Chapter 43: The Secret Realm of the Maple Forest

Sun Yimin had a fulfilling week.

Since he started work on Monday, he has spent almost all of his spare time in the gaming world. Practicing around the clock has made his "Xiangwang" almost close to full level, and so far the experience progress from level 69 to 70 has reached 95%. Although there was a sense of accomplishment, the process also made him feel a little tired.

He once asked Liu Ronghua about whether he couldn't gain experience points by fighting monsters and doing tasks after reaching the full level. Liu Ronghua's explanation is that you can still gain experience points after level 70 until the upgrade progress bar from 70-71 is saturated.

And in the future, the game system may open up new levels, and then these experience points will be able to be used.

A new week has begun.

On this day, during the company's lunch break, Sun Yimin had nothing to do and remembered the game world. I took my notebook and ran to the company lounge and logged in.

It was noon, and there were few pedestrians on the streets in the center of Chang'an City. Only the NPC characters of the shops on both sides of the street stand guard at the door in obscurity.

He thought: since the birth of this game, they seem to have been standing for a long time, tirelessly and rain or shine. It's also strange that you don't have to eat, you don't have to take a shower to sleep.

Open the friend list interface, there are few friends online, but I accidentally found that the goddess had no intention of being online.

Sun Yimin double-clicked her avatar to open the private chat dialog box, ready to say hello.

The content of the message was still being edited, but she sent a sentence: "I will take you to a wonderland of the world, and I promise you have not been." ”

"Okay, where?" Sun Yimin asked excitedly.

"You teleport to the level 20 map 'Yandang Mountain Foothills', I'll be waiting for you there." The goddess replied.

Sun Yimin paid 2 gold coins at the Chang'an Post NPC and clicked to confirm the delivery. In the blink of an eye, you are already in a quaint old village.

It's a level 20 map, and the village he's in is a safe zone.

The weather is sunny and the autumn is bright. In the distance, sparse clouds floated over a large expanse of clear blue sky, and under the sky, the mountains were undulating. The foothills are covered with a large area of fiery red maple forests, which are vast and incomprehensible.

In the distance, the silhouette of a plain-clothed woman looms in the red dust, and one person and one rider are in the magnificent background of the red mountains and forests, like a beautiful autumn landscape painting.

Looking around, there was no one in sight. He turned the reins and drove the horse's hooves lightly, and gradually approached the burning forest. The shadow of the goddess gradually became clear and detailed in her field of vision.

"Well, isn't it beautiful?" The goddess asked excitedly.

"Not bad!" Sun Yimin echoed: "I feel that this virtual scenery is better than the scenic spot in reality. ”

"Yes, it's rare to see such a perfect maple forest in the real world." "But in this game world, you can experience it at any time, which is one of the reasons why I love games." ”

Sun Yimin looked up at the towering maple trees. Against the backdrop of a clear blue sky, the branches of the trees sway gently and rustling in the autumn wind. From time to time, flaming red leaves fall downward.

One of them flickered and slowly approached the center of his field of vision, taking up most of the screen, revealing a triangular jagged abstract structure before quietly disappearing.

"There are hundreds of thousands of players on this single server, so why is there such a beautiful scenic area so inaccessible?" Sun Yimin asked curiously.

"Online games are like the real world, everyone is busy for fame and fortune. Most players are busy earning coins to buy equipment and save experience to level up. This is a low-level map area, and now almost everyone is at full level, and there are no missions that need to be completed here. If so, who else will come? (Please go to (1)(7)К to read the original work)

Sun Yimin realized, and asked: "Do you mean this place when you say about the wonderland of the world?" ”

"It's not here, you come with me." As she spoke, the goddess summoned her mount, turned on her horse, and galloped into the depths of the maple forest. Sun Yimin followed.

Along the way, the fallen leaves piled up on the ground are rolled up and danced in the air, blending with the fallen leaves above, and it is difficult to distinguish from each other, like the chaotic red in autumn.

Gradually approaching the boundary of the maple forest, but seeing a huge chasm across the north and south in front of me, deep and magnificent, like the miracle of Pangu's giant axe when Hongmeng first opened, and like the marks left by the fall of the ancient dragon.

There is another mountain peak on the opposite side of the cliff. Further away is the immensity of the sea. There are several islands scattered in the sea.

Sun Yimin set his eyes on the opposite peak. The mountains are filled with smoke and are like a fairyland. Somewhere at the top of the mountain, a stone gate looms, which looks like the entrance to a cave. There seems to be handwriting engraved on the lintel of the cave. He magnified the perspective to the extreme, only to find that it was three seal "Dengzhen Caves".

There are couplets on both sides that say: "Cultivate the golden bone and refine it to the truth, and the traces of Kenjiao cover the red dust." ”

"What is this cave on the opposite peak?" Sun Yimin couldn't help but ask curiously.

"I don't know," said the goddess, "there is no road or bridge to cross there." So no one has ever been to the whole server. Maybe it's just a decorative setting. ”

"Naturally, no one has ever been to those islands in the sea?" Sun asked.

"Of course."

The chasm blocked their way, and they pulled back from the brink. Sun Yimin asked: "It seems that there is no road, where is the wonderland you are talking about?" ”

"Down there." The goddess gestured to the bottom of the cliff.

Sun Yi turned his perspective and looked down, and the mist under the cliff was full of mist, and he didn't know the depth.

"It looks like you can't get down here, does it?"

"That's right, ordinary people can't go down." The goddess dismounted as she spoke, moving slowly along the edge of the cliff.

"Is this what you're looking for?" Sun asked.

The goddess did not answer him, but stopped, turned towards the deep valley, and took a small step forward. At this moment, Sun Yimin was surprised to find that she was standing above the abyss in the air.

He was about to ask, but she disappeared out of thin air before his eyes.

Confused, I received a message from her: "You get off the horse and follow the route I just took." As you walk towards the cliff, hold down the forward arrow key. ”

Sun Yimin did so. When she stopped in her last position, her eyes suddenly went dark. In the blink of an eye, I found myself on the bank of a babbling stream, surrounded by green trees and flowers on both sides of the stream. Come to think of it, this should be at the bottom of the abyss.

The game world above the cliff is already in autumn colors, but here it looks like a paradise full of spring.

Across the bank, the fair woman was sitting upright on a boulder beside the stream, waiting for him.

When she saw him coming, she got up and led him on his quest to the resort. The two of them went upriver along the bank of the stream, and went to the source of the stream, but saw a flourishing peach blossom forest, and a simple house loomed in the forest, and the lintel was written "Qiongfangju". I don't know why. Could it be that this is a woman's retreat?

When you push the door in, you will be greeted by the exquisite and neat furnishings in the house. They wandered around the room, but they found nothing in particular, and it was empty.

Go out and sit down at a small kiosk in the middle of the peach forest. Sun Yimin asked the goddess: "There are neither monsters nor monsters."

PC, there is no dungeon entrance, what is this scene for? ”

"I don't know."

"And there's no explicit entrance to this scene, why?" Sun continued to wonder.

"Maybe the game developers deliberately left it to add some mystery to the game?" The goddess said.

"Perhaps." Sun Yimin remembered that in the past, when he played the stand-alone version of the role-playing game, he would often encounter some hidden levels.

After a pause, he asked again, "By the way, how did you find out here?" ”

"There was a walk on the edge of a cliff before. I stumbled upon such a mechanism. ”

"Does anyone else know about this place?" Sun asked.

"I don't know if there is, but I haven't seen anyone else come here so far." The goddess said.

"So you didn't tell anyone or brought anyone here?"

"Didn't tell anyone but Honghong and you." The goddess said, "Don't tell anyone about it lightly. Secrecy! ”

"Well, thanks for sharing." Sun Yimin sighed. The goddess had no intention of knowing him for a short time, but she was willing to share this game benefit exclusively with him, which made him a little flattered.