm so angry!"

"That's not how argumentative people argue, is it?" Ye Yiyi said with a puzzled expression. "Wouldn't it be easy to win an argument this way?"

"But it's a parrot!" Alice puffed out her cheeks. "It doesn't care about your objections. It only objects for the sake of objecting."

"This kind of parrot really deserves a beating..." Ye Yiyi sighed.

"Gah!"

He looked up silently and saw a steel-gold parrot on the treetop looking at them with its head tilted.

"It's okay, it's okay. It's just wild and can't speak yet." Alice held Ye Yiyi and said.

"It can talk! It can talk!"

The Steel Gold Parrot is learning and applying what he has learned, and now they are in a fight.

Alice took a deep breath, as if trying to adjust her mood, then she pulled Ye Yiyi and ignored the parrot, walking straight forward.

She didn't breathe a sigh of relief until she could no longer see the guy.

"I can hardly suppress my murderous intent," Alice said softly.

"It's okay..." Ye Yiyi curled her lips.

On the way, they crossed a tributary of the Aner River and encountered the Bay Sea Crocodile again.

The difference is that there are a large number of Deinosuchus basking in the sun on this river.

Alice was surprised, then delighted.

"It looks like the Deinosuchus population is starting to recover!"

Looking at the girl's excited expression, Ye Yiyi really didn't want to hit her with the truth.

It was not until the afternoon that the two finally passed through the long rainforest and came to a vast swamp.

"After crossing the Lone Star Swamp, we will soon reach the underground observation station."

Alice wiped the hot sweat from her face and crouched beside the swamp to survey it.

"Well, I think it's better for you not to squat like this." Ye Yiyi couldn't help but remind him.

Alice turned around and smiled at him.

"It's okay, there's no such thing as..."

"puff!"

Before she finished her words, a giant crab suddenly stretched out its claws from the swamp and grabbed Alice in its claws.

"Ahhhhhh!! One by one, save me!"

Alice's heart-wrenching cries for help and screams were heard from the swamp.

"I knew it……"

He held his forehead and sighed, then pulled out the Danghai Seat from behind him.

"I am coming!"

Chapter 182 [Stagnant Evil: Devouring Earth Dragon]

Ye Yiyi had already made preparations when Alice was squatting by the swamp.