Chapter Seventy-Nine: An Unexpected Encounter
The stopped magic chariot was like a sleeping beast, and there seemed to be a wild heart hidden under the steel shell, which moved everyone who saw it for the first time. Green walked around it, watching the white smoke still coming out of its rear wheels, and finally stopped next to his seat and asked.
"If this is really ancient technology, I'm afraid it should be a hundred years old, right?"
Hearing his question, several people turned their attention to him.
"At least two hundred years." Miree said calmly, this was the first thing she said after the round between Green and Albert and the others.
"Two hundred years, won't there be a quality crisis in its parts?" Green glanced at the Demon Chariot with some concern.
"It's a bit difficult to manipulate, but it's hard, Mr. Green!" The most excited was Lilith, who suddenly forgot about her recklessness just now, for fear that Green would dislike the old antique, and desperately explained for the big guy.
Green knocked on the shell of the magic chariot, he couldn't say what material, but at least it was hard.
Is it not hard enough to be so crash-resistant? It's long gone.
"There's always a shield, right?"
Lilith hurriedly trotted over and pointed to the control interface, as if showing the results for adults, and said proudly: "Yes, Mr. Green, this button is responsible for opening and closing the protective shield, but unfortunately this magic chariot is not strong enough, and it is difficult to maintain the protective shield. ”
Green nodded, slightly disappointed. His original intention was to open the shield, and then drive the magic chariot to push the swarm of thorn coccids. Although the magic guide machine was strong, the driver did not have that kind of steel and iron bones, and he did not dare to take risks without a protective shield.
So he made the second choice.
"Will autonomous driving still work?"
Lilith nodded quickly, "Of course! Then he quickly climbed onto the car and pointed to a rocker under the control interface, "This is the control switch!" ”
Green glanced at it and asked curiously, "How do you know?" ”
"Your Highness, when we met this magic chariot, it was automatically carrying out the remaining clean-up tasks......" Finally relieved himself, Albert finally had the time to tell the story of what happened before. The general situation is that several of them were pursued by this magic chariot, and finally hid in a dark room, but Miss Lilith suddenly came to her senses, and took advantage of the magic chariot's turning kung fu, suddenly jumped out and couldn't stop it, and climbed onto the body after a few rubbing, and then "pressed it all the way" - Albert's original words, just hit the safety control joystick, and then switched the magic chariot to the manual control mode.
The Dark Wizard was calm when he recounted it, but whenever he mentioned Lilith, Green would see the corners of his eyes twitch uncontrollably, and he seemed to have palpitations. The young man comforted Albert a few words, he imagined that the picture at that time must be a rather urgent scene, but he didn't see that Lilith looked at Wen Wen quietly, but he didn't expect that he was quite wild in his bones, and couldn't help but look at her more.
"I need the help of this magic chariot, Lilith, help me set the path for it to travel automatically, okay?"
Albert breathed a sigh of relief, this was a simple instruction that even a "female novice" could handle.
Sure enough, Lilith gladly accepted the order, quickly sat down in front of the driver's seat, followed Green's instructions to set a course forward, and then, under Albert's supervision, carefully drove the car to the intersection covered with spiny coccids.
"Luna is above, Your Highness Green, are you trying to ......!?"
When the Black Wizard saw the dark green passage, he immediately gasped. He looked at Green in disbelief and saw that the latter had given him an affirmative reply, and immediately jumped out of the car, "I think I'm still a little dizzy......"
Green laughed dumbly, this guy looked really scared by Lilith's driving skills.
"So, Mr. Green, shall we start here?" Lilith asked.
Green nodded.
As soon as they were ready, Green and Lilith got out of the car, and then the boy pulled out the Flame Shadow Sword and pressed it against the safety joystick. He glanced back at everyone behind him, including Mi Lei, who all looked nervous and did not dare to come out.
The future son of the costume smiled slightly.
"Autobots, let's go!"
Bang......
The boy's joking cry was buried in the activation of the magic guide device, and as a puff of gas was discharged, the magic chariot started again, rushing towards the minefield ahead. The speed of the machine was not slow, and it soon reached the warning range of the first cocciform.
There was no doubt that the stinging coccidia had activated its self-detonation, and the spikes flew out from the sky, clanging at the hull of the chariot, leaving only shallow scratches.
"It worked!" Albert's eyes lit up.
Green also breathed a sigh of relief, he was worried at first that the spike shot angle was tricky and would pierce into the wheel, but he didn't expect the chariot baffle to work surprisingly well, and all the spikes that hit it were bounced off. Watching the magic chariot move forward and run over all the way, like wild bees flying in the sky, the spikes in the sky could only fall to the ground and the cracks in the wall in vain, Green's mood was very good.
The last hurdle has finally been resolved.
"Al, I'll leave it to you here, I'll go first!"
Impatiently, Green shouted and rushed ahead first, followed by the others, especially Mire. Albert stood where he was, smiled helplessly at the mess, and set out to clean up the battlefield.
"Nils!"
The last blockage had been lifted, and Green stepped on the slime from the self-explosion of the spiny cocciform, running and shouting in a frenzy.
In the dark corridor, a gray figure wandered faintly. When it heard Green's shout, it wandered for a moment.
“…… Who is it...... Who's calling my name......"
Got it!
Green was overjoyed, and secretly said that this guy was really here, and with a wrong step, he directly activated the instantaneous step skill and rushed over, and then quickly asked, "Are you Nils?" Nils Grandall the persistent seeker? ”
The figure walked slowly forward until it was close enough to reveal its somewhat void and transparent hideous image.
It's a ghost.
Green didn't hesitate to get out of his hand with a magic fist, blowing it up, and then Flame Shadow drew his knife and slashed, successfully activating the Flame Blade, 120% elemental damage plus 50% physical damage, which instantly made the ghost wither to the ground.
Nils appears as a rampaging ghost, and only a certain amount of damage can keep it awake. This is the battle that must be fought before the conversation begins, and Green does it smoothly.
He retracted his knife and watched as the ghost blurred on the ground.
After a few moments, the ghost rose back into the air, but this time, its form changed to that of an ordinary dark elf.
“…… I...... Finally came to my senses......"
"I guess you're Nils, right? One of the engineering designers of underground water canals? ”
The ghost paused: "...... That's my name, Traveler...... You came here, it means that the great god Luna has not given up on me, I am ......"
"I know who you are and why you're stuck here." Green had heard this opening sentence more than a hundred times, and with the extreme speed of the ghost Nils, it sounded so anxious that Green had to interrupt his statement, "You're looking for traces of your son, right?" ”
The ghost's figure shook violently, and its head became erratic: "You know...... Do you know where he is......"
Here's the key point!
The expression on Green's face was stern. He knew in his heart that this was a reward NPC in the quest, and it was said that he was one of the engineers of the underground canal in Italia before his death, and when the ancestral dark elves evacuated Idalia, his youngest son was playing in the channel built by his father, in order to find the child, Nils did not leave with the large army, but the son was not found, but he died in the proud work, and the obsession remained for a hundred years after the transformation of the ghost.
In Following the Miracle, Nils will ask the player a similar question, as long as anyone familiar with the strategy knows how to answer, and afterwards he will thank you for relieving him, and will promise to do what he can for you, after which his soul will ascend to heaven and leave.
"You may not know it, but your children have already run back to the house, and they have already moved to a new area with the ranks of the Ancestral Dark Elves." Green cleared his throat, calmed down and replied in a very serious manner, "I think you should remember that your child has been following you for so long, and he probably knows the entrance and exit of the underground channel better than you. ”
The ghost Nils was greatly shaken, and his soul body was distorted as if it had been pulled, and the instability of his mental condition was directly expressed in the image.
"It's ......!!"
Mirey, who was the first to catch up, covered her mouth in surprise when she saw Nils talking to Green.
The boy nodded at her to indicate that she had guessed correctly, then made a gesture of silence.
“…… My child, he's still alive...... You...... Is there anything you can prove......"
At this moment, Nils's affection finally stabilized, and his voice trembled and asked.
"I just know the situation, and I haven't had any contact with your children, so I don't have any physical evidence," Green replied with a stern face, he was telling the truth, and the ghost Nils listened, and his ethereal face showed a look of loss, but Green then changed his words, "But your child Benoy told you when he was a child, that he wanted to grow up to be a good engineer like you, and build a building more majestic than a subterranean canal." Then your lady secretly told you that the reason why he said this was to make you happy, and to allow him to go to play in the woods with the little girl next door after supper—perhaps this would prove what I said? ”
Nils's soul stopped shaking, and it seemed to froze for a few seconds before letting out a long sigh.
“…… My baby...... He's still alive......"
Green pursed his lips and didn't speak, he knew his words had worked, and the next thing was to wait.
Only this time, the ghost Nils didn't make him wait any longer, it floated forward a few meters, seemed to sigh again, and then floated back in front of Green, "...... Young human, I think you are telling the truth, thank you for bringing me this good news...... Hehe, I've been waiting too long......"
It paused, then looked at Grimm, its ethereal eyes lit up.
That was a precursor to the detachment of the soul.
“…… Thank you, young human, for saving me...... In return...... Maybe there's one thing I can do for you......"
"But before that, could you please do me one more favor?"
Green was impatiently pulling out the engram when he heard the second half of Nils's words, and his movements suddenly froze in mid-air.
Huh?
How can there be a follow-up mission? It wasn't like anything he had experienced in his previous life.
“…… Although I have been liberated by you, I cannot escape from the confinement at present...... I'm cursed......"
Curse?
Green frowned, and suddenly remembered the broken thought he had cursed the aqueduct architect before, and he couldn't help but have a stirring spirit: Damn, it can't be the curse I just said, right? Do you want to be so effective?
Thankfully, Nils' next words dispelled his doubts.
“…… I don't know how long ago, some kind of huge filth entrenched in the canal, and the once harmless creatures became violent...... From here, you can see it...... Only by defeating it will I be able to free myself from its curse......"
Green glanced at Nils, then nodded, "I'll do my best." ”
This may be a quest in the Wasteland dungeon, or a random quest, either way, he must get Nils's memory, and besides, such a quest is often not too badly rewarded. So Green turned around and said to Mirey and Lilith behind her, "You stay here, I'll go back." ”
Lilith nodded obediently, but Mirey disagreed.
"I'm going with you."
Grimm looked at the female Dark Elf suspiciously, who bowed slightly to Nils, and then explained, "Since this is the ancestor of our Dark Elves, it is the duty of our descendants to let his soul rest in peace. ”
Green couldn't refute this reason, he nodded, and agreed to follow Mirey, but asked her to leave the big lizard behind, this guy is not lightly injured, and it is a burden to follow, and staying can also protect Lilith.
After confirming the location of the so-called "filth" to Nils, Green, Mirey, and Unhappy set off for it. According to the ghost, it was confined to the filth and could not leave, which in turn meant that Green and the others were not too far away from the filthy thing, and soon, the three of them came to the engineering room in Niels's mouth, and the three-meter-high stone carved door was engraved with the language and worship objects of the dark elves, which looked particularly solemn.
Green pulled out the flame shadow and carefully pushed open the stone door in the construction room.
Inside, there was a large, spacious circular room, the walls inlaid with lighting gems, and along the base of the walls were a circle of large and small machines, some of which were even humming. In the middle of the room, a purple-black gas occupied almost a third of the place, and it was hazy and difficult to see inside.
"That's what Niels said was filth?" Mileigh's words sounded like self-talk.
Green didn't rush forward, he pulled out his speculum and looked carefully into the purple mist.
He saw something hidden in the mist, a pig that looked a bit like a pig...... A bit like a deer again?
What's that?
Green was puzzled, he had been to the engineering room, but it was all used as a place for players to rest, and there was no such scene at all. If you look at the current progress of the task, this thing should be the boss, but he searched for the monster image in his head, and he didn't find a similar monster for a while.
After hesitating, Green decided to move forward. After all, it's in the same area, so even if it's a boss, it's not too difficult to brush.
But just as he took the first step, he suddenly saw the purple mist shake, and before Green could be surprised, he heard a bang above his head, as if something had smashed on the room.
The boy was stunned for a moment, the voice sounded familiar-
Half a second later, a second boom came, then a third, then a fourth......
It wasn't until the tenth that the resounding finally stopped.
"What's that?" Confused, Milei took a few more steps forward, and now looked back at Grimm.
The boy stopped to listen, and vaguely heard someone shouting one, two, three......
One two three!?
"it!"
Green was taken aback, and a flying pounce knocked Miray to the ground. The Dark Elf was about to flare up in anger, and her eyes widened as she turned her back to the sky—almost at the same moment, there was a loud explosion above the construction room, and the roof of the building that the Dark Elf was proud of suddenly collapsed under the great force, and the sky and the earth shattered into the doorway, and countless boulders, wooden frames, and several figures fell together in a devastating fall.
"Damn, which madman is dying!"
The young man who saved Mi Lei's life in a crisis hurriedly got up, patted the dust on his body, and was about to angrily scold the figure who fell in the troubled times, when he suddenly noticed that there was a light shining down in the dusty sky.
Hey? Where does the light come from in the underground water canals?
He blinked, and then looked up sharply—
"Damn, it's not a good one, is it? They chiseled through the ground!? ”