Volume 5: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter 68: Artifact Parts
Walking through the sparse woods of the northern wasteland, Yu Bin looked at the hourglass of time in front of him, and let the demon bone dragon horse under his crotch wander to the reins.
Due to its proximity to cold-weather Northrend, the northern heath adjacent to Winterspring Valley has an early winter, so there is no season at all, and there are only two climates of the year, with and without snow. Although it is not as snowy as Winter Spring Valley, the northern wasteland also begins to cool down in July, which should be getting hotter. The area, which was supposed to be full of thorns and poplars, and where large mammoths and Kodo beasts lived, began to show noticeable frost and dew.
Yu Bin was not worried about any monsters he would encounter on the road, except for some insects, the only creatures that could live in this wasteland were mammoths and Kodo beasts, these two large, rough-skinned beasts with tough flesh were not the favorite of predators, so there were few terrifying monsters in the northern wasteland.
The hourglass of time lies in Bin's hands tossing and turning, and the gravel in the hourglass falls one after another, as if a golden snow has fallen, and each grain of gravel will reflect a breathtaking brilliance in the winter sun.
The grit in the hourglass can almost fill a small half bottle of hourglass, and after Yu Bin's calculation, the time required to turn it over is almost half an hour.
The funnel of the hourglass is made from the strongest Orberat crystal, which has almost no way to break, and it is said that items made from this crystal can even survive forbidden spells.
Two circular rings were circled on the outside of the funnel with sea buckthorn, and the brown sea buckthorn was close to the outer wall of the funnel like a thin line, and it looked like it would shatter into powder when touched, but Yu Bin had played with it for so long, and the two circles of sea buckthorn were still like that. Yu Bin knows that sea buckthorn, a plant that lived in ancient times, has long been extinct now, and the vitality of this plant is tenacious, which can be called the first in the mainland, and it is said that as long as there is even a small drop of water, this sea buckthorn can continue to survive for tens of thousands of years.
On the two undersides of the hourglass, a coat of arms is outlined in a golden solution, a yellow whirlwind that rises into the sky, and in the center of the whirlwind is a golden one-eyed, which is the coat of arms of the Shahra Empire.
But if you look closely, you can see that the two underside coats of arms are slightly different, with one of the one in the center of the coat of arms being closed, while the other is open.
Convinced that he had missed anything, Yu Bin put the time hourglass back into his backpack and drove the Demon Bone Dragon Horse towards the land of the undead.
Although it is not complete, Yu Bin knows that the hourglass of time, which is now lying quietly in his backpack, is the first "artifact" that he has painstakingly obtained after being reborn.
In a past life, the Sahra Empire, located in the heart of the Jeremanca Desert, was not fully resurrected, and when the game was fully opened four years later, two guilds happened to encounter a full moon once every three months in order to compete for a desert lizard lord who appeared in the ruins of Shasar. Due to years of exploration of the Jerimanca Desert, the first seal set by the elves was inadvertently broken. The two guilds tracked the Desert Lihzahrd Lord to the ruins of Shasar and coincidentally triggered the second seal. In order to leave the ruins, the players destroyed the magic nodes and opened the door to the temple in the middle of the ruins. This led to the very coincidental initiation of the resurrection ceremony of the Shahra Empire, but due to the lack of those statues in the hands of the two guilds, the resurrection of the Lord of the Sand was only half completed, and Shatar could only seize the body of one of the guild leaders through some special means, and his strength also fell to the legendary level.
However, the appearance of the artifact Wheel of Fortune still aroused the demon's idea, and with the covert support of the demon lord Moncaril, players were attracted to the artifact and poured into the Jeremanca desert to snatch the powerful artifact, and eventually pulled both camps into the water.
What ensued months of chaos was the chaos that led to the Wheel of Fortune, where the heroes of the Order and Chaos camps almost poured out, and the players were completely reduced to soy sauce characters. The brutal and chaotic battle ultimately resulted in the death of more than fifty heroes.
However, all of this was a trick by Shatar, the Lord of the Sands, who immediately relied on the power of the Wheel of Fortune to regain his strength and use the artifact as a bait to successfully attract countless players to the Jerimanca Desert.
While the heroes of the two camps suffered heavy casualties, Shatar, who had been recuperating and recuperating, swept through the Jerimanca Desert with his son of yellow sand, and millions of players became sacrifices, allowing the demigod-level powerhouse to successfully ignite the divine fire, and even promoted Morian to a goddess with weak divine powers.
The Demon Lord Moncalir also fell into the trap of Shatar at the last moment in order to snatch the artifact, and died in the Demon Slayer Valley, becoming another demon Lord who has died in the past thousand years, and the last unlucky guy dates back to the time of the faction war a thousand years ago.
However, although Shatar has become a god, the artifact Wheel of Fortune has gone through too long in the long river of time, and due to insufficient preparation back then, this artifact has almost no possibility of repair. Shatar had to break it down into three parts, namely the Elemental Harmony, which could invoke the six magical elements, the Time Hourglass, which could refine the sands of time from the long river of time, and the omniscient eye that could see through all circumstances and disguises.
The Elemental Harmony eventually fell into the hands of the goddess of magic, Mistyra, and the Eye of All-Seeing was held by the new goddess Jasmine, who was able to obtain the priesthood of Truth and become the god of all spellbreakers, with only the hourglass of time missing.
Yu Bin didn't have much interest in the Harmony of the Elements and the Omniscient Eye, the former being more suitable for the caster class, while the latter was just a simple auxiliary treasure, and only the time hourglass was his most important target. This artifact can be used to extract the Sands of Time from the River of Time, and each grain of the Sands of Time has a very peculiar function, that is, it allows the user to freeze themselves at a certain point in the River of Time.
In other words, after using the Sands of Time, even if Yu Bin dies completely in the next second, the power of the Sands of Time can make him return to the moment he used the Sands of Time, which is equivalent to adding a special effect of [Immortality] to himself. The only drawback is that each grain of Sands of Time only lasts for a short period of three minutes, and cannot be used continuously, with the interval between each use of Sands of Time being 24 hours.
Although there are great limitations, for Yu Bin, who often faces powerful opponents, the ability of the Sands of Time is enough for him to compete for those precious and powerful treasures without worrying about being wiped out by those powerful enemies because of the tiger's mouth.
However, now the hourglass of time in Yu Bin's hand is not in the best condition. Tens of thousands of years of long years, even the artifact parts, are now weakened, there are less than fifty grains of sand of time stored in the hourglass, and the ability to refine the sand of time cannot be activated at all, if you want to restore the time hourglass to its original state, you can only repair this treasure through special means, and then recharge it.
Of course, now is not the time to think about such a thing.
With the end of the Third Advent, Yu Bin was thinking more about the complete opening of the world of Entagri a few months later.
Until now, everyone, including those national institutions that studied the world of Entagre, believed that the rings were the only way to enter this magical world. As a result, the rings that appear from the first coming onwards have become the best reliance on the development of members of national institutions and large organizations, and by controlling the rare resources of the rings, these institutions and organizations are able to control the vast majority of players.
And as the world of Entagri became more and more widely known, ordinary people's desire for the ring became more and more difficult to contain, and in just half a month after the third coming, thousands of malignant cases have occurred around the world. Most of the incidents are caused by the competition for the ring, and behind this number, it is bound to mean that there are ten times, or even dozens of times the tragedy that has not been reported, is quietly happening.
In the black market, a ring can even sell for tens of millions of dollars, and the supply exceeds demand, and the control of rings and players by various countries and organizations around the world is also increasing, and the Italian mafia has even openly begun to kidnap players and force them to serve them.
But only Yu Bin knows that in less than half a year, the world of Ntagrui will be fully open like everyone, and humans can enter that world without going through a ring, as long as it has an average brainwave intensity. And this means the great destruction of the existing social order, as well as the various benign or malignant effects caused by it. The existing order of life will be completely overturned, the competition between countries will become more intense, and the entire world economy will enter new fields at a very rapid speed under this huge shock.
In the game, the guilds and mercenary groups that were originally supported by various behind-the-scenes organizations will face a major earthquake, and a large number of guilds will be disbanded and reorganized.
For players, this impact will be extremely huge, unlike the previous player growth, with the full opening of the world of Entagre, the number of players pouring into the game will be far greater than the previous times combined, such a huge new player, will have a great impact on the entire Entagri world, no matter from what point of view.
Considering the various factors that may affect him in the future, Yu Bin is also constantly improving his abilities, whether it is level or technique, territory or skills.
Li Shouyi stood at the exit of Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, glancing into the hall from time to time, anxiously waiting for the target to appear.
A few days ago, when he received a call from Yu Bin asking him to come here to pick up someone, Li Shouyi knew that his time had come.
The "Shasar Hell" incident that caused an uproar in the entire game some time ago not only made Li Shouyi feel more deeply the power of the mysterious organization of the Devouring Snake, but also made him feel confused about his future.
As a game merchant who has been serving Yu Bin for a long time, although it is not voluntary, after such a long period of cooperation, Li Shouyi thinks that he is already a part of the Body Eater Snake, but he is not on the invitation list for the tea party, and the Apostles of the Body Eater Snake have not contacted him, as if he has been deliberately forgotten, which makes Li Shouyi feel very uneasy.
It wasn't until he received Yu Bin's call that night that Li Shouyi's nervous mood relaxed a little, and even after hanging up the phone, Li Shouyi still felt a little complacent, completely forgetting the hesitation and anxiety when he was coerced to cooperate with the Devouring Snake.
"Flight TZ744P3 from Cape Town to Guangzhou will land in five minutes, please be patient with the passengers who will pick you up!"
With the announcement at the airport, Li Shouyi dialed the pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face, raised the pick-up card in his hand, and waited for the person Yu Bin said to appear.
After a while, with the flow of people, a tall black man with a skin-hugged pigtail hairstyle appeared in Li Shouyi's sight, dragging a small suitcase in one hand and a girl who looked only six or seven years old in the other, standing at the exit of the station and looking around.
Soon, he noticed Li Shouyi who was waving his arm towards him, the tall black man grinned, walked quickly to Li Shouyi, and said in half-baked Chinese: "Li Hao, Wo makes Hill Cup." ”
"Is Mr. Silbey? My name is Li Shouyi, you can use English, my English is good. Li Shouyi put away the pick-up card, smiled and stretched out his hand to take Silbe's suitcase.
"That's great, Chinese is so difficult!" Silbe shrugged his shoulders, saying that he really couldn't do anything about Chinese, as a native black South African, he spoke English very well and had a London accent.
"Sounds like Mr. Silbert spent time in London?" As a successful person who studied in the UK when he was young, Li Shouyi is very familiar with this London accent.
Silbert straightened the clothes of the daughter in his arms with his hand and replied: "Yes, my father once sent me to England to study, and I spent eight unforgettable years there, and my wife, an Englishman, unfortunately died after giving birth to our only daughter, Aisha." ”
"I'm so sorry! Your love crystallization is lovely! ”
"Thank you! Aisha is my most precious treasure in the world! Sylbe said of her daughter, her face full of happiness, "She is the most beautiful girl in the world, and she will be the happiest girl in the world in the future!" ”
Li Shouyi looked at the daughter in Silbe's arms, unlike Silbe's father, the little girl Aisha is a standard white person, with a snowflake-like white face, and two big eyes like a pair of gems, exuding brilliance.
"I've prepared a place for you to live, in an upscale private villa area on the outskirts of Guangzhou, you don't have to worry about life, if you need it, I can also prepare a translator for you." Li Shouyi opened the car door, let Silbe get into the car, and then sat in the passenger seat himself, and said while driving to the outskirts of the city.
"Don't bother, the less people know about my coming here, the better."
Li Shouyi nodded: "Then I will arrange for Xiao Li to send you enough food every three days, and you can also tell him if you have any requirements, and he will be responsible for solving it." Li Shouyi pointed to Xiao Li, the driver who was driving, and the young man also smiled at Silbe in the rearview mirror and said hello.
"Thank you, Mr. Li!" Silbert looked out the window of the car, which was heading north along the promenade, "I just want to heal my daughter as soon as possible." ”
"Your Excellency Ice Whisper has already made arrangements for this." Li Shouyi smiled and took out a ring from his pocket and handed it to Silbe.
"What is this?" Sylbe looked at the ring in his hand, he was a veteran player after all, and he could see at a glance that the ring in his hand was a white gold ring, which was more advanced than the gold ring he owned.
"This is a gift from Your Excellency Ice Whisper to Miss Aisha, and it is also the premise for the next stage of treatment, and it is also the deposit for your second mission."
Silbey's hand ring was puzzled and asked, "What is my second mission?" ”
"I'm sorry, I don't know about that."
"Aren't you the one who eats the Serpent?" Sylbe felt very strange, he thought that the man in front of him was the subordinate of Ice Whisper Dry Bone.
Li Shouyi smiled bitterly and said, "Strictly speaking, I have a cooperative relationship with Your Excellency Ice Language, and of course, I also hope to join the Body Devouring Snake, but unfortunately Your Excellency Ice Language doesn't seem to give me this opportunity." ”
"Oh, so you are?" Sylbe sat up straight and asked again.
"Re-introduce myself, Goblin Merchant Garol Gold is me!" Li Shouyi shook hands with Silbe and said with a smile.
Silbe was taken aback: "You're the famous game merchant?" ”
"Where, it's just that I made a little money with the support of His Excellency Bingyu!" Li Shouyi said modestly.
"I have long known the mystery and power of the Body-Eater Serpent, but I didn't expect that even you, the first person to occupy the game business field, are also their people, and it seems that the entire Entagri world is probably at the mercy of the Body-Eater Snake." Sylbe gasped.
"I can only say that it is probably not a wise choice to go against those Excellencies!" Li Shouyi didn't have Silbe's feeling.