Chapter 42: The Lost Book (1)
The Mirror Realm has been at war with the Human Realm for decades.
During the long war, the human world was depleted of resources and social unrest, and was forced to sign a disgraceful [Treaty of the Two Realms] with the mirror world.
According to the treaty, the door of the human world to the mirror world is to be permanently opened, and the various races of the mirror world follow their fleets to the earth where the human world is located, ostensibly to conclude peace, but in fact it is a military institution that monitors the human world to prevent the resistance of the earth from rekindling the flames of war.
This is an era in which human beings live together with races from another world.
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Wu Hao blinked, and found that he was in a cramped space.
The space was less than ten square meters, and it seemed to be a study, and he was sitting on a stool, and in front of his claustrophobic vision was a desk, on which a mess of books was thrown and piled high.
There were no mirrors around, and he couldn't see what he looked like, and in the faint light, he looked at his own clothes, the familiar dark gray jacket and brown trousers, different from the previous copy. According to Qiu Yue, this time, it seems that he crossed with a physical body.
Wu Hao stood up and looked around, this was a very standard room for a normal otaku. On one side of the desk was a small bed, the bed's futon was pushed aside, and an iPad and headphones were thrown on it. On the wall is a poster of a red-haired girl with her palm outstretched to the sky, a character from the Stone of Destiny (a Japanese anime). The other wall against the desk was made into a closet, and the brown door opened, and the inside was so dark that nothing could be seen.
Curiosity, Wu Hao wanted to see what was hidden in the closet. His fingers touched the cabinet door, and he suddenly felt like he had been shocked, and before Wu Hao could react, his hand retracted. A huge force burst out from the darkness of the closet, bounced Wu Hao out at once.
Wu Hao didn't react, smashed into the wall opposite the wall cabinet, and slipped onto the bed. The water chestnut of the iPad made his back hurt.
He finally got up and saw the belated system prompt in his sight.
"Your mystery value is less than 3, so you can't go to the mirror world."
Mystery?
Wu Hao sat cross-legged on the bed, he opened his character data, perhaps because he obtained the short sword and cloak made by the elves, and his mystery value had come to 1. But anyone who knows a little bit of math knows that 1 is less than 3, that's for sure.
He clicked on the taskbar again, and unlike the last dungeon, this time the system announced the task early.
"Main Quest: Destroy the Lost Book - the longer it drags on, the more dangerous it becomes, so destroy it!"
"Side Quest: Not triggered."
The Lost Book...... It's another noun that I don't know.
Wu Hao shook his head, sat up from the bed, and was about to go out of the bedroom to take a look. A question suddenly occurred to him, a very important one.
Wait a minute......
Wu Hao's pupils widened, he was surprised by his sluggishness, and slapped himself twice.
He's playing a two-player adventure mode, but what about Qiu Yue?
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The nose smells the scent of gardenias, and the ears hear the crisp birdsong.
Autumn Yue wakes up slowly.
Perhaps because she had just entered the new script, Qiu Yue's vision was a little blurry, she rubbed her eyes, and saw a few green leaves falling on the hem of her skirt, she slapped them off and stood up.
The girl looked at the system in the upper left corner, and under the green halo, the main quest of this dungeon was displayed.
"Destroy the Lost Book - the longer it drags on, the more dangerous it becomes, destroy it quickly......"
Qiu Yue finished reading the text of the main quest and blinked.
"What's the Lost Book?"
The girl had never heard of the book, and according to the quest prompt, it should be a very important item related to this level.
Although the system only publishes one task, this task is divided into two steps. Qiu Yue thought that the first step was to find the book, and it must be within a time limit, and according to the task prompts, the longer the time drags on, the more dangerous it becomes. The second step is to destroy it.
Let's discuss it with Wu Hao, his reasoning ability and observation ability are very strong, and he will definitely be able to ......
But, what about Wu Hao?
Qiu Yue looked around, and as far as the eye could see, there was no figure. Wild grasses of human height are everywhere, interspersed with brown vines and dwarf shrubs. The roots of the trees on the ground are staggered, the huge green canopy blocking the sky, and only a small blittle of sunlight shines on Qiu Yue's face (which also makes her appear in the conclusion that it is daytime). A breeze blew through the leaves, and there was some eerie rustling sound.
"Could it be...... Hide and seek. The girl chuckled dryly.
Suddenly, the wind got stronger.
The weeds were crushed and the leaves of the giant trees were rolled up. The wind swept Qiu Yue's skirt, and the girl hurriedly held it down.
Darkness descended suddenly, and huge shadows blocked the sunlight, as if there had been a solar eclipse. Qiu Yue didn't know what was going on, so she could only press her skirt in a daze to prevent the wind from lifting it again.
The darkness came and went as fast as it came, and in a matter of seconds, the sun returned to the earth and the wind stopped. Through the treetops, Qiu Yue saw the dragon's wings flapping in the sky, which seemed to be the source of the wind and darkness.
What kind of world is this.....
Spooky environment, lost friends. All this made Qiu Yue more and more scared, and the girl sat down with her hands and knees leaning against the roots, and she suddenly wanted to cry.
It's nothing more than a game, nothing more than a game.......
Qiu Yue kept cheering herself up in her heart, and she subconsciously touched the golden ear pins pinned to her earlobes, and this unconscious behavior slightly provided her with some sense of security. For some reason, she remembered the boast that Wu Hao had bragged to her when he was playing a reasoning game: he was the one who created clues without clues!
Create clues if there are no clues......
The girl muttered the words and stood up again. She closed her eyes and let her memories go back, suddenly remembering the birdsong she heard when she wasn't quite conscious.
Oh, and that trick!
Qiu Yue excitedly broke a branch from the bushes, and she pushed aside a lower bush with bare dirt underneath. Qiu Yue drew a circle on the ground with a tree branch in the dirt.
The girl pressed her hands together on the edge of the circle, of course, what she wanted to put was not the alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist, she was activating other skills.
Skill: Parrot Language
Genre: Active/Once used per playbook
Grade: C
Effect (1): Summons any number of birds within a 500 meter radius, asks them, and will help as long as they are not busy!
Notes: The parrot said, "I'm very authoritative in the flock!" They listen to what I say! β
This is the skill that Qiu Yue obtained through the first dungeon, although it can only be used once per dungeon, but the little birds can both track and scout, which helped Qiu Yue a lot when she passed the second and third dungeons.
I saw white smoke erupt from the circle outlined by Qiu Yue, it mischievously turned in a circle in the air, and transformed into a white parrot, the parrot flew into the air, gliding and dancing in the air, the same scene Qiu Yue had seen twice, this dance represented "collection" in the language of birds.
Qiu Yue waited for a while, and saw a yellow bird flying out of the woods, its golden tail feathers mixed with a little black, and this bird was the only one in the huge forest that responded to Qiu Yue's call.
The oriole stopped on the trunk of the tree above Qiu Yue, it shook its feathers and began to chatter, and the bird language spoken was translated by the system into Qiu Yue's familiar Chinese, for some reason, Qiu Yue always felt that it was not very friendly.
"What did you call me for? Mankind. β
Am I calling in the wrong way? Qiu Yue thought, she tried her best to make her tone sound sincere: "Hello, can you help me ......?"
"Be careful!"
Huang Li suddenly interrupted Qiu Yue's words and said loudly.
I saw that the roots of the tree that Qiu Yue was stepping on suddenly squirmed, and the girl stumbled and almost fell.
Out of nowhere, a vine ran straight around Qiu Yue's calf, and although her stance had been deformed, Qiu Yue still struggled to jump, she dodged the vine's attack, and jumped into a nearby clearing.
Fortunately, Huang Li's reminder, and fortunately, her agility was the same as Wu Hao's 4, otherwise she would have been hit.
Something unimaginable is happening right in front of your eyes.
The giant tree that Qiu Yue was leaning on suddenly moved, and the intertwined roots stretched forward like the tentacles of a monster. The green canopy is windless and the leaves fall in a flutter.
She looked at the tree, which was about twenty meters tall, gray-green moss like a beard, and a crack in its brown bark like a mouth.
The giant tree spoke, its voice not only low, but hoarse and rough, like the voice of a man who had been coughing for a long time. It didn't speak the language Qiu Yue was familiar with, but she understood it.
"Human imps, look what you've done to this forest!"