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

"A combat skill that can cause fire damage. It's not exclusive to you. Once you master it, you can use it with any weapon."

Ye Yiyi was very satisfied with this fighting skill.

Judging from the effect, it can continuously burn the surroundings, which can be regarded as an AOE range-type combat skill.

He just lacks this type of attack method right now.

Because Alice was there, it was inconvenient for him to test the effects of his combat skills, so he had to put the spark hammer aside and come to the girl.

Alice was crouching beside the knight, sorting through the fragments of its bones.

"I found something strange about him."

Noticing Ye Yiyi approaching, she suddenly spoke and handed him a metal emblem.

"Do you recognize the pattern on this?"

Ye Yiyi took it and looked at it, and found that it was a coat of arms with a firefly pattern on it.

That was the identity symbol of the Fire Crown Knight, and he had seen it on other Fire Crown Knights as well.

He knew her, but how was he going to explain it to the other party?

“I don’t recognize…”

He was trying to organize his words and was about to tell a lie to get away with it, but when he looked down, he found Alice squatting on the ground, looking up at him.

"Don't lie to me like you did before, okay?"

She said softly, her dark eyes filled with pleading.

Ye Yiyi's lie was strangled in his throat and he fell silent.

Sure enough, this matter could not be covered up.

"My neighbor—Yumemugi-gi-hachiru-ryūgi—recognizes this pattern."

He stared at Alice, paying close attention to her condition, and spoke word by word.

"What's that?" asked Alice.

"It's... the emblem of the Fire Crown Knights of the Fire Sparrow Flower Kingdom."

It took him a full minute to say this short sentence.

To his relief, Alice didn't show any flickering until he finished saying this.

"The Firefly Flower... Kingdom?"

Alice was very confused. "I've never heard of this name. Which king rules this country?"

"This country..." Ye Yiyi stopped talking halfway.

Alice's figure flickered and became illusory, a sign that she was about to disappear.

"What's wrong with this country?" Alice stared at Ye Yiyi who remained silent, her long eyebrows tightly furrowed.

"I...can't say."

He was silent for a long time, until her figure stopped flickering, then he shook his head with difficulty and whispered.

"No? Why?"

"because……"

Ye Yiyi suddenly covered his mouth, and Alice flashed in his eyes again.

The frequency of the flashing and the degree of the illusion of the figure frightened him.

He almost thought that Alice had just disappeared.

"all?"

Seeing the hesitant look on his face, Alice called his name blankly.

"what happened to you?"

Ye Yiyi shook his head without saying a word, and handed the Fire Sparrow Emblem back to her.

"..."

Alice pursed her lips and fell silent.

It turned out that the sense of incongruity she had sensed from the very beginning was not her illusion.

This rainforest is no longer the same as the one she remembered.

As she walked along with Ye Yiyi, she saw and discovered so many unusual places.

Like the "Night Owl" who had snatched away the body of the Deinosuchus, it was not until she was dozing off in her empty sleeping bag that she suddenly remembered:

Didn’t the night owl become extinct more than a decade ago?

Besides, the catalyst used in her surgery is the latest model this year. She spent a whole month's salary to buy it, and she has only been using it for less than a month.

How can we use such advanced catalysts but be unable to contact teammates in the same forest?

Is this normal?

There was also the entire river channel filled with Deinosuchus struthioides, the candle deer we happened to encounter along the way, the mineral-loving earthworms eroded by the black mist, and the kingdom of the firefly flowers that we had never heard of...

And Ye Yiyi, who knows nothing about common sense but possesses all kinds of wonderful and powerful powers.

When faced with her question, he shook his head. Was it because he didn't want to say it, or because he couldn't say it?

Alice thought of a lot at this moment.

She looked away from Ye Yiyi's silent expression and turned to look at the vast swamp.

"Let's..." She looked up at the rainbow in the sky and suddenly said, "Let's bury him."

She didn't plan to ask any more questions.

Because forcing Ye Yiyi to answer wouldn't get her the answer she wanted.

In this case, why not use your own eyes to observe and discover, and then use your brain to think about the origin of all this sense of incongruity.

Because that's what she's always done.

Hearing this, Ye Yiyi was stunned.

"it is good."

He didn't say much, just breathed a sigh of relief, then took out a shovel from behind him and dug a hole in the ground.

Alice then took out the parchment from her bag again.

Ye Yiyi did not stop it, nor did she intend to stop it.

Since the other party has already noticed something, let her explore and discover it on her own.

That way, even if the other person disappears, he will feel a little better.

Alice is just an illusion, and illusions will disappear sooner or later.

Dig the pit, bury the body in it, and then fill it with soil.

Alice found a stone and carved symbols and words on it with a dagger.

Then she said to Ye Yiyi.

"You know, Yi Yi, we have a tradition of erecting tombstones for the dead.

“Tombstones are beacons left behind by the deceased, because when people see tombstones, they will remember the departed person.

"As long as people still remember him, his illusory soul will not die, but will turn into a phantom of the past that remains in people's hearts."

With Ye Yiyi's slightly widened eyes, she placed the stone tablet in front of the grave, closed her eyes and prayed silently.

After a moment she opened her eyes and sighed softly.

"It's a pity that I'm not a psychic, but this thing should be a relic you left behind."

She placed the scroll in front of the tombstone.

"Do you understand?" Ye Yiyi asked in confusion.

"There are words written on it that I don't recognize."

Alice said, "But I feel the spirituality and emotion enshrined in the parchment. This must be a letter intended for a lover."

"Is it the power brought by the blessing?"

"Yes, it is."

Ye Yiyi nodded, bent down, and touched the parchment scroll with her fingertips.

No light curtain popped up, indicating that it was not a file.

Or as Alice said, it was just a letter sent to a lover.

"Let me take it with me," he said. "Perhaps I can find the place where this letter belongs."

Alice looked at him thoughtfully, then gave him a gentle smile.

"it is good!"

After putting the parchment scroll into their pockets, the two set off again, heading northwest along the map.

Although the obstruction of the Stone Gold Earth Dragon was gone, the journey ahead did not become too easy.

Crabs and crayfish were rarely seen before, and there were even Deinosuchus and rare giant bullfrogs, but now they are everywhere here.

It seemed as if all the creatures in the swamp were driven to the northwest.

Ye Yiyi silently memorized this location, preparing to come here later to improve his combat proficiency.

Until the sun set and the azure eternal moon rose, the two finally crossed the Lone Star Swamp and arrived at the rainforest in the northwest.

Although this place is still quite far from the center of the rainforest, Ye Yiyi has already discovered traces of the curse.

A crystal about the size of a basketball, wrapped in bright arcs of electricity and a faint black mist, and able to float in the air, caught Ye Yiyi's attention.

"That's a wild crystal worm, a silicon-based creature that feeds on electricity."

Alice explained science to him as usual.

"They live in areas with dense magnetic fields, and as long as they move, they can continuously generate electric currents.

"Therefore, we also use it as a bioreactor for energy production in large power plants, but the crystal worms there are very large."

After listening to Alice's explanation, Ye Yiyi nodded thoughtfully.

"I remember that after killing them, you can get a material for an item called Electrocrystallization."

Alice rolled her eyes beautifully when she heard that.

She felt that her explanation was in vain again.

Killing a piece of clay is still killing a piece of clay. No matter what you see, the first reaction is to kill it, and the second reaction is what will drop after killing it.

It seems a bit too extreme.

Ye Yiyi smashed many cursed suspended crystal worms with a hammer along the way, and then Alice pulled him into the Paint Shadow Cave to rest on the grounds that it was too dangerous at night and not suitable for traveling.

"Why was the hole so big last night? And why is this one so small today?"

In the narrow, shadowy cave of only three square meters, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but ask questions.

It's too narrow here, not much bigger than a bed that is 1.2 meters wide.

Being squeezed here with Alice always gave him a strange feeling.

"That's not something I can interfere with..." The girl was also helpless. "The size of the paint shadow holes is random."

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if it's small. It won't affect my sleep anyway... Good night."

Ye Yiyi turned over and lay down with his back to Alice. As soon as he tilted his head, he began to breathe evenly.

"Ah...goodnight."

Alice sighed slightly and had no choice but to lie down.

But her mind was full of complicated thoughts, and she had no desire to sleep at all and couldn't fall asleep at all.

Finally, she couldn't help but called Ye Yiyi's name softly.

"Yiyi...are you asleep?"