1581 Bruising
"How did you get to that deep?"
Walking in the dark depths of the corridor, the conversation between Duan Qing and Xue Lingphantom Ice also sounded again after a period of silence: "Didn't we escape from it together?" Even if you get separated because you are in a panic or rolling around, the gap on the floor should not be very large. β
"When, of course, it's because I'm lost β I don't know if those paths are going up or down."
Taking the initiative to walk to the front side between the two people, Xue Ling, who was focused on the surroundings of the passage, replied without looking back: "It's the same as now, I just found a random direction to start acting after I came to my senses, and then I met those skeleton enemies. β
"What about the middle? Did you find anything in between? So Duan Qing pointed to the walls around the corridor where the two people were: "How is the situation on the other side?" Is it also the terrain and layout like this? β
"I don't know, it's too dim." Shaking his head, Xue Ling, who was groping for the road in front of him, couldn't help but glance back: "But at least there are corridors and artificial walls, and there are countless places that look like the doorways of the roomβhmm." β
"It's like here." As she said this, her footsteps stopped at the door of one of the rooms they had just approached: "I've been playing with the skeletons before, and I haven't had a chance to come in and explore, but now I finally have the opportunity to do this." β
"Don't worry, we haven't smelled them yet, even if there are a lot of skeletons inside, we have a way to deal with them." Duan Qing, who was following behind the wall, responded to the other party with a smiling expression: "You open the door, I'll cover." β
ββ¦β¦ Why am I opening the door? β
"Because I'm so weak."
Pointing to the metallic light in front of the two people that was buried under the heavy dust, Duan Qing smiled at the other party, and Xue Lingphantom Bing, who was facing this face, also pursed his lips helplessly, and his body moved slightly and then took a step back: "Then get out of the way for me." β
"Drink!"
Bang!
A shrill muffled sound accompanied by a bright metal crash appeared in front of the two people, and the white-haired woman with raised eyebrows then kicked the seemingly solid door towards the back with a flying kick, and the bright light was then accompanied by the appearance of two magical barriers shrouded in the human body, shining towards the space behind the sudden expansion: "-Whew." β
"There's no one." Faced with the unobstructed view of the small room, the two players then gradually relaxed their tense bodies: "Really, why are we so nervous in vain. β
"It's always okay to be careful, at least there won't be any surprises." With two comforting smiles, Duan Qing then took the lead in stepping into the confines of the room in front of him: "After all, we are in the enemy's lair, and any form of inspection and exploration is putting us in danger. β
"It looks like a warehouse." Holding a sword and shield, he walked into the same room, frowned and looked around at the snow spirit phantom ice around him, and then fell on the surface of the metal door that he had just kicked open: "It's not locked either...... Is it because the contents have been emptied? β
"No, it looks like there's a lot of stuff in store." Squatting on the ground not far from her, Duan Qing leaned over and pointed at the countless metal parts scattered in front of him: "But after such a long time, I'm afraid these things have lost their original usefulness." β
"At least it doesn't look like a key prop." He also walked behind Duan Qing, and looked at the strange metal creations in front of Duan Qing: "There is no such thing as hints and clues...... Hey, it's good to give me a map or something. β
"Let's go back to the previous topic." Tentatively reaching out and touching one of the metal parts, Duan Qing then carefully pinched it: "What hurtful things did you do over there?" How did you attract so many skeleton enemies? β
"Why can't it be because I'm more attractive?" Reaching out and brushing the braid on the side of his shoulder behind his back, Xue Lingphantom Bing, who bent over and posed in a bewitching posture, also straightened his chest: "Seeing an urban beauty like me, any monster will rush to pounce, right?" β
ββ¦β¦β
"Well, it's actually because the vision is so poor, so I accidentally attracted some of them." Facing Duan Qing's reaction, which was still seriously checking, Xue Lingphantom Bing, who was struggling, then also put away his joking posture and expression: "I don't know the way, so I can only run around while resisting, but not only did I not find the exit, but I attracted more and more enemies." β
"This train ended up pulling into the same exit I just saw, didn't it?" Carefully put down the metal parts pinched in front of him, Duan Qing also turned his head: "Fortunately, I happened to see it, otherwise you wouldn't even have a chance to hang on the wall." β
"I didn't expect to run such a long distance." Stretching out his hand to open his adventurer map, Snow Spirit Phantom Ice's gaze kept slicing over the location he had experienced before: "It stands to reason that we should have fled from the same place, even if we were separated, we shouldn't have run such a long distance......"
"Well, any situation that may arise is acceptable." Duan Qing, who tilted his head and clapped his hands and stood up, replied in a low voice, "Just like these metal parts we see now-"
"I didn't expect that the Wind Continent, where magic and technology are so backward, would still have such high-grade metal parts buried."
As he said this, he stretched out his hand to gesture back and forth between the large number of unknown objects scattered on the ground in front of him, and he also turned his gaze when he noticed a trace of abnormal snow spirit phantom ice sound, and asked in a low voice with a look of curiosity that could not be concealed: "What's wrong with these metal parts?" What are they used for? β
"I don't know." The eyebrows seemed to be tangled together again, and Duan Qing replied in a low voice, "But I can feel something else, such as the seemingly small element I checked just now, but it actually hides twelve layers of circular magic circuits." β
"I don't understand what you're saying, butβI kind of understand part of it." Xue Lingphantom Bing also pursed his mouth: "If you use the real-world way to explain: this small part actually hides a large number of precision electronic circuits, does that mean?" β
"Yes, it's probably the case with all the parts." Staring closely at the front of this small room, Duan Qing took a deep breath: "Although it is not a standard production, and there is a lot of possibility of abandonment, but there are so many people who have so many precision parts-"
"This Varro ruin may be the legacy of a tribe with great technology."
Quickly glancing around at the unadorned walls around him, Duan Qing then gradually calmed down the sigh he exhaled, and after contemplating for a while, he also turned around and walked in the direction of the door where he came, and his firm steps naturally aroused Xue Ling's doubts: "Hey, don't you take one or two parts with you?" β
"I don't know where these parts are supposed to be used." After a slight pause in his footsteps, Duan Qing shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly: "And most importantly, I don't know if these parts are related to those black skeletons, it's best not to take these things that might attract their attention." β
"Is it some kind of groundless speculation about game design?" Sighing slightly, Xue Ling Phantom Ice also turned around and chased after Duan Qing: "Since you can't find a use, then it's better not to bring them." β
"Let's not forget that our goal now is to get out of here." Duan Qing, who had already walked out of the warehouse room, had already turned the corner in front of him at this time: "It's not a good thing for us to know too much history of this place, and we won't pay attention to these, the most important thing now is to find a way out, and after solving the problem of a missing personββ"
His voice stopped abruptly, and the sound of his footsteps suddenly became much lighter, and then Xue Lingbing who walked out of the warehouse, holding the sword and shield, his hands also tightened involuntarily, and even the voice that came forward became lowered: "There is an enemy? β
"I guess so." Duan Qing, who answered her, had also lurked against the wall at the edge of the corridor at this time: "But I only smelled the rotten smell that belonged to those skeletons, and I can't be sure exactly which side it came from." β
"Which side?"
Subconsciously asked this question, Xue Lingphantom Ice quickly found the answer to why the other party asked so much, an arch at the end of the corridor was also illuminated by the magic light source from Duan Qing at this time, showing the passage of two staircase-like appearances up and down on the other side in their field of vision: "...... I see, upstairs or downstairs. β
"Is your nose smart? Can you find out where they came from? β
"You think I'm some kind of animal?" Knocking on Duan Qing's head angrily, Xue Lingphantom Ice then crossed the gray-robed magician's body with a cat's waist: "We are using more direct means. β
"Hey! You-"
The low cheer did not stop the white-haired woman's forward movements, and the light steps and silent forward posture quickly disappeared behind the range of the arch, and Duan Qing, who had no time to react, had no choice but to raise the magic short wand in his hand, trying to stuff more light that could help the other party into the range of that arch: "Really, even if you really become stronger, you don't have to think of yourself as an all-round person...... Hey? β
"So fast?" He looked at the figure of Snow Spirit Phantom Ice reappearing in front of the light source, and the footsteps that he just wanted to follow and move forward also stopped in place: "You won't be blocked at the door, right?" β
"No, it's pretty much." Quickly pulling Duan Qing's body in the direction of being far away, Xue Ling's extremely low voice was also close to his ears: "Just above the staircase behind the arcade, it is approaching our side, and it is estimated that it will come out soon." β
"How many?"
"I don't have such a strong visual ability, anyway, I look at the black pressure in the past."
Hurriedly retreated to the door of the warehouse where he was just now, and Xue Lingphantom Ice, who was hiding in the corner, then stretched out his head again: "I don't know how their eyesight and hearing are, have they noticed that we are nearby." β
"If that's the case, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to compete head-on." Duan Qing, who was also hiding here, also began to hurriedly look for countermeasures: "Hide here and wait for them to pass?" Is there a way to close this door? β
"This, this...... After all, after such a long time, it is normal for damage to occur......"
"Obviously you just kicked it! Damn, has our luck been so bad that a casual kick can be a foreshadowing? β
The click of bones colliding with each other immediately appeared in front of the two people, and the imminent smell of decay and the sense of urgent crisis quickly suppressed the words of the two people, and the two people who looked at each other then found helplessness on their faces, and their bodies that were ready to go tensed towards the end of the corridor. It seemed that some kind of anomaly had also been discovered, and the swaying steps belonging to the skeletons all stopped in place in the next moment, and the silence that held their breath then diffused in the simultaneous silence of the two sides almost separated by a wall, as if even the sound of sweat dripping from Duan Qing's forehead on the ground became clear and audible: "ββ"
"Detect the threat and start cleaning up."
An abrupt mechanical and electronic voice then sounded at the end of the corridor, and the first to break the tense atmosphere was another humanoid black shadow that suddenly appeared behind the arch at some point, and the shadowless blade dance was then accompanied by a silent buzz and echoed under the declaration-like electronic sound, and at the same time, Duan Qing and Xue Lingphantom Ice were about to burst out in one fell swoop. The clicking sound of the skeleton and the dark red pupil glow then flashed in the center of the corridor, and the next moment it was also transformed into the piercing scream of countless bones and metal when they collided with each other, and the ground bone powder and the countless bone fragments were cut into countless bone fragments, and then accompanied by the tooth-inducing metal cutting sound passed again and again, wave after wave to the back of the corridor where Duan Qing and Xue Lingphantom Ice were hiding: "...... I'll it, it's too bad. β
"That's just the case with broken bones and ashes."
The one-sided smashing sound soon showed signs of fading, and the voice that seemed to represent the end of the carnage gradually drew the attention of the two players back to their respective surprises: "What happened?" Who the hell is it-"
"Discover living organisms, identify: first-class organisms."
The heavy footsteps fell in front of the two people in the next moment, and the foot representing the figure was also reflecting the bright light of metal in Duan Qing's eyes at this time, and half of the body that was reflected at the door of the warehouse also carried the emerald green rays that swept the entire room at this time, and slowly froze in front of the two players who were close at hand: "Comparing storage objects - the comparison is over." β
"No identity found."
The mechanical figure made a ticking sound, and finally announced in a low voice without emotion.