Chapter 18: Where the Phoenix Has Fallen
The Lake of Life, a lake deep in the Ash Bone Forest.
Around the lake is the largest safe zone in the Grey Bone Forest, where the player's character can rest safely without being disturbed by any necromancy.
The reason why this happened, Zhang Li guessed from the name of this lake, may be because it has an extremely abundant vitality here, so those dead people are disgusted and unwilling to come?
While it's a bit strange to have such a lake in the middle of a forest of death, it makes sense if you look at the background of the Ash Bone Forest.
Although Zhang Li hasn't seen the background of the game - those backgrounds and settings have disappeared with the game!
But the author casually mentioned it in the guide, and after Zhang Li connected the context, he roughly figured out part of the background of the Gray Bone Forest.
The Ash Forest was supposed to be just an ordinary forest a long time ago, but one day, a mythical beast, the Phoenix, was plotted by some guys and lost the ability to be reborn from the fire, and died here, buried in the ground by dirt and trees.
For some reason, the phoenix became angry after its death, twisting the forest into a paradise of the dead, where all living things were stripped of their lives.
And the place where the phoenix died was the lake of life, a spring made of the remaining vitality of the phoenix itself, and the water that flowed out filled the lake.
If your character is severely injured or has a negative state such as poison or illness that you can't remove, you can quickly recover by soaking in the hot spring.
Zhang Li feels that this background is set with a very oriental meaning, such as the cathode giving birth to yang or something, and the depths of death contain vitality.
However, the game itself is a hodgepodge of Eastern and Western genres, and it doesn't seem surprising to have that.
The Grey Skeletons were reluctant to come here, perhaps for this reason.
Zhang Li soon heard the sound of the water flowing, and it became louder and louder.
After a few minutes, the vision in front of him widened, and a lake emitting mist appeared in front of him.
"It's not so much a lake as a waterhole." Zhang Li looked at the lake in front of him, which covered an area of about a dozen acres, scratched his scalp and thought.
The Lake of Life is surrounded by mountains on both sides - the mountain is not very high, about thirty meters high, and it can only be regarded as a small hillside.
In the lower middle of the hillside, there are platforms one after another, and when you look at Zhang Li's position, you can see a trickle of water pouring down from above.
The water flow was mixed with a lot of fog at the same time, and it was obviously a bit hot, and in this not too cold weather, the temperature of the water must be seventy or eighty degrees, to say the least.
Seeing this, Zhang Li was a little depressed, and he was injured and went to the hot spring, isn't that even worse? The meat has to be cooked.
The hot water flows down the hillside into the lake below, then splits into two channels and follows the creek towards the forest outside.
Zhang Li came in with one, and the other river was on his right.
Seeing such a layout, Zhang Li couldn't help but show a hint of a smile, with two rivers as signposts, he immediately had the motivation to survive in this gray bone forest.
He took out his mobile phone from his backpack, opened it and glanced at the battery, and found that there was a trace of it missing, and he was a little depressed, and then quickly opened the guide, found the map downloaded in the guide, and quickly looked at it a few times.
In just an instant, he had a general impression in his mind.
Then he quickly used the sword in his hand to sketch an extremely sketchy map pattern on the wet land by the river.
The pattern is extremely rudimentary, with only a rough X, a few lines and a few crosses.
He took the current lake of life as the coordinates, pulled down two lines left and right as the river channel, and then the cross and X on the mark represented some equipment and skills in various places in the Gray Bone Forest.
This was all drawn by Zhang Li against the guide, and in order to make sure there were no mistakes, he checked it many times before turning off the phone again and putting it in his backpack.
The power consumption of the mobile phone is a big problem, and Zhang immediately made it impossible to use the mobile phone for much time, and I am afraid it will not last much time.
Luckily, time seems to stand still in the backpack, so as long as you open your phone as little as possible to read the information, you can at least delay it until the later stage.
Now Zhang Li desperately hopes that he can get some pen and paper and write down everything about those strategies.
In this way, at least when the phone can't be used in the future, I still have some leftover things.
Zhang Li kept whispering to recall the content mentioned in the strategy just now, and made corresponding connections with these patterns on the ground.
He knows that his memory is not very good, and he was often punished by the teacher when he was a child, so he remembered more seriously, which is related to his own life, and he must remember it if he is desperate.
Writing down this rudimentary map, Zhang Li stood on the other side and redrew the same map.
He looked back and forth a few times and found that there was basically no discrepancy, which was reassuring.
According to the display on the map, I am also starting to plan for the upcoming action based on some clues on the strategy in my mind.
On the left side of the map, there is the novice area of the Gray Bone Forest, where monsters at levels 1 to 4 are infested, and the Holy Light Skill that Zhang Li wants to get is also among them.
To his right, there is a slightly higher leveling area, where level 5 to 7 monsters are clustered.
Jumping over the lake of life in front of you and continuing to walk forward, you will come to the most dangerous area of the Ash Bone Forest, which is also the location of the underground labyrinth.
It is the territory of the final boss of the Grey Bone Forest, Skeletron Demon, who enslaves countless Grey Bone Slaves and builds his own dormitory day and night.
According to the hints in the strategy, Skeleton Prime's attributes are between 50 and 60 points, and it is an object that players cannot compete with when they reach the limit attribute without advancement.
Moreover, Skeletron is not the kind of monster with balanced points, the opponent's strength is extremely high, and the player's character is far from the opponent's opponent even if he collects a set of equipment of the current level.
Brought into reality, it means that Zhang Li can't fight hard with the other party when facing the final boss of this map, and can only seek ways to defeat the other party from various skills.
Therefore, the Holy Light Technique, which is the magic skill of the current map, is the skill he must obtain.
But before that, he had one more thing to do.
Zhang Li rubbed his stomach, he hadn't eaten for a long time, and since he only needed to hurry during the day, he put up with hunger for the time being, and was ready to eat something when he got up from a nap in the afternoon and was ready to fight at night.
But now that he saw the lake of life, he wanted to try it by the way, drinking that spring water, whether it could really quench his hunger and thirst, and there would be no negative state.