Chapter 175: The Ancient Bell Tower
"Alright, let's kill ourselves!" After a period of discussion, the Bitter Moon decided. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After speaking, the bleak moon thought briefly for a moment and continued:
"We fought to reach the quicksand of death from the ancient capital of Rand at noon, then spent an hour crossing the river and finally climbed the 10,000-meter rock wall before dark."
"Hmm!" When Xia Mu and the five of them heard this, they all nodded and agreed with her proposal.
Because they have already gone through it once, if the six of them go through it again, it will theoretically take a lot less time. If nothing else, the six should be able to reach the place again before dark, and then bypass the desert maze and head straight to the next location.
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"Boom-"
Just when the six of them were about to [commit suicide], suddenly a low bell rang.
"Where did the bell come from?!" Xia Mu heard the bells coming from all directions, and immediately let out a suspicious sound and looked around.
"!! there" The voice of the little tanuki suddenly sounded behind it.
When Xia Mu heard this, he immediately looked behind him, and then immediately found that at a distance of two hundred meters behind him, an ancient bell tower suddenly appeared.
The ancient bell tower is about six or seven meters high and has two floors. The lower floor is a house made of stones, and the upper floor is a pavilion made of cylindrical wood, with an ancient bell of about 1.5 meters hanging in the center of the pavilion, and a wooden pillar leaning on the wooden fence next to it, which seems to be used for ringing bells.
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This ancient bell tower is supposed to be used as an alarm to remind the villagers of something important. Therefore, generally speaking, the ancient bell tower is much higher than the residential house, showing the trend of standing out from the crowd.
However, the six of them had not seen any ancient bell towers at all before, all of them were dilapidated and low-rise houses, broken walls, and ruins after the collapse of low-rise houses.
And this ancient bell tower appeared suddenly, and there was no other sign except the low sound of bells.
It's very weird!
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Since the bell rang, and the ancient bell hanging on the pavilion was also slowly shaking at this time, all this shows that there was a "person" who rang the ancient bell.
Looking at the entire ancient bell tower, it is not the same as other dilapidated low houses, although it is also very dilapidated, but there are traces of artificial repair.
If nothing else, there is a person living in the ancient bell tower!
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"Would you like to go in and have a look?!" Xia Mu looked at the ancient bell tower suspiciously, and proposed to the five people.
This ancient bell tower appeared out of thin air, obviously, it couldn't be just to scare the six people, if Xia Mu expected, the ancient bell tower should have a way to crack the desert maze.
And according to various indications, there should be a person living inside, that is, the NPC, as long as you accept the NPC's mission and complete it, it is estimated that you will be able to get out of the desert labyrinth village.
Of course, this is just Xia Mu's speculation, but it should be eight or nine, after all, most online games are routine.
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"There won't be any monsters in there, right?!" At this time, Ling'er shrank her head and said with some fear.
"Don't worry, how can a monster ring the bell?! It's supposed to be an NPC! Xia Mu explained.
"Hey, too!" Ling'er jingle thought about it and felt that Xia Mu was right, but she was still a little afraid.
"But how do I feel panicked..."
"Just go in and see!" Po Yue glanced at Ling'er jingle and said.
"Ah, if you really want to go in, then I'm going to go in the middle!" Ling'er jingled when she heard this, and immediately exclaimed in surprise and went directly into the middle of the team.
"Let's go!"
Seeing Ling'er's frightened appearance, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then she said to everyone.
"Hmm!" The five of them nodded, and followed the Bitter Moon towards the Ancient Bell Tower.
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The six people were only two or three hundred meters away from the ancient bell tower, very close, and they came to the wooden door of the ancient bell tower in a few moments.
However, as soon as they came to the wooden door, the six of them stopped at the same time, and their brows were all furrowed.
It's not that there is anything unusual about the wooden door in front of you, or that the wooden door is locked, but that there is a strong fishy smell coming from the dilapidated wooden door.
Obviously, the smell of the whole village came from this ancient bell tower.
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"Be careful!"
Pooc Yue looked at the hidden wooden door in front of her, and then smelled the rich fishy smell coming from inside, and immediately walked towards the five people behind her.
Then, the bleak moon took out the scepter of strange power and carefully pushed open the wooden door, only to hear a "squeak", and the dilapidated wooden door was slowly pushed open by her, and then a puff of dust came to her face.
It was a wooden door that hadn't been opened in a long time.
Seeing the dust coming, the six people subconsciously hid back, and then the wooden door lightly touched the wall due to inertia, and then collapsed with a bang.
Immediately, there was a burst of dust at the door, and after waiting for more than ten seconds, the dust calmed down again, revealing the whole inside of the house.
There was almost nothing in the room, a wooden table that had fallen apart, and the walls were cracked several times, and it looked like it was going to collapse at any moment.
And the house is very dark, and the floor is still a little damp. Of course, in addition to these, the six also saw some relatively disgusting things on the ground.
These disgusting things are - sticky green liquid, and human skin like bread crumbs!!
And from the viscous green liquid, the six people smelled an extremely strong fishy smell!
"Big pervert... No matter how I look at it, I don't think there will be NPCs inside..."Ling'er Jingle pulled Xia Mu's black robe, and said in a trembling voice with a little fear.
"Hmmm! It's true that it doesn't look like a place where NPCs live, and it's probably occupied by some kind of terrifying monster. When Xia Mu heard this, he said thoughtfully.
"Big pervert, you don't... Don't scare me, what's the monster in here?! Ling'er Jingle heard his words and pretended to be calm.
"There's really no one in there, but the monster should be on it!" Xia Mu said, pointing to the stone staircase at the corner of the room.
"I think the reason why we can't get out of the village is probably because of the monster above!" Xia Mu continued firmly.
Judging by the viscous green liquid and human skin inside the house, it is very likely that the one above the ancient clock tower is a monster and not an NPC. Moreover, an even stronger fishy smell came down from the stone staircase, so Xia Mu dared to conclude that there must be a monster on it!
Of course, even if it's not a monster, it's something else.
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"Let's go up and have a look!"
Xia Mu took the lead and walked directly into the house, and then ordered Xiao Gu to open the way, intending to step on the stone ladder to see what was on it.
Seeing this, they quickly followed and walked into the house. As for Ling'er's jingle bell, she was still very hesitant, but when she saw that everyone had walked into the house, she also hurried into the house.
After all, one person, no six people have a sense of security together.
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Just as the six of them were about to step on the stone staircase, there was a sudden sound of footsteps at the corner of the stone staircase.
The footsteps were not hurried or slow, and there was a muffled sound when stepping on the stone stairs. At the same time, an incomparably strong fishy smell came.
"Be careful!!